Anger and grief erupt­ed yes­ter­day as friends, fam­i­ly, and sup­port­ers de­mand­ed the res­ig­na­tions of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro and Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der. The calls fol­lowed a brazen po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in St Au­gus­tine that left Joshua Sama­roo dead and his com­mon-law wife, Ka­ia Sealy, crit­i­cal­ly in­jured and paral­ysed.

Pres­sure on the com­mis­sion­er in­ten­si­fied af­ter Gue­var­ro con­firmed last Fri­day that he has no in­ten­tion of step­ping down, de­spite mount­ing pub­lic crit­i­cism over his han­dling of the in­ci­dent.

Yes­ter­day, few­er than 100 pro­test­ers gath­ered out­side Wood­ford Square, op­po­site Par­lia­ment, to call for jus­tice for Sama­roo and Sealy.