The old Jamaican say­ing, “one fool makes many,” is impor­tant to remem­ber, par­tic­u­lar­ly in this time of social media and instant mes­sag­ing and every­one seek­ing a hype. 
This sto­ry I read in the Gleaner prob­a­bly strad­dles the “one fool makes many” and the “I see some fools and I’m going to exploit their igno­rance” fence.

Whatever Jamaica gets, Jamaica deserves, I say that with the great­est degree of indif­fer­ence to those who come into our coun­try and tell us how to gov­ern our­selves.
Nevertheless, when the pop­u­la­tion and it’s pathet­ic lead­er­ship are either too stu­pid or too heav­i­ly invest­ed in self-doubt to under­stand that the solu­tions to our nation’s prob­lems do not lie in our for­mer colo­nial mas­ters, then the results are what we have here.

GLEANER HEADLINE (dat­ed Sunday, October 21^st.2018
INDECOM Urges Cops To Stop Tampering With Crime Scenes

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has repeat­ed its warn­ing to mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force not to tam­per with shoot­ing scenes. This fol­lowed the fatal shoot­ing of Renardo Powell on Marescaux Road in cen­tral Kingston last Thursday evening.
The police say Powell had been rid­ing around on a bicy­cle in the Marescaux Road area, rob­bing per­sons while bran­dish­ing what was lat­er dis­cov­ered to be an imi­ta­tion gun made from board.

He was fatal­ly shot when he was accost­ed by mem­bers of a police par­ty. Details on what led the cops to shoot him are yet to be released by the police. But per­sons who have report­ed that they arrived on the scene short­ly after the explo­sions were heard told The Sunday Gleaner that Powell was seen writhing in pain on the side­walk as two police­men, one with a pis­tol, and anoth­er with an assault rifle stood over him.

“The col­lec­tion of cas­ings is still a fre­quent com­plaint from cit­i­zens who observe offi­cers, post-shoot­ing inci­dents, col­lect­ing them. The agreed JCF/​INDECOM pro­to­cols are for the com­mis­sion to be noti­fied forth­with, and for the scene to be pre­served until INDECOM arrives,” added Campbell.

He agreed that in some instances, the police will have no choice but to pre­serve and pro­tect valu­ables from loss or theft, but argued that such actions must be record­ed and report­ed to INDECOM inves­ti­ga­tors. So far this year, there have been 111 fatal police shoot­ings, with 11 of those occur­ring last month. INDECOM has report­ed that at least 92 mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces are before the courts in con­nec­tion with shoot­ing inci­dents.
They claimed it took min­utes for the cops to load the injured man and the bicy­cle in the back of a ser­vice pick­up and drove away. According to the alleged eye­wit­ness­es, while the cops were leav­ing the scene, they were stopped by a sec­ond group of cops who took the bicy­cle from the pick­up and placed it back on the bloody spot where Powell had been lying, while their col­leagues drove to the Kingston Public Hospital with the injured man.

Late last week, INDECOM’s assis­tant com­mis­sion­er, Hamish Campbell, declined to com­ment on its ear­ly inves­ti­ga­tion into Powell’s death, but he under­scored that tam­per­ing with crime scenes direct­ly affects its inves­ti­ga­tions. “Tampering with crime scenes will always be a prob­lem and will impede effec­tive inves­ti­ga­tions and the cor­rect inter­pre­ta­tion of events that occurred. This includes removal of the deceased, which is a com­mon prac­tice in Jamaica and not else­where,” said Campbell.
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So here’s some real per­spec­tive on this issue which is not dri­ven by hype, hyper­bole or the self-serv­ing grandios­i­ty we are used to see­ing com­ing out of the crime enhance­ment Terrence Williams Circus.

(1) Whether the head­line was defined by INDECOM or the Gleaner it makes no dif­fer­ence to me, igno­rance is bliss and I have no oblig­a­tion to suf­fer fools great­ly when they are mak­ing more fools.
The crim­i­nal sup­port­ing, crim­i­nal breed­ing INDECOM does not have a man­date to inves­ti­gate crime in Jamaica, that is with­in the remit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (or until such time the Chinese take over Jamaica and decides oth­er­wise).
INDECOM is tasked with inves­ti­gat­ing fatal police shoot­ings, as such when they are called to vis­it a scene where mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces are forced to employ lethal force, INDECOM can­not des­ig­nate the scene a (CRIME SCENE).
Let me be clear, INDECOM has NO right, NONE, to declare a scene to which it is called to inves­ti­gate a police use of force a crime scene>
Scenes involv­ing Police use of lethal force are not [crime scenes] until incon­tro­vert­ible evi­dence of wrong­do­ing emerges.
Any des­ig­na­tion to the con­trary is hyper­bol­ic, sen­sa­tion­al, and must be seen as direct attempts to prej­u­dice the minds of mem­bers of the pub­lic against their law enforce­ment offi­cers who risk life and limb to pro­tect them.

(2)In the case out­lined above the police were engaged in a use of force encounter with an offend­er who was armed with a fake gun. 
The police were called and respond­ed to what they believed was a real weapon.
Case closed.…
By eye­wit­ness accounts, it took only min­utes after the lethal encounter for the offi­cers to load the offend­er and his bicy­cle into their vehi­cle and dri­ve away.
(2a) Once offi­cers use lethal force they must assess the casu­al­ty, they did that. Once they real­ized he was still alive (there are no ambu­lances) their next oblig­a­tion is to get him to the hos­pi­tal.
The report­ing stat­ed cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly that ‑that is exact­ly what they embarked on doing.
On the arrival of a sec­ond police unit, they hand­ed over the bicy­cle to that unit to place it back on the scene, an attempt made with the great­est sin­cer­i­ty and inten­tion of com­ply­ing with the man­dates of the INDECOM act and their own train­ing, to pre­serve the scene in it’s most vir­gin state as best as is human­ly pos­si­ble.
(2b) As it relates to spent shells if the police are forced to leave the scene, to save lives and they col­lect the spent shells for the sake of account­abil­i­ty, where is the harm in that?

(3) Persons have report­ed that when they arrived on the scene short­ly after the explo­sions were heard told The Sunday Gleaner that Powell was seen writhing in pain on the side­walk as two police­men, one with a pis­tol, and anoth­er with an assault rifle stood over him.

