-after crowd ignored warnings, circled unit
Sergeant Roderick English, who led a Linden-based patrol to the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge on the day that three residents were killed and others were wounded, yesterday said he discharged rounds into the air after his unit was circled by a crowd of hundreds that did not heed warnings to disperse.
English, the Subordinate Officer in charge of the McKenzie Police Station, was at the time testifying before the Commission of Inquiry into the July 18 protestor shootings near the bridge.
He had been detailed with four ranks to perform duties at the Kara Kara Call Centre, where upon arrival at around 8:30am he observed about 100 persons gathered. Shortly after, he
