67 Yr Old Black Woman was Murdered after Calling 911 to Report a Prowler. Jackson Cops Went to her Home, Knocked, Looked Around & then Left. Jury Awards $1 Million

A necessary & comforting illusion in a police state is that police are here to protect us and are primarily engaged in “police work.” Would an armed, private security force be more accountable to Blacks & Latinos?

From [HERE] and [HERE] A Hinds County Circuit Court jury has awarded $1 million to the family of a 67-year-old Jackson woman killed in 2014 after family members and others say Jackson police bungled the woman's 911 call about a prowler.

"If they would have followed policy and procedures, more likely than not, it would have saved her life," said attorney Dennis Sweet III, who represented Ruth Helen Harrion's family members.

"I hope this verdict sends a message that the city needs to get things right," Sweet said after the verdict.

According to the family attorney, Dennis Sweet III, two trials occurred Friday in Hinds County Circuit Court, the last day of the testimony.

A Civil Rights violation case against the City of Jackson was determined by a jury and a Mississippi Tort Claims Act case was decided by Judge Adrienne Wooten.

“Actually it was a dual trial. We trialed the 1983 action. Which is a jury trial, and now the judge has to make a decision on the tort claims act. You know that’s capped at 500,000. But it’s a judge trial, it’s not a jury trial. So she heard the evidence as the case was going forward. So she’ll make that determination," said Sweet.

Jurors began deliberating in the lawsuit filed by Harrion’s children Friday evening.

The family claimed a violation of civil rights, reckless disregard and negligence.

The jury deliberated for about an hour and 40 minutes before returning the verdict Friday night.

Five of Harrion's children held up a family poster board with pictures of their late mother following the verdict.

"This verdict was for my mother," said Angela Harrion of Jackson. 

The lawsuit said that after Harrion called 911 to report a prowler, the dispatcher failed to keep her on the phone, failed to ask the location of the prowler and whether she could see the prowler. The suit also said officers dispatched to Harrion’s residence failed to make contact with her and failed to search the perimeter of the home prior to leaving the residence.Alonzo Stewart, 33, is charged with capital murder in Herrion's death. He confessed to the crime, according to authorities, and told police he was in Harrion's home when the officers came and left.

Then-Jackson Police Chief Lindsey Horton said in 2014 that JPD mishandled the case. At the time, he told the Clarion Ledger that the two officers failed to thoroughly check the property from which the call had originated. 

One of Harrion's family members discovered her body behind her Kingsroad Avenue home about 11 hours later.

She had been beaten, strangled and shot in the face, according to Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham Stewart. The victim's neck also had been broken, Grisham Stewart said, and it appeared she had been sexually assaulted.

Stewart hasn't gone to trial based on questions about his mental competency. The last entry in his court file shows Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston Kidd has set a Dec. 2 trial date for Stewart.

Harrion had called Jackson dispatchers at 2:23 a.m on July 15, 2014, to report a prowler, according to a 911 tape obtained by the Clarion Ledger. When the officers arrived 8 minutes later, nobody answered the door, and they left.

"They should have made contact with the complainant," Horton said in 2014. "They should have made contact with her to make sure of her of her welfare. But they did not do that."

"We have a practice and policy in place," he said, "and in this occasion I think they did not follow that."

The dispatcher, Debra Goldman, and officers Derrick Evans and Tommie Heard were later fired but reinstated by the Jackson Civil Service Commission, according to court records.

Assistant City Attorney Richard Davis argued in court that the plaintiffs couldn't identify a policy that was violated, an alleged unconstitutional policy or act where Harrion's constitutional rights were violated.

Davis said the only person to blame is Stewart for Harrion's murder.

"i sympathize with this family, but there is someone responsible, a man who shouldn't have been walking the streets of Jackson," Davis said of Stewart.

In a statement released on behalf of the family Friday night through Sweet, they said they were still still seeking justice.

"The family of Ruth Helen Harrion and her attorneys are pleased that the City of Jackson was found to be responsible for failing to react to her 911 call appropriately. This, however, is just one  part of the justice they are seeking. Family members continue to wait for the man who brutally raped and killed Mrs. Harrion to be held accountable for his crimes."

9 White Cops Censor Black Woman & Raid Her Home Seizing Computers on a Warrant Issued by a White Judge After a White Neighbor Complained About Her Playing Malcolm X Speeches Too Loudly

WE ARE ALSO ON THE “THOUGHT STANDARD” WITH REGARD TO OUR SO-CALLED “RIGHTS”-if you think you have rights and a white Government orderly agrees, then you have rights. Constitutional rights are a myth. FUNKTIONARY explains, “an abstract fictional entity “government” cannot give you any rights, and even if reality was inverted to accommodate this illusion, anything functionaries of a government pretend to give you they can take away, and the definition of rights is inherent things that cannot be taken away.” [MORE]

Grass Roots Speech

Malcolm X

Download

From [HERE] At about 10:00 p.m. Thursday, a swarm of Garner cops banged on Mikisa Thompson’s door, demanding that she and her family step outside. Police cars had flooded the street in front of her split-level house on Vandora Springs Road, red and blue lights flashing. At first, her children hid in the upstairs bathroom. But then they realized that Thompson was alone. So, with a cell phone broadcasting the incident on Twitter, they headed downstairs as she opened the door.

At least a half dozen police officers stood outside. More were waiting in the street, partially blocking traffic. They read her a search warrant. They spread out through the house, seizing a MacBook, an HP laptop, a computer monitor, seven iPhones, computer speakers, an alarm clock, and charging cables. On their way out, they issued Thompson a summons to appear in court on June 24.

Her alleged crime: violating the town’s noise ordinance, a class-3 misdemeanor, which carries a maximum penalty of a $500 fine.

Specifically, her white neighbor had complained that she’d played Malcolm X speeches too loudly.“The raid was officially insane and based on an unconstitutional statute,” says Thompson’s attorney, T. Greg Doucette. “Doing a midnight raid with nine officers—over a noise ordinance, of all things—is a disproportionate show of force that shows there’s something else at play. That’s the type of overkill that’s intentionally designed to terrorize and punish people, not to actually do what's necessary for enforcing the case.”

This wasn’t the first time the Garner cops had seized Thompson’s property for allegedly violating the noise ordinance.

On April 22, her neighbor, Don Barnette, called 911 to complain that Thompson, who has a Black Lives Matter sign in front of her house, was playing “loud Islamic-Muslim preaching” in her backyard while she cleaned her patio. That day, officers came, seized Thompson’s stereo, and issued her a $50 fine. Their return visit three weeks later occurred because Barnette complained that Thompson had continued to play “amplified speech being projected by some sound amplification device,” according to the search warrant, which an officer said he could hear from Barnette’s property line.

At no point did the police conduct a decibel reading to see how loud the amplified sound actually was. Under Garner’s ordinance, they don’t have to. The ordinance bans “the creation of any unreasonably loud, disturbing and unnecessary noise … of such character, intensity, and duration as to be detrimental to the health and welfare of any individual.”

The ordinance cites as an example of forbidden sound the “playing of any radio, phonograph, television set, record player, sound reproduction device or any musical instrument in such a manner or with such volume during the hours between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort, or repose of persons in any dwelling house, apartment or other type of residence.”

None of Thompson’s alleged violations of the ordinance occurred during this time period.

Jonathan Jones, a Durham attorney who specializes in First Amendment law, says the ordinance’s vague wording leaves the question of whether a crime occurred up to police discretion. That, “creates a standard that is too flexible and therefore open to abuse.”

While the ACLU of North Carolina declined to comment on the specifics of the case, field manager Jessica Turner says the situation follows “a disturbing pattern of people calling 911 on black and brown people for simply engaging in everyday life like gardening in their backyard. It’s quite literally life and death for people of color when the police are called on them.”

Thompson says her rights have also been violated.

“I’m a second-class citizen in the eyes of Garner and the Garner PD,” she told the INDY in April, after the police seized her stereo. “It feels like the things that Malcolm X spoke about in the sixties are exactly the same in 2019.”

She recorded her encounter with the police on April 22 and posted it online. An officer told her she was playing the speeches—by Malcolm X and Angela Davis, which she was listening to while she cleaned the back patio, she says—too loudly. In the recording, the speeches are vaguely audible in the background but don’t overpower Thompson and the officer’s conversation.

The police returned several times that day, eventually confiscating Thompson’s $250 beFree stereo. She has not yet gotten it back.

In a statement, Garner police told the INDY the stereo’s speaker was pointed at Barnette’s house.

