Are the lawmen tacitly subscribing to this lawlessness?

Dear Editor,
The death of the Henry youths is most unfortunate, to say the least; but the fact that the judgment is pronounced without any investigation is even less fortunate.
The youths were chopped to death, according to reports. This is indeed a hideous, beastly act. But has anyone paused to look into the possible circumstances surrounding this ugliness? One could ask, for example, whether the so-called perpetrators were acting in self-defence.
Press reports suggest that the youths were trespassing. Could this have led to confrontation? If so, who was the aggressor? If indeed these youths went to the coconut grove to pick coconuts, were they equipped with cutlasses? Was it then a case of you either chop or be chopped, kill or be killed?
Nothing can mitigate the senseless loss of lives.
Look at the consequences: robbing, burning, looting, beating, killing and wanton destruction. This is total lawlessness.
And what are the lawmen doing? Sure, they have the means to quell the chaos.
It is indeed shameful that they choose to be passive observers.
Some of those who observe this inaction might be asking whether these lawmen are tacitly subscribing to this lawlessness.
Quo vadis, Guyana?

Regards,
Kesh Kumar