The brutal killing of George Fyodor recently shook the world, creating a civil war like situation in America.Here I don't want to discuss the political and racial interpolations of the incident but my focus is on the humanitarian aspect of the gruesome act of the cruelty.The viral video in which handcuffed Floyd has been depicted lying on the ground with two police men riding on him is a pathetic condition, raising questions about the role of police in a democratic civic society. What can people do,if the protectors of civic liberty tend to be killers? Do they have rights to take laws in their hands?Can they become so insane that they are unmindful of their civic duties?These questions are disturbing and intriguing for a democratic country ,which is commited to individual rights and freedon of the people.The way he is strangled to death raised not only legal questions but also moral questions relegating the gruesome scene to mediaeval diabolic spirit.Was Fyodor's crime greater than the punishment given to him? Certainly, no.If not then certainly it is violation of human rights and the arrested cops must get the punishment due to them.Here I would quote Dostoyevsky :
"People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel."
These words of Dostoyevsky beautifully sums up the cruel act of these cops. We as human beings must pause and ponder. Are we civilized people living in a democratic order? If yes, then let history never repeat itself.
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