The lawyer who successfully argued that the detention of some men under SOE was unlawful shared with @djmillerJA this evening that his client was being held on an allegation that he killed a man who was very much alive. Let me repeat the police alleged a man was dead, who wasn’t
They held on to a man for this alleged dead man’s murder. The victim was very much alive & operating a car wash in Westmoreland. The police denied this to the tribunal and the tribunal sided with the police and the “perpetrator” held. IT. GETS. WORSE.
The crime officer for Westmoreland checks & proves that the “dead man” is very much live, and this information isn’t sent to the Tribunal. So a young man sits incarcerated for over 100 days, for a crime that wasn’t committed.
His life thrown into shambles, his baby mother said they had to sell the car they had, she just had a young baby when they held him. We continue to treat our poor black people less than! To be poor is a crime - LITERALLY inna JA!
This is how we can have men held in prison for over 40 years without trial. This is how #NoelChambers cases happen. And ain’t nobody gonna try explain how come? Hell, we still nuh resolve Mr. Chambers yet! #InjusticeSystem and we waah reduce crime? How ?
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