Customers of the Youth Labor Army market on 17th and K were stunned this Tuesday when they saw a policeman riding a motorcycle enter the crowd.
Three sellers of nylon bags, usual in the place despite the prohibition to sell this product, left terrified, two men and a woman, but the agent only went after her. The girl slipped through the crowd that was doing her shopping at the farm and disappeared from her sight.
Some of the vendors met the agent saying: “Hey, officer, you can’t come in here.” The policeman, perplexed, answered them out loud: “I don’t understand why that woman who came in disappears in here,” letting it slip that the merchants themselves had hidden her.
Without ever getting off the motorcycle, the agent turned around and went back out into the street. He was stationed at the door of the market for a few minutes with a vigilant attitude, until another woman approached him, showed the agent a path – which way did the persecuted person go? – And, only then, did the man leave.
“Luckily he didn’t go in at high speed, what happens if he catches someone?” said a client in her forties under her breath, while protesting: “They feel unpunished.”
Another young witness to the events reported: “This reminds me of the stories my grandmother told me about Batista, when the police persecuted people and the town itself hid them.”
The market, located on a busy street in El Vedado, has at least two entrances, which made pursuit more difficult for the uniformed man. With a nearby passport and identity card preparation office, plus a polyclinic where PCR tests are carried out to travel, the area is permanently full of people who come and go.
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