Protesting Metro Cops shot national police officers amongst rush-hour
traffic with live ammo
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A group of municipal police officers had blockaded downtown Johannesburg at the M2 freeway ramps with Eloff Street -- and then started firing shots with their police handguns at the national police officers of the SAPS who asked them to please clear the highway, to let the workers go home. in spite of the huge number of motorists and pedestrians which were trapped in the downtown traffic melee caused by the illegal strike, these metro-cops had still fired back at the SAPS members with live ammo -- after the latter had been 'forced to fire rubber bullets at the metro police members who had blockaded the city, causing a traffic gridlock.' Seven metro police officers - three women and four men - were injured by SAPS rubber-bullets during the police action and charges are being investigated against some metro-cops of attempted murder. The metropolitan-cops caused the chaos as part of a wild-cat strike by the communists of the SA Municipal Workers Union who are complaning over ' salaries and nepotism '. The communists in SA have been promising to 'make the country ungovernable' with such strikes. Major roads and freeways were blocked, causing traffic havoc and thousands of local office workers were trapped inside their buildings, unable to fetch their children from school and go home.
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