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Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice Mickel Jackson
An interaction between members of the police force and an 11 year old Oracabessa Primary School boy, captured on video, has drawn the ire of lobby group Jamaicans for Justice.
JFJ has called for the Police Commissioner to provide a thorough account of the incident that saw the primary school student being treated roughly by lawmen during a routine traffic stop involving the boy's father.
Executive Director of JFJ Mickel Jackson has the incident portrayed in the video as very disturbing, noting that "it appears that the police at one point knelt in the chest of the child."
"I don't think it can get more barbaric than what we saw," she added.
Stressing that this was an 11 year-old child, "standing against five armed members of the security forces," she invited the Jamaican public to think of the long term impact this incident will have on the boy and his sister who was there as well.
Furthermore, Ms Jackson said, silence on the part of the police cannot be the response to the incident, stressing that "silence for us signals lack of accountability... lack of transparency... police impunity."
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