The probable cause of murder was racism: Video Reconstruction Shows Ahmaud Arbery’s Final Minutes After his “Lawful Entry" Onto Property that Multiple White People also Visited that Day

Probable Cause for Unlawful Entry? Have all the elements of the misdemeanor been met? White prosecutors couldn’t figure it out. According to the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (2020):

§ 16-7-21. Criminal trespass

(a)  A person commits the offense of criminal trespass when he or she intentionally damages any property of another without consent of that other person and the damage thereto is $500.00 or less or knowingly and maliciously interferes with the possession or use of the property of another person without consent of that person.

(b)  A person commits the offense of criminal trespass when he or she knowingly and without authority:(1)  Enters upon the land or premises of another person or into any part of any vehicle, railroad car, aircraft, or watercraft of another person for an unlawful purpose;(2)  Enters upon the land or premises of another person or into any part of any vehicle, railroad car, aircraft, or watercraft of another person after receiving, prior to such entry, notice from the owner, rightful occupant, or, upon proper identification, an authorized representative of the owner or rightful occupant that such entry is forbidden; or(3)  Remains upon the land or premises of another person or within the vehicle, railroad car, aircraft, or watercraft of another person after receiving notice from the owner, rightful occupant, or, upon proper identification, an authorized representative of the owner or rightful occupant to depart.

(c)  For the purposes of subsection (b) of this Code section, permission to enter or invitation to enter given by a minor who is or is not present on or in the property of the minor's parent or guardian is not sufficient to allow lawful entry of another person upon the land, premises, vehicle, railroad car, aircraft, or watercraft owned or rightfully occupied by such minor's parent or guardian if such parent or guardian has previously given notice that such entry is forbidden or notice to depart.

(d)  A person who commits the offense of criminal trespass shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(e)  A person commits the offense of criminal trespass when he or she intentionally defaces, mutilates, or defiles any grave marker, monument, or memorial to one or more deceased persons who served in the military service of this state, the United States of America or any of the states thereof, or the Confederate States of America or any of the states thereof, or a monument, plaque, marker, or memorial which is dedicated to, honors, or recounts the military service of any past or present military personnel of this state, the United States of America or any of the states thereof, or the Confederate States of America or any of the states thereof if such grave marker, monument, memorial, plaque, or marker is privately owned or located on land which is privately owned.

From [HERE] Ahmaud Arbery may have been looking for a drink of water when he wandered into a construction site just before he was killed, the property's lawyer has said.

J. Elizabeth Graddy, the attorney for homeowner Larry English, said surveillance footage showing a young black man who looks like Arbery walking through the premises on two other occasions suggests he may have been looking for a faucet during his run on February 23.  

The water sources are not visible in the cameras, but Graddy says his movement suggests he would be moving to and from where they are located.  

She revealed her theory as more video emerged showing multiple people visited the construction site on the day Arbery was gunned down - prompting his legal team to question why he was the only one considered a 'criminal'.  [MORE]

The probable cause of murder was racism: NYT Video Reconstruction of Ahmaud Arbery’s Final Minutes After His “Lawful Entry” Onto Property that Multiple White People also Visited that Day

No Power to Neutralize Racism White Supremacy: 2 Months After Louisville Cops Fatally Shot a Black Woman who was Sleeping in Her Home, Racist Suspect Governor says Prosecutors Should Review Case

RACIST SUSPECT Andrew Graham Beshear is an American attorney and politician. HE IS A DEMOCRAT.

From [HERE] Two months after Louisville police officers fatally shot a woman as they raided her home, Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky said on Wednesday that local, state and federal prosecutors should review the police investigation into the shooting.

Officers killed the woman, Breonna Taylor, 26, just after midnight on March 13 during a confrontation in which her boyfriend shot an officer in the leg, the Louisville police said. But only recently has nationwide attention been drawn to the case. Neither Ms. Taylor nor her boyfriend was a target of the police investigation that led to the drug raid.

