Footage of Cape Town police
brutality emerges
South Africa
Friday 7 March 2014 - 9:35am
JOHANNESBURG - Western Cape
police are investigating an incident of police brutality in Cape Town.
Video footage shot by bystander
(who asked eNCA not to be identified) and posted on social network Facebook on
Thursday shows two uniformed policemen kicking the naked man in the groin
outside a car.
Footage shows three other men -
presumably security personnel in the area - holding the man's arms, while the
two SAPS officers take turns assaulting the victim as people walk by.
It is not clear what led to the
assault.
The bystander, who was at work at
the time, said one of the policemen approached her workplace after she yelled
at the police asking why the man was being assaulted.
She said a friend of hers was
arrested for alleged police interference. The charge was dropped at a later
stage.
