Red card for the blue team

21 May 2015 - 02:09
By © The Daily Telegraph

Jose Magalhaes took his two young boys and his elderly father to watch a big Portuguese football game thinking it would be a treat for all. Instead, he and his family are at the centre of a national scandal about police brutality.Live video of a policeman beating Magalhaes with a truncheon in front of his sons outside the stadium on Sunday, and also punching his 66-year-old father, has sparked outrage in Portugal and led to an official investigation of allegations of abuse of power by the police...

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