Ms. Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, filed a lawsuit in late April against three officers with the Louisville Metro Police Department, accusing them of wrongfully causing her daughter’s death.

Among the lawyers representing Ms. Palmer is Benjamin Crump, who also represents the family of Ahmaud Arbery, whose February shooting death in Georgia led to murder charges against two men last week.

On Wednesday, Governor Beshear called reports about Ms. Taylor’s death “troubling” and said the public deserved to know everything about the March raid. He asked the state attorney general, the local prosecutor and the federal prosecutor assigned to the region to review the results of the Louisville police’s initial investigation “to ensure justice is done at a time when many are concerned that justice is not blind.”

The Louisville police, who declined to comment for this article, have said little about the raid since a news conference on the day it happened.

The Louisville Courier-Journal reported this week that the police had been targeting two men who they believed were selling drugs out of a house more than 10 miles from Ms. Taylor’s apartment. However, a judge had signed a warrant allowing officers to search Ms. Taylor’s home — and to enter without warning — in part because a detective said one of the men had used Ms. Taylor’s apartment to receive a package.

In the lawsuit, Ms. Palmer’s lawyers say that the man had already been apprehended before police officers entered Ms. Taylor’s home.

“They executed this innocent woman because they botched the search warrant execution,” Mr. Crump said in an interview. “They had the main person that they were trying to get in their custody, so why use a battering ram to bust her door down and then go in there and execute her?”

6th Circuit Ct [3 white judges] Reverses Black Man’s $3.5M Jury Award. White Detroit Cops Meant to Arrest Roderick Siner but They Arrested Marvin Seales Instead. Released 15 Days Later

From [HERE] A Black man who was wrongfully arrested by white cops and held for 15 days in jail was improperly awarded $3.5 million in damages against his arresting officer, the Sixth Circuit ruled, finding that he “sued the wrong man.” The arresting officer couldn’t predict how other officers and jailers would fail to discover the man’s true identity. 

The circuit judges MERRITT, SUHRHEINRICH, and SUTTON [all white & pictured above] decided the case. According to their order:

Police officers meant to arrest Roderick Siner, who goes by the alias Marvin Seals. They arrested Marvin Seales instead. Fifteen days later, the State realized the mistake and released Seales. Seales sued Thomas Zberkot (the police officer who arrested him), the City of Detroit (which held him for the first two days), and Wayne County (which held him in jail for about thirteen days after that). By the time of trial, only Officer Zberkot remained in the case, and the jury awarded Seales $3.5 million for wrongful detention under federal and state law. Because Officer Zberkot handled the case for fewer than three hours and because our prior decision in this case held as a matter of law that there was probable cause to arrest Seales given the similarities between him and Seals, we must reverse. [MORE]

Suit Settled. Joliet Cops Beat & Dragged Black Man Out of Car & Called him NGHR. Although a Drug Field Test was Negative, White Cops & Technician Lied About it To Detained Him for 48 Days

According to Patch Illinois, The city of Joliet has reached a $450,000 settlement with an Arlington Heights law firm that sued the Joliet Police Department in federal court accusing two city officers of unjustly arresting Joliet resident Elijah Manuel in 2011, Joliet Patch has learned.

In 2011, Manuel spent nearly two months inside the Will County Jail awaiting trial on erroneous drug charges before the Will County State's Attorney's Office dismissed the case, the lawsuit stated.

Besides the city of Joliet, Officers Terrence Gruber and Tom Conroy were named as defendants.

Back in March 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a pretrial ruling favorable to Manuel and his attorneys after hearing arguments on the city of Joliet case in October 2016.

Joliet Patch recently uncovered the $450,000 payout as a result of the Freedom of Information Act request to the city of Joliet. 

