'Just b/c Your Hands are Up Doesn't Mean Cops Won't Shoot:' Suit says Newark Never Explained Why a Plainclothes Cop Jumped Out an Unmarked Van and Shot Carl Dorsey to Death or What crime he committed

From [HERE] The family of Carl Dorsey III, a South Orange resident who was fatally shot by a Newark Police Department detective, is still seeking answers from authorities around the shooting incident more than a year after his death.

Without even as much of an update from the Attorney General’s Office on an investigation into the incident to date, the grieving family has taken legal action, announcing Wednesday that they filed a civil lawsuit in State Superior Court against the Newark Police Department, the City of Newark, and the officers involved for the unwarranted and unlawful killing of Dorsey.

“We announced this today, not in a joyful mood but in a sorrowful, somber mood knowing that this is a journey that this family is going to have to move forward with,” said Robert Tarver Jr., an attorney representing Dorsey’s family in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit comes after Dorsey was killed in a police shooting that occurred on Jan. 1, 2021. At approximately 12:03 a.m. near Woodland Avenue and South 11th Street in Newark.

Officers, including Det. Rod Simpkins, had reportedly arrived on the scene after hearing gunshots fired in the area. 

Private security camera video confiscated by the police and later released by New Jersey's attorney general shows Dorsey running across the street as an unmarked van appears in the frame and comes to a screeching halt. A detective Simpkins quickly exits the sliding door of the van and then he appears to intentionally run into Dorsey in order to stop or slow him down.

After the detective collides with Dorsey he turns and shoots Dorsey dead. Dorsey falls to the ground, where he is no longer visible between the cars. It is not clear how many times Simpkins discharged his weapon or how many bullets struck Dorsey.   

The officer gets to his feet and walks toward Dorsey as two more officers emerge from the car.

Four more officers then run on screen from farther back up the street passing the area of the shooting and heading down the street. Simpkins is still standing over Dorsey on the ground.  He then walks away in the direction of the other officers. They all disappear off screen before someone walks back up the sidewalk and appears to bend down toward the victim. A group of officers also walk back and gather around where the man is lying on the ground. 

During the 1 minute 46 second footage, no one is seen administering medical assistance. 

The video is the only footage so far found of the incident. There is no dashcam or bodycam footage from the incident because the police claim no video exists and New Jersey state law does not require plainclothes officers to use them.

The state Attorney General's Office, which is investigating the fatal shooting, said no weapon was recovered from Dorsey or from the immediate area. 

Tarver said during a press conference held at the Gateway Center in Newark that the video of the shooting incident demonstrated that Dorsey posed no threat to police and that he was shot while moving away from officers.

“You can take a look at the video. The video is clear. The video is unambiguous,” Tarver asserted.

Weeks after the shooting, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said that he found the information to be “tragic and disturbing" but incomplete.

“While the Attorney General’s Office is conducting an ongoing investigation, we are asking the public’s help to fill in some gaps,” Baraka said in a statement. "We will be asking the Attorney General’s Office to turn over information to our consent decree unit to review if the use of force or any other policy was violated.”

Charges in the lawsuit include the use of excessive, unlawful force and that the city failed to correct a pattern and practice of unlawful behavior that had not been corrected.

The lawsuit states that in 2009, Simpkins was a defendant in a lawsuit in which he was alleged to have pulled over, in plainclothes, a football coach and two teenagers. The lawsuit states that during the motor vehicle stop, Simpkins pointed his gun at the people in the vehicle and told them, “You have no f***ing rights.”

Madinah Person, Dorsey’s sister, said her family was “devastated by the whole experience.”

“I would just like to say to the officer that killed my brother and to the officers that watched him die on the concrete that I’m very disappointed in you as human beings,” said Person. “I’m very disappointed in you as cops and using your right to protect and serve. You did not protect and serve my brother. 

The lack of response from authorities has irked community leaders, too.

Larry Hamm, chair of local social justice advocacy group People’s Organization For Progress, has led multiple rallies and marches across Newark to raise awareness around what he believes was an unjust killing of Dorsey.

“Carl Dorsey should be alive today,” Hamm said. “But he was a victim - as far as we're concerned - of the use of excessive force. Over the past 18 months, we have organized protests to bring public attention to the death of Carl Dorsey because we have determined to not let this get swept under the rug.”

What’s even more frustrating for the family, Tarver said, is that it remains unclear if any corrective action was taken against Simpkins for the fatal shooting. Following the shooting, the detective was placed on administrative leave until an investigation is complete.

60 Days Ago White Cops were Recorded Shooting Jayland Walker 50X as He Fled. Although No Other Info is Needed to Establish Probable Cause for Murder, White AG Claims He Doesn't Have a Full Picture Yet

On June 27, 2022, at approximately 12:30 a.m., Akron, Ohio, police officers killed Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man who was unarmed. 8 cops (all white) shot at him 90 times and struck him 46 times as he fled away from them.

On July 6th In a seven-minute message posted on his YouTube page Wednesday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost addressed the state's investigation into the shooting death of Jayland Walker by the Akron Police Department in white, liberal Akron.

"The investigation will be objective, professional, and independent," Yost pledged. "There are many questions about what happened. Was the force necessary? What led police to shoot a young man so many times? What could have been done to prevent this in the first place?"

Yost stressed that the footage was just a portion of the overall investigation. Yost is a racist suspect and a republican.

"A few seconds of video does not provide us with the full picture, the full context of an incident that unfolded over many minutes, in many different locations. We have to let our investigators find the whole picture and seek out the truth, the whole truth, because that's what we all want is the truth," Yost stated. [MORE] yes, truth over reality.

ARTILLERY ABOVE IS FROM KEVIN RASHID JOHNSON [MORE]

When Mr. Yost refers to investigating and reviewing the evidence what exactly is he referring to? Jayland Walker was shot to death in one place. Sixty days have gone by. Does he mean interviewing the suspected killers and gathering their testimonial statements - that is, statements made by cops in anticipation of litigation and made after cops have lawyered up and reviewed video several times? Such evidence is subjective and self-serving and therefore should have little to no weight … who wants to be charged with murder?

The investigation appears to be pretense for painstakingly crafting some legal defense for cops as they comb through videos searching for some dark splotch visible only to mind blocked racist sheeple that might resemble a gun in Jayland’s hand (even though it was on the car seat and Jayland was outside the car, running for his life and away from 8 armed white folks) and for any possible exculpatory information no matter how immaterial to support the white cops’ right to remain violent and murder Jayland Walker and any other non-white person whenever they want to. Yost appears to be functioning like a criminal defense attorney, delaying, and zealously working to acquit white cops - not seeking accountability for authority.

Video recordings are unique by their nature. In general, a video recording is made through a fixed lens or “eyewitness” and the moving images presented can be played backwards, forwards, in slow motion, magnified and played over and over again. Such a perspective is one of a kind in criminal cases. In this matter, there is no evidence comparable to the video recording. As such, the lex-icon (“law as image - the appearance of justice (the form) over the substance of justice via truth and law over humanity.” ) is falling apart.

The videos captured the entire incident. Said 8 bodycamera videos are the only non-testimonial, objective, evidence in this matter. The videos contain information material to every element of murder, which is the intentional killing of human being by another without excuse, justification or mitigation. Probable cause is a low standard when it is applied to mere mortals (especially black citizens) on a daily basis in courtrooms by white prosecutors and judges. The government only has the burden to prove that more likely than not cops committed murder when they shot at a defenseless man over 90 times as he fled away from them posing no threat. That is not hard to do here if the cops are treated like human beings and not super-human representatives of authority exempt from morality.

As explained by an inmate in New Mexico the authorities are taking measures just to say they took measures. They’re not doing anything to help us & everyone knows that". In reality the legal system produces nothing else but the appearance of justice. FUNKTIONARY explains the lex-icon sustains your belief in the legitimacy of the legal system as a whole. Within the lex-icon elite whites go through great effort to produce a show of “fairness.” This production includes the court’s emphasis on “procedural due process,” “professionalism” and leaves out no detail as it includes plastic flags, oaths, black robes, elevated judge platform, formalities, high ceilings, latin phrases etc. Also, occasional dismissals and acquittals of Black defendants or convictions of white cops are a necessary part of the illusion.

