{"id":10419,"date":"2022-09-18T18:43:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10419"},"modified":"2022-09-23T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:29:23","slug":"you-cannot-retaliate-if-a-policeman-slaps-you-says-force-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10419","title":{"rendered":"You Cannot Retaliate If A Policeman Slaps You, Says Force PRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Muyiwa Adejobi, the public relations officer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npf.gov.ng\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nigeria Police Force,<\/a> has said that a civilian has no right to retaliate if a police officer physically abuses them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adejobi said this in a response to a series of reactions to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dree_Doctorr\/status\/1571188301595394051\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a video<\/a> showing two men grappling the rifle of a police officer on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cEven if a policeman on uniform slaps a civilian, the civilian has no right to retaliate. More so, if he\u2019s on uniform. It\u2019s an act of disrespect to Nigeria to beat an officer on uniform,\u201d Adejobi said in a short thread on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe disrespect is not to the policeman but to our nation and its a crime as enshrined in our criminal laws. So it\u2019s not a case of what the policeman did, that led to it, but the reaction of the civilians who actually assaulted the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIf police assault a civilian, you report and actions will be taken to rebuke him, not to take the law into your hands. Let alone it\u2019s a matter of checking of phones, which can be easily reported and addressed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNow they are kept in our 5-star hotel in Lagos and will be in court on Monday. Are you going to visit them or send them food, or appear in court to defend them?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adejobi once said that police officers had no right to check the phones of random civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muyiwa Adejobi, the public relations officer of Nigeria Police Force, has said that a civilian has no right to retaliate if a police officer physically abuses them. Adejobi said this in a response to a series of reactions to a video showing two men grappling the rifle of a police officer on Saturday. \u201cEven if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1024,5842,912,521,5841],"class_list":["post-10419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-domestic-violence","tag-force-pro","tag-harassment","tag-policeman","tag-slap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10514,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions\/10514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}