This week, South African police attached a man to the back of a van and dragged him along the street for nearly 500 yards. This horrific case of police brutality was caught on film in the Daveyton Township outside Johannesburg: uniformed policemen forcefully handcuffed a taxi driver to the back of their marked police vehicle and drove away, in front of a crowd of people.The man, identified as Mido Macia, was found dead a few hours later in a police cell with injuries to his head and upper abdomen, as well as internal bleeding. The postmortem revealed that he died from these injuries, which Daveyton detainees say he sustained while being beaten to death. One of the policemen in question claims that Macia had grabbed his gun and assaulted him, like that excuses dragging a man behind a car and beating him to death as a form of self-defence.
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