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Angry residents yesterday blocked sections of Waltham Park Road and Maxfield Avenue in Kingston, to protest the police shooting of ‘Machine Man’ (real name – Dave Sterling), who was reportedly a community enforcer / area don.

The official police report states that Machine Man was shot by officers when he pulled a gun on members of a police patrol that was travelling along Collie Smith Drive in Trench Town just after 9:00 in the morning. Two men who were travelling with him in a Toyota Corolla motor car were arrested, and a .45 semi-automatic pistol seized.

Residents are protesting however, stating that Machine Man was on his way home after reporting to the Denham Town Police Station (in fulfillment of the terms of his bail for a murder charge), but in the vicinity of the Tony Spaulding Sports Complex on Collie Smith Drive, he was stopped by the police. They claim the police then opened fire, killing him in cold blood.

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