And after all the alleged abuse the villagers have witnessed at the hands of the police, combined with the events of Sunday night, will they ever be able to trust the officers who have sworn to protect them? It will be hard, considering how unsafe they feel in the presence of those same officers. But the commissioner is optimistic that that trust isn't completely gone:
Chester Williams - Commissioner of Police "I don't think that despite what we're seeing here that people are riled up. As a department, we understand, we are humans too and I cannot say I know what the mother is going through, I cannot but I can understand what she's going through. No mother should have to bare the pain of burying a child especially for gun violence and untimely death. Perhaps if it was a situation where her son was ill and he die but to be killed by, it's something that no right thinking person would want to justify and certainly would not want to be in her position but at the end of the day to see that people are willing to listen and to understand what we're doing is a start. It cannot be that we just give up on the village and say we're not going to work with them, no. Something wrong went on, it is our duty to corrective measures to make sure that we make the situation better for them and that is what we're going to do."
The ComPol mentioned that all BDF soldiers have been removed from the village and only the police presence will remain.
