‘Weed’ charges really amazing

Many of our citizens can testify that they have witnessed police rubbing down suspects, emptying their pockets, making them take off their socks, searching for weed.

It is high time our MPs stand up for poor people in this country as it is only the poorer classes who are targeted in this charade.

The jail is full of these people and they only need to get the statistics from the prison authorities as more of them cannot secure bail.

The authorities are making criminals out of ordinary people for a little piece of weed. This takes me back to the treatment of a certain ethnicity in the US in years gone by.

When is someone in Parliament going to stand up and try to put an end to this nonsense? When will one of our feature writers in the newspapers take up this cause? Murders are out of control, underage pregnancies are rampant and there are no arrests.

But for a little piece of weed you can read all about it in the newspapers.

We have truly become a “Jim Crow society.”

JOHN KING Port-of-Spain