Federal Monitor Finds Cleveland Police Nearly Four Times More Likely to Stop Black Drivers, in city controlled by elite white liberals

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From [HERE] Cleveland Police disproportionately stop, search and arrest Black Clevelanders compared to other races, according to a new assessment from the monitor overseeing the police consent decree.

“Citywide, Black drivers are stopped by police at nearly twice (1.97 or 197%) the rate you would expect based on their share of the driving population—making up 62.7% of traffic stops but only 31.8% of drivers,” the monitor, Christine Cole, wrote, adding that white drivers make up 31% of stops and 59% of drivers. “Black drivers are more than 3.7 times as likely as White drivers to be stopped by Cleveland police.”

The assessment additionally found Black people were more likely to be searched and more likely to be arrested after a stop.

The monitoring team analyzed documentation from all stops in 2024 and closely scrutinized the reasoning for stops. Subsequent searches or arrests in 376 traffic stops and 255 investigatory stops were also reviewed. [MORE]

San Bernardino DA Declines to Charge Cop who Struck a White Man 16 Times with his Baton, Claims Unprovoked Attack was Valid Violence

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From [HERE] The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has cleared a San Bernardino police officer of criminal wrongdoing after he struck a man 16 times with his baton during the videotaped arrest of a Crestline man in 2024.

Officer Javier Chavez’s “use of force was objectively reasonable and not excessive. It was therefore lawful,” said the DA’s 19-page report, which was released Tuesday, Dec. 2.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that “Reasonableness is an objective analysis and must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight. It is also highly deferential to the police officer’s need to protect himself and others.”

Investigators reached their conclusion by reviewing audio and video recordings and written police reports. Investigators did not interview the officers, the suspect or witnesses, the DA’s report said.

That investigation was separate from the internal probe by the Police Department, which determined that Chavez violated department policy. Chavez was suspended and returned to patrol duty after additional training, Chief Darren Goodman said. Chavez was not disciplined for using excessive force, but for something else related to the investigation that Goodman said he could not disclose because it is a personnel matter, Goodman said.

The suspect, Billy Lee Hill, 39, has filed a lawsuit against the city and the three officers he encountered the night of June 6, 2024. Hill alleged excessive force and other civil rights violations. The city, in its response filed with the court, denied the allegations. A mediation session has been scheduled for Dec. 8. [MORE]

Honduras Plunges Into Turmoil as Electoral Official Alleges “Monumental Fraud:” Trump’s Threats to Cut Aid and Pardon of a Convicted Drug Trafficker Manipulated Honduras' presidential election

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From [HERE] and [HERE] Days removed from Sunday’s presidential vote, and still without a clear winner, Honduras’s post-election crisis became more contentious after a member of the country’s electoral authority denounced “monumental electoral fraud” on Thursday evening.

Marlon Ochoa, a representative for the Libre Party on the three-member National Electoral Council (CNE), alleged coordinated and deliberate electoral fraud carried out by the other council members, Cossette Alejandra López-Osorio of the National Party and Ana Paola Hall of the Liberal Party.

The CNE had claimed in a social media post on Tuesday that the delays in election results were due to technical issues. Two members of the council criticized Grupo ASD S.A.S, the company behind the Transmission and Dissemination of Election Results reporting system (known as TREP), for carrying out software modifications without the unanimous authorization of the council plenary.

But on Thursday, after repeated downtime of the TREP system continued to prevent the public from accessing real-time updates, the Honduran Center for Democracy Studies (CESPAD) issued an alert calling on CNE to take action.

López-Osorio and Hall represent the country’s traditional political parties, both of which were relegated to opposition status when Xiomara Castro won the general election for Libre in 2021. Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party has likewise alleged that irregularities may be affecting the results. [MORE]

Pro-Israel Forces Intensify Effort To Control American Sheeple's Discourse and Minds

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From [HERE] Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under unprecedented threat, Israel’s advocates inside the United States are growing increasingly desperate to suppress the facts, opinions, questions and imagery that are causing this sea change.