“Our officers did everything they could at the time to try and bring a peaceful conclusion to this issue before seizing the speaker,” Captain Joe Binns wrote in an email. “First, we warned Ms. Thompson and asked her to turn it down. When she refused and received a second complaint, we issued her a citation for violation of the ordinance. And finally, when she continued the loud and unreasonable noise, a search warrant was obtained and the speaker was seized. While I cannot make an inference as to whether Mr. Barnette took issue with the content of the noise, our officers were only concerned about how loud the noise was and the fact that we had a valid noise complaint from a neighbor.”

It’s clear that Barnette did take issue with the noise’s content, which he described to the INDY as “Islamic Jihadist-type messages.”  

“When it’s talking about killing white people and if you’re black and you still work for a white man, you’re a slave, all that kind of stuff, I don't need to hear that,” Barnette says. “My grandkids don't need to hear that mess.”

After the police took her speaker, Thompson kept playing music and speeches from her property, according to the search warrant. On May 16, Barnette contacted the police again. They met him at his house, and an officer reported that he could hear sound from the property line—which, again, is only violating Garner’s ordinance if the police say it is, as there’s no objective standard.  

According to the warrant, Barnette showed the police four videos he’d taken that day, time-stamped at 12:46 p.m., 12:49 p.m., and two at 1:22 p.m. Almost nine hours later, the police arrived at Thompson’s house to execute a search warrant.

Binns says the police resorted to the search-and-seizure sweep to “keep the peace” in the neighborhood.

Doucette calls the raid “absolute overkill. All crime in Garner must have been solved” for the police to commit that many resources to a misdemeanor violation, he says. The police took computers and phones “to make their lives harder to make sure they had no way of communicating with anyone,” he adds. An iPhone, he points out, can’t produce that level of disruptive noise; the police also left the family’s televisions. 

“It is punitive. It’s not trying to do an investigation, it’s not trying to gather evidence for the district attorney to decide what to do,” Doucette says. “It is trying to use the process to punish someone even though they have not actually committed a crime.”

Though the Garner police say they were only concerned with “how loud the noise was,” the May 16 search warrant notes twice that Thompson was playing Malcolm X.

Jones says that “just sets of all sorts of red flags that perhaps there’s some animus here about the actual content as opposed to just the noise level.” If the content played a role in the police’s action—consciously or subconsciously—that would be a violation of the First Amendment. Courts have ruled that all restrictions on speech have to be content-neutral.

After her first encounter with the Garner police, Thompson told the INDY that she couldn’t sleep.

“I don't feel comfortable here,” she said, “because it’s not just the neighbors. It’s the police that uphold the white supremacist ideology. That’s painful.”

Five hours after the cops raided her house—at 3:00 a.m. Friday—Thompson emailed to say she feared for her life: “There was no provocation or warning,” she wrote. “They were watching the house all day. Garner PD wants to kill me.”

‘The Black Electorant’ is Stopping the Advancement of an Aspiring White Puppetician in Denver who Didn’t Know NAACP Stands for “Negro-Anglo-American Corporate Preserve"

“Whoever pays the piper calls the tune.“ From [HERE] Denver mayoral challenger Jamie Giellis failed to identify what the acronym “NAACP” stood for in a live interview on an African American-focused show Tuesday afternoon, renewing debate among minority voters about whether she’s a promising new ally or too far removed from communities of color.

Host Shay Johnson told Giellis on Brother Jeff Fard’s webcast Tuesday that the show had received several questions about her knowledge of the NAACP. Giellis offered that it could begin with the words “National African American,” laughing as she learned that was incorrect.

“It’s important, because it’s our people, and we want to know if you’re connected to our people,” Johnson said.

“They do advocacy for the African American community, they talk about policy, they talk about issues, they stand up for civil rights, they do a number of things,” Giellis said. [halfway correct. They perform leadership, make speeches and help the votary choose better masters but deliver very little of tangible, material benefit to Black & Brown people.]

The acronym stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. [WRONG AGAIN!.] According to FUNKTIONARY:

NAACP - Negro-Anglo-American Corporate Preserve. 2) National Association for the Advancement of Confused People. The Niagara Movement was the precursor to the NAACP. In the early 1900's some indigenous women who had been meditating at Niagara Falls for eons had their heads severed and thrown into the falls. A riot ensued and eventually the people were dispersed as Caucasians assumed leadership of the organization before assigning a Yiddish European (so-called Jew) to take over the organization. Mary White Ovington, a Caucasian woman, was the co-founder of the NAACP. In the charter of the NAACP, the "Jews" ensured that the organization be precluded from owning any property. Whoever pays the piper calls the tune. It's crazy to think or believe otherwise. It's no mystery; check the history. When asked about the NAACP, she stated: "I'm colored and they are stopping my advancement." -Betty Davis, singer-songwriter-sexy-icon. (See: Racism White Supremacy) NAAPC - National Association for the Advancement of the Politically Correct. (See: Colored People, Status Quo & PC)

White Rochester Cop Arrested Christopher Pate for “Impeding Traffic" but in Trial Acknowledged He Never Saw Him Do That. Then He Testi-Lied He Never Saw His Partner Punch Black Man in the Face

From [HERE] The Black man at the center of an incident of alleged brutality testified that he crossed the street to avoid police because he "was afraid."

Christopher Pate, who suffered a broken bone in his face when police arrested him on May 5, 2018, in a case of mistaken identity, testified against suspended Rochester Police Officer Michael Sippel Friday.

"I was afraid," Pate said. "Police are intimidating and scary."

And it was that mindset, he said, that led him to cross Bloss Street before he was confronted by Sippel and his partner, Officer Spenser McAvoy.

Sippel is charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, and his trial is being heard by City Court Judge Thomas Rainbow Morse. Morse will determine Sippel's innocence or guilt, not a jury.

None of the cops involved dispute that police wrongly identified Pate as a criminal suspect for whom police were searching. But Morse is trying to determine if police properly approached Pate and then were justified in how they restrained, Tased, handcuffed and arrested him.

On Thursday, Sippel's partner at the time of the arrest, McAvoy, testified about the incident. McAvoy's testimony began Wednesday and continued throughout the court's session Thursday.

McAvoy testified he left his car and Pate crossed the street. Pate said he was afraid and was trying to avoid police. McAvoy asked Pate for his identification and Pate said he presented his electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card.

During his testimony, Pate recalled his activities that day. He went to Embrace Recover, a group that focuses on helping people deal with addiction, at 649 Jefferson Ave. in Rochester during the morning to volunteer. 

Pate said he took a bus to a store on Clifford Avenue to get his phone updated and then rode another bus to a corner store on Lyell Avenue to purchase cigarettes. He said he was on his way to another volunteering opportunity, when he took the scenic route, and was ultimately confronted by Sippel and McAvoy on Bloss Street.

Pate said he was taken to the ground, tased without warning and hit on the left side of the face “more than once” after crossing the street due to his fear of the police officers.

Defense says Pate suffered facial damage during fall

Prosecutors allege that Sippel assaulted Pate by punching him. McAvoy said he did not see Sippel hit Pate. Sippel's defense attorney, Clark Zimmermann, has said that Pate suffered the facial injury in the fall to the sidewalk.

The officers charged Pate with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, alleging that he impeded traffic when he crossed the street when first approached by McAvoy. McAvoy acknowledged Wednesday that, even though he filled out the arrest report alleging the crimes, he did not personally witness Pate interfere with traffic. [Yes, that’s called impeachment. Lying about the basis for a stop and arrest. If he lies one time will the jurors believe anything else he says? If there was a 1 fruit fly in your soup, would you remove it and eat the rest?}

A City Court judge dismissed the charges against Pate.

Assistant District Attorney Gina Clark questioned Pate. She asked him about the pain he felt in his face, how his vision was impacted, and how long he spent in the back of the unmarked police car before being taken to Rochester General Hospital for treatment.

Dr. Matthew Battaglia, an emergency department doctor at Rochester Regional Health, was the first to testify Friday. Battaglia testified about his treatment of Pate and the injuries Pate suffered, including a broken left lower orbital bone.

Battaglia said he removed Taser prongs from Pate's back and had to cut through four layers of clothing to get to the impacted area. Battaglia said there were no injuries to the right side of Pate's face.

The doctor added that the injuries were consistent with direct blunt force trauma. Since he didn't witness the incident, Battaglia said he couldn't testify to what caused the injuries.

Zimmerman sought to question Pate's credibility during the cross-examination. Zimmerman had Pate review portions of his grand jury testimony from last October in an effort to potentially show how Pate's story has changed.

Zimmermann asked Pate, "Do you know what it means to be afraid?" Pate repeatedly said that he didn't understand the question. But Morse reminded Pate that he admitted to being afraid just 90 minutes before in his earlier testimony. 

Zimmermann tried to establish that Pate's story has changed and the only accurate depiction of the incident came from body-worn camera footage.

