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A disturbing video of man being dragged behind a vehicle by uniformed South African police officers—because of a parking violation—has outraged even a country known for horrifying acts of police brutality. The victim, a 27-year-old taxi driver from Mozambique named Mido Macia, was later found dead in his cell at a local police station, from apparent head injuries and internal bleeding. The Daily Sun, a South African newspaper, reported that inmates at the Daveyton police station where Macia was taken claimed he was beaten to death by officers after he arrived.

Amateur footage of the incident appears to show a group of officers attempting to put Macia in the back of a police van, but he is resisting arrest. When they are unable to lift him into the van, he is handcuffed to the back of the vehicle instead. When he continues to resist attempts to pick him up, the van slowly pulls away. It inches forward very slowly at first, with two of the officers briefly holding Macia off the ground, but as it accelerates they drop him and the van speeds off with Macia dragging along the pavement. There are estimates that he was dragged about 400 yards in total.