Man Dragged By South Africa Police Vehicle Dies In Detention
” Independent police investigators are looking into the claims after video footage emerged showing a man being dragged along a road behind a police van.
The man, a 27-year-old from Mozambique, was later found dead in a police cell in Daveyton, Johannesburg, on Tuesday.
Officers have claimed they put the taxi driver in a police van in order to take him to a police station on the East Rand, and cannot explain how he later died.
But the video, obtained by South Africa’s Daily Sun newspaper, shows officers struggling to overpower a man – believed to be the taxi driver – before attaching him to a point at the rear of their vehicle and then driving off leaving him hanging outside. Less..”
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Not sure what is more disturbing – the cheering crowds or the murderers themselves. Such a brutal society we live in. My heart goes out to this man whose only wish was to have a better life and to his family who will probably never get the answers they need. Rest in Peace.
I couldn’t be certain whether the crowd was cheering or jeering the police , but you are correct , it’s a brutal society we live in .
The saddest part is that we seemed to reach a high point several decades ago and now as a race seem to be regressing back towards our baser animal instincts .