'We want cop to see the pain he caused'
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January 2017, 2:53pm
Goitsemang
Tlhabye
Pathology officials remove the body of a
Tsakani Shimange, who was shot dead, allegedly by a metro policeman, near the
intersection of Grosvenor and Park streets in Hatfield.Picture: Bongani
Shilubane
Pretoria - "He must rot in jail. This is why police
brutality must come to an end?" This is what was written on placards
friends, family and colleagues of the late Tsakani Rikhotso Shimange held while
protesting outside the Pretoria Magistrate's Court where the Tshwane Metro
Police Department officer who shot him in Hatfield on Friday was applying for
bail.
Speaking outside court an emotional Jo-Anne Phillips said she
had been friends with Shimange for four years and could not understand why
anyone would shoot such a loving and friendly person.
"I never slept when I found out about his death. Its unfair
for him to have been killed."
"We want the police officer who did this and his colleagues
to see the pain they have caused all of us especially the grief of his
mother," she said.
Shimange was allegedly shot while trying to use wires to restart
his car as it had been giving him troubles when the officer thought he was
reaching for a weapon and shot him in the chest through the windscreen.
The bail application of Constable Takatso Mashego 27, was
postponed to Friday for confirmation of the officers residential address.
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