ZRP Cops Caught Beating-Up Journalist
8 July 2015
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Bulawayo – ZRP officers were caught assaulting Freelance photographer, Crispen Ndlovu.
A large group of witnesses caught the cops taking the law into their own hands, torturing the journalist in the city.
The police officers, who were manhandling a cell-phone thief, butchered the journo for taking press pictures.
Ndlovu has since reported the matter to the Bulawayo Central Police station, and the docket on assault, case number IR5412/15 was opened.
Zimbabwe’s police have been on record assaulting journalists and even persecuting them for carrying their duties, with cases of the brutal attacks of Photo-journalist Angela Jimu, Chrispen Tabvura, Tapfuma Machakaire and Privilege Musvanhiri.
Zimbabwe Union of Journalists Secretary General, Foster Dongozi, blamed the police for breaking the law by attacking media practitioners for performing their duties.
Ndlovu was attacked by police while he was photographing members of the Police beating up a suspected cell-phone thief. Police details forced him to delete his photographs which he was later able to recover.
He is currently being monitored by doctors.
Dongozi condemned the assault, saying police needed to be taught that journalism was a lawful profession in the country. “Police must behave themselves and conduct themselves in a professional manner and not go about beating journalists. That kind of policing cannot be professional and only serves to portray the force and the country in extreme negative light,” he said.

3 Replies to “ZRP Cops Caught Beating-Up Journalist”

  1. ma green bombers awa akangoitwa intergrate into ZRP ….the language they know and understand is beating up people.99,9% of ZRP are now idzodzo nhunzi dze green

  2. Chokwadi you are right and this betrays the lie that we are the most educated nation in Africa. One wonders what the police were trying to achieve by beating up these people.

  3. If the police are not civilized, it shows you that there’s no rule of law in the country. If the authorities do nothing, it confirms the absence of the role of law. These small things give evidence to investors to withhold their capital for for fear of victimisation. It is killing the country. Why are the police beating a brother? Why?

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