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Police brutality in Guyana 
and all the things we forget:
A THREAD.
and all the things we forget: A THREAD.
*understanding
*mediascape
*positioned within
*positioned within
I lived in Leopold Street when police came for 17-y-o Kelsey Benjamin. 30 officers with high powered rifles. Four police vehicles. One ambulance. They came to shoot-to-kill just because an officer lied on him. Kelsey is alive today because he was hidden. The truth then emerged
police came for 17-y-o Kelsey Benjamin. 30 officers with high powered rifles. Four police vehicles. One ambulance. They came to shoot-to-kill just because an officer lied on him. Kelsey is alive today because he was hidden. The truth then emerged
Guyana cannot achieve the transformational energy of #blacklivesmatter 
if we continue to politicise police brutality and act like the solution is one political party or the next. My thread on police brutality is a story on the dynamic of police violence that transcends politics
