Woman's head gets bashed by traffic cop

The cop lost his cool. He should pay now for his incident of road rage with a nice criminal charge of dereliction of duty, assault, reckless driving and also face a civil case where the family of the victim sue him and the department for a few million.
 
However, said Ward, instead of receiving the protection she sought, his wife was assaulted in front of police officers.

"When she got off her car, the man, who was wearing a brown traffic officer's uniform, attacked her by grabbing her neck and pushing her into the ground. He jumped on top of her and grabbed her bag. All of this happened in front of police officers, who just watched."

"He choked her and banged her head on the ground. These officers are supposed to protect the public, but instead they use their positions to show that they have power and should be feared," said Ward.
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Polish said:
Great, this is exactly the kind of news we don't want for 2010.

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Fudzy said:
Yes and no. Yes, we need to show that our police force won't take *** (especially with the hordes of soccer hooligans coming over) but no we don't need them ignoring people in need of help while being roughly man-handled by other officiers.
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WTF? A traffic cop barbarically assaults a woman while other officers stand around doing nothing - but hey, it sends a good message for the World Cup. :wtf::confused:

If the facts as presented are true he should face criminal and civil prosecution.
 
LOL I doubt this traffic cop would be doing this to a football hooligan from the UK or Germany. I don't think he'd dared. Then again, SA being so far away and accommodation being so expensive here, I doubt we'll see these football hooligans who travel all over Europe in busses and stay in tents and cheap motels. Most of these guys, can't afford it.
 
SiriS said:
WTF? A traffic cop barbarically assaults a woman while other officers stand around doing nothing - but hey, it sends a good message for the World Cup. :wtf::confused:
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I doubt that anyone coming from the UK or places like France or Italy would even care about a story like this. Their police are thugs too.
 
Maybe the cop was in a hurry to get to the police station and this lady cock blocked him all the way thru
 
Fudzy said:
I KNEW you'd try make a fuss over this story. Yes, in this case the brutality was not in any way justified and if you managed to read to the bottom of the article you will see those involved are being brought to book. The drugged up, boozed up racial slurring lady you're constantly protecting is another case altogether.
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I would agree. The nature of the two events is hardly comparable. Let's hope the officer is arrested for assault/gbh and the others that watched are fired.
 
I have no respect for cops anymore, this is what happened to me...

I got pulled over because my friend was sitting on the tailgate of my bakkie, and i was asked if i had anything to drink so i said 2 drinks. I just had 1 double brandy at happy hour so i got 1 free before heading through to my friends place for his birthday, only a 4km drive or so from the pub.

I was honest and admitted that i had 2 drinks, which i thought would not be over the limit, next thing im been read my rights and im under arrest. No breathalyser, no phone calls, handcuffed and thrown into the back of the police van to be taken to the hospital to have blood drawn. My vehicle was also confiscated without my permission or my fathers (vehicle was in his name) and my friends who were with me were left on the side of the road.

I refused to have my blood taken which resulted in having my arm held down by 2 police men and then taken back to the holding cells for the rest of the night. I was ankle cuffed and handcuffed to a bench for the night.

While in the holding cells, sometime in the early hours of the morning, the cops brought in a very sloshed homeless dude who was shouting and generally making a scene, they cuffed him a few metres away from me to the bench aswell. After half a hour or so this guy starts shouting for the cops and says he is going to start pissing on the floor unless they uncuff him and take him to the bathroom, so they uncuff him and he makes a run for the door, the one cop grabs him by the shaulder and hits him flat in the face knocking him to the ground. Another cop runs in and they both start kicking and stamping on his face, then they cuff him back to the bench and start stun gunning on his bloody face a few times until he was out cold....
 
Defiler said:
I have no respect for cops anymore, this is what happened to me...

I got pulled over because my friend was sitting on the tailgate of my bakkie, and i was asked if i had anything to drink so i said 2 drinks. I just had 1 double brandy at happy hour so i got 1 free before heading through to my friends place for his birthday, only a 4km drive or so from the pub.

I was honest and admitted that i had 2 drinks, which i thought would not be over the limit, next thing im been read my rights and im under arrest. No breathalyser, no phone calls, handcuffed and thrown into the back of the police van to be taken to the hospital to have blood drawn. My vehicle was also confiscated without my permission or my fathers (vehicle was in his name) and my friends who were with me were left on the side of the road.

I refused to have my blood taken which resulted in having my arm held down by 2 police men and then taken back to the holding cells for the rest of the night. I was ankle cuffed and handcuffed to a bench for the night.

While in the holding cells, sometime in the early hours of the morning, the cops brought in a very sloshed homeless dude who was shouting and generally making a scene, they cuffed him a few metres away from me to the bench aswell. After half a hour or so this guy starts shouting for the cops and says he is going to start pissing on the floor unless they uncuff him and take him to the bathroom, so they uncuff him and he makes a run for the door, the one cop grabs him by the shaulder and hits him flat in the face knocking him to the ground. Another cop runs in and they both start kicking and stamping on his face, then they cuff him back to the bench and start stun gunning on his bloody face a few times until he was out cold....
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So did you have 1x double, or 2x doubles? If 2x doubles, then you would've been over the limit.

