MP brings charges against metro police for
brutality
22 April 2013 11:03
An MP has brought charges against
Johannesburg metro police for allegedly crashing into her car and insulting
her.
She thought she was being hijacked when metro
police officials confronted her in Sandton on Friday, arts and culture
portfolio committee chairperson Thandile Babalwa Sunduza told the The New Age.
After telling them she would park her car to
avoid blocking traffic, Sunduza reportedly said she “heard a big bang” and
realised a metro police 4×4 had crashed into her car. About 10 metro police
surrounded it.
“It was traumatic … The female officers were
calling me ‘isifebe’ (a “whore”) and a dog,” she was quoted telling The New
Age.
She said she was threatened with arrest for
talking on her cellphone while driving, but reportedly claimed both her
cellphones were in the car boot.
Sunduza had brought charges of intimidation
and malicious damage to property against the metro police officials.
Police spokesperson Captain Kym Cloete told
the newspaper no arrests had yet been made, and Johannesburg metro police
spokesperson Edna Mamonyane said a separate, internal investigation had been
launched.
“If (the metro police) are in the wrong,
action will be taken against them,” she said.
