Stevedore alleges cops broke his leg
An internal police investigation is underway tonight following reports by a stevedore that he was beaten by city cops. Twenty-eight year old Kevin Peters is lying in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital suffering from a broken right leg and other injuries that he claims were inflicted by four police officers on patrol in the St. Martin De Porres area. Peters says he was on his way to work around nine on Tuesday night when he was stopped and questioned about a shooting.
Kevin Peters, Claims Police Brutality
“When they tell me that, I tell them “Boss, I noh know nothing bout that. I just left my home gwine da front with my work gears fi go work, my helmet and my jacket and thing.” So they rub down my bag and see nothing. And after that now, another police pickup come and the lee Usher him tell them that me dah gunman from through Taylor Alley and lot a silliness. They just start to whap up me right deh so, they just start beat me fi no reason. I di tell them, boss I going with my gears dah front because I have to go work ina di mawning. They noh want hear that, It look like—then he wah tell ah, what, somebody ina a white shirt grab a chain and they di come from off Central American Boulevard through to the burying ground. And if they in pursuit of a person, how da person wah reach way back deh and di come out? They done pass me long time.
From deh now, they wah look pan di next one and say, I look like young boy, so they just handcuff me. Then they got a lee discussion, then they talk from deh and they just di beat me. So I tell the man, boss you di beat me fi no reason, I going dah work. They noh want hear that, because him and di next one tell ah, I must just dash weh a gun or something man, so they stay there long, got me right there pan di road side. See down deh so where they stand up pan di handcuff, all this mark yah. And when I deh down deh now, boy just stomp mi pan my leg and bruk my foot way up ya soh. Got me there like a hour and change di beat me, beat me, beat me.
After that, ker me dah a man house weh must be a sergeant and ask him, maybe what fi do with me or what because then they noh got no charge fi me or find nothing pan me or nothing ina my possession. Soh him just peep inna di back ah the vehicle and they di discuss. From deh, him gone back ina his house and from deh they just come and drop me dah hospital dah emergency and gone about their business.”
“Just this morning they come, a man from Internal Affairs. Because when my sister and my bredda come and they tek some pictures and then I tell them bout it and that’s how they gone and mek a complaint, because if they neva do that, nobody mi wa even come and tek no statement from me or nothing. Then all my bike, my documents, my helmet, my thing fi work, all ah that, I noh even know where those even deh. They just bring me yah and from then nobody, I noh even see nobody till today when they must have hear it pan di radio weh my people put it over. Dah then this man just come and get wah statement from me.”
Peters says the doctors have told him that he should expect to remain hospitalized for the next two weeks.
