Other incriminating evidence was removed or contaminated. Eyewitnesses report blood being washed away. Common sense dictates, therefore, that it is not likely that any of these police murderers will be charged much less convicted. Jamaican human rights organizations cannot therefore be content with assurance from the government that they are allowing due process to go forward. It must not be forgotten that over the years the state has carefully perfected the art of protecting extrajudicial police killings.
Due process is a corrupted process.
The minister of national security publicly gave the police the green light to kill those who fire at the police. The prime minister and the minister of national security probably knew of the police commissioner's plan to deal with those who had supposedly killed the Above Rocks policeman. The ruling People's National Party has begun its campaign to win the next elections. They have already indicated that human rights will not be an issue. Though the opposition leader has indicated support for the Amnesty International report, he has yet to state what he intends to do about police killings.