American soldiers refusing to fight? Conscientious objections on the rise in U.S. military
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From [THE FINAL CALL] Since the United States and Israel launched military strikes on Iran on Feb. 28 of this year, veterans’ groups and legal counselors say they have fielded a wave of active-duty service members asking how to become conscientious objectors—including officers.
The Center on Conscience and War (CCW), which has advised troops on their rights since 1940, says applications have increased six-fold since the war began, with roughly 140 applicants taken on so far, compared with about 50 in a typical year.
CCW Executive Director Mike Prysner said many current applicants have served more than a decade, span ranks up to major, and in some cases attended military service academies.
“The Iran War was really the breaking point for them when they realized that they had to take action to make sure that they did not participate in something that they were going to regret for the rest of their lives,” said Mr. Prysner to MS NOW in an August 26 interview.
Quaker House’s GI Rights Hotline reported a parallel spike of 429 inquiries in March and 440 in April, with elevated demand persisting since then. The group reported that it is working with about 30 people actively pursuing CO applications, compared with five to 10 before the war. [MORE]
High Resolution Chinese Satellite Imagery Linked to Deadly Iran Strike on US Base in Jordan
/From [HERE] Iran reportedly obtained high-resolution Chinese satellite imagery before and after its deadly July 17 ballistic-missile strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, potentially transforming commercial space surveillance into a decisive targeting instrument against deployed United States forces.
Unnamed American officials described the imagery connection as the clearest evidence that support originating from Chinese entities produced lethal battlefield consequences, although Washington has neither identified the suppliers involved nor publicly released forensic evidence establishing the transfer chain.
The attack killed First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, Private Isabella Gonzales and Sergeant Angel S. Rampersad, making the strike a strategically consequential breach of layered United States air defences rather than another unsuccessful Iranian demonstration of missile volume.
Muwaffaq Salti, located near Azraq approximately 80–100 kilometres east of Amman, supports American combat aircraft, intelligence platforms and air-defence forces, giving Iran a concentrated target whose disruption could weaken regional sortie generation and defensive coverage.
Iran employed ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones during three strikes conducted within approximately 24 hours, creating a multidirectional penetration problem intended to overload sensors, interceptors, command networks and personnel-protection procedures surrounding the Jordanian installation. [MORE]
‘The US is at War with Russia b/c US Controls NATO Forces. Nuclear War May be Imminent b/c NATO is Striking Targets in Russia and Sent Nukes to Ukraine' [Massa Media Conceals Reality] - Tucker Carlson
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Tucker Carlson has warned that the world is on the brink of a global conflict that could end with the use of nuclear weapons, in an interview with Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi broadcast on RT on Saturday. (that video is below)
Carlson argues that the US is already effectively at war with Russia through Ukraine and warns that further escalation risks a nuclear confrontation.
“The CIA is running the war. The US intelligence services are running the war out of Ukraine against Russia,” he says. “The United States is at war with Russia, and the only kind of conceivable end stage if this continues is a nuclear exchange in which everyone is killed.”
The Ukraine conflict and the US-Israeli war on Iran “have merged into a global war,” he argued, warning that the confrontation now risks the very existence of the US.
Carlson also accuses the Trump administration of abandoning the agenda it campaigned on, saying President Donald Trump and his advisers have “almost systematically betrayed the people who voted for him in 2024.”
He called this “the greatest betrayal that I’m aware of in the history of American politics.”
The interview also covers political censorship in the US, the rise of BRICS, China’s growing global influence, and the changing balance of power internationally. [MORE]
Insider Trading Proves 9/11 Foreknowledge
/From [HERE] On September 12th 2001, chaos reigned supreme. Yet, as governments the world over struggled to make sense of the previous day’s catastrophe, and before a motive was established, any perpetrators identified, or other basic facts ascertained, the US Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into potential insider trading by unknown figures with apparently precise foreknowledge of 9/11. The evidence seemed overwhelming. Mainstream journalists openly mocked the implausibility of numerous deeply abnormal stock market trades immediately prior to the attacks being pure coincidence.
