These are Island Style police officers - they are amazing, everywhere you go in the islands. They've been facing some heat ever since they rescued some homos from an angry mob:
Three men trapped by anti-gay Jamaican mob
published Friday, February 16, 2007
Three men branded as gay were rescued by police after being confined inside a pharmacy in St. Andrew, Jamaica, for an hour, the Jamaica Observer reported Thursday. The 2,000-person mob cornered the trio into the Monarch Pharmacy in Tropical Square.
When police arrived, the group was resistant, the Observer reported. When authorities attempted to extricate the three from the pharmacy to a police vehicle, one of the men was hit in the back of the head with a rock thrown from the crowd. Police were forced to use tear gas to disperse the angry, shouting mob, which included children.
Under Jamaican law, a person can be sentenced for up to nine years if caught having consensual gay sex. Gay rights groups have long branded the island nation as anti-gay.
Jamaica Star columnist Leighton Levy praised the police response and expressed relief that the men were not injured. "The last thing we needed was for a mob to be beating three suspected homosexuals perhaps to death -- not with the Cricket World Cup less than a month away," Levy wrote.
But "Jamaica has lost its way if men think they can openly flaunt being gay without any consequences," a woman told the Observer. "We don't want that kind of open gay life in this country." (The Advocate)
There were more pictures, but it's just like lots of Island Style-dressed people standing around outside a pharmacy. Just go down to the Promenade tomorrow afternoon and you'll get the idea.
Tough break, Misters Police Officers.
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