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New Amsterdam man allegedly beaten by Berbice cops
Allegedly beaten by police: Dean Grenville
Bruised, swollen and in pain can be used to describe a 26-year-old of lot 60 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, Berbice after he was reportedly beaten by ranks on a police mobile patrol in Berbice.
Dean Grenville said it was just around 7:30 hrs Thursday when a police mobile vehicle pulled up at his residence in Stanleytown. He was on his verandah with his phone, he said.
“They come and call me so I go. Then they tell me they come to arrest me in relation to some damage to property.
So I ask them what damage to property but dem ain’t answering. I ask dem if I can go and collect a jersey and one of the police seh he gon go. When he go and ask me brother for a jersey me brother ask he for what and then the police tell he don’t bother we gon carry he just so to the station,” Grenville detailed.
According to him, the vehicle had four male ranks and a female when they threw him in the vehicle and one of the ranks “cuff me in me right eye”.
Grenville recounted that the ranks began to beat him in the vehicle from Stanleytown to the Central Police Station.
Upon arrival at the Central Police Station he was escorted from the vehicle by three ranks to the Criminal Investigations Department where he was then beaten once more. Shortly after, he was taken to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital by two policemen for a medical and brought back to the station where he was kept for a few hours.
His two other brothers were also detained but were not beaten by the police. Grenville said he was released Thursday night on $20,000 station bail and his two other brothers were released on $10,000 station bail each.
The police have not made contact with him or his family since but he was left with several injuries about his body including swollen legs, swollen (black and blue) left side face and bruises about his body.
“Dem man lash me up on me ankle and beat me all over me body with the rifle they had and a baton and they telling me that I damage somebody car. I ain’t know about no damage to property”, the 26-year-old stressed.
He seeking justice for the ordeal he went through with the ranks and is desperately in need of answers.
Calls to the Divisional Commander Lyndon Alves for a comment on the matter went unanswered.
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