Pro-Israel forces have long worked to limit and shape US discourse to Israel’s advantage. However, the intensity and novelty of what’s taking place in 2025 — from the government-coerced transfer of a social media platform to pro-Israel billionaires, to the jailing and attempted deportation of a student for writing an opinion piece, and more — deserves the attention of every American who values free expression, an enlightened electorate, and independence from foreign influence.

Many Americans know that Congress and President Biden teamed up in 2024 to force the Chinese company ByteDance to divest its US operation of the popular video-sharing app TikTok, yet few realize this unusual intervention was motivated in large part by a desire to serve the interests of Israel.

Though politicians pointed to the supposed Chinese menace lurking inside the app — while revealing their lack of sincerity by continuing to use it themselves — the catalyst for the extraordinary legislation’s passage was a sea of viral content illuminating Israel’s rampage in Gaza, casting Palestinians in empathetic light, and questioning the legitimacy of the political philosophy that is Zionism.

The idea that passage of the ban was largely about Israel is no conspiracy theory. American politicians who supported the compelled divestiture of TikTok have candidly said so themselves. Sharing a stage with Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken in 2024, then-Senator Mitt Romney said:

Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature. You look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites — it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts, so I’d note that’s of real interest to the president, who will get the chance to take action in that regard.

Similarly, Rep. Mike Lawler of New York told a webinar that pro-Palestinian student protests were “exactly why we included the TikTok bill…because you’re seeing how these kids are being manipulated by certain groups or entities or countries to foment hate on their behalf and really create a hostile environment here in the US.” [MORE]

Israeli Army Murders a Palestinian Child by Shooting Him and Then Crushes His Body with a Tank

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From [HERE] Israeli forces in northern Gaza shot and killed a 16-year-old boy on Wednesday before crushing his body with a tank, the Palestinian news agency WAFA has reported, as the IDF continues to violate the US-backed ceasefire deal.

“A WAFA correspondent reported that the army shot 16-year-old Zaher Nasser Shamiya from Jabalia refugee camp and then ran over him with a tank, splitting his body in half,” the news agency said.

The Quds News Network said in a post on X that Shamiya had “returned with his family to live in Block 2 of Jabalia refugee camp, along the so-called ‘yellow line,'” referring to the vague boundary that separates the Israeli-occupied side of Gaza from the rest of the Strip.

Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported that an “Israeli force made up of several military vehicles and bulldozers, backed by infantry units, advanced several hundred meters beyond the ‘yellow line'” into the al-Ternes area of the Jabalia refugee camp, which has been completely destroyed by the IDF.

The IDF claimed that two “terrorists” crossed the yellow line and said that its forces “eliminated” one of them.

The Anadolu report said that two other Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in Jabalia on Wednesday.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said earlier in the day that since the ceasefire was supposed to go into effect on October 10, Israeli forces have killed at least 379 Palestinians and wounded 992. “A number of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, as ambulance and civil defense crews have been unable to reach them so far,” the ministry said. [MORE]

In a New "Low IQ" Ad, Frivolous SNigger Jasmine Crocket is Silent on Trump's Criticisms b/c She Has No Legislative Accomplishments and Done More to Support Israel's Genocide than to Help Black People

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BARK AND CLAP POLITRICKS. Sleeping Tom’s feel compelled to bark and clap for Jasmine Crockett but they don’t know why. SNigger Crockett has delivered little to nothing of tangible valuable to Black communities. She has advanced the interests of Black people or provided effective political leadership about as much as comedian Kevin Hart, James Comey or Rachel Maddow - persons the black votary also barks and claps for. Crockett is a rhetoritician whose only agenda appears to be about herself - making herself a symbolic leader, providing leadership only as a performance without solutions and accountability to Black folks.

About twenty years ago Norman Kelley observed that black people had become political weaklings, “complicit in their own political emasculation.” At one time Black Americans forcefully argued for their own seat at the table but now in their relations with the democrat party they function like trained seals or dogs that “bark and clap” at election time and shut-up afterwards. Black people, once envied and imitated by people seeking freedom throughout the world are now demobilized and have no effective political organizations, no real leaders and “black politics” is void of any substance; from the tap dance to the lap dance.

