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    The shooting of a 16-year-old disabled boy named Nathaniel Julies by South African police sparked public outrage. While police shootings are common in South Africa, killing a boy with Down syndrome led to unusual protests. The shooting highlighted ongoing issues of police brutality against Black and mixed-race citizens that stem from the apartheid era, when police enforced racist policies. Though the police force has attempted reforms since the end of apartheid in 1994, critics say it has not changed the culture of abuse and corruption within the force.

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    The shooting of a 16-year-old disabled boy named Nathaniel Julies by South African police sparked public outrage. While police shootings are common in South Africa, killing a boy with Down syndrome led to unusual protests. The shooting highlighted ongoing issues of police brutality against Black and mixed-race citizens that stem from the apartheid era, when police enforced racist policies. Though the police force has attempted reforms since the end of apartheid in 1994, critics say it has not changed the culture of abuse and corruption within the force.

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    The shooting of a 16-year-old disabled boy named Nathaniel Julies by South African police sparked public outrage. While police shootings are common in South Africa, killing a boy with Down syndrome led to unusual protests. The shooting highlighted ongoing issues of police brutality against Black and mixed-race citizens that stem from the apartheid era, when police enforced racist policies. Though the police force has attempted reforms since the end of apartheid in 1994, critics say it has not changed the culture of abuse and corruption within the force.

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    The shooting of a 16-year-old disabled boy named Nathaniel Julies by South African police sparked public outrage. While police shootings are common in South Africa, killing a boy with Down syndrome led to unusual protests. The shooting highlighted ongoing issues of police brutality against Black and mixed-race citizens that stem from the apartheid era, when police enforced racist policies. Though the police force has attempted reforms since the end of apartheid in 1994, critics say it has not changed the culture of abuse and corruption within the force.

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    A SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SHOOTING LIKE NO OTHER

    By Lynsey Chutel

    The deadly encounter between police and a young man from the projects 1 set off public
    5 outrage with all the familiar scenes; shrines of flowers and stuffed animals, clouds of tear gas
    and barrages of rocks aimed at officers in riot gear (…)
    This police killing occurred not in Minneapolis or Ferguson, Missouri, or Cleveland but
    in South Africa, where the anger and distrust of law enforcement authorities mirror that in
    communities across the world, but the geography of racial tension is more complex than white
    10 versus Black. The young man who was shot last month, 16-year-old Nathaniel Julies, was of
    mixed heritage, or, as it is still known, colored, a rest of apartheid-era South Africa’s racial
    classification. Two of the three officers arrested in the case are also colored, and one is Black.
    (…)
    Death at the hand of the police in South Africa is hardly uncommon – by one estimate,
    15 each day a South African dies in a police action. But this particular shooting in Johannesburg
    unleashed passionate protests that commanded an unusual degree of attention inside South
    Africa and out. And the explanation, in part, is that it was no ordinary young man (…). Julies
    was seriously disabled by Down’s syndrome and barely able to form complete sentences. (…)
    Julies’ family believes that he may have been shot when the officers tried to question him
    20 about something and could not understand why he was unable to answer. (…)
    In South Africa, a majority-Black police force is accused of abusing a majority-Black
    citizenry. (…) South Africans, especially those old enough to remember the apartheid days,
    when the country was ruthlessly ruled by a white government, may never look kindly at police.
    Police departments were once an extension of the apartheid state, enforcing its rules,
    25 assassinating political leaders, and encouraging violence to keep townships destabilized. (…)
    Any Black officers were seen as traitors. (…)
    Police have made efforts to move from the brutality of the apartheid era. In a bid at
    reform, the South African government began rebranding the department when apartheid came
    to an end in 1994. It is now called the South African Police Service, with the word “Service”
    30 added.
    But critics say it has not changed the culture of the police force. The new generation of
    officers are regarded with suspicion amid allegations of rampant corruption.
    (adapted from: The Times (UK), 8 August, 2019)

    1. Text Task
    Complete the task in complete sentences. Use your own words as far as is appropriate. Use
    only information given in the text.

    Give an overview of the specifics of police brutality in South Africa.

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