Michael Troupe, the leader of the People’s National Party’s (PNP) minority in the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC), on Thursday angered his colleagues on the opposite side when he blamed recent police killings in his Granville division on Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness' 'meet a judge or meet your maker' utterance in 2025.

Speaking during the monthly meeting of the StJMC, Troupe referenced the January 1 deaths of four-year-old Romaine Bowman, and the May 10 killing of a 17-year-old boy, questioning their justification, while calling for Holness to retract his comment from a year ago.

"I am here mourning for the Granville division, because in January, three persons died by the hands of the police, and on Mother's Day, a 17-year-old boy was shot by the police,” said Troupe. “I am saying that unless the prime minister goes back and retracts the statement of 'meeting your maker or meeting the judge’, we are not going to stop killings in Jamaica because the young men are not allowed to go and meet the judge."