The Jamaican government must take immediate action...

The Jamaican government must take immediate action to challenge impunity for those who kill - be they police or civilians, Amnesty International said.
The statement followed the ruling by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that the police officers who are alleged to have killed Patrick Genius with bullets to the back of his head acted in self-defence and should not face criminal trial. This was despite clear and compelling circumstantial and forensic evidence to the contrary, and an inquest verdict that those involved should be held criminally responsible.
An internationally renowned pathologist who reviewed the forensic evidence concluded that the killing "bore the classic hallmarks of execution - with deliberate incapacitation followed by killing".
Despite having one of the highest rates of extrajudicial execution of civilians by members of the security forces in the world, police and army officers are virtually never brought to justice for such killings.