DEMOCRACY collapsed on Sunday when tear gas was used on protesting citizens at the Queen’s Park Savannah.
On Monday, leader of the Progressive Empowerment Party (PEP) and Citizens Union executive director Phillip Alexander described the action as “barbaric.”
Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd and arrested 11 people during a march against mandatory vaccination around the savannah. Acting Police Commissioner McDonald Jacob.
He said, “Reports also indicate that people who were just passing by the busy area suffered injury from this heavy-handed act of police bullying against the very taxpayers that pay the salaries of those unleashed against them.
“We are beyond pretty words, this has to be considered a reprehensible act from those who are supposed to uphold the law and, more importantly, keep the peace.
Alexander said “The day the state unleashes the police to war with the citizens for expressing their enshrined rights and freedoms is the day the republic ends and the democracy and rule of law collapses.
“Those responsible need to pay a heavy price for abusing the sacred trust placed in those who uphold our laws, and for bringing into disrepute the reputations of all the good and decent law enforcement officers in our service.”
