Indian Police Scared Of Nigerians Says It Will Take 10 Policemen To Handle One.

Nigerians are "seven feet" tall, are "huge
and aggressive" and it needs anywhere
between two to 10 Goa Police personnel
to tackle each of them. That's why, says
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, the
police could not reign in an irate mob of
Nigerians that blocked a key highway,
beat up policemen and vandalised a
police van after one of their compatriots
was found murdered.
"They are huge and aggressive. Some of
them are seven feet tall. It would take at
least 100 of our policemen to handle a
crowd of 50 Nigerians," Parrikar told
reporters, when he was asked why the
police force did not make any effort for
nearly an hour to clear National
Highway-17 that was blocked Thursday
by bare-torsoed, muscled Nigerians
armed with hockey sticks, bamboos and
knives.
The Nigerians were demanding that the
autopsy on the deceased Obina Obiwesi
be conducted in the presence of the
Nigerian ambassador in India.
The murder, the Nigerian protestors
claimed, had been committed by a gang
called Chapora boys, a notorious
underground drugmafia operating in
north Goa, and the police had been
unwilling to act against the alleged
murderers, who were locals. They blocked
the highway by dumping the corpse bang
in the middle of the road after smashing
open the police hearse and extracting the
body from it.
The brazen manner in which Goa Police
officers were cowered down in public by
a group of 50 well-built Nigerians (the
mob later swelled to nearly 200) and
Parrikar's continued dogged defence of
the state police has evoked an extremely
strong reaction in thesocial media as well
as among people across sections.
The mob not only threatened and warded
off over 20 policemen, including
Superintendent of Police (North)
Priyanka Kashyap, but also told the latter
off in a verbal duel.
The intimidation was such that Parrikar,
himself claimed that he saw one
"herculesque Nigerian" who he believed
would need 10 Goa policemen to control.