Matura man: Officer beat me

The man has now gone to the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) seeking justice.

“I would like to know if we are living in a land without law and order; where police officers could walk up to anybody and say they could lock you up. To me that is high-handedness,” John Romero said.

According to a report sent to the PCA, Romero who is from Toco Main Road, was at his girlfriend’s store at the Shops of Cunapo off the Eastern Main Road in Sangre Grande on Tuesday when at 5.55 pm, he saw five police officers choking and dragging a street-dweller, outside the store. As he left the store to see what was going on and called out to officers to leave the homeless man alone, Romero said a policeman struck him in the face with his fist and he fell to the ground.

Romero said he was threatened with “lock-up” if he reported the beating. Romero went to the Sangre Grande Hospital for treatment.

He then went to the PCA to file a complaint.