Last Thursday – International Human Rights Day 2020, and a day after International Anti-Corruption Day – the government of United States President Donald Trump announced travel and other sanctions against six present and past Jamaican policemen who were part of the controversial Reneto Adams-led Crime Management Unit (CMU). According to The Gleaner of December 11, 2020, the CMU was criticised as a “trigger-happy police squad that committed multiple extrajudicial killings”, and the State Department revealed that the six were targeted by Washington for their involvement in gross violations in human rights in Jamaica”, citing the extrajudicial killings of four people – two men and two women – on May 7, 2003 at Kraal in Clarendon.