OccupyJulorbiHouse: We shall hit the streets again - Democracy Hub official
25th September 2023 3:19:19 PM
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The Democracy Hub pressure group has given notice that its members will return to the streets, according to a member of the communications team, Mr Solomon Wise.“We are going back,” Solomon Wise stated on TV3‘s New Day on Monday, September 25, barely 48 hours after joining a three-day demonstration dubbed #OccupyJulorbiHouse.
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“We are not giving them rest,” he added, though it is unclear whether he was referring to authorities in power or the police.However, Mr. Wise criticised the police for how they dealt with protesters on Thursday, September 21, the first protest day.Everyone who showed up was collected and put into a waiting police car.
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Mr Wise, narrating his ordeal, said he was part of those picked up, highlighting how he was “bundled” into the police bus.“When you watch the way they handled us from Thursday up till Saturday, especially on the day of Thursday, the Day of Shame, for me, I would like to advocate the police curriculum that is used to train the police at demo should be really looked at,” he demanded.
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He went on to describe how, after being taken into custody, they were instructed to strip naked.“We demanded that we are not going to remove our dresses, so the police were actually acting on the whims and caprices of their superiors and superiors also are acting on the whims and caprices of politicians and the police is not reasoning on their intelligence no more.
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”He emphasised: “And at that state, we see the police as enemy of the state because they are no more using any intelligence to work with.”He admitted that the police had taken his phone.The demonstration on Friday and Saturday was somewhat successful because protesters were permitted to march from the meeting place, the 37 Lorry Station, to the government building and were only required to be stopped in front of the 37 Military Hospital.
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