An agent of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) pointed his gun at a family on Monday afternoon who was denounced by a neighbor of their building for the volume of the music they were listening to in their house in Alamar (Eastern Havana). ), In the Habana.
The incident would have taken place in zone 12 of the populous neighborhood of the Cuban capital, near the agricultural market, and according to the videos of the event to which he has had access CyberCuba, the PNR agent chose to take out his pistol to confront the complaints of the reported woman, who was accompanied by several young people, including one of her children.
The recorded images capture the moment in which the police officer supposedly hits one of the alleged offenders and that is when the atmosphere becomes heated and the agent chooses to draw his service weapon and retreat in the face of protests from the neighbors.
At least three different recordings record the incident and warnings from witnesses: "Hey, daddy, put that gun away," one is heard saying.
So far it is not confirmed that this event is related to the 2,000 peso fine that the Police fined a young Cuban for having loud music in his house, after his mother, the alleged offender, could not present her identity card because she had lost it.
The incident adds to the avalanche of fines that the Government of Miguel Díaz-Canel has launched on a population hit by the shortage of basic products and the coronavirus pandemic.
Only in Havana does the Government Last week, it imposed 1,872 fines for violating regulations issued in response to the coronavirus pandemic, for a total value of 3 million 792 thousand pesos..
The popularization of Internet use in Cuba has brought to light scenes of disproportionate use of force that the National Revolutionary Police exerts on citizens.
At the beginning of July 2020, CiberCuba had access to the viral video of a confrontation between the police and Cuban citizens, shared in the Facebook group San Nicolás de Bari against communism. The audiovisual material captures the moment when an agent detains a young man and the witnesses shout to leave him alone, that he has not done anything.
Repression has increased during the COVID-19 crisis. The Cuban Police warned in March 2020 that anyone who was intercepted on the street without a mask would be detained, taken to the station and prosecuted for a crime of spreading the coronavirus.
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