Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the sanctions were evidence that the United States had taken a tough stance against rights abusers. The United States announced travel and other sanctions on Thursday against six Jamaicans who were part of the controversial Reneto Adams-led Crime Management Unit that was criticised as a trigger-happy police squad that committed multiple extrajudicial killings. The State Department revealed that the six - Adams, Devon Orlando Bernard, Patrick Anthony Coke, Shayne St Aubyn Lyons, Leford Gordon, and Roderick Anthony Collier - were targeted by Washington "for their involvement in gross violations in human rights in Jamaica", citing the extrajudicial killings of four people on May 7, 2003.