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Coke led the Shower Posse from Kingston while Vivian Blake, who was the other of the two leading figures in the gang, [2] became the gang's most senior member in the United States. [13] According to Metro-Dade Police Department Sergeant Kevin Dougherty, who investigated Coke: "It seemed like Miami was their secondary base of operations". [14]
Jamaican posses originated in the slums of Kingston as gangs of enforcers for the Jamaica Labour Party, led by Edward Seaga, and the rival People's National Party, headed by Michael Manley. [3] The term "posse" was adopted from Hollywood Western films, which were popular in Kingston and other impoverished areas in Jamaica.
Lester Lloyd Coke, commonly known as Jim Brown, [2] was a Jamaican drug lord and the founder of the Shower Posse, a gang based out of the Tivoli Gardens [3] garrison community in West Kingston. Coke was identified by the Netflix documentary ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff ? as present and a party to the shooting of Bob Marley on 3 December 1976.
The Jamaican political conflict is a long-standing feud between right-wing and left-wing elements in the country, often exploding into violence. The Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) have fought for control of the island for years and the rivalry has encouraged urban warfare in Kingston.
Claude Massop (12 May 1947 – 4 February 1979) was the leader and strongman of the Phoenix Gang, later renamed the Shower Posse, belonging to Tivoli Gardens, Wellington Street, Rema, Denham Town and the surrounding areas of West Kingston, Jamaica.
Yardie gangs or Jamaican "posses" are involved in a wide array of criminal activity depending on their location, ranging from political corruption, political violence, and assassination in Jamaica to drug trafficking and gang violence in the US, Canada, and UK.
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island.
Fletchers Land, sometimes written as Fletcher's Land, is a neighborhood in downtown Kingston, Jamaica. [1] The area, served by the Central Kingston Police Division, [2] has a reputation for being dangerous. [3] The no longer active Land Raiders Gang emerged in Fletchers Land. [3] [when?]