Oh rasta doggle, wait wha really happen BU? Where ever the facts on this one.

I won’t comment on the case except to say it’s good to see private citizens standing up for their rights against the men in blue.

Now if only there was a functioning Police Complaints Committee………

@Enuff. It might be argued that the policeman is a public servant and, in light of the Crawford rape debacle, the actions of the police in general or particular are of national interest. In the Crawford case, we saw a long, drawn process of remand with the magistrate refusing to alleviate Mr Crawford’s lot, despite clear and abundant evidence that would permit this to be done. So the suggestion of bias on the part of the magistrate in favour of the police and the DPP is inescapable. Indeed, all magistrates and their links and bias towards the police must now be under scrutiny. And BU has placed this under scrutiny.

Mr Crawford had the weight of the entire international press and Mr Andrew Pilgrim, as well as the financial support of the two rape victims and victims of Barbados’ police, on his side, as well as the weight of public opinion —– yet the magistrate did not alleviate his lot in the slightest and the magistrate had the authority to do so if they chose.

In this case, the way I see it as reported is that here is a single individual who lacks the finance to retain counsel (although clearly counsel is advising him and doing so very well indeed) confronting “in propria persona” (which means representing himself) the financial and authorotative weight of the RBPF and their legal counsel.

Given the clear tendency of magistrates to lean in favour of the police, the warning of BU is both clear and approriate and, in my view, in the best interests of the public and of justice. In such a case, the magistrate must not be a passive observer, but must actually make every effort to ensure that counsel for the police does not play tricks and take advantage of the plaintiff. The magistrate must, in effect, prevent legal tricks being used against the plaintiff so that the magistrate’s sole function can be achieved – the dispensing of JUSTICE!!!

Let me put it to you this way. The Police are proved to have been involved in torture and cooerced confessions in the Crawford case. No commission if enquiry has been set up to deal with that and no investigation, so far as anyone knows, has been established to investigate this clear abuse of power. Rather, that jackass Dottin has said that the rape victims were mistaken – and cost Barbados millions in tourism revenue as a result of the international press outcry. Therefore, the police cannot just lay hands on people like that.

Then the Police would be looking for a few good men to join their ranks, and wondering why the applicants are so few.

Then they would want to know why members of the public are not forthcoming with information to help them solve cases. Or even the growing lack of respect for them. SMH

@crusoe

The law of the Medes and that of the Persians

On any given day bajans and others of my Caricom brethren can be seen traipsing up to Wildey where, like cattle, G4S security officers prod them like so many cattle in a slaughter house to the bulletproof glass of an empowered US Visa “God-is-dead-and-I-am-His-Replacement” officer

You and I are made to relinquish our phones to troughs and given numbers through which we retrieve our various items post being subjected to the ignominy of their interviews.

A poor black over zealous government security officer implements the same protocol for a phone and this complainant suddenly has a propiori rights or something that I in might old age can’t understand

But just a second though, regarding that same ignoramus of a government officer, a few weeks back I was present while she made a black woman who was pregnant leave the building and go downstairs to buy a shirt to buy something to cover her shoulders but, when a white woman who was less scantily clad, sine breasts engorged with milk for soon to be born offspring came in, the hunkie was accorded right of passage.

Some of the government security guards (and policemen) are true professionals e.g. the gentleman at the Foreign Affairs office but some are true 1-letter-removed-to-the-right BUNTS

Wanna be wrong and strong…No remorse!