Po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed three peo­ple—two men and one woman—af­ter they blocked what was sup­posed to have been a Peace Walk seek­ing to end gang vi­o­lence in east Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

Those ar­rest­ed were said to be two men sus­pect­ed of be­ing “snatch­ers” and one woman who is al­leged to have be­haved in a dis­or­der­ly man­ner while po­lice were at­tempt­ing to get res­i­dents to dis­perse af­ter alert­ing them to the fact that they did not have per­mis­sion to con­duct the ac­tiv­i­ty. The three were held along Queen Street, near the Dun­can Street Plan­nings.

As the men were cart­ed off, res­i­dents, who were at first up­set that an of­fi­cer had pulled his hand­gun out of the hol­ster while chas­ing the men, soon con­grat­u­lat­ed the po­lice for ar­rest­ing the men, say­ing they want­ed a crime-free com­mu­ni­ty.