On Saturday 4th July organizer Nicole Morson through Caribbean Lives Matter sought to bring awareness to the struggle for justice for Dominican sun of the soil Kenny Mitchel.
Mitchel was killed in Anguilla by an American tourist Scott Hapgood who was subsequently freed on bail and returned to the US promising to return for his court date.
Hapgood who did not appear for his scheduled court appearance on November 19th 2019, has yet to face justice for his actions.
The organizers of “Justice for Kenny” encourages all to sign the petition to help get extradition for Scott Hapgood to stand trial for the killing of Kenny Mitchel.
Photos courtesy Jaleel Grove
@MR DOMINICA. Dominicans look down on Haitians and believe they better than them. Do you believe Haitians are treated, in Dominica, as if all lives matter.
It is the apologists for Whitie who cannot accept their blackness, so they sing this phrase All Lives Matter. The NFL Commissioner, put out a statement acknowledging Black Life Matters. There are so many other high profile people and companies that have eventually begin to accept there is a problem with the dispensation of justice, all over the globe, yet you simply cannot acknowledge that Your Life Matters.
But I can understand your colonialized socialization, that you cannot get over what you Dominican socialization, that white women are pretty and black girls are just ugly and only to be used. I do feel sorry for Dominican who cannot accept that their life matters. Do you sincerely believe that if the criminal Scott Hapgood was a Caribbean national, that he would be free today?
Think brother, think!
What nonesense did I just read. Are you sure you read that before you posted it
Good luck in getting that man back to Anguilla to stand trial. The moment he was released on bail he became a free man. I don’t think he’ll ever go back to Anguilla on vacation either. People with money always, always think they’re above the law. He should’ve never been allowed to leave the Island. I sympathize with the family and friends of the deceased. No one deserves to die in this manner. God’s awake. KARMA is real. One can run but can’t hide.
No one should deny this man should be extradited for this death be it selfdefence or murder and the island being a British territory and he is American makes it a matter between these two countries but I have two questions #1 why was he granted bail and allowed to leave the island? #2why is this made part of what is going on in the U S A using the BLACK LIVES MATTER SLOGAN ? all lives matter and should be respected and weather it is a white man killing a black man in any part of the world or blacks being killed by blacks in Brooklyn or Dominica .I agree all lives matter
I am Kenny’s uncle living in Anguilla and I’ve decided to respond to your two posed questions. First of all, disappointing as it is, the Attorney General brought charges of manslaughter, not murder. Bail was first sought in the low court that morning. It was denied by an Anguillan magistrate who in his wisdom reasoned among other things, that Mr. Hapgood was a flight risk. Hapgood’s lawyer that same afternoon applied for bail in the high court. That foreign high court judge granted bail. To this day we can’t understand why. Secondly, what happened to Kenny is part and parcel of what is happening in the USA and other countries globally. During the recent Black Lives Matter marches in the USA, among the placards bearing the names of various black people who have been killed by whites, we saw placards bearing the name of Kenny Mitchel. Those people have realized the connection….that it is one and the same.