1BLACKCommute: 7 participants, 100 cops?

By Nathaniel Tan

I’ve not yet read other reports of this incident, but if the following is true, then the cops clearly:

a) are spending a lot of time on Facebook
b) haven’t learnt their priorities, despite the numerous, numerous, exhortations that they clamp down on real crime instead.

I saw a bunch of pictures, will try to update this post with links to them if I can.

Statement by the 1BLACKMalaysia Facebook Group

The 1BLACKMalaysia Facebook Group organized an event called ‘1BLACKCommute’ (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122875992194) today. The idea was to have people wearing black and boarding an LRT train together for at least two times.

The event attracted a total of 7 dedicated participants, and also attracted about a hundred even more ‘dedicated’ policemen.

We were shocked to learn from the media that about a hundred policemen were stationed at Dataran Merdeka and Masjid Jamek this morning, waiting for ‘the 1BLACKMalaysia group’.

Coincidentally, Puteri UMNO was having a crime awareness campaign at the same area and had at least a thousand Puteris marching down the street.

And the police were here for 7 people wearing black in solidarity with Perakians and families of custodial casualties such as Teoh Beng Hock, and not for the thousands of pink-clad Puteris.

Although such double standards were very common and very much expected, it was still shocking to know that hundreds of men in blue were deployed to possibly arrest 7 people, while over 1800 people were left to die in custody since 2003.

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