Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

While armed po­lice stood guard out­side her son's fu­ner­al yes­ter­day, Sharon Des­lan­des, the moth­er of Adalle Gilbert vowed to re­veal a new video dis­put­ing the po­lice ver­sion of how her son was shot and killed by po­lice.

Promis­ing that the of­fi­cer who fired the shots will be charged, Des­lan­des un­leashed her fury dur­ing the fu­ner­al at Guides Fu­ner­al Home, San Fer­nan­do.

Gilbert's wid­ow, Al­isha Richards, sobbed qui­et­ly along with his chil­dren –Nathan, Eli­jah, Eli and Jahdelle–as pho­tos of Gilbert came up on the screen.

Call­ing her­self the leader of the "Gilbert pack," the pe­tite moth­er of nine said she re­turned to Trinidad from New York on Fri­day and spent the past few days look­ing at the pho­to­graph of the of­fi­cer who shot and killed Gilbert.

"They didn't come to serve him no war­rant. They came to chase him down and shoot him down like a dead pig and swing him around and drag him and then de­cide to take him to the hos­pi­tal," Des­lan­des said.

"When you think (name called) get away, some­one else was tap­ing the whole sto­ry. I can't wait for (name called) to see it," she shout­ed as the au­di­ence ap­plaud­ed and drums rolled.

A video of the events af­ter Gilbert was shot cir­cu­lat­ed on Face­book hours af­ter he was shot and killed last Thurs­day and sparked out­rage among so­cial me­dia users and prompt­ed two sep­a­rate in­ves­ti­ga­tions by the Po­lice Ser­vice and the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty.

Des­lan­des said Gilbert knew he was be­ing tar­get­ed and was con­cerned about the safe­ty of his chil­dren.

"I haven't cried yet be­cause ex­act­ly two years ago, he said, 'Mom they are go­ing to kill me. Promise me that you are go­ing to take care of my kids.' And I said 'Adalle, this is what you call to tell me? He said 'Mom, promise me.' I said, "Well, I take care of them now any­way," Des­lan­des re­called.

Say­ing she will stand strong as the leader of the fam­i­ly, Des­lan­des vowed to deal with the po­lice "pro­fes­sion­al­ly." She al­so de­nied her fam­i­ly en­joyed mon­ey from the sale of il­le­gal drugs.

She al­so plead­ed with Gilbert's friends and oth­er rel­a­tives to do the right thing.

"You have to think about what you do­ing and don't give mom any­more headache. I am not al­ways here. I am the leader of the Gilbert pack but I need sup­port."

Fol­low­ing the fu­ner­al, Gilbert, who wore a bas­ket­ball cap, was car­ried in his blue cof­fin back to the Carl­ton Lane, Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion project where he lived and where he was killed. While loud dance­hall mu­sic blared, he was buried be­fore 6 pm at the Roodal Ceme­tery in San Fer­nan­do.

Gilbert, 34, was shot dead last Thurs­day dur­ing a po­lice ex­er­cise.

An au­top­sy showed he was shot in the back and the bul­let ex­it­ed his chest.