On November 20, 2021, incumbent representative Eddie Bernice Johnson announced she would not seek reelection in 2022. Thereafter, Crockett was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing a majority-minority district based in Dallas. Since then she has delivered nothing of tangible value to the Black communities in Texas or elsewhere and spent her time making cute, sarcastic statements to the media to develop her persona in the Spectacle. It is no exaggeration to say that Crockett has no known legislative accomplishments. Her voting record on Israel–Palestine issues, including support for several pro-Israel resolutions and aid measures during the Gaza genocide has drawn criticism from progressive and Palestinian-rights advocacy organizations, which give her low marks on issue-based scorecards, describe her as having "a poor legislative record on Israel–Palestine issues", and have urged her to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, which she failed to do.

As such, it is appropriate that her new commercial contains no substance or message. The only words playing are Donald Trump’s statements in which he described her as “low IQ.” To refute such haterade one might expect to see a greatest hits montage of Ms. Crockett showcasing her achievements and most memorable moments in office. However, as stated, she has no highlight reel of successes, so the commercial just shows her face for 45 seconds and has no words of her own and offers no reason to vote for her.

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

“Opportomist” – a straight-up opportunist who revels in his tokenhood. 2) a token hood handpicked and taken out of the ‘hood. 3) a lawn jockey. 4) a “Yes-man” for the “Other Man” in derogation of the “Brotherman.” An opportomist is an African-American nameslug who has been acculturated and culturally conditioned into self-hatred and seeks personal gain through obsequious behavior to Caucasian overlings. (See: Sambo, Criss-Crossover, DAMS & Mainstream)

SNigger Crockett’s current step-and-fetchit activity for elite liberals involves an obviously futile effort to flip a solidly red US Senate seat in Texas. She will necessarily lose the race but elite liberals will achieve their real goals of raising a lot of money, attracting attention and getting captivated Black voters to bark and clap. Such efforts are not mindless but strategic as they help maintain master-servant relations between whites and Blacks, which is the gravamen of the system of white supremacy, a bi-partisan system of unjust treatment and domination. Sleeping toms (means black voters) will vicariously feel like they participated in a process they are excluded from - like fans at an NBA game who are rewarded with a coupon when the opposing team misses free throws.

Black people are only familiar with Crockett because elite white liberals have showcased her in their media and platforms. She is essentially their creation - an “opporTomist” rolebot controlled remotely by her masters. Elite white liberals have instructed quiescent Black voters to bark and clap for Crockett and they appear to be doing so. The black votary dogmatically votes and supports liberal causes by default as it is no longer concerned with whether its politics function to solve Black problems; it just votes against republicans. To much of the Black votary, whether Jasmine Crockett ever delivers any tangible, material benefits or actually economically empowers Black people or provides substantive justice to Black communities is beside the point - their role is to function as political spectators, much like lathered up sports fans. Claud Anderson explains, “Both White and Black candidates for public office, various political parties, and this nation, all get a free ride with Black voters.” Anderson states, “Black voters are led to believe there are two purposes to vote: 1) to elect the White candidate who is best able to lead and control resources or 2) to elect the Black candidate who is most deserving of a public job and personal recognition. The most we get is personal satisfaction that the candidate we supported won. We play politics just to play. Others play for the benefits of winning or being in the winner's circle. We often support campaign issues that do not benefit us. Blackness is excluded, but we hope that through some miraculous twinge of conscience, once in office the former candidate will offer us some spoils as supporters. We demand nothing and that is basically exactly what we get. We have yet to learn to play politics by the basic rules. We should stay out of any political game that promises that we will get nothing even when our candidate wins.“ The undeceiver Steve Cokely described this nonsensical circumstance as “playing for your sandwich.”

