Dead and injured taken to KPH Dead and injured taken to KPH

[Karl]

Dead and injured taken to KPH
Looters strip West Queen's Street businesses
By COREY ROBINSON, Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com


Tuesday, May 25, 2010
CASUALTIES continue to roll in to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) this morning as the battle between the security forces and gunmen rages on in West Kingston.

Minutes ago, a male teenager as well as a police officer were taken into the Accident and Emergency unit with gunshot wounds.

The injured youngster was loaded onto a stretcher while the officer, apparently struck in his right leg, hopped onto a provided wheelchair.
Persons outside the hospital said as much as 30 bodies were earlier loaded from a police armoured truck. They said the persons were pronounced dead at KPH before being taken to the Maddens Funeral Home.

Meanwhile, gunshots continue to ring out in sections of West Kingston as well as near the intersection of Windward and South Camp roads
The Observer saw looters running amok on West Queen’s Street, completely clearing out stores on the roadway.

No looting was observed on King or Orange streets, where there are wholesales and other businesses. The Observer is unable to move to the other areas because of roadblocks.


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[Karl]

Well if that report is correct Golding's

reference to the security forces "visit" to Tivoli in 2001 that left 27 persons dead as terrible atrocities

Take in ‘Dudus’- Police tell lawyers to turn over Tivoli strongman

By Stabroek staff | May 23, 2010 in Regional News

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(Jamaica Observer) The police on Friday appealed to the lawyers retained by Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke to take him to the nearest police station in order for the extradition warrant against him to be executed.


The Government, after several months of inaction, on Tuesday finally signed the order for extradition proceedings against Coke — wanted in the US to answer drug and gun trafficking charges — to begin.


Government Senator Tom Tavares-Finson, who had been representing Coke since the US issued the extradition request last August, Tuesday withdrew from the legal team and attorney Don Foote was retained as the lead attorney.


Foote on Friday appeared in court in an
attempt to block the extradition of his client. That case is scheduled to be heard on May 31. But the attorney was adamant that Coke would not surrender to the police, saying it was not a consideration at this time because his application for Judicial Review is before the court.


“I will now have to advise my client as to the fact that the matter has started,” the lawyer added.


Coke is seeking a Judicial Review of the decision by Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne, giving the authority to proceed with extradition proceedings against him.


The case before the Supreme Court does not prevent the police from executing the arrest warrant on Coke.


Police, in the meantime, have warned residents of Tivoli Gardens — the power base of Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s West Kingston constituency — to remove barricades erected around the main entry points and across roadways in the community, as well as in the neighbouring Denham Town.


“…It is a breach of the law to erect barricades which impede the movement of the security forces during the lawful performance of their duties,” the police high command warned. “Law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from the presence of the security forces, as the police intend to conduct our operations in a professional manner in accordance with the law and in the interest of all concerned,” the statement said.


On Friday night, that message was reinforced by Prime Minister Bruce Golding, who is also the member of parliament for West Kingston, the constituency in which Tivoli Gardens is located.


In a news release from the Office of the Prime Minister, Golding urged his constituents to co-operate with the security forces in the lawful execution of their duties.


“I have been assured that the security forces are determined to carry out their duties in a professional manner in order to prevent any recurrence of the terrible atrocities that occurred in 2001,” Golding said.


His reference was to the three-day stand-off between the security forces and gunmen in July 2001 which resulted in the deaths of 27 people, among them a policeman and a soldier.

[MdmeX]

Why yuh suh cantakarous

[Karl]

Why yuh suh cantakarous

...not as much as I wanted to be. I wanted to post after the quote that Likle Brucie will have to scramble to find other adjectives as his "terrible atrocities", used in 2001, needs strengthening when his "nine months set up of the people of Tivoli and the wider Jamaica" and his followed "commanded assault" has the 27 figure dead in 2001 exceeded even as the final body count is not yet in.

[Mosiah]

frigga! maybe now we can stop looking at those police actions as politically motivated.

[Assasin]

It makes a difference if them a criminal or innocent people?