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Brickbats

Brickbat: Cry, the Beloved Country

Charles Oliver | 10.5.2017 4:00 AM

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South African Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has a message for cops regarding criminal suspects: "When they've got balls, we must crush them." And after they are through crushing balls, he advises cops to force suspects to drink their own urine.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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