En esta imagen tomada de la televisi?n, cortes?a del peri?dico sudafricano Daily Sun, aparece un hombre con las manos esposadas en la parte posterior de una camioneta policial arrastrado por el veh?culo en Johanesburgo el 26 de febrero del 2013. Despu?s lo sueltan y la camioneta se lo lleva arrastrando por el piso. El hombre muri? poco despu?s de sus heridas. El video tomado por un espectador con un tel?fono m?vil tom? toda la escena (AP Foto/The Daily Sun) TV OUT
En esta imagen tomada de la televisi?n, cortes?a del peri?dico sudafricano Daily Sun, aparece un hombre con las manos esposadas en la parte posterior de una camioneta policial arrastrado por el veh?culo en Johanesburgo el 26 de febrero del 2013. Despu?s lo sueltan y la camioneta se lo lleva arrastrando por el piso. El hombre muri? poco despu?s de sus heridas. El video tomado por un espectador con un tel?fono m?vil tom? toda la escena (AP Foto/The Daily Sun) TV OUT
In this still frame from TV and courtesy of South African Daily Sun newspaper, showing a South African man with his hands tethered to the back of a police vehicle being dragged behind as police hold his legs up and the vehicle apparently drives off, east of Johannesburg Tuesday Feb. 26, 2013. The man died of his injuries. In video filmed on a mobile phone, uniformed police are seen trying to subdue the man, then tethering him to the back of a police vehicle which drives off, watched by a large crowd. Moses Dlamini of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate said early Thursday Feb. 28 2013 on ENCA TV network that his service has opened a murder probe. (AP Photo/The Daily Sun) TV OUT
In this still frame from TV and courtesy of South African Daily Sun newspaper, showing a South African man as he refuses to get into a police vehicle and seems to be tethered to the back of the vehicle before being dragged behind as police hold his legs up and the vehicle apparently drives off, east of Johannesburg Tuesday Feb. 26, 2013. The man died of his injuries. In video filmed on a mobile phone, uniformed police are seen trying to subdue the man, then tethering him to the back of a police vehicle which drives off, watched by a large crowd. Moses Dlamini of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate said early Thursday Feb. 28 2013 on ENCA TV network that his service has opened a murder probe. (AP Photo/The Daily Sun) TV OUT
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? South Africa's police chief announced Friday that eight officers allegedly involved in the death of a man who was bound and then dragged by a police vehicle have been suspended and that the local police commander has been removed from his post.
Gen. Riah Phiyega said Friday that she shares "the extreme shock and outrage" over the abuse of the Mozambican immigrant by police officers and supports the investigation by the police watchdog agency. The rights of Mido Macia, a 27-year-old from neighboring Mozambique, were "violated in the most extreme form," she said. The detention and dragging of the man, a taxi driver who had parked in the wrong spot, was videotaped by memebrs of a horrified crowd of onlookers.
The scandal is the latest to undermine confidence in South Africa's police force, which has expanded from 120,000 to nearly 200,000 over a decade.
"When dealing with 200,000 employees, it is never an easy environment," Phiyega said. "There will always be incident such as this."
Late Tuesday, a crowd in the Daveyton township east of Johannesburg watched as police officers tried to put Macia into the back of their police vehicle, bound his hands to the rear of it with his body on the ground, then drove off.
A murder probe by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, the police watchdog agency, is underway on the evidence that Macia suffered head and upper abdomen injuries, including internal bleeding. The injuries could be from the dragging and he could also have been beaten later in police custody.
Phiyega said the police force would also have its own internal investigation and said the Daveyton station commander was removed "so that the investigations can proceed uninhibited."
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