Is it a crime for police offi­cers to stand over crim­i­nals whom they just shot?
Jamaica will have to make a deci­sion whether it wants to con­tin­ue as a haven for crim­i­nal­i­ty or take the req­ui­site steps to unshack­les itself from the chains of colo­nial­ist depen­den­cy and def­er­ence.
It will have to pack up Hamish Campbell and send him home and cause Terrence Williams to seek employ­ment chas­ing ambu­lances.

(4) The alleged removal of the deceased from the scene of shoot­ings in which law enforce­ment is involved.
Police offi­cers are not Doctors and nei­ther are the blood­suck­ing par­a­sites at INDECOM, as such the police have a duty, to make sure that all vic­tims of lethal force get to a com­pe­tent author­i­ty (hos­pi­tal) with a view to sav­ing lives.

INDECOM is focused on a cou­ple of things, (a) the agen­cy’s own sur­vival, as evi­dence mounts that it is doing far more harm than good. 
(b) That the agen­da of Terrence Williams and Hamish Campbell is advanced, Saving lives is not a part of that agenda.

The man­date of the police is not based on any­one’s ego. Police offi­cers go out to pro­tect lives to pre­serve the peace and to pro­tect prop­er­ty.
No offi­cer goes out to take lives. 
Given Jamaica’s tox­ic anti-police envi­ron­ment it is a won­der that offi­cers expose them­selves in this cesspool of crime pro­tec­tion. 

Terrence Williams and Hamish Campbell under­stand full well that as bot­tom-feed­ers, they can ful­ly exploit the igno­rance and cul­ture of crim­i­nal sup­port to fame and nation­al hon­or.
Venomous anti-police trolling is Jamaica’s largest growth indus­try, Campbell and Williams are mere­ly exploit­ing that to the fullest as so many before have and so many after them will. It is sim­ply the nature of the beast, they are not there to help Jamaica. Just ask Caroline Gomez, Mark Shields, and the oth­ers.
What is sad is when those in the media col­lude with these lying leech­es to deceive the peo­ple and march them back into servi­tude, which is exact­ly why Hamish Campbell is in Jamaica. 

You don’t have to like this Article but please share it, the men and women of the JCF needs all the sup­port they can get.
Lets not allow politi­cians and their lack­eys to destroy this beau­ti­ful lit­tle coun­try we call yaad

The roll­out of armored per­son­nel car­ri­ers and the blan­ket­ing of com­mu­ni­ties like Grange Hill In Westmoreland with secu­ri­ty per­son­nel bod­ies are cool optics and all, It may even be spec­tac­u­lar to some peo­ple who have nev­er seen a spec­ta­cle like that in those parts of the coun­try. 
In fact, the mas­sive roll­out of gov­ern­men­tal pow­er as it is may even save some lives as local shot­tas are forced to lay low for a while until they fig­ure out the logis­tics of mov­ing around unde­tect­ed to ply their macabre trade.

Ultimately though, I believe like every­one else the gov­ern­ment knows that this strat­e­gy wears thing real­ly fast. The bod­ies of police offi­cers and sol­diers alike begin to grow tired and weary, and crim­i­nals even­tu­al­ly adapt to the secu­ri­ty pres­ence and fig­ure out ways around them.
There is a prece­dent for this, despite the mas­sive deploy­ment in St James, mur­ders dis­si­pat­ed in some areas but flared up in oth­ers, and occurred even in the areas of the state of emergency(SOE).
I hate to say “I told you so” but Stevie Wonder could have seen that com­ing.


Sure the Administration has to do what­ev­er it can to stem the blood­let­tings. Failure to do so would amount to an abdi­ca­tion of its core func­tion.
Unlike the Opposition PNP which crit­i­cizes the SOE’s and ZOSO’s ini­ti­at­ed by the admin­is­tra­tion sim­ply for the sake of polit­i­cal expe­di­en­cy, my response is about sustainability.

Many years ago I accom­pa­nied a friend to a place in the St Ann hills. I drove my pre­cious lit­tle VW Golf which was leak­ing engine oil from an engine which had long past its prime. Unmindful of the calami­ty we were plac­ing our­selves in, we went any­way, despite the oil leak and the clat­ter and clunk from a dying engine.
We had a grand time and lat­er that night we decid­ed to head back to Kingston.
I start­ed my old jalopy and the clank­ing sound­ed loud­er than it did ear­li­er that day. We got out of the car and looked under­neath where all of the oil made a mean­der­ing pat­tern in the red St Ann dust. The last guy who looked at the oil leak had for­got­ten to tight­en the drain plug.
There was no ser­vice sta­tion around and we had no engine oil.

I thought about using cook­ing oil as a sub­sti­tute after plug­ging the drain with cloth and oth­er stuff but the only shop opened at that time of the night had no cook­ing oil. A griz­zled old reg­u­lar stand­ing near­by sug­gest­ed we use “Syrup.”.….…… >Syrup?
The lady at the shop had syrup, so straw­ber­ry syrup it was.
The syrup had enough vis­cos­i­ty to take us to Kingston. I can just imag­ine the par­ty those engine parts had at the sweet treat, nev­er­the­less, the sweet treat had to be purged from the engine and replaced with the actu­al stuff which is guar­an­teed to pro­duce the desired results.
So back to the less tasty engine oil went my old Golf, sor­ry engine parts the par­ty is over.

The ini­tial sug­ar rush to the cit­i­zens who are delight­ed to see gov­ern­ment forces, wears thin real quick when their move­ments are con­strained, busi­ness­es are forced to close ear­ly and par­ties become a thing of the past.
I am not crit­i­ciz­ing the admin­is­tra­tion for doing what it must, a‑la these stop-gap mea­sures. The polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion cer­tain­ly has no moral author­i­ty and def­i­nite­ly no stand­ing based on its prece­dent of fail­ure. When the PNP crit­i­cizes the gov­ern­ment as it has been doing, it makes its motives rather sus­pect, as it has been com­plic­it in the crim­i­nal­iz­ing and destruc­tion of our culture.

So what is the solu­tion?
The solu­tion lies not in the show of force but in a res­olute show of resolve begin­ning with new laws.
Let the bleed­ing heart frauds who opine on every issue from behind their grilled for­ti­fi­ca­tions chat to their heart’s con­tent, that’s what they do.
Let them pon­tif­i­cate about human rights and let them yap about poli­cies and pro­to­cols befit­ting Scandinavia.
The Government has a respon­si­bil­i­ty to secure the nation, and Jamaica cer­tain­ly isn’t Scandinavia.