For one, several companies prominently impacted by the event were abruptly ‘shorted’ at inexplicable levels over the preceding weeks. In other words, investors bet certain stocks would perform poorly in the near future, and sought to profit accordingly. For example, just five days before 9/11 over 2,000 shorts were placed against United Airlines - 90 times more in a single day than over the entirety of August. The company’s share price collapsed following the attacks, turning $180,000 in shorts into $2.4 million.
Meanwhile, substantial investments were serendipitously made in private security, intelligence and defence firms that benefited enormously from the 9/11 attacks and ensuing ‘War on Terror’. On September 10th, purchase of shares in major US defence contractor Raytheon surged sixfold. Just one week later, as the Pentagon began bulk purchasing Raytheon’s flagship Patriot and Tomahawk missiles in preparation for invading Afghanistan, the firm’s shares rocketed 37%. Other major defence stocks, including Boeing and Lockheed, also experienced abnormal trading pre-9/11. [MORE]
TrumpStein Believes that 4% Black Enrollment Means Too Many Blacks Get a Legal Education at UC Berkeley. Racist System Requires the Legal Profession to be Lilly White (Only 5% Attorneys are Black-ABA)
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CONTRARY TO IMAGES PRESENTED TO US ON TELEVISION, movies AND SOCIAL MEDIA, according to the ABA only 5% of all attorneys are Black. [MORE] Said number has remained steady since 2009. The legal profession is overwhelmingly white: specifically, it is 85% white, 5% Black, 5% Latino, 2% Asian American and 1% Native American. [MORE] and [MORE]
ALSO, According to a recent study only 1% of all elected prosecutors are Black women. [MORE] According to the same study only 2% of all elected prosecutors are Black men while 95% of all prosecutors are white.
The U.S. Justice and Education Departments alleged on Wednesday that admissions practices at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law deliberately favored Black applicants and discriminated against white and Asian candidates.
A joint probe by the two federal departments whose findings were announced on Wednesday marked the latest crackdown on diversity initiatives in universities by President Donald Trump's administration.
The administration alleged the UC Berkeley School of Law uses "race, essay prompts, and other tactics to further its admissions diversity goals."
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, said on Wednesday that the school's "admissions policy is clear that race is not considered in any way in admissions decisions."
UC Berkeley's central administration said the university "will spare no effort to provide ample evidence" to show the university complies with all relevant laws, policies and rules governing admissions.
Trump, who casts diversity goals as anti-merit and discriminatory against white people and men, has signed orders to dismantle them. Rights advocates say diversity practices address historic inequities for marginalized groups like ethnic minorities, the LGBT community and women.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected affirmative action at colleges in 2023 when it struck down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
"The data produced by Berkeley Law demonstrates a strong bias against Asian and white applicants, with a corresponding bias in favor of Black applicants," the Trump administration said, adding Black applicants had 5.8 times higher odds of admission than comparable white applicants in 2025.
The law school's October 2025 enrollment data showed 1,128 law students, of whom 516 were white and 293 Asian, with 51 Black students.
The Department of Justice said it sought a voluntary resolution agreement with the school. [MORE]
Working Mostly for His Masters, Not Black Folks, "Black" Puppetician Gregory Meeks Urges TrumpStein to Escalate Tensions with North Korea
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ABOVE SNAG AND SNIGGER-BOT GREGORY MEEKS WITH ONE OF HIS MAIN MASTERS NETANYAHO (HOLDING THE REMOTE CONTROL USER MANUAL), WHO IS A MASTERFUL LIAR AND FALSE FLAGGOT. BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED WITH SUCH BLACK BORGS, WHO ARE PRIMARILY COIN-OPERATED. FUNKTIONARY explains that coin-operated KNEEGROWS are “The living-larger supercilious sell-outs who use the cracks of their arse as a discredit card swiper—since the stakes are higher and call for more drastic measures and high-volume transfers (the booty of sell-out treasures) can only be accessed in the form of plastic pleasures. They call them token Negroes because they are coin-operated. If you put money in them they will dispense (‘espew’—espouse and spew) the view, vision, wishes, ideas, thoughtforms, ideology, hopes and dreams of the customer. “The price of a dollar is a lot cheaper than the price we pay for violating our own inner integrity.” ~Rafael Catalá
ACCORDING TO THE FUNKTIONARY:
Affirmative auction – $N1gg3rs on the block doing the moneywalk—Negroes up for sale—totally Souled-Out of their minds. Your brain must be clean because it has been truly whitewashed. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ~Martin L. King, Jr. (See: Black Conservative, Coin-Operated & Sambo)
From [DROPSITE] Earlier this month, a coalition of 50 antiwar and foreign policy groups reached out to the top Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee with an unusual plea: Please don’t attack President Trump—at least not for his decision to de-escalate tensions with North Korea as he focuses his attention on the Mideast.
