Police watchdog probes shooting of student in Braamfontein
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DURBAN - NATIONAL police spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo has confirmed that the Independent Police Investigative Directive (Ipid) is probing the shooting of a student Gauteng yesterday.
Naidoo said a 20-year-old student was allegedly shot by police and a case of attempted murder has since been registered at the Hillbrow police station after the student was interviewed.
He explained that on Monday, the student and a friend were picked up by the police. The officers were in a marked vehicle and (the student and a friend) were dropped off near the Braamfontein Cemetery when an altercation ensued between the police officer and the student. The student was forced out of the vehicle and shot in her leg, Naidoo said.
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The police used teargas to disperse protesting Wits and University of Johannesburg students on Monday.
They traced and interviewed a student who reported being shot in the leg during the chaos.
IPID is now investigating the incident.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) says it will investigate the circumstances that resulted in the shooting of a 20-year-old student, allegedly by police officers during protests in Johannesburg on Monday.
According to police spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo, a case of attempted murder had now been opened after the student was traced and interviewed on Tuesday.
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A case of attempted murder has been opened against the police officers who allegedly shot a 20-year-old student in the leg.
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National police spokesperson Vish Naidoo says the case was opened at the Hillbrow police station on Tuesday.
The student alleged that on 15 March she and her male friend were picked up by police who were travelling in a marked police vehicle and when they were being dropped off near the Braamfontein Cemetery, an altercation ensued between herself and a police officer, he said.
A 20-year old student who was allegedly shot by the police on Monday afternoon was not involved in the Wits protests outside the university police national spokesperson Vish Naidoo confirmed on Wednesday afternoon.
“The South African Police Service can now confirm that yesterday police have successfully traced the 20 year old student who was allegedly shot by police. A case of attempted murder was registered at the Hillbrow police station after the student was interviewed,” Naidoo said. He said the student had not been involved in the Wits protests as media had earlier reported.
Naidoo said the student had alleged that she and a male friend had been picked up by the police on 15 March. The police were driving a marked police vehicle.
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‘Birthday’ is a standard word. But not ‘deathday’. Too inauspicious, perhaps. Too grim. But that is surely ahistorical. Some deathdays are to be celebrated for the persons who have died and the circumstances in which they have died bear out Donne’s famous lines: “Death be not proud… for those whom thou think’st thou doth overthrow die not.”
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