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The 35-year-old man was leaving a clinic when police officers shot him with rubber bullets at a group of protesting students.
A large group of South African Police Service (SAPS) officers disperse a group of students blocking roads during a protest in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, on March 10, 2021. Image: Emmanuel Croset / AFP
BRAAMFONTEIN – Wits University students accused police of being blatantly clumsy after a man was shot and killed during their protest in Braamfontein on Wednesday.
The 35-year-old man was leaving a clinic when police officers shot him with rubber bullets at a group of protesting students.
READ: One person killed when police shoot rubber bullets at Wits students
Police used stun grenades and rubber bullets again this afternoon to disperse protesters who had blocked Empire Road near Wits University with burning stones and tires.
#protest [WATCH] Wits University students formed an honor guard earlier when a forensic pathology vehicle left the scene where a man was shot and killed in Braamfontein when police fired rubber bullets at protesting students. TK pic.twitter.com/xxjJLTLtUW
EWN reporter (@ EWN reporter) March 10, 2021
#Tips The man’s body is still on the scene here in Braamfontien as the Wits students continue their protest. TK pic.twitter.com/DAdTL9Joc8
EWN reporter (@ EWN reporter) March 10, 2021
Peterson Radasi, a student at Wits University, was one of the students who witnessed the shooting of the man in Braamfontein.
He said he did not understand why the officers were shooting at the innocent bystander because the students were visibly wearing badges.
“We were all in this color so you could easily identify the protesters, but to shoot people who weren’t this color, without asking ‘who are they? What are they doing there?’ it’s totally brutal. “
Radasi described what he saw when police shot the man.
“When I asked ‘why am I being shot?’ They shot him a second time, so it wasn’t just one shot, it was two shots. First, he fell, then he woke up, he had the energy to wake up and they shot him a second time. “
The students ask the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, to bring to justice those responsible for the death of this man.
READ MORE: ‘I was panting’: the doctor remembers trying to save the victim of a shooting at a student protest
Police watchdog Ipid is investigating the shooting.
Meanwhile, there has been widespread condemnation after the fatal shooting.
Wits University said it condemns all forms of violence and has called on law enforcement agencies to carry out the necessary processes to ensure that those responsible for the shooting were dealt with decisively.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said the police had no consideration or respect for the students.
Wits’s protest comes just two days after the 2021 academic calendar began at the institution.
The students are now calling for the historic debt to be eliminated.
Today’s shooting has saddened South Africans, and some have questioned the conduct of the police.
Wits University said it was saddened by the death of a 35-year-old man.
Spokesperson Shirona Patel: “The university extends its condolences to the family of the deceased. The university condemns any form of violence and calls on all people to remain calm during this difficult time.”
Malema said officers had lost the plan on how to carry out crowd control.
“What happened to the shields to push back the children? What happened to the Public Order Police? Damn illiterate, who have no idea what it means to control crowds. They think that black people can only be controlled with pain and blood “.
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