According to the Supreme Court order:

“Shortly after midnight on March 18, 2011, Manuel was riding through Joliet, Illinois, in the passenger seat of a Dodge Charger, with his brother at the wheel. A pair of Joliet police officers pulled the car over when the driver failed to signal a turn. According to the complaint in this case, one of the officers dragged Manuel from the car, called him a racial slur, and kicked and punched him as he lay on the ground. The policeman then searched Manuel and found a vitamin bottle containing pills.Suspecting that the pills were actually illegal drugs, the officers conducted a field test of the bottle’s contents. The test came back negative for any controlled substance, leaving the officers with no evidence that Manuel had committed a crime. Still, the officers arrested Manuel and took him to the Joliet police station.

There, an evidence technician tested the pills once again, and got the same (negative) result. See ibid. But the technician lied in his report, claiming that one of the pills was “found to be . . . positive for the probable presence of ecstasy.” Id., at 92. Similarly, one of the arresting officers wrote in his report that “[f]rom [his] training and experience, [he] knew the pills to be ecstasy.” Id., at 91. On the basis of those statements, another officer swore out a criminal complaint against Manuel, charging him with unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

Manuel was brought before a county court judge later that day for a determination of whether there was probable cause for the charge, as necessary for further detention. See Gerstein, 420 U. S., at 114 (requiring a judicial finding of probable cause following a warrantless arrest to impose any significant pretrial restraint on liberty); Ill. Comp. Stat., ch. 725, §5/109–1 (West 2010) (implementing that constitutional rule). The judge relied exclusively on the criminal complaint—which in turn relied exclusively on the police department’s fabrications—to support a finding of probable cause. Based on that determination, he sent Manuel to the county jail to await trial. In the somewhat obscure legal lingo of this case, Manuel’s subsequent detention was thus pursuant to “legal process”— because it followed from, and was authorized by, the judge’s probable-cause determination.

While Manuel sat in jail, the Illinois police laboratory reexamined the seized pills, and on April 1, it issued a report concluding (just as the prior two tests had) that they contained no controlled substances. See App. 51. But for unknown reasons, the prosecution—and, critically for this case, Manuel’s detention—continued for more than another month. Only on May 4 did an Assistant State’s Attorney seek dismissal of the drug charge. See id., at 48, 101. The County Court immediately granted the request, and Manuel was released the next day. In all, he had spent 48 days in pretrial detention.”

Govt Settles Suit: Officials “Deliberately" Denied Detroit Black Kids “the Right of Access to Literacy" & an Education in Its ‘Chaotic & Under-resourced Schools’ where “Illiteracy is the Norm"

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday announced a settlement to resolve a lawsuit brought on behalf of Black children in Detroit that described slum-like conditions in some public school buildings and a general atmosphere that failed to provide basic levels of literacy and a meaningful education to most of its students.

A 136-page class action lawsuit filed in 2016 against then-Governor Rick Snyder, the state board of education and other named state orderlies alleged the government deprived Black children of their constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental right of access to literacy.” it states:

“Decades of State disinvestment in and deliberate indifference to Detroit schools have denied Plaintiff schoolchildren access to the most basic building block of education: literacy. Literacy is fundamental to participation in public and private life and is the core component in the American tradition of education. But by its actions and inactions, the State of Michigan’s systemic, persistent, and deliberate failure to deliver instruction and tools essential for access to literacy in Plaintiffs’ schools, which serve almost exclusively low-income children of color, deprives students of even a fighting chance. Michigan’s compulsory attendance laws require Plaintiffs to attend these schools, but they are schools in name only, characterized by slum-like conditions and lacking the most basic educational opportunities that children elsewhere in Michigan and throughout the nation take for granted. Plaintiffs sit in classrooms where not even the pretense of education takes place, in schools that are functionally incapable of delivering access to literacy. This abject failure makes it nearly impossible for young people to attain the level of literacy necessary to function—much less thrive—in higher education, the workforce, and the activities of democratic citizenship. The abysmal conditions and appalling outcomes in Plaintiffs’ schools are unprecedented. And they would be unthinkable in schools serving predominantly white, affluent student populations. In short, the schooling afforded to Plaintiffs is both separate and unequal. These students are effectively excluded from Michigan’s statewide system for the delivery of public education. In 2009, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan described Detroit as “New Orleans . . . without Hurricane Katrina, and I feel a tremendous sense of both urgency and outrage.”1 Seven years later, the Detroit schools have spiraled further downward into crisis and despair, irreparably damaging children’s futures and depriving them of their constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental right of access to literacy.”

