Outrage after cop caught on camera 'manhandling' Cape woman
Cape
Town - South African Police (SAPS) officers based at the Milnerton Police
Station have come under fire after a video showing a woman being manhandled
went viral.
The incident unfolded
last month at Canal Walk following an alleged altercation between the woman and
officers.
In the video, a police
officer can be seen holding up the woman's top, exposing her bra, while calling
for back-up. It remains unclear why the officer was doing this.
In a post on
Facebook, Prudence McPherson explained that her ordeal unfolded after
police officers instructed her to move.
"After I asked him
to not demand but instead ask me to move, he blew his top!
"I literally went
through police brutality: pulled by my arm, dragged on a brick floor, slammed
against the police van, forced into the van, shaken to the point of
unconsciousness, just pulled along vigorously wherever he went... n eventually
was choked by my own hoodie while standing half naked. (Suffered some bruising)
"When his backup
arrived, five male officers, with no knowledge of what had just happened
(confessing to it as well), threw my a** in their van.
She then added that: I
slept at Milnerton police station that night. Did fingerprints n 'mugshots'
[and] was to appear in court on March 7, 2018 but after prosecutors examined
his statement and then my video, his [officer] story* did not add up n my case
was thrown out".
