A man from Wierdapark, Centurion, Gauteng who did an emergency trip to a 24 hour pharmacy at a hospital to buy formula milk for his newborn baby was arrested by Police for breaking the nightly curfew in the early morning hours on Friday morning 8 January, 2021. This happened just around the corner from his house.
The man tried to explain to the Police that his baby was crying and was just a few days old and he also showed the Police the receipt for the formula milk. The Police still refused the man’s request to take the formula milk home to his wife and they said the man’s wife must walk to where they are if she wants it.
The man’s wife then had to walk in the dark with the baby on her arm to where the Police stopped her husband. The irony of the Police stopping a man for breaking the nightly curfew and then forcing a woman and newborn baby out of the safety of their house into the dark must have bypassed the Police officers involved.
The man was detained at the local Police station and was only released hours later.