In reality, Crockett and an army of thousands of other black elected and appointed rolebots at all levels of government in the US are not engaged in any “black politics” and have no; “black political philosophy,” no “Black agenda” or black messaging or organizing aimed at solving the myriad of problems plaguing Black communities, no explanation to account for the system of racism white supremacy or any response to the 2nd class citizenship imposed on law abiding Black people by authority in all Black communities (many of them controlled by elite white liberals). Said black puppeticians have non-white skin and black chromosomes but for all non-cosmetic purposes they are interchangeable with their white liberal counterparts; looking and sounding different from them (like Crockett) but reading from the same script. “Blackness” and “black politics” has come to mean ‘not Republican’ and not much else. Black politics has gone from being aggressively results oriented and highly organized to being tame activity channelled into voting for the Democratic Party and its grimacing white liberal and black borg candidates.

According to the Urban League’s State of Black America, Black people haven’t progressed since 1965. The Black-White disparity persists across virtually every line or indicator of life in the United States. Since ratification of the Constitution in 1788, the League’s Equality Index finds that Blacks are about three-fifths along the way to experiencing equal status with White Americans. If you overstand that the granfalloon of “race” has no scientific validity and is merely a political classification, then addressing the myriad of unjust problems disproportionately plaguing Black people and their communities should be a paramount concern and an on-going state of emergency. Yet, the menu of political concerns and grievances articulated by elite white liberals (environmentalism, Ukraine war, Israel wars, aborticide after the 7 month, unlimited immigration, genderplex confusion, Trump obsession, injecting experimental “vaccines” and defending James Comey or Leticia James, etc) have nothing to do with the daily realities Black people face. Nevertheless, other directed, cowardly Blacks purposefully kept in a state of mental maladaptiveness (and a permanent state of checkmate) would rather in engage in fantasy discussions about reparations, symbolic politics or moral suasion (transforming the thinking and speech of racists) than deal with the nuts and bolts work of economic development, the creation of sustainable independent communities and institutions and acquiring the political power to prevent racists from practicing racism against Black individuals and communities. Chancellor Williams and Dr. Frances Cress Welsing both observed that sleeping toms 'continue to live in a dream world where they believe singing, marching, chanting, having cookouts, releasing balloons into the air, “performing leadership,” making really great speeches and ‘staying prayed up’ will somehow prevent their continual digression and devolution.

According to FUNKTIONARY:

rhetoritician – one whose capacity to express prevents him or her from ever truly experiencing or desiring to do so clearly and directly. 2) one drunk on the wine of one’s own words devoid of experience or insperience. 3) one who has not discovered the reality covered by truth, but capable of expressing (their distortions of it) anyway. 4) one who is hypnotized or mesmerized by his/her own words—suffering from rigor-rhetoric. (See: True Believer, Witchcraft, BK BURGER & Material Realist)

Sleeping Tom – a person of Afrikan descent who has not consciously awakened to fully embrace his or her own asili (connective cultural tissue, heritage, imprimatur, and imperative). 2) a socially unconscious person of Afrikan descent who participates in secret balloting (voting). A sleepin’ Tom lives and reacts out of another culture’s asili or out of the mind of another; not their own. 3) a Negro who is unaware that he is all souled-out. 4) a Negro who isn’t aware that he is in fact and in deed a certified Sambo. 5) a broken, token Negro; a coin-operative. (See: Straw Boss, Asili, Doublemindedness, Sambo, Uncle Tom-Tom, Coin-Operated, Black Flask Brigade & Secret Ballots)

“Opportomist” – a straight-up opportunist who revels in his tokenhood. 2) a token hood handpicked and taken out of the ‘hood. 3) a lawn jockey. 4) a “Yes-man” for the “Other Man” in derogation of the “Brotherman.” An opportomist is an African-American nameslug who has been acculturated and culturally conditioned into self-hatred and seeks personal gain through obsequious behavior to Caucasian overlings. (See: Sambo, Criss-Crossover, DAMS & Mainstream)

sniggering – the modus vivendi of opportunist (sell-out) compromises. 2) the actions of SNiggers. (See: Coin-Operated)

