Police are investigating the origin of the copper-coated buckshot pellets that were extracted from the bodies of the three men killed during last July’s police shooting of protestors at Linden according to Top Cop Leroy Brumell who also said that he is yet to read the full report of the Commission of Inquiry into the incident.
Almost three weeks have passed since the report was handed over to President Donald Ramotar and most of its contents published in the media but Brumell is still unable to address key issues that it outlines regarding police ranks and how they operated that day.
“You read the COI? …Well believe you me I have not gone to page four as yet” Brumell said on Thursday while admitting that he has a copy of the report.
Following the opening of the Police Officer’s Annual Conference this newspaper spoke with Brumell about the report. When asked about the officers who were singled out in the report, he was unable to answer since he said that he had not read it.
The then commander of the police division in which Linden
