Thursday, November 17, 2011

Crimes of the South African Police Service

Videos taken by bystanders of metro-cops attacking distraught young Indian mom Shantall Gopal, 23: in Germiston
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/germiston/germiston-news-crime?oid=4741250&sn=Detail&pid=490065&EMPD-lives-up-to-its-name
Boksburg metro-cops manhandle Indian woman Shantall Gopal, 23: she was waylaid enroute to her trying to fetch her sick two-year-old daughter from school, when she was pulled over on Rietfontein Road by an unmarked vehicle. They turned out to be Boksburg metro-cops - who already have a history of pulling over lone women and assaulting them. She became terrified and frantic to get away - as she needed to urgently fetch her child from school. Civilians, from the sound of it Afrikaans-speakers, accused the cops of harassment and assault, and filmed the incident – and then put it on YouTube:
http://bit.ly/ro7FLF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq3mBopbw9Y&feature=player_embedded