The colony's comrade PopulacesOrdinary's, just might be eager asks strong question of the Royal Constabulary's on-duty case assignment officer? What be's the exact case number assigned **yet another of the Royal Constabulary's internal continuing investigations?** You can't make this up, you **just, can't.**

When those boys go out and creative harvoc on society and members of the public are affected, I hope the Bahamian public feel the same way about police brutality.

These young men are destroying our society with crime. I say "cut their skin" until they learn some sense!

We should always feel the same way about police brutality. At the same time, we always want police to apprehend persons breaking the law and hold them until some judge who isn't caught up in their emotions and looking to beat the living daylights out of anyone in their reach, decides their punishmemt

The year **2020** and the police is still beating black people like its slavery! You can't make this stuff up. If someone is refusing to be arrested, there are many other alternatives to subdue them especially when you have 5 police officers and 1 suspect. But to repeatedly hit him with a baton and punch him is not the way to go!

P.M. Minnis says he wants to fight corruption. Well, I am urging P.M. Minnis to personally step and look at this situation. Some police has picked up the dirty ways and is not here to protect and serve. They are here to extort and bully!

You have no right to physically beat someone's child if they aren't a physical threat to you. When a CRIME IS COMMITTED, you are suppose to DETAIN, ARREST, and CHARGE THE INDIVIDUAL. **NOT** BEAT, BLOODY, DETAIN, ARREST and CHARGE!

When black police officers beat black men, it is police brutality. When white police officers beat black men , it is racism. Is there a common impetus, or are white police officers just racist?

"*Bahamian mother, Sherry Knowles, told The Tribune the police officers should not be condemned for doing their job. "We don’t know what the boys them do*"

That's just it, there's **nothing** they could have done to warrant the beating. Literally nothing. Murder, rape, nothing. Thats why family members dont conduct trials. Punishment is supposed to be given in absence of heightened emotions, that's in households and in public. It prevents abuse. Police apprehend and *the courts* decide punishment. If that boy who apparently simply didn't move fast enough and got hit in the head for his troubles had died from some brain trauma, what would Mrs Knowles be saying? *Maybe he deserved to die because he*.....? I am almost positive that no policeman is trained to beat people in the head or back with a Billy club.

The commissioner and the Minister need to condemn this in no uncertain terms and not this *we're still studying the video* or just punishing the ones who got caught. **Marvin Pratt is still missing and most likely dead. Last seen being taken into police custody.**

Unfortunately the tone is being set from the top by the very arrogant and nasty Tweedle-Dumb Minnis. He will soon be authorizing the purchase and use of Red China supplied riot control vehicles, riot-gear and tear-gas against the Bahamian people. Mark my words....the man is evil to the core.

Police will cry when they start getting beat down. Sooner or later the police will be caught and get a beat down like they never gonna forget.

Karma is real!

Here’s the obvious problem: If the police arrest a person for allegedly illegal behavior, they have to go through all the work of taking the person to jail, writing reports, showing up for court hearings, testifying, etc., etc.

Rather than go to all that trouble, they’ve decided it’s easier just to beat people with truncheons and not bother with all the messy, time-consuming work required by a civil society to enforce its laws in a just manner.

So, if folks think this is acceptable, why bother with courts and lawyers and judges and all that folderol? Why even pretend there is a stable, codified, consistent system of justice?

The problem is our legal system is broken from top to bottom. People arrested for $30 of weed on Christmas day - silly! Murderers let out on bail for a couple thousand dollars - ludicrous!

The problem is our legal system is broken from top to bottom. People arrested for $30 of weed on Christmas day - silly! Murderers let out on bail for a couple thousand dollars - ludicrous!

The police know that most of the people they will arrest will be let out before they even finish writing the damn report.

Imagine the **escalation that could've happen out enjoy some Junkanooing comrades** - had the members colony's Royal constabulary been issued loaded with killer bullets guns, and not skull crushing wooden sticks as weapons. You can't make this up, you **just, can't** that even when Englishman's constabulary imported back colonial day - **honestly, Englishman's demonstrated more discipline whenever they came into enforcement contact black people.** Seems even today's wooden sticks have become much more weaponized, being they're likes a foot longer and 3 more lbs added their weight.

Well I am more against the way and what they used to beat the young men, if switch a belt was used, and target the butt it may have been a little more acceptable. I do not condone the beating but at the same time, the way they did it is harsh and dangerous.

I remember as a student at D.W. Davis, I was drinking water at the fountain and the bell rung my principal lick my ass so hard lol I was sore for days and also I never again disrespect that bell again.

All of the boys that were beaten, like runaway slaves, came forward and said they were NOT involved in any crime Or disorderly behavior at Junkanoo but they were beaten by police anyway. In fact one explained to the officers that beat him that he had just had hip surgery and should not be beaten. The officer struck him to the ground anyway with his fist then beat him across his hip with his night stick. And the beatings recorded on video were not the only ones. After the boys were beaten,they were told to run and as they did, they ran into another group of officers Who beat them again. One of the videos shows one of the boys being struck down to the ground and another cracked across his skull by police until blood spurts. Anyone who agrees with police acting like vicious, wild hogs, doesn’t have the interest of this country at heart. If they behave like this in public image what they do behind close doors. In fact one of the police officers allegedly told the boys after beating them ‘ Run, and if I see you again, I will take you for a ride and make you disappear!’ Is that what happened to Marvin Smith, who allegedly went missing while in police custody? Some of the bloggers here could care less because a white woman can kill her husband, get charged and convicted, sent to jail, then can walk out of jail and leave the country. The Justice in this country is worse than it was in South Africa befor Nelson Mandela became president and ended apartheid. Both Marvin Dames and the COP needs to be investigated.

In any civilized country the police commissioner would have been made to immediately resign and the law enforcement officers directly involved in these criminal acts would have been immediately suspended from duty pending a timely investigation, most likely resulting in their dismissal.

The video clearly shows no apparent threat to the lives of the police officers involved in this outrageous incident. The brutality here speaks volumes about what is likely going on every day in our criminal justice system.

Marvin Dames is a big proponent of CCTV so we must ask ourselves why hasn't he argued for CCTV to be placed in all areas of our police stations where apprehended individuals are handled and/or kept by law enforcement authorities. The same goes for our prison. Meanwhile not a peep from Minnis.

The actions of these uniformed police officers disgust me. A police state does not arise overnight, it creeps up incrementally as the state security forces abrogate more and more power to them selves at the expense of the judicial system. This is a prime example of that. The widely reported extra judicial killings in Jamaica by "rogue" police officers is a next step that the citizens of this country must be aware of and resist strongly. The nose of the camel in under the flap of the tent already.