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Dec 31, 2011 News
Residents of Hill Street, Albouystown and police ranks clashed yesterday after the
lawmen went to a yard to arrest some robbery suspects.
Some of the residents claimed that the police used excessive force in executing their duties while assaulting two female occupants of Lot 26, Hill Street Albouystown.
One of the women who claimed she was assaulted, Elizabeth Soodu, told Kaieteur News that one of the policemen snatched her son while he was having a meal and assaulted him while looking for the suspects.
“They (police) say that we could go to whoever we want; they cussing and going on at a rate how they expect people to react to them. The tall police chuck me up, and all my breast come out my top; then they want to arrest me for talking for my rights.”
“The other day when the shop was robbed there was no police in the area. He (a cop) tell them boys that get lock up that if it was night he would have killed all of them and nobody can’t do he nothing.”
Residents further said that the police are usually unprofessional in the duties.
Ann Marie Soodu who was also taken into custody by a female rank, said the police had beaten up her brothers and assaulted her sister while visiting the yard to make arrests.
Another resident from the yard said that “the police come for a special man name Jonathan who they hear got a gun; them see the man playing cards with other people and they pick up all of them…this is the same man that threaten to shoot a man wife and do she all sort of things…now when the police come he running and he say he got gun…real guns come now he isn’t suppose to run.”
One of the police ranks at the scene said that they arrested five persons in connection with alleged robberies, while denying that any of the women were assaulted.
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