The groups were worried that an almost instinctual Democratic response to Trump’s decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea would be to attack him from a hawkish direction, call him weak on national security, and demand ever more confrontation. Instead, they suggested, take the win, and celebrate the reduction in hostile tension.
The advice was not taken. In a draft letter circulating on Capitol Hill and obtained by Drop Site News, House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Gregory Meeks and at least 20 Democrats are calling on Trump to “reverse course,” arguing that he handed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “unilateral concessions for which you got nothing in return” by scaling back the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises.
Several Democrats who signed the Meeks letter have also backed legislation calling for a formal end to the war between North and South Korea, which has been going on for more than 70 years, taking on a devastating toll on civilians and carrying the constant risk of nuclear war. Nine of the current signatories—Reps. Brad Sherman, Mark Pocan, Dave Min, Gabe Amo, Jonathan Jackson, Dina Titus, Ted Lieu, Sarah McBride and Jim Costa—are also cosponsors of the current Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act. Sherman is the bill’s lead sponsor. [MORE]
‘Pack Your Suitcases’: Barbaric Israeliens Unveil Blueprint for Depopulating Gaza [massa media and Authority go on ‘make believing’ 2 Million People survived bombings equivalent to 7 Hiroshimas]
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From [HERE] Israel’s far-right national security minister has put a seven-year timetable on emptying Gaza of most of its people, and dressed it up as choice. Gazans RT spoke to call it what international law already names it: forced displacement.
Last week, Jewish Power chairman and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir unveiled ‘Disengagement 710’, a policy blueprint for what he calls the voluntary migration of Gaza residents to countries willing to take them. Destinations floated by his party include Türkiye, unspecified Arab states, Ethiopia, and Congo.
The numbers are not modest. The plan foresees the departure of about 250,000 people in the first year, 1.11 million within three years, and some 1.86 million within seven, encompassing the bulk of the Strip’s population.
To run it, Jewish Power wants the next government to create a dedicated ministry for “voluntary migration,” complete with a minister, a director-general, its own budget, an international negotiating team, and an implementation apparatus.
Ben-Gvir vows to make the ministry a coalition demand after Israel’s October 27 election. “Instead of illusions of peace now, we need actions of emigration now,” he said. “Instead of them digging tunnels, it’s time to pack suitcases.”
This idea is not new for the Jewish state. [MORE]
"There is No Genocide." NY Puppetician Ritchie Torres Represents the Poorest District in US but He Serves Israel; Received $1.4M from Israeli Lobby, Delivers Little to His 90% Non-White Constituents
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NO GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS AND NO EMERGENCY CONDITIONS IN THE HOOD TO ADDRESS? Rep. Ritchie Torres (NY-15) has emerged as the “one of the most outspoken congressional supporters of Israel,” according to the New York Daily News. His love of Israel and his hatred of its critics, namely those in the so-called Squad and Democratic Socialists of America, is evidenced in his frequent petty, screedy Twitter battles with both.
A survey of his public statements—from his congressional website, Facebook page, and Twitter account—reveal a man whose most important topic isn’t the rampant poverty that makes his congressional district the poorest in the country, but the nominal wellbeing and arming of Israel.
In public statements since coming into office in Jan. 2021, Torres has mentioned “Israel” 337 times and “poverty” 143 times. On his official website there are 202 mentions of Israel and 77 mentions of poverty. On Twitter there are 73 tweets about Israel and 12 about poverty. On Facebook, there are 62 mentions of Israel and 54 mentions of poverty.
