Footage of a badly burnt woman being berated by a crowd in Nigeria has been watched hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube.
It is a troubling reality when the very people who are supposed to be enforcing the laws and protecting citizens with said laws become abusive of their power. This clip and the attached story really shows how far some metro cops overstep the line.
Police brutality in the US is a real thing, and another shocking video has surfaced on an incident a few years back.
It’s been about four years since the police raids in Stellenbosch that had the whole Cape Town talking – you remember, right? Shotguns, riot police, pepper spray, the whole hog. Seems the police haven’t learnt – on Saturday the popular Stellenbosch night club, Terrace was raided by the police, under the guise of “breaking up a fight.” Video after the jump.
As the “Occupy Wall Street” protests enter their ninth day, an increasing number of videos and photos have begun surfacing, showing near-indiscriminate use of tasers, mace and kenneling by the NYPD on demonstrators, who are protesting a financial system that apparently favours the wealthy and powerful over ordinary citizens.