Electoral politics - a polylogue of agreed-upon illusions and false (deflectionary) issues. (See: Politicking & Pathocracy)

Shenanigger Kevin Hart is Still Cooning for Master, SNiggering for Trinkets and Coins [a major goal of white supremacy is to Keep Black People in a Childish Condition]

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A major part of white supremacy is the annihilation of Black self respect. Dr. Amos Wilson stated, "the most powerful obstacle against the liberation of Afrikan peoples from White domination and exploitation is not the ability of Whites to use superior military or police firepower or their threat to use it against Afrikan insurgency, but is their ability to engage in unrelenting psychopolitical violence against the collective Afrikan psyche." [MORE] 'Their devastatingly ingenious use of it against the minds of Afrikan peoples which represent the greatest threat to Afrikan survival.' [MORE]

FUNKTIONARY explains that social relations between Blacks and whites are mediated by false images and narratives within The Spectacle. In this constructed reality the totality of the messaging and images presented are the actual materialization of the ideology of racism white supremacy. Dr. Blynd states The Spectacle is “the mirrorization of the noumenon into the phenomenal universe without understanding or overstanding it as such an objectivization in duality.” Relentless propaganda maintains the cooperative master servant relationship between Blacks and whites and has kept Black people in a "continuous state of checkmate” and a “losing streak that is centuries long.” [MORE]

Neely Fuller explains “as long as any non-white person submits to, and/or cooperates with White Supremacy (racism), that non-white person is, for all functional purposes, a child.” He explains that in a system of racism white supremacy ‘non-white people, regardless of age function as children. They are the servants to, the victims of, and the "children” under the power and direction of elite racists. Elite racists function as their parents, bosses, masters, and their major decision-makers.’ Elite racists hope and intend to keep all non-white people in a childish condition.’

Expendable Showcase Blacks like Kevin Hart have priceless value to racists in the system of racism white Supremacy and they function as tools to achieve the above stated goals. Elite racists have created an army of these rolebotic, obedient negros to SNigger, bounce, grimace or probotically parrot their masters in service of white domination and subservience to authority. FUNKTIONARY explains, “A role-bot merely plays the role of the mask - the personae - society issued and approved.” Said “coin-operated negros” are high-profile blacks that are constantly paraded before the public. They may be political dignitaries, pro athletes, entertainers, educators, business people, judges or elected officials. Anon explains, Showcase Blacks are not showcasing themselves, they are being showcased by white supremacists to promote some aspect of RSW. Among other things, Showcase blacks are utilized to control the spectrum of ideas discussed by Blacks, control the parameters of political discussion, define what kinds of ideas are "reasonable" and to assist in perverse “historiography,” creating a non-threatening Black history compatible with white domination. They are also used to “shadowbox” other Black people or paid by elites “to speak or act to do harm to other victims of racism.”

FUNKTIONARY explains:

Negrosis - the psychological disease affecting and afflicting native Black Americans, Afrikans, Afrikan-Americans, Negroes and all other people of Afrikan genetic heritage characterized by double-consciousness resulting from the falsification of Afrikan consciousness, history and applied spiritual sciences. (See: Double-Consciousness & Asili)

Uncivilized Israeli Security Minister, Ben Gvir, Sported a Noose Pendant as he Pushed New Death Penalty Law for Palestinians

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Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, was pictured in parliament on Monday wearing a noose pendant on his lapel, as he continues to push for Palestinian prisoners to be handed the death penalty.

Posting on X, Ben Gvir boasted about wearing the icon, along with other members of his Otzma Yehudit party, in support of legislation currently passing through the parliament.

"I and the members of my Otzma Yehudit faction arrived today at the National Security Committee discussions to continue advancing the death penalty for terrorists, while wearing a pin in the shape of a hangman's noose - as a symbol of our commitment to passing the law and as a clear message that terrorists are sons of death," he wrote.

"The time has come for the death penalty for terrorists!"

Ben Gvir celebrated last month after a bill allowing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners passed its first reading. 

