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
— Fatima Raja (@F_Z1214) January 2, 2021
killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, Not a war against terrorism pic.twitter.com/jNjmJHOO4k
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