WATCH | Cookhouse police abuse exposed PREMIUM By Simtembile Mgidi and Michael Kimberley - 16 April 2021
Beaten to the point of collapse, pepper-sprayed and locked in a room this was the price a 16-year-old boy allegedly paid for walking with a beer in his hand.
His entire body clenched as he tried to gasp for air, at one point managing only a whimper after an alleged barbaric assault at the hands of at least four police officers.
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