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Letters | Hong Kong police stun guns should not worry those who stay out of trouble
- Harm caused by stun guns pales in comparison to the effect of petrol bombs or bricks hurled from afar by
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The reaction of Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor director Law Yuk-kai to the possible use of stun guns and net guns by the police to tackle black-clad thugs resisting arrest betrays the organisation’s bias and warped thinking (“Hong Kong police may arm officers with electroshock devices, net guns”, January 15).
According to the Post report last week, Law warned of the harmful effects such weapons might have on suspects, adding that these could also help police “mask their brutality”.
Perhaps the good citizens of Hong Kong have become accustomed to such one-sided utterances and are blase about it. But to any objective observer from afar, these remarks devalue what is otherwise an admirable cause. They cannot be left unchallenged.
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Of course, stun guns can hurt. They are meant to. But the harm they can cause is far less than that from a petrol bomb or a brick in the face. Mr Law made no mention of that.
His focus was on the police, whose valiant and laudable struggle to maintain law and order is what has kept the city from tipping into total anarchy.
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