Caption: Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander speaks while the lights are off during the post-Cabinet press conference on Thursday. He was demonstrating a scenario of a home invasion
By Alicia Chamely
“You hear screaming, and you could do nothing. You hear either your mother, your daughter or wife screaming ‘Oh God don’t do me that nah, please, please, don’t do me that!’”
This is the reality of a home invasion that Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander powerfully detailed at Thursday’s post-cabinet press briefing held at the Red House, Port of Spain.
Backing Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s commitment to enacting stand your ground laws, Alexander demonstrated the terrors of a home invasion.
With the lights turned off, he asked viewers and the media to picture themselves in bed. Slamming his hands against the podium, he mimicked a criminal kicking in a door.
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Alexander said they would then drag you out of bed, have you lie on the floor and demand you turn over whatever valuables you have.
He said often criminals will target the youngest or oldest female and take them away.
Alexander said, “You hear screaming, and you could do nothing. You hear either your mother, your daughter or wife screaming ‘Oh God don’t do me that nah, please, please, don’t do me that!’ Then sometimes you hear a moment of silence, and you are wondering if that was the end of the person they took upstairs.”
He continued, “Then a short time after they may come back downstairs because they have time on their hands to play all over the home, because that home no longer belongs to you, they have invaded your privacy. And the kick and cuff continue until they find something, sometimes they find nothing, but it’s enough to abuse you, sexually assault your family, then they walk away, leaving your family bloody, sometimes dead.”
Alexander said once home invasion and stand your ground laws are enacted, hopefully the horrors of home invasion will have different conclusions, whereby homeowners regain power over criminal elements.
Referring to those who are opposed to the stand your ground laws, Alexander cautioned that this opposition carries consequences that not only affect them but all others.
