As demon­stra­tions con­tin­ue over the po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing that killed Joshua Sama­roo and in­jured his com­mon-law wife, Ka­ia Sealy, sev­er­al pro­test­ers have ex­pressed frus­tra­tion over what they de­scribe as a lack of pub­lic en­gage­ment.

Sama­roo and Sealy were shot fol­low­ing a high-speed chase by po­lice of­fi­cers in St Au­gus­tine on Jan­u­ary 20. Po­lice have claimed that Sama­roo fired at them first, prompt­ing them to re­turn fire; how­ev­er, this ac­count has been strong­ly dis­put­ed by some ob­servers.

Se­cu­ri­ty cam­era footage cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia re­port­ed­ly shows of­fi­cers open­ing fire on Sama­roo’s ve­hi­cle de­spite ap­par­ent at­tempts to sur­ren­der.