Cold Blooded Murder - Families Of Trinidadian Men Assassinated In U.S. Boat Strike Sue

Cold Blooded Murder - Families Of Trinidadian Men Assassinated In U.S. Boat Strike Sue

Jan. 30, 2026

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The families of two men from Trinidad murdered in an October, U.S. missile strike in the Caribbean are suing the Donald Trump administration for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing.

The families of 26-year-old Chad Joseph and 41-year-old Rishi Samaroo say the two men were returning home from fishing and farming in Venezuela, not smuggling drugs as Donald Trump has claimed without evidence.

Four others on the same boat were also murdered. In all, at least 125 people have been murdered in the unprecedented United States, bombings of civilian boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.

It's "the latest example of Donald Trump's total mockery of, contempt for the post World World II human rights consensus, where nations are constrained by law and not mere might," says attorney Baher Azmy, who is representing the Joseph and Samaroo families in their lawsuit.

He calls their deaths "killings for sport and spectacle," adding that they are part of a wider pattern of federal overreach that can be seen in the administration's domestic crackdown on protesters and journalists. Azmy warns that the excessive use of force by federal agents in Minneapolis may be "a dry run" for "deployment of troops during elections."

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