Did you mean misinformation as opposed to ‘disinformation ?’ When you attempt to criticize or discredit someone be al least halfway decently accurate. As for the videos, since you don’t know which ones I saw, you don’t know if they are the same they claim were discredited . There were numerous videos posted, both by the victims and by other guests at the resort where the alleged incident happened. And as for rape kits, dude please! The victims always maintained that they NEVER used rape test kits so there was consequently znOBrspe kits for the police to not use. Yes we are supposed to grow wiser with age, not ‘disintelligent !’ And the nurse to make such a remark was probably a ‘ hired hand’ like in a ‘yes sir massa sir movie!’

Anything to put this country in the media as crime infested and unsafe. Then once the story makes the headlines and international news are does they intended damage. The victim fades away. Hopefully she used a rape test kit!!!

Is this the wrong headline or the wrong story because there’s definitely ba mismatch. Nothing about the ‘mother’s tearful testimony.’ But the question will be raised ‘ is an off duty police officer ever off duty?’ To say was the off duty officer acting as a police officer or a private citizen when he chased the teen robber into adjoining property and shot him dead. Because as an officer he has a right to do this. But as an ordinary citizen he only has the right to defend himself and if the culprit is seen to be fleeing and no longer a threat.. the questions arise. But as an officer he has the right to persue a criminal ( suspect) and to disarm him and to apprehend and dtetain him. And that’s why commenting on these matters are not supposed to happen until the trial is completed

‘Something sexual happened’ is like say ‘it rained in Freeport. We don’t know when and we don’t know where, but it rained. But on the other hand, someone may have been malicious and wet the road to make it appear as if it rained.’ And if something ‘sexual’ happened to the two accusers and you have ni grounds to prosecute except their word, then on what grounds will you be prosecuting the accused. Especially when there’s video of the two women fraternizing with each other in the water. And video of them beating themselves up on top of a bar. Unless there’s rape kit evidence or an eyewitness, stop playing with these men lives and tickling the emotions of itching ears.

Well you have to back that up a little bit first. You must ask the question ‘why was Toussaint charged either manslaughter and not murder?’ And the answer is that he did not set out to kill Omar. Murder was not his intention. The convicted killer admitted and the police report confirms that there was a violent confrontation between the killer and the victim and the fight became deadly. And, in a panic, the killer engaged a third person, who because of his age and relationship to the killer may have not known he was committing a crime by helping to dispose of a dead body.
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. So now the accused is charged with manslaughter. Meaning it was not his intention to take a life. So the maximum penalty for manslaughter is 30 years, that being the worse of the worse. So now tge matter goes to trial, running the risk that the accused can be found not guilty. But assuming he is convicted, the judge must now set his sentencing within the parameters of 30 years being maximum. He must also take other factors into consideration, like this being the boys first run/in with the law and also weigh the relationship between the accused and the victim. And after this and a long drawn out revealing trial, the sentence can still be around 18 years and definitely not more than 20. So is it really worth going to trial?

May his soul finally Rest In Peace

You must understand that both sciences of politics and law are at play in this unfortunate scenario. The fact that a family lost a loved one who showed so much great signs of success is , unfortunately, only secondary. And the pain and emotions will probably last longer than the sentence tge accused killer got and the fact that his alleged accomplice ( after the fact) is still a fugitive from Justice.
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. When an accused person agrees to plea bargain and plead ‘guilty’ in a case of manslaughter, this automatically causes his maximum sentence to be reduced by about 1/3 so if the maximum sentence for manslaughter is 30 years, then the maximum in this case is now 20 years. Then the court will also take other factors into consideration. The fact that it is the accused first crime of record, the circumstances under which the crime was committed, though brutal in the face of it, it was not premeditated, but a crime of passion. Hence the fifteen year sentence. And it is more likely that the defense lawyers were trying to get ten.

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And as for the politics of the matter. It is already public knowledge that at least two high profile persons were on the list of suspects of who may have committed the crime. And some of the evidence may be of a very personal if not intimate nature. So the decision to bargain for a plea deal may not only be to avoid embarrassing moments in a trial but some of the evidence and a tearful,emotional, apologetic testimony from the accused can lead to a hung jury or even a not guilty verdict. Then there will have to be a retrial and this can easily lead to a miscarriage of justice or even a ‘ no accused to prosecute if he is granted bail and is being electronically monitored. Hence the saying ‘law has no emotion. Just cold hard evidence.’ And yes tge still grieving family’s pain is real and so is their disappointment in the ‘slap on the wrist’ sentence.

Recent MASS shooting in Philadelphia during muslims celebration. Numerous people shit but non fatal ( yet). but all five shooters are minors. Some as young as fifteen! The Bible says ‘and violence in the earth shall increase in the last days..’

The suggestion that by Jamaicaproud that this be required reading at UB and around the Caribbean is purely racist and has no purposeful foundation. How many 17 y/o have been caught up in armed robberies or even engaging in gunfights with police. What would’ve been more productive is if police would have tried to find where the 16 y/o got the gun and ammunition with which he engaged tge police in a gunfight or even attempted to commit an armed robbery

On reading the article one will ask ‘well if the young thug surrendered to police even before he was shot and wounded and after he was shit before being shot fatally by the officer, then why did the officer still take his life? In gunfights they do allow the loser to surrender without being killed. But one must also go back to the words of the father of the 17 y/o who spoke after he was killed and said he tried talking to his son on numerous occasions and telling him to change his life but the boy just would not listen.
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Then when watching the report where parents of a 15 y/plo, who took a gun to school and murdered five of his school mates. The parents, both mom and dad were each charged 10-15 years as accessories to five counts of murder. Unlike the father in this case who said he ‘talked’ to his son and tried to steer him in the right direction ( the boy wouldn’t listen). These parents bought their son a handgun for his birthday, took him to a gun range for his birthday and taught him how to shoot tge weapon. In addition, they carelessly left the weapon lying around the home, unlocked and unsecured. And so in that instance a 10-15 year jail sentence on each parent is justified. And on those grounds, the accomplice of the 17 year old shooter be charged as an accessory to murder. Except then the police officer may also have to be charged