Police
Bullet Hits Innocent Motorist’s Car in Midrand
2009-11-04
Virginia Keppler of Beeld newspaper reports
that Pretoria resident SumarieSchumyn, 41, left on this Beeld picture, of
Wingate Park, thought she’d been hit by a police bullet when a police car
chased past with screaming sirens, in hot pursuit of a fleeing vehicle on the
N1-highway in Midrand.
A bullet from this police car shattered her rear
windscreen. The cop car kept right on going at high speed, she said, while Mrs
Schumyn, believing she’d been hit, was yelling to her husband Karel over the
telephone that she’d been hit. She wasn’t on the roadway at the time: she had
pulled over enroute to Johannesburg at
around 10am, and was talking to her husband over her cellphone when the police
car chased past her.
It went so fast that she couldn’t get its registration
number, she said. “I was pulled over well away from the highway pavement, I
wasn’t in their way at all and they just fired that shot and it could have
killed me,’ she said. The family already was traumatised said her mother Anna
van den Berg, 66 because they’d seen a security guard shot dead in front of
their eyes during an armed robbery at Menlyn-shopping centre in Pretoria
recently.
DA-spokeswoman Dianne Kohler Barnard said the
‘police are out of control and riding around like cowboys in the streets of
Pretoria’. Police sergeant Lynnette Erasmus confirmed that a charge of
deliberate destruction of property has been logged at the Garsfontein police
station and that it has been transferred to the Midrand police station for
investigation.
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BRUTALITY OF THE MEN IN BLUE
- October 11:
Police shoot and kill Olga Kekana after suspecting she and her companions
were hijackers. Her friends, Sophie Kgarake and Andrew Singo were shot in
the abdomen and the right hand and thigh respectively.
- October 30:
Pretoria police spray a VW Golf with bullets, wounding the driver, after a
car was reported hijacked.
- November 1:
Police shoot and kill KgothatsoNdobe of Atteridgeville after he panicked
and ran away.
September 30: We reported that cops fired bullets at toddlers while driving through
Mashishing in Mpumalanga – while trying to disperse crowds during recent
service delivery protests. Our men in blue uniform allegedly:
- Fired two rubber bullets into three- year-old
Neo Khumalo’s forehead and cheek;
- Shot and hit MongeziMaila, 6, above the right eye
with a rubber bullet;
- Fired a live bullet into teenager Emily
Madonsela’s right cheek;
- Held Sfiso Nkosi to the ground and fired a
bullet into his penis, another into his buttock and one under his arm;
- Shot Jacob Malakane dead; and
- Dragged Marcus Masilela, 38, out of his yard
and shot him twice in the leg …http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1084752