The lawsuit was initially dismissed by U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy III, a racist suspect, who ruled that while state officials were proper parties to the suit, access to literacy is not a right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

But a 2-1 majority of the Sixth Circuit reinstated the case last month, finding that a “basic minimum education” is a constitutional right. U.S. Circuit Judge Eric Clay, wrote that because the Michigan Board of Education maintains control over all public education in the state, its current lack of day-to-day control over the district in question does not exclude it from liability.

The importance of education as a “prerequisite to the exercise of political power,” Clay wrote, requires that access to literacy be guaranteed.

U.S. Circuit Judge Eric Murphy, a Donald Trump appointee, dissented and said federal judges do not have “the power to oversee Detroit’s schools in the name of the United States Constitution.” He wrote “this positive right to a minimum education will jumble our separation of powers.”

“Plaintiffs sit in classrooms where not even the pretense of education takes place, in schools that are functionally incapable of delivering access to literacy.” Pictured Above Racist Suspect Defendants & 2 Token Borgs. (fmr) Governor Snyder, David Behen, Director of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, Brian J. Whiston, the Superintendent of Public Instruction and members of the The State Board of Education John C. Austin, Michelle Fecteau, Lupe Ramos- Montigny, Pamela Pugh, Kathleen N. Straus, Casandra E. Ulbrich, Eileen Weiser, and Richard Zeile.

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The complaint states, “Achievement data reveal that in Plaintiffs’ schools, illiteracy is the norm. Many students in Plaintiffs’ schools cannot read, write, or comprehend at a grade-appropriate level. These students struggle to write proper paragraphs or even complete sentences, let alone essays or narratives. And because the rest of the curriculum assumes a level of literacy that the students do not attain, they are also unable to learn State-mandated content in all other subject areas.”

It states, “Plaintiffs’ schools have failed them at every stage of the educational system. In the primary grades, Plaintiffs’ elementary schools—Hamilton and Experiencia—have failed to deliver access to the foundational literacy skills of letter- and word-recognition and phonetics. For example, in the third grade at Hamilton, only 4.2% of students scored proficient or above on the State of Michigan’s 2015-16 English assessment test, compared with 46.0% of third-grade students statewide. In practice, this means that many students have a vocabulary of only a couple hundred words. Some students cannot even sound out letters. Last year, the only books in the third-grade classroom at Hamilton were picture books, until the teacher purchased others with her own money more than halfway through the year. Likewise, at Experiencia, only 9.5% of third-grade students scored proficient in English, as compared to 46.0% of third-graders statewide. A number of second and third graders were still working on handwriting and sounding out the letters of the alphabet. When students without basic literacy skills move on to middle and high school, they lack the foundation necessary to build on these skills and attain more sophisticated and grade-level appropriate comprehension and fluency in the higher grades.”

“The alarming outcomes in Plaintiffs’ schools are a predictable consequence of the State’s consignment of Plaintiffs to chaotic, under-resourced, and unsafe schools that lack the necessary learning and teaching conditions for effective delivery of literacy instruction. Plaintiffs’ schools do not have appropriate literacy programs and curricula to effectively teach literacy in the first instance, or to intervene and remediate when students fall behind. Nor does the State operate any system of accountability to ensure that students are delivered access to literacy, are assigned to classrooms where access to literacy can be delivered by qualified and trained teachers, and are identified when they fall behind to receive professionally appropriate interventions. Instead of providing students with a meaningful education and literacy, the State simply provides buildings—many in serious disrepair—in which students pass days and then years with no opportunity to learn to read, write, and comprehend.”

