Somila Nkosana
30 September 2016
Police have defended its use
of force against protesting students, arguing that they applied force simply
because students refused to follow instructions.
Officers have been accused of
brutality after pictures and videos emerged showing members of the SAPS firing
rubber bullets at protesting students at Rhodes University and another dragging
a student into a van.
While at first police
management described footage of officers shooting rubber bullets at students as
disturbing, it committed to investigating what led to the confrontation.
The police’s Vuyisile Ngesi
says that students threw stones and bottles at officers.
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