The great­est threat to the nation’s secu­ri­ty is not the lit­tle-dis­joint­ed gangs run­ning around with Kalashnikov rifles, it is the pon­tif­i­cat­ing frauds who shape pub­lic pol­i­cy with data and direc­tion they pull out of their col­lec­tive ass­es.
There must be a strength­en­ing of the nation’s gun laws, as the secu­ri­ty forces bat­tle to find the weapons those with the pre­dis­po­si­tion to bring guns into the coun­try find new ways to avoid detec­tion.
The guns the secu­ri­ty forces recov­er must, there­fore, be seen as a mere frac­tion of the weapons and ammu­ni­tion flood­ing the coun­try from the United States, Hatia and Colombia via the drug trade.

The fight must be a gov­ern­ment to Government inter­ac­tion.
As a young police offi­cer, I spent count­less hours in the bush­es of Westmoreland and oth­er parts of the coun­try destroy­ing Ganga fields because Ronald Reagan want­ed then destroyed.
Jamaican Ganga was get­ting into the United States and many Jamaicans were get­ting rich from the weed.
Jamaican gangs across the United States had used their new found wealth to cre­ate may­hem on the streets of many US cities, it was not enough to make mon­ey they embarked on a sys­tem of wan­ton vio­lence nev­er before expe­ri­enced in cities like New York and as far away as Anchorage Alaska.
The United States took the nec­es­sary steps to cor­rect the mad­ness through the pas­sage of laws like the RICO statute and the “three strikes you are out”, laws.
Many groups crit­i­cized those laws and they admit­ted­ly weren’t per­fect, but they worked. Problems with those laws arose when law-enforce­ment and pros­e­cu­tors chose to inject race and oth­er con­sid­er­a­tions into their appli­ca­tions.
Nevertheless, the unavoid­able con­sen­sus is that those laws worked to remove those threats from the equa­tion. 

It is now time for Jamaica to demand that the United States work col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly with Jamaican law enforce­ment, not just to stop the guns com­ing in, but to trace the ship­ments from the US to their sources and bring the ship­pers to jus­tice.
Jamaican law enforce­ment must also exer­cise bet­ter inves­tiga­tive tech­niques which are not con­fined just to the recov­ery of the ship­ment and the adren­a­line derived from know­ing those weapons will nev­er reach the hands of mur­der­ous thugs. They must be focused more on tech­niques which fol­low ship­ments to those who receive them.

Even if the fore­gone is insti­tut­ed, those who flout the nation’s laws and wreak hav­oc on the soci­ety can sim­ply walk out on bail when arrest­ed. Jamaican judges are mini-gods account­able to them­selves.
Unless the Bail Act is redone it’s all for naught.
Subsequently, there must be leg­isla­tive changes which take from the hands of con­flict­ed judges the abil­i­ty to grant bail for cer­tain cat­e­gories of vio­lent crimes. 
Yea, yea, guilty until proven inno­cent balder­dash, tell that to the vic­tims of vio­lent crimes and their fam­i­lies.
Tell that to those who had their loved ones snatched away from them because some punk has a gun and want to demon­strate his pow­er.
Tell that to the moth­ers who see their daugh­ters vio­lat­ed corpse lying in bush­es because some moron decid­ed that no meant yes.

Before a nation builds out its ideas of a mod­ern soci­ety and embarks on the per­fec­tion of the rights and priv­i­leges its inhab­i­tants desire and to which they are enti­tled, it has to do the hard work of first cre­at­ing a nation in which the rule of law is sacro­sanct. 
That hard work begins with a con­sti­tu­tion and a set of laws which pro­tects the inno­cent and pun­ish­es the guilty.
As long as Jamaica con­tin­ues to allow the unpun­ished assault of the weak and inno­cent and simul­ta­ne­ous­ly pro­tects the rights of the guilty there will be no turn around from this dilem­ma the nation faces. 

The police are report­ing that a team of offi­cers arrest­ed and charged a JDF sol­dier, 26-year-old Orane Samuels and seized a 9MM Pistol S/​N G23151 with a mag­a­zine and twelve (12) 9mm cartridges.

Officers report­ed that they were con­duct­ing rou­tine enquires and patrol in the Crescent dis­trict area of St Catherine when Samuels was spot­ted act­ing sus­pi­cious­ly. 
He was stopped and searched and the weapon tak­en from his waist­band.

According to the police, their inves­ti­ga­tions have revealed that the Soldier has been in pos­ses­sion of the weapon since the peri­od between 2015 and 2016, as he claimed to have found it at Logan Lane in Linstead dur­ing that time.
The Military was informed.

In a suc­cess­ful coör­di­nat­ed oper­a­tion between the police and Customs depart­ments, Wednesday evening at Berth 7, a bar­rel with sender list­ed, (name with­held) and receiv­er list­ed as (name with­held) was scanned and anom­alies were observed.

A detailed check of the bar­rel which includ­ed gro­cery items revealed 9 Pistols, 1 Uzi Submachine Gun, 26 Magazines and Ammunition list­ed as fol­lows 100- 5.56, 100- 7.62, 50- .45, 130- .40 and 243- 9mm rounds were found.

Two men were held in con­nec­tion with the seizure (1) Desmond Matthieu o/​c Bramwell age 43 years, Taxi Operator of #3 Barrett Avenue Kingston 13 and (2) Jevaughn Richards o/​c J or Flintstone age 24 years-old, unem­ployed of #88 – 100 Spanish Town Road Kinston 13.

The con­tra­band along with the two detainees were hand­ed over to C‑TOC which will be con­duct­ing fur­ther investigations.

Despite slights and dis­parag­ing state­ments from the Minister of National Security Horace Chang, the Police con­tin­ue to do good work for the peo­ple of Jamaica.
Sure there are bad actors among the police as there are bad actors in Gordon House and every­place in between.

Nevertheless, finds of this nature bring home the stark real­i­ties of the effec­tive­ness and impor­tance of police work and how lives are saved as a result.
Yet no one both­ers to stop and thank these brave and ded­i­cat­ed men and women who work tire­less­ly and with­out fan­fare to keep the nation safe.

The car was searched and an AK47 rifle with ser­i­al num­ber tam­pered with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 15 7.62rds and a Taurus 9mm pis­tol with ser­i­al num­ber PT915 were found in the trunk of the car.

