YOURSAY 'Do you need to handcuff a person who beat a red light? Do you need to sit on the person after you handcuff him?'

Death came on a night out for drinks

Swipenter: The PDRM (Royal Malaysia Police) has lost all credibility in the eyes of the public.

There is absolutely no valid and good reason for them to resist the implementation of IPCMC (Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission) other than not wanting an independent body to investigate complaints of allegations for abuses committed by them.

How can you investigate yourself against complaints lodged against you impartially? Just take this case involving Cheong Fook Meng for example. It is only the words of the police officers against a dead man that he had jumped a red light.

What about eyewitnesses' account of the police using physical force to arrest the deceased in a restaurant? Their account was that the deceased, when arrested, was found to be weak and they sent him to the hospital but he died.

Who do you believe? There are too many custodial deaths for us to believe what the police are telling us is the whole truth.

Clever Voter: We grew up believing that police are there to uphold law and order, catch thieves, and protect society from all sorts of crimes. Times have changed.

We need to avoid them as we cannot be guaranteed of their protection, and worst, one cannot differentiate criminals from police.

Yellow Bird: If the police were chasing Cheong in his car, how did he end up sitting in a restaurant having drinks? Someone was lying here, or was it a horrible case of mistaken identity?

Mindblogging: We need another police force to police our police. Our police should have a KPI (key performance indicator) of zero death in custody to shore up public confidence in the force.

The rakyat need to know the truth behind all these deaths. What say you, Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi? Stop all the talking and start performing, for goodness sake.

Justice Pao: Handcuffed and sat on until the person pass away just for beating a red traffic light?

Only in Malaysia this can happen. Sue those thuggish cops and PDRM even though the victim cannot be brought back to life again.

Tembikai: I guess nothing will happen until one of the ministers' children get killed by the police while in custody. Just like when Sports and Youth Minister Khairy Jamaluddin's house was robbed.

CQ Muar: IGP Khalid Abu Bakar and deputy Bakri Zinin, what have both of you have to say about this yet another death under police custody?

Stop playing politics and discharge your duties as expected of you. Such incompetency doesn't augur well for PDRM, and stop portraying and lying to the world that Malaysia is a peaceful country.

The full weight of the law in our country must brought on the culprits involved in the deaths. Such lawlessness must be put to an end at all cost.

Nowhere in the world do we hear of such insanity caused by police force, who are supposedly keepers of law and order, and not law-breakers.

Such liberty in taking life with no reaction from both the government and PDRM makes it appear they condone such heinous act, with none being brought to book.

Notwithstanding the nature of the crime committed by a suspect - taking a life is certainly and absolutely no justification, and is tantamount to murder inflicted by PDRM.

Yoda: Do you need to handcuff a person who beat a red light? Do you need to sit on the person after you handcuff him?

TehTarik: I am too shocked for words. How can we trust our pathologist when the cause of death in the case of engineer P Karuna Nithi was ascribed to a fatty liver?

Even a first-year medical student knows that this is rubbish. It appears that some pathologists are in cahoots with rogue police officers to cover up custodial deaths.

The only way to overcome this impasse is to allow an independent pathologist to conduct the PM (post-mortem). I do not trust government forensic pathologists.

Fair&Just: It could have started with Teoh Beng Hock where until now his murderers who caused his death were not charged.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) was responsible for the death and yet no one was punished.

Hence it's open season and no accountability is needed even when the victims were clearly detained by the agency(s) concerned.

Only divine intervention can help the rakyat to obtain justice and justice it shall be when the wrath of God descends on these criminals.

CAT Lover: Sat on him for 30 minutes? That surely is one form of custody.

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