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Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has as­sured the pub­lic that the Gov­ern­ment has no plans to re­strict cit­i­zens from shar­ing video footage of po­lice-in­volved in­ci­dents.

The clar­i­fi­ca­tion comes amid pub­lic de­bate fol­low­ing the fa­tal po­lice shoot­ing of Joshua Sama­roo and a re­cent High Court rul­ing sup­port­ing the right to record po­lice con­duct. Pre­vi­ous­ly, Alexan­der had ex­pressed con­cern about plac­ing such footage in the pub­lic do­main, warn­ing that it could in­ter­fere with in­ves­ti­ga­tions and shape pub­lic opin­ion based on lim­it­ed clips.

Speak­ing to the me­dia out­side his con­stituen­cy of­fice last month, Alexan­der said, “The po­lice al­so re­spect that there is an in­ves­ti­ga­tion tak­ing place, and we must be cau­tious as to how we put things out in the pub­lic do­main… You can­not put things out there, get pub­lic opin­ion on on­ly what they saw for two min­utes or a minute and a half, and then draw con­clu­sions.”