FUNKTIONARY further explains:

lexiconned – mislead (conned) by (inside-the-circle) lexical definitions and their deft definers. 2) word-conditioning. (See: Belief, Oughtism, Symbolaeography, Group-Entity, White Lies, Truth-Based Reality, Language & Oughtomatism)

legal system – the underworld inverted and sanctioned for public consumption, control and compliance over the masses. The same system down through the ages runs the legal system on the outside world as a front for the people to believe in while running the underworld as well. (See: Law, Lawyer, Lawyers, Statutes, Proclamations, Tyranny & Nobility)

In Apparent PR Stunt Racist Suspects at Bank of America Unveil ‘Zero Down Payment Mortgages' for Black/Latino Areas. Applicants Must Show Perfect Rent/Utility Bill Payments thru Govt COVID Lock Downs

From [HERE] Bank of America is offering mortgages for first-time homeowners that do not require down payments, minimum credit scores or closing costs in a program that aims to boost homeownership rates among first-time Black and Latino buyers.

Under the trial program, which was announced on Tuesday, Bank of America will offer loans to people in certain predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Charlotte, N.C.; Dallas; Detroit; Los Angeles and Miami. Eligibility for the program, which is called the Community Affordable Loan Solution, is based on income and location, and requires no mortgage insurance.

From BoA, “Bank of America Introduces Community Affordable Loan Solution™ to Expand Homeownership Opportunities in Black/African American and Hispanic-Latino Communities”:

Bank of America today announced a new zero down payment, zero closing cost mortgage solution for first-time homebuyers, which will be available in designated markets, including certain Black/African American and/or Hispanic-Latino neighborhoods in Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and Miami. The Community Affordable Loan Solution™ aims to help eligible individuals and families obtain an affordable loan to purchase a home. 

The Community Affordable Loan Solution is a Special Purpose Credit Program which uses credit guidelines based on factors such as timely rent, utility bill, phone and auto insurance payments. It requires no mortgage insurance or minimum credit score. Individual eligibility is based on income and home location. Prospective buyers must complete a homebuyer certification course provided by select Bank of America and HUD-approved housing counseling partners prior to application.

This new program is in addition to and complements Bank of America’s existing $15 billion Community Homeownership Commitment™ to offer affordable mortgages, industry leading grants and educational opportunities to help 60,000 individuals and families purchase affordable homes by 2025. Through this commitment, Bank of America has already helped more than 36,000 people and families become homeowners, having provided more than $9.5 billion in low down payment loans and over $350 million in non-repayable down payment and/or closing cost grants. To date, two-thirds of the loans and grants made through the Community Homeownership Commitment has helped multicultural clients to achieve homeownership.

Bank of America also has a 26-year relationship with the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), through which the Bank has committed to providing an additional $15 billion in mortgages to low-to-moderate income homebuyers through May 2027.

According to the National Association of Realtors, today there is a nearly 30-percentage-point gap in homeownership between White and Black Americans; for Hispanic buyers, the gap is nearly 20 percent. And the competitive housing market has made it even more difficult for potential homebuyers, especially people of color, to buy homes.

“Homeownership strengthens our communities and can help individuals and families to build wealth over time,” said AJ Barkley, head of neighborhood and community lending for Bank of America. “Our Community Affordable Loan Solution will help make the dream of sustained homeownership attainable for more Black and Hispanic families, and it is part of our broader commitment to the communities that we serve.” [MORE]

Banks have contributed to racial gaps in homeownership rates by approving fewer loans with less favorable terms for Black applicants than for white borrowers with similar credit profiles, Dr. Ray said. It’s important, he added, that more financial institutions take steps like the one Bank of America has announced to correct the inequalities of the past and to be part of the solution.

@Armanwalker said Black home ownership rates remain at our near all-time lows and that the real-estate gap has been increasing. “These are not predatory loans,” @Armanwalker said. 

A Twitter user called @Benhem612 raised the question of whether the Bank of America program will be combined with protections to prevent homes from being sold for “pennies on the dollar.” 

Twitter user @CamTsn compared the program to Ninja loans, which are loans provided with little or no attempt to investigate the ability to repay. “What a great idea, offer Ninja loans 2.0 at the top of a housing bubble,” @CamTsn said. “I am absolutely sure this will not negatively impact minorities and their communities.” [MORE]

A Mistrial is Declared Over Engineers' Role in the Flint water crisis. Jury of Sheeple Unable to Decide if Firms should bear some responsibility for Contaminated Water

From [HERE] A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after jurors said they couldn't reach a verdict in a dispute over whether two engineering firms should bear some responsibility for Flint's lead-contaminated water.

Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, known as LAN, were accused of not doing enough to get Flint to treat the highly corrosive water or to urge a return to a regional water supplier.

A mistrial was declared in federal court in Ann Arbor, Michigan, court spokesman David Ashenfelter said.

After hearing months of evidence, the jury began full deliberations on July 25 but also took a planned 11-day break before returning Tuesday.

The trial centered on the engineering firms and the effects of lead on four children, not all Flint residents. But the result was being closely watched because it would likely influence possible settlements or trials in other cases.

Veolia and LAN were not part of a landmark $626 million deal involving thousands of residents of the majority-Black city, the state of Michigan and other parties. [MORE]

Fact Check: The Water Tanker in Downtown Jacksonville Isn't for the Puppetican Governor's Mansion; its for Trustmark Bank, gangbankers who 'pull the strings' and Own the Building Across the Street

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY

Gangbanker – a shrewd hoodlum who steals one’s past (collateral), present (awareness), and future (productive energy) through the deception of the sleight-of-mind trick called “money” in collusion (association) with other thieves with the legal sanction of the prime thief (Corporate State). 2) a financial proctologist. Gangbankers, through the veil of incorporation and legal license to plunder, hold whole communities for ransom. (See: “Money,” Gangbanking, Swindle, Fraud, LOP-Sided Banking, FRAUD, Thief, S&M Banking, Casino Economy, Predatory Economics, Usury, Interest, Principal & Reification)

Gangbanking – the legally sanctioned institution of covert slavery by the intergenerational dynastic banking families and their (pirate fraternity) member bank owners inflicted and imposed upon the subdued captured and domesticated population (dwellers upon the land) all over the world. 2) the centralization of symbolic imaginary debt in the hands of terrortorial gangsters backed by enforced by, and in collusion with an even more ruthless gang, i.e., the Corporate State. 3) the worldwide system of debt-based monetary “creation” in the form of digitized bank credit (ledger entries) stored “in” and transmitted from the memory banks of interconnected banking computer systems internetworked around the globe. Gangbanking is the system and mechanism for the international, intergenerational transmission and maintenance of global economic inequality and resource ownership and power differential. A further consequence of monopoly capitalism, state capitalism and virtual capitalism is that ownership of real assets and tangible wealth is increasingly transferred (appropriated) to banks as a whole, i.e., in the aggregate. Why should “banks” individually and collectively be allowed to collect principal and interest for merely publishing and administrating (via reciprocal clearing) our promises to “pay.” After all, the true creditor gave up property for irredeemable “notes” which are merely published by the "banking" system; and this arrangement certainly denies the true creditor interest, to take, for no more than the cost of tokenizing the debtor’s obligation, first principal equal to that of all wealth ever so financed, and secondly, to perpetually multiply that unjustified taking by interest. In re-borrowing interest, interest is converted to new principal (debt), which, because it exceeds the previous sum of debt, it is unquestionably how much debt increases. A circulation of political money subject to interest inherently and irreversibly multiplies debt in proportion to the circulation, even by inherently greater increments of periodic interest on ever greater sums of debt, until the system collapses under a sum of debt it can no longer service. Gangbanking is the plain and open fraud of officially sanctioned counterfeiting of “money” (i.e., substantive rights or actual claims on real wealth, goods, labor and services) and “lending” these imaginary intangible pretensions (as if they were discrete properties of some physical or scarce item, i.e., the misnomer of notional “real money” itself an oxymoron) at interest. [MORE]

From [HERE] A viral video showing a tanker truck parked across from the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion in Jackson has sparked speculation online that Gov. Tate Reeves’ home is enjoying special access to clean water while most residents of the capital city go without safe running water. 

But the speculation is wrong.

Two separate Trustmark employees told the Mississippi Free Press that the tanker parked across the street from the Governor’s Mansion is on standby to provide water to Trustmark Bank’s Jackson Downtown Branch, located in the building directly across from the residence.

“(It’s) just in case something happens with the water,” one of the employees said. “It’s not for them over there (at the Governor’s Mansion), it’s for us.” She added that the office has not had to use it.

After this story first published, Trustmark Director of Corporate Communications and Marketing Melanie Morgan responded to a request for comment Thursday afternoon and confirmed the employees’ story.