"I think there was a clear misunderstanding here," Zimmermann said. "I hope it became evident that Mr. Pate was afraid for whatever reason, not through any actions of those officers on that day."

“I’ve talked about miscommunication in the past, not between the two officers, but Mr. Pate and the two officers. Frankly, had he just stopped and said, ‘I’m Christopher Pate, this could’ve all been avoided,’” said Clark Zimmermann, defense attorney. [Translation. NGHR we can stop you whenever we want and you must OBEY us.]

[Black Lives Don’t Matter to Racist Authoritarians] Administrative “Trial" Reveals Text Message from NYPD Lieutenant after Eric Garner’s Murder: "Not a big deal. We were effecting a lawful arrest"

AUTHORITARIANS - THE GREAT UNWEANED OF THE WORLD 2) VIOLENTISTS. 3) 'REALITY-VIOLATERS.' 4) UNIFORM (COSTUME-WEARING) AND NON-COSTUME WEARING PURVEYORS OF THE ABSOLUTE WORST CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. 5) THE COERCIVE CLASS WITHIN AN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CASTE-BASED SOCIETY. WHILE THE STATE IS A MILITARY FORMATION, IT IS FIRST AND FOREMOST A FRUIT OF JUSTICE—NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH (OR EXTRAPOLATED TO IMPLY OR MEAN THAT) JUSTICE IS A SEED OF THE STATE. THERE IS A HIGH CORRELATION BETWEEN JUSTICE SYSTEMS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OR PROLIFERATION OF THE STATE. (SEE: JUSTICE, CONTROL, BOG. STATISTS, POWER. PSYCHOPATHS & VIOLENCE) FUNKTIONARY

From [NYT] A police commander in Staten Island received text messages from one of his officers in July 2014, informing him that a man identified as Eric Garner had been arrested, and was “most likely DOA” after he had been wrestled to the ground.

“Not a big deal,” the lieutenant replied. “We were effecting a lawful arrest.”

Audible gasps were heard as the texts were read aloud on Thursday during a police disciplinary hearing for Officer Daniel Pantaleo. He is accused of recklessly using a chokehold that led to Mr. Garner’s death after he was detained on the suspicion that he was selling untaxed cigarettes.

The texts and testimony provided unsettling new details in one of the most wrenching cases of suspected police misconduct in New York.

Mr. Garner’s dying words “I can’t breathe” — repeated 11 times — set off protests around the country and became a powerful slogan for the Black Lives Matter movement.

The texts between the commander, Lt. Christopher Bannon, and the officer, Sgt. Dhanan Saminath, were revealed for the first time on the fourth day of the hearing for Officer Pantaleo, who faces possible termination.

He has never faced criminal charges. A grand jury on Staten Island declined to indict Officer Pantaleo in 2014. A federal civil rights inquiry has dragged on for years without charges being filed. The statute of limitations expires on July 17, the fifth anniversary of Mr. Garner’s death.

An independent police watchdog agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, brought the current charges against Officer Pantaleo, which resulted in this week’s hearing.

The evidence at the hearing picked up events from the Police Department’s perspective while Mr. Garner — who was at least 6 feet 3 inches tall and had asthma so severe that he quit his job — was lying motionless on the ground on Bay Street near the Staten Island Ferry.

The communications started with Sergeant Saminath messaging Lieutenant Bannon and telling him that Mr. Garner had been wrestled to the ground and then add ing, “He’s most likely DOA,” using the abbreviation for dead on arrival. “He has no pulse,” Sergeant Saminath wrote.

[Rule by Intimidation/Limited Liability = Terrorism] White Boulder Cop who Unlawfully Stopped & Made Felony Threat to Black Man Picking Up Trash Outside His Dorm Quits Job & Cuts Deal for $69K

Terrorism - the implementation of the principle/concept of limited liability. 2) "A system of government that seeks to rule by intimidation." -Funk & Wagnalls New Practical Standard Dictionary, 1946. [MORE]

Terrorism Theater, Full Video Released. From [HERE] A white Colorado police officer who pulled out his gun during a confrontation with a black man picking up trash around his dormitory resigned this week under an agreement that lets him collect $69,000 in salary despite violating department policies.

Police body camera footage released Thursday provided a full video account of the tense encounter, which had gained national attention based on video shot by someone inside a student dormitory at Naropa University, a liberal arts school associated with Buddhism in the city of Boulder.

City officials said the investigation could not prove that the officer, John Smyly, acted because of Zayd Atkinson's race. [Investigators were looking for proof of racial animus -something that is rare because racism is carried out primarily through deception & tangible evidence of an individual's thought process only exists under egregious or random circumstances. The fake search for tangible evidence from the mind of a bigoted decision maker ignores white supremacy as an operating system of oppression and is done only for show in the lex-icon. The fake search for racial animus presumes a post-racial environment. Fake due process without the right to secure a different outcome].

Smyly violated two department policies: police authority and public trust and conduct, the city attorney said. The report released with the video said Smyly had no authority to detain Atkinson or probable cause to charge him with any crime and should have left once Atkinson provided his name, address and his reason for being there.

"Boulder is essentially saying we're going to pay this officer and let him resign for threatening Zayd's life, for racially profiling Zayd," said Atkinson's attorney, Siddhartha Rathod. "If you or I were to do this, we would be criminally charged. We would immediately lose our jobs."

Smyly approached Atkinson on March 1 in front of the condo-style building, where he was using a metal tool with a mechanism at its base to grab & place trash into a bucket. Smyly said he noticed Atkinson on the rear patio and wanted to see if he lived or worked there - for no particular reason. [That is, the white cop was suspicious because he saw a Black man outside a college dorm.]

Atkinson said he did, and Smyly asked for identification with the address on it. Atkinson provided his school ID, which did not have an address and then offered to let himself into the building as proof.

Smyly asked for Atkinson's date of birth. Atkinson refused, then picked up the bucket and tool and walked away.

"Put that down," Smyly said on the tape. "Stop!"

He then told Atkinson that he was obstructing a police officer, "a jailable offense." Smyly later told Atkinson that he was being detained for trespassing.

Smyly drew his stun gun and followed Atkinson to the back of the building, repeatedly ordering him to sit down on the ground and put the "weapon" down, referring to the trash tool. Atkinson repeatedly said he had not done anything wrong.

"Your hand is on your weapon and you're gonna shoot me," Atkinson surprisingly shouted. "That's what you're gonna do, officer? You're gonna shoot a resident on his property for picking up trash?"

Smyly drew his gun when the two men reached the back of the building, an investigative summary said. At no time did the Black man pose any threat or make any threatening movements or statements as he stood at least 20 - 30 feet from him.

{It appeared the white cop-artist was creating a narrative for the body camera audience; making statements similar to “don’t make me have fear for my safety” or “stop resisting” in order to justify a violent confrontation with the Black man. He insisted to the Black man multiple times that the trash stick tool indeed was a weapon. As explained by Pastor Jedediah Brown ‘police have learned what to say when they want to get away with excessive force and malicious policing.’]

After about eight minutes, more white officers arrive and surround Atkinson.

One officer can be seen holding a rifle; the investigative summary says the weapon fires bean bags [something you would not know if it was pointed at you]. One officer drew his handgun when he arrived but reholstered it in less than a minute, while Smyly had his gun out until Atkinson put the trash-grabbing tool down, according to the summary.

Atkinson, 26, said he has had trouble sleeping and spends time outdoors or with friends to calm him. "My life right now is kind of restless, unsettled," he said.

City Attorney Tom Carr said firing Smyly would have led to a drawn-out appeal and potentially allowed him to keep his job.

Under the agreement, Smyly resigned his police role on May 9 but will remain an employee through February without performing any work. He will receive "commensurate pay and benefits" during that period and "a single, lump sum" payment for any accrued and unused vacation time when his employment officially ends Feb. 9.

Carr said the resignation agreement "allowed the city to provide the community information more quickly, and it transitioned Officer Smyly out of a law enforcement career." The city's bargaining agreement with police officers requires an appeal for any disciplinary action and could have allowed Smyly to return to duty, he added.

In Viral Video White Houston Cop Releases the Black Man He Unlawfully Detained in His Own Yard b/c He Wanted to, Not b/c of the Black Man’s Demands- but We are “Free" to Believe Otherwise

From [HERE] A white Houston deputy tried to arrest a black man playing with his kids outside his own home — because he apparently mistook him for a fugitive wanted in Louisiana, viral video shows.

A 5-minute video [see below] on Facebook posted on May 8 by Clarence Evans — which has racked up more than 1.1 million views as of Thursday — shows Evans pressed up against a car in the driveway of his home after a white Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office deputy misidentified him as a suspect named Quentin who was sought by authorities in Louisiana.

