October 26, 2015
TIVOLI ENQUIRY: Superintendent says women forced to protest for Dudus
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Superintendent Arthur Brown today testified at the Tivoli Enquiry, that the women who protested in favour of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke in May 2010 were not there of their own free will.
Brown, who was in charge of the Western Kingston Police Division, testified that the police received information that the women were forced out of their homes by gunmen, who gave them white T-shirts to demonstrate in along Spanish Town Road.
“It was clear the women were under stress,” he added.
The senior cop also testified that men were at the back of the crowd with guns.
The demonstration occurred on May 2010 and the women chanted that they were willing to die for Dudus while carrying placards with pro-Coke slogans.
Paul Henry
