A seven-year-old boy was allegedly wounded after a police officer discharged a firearm during an altercation with community members in Westbury, Johannesburg, at the weekend.
“They told me they were going to take him in for profiling to see if he was on the system. I told them that I would fetch his ID document and one police officer agreed to do the profiling at the scene, but the others didn’t agree,” she said.
“The police officers started getting violent and pushed us around and that is when the community retaliated,” she said. Community activist Melissa Davids said the family spent about four hours at the hospital without getting medical assistance.Charlotte Maxeke]
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