The officer reportedly mistook a pipe the boy was carrying for a gun. He was in a car the police thought was being driven by suspected criminals.
The family of Atlegang Phalane says the policeman showed “no remorse” about the killing, reports the Sowetan newspaper.
The policeman has been charged with murder and remains in custody.
President Jacob Zuma recently said police should get tough to deal with the country’s high levels of crime, however he said they should not be “trigger-happy”.
Moses Dlamini from the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) told the BBC that no pipe or firearm had been recovered from the car in Midrand, near Johannesburg.
Atlegang’s mother Mapule Phalane has accused the police constable of not being remorseful about the shooting.
“I could not believe my eyes when I arrived at the scene.
“He was busy eating a lollipop. I approached him and asked why he killed my son, but he looked at me as if I was crazy,” said Ms Phalane, reports the Sowetan newspaper.
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- LadybugLady
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This is crazy. We are at a point in time when a grown man can mistake a three year old as a threat..that makes a statement about the state of affairs in our world.
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- TootieBootie
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In Vietnam they used little kids to blow up GI's.
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- nursediesel
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What a D-bag you are that you even compare a 3 year old child inside of a car on a city street with a child in a war zone!?!!? when was the last time that a 3 year old in South Africa killed anyone?
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- AmericanStandard
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As the world goes to heck in a handbasket..... police eat their lollipops and shrug there shoulders.... sounds kinda like the American government
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- scarlettcutie_01
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Current Editors - Keep this sort of bad news off the wire.
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- PepsiJuror
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In Vietnam they used bombs dropped from 20000 ft to kill children, go figure.
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Nobody care about human life, just kill to be killed, and it is really becoming just another thing....lives taken at the drop of a dime. In time there won't be any of us left.
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It's the same as every army around the world that is trained to kill anything that might be a threat to them, whatever age, gender or species it may be. They are not trained to show remorse as this is what is thought to make them weak.
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A real sad story.. i mean we have so many problems in the world..
peace is never bad. corruption is
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- CroatianPimp
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