Extended footage has emerged providing context to an incident in which a female police was seen using a baton to hit a civilian in a taxi park. The video which has been widely circulated since the weekend earned the ire of many Jamaicans who accused the police of being excessive.
Initially, many who saw what’s now clearly an edited version of the incident caught on camera would imagine this was only another sign that the police are capable of indiscretion and excesses. One perhaps would have felt it necessary to call for harsh penalties for the female police and even her colleagues seen in the footage.
However, as science has confirmed for every action there is indeed an equal or opposite reaction. This episode was not immune to Newton’s third law of action and reaction. Nearly 3 minutes of footage now made public reveal an early interaction between two police and a civilian who appears to be a taxi driver.
While, what the police were saying to the civilian and vice versa was soon drowned out by commentary from those looking on, it was clear, the spectators decided from early out, the police would be wrong if nothing else.
Slowly, some 20 seconds in and the civilian was soon sandwiched between the male and female police. The crowd already angered. Hurled comments such as the civilian planted a slap on the female officer’s cheek. One that sent her hat flying and was of course met by the reaction many saw only after she was attacked. That’s when the female officer raced for her baton and applied several slaps to his body in return. Her blows were then met by screams for mercy for the civilian. Screams rang out like an alarm in the now crowded space, even as some could still be heard fueling the civilian insisting she deserved the slap. More police came to the scene and soon the civilian was restrained. In the court of public opinion, it would seem many felt it unfair for the civilian to be detained by the police. Efforts to confirm with the authorities the circumstances under which the police were interacting with the civilian, the date or outcome of the incident proved futile.
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