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Mido Macia: Riah Phiyega

South Africa Dept: Earlier on Friday, friends and relatives of Mido Macia gathered around a simple wooden table in the poor township of Daveyton, to mourn the death the slender 27-year-old who died shortly after the dragging incident on Tuesday, according to CTV. South Africa's police chief Gen. Riah Phiyega said she shared the extreme shock and outrage over the video evidence of abuse of Macia by police officers and said his rights were violated in the most extreme form. Photos A man died after being tethered to the back of a moving police vehicle in South Africa. var paragraphs = jQuery ".articleBody" .children "p" .length; var sideItems = jQuery ".sideItems" ; if paragraphs 3 sideItems.fadeOut "fast", function var thirdItem = jQuery ".articleBody" .children .eq 2 ; jQuery ".sideItems" .insertAfter thirdItem ; sideItems.fadeIn "fast" ; ; Late Friday, eight policemen from Daveyton were charged with murder, said Moses Dlamini of the police investigation unit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.