0 S.Africa suspends police linked to custody death

South Africa's police commissioner on Friday announced the suspension of eight police officers accused of dragging a taxi driver behind their car and killing him. Commissioner Riah Phiyega said that the eight officers had been suspended and disarmed and the station commander had been removed from his post. 

Video footage taken by a bystander shows 27-year-old Mido Macia tussling with half a dozen police officers before being handcuffed to the back of a police van and dragged to a local police station in Daveyton, east of Johannesburg, on Tuesday. A large crowd of horrified bystanders looked on, some warning the uniformed officers they were being filmed. "Hey! Hey! Why are you hitting him?" one person in the crowd can be heard shouting in Zulu. Kicking and struggling to avoid the tarmac, Macia was taken into custody at Daveyton police station and was found dead less than two hours and 25 minutes later, according to investigators.

AFP
source : the jakarta globe