Police brutality in South Africa

BoysInBlue · February 28, 2013

Man arrested, handcuffed to the back of a police van, then dragged along the road to his death.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/28/world/africa/south-africa-police-brutality/index.html?

[video=youtube;treekc8JVjE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=treekc8JVjE[/video]

Johannesburg (CNN) -- A man, struggling to get away, is surrounded by South African police in the middle of a street as a large crowd looks on. The officers pull him over to a police van and handcuff his hands, over his head, to the back of the vehicle as he sits on the ground.
Soon, as some in the crowd scream, the van begins to move. It slowly picks up speed. The helpless man in a red T-shirt is dragged along the road.
Soon, two officers lift him up by the legs, apparently to avoid dragging -- but the police van seems to speed up, and the man's legs fall to the ground, He is dragged hundreds of feet.
South Africa shocked by police shootings at mine
Though injured, the man was never taken to a hospital, police investigators say.
He died a few hours after the incident. The suspected cause of death: head wounds.

Shocking stuff really. Don't mess with the South African police.

Kurt. · February 28, 2013

Mate, im sure there's already a thread about this called..MAN HANDCUFFED TO BACK OF VAN IN SOUTH AFRICA......or something similar.

Carl Stewart · February 28, 2013

yeah - I used to live out there when I was younger and they were pretty brutal (this was back in the 80's) no excuses made, especially if your skin was the wrong colour.

Blooy · February 28, 2013

This most likely happens in most African nations. I think the south afrikaaners get more media exposure though.

noharmdone · February 28, 2013

He should have just got in the van like ?

kev101 · March 1, 2013

So he parked his car in traffic, refused to move it, scuffled with the police, refused to get in the van, crowd turns nasty, police drag him down the road a bit, get to a safer place, get [Poor language removed] into van.
SO WHAT?

bignev23 · March 1, 2013

kev101 said:
So he parked his car in traffic, refused to move it, scuffled with the police, refused to get in the van, crowd turns nasty, police drag him down the road a bit, get to a safer place, get [Poor language removed] into van.
SO WHAT?

Er they killed him, or do you think thats acceptable?

kev101 · March 1, 2013

Didn't know they killed him. Now that IS naughty!

Phenom · March 1, 2013

kev101 said:
Didn't know they killed him. Now that IS naughty!

FFS KEV

sportbillyblue · March 2, 2013

having lived in West Africa for > 5 years there's far worse things happen and all too often, very often. If the crowd had been left to take care of the situation it's not beynnd the realms of possibility he'd have been lynched, made to wear a michelin necklace etc