MOSSEL BAY NEWS - A police officer was slightly injured and a police vehicle vandalised when about 300 people turned on the KwaNonqaba police after the police attended to reports of a bundu court taking place in Ndibaniso Street and Vukani Street in KwaNonqaba.
According to police reports, the police members were summoned on Friday night, 16 November at about 20:00 to assist a man after an angry crowd of people accused him of theft and started to mete out mob justice.
The man was beaten by members of the community and the police had to intervene to save his life. Moments after the KwaNonqaba police rescued the man from the angry crowd and secured him in the back of a police vehicle, the crowd turned on the police and pelted the police vehicles with stones.
One of the vehicles that responded to the scene was damaged, with three windows broken and other damage reported.
A police officer sustained slight injuries as a result of the broken glass.
"The members had to use pepper spray in the process before members of the Public Order Policing Unit, who were in the vicinity, arrived on the scene directly after their assistance was called for. Calm was soon restored," the KwaNonqaba police communications officer, Sgt Kapp said.
The KwaNonqaba police are investigating the incident and charges of malicious damage to property and assaulting a police officer.
A broken bottle on the front seat is evidence of the force with which the passenger door window was hit before it broke.
Stones on the back seat narrowly missed the police members when the vehicle was pelted with stones and bottles. Photos: Nickey le Roux
Heavy sentences
This followed mere weeks after the murderers convicted of the kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Isaac Daniels in Dalisile Street were sentenced for a similar kangaroo court incident.
Regional court Magistrate Yono in that sentencing said the community could not be allowed to take the law into its own hands.
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