“It is absolutely solely for Trustmark,” she said, adding that they brought the tanker in to have on standby “out of an abundance of caution.” Morgan said the bank is asking many employees to work from home to save resources, but that the tanker is there in case it is needed to help keep key facilities operating, such as air-conditioning system for keeping computer servers stored in the building cool. [MORE]

What are the Limits of Handing Out Bottled Water to Solve a Water Crisis? Dems Afraid to Criticize Ineffective Jacksonville Mayor (or any other Black Politician) and Treat their Rolebot as a Rolemodel

LOSING IS WINNING ONLY FOR BLACKS IN THE SYSTEM OF RWS. Despite what racists tell you winning will never be losing. In all areas of PEOPLE ACTIVITY racists promote weiteko; an inversion of life - such as the promotion of losing as winning. SPECIFICALLY, THE DEPENDENT MEDIA consistently ignores or glosses over even THE most egregious FAILURES OR loser conduct BY ITS ACCEPTED OR APPROVED OF BLACK ROLEBOTS AND SHOWCASE BLACKS. It is part of ongoing psy-ops or false consciousness programming aimed at Black people to maintain cooperative master servant relationS between Blacks and whites. IT HELPS TO KEEP Black people in a "continuous state of checkmate” and a “losing streak that is centuries long.” [MORE] In sports we see it with the dependent media’s promotion of rolebot Lebron James as “a winner” despite the fact that he has lost six (6) championships (won 4) or WITH ELITE WHITE LIBERALS crowning Simone Biles “the GOAT” the day after her mental meltdown at the Olympics. In politics we see it with the appointment of obviously unqualified “opporTomists” like Judge Kentanji Brown (who had worked ONLY 6 MONTHS AS AN APPELLATE JUDGE WHEN BIDEN SELECTED HER) and WITH the uncritical examinations of Black politicians at all levels of government who are lionized despite failing to deliver anything of tangible, material benefit to their Black constituents. Dr. Martin Luther King WARNED, elite racists often support, appoint or promote unqualified negros into high positions so that important matters to Black life ARE handled frivolously. Here, we are NECESSARILY only talking about democrat politicians because, in general, the lone criticism offered ABOUT BLACK POLITICIANS by the dependent media is that they are ‘republican.’ THAT IS, TO ELITE WHITES, BLACK POLITICIANS ARE “BLACK” BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT REPUBLICAN - THERE APPEARS TO BE NO OTHER CRITERIA FOR “BLACKNESS.” Eric Adams, lori lightfoot, muriel bowser, Gregory Meeks, Kamala HARRIS, london breed AND MANY OTHER BOHICANS AND SAMBOS DON’T EMPOWER BLACK PEOPLE OR REPRESENT ANY BLACK POLITIC OR IDEOLOGY THAT AIMS AT DOING SO; SAID INDIVIDUALS SIMPLY POSSESS BLACK Chromosomes AND ARE OTHERWISE INTERCHANGEABLE WITH NEUROPEANS. DON’T MISTAKE THIS as an endorsement OF BLACK CONSERVATIVES. IT’S SIMPLY AN OBSERVATION THAT BLACK ELECTORAL POLITICS IS PRESENTLY DEVOID OF ACCOUNTABILITY, GOALS, SUBSTANCE AND INTERIORITY, HAVING NO IDEOLOGY BESIDES PARROTING WHATEVER IS ON THE WHITE LIBERALS’ AGENDA. LIKE FUNKTIONARY RHETORICALLY ASKS, “DOLLY WANT A CRACKER?”

With regard to BLACK PUNDITS IMPOSED ONTO BLACK PEOPLE BY ELITE WHITES AT CNN, MSNBC AND ELSEWHERE AND coin-operated Black media OUTLETS (who simply mimic MASSA’ media AND ONLY CRITIQUE WHAT MASSA’ MEDIA CRITIQUES OR WHATEVER IS SAFELY WITHIN BOUNDARIES OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT SET BY ELITE WHITES AND COMPATIBLE WITH RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY) the great rebel Dr. Amos Wilson explained,

‘the Black press and safe negro TV incumbents make little or no demands on Black politicians while it constantly parades them before the Black community as role models, regardless of their success or lack of it in advancing the interests of the community. The achieve­ments of Black politicians, no matter how dubious, are often pre­sented by the Black press as vicarious achievements of the Black community as a whole. Black incumbents are given ready access to Black media outlets to massage the Black community, to maintain their public persona, and to rationalize their very frequent failures to provide the Black community with responsive and effective political leadership. Thus, they keep their opposition out of the media limelight and the community is cajoled into re-electing a political establishment whose accomplishments are meager when not plainly regressive.’

From [HERE] and [HERE] State officials said they had no clear end date for the water crisis here, as residents on Thursday endured another day of unreliable water running through their pipes.

Many of the city’s roughly 150,000 residents have had little to no water pressure in their taps since Monday, when flooding overwhelmed the main water-treatment plant. Officials had been preparing for a crisis after the plant’s main pumps failed in July and the city went under a boil-water notice.

Nevertheless, Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba assured residents at a press conference that the capital city had seen improvements in water pressure overnight, and the number of locations with water increased.

“We have seen steady improvements in the system,” he said. “There are individuals who did not have water pressure at all yesterday in which water pressure has returned, and the reports of the tanks is that there are steady gains being achieved each and every day.”

“In the middle of peak consumption, which is during the daytime hours, we’ve maintained steady (pressure),” he added. “At night is a moment that we look to have the greatest amount of recovery.”

Both the City of Jackson and the State of Mississippi declared states of emergency on Monday over problems at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Center worsened by Pearl River flooding this week. The treatment plant is designed to pump 50 million gallons a day for use in the capital city. Reporter Nick Judin reported earlier today that the Environmental Protection Agency had warned in a Mississippi Free Press interview several days ago that the facility’s systems were in danger of failing.

Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday that he is “sending a request for a federally declared disaster to support state and city emergencies.”

Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District Rep. Bennie Thompson said he supports the move to ask for federal assistance. “I hope the Federal government will be able to provide resources adequate and comprehensive enough to address the health and safety crisis facing the City of Jackson and surrounding communities,” he said on social media. “This situation requires immediate attention and cooperation from Federal, state, and local governments.”

The 3rd Congressional District Rep. Michael Guest blamed “decades of failed leadership.” 

“The problems in Jackson were many years in the making, and it will take many more years to fix them,” he wrote Tuesday. “The solutions will only be found by elected officials working together to fix the underlying issues, not playing politics or just merely throwing money at the problems.”

The mayor today welcomed the cooperation of the State of Mississippi in resolving various historic problems in the water system, and denied Reeves’ warning at his press conference last night that the City is distributing untreated water.

Reeves’ exact words were: “Please stay safe. Do not drink the water. In too many cases, it is raw water from the reservoir being pushed through the pipes.”

Gov. Tate Reeves (pictured) said on Aug. 29, 2022, that Jackson is pumping raw water into its water system. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba denied that assertion on Aug. 30, 2022. Photo courtesy State of Mississippi

“I do want to clarify just a few inaccuracies that have gone forward; first and foremost, the City of Jackson has not distributed any untreated raw water,” Lumumba said today. “That is inaccurate, but we do encourage our residents to continue to abide by the boil-water notice that has been in effect.” 

The capital city has been under a boil-water notice for a month because of problems with water-treatment methods at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Center and related issues.

Lumumba said Monday that operators had stopped pushing the water into the system to ensure adequate treatment because of the Pearl River flood water coming into the system at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant. The City wanted to increase production at the J.H. Fewell Water Treatment Center, which generally supplies 20 million gallons daily into the system. However, a pump failed there, making it unable to do so.

However, Carol Kemker, the director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division, told the Mississippi Free Press in an Aug. 26 interview that the facility’s system were likely to fail, in no small part due to the Lumumba administration dragging its feet on efforts to recruit qualified water operators.

“They could be reaching out to technical colleges, they could be holding recruitment events, they could be scheduling interviews, they could be putting in advertisements,” Kemker told Nick Judin. “(This is) what we do when we recruit. We’re not seeing those types of things.”

