All these social media critics mumbling conspiracy theories when they saw how the police were not in official uniform at Mulinu’u on Monday brought memories back in the day.
Apia Park was in an uproar when a crowd fight broke out during a tense Saturday rugby shield challenge match.
The police chased after the fighting crowd all over the ground with ‘lavalava’ flapping.
The fighting surged onto the playing paddock where it stopped the game.
One of the officers racing in to break up the fighting lost his footing and rolled onto the wet muddy ground.
The poor man ended up with his ‘lavalava’ around his ears, his protruding backside and dirty underwear up in the air for everyone to see.
The ‘flapping lavalava’ are still around today but when it comes to any hint of public disturbance, the police have a specially trained squad to handle that.
The officers wear boots, long pants and singlet’s as seen at Mulinu’u on Monday.
The least of their worries is to end up wearing flapping lavalava around their ears with their undies jutting up for the whole world to see while on duty.
Today we have live streaming on social media. Imagine that same Apia Park fighting scene played out on social media today!
For us living in Samoa the selected wear by the special squad is old news. We’ve seen them in it many times including illegal drug raids.
All this conspiracy talk coming out on social media about why they were not in official uniform on Monday shows how poorly informed these ‘outsiders’ are to what is going on in Samoa.
Maybe the Commissioner should encourage these conspiracy theorists to fly in and see for themselves.
“….make sure they don’t bring in the pandemic virus, dear.