The plaintiffs also explained schools do not have appropriate textbooks, basic school supplies and classrooms are stuffed with as many as fifty students and often do not have enough chairs and desks. Detroit schools also have; “extreme classroom temperatures” regularly exceeding 90 degrees during both the summer and winter due to malfunctioning furnaces and, at other times during winter, “frequently so cold that students and their teachers can see their breath and must wear layers of winter clothing indoors. Students and their teachers cannot receive or impart literacy instruction under such conditions.” Said schools are have Vermin infestations. Mice, cockroaches, and other vermin regularly inhabit Plaintiffs’ classrooms, and the first thing some teachers do each morning is attempt to clean up rodent feces before their students arrive. Hallways and classrooms smell of dead vermin and black mold, Unsafe conditions throughout the school. Perilous conditions throughout these schools further destabilize the environment and pose additional obstacles to achieving literacy. The drinking water in some of Plaintiffs’ schools is hot, contaminated and undrinkable. Bathrooms are filthy and unkempt; sinks do not work; toilet stalls lack doors and toilet paper. In some classrooms, ceiling tiles and plaster regularly fall during class time. In one elementary school, the playground slide has jagged edges, causing students to tear their clothing and gash their skin, and students frequently find bullets, used condoms, sex toys, and dead vermin around the playground equipment. In another school, fires have broken out in hallways and the school lacks the capacity to notify students and teachers and even lacks regulation fire safety equipment. In the same school, the swimming pool has been unusable for over six years, sitting empty except for broken tiles, filth, and dead rodents.”

Evan Caminker, a law professor and former dean at the University of Michigan Law School who served as co-counsel for the plaintiffs, applauded the settlement and last month’s ruling.  

“The Sixth Circuit’s decision is groundbreaking, being the first to recognize a right of access to literacy,” he said. “Hopefully this decision and settlement will help shine a light on the horrible conditions to which schoolchildren are subject on a daily basis.” [MORE]

The introduction to the complaint is worth reading. Read it [HERE]

ACLU Suit says Small, Unarmed Latino Woman was Hiding & Posing No Threat when a Border Patrol Cop Shot Her in the Head, Executed for Crossing the Political Border between Texas & Mexico

From [HERE] and [MORE] The parents of a Guatemalan Mayan woman shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent, whose death drew international outrage because a resident filmed and posted footage of her body, sued the agent and the United States Tuesday.

Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez, 20, had left her hometown San Juan Ostuncalco, in the western highlands of Guatemala, with the goal of reuniting with her boyfriend, who had moved to Virginia, and pursuing her dream of becoming an accountant.

She borrowed $10,000 from an aunt who lived in the United States to pay a coyote to guide her through Mexico.

She traveled north with five other youths from the rural area where most residents are indigenous Mayans who speak the Mam dialect, the Guardian newspaper reported in June 2018.

Her parents, Gilberto Gomez Vicente and Lidia Gonzalez Vasquez, sued the United States; her presumed shooter, Border Patrol Agent Romualdo Barrera; and 20 John Doe Border Patrol officers in Laredo federal court.

Gomez and her traveling companions were in Rio Bravo, Texas, a sleepy town of 5,000 on the Rio Grande, on May 23, 2018, when Barrera encountered them in a weed- and brush-choked residential lot, according to the lawsuit.

The family is represented by American Civil Liberties Union of Texas attorney Edgar Saldivar.

“Two people from Claudia’s group ran toward the river. Two others ran toward an abandoned and dilapidated mobile home two lots away, to hide. Claudia and another person stayed in the vacant lot,” the complaint states.

It continues: “The agent drew his weapon. When Claudia took a step, the agent aimed at her, pulled the trigger, and shot her in the head. Claudia fell to the ground, face down. Agent Barrera then chased the two men who hid in the mobile home. Soon, other Border Patrol agents arrived at the scene.” 

Gomez was shot close by the home of Marta Martínez. Martínez heard the single shot, came outside and started recording Border Patrol agents with her cellphone, according to an August 2018 report by Buzzfeed News.

