The South African police said Friday they had arrested 121 people after mobs went on a looting spree of grocery stores owned by foreign nationals in Johannesburg’s Soweto township.
Dozens now face charges of public violence—including a police officer caught on film participating in the looting, Lieutenant-General Lesetja Mothiba, police commissioner of South Africa’s economic hub Gauteng, said at a press conference Friday.
The violence erupted after a foreign shopkeeper shot dead a teenager who had allegedly tried to rob him on Monday night in the iconic township.
