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Police protests plan to restrict access to parliament “wrong” – PLP

February 3, 2017
By Ayo Johnson

Michael DeSilva Bermuda's Police Chief

A police plan to restrict public access to the grounds of parliament in the event of mass protests has been denounced by the Opposition Progressive Labour Party as “entirely regrettable” and “wrong”. Shadow national security minister Walter Roban also criticised the governor and national security minister Jeff Baron for supporting the contingency measures. He told…...

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Filed Under: Airport Project, Featured Tagged With: airport, police, protests

Pepper spray used in police assault of airport protesters

Police use of Captor spray may have been in violation of established protocol

December 4, 2016
By Ayo Johnson

Pepper spray: Police in Bermuda used pepper spray to disperse protesters against an airport development deal.

Police officers physically assaulted people outside the House of Assembly and discharged a form or pepper spray in what could be a breach of protocol on Friday. The incapacitant spray known as “Captor” was issued to officers of the Bermuda Police Service in 2005 for use “only on those occasions when there is an immediate and […]

Filed Under: Airport Project, Featured Tagged With: pepper spray, police, protesters

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