According to Food Research and Action Center’s figures, using data from 2017, New York’s 15th district is by far the poorest of the 435 congressional districts in the US. 36.2% of Torres’ constituency lives below the poverty line. For reference, the second and third poorest districts in the country, Michigan 15 and Kentucky 5, have a poverty rate of roughly 29 percent, or 7 percentage points lower than the NY-15.
This isn’t to say Torres doesn’t talk about poverty at all, just that he does so way less than he talks about Israel. He’s campaigned for Democrats to pass the Child Income Tax Credit that was central to reducing childhood poverty. He’s proposed bills to increase housing vouchers and “protect” Medicare for Seniors—fairly standard liberal Democrat fare, though nothing particularly progressive or subversive. Torres ostensibly supported a Medicare for All bill in 2021, but never posted on social media or issued a press release about it. [MORE]
Torres received the 7th highest donation out of 435 members of Congress in 2022 from Pro-Israel PACs, or roughly $291,961. [MORE]. Over the past 3 years he received over $1.4 million from pro-Israel lobbies in just three short years. [MORE]
The coin-operated puppetician appears to have done little to address the emergency like conditions plaguing Latino and Black people in his district:
Torres took office on January 3, 2021. He represents the poorest congressional district in the United States.Upon his swearing-in, he became the first openly gay Afro-Latin American member of Congress.
On August 6, 2021, Torres introduced H.R. 4980, which would "ensure that any individual traveling on a flight that departs from or arrives to an airport inside the United States or a territory of the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19" (prolly doesn’t effect most of his constituents as 36% live below the poverty line (if you believe in government number counting of such things that is). At any rate, promoting the use of deadly and injurious mRNA shots is not a good thing).
Torres voted with President Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time in the 117th Congress, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.
Torres was among the 46 Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.[71] He said his vote was motivated by the new SNAP requirements included in the deal, which raised the work requirements from able-bodied adults under age 50 who do not live with any dependent children to adults under age 54, and the diversion of $20 billion in funding for the Internal Revenue Service.
Torres reintroduced the B.O.D.E.G.A. Act in the House of Representatives in 2025. If signed into law, the legislation would offer federal funds to bodegas to cover the cost of security equipment such as panic buttons and security cameras, as well as their installation. [MORE]
"Black" US Senator Auto-Coons for TrumpStein at Republicrat Bark & Clap Event: He Attempt Performed the Black Pastor Role by Sounding Like Hulk Hogan and Moaning and Making Gestures, like a Whore
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According to FUNKTIONARY:
golden retrievers – a dysphemism describing a variation of the old “Step-N-Fetchit” racist caricature to be revived (in the very near future) in a labor context vis-à-vis Afrikan-Americans and other majorities (so-called minorities).
Sounds like it was written by Chris Rock. Golden retriever AOC made a similar impression last month while pandering to sleeping toms. That is, a “caucasianal” Latino woman attempted to do an impression of a southern Black pastor while talking to voters about voting (a pacification sucker process).
“Coincidence Theorist” Chris Hayes “Prodcasts” that COVID Wasn't a Plandemic and 9-11 Wasn’t an Inside Job. Anyone Who Disagrees with His Masters’ Narratives and Science is a Conspiracy Theorist
/According to FUNKTIONARY:
prodcasting – propaganda cast as a spell to prod mind-slaves into behavior, thoughts and actions that benefit the spell-caster ($pinfidel) and his master. Prodcasting targets the unthinking herd into conformity, apathy, complacency and uniformity to the dictates of the overtakers otherwise known as the Pathocracy—the intergenerational psychopathic overruling class and adept practitioners of Richcraft. (See: Propaganda, $pinfidel, Coin-Operated, MEDIA & Richcraft)
coincidence theories – the naïve belief that problems (and solutions to them) happen spontaneously, that nothing is ever foreseen, plotted, planned or conspired through collusion by the wealthy and powerful. (See: Pathocracy, Fronts, Predictive Programming, Conspiracy Theories, Laws, Technetronic Age, WARS & Council on Foreign Relations)
$pinfidels – those well-paid profligates in the print and visual Hypnomedia who twist issues, facts, events, statements, contexts, and predicaments of outspoken people from all walks of life into ready-made labels that demonize and/or marginalize anyone who questions the actions, policies, jurisdiction, positions, legitimacy, accuracy, enforcement, or authority of the Twin-Towering $tatus Quo—Corporate State and Corporate Religion. $pinfidels are those who believe in the doctrine of Original Spin. “Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.” ~Mark Twain
