ANGRY crowds blocked roads and hurled abuse at the police on North Street in Central Kingston last night as they protested yesterday’s killing, by cops, of a driver who lived in the community. And late last night, blockages were also mounted in front of the Spanish Town Hospital where the cabbie’s body was taken.

The shooting of Andrew Wilson, 23, of Pryce Lane, on the Old Harbour toll road, had also sparked a demonstration at the Ferry police station in St Catherine, where the policeman who allegedly shot Wilson was stationed.

Last night the police announced that the corporal who was involved in the incident had been taken off front-line duty and that the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) had begun a probe into the incident.

Earlier, about 150 people, who had blocked a section of North Street, near Kingston College, called out for justice and claimed that Wilson had been shot in cold blood.

A heavy police contingent removed the roadblocks. There were no clashes.

Persons who claimed to be eyewitnesses to Wilson’s killing said he was travelling towards Kingston from Birds’ Hill, Clarendon when cops signalled him to stop. He disobeyed the order, witnesses said, and lawmen chased him a few feet until he stopped the car and got out with his hands in the air.

It was then that the police corporal shot Wilson, eyewitnesses said.

Wilson, ironically, was headed back to Kingston after attending the funeral of a taxi operator who had been stabbed to death on October 6 in Franklyn Town during an altercation with another motorist.