Why was he sitting on the tailgate? I'm not excusing the police, but I'm 99% sure that driving with limbs out of windows, people not securely in a vehicle, etc would result in you being stopped...

As for the rest of the story, I guess on the bright side, at least you didn't get beaten or raped.
 
JustinB said:
So did you have 1x double, or 2x doubles? If 2x doubles, then you would've been over the limit.

Why was he sitting on the tailgate? I'm not excusing the police, but I'm 99% sure that driving with limbs out of windows, people not securely in a vehicle, etc would result in you being stopped...

As for the rest of the story, I guess on the bright side, at least you didn't get beaten or raped.
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don't make excuses ........ :mad:

in SA, most of polices = criminals => no doubt :sick:
 
A couple of things...

This story has absolutely nothing to do with the previous story. She wasnt shouting racial slurs, pulling signs, trying to ram the police with her car etc.

I honestly hope her story sticks true and the person in question (mind u not a metro officer) is brought to the book, or even better, meets some of her friends after hours.

However...
MrHands said:
No, the biggest difference here is that this time we heard the victims view of the events and not the traffic cops. I'm sure once the traffic cop makes up a great story many of you will be cheering him on and hoping for the worst for the victim.
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You are such a chop for saying this...

PeterCH said:
LOL I doubt this traffic cop would be doing this to a football hooligan from the UK or Germany. I don't think he'd dared. Then again, SA being so far away and accommodation being so expensive here, I doubt we'll see these football hooligans who travel all over Europe in busses and stay in tents and cheap motels. Most of these guys, can't afford it.
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MrHands, in this case you are allowed to use words "soft target". I can bet you anything, that if the victim in question was 130kg gymophonic, this man would think twice before hitting anything...

BUT!!

Ward said his wife had been involved in a similar incident with local police last year, but they had decided not to report the matter for fear of being victimised.
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Not the first time this has happened to her... Would love to hear the other side of the story to see what aggravated the man so much.

Please don't see this as an effort to protect the "police" in question, they should all be charged with something and punished, preferably by a shooting squad, the way Germans or Chinese would have sorted out these type of people.
 
JustinB said:
So did you have 1x double, or 2x doubles? If 2x doubles, then you would've been over the limit.

Why was he sitting on the tailgate? I'm not excusing the police, but I'm 99% sure that driving with limbs out of windows, people not securely in a vehicle, etc would result in you being stopped...

As for the rest of the story, I guess on the bright side, at least you didn't get beaten or raped.
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Yeah, 2 doubles, I was 0.07, resulted in 100 hours of community service :(
That friend still owes me 100 hours :mad:
 
Well I would not have been pulled over in the first place, also I did not expect to be over the limit, and I had my last drink a hour or so before we left the pub. Also I only had a very short drive on a very quiet road +- 5 mins to get to my friends place. Either way it sucked balls for me, now I will not even touch 1 drink if I am going to be driving...
 
Yeah agreed, you know how the saying goes, better safe than sodomised :D
 
Update on the story.

KwaZulu-Natal traffic officer refused to testify on Tuesday against Camperdown grandmother Jude Ward who was facing charges of inconsiderate driving and obeying a traffic officer's orders.

The officer, Edward Xolani Mtshali, 29, refused to testify for fear he may incriminate himself.

Mtshali is facing a charge of aggravated assault, brought against him by Ward. Mtshali's trial has been set down for October 12.

The Camperdown Magistrate's Court provisionally set Ward's case down for July 16, to allow consultation with the Directorate of Public Prosecutions on the court stalemate.

Ward faces charges of inconsiderate driving and failing to obey a traffic officer's instructions on June 1. The charges are considerably less serious than the reckless or negligent driving charge originally levelled against her.
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The charges against her and the counter allegations she made arose when she allegedly fled from a traffic officer on the N3 highway, suspecting a hijacking attempt. She drove to the Camperdown police station to seek safety.

She said the traffic officer who followed her to the police station drove an unmarked vehicle. At the station the officer allegedly threw her to the floor of the charge office and throttled her in full view of eight police officers, including two women.

Ward alleged they did nothing to protect her from the assault which only ended when her husband and other farmers arrived in response to a panic call she made. - Sapa
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=nw20100615150600499C449970
 
Dunno, contempt? But then again I don't see how you can be forced if you might incriminate yourself in another case. Bit of a catch-22.
 
Fudzy said:
What exactly is the consequence of refusing to testify?
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no consequence, but the opposition can lead evidence against you which may also incriminate you... and you obviously have nothing to counter that with then. It is not a good tactic... and should only be used when you strongly believe that your testimony will be more damaging than the opposition testimony against you.
 
I cant believe people defend police who act as abominably as this.
 
Defiler said:
Well I would not have been pulled over in the first place, also I did not expect to be over the limit, and I had my last drink a hour or so before we left the pub. Also I only had a very short drive on a very quiet road +- 5 mins to get to my friends place. Either way it sucked balls for me, now I will not even touch 1 drink if I am going to be driving...
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Why do people think that they are never responsible for their own actions.

1. You drank two doubles not your friend.
2. You decided to drive home after drinking said doubles.
3. Quiet road or not, you were driving under the influence, not your friend.
4. 1 hour will not be enough time for alcohol to work out of your system. You where legally drunk.

But I am glad to hear you will never drink before driving again.
 
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