Cops see the light after beating innocent youth with flashlight

The cops sent Grant behind bars, but an eighteen year old youth claims he was wounded in the head by police. According to the family of Demas (Dee-mas) Mendez, the young man was wounded when police ambushed him in the Lake Independence Area in a case of mistaken identity. Mendez ended up with eleven stitches last Friday at around ten o’clock when he was riding home after he had purchased food. Three police officers on motorcycles chased him down and without asking questions, hit him in the head several times with a silver flashlight. He landed on the ground and was kicked multiple times. After they realized that he was not the person they were looking for, he was taken to the K.H.M.H. and left. Today, Mendez and his mother, Gloria Soriano, came to our studios to report the incident.

Demas Mendez, Alleges Police Brutality
“I was going home, the man they come—cause they had a little fight there—when I was going home with my chicken, the man they just run me down, bust my head fi nothing, ker me dah hospital and then after that they just lef me deh. They take me fi somebody else. So, I wahn know why they knock me inna my head fi nothing and cahn seh weh they wahn do.”

Duane Moody
“Where did this happen?”

Demas Mendez
“Front ah Lake I on the Mahogany Street right. Three ah deh mi deh pan the cycle. One ah deh run down me round the lane when the next bwai mi di go down the lane too. So the man think dah me but the next person done ride off and thing. So the man just whap mi eena mi head fi nothing.”

Duane Moody
“You also said that they kicked you several times?”

Demas Mendez
“Yeah they kick me eena mi knee only bout that.”

Duane Moody
“How many stitches did you get?”

Demas Mendez
“I get eleven stitches inna the head—two bust head.”

Gloria Soriano, Mother of Victim
“I no want this thing come happen again because suppose ih kill mi son fi nothing. I noh want mek I do it. I want the police think before they hurt somebody because well I understand the police need fi do something like stop the person, ask the name, look for the face good before hurt ahn. Suppose they mi kill mi son fi nothing?”

Soriano says that she is taking up the incident with the police high command.