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Nathaniel Julies should be enjoying spring today but instead his loved ones will attend his funeral

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opinion: Today, as a community gathers to bid farewell to a young man, who was really still a child, it would be best if the police kept their distance, writes RitchKev SaturdayStar NathanielJulius

Let’s rather look at the facts that haven’t been contested: there were at least two police officers present. Nathaniel was unarmed.

Nathaniel was a member of a minority community in a depressed area. Prejudice once again trumped principle. We know this because of the speed with which the initial official reports suggested that Nathaniel was killed in a crossfire between police and gangsters. Eldorado Park has a drug problem, but not a gangster problem. If you’re looking for both, that’s the Cape Flats, not Joburg.

In the middle of all of this, is a police service that many of us assume no longer serves us, the people, but the interests of an elite that has done nothing to deserve either. In truth though, the South African Police, whether force or service, has always just served the political interests of the day.

It was all supposed to have been so different after 1994, but Marikana, Andries Tatane and countless other aggressions masquerading as law enforcement proved exactly the opposite. The police aren’t solely to blame – they were aided and abetted by a criminally responsible political leadership which actually encouraged them to shoot to kill.

 

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