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.
Shane said the policeman said to him:
"If you move, I will kill you."
That is when he slowly moved to the car
and got the camera, obscuring it by turning his body.
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."
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Muthan said everybody at the Douglasdale
Police Station was very upset by the video and the two in it have been
identified by the acting station commander.
But, a full investigation will be done and
IPID will decide whether they should be suspended, with, or without a salary
while the investigation runs.
There has been no arrest.
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