POLICE AGEN?

Met this story need some exposure, police kill di youth in cold blood, after dem pull him ova wid some ganja an money, and di youth a beg fi him life, dem still kill him and put gun pan because dem want to theif di youth ganja an money and talk bout a shout out..people did a watch dem and si everything wah gwaan..

Lacovia residents protest fatal police shooting in Kingston
Jamaica Observer

Monday, July 23, 2012

LACOVIA, St Elizabeth — Scores of people from the Cuffes Pen community in Lacovia demonstrated early today to protest what they say was the unjustified killing of one of their number by police in Kingston on Saturday.

The placard-waving protestors impeded traffic on occasions before the police, led by Superintendent Dezeita Taylor head of the St Elizabeth police division, was able to calm them.

“We have been doing some work building relationships in the Lacovia area and that helped us a lot today,” Taylor later told the Jamaica Observer. Taylor said news that the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), which has responsibility for the probing of police killings, had taken over the investigation was relayed to the demonstrators and helped to bring calm.

The dead man identified as 25 year-old Ferron Baker was shot dead during a confrontation with a police party on Oakland Road in Kingston. Police say they seized a Glock pistol with two rounds of ammunition and 68 pounds of ganja.

Demonstrators yesterday freely admitted that Baker would have had ganja in the car in which he was travelling but insisted he had no gun and was not involved in any shoot out. They appeared to suggest that their anger and frustration was heightened by news reports, which they claimed only gave the police version of events.

“They are saying they knew his (Baker’s) activity and that it was illegal but they say he was killed in cold blood and there was nothing on the news to say what really took place,” Pinceroy Blake, councillor for the Lacovia Division told the Observer.