The mayor said today that the O.B. Curtis Water facility is suffering from numerous equipment failures. “This is a set of accumulated problems based on deferred maintenance that has not taken place over decades,” he said at the press conference. [MORE]]

[There are No tyrants, only tyranny exists] Corpse Joe Mocks Blacks by Vowing to 'Fund Police.' He Dementia-Splains to Sheeple He Will Ban AR-15’s b/c There’s No Need for Tyranny Prevention these Days

According to FUNKTIONARY:

tyranny – the miscarriage of self-government. 2) the absence of ethical anarchy. In our system, tyranny must have an accomplice. The perpetrator by intent must be accommodated by the perpetrator by consent. The former initiates, the latter accommodates. Of all tyrannies, the greatest is the tyranny of the ego-mind. “If the government is allowed to place a tax on what is a natural right it can raise that tax to the point where that right has been effectively destroyed. That is tyranny.” Butcher’s Union Company v. Crescent City. “No man, no group, and no nation has the right to any man’s individual freedom. No matter how pure the motive, how great the emergency, how high the principle, such action is nothing but tyranny. It is never justified.” ~John W. Parsons. Tyranny Law #1 – Any power that can be abused will be abused. Tyranny Law #2 – Abuse always expands to fill the limits of resistance to it. Tyranny Law #3 – If people don’t resist the abuses of others, they will have no one to resist the abuses of themselves, and tyranny will prevail. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. ~John Curran. Retaining and exercising the unalienable right to distribute one’s own property and wealth without restriction is the only guarantee of freedom from tyranny. (See: Authority, Labor, Natural Law, Self-Ownership, THC, Anarchy, Appropriation, Income Taxes, IRS, Bill of Rights, Property, Freedom, Self-Determination, GIMME!, Autotyranny, Free-Range Slavery, Matrix, Organizations, Private Services & Liberation)

From [HERE] President Joe Biden commenced the first of four trips to Pennsylvania in the next couple of days with a complete turnaround from his party's "defund the police" mantra to a "fund the police" one, along with a pledge to ban assault-style weapons in the country. He also doubled down on denigrating people who vote Trump as being far-right. 

Then he went really off script. 

"He used to go down in the East Side, what they call the bucket. Highest crime rate in the country. There's a place where I was the only white guy that worked as a lifeguard down in that area, on the East side. And, you know, you could always tell where the best basketball in the state is, where the best basketball in the city is. It's where everybody shows up,” said Biden to a somewhat uncomfortable but supportive crowd in Wilkes-Barre. 

Then he started talking about gun ownership, saying, “You know what the Mexicans, Mexico, which has real problems causing us real problems? You know what their biggest complaint is? Can't we stop the gun trafficking across the southern border, into Mexico?" 

Biden — who will go on to do three more appearances in Pennsylvania, concluding with the Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh on Monday — also offered his support for his party’s Senate candidate, John Fetterman. Fetterman, though, did not even attend the event, and Biden seemed confused about what offices he and gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro were running for. 

“Please, please elect [Shapiro, the sitting attorney general] to the Senate. Elect that big ol' boy [Fetterman, the sitting lieutenant governor] to be senator,” said Biden as he concluded his speech. 

Some Democrats in the state, who admit they would rather dance on hot coals than vote Republican, say Biden can get away with his verbal stumbles because he has been that way all of his career. Still, one can only imagine Fetterman wishes he’d just be anywhere but here. 

Currently, Fetterman leads Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz in the polls, with the RealClearPolitics average having the race at plus 7 for Fetterman and the latest poll by Emerson having Fetterman now down to plus 5 over the heart surgeon. The averaged RealClearPolitics polling began in June when Oz had just emerged from a bruising primary contest with businessman David McCormick that had deeply, negatively harmed his approval ratings. 

Fetterman suffered a stroke days before the May primary; since then, he has not resumed his duties in Harrisburg and took most of the summer off to recover from the effects of the stroke. 

Fetterman has not taken any questions from the press outside of a closed caption phone conversation with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a text exchange with me. He has given three speeches in the past two weeks: an 11-minute speech in Erie, a four-minute one in Pittsburgh, and a seven-minute speech in Venango County. 

Each appearance shows that the lieutenant governor's speech is halting and that he struggles with finding his words. Nonetheless, no update from his doctor has been given since June, when his cardiologist issued a statement that Fetterman’s health problems were a direct result of him not following his orders several years ago.

[Rotten to the Core] Freedom of Movement Restricted, 4th Amendment Rights Imaginary for Blacks in White, Liberal, Racist NYC: Data Shows NYPD are More Likely to Stop, Arrest, Search Black Motorists

From [HERE] Black drivers in New York City were more likely to have their vehicles searched or arrested than any other racial group in the first half of 2022, according to new city data shared with the Daily News.

When the race or ethnicity of drivers was known, about 4% of black drivers stopped were arrested, the data show. Approximately 3% of Latinos and 1% of Whites, Asians and Pacific Islanders who were stopped were eventually arrested.

Vehicle search percentages were the same — 4% of Black men stopped had their vehicles searched, compared to 3% of Latinos and 1% of Whites, as well as Asians and Pacific Islanders.

Around 8,154 arrests during motor vehicle stops led to arrests in the first half of 2022 – that is around 2% of the total of 358,895 stops.

More minority drivers are being pulled over by the NYPD, city data shared with the Daily News shows.

Police have stepped up traffic surveillance in the city since last winter, data shows.

The number of freeway stops increased by about 3% in the second three months of 2022, according to the data. From April through late June, NYPD officers made 182,142 traffic stops — 5,389 more than from January through March, when they made 176,753 traffic stops.

The growing number of vehicle stops affects the New York Civil Liberties Union, which says police need to be more vigilant to make fair decisions about who to stop.

“Given the long history of police bias over hitchhiking, it is alarming that the NYPD’s vehicle stop count is approaching 200,000 every three months,” said Christopher Dunn, NYCLU legal director. “This staggering number shows that there needs to be much more scrutiny into how drivers are treated by the NYPD.”

Black motorists accounted for 31% of cars stopped in the city in the first six months of 2022, when the driver race was known, the data shows. That’s out of all proportion to the city’s population, which is about 20% black, according to the Department of Urban Planning.

Latino motorists accounted for about 28% of cars stopped in the first half of 2022. That’s the city’s population, which is also about 28% Latino.

New data shows black drivers are more likely to be arrested than other groups in New York City. (Jeff Bachner/for New York Daily News)

White drivers accounted for 27% of traffic stops – slightly less than their 31% of the city’s population. Asian and Pacific islanders accounted for about 13% of traffic stops, while Asians make up about 16% of the urban population.

Although black drivers were more likely to be arrested, they were significantly less likely to receive subpoenas.

About 66% of black motorists stopped received a subpoena, NYPD data shows. About 72% of Whites, 77% of Asians and Pacific Islanders, and 84% of Latinos stopped received a subpoena.

The NYPD this year began releasing quarterly traffic stop data under a law passed by the City Council in 2021. When the data for the first quarter was released in May, the department said in a press release that motorists’ races over by police were “approximately proportional to the city’s overall racial demographics.”

A State of ‘Maze-Ment:’ 'Today Corpse Biden Opened a Pack of Paper and Drank from a Cup All by Himself... so the Victories are Piling Up!' Dem's State Media Pretend 10k is Big Money for Student Loans

THE INTERCEPT’S NEW DOCUMENTARY, “Freedom Dreams: Black Women and the Student Debt Crisis,” profiles Black women educators and activists struggling under the weight of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, in student loan debt. The title is inspired by scholar and activist Robin D. G. Kelley’s eponymous book, and the film is narrated by former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, a longtime ally of the growing debt abolition movement. [MORE] and [MORE] and [MORE] and [MORE]

As defined in FUNKTIONARY:

maze – a fortified network of oversimplified logics and programmed attachments with strong emotional charges (connected to the attachments) severely hampering one in achieving lasting satisfaction from Life and clarification in Life. In a state of a ‘mazement’ learning is suspended and experiences which need to be assimilated are repressed. The cheddar-chasers say: “Don’t bother me, I know what I have to do to get what I want.” You would be amazed to learn how simple (not easy) it is to escape the smoke alarm reaction filled haze of the mighty maze. 2) a system of interconnecting multicursal pathways replete with blind alleys, twists and turns, false choices and unknown exit points often designed to confuse or confound the traveler. Mazes can be used to spiral through the rungs of our evolution in consciousness both infinitely extendable and expandable. (See: Cementality, Meditativeness, BLYND, Generalizations, Absolute Truth, Psylence, Critical Thought, Me-Bot, Understanding, Logic, Identifications, Mindful Witnessing, Souljourn, Consciousness, Clarity & Neuralasticity)

debtor – one who works directly and indirectly for the bank. (See: Usury, “Monetized Debt” & Bankster)

debt – (Latin) debeo, meaning “I owe;” obligation to pay; the undelivered (not received) portion of an exchange. Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the fascist slave-driver. Debt used as “money” does more than stimulate and shackle those who labor in an economy—it also compels them to conform and make them behave. People construct their own financial cages with bars of debt, usury as a lock, interest being the key, and the warden a loan ranger “bankster,” and there is no parole for those on debt-rolls of debt-row. We really don’t fully comprehend debt nor its implications as a conduit for exchanges. The power differential of debt and compound interest is mind-numbing. Our global economic system is based entirely on bank created imaginary debt-proliferation—exacerbating the complexity, velocity and magnitude of socioeconomic, environmental and psychological problems the world over while devaluing the notion of any holistic or meaningful life. Debt-based so-called “monetary systems” are a parasite and plague to natural economies and voluntary exchange. Debt extends and pretends forever (the imaginary exponential debt expansion system). Debt is a word which almost no writers and mendicant-minded pundits on monetary theory and practice seem too definite. Running into debt (secret slavery) is not so bad, it’s just that running into your alleged creditors can be embarrassing—despite credit being no thing. Debt-as-money (imaginary demand) is in reality nothing more than the illusion of wealth. When what we use as (if it were) “money” is imaginary debt, there can be no freedom. (See: Debth, “Credit,” “Monetized Debt,” UCC, Co-Surety, FRACTURE, Thing, Political Money, IRS, Flag Money, Cultural Induction, Gangbanking & Debtonation)

