Another 'police brutality' video emerges
2015-08-25
22:04
Jenni Evans, News24
Johannesburg - The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) will investigate a video of alleged police brutality by Douglasdale police after a video purporting to show this did the rounds.
"A case has been opened by the complainant. Numerous charges
will be added after we have reviewed the video footage," said Douglasdale
police spokesperson Warrant Officer Balan Muthan.
The video, titled Police brutality hits again! Secret video
footage, Douglasdale SAPS, purports to show two men in an exchange with two
men in blue, and a police vehicle in the background bearing the Douglasdale
police marking.
Using the pseudonyms Anton and Shane, Shane said their workers had
left and they were on their way home at about 03:30 on August 18 when two
police officers suddenly stopped and confronted them.
"Then just suddenly he stopped behind us and that's where
they attack [sic] us," he said.
With a policeman on each side of the car, they were asked to get
out of the car, but Anton was slower and was pulled out.
The other police officer hit Anton with the gun on the shoulder
and on his knee, he said.
The video shows Anton making strange noises and saying in
Afrikaans that he can't breathe.
Shane said they twisted Anton's ankle and it looked as though they
were trying to break his leg. Then they pulled down Anton's pants and one, with
his hand, "went like physically into his anal [sic]".
In the video, it sounds as though Shane is crying, after he gasps
"Lip Ice".
He said they also took Anton's pants down and searched his genital
area.
When Anton woke up Shane picked him up and "put him in the
boot" and the policemen warned them: "Don't ever do that again",
and they left.
Their faces were shadowed in the video.
Shane said he thought it happened because: "We are two young
guys and also I think it's because we're white."
