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One must wonder whether or not Bheki Cele’s “tough guy” attitude is working. In short, was Martin Luther King correct when he said that violence begets violence?

Does “shooting to kill” beget shooting to kill?

'Police Violence Met with Counter-violence': Africartoons.com
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© the artist | May 30, 2011 | The New Age

Police Violence Met with Counter-violence

"SHOOT TO KILL" works both ways. The number of police killed in the line of duty has increased significantly since last year. Already 36 police officials have been killed this year; an average of seven a month. JERM asks (in his comment alongside the cartoon) whether Police Commissioner Bheki Cele's "Shoot to Kill" policy isn't perhaps increasing the counter violence against his police force?