{"id":73479,"date":"2017-10-10T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T06:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=73479"},"modified":"2017-10-13T18:48:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:48:34","slug":"man-runs-away-traffic-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/10\/man-runs-away-traffic-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Man runs away from traffic officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middelburg\u2019s traffic officers have been a subject of controversy over the last couple of years, as several videos and accusations of brutality surfaced against them.<\/p>\n<p>Things escalated to such an extent that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevetshwetelm.gov.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Tshwete Municipality<\/a> sent their traffic police for anger management classes last year.<\/p>\n<p>After the surfacing of a most recent video, it seems that they should rather have been sent for training with Usain Bolt. This after a video showing a man making a beeline for it after being stopped by a traffic officer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Man runs away from traffic officer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T4z0V-pmQHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video a man and a traffic officer are engaged in a scuffle next to the road. The man later gets out of his car and convince the traffic officer to let go of him before he suddenly makes a run for it, leaving his car, and the traffic officer behind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read:<a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/54656\/traffic-warden-calls-assault-victim-deserving-pig\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Traffic warden calls assault victim \u2018deserving pig\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The circumstances of the video, which first surfaced on Facebook and was later circulated on WhatsApp, are not known yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/42286\/pepper-spray-threats-as-traffic-officers-go-on-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pepper spray, threats as traffic officers go on strike<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gerhard Rheeder is working on a piece about the story behind the video which will appear in the print edition of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>See a previous incident where residents clashed with traffic officers and police here:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MQgQ8GTdFFg' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video showing a man making a run for it, has been circulating on social media. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":73483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[7999,21966,2973,8000,7998,7997,2023,8001,2252],"class_list":["post-73479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-brutality","tag-middelburg","tag-municipality","tag-officer","tag-police-brutality","tag-steve-thswete","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-cops-south-africa","tag-video"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["brutality","middelburg","municipality","officer","police brutality","steve thswete","traffic","traffic cops south africa","video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}