JAMAICAN GANGSTER: Christopher "Dudus" Coke — The Day the Jamaican Military Invaded Tivoli Gardens

Christopher “Dudus” Coke was called many things — kingpin, fugitive, community leader, and President of Tivoli Gardens. But in 2010, one extradition request turned West Kingston into a battlefield and exposed the deadly connection between Jamaican garrison politics, organized crime, and state power.

In this full episode of Jamaican Gangster, we trace the rise of Dudus Coke from the legacy of his father, Lester “Jim Brown” Coke, to the creation of the Presidential Click, the political protection surrounding Tivoli Gardens, the failed extradition standoff, and the 2010 Tivoli Incursion that left 69 civilians dead and changed Kingston forever.

This is the story of how one man became more powerful than the institutions around him — how a community came to see him as protector, provider, and president — and how the battle to remove him left scars Jamaica is still living with today.

From the Shower Posse to the JLP, from Bruce Golding’s political crisis to the military operation inside Tivoli Gardens, this documentary-style true crime story explores the rise, reign, escape, capture, and sentencing of Christopher “Dudus” Coke — and the ending Kingston never fully recovered from.