“You don’t know my name, so how can you tell me I have an open warrant in Louisiana?” Evans asked the deputy, identified by KHOU as Garrett Lindley. “You don’t even know my name. Why would I trust you?” [MORE]

FREE-RANGE PRISON. Although the heated interaction may appear to be an arms length discussion between a public servant and a citizen, it is actually far from it, your mind is playing tricks on you again. Cops are representatives of authority who have been given super-human status with regard to morality and immunity from laws. When we do the same things they do we will be held accountable to written laws and also judged according to normal standards of morality. Public rulers do not serve their subjects, unless they want to. Toward this end the executive branch of every government has granted cops official, discretionary authority to stop, detain and arrest citizens and commit other unprovoked acts of violence when they deem it necessary to do so.

All laws and police commands are actually threats backed by force. Michael Huemer explains ‘at the end of a chain of commands or orders 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.’ [MORE] Here, the white cop used his discretion and chose not to en-force his orders on a disobedient Black citizen who questioned his authority.

After the video check out the obedient happy slaves on the Roland Martin show. Mr. Bolden has probably not ever set foot in a criminal court. If so, no one paid him to be there. Here he is harming people with his ignorance and love for his own slavery. He has gone too far to stand up for his masters [FUNKTIONARY explains, "a willing slave gets upset if you refuse to to acknowledge his or her master. Usually when people say 'act responsibly' what they mean is cow-tow to the conforming lies we call truths" [quoting George Battailes]. Bolden is offended by a disobedient Black man’s words & conduct. If you have belief in such things in The Spectacle at least know what you're talking about.

• In order for the cops to stop you the Supreme Court has explained that cops must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and that you are involved in the activity. Cops may not act on on the basis of an unclear and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion.

• If cops reasonably suspect that you are committing, have committed or are about to commit a crime, they may briefly detain you for questioning. Under these circumstances, the officers may request your identification and an explanation for your actions.

• In order to frisk you the Supreme Court has ruled that the police must have independent reasonable articulable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous before they may touch you or put their hands on you (a cursory patdown for weapons). Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate or unclear and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific, actual & articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion. That is, cops must have some reason that they can articulate by pointing to specific facts that led them to believe the detainee was armed; like they saw a bulge, nervous movement or attempt to conceal etc.

All the above is lacking in the video above. Here, the white cop apparently had only a vague description of a black male w/dreads. The cop had no other corroborating details, such the suspect's height, weight, build, complexion, hair length, facial hair, age or what color jacket, shirt, pants or whether the suspect had a hat on, a hoodie etc. He was black man w/dreads and that was good enough to this costumed authoritarian.

Doc Blynd explains in a legal system based on intentional, harmful physical coercion, so-called “rights” are myths—obedience to servitude or jail is the reality. If “rights” are intended to be protections from Government intrusions then rights only exist in courtrooms or if an officer shares in the belief that they exist. Brazen white cops so frequently abuse their power that no Black or Brown motorist, juvenile, adult, professional of any kind—could make a compelling argument that constitutional rights afford any real protection from the state on the street. The real problems here are racism/white supremacy and the belief in authority.

According to statist belief “the people” have delegated or transferred to police the moral right to commit acts of unprovoked violence on people. Cops have been authorized by Government to initiate the use of force on “citizens” to make arrests and so forth. [MORE] Question here: can you delegate a right to someone that you don’t have? Where does their “authority,” the right to rule others, come from? Asked differently, if you don’t have the right to initiate unprovoked acts of force against other people then how can you delegate or authorize another person to do such things? How did police acquire such super-human powers? 

The answer is logically unsupportable as “the belief in “authority,” which includes all belief in “government,” is irrational and self-contradictory. Yet all modern statism is based entirely on the assumption that people can delegate rights they don’t have.” [MORE]

BW IS AWARE THAT THE CREATOR OF THIS VIDEO IS a racist suspect, STATIST BELIEVER. HERE, HIS FINGER WAS POINTING TO THE MOON - SO dont PAY ANY ATTENTION TO HIS FINGER

Larken Rose explains, “the belief in “authority,” which includes all belief in “government,” is irrational and self-contradictory; it is contrary to civilization and morality, and constitutes the most dangerous, destructive superstition that has ever existed. Rather than being a force for order and justice, the belief in “authority” is the arch-enemy of humanity.”

Allegedly governmental power comes from the people. But people cannot delegate rights they do not have to other people. You don’t have the right to arrest someone or initiate unprovoked acts of force against other people - so how can you delegate or authorize anyone else to do such things? This makes it impossible for anyone to acquire the right to rule (”authority”). If everybody on your block voted to make you responsible for picking up their trash would it be binding? If you refuse could they issue you a fine you and subsequently use force to arrest if you fail to pay or comply? What makes it right when politicians require you to do things through “laws?” When did you explicitly consent to this “voluntary” governmental arrangement?

Dr. Blynd explains that there is no freedom in the presence of authority. Authority is not a force but a farce! FUNKTIONARY states: 

"authority" - (so-called)—a cartoon, an alleged image of the Law. 2) a cartoon clothed in flesh and blood. 3) the notion of an implied right and application of that "right" of individuals or groups of same to control or exercise external power over others, which has no meaning in reality. 4) power over...which is thoroughly institutionalized. 5) ruling through coercion. So-called "authority" is the justification for remaining impotent. The real threat to "authority" is the masses overcoming info-gaps and verigaps through self-knowledge and the proliferation of symbols of opposition, not crime or destruction of property.

authority - (from the root word author)—which means to originate. Only you have authority over your Self...anything else. i.e.. to accept any authority external to one's Self once of discriminating age, is the very definition of irresponsibility. There is no freedom in the presence of so-called authority, i.e. outside of one's Self and Self-Nature.) 2) the handmaiden of autonomy. 3) internal power. 4) Nommo. All authority, like the kingdom of heaven, is within. Be an authority unto yourself as all authority should come from your own authentic experience—that is the only source or wellspring of authority. Authority is the means by which society uses to control its population. Ignoring or belittling authority does not mean people are either good or bad, whether or not they are punished for their insubordination. Healthy people do not need authority figures to tell them what to do, but only the knowledge of themselves. You can teach a parrot to quote from either scripture or statute, but a parrot is not an authority. Only by you becoming truth do you have authority to speak—and then only on your behalf (i.e., your inner truth), your innerstanding. An authority is an eyewitness or an I-witness. and to picture the dynamic truth no proofs or negatives are needed nor possible—as reality isn't certain or static. When you are dead to sin and Alive to the God-Self-Divine, you become the Buddha, the Christ, the true authority within. (See: Obedience, Predictive Programming. Autonomy, Anarchy, Nommo, Sin, Alive. Authentic, Responsitivity, Dharma, Follower, Spontaneity, Conditioning, Conditions, Freedom & Responsibility). [MORE] 

Corporate Police State - the enforcer of the commodification of life within the Spectacle Surveillance Society. Anyone who thinks that he or she is immune to the baseless destruction of his or her life (including immediate family members) by a "government" or corporation does live in a happy menagerie—enjoy your illusions. (See: GUPI & Judicial Victimization) 

Keeping the Group Hallucination Alive: Trump’s Central Promise is the Elevation, Protection & Promotion of Whiteness - Shrinking White “Race" Fears Demographic Change & Loss of Power, Control

FUNKTIONARY explains that a "Caucasian" is "One whose worst and most basic fear still remains genetic annihilation in the form of the fear of the impending "Black Planet." Whither goest thou white man? (See: Weiteko Disease, Yurungu, Western Civilization, Recessive Genes, Colored People, Melanin & Mutant).

RACE IS A GRANFALLOON. a "psychological retro-virus in people's minds." Suffering from the disease of constant comparison racists imagine themselves to be aTOP OF a hierarchy wherein persons unable to produce color & lacking melanin are supreme and they imagine themselves to be higher than what they imagine non-whites be. FUNKTIONARY EXPLAINS ‘RACE IS hue-man's greatest and most manipulated myth—just a pigment of your imagination. Race is not real but the psycho-socio-economic effects of racism surely is. Race as a biological construct has been created to be wrongly confused with ethnic identity in order to establish the sense of "otherness" and de-humanization of melanated peoples around the globe.”

The only purpose of race is to practice racism. Having little biological validity, the term "race" is better translated to mean organization. The sole purpose of such organization is to maintain white domination and world control of non-whites. [MORE]

Racism White Supremacy is a virus in the mind, a malignant meme that has both the host of the virus and the whole society sick. [MORE]

By Charles M. Blow From {NYT] The white male racist patriarchy will not be denied. It is having a moment. It has its own president.

According to a Pew Research Center analysis of race/ethnicity and sex among validated voters in the 2016 presidential election, white men were the only group in which a majority voted for Donald Trump — 62 percent — although a plurality of white women did also — 47 percent.