The licensed firearm in the pos­ses­sion of Cpl. Miller, a Taurus 9mm was also seized. A pair of license plates were found in Miller’s car as well. A sec­ond man 18-years-old Edward Forbes, was also arrest­ed. A third sus­pect fled the scene and is being sought by the police.
Investigations con­tin­ue.….
This arti­cle has been updat­ed to include pho­to­graph of the sus­pect since publication.

The Police are report­ing the mur­der of District Constable Mellisa Edwards- White, 43 years old, attached to Crime Stop a res­i­dent of Farmbroke Avenue, Patrick City, Kingston 20.

According to the report­ing, the dece­dent was mur­dered between 7:30pm and 8:50pm Saturday, September 29, 2018.

Police reports indi­cate that the broth­er of Mrs. Edwards left both the deceased and her hus­band, Mr. Barrington White, o/​c “Barry” o/​c ” Drops“53 years old, a Taxi oper­a­tor of the said address and went to a near­by premise.

On his return, he dis­cov­ered the house secure­ly locked and his call to his sis­ter’s cell phone went unan­swered.
He then went to the back of the house and looked through a win­dow and he dis­cov­ered the muti­lat­ed body of his sis­ter lying face down on the bed­room floor in blood and called the police.

On the entry of the police, the body of Mrs. Edwards was dis­cov­ered to have mul­ti­ple chop wounds to the head, face, and hands. A blood-stained machete believed to be the mur­der weapon was found on the bath­room floor.

By Julia Craven

It’s a shame no one believed their truths about how law and order falls on the heads of black citizens

Baltimore told y’all.

They said it dur­ing West Wednesday ral­lies in mem­o­ry of Tyrone West, a black man who died dur­ing a 2013 traf­fic stop in Northeast Baltimore. They said it when vic­tims who had been paid to keep qui­et still chose to speak out about police vio­lence. They screamed it at the top of their lungs after unarmed Keith Davis Jr. was shot in the face by a city cop in June 2015. Maybe you heard when they burned police cars after Freddie Gray died in police cus­tody in 2015. Or maybe when they talked about their cer­tain­ty that no offi­cer would be pun­ished in Gray’s death.

On Monday, a fed­er­al jury actu­al­ly found two for­mer Baltimore police offi­cers guilty in a major cor­rup­tion case. Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor, for­mer mem­bers of the city’s now-dis­band­ed Gun Trace Task Force, had been charged with rack­e­teer­ing and robbery.

Six oth­er offi­cers on that task force had already plead­ed guilty on sim­i­lar charges. Four of them had tes­ti­fied against Hersl and Taylor, prov­ing once again what many black folks in Baltimore had known for decades: The Baltimore Police Department is a dis­gust­ing­ly cor­rupt exam­ple of how law and order falls on the heads of black citizens.

Testimony in the cor­rup­tion case revealed that offi­cers would dri­ve their patrol cars toward groups of peo­ple, pro­vok­ing them to flee, in order to jus­ti­fy unwar­rant­ed search­es. They car­ried toy guns in case they killed an unarmed per­son and need­ed to plant some­thing. They plant­ed drugs. They tracked some of their tar­gets with ille­gal GPS track­ing devices. They robbed civil­ians. They sold drugs and guns. They put in for over­time hours even when they weren’t work­ing and pock­et­ed hun­dreds of thou­sands of tax­pay­er dol­lars. They levied “tax­es” on local drug dealers.

“Yes, cops take mon­ey from drug deal­ers. Cops rape. Cops lie in their reports,” University of Baltimore pro­fes­sor and Baltimore native D. Watkins wrote last month for Salon. “Cops beat peo­ple. Cops sell drugs. Cops threat­en cit­i­zens. Cops intim­i­date oth­er cops. Cops are gang-affil­i­at­ed; they’ll snatch a blunt out of your hand and smoke it, hide extra guns in the dope house, aim their pis­tol at you for fun, plant drugs on you, make you sell drugs for them or with them, make you rob and steal, and then expect to be called ‘hero’ no mat­ter what they’ve done. Politicians from every side — from those as pro­gres­sive as Obama to those as racist as Trump — break their necks to co-sign their hero status.”

In light of the lat­est rev­e­la­tions, a Maryland state law­mak­er has even called for dis­band­ing the city’s police force, cit­ing the dis­so­lu­tion of the Camden, New Jersey, police depart­ment in 2013. “The deci­sion came in the wake of record high mur­der rates and an extreme­ly inef­fi­cient police bud­get ― both of which are prob­lems that Baltimore City cur­rent­ly faces. It was a bold, near­ly unprece­dent­ed deci­sion, but it worked,” said Del. Bilal Ali, who rep­re­sents part of Baltimore.

A 2016 Justice Department report described how offi­cers in the Baltimore Police Department rou­tine­ly abused res­i­dents’ civ­il rights, tar­get­ed black indi­vid­u­als, per­formed uncon­sti­tu­tion­al search­es, retal­i­at­ed against indi­vid­u­als and failed to hold cops account­able for mis­con­duct. The report said that the depart­ment was racist “at every stage of [its] enforce­ment actions” and that these prac­tices “erode[d] the com­mu­ni­ty trust that is crit­i­cal to effec­tive policing.”

In 2016, the No Boundaries Commission and the West Baltimore Commission on Police Misconduct, two local advo­ca­cy groups, released their own report detail­ing the abuse inflict­ed on res­i­dents of the Sandtown-Winchester neigh­bor­hood by police. Fear of law enforcement’s retal­i­a­tion was so great that only 39 of the 450 res­i­dents who spoke with researchers were will­ing to be quot­ed, even under a pseudonym.

“It used to be that if you did some­thing ille­gal, they pat­ted you down, they arrest­ed you, and they locked you up,” one res­i­dent told researchers. “Now, they don’t even arrest you; they just take you in the alley and they beat you up. It doesn’t mat­ter what you do.”

Another res­i­dent said that one “offi­cer picked me up and slammed me on my face, took my back­pack off, and threw all my books out, and when they didn’t find any­thing kicked me in my stom­ach. I was just hap­py they didn’t lock me up and bounced.” (If this sounds crazy, please note that accord­ing to tes­ti­mo­ny in the cor­rup­tion case, Gun Trace Task Force super­vi­sor Sgt. Wayne Jenkins thought men over the age of 18 with book­bags looked sus­pi­cious.)

