I was sitting here on my computer tonight when I was interrupted by a commotion outside. I ran to the window to see what was happening and this is what I saw:
A man being beaten by 7 or 8 other men with big sticks. I called the police straight away and whilst on the phone I was able to figure out what was happening. The man being beaten had been (allegedly) caught trying to rob one of the other men's houses and was chased into the street. From then the men proceeded to subdue the man violently, and pinned him down by the neck (pictured above). One lady drove past at this point and got out of the car and started telling the men off for beating the alleged robber. "You can't just beat him, that's not OK" she kept saying, and the men kept replying that he had robbed them, "But then you call the police, you don't beat the man".
This is when the police just arrived. They took the alleged robber and locked him in the back of their van.
That would have been it if not for this lady (pictured to the left of the police van) who insisted that the other men be reported as well. The police ignored her, to quote one police officer "We are here now, you let us do our job, we have secured the situation, now you go away."
Eventually the lady forced the police to take her details.
In the end, there were two police vans, and two armoured response cars, 7 or 8 vigilantes with sticks, and one lady fighting for justice.
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