South African police tie taxi man to back of truck, drag him to his death (w/video)
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Warning: video contains images some may find distressing. Link to video: South African footage appears to show police van dragging man down street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mele0nXmmUg
South Africa's police watchdog has launched a murder investigation after video footage emerged appearing to show a man being tied to the back of a police van and dragged along the road while bystanders looked on.
Mido Macia, a 27-year-old taxi driver from neighbouring Mozambique, was found dead in a police cell in the Daveyton township east of Johannesburg at 9.15pm on Tuesday, less than two and a half hours after the incident, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) said. A postmortem examination found the cause of death to be head injuries with internal bleeding.
The video footage provoked outrage, with Amnesty International describing it as "shocking". The human rights organisation's southern Africa director, Noel Kututwa, said it was "the latest in an increasingly disturbing pattern of brutal police conduct in South Africa".
The South African newspaper the Daily Sun published the amateur video footage (warning: contains images some may find distressing) in which uniformed police appeared to subdue Macia then tie his hands to the rear of a police van behind his head before the vehicle moves off while he tries in vain to keep step. The van then stops, two police officers pick up his legs and drop them to the ground as the vehicle picks up speed and drives off, beyond the view of the camera.
It appears that at least three officers participated in the incident. IPID said that, according to police, Macia assaulted an officer and took his firearm after officers asked him to move his taxi because it was obstructing traffic. This was not captured in the video footage.
The IPID said: "When backup arrived the constable was still at the scene struggling to put the suspect in the police van. The policemen then put the resisting suspect into the back of the police van and they took him to the police station where he was detained."
The IPID said it was "investigating allegations that the deceased was dragged on the road with the police vehicle".
When contacted by the Guardian, a spokesman for Johannesburg police refused to comment.
Amnesty's 2012 annual report documented allegations against the South African police of excessive force, torture, ? and "extrajudicial executions". It said the IPID received 720 new cases for investigation of suspicious deaths in custody or in other policing contexts from April 2011 to March 2012.
The Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria has reported that the number of people shot dead by police doubled in the four years to 2010. Deaths in police custody or resulting from police action numbered 860 in 2009-10, higher than the period 2003-08, when they averaged 695 a year.
Police said the national commissioner, Riah Phiyega, "strongly condemned" what had happened and urged people "to remain vigilant and continue to report all acts of crime irrespective of who is involved".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/28/man-dies-south-africa-police-van
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mele0nXmmUgSouth Africa's police watchdog has launched a murder investigation after video footage emerged appearing to show a man being tied to the back of a police van and dragged along the road while bystanders looked on.
Mido Macia, a 27-year-old taxi driver from neighbouring Mozambique, was found dead in a police cell in the Daveyton township east of Johannesburg at 9.15pm on Tuesday, less than two and a half hours after the incident, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) said. A postmortem examination found the cause of death to be head injuries with internal bleeding.
The video footage provoked outrage, with Amnesty International describing it as "shocking". The human rights organisation's southern Africa director, Noel Kututwa, said it was "the latest in an increasingly disturbing pattern of brutal police conduct in South Africa".
The South African newspaper the Daily Sun published the amateur video footage (warning: contains images some may find distressing) in which uniformed police appeared to subdue Macia then tie his hands to the rear of a police van behind his head before the vehicle moves off while he tries in vain to keep step. The van then stops, two police officers pick up his legs and drop them to the ground as the vehicle picks up speed and drives off, beyond the view of the camera.
It appears that at least three officers participated in the incident. IPID said that, according to police, Macia assaulted an officer and took his firearm after officers asked him to move his taxi because it was obstructing traffic. This was not captured in the video footage.
The IPID said: "When backup arrived the constable was still at the scene struggling to put the suspect in the police van. The policemen then put the resisting suspect into the back of the police van and they took him to the police station where he was detained."
The IPID said it was "investigating allegations that the deceased was dragged on the road with the police vehicle".
When contacted by the Guardian, a spokesman for Johannesburg police refused to comment.
Amnesty's 2012 annual report documented allegations against the South African police of excessive force, torture, ? and "extrajudicial executions". It said the IPID received 720 new cases for investigation of suspicious deaths in custody or in other policing contexts from April 2011 to March 2012.
The Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria has reported that the number of people shot dead by police doubled in the four years to 2010. Deaths in police custody or resulting from police action numbered 860 in 2009-10, higher than the period 2003-08, when they averaged 695 a year.
Police said the national commissioner, Riah Phiyega, "strongly condemned" what had happened and urged people "to remain vigilant and continue to report all acts of crime irrespective of who is involved".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/28/man-dies-south-africa-police-van
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inb4 Fiat is upset that the video doesn't show mans death.
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Smash anchorlady..................
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It's clear they were trying to put him in the van, I don't see why he didnt cooperate.
Doesn't mean he should've been dragged though, that ? is ? up. -
Smash anchorlady..................
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Nah bruh, on Sky news this morning they said it was a dispute over where the man parked, not even an arrestable offence, when he stood up for himself they purposely tied him to the truck and then took him to the police station where they beat him to death.
Police brutality at it's finest. -
Damn!!!!!!!!!!
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Nah bruh, on Sky news this morning they said it was a dispute over where the man parked, not even an arrestable offence, when he stood up for himself they purposely tied him to the truck and then took him to the police station where they beat him to death.
Police brutality at it's finest.
I assume that they work on a different set of rules/laws, it isn't the USA.
