Traffic police abuse people on streets, beat taxi driver

According to reports, the abusive treatment of police with the people in Tehran has increased.
On Wednesday evening in Haft Tir Square, a number of traffic police attacked the people standing in taxi and bus lines and clashed with taxi drivers. The people on the scene protested their abusive behavior but these traffic police forced a taxi driver out of his car and beat him, threatening that they would impound his car and told him to leave the area. (Iran News Agency – Jan. 21, 2010)