By: Lewis S. Verdier, II
The father, family with the aid of traditional leaders are demanding the government of Liberia to investigate the cause of death of the late Harrison Geeplay an engineer who was arrested and brutally flogged by the emergency response unit of the LNP in 2011 he was jail at the Harper central prison.
The late Geeplay was arrested on charges of aggravated assault according to eyes witnesses the man have has being evading arrest since the day he committed the assault. On the day of his arrest he resisted police and was brutally flogged and sent to detention where he later died months after his arrest.
According to the decease fifty eight year old ailing father, Mr. Nyanati Geeplay, his oldest son, the late Harrison Geeplay has sustained injury from the flogging and has being ailing while in prison to his death. The 33 year old man (Harrison Geeplay) died May 10, 2011.Now the chiefs and elders who joined the family of the late Harrison Geeplay in making this call has also alarm over the huge number of police brutality that occurred in 2011 which include the mad handling and brutal flogging of a social justice advocate, Thomas Bedell in Pleebo Maryland county. Mr. Bedell was flogged to the extent that he was urinating blood and body covered with soars.The chiefs also spoke of the shooting carried out by ERU when they shot a tapper Garter Doe who worked under the cavalla rubber plantation. He was shot in a riot. And many other police brutality across the county in 2010 and 2011.The chiefs and elders through their spokes man, Chief Mle Wah Prowd of Big Town told news men government have being playing deaf ears on these matters and they want justice to prevail. The chiefs have accused government of delaying justice which simply denied justice.
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