The report also took state­ments from peo­ple had wit­nessed offi­cers rob­bing drug deal­ers.

But it shouldn’t take a fed­er­al tri­al, a fed­er­al report, a new local report or real­ly any insti­tu­tion­al con­fir­ma­tion to con­vince peo­ple of the way that many police depart­ments ― includ­ing those out­side Baltimore ― take advan­tage of the most vul­ner­a­ble cit­i­zens. The peo­ple of Baltimore have been say­ing this stuff for decades. Yet it required a Justice Department inves­ti­ga­tion and a tri­al involv­ing almost cin­e­mat­ic inci­dents of cor­rup­tion for oth­er folks to believe them. That itself is part of the problem.

Maybe, Watkins sug­gest­ed, Freddie Gray’s death might not have gone unpun­ished in a coun­try that whol­ly accept­ed the premise that cops are not always heroes, but often dam­aged indi­vid­u­als who read­i­ly harm black (and Latino, LGBTQ and oth­er mar­gin­al­ized) citizens.

“How might a case like this have changed pub­lic per­cep­tion around Gray’s death?” Watkins wrote, refer­ring to the cor­rup­tion tri­al. “Even though they stopped Gray for no rea­son and then he died while in their cus­tody, peo­ple still saw them, at worst, as heroes who made a mis­take. Because if all cops are heroes, those cops couldn’t have done any­thing inten­tion­al­ly mali­cious to cause Freddie Gray’s death, right?”

They told y’all.
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Several years ago for­mer Senior Superintendent of Police Renetto Adams called for the dis­band­ment of the Jamaica Constabulary Force( JCF).
At the time I found the argu­ments of Adams curi­ous giv­en that he nev­er called for its dis­band­ment through­out his rather lengthy service.

I doubt there is a sin­gle Jamaican who has passed through the JCF who does­n’t believe that there are seri­ous struc­tur­al flaws with­in the Agency, as is the case with all of Jamaica’s pub­lic bod­ies.
Nevertheless, the work put in by police offi­cers is sec­ond to none, the risks are expo­nen­tial­ly greater than that to which oth­er cat­e­gories of work­ers are exposed and the hours are far more than required of oth­er work­ers.

Over the years there have been far too many fuck-ups by some peo­ple wear­ing police uni­forms, oper­at­ing under the umbrel­la of police offi­cers but are worse than those who nev­er took an oath to pro­tect and serve.
As a con­se­quence, even the worst lowlives who should be locked away and the keys dis­card­ed have had neg­a­tive things to say about the force.
Despite this, how­ev­er, a larg­er major­i­ty have done tremen­dous work, some­times sep­a­rate and apart from the call of duty to ensure that we still have a place we can call a coun­try.
No one else, no oth­er cat­e­go­ry of work­ers have con­tributed more, bar none.

No real ded­i­cat­ed police offi­cer gets up and goes to work believ­ing they are secu­ri­ty guards.
Despite poor pay, abject work­ing con­di­tions and the dis­grace­ful lack of resources and sup­port, they sol­dier on and pro­duce the best results they can, giv­en the cir­cum­stances.
They do so while expos­ing them­selves and their fam­i­lies to ret­ri­bu­tion, some­thing the Island’s politi­cians could nev­er under­stand as they are in pub­lic ser­vice only to serve them­selves and the inter­est of their fam­i­lies.

That is the rea­son that the com­ments of Minister of National Security Horace Chang have stuck in my throat like a chick­en bone.
In seek­ing to make the case for the dis­band­ment of the Police force as it is con­sti­tut­ed, Chang stat­ed that they inher­it­ed a glo­ri­fied secu­ri­ty guard com­pa­ny, speak­ing of the JCF. 


For the record, I do not care to hear any respons­es about con­text.
Sure the PNP has held office for longer peri­ods of time than the gov­ern­ing JLP, but that does not excuse the JLP of any of the prob­lems plagu­ing the coun­try or the police force.
Both polit­i­cal par­ties are equal­ly as guilty in advanc­ing the break­down of the rule of law.
Contrary to their twist­ed per­cep­tions, dis­band­ing the force or cre­at­ing quote: Jamaica’s own police force” is a stu­pid idea bourne out of not know­ing their ass­es from their heads.

Changing the des­ig­na­tion of the police force to “police ser­vice” will cer­tain­ly stop the killings in the coun­try. (sar­casm drip­ping here).
As I have stat­ed for many years, this periph­er­al stuff is not going to fix any­thing.
Jamaican police offi­cers are going to have to come from Jamaica, a coun­try of imper­fect peo­ple like every­where else in the world.
Fix the Government, train equip and com­pen­sate the offi­cers, hold them account­able, edu­cate the pub­lic on the ben­e­fits of obey­ing the nation’s laws, cre­ate the nec­es­sary leg­isla­tive frame­work and get the fuck out of the way.
It is not rock­et sci­ence.


There is no redemp­tive con­text in which the Minister of National Security can refer to the JCF as a glo­ri­fied secu­ri­ty guard com­pa­ny in a non-pejo­ra­tive way.
The sac­ri­fices and the efforts made dai­ly, their shed blood and the ded­i­ca­tion of police offi­cers ulti­mate­ly dis­qual­i­fy politi­cians, least of all Horace Chang from speak­ing about them in the neg­a­tive.

Any incom­pe­tence in the JCF must be laid at the feet of incom­pe­tent, crim­i­nal sup­port­ing politi­cians and their crim­i­nal sup­port­ers.
If Horace Chang wants to change the train­ing reg­i­men of the police force, “I say go ahead this is long over­due,” source mod­ern polic­ing tech­niques from coun­tries which have good police depart­ments.
Ridiculing the men and women of the force is not smart, it is imbe­cil­ic.


My spilled blood in 1988 was not as a secu­ri­ty guard, glo­ri­fied or oth­er­wise.
I was a police offi­cer work­ing to uphold the laws and secur­ing the peace and secu­ri­ty of Jamaicans.
The men and women of the JCF deserve more respect from the pop­u­la­tion and they damn sure deserve more respect than they are receiv­ing from piss ‑ass low-life politi­cians like Horace Chang.

At About 10:45pm Thursday the 27^th of September 2018 two American women(names with­held) vaca­tion­ing in Jamaica, were attacked by a lone assailant in their hotel room #1001 at the Riu Hotel Iron Shore Montego Bay Saint James.

