It has not been a good week; not for the environment (permits were issued for the mining in Cockpit Country to go ahead) – or for human rights. On Wednesday, February 9, after a wait of around seven months, our Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn announcedthat she is recommending that no criminal charges be brought against the policewoman accused of cutting the locks of a young woman in custody at Four Paths Police Station last summer. Before Nzinga King even reached the station, she had been reportedlypepper sprayed by the police inside the taxi cab she was traveling in on June 29, 2021. She may even be chargedwith public mischief, it is reported.
Nzinga King was the complainant in this matter. However, in the eyes of some local reporters (and social media observers) she might just as well have been the defendant, and been…
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