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A TPP supporter says she will be pressing charges against PNM supporters who clashed with her on Sunday while campaigning for today's Tobago House of Assembly election.
We met the woman as she turned up early to cast her ballot
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00:00tb6 news was at the polling station at the signal hill secondary school observing the early morning
00:06flow of voters there and we spoke with one of them my name is jennifer bruce and you were telling me
00:13before we started the interview that you have a very unique story in terms of this election
00:18um today because of something that happened to you yesterday yeah i got jumped yesterday i got
00:23beat up yesterday down at bonneford by some pnm folks they pulled my flag off they could burn it
00:31and at the end result of it is that um they beat me up beat me up to where i had ended
00:39end up going to the hospital video of the incident which occurred on the last day of the th elections
00:44campaign on sunday was widely circulated online in terms of when you went to the hospital what did
00:50doctors well they checked me out and so far you know i got my bumps and my bruises and i got my
00:56aches and pains they gave me some painkillers and stuff like that but i mean it was there for everybody
01:01to see one lady jump kicked me in my head i ended up with you know a lot of headache last night and
01:07stuff but i'm i'm okay now and early on monday morning i never in my life voted so early i always
01:16vote in the pm as opposed to the am but i couldn't sleep last night and by five o'clock i was making
01:23my way to the polls right so i did it i did it tpp to the world tpp leader for the augustine after he
01:33had cast his ballot in space side on monday fielded questions from the media about the incident and
01:38bon accord on sunday i mean what happened was unfortunate um and every lady was impacted by it
01:46i i know um that she saw some medical attention yesterday evening i know the matter was also
01:54reported to the police and so we are with investigation from the ttps afterwards police
01:59commissioner alistair govaro spoke with the media and a question was posed to him about the incident in
02:04bon accord on sunday i only like to stick to today's process at this point in time and tell you
02:10that it is smooth and anything else dealing with in terms of reports that are made to the police we
02:16have an investigative process and after that we come back and when we spoke with miss bruce at signal hill
02:23if i have to do it all over again i would not have been i would not be lured into a situation like
02:28that i would just drive away but i was upset because i didn't interfere with the people and they
02:34they were the ones who interfered with me they attacked me and stuff um i guess you might have
02:38seen where i had a knife i took it out of my car my my hope was that when they see that they would
02:44back off and leave me alone they came around to the back of my car came to my passenger my driver's
02:49seat and did a number on me but um we'll take care of that after the election after the election
02:56because i am going to press charges as for the voting exercise on monday the police commissioner gave an
03:01update to the media but this morning we can report no reports of electoral violence any discrepancies
03:09and all of that we have a process across the entire polling all the polling stations right there are no
03:17negative reports as far and we continue myself and my team visiting the different polling stations
03:24and obtaining feedback from the officers here commissioner govaro said the police service has a mandate
03:29to ensure the democratic process takes place without any hindrance jewel brown tv6 news
03:35so
03:42govaro said the television
03:46but
03:49oh
03:50govaro said the television
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