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Physically challenged man alleges brutality at the hands of police ranks
After he was allegedly brutalized by ranks attached to the Leguan Police Station, physically challenged, Derrick James
Derrick James also known as ‘Bruk up’
ventured to the city to file a report with the Police Complaints Authority.
James, also known as ‘Bruk up,’ of Enterprise Village, Leguan, Essequibo Islands says he was dragged in the streets and beaten, after he refused to comply with the orders of the ranks that arrested him last Saturday.
A shoemaker and native of the Island, James claimed the incident stemmed from a misunderstanding.
He explained that a few of his acquaintances had gathered at his place of business to watch the cricket match on television last Saturday, when his neighbours summoned the police.
James said that his friends, who were imbibing alcohol, became annoyed by the loud music emanating from a nearby Chinese Restaurant.
He said that one of the men went over to the restaurant and asked the deejay to turn down the level of the music but instead he reportedly turned it up instead.
This, James claimed infuriated the man, who hurled glass bottles at the direction of the restaurant.
“The bottles break on the road in front of the restaurant, it didn’t touch anybody but the owners made a report at the station…when the police come them aint ask question. They say that they come to arrest me. I tell them I aint going to the station with them because I didn’t do nothing.”
The man claims that the law enforcement officers then took a different course of action.
“I is a cripple and one of the police (name given) drag me out ma stand and pull me pun the road, cuff me in me face and kick me up then throw me in a canter.”
The shoemaker, whose mobility is limited to a walking stick, said that he was forced to spend the night in the lock-ups. He claims that the law enforcement officers released him the following day without a charge, explanation or apology.
“Dem just loose me. They never charge me or nothing, all ma face, mouth de buss up and hands and foot bruise and I couldn’t even get to see a doctor for a medical cause the doctors don’t work on weekends.”
James said that he ventured to the city after he was given advice to lodge a report at the Police Complaints Authority.
“I want to know if that is the way police suppose to treat people,” James said in reference to the alleged physical abuse he experienced at the hands of police ranks on the Island.
“There are a number of issues at Leguan but residents don’t get satisfaction when we complain about the noise nuisance or anything; police don’t tek we on. It seems as if they on the business people side. One time we complain about the noise 2 O’ clock in the morning. When we check, a police was playing the music, he was the deejay.”
James is seeking justice and calling for an investigation into the incident.
“The authorities need to investigate Leguan Police Station because the police pun the Island doing them own thing and people can’t get no justice through them.”
Efforts made to contact the Leguan Police Station for a comment proved futile.
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