Liberia: LNP Professional Standard Department Investigative Report into Kinjor Violence Justifies Police Use of Excessive Force to Disperse The Rioting Crowd
MONROVIA, April 22 -- An investigation conducted by the Professional Standard Department of the Liberian National Police into the February Kinjor demonstration has concluded that the police's use of force to disperse rioters was necessary due to being attacked by violent demonstrators.
The Professional Standard Department recommends that "all the officers who admitted discharging their weapons, namely Chief Superintendent Clinton Morris, Superintendent Spencer Tamba, Chief Inspector Ezekiel J. Doe, and Chief Inspector Marcus C. Zorleh, are exonerated for discharging their assigned firearm for the fact that the agitating group who turned to rioters were throwing Molotov-cocktail, throwing stones, sticks, firing single-barrel shotguns, bro...
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