The bill was approved by a majority of 39 out of 120 Knesset members, with 16 voting against in Israel's parliament.

It would allow judges to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis on so-called “nationalistic” grounds. [MORE]

'Israel' Blocking US Doctors from Entering Gaza to Treat Injuries

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From [HERE] "Israel" has denied entry to several American and foreign medical volunteers attempting to reach Gaza, including trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa, who had already completed two missions treating war-wounded Palestinians and testified before the UN Security Council in May.

Sidhwa told The Washington Post that he received notice just hours before traveling from Amman on Nov. 13 that his name was no longer on "Israel’s" approved entry list.

He had planned to perform complex colostomy reversal surgeries, a critical need for thousands of injured Palestinians, and to train local teams. “He would be very helpful,” said Khaled al-Serr, a surgeon at Nasser Hospital.

Sidhwa is one of four American medical workers and dozens of international volunteers blocked in recent weeks, despite a US-backed ceasefire that was expected to accelerate humanitarian access. Foreign doctors have been central to Gaza’s overwhelmed health system, performing more than 3.5 million consultations and 50,000 emergency surgeries since early 2024, according to the WHO. [MORE]

Massa Media Jumps on the Factually Unsupportable Claim that the J6 Pipe Bomber was “Black” and the Baseless Narrative that he was a Trump Supporter

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From [HERE] The arrest of Brian Cole Jr. on Thursday for planting pipe bombs near the DNC and RNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, has exposed yet another case of media malpractice. The Trump administration quickly noted that all the information needed to catch the suspect had been available to the Biden administration for four years, and yet nothing happened. 

Rather than examine why it took so long to crack the case, the legacy media immediately pivoted to protect the Biden administration. The following morning, legacy media outlets were pushing the narrative, based entirely on anonymous sources, that the suspect told the FBI under questioning that he is a Trump supporter who was radicalized by claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

According to NBC News, “The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

Other networks promptly followed.

“During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible motive for the bombs placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters, people briefed on the matter told CNN,” CNN reported. 

CNN’s own reporting, however, thoroughly debunked this storyline. Hours prior to the story suggesting the 2020 election was a motivating factor for Cole, a separate CNN report detailed the criminal affidavit against him, which relied on purchase records of bomb-making materials, cell phone location data, and vehicle license plate reader information to identify him.

The criminal affidavit against Cole primarily relies on purchase history of alleged bomb-making materials, cell phone location data and a vehicle license plate reader.

In 2019 and 2020, Cole purchased multiple items consistent with the components used to make the bombs at Home Depot, Walmart, Lowe’s and Micro Center stores, according to the affidavit.

Investigators then went through Cole’s purchase history and determined he bought all of those supplies over 2019 and 2020, the affidavit states. He also purchased equipment to help assemble the bombs, including safety glasses and a wire-stripping tool, the document states.

If Cole was buying bomb parts in 2019 and 2020 before the election, the notion that post-election grievances drove him to plant the bombs falls apart. The Trump supporter angle collapses even further when you look at Cole’s background.

According to a Daily Wire report, he worked at his family’s bail-bond business, which sued the Trump administration over immigration policy in a case decided in November 2020. The family operation, which included helping illegal immigrants get out of ICE facilities, doesn’t exactly scream MAGA activism. Public records show the business entangled itself in left-leaning causes, with Cole’s father even teaming up with attorney Benjamin Crump—who previously represented the family of Trayvon Martin—to demand the Biden Justice Department investigate a Tennessee prosecutor who raised questions about the bail bond company. This family profile is wildly inconsistent with the image of a die-hard Trump supporter.

But even Cole’s family says he wasn’t a Trump supporter.

Cole’s grandmother, Loretta, told the Daily Mail that Cole “has no party affiliation, never votes,” and “don’t like either party.” She described her grandson as socially withdrawn, “borderline autistic,” with “the mind of a 16-year-old,” living in his mother’s basement and grieving the death of his pet chihuahua. She also emphasized that Cole has no social media presence and never engages in political discussions online. All of this information was readily available to reporters, yet they went ahead with the Trump-supporter storyline anyway.

