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The aunt of po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo, Camel­lia Sama­roo, yes­ter­day com­plained about the po­lice pres­ence at his fu­ner­al, say­ing it left her feel­ing un­easy.

Camel­lia Sama­roo said while she un­der­stands that the po­lice have a job to do, they caused her some dis­com­fort see­ing them at the fu­ner­al. This, she said, was com­pound­ed when po­lice of­fi­cers were seen fol­low­ing rel­a­tives from the orig­i­nal lo­ca­tion venue at the St James Cre­ma­to­ri­um to the near­by Mon­segue and Com­pa­ny Fu­ner­al Chapel on Church Street, St James.

Po­lice of­fi­cers at fu­ner­als for in­di­vid­u­als killed by of­fi­cers is a nor­mal oc­cur­rence, but Camel­lia said she felt un­com­fort­able by their pres­ence.