What was to be a peaceful protest against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, quickly turned into an illegal gathering outside the United States Embassy yesterday, when police revoked the permit.
Close to 100 people assembled outside the embassy at Wildey, St Michael, around 11 a.m. to join in the Black Lives Matter protest, which started in the US after Floyd, a black man, died on May 25 when a white police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes as he was face down handcuffed on the street.
Protestors, mostly dressed in black, stood in a downpour of rain with placards in hand chanting: “I can’t breathe”.
Within 15 minutes, however, police officers informed organisers of the event – president of the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration (CMPI) David Denny and attorney-at-law Lalu Hanuman – that the arrangement on which authorisation was given to hold the protest had been breached and asked that they cease. (SB)
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