We are living through a flagrant display of a white male exertion of power, authority and privilege, a demonstration meant to underscore that they will forcefully fight any momentum toward demographic displacement, no matter how inevitable the math.

The fear of white male displacement is a powerful psychological motivator and keeps Trump’s base animated and active.

It keeps farmers holding out hope and making excuses for him, even as his trade war devastates their operations. It keeps coal country loyal, even as the promises of a revitalized coal industry ring hollow. It keeps white voters in the rust belt on the edge of their seats, waiting for the day that he will magically bring back manufacturing. It keeps white voters in the South heated over the issue of immigration and an “invasion” or “infestation” of Latin Americans.

Trump’s central promise as a politician has been the elevation, protection and promotion of whiteness, particularly white men who fear demographic changes and loss of status and privilege.

As Vox reported in 2017, white people of all ideologies, including liberals, become more conservative when confronted with the reality that a rising minority population means a loss of white dominance.

As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt recently told Vox:

“As multiculturalism is emphasized more and more, there emerges a reaction against it on the right, which is attractive to the authoritarian mind and also appeals to other conservatives. And this, I think, is what has happened, this is what Trump is about — not entirely, of course, but certainly this is a big factor.”

It is about stacking the courts, controlling the bodies of women (look no further than the raft of state abortion restrictions recently passed, including the outrageous new abortion law in Alabama), fighting the redefinition of gender as personified by the advances in liberty among people who are transgender, restricting the voting of nonwhite, less conservative groups, and controlling the flow of migrants into the country who do not bolster the white population.

But the stacking of the courts may well be the thing that makes all the others possible.

While much of the country tries to contend with the unending stream of outrages in the White House, the Senate majority leader is pushing through a steady stream of Trump’s far-right federal judges, often breaking precedent and allowing for their confirmations over their home state’s senators’ objection.

The recent confirmation of Joseph Bianco to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York, was Trump’s 38th confirmed circuit court judge, HuffPost reported last week, adding:

“That’s more circuit judges than any president has gotten by this point in a first term, and means that one in every six seats on the nation’s circuit courts is now filled by a Trump nominee.”

These are lifetime appointments. Even if demographics change over one’s lifetime, these judges will not.

As a recent Congressional Research Service report pointed out, 90 percent of Trump’s circuit court nominees have been white and 92 percent of those confirmed have been white. Among recent presidents, only Ronald Reagan — who opposed making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday, but eventually reversed himself, and who vetoed the Comprehensive Apartheid Act, which, with a congressional override, leveled sanctions against South Africa for its oppressive racist social architecture — appointed and confirmed a higher percentage of white judges.

Eighty percent of Trump’s judicial nominees have been men, and men have been 74 percent of those confirmed.

None of this can fully prevent change, but it can slow it.

The strategy is to find a way to maintain white supremacy, white dominance, without the necessity of a white majority in the U.S. population.

The point is that once white people become a minority in America, the country itself will move from a majority rule ideal to a minority rule one.

Trump will be president for only two more years — or, God forbid, six more — but this tension and standoff over power and status will continue. At present, white men still control much of the power in this country.

Frederick Douglass once said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand.” I speculate that this power may not concede until its death rattle.

Mr. Blow does not fully understand what the global system of racism/white supremacy is. It is a global system of survival that most white people participate in. It is defined as follows:

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. [MORE]

Whites have always been outnumbered worldwide - hence the need to create a global system for their white genetic survival and control over non-white people. As articulated Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, most white people consciously or subconsciously understand the following;

• White plus Black equals Colored.

• White plus Brown equals Colored.

• White plus Yellow equals Colored.

White people are genetic recessive. In general, this means they cannot reproduce a white child when they have sexual relations with non-whites. The so-called white "race" can be replaced or "genetically annihilated" through such assimilation or social intermingling with non-whites. As white populations have been consistently declining, Black and Brown populations are surging. In fact, according to the Census Bureau, whites remain the only segment of the U.S. population where deaths outpace births.  And this scares racists to death. [MORE] 

Persons who classify themselves as Whites make up less than 10% of the world's population. That is, 90% of the world's population of 7 billion people are non-white.  

The "fear of replacement" or fear of losing control over non-whites fuels the global system of white supremacy/racism and causes racists to act genocidally towards non-whites in a perceived "survival game" they are engaged in with "us" (an imagined "other" species. 

Blow states, “The[ir] strategy is to find a way to maintain white supremacy, white dominance, without the necessity of a white majority in the U.S. population.” He misunderstands his actual contextual environment and is caught in the Spectacle presented to him by elites. He naively believes only Republicans are racist and fails to understand that there are different methods of practicing racism and racists may disagree or even wage wars over the ways of maintaining the system of racism. Majority is really meaningless. Whites have always been outnumbered worldwide - yet elite whites control nearly everything of important value and every resource worldwide and control the world’s wealth. As stated by Dr. Bobby Wright, 'everywhere one finds Whites and Blacks in close proximity to each other, whether it is Ferguson, Mo. or Zimbabwe, the whites are in control. Yet Blacks rarely question this extraordinary universal phenomenon which defies every known statistical law of probability.' [MORE]

So the real question Mr. Blow and all non-white people should be asking [as posed by Dr. Amos Wilson]

"[Blacks] must question how is it that a minority people [whites], a very small percentage of mankind, a people who are essentially resourceless in terms of their natural resources, maintain the power they have. Why is it that the peoples whose lands contain the wealth of the earth are the poorest people? Why is it that Afrika with some twenty (20) or thirty (30) strategic metals that make the space age possible — why is it that the image of Afrika is projected at us time and time again as that of starving children, as societies in disorder, as societies on the verge of disaster? This implies that there must exist a political, social situation wherein the mental orientation of our people must be so structured that the power and the ability of the Europeans to rule this earth are continually maintained.' [MORE]

Citing Frederick Douglass, Blow writes, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. I speculate that this power may not concede until its death rattle.” He doesn’t realize that white people’s power is based upon a consensual relationship it has with Black people. Said power will change when the relationship changes. The “demand” is a demand disciplined Black people must make upon themselves to individually drop the subordinate role they play with white people. Such introspection requires courage and effort from Black individuals. This true rebellion has nothing to do with petitioning government authority, moral suasory, singing songs, praying, chanting or other reactionary conduct that has kept Blacks “in a continuous state of checkmate” or in a “losing streak that is centuries long. [MORE] 

FUNKTIONARY explains that among other things, the imbalanced power between Blacks and whites in the system of racism white supremacy is maintained through cooperative control. ‘Racism/white supremacy is a power group dynamic involving a master-servant relationship between whites and Blacks in a system of vast unequal power and conditions. Dr. Amos Wilson explains, “the oppressive configuration the White man has assumed in relationship to the Black man is in good part the result of the fact that we have permitted ourselves to remain in a complementary subordinate configuration conducive to his oppressive designs.” 

Through the use of unrelenting psyops, elite whites maintain consensual control by keeping Black people in a state of mental maladaptiveness. [MORE] As explained by Wilson, "It is not so much that the European says we are inferior and that the European maligns our character, et cetera. It is the belief on our part that what he says is true that drives us to be crazy. It is a crazy reaction to what the European says, an insane and unthinking kind of approach to dealing with what he says about us, that maintains the craziness." [MORE] and [MORE]. Such a manufactured or falsified consciousness stupidly looks at the imbalance of power as a natural or coincidental outcome.

Neely Fuller explains that in the system of racism white supremacy ‘non-white people, regardless of age function as children. They are the servants to, the victims of, and the "children” under the power and direction of elite racists. Elite racists function as their parents, bosses, masters, and their major decision-makers.’ Elite racists hope and intend to keep all non-white people in a childish condition.’ [MORE]

Numbers do not sustain the system of white supremacy; the world is 90% non-white. It takes great individual effort to recognize your own false programming. But it is necessary to destroy the master-servant relationship helping to maintain the imbalance of power. Watch your mind. When a critical mass achieve a level of “endependence” it will change the world, discarding the old relationship like counterfeit currency.

Trump Administration Wants To Cut Funding For Public Housing Repairs - Thousands of Units [Disproportionately Occupied by Non-White People] Already Unfit for Human Habitation

Ben Carson is Trump's Unqualified Straw Boss or Safe Negro, Loyal to the White Supremacist Ideology & Appointed to Ensure "Fair Housing" Matters are Handled Frivolously According to FUNKTIONARY:

Negro - a man or woman of Afrikan descent living in pathological mental state of cultural abstinence and historical amnesia— one who wants to impress his or her oppressor while ignoring the effects and plight that his or her accommodationist posture inures. [MORE]

From [NPR] Mold. Leaks. Rodents. Crime. These are just some of the things the nation's 2 million public housing residents have to worry about. Many of the buildings they live in have been falling into disrepair for decades. Public housing officials estimate that it would cost $50 billion to fix them up.

