IN JAMAICA: Shooting victim’s sister still loves the police.......Nakiea Jackson, 27, was killed under controversial circumstances.

DESPITE the deep emotional scars that have been inflicted on her psyche since the death of her brother at the hands of the police on Monday, Shackelia Jackson-Thomas still holds love in her heart for members of the constabulary.

Nakiea Jackson, 27, was killed under controversial circumstances, and irate residents of the Orange Villa community in downtown Kingston mounted two fiery protests on Monday and Tuesday to voice their disgust at what they describe as a cold-blooded and senseless act.

JACKSON-THOMAS... it was like a
 Nobel Peace Prize moment.
 (OBSERVER FILE PHOTO)

But Jackson-Thomas said that she realised that she still holds the image of the force in high esteem when a cop visited her on Friday and broke down crying on her shoulder in grief at Jackson's killing.

"When he drove up, he gave me an embrace and I returned the embrace. He started sobbing. Although I have been so strong I felt the tears running down my cheek. I said to him he has to be strong because we need people like him to remain in the force because they do face a fight. It was like a Nobel Peace Prize moment," Jackson-Thomas told the Jamaica Observer. more