And while Guardado blamed it on the courts, another group of protesters took the fight to the steps of the Supreme court last night when they rallied together in Battlefield Park.
It was once again a small number but the protesters, many of whom were Ladie Gillett's biological family, were in fine fighting form.
It all started at Pound Yard and Cherisse Halsall was there to see it.
Belize's City's protest for Laddie got off to a bad start last night when the organizers were told that they wouldn't be allowed to march from Pound yard to Battlefield Park.
A minor setback because they were just as fiery when they got to Belize's historic stomping ground for civil disobedience.
Laddie's biological family was out in full force as they have been for days. Even the littlest among them. That's where I caught up with the always fiery Pulu Musa, Laddie's biological uncle.
Henry "Pulu Musa" Gillett, Bio-Uncle of the Deceased
"It's lies that the police are saying, the young guy is out 5 minutes after curfew. Curfew is 10:00 o'clock I could be out at 12:00 o'clock all that the police are supposed to do is come get me, take me in and give me a ticket. It only requires a ticket offense not a bullet offense. It's a bullet that they gave a minor."
And that minor's death - now a symbol for chronic police brutality - is now immortalised in a portrait by artist Cadex Herrera.
He's the Belizean artist who last year helped to paint that famous mural of George Floyd, an African American who also died at the hands of police.
Cherisse Halsall:
"Pullu I think one of the reasons these movements catch on so fast in the U.S. is because there is a clear understanding that the police have a prejudice agaisnt black young men. In this country people tends to say the young man black and the police is also black, so it can't be racism, but what about systematic racism exercised by the state do you think your nephew was a victim of that?"
Henry "Pulu Musa" Gillett, Bio-Uncle of the Deceased
"Yes, and that is ignorancy, that is ignorancy because at the end of the day a police cant be doing these things. I have my right to voice my opinion, I'm entitled to it."
And, similarly, down south in Placencia, the quiet community where this terrible crime took place, outrage remained palpable. We heard from two of the organizers who brought community members together for a candle light vigil and peaceful protest outside the Placencia police station
Amanda Berry, Protest Organizer
"The main purpose of tonight's event was to get everyone together and to become involved. Tonight is really just a stepping stone we are hoping to make an impact. We also want to express to the placencia police department that we will not be taking this lightly. We put them together based on our knowledge and experience as placencia citizens along with the outcrys that we heard from our own community."
Lyra Spang, Protest Organizer
"The police need more resources we are not saying to defund the police, we are saying to fund the police better, train the police better, make sure the police stay professional and do their job in the proper way."
And it seems it didn't take much coaxing to bring out these residents because each outraged speech seemed more powerful than the last.
Wendy Lemus, Owner of Wendy's Restaurant and Bar
"We want justice it's enough. We don't see justice in this country. This is a kid that has been killed it's not the first time this has happened in Belize and we want this to be ending. We want this to be the last one."
Walter Garbutt, Placencia Tour and Fishing Guide
"I don't want to bring black or white in it but i've never heard of a white person, a tourist, get shot anywhere so race is definitely a part of it."
Aaron Krohn, Yoga Instructor, Naia Resort
"Police are not 007 they don't have any license to kill. No man, when people act this way this is completely against the police code of conduct, people have to be held accountable."
"There will be no justice until there is justice for Laddie. And for every other kid that has been pushed down, murdered or beaten by the police."
And a major topic of conversation was the questionable overzealousness of resort owners when it comes to their beach frontage
Magda Morales, Owner,The Shak Beach Restaurant
"We have let this gone too far as a community because we should have stood up a long time ago and have these people know, you know what happened. This is our community and by law you have no right to the beach this is public. I can sit here, I can enjoy it. We as a community need to stand. We have let this gone too long."
And while the community may have stalled to stand up, Sunday's protest organizers say they are far from finished and that they plan to press on.
Lyra Spang, Protest organizer
"We do actually have future steps in mind, we know there will be the court date in October, we will be there and we hope there will be many, many more people that are at this little gathering, we had great turnout but I expect even more for the next event and this is not something we are just doing one night and then we forget and move on because what happened to Laddie is just one awful example of a problem that is countrywide and that is systemic and the only way to resolve that is police reform. So we are here to grieve Laddie and to express our condolences to his family but we are also here to demand police reform."
And they're not letting up in Belize city either. Staging another protest this evening to speak out for the injustice done to Laddie in the hope that his cruel and unjustified death should be the last of its kind.
Coverage of the Placencia protest was covered by activist Andre Habet with Photographs by Kevin Wilford Quischan
