Ten­sions flared in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day as a protest de­mand­ing trans­paren­cy in a con­tro­ver­sial po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing end­ed with the ar­rest of the or­gan­is­er and her moth­er fol­low­ing a con­fronta­tion with of­fi­cers.

The protest, which be­gan short­ly af­ter 4 pm, was or­gan­ised by Alyssa Phillip and oth­er ac­tivists who at­tempt­ed to stage the demon­stra­tion op­po­site the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) on Rich­mond Street, Port-of-Spain.

Demon­stra­tors said the protest sought to raise aware­ness about what they de­scribed as an “in­jus­tice” against Ka­ia Sealy, who was shot and wound­ed dur­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing on Jan­u­ary 20.