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Shopkeeper suffers broken leg after allegedly pushed out police vehicle
– matter with Brickdam Complaints Department
A 46-year-old Albouystown shop-keeper has filed a complaint against two police ranks, who he claimed caused him to suffer fractures to his legs after they threw him out of one of their vehicle.
Sceon Grose, of Lot 137 James and King Edward Streets, Albouystown, alleged that the incident occurred last Tuesday.
Kaieteur News understands that the incident was reported to officers at the Police Complaints Department at Brickdam.
Grose said that he also returned to the station on Thursday, and provided a senior police official with the names of the two ranks.
The injured Sceon Grose
The alleged victim, who turned up at Kaieteur News on Tuesday last with his left leg in a cast, and a torn vest, said that his troubles began on Sunday when police ranks arrested a teenaged cousin, who had a dispute with a woman.
The ranks reportedly released the relative on Monday without charges.
But Grouse said that around 20.30hrs on Tuesday, about five police ranks in uniform, and a corporal in plainclothes, came to his shop and re-arrested the cousin.
“He was scuffling and crying, and I said to the police, ‘Let me go with this child.’”
According to Grouse, the ranks allowed him to enter their vehicle, but shortly after driving off, the driver stopped in James Street, Albouystown.
“The vehicle stopped, one of them say ‘How you were getting involved in this matter? Come off the vehicle.”
According to Grose, two of the policemen then hoisted him and tossed him out of the vehicle.
The shopkeeper said that he rolled into a gutter, and suffered injuries to his legs. Residents took him to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where an X-ray examination revealed that his left ankle was broken. He also suffered a broken right toe.
He received a medical document to submit to the police, after visiting the Ruimveldt and Brickdam Police Stations.
“I intend to carry this very far. I need to see some kind of justice,” he said.
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