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Rohit Khanna, The Quint's Executive Editor, gives us his take on current affairs and events. From Kunal Kamra to anti-CAA protests, and more, tune in for the sharpest take you can get, on current affairs.
Floyd Vs Faizan: Why Does India Forget Cases of Police Apathy?
Yeh Jo India Hai Na
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5 years ago
Floyd Vs Faizan: Why Does India Forget Cases of Police Apathy?
The similarities between George Floyd's death in Minneapolis and Faizan's death in Delhi are striking.
George Floyd, an unarmed man was pinned down on the road, by the knee by a police officer backed up by three other cops. Faizan and four others also unarmed, showing signs of injury, also lying on the road, being kept down by the lathis of 5-6 policemen gathered around them.
George Floyd was an American-African, a community which is often at the receiving end of police brutality in the US. Faizan was Muslim a minority increasingly at the receiving end of police violence in India.
But here's where the differences start. The cop who choked George Floyd to death, officer Derek Chauvin had been charged with murder in the 3rd degree, and dismissed from service along with his three colleagues four days after the incident.
While in Faizan’s case, the policemen who were caught on camera assaulting and abusing him and his companions have been charged with nothings even months after the incident.
What is shockingly and shamefully clear is that Yeh Jo India Hai Na, here the police can get away with anything, even murder.
While the civil society in the US is up in arms about the police brutality and implicit racial profiling that led to George Floyd’s death, urging immediate, transparent legal action, here in India, the tragic and brutal killing of Faizan has been all but forgotten.
VO: Rohit Khanna
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Yeh Jo India Hai Na
Rohit Khanna, The Quint's Executive Editor, gives us his take on current affairs and events. From Kunal Kamra to anti-CAA protests, and more, tune in for the sharpest take you can get, on current affairs.