PM posts praise and blessings for law enforcement officers

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day con­tin­ued to heap praise on this coun­try’s law en­force­ment of­fi­cials, even as crit­i­cisms mount fol­low­ing the fa­tal po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing of Joshua Sama­roo.

Emo­tions have been high af­ter news broke last Thurs­day that Sama­roo’s part­ner, Ka­ia Sealy, is fac­ing charges, in­clud­ing manslaugh­ter, aris­ing out of the Jan­u­ary 20 en­counter with po­lice.

In a post on her so­cial me­dia plat­forms yes­ter­day, she stat­ed, “GOD BLESS OUR LAW EN­FORCE­MENT OF­FI­CERS.”

In the post, she at­tached a video of news re­ports on the court ap­pear­ance of rel­a­tives of Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les back in 2014. Beck­les’ rel­a­tives were held for gun and am­mu­ni­tion pos­ses­sion with­out the re­quired li­cence and doc­u­men­ta­tion.

The Prime Min­is­ter said that when she saw this clip, she was re­mind­ed of two say­ings.

“The first was: ‘The most evil among us al­ways ex­pect the rest of us to live by morals that they them­selves do not pos­sess.”

“The sec­ond was: ‘Peo­ple sleep peace­ably in their beds at night on­ly be­cause rough men stand ready to do vi­o­lence on their be­half.”

She added, “May God bless and pro­tect our law en­force­ment of­fi­cers as they leave their fam­i­lies every day to pro­tect law-abid­ing cit­i­zens from vi­o­lent crim­i­nals armed with il­le­gal high-pow­ered firearms.”