https://www.iol.co.za/motoring/indu...-klapped-by-a-cop-this-easterweekend-14135822
"Which begs the question: What do you do when you've been assaulted by a police officer?
Try to get as much evidence as possible, advises Haslam.
You have the right to know and write down both the officer's badge number as well as the vehicle number, she said, and if necessary you can call 10111 to report the incident. You can also lodge a complaint at the nearest (or any other) police station.
But what if personnel at the police station refuse to open a case against one of their own, we asked - which, according to purely anecdotal reports, is becoming more prevalent?
If the officers at the charge office won’t help you, Haslam replied, you should approach the Station Commissioner, alternatively the Provincial Commissioner.
You can also approach the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, whose job it is monitor the police and metro cops.
“The Directorate is responsible for promoting proper police conduct in accordance with the principles of the Constitution,” she quoted; you can contact them by email at:
[email protected] or via their
website."
We have truly become slaves. Nothing but cattle. When the solution to getting beat up by anyone, even a Police Officer, is to take the beating, then fire off an angry email, then... man, I'm speechless here.
This is what the 2A is about in the States. It's not about defending yourself from a burglar or mugger. Well, IT IS about defending yourself from a burglar or mugger, just a state sanctioned one.
Un F-ing Believable.