“TTPS say shh­hh!”

With those words em­bla­zoned on mask­ing tape criss-cross­ing her face mask, protest or­gan­is­er Alyssa Phillip yes­ter­day begged off an­swer­ing ques­tions re­lat­ing to her re­cent ar­rest, af­ter po­lice pre­vent­ed them from stag­ing their lat­est demon­stra­tion di­rect­ly out­side the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre (FSC) in St James.

Hold­ing hands with friends, well-wish­ers and sup­port­ers who were forced to move their lat­est protest to the cor­ner of Bar­ba­dos Road and Long Cir­cu­lar Road, her qui­et and calm de­meanour left many, in­clud­ing the group of uni­formed and plain-clothes of­fi­cers, won­der­ing what would even­tu­al­ly tran­spire.