But the Trump administration wants to eliminate the federal fund now used to repair public housing in favor of attracting more private investment to fix up and replace it.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson says the country needs a new approach because the current one is not working. He admits that living conditions for many public housing residents are extremely poor.

"There are two possible solutions. You can just throw more money at it, or you can say 'Why is that happening and why is it getting worse and is there anything that we can do about those factors,' " Carson recently told a House appropriations subcommittee.

Part of the problem stems from a steady decline in public housing repair funding over the past decade. About $2 billion to $3 billion has been appropriated in recent years, half the amount approved in 2000. At the same time, the needs have grown at a more rapid rate, creating a massive backlog.

Tyrone Garrett, executive director of the District of Columbia Housing Authority, is one of many housing officials across the country trying to deal with the fallout. Earlier this year, Garrett announced that his agency faced "a monumental crisis." About 2,500 public housing units in the city — about a third of its stock — are in such disrepair that Garrett says they're unfit for human habitation.

Would we want our parents, our family members, our mothers, or our children for that matter to live in units that are decaying around them?" he asks. Garrett says the answer is obviously "no," but about 5,000 Washingtonians now live in those units. He says his agency needs $343 million in emergency funding to meet the most urgent needs.

Garrett shows what he's talking about at Richardson Dwellings, a public housing complex in Northeast Washington. Like much of the nation's public housing, these two-story brick apartments are decades old and have been patched together with one Band-Aid repair after another. Today, some of the units are beyond repair.

"You have roof leaks, ceiling leaks, probably stemming from something on the roof, decaying floors, walls," says Garrett, pointing to water stains above him in one unit and chipped linoleum on the floor.

The apartment's living room is small and crammed with furniture, piles of personal belongings and a big refrigerator standing in one corner. It's difficult to walk through the room. Scarlet-colored carpeting on the stairway is so loose, it's difficult to walk upstairs because it's unclear where one step begins and another one ends. Upstairs, Garrett points out more water stains on the ceiling in one of the bedrooms, and to black grout between the bathroom tiles.

"You can see where the mold is building up and this is probably more than likely from a lack of ventilation," he says. These apartments were built in 1953 before exhaust fans were standard.

The apartment has other hazards, including lead-based paint, which has made Fields and her family eligible for emergency vouchers to relocate to other housing. She says at least the bug infestations aren't as bad as they used to be.

"It's just the mice. The mice is out of control a little bit," she says.

There's a lot at this complex that threatens the health of children. A tree in the courtyard outside is decorated with stuffed animals and pinwheels — a memorial to a 10-year-old girl who was caught in a hail of gunfire when she went out to buy ice cream last summer and died clutching a $5 bill. Her family is now suing the housing authority, saying it did not provide enough security in an area prone to violent crime.

Garrett says D.C. is not alone. "Other housing authorities throughout the country are in the same boat. We're looking for opportunities to be able to improve the lives of our families, and it's becoming increasingly difficult with the funding cuts," he says. Garrett estimates it would take more than $2 billion to fix up all of the city's public housing over the long run.

But HUD Secretary Carson says the federal government has limited funds and needs to attract more private investment. He told Congress that the administration hopes to address the problem, in part, with a program enacted in the 2017 tax law that provides large tax breaks for investments in what are called "opportunity zones."

"A lot of money will be pouring into those and a lot of these distressed areas are in the opportunity zones — 380,000 public housing units," he told lawmakers. [MORE]

Renters in Chicago's Black Neighborhoods 4 Times as Likely to Face Eviction [by mostly White Landlords] as those in White Areas

From {ChicagoTrib] It first appeared in patches — dark and spotty.

Then with each rainfall, it started to spread across the ceiling, taking on a life of its own.

Mary Williams said that when her landlord neglected to fix her leaking roof and clean up the mold in her bedroom, she stopped paying rent.

“I kept telling them, and they didn’t care,” Williams said. “In my mind, I was saying they’d have to take me to court. Once they take me to court, I’m going to go to the court and show them my living conditions because they won’t come to fix the problem.”

After the landlord filed a complaint to have Williams, a 52-year-old Chicago Public Schools Safe Passage worker, evicted, the two parties settled, allowing her to move out of the South Chicago apartment next month without having to pay the roughly $5,000 she withheld in rent.

In African American neighborhoods like Williams’ South Chicago, landlords file for evictions at a substantially higher rate than in other parts of the city, according to a new report from the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing, a local housing advocacy organization that reviewed nearly 300,000 Cook County eviction court records for 2010 through 2017. In 2017, landlords in majority-African American neighborhoods filed for evictions four times more often than in white neighborhoods, the report found.

“This is not acceptable,” said Randall Leurquin of the Lawyers’ Committee, who analyzed the data for the report.

“We have a requirement to affirmatively further fair housing, and that’s just not about obtaining a house, it’s also about maintaining a house,” he said.

But seeking an eviction is often the last recourse for landlords after tenants fail to pay rent because filing an eviction case is a costly process for landlords, according to property managers and attorneys who represent landlords. For example, Chicago ordinance keeps landlords from recovering attorney’s fees in eviction cases.

“The idea that landlords who go to these communities, rebuild these properties and, in most cases, provide good housing would venture on a money-wasting and -losing process by filing disproportionately against communities of color is so nonsensical it boggles my mind,” said Michael Griffin, attorney at Sanford Kahn, a Chicago-based law firm that files thousands of eviction cases every year.

Fair housing advocates said the racial disparity in eviction filings is linked to poverty, instability and other historical racial dynamics that warrant further exploration.

Peter Rosenblatt, an associate sociology professor at Loyola University Chicago, said the large disparity between minority and majority-white neighborhoods isn’t likely the result of widespread intentional discrimination by landlords but rather comes from structural racism, which he defined as the historical and contemporary reinforcement of inequality along racial lines.

One contributing factor, Rosenblatt said, could be the high proportion of African Americans and Hispanic renters who pay more than 30% of their incomes for housing, the maximum level recommended as affordable by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

In Chicago, about two-thirds of African American renters and more than half of Latino renters pay above that threshold, compared with only 40% of white renters, he said.

Having to pay that much for housing “can lead to evictions because there’s less wiggle room when other expenses come up,” Rosenblatt said. [MORE]

ACLU Study: Black People Make up 47% of D.C.’s Population but Accounted for 86% of all Arrests in the District — 10 times the arrest rate of [gentrifying] white [liberal] residents

From [HERE] Black residents in the District are disproportionately arrested for minor violations, despite making up less than half of the population, according to a study by two watchdog groups.

Black people make up 47% of D.C.’s population but accounted for 86% of all arrests in the District — ten times the arrest rate of white residents, according to a study by D.C.’s ACLU office and the advocacy group, Open the Government.

D.C. police arrest data from 2013 to 2017 shows that more than 16,000 people were arrested for low-level crimes such as driving without a permit, possessions of an open container of alcohol, public marijuana consumption, gambling and noise complaints. The data covers the entire District — not just high crime areas.

While only 34% of the District’s black commuters travel by vehicle, 78% of all people arrested for driving without a permit were black. according to the data. The disparities in arrests and traffic stops are likely a result of discriminatory decisions being made by officers, the study suggests.

D.C. police only recently began tracking the race of the individuals its officers stop as required under the 2016 Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Act, or the NEAR Act.

“MPD waited more than two years before taking any steps to comply with that statute,” said the study.

It was in response to a lawsuit from ACLU-DC that D.C. police began “attempting to put the NEAR Act into effect … Thus, almost three years after the NEAR Act was enacted, MPD continues to thwart inquiries into why it arrests so many Black people for offenses like driving without a permit.”

Additionally, 80% of people arrested for having an open container of alcohol were black; the percentage of black arrestees for public consumption of marijuana reached 80% through the five-year period. Out of the 667 people arrested for gambling, 99% of them were black; from the 412 people arrested for noise complaints, 76% of them were black, the study showed.

Kevin Donahue, the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice, said D.C. is addressing some issues, such as directing officers to issue citations instead of arrests for more crimes.

The study also calls on Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has supported more police funding, to instead support more transparency within the police department. The two advocacy groups also say a repeal of criminal statutes that disproportionately target people in poverty are necessary to address racial disparities.

Bodycam Footage Released in Bench Trial of White Rochester Cop who Stalked & Attacked Christopher Pate as He Walked Down the Street in “Mistaken," Unlawful Arrest

From [HERE] The bench trial against a Rochester police officer accused of beating a man began on Wednesday.

Officer Michael Sippel is charged with misdemeanor assault.

