The video below, courtesy of Sahara Reporters, is a frightening one. It shows an out-of-control police officer assaulting two female civilians. The officer who is with the Mobile Police (Mopol) Unit 20 in Lagos was reportedly under the influence of alcohol when the video was taken and his actions were unbefitting of an officer of the Nigerian Police Force.
Here’s how Sahara Reporters reported the story:
A citizen video photographer captured officer Mohammed brutalizing two women with a hidden camera, filming this disturbing footage at a safe distance. This illegal action by the officer erupted when a street food vendor would not issue him fish to finish up his beer. The food vendor was said to have declined to sell fish alone, except to those buying food with it, a vendor policy that angered the policeman. Mohammed, a mobile policeman, was reeking of alcohol, say eyewitnesses to this event. Mohammed took on a female customer who was buying food from the same vendor at the time he got there, and threw her into a nasty pond of putrid muddy water.
This assault on the two women took place at Lewis Street, Lafiaji, Obalende on the Lagos Island. Mohammed is seen drawing a rifle and pointing it at one of the women, an act of ‘pistol whipping,’ and he was backed-up with the presence of a second MOPOL officer.
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