00:00The first wave movement has taken a silent protest to the police administration building
00:04as it rejects the position of Commissioner of Police Alistair Guevara
00:08not to send a group of officers involved in the killing of Joshua Samaru on leave.
00:13Leader of the group, Umar Abdullah, has gone a step further.
00:16We're asking the Commissioner of Police to rethink his position as regards to this issue.
00:23And I'm also asking him, and I've delivered a letter just a little while ago to him,
00:28asking him to submit his resignation.
00:31I indicate in the letter, though, that this is not something that he should look at as a defeat
00:35or an embarrassment.
00:39But in fact, it is something that would put him up as one of the commissioners in this country
00:45who would have seen the plight of the people, felt their cries,
00:48and would have made the right decision and stepped down as Commissioner.
00:52Two investigations are underway into Samaru's killing,
00:55one by the Police Complaints Authority and the other by the TNT Police Service.
01:00The mother of his two children, Kaya Sealy, remains paralyzed.
01:04We are saying that suspension is a must until this investigation is over.
01:11If there were criminals on the streets that would have shut up a vehicle like that,
01:14they would have been arrested and charged by the police until the investigation was over.
01:19The First Wave movement tells us taking the officers off of the field of duty is not at all adequate.
01:25Reports have surfaced of police officers conducting raids near the scene of the shooting days after,
01:30which some have viewed as intimidation as opposed to investigative procedures.
01:34Abdullah alleges that one of the officers involved in Samaru's killing was on those raids.
01:39Let me say it clearly.
01:42Officers who need counseling should not carry guns.
01:47Officers who kill without cause should not wear a badge.
01:52And a commissioner who protects killers instead of citizens should not hold office.
01:59Based on what has been stated by police,
02:01Samaru was chased from Maloney to Spring Village in Valsane when his vehicle crashed.
02:06CCTV footage appears to show his hands up in surrender at the time that police opened fire.
02:11The group is hopeful that the truth surrounding the incident will surface.
02:15The person to tell that story will be the woman who was in that passenger seat.
02:19Up until now, the PC has not been able to correspond with her, to question her.
02:25I understand that the police is preventing that from happening.
02:28Abdullah is also questioning why Sealy was heavily guarded by police at hospital.
02:32He too raises the issue of police officers not wearing body cameras.
02:37Abdullah says, when Guevara began wearing the Punisher insignia, he opposed it.
02:42A global symbol of vigilante violence.
02:46We wrote, we complained to the Police Service Commission.
02:49They did nothing.
02:50Up until now, they did nothing.
02:51He's still wearing it.
02:53Bold face like that.
02:54Now the blood is on the windshield.
02:57And it was on the hands of the states.
02:58Abdullah says, the zones of special operations legislation should never again see the light of day
03:04until the TTPS gets its act together.
03:07Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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