VIDEO: EMPD officer ‘assaults’ woman

Pretoria advocate Danie Preis’ daughter Jeannette, 20, and her friend Angie Botha, 20, were pulled over at a roadblock and arrested for alleged speeding on Monday, Kempton Express reported.

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In the footage, one of the officers is seen getting out of the car and shoving one of the women in the face. Shortly afterwards, a man intervenes. It is alleged Preis was later assaulted at Kempton Park Police Station by the same female officer who threatened her daughter with a gun. Preis was reportedly left with a bruised neck.

Speaking to The Citizen yesterday, Preis’ wife Jeannette, who has the same first name as their daughter, said when she went to the police station to find out about the pair’s arrest, the same officer attacked her.

“I am very traumatised because a person with that temper is not supposed to be carrying a gun,” said the mother, who was admitted after the attack triggered her diabetic condition.

Preis said her daughter and Botha were pulled off the road by officers, who said they were going to arrest them. She said Botha allegedly asked the officers to give them a ticket.

But the mother said: “The female officer then started poking Angie with a finger. My daughter intervened, telling the officer that is assault. She then slapped Angie on the face, and my daughter said she was phoning her father.”

However, she instead phoned her mother: “While I was on the phone talking to her, I heard a police officer cock a gun.”

Both girls as well as the man who took the video appeared in Kempton Park Magistrates’ Court this morning, where most charges were reportedly withdrawn.
– Caxton News Service