And in more police bad behavior there have been widespread reports of state of emergency extortion. Cops, fully cognizant of the widespread community fear of getting caught without a mask, are making a few hundred dollars off people trying to avoid a $5,000.00 fine.
And over the weekend that's just what an officer posted at Tower Hill attempted to do to an American national. Except he got reported. Here's what the commissioner plans to do with him.
Chester Williams, Commissioner Of Police
"We received a complaint from an American that he was in a vehicle when he approached the tower hill checkpoint in Orange Walk and apparently he was not wearing a mask one of the officers at the checkpoint told him that it was an offense to approach a checkpoint not wearing a mask. The officer took him out of the vehicle and carried him to the back of the vehicle where the officer told him that the penalty for such an offense is $5,000.00 but that they can work out something so as not to be charged the person alleged that he offered the police officer $50.00 and the police officer declined the fifty and he subsequently offered $300.00 and that was accepted by the police officer who then allowed the man to leave. The police officer in question is in Custody at this time and he will be charged for the crime of extortion. He will also be charged internally by the professional Standards branch in respect of that matter. There were two other police officers around but there is nothing to suggest that the other two officers were a part of what he did."
"They did saw the person that the officer took out of the vehicle, they saw when the officer took the person out of the vehicle so they collaborated the story of the person who made the complaint."
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