Daily Mail

August 29, 2015

A video showing the moment a South African police officer carries out a brutal cavity search on a man they pulled over ‘because he was white’.

The shocking footage was captured by the man’s friend, who can be heard pleading with the officers not to ‘break his leg’.

The two men had been approached by the police at 3.30am on Tuesday, August 18, in Fourways, Johannesburg.

Incensed by what they believe is a racially motivated incident, they have since uploaded their story to YouTube, concealing their identities.

The man, speaking under the pseudonym Shane, describes how the police asked both of them to get out of the car.

But his friend, referred to only as Anton, was ‘a bit slow’.

This appears to have angered to officer, who pulls Anton out of the vehicle, while his colleague runs around to help him.

Shane follows him, but was then told, with a gun pointed at his head: ‘If you move, I will kill you.’

But he realised he needed to film what was happening, so carefully reached for his phone so he could have a record of the officers’ actions.

Already, they had allegedly ‘smashed’ Anton’s head twice on the floor, and hit him with the ‘backside’ of the gun.

The officer can clearly be heard warning Anton: ‘I am going to hit you with the firearm.’

Anton can be heard screaming for help, while Shane tells him in Afrikaans: ‘I can’t do anything to help you.’

Anton is then heard saying: ‘I can’t breathe.’

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