The Rewards/Punishments of White Supremacy: Authorities Send Derek Chauvin to a Safer, Whiter Prison in Arizona while Kevin Rashad Johnson (Black Panther) is Being Denied Cancer Treatment in VA Prison

From [HERE] The white Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was transferred to a federal prison in Tucson Wednesday, Aug. 24.

According to a CBS report, Derek Chauvin was transferred from the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Oak Park Heights to the Federal Correctional Institution - Tucson.

FCI Tucson, 8901 S. Wilmot Road, is a medium-security U.S. penitentiary that houses 266 inmates. Said prison is a safer prison as it had the fewest number of “prohibited acts” among all federal prisons according to the Department of Justice. Also it has a reputation for having better communication, visitation, education, and programming than other federal facilities.

It also appears to be an overwhelmingly white prison. A Black inmate from DC commented recently that USP Tucson is “one of the most racist institutions [he has] ever been in.” [MORE]

U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson suggested when sentencing Chauvin that he be placed near family who live between Iowa and Minnesota. But federal officials are not bound by judicial requests.

Chauvin is serving more than 20 years for the murder and for violating Floyd’s civil rights.

Floyd’s killing sparked protests worldwide over police brutality and racism.

Chauvin, who is white, sat on Floyd’s neck on the the pavement for more than nine minutes as the Black man pleaded over and over , “I can’t breathe,” and murdered him.

Earlier in July, former officer Thomas Lane was sentenced to 2 ½ years. He's been ordered to report to a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado later this month. [MORE]

IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF REALITARIAN KEVIN RASHID JOHNSON

Meanwhile black inmates are routinely denied medical treatment in foul state and federal prisons. Kevin Rashad Johnson, a Black Panther, is being denied cancer treatment at the Nottaway Correctional Centre, a state prison in Burke Virginia. Johnson is a realitarian known for his heavy Artillery. Tests he took last October and November indicated that he had prostrate cancer but no biopsy was performed until April and the results reported to him on July 1. Eleven of 13 biopsies are positive for prostate cancer. Although he needs treatment to begin immediately prison authorities have nevertheless refused to provide care. [MORE] Johnson has asked anyone concerned to send a letter or email to the prison orderlies listed below. He has proposed the following letter but feel free to change it as you like:

“My name is _______________________. My friend Kevin Johnson,#1007485, housed at Nottoway, just learned from the prison doctor that he has prostate cancer. Tests he took last October and November indicated that diagnosis almost certainly, but no biopsy was performed until April and the results reported to him on July 1. Eleven of 13 biopsies are positive for prostate cancer.

“Cancer kills, and it can kill fast. A friend with prostate cancer says his treatment started immediately upon diagnosis in an effort to stop the cancer from spreading to his lymph nodes and on to his bones, where it would be fatal. The Virginia Department of Corrections has already failed in its responsibility to provide even minimal care. Mr. Johnson’s thousands of supporters are shocked to hear of these inexcusably long delays in diagnosis. The best possible treatment must begin now. No obstacle must be allowed to cause further delay.”

Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections
Harold W. Clarke
VADOC
P.O. Box 26963
Richmond, VA 23261
(804) 674-3000
docmail@vadoc.virginia.gov

Director of Health Services, VADOC
Steve Herrick
healthservicesinquiries@vadoc.virginia.gov
(804) 887-8118

Warden Clint Davis
Nottoway Correctional Center
2892 Schutt Rd.
Burkeville, VA 23922
(434) 767-5543

The Affirmative Action of White Supremacy: Louisville Jewish Community Hires a White Cop Involved in the Murders of Breonna Taylor and David McAtee, a Restaurant Owner Shot to Death During a Protest

From [HERE] The largest Jewish community organization in Louisville, Kentucky is facing criticism for hiring a police officer who was at the scene during the police killings of Breonna Taylor and David McAtee, both in 2020.

Josh Judah, a retired white lieutenant colonel with the Louisville Metro Police Department (in photo), was hired to serve as a security advisor for The Jewish Community of Louisville, an umbrella group that includes Louisville’s Jewish Community Center and Jewish Federation.

Judah was at the scene of the raid at Breonna Taylor’s apartment in March of 2020, when police carried out a no-knock search warrant and shot the young Black woman six times. He reportedly confirmed another officer’s untrue claims that Taylor was on the floor and armed with a rifle. Four current and former Louisville police, not including Judah, face federal civil rights and unlawful conspiracy charges in her death.

Judah’s new role includes overseeing the JCL’s SAFE Louisville initiative, which includes running security operations of Jewish institutions and organizations across Kentucky, responding to antisemitic threats and incidents and supervising community safety trainings. In the role, Judah is the full-time representative in Louisville of the Secure Community Network, a national Jewish security service founded by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

Judah was also involved in the events surrounding the death of David McAtee, a Black restaurant owner shot by police and the National Guard during the nationwide protests against police brutality in 2020. Judah had dispatched police to disperse a crowd gathering outside McAtee’s restaurant, where there was a party in violation of the city’s 9:00 p.m. curfew. Police fired pepper balls into the crowd, McAtee responded by firing two shots, and the Louisville police and National Guard fired back. A bullet struck McAtee in the chest and killed him.

McAtee’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the National Guard members and police officers involved, including Judah. The civil case will go to trial in April 2023.

According to NPR affiliate station WFPL, a few members of the Louisville Jewish community had circulated a petition to JCL leaders criticizing the hire, saying it could “threaten the safety and comfort” of Jews of color and create a rift between the Black and Jewish communities.

“While many members of Jewish communities have grown accustomed to having a police presence in our spaces, and feel more secure due to this presence, this positive association is not universal,” the petition says. “Inviting law enforcement into a space does not guarantee all those in that space will be, or feel, protected equally.” [MORE]

THE WORLD IS 90% NON-WHITE BUT EVERYWHERE WHITES AND BLACKS LIVE TOGETHER THE WHITES ARE IN CONTROL. THERE IS NO SYSTEM OF BLACK SUPREMACY ANYWHERE IN EXISTENCE.

World of 7 Billion People

According to FUNKTIONARY

Racism White Supremacy - psychopathic degeneracy. 2) "The local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet earth—a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people." -Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, MD. Hate and oppression can never reign. Only love is supreme.

People who classify themselves as White, who wish to be taken seriously, and who are righteous and responsible, will only talk about ending White Supremacy (Racism) and replacing it with Justice. [MORE]

'We Got 1 Not Listening:’ A Pastor said He Was Watering His Neighbors Plants. But to White Alabama Cops He was Just Another NGHR in the Free Range Prison to Arrest and Put into Greater Confinement

THE QUALITY OF BLACK CITIZENSHIP IS AT NEW LOWER LEVELS AS POWERLESS BLACKS GO ON PARROTING THEIR WHITE MASTERS, DELUDING THEMSELVES ABOUT “VOTING POWER,” RATIONALIZING THEIR SLAVERY AS “RIGHTS” AND INDULGING THEMSELVES WITH SNIGGERING ENTERSTAINMENT, AS IF SOMEONE ELSE IS COMING TO FREE THEM.

If you are talking about whether there was “probable cause” to arrest then you have missed the point.

