The lawyer rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­ly of po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo says they be­lieve Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro should step aside as the probe in­to the mat­ter is car­ried out. They say this is be­cause they do not be­lieve he will be neu­tral giv­en his ear­ly com­ments on the in­ci­dent in de­fence of the of­fi­cers in­volved.

“The com­mis­sion­er came out with brava­do and de­fend­ed his of­fi­cers at a stage when the facts were still un­fold­ing,” at­tor­ney CJ Williams said dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence at his Port-of-Spain of­fices.

“Even the Law As­so­ci­a­tion has in­di­cat­ed this may have been the wrong ap­proach. To the or­di­nary cit­i­zen, that pos­ture cre­ates a rea­son­able per­cep­tion of bias.”