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    "id": 206469,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 279,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the circumstances when police officers can use force is when suppressing a riot, insurrection or mutiny. So, if there is a riot that is unruly and August 29, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3559 is likely to cause loss of more lives, the police officers come in to disperse the rioters. In those circumstances, some innocent people may be hurt or stray bullets may injure them. Police are allowed in those circumstances to use reasonable force. If everybody in town is rioting and they could even burn houses and kill innocent people, what are the police supposed to do? That is why the drafters of our Constitution put that as one of the circumstances when the police can use force."
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