The women were both in their room at the hotel when a man armed with a hand­gun entered the room through the bal­cony door. The man held them at gun­point and forced them to have sex­u­al inter­course with him.
He raped vic­tim #1 and whilst rap­ing victim#2 she man­aged to dis­arm him and fired two shots in his direc­tion, hit­ting him to his upper body.
The sus­pect ran from the room onto the bal­cony then jumped to the ground and made his escape. The police were alert­ed and upon arrival, a 9 mm Glock 17 with ser­i­al # DTN201 with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 16 car­tridges was hand­ed over to the police. The scene was processed by the scene of crime detectives.

The hus­band of a woman found “bru­tal­ly stabbed mul­ti­ple times” Wednesday night in Clayton County was arrest­ed in con­nec­tion with her death, the sheriff’s office said.

Jermaine Jones, 30, called 911 and “alleged­ly said some­thing to the effect that he had just com­mit­ted a heinous crime,” accord­ing to the agency.

Sheriff’s deputies and police offi­cers found Jones’ wife, who has not been iden­ti­fied, at a Springview Drive home in Forest Park with “her neck cut so severe­ly that her head was near­ly sev­ered,” the sheriff’s office said Thursday in a statement.

A wit­ness iden­ti­fied Jones as the sus­pect, offi­cials said. He tried to stop Jones but end­ed up “flee­ing for his life,” accord­ing to the statement.

Jones had alleged­ly fled as well to a loca­tion on Holiday Boulevard, where he made the 911 call. Authorities took him into cus­tody at that loca­tion with­out inci­dent. The sheriff’s office said his clothes were bloody.

According to Clayton County court records, Jones was booked on a charge of mal­ice mur­der. He is expect­ed to go before a judge on Friday for his first appearance.

The Police have report­ed­ly arrest­ed and charged 16-year-old
 Pamayo Joseph Andem, o/​c “Fefee”, o/​c “Tommy”, 16 years old, Student of Land Lease, Papine, St. Andrew.
The arrest­ed teen is rumored to be the son of impris­oned gang­ster Joel Gangster
Andem was alleged­ly tak­en into cus­tody in rela­tion to the seizure of One (1) AK47 rifle, fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing twen­ty-sev­en (27) 5.56mm cartridges.

So now the truth is com­ing out, that lying lit­tle mur­der­er Amber Guyger can­not hide behind the lies any longer despite the Dallas police’ attempt to cov­er up her crime in con­junc­tion with the fake FOX col­lab­o­ra­tors in the media.

Now infor­ma­tion has leaked out that(a) at least two neigh­bors have con­firmed that they heard Amber Guyger bang­ing on the door of Botham Shem Jean, demand­ing that he open the door and then the gun­shots. That was part of the ini­tial testimony.
(b) That con­trary to her ini­tial lie that she went to the wrong apartment.
© His door was slight­ly ajar which has been debunked by demon­stra­tions from neigh­bors doors.
(d) That his door was ful­ly ajar(debunked).
(e) That his apart­ment was in darkness.
(f)She fired twice at a sil­hou­ette. (she had no legal right to fire at some­one with­out being in fear of her life, threat­ened with a weapon.
(g) That it was only after she called 911 that she real­ized she was in the wrong apartment.

MURDER

Even To A Casuual Observer This Story Is B******t

Now new infor­ma­tion has sur­faced that she had made sev­er­al reports to the man­age­ment of the com­plex that Mister Jean was play­ing his music too loud. You will recall that mis­ter Jean’s apart­ment sup­pos­ed­ly sits right above hers.
Now you will recall that the police co-con­spir­a­tors in the media start­ed off the ini­tial report­ing that she had just fin­ished work­ing a full shift?

We have not per­son­al­ly seen those reports in black and white but she alleged­ly post­ed this meme.
This does not yet add up to intent but now we begin to see why Dallas police have begun the char­ac­ter assas­si­na­tion of Botham Shem Jean.

“The only con­nec­tion we have been able to make is that she was his imme­di­ate down­stairs neigh­bor,” fam­i­ly attor­ney S. Lee Merritt told CNN host Brooke Baldwin on Tuesday.

“And there were noise com­plaints from the imme­di­ate down­stairs neigh­bors about who­ev­er was upstairs, and that would have been Botham. In fact, there were noise com­plaints that very day about upstairs activ­i­ty in Botham’s apart­ment. Botham received a phone call about noise com­ing from his apart­ment from the down­stairs neighbor.”(grio.com).

As the inves­tiga­tive agency seem to be deter­mined to find a way to make Amber Guyger walk away from this manslaugh­ter, I believe the case for pre­med­i­tat­ed mur­der is begin­ning to take shape.
This new evi­dence is mov­ing mighty close to prove that Amber Guyger went to Botham Shem Jean’s apart­ment in uni­form to intim­i­date him and even­tu­al­ly killed him.
This is start­ing to look not like a manslaugh­ter case but a case of cold-blood­ed murder.

There is an old Jamaican adage which says *noth­ing ille­gal thrives unless Politicians and Police are involved in it*.
I don’t think that any ratio­nal per­son would argue with the bot­tom line truth­ful­ness of that statement.
Whether it is the erec­tion of shan­ty com­mu­ni­ties, the mass expan­sion of robot taxis, lot­to-scam­ming or what­ev­er, politi­cians and police have, through com­mis­sion or omis­sion, either active­ly par­tic­i­pat­ed or allowed these things to happen.
Over the years I have writ­ten exten­sive­ly that the Police could have done a far bet­ter job if its lead­er­ship under­stood the con­se­quences turn­ing a blind eye and or not stay­ing focused on a task has for the break­down of the rule of law.
I have used every lit­er­ary tool I have, to explain that a man sell­ing weed on the cor­ner can be an asset if cul­ti­vat­ed prop­er­ly, but the begin­ning of a seri­ous prob­lem if left alone.

That man must be used as a law enforce­ment tool to ensure that what­ev­er more seri­ous crimes are com­mit­ted in that area he feeds infor­ma­tion to trust­ed law-enforce­ment about them. No oth­er should be allowed to sell weed there.
Left alone, not used as an asset, soon more arrive, then it’s more dan­ger­ous drugs, guns, rob­beries, shoot­ings and before you know it that neigh­bor­hood is a slum from vio­lence, drug deal­ing, and drug abuse.
Property val­ue hits the dirt and fam­i­lies are cap­tives in their own homes and in the larg­er community.
Had the police moved, or ful­ly con­trolled that first guy sell­ing stick­weed all of the fore­gone would have been avert­ed. Isn’t that what has hap­pened across the entire coun­try though?

