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Feb 04, 2016 News
Tulsi Persaud (Jnr), the man who was at the centre of a video that went viral early this year has died.
This is reportedly after he ingested a noxious substance believed to be gramoxone sometime early last week.
The businessman died Monday night around 22:30 hrs in a private hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where he had been battling for his life on a life support machine.
Persaud’s relatives are blaming his death on social media for circulating the video.
They claimed that the video was doctored and posted on Facebook causing Persaud to become depressed due to the racial and threatening responses that followed.
On Sunday, a medical source at the hospital explained that all of Persaud’s vital organs were dead and that he was attached to a life-support machine.
At that time, the source said that only (Persaud’s) brain was functioning and that it was only a matter of time before he was taken off the machine.
A family member confirmed that Persaud was the individual who was filmed hurling abusive language to police ranks while they were trying to direct traffic from the western side of the Demerara Habour Bridge.
A video of Persaud’s behaviour was posted on the internet by a reporter on January 28.
In the video, which garnered over 172,262 views, 1700 shares, 1395 comments and 1476 likes, Persaud was heard verbally abusing the traffic ranks, telling them that they cannot do anything to him since he was ‘Tulsi Persaud.’
The video had been posted by Kaieteur News two weeks earlier.
At one point in the video, he told a policeman, “You is a j$%k@ss, ‘cause you can’t do you wuk.” He continued with, “These police can’t do me one sk*&t” and “What the sk*&t alyuh telling me.”
In the 10-minute video, he continued to be very abusive to the traffic ranks, who made no move to arrest him- not even when he walked up to a passenger in a mini bus and told the person, “I will slap yo mother sk@*t.”
As the video started to circulate, the Guyanese populace did not hesitate to share their thoughts on the subject.
One person commented, “All them police deh right there. Indecent language is a criminal offence…Lock this man up or he’s just too rich and powerful.”
There were some persons who supported him, saying he was brave to “stand up” to the ranks.
In the comments section, one individual said, “Sh$t happens, everyone acted outta arrogance and rage at least once in their lifetime… No one knows what this man was going thru at this point of time or what transpired before this video started recording…”
Some family members refuted reports that Persaud attempted to take his own life after reading the “harsh” and “nasty” comments people made after looking at the video.
One relative claimed that Persaud was going through ‘some stuff.’
But his uncle is convinced otherwise.
Sanjay Persaud of Sanjay’s Jewellery had told this newspaper that after the doctored video was posted online, his nephew began to feel embarrassed and became afraid when racial and threatening comments were posted.
The businessman said that relatives had asked the person who posted it to remove the video but he refused.
Sanjay Persaud had threatened to take legal action if his nephew died.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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