APNU, Police Commissioner at odds over shooting of protesters
Demerara Waves – Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:13
Even as Police Commissioner, Leroy Brumell defended Wednesday’s police shooting of protesters, the parliamentary opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) urged that the police involved in firing be suspended.
Condemning the killing of three protesters and deeming them “murderous attacks” on “unprovoked” citizens exercising their constitutional rights, APNU urged an end to aggressive security operations.
“APNU calls on the President, Mr. Donald Ramotar, to immediately cease the security forces’ aggressive operations against unarmed residents and to suspend the officer-in-charge and the ranks alleged to have been involved in the shooting,” he said.
The Police Commissioner dismissed APNU’s calls for the officer-in-charge and the ranks alleged to have been involved in the shooting to be suspended. “When we do the postmortem and other things we would know what actually occurred.”
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