Police brutality caught on camera
Fritz Kraemer who witnessed the ...show more
CCTV cameras capture police officers assaulting a young man in Ockerse street.
01 March 2012 | Sammi-Jo Botha
The footage shows a young man walking down the street when a police van pulls up next to him and an officer gets out and starts hitting him against a bakkie that is parked in the street. Soon thereafter another officer gets out and joins his colleague in the assault.
Later two other police vehicles pull up and the officers get out and proceed in further assaulting the man.
Fritz Kraemer, a resident in the street who witnessed the whole attack, says, "The man shouting, for what, for what? The officers just kept on hitting him and pulled his feet out from under him causing him to fall.
"It doesn’t matter what the man did, there is no reason to be beaten up like that.
"I shouted at the police to stop, but they said I must go to the police station if I have a problem."
"I shouted at the police to stop, but they said I must go to the police station if I have a problem."
The CCTV cameras that captured the entire assault are situated in Johan van Dalen’s yard.
Van Dalen says, "We do not want to go to the police station and show them the footage because we are scared they will lock us up to cover this up."
The NEWS contacted the spokesperson of the Krugersdorp Police, Captain Jacob Raboroko for comment who said that he would send through comment as soon as possible.
