'Police officers or terrorists?': Twitter up in arms over Osama Satti's death

Netizens condemn 'police brutality' and call for officers responsible to be taken to task

The death of a 22-year-old student in Islamabad after police opened fire on his vehicle on the pretext of him not pulling over snowballed into a Twitter storm with calls for justice to be served.

Osama Satti, who was on his way back after dropping his friend to ​​Shams Colony, was fired at by the capital city's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) personnel.

The incident spread like wildfire on the micro-blogging site as micro-bloggers lashed out at the 'police brutality', as well as, demanding that those responsible be taken to taken.

Netizen Waseem Tariq questioned how the Islamabad Police brazenly took the 22-year-old's life saying,"Is this the Islamabad Police or terrorists?".

Only terrorists can fire on car like this. Is #IslamabadPolice a terrorist.? An innocent boy was killed.#JusticeForUsamaNadeemSatti pic.twitter.com/MqJ5ELEu4O

— WASEEM TARIQ (@wasimtariq_) January 2, 2021

While lawyer Hassan Niazi said that "he was murdered - nation cries.You attacked our naya Pakistan. Heart bleeds!!!"

He was murdered - @ICT_Police nation cries. You attacked our naya Pakistan. Heart bleeds!!! #JusticeForUsamaNadeemSatti pic.twitter.com/uEtlvldyLi

— Hassaan Niazi (@HniaziISF) January 2, 2021

Journalist Asad Ali Toor claimed to show the postmortem report, which he cited as evidence of the "police brutality" and the "fake encounter".

#BREAKING: postmortem report of Usama is evidence of #Islamabad police brutality, bullet holes showing how they killed a 22 years old student in alleged fake encounter. 1/2#JusticeForUsamaNadeemSatti #IslamabadPolice pic.twitter.com/aOsCBxyJD3

— Asad Ali Toor (@AsadAToor) January 2, 2021

Fatima Raja, another Twitter user, also seconded the journalist's opinon. She said that killing innocent civilians is terrorism.

 

#JusticeForUsamaNadeemSatti
killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, Not a war against terrorism pic.twitter.com/jNjmJHOO4k

— Fatima Raja (@F_Z1214) January 2, 2021