While on a drive to Centurion from a dinner with friends and his wife, Thomashausen said he was arrested by three TMPD officers after asking for their identification cards.

“My wife was driving because she never consumes any alcohol and I wanted to ensure that I would adhere to the no drink and drive rule, even though I had only consumed a little alcohol, maybe 2 glasses of wine, ‘’ said Thomashausen.

He said they drove on Alexander Road in the direction of Botha Ave in Centurion on Tuesday night a TMPD vehicle stopped their car.

“It startled me as I became aware of it. As I looked out of my left window, the car suddenly switched blue lights on and the driver signalled us with very forceful hand gestures to stop,’’ said Thomashausen.

He said he then opened his window and inquired what the problem was and further requested for the officers’ identification cards, which agitated the officers.

“I asked him to identify himself. He got out of the car and so did two other young male persons two,’’

“I was shown something like a black credit card that I could not read. I said that I was scared that they might be disguised hijackers.

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“One officer pushed his arm through my window and tried to grab my cellphone. I told him that he was not allowed to search my vehicle and not allowed to take my phone forcefully.

“He grabbed my left arm with two hands and pulled me violently out of the car, bruising my wrist. He said I am arresting you for assaulting a police officer.”

Thomashausen said the officers demanded that they drive to Lyttleton police station, where he was charged for intimidation, criminal injuria and assault.

Before getting to the police station, Thomashausen said the officer threatened him “I will teach what I can do to you white racist”.

On Thursday, he appeared in the Pretoria magistrate’s court and the charges were dropped. He said he was traumatised by the ordeal but was relieved to not have been wrongfully arrested.

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Thomashausen said many of the officers were poorly trained and did not know how to treat members of the public.

TMPD spokesperson Isaac Mahamba said the department was aware of the incident and the officers involved were under investigation.

“The affected members have still to report for duty At the moment they are on rest days,” said Mahamba.

Thomashausen said his request to lay charges against the three metro police officers for assault, crimen injuria, unlawful arrest and attempted kidnapping was denied on the grounds that the station was not fully staffed at night.

He added that he believed police acted in this way at night because they wanted payment to back off.

Last year, a Pretoria nursery school teacher was allegedly assaulted and thrown to the ground by Tshwane Metro Police Department officers because she didn’t pull over immediately, as she was still traumatised after having been duped into a fake roadblock by gangsters in February last year

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