Thousands of cops and an arguably com­pelling need for thou­sands more, yet the crime sit­u­a­tion con­tin­ue to dete­ri­o­rate, but for the sit­u­a­tions in which emer­gency procla­ma­tions has been insti­tut­ed result­ing in large amounts of police and sol­diers to be con­cen­trat­ed in small geo­graph­i­cal areas.
Thus far, for the month of September, there has been an uptick in mur­ders to 4 per­sons killed per day from just over three per day. Some argue that we can­not lay these mur­ders at the feet of the police, they say politi­cians can­not be blamed for what peo­ple do.

If we do not blame the peo­ple who make the laws and those who enforce them, who are we to blame?
If the Police lead­er­ship used what­ev­er assets it has to micro-tar­get vio­lence pro­duc­ers and remove them from the equa­tion in what direc­tion do you think the mur­der num­bers would trend?
If the politi­cians cre­at­ed tough laws which send the right mes­sage, that crime will not be tol­er­at­ed and stayed out of the way of law enforce­ment, would we have more crime or less?

None of these point­ers mean any­thing, how­ev­er, because the Jamaican police con­tin­ue to act out­side its role by mak­ing judg­ment calls on what laws it enforces or whether it even both­ers to enforce them at all.
It is not up to police to make pol­i­cy, their job is to exe­cute what­ev­er pol­i­cy has been put in place by the civil­ian lead­er­ship. The police have no right to sup­plant enforc­ing the laws with their own bias­es. Contrary to what some will argue about *dis­cre­tion*, the police have no dis­cre­tion to allow the laws to be bro­ken, because they feel they are doing some greater good by allow­ing said breach­es of the law.

FROM JAMAICA OBSERVER

Deputy Superintendent Errol Adams

The police say, for now, they will not be pur­su­ing motor­cy­clists who have been using their bikes as taxis to cap­i­tal­ize on the night­mar­ish traf­fic con­ges­tion in sec­tions of the Corporate Area.

The traf­fic jams have been caused by the clo­sure of Portia Simpson Miller Square, for­mer­ly Three Miles, due to an ongo­ing road improve­ment project. The clo­sure is expect­ed to last for eight months. Head of the Public Safety Division of the new­ly estab­lished Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch, Deputy Superintendent Errol Adams, told the Jamaica Observer yes­ter­day that the police’s focus, at this time, is ensur­ing that com­muters get to their des­ti­na­tions in a time­ly manner.

He was respond­ing to yes­ter­day’s front-page sto­ry, which report­ed that some bik­ers have been offer­ing a shut­tle ser­vice from Molynes Road to Half-Way-Tree in St Andrew, at a cost of $150. The cost of the ride could be more, depend­ing on the des­ti­na­tion of the com­muter. “We are ignor­ing them for now,” Deputy Superintendent Adams told the Observer at the inter­sec­tion of Hagley Park and Waltham Park roads yes­ter­day. The DSP, who was seen observ­ing the traf­fic flow, insist­ed that the greater issue is to alle­vi­ate the frus­tra­tion and anx­i­ety being expe­ri­enced by commuters.

A picture speaks a thousand words.
Yet another example of poor training.Indecisive actions. no esprit de corps.
It is incredibly difficult to argue that there is modernization going on in the force when we are greeted with these images which demonstrate inexorably, that these officers clearly lack cohesion, lack direction(despite the presence of a senior sub-officer) and lack any attention to what they intend to accomplish.

FRAUDULENT ANTI-POLICE JAMAICA MEDIA FAIL TO PRESENT BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY, AS USUAL, CAUSING CRIMINALS TO BE VIEWED AS SYMPATHETIC FIGURES OF VIRTUE.

It is disin­gen­u­ous to any demo­c­ra­t­ic soci­ety and dan­ger­ous, that media hous­es can con­coct fake nar­ra­tives they see as in their inter­est, lam­poon­ing and malign­ing law enforce­ment which gen­er­al­ly does­n’t respond with their ver­sion of the facts

Unconfirmed reports indi­cate that this is the saint [sic] who was killed in a con­fronta­tion with Police which has pre­cip­i­tat­ed the mass upris­ing in the law­ful com­mu­ni­ty of Swallowfield[sic].

Below is the choir-boy por­trayed in the sick­en­ing Observer story.
You are the judge.

The burn­ing of tires and oth­er debris, the fir­ing of auto­mat­ic weapons and the throw­ing of molo­tov cock­tail bombs at the Police and police facil­i­ty has all come as a result of this choirboy[sic] get­ting his.

We have zero qualms about putting their videos (in their own words) online for the world to see and hear them. So when the lying dirty politi­cians and the crim­i­nal rights eat a food fra­ter­ni­ty try to can­on­ize these saints[sic] we will be right there to show the world that there is no dif­fer­ence between these idyl­lic mem­bers of society[sic] and those who sup­port and enable them.

According to the police, at approx­i­mate­ly 8:15 pm on Monday 17-year-old Casey Lake was fatal­ly shot dur­ing a con­fronta­tion with cops on Providence Lane.
The police report­ed that a home-made firearm and one round of ammu­ni­tion were recov­ered from Lake.
True to form, the Jamaica Observer went about report­ing the inci­dent the way they and oth­er media have always done, by padding the report­ing with quotes from so-called wit­ness­es who are always con­ve­nient­ly present dur­ing these encounters.

It is that biased ‑brain dead imbe­cil­ic anti-police report­ing which has giv­en rise to and nur­tured the ram­pant crim­i­nal­i­ty on the Island. http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​f​r​o​n​t​-​p​a​g​e​/​a​n​g​e​r​-​a​t​-​t​h​e​-​s​t​a​t​e​-​s​w​a​l​l​o​w​f​i​e​l​d​-​r​e​s​i​d​e​n​t​s​-​h​u​r​l​-​s​t​o​n​e​s​-​a​t​-​c​o​p​s​-​t​r​y​-​t​o​-​f​i​r​e​-​b​o​m​b​-​pol
The link above is their report­ing as fact, the hearsay which is designed to make saints out of crim­i­nals. I once again call on the Jamaican Government to scrap INDECOM and move with alacrity to dis­pense all funds ear­marked for INDECOM to the police in the fight against law­less­ness in this country.

