Dear Editor,
It was sad and a bit surprising to read the letter about community leaders in Queens, New York, being seen as letting a sorrowing Guyanese family down after a member of the family had been shot and killed by police and the family had not so far received “a satisfactory explanation for the shooting”. Even although the chap, presumably expecting the police, unwisely approached the door with a knife in his hand, an explanation of the action taken by police seems to be basic courtesy and good for public relations.
