UDP Slams Police as Yellowman’s Detention Dispute Grows

Tensions flared last week when police moved in to detain Brian “Yellowman” Audinett, prompting the United Democratic Party to block the Belcan Bridge and demand his release. Conflicting reports still surround why he was taken into custody: one claims he was held as a suspected gang member; another suggests police believed he was planning to incite violence. And today, that controversy only deepened. UDP Senator Sheena Pitts blasted the police department, questioning whether officers are now labeling the UDP itself as a gang. She fired back hard, going so far as to call the PUP a gang and urging police to arrest its leader and members as well.

 

Sheena Pitts, UDP Senator

“You have the police exercise unfettered discretion to say oh you don’t qualify for permit today. You think it done? Look at what happened on the morning of our last protest, while gathering placards to take out to our point of protest, Brian “Yellowman” Audinett was arrested and on the paper given to him they write BMOG, that is an acronym, words which stands for being the member of a gang. And I have the fortunate advantage of saying I know Yellowman all my life and I will not put my head on a block and get it chop off and I can say with absolute certainty at no time Yellowman has ever been a member of a gang. Yellowman is a political affiliate. He belong to the same party I belong. What did the police department suggest by doing that? And this is not one of those situations where those who have the upper hand get to use terms and box us in those terms. And tell us when we fight for what is right, we are violent, we are gang members. Well Mr. police commissioner, please let your first order of business go to arrest the prime minister as the head of the  PUP gang. Let your first order of business go in the north and round up all the minister of the northern caucus and hold them for the forty eight and figure out how you want to charge them since we could play with people’s rights.”