Our anti-impunity litigation aimed at deterring police brutality & heavy-handedness continue to yield positive results as govt& @PoliceZimbabwe are paying dearly for some misdemeanors with Justice Mushore ordering them to pay US$16 788 to Loveness Chiriseri a Chitungwiza resident 
Chiriseri, who was a passenger in a private vehicle intending to commute to Harare from Chitungwiza, was a victim of an indiscriminate police shooting incident in August 2018 at a police check point along Seke road.
With the assistance of Fiona Iliff of @ZLHRLawyers, Chiriseri sued for damages for injuries sustained as a result of the shooting, medical expenses, pain & suffering, nervous shock & loss of amenities to life.
In court, Iliff argued that the police officer who shot Chiriseri applied excessive force & that the officer's constitutional right was exercised in an overzealous & questionable manner.
In her extensive ruling, Justice Mushore noted that Chiriseri posed no danger to the public or to internal security of the country or to law & order & that she was an unarmed non-threatening passenger in a vehicle.
The police officer, Justice Mushore said, had no basis to fire a weapon at a civilian target & if it was his intention to stop the driver of the vehicle in which Chiriseri was travelling in from proceeding through a roadblock, he ought to have fired a warning shot into the air.
With Zim recording cases of police brutality, heavy-handedness by state & other quasi-state actors, ZLHR has adopted as one of its strategies, a policy of bringing anti-impunity civil proceedings against perpetrators wherever possible to deter & discourage such violations.
