The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is calling on Police Commis-sioner Seelall Persaud to rein in rogue police officers in the Force and to ensure due diligence to bring to justice the cop who shot 15-year-old Alex Griffith in his mouth.
There is no circumstance that justifies this barbaric act, the GTUC said in a press release, adding that like the burning of 14-year-old Twyon Thomas’s genitals such acts are only possible in a society where the exercise of the lawless is supported by the government. Even if the police had reason to suspect that a crime had been committed, or that the teenagers had information about a crime, these are unacceptable techniques for eliciting information or confessions.
“These acts are violations of Child Rights and must stop! …In one accord, the nation must raise
