Four South African police officers have been arrested on murder charges after a video emerged allegedly showing them shooting dead a suspected robber.<\/p>\n
The video appears to show the suspect drop his pistol and fall to the ground.<\/p>\n
It then shows a policeman shooting him at close range, before a colleague runs over and kicks him.<\/p>\n
In August eight policemen were convicted of murder after a bystander filmed them tying a taxi driver to the back of their van and driving away.<\/p>\n
Both incidents happened near Johannesburg.<\/p>\n
Police attention was brought to the most recent incident after South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper published the CCTV footage.<\/p>\n
According to the Sunday Times, the suspect attempted to rob a hardware shop in Krugerdorp, west of Johannesburg on 19 October.<\/p>\n
The newspaper says the police, acting on a tip-off, were waiting nearby and after the suspect left the shop he fired shots at the police van.<\/p>\n
It quotes the spokesman for the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, Robbie Raburabu, as saying the post mortem showed shots to the head, chest and arm.
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