Video footage taken by a bystander shows 27-year-old Mido Macia tussling with half a dozen police officers before being handcuffed to the back of a police van and dragged to a local police station in Daveyton, east of Johannesburg, on Tuesday.

A large crowd of horrified bystanders looked on, some warning the uniformed officers they were being filmed. "Hey! Hey! Why are you hitting him?" one person in the crowd can be heard shouting in Zulu.

Kicking and struggling to avoid the tarmac, Macia was taken into custody at Daveyton police station and was found dead less than two hours and 25 minutes later, according to investigators. A post-mortem examination found the cause of death was head injuries with internal bleeding.

Civilians murdered by the police? What sort of backwater shithole would allow such things?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ian_Tomlinson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Charles_de_Menezes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_deaths_in_custody

etc.

As far as my "most vile and disgusting" comment in my OP, that's sort of with regards to the ridiculously blatant nature of the incident, dragging a guy through the streets on the back of a van with a multitude of onlookers, with absolutely no regard whatsoever. It's like they don't even care about keeping up appearances. Not that it makes much difference in the end, but a world where the police don't even try to pretend to care that they are supposed to have a duty of care kind of terrifies me even more than the usual police brutality.