Nine Eleven (9-11) – the pre-planned inside-job false-flag attack on the Romulus and Remus World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon Murders, being a continuation of the CIA—Criminals Inside America—wetworks operations that was also carried out on innocent lives at Pearl Harbor, and the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing. In order for you to believe the official legend, i.e., the Corporate State by-lie, you would have to also become a believer in Physics Revisionism (PR). In the 20th century, steel melted at 1538 degrees Celsius (2800 degrees Fahrenheit), but in the 21st century are we to believe that the fire from the explosion of the jet fuel tank (assuming some type of airplane actually hit the towers, and not the hologram that we witnessed) burned for 104 minutes (in the North tower) getting constantly hotter until the steel floor supports reached a weakened fault temperature, or are we to believe that it burned hot and steady throughout until over 200,000 tons of steel were heated to the point of collapsing—all on (whatever was left of) one plane of jet fuel? The towers did not “collapse” or succumb to gravity-driven “cave-in,” nor did they fall or “give-way” to self-related and self-proportional forces, on the contrary, they were systematically and progressively disintegrated (“dustification or pulverization) from the top down using powerful directed energy technology or directed energy weapons for sure. 200,000 tons of steel, 325,000 cubic meters of concrete, 43,600 windows, 19,000 kilometers of cables, 318 kilometers of heating ducts from two very large buildings don’t just vanish into thin air or grind themselves into nothing. Some in the intelligence community who are aware of it, refer to it as the Death Ray. The same explosive scheme that is removing the support structure is also simultaneously and utterly destroying the building itself. This can be verified from the projectile-like scattering pulverized disintegrating debris seen ejected from the buildings, taken horizontally, up to 1200 feet, when the WTC towers are only 207 feet wide. Logic and common sense have to be put in abeyance in both incidents in order to believe the official story-line (legend) also touted by the counter-intelligence operation called the “9/11 Truth Movement” run by government operatives. Knowledge of the laws of physics can demonstrate the presence of other than “what appeared to be obvious” complicity by additional or external agents fundamental to both operations-cum-attacks. [MORE]
Jamaican Delegation Delivers a Legal Petition for Reparations to King Charles III that Asks 3 Rhetorical Questions
/From [HERE] On September 7, 2026, a high-level Jamaican delegation delivered a historic legal petition to Buckingham Palace addressed to King Charles III. Its objective was to compel the monarch, as Jamaica’s head of state, to refer to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the island’s highest court of appeal, three questions that have haunted the British Empire for centuries.
Was the forced transportation of Africans to Jamaica and their subsequent enslavement lawful?
Did this system constitute a crime against humanity?
Does the United Kingdom bear an obligation to make reparation for slavery and its enduring consequences?
Culture Minister Olivia Grange, who led the delegation, shared a photo on X of herself holding the document aloft, captioned: “The petition has been filed.” King Charles III was not present at the handover. British media reported he was on vacation at the time, though Buckingham Palace said it had worked closely with the Governor General of Jamaica to ensure the petition was properly lodged.
Why the date is no coincidence
The day before, on Sunday, September 6, the delegation had taken part in a church service in south London under the theme of “remembrance, justice and repair,” ahead of the formal filing the following day. This timing is no accident: September 6 commemorates the 1781 departure of the slave ship Zong, aboard which more than 140 enslaved Africans were thrown into the sea so their owners could collect an insurance payout. That crime, unpunished for 245 years, now stands as the symbol of a justice the diaspora refuses to let fade into oblivion.
“In relation to the wrongs that were done, we want answers,” Grange told the Associated Press the day before the filing. “Once we get those answers, then our attorneys will determine what the next move is.”
This petition is part of a strategy, built step by step by Jamaica’s National Council on Reparations chaired by Laleta Davis Mattis, with the support of a legal subcommittee led by attorney Bert Samuels, and a team of UK lawyers. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has thrown its full weight behind the effort proof that this question reaches beyond the borders of a single island. The entire post-slavery Caribbean is rising behind Jamaica.
