Fury sparked when the police allegedly refused to assist a man based on his skin colour:
CROWD OF 30 BLACKS FOLLOWS HIM TO POLICE STATION, THREATENING TO KILL HIM...
Black cop: "Where is that white guy with the bakkie? If I see him I will kill him"
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Black cop: "Where is that white guy with the bakkie? If I see him I will kill him"
Racist row at Lyttleton police station after police allegedly refused open an assault case against a black man due to the white man's skin colour
May 2014 - Centurion, Lyttleton Police station:
( Picture: The damaged front window of Van der Merwe's vehicle. he was threatened with death by a crowd of 30 black people at the police station).
Allegations of racism surfaced at the Lyttelton police station in Centurion last week. The police allegedly refused to open a case of assault due to the complainants’ skin colour and threatened other police officers if they did help him.
*Piet van der Merwe went to the station to open a case against *Sipho Dlamini after they had been involved in a verbal argument that turned into road rage. Dlamini smashed the windscreen of Van der Merwe’s vehicle with a wheel spanner and Van der Merwe crashed into Dlamini’s vehicle.
Dlamini opened a case of attempted murder against Van der Merwe after he ran over his right foot with his vehicle.
The arguments between Van der Merwe and Dlamini started in Gordon Hood Road, next to Centurion Mall.
According to sources who wished to remain anonymous, Van der Merwe accused Dlamini of holding up the traffic by stopping in the road. Van der Merwe stopped behind Dlamini’s vehicle and climbed out of his vehicle to confront him. Dlamini, who also climbed out of his vehicle, hit Van der Merwe in the face.
Dlamini said Van der Merwe hooted impatiently at him as he stopped for pedestrians to cross the street and to drop a passenger. “The man insulted me and called me names. He did not even listen to what I had to say,” Dlamini told Rekord.
Both drivers got back into their cars and Dlamini was followed by Van der Merwe to the Gautrain station where their dispute continued.
According to the source, Van der Merwe parked behind Dlamini to take photos of his vehicle’s registration number. “Dlamini climbed out of his car and smashed the windscreen of Van der Merwe’s vehicle with a wheel spanner.”
BYSTANDER SMASHED VAN DER MERWE'S CAR WINDOW: CROWD OF 30 BLACKS FOLLOWS HIM TO POLICE STATION, THREATENING TO KILL HIM:
In the meantime, the source said, people from the street approached Van der Merwe who was then sitting in his vehicle. One of the men grabbed a bottle and smashed the left front window of Van der Merwe’s vehicle.
-- Van der Merwe allegedly felt threatened and feared for his life. “He knew he had to get out of the situation and tried to drive away. But he was hemmed in as there was a vehicle behind him and the black VW Golf of Dlamini in front of him. He tried to push the Golf forward to create space to move out. As he drove forward Dlamini jumped in front of him. He then drove over his foot,” the source said.
Dlamini said Van der Merwe was very aggressive towards him. “He screamed at me that he would kill me. He smashed into my vehicle while I was standing next to the road. I took another man’s wheel spanner and threw it at his windscreen. That’s when he drove towards me and as I fell he drove over my right leg and I broke my ankle,” Dlamini said.
Van der Merwe drove to the Lyttelton police station to open a case of assault against Dlamini. The crowd of more than 30 people, as well as Dlamini, followed him.
At the police station, the officers refused to help Van der Merwe. The crowd threatened to kill Van der Merwe and the officers also threatened their colleagues if they would help him.
A witness wrote down the threat made by a police officer: “Where is that white guy with the bakkie? If I see him I will kill him.”
Van der Merwe fled. .
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