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As if the crime in this country wasn’t bad enough, now we have cops shooting each other. Independent Online reports that over 400 protesting metro police blockaded the M2 highway that rings Johannesburg, bringing peak hour traffic to a standstill.

Then along come the SA Police in riot gear. Shooting erupted, with the metro police using live ammunition and the SA Police using rubber bullets. Seven metro cops were injured.

This news disgusts me so much, I’m having a hard time writing it down. It was bad enough when the security companies went on strike and then rioted, smashing cars, windows and looting shop storefronts. Now we have the police forces - supposed peacekeepers - shooting at each other, with innocent civilians in the cross-fire, during rush-hour traffic!

Why is it that so many South Africans inevitably turn to violence to sort out their problems? What’s wrong with these goddamned people?!

Source: IOL