Inspector-general of police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar wants DAP parliamentarian Tony Pua to be probed over a comment on Twitter yesterday regarding the former’s refusal to apologise to the family of police shooting victim Aminulrasyid Amzah.

“This tweet is deliberately distorting the facts with the aim of confusing the rakyat. Call this person in for investigation,” the IGP tweeted early this morning.

He was responding to Pua’s tweet also posted on his Facebook yesterday that read, “This [person] said 14-year-old Aminulrasyid was shot by police because there were dangerous weapons in his car.

“Now it's shown that there was no proof that ‘police acted after discovering a machete in the car’ and the judge ruled that the IGP was ‘guilty of misfeasance’.

“And he refused to even do the decent thing of apologising to the victim's family."

The Petaling Jaya Utara MP was commenting on the IGP remaining adamant yesterday, saying, "I will not apologise because my statement was based on the facts of the case at that time."

'Protecting my men'

On Thursday, the Shah Alam High Court found Khalid, who was Selangor chief police officer at the time of the incident, liable for public misfeasance in the case of Aminulrasyid’s shooting.

This is because Khalid had said in a statement the day after Aminulrasyid was shot dead in a car chase with the police in Shah Alam, that a parang was found in the car.

The court in the civil suit found that this was an attempt by the IGP to justify the actions of the police officer who had fired at the 14-year-old.

The IGP yesterday insisted he was merely protecting his officers.

"I never said that he used the parang. I only said that the parang was found in the car," he said at the press conference.