The UN slavery resolution as a first step
But it is precisely here that Jamaica’s fight joins Africa’s own, and this link must now be made visible, since Western media have worked hard to keep it quiet. On March 25, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, on Ghana’s initiative, resolution A/RES/80/250 – the very first resolution in UN history devoted exclusively to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.
One hundred and twenty-three states voted in favor. Only three opposed it: the United States, Israel, and Argentina. Fifty-two countries, mostly European including the United Kingdom itself, chose to hide behind abstention. [MORE]
ACLU says South Carolina Prosecutors and School Authorities Have Filled the Juvenile Jail with Blacks; 75% of the Children Locked Up are Black, Despite Being Only 28% of the State’s Youth Population
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From [HERE] A new analysis by the South Carolina division of the American Civil Liberties Union found vast disparities in the number of Black youth incarcerated in the state’s troubled juvenile justice system, even as the overall number of children in the system has fallen over the past decade.
The report, released by the advocacy organization Sept. 9, alleges that prosecutors and schools across the state have referred a significantly disproportionate number of Black children to the juvenile justice system over the past decade.
The most recently available data show Black youth making up approximately 75 percent of the current inmate population despite comprising just 28 percent of the state’s population aged 18 or younger.
“Racial inequality in the juvenile justice system is getting worse,” the ACLU wrote in its findings. “Solicitors and schools continue to refer a disproportionate number of Black youth to SCDJJ, and the agency detains a disproportionate number of them.”
Where Black children once made up about 65 percent of the total inmate population in 2015, the population now accounts for three out of every four children currently detained by DJJ, with large proportions locked up for violations ranging from serious violent crimes to more minor offenses like shoplifting or marijuana possession. [MORE]
South Carolina continues to lock up children for status offenses, or activities that are only illegal because of the offender’s age. South Carolina is the only state in America that sends minors into its juvenile justice system based solely on a status offense. In the 2025 fiscal year, 14% of SCDJJ referrals and 8% of detentions were for status offenses including truancy, incorrigibility, running away, and possession of alcohol while underage.
Racial inequality in the juvenile justice system is getting worse. Solicitors and schools continue to refer a disproportionate number of Black youth to SCDJJ, and the agency detains a disproportionate number of them. Black children comprise roughly 28% of South Carolina’s youth population, but more than 75% of the children detained by SCDJJ in 2025.
The S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice continues to place vulnerable youth in harm’s way. After years of rampant staff turnover, corruption, and multiple high-profile instances of violence at the hands of corrections officers and fellow youth, the agency still fails to protect traumatized youth from further traumatization while in its care.
White Columbus Cop who Murdered Donovan Lewis Pled Guilty to Reckless Homicide; Shot Black Man Laying in Bed after Breaking Into His Home at 2:30AM to Serve a Domestic Violence Warrant in Liberal City
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A white Ohio police officer who fatally shot a Black man lying in bed pled guilty Wednesday to reckless homicide, the lesser of the two charges he faced in the shooting four years ago.
Ricky Anderson entered what is known as an Alford plea, acknowledging that prosecutors had enough evidence to support a conviction without admitting guilt. In exchange, the state agreed to drop a murder charge, according to the Franklin County prosecuting attorney.
Anderson was a K-9 officer with the Columbus Police Department when he killed Donovan Lewis, 20, in August 2022. [MORE] and [MORE]
An attorney for Lewis’ family said body-camera footage shows Anderson firing within a second of opening the bedroom door where Lewis was sleeping. The family has a pending civil suit against the former officer.
There was “no justification” for police “to shoot an unarmed man trying to get out of bed” as officers were instructing him to do, Elliott said.
“Columbus police. If you are inside, make yourself known,” one officer says. Off camera, a man can be heard saying, “They are sleeping.” The officer repeats: “Come on out. Come out now.”
A police dog enters the apartment and begins barking. Officers then follow the dog toward the room where Lewis was sleeping and open the door. A light illuminates Lewis starting to sit up in bed, and Anderson instantly fires. As Lewis writhes and moans, he is told to “crawl” out of the room and to stop resisting arrest. He is shown being handcuffed on the bed.