Officer Michael Sippel and fellow RPD officer Spenser McAvoy were accused in a wrongful arrest case, which alleged that the two beat Christopher Pate on May 5, 2018. Pate said after providing his identification to the officers, he was grabbed, had a stun gun used on him, then was handcuffed and subsequently punched in the face, causing occipital bone and jaw fractures, as well as other damage to his mouth.

The case was determined to be one of mistaken identity, and all charges were dropped by Rochester City Court Judge Maija Dixon.

Christopher Pate, 37, said he was approached by white officers in an unmarked vehicle at Fulton Avenue and Bloss Street around 4:45 p.m. on May 5. Officers claimed that Pate matched the description of an individual on their "most wanted" board.

Pate said that after he provided his identification and proved he wasn't the person they were seeking, the officers continued to escalate the situation and initiated a physical confrontation.

According to Pate, the officers tased and handcuffed him then punched him repeatedly, breaking bones in his face.

“I saw the officer on top of him, beating him," said Tina Davis, who saw the incident happening right outside her front door on Fulton Avenue, near Bloss Street. "The guy was yelling and asking him why are they beating him, because he wasn’t resisting or anything, because he wasn’t. From that point on, they took him down to the ground and was on top of him and being real aggressive.” [MORE]

A grand jury decided to drop charges against McAvoy, but found the evidence against Sippel was enough to charge him. 

In court on Wednesday, the judge reviewed body camera footage of the incident which was made public for the first time. It shows the encounter Pate had with the two officers last May including blood on the ground and the moment he was tased. Said video is above.

During [Mock] Disciplinary Trial for White Cop who Murdered Eric Garner, NYPD Training Head Said a Chokehold was Used & Coughing Shows Breathing was Restricted

From [ABC] The head of the NYPD's recruit training says video shows that a restraint technique used on Eric Garner in 2014 "meets the definition of a chokehold." Inspector Richard Dee testified Tuesday at Officer Daniel Pantaleo's internal trial, nearly five years after Garner's pleas of "I can't breathe" became a rallying cry against police brutality. Dee also says that coughing heard on the video indicates Garner's breathing was restricted by the hold. Dee says recruits are explicitly warned that chokeholds are banned, and they are instructed to disengage when they realize they're using a chokehold. Pantaleo is accused of hastening Garner's death. His lawyer says the officer used an approved technique known as a "seat-belt hold," but Dee says there is no record of Pantaleo's receiving training in that move. On Monday, protesters blocked traffic on the FDR Drive as the disciplinary trial got underway. [MORE]

The medical examiner who performed an autopsy on Eric Garner testified Wednesday that a police officer's chokehold set into motion "a lethal sequence of events," but she said even a bear hug could've hastened his death given Garner's fragile health. Hemorrhaging in Garner's neck muscles was indicative of a chokehold that set off an asthma attack and led to him going into cardiac arrest following a confrontation with New York City police officers in 2014, Dr. Floriana Persechino said. 

She testified at the disciplinary hearing for Officer Daniel Pantaleo, narrating along at times with graphic autopsy photos that have never previously been seen in a public forum.

Persechino said a bystander's video of the confrontation only helped confirm her findings that the officer had wrapped his arm around Garner's neck, obstructing his breathing. The NYPD banned chokeholds in the 1990s because they can be deadly. [MORE]

White Clovis Cops Conduct a Suicide "Welfare Check" by Breaking into an Apt w/Guns Drawn &Turning a K9 Dog Loose During Terroristic Assault on Latino Man who Had Not Committed a Crime

From [HERE] A white Clovis police officer is accused of using excessive force during a welfare check.

Video from a Clovis Police Department officer’s lapel camera shows three officers in the hall of an apartment complex. 

They are pleading with Dan Lucero to open the door.

“We aren't here to hurt you,” an officer is heard saying. “I assure you of that.”

After about two minutes, the video shows the officers grow impatient and enter Lucero's apartment with the guns drawn.

A police K-9 was then deployed and attacked Lucero.

“In this case, we don't have any threat to officers, to citizens, to anybody,” said Lucero’s attorney, Matt Coyte. “The man in talking to them. You should respond with conversation, not with force at all."

The dog left wound on Lucero’s leg, which were treated at a regional trauma center.

“They need to reassess use of force, among all officers, in particular Mr. Aguilar,” Coyte said.

Lucero’s attorney singles out officer Brent Aguilar because he's been accused of excessive force in the past. 

Aguilar is listed in four federal lawsuits that allege excessive force, at times by wrongfully deploying his police dog on innocent people.

“It's not an isolated incident,” Coyte said. “It was done on purpose and that's a problem.

KOB 4 reached out to the Clovis City Manager for comment, but did not hear a back. “We aren't here to hurt you,” an officer is heard saying. “I assure you of that.”

After about two minutes, the video shows the officers grow impatient and enter Lucero's apartment with the guns drawn.

A police K-9 was then deployed and attacked Lucero.

“In this case, we don't have any threat to officers, to citizens, to anybody,” said Lucero’s attorney, Matt Coyte. “The man in talking to them. You should respond with conversation, not with force at all."

The dog left wound on Lucero’s leg, which were treated at a regional trauma center.

“They need to reassess use of force, among all officers, in particular Mr. Aguilar,” Coyte said.

Lucero’s attorney singles out officer Brent Aguilar because he's been accused of excessive force in the past. 

Aguilar is listed in four federal lawsuits that allege excessive force, at times by wrongfully deploying his police dog on innocent people.

“It's not an isolated incident,” Coyte said. “It was done on purpose and that's a problem.

KOB 4 reached out to the Clovis City Manager for comment, but did not hear a back. 

US Media [privately owned, profit making White-elite controlled corporations] Coverage of Venezuela & it’s Push to Install an Unelected Elite Puppetician Reaches All-Time Low

From [MINT PRESS] As famed Latin American author Eduardo Galeano once wrote, “every time the US ‘saves’ a country, it converts it into either an insane asylum or a cemetery.” Of course, as we look over the wreckage left by the US in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, we see that this statement is demonstrably true. And yet, now that the US is poised for another intervention, this time in Venezuela, the press is right there again to cheer it along.

Analyzing 76 total press articles of the “elite” press from January 15 to April 15, 2019, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) could find not one voice that opposed Trump’s regime plans in Venezuela. Meanwhile, 54 percent openly supported these plans.  Of course, this should not be all too surprising given the press’s usual complicity in past US war efforts — e.g., by pushing such war lies as the Gulf of Tonkin, the killing of babies in Kuwait, the WMDS of Iraq and the alleged Viagra-fueled rapes in Libya.  The current war lies are coming fast and furious from such outlets as CNN which lied about seeing Maduro forces lighting aid containers on fire at the Colombian border (it was in fact opposition forces which did so as the NYT admitted two weeks later), and which claimed that US puppet Juan Guaido actually won the presidential election against Nicolas Maduro when in fact Guaido never even ran for president.

What is quite stunning, however, is the total unanimity of the press in uncritically covering and supporting the ongoing coup in Venezuela. This is baffling because the same press outlets which have been rightly critical of Trump for all of his stupidity, lying and meanness, have suddenly found him brilliant, true and benevolent when it comes to Venezuela. This is particularly remarkable given that his partners in this crime are Neo-Con John Bolton; former CIA Director Mike Pompeo who recently joked that the CIA’s true motto is “We lied, We Cheated, We Stole”; and convicted liar Elliott Abrams.  As for Abrams, he is infamous for his role in the illegal funding of the Nicaraguan Contras; his covering up of the El Mazote massacre in El Salvador in which around

And yet, somehow, we are to believe from our “free” press that this band of rogues is going to deliver democracy and human rights to Venezuela.  Never mind the fact that Trump himself is President after losing to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes, and that the US, in the words of former President Jimmy Carter, no longer has a functioning democracy.  As for Venezuela, on the other hand, Carter has said that its electoral system is “the best in the world.”

Meanwhile, this same captive press incessantly tells of us of all the deprivations and travails in Venezuela while refusing to explain how, as UN Expert Dr. Alfred de Zayas has concluded, this state of affairs is largely the result of brutal US sanctions.   Recently, respected economist Jeffrey Sachs co-authored a report showing that, since August of 2017, over 40,000 Venezuelans have died due to the US sanctions which have deprived Venezuela of food and life-saving medicines.   But few would know any of this because the voices of de Zayas and Sachs are never heard in the mainstream press.

Also unheard are any of the 6 million Venezuelans who voted for Nicolas Maduro in May of 2018, many of whom turn out for massive pro-government demonstrations.  Instead, the press gives ink and air time only to mostly white, well-off and English-speaking individuals who support the opposition, giving the false impression that Maduro has no support.

Moreover, in Orwellian fashion, the press refuses to call the current push for a military uprising in Venezuela a “coup,” while the same time referring to Maduro invariably as “repressive” and as a “dictator,” and his government as a “regime.”