According to FUNKTIONARY

Statism – the belief “citizens” and “states” exist and the memetic thought patterns supporting such beliefs. 2) the religion of oppression and domination coupled with the science of exploitation and sociopathic control. 3) the opiate of the so-called Elites. 4) a philosophy that idealizes majority rule gang force (authority) over individual authenticity (autonomy). 5) servitude over liberty and statutes over humanity. So long as “states” are viewed and accepted as natural, normal, reality-based and inevitable, they will continue to violently abstract humans into extinction. Statism is mind control; people both unwillingly and willingly surrender their property (labor being one’s most inviolable property) to men and women pretending to be “governors,” “commissioners,” and “presidents” etc. because they believe they are “citizens” of a so-called “state” and must pay their proverbial “fair share” to support such abstractions or fictions of law. Just using statism against itself proves bureaucrats never have a case regardless of what they “charge” someone with. “Statism and it’s supporting political theology do not exist in people’s minds to promote freedom or protect ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness;’ it’s pure mind control to divert our attention away from the actions of antisocial individuals (sociopaths) who are so desperate to “protect” us they are willing to kill us and steal our property.” ~Marc Stevens. (See: DOME, Beliefs, Landmine Legislation, $crapitalism, Standing, Subject Matter Jurisdiction, Judicial Victimization, States, Holodeck Court, Allegiance, Anarchy, Society, Individuality, Civilization, Citizens, Monopoly Capitalism, The Golem, Government Paradox, Granfalloons, Corporate State, Government, Servitude, Stalinize, Property, Standing & Monopoly)

Citizenship – non-consensual jurisdiction. 2) the voluntary or involuntary unilateral conversion a natal filiation into a political subservience and affiliation. Citizenship demonstrates that one is a political gang-member owing allegiance and fealty to a Corporate State and the dictates of its laws, dictators, rulers (elected or unelected) and the collective (combined) power of its organizers, adminstraitors, smoke-screeners, invisible financier-owners, court systems and enforcers. 2) modern self-flagellation. Citizens are stockholders of commercial establishments (corporate fictions) called States. Government has no duty to protect anyone (Bowers v. Devito, 686 F.2d 616). Therefore, because there’s no duty to protect, there is no duty of allegiance. Without these “duties,” there are no “citizens.” Because there are no “citizens,” there is no “nation” and of course, no “illegal aliens.” Have you consented and volunteered (unknowingly or knowingly) to be a slave or is this “government” forcing you into slavery? Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master, and for the remainder, just any master will do. With citizenship comes the great responsibility of proving oneself unguilty. (See: Gangs, Date of Birth, Person, Individual, Allegiance, Duty, “Government,” Taxation, Chemical Warfare, Stationary Bandits, Human Resources, Society, Ruling, Involuntary Servitude, Citizens, Corporate State & Adherent Rights)

In the free range prison, all pretenses of civilization aside, the legal system is based entirely on physical coercion: comply with authority or go to jail or die. Government is force and nothing else. There is no free government. Government does not rest on voluntary support, it is anchored in violence. Michael Huemer explains,

“The need for an account of political legitimacy arises from the moral significance of coercion and from the coercive nature of government. It is important to bring these principles clearly into focus, to have a clear view of what needs explaining before we try to explain it.

     First, what is coercion? Hereinafter, I use the term ‘coercion’ to denote a person’s use of or threat to use physical force against another person. When I speak of coercing a person to do something, I shall mean using physical force or the threat of physical force to induce that person to perform the desired action. I use ‘physical force’ and ‘violence’ interchangeably. I shall not define ‘physical force’ here; our intuitive understanding of the notion will suffice for the subsequent arguments, and I shall not rely on any controversial judgments about what qualifies as physical force.

     My definition of ‘coercion’ is not intended as an analysis of the term’s standard use in English. It is a stipulative definition, intended to avoid repetition of the phrase ‘use of or threat to use physical force’. My use of the term differs from the ordinary usage in at least two ways: first, in the ordinarysense of the term, when A ‘coerces’ B, A induces B to behave in some way desired by A; but in my sense, A might coerce B by physically injuring B, whether or not A influences B’s behavior. Second, the ordinary sense counts a broader range of threats as coercive: in the ordinary sense, A might ‘coerce’ B using a threat to spread malicious rumors about B. This would not qualify as coercion in my sense, because the threat is not one of violence. The ordinary concept of coercion is useful in many contexts; nevertheless, I have introduced a stipulative definition because doing so enables us to consider some important and interesting arguments regarding political authority, while avoiding unnecessary semantic debates. 

     Government is a coercive institution. Generally speaking, when the state makes a law, the law carries with it a punishment to be imposed upon violators. It is possible to have a law with no specified punishment for violation, but all actual governments attach punishments to nearly all laws.  Not everyone who breaks the law will in fact be punished, but the state will generally make a reasonable effort at punishing violators and will generally punish a fair number of them, typically with fines or imprisonment. These punishments are intended to harm lawbreakers, and they generally succeed in doing so.

     Direct physical violence is rarely used as a punishment. Nevertheless, violence plays a crucial role in the system, because without the threat of violence, lawbreakers could simply choose not to suffer punishment. For example, the government commands that drivers stop before all red lights. If you violate this rule, you might be punished with a $200 fine. But this is simply another command. If you didn’t obey the command to stop before all red lights, why would you obey the command to pay $200 to the government? Perhaps the second command will be enforced by a third command: the government may threaten to revoke your driver’s license if you do not pay the fine. In other words, they may command you to stop driving. But if you violated the first two commands, why would you follow the third? Well, the command to stop driving may be enforced by a threat of imprisonment if you continue to drive without a license. As these examples illustrate, commands are often enforced with threats to issue further commands, yet that cannot be all there is to it. At the end of the chain must come a threat that the violator literally cannot defy. The system as a whole must be anchored by a non-voluntary intervention, a harm that the state can impose regardless of the individual’s choices.

     That anchor is provided by physical force. Even the threat of imprisonment requires enforcement: how can the state ensure that the criminal goes to the prison? The answer lies in coercion, involving actual or threatened bodily injury, or at a minimum, physical pushing or pulling of the individual’s body to the location of imprisonment. This is the final intervention that the individual cannot choose to defy. One can choose not to pay a fine, one can choose to drive without a license, and one can even choose not to walk to a police car to be taken away. But one cannot choose not to be subjected to physical force if the agents of the state decide to impose it.

     Thus, the legal system is founded on intentional, harmful coercion. To justify a law, one must justify imposition of that law on the population through a threat of harm, including the coercive imposition of actual harm on those who are caught violating the law. In common sense morality, the threat or actual coercive imposition of harm is normally wrong. This is not to say that it cannot be justified; it is only to say that coercion requires a justification. This may be because of the way in which coercion disrespects persons, seeking to bypass their reason and manipulate them through fear, or the way in which it seems to deny the autonomy and equality of other persons.

     I shall not attempt any comprehensive account of when coercion is justified. I rely on the intuitive judgment that harmful coercion requires a justification, as well as some intuitions about particular conditions that do or do not constitute satisfactory justifications. For instance, one legitimate justification is self-defense or defense of innocent third parties: one may harmfully coerce another person, if doing so is necessary to prevent that person from wrongfully harming someone else. Another justification for harmful coercion is consent. Thus, if you are in a boxing match, to which both participants have agreed, then you may punch your opponent in the face.

     On the other hand, many possible reasons for coercion are clearly inadequate. If you have a friend who eats too many potato chips, you may try to convince him to give them up. But if he won’t listen, you may not force him to stop. If you admire your neighbor’s car, you may offer to buy it from him. But if he won’t sell, you may not threaten him with violence. If you disagree with your coworker’s religious beliefs, you may try to convert him. But if he won’t listen, you may not punch him in the nose. And so on. In common sense ethics, the overwhelming majority of reasons for coercion fail as justifications.

     Modern states stand in need of an account of political legitimacy because modern states commonly coerce and harm individuals for reasons that would be viewed as inadequate for any non-governmental agent. This can be illustrated by some embellishments on the story of section 1.1.

     Suppose you announce that you believe a neighboring town is building some very destructive weapons, which they might one day use to terrorize other villages. To prevent this from happening, you round up a few like-minded villagers and travel to the neighboring town, where you violently depose the mayor, blowing up some buildings and predictably killing several innocent people in the process.

