PORT OF SPAIN, CMC– Lawyers in a domestic situation involving a police officer and his wife, are warning members of the public from distributing a video on social media showing the police officer being confronted by his wife over his alleged infidelity.
Attorneys Shiva Boodoo and Roshni Balkaran say the six-minute-long video, which has since been shared multiple times, “was filmed strictly for private usage by our clients and its publication and reproduction was not so authorised”.
Some social media users have been creating various memes and skits poking fun at the officer, who is seen in the video sitting silently on a couch and staring blankly at his wife during the confrontation.
The officer’s parents were also present as the woman gave alleged details of how she came to know of her husband’s infidelity with a 23-year-old woman, who had gone to a police station to make a report of domestic violence about a year ago.
The lawyers in their notice, which not issued from either of the parties to the other, called on “all members of the public” to cease and desist from further sharing the video.
“We take this opportunity to place members of the public on notice that the said video was filmed strictly for private usage by our clients and its publication and reproduction was not so authorised and as such, we ask that you refrain from sharing the same via Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram or any other social media platforms as it has caused much distress to our clients as their images have been plastered across various forms of social media without their consent,” the lawyers added.
The lawyers said that they are hoping that members of the public would desist from further sharing the video, and looked forward to their cooperation “as the continued sharing of the said video only serves to exacerbate and inflame a sensitive issue which was meant to be treated privately in the first place”.
After the video became public, the other woman recorded and shared a video of her own in an attempt to clear her name.
