Broadcast Journalist with Ignite Media Group-owned Metro TV, Bridget Otoo, was among the multiple individuals assaulted by the Ghana Police Service during the Occupy Julorbi House demonstration on Thursday, September 21, 2023.
#OccupyJulorbiHouse: Bridget Otoo recounts how the Ghana police ripped her dress apart #MetroNews pic.twitter.com/YycVF14xUr
— Metro TV Ghana (@metrotvgh) September 21, 2023
Heeding to the advice of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the News Night anchor acted like a citizen and not a spectator by joining the anti-government protest to register her displeasure at the current economic crisis.
However, from nowhere, the police stormed the grounds to arrest and detain scores of the harmless protestors.
See what they’re doing to Bridget Otoo Herh 💔💔 /#OccupyJulorbiHouse pic.twitter.com/qrqmHvHseH
— Mempeasem President (@AsieduMends) September 21, 2023
Bridget was among the protestors dragged into the compound of the regional police office. She was able to escape from the premises but her shirt got torn.
Bridget, in a Twitter space discussion could be heard vehemently criticizing the police personnel for their actions, even as they cocked their guns in a tense standoff.
“You are cocking your guns, you are cocking your guns! Try it!” the outspoken journalist dared.
Subsequently, the celebrated journalist disclosed that her colleague, Vanessa Edotom Boateng, was also a victim of the police brutality.
“Yes, she is here, she has been beaten. She was attacked inside just her. Her phone has been seized. They have beaten her inside; 6 police officers attacked her because she was filming the brutalities inside and her crime was that she filmed the brutality,” she revealed.
This isn’t right. Our reporter @VanessaEboateng narrating how she was manhandled by some police personnel at the protest. More to come on #NewsNight#OccupyJulorbiHouse pic.twitter.com/iqC0lipTQB
— Metro TV Ghana (@metrotvgh) September 21, 2023
The Metro TV journalist said the confiscation of the phone by the police is to allow them delete the brutality that was filmed by the reporter.
“Now they have taken her phone because they want to take the content that she had recorded for her network from the police service,” she added.
