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A police CCTV specialist told the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban that investigators faced widespread resistance trying to obtain surveillance footage of Phoenix’s racially charged July 2021 unrest, with residents claiming systems were broken and the community tipped off to destroy recordings before police could secure search warrants.
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