They have batons, we have cameras

YOURSAY 'The citizen's best self-defence against this regime's brutality is information and exposure.'

Netizens publish pix of 'wanted' cops

Cannon: All rally participants should bring their cameras with them in future public rallies. If one is cornered and gets beaten up, the person next to him can cover the scene.

If that person is also nabbed and is roughed up, another steps in to take the pictures. There won't be enough police personnel to stop the public from recording their acts of brutality.

At the end of the day, it's the image of the police and the regime's credibility that will take a beating when the evidence is downloaded on the Internet and published in the alternative media.

The citizen's best self-defence against this regime's brutality is information and exposure.

2zzzxxx: With Umno's police functioning as the judge, jury and executioner, does anyone think anything will be done? By the way, why only four of these Umno police officers are highlighted?

Keturunan Malaysia: I thought only in the wild wild west, the sheriffs pinned ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive' posters for bad and evil people. Here in ‘semua best' Malaysia, the netizens are doing it.

Boiling Mud: I remember the online media reported that an eyewitness said he saw a group of (police?) men on motorbikes who stopped somewhere at Dataran Merdeka to change into yellow T-shirts before the melee broke out.

If that truly happened, the person would serve the country well by contacting one of the NGOs to confirm it. Please do that.

Hmmmmmmmm: We should try to display the photos of all those who acted violently during the rally. Perhaps in future also those who disrupt ceramah, etc. Post their pictures and shame them.

Anonymous #47497449: Looking at all the pictures posted by Malaysiakini taken during Bersih 3.0, I cannot help but notice that all the men in blue whose photos were taken - all had name tags and numbers.

Yet we have sufficient eyewitness accounts by those who were beaten, that there were many men in blue who did not have name tags and numbers. How do we explain this glaring discrepancy?

Thinking out loud - there must have been a group specially identified and selected to do all the bad stuff that we witnessed. But where were they ‘hiding'? Intriguing question.

With so many pictures and videos taken and posted, yet we have not been able to identify this select ‘samseng' group. Any ideas?

Also can I please request all those who have taken pictures during Bersih 3.0 to take another look at the Bersih participants, especially for those wearing boots, in particular police boots.

It's easy to change shirts but boots are harder to carry around and change. This may give us a clue as to who were the infiltrators in the group.

Anonymous #88975568: The police acted under the blessings of some higher authority, that's why they are protected.

Lim Chong Leong: We shoot them not with guns but with our cameras. These photos are of ‘samseng' and ‘mat rempit' and our taxes are paid to them to protect not us but Umno tyrants. We pay them to beat us.

Armageddon: People say, when we complained about the police, they would ask for evidence. When we surrender the evidence, they would sit on it and at the end of the day, all evidence just disappears from the system.

Now the police have the evidence and the public also now know that they have it. Prove to us, officer, that you are neutral.

CiViC: Post all the photos and videos you want, but the police will not take any action. All they can say is that these people could not be recognised, and they are not police officers.

They will then investigate and search for them, but to no avail. Case KIV.

WeCANLive: They look like Form 5 or Form 6 boys from the police corps, and asked to help out the police. Or they can even be from Rela.

Anonymous #07443216: IGP Ismail Omar should do the right thing by tendering his resignation as he has no intention to be fair in dealing with those errant police personnel.

He is only interested in further hounding those rally protestors instead. Shame on him for being so glaringly lopsided. Ismail now has shown his true colours as a tool of Umno.

Hanuman56: I wondered why the guy who was driving the car that ploughed into the people at Sogo was wearing helmet. Very strange indeed!

Galpasqueen: This is not new with the police. The force has been tarnished and ruined by BN politicians through poor selection and training. Today we witnessed a new breed of BN police, many of whom are no better than common criminals.

The police force has lost credibility and respect among the new generation of Malaysians.

This is all the evil doing of BN politicians just to secure their positions. BN has done the same with our judiciary and other public administration offices.

Everything and everyone has been manipulated to feed the greedy needs of BN.

Anonymous #01637384: That is why we need the IPCMC (Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission)!

Tan Beng Sooi: A boy told his father that he wanted a career in organised crime. The father replied "private sector or government sector?"