Reneto Adams
Reneto DeCordova Adams, one of Jamaica’s most feared crime-fighters of all time, says Jamaicans should accept the not guilty verdict that was handed down by the Supreme Court in relation to the murder cases against him and other police personnel that arose out of the fatal shooting of four persons in Kraal district, Clarendon in 2003.
The US State Department appeared to have been referencing to the incident in Kraal district, where members of the Adams-led Crime Management Unit (CMU) were implicated in the controversial killings of two women and two men.
The deceased were identified as 45-year-old Angela Richards, 38-year-old Ferris Lewena Thompson, Matthew James, and a man known only as Renegade .
Jamaica’s national security establishment is now grappling with how to deal with four serving policemen who have been sanctioned by a “hypocritical” lame-duck Trump administration for alleged “gross violations in human rights”.
“I’m searching and trying to understand why now; why almost two decades later,” a senior official in the Holness administration said of the US imposing the entry block and other sanctions on the six men and their immediate families over the 2003 incident in Kraal, Clarendon, that left four civilians dead.
“Visas are cancelled all the time, but we’ve hardly ever seen something quite like this where the law is invoked. It must mean something. What? Should current officers in the JCF (Jamaica Constabulary Force) and the army be worried if they are linked to any other controversial shootings?”
Retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams has described as barbaric and an insult, the decision by the United States authorities to ban his family members from travelling to that North American country.
At the same time, Adams says the United States decision to impose sanctions on him to enter the country has not shaken his resolve and his high morals that he has maintained over the years. For me, I m alright. I ve never been fond of America. I have a visa going 50 years plus and I have never gone to the United States other than about three times and in total, it has not reached staying there for a month, the former tough-talking cop told
Reneto Adams
Former tough-talking and feared Senior Superintendent of Police, the controversial Reneto DeCordova Adams, and five other cops who were part of the now -disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), along with their immediate family members, have been banned from entering the United States.
The former cops are among 17 officials and family members of foreign governments who have been blacklisted for what United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has described as “gross violations of human rights”.
The Jamaicans make up the majority of those on the banned list.
The information was released on Thursday by the United States Department of State to coincide with the observance of World Human Rights Day.
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Reneto Adams, who led the JCF s Crime Management Unit, is one of six former cops being sanctioned by the Unites States.
The US State Department has announced travel and other sanctions against six former members of the now disbanded Crime Management Unit as well as their immediate family members.
According to a statement on Thursday from Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, the six Jamaicans were among 17 individuals from various countries who have been sanctioned.
The State Department announced the public designation of Devon Orlando Bernard, Reneto Decordova Adams, Patrick Anthony Coke, Shayne St. Aubyn Lyons, Leford Gordon, and Roderick Anthony Collier.