Sixteen men yesterday appeared at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court charged with riotous behaviour following looting and assaults at Mon Repos and other parts of the East Coast during a protest on Tuesday which disintegrated into chaos and saw the police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
The protest had been aimed at concerns over the handling of the killing of Golden Grove resident Quindon Bacchus by a policeman on June 10th. The concerns were later found to have been based on an erroneous report by an online news outfit.
