As Law Returns to Tshwane, Pics Expose Some of SA’s Official Law Breakers
While Tshwane is reported to be under a tense calm after several days of violent unrest and looting, social media is still full of pictures and videos of the devastation – plus several reckless government officials (see video at the end) and policemen who appeared to think it was okay for them to flout the law too. […]
While Tshwane is reported to be under a tense calm after several days of violent unrest and looting, social media is still full of pictures and videos of the devastation – plus several reckless government officials (see video at the end) and policemen who appeared to think it was okay for them to flout the law too.
Early on Wednesday, looting moved from small spaza shops to bigger stores, before the police managed to curb the mobs:
The sound of sirens then scares some of the looting residents away. #TshwaneUnrestpic.twitter.com/i4M4QftcEL
— Lirandzu Themba (@LirandzuThemba) June 22, 2016
One of the first stores looted was a outlet selling Nike shoes:
#tshwaneunrest “pheli” (Attridgeville) bare modimo gafe ka letsogo fela leka loto wa ragela pic.twitter.com/5uojWcuGv8
— Diphetogo (@Diphetogo_11) June 22, 2016
These two policemen were being accused on social media of partaking in the looting too:
#SANDF must be deployed. Look at these police officers #TshwaneUnrest #TshwaneViolence pic.twitter.com/0iBkpHo48v
— Tsepiso Nzayo (@TsepisoNzayo) June 21, 2016
While not directly a part of the protests, a Joburger caught a government motorcade illegally going the wrong way on a Sandton road, sirens blaring, at the time of the #TshwaneUnrest. Eish!
Meanwhile in Sandton #TshwaneUnrestpic.twitter.com/toLQPGAmzr
— Swako Janepoel (@jaco_ZA) June 21, 2016
Other police, meanwhile, did their job, mostly under very trying conditions:
#sapsGP#SAPS arrested more than 40 people btw last night & this am after incidents relating to #TshwaneUnrest ME pic.twitter.com/zYQzVZYjGQ
— SA Police Service (@SAPoliceService) June 22, 2016