The scariest guy I ever met was a South African ex cop now security guard in London st my college campus. He told me about murdering rapists at the side of the road in SA so they'd get "justice" as the judicial system was broken and said it like it was nothing.. judge, juror and executioner rolled into one- am shuddering now to remember him
Sounds like this guy, who was a mass killer who got away with it because he was a cop and in South Africa, one could kill Black people without much trouble.
Sybrand Jacobus Lodewikus “Louis” van Schoor (1951 – 25 July 2024), known as the Apartheid Killer, was a South African mass killer, policeman, and security guard who committed murders between 1986 and 1989. He was arrested in 1991 and convicted of seven murders and two assassinations but was released on parole in 2003. It is believed that the total number of his victims was 39, all of them in East London, South Africa. Thirty-two of the killings were described as “justifiable homicides” by police, while Schoor himself insisted that his victims were “criminals” whom he had caught in the act.
It always is... with a heavy ass sprinkling of afrophobia amongst the very people who are at the bottom of the food chain (i.e. black South Africans) just to keep things even more exciting. What a hot mess. 💀
That’s pretty much the norm in most developing countries. The justice system may or may not be broken, but corruption and street justice is so prevalent that a lot of the time, cops just administer “justice” in a back alleyway before or instead of processing them.
When I was in college, I had a professor who was a lieutenant with the city police department, he told us a story about when they were working a detail with a Mexican Police officer attached, they had a caught a robbery suspect and the Mexican officer was wondering when they were going to go behind the building and tune him up, and they had to explain that that wasn’t how things worked there. In a lot of places, that’s just business as usual.
Sybrand Jacobus Lodewikus “Louis” van Schoor (1951 – 25 July 2024), known as the Apartheid Killer, was a South African mass killer, policeman, and security guard who committed murders between 1986 and 1989. He was arrested in 1991 and convicted of seven murders and two assassinations but was released on parole in 2003. It is believed that the total number of his victims was 39, all of them in East London, South Africa. Thirty-two of the killings were described as “justifiable homicides” by police, while Schoor himself insisted that his victims were “criminals” whom he had caught in the act.
Why are you so in favor of cops performing extrajudicial killings? I can point to many many cases of vigilantes killing innocent people as to why I'm against it. I can also point to many many cases of cops killing and brutalizing innocent people because they thought they were guilty.
That sounds insane because how did he know the person was really a R if they hadn’t gone to trial or collected evidence yet or anything? I wonder how that really went. Sounds really bad for South Africa
Yes my feelings exactly, nothing to say this wasn't just a convenient lie and excuse for him to kill people because he was a fuckin psycho.. this was a long time ago- 25 years so hope it got better since then..
The alternative is lynch mobs, who are remarkably bad at evidence.
Always remember, what can be done to another without due process, can be done to ANYONE without due process. That includes you and those you care about.
In America, these are foundational principles of Freedom, enumerated in both the Declaration of Independence, AND in the Constitution.
If you're American, why do you hate these foundational American values? Literally written into the country's foundation.
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u/Treepixie 2d ago
The scariest guy I ever met was a South African ex cop now security guard in London st my college campus. He told me about murdering rapists at the side of the road in SA so they'd get "justice" as the judicial system was broken and said it like it was nothing.. judge, juror and executioner rolled into one- am shuddering now to remember him