Martínez filmed an agent flipping over Gomez’s body. When she saw Gomez’s blood-soaked face, she said, “Oh my God, she’s a girl, and you guys shot her in the face.”

Martínez shared the video with Buzzfeed and posted footage on Facebook but took it down at the request of the FBI, which investigated the shooting along with the Texas Rangers and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

Saldivar said in an email he believes the investigations are ongoing, but he has received no confirmation of this from the law enforcement agencies.

“Following the shooting, CBP issued a press release stating that members of Claudia’s group had used ‘blunt objects’ to attack the agent, and that Claudia was ‘one of the assailants,’” the complaint states, using an abbreviation for Customs and Border Protection.

The agency retracted that statement and issued a new one, claiming the group ignored the agent’s commands and rushed him.

The second statement made no reference to blunt objects and did not say that Gomez had assaulted the agent, according to the complaint.

Gomez’s parents say in the lawsuit that she was a petite woman who posed no threat to the agent as she was clearly unarmed, not holding anything, when he shot her.

Martínez told Buzzfeed she had the impression Gomez was hiding before she was shot because her body was in bushes on the vacant lot.

She was killed less than three weeks after she set out for the United States.

Her parents seek compensatory and punitive damages for wrongful death, excessive force, due process violations, battery, negligence, gross negligence and reckless conduct.

The lawsuit follows an administrative claim her family filed in May 2019, a prerequisite for complaints brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

“Since January 2010, at least 102 people have died as the result of an encounter with U.S. border agents,” according to the Southern Border Communities Coalition, which tracks the deaths through media reports and CBP press releases.

Attorney Tells Panel of White Judges that CA Prison Authorities are Still Keeping Inmates in Isolation & Confining Others in Outdoor Cages (20 ft by 10 ft)

From [HERE] The California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation is still keeping inmates in isolation, violating a landmark settlement that ended indefinite solitary confinement in California, counsel for a class of 1,600 prisoners told a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday.

Many prisoners are still confined to their cells for up to 23 hours a day, even while the settlement promised that eligible inmates would be transferred out of Security Housing Units (SHU) and into to the general population, class attorney Samuel Miller told the three-judge panel. 

“Half of them are being held in their cells longer than when they were in SHU,” he said.

Luis Esquivel, now an inmate at Calipatria State Prison, said in court documents that he was confined to his cell for 13 out of 23 days and only let out for meals, according to his own tracking in June and July 2017.

Esquivel said his average daily out of cell time is now less than what it was when he was held in a security housing unit at Pelican Bay State Prison. “The conditions in ‘general population’ at Calipatria are similar to SHU, and my experience is likewise similar. I have limited social interaction and intellectual stimulation. I rarely go outside,” he said, adding that the experience has given him insomnia and anxiety.

California’s prison system has a long history of warehousing suspected gang members in solitary confinement. “In 2011 California had more people in solitary confinement for longer periods of time than any other state in the country,” attorney Rachel Meeropol with the Center for Constitutional Rights said in a press call Monday. 

Two prisoners sued the state pro se in 2009, and U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken granted them class status in 2012. A settlement in 2015 put a stop to solitary confinement on the basis of gang affiliation and required formerly segregated inmates to be housed with the general population. 

A magistrate judge was appointed to oversee the reforms for two years with the option of extending that oversight if the CDCR violates prisoners’ constitutional right.

But prisoners claim the state has not held up its end of the deal, and still keeps them in their cells for 23-hour stretches.

“Being locked in a cell for 23 hours a day is solitary confinement no matter what name the CDCR calls it,” Meeropol said.

In 2018, Wilken found the CDCR violated the settlement both by holding prisoners in their cells for prolonged periods and placing a number of inmates on “walk-alone status” that bars them from exercising with others or engaging in group leisure activities. 

Arguing for the state of California during a videoconference on Tuesday, attorney Jeffrey Fisher said the ruling along with Wilken’s “associated remedial plans” should be reversed.

