The scene is a busy, dusty, unpaved thoroughfare somewhere in Harare.
In the foreground, a Zimbabwean police spokesperson addresses a news
camera.
She is denying reports of police brutality. “Those videos that are circulating on social media, they are not ours. They have been doctored by our detractors from the West.”
In the background of the video, seemingly oblivious to the camera, a policewoman is extravagantly assaulting two prisoners. She raises her baton above her head and brings it down on their backs. She uses that same baton to put one of them in a chokehold. With her black leather boots, she gives the other one an almighty kick in the balls.
