and the RATS whine about US cops...
Posted on 07/22/2021 7:04:37 PM PDT by Eddie01
Two South African police officers from Maitland, in Cape Town, were arrested on kidnapping charges, after they grabbed an innocent stranger off the street to replace a prisoner who had escaped under their guard!
The shocked, innocent man found himself handcuffed and in a police car, accused of housebreaking and theft, having been switched for the criminal. Despite protesting his innocence the Cape Town cops threw the man into the cells at Maitland police station.
The homeless man’s pleas that he had done nothing wrong fell on deaf ears, and he spent the night behind bars until a detective arrived in the morning and realised, when checking the case file and listening to the innocent man’s story, that the officers had “switched suspects” after their man escaped.
The incident took place on 29 May, and both SAPS police officers were arrested and charged with kidnap, defeating the ends of justice and fraud on Friday (18 July). They appeared in court on Monday.
Magistrates heard that Warrant Officer Ricardo Snyman and Sergeant Sibuyiselo Bentso were caught out as the arrested man looking nothing like the suspect.
A source close to the case said: “The suspect had been arrested for breaking into a house and theft but the officers realised he needed medical attention. They took him to the Somerset Hospital in Sea Point for treatment.” Whilst there, a younger officer was left to guard the suspect, but the suspect managed to escape. The officers drove around the area in search of the suspect, but could not locate him.
“So the two senior officers decided that as the police station knew they had a suspect that they had to arrive with one, so they arrested a random guy,” said the source.
“They thought they would be in big trouble for letting the right man escape.”
Police spokesman Captain FC Van Wyk said: “The officers, after losing their suspect, allegedly found another man on the street who they detained in his place. They did not inform anyone of what had happened.
“It was only the next day when the suspect was processed (that) the detective realised the person did not fit the description of the person who was originally arrested,” he said.
The matter was referred to the Anti-Corruption Unit and after an investigation the Director of Public Prosecutions decided to prosecute and the pair were arrested.
The Western Cape provincial government Member of the Executive Council for Community Safety Albert Fritz said: “The allegations in the case are quite disturbing. I cannot believe that members of our South African Police Service (SAPS) would just arrest an innocent person because the actual suspect in the case managed to get away.”
The two suspended police officers appeared at Cape Town Magistrates Court and were given bail of R2,000 each and the case was adjourned until October 27.
Probably figured that they all look alike anyway.
Pretty much what the FBI is doing here.
This news clearly indicates that the Cape Town cops are being trained at the FBI Academy...
One supposes that those CT cops are also experts at shooting dogs, pregnant women, and people in wheelchairs...
*snicker*
Fahrenheit 451 comes to mind.
South Africa is a nation that is completely governed by Critical Race Theory.
Trouble for letting a prisoner escape.
vs
Trouble for kidnapping an innocent man and letting the prisoner escape.
Brilliant double down!!!
How could anyone imagine that there would be unfortunate consequences if you take a civilized country and hand it over to a herd of illiterate guest workers with no connection to the land or the nation?
Reminds me of something I read years ago, supposedly true. A guy was driving a short bus of patients at a mental hospital to and fro. On the way back, he stopped to get something to eat. He went in and when he came back out some unspecified time later, the bus was empty. His passengers were nowhere to be seen.
His remedy was to drive to a bus stop, pick up the right number of assumed normal people and drive to the asylum. He left the bus at the gate to be driven inside by another person, remarking that the “patients” were very agitated. He then split.
It took several days before it was established that the passengers actually were sane and didn’t belong at the asylum, as they had been saying all along. I guess a lot of crazy people maintain that they’re perfectly sane.
It came across much more believably when I originally read it, but this is an accurate gist.
Thin blue line. Back the badge. He wouldn’t have been arrested if he wasn’t guilty. The cops had justifiable suspicion.
Yup.
“ Pretty much what the FBI is doing here.”
Absolutely Not! Our glorious incorruptible FBI would never do such a horribly illegal act on a innocent citizen! Unfortunately however had he been jailed by our FBI he would have been found dead in his cell when the detective arrived the next morning, hanging by the neck with a typed suicide note pinned to his shirt admitting guilt.
“I cannot believe that members of our South African Police Service (SAPS) would just arrest an innocent person because the actual suspect in the case managed to get away.”
On the other hand, this is exactly the sort of thing I would imagine some South African police organization called SAPS would do.
Freegards
and the RATS whine about US cops...
Well...I mean, he must have been guilty of something...
Exactly! FBI trained...he he
Hey bro, lets just grab that guy standing right over there. He’ll do fine!
Graduates of the FBI academy?
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