Pizza deliveryman formally lodges case with SAPS over racial attack

15 March 2016 - 19:44 By TMG Digital

Husband and father of one Omoefe Acboriyede‚ the pizza deliveryman targeted by a white bakkie driver using racist slurs‚ laid a complaint with police on Tuesday afternoon. A representative of Debonairs said Acboriyede was at the police station at about 4pm. The woman‚ speaking on Acboriyede’s behalf‚ said she had accompanied him to the station.He had initially reported the incident to his manager as a minor bumper bashing. But the video footage posted on Facebook‚ apparently recorded by the white driver on his cellphone‚ has dramatically changed perceptions of the shocking incident‚ which happened in Port Elizabeth.Acboriyede‚ 36‚ who works as a deliveryman at Debonairs in Newton Park and lives in North End with his wife and child‚ was not only described as a “pizza k****r” by the unidentified driver‚ but the man had also filmed himself callously attempting to run Acboriyede down at a busy intersection in Cape Road.A video of the incident generated more than 100‚000 views on Facebook alone at the weekend. It had been uploaded from an anonymous Whatsapp message onto a Facebook page titled Police Pics and Clips‚ and went viral after being shared by Times Media Group Multimedia.Acboriyede said if the man were sitting in front of him right now‚ he would tell him: “Tears came into my eyes when I saw the video on YouTube. What you did was not right. I don’t know why you did that.”Saying that God had saved him from serious harm‚ Acboriyede said: “People should really be careful of what they say to each other.“If people communicated better and did not use racial terms‚ things would be so much better between everyone.”..

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