More Officers to Be Suspended in Beating

Eight more South African police officers face suspension in connection with the videotaped beating of suspected thieves, a spokesman said. The officers will be suspended Monday, according to police spokesman Chris Wilken. He said some of the eight officers are black, although he did not know the exact number. Six white officers had already been suspended in the case, a seeming throwback to the days of apartheid-era police brutality. The suspects are black or of mixed race. Many observers say the case stems not from racial tension but from police working under too much stress from battling a wave of violent crime that has swept South Africa.