PHOTO: Police Officers Filmed Beating Naked Man In Broad Daylight

Two police officers have been filmed beating, throttling and kicking a naked man in the Cape Town, South Africa.

 * Police brutality

According to the video of the incident uploaded on Facebook on Thursday night, it shows two police officers accosting a man dressed in a pair of briefs near the open boot of a Volkswagen Golf. An office worker filmed part of the assault from a nearby building.

Two Central City Improvement District (CCID) officers and a private security guard are also on the scene.

 

A police officer and an officer from the CCID pull the man away from the car and into the street. The CCID officer pulls down the man’s briefs. The victim struggles to get away, but the two police officers grab his wrists. One of the officers throttles the man with his right hand before pinning the victim’s hands behind his back. The officer is assisted by the security guard.

 

At this stage, the second police officer punches the victim three times in the groin. The victim bends over in pain and the police officer holding him from behind jabs his elbow into the man’s back.

The officer who had thrown the initial punches then kicks the victim in the groin twice as a CCID officer holds the man’s arms behind his back. The man is pulled towards a waiting police van. He is kicked as he tries to get in. All the while he is bleeding from a gash at the back of his head.

The woman who filmed the assault spoke to newsmen on Friday morning saying: “What you see on the video is only a fraction of the assault. It went on for about half an hour in total."

She added that she arrived on the scene before the police. At that stage she saw the man lying naked near the door way of Sky Sports Bar in Riebeeck Street, next to a pile of clothes.

The man’s identity could not be ascertained as at the time of writing this report.
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