Mother says Son was Detained Despite Spotless Record

Another family member has come forward to demand justice for her loved one who was detained under the state of emergency earlier today. This time, it is Stephanie Reynolds, the mother of nineteen-year-old Tyreek Straughan, a resident of Antelope Street extension, who she claims does not have a single charge on his record. We spoke with Reynolds today, who explained that her son has been the target of harassment from several officers for months now.

 

Voice of: Stephanie Reynolds, Mother of Detained

“The first SOE they had in March they came five thirty in the morning. They came, they round up everyone. They ask the intel is my son name on the list? The intel respond no, his name is on the list. Not on the list. They still took him to the station. I followed to the station. I went to the station. I asked them why is my son detained? They said pending murder. I said pending murder for who? That back then I think that was when um, the guy Bobo got shot on Antelope Street. I said but my son wasn’t even here for that weekend. He was in Dangriga for a buggy there. I don’t know what the name of the thing is. So they said okay, you only have to spend forty-eight hours. I call ney say your son’s name is not on the list so he won’t go to jail. Okay, understandable. The evening when I took my son to jail, when he fired it up, I never get no call that my son went to jail. I don’t get no call from them, none at all. I get a call from someone who was at jail. About five o’clock the evening someone who was in the in the jail and they called me and they said miss Stephanie, do you know that your son is here at jail?  So I said no, so I called back and I asked, You told me that my son was not on the list to go to jail So why is he at the jail? My son have no criminal records if you go and check his records. He have no criminal record. My son is just nineteen years old.” They say we search your son this morning on his way to work. We search him and he was on the blacklist. He say ney call we in the afternoon and tell we I saw you guys searching so could you please go and bring him in for me? But I tell him, but my son don’t have no criminal record. So why the big man want to see my son? My son just come out of jail. My son just come out of jail for SOE so why don’t want to see my son? Only to put it like my son now a criminal. My son is not a criminal. He don’t have no drug charge, no weed charge, no gang charge. No, no kind of charge he don’t have. Why harass he? But these officers are not doing their job because before my son turned eighteen, they keep telling him. We will send you to jail. We will send you to jail. We can’t wait till you’ve reached eighteen from it. We send you to jail.”