He said the CDCR never breached the settlement, as it only promised to transfer inmates from one type of housing unit to another. “It is undisputed that has happened,” he said.

U.S. Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson, a Trump appointee, asked if allowing formerly segregated inmates to mingle with the general population in the prison yard would put them at risk. 

Fisher responded that it would. He said for safety reasons, the prison system had decided to put some inmates in Restricted Custody General Population (RCGP), which keeps some inmates from recreating outside in groups.

“Because they had made so many enemies because of their association with prison gangs, there wasn’t a general population unit that they could safely be transferred to. There was a good chance that they would be assaulted or killed. So they created the RCGP for that purpose,” Fisher said. He added that this “walk-alone” status, as it has come to be called, is meant to be temporary and that some inmates have since been moved out of the restricted custody population.

Prisoners on “walk-alone status” are consigned to outdoor cages measuring 20 feet by 10 feet, where they can walk around and talk to other inmates but remain physically separated. The CDCR calls them “fenced individual exercise yards.”

When U.S. District Judge James Gwin, a Bill Clinton appointee sitting with the panel by designation from the Northern District of Ohio, asked about whether the settlement outlined any conditions for the prisoners, Fisher said the CDCR only agreed to transfer the inmates out of solitary confinement, and that it made no promises about how inmates would be treated in general population.

“Our agreement required the CDCR to transfer them, yes, but the conditions were what the conditions were at that time,” he said. “The parties never negotiated about what the general population conditions would be.”

But Miller said the CDCR refuses to abide by the heart of the settlement by continuing to house prisoners in a manner akin to solitary confinement.

Nelson said he saw no requirements in the agreement regarding out of cell time.

 “Where are the out-of-cell requirements coming into play?” he asked.

The term “general population” has to have some meaning, Miller responded. Under current regulations, general population inmates are entitled to spend 10 hours out of their cells each week.

“CDCR cannot simply call a unit ‘general population’ and then treat the prisoners in any way they please,” Miller said. [MORE]

As Thousands Remain Trapped in It’s Disease Ridden Prisons Federal Authorities Revise Inmate Release Criteria to Include: White, Rich, Male, White Collar Criminals who Serve the Overclass

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VANILLA VICE - WHITE-COLLAR CRIME, E.G., GLOBAL MONOPOLY CAPITALISM, PATHOCRATIC HEGELIAN-STYLE GANGBANKING, CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, CORPORATE STATE, VOTING, THE OILIGARCHY AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION. (SEE: D.C. & THE BEASTHOOD).

OVERCLASS- THE EXPLOITATIVE DOMINANT OVERRULING LEISURE CLASS WHO GET OVER BY TELLING OTHERS “TO JUST GET OVER IT.” THE OVERCLASS ARE THE NON-PRODUCING 1% OF THE POPULATION WHO SON’T HAVE TO WORK., I.E., THEIR M”MONEY” IS STEALING OTHER PEOPLE’S LABOR, PRODUCTIVITY AND WEALTH THROUGH THE WHITE MAGIC OF COMPOUND INTEREST. (SEE: RACISM, COMPOUND INTEREST, “CREDIT,” AFFLUENZA, CASINO ECONOMY, CONTEMPORARY INSANITY, MANIFEST DESTINY & DOCTRINE OF EXCLUSION).

Parole Illinois reported “The bureau has given contradictory and confusing guidance how it is deciding who is released to home confinement in an effort to combat the virus.

Other high-profile inmates such as Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen and lawyer Michael Avenatti, who rose to fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against Trump, have been told they are getting out. That we are only identifying high profile white collar inmates for home confinement is absurd.”

Manafort, who was once Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman, is 71 years old and is serving a 7-year prison sentence. He had been serving his time in a low-security prison in Pennsylvania after he was convicted of tax fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy. The charges were brought as part of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Manafort had sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons asking to be released to release to home confinement for the remainder of the pandemic, or for the four remaining years of his sentence.

