No police officer in Jamaica has ever been convicted of murder.
Men have been crammed into cells at police stations until they smothered. Bodies have been recovered of men last seen alive entering police jeeps. Children, women, have been shot and killed.
No police officer in Jamaica has ever been convicted of murder.
On July 31st, 2010, Television Jamaica commenced its newscast with a warning that what was about to be broadcast was not suitable for children, then rolled the video taken by a cell phone camera.
The video was brief.
It showed a man, lying on the ground. At intervals, a uniformed police officer hit the man with a baton. Then, a detective, in plain clothes, appears, holding a gun. He walks to the man. He shoots the man in cold blood.
The video ends.
Antecedent
The Police had their own ‘news service’ called the Constabulary Communication Network, (which was renamed the CCU in 2014).
Being unaware that TVJ possessed this cell phone video, the CCN (as it was then called) had issued a statement a few hours earlier. The statement was that a man with a knife attacked four police officers and was shot dead.
This is the most significant point in the entire event. This is more important than a mere police murder of a civilian.
The official mouthpiece for the Jamaican Constabulary Force, issued one of its standard untruths. The same untruths it had been churning out for decades.
I recall the same reports going back to the 1970s; “An unidentified man attacked a police party and was shot dead.”
It happens every day.
From the 1970s to the 1980s to the 1990s to 2000 to 2010.
Seven years ago, Television Jamaica broadcast a cold blooded murder. It also read the ‘official’ report from the Police.
Shortly after the broadcast, the then Commissioner of Police, informed the television station that the police officer who murdered the civilian would be arrested and charged.
No police officer has ever been convicted of murder. When a citizen goes to court to give evidence against the police, it is a non-insurable risk. Many who were so vocal before taking the stand change their evidence. They claim not to have seen, not to have heard, not to have said… on and on.. because the man who is dead is dead already. They are not and do not chose to be.
Then, there are the others, who, as most Jamaicans, are born liars. People have taken a Bible, sworn to tell the truth, and recount fabrications.
One claimed to have seen a police officer standing over her brother firing shots. Yet the medical evidence puts the closest the gun man could have been at sixteen feet away.
Mothers have stood on the witness stand, crying living eye water about what an Angels her son was, then the police records and arrest warrants are put into evidence. Her Angel son was a gang member and had already been shot in his ‘line of duty’ a few years before.
The jury, hearing the eye witness lie, will discard their testimony.
The Police know this.
The Police know they can literally murder a man in front of his mother because when she comes to give evidence in court she will lie. And lie. She will lie so completely, so easily she destroys her own credibility.
The Police know that when their lawyer addresses the jury it will sound something like;
“This woman has testified that she saw this police man, out of a clear blue sky, walk up and kill her son. Just walk up and kill her son, in cold blood, for nothing. Does this sound truthful to you? Remember how she swore her son had never been in trouble before? Yet, you saw the various warrants for his arrest. How he had a gun shot wound on his body. If she so easily invent her son as a Saint, can we believe her when a policeman’s life is at stake? Can we believe this proven liar when she concocts a ridiculous story about a policeman killing her son in broad daylight, in cold blood?”
The jury, annoyed by the lies the deceased’s mother so blithely uttered, finds the police man not guilty.
This has happened every year in the history of Jamaica. More than once.
A man is dead.
Died by police bullet.
Witness lies.
Jury acquits.
So seven years ago, caught on Cell Phone, is a clear police murder. So seven years ago, the Commissioner of Police orders the Police Officer Arrested.
So seven years ago, the Police Officer is Arrested, bailed, and the case is set for trial. It is put off on numerous occasions, the person who took the cell phone video goes missing, no one in the crowd who was physically present at the time attends Court.
The Police man walks.
The video is still available.
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It's a very bad news and how can the police be forced do this without having any reason? All the laws are made to protect the humans and save the innocent people. The duty of the police force is to protect the people from danger and not to threaten them. The are getting a salary from people's taxes then how they can act against the mankind without haveing any reason. I don't know why the government hasn't taken any action to suspend those type of police men. I can understand no one is willing to ready to fight against the police force. So discover the truth and the court should collect the secret evidence against the police person who is doing mistakes and that too by a secret agency of peoples. By doing this the mistaken person can get his punishment for his murderer activity and none of the innocent people who helps in giving the secret confession will also get affected. I think a huge gang of people can request the government to do this and stress this to government eyes.