Ah boy.......here we go again.....somebody's good son innocently shot by the police. A young man smashed my car window in the food store yard to take a bag that only contained books, but I was surprised how clean cut and well dressed he was. Somebody's good son, of course.

Once again, what has RBPF done with the body cams?

Usually after a story like this appears in the media shots start to ring out again and more persons are killed. But it is no doubt that all matters of homicide should be thoroughly investigated even those involving the police. What stopped unjustified killings by police with our neighbors to the north was when society decided that they will no longer sit back and let their young men be killed by police. And so not the police are more accountable and less willing to use deadly force in even a simple traffic stop. There are agencies of other countries broadcasting that theire are fiftysix gangs operating in The Bahamas and pose a threat of becoming terrorists. They also falsely state that many young men are involved in drug trafficking and have the potential to become drug cartels. But When you drive around the streets of New Providence where do you see 56 gangs? Everyone is struggling to get food to eat and keep a roof over their heads, or at least part of it, and young men will tell you they are not into ‘no hand vibe.’ But these agencies armed with false information encourage the police to attack and assault the young men and the violence and killings escalate from there... just watch for yourselves.

Ugh! I can't even stand such an Anti-American such as you.

The facts are obvious, we SOLD out to drug lords in the 80's, Bahamians joined up to deal with drugs, the police is neglected and doesn't care about them so we have about 52 gangs. The young Bahamians chose to sacrifice their lives for thug life. What did that get them?! 3,000 Bahamians dead and the US and the Bahamas should had taken action.

When China finds CIA agents doing what they are doing in the Bahamas and the Caribbean they execute them by firing squad, no questions asked.. but our (senior) police still join forces with them to kill our young men.. The Bible calls them ‘dumb DOGS that refuse to bark’. They take advantage of the widows and the fatherless.

It's all the Bahamian's fault, can't you even learn? Stop blaming Americans. Blame ourselves! No young person would even get a job here anymore, all they want is to be a drug lord. The Chinese would be sanctioned like North Korea if they tried something here. The US and the UK is our allies, stop burning the bridge!

“He was never arrested for any **grievous** crimes,..."
Love it! Does this mean that he has been arrested before?

‘Does it mean he has been arrested before?’ Maybe but what is the revelance? Do you know that the police, assisted by defense force officers, go into certain areas of New Providence and lock up every young male they see? They keep them locked up for 48 hours verbally and physically abusing them and refusing to allow anyone to see them. Some of these young men have good jobs that they lose because of the s type of police action. Others are high school or college students. Some have fake or trump up charges put on them that they have to spend years going back and forth to court to defend. This type of police action have destroyed more young men and caused them to turn anti social than any gang in the country. And the senior police who order this type action needs to be investigated, and jailed.

It does not matter what this man has done previously. What matters is whether the police acted in accordance with the law. The only way for this to occur is for the coroners court to actual do its job. Yes crime is bad over here, but we can't allow our police force to act outside of the laws of the land as this just adds to crime. The family deserve to know what happened, why and if it was lawful. Until the court rules we can only speculate.

I think we can all appreciate that your history follows you - forever. I still get teased about the dumb shit I did in primary school. Your character is what counts. The bad boys in the neighborhood growing up are still 'those bad boys' and the older generation will always keep an eye on them. IF this guy had a history with police then the police would certainly be suspicious of him every time they see him. Maybe he was eating food, maybe he was making a drug deal. I usually sway more to the police side cause most parents have no idea what their kids are up to.
Police brutality kept me and many of my friends in line when we were teenagers. No one wanted to get driven to the pine barrens for a good ass kicking and then have to hitch a ride home.

I don't disagree that his past would make the police suspicious of him. What i meant was his past should not be the justification of his shooting. The police have to act in a lawful way. If that was the case with this shooting then so be it.