Friday, April 13, 2018

Daily Mail: S African Black throws his 6-mo-old daughter off roof as crowd chants 'Throw! Throw! Throw!' - Luckily caught, saved by cop on ground






A South African man has been charged with attempted murder after throwing his six-month-old daughter off the top of a shack in an illegal township to stop it being demolished.
The 38-year-old had taken the baby and climbed on top of their home in protest against dozens of shacks at a township in Kwadwesi, near Port Elizabeth on South Africa’s eastern cape coast being lined up for destruction.
As half-a-dozen policemen lined up on the ground below him and one climbed up to try to talk him down, the man dangled the baby over the edge by her ankle, before swinging her over the edge.
Township protesters could be heard egging the agitated dad on with chants of: ‘Throw, throw, throw’. ...