IN JAMAICA: “The doctor at the hospital told us that the first shot crippled him. He was shot in the back,” by poilceman.....IRATE residents of Orange Villa in downtown Kingston Orange Villa residents want audience with PM over killing of man— angered by the police killing of a man in the community

Nakiea Jackson

IRATE residents of Orange Villa in downtown Kingston — angered by the

police killing of a man in the community — have vowed to keep

protesting until they are given audience by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, National Security Minister Peter Bunting and Police Commissioner Owen Ellington.

For two consecutive days the residents mounted fiery roadblocks on

busy Orange Street to protest the shooting of 27-year-old Nakiea

Jackson on Monday afternoon. “Somebody have to come. We want higher

hierarchy.

The fiery roadblock mounted by
irate residents of Orange Villa in
 Kingston, yesterday.
 (PHOTOS: MICHAEL GORDON)

We nuh want superintendent. We nah take nuh chat from dem,” one angry

protester shouted. Jackson was shot and killed by police in his cook

shop. The police reported that they were on patrol in the area when

Shackelia Jackson (right), sister of the
 Nakiea Jackson, makes a point to Deputy
Superintendent Percival Anderson, crime
officer for the Kingston Central Police Division,
as head of the division’s Community Safety
and Security Branch, Deputy Superintendent
 Lena McBean, looks on.

they accosted a man who pointed a gun at them. However, the residents have accused the police of lying. more