Police break up street fight in Roseau

The two individuals involved in the physical altercation, one wearing a black shirt and the other wearing blue, face each other while being held by police

A physical altercation or fracas on the streets of Roseau or elsewhere in Dominica is by no means an unusual occurrence.

So a street fight near the Prevost Cinemall on Tuesday afternoon did not constitute breaking news (apparently, the two young pugilists were involved in a conversation that suddenly turned violent).

However, there were two interesting aspects of the incident. The first was the coincidental and timely appearance of the police on the scene which resulted in the break-up of the fight and the arrest of the two participants.

And secondly, although violence must never be encouraged as a means of settling differences, it was somewhat of a relief to see, as happens too often nowadays, the absence of guns or knives in the fight.

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14 Comments

  1. Dg
    October 30, 2019

    This would be an interesting story if it was written better but alas the ppl now at DNO are just a bunch of ppl who know nothing about writing much less news.

  2. Tobby
    October 30, 2019

    I seeing only one person being held by a police officer, it look like he was fighting with his own self. One person cannot fight though.

  3. Citizen with Opinion
    October 30, 2019

    This seems more like a blog post than a national news piece. There are not any names and there is not a solid story. If you all want to have a blog section, choose one of your journalists to establish one. Otherwise, this is just distasteful.

  4. Good Job
    October 30, 2019

    Really my people? Are we so desensitized to violence that we think a fight is nothing to talk about? All violence is bad, had there been an escalation to this, and someone had been stabbed or suffered a “burst head” then we would be asking where was the Police. In this case, we should give plaudits to the Police for a quick intervention, and to DNO to report the story and show the positive actions of the Police. How many times have we seen Police in Roseau walk by and keep walking when they see an argument? These Officers responded quickly and quelled the disturbance, setting an example for all of us.

  5. jamie
    October 30, 2019

    Dno,the police should have just been a referee and let them duel it out.

  6. Not A Herd Follower
    October 29, 2019

    Is this really newsworthy, DNO?

    • google
      October 30, 2019

      Thank you
      DNO is now De No-news Outlet

  7. My Eyes wide open
    October 29, 2019

    Awa DNO I don’t like that one. You too popular and we’ll respected to report that crap. There are much greater issue to report than that. People would like to know about the result of the case of Skerrit’s ambassador of see and land Mr. Zampolli and range development in the kempinski case. That is news worthy.

  8. little yout
    October 29, 2019

    Good job DNO, those who are not interested in what is posted please don’t comment. Next time please show us the live action.

  9. DA2DBONE
    October 29, 2019

    Really DNO? We got social media for this sort of thing. I guess you are now the version of a slow country’s tabloid news. Anything for clicks. SMH!

    • Billy👶🏾
      October 29, 2019

      It seems is long you wanted to post something like that wi sir😂. One fight those people post chill out

    • jackarie
      October 29, 2019

      Alright then. I was like WTF? Stupse.

    • Eagle-Eyed
      October 29, 2019

      It happened outside Prevost Cinemall aka UWP headquarters. That makes it newsworthy for DNO!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

    • HMM
      October 30, 2019

      DNO post what you want, its news. those who have a problem with that go tell Skerrit we want Electoral Reform

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