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Jamaican posses, often referred to simply as posses, are a loose coalition of Jamaican gangs, based predominantly in Kingston, Montego Bay, London, New York City and Toronto, first being involved in drugs and arms trafficking in the early 1980s.
Shower Posse is a Jamaican gang, started by Lester Lloyd Coke, which is involved in drug and arms smuggling. Its home is in Tivoli Gardens in Jamaica. It has several North American branches. The North American branches were first founded by Vivian Blake in the Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario. [1]
Christopher Michael Coke was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1969, the youngest son of Lester Lloyd Coke and Patricia Halliburton.He had an older sister and brother. His father Lester Coke, who was also known as "Jim Brown", was the founder of a violent drug gang called the Shower Posse.
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.
Downtown Posse – A Montreal Crip gang in Little Burgundy. Mostly of Jamaican origin. [78] Jamaican posse – Has a significant base of operations in the city of Toronto; Shower Posse – Operates in the Canadian province of Ontario; Uptown Posse – A Montreal Blood gang in Cote-des-Neiges. Mostly of Afroamerican and Jamaican origin. [78]
The gang gained traction due to material support from the CIA, which would give arms to gangsters supportive of the Jamaican Labour Party in the Jamaican political conflict, such as Shower Posse. After his father's mysterious death in the 1990s, Christopher Coke took over the leadership of Shower Posse and its political garrison in Tivoli Gardens.
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.
Vivian Blake (11 May 1956 – 21 March 2010) [1] [2] was a Jamaican drug kingpin who founded and operated the American operations of the Jamaican Shower Posse. Background [ edit ]