     If you behaved in this way, you would be labeled a terrorist and murderer, and calls for your execution or life imprisonment would likely abound. But when the government behaves in this way, its behavior is labeled ‘war’, and many support it. To be sure, there are many who reject the idea of pre-emptive war. But only political extremists describe soldiers or the government leaders who send them into battle as terrorists and murderers. Even among opponents of the 2003 Iraq war, for example, few went so far as to call George W. Bush a mass murderer or call for his execution or imprisonment. The notion of political authority is at work here: the feeling is that, whether its choice is good or bad, the government is the agent with the authority to decide whether to go to war. No other agent has the right to commit large-scale violence to achieve its ends, in anything like these circumstances.

     Suppose now that, amidst all your other unusual activities, you decide to start supporting charity. You find a charity that helps the poor. Unfortunately, you believe your village has not contributed enough to this charity voluntarily, so you take to forcibly extracting money from your neighbors and handing it over to the charity.

     If you behaved in this way, you would be labeled a thief and extortionist, and calls to imprison you and compel you to personally repay those whose wealth you expropriated would be commonplace. But when the government behaves in this way, its behavior is known as conducting social welfare programs, and most people support it. To be sure, there are some who oppose social welfare programs, but even opponents rarely view the government agents administering the programs, or the legislators who vote for the programs, as thieves and extortionists. Very few would call for their imprisonment or their being forced to personally repay taxpayers. Again, the notion of authority is at work: we think that the government has the authority to redistribute wealth; non-governmental organizations do not.

     This should give some indication of the range of governmental activities whose justification relies on the notion of political authority. We will discuss further in chapter 7 how far this range extends. But even from this brief discussion, it should be clear that, without a belief in authority, we would have to condemn a great deal of what we now accept as legitimate." [MORE]

In Kobe Bryant Photo Trial StrawBoss Sheriff [a sophisticated liar] Retracts Previous Statements that Cops Collected Pics of Dead Bodies and says He Ordered Cops to Destroy Photos (evidence) to Help

From [HERE] Vanessa Bryant, the surviving wife of Laker star Kobe Bryant, told the court on Friday, "I live in fear, every day, of being on social media and having the photographs pop up." She was referring to crash site photos taken by sheriff's deputies and LA County Fire officials on the day of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, daughter and seven others.

Bryant has sued the county over its handling of the photos. But for the first eight days of the trial, nearly everything about them has been the subject of dispute: how many there were, what exactly they showed, why they were taken and why they were shared. The photographs have never been published. But both Bryant and the other plaintiff in the lawsuit, Christopher Chester, whose wife and daughter were also killed in the crash, say they remain haunted by the possibility that the graphic images may one day surface. 

Friday's emotional testimony by Bryant was one of the first times she's publicly addressed the crash and the controversy surrounding the photos. She told the court she was "devastated" to learn that the photos were taken, that her first instinct was to "run down the block and just scream."

"I expected them to have compassion, respect," she said, referring to the first responders. "My husband and my daughter deserved dignity." 

"Every night," she said, "I think about what was done to them." 

Later, she said that she sometimes pictures the deputies sharing the photos with each other and laughing about them. She said the fear of the photos being disseminated to the public has given her panic attacks.

During cross examination, Mira Hashmall, the attorney representing LA County in the case, suggested that Bryant's panic attacks may have come from other sources. For example, she pointed to numerous companies, foundations, trusts and LLCs all run — at least on paper — by Bryant.

"On top of everything else, you're juggling a business empire, it sounds like," Hashmall said. She added that perhaps the lawsuit itself was adding to her stress. 

"I'm willing to go through hell and back to get justice for my husband and daughter," Bryant answered. 

In their opening arguments, attorneys for Bryant and Chester described some of the crash site photographs taken by a sheriff's deputy and two fire department officials, as close-up shots of human remains, gruesome shots of headless torsos, severed limbs and organs scattered on the charred ground. Some depositions given by first responders, as well as early interviews conducted by the sheriff departments internal affairs division, backed that story up.

Sheriff's deputies and fire department officials now claim the pictures were wide shots, depicting the crash site as a whole and not focused on human remains. Deputies also say that the photographs served a real investigative purpose: they documented a scene which may have been about to be altered, and they helped first responders understand the scope of the scene. They could also have helped identify the helicopter. 

The plaintiffs, meanwhile, have argued that deputies took the photos as macabre souvenirs or trophies. Their narrative was bolstered by news interviews given by Sheriff Alex Villanueva in the weeks following the crash. At the time, the elected sheriff of LA County told media that the only people who had a legitimate reason to photograph the crash victims were from the coroner's office and the National Transportation Safety Board, a federal agency. He also said there was long-standing practice of deputies collecting horrific photos of dead bodies from crime scenes and keeping them in so-called "death books."

After Bryant's testimony, the plaintiffs rested their case. As their first witness, the county called Sheriff Villanueva, in part to explain those early interviews. He attempted to do so by explaining that he was speaking with limited information and hadn't been "educated" about the procedures governing crash site photos taken by personal cellphones. The situation, he said, was unique — "the first, to my knowledge."

He defended the actions of some of his deputies, saying that the deputy who initially took the pictures "did his job," and that some of the photos were shared for legitimate reasons. 

A key issue in the trial is just why Sheriff Villanueva ordered the photos deleted, an act that the plaintiffs have argued amounted to the destruction of evidence, perhaps even a cover-up.

But the sheriff said deleting the photos was the only way to prevent them from getting out.

When he first heard of the existence of the crash site photos, he told his staff, "These photos can never see the light of day." Soon, all the deputies who'd taken and received the photos were asked to come in to discuss the situation. But some wanted to have an attorney with them. That, said Villanueva, would have taken too long.

"In football, they call it an audible," said Villanueva. He took what he called a "bold step": he offered the deputies "amnesty," as long as they came forward then and there, deleted the pictures, and told investigators who they'd sent them to. As long as the images never appeared online, the officers would walk away with only a "performance log entry" — essentially a warning. 

"That was the bargain that got them into the station," Villanueva testified. "And it worked." He added: "That was our primary concern: making sure the photographs never got out. Then accountability. We had to choose one or the other, and we chose correctly." He added later: "The fact that [they] haven't ended up on social media tells me they've done a thorough job."

Earlier, Hashmall had asked Bryant if deleting the photos hadn't been the right thing to do — that is, hadn't that made it less likely they would get out. Bryant responded: "It made it less likely to be able to recover evidence."

The trial resumes Monday, with closing arguments expected early in the week.

White Louisville Cop Pled Guilty to Conspiracy in Breonna Taylor case. Liar Cop Filed a False Police Report and Lied to Judge to Falsify Search Warrant Which led to Black Woman Being Shot to Death

From [HERE] In a guilty plea filed Tuesday, former Louisville detective Kelly Goodlett admitted to helping falsify a search warrant, then filing a false report in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor. The plea marked the first conviction in the case, which, along with the murder of George Floyd and other acts of police brutality, set off a summer of racial justice demonstrations in 2020.

Goodlett pleaded guilty to the federal charge of conspiracy, which could lead to a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Taylor, 26, died of gunshot wounds in March 2020 after plainclothes police burst into her apartment during a drug probe.

Goodlett’s attorney, Brandon Marshall, and Ben Crump, an attorney for Taylor’s family, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

On Aug. 12, Goodlett’s plea was confirmed during an online hearing before Magistrate Judge Regina S. Edwards in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Kentucky. Goodlett was released from that hearing on a $10,000 bond and ordered to remove all firearms from her home and give up her passport.

Goodlett resigned after she and three former colleagues, Sgt. Kyle Meany and former detectives Joshua Jaynes and Brett Hankison, were charged in Taylor’s death. Meany’s termination was announced by the department last week. But unlike the others, Goodlett was not indicted. Rather, her charges were filed in a sealed “information,” which analysts said usually indicates that a defendant has agreed to a plea deal with the government.

Meany, Jaynes and Hankison have pleaded not guilty, court records show. Hankison was the only police officer to also be charged at the state level, and he was acquitted of wanton endangerment charges this year for shots that entered a neighboring apartment. Like Goodlett, Jaynes and Meany are charged with falsifying the search warrant affidavit. Prosecutors allege that the two men knowingly included outdated and false information, and Goodlett’s testimony could be crucial in their cases.

A Special, White, Liberal Prosecutor says No Charges for the White Cop who Murdered Rayshard Brooks. Black Man Shot in the Back Posed No Threat as He Fled in Wendys Parking Lot in Liberal Atlanta

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER IN RACIST SYSTEM. From [HERE] A specially appointed prosecutor announced Tuesday that he will not pursue charges against the two white Atlanta police officers who clashed with Rayshard Brooks during a 2020 encounter that ended with the 27-year-old Black man's fatal shooting.

