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Jul 19, 2011 News
Relatives of a 28-year-old mother of four are outraged at the police treatment the woman received on Sunday afternoon when ranks went to make an arrest at the Laing Avenue home.
The woman, Onika Thompson, is alleging that she was psychically pulled from her grandmother’s home at Laing Avenue, while she was breast feeding her five-day-old baby.
The woman yesterday told Kaieteur News that it was on Sunday afternoon when the police came to arrest someone in the yard.
Thompson explained that there are two houses in the yard and the person the police was looking for lived at the back house.
Kaieteur News was told that the police managed to arrest the man known as “Marlon”. According to Thompson, the man was not properly dressed so one of the officers demanded that Onika’s 13-year-old sister to go into the man’s home and get his clothing.
However Thompson said she objected and instructed her sister that she should not enter the home.
“I told my sister not to go into the house because she wasn’t living there and she doesn’t know what was inside the house,” Thompson explained. At this point the woman said the officers began shouting at her, but she maintained that her young sister was not to enter the home.
“I kept telling them they were the fittest person to enter the home and get the clothes because my sister was not going to get tangled in that’ Thompson said.
The woman admitted that she and the mother had an exchange of words and they left. However about 15 minutes later the officers returned with two female ranks. Thompson said she was inside of the home breastfeeding her baby when the ranks came in and said she was under arrest.
At this point the woman said she enquired from the police why she was being arrested, but was greeted with hostility. “They were shouting at me to get up….I wasn’t dressed properly I was sitting with my baby and the officers just pulled me and began dragging me out of the house,” Thompson explained.
According to the young mother the baby almost fell as she and the officers were tussling inside of the home.
“I really didn’t mind getting arrest but I needed to know why I was being arrested…All I told them is that my sister was not going in the home and that was my final take on it,” Thompson said.
Kaieteur News was told that the officer eventually succeeded in getting Thompson out of the home, but the woman was partially nude. Another cousin who witnessed the act also got into a verbal spat with the police and was arrested.
Relatives gave her name as Ashani Darryl; she was kept over night at the East La Penitence Station and was only placed on station bail yesterday. Thompson was pushed into the police vehicle and taken to the police station. Distraught relatives who were left in a state of disbelief took the baby, who was just a mere five days old to the police station to be with the mother.
Thompson was eventually released from custody, but had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after she began bleeding. The woman was treated and sent away, with strict rules not to do anything strenuous. After returning home yesterday, Thompson said she was informed by the police that she needed to be present in court today to answer to three charges. These charges range from disorderly behaviour to resisting arrest.
The family is now left to ponder about what the outcome of the matter will be. They intend to take it to the complaints department.
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