Officers had entered the apartment around 2:30 a.m. with a police dog to serve Lewis arrest warrants on charges of domestic violence, assault and improper handling of a firearm, Sgt. Joe Albert of Columbus police said.
In the footage, officers can be heard telling Lewis to crawl out of the room after he was shot. Lewis was handcuffed on the bed and died after being taken to a hospital. Rex Elliott, the lawyer representing Lewis’s family, told reporters Thursday that the young man was “treated like an animal.”
“Police shot and killed Donovan Lewis while he was in one of the most vulnerable places a person can be — bed. As the investigation unfolds, some may point to the fact that the police were attempting to execute a warrant when they shot Mr. Lewis, as if to suggest that an alleged offense warrants immediate execution,” Kelly Sampson, director of racial justice at the anti-gun-violence organization Brady, said in a statement.
Elliott questioned why police chose to execute the warrant in the middle of the night.
“I think all of us in this room probably had parents tell us nothing good happens at 2 o’clock in the morning,” the lawyer said. “The explanation by Chief Bryant that, ‘Well, we do that because we have to be sure that they’re at home,’ is nonsense. The reality is that felony warrants are executed every day in daylight hours.” [MORE]
Blacks are shot frequently in Columbus, a city controlled by elite white liberals. For instance, in December 2020, Andre Hill, a 47-year-old unarmed Black man, was shot four times by a Columbus officer while leaving a friend’s house because he was holding a cell phone. His family received a $10 million settlement from the city. Last year, an officer fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black 16-year-0ld, outside her home. That officer was cleared of criminal wrongdoing after an investigation.
New California Law Results in Death Sentence Reversal for Anthony Bankston, a Black Man Characterized by White Prosecutors as a ‘Bengal Tiger’ to a Jury
/On June 1, 2026, the California Supreme Court reversed the death sentence of Anthony Bankston under the retroactive application of the California Racial Justice Act (CRJA) – the first capital punishment reversal under this Act in California’s history. The opinion asserts:
“In light of the passage of the RJA, we now make clear that, whatever the intent behind telling the story may be, the Bengal tiger story should no longer be told in California courtrooms. We have previously cautioned that there is frequently a thin line between permissible comment on the evidence and impermissible appeals to considerations that have no place in the judicial process. And as the legislative findings indicate, the oft-told Bengal tiger story is one that carries with it a recognized risk of crossing that line. There is no reason to permit prosecutors to continue running the risk of appealing to biases that undermine the very foundation of a system of equal justice, simply to make an unremarkable point about a defendant’s behavior outside a controlled courtroom setting.”
After being convicted and found guilty of murdering a rival gang member, Mr. Bankston represented himself in court in 1991. During closing arguments, the prosecutor characterized Mr. Bankston as a Bengal Tiger, telling the jury “[W]e see him here in court. We know that he’s able to represent himself. You see him in a nice little tie and a suit. You see that he’s articulate. But, ladies and gentlemen, the person that we see here in court is not the person that was out on the streets, it’s not the person that conducts himself in the manner in which we heard about in custody.” The opinion acknowledges that such statements are “highly offensive and inappropriate” and “[b]ecause use of animal imagery is historically associated with racism, use of animal imagery in reference to a defendant is racially discriminatory and should not be permitted in our court system.” This validates the experiences of a number of Black capital defendants in courtrooms and research that notes: “The use of animal imagery to describe Black criminal defendants plays into a long and brutal history of dehumanizing Black people. Twentieth century newspapers compared Black men to ‘the eyes of a trapped animal’, ‘a human hyena’, ‘the predators of the African plain’ when covering their executions.” The CRJA explicitly states:
“The state shall not seek or obtain a criminal conviction or seek, obtain, or impose a sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin.”
A defendant can prove a violation of the CRJA by bringing forth a claim of racially discriminatory language defined as “…language that, to an objective observer, explicitly or implicitly appeals to racial bias, including, but not limited to, racially charged or racially coded language, language that compares the defendant to an animal, or language that references the defendant’s physical appearance, culture, ethnicity, or national origin.” With this in mind, the Court accepts a prosecutor’s use of referring to a defendant as an “eager beaver,” “happy as a clam,” “free as a bird,” or “quiet as a mouse.” as “none would appear to raise racial discrimination concerns.” [MORE]
