A police officer shot 45-year-old man Jupri Pasaribu AKA Jamal dead after the victim allegedly caused a public disturbance on Friday evening on Jalan Jati VIII in Sungai Bambu, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.
Jamal was having a heated argument with his neighbor, Prapto, that evening. The argument escalated and Jamal allegedly thrashed the contents of Prapto’s house.
Two civilian-clothed police officers arrived at the scene after receiving a phone call from Prapto. Jamal then attempted to run, after which a shot was fired directly at Jamal, killing him.
Jamal’s brother and a witness to the shooting, 40-year-old Christmas Pasaribu, believes the police officer who shot Jamal did it in an unlawful manner.
“It was outside of the police’s ethics code. [Jamal] should’ve been paralyzed [from the gunshot] but my brother was instead executed from 1.5 meters away,” Christmas said, as quoted by Kompas today.
“I thought it was a warning shot. Turned out my brother was lying dead [on the ground].”
Christmas said he saw one of the officers holding a gun.
“There were two people there, I knew they were police. But they didn’t admit that they shot [Jamal]. I saw that one of them was still holding a gun,” he said.
The identities of the two police officers at the scene are still unknown. North Jakarta Police Chief Grand Commissioner Susetio Cahyadi said the police officers acted within the law, but couldn’t confirm that Jamal was shot from 1.5 meters away.
“What we did was in line with the SOP (operational procedure standards). As to the chronology of the shooting, we’re still investigating it,” he said.
Jamal died after being shot in the left side of his back. His body was taken to the National Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, for an autopsy.
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