The shocking footage of a police officer manhandling a teenager at a pool party once again placed U.S. law enforcement under the spotlight. How does the SAPS compare?
If you want to make sure people dislike you then head to your nearest pool party and manhandle youngsters and wave your gun around. It worked for this cop.
They call baseball America’s favourite pastime and most matches are packed to the rafters. These images from Baltimore tell a slightly different story.
Mothers can be loving, nurturing and caring beings. Upset them, however, and you could be in for a world of pain. This young lad in Baltimore found that out the hard way.
I suppose it’s somewhat instinctual to film US law enforcement in action these days given the recent incidents across the country. You might want to avoid filming these guys though.
High-speed police chases aren’t anything new, but the measures this police officer took to take down a criminal have raised more questions of America’s law enforcement.
Controversial Irish betting site Paddy Power like to push the boundaries of good taste but this time they have gone too far. People were not impressed by yesterday’s tweet.
It’s not a good look when aerial footage shows a host of cops going to town on a suspect. Taser check, batons check, groin shots check.
South Carolina has been rocked by the chilling video of a police officer shooting an unarmed man eight times whilst he fled. Here’s the video leading up to that moment.
We’ve seen some nasty video footage over the last year showing police shooting unarmed civilians but this one may take the cake. Shame on you South Carolina.
We all know that our neighbours up north have it rough, what with their president being a bumbling fool and all, but this video is pretty tough to watch.
This latest video has people in the US very, very worked up as police have shot and killed an unarmed man five times in broad daylight in Los Angeles. Get a grip, police.
One of the lovely things about living in a democratic country is the freedom to voice your discontent at certain things without having the police shoot at you. Oh, hang on.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department released cell phone footage Wednesday of the police shooting of Kajieme Powell, a 25-year-old black man killed on Tuesday in St. Louis.
Yet again, we see video evidence of police taking the law into their own hands. No one is suggesting that being a police officer is an easy job, and it is unquestionably rough territory, but in these instances, and many others, the force used seems excessive.
This is absolutely insane! This guy was upset, sure, but to put a guy in a Choke Hold for long enough to kill them? Seems pretty excessive to us. Think they made a few too many assumptions here…
Los Angeles civil rights leaders are demanding a federal investigation into the shocking beating of a woman by a police officer, who struck the woman repeatedly on the side of the highway.
Being a law-enforcement official is never an easy job. Whether or not this excuses the issue of police brutality – let alone execution – that plagues us is something else completely. Could this have been a mistake?
The SAPS don’t have the best reputation around the country and this is in no small way thanks to the particularly high profile police brutality cases that have been so widely publicised. Sadly, this Facebook page for Mowbray police station does little to rectify the damage… the sentiments of shoot-to-kill, ask questions later are infused in many of their posts.
A year and a half after the horrific Marikana strike and subsequent massacre, one policeman has come forward amid heavy fire from police lawyers to tell his truth. He tells a version quite different to the self-defense tale that has been spun off by other senior police officers.
EWN’s Cape Talk have reported that this video posted yesterday shows an arrest undertaken in Cape Town. The IPID (Independent Police Investigative Directorate) are investigating the police involved in the arrest, as they appear to have used unjustified force. Particularly, police strip the arrested man of his clothing in the street, grab him by the throat, and kick him in the genitals.
The video shows cops in America brutally beating a man who is lying defenceless on the ground. The video has just been posted and is starting to create an uproar on Twitter. This kind of brutality is just absurd.
Goodman Nono has been busking in Greenmarket Square, between St George’s Mall and Long Street for almost 20 years. Goodman is blind, and makes between R300 and R400 a day from small donations and CD sales. He’s become something of a city institution. Here’s Goodman playing his guitar in his usual spot. But according to […]
A protest against the arrest, beating and fining of blind busker Goodman Nono has been billed for 13h00 tomorrow, in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town. According to the Facebook page, “Busker’s Protest”, protestors are encouraged to play guitars (or any other musical instrument) in Greenmarket Square from 13h00 tomorrow. If you’d like to contribute towards financial […]
A report published by the Mail & Guardian indicates that an average of one policeman per day is arrested for crime in South Africa. The arrests, made between September 2010 and April this year, have apparently spurred police management to start cleaning up “the system.”
The Daily Sun has published a video to their YouTube account showing a violent assault against an elderly woman by two retail security guards. The woman was accused of shoplifting by the security, and beaten with a range of weapons, including belts, broomsticks, and rubber mallets, despite begging for mercy and saying “Ke le patetse”, meaning […]
This shocking video published mere minutes ago by eNCA shows an off-duty police officer repeatedly assaulting an unarmed woman at a Free State petrol station. Despite two on-duty police officers being on the scene for the entirety of the assault, the man manages to punch and kick the woman in the head. No attempt is […]
President, Jacob Zuma, while speaking at a Human Rights Day commemoration ceremony in Mbekwini township yesterday, said South Africans should stop criticizing its country and its economy. “We need to take a more balanced view of our country.” Zuma called on South Africans “to make our country attractive to both foreign and local investors”, urging […]
Please do not watch this video if you are a sensitive viewer. This footage, shot by an unknown member of the public and supplied to the Daily Sun shows SAPS members wrestling man to the ground, before beating him and handcuffing him to the back to a police van. The man, who appears to be […]
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.