Reckless Police Brutalize Editor
Deep cut wound on head of the editor of Concord Times Newspaper.
A bunch of hoodlums and hooligans referred to as police officers past Sunday attacked and beat up the editor of Concord Times Newspaper, Moses Kargbo.
Police officers attached to ‘D’ Division Kissy Police Station under the command of a riff raff Police Inspector, caught Moses Kargbo at his private residence 19A City Road, Kissy Mess Mess, assaulted him thus inflicting lacerated wounds on his head and other body parts.
His beating, according to findings, came as a result of Moses’ strives in mediating a family misunderstanding which was and still is a subject of police family support investigation.
It was told to this press that Editor Moses was blockaded by a combined team of OSD and regular police officers of Kissy Police Division, beaten up and left to suffer injuries on head and all over his body.
The head of Family Support Unit Kissy Mess Mess Police Station, Inspector Barrie, who is said to have given the orders for the ruthless manhandling of poor Moses, we are told, was spotted as saying that he will never stop at beating journalists.
Moses met his misfortune past Sunday October 31st. He was subjected to physical brutality by police officers supposed to have been state securities.
Editor Moses suffers hit on the head by an iron implement which was in the possession of one of the hoodlum police officers. He later was handcuffed, dragged to Kissy Police while he cried in pain due to deep cut wounds that required four (4) stitches as confirmed by a professional nurse.
He was made to sustain a puffy swelling on his left arm; and was left with countless lacerations all over his body.
According to Editor Moses while responding to an interview from our reporter, Isatu Gbla, he said that the forenamed police officers stormed his residence to arrest someone accused of wounding a relative.
That as the atmosphere got tense, attracting public concern; he and elderly members of the community made representation to the police asking that they take the suspect quietly to the police station, so as to avert any hostile occurrence.
The negotiation was on and the suspect was now on her way to the station when another batch of officers led by Inspector Barrie reached the scene and furiously caught at people including him (Editor Moses), brutally and indiscriminately assaulting all.
Moses also told our reporter that the attack on him came after somebody identified him as a journalist and suggested that he (Moses) and a senior Civil Servant could be trusted to accompany the suspect to the police.
It could be recalled that police officers are in the habit of beating journalists at will.
During periods of Brima Acha’s tenure as police IG, several journalists suffered violent reproach in the hands of hooligan police officers.
To Sierra Leoneans, it is, but very odd that police officers expected to act as persons protecting lives and property of the ordinary citizens are seemingly becoming raw rebels.
No disrespect for the new police IG, but police officers behaving like dogs must be identified and eliminated.
No wonder night stalkers always found things comfortable conniving with Siaka Stevens’s dogs to attack residences of peaceful citizens.
Inspector Barrie and his wretched police hooligans will surely pay for their wrong doings.
It has reached desks of the Sierra Express that the executive of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists have been informed and are currently putting modalities in place to robustly approach action for its member.
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