A heavy po­lice pres­ence de­scend­ed on Bar­ba­dos Road, Fed­er­a­tion Park on Fri­day af­ter­noon ahead of a planned ‘Jus­tice for Ka­ia Sealy’ protest out­side the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre (TTF­SC).

At about 3:25 pm, po­lice of­fi­cers lined the stretch of Bar­ba­dos Road, in­clud­ing the cor­ner of Bar­ba­dos Road and Cir­cu­lar Road, re­strict­ing ac­cess to mem­bers of the pub­lic, sup­port­ers and me­dia per­son­nel gath­er­ing for the sched­uled 3 p.m. protest.

Peo­ple were pushed to the op­po­site side of the street near what is com­mon­ly re­ferred to as the Po­lice Mess, while of­fi­cers blocked any­one from stand­ing on the same side as the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.