And while the issue of whether the use of lethal force was justified remains unresolved - what's not so easily arguable is whether a convicted killer cop should have been re-enlisted in the police department. That one seems pretty cut and dry - but the Minister of Home Affairs said that one is on his predecessor:
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"The information that I gather is that he was re-enlisted in the police department in the last administration, I believe it was 2019. It wasn't under this administration, having a criminal background or a criminal record certainly should be a bar to reentering or being re-enlisted into the department. And so you'd have to ask the last administration, I believe it was Minister Peryrefitte, as to what led to the re-enlist- Saldivar. Sorry, Minister Saldivar, as to what led to the re-enlistment of Mr. Arzu."
Jules Vasquez:
"But if you had your way, you said someone with a criminal conviction should not serve, he should not be in the department."
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"Again, that you'd have to ask the last administration. As long as I am the minister, and if you bring someone with a criminal record, I don't believe that there should be in re-enlisted."
Jules Vasquez:
"But he is re-enlisted."
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"But once he's there, you do understand that public service regulations, you would have to commit another breach, and then it would have to go to tribunal and then disciplinary after that. And so, the fact that he's re-enlisted, there's nothing much that I can do."
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