But for the peri­od of Hugh Lawson Shearer’s lead­er­ship, Jamaica has been involved in a kind of law enforce­ment strat­e­gy which is equiv­a­lent to stand­ing on the left leg only, left hand hold­ing right leg from behind and right hand across the chest hold­ing the left ear.
For those of you who ever made a major boo­boo in the good old days in a Jamaican class­room, you will recall just how tedious to near impos­si­ble that form of pun­ish­ment can be. Unless of course, bad class­room behav­ior made you an expert.

Those who make pol­i­cy on the Island have sel­dom been any­thing but self-aggran­diz­ing pre­tenders, with over­in­flat­ed impres­sions of them­selves. As a con­se­quence, they have pre­ten­tious­ly and gra­tu­itous­ly opt­ed for poli­cies which have not been fit­ting for our sit­u­a­tion giv­en our spe­cial pro­cliv­i­ty for refus­ing to obey laws.

In many regards, the laws and poli­cies they put in place are so bla­tant­ly ridicu­lous that they have the oppo­site effect of what the orig­i­nal intent was. These kinds of mis­cues have forced skep­tics like me to ques­tion the motives of the pol­i­cy­mak­ers, some of whom are known criminals.

Both polit­i­cal par­ties are guilty of pussy­foot­ing with the rule of law, yet the infi­dels who run them make grand protes­ta­tions about their love of coun­try even as their leg­isla­tive actions argue otherwise.
Protestations about human rights in an envi­ron­ment of mur­der and may­hem by crim­i­nals run­ning roughshod over the pop­u­la­tion are incred­i­bly fraud­u­lent and misguided.
Shockingly, the polar­ized pop­u­la­tion, balka­nized into two com­pet­ing camps, is inca­pable of sep­a­rat­ing fact from fic­tion so the per­pet­u­a­tion of lies and decep­tion is the norm and those who speak truth becomes the enemy.

The bal­anc­ing act of which I speak is exem­pli­fied in the dia­bol­i­cal decep­tion which both polit­i­cal par­ties have per­pe­trat­ed on the coun­try. This they have done through a series of sleight of hand which cre­ates the illu­sion of doing the right thing through their mealy-mouthed sup­port for the rule of law.
Yet a clos­er look reveals a direct attempt to main­tain the sta­tus quo, a‑la the reten­tion and expan­sion of gar­risons as a means to gain­ing and hold­ing state power.

The main­te­nance of INDECOM and the Office of Public Defender at a cost of hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars each year are two exam­ples of that sleight of hand.
In the 70’s poor­ly armed mil­i­tants attacked police sta­tions and res­cued criminals(the police were even more poor­ly armed) they suf­fered no con­se­quence. In the 80’s, bet­ter armed, they attacked police sta­tions and killed offi­cers, there were no laws put in place as a deterrent.
In the 90’s incred­i­bly well armed, they sim­ply razed police sta­tions with auto­mat­ic gun­fire then burned them to the ground. (No laws were put in place as a deterrent).
In the 2000’s incred­i­bly well armed, well sup­port­ed, well-financed, well orga­nized, they chal­lenged the author­i­ty of the state to uphold the laws. We have the images of destruction.

Complicit, both the JLP and PNP col­lud­ed and con­spired to blame the mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces for doing exact­ly what they were sworn to do. Risking life and limb and in some cas­es mak­ing the ulti­mate sac­ri­fice, mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces did what soci­ety asked them to do.
Rather than hon­or their sac­ri­fices, both the PNP and JLP through a series of actions, not the least of which was a pop­py-show Kangaroo hear­ing head­ed by an elit­ist for­eign­er was insti­tut­ed to tar and feath­er the secu­ri­ty forces.
Rather than ensure that nev­er again could ordi­nary punks pick up weapons in any fash­ion to chal­lenge the author­i­ty of the state, apolo­gies and resti­tu­tion was the response.

The secu­ri­ty forces were repaid with ridicule and lies, they were maligned and worse of all had their integri­ty and func­tion called into ques­tion by a Bajan Colonialists who has his head so far up the Queen’s ass he still does not know slav­ery was abolished.
So as Swallowfield burns and molo­tov cock­tail bombs are lobbed at the Stadium police sta­tion, and as urban ter­ror­ists lay down bar­rages of heavy auto­mat­ic fire at the police, it is busi­ness as usu­al to those in Jamaica house.
Like the fire depart­ment which is nev­er able to save a burn­ing build­ing, only capa­ble of cool­ing down oper­a­tions, so too are our secu­ri­ty forces con­demned to remove bar­ri­cades and stay out of the way of the auto­mat­ic fire. After which the thugs go back to their homes as if noth­ing hap­pened, with no fear they will be held to account.

The dra­con­ian mea­sures insti­tut­ed by the sil­ly police high com­mand as a means to hold­ing offi­cers in the depart­ment is hav­ing the exact oppo­site effect, as I warned when they embarked on that folly.
We are reli­ably informed that this year will be a ban­ner year for attri­tion from the force. We will await the final num­bers before mak­ing too much hay of that but I stand by my statements.
This sit­u­a­tion is only going to get worse because as long as our coun­try has more safe­guards for crim­i­nal mur­der­ers than it does for the rule of law, the results are bound to skew the way Jamaica has been going.
Stay tuned.

Amber Guyger, the Dallas Police offi­cer who shot Botham Shem Jean in his own apart­ment, now claims Jean failed to fol­low her com­mands when she ille­gal­ly entered his apart­ment prompt­ing her to fire twice hit­ting him once in the tor­so killing him.

Guyger first claimed that she entered the apart­ment using her key, she now claims that the door to Botham Shem Jean’s apart­ment was ajar and so she entered believ­ing it was her apartment.
She said the apart­ment was in dark­ness and she was only able to see the fig­ure of Jean when she unhol­stered her weapon and ordered him to show his hands before fir­ing twice.

However, a neigh­bor of Jean’s has chal­lenged Amber Guyger’s sto­ry that mis­ter Jean’s apart­ment door was slight­ly ajar.
She report­ed­ly told police she heard Amber Guyger yelling for Botham Shem John to open the door upon which she opened fire killing him in the process.