Pete Skandalakis, a racist suspect executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, said he believes Officer Garrett Rolfe, who shot and killed Brooks in June 2020, acted appropriately. He also said the second officer involved in the encounter, Officer Devin Brosnan, will not be charged.

"Given the quickly changing circumstances, was it objectively reasonable that he used deadly force? And we conclude it was," Skandalakis said.

[Wow he sounds more like a defense attorney for authoritarians than a so-called public servant tasked with the assignment of holding government agents accountable for murder. If Rayshard shot a fleeing white cop in the back at a Wendy’s, would he get the same treatment? Of course not b/c cops are special representatives of authority and the law of the jungle applies to them in their interactions with mere mortals. Authority, which is the government’s ability and implied moral right to forcibly control citizens and that, consequently, citizens have a moral and legal obligation to obey, does not come from people nor is it derived from any natural source. So how did authorities acquire such fantastic powers and exemptions from morality?]

Skandalakis was appointed last year to take over the case after a judge allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to recuse herself and her office. Willis had cited concerns about the actions of her predecessor, who announced a murder charge against Rolfe less than a week after the shooting. Willis is a special Black rolebot working hard to prosecute Trump for election fraud on behalf of white liberals. How that helps Black people in Atlanta is another white supremacy mystery?

Police responded on June 12, 2020, to complaints of a Black man sleeping in a car in the drive-thru lane of a Wendy's restaurant. Police body camera video shows the two officers having a calm conversation with Brooks for nearly 40 minutes.

White police officers said he resisted arrest after failing a field sobriety test during the Friday night incident. After a struggle they shot him as he fled away from them.

Video shows Brooks on the ground outside his car, struggling with two police officers.

Brooks grabbed the Taser of one officer. After a few seconds, Brooks broke free from the officers and began to run from police. One officer then used a Taser on him. The pair then run out of the frame of the video. 

Seconds later gun shots are heard along with someone yelling "I got him!" The video then shows Brooks prone on the ground. The black man posed no threat as he fled away from the white cop; at the time of the shooting the white cop had to have been at least 30 feet away from him. He was smart to run - they were trying to kill him.

Skandalakis said he believes that context had an impact on how the events unfolded and acknowledged that encounters between police and the African American community are sometimes "very volatile," but he said he doesn't believe race played a role in this instance.

"This isn't one of those cases," he said. "This is a case in which the officers were willing to give Mr. Brooks every benefit of the doubt and, you know, unfortunately, by his actions, this is what happened."

Autopsy Corroborates Video; San Bernardino Cops Shot Robert Adams 7X in Back. Media and Authorities Weren't Sure b/c Racists are Mind Blocked in the Presence of Color, Unable to See Things as They Are

From [HERE] Preliminary findings from an independent autopsy suggest that a 23-year-old man who was killed by police in San Bernardino last month was shot seven times from behind.

Robert Adams was shot to death by police on the evening of July 16 in a parking lot in the city of San Bernardino. The shocking video shows an unmarked car driving slowly through a parking lot. Adams—who was working as a security guard and pacing around the lot—saunters toward the car with a handgun in his right hand. About 15 seconds later, two officers jump out of the vehicle with guns drawn.

Adams is seen immediately running off in the opposite direction. The video never shows him point his handgun at the pursuing officers, but he appears to be shot less than five seconds after the cops hopped out of the vehicle—his arms flailing in the air before he collapses onto the asphalt between two cars.

The autopsy diagram indicates Adams suffered a bullet wound in his back and wounds to his arm, thigh and ankle. None of the bullets had a front-to-back trajectory, meaning he was shot from behind, said civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing the victim’s family. 

“There was no reason for them to shoot this Black man running away from them,” Crump said at a televised news conference Friday. 

San Bernardino Police Chief Darren Goodman said last month in a video statement that two uniformed police officers in an unmarked car went to the parking lot behind several West Highland Avenue businesses after hearing from “a citizen informant” that a Black man there was armed with a handgun. 

“Why would [they] show up with undercover police officers?” Crump said Friday. “Why wouldn’t [they] show up with an identifiable, marked police vehicle?”

Police body camera and surveillance camera footage released by the department show Adams reaching into his waistband and holding a black object in his right hand as the unmarked police car pulls into the parking lot. 

Adams’ mother has said her son was on the phone with her and was holding his cellphone when the police arrived. 

Goodman said Adams had a gun in his right hand. A loaded 9-millimeter handgun was recovered from the scene of the shooting, he said. 

The security camera footage shows Adams slowly walking toward the police officers’ gray sedan, and then the officers getting out of the car with their guns drawn and pointed at Adams. 

The officers “gave Adams verbal commands” as they got out of the car, Goodman said. But audio of the first 30 seconds of the interaction was not recorded by police body cameras, and the nearby security camera did not record any audio. 

The videos show Adams turning and running toward two cars in the parking lot. As he runs, he looks back toward the officers over his left shoulder, with what police say was a gun in his right hand. 

Footage from one officer’s body camera shows him firing at Adams, who died at a local hospital that night. 

“I am in pain,” said Tamika King, Adams’ mother, on Friday. 

“I won’t see my son walk through that door no more,” she continued. “I won’t see his beautiful smile. I won’t have his love and loyalty that he had for his family no more.”

New Study Reveals the CIA Used Incarcerated Black People as Guinea Pigs in MKULTRA and Brainwashing Experiment w/No Scientific Merit. Tortured and Dosed Them with Unsafe Levels of Psychoactive Drugs

From [FTP] By now, many will be familiar with Project MKULTRA. For decades, the CIA conducted highly unethical experiments on humans in order to perfect brainwashing, mind control and torture techniques.

Perhaps the program’s most notorious aspect was the administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs to targets, particularly LSD. These substances were brought to Langley’s attention in 1948 by Richard Kuhn, one of 1,600 Nazi scientists covertly spirited to the U.S. via Operation Paperclip following World War II. When MKULTRA was formally established five years later, some individuals consulted directly on the project.

The unwitting dosing of U.S. citizens with LSD is infamous; among those spiked were CIA operatives themselves. That the Agency exploited mental patients, prisoners, and drug addicts for the purpose – “people who could not fight back,” in the words of an unnamed Agency operative – is less well-known.

A study by academics at the University of Ottawa’s Culture and Mental Health Disparities Lab sheds significant new light on this underexplored component of MKULTRA and illuminates a hitherto wholly unknown dimension of the program; people of color, overwhelmingly Black Americans, were disproportionately targeted by the CIA in its service.

SPOKEN OF AS ANIMALS AND TREATED AS SUCH

In 1973, due to fears CIA covert action might be officially audited in the wake of the Watergate scandal, then-Agency chief Richard Helms ordered all papers related to MKULTRA destroyed.

Tens of thousands of documents somehow survived the purge. Even more conveniently, a significant portion of the research yielded by the project’s experiments was published in freely-accessible, peer-reviewed scientific journals, as over 80 private and public universities, prisons, and hospitals – whether knowingly or not – conducted psychedelic drug experiments on behalf of the CIA. While LSD was the preponderant substance of interest, the effects of DMT, mescaline, psilocybin, and THC were also extensively explored.

In all, the University of Ottawa team analyzed 49 of these papers, published from the 1950s to the 1970s. Forty percent related to experiments conducted at the Addiction Research Center in Kentucky, which the CIA directly managed.

The site included a prison for individuals charged with violating narcotics laws, a “special ward” for drug research, and a prison populated by purported “addicts.” Researchers employed there avowedly preferred to perform tests on former and current drug users, as they were considered to be “experienced” in the effects of illicit substances and therefore better able to give informed consent than the abstinent. In practice, the CIA’s guinea pigs frequently had no idea what was being administered.

In analyzing available literature, the academics examined participants’ stated race and ethnicity, recruitment strategies, methodology, and potential dangers to participants. All studies used captured, incarcerated test subjects, coercive incentives for participation, unsafe dosing levels, and had questionable scientific merit.

In almost 90% of cases, at least one ethical violation was identified, over three-quarters employed a high-risk dosing schedule that would be unacceptable under modern guidelines, and 15% used participants with psychotic disorders. Roughly 30% exploited people of color.

While in many studies, the race or ethnicity of test subjects was not recorded, further investigation by the Ottawa academics revealed Black Americans were significantly overrepresented in the recruitment sites from which test subjects were drawn. It is inevitable that the actual number of MKULTRA studies that abused people of color is far larger. For example, while people of color constituted just 7% of Kentucky’s population at the time of experiments at the Addiction Research Center, Black and Mexican Americans represented 66% of the site’s inmate population.[MORE]