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Human Rights·Protests

Jamaican police officer charged with murder after shooting protester

Friday, 5 June 2026, 06:17 · 1 min read

A Jamaican police officer has been charged with murder after CCTV footage showed him shooting a 45-year-old woman, Latoya "Buju" Bulgin, whose vehicle had stopped at the roadside during a protest in Granville, St James, on 17 May. Constable Andrew Wilson appeared in court on Wednesday and was denied bail, in what authorities described as a rare prosecution of a police officer for a fatal shooting. The killing — which came during demonstrations over an earlier police shooting — has intensified calls from human rights groups and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for stronger accountability measures, including body-worn cameras, amid reports of 140 fatal police shootings in Jamaica so far this year.

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The GuardianJamaican police officer charged with murder after woman shot during protest ↗︎
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