Was the violence the work of PPP infiltrators or PNC thugs?

Dear Editor,
The morning of June 28, 2022 marked another dark day of racial violence in Guyana. Responding to a mischievously inaccurate Facebook posting that stated that a Police officer who allegedly shot and killed Quinton Bacchus was released from Police custody, the residents of Golden Grove took to the streets in protest.
Bacchus was killed in an alleged shootout, after reportedly trying to sell a firearm to an undercover Policeman in the Haslington New Scheme on June 10, 2022. The protest ended up at the Mon Repos Market, where it quickly turned violent. Vendors of Indian descent were beaten and robbed, and their stalls and transportation were destroyed and set on fire. Motorists and commuters were stranded for the entire day, as the protestors blocked the roadway with burning debris. No one was arrested.
Later, Dr David Hinds went on Facebook and gave his account of the mayhem, blaming the PPP/C for planting infiltrators in the midst of the “innocent” protestors to create havoc and to let it appear as though Afro-Guyanese were behind the beating, burning and looting at the Mon Repos Market. He proclaimed the innocence of those who participated in the “peaceful” protest and said the PPP chickens were coming home to roost. He soon had his racist partner parroting the same rhetoric on Kams TV.
Well, if there were really “PPP infiltrators” who created the terror at the Mon Repos Market on June 28 of last year, one would expect the likes of David Hinds to be happy if they were caught and severely punished for trying to blame it all on the innocent protestors from Golden Grove.
Then earlier this month, on February 1, unrest again erupted in another PNC stronghold, this time in Buxton, after members of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) arrested a drug trafficker who tried to get away with over 52lbs of cannabis in his car.
Demanding his release, the Buxton protestors blocked the road with burning debris, terrorising commuters and setting afire the truck of a businessman who has nothing to do with their demands.
Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken issued a warning that this behaviour would not be tolerated, and shortly thereafter, issued arrest warrants for 12 persons accused of terrorism in the Mon Repos Market on June 28 of last year. I expect more to follow.
Now, if David Hinds was right, those twelve wanted for terrorism should all be PPP supporters who were paid handsomely to infiltrate the “peaceful” protestors in Golden Grove, to give Afro-Guyanese a bad name. He should be happy that, finally, justice has been served on these PPP “house slaves”.
But not so, his rhetoric has been changed. He’s now claiming that the wanted twelve were all innocent “peaceful” protestors, and are being hunted by the Police because they’re Black men.
Come on, David; you can’t have it both ways. Before they were wanted, they were PPP infiltrators. Now that they’re being rounded up for terrorism, they’re innocent altar boys. To me, they’re plain ole PNC thugs that need to be put away with all those who are inciting violence and spewing racism every day on social media.

Sincerely,
Harry Gill