Rosalie Hamilton, councillor for the Rae Town division in Kingston Central, has pushed back at concerns that the local police were not invited to a recent meeting she hosted to broker a truce between warring factions in the area.
Speaking with The Gleaner on Sunday, Hamilton said there had been ongoing clashes among gangsters in Spoilers, Tel Aviv, and Franklyn Town, but since last week’s meeting, there has been limited gun violence.
“Before the meeting, we did the groundwork in meeting with them and telling them that them born and grow together and ‘a stupidness unnu a gwaan wid’, and di man dem decide seh dem nah mek nuh more things happen,” the councillor said.
Hamilton insisted that she could not invite cops to such a meeting and did not mean to slight the police.
Hamilton said that after the meeting, the men, in a show of unity, marched through the streets of the various communities, surprising many residents.