In short, instead of giving two sides of the story, the press gives us one, ignores crucial facts and tells us how we should be viewing the situation in Venezuela.  This is not journalism at all, but naked propaganda, and it is shameful.

The fact that, despite all of the US pressure and threats, and despite all of the lies, the Venezuelan people have not risen up en massein support of Juan Guaido – a man 80 percent of Venezuelans never heard of until he declared himself president with the US’s urging – should tell one that things are not as we are being led to believe.  What we are seeing in Venezuela is but another attempted coup made in the USA, and it is the same type as the ones that brought such scoundrels as General Pinochet to power in Chile.  But one would never know this from our trusted press which has decided that it is the mouthpiece for the State Department instead of a check on a President and a nation run amok.

Fed Ct Prevents Evidence from Being Used Against Black Man: Cops Must Get a Warrant to Track a Car w/a GPS Tracker Installed by Car Dealer for Repossession for Missed Payments

From [HERE] If police officers want to use a dealer-installed GPS system to track a driver, they need to get a warrant. That was the ruling Monday by US District Judge Gary Feinerman who ruled in favor of a Black man accused of stealing a watch who was caught because the getaway car, a silver 2003 Lexus RX, had a tracking device installed by the dealer. The issue before the federal court was not the robbery itself, but whether police violated the law by turning to a third party to obtain GPS location data on a motorist without a warrant.

Police in Hinsdale, Illinois, were anxious to solve the March 17, 2017, heist of Razny Jewelers. Three armed men had burst in the store and walked out with Patek Phillipe, Tudor and Frederique Constant watches worth a total of $200,000. They then drove away from a back alley in a silver Lexus SUV. The face of one of those involved was caught on surveillance video, giving the police a big lead in the search for the culprits. 

Police eventually found a Lexus matching the getaway car's description that belonged to Devinn Adams, who was married to Tobias Diggs. Adams had bought the Lexus from a used car dealer, Headers Auto Sales, which installed a GPS tracker on the car so it could be repossessed if the loan payments were not made on time. Headers was more than happy to give the police detectives access to the system that tracked the Lexus, which showed the vehicle belonging to Adams had been in the alley behind the jewelers during the robbery. That was bad news for Tobias Diggs and two other associates who were arrested and charged with the crime.

Diggs caught a break, however, because the police failed to obtain a warrant before accessing the GPS location data. In 2012, the US Supreme Court's Jones decision said police had to obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to a car. Prosecutors insisted that this case was different, since Diggs was not the car's owner and the tracker was already installed by a third party. The judge was not persuaded.

"Given the privacy concerns implicated by the detailed and comprehensive record of Diggs's movements captured by the Lexus's GPS tracker, the fact that the police obtained the information from a third party does not overcome Diggs's claim to Fourth Amendment protection," Judge Feinerman ruled. "Neither Diggs nor Adams voluntarily turned over the GPS data to Headers, and the government has not identified any decision specifically authorizing law enforcement to gather information from a third party to which the information was not voluntarily provided."

Since the judge found the location data was collected illegally, he ordered the evidence suppressed. A status hearing has been scheduled for June 10 to work out what this means for the rest of the case. A copy of the ruling is available in a 250k PDF file at the source link below

San Francisco Approves the “Stop Secret Surveillance Act" to become 1st Municipality to Ban the Use of Facial Recognition

From [indybay] At the May 14 meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the City of SF became the 10th jurisdiction in the country to adopt a comprehensive oversight protocol for the acquisition and use of surveillance tech. The Stop Secret Surveillance Act, sponsored by Supervisor Aaron Peskin and co-sponsored by Supervisors Norman Yee, Hilary Ronen, Matt Haney and Shamann Walton, requires board approval of existing and new equipment, use polices and civil rights impact reports to be created for each methodology and annual reports summarizing use, all available to the public.  

San Francisco's Stop Secret Surveillance Act also bans the use of intrusive facial recognition software by the City, which has been demonstrated to be dangerously inaccurate and racially biased. San Francisco has become the first municipality in the nation to ban its use. 

Oakland Privacy initiated discussions with Supervisor Peskin's office about bringing surveilllance transparency to California's 4th biggest city in April of 2017. Two years later, after the passage of San Francisco's Privacy First ballot initiative and the spread of facial recognition technology via Amazon's marketing of Rekognition to law enforcement, San Francisco has moved ahead and forged into new ground to protect resident's privacy and give them voice in how they are watched.  

OP co-coordinator and Media Alliance director Tracy Rosenberg commented: "SF's ban on facial recognition is a demonstration that just because we can do something doesn't mean that we should. Sometimes the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. But the most important thing is that now San Francisco has a transparent process to have these discussions going forward and will put rules in place to prevent abuse and misuse and protect human rights - in public."  

San Francisco joins Santa Clara County, Oakland, Berkeley, Davis, Palo Alto, the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Seattle, Nashville, Laurence, Somerville, and Cambridge in implementing surveillance transparency protocols, which give communities direct control over how much surveillance tech is used in localities and how it is used and allows for meaningful debate on the balance between security and freedom.  

Facial Recognition Now a Routine Policing Tool in the “Surveillance State" that Incorrectly Identifies Non-White People More Frequently than Whites

From [HERE] In August 2017, a woman contacted the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado with what seemed like a simple case: After a date at a bowling alley, she’d discovered $400 missing from her purse and asked the manager to review the surveillance footage, which showed her companion snatching the cash while she bowled a frame.

But despite the clear evidence, the search for the bowling companion floundered. The woman knew only his first name. He’d removed his profile from the dating site on which they’d met. His number, now disconnected, was linked to a hard-to-trace “burner” phone. Security video captured his car in the parking lot, but not its license plate.

The investigator, Tara Young, set the case aside to work on others. It sat on a shelf until early 2018, when she ran into a colleague who was testing out the department’s new facial recognition system.

Young gave the officer a picture of the bowling companion taken from the victim’s cellphone. He plugged it into the software and up popped a mugshot of a man who looked a lot like the date thief.

It was Young’s first experience with facial recognition, one of the most powerful and controversial technological innovations of the 21st century. It gave her dormant case new life, and showed her its potential to transform policing.

Her investigation “would have been at a dead end without the facial recognition,” Young said. “It’s huge.”

A disputed tool goes mainstream

The technology-driven revolution in policing is unfolding in big cities and small communities around the country, as more police departments purchase facial recognition software. The government “facial biometrics” market — which includes federal, state and local law enforcement — is expected to soar from $136.9 million in 2018 to $375 million by 2025, according to an estimate by market research firm Grand View Research. Driven by artificial intelligence, facial recognition allows officers to submit images of people’s faces, taken in the field or lifted from photos or video, and instantaneously compare them to photos in government databases — mugshots, jail booking records, driver’s licenses.

Unlike DNA evidence, which is costly and can take a laboratory days to produce, facial recognition requires little overhead once a system is installed. The relative ease of operation allows officers to make the technology part of their daily work. Rather than reserve it for serious or high-profile cases, they are using it to solve routine crimes and to quickly identify people they see as suspicious.

But these systems are proliferating amid growing concern that facial recognition remains prone to errors — artificial-intelligence and privacy researchers have found that algorithms behind some systems incorrectly identify women and people with dark skin more frequently than white men — and allows the government to expand surveillance of the public without much oversight. While some agencies have policies on how facial recognition is used, there are few laws or regulations governing what databases the systems can tap into, who is included in those databases, the circumstances in which police can scan people’s photos, how accurate the systems are, and how much the government should share with the public about its use of the technology.

Police praise the technology’s power to improve investigations, but many agencies also try to keep their methods secret. In New York, the police department has resisted attempts by defense attorneys and privacy advocates to reveal how its facial recognition system operates. In Jacksonville, Florida, authorities have refused to share details of their facial recognition searches with a man fighting his conviction for selling $50 of crack. Sometimes people arrested with the help of facial recognition aren’t aware that it was used against them.

Because police don’t treat facial recognition as evidence for presentation in court, the technique does not often turn up in public documents and has not been the subject of many judicial rulings. Its use, and spread, are difficult to track.

The companies that build the technology are also grappling with the implications of its use. Amazon has given its facial recognition system to police departments to try out, sparking protests from employees, shareholders and artificial intelligence researchers. Microsoft says it has resisted requests to sell its products to police, and has called for government regulation. Axon, the largest maker of body cameras in the United States, has taken out patents for facial recognition applications but says it is not pursuing them as it consults with an artificial-intelligence ethics board.

At the same time, companies are creating even more advanced systems that will allow police to identify people from live video footage, such as body cameras, rather than just still images. It is only a matter of time before such technology is available for police to buy. [MORE]