{"id":30264,"date":"2023-01-19T17:29:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T17:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/angry-motorcyclists-burn-down-police-station-over-colleagues-death-in-grand-bassa"},"modified":"2023-01-19T18:07:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T18:07:28","slug":"angry-motorcyclists-burn-down-police-station-over-colleagues-death-in-grand-bassa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/angry-motorcyclists-burn-down-police-station-over-colleagues-death-in-grand-bassa","title":{"rendered":"Angry Motorcyclists Burn Down Police Station over Colleague\u2019s \u2018death\u2019 in Grand Bassa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>Some angry commercial motorcyclists on Wednesday set ablaze a police station at the St. John River Bridge in Grand Bassa County in retaliation to a cyclist who allegedly drowned after a brief scuffle with some officers of the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA).<\/p>\n

The victim, Justin Davis, disappeared after he reportedly jumped into the embrace of the massive St. John River while escaping a LDEA officer’s hot chase in an effort to check for illegal substances (drugs) which they believed he was conveying to his destination.<\/p>\n

In minutes, the cyclists began gathering in their numbers to protest the disappearance of their colleague\u2014a situation they blame on the officers. In no time, according to eyewitnesses, chaos broke out in the area, and the angry mob set the station on fire.<\/p>\n

In addition to the police station, there was the police checkpoint, where officers ensured that drivers and commuters heading to and from Monrovia were checked.<\/p>\n

It took the intervention of officers of the Police Support Unit (PSU) to restore calm in the area after reinforcement was requested by assigned LNP officers, who were already overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

An officer is reported to have said that he and other colleagues had stopped the victim’s motorcycle to check for banned narcotic substances after they got a tip that he was traveling with some (marijuana).<\/p>\n

\u201cHe refused to be checked, and that\u2019s how his arrest was ordered,\u201d the officer is quoted as saying. \u201cThat\u2019s how he started running to evade arrest. It was in that process that he jumped into the river.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Justin jumped into the river, we only saw his head going up and down. And after a few times, he disappeared,” an eyewitness said. A search was launched but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

Family members of the deceased, who was the father of four children who resided in the New Buchanan Community, and reportedly had two fiance\u0301es, were overwhelmed by grief and could not hold back tears as they were being interviewed by local media outlet, Ablee-Jay TV.<\/p>\n

One of the fiance\u0301es of the deceased cyclist, who only identified herself as “Babygirl,” said that she did not know her fiance\u0301 to be a seller of illegal substances. \u201cMy boyfriend has always been a bike rider. I have never seen him sell drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Narrating how she got the heartbreaking news about her boyfriend, Babygirl said, \u201cHe and I woke up this morning, and I prepared hot water for him to take a bath. He gave a hundred Liberian dollars to buy something for the children. He told me that he was going to town [Monrovia] to run traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said a colleague of the deceased, known as Messi, \u201cwas the one who called to tell me that the police were running after Justin. I said, “Ahh!” Justin, who just left from here!\u201d<\/p>\n

She later made frantic efforts to get in touch with a friend of the deceased who, other colleagues said, was traveling with him to Monrovia. \u201cIt was the boy who told me that Justin jumped in the river and drowned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Upon visiting the police station, she said officers could not tell family members of the deceased anything but were rather taking their picture.<\/p>\n

Justin Davis’ relatives have called on the county authorities and the national government to launch an investigation into the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to call on the government to find my boyfriend. I want to see him but I cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The grief stricken mother, who could barely call her name, said her son was a major source of income for her.<\/p>\n

According to her, the government of Liberia needs to strongly investigate the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency officers to establish the actual facts behind her son’s reported death.<\/p>\n

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