Police assault caught on camera

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Pretoria - Pretoria police officers have been caught on CCTV cameras kicking and punching an unarmed man, Beeld reported on Monday.

Theuns Potgieter, 33, of Silverton had gone to a petrol station in Gezina around 21:00 on Thursday, April 21, to get two flat tyres repaired.

He had his firearm tucked into the back of his pants, but did not have his licence with him.

CCTV footage shows police officers arriving at the station and walking over to where Potgieter and his friend are talking to another man in the workshop area.

"Even before they asked me I took out my gun and put it on the car's engine cover. The police told us to lie down. I raised my arms and lay down," he was quoted as saying.

Resisting arrest

Another man, presumably a plain-clothes policeman, then walks up to Potgieter and kicks him in the stomach several times as officers in uniform look on. He then stomps on his head, punches him in the face and kicks him in the stomach again.

A uniformed officer then kicks Potgieter. While he is being handcuffed, the first policeman kicks him again. He was taken to the Pretoria Moot police station, accused of possession of an unlicensed firearm, pointing a firearm and resisting arrest.

Potgieter was taken to hospital after vomiting blood and passing blood in his urine. After he was discharged he appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court where he was released on bail of R2 000. While in custody, it was confirmed that he was the lawful owner of the gun.

According to Potgieter, police refused to help him open an assault case against the officers.

Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Neville Malila told Beeld: "... such alleged conduct by police members cannot be tolerated".

The matter was being viewed in a serious light and would be investigated, he said.

Potgieter's beating was the third case of alleged police violence in two weeks. Last week Jeanette Odendaal was shot dead, allegedly by a police sergeant, as she sat in her car outside the Kempton Park police station, after apparently having bumped into a police van while parking.

Andries Tatane was killed during a protest in Ficksburg. He was allegedly shot at point-blank range with rubber bullets and beaten with rubber truncheons.

- SAPA
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Police-assault-caught-on-camera-20110502
 
WTF is wrong with these guys that they think they'll get away with this stuff? Pure arrogance I guess.
 
Wow, we are seeing a lot of these "rare" incidents lately... I mean what are the chances? :rolleyes:
 
This is what dropping standards to build up the police force does. We end up trying to fight criminals with criminals :erm:
 
wonder if the cops are black? imagine white cops + black victim

PC hippie media+ ANC cronies would be having a field day.
 
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Let no one doubt that we no longer have a police force, we have a mafia who enforce their own laws for their own ends.
 
We keep hearing about what's going on, but what actually happens after? I mean, what will be the outcome of this, "...matter was being viewed in a serious light and would be investigated"?
Everyone's forever "looking into it" but we never hear what happens to these chops.

Who's going to protect us from them?
As much as I love SA, I can't wait to get away from people like that.
 
Sl8er said:
We keep hearing about what's going on, but what actually happens after? I mean, what will be the outcome of this, "...matter was being viewed in a serious light and would be investigated"?
Everyone's forever "looking into it" but we never hear what happens to these chops.

Who's going to protect us from them?
As much as I love SA, I can't wait to get away from people like that.
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Agreed... They've been "investigating the matter" of the cops beating the guy at Katz in Melville (also caught on camera) for weeks now. I might have missed it but I don't recall reading about any arrests, let alone suspensions, for the "members" involved in that particular "isolated incident". I suppose you'd have to give them a little bit longer to get the popcorn properly salted before they sit down to have a look at this video as well as the one from their Cape Town assault last week.

I chuckled when I read that Bheki Cele was sending cops on "refresher course on how to handle protests"... Guess that means they'll get instruction on how to avoid being spotted by security cameras and just the right level of intimidation to use in order to confiscate those tapes.

I guess, like Tatane and Odendaal you really have to end up dead before any "members" actually wind up in front of a judge.
 
WTF,the oke surrendered his gun anyway I mean why beat him? I praise the good police though.
 
Korn1 said:
WTF,the oke surrendered his gun anyway I mean why beat him? I praise the good police though.
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Which one's? Getting hard to find them, unfortunately.

I say it's time for the citizens of SA to stand together and say NO to police brutality and intimidation. But of course, that's asking way to much. Reason why they get away with it? because they know that no one will do anything to stand up to it.
 
Ronjay said:
Which one's? Getting hard to find them, unfortunately.

I say it's time for the citizens of SA to stand together and say NO to police brutality and intimidation. But of course, that's asking way to much. Reason why they get away with it? because they know that no one will do anything to stand up to it.
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Unfortunatley our news does focus on the negative(rightfully so) but I mean we do get good cops that we don't hear about.
 
Ronjay said:
Yip, I guess. But the bad one's need to get there butt's kicked, hard.
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Problem being many of our SAPS members are not proud of who they are so hence all the shyt + some just want to be employed and its beyond me how they get in.
 
/me Dons the Bheki Cele hat..

This is an isolated incident... its isolated to South of the Sahara
 
Fudzy said:
Where's the video? :confused:
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Probably in the hands of relevant authority. I personally don't need to see wanton acts of violence in every case to know that something is fundamentally wrong with our police force. It's a simple case of where there are massive explosions, there is fire. Forget the smoke.
 
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