Sample Report

 

Road Block 

On 12 December 2012 at 15.25 hours, the Bong County Police received a telephone call reporting a roadblock in the area of Gbanga, GR 115/125. Police patrol Bravo-2 responded to the scene, arriving at16.00 hours, finding around 500 people gathered on the Gbanga Highway. There was a barricade formed on the highway made of rocks, stones, and wrecked cars. The mob was shouting, throwing stones, and fighting against -several soldiers of Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL). At 16.30 hours, the Liberian National Police (LNP) and United Nations Police (UNPOL) including United Nations Formed Police Unit (FPU) were deployed to the scene. At 18.45 hours, after some clashes, deployed police forces managed to disperse the rioters and the highway was reopened. No arrest was made, and no major injuries reported.

The investigation revealed that the rioters were commercial motorcyclists, all members of the Iron Gate Community. They launched the protest in response to an incident involving a motorcycle taxi driver and an AFL soldier. The incident took place at around 13.30 hours. A young female hired a taxi motorcyclist, a member of Iron Gate Community in Gbanga, to drop her at her house. Upon arrival, she refused to pay for the ride. As the taxi driver insisted payment, the female passenger called her boyfriend, an AFL soldier, who arrived at the scene and attacked the motorcyclist. He beat him up and left him on the street unconscious and bleeding. Then, the perpetrator and his girlfriend ran away. The victim was rushed to the hospital. On 13 December, the LNP police officers, who had been assaulted by the mob at the scene, also recognized the attackers and they were arrested. They confessed to attending the protest but denied attacking the police officers. A prosecuting judge authorized the suspects to be held in the Bong detention center.

The victim was Mr. Joshua Bundu, 25, a member of Iron Gate Community living on 25 Ribbon Street in Gbanga and working as a motorcycle taxi driver. After the assault, he was transported to the Gbanga Municipal Hospital. The medical examination revealed that he had a cut on his left shoulder and forehead. After delivery of first aid, he was released from the hospital. The media emphasized that the Iron Gate Community decided to protest on the street to attract the attention of the government and make them address the behavior of AFL soldiers and their impunity over recent reported assaults against local citizens. There were five similar assaults reported to the police in connection to the AFL before the most recent one.

\On 14 December 2012, at 13:00 hours, police investigators apprehended 23-year-old soldier AFL, Jacob Harrison in his apartment at the 14 River Street in Gbanga. In the interview, Jacob Harrison explained that on 12 December 2012, at around 14:00 hours, his 19-year-old girlfriend, Diane Garu, called him. Diane told him that she hired a motorcycle taxi driver. Opon a arrival   at her house at 48 Main Streer, the tax1driver asked Diane to let him accompany her to the house. She refused his proposal, so he got angry and told her to pay double for the ride. Diane gave him five dollars, but the driver insisted on ten dollars. Diane refused to pay double. On arrival. Jacob found his girlfriend in a verbal argument with the motorcycle taxi driver. Then, he asked the motorcyclist why he had harassed his girlfriend. The driver replied that women who date soldiers pay double for the ride. He also asked Jacob if he was going to pay for his girlfriend. The comments got Jacob angry, and he punched in the face and cut the driver several times on his head and shoulders with a knife which he took out from his jacket. Then, he threw the knife into some nearby bushes. He took his girlfriend to his car and ran away from the scene. On the way to his apartment, he called the emergency services number and informed them about the injured motorcyclist and his location. Later, at around 14:45 hours, Diane received a phone call from her brother who advised her not to show up in the Iron Gate neighborhood. A prosecuting judge authorized the suspect to be charged with assault and held in the detention center.

 

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