Posted on 02/28/2013 9:47:28 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
They bound his hands to the rear of a van, and then sped off, dragging the slender taxi driver along the pavement as a crowd of onlookers shouted in dismay. The man was later found dead. A gut-wrenching video of the scene is all the more disturbing because the men who abused the Mozambican immigrant were uniformed South African police officers and the van was a marked police vehicle.
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He was resisting getting into the van alright but they definitely drove off with him hanging off the back end.
I’d probably resist too if I think they were going to kill me.
That is also what I saw.
“An average of 860 people a year died in police custody or as a result of police action between 2009 and 2010, up from 695 a year from 2003 to 2008”
Its certainly a messed up place.
The Toronto Star is Canada’s answer to the New York Times. I wondered what the twist was.
Judicial processes continue to become more efficient for non-VIPs worldwide.
That’s pretty much what I saw.
If the guy had gotten into the van and stayed there he wouldn’t have been dragged.
I heard a lot of laughing in the video so the crowd wasn’t all dismayed.
It should have been handled better, but the guy helped end his own life.Mess with the Bull you get the horn.
Nope. Summer Vacation—Chevy Chase.
No one, if there is no South African equivalent of The Second Amendment.
OsamaObamaCare mandated the hiring of an additional 16,000 IRS agents for “enforcement”.You can be sure that those new agents will “touch” themselves watching this video.
I’ve been to South Africa...twice.A “kinder,gentler” place it most assuredly is not.
THIS is the country which leftists are calling more humane than the US because homosexual marriage is legal there.
Just so you understand the twisted logic of the left.
Official killers? Yes. Official gobment? Who knows?
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