The front page article in today's Argus refers - "City Cops in CCTV beating" - (there was also extensive covearge on Cape Talk). A Woodstock club owner was allegedly assaulted by police officers while handcuffed. When a woman friend of the owner tried to intervene she was allegedly pepper-sprayed, manhandled and had her skirt torn (she's a journalist who works for The Big Issue). Let's hope there will be a proper investigation. I'm all for 'zero-tolerance' when it comes to clubs that deliberately and repeatedly break the law (I don't know what the status of thisparticular club is) - but the police must obviously act within the law themselves. They have a difficult job to do: one suspects that a lack of proper preparation and training may be behind recent police excesses (e.g. the recent fatal shooting of an unarmed protestor in Ficksburg. I hope the new station commander at Woodstock acts swiftly to restore the image of police under his command. I am sure the CPF will also take the matter up. We need to have confidence in the police who serve and protect us.
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