Video of South African Cops Dragging Man Triggers Anger

Man found dead in jail cell. Incident now being investigated as homicide.

The videotaped death of cab driver who was tied to a police car and dragged down the street is being investigated as a murder,  South African police said today.

In the graphic video recorded by an onlooker, a taxi driver who resisted arrest was tied by his hands to the back of a police vehicle and dragged on his back hundreds of feet down a street, despite pleas of protest from a crowd watching the arrest.

The police unit investigating the incident in the Daveyton township near Johannesburg said the driver, Mido Macia, 27, was found dead in a jail cell Tuesday two hours after his arrest.