No trust in Cape Town’s
police system
March 10 2014
Last
week, police officers stripped and beat a Nigerian man in the Cape Town CBD.
The video went viral, erupting a new wave of controversy around police
brutality.
How
do Capetonians feel about their protectors? RA’EESA PATHER reports.
Rochelle Pietersen,
Kensington
I’ve never had a situation where I had to go
to the station, but they could be better. I don’t trust them, because of all
the stuff that’s just happened. That guy that got beaten and assaulted in the
CBD… Hell, no, I don’t trust the police. I thought it was ridiculous regardless
of whatever he did. It was wrong. That is actually public indecency, what they
did to that guy. You actually get arrested for that, and they did it. People
say they are like gangsters in uniform, and that’s what they are. The way that
they address us when they are in uniform, like they are superior to us… They
have that attitude.
