Jamaican Don of All Dons: Jim Brown (Lester Lloyd Coke) | Shower Posse
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Before Dudus, there was Jim Brown.
Lester Lloyd Coke, known as Jim Brown, was the Tivoli Gardens area leader whom court-linked testimony later described as the Jamaican leader of the Shower Posse. The United States sought his extradition. In February 1992, while he was still in Jamaica awaiting that extradition, he died in a fire at the General Penitentiary in Kingston, before any American court could test the case against him.
In Episode 1 of Jamaican Don of All Dons, we ask what his power was actually made of: Tivoli Gardens, the Shower Posse, the Coke family succession, and a mural that still called him "Don of Dons." There are no scores and no verdict here, only the evidence for why his name belongs in the conversation.
Allegations are presented as allegations. Unless the episode says a court found something, nothing in it is a court finding.
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