Cops guilty of strangling violent addict to death while subduing him during psychotic episode

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On Freedom Day 2015, Polokwane police were called to a home to restrain a drug user having a psychotic episode, but by the time they left, the man - JJ Theron - was dead. TheStar_news

On Freedom Day 2015, Polokwane police were called to a home to restrain a drug user having a psychotic episode, but by the time they left, the man - JJ Theron - was dead.

The Polokwane High Court has now ruled that Theron was killed by one, or more than one, of the four officers that attended the scene. Four officers subdued an apparently high Theron at his parents’ home in Bendor, where he was acting violently in his locked bedroom. “The question is: what method of subjugation could have been used to subdue the deceased. The crux of this case is whether the members of the SAPS managed the psychotic episode of the deceased correctly, with the least amount of force.”The officers did not argue justification for their actions, but denied strangling Theron, or even that they had touched his neck area during the commotion.

 

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