How can adults behave like total assholes ? Have they lost it ?

I am sorry about the title of this post, but what I read in the newspapers yesterday has left
me so angry that I cannot help it. Yesterday's Deccan Chronicle had this photo in it. I could
not believe my eyes or actually take in the fact that some people can stoop so low & behave
like animals.



A 6-year old kid was thrashed by a couple of cops in UttarPradesh (a state in India), which is referred to as the cow-belt of India. Literacy rates are abysmally low there which would obviously reflect in the way people behave. But still ? How can someone kick around a small
kid, a girl at that ?

Quoting from the news report,
"Six-year-old Komal was brutally thrashed by the police at the Etawah police station on
Monday evening. The police pulled up the Dalit girl by her hair, twisted her ears, slapped
her repeatedly and kicked her around. The girl screamed with pain and sobbed that she
was innocent but the cops continued to laugh and subjected the girl to intense physical
torture even as local TV channels recorded the event. "

All this because she was suspected to have stolen Rs280 (less than 6$). Even assuming
she stole the money, is this how you treat a kid ? I wonder whether these idiots don't
have any kids of their own. If it was their kid, would they have behaved in the same way ?
Heck, even if it is someone else's kid, would you kick a kid or slap her ?

The cops have been suspended, which is no consolation. I just hope someone thrashes their backside and kicks their sorry heads like a football. That should make them understand.