So lets look at the big pucture ... there is all this rioting etc going on in the USA over police brutality ...what about right here in SA.
Lets talk about being bullied by police ... because of the vehicle I drive ... the colour of my skin ... i dont know ...lets hear what you think.
I pull over and I stopped (DURBAN METRO POLICE)
The cop walks up to my vehicle with his mask around his neck ...not over his mouth or nose ... i greet him ... good morning officer ... he makes me aware that i did not have my seat belt on and i agree ... he indictes that he will be issuing a fine of R300 ... ok.
He stands less than half a metre away from my face ... spitting in my face as he is talking ... Lucky i had my mask over my mouth and nose ( but they say it doesnt prevent the virus)... i would have thought he is breaking the law ... not staying 1.5 away from me.
He then requests my drivers license ... so i take it out and show it to him ... he takes it out my hand (just a reminder that there is a virus killing hundreds of thousands of people ...we have social distancing measuring in place ... etc ... etc ...etc ) and walks around my vehicle with it in his hand ... he requests that i switch on and off lights ... indicators ... windscreen wipers ... reverse lights ...brake lights ... my vehicle is road worthy ... so just a R300 for not wearing my seat belt ... i dont have a problem.
He then hands me the fine book and a pen ... and instructs me to sign using the pen ... i refuse ... he notes that i refuse to sign in the book and hands back my driver license ... at which time i take out my hand sanatiser and wipe his spit off my face and clean my drivers license ... taking into consideration that i have wiped my face about 10 times from the time i stopped.
I am on my way to work at a school where i will be accessing a whole lot of classrooms etc ... Lets hope he is not infected or any of the 50 other people he has interacted with prior to pulling me over ... Once i get to the school I wash my hands and face again and again and again during my visit.
Lets say he finds out in 4 days time he is infected.
It doesnt end there ... while getting my vehicle checked there are numerous other vehicles pulled over ... there seems to be no coonsistancy with who gets fined and who doesnt ... i notice a bakkie is pulled over during this time ... neither the drive nor the passenger is wearing seat belts ... the cops walks over to them tells them they should put their seat belt on and indicates for them to go.
Another person is pulled over also no mask no seat belt ... by this time i am started to get a little pi$$ed off like i have been targeted ... because of the vehicle i drive maybe ... i dont know.
At this point i take out my phone and notify the police that i am filming live ... the cop who is busy fining me covers tries to cover his face because he knows he is not wearing mask is less than ).5 metres away so he doesnt want to be filmed ... at this point i ask him why i am getting a R300 fine and other people are getting a warning ... and why they didnt request to see the drivers license or check the other vehicles ... i am told they know the person in the bakkie has a license and just keep warning him and his passenger about wearing a seat belt.
He then requested again that i sign the fine .. i refused on the grounds that he hadnt cleaned his pen or his hands and that i was being unfairly treated ... he then threatened to arrest me ...called other cops ...but decided to issue a summons to court so that i could ask a judge why i was targeted.
After reviewing the video footage ... it has been noted that non of the cops at the road block are practicing any form of social distancing or taking the public safety into account ... 1 in 6 wearing face masks ... in fact it is so bad that on of the officers are seen leaning with his elbows in the vehicle literally right next to the passengers face.
The big question ... when you enter a road block ...are all the social distance ... public safety and level 3 regulations etc all out the window ... they dont apply at road blocks?
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