Vicious SA cops raid restaurant: video
04:15 | Posted by Censorbugbear |
‘No, these are not videos from Egypt or Libya. This was the Catz Pyjamas restaurant in Melville, South Africa…’
Feb 27 2011 – Rapport newspaper published a video from a South African police-raid carried out against the hapless patrons at the 24-hour Catz Pyjamas Bistro in Mellville, South Africa. It shows the increasingly criminal* ANC-regime ‘s heavily-armed cops storming in, yelling loudly, kicking patrons off their chairs and onto the floors. Unresisting patrons were getting kicked and beaten by police. Patrons then were forced downstairs, where twelve men and one woman were dumped into two police-vehicles. The 13 people were only released from Brixton police station at 15:00 on Saturday. Apparently they are being charged with ‘resisting arrest’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYhkLoe0TU&feature=player_embedded
‘No these are not videos from Egypt or Libya. This was the Catz Pyjamas restaurant in Melville, South Africa…’
Rapport newspaper obtained video-footage of the shocking event, commenting: "No, these are not videos from (the police-actions in) Egypt or Libya. These events took place in the popular Catz Pajamas restaurant in Melville, South Africa.'
Most of the patrons were getting ready to leave Catz Pyjamas 24-hour bistro at around 4am Saturday-morning when a gaggle of 15 SAPF-members stormed in, blocking the entrance so that no-one else could leave, said its owner. The police never asked to speak to the owner or the manager before raiding their bistro, said Mrs Natascha Coetzee.
What raised their hackles? Apparently some drunken lout had thrown a bottle towards the police contingent outside, in the street. What happened next was caught on the restaurant's security cameras.
"One minute everybody was still sitting around and the next people are yelled at to sit on the floor, said owner Coetzee. "They didn't even ask to talk to me or the manager, they simply pulled our patrons from their chairs and assaulted some.' Some 12 men and one woman were dragged to the Brixton police station nearby, apparently with trumped-up charges of resisting arrest. After hours of waiting by their relatives, they were finally given R500 bail each.
Rapport: “On the video one can see one patron leaving the toilet and coming back into the restaurant - and one cop immediately grabs him by the arm and beats him in the face. The assaulted man falls to the floor - and a third cop then joins in and kicks the man repeatedly in the stomach, ribs and face.
When the three cops finally are done assaulting him, he tries to sit down on a chair - but another cop then pulls him over, chair and all.
By 15:00 Saturday-afternoon, relatives were still waiting outside the police station, anxiously waiting for the arrested restaurant-patrons' release. One woman waiting outside was Mrs Carmen Benjamin of Pretoria - she was arrested but not charged. Her husband Clint was charged with resisting arrest. "I was in one police-vehicle with my husband and other men. Nobody resisted when we were loaded into the vehicle. Everybody was too scared and shocked to do anything.'
SAPF warrant-officer Lorraine van Emmerik was asked to comment. She confirmed that 'the police raided the restaurant because they were still open after 2am which is against the law. The police tried to close the place down but people interfered in their duties there.' She couldn't comment on the video because she hadn't seen it, she added. – Rapport
links to above:
• http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Polisie-skop-slaan-mense-20110226
• http://www.catzpyjamas.co.za/aboutus.php 12 main road melville johannesburg south africa telephone:+27 11 726 8596 fax:
+27 11 482 1631 email:melville@catzpyjamas.co.za GPS co-ordinates 26 deg 10 min 37.42 sec S
28 deg 00 min 04.93 sec E
* Background: increasing criminality of SA police forces:
• 200-plus Pretoria cops are convicted criminals but still on the payroll: ‘http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2011/02/100-pretoria-metrocops-are-convicted.html
• 2009: SA crime victims terrified of police http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/01/south-african-crime-victims-terrified.html
• A total 75 people died in police custody during the apartheid era up to 1994 (source: Truth and Reconciliation Commission). During the last ten months of the year 2010 alone, 566 arrested people died in police-custody under the ANC-regime in ONE YEAR ALONE: source:“Parties demand probe into 566 deaths in police-custody” Sowetan: journalists Canaan Mdletshe, Mhlaba Memela and Sibongile Mashaba, 23 Nov 2010 http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2010/11/23/parties-urge-probe-into-566-deaths
100+ Pretoria metrocops are convicted criminals: but still on the payroll
11:51 | Posted by Censorbugbear |
More than 100 Pretoria metro-cops are convicted criminals; 520 internal-disclipline cases have been pending against metrocops since 2007… and they are still on the streets, in their uniforms, with their guns:
2011-02-25 Beeld: more than one-hundred of Pretoria 's metropolitan police are convicted criminals: the worst example being one particularly criminal member, who has already been found guilty of 13 violent crimes and is awaiting trial in nine other cases. And another whopping 510 internal-disclipline cases have been pending against metrocops ever since 2007. All these 'police-officers' are kept on in their jobs in the meantime.
Training and qualifications for metro-cops in SA:
Countrywide, applicants for this job are given a six-month training course before they get handed their gun and police uniform. Their average hourly wage is R45 an hour. They also get paid additional bonuses of R1,000 to R5,400 each for protection at public events.
Their qualification requirements are minimal: applicants do not even require a matriculation certificate to qualify. Recruits who do not have a matric certificate actually are tested by places such as Technikon SA (in Johannesburg) which has been contracted out to prove that these unskilled policing-applicants have some basic literary and numeracy skills.
Cobus Claassen of Beeld quoted from an internal Pretoria Community-safety forum document from October 2010 which contains a long list of metro-cops'names who have criminal records and thus should be banned (by law) from working in any official policing capacity.
The crimes for which these more than 100 listed metrocops were convicted of are serious: ranging from assault, rape, indecent assault, public violence, theft, driving under the influence of alcohol, and contempt of court. Local town councillor Ms Karen Meyer submitted a demand at the council meeting last night asking an urgent investigation into 510 internal investigations against specific officers since 2007.
• All these cops are still in their jobs.
"What happened to these internal investigations? Between January 2010 and June 2010, a total of 240 internal-disclipline cases were submitted against metropolitan police officers, yet not one case has been completed. These include ten bribery charges, 29 for corruption, six for fraud, and TWO attempted murders. The council's local ANC mouthpiece William Baloyi admitted that 'in the past there have been delays in these internal-disclipline cases'. He said this did not mean that they were not being investigated.
LINKS -
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Meer-as-100-metrolede-in-Pretoria-is-misdadigers-20110225 -
http://www.joburg.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=702&Itemid=9&limitstart=1#ixzz1F3QTzth2
http://tinyurl.com/5wky3dq
