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Indonesia court jails policeman over deadly soccer stampede, 2 acquitted

Indonesia court jails policeman over deadly soccer stampede, 2 acquitted

AN Indonesian court jailed a policeman but cleared two other officers of negligence over crowd control measures deployed at a local soccer match that led to one of the world's deadliest stadium stampedes. The October 2022 derby in Malang, East Java, between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya ended in chaos with 135 spectators killed, many crushed as they fled for exits after police fired tear gas into the crowd. Last week, two Arema match officials were also jailed for negligence, in the first verdicts over the stampede. One of the policemen, Hasdarmawan, was on Thursday sentenced to one and a half years…
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DJ cop shows South Africa the other side of that blue uniform

DJ cop shows South Africa the other side of that blue uniform

JAMAINE KRIGE “I see them as twins and I love them both,” Constable Lucky Matome laughs as he describes juggling his two lives; one, a kwaito music artist, the other that of a policeman in the South African Police Service. “When you have twins you cannot say one is more beautiful than the other, because they are different but identical, and they are both your children. Like twins, I must treat them equally and give them equal attention, so that one does not suffer because of the other,” he said. His police work is important and it allows him to…
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