He argued that his health and age made him susceptible to contracting the deadly virus, which can spread quickly in places such as prisons, where social distancing is difficult to achieve.

The letter stated:

It is only a matter of time before the infection spreads to staff and inmates at FCI Loretto, at which time it may be too late to prevent high-risk inmates, such as Mr. Manafort, from contracting the potentially deadly virus.

The Bureau of Prisons has not confirmed or denied any cases coronavirus in Loretto Prison.

Paul Manafort was released from federal prison to home confinement early Wednesday morning due to concerns about coronavirus exposure. [MORE]

White San Diego DA & Sheriff Decline to Charge Racist who Wore KKK Mask to Grocery Store b/c his Right to Degrade & Intimidate Black People Trumps Their Right to Equal Protection Under the Law

The WashPost reported that ‘The white man who wore a Ku Klux Klan hood to a grocery store in lieu of a mask in a disturbing stunt earlier this month will not face any criminal charges for his actions, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department announced Monday night.

The man, who has not been identified by police [that’s what the kkk mask is for & police honor that], was seen wearing the pointed white KKK hood with two holes for his eyes while shopping at a Vons grocery store in Santee, Calif., on May 2, the day after San Diego County ordered people to wear masks in public settings including grocery stores. Store employees asked the man repeatedly to remove the hood until he finally complied at checkout.

In interviews with sheriff’s investigators, the man “expressed frustration with the coronavirus and having people tell him what he can and cannot do,” the sheriff’s office said in its statement.

“He said that wearing the hood was not intended to be a racial statement,” the sheriff’s office said. “In summary, he said, ‘It was a mask and it was stupid.’”

IN PHOTO SAN DIEGO DISTRICT ATTORNEY Summer stephan and county sheriff William D. Gore, Sheriff

Police faced immediate pressure from groups such as the local NAACP chapterto respond to the incident and launch a full investigation. But after consulting with the U.S. attorney’s office and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, the sheriff’s department concluded there was “insufficient evidence” to bring criminal charges. Typically, cases involving hateful symbols or speech must involve some type of verbal threat to rise to the level of a crime. After speaking with witnesses, the sheriff’s office apparently found none in this case.

To explain its decision, the sheriff’s department cited a recent U.S. Supreme Court freedom of speech case, Matal v. Tam, in which the court ruled in favor of a band trying to trademark the name “The Slants” while federal trademark authorities claimed the language may be disparaging to people of Asian descent. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the opinion cited by the sheriff’s department, “Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express ‘the thought that we hate.’”

FUNKTIONARY defines:

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]

Cleveland to Pay $18M to Settle Suit: White Cops Fabricated Evidence & Coerced Testimony to Falsely Convict 3 Black Death-Row Prisoners who Spent Over 80 Yrs Combined in Prison for Murder

From [DPIC] The city of Cleveland will pay a record $18 million dollars to settle a civil rights lawsuit by three former death-row prisoners who, as a result of police misconduct, spent more than a combined 80 years imprisoned for a murder they did not commit. Kwame Ajamu, his brother Wiley Bridgeman, and Rickey Jackson were convicted in 1975 of the robbery and murder of Harold Franks based on the coerced false testimony of a 12-year-old boy, Eddie Vernon. Police also fabricated evidence and withheld evidence of the men’s innocence. 

The men were tried less than four months after the murder, but their exoneration took nearly four decades. Vernon, the key witness, recanted and testified that police had threatened to jail his parents if he did not cooperate. At the time of the police threats, Vernon’s mother was suffering from cancer. When they were convicted, Ajamu was 17 years old, Jackson was 18, and Bridgeman was 20. No physical evidence linked any of them to the murder. 

All three men were sentenced to death, but Jackson’s death sentence was vacated and Ajamu and Bridgeman’s sentences were to reduced when Ohio’s death penalty was declared unconstitutional in 1978. Ajamu and Bridgeman were both paroled prior to their exonerations, but Jackson remained in prison until 2014. At the time of his release, Jackson had spent 39 years, three months and nine