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http://www.todayonline.com/world/africa/cabbie-tied-police-van-dragged-through-streets-south-africa
The job of the South African police is to fight one of the highest crime rates in the world. Instead, the force stands accused of contributing to it.
Yesterday, the release of a video showing uniformed police binding a taxi driver to the back of a police vehicle and dragging him — the man was later found dead in a police cell — shocked South Africans long accustomed to stories of police misconduct.
The Daily Sun, a South African newspaper, posted footage of the dragging incident, which occurred on Tuesday and was apparently filmed by several people using cellular telephones. By some accounts, taxi driver Mido Macia, 27, of Mozambique drew the attention of police when he parked in a way that blocked traffic, and then got into an altercation with officers.
“We are going to film this,” several onlookers shouted in Zulu as the police roughly subdued Macia. One bystander can be heard shouting: “What has this guy done?”
Many South Africans mistrust the very institution that is supposed to protect them, and the scandals weaken efforts by South Africa to project itself as a model country and a leader by example in sub-Saharan Africa.
“They are there for safety, but we as a people fear them more,” said Mr Alfonso Adams, a resident of Johannesburg. “You don’t know who to trust anymore.”
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