Agricola residents block road, burn tyres to protest police shooting

Incensed Agricola residents rail at police after the shooting to death of Shaquille Grant on Tuesday.

Police and the Guyana Fire Service were last night deployed to Agricola, East Bank Demerara after residents briefly blocked the public road, burning tyres in protest of what they called “police discrimination.”

Their angry demonstration came a day after 17-year-old Shaquille Grant was fatally shot by police and another youth Romel Bollers, 19, was wounded.

All of the residents Stabroek News approached stated that they did not see how the fires