CNN’s Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller appeared on Anderson Cooper 360° to discuss the accused bomber’s purported statements to the FBI about his election beliefs. [MORE]

Trump Delivering Only Symbolic Politics to His Believers: Spending Millions to Hire Park Police So He Can Continue to Play Mayor of DC [vicariously pleasing racists by dominating its Black residents]

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Democratic senators are demanding the U.S. Park Police suspend their D.C. recruitment blitz and accuse the Trump administration of “hijacking this federal police force for its own authoritarian purposes,” according to a letter sent to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Monday morning.

The calls come after The Washington Post reported in October that the force is seeking to double its ranks in the nation’s capital over the next six months with a goal of becoming “the premier law enforcement agency in D.C.” — keeping the city safe “regardless of inaction” by the local police department and local elected officials, records show.

“The administration is on a deliberate hiring spree to exploit the U.S. Park Police’s jurisdiction and turn it into a tool of the President for him and his ideological extremists to impose their will on the streets of D.C.,” reads the letter. The lead author was Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the Interior Department, within which the Park Police belongs.

Three Democratic senators co-signed with Merkley: Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Ron Wyden of Oregon. In addition to demanding a hiring suspension, the letter includes dozens of questions about the associated costs and operational objectives, giving the Park Police a Dec. 19 deadline to provide answers. Lawmakers also asked whether there are plans to hire additional officers in other parts of the country. The Park Police has offices only in the D.C. region, New York and San Francisco.

The effort marks the second time in recent months that Democratic lawmakers have scrutinized the Park Police.

The Park Police are tasked with protecting national parkland and monuments. Since the president declared a crime emergency in D.C. in August, though, the agency has tightened its relationship with immigration enforcement and restructured to move its leadership one step closer to the White House. Burgum also rolled back police chase policies that allowed pursuits only for people wanted for violent felonies — a decision that the department has championed as expanding its ability to apprehend criminals but that drew swift criticism and spurred a separate congressional probe.

The expansion strategy set out to recruit, train and retain an additional 450 officers in D.C. — though that goal has since shrunk to 300, according to the police union. Even with the most optimistic expansion, the city police force would remain more than four times larger than the Park Police, which as of October had 289 sworn officers in D.C. [MORE]

Despite Crime Rates Hitting Historic Lows in 39 States, Prison Populations Have Increased [decarceration is Incompatible with the Bi-partisan Goals of Racism White Supremacy]

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From [HERE] The U.S. criminal legal system stands at a crossroads. The United States remains a world leader in incarceration, locking up its citizens at a far higher rate than any other industrialized nation.1

Between 1972 and 2009, the number of people imprisoned grew nearly 700%,2 while crime rates declined dramatically after peaking in 1991.3Imprisonment levels slowly scaled back, achieving a 25% decline between 2009 and 2021.4 Then, the prison population has resumed its growth, according to the most recently available data. The prison population grew in 2022 and in 2023, 39 states increased their prison populations.5

The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a seismic increase in the most serious crime, homicide, which has fortunately declined to pre-pandemic levels. By 2024, homicide rates were 49% lower than their peak level in 1991. Violent and property crime rates overall have reached historic lows: 2024’s violent crime rate was 53% lower than its peak-1991 level and the property crime rate was 66% lower.6

While crime rates are at historic lows, Americans deserve greater levels of community safety. A growing number of elected officials at the local, state, and federal levels have moved to overturn successful criminal justice reforms and revert to the failed playbook of mass incarceration, while the federal government has cut funding for important crime-prevention programs.7Instead, policymakers should respond to crime upticks with evidence-based responses, while correcting the counterproductive, costly, and cruel responses of the past.

Excessive reliance on imprisonment in the United States is ineffective at addressing crime, diverts resources from effective public safety investments, upends family stability, contributes to trauma, and disproportionately harms communities of color.8 A vast body of research has established that we can advance community safety while reducing prison admissions as well as scaling back sentences for both those entering prisons and those already there.9 . . .

The United States has made only modest progress toward ending mass incarceration amidst a historic crime drop. By year end 2024, violent crime rates reported to the police had plummeted to half of their 1990s levels, and property crime rates fell even further—just as crime rates have fallen in many other countries that did not increase imprisonment levels.23 But U.S. imprisonment levels continued to increase for nearly two decades while crime rates fell, and the modest level of decarceration since appears to be in jeopardy. [MORE]

San Diego Agrees to Pay Koana Wilson's Family $30M. The Black Teen was Running from a Criminal who was Shooting at Him when a White Cop Saw Him for 1 Second and Fatally Shot Him in the Back

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IN PHOTO 2 Konoa Wilson, left, with his father, Steven Lee Wilson.

From [HERE] The San Diego city attorney’s office has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old youth who was fatally shot by police last January in what would be one of the largest settlements of a police-involved killing case in U.S. history.

Koana Wilson was recklessly shot by a San Diego police officer Daniel Gold II while the Black teen was running away from gunshots fired by another person. He was unarmed and seeking safety and the officer saw him for only one second or less before firing as he turned the corner (see video below).

Surveillance and body-worn camera footage from Jan. 28 showed Wilson running away from someone who pulled a gun and fired at him in a downtown train station. As he exited the station, Wilson encountered San Diego Police Officer Daniel Gold. Without any warning the officer fired two shots at Wilson. The shooting happened at the Santa Fe Depot located at 1050 Kettner Blvd. in San Diego. Wilson was pronounced dead at UC San Diego Health Medical Center less than an hour later.

A resolution authorizing the proposed settlement with the family of Konoa Wilson has been added to the city council’s agenda for Tuesday morning.

“What happened to Konoa was a catastrophic failure of policing,” family attorney Nick Rowley said in a statement to City News Service. “A 16-year-old boy was running for his life. He was not a threat and not a suspect, yet he was shot in the back by a police officer who only saw him for one second before deciding to pull the trigger.”

According to the complaint,

On January 28, 2025 at approximately 8:50 P.M., Defendant GOLD and another unidentified SDPD officer were responding to an unrelated call near Santa Fe Depot.

At the same time, DECEDENT and a friend entered Santa Fe Depot at approximately 8:50 P.M.

At approximately 8:51 P.M., DECEDENT was standing on the platform next to the Santa Fe Depot train tracks when a person, unknown to DECEDENT, took out a firearm and fired gunshots in DECEDENT's direction.

DECEDENT proceeded to run away from the gunshots down a corridor of the Santa Fe Depot in hopes of reaching a place of safety.

When the unknown SDPD officer heard gunshots in the area, he called "I got shots fired" over the police radio without any description of the shooter or suspects involved.

As DECEDENT exited the Santa Fe Depot corridor, he turned right onto Kettner Blvd. Immediately upon turning the comer, DECEDENT crossed paths with Defendant GOLD who instantly, without any warning (verbal or otherwise), fired two gunshots at DECEDENT, striking DECEDENT in the right side of his torso/back area. Prior to firing the gunshots at DECEDENT, DECEDENT was only observable to Defendant GOLD for one (1) second before Defendant GOLD began shooting at DECEDENT

At no point during these events did DECEDENT brandish a weapon nor did he present a threat to the physical safety or well-being of Defendant GOLD or any other person. DECEDENT was simply running away from an unknown person who was shooting in his direction while he was on the train platform.

Immediately after being shot by Defendant GOLD, DECEDENT fell into the roadway of Kettner Blvd., screaming and writhing in pain. There, he began to bleed-out into the street.

Only after shooting DECEDENT and watching him fall to the ground did Defendant GOLD finally announce "San Diego Police."

If approved, the settlement would exceed the $27 million the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay the family of George Floyd, whose May 2020 murder by a police officer who kneeled on his neck sparked a nationwide racial reckoning.

An agenda item posted Friday said the settlement would be paid from the Public Liability Fund.