Members of the community policing forum CPF in Inanda, north of Durban, where police shot and killed five people on Thursday morning, told Sowetan that the deceased were a menace to society.
They expressed hope that their deaths would send a warning to other criminals that crime does not pay.
While friends and relatives of the five men believe their loved ones were innocent victims who happened to the at the wrong place at the wrong time, leaders of community crime-fighting structures have painted a different picture.
