A couple of days ago, a news article came out about a Thai policeman(Sergeant Uthai Dechawiwat) that shot and killed a Canadian (John Leo Del Pinto of Calgary) on Monday January 7, 2008. The original article specified that Dechawiwat was sent to break up a fight between Del Pinto and his pregnant ex-girlfriend (Carly Reisig); upon arriving on the scene however, the pair turned on the policeman, and in the resulting struggle, Del Pinto and Reisig was shot.
What's more is the dramatic difference between the original story and Reisig's story. In a later article, according to Reisig, Dechawiwat had come out of no where to punch her in the face; Del Pinto then intervened and pushed Dechawiwat away, where Dechawiwat then draws out his pistol and shoots Del Pinto in the face and chest. After shooting Del Pinto, Dechawiwat then proceeds to shoot Reisig in the chest.
The police chief Wanchai Suwanririkate seems to support the original story of Dechawiwat stopping a fight, but adds that there was another person, Reisig's Thai boyfriend, that was involved; however, he maintains that the trio assaulted the Dechawiwat.
The investigation is still currently on going...
While indeed a disturbing event, it is nonetheless overshadowed by the fact that upon turning himself in to the police, the sergeant was REASSIGNED to a different post after being charged with murder. Here we have an alleged murderer (a policeman at that) who instead of being suspended, gets reassigned to a different post. Now, I believe in "innocense until proven guilty", but when you are charging someone with murder, you don't let him walk around much less carry out police duty.
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