Cops probing new police brutality incident
2014-03-07 13:21
Police officers are seen beating a naked man in
Cape Town. (Nicole Speelman, Facebook)
Cape Town - An incident of alleged police
brutality in Cape Town, which was filmed by a member of the public, is being
investigated by Western Cape police.
The footage was posted on Facebook
by Nicole Speelman on Thursday.
She had filmed the incident from her
office in Cape Town. In the footage, two uniformed police officers are seen
punching and kicking a naked man. Security personnel are also seen holding the
man's arms. Bystanders are seen walking past and stopping to observe.
Speelman also stated in a Facebook
post that she yelled at police from her office window, and a policeman came up
to her office to arrest her for screaming at the police.
She added that she and her
colleagues asked the policeman why he and his colleagues had beaten the man.
"..He said he was just trying to get him in the van and he arrested my
colleague for police interference and the charges was later dropped".
The DA has condemned the
"vicious attack".
Dianne Kohler Barnard for the DA
said: "What was even more disturbing is that police aggressively manhandled,
pushed, choked, punched and kicked him repeatedly."
She said people living in South
Africa are tired in living in fear of both criminals and a handful of thuggish
police officers.
Western Cape police spokesperson
November Filander told eNCA that police were assessing the footage.
