Last night we showed you the COMPOL's exoneration of Jasmine Hartin in the case of the alleged death threats she had made against him and a magistrate. Williams told reporters, quote: 'We did not come up with anything credible to show that the threat was actually made or if the threat was real.'
It's a turn of events that has somewhat shifted the public narrative on Hartin from an all-out cop killer back to a woman fighting a charge of manslaughter by negligence.
But is it too little too late? We put that question to former Minister of National Security Micheal Peyrefitte and here's his thoughts on what he called the police department's "shameful" detention of Hartin.
Cherisse Halsall:
"I want to ask you about the commissioner and Jasmine Hartin, she was detained without evidence according to her, do you feel that there was any ulterior motive in that detention and should the police department be detaining people without any evidence?"
Michael Peyrefitte, Former Minister of National Defense
"I think the last part answers itself, the police department should not be detaining anyone without any evidence it is a serious, serious thing for anyone to threaten the Commissioner of Police and a magistrate. It is as serious if not more serious to accuse a person of that if it is not true and you don't have evidence. I think it is a shameful day that you can bring an accusation like that against any individual, any individual without the evidence and then have that evidence be used against that individual in other court cases only to come out after when it's too late and say oops sorry we didn't have any evidence. Well if you didn't have any evidence you should never have made that public."
