olice and Army caught on camera assaulting Lockdown defiant: Video. The ZRP officer and some ZNA officers who are in the streets enforcing and observing that civilians are following the rules of the 21-day lockdown have been caught abusing their power yet again.
Soldiers and police officers mercilessly beating up civilians, allegedly for contravening the 21-day national lockdown. The video which is circulating on social media, a group of soldiers and police officers appear to be whipping at least 5 civilians who are being forced to lie on the ground.
Unconfirmed reports say that the people being beaten up in the video had gone out to look for food. Ever since the lockdown was implemented by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to curb the spread of the coronavirus, it’s efficacy has been severely curtailed by people spending long hours as shopping centres trying to buy the subsidized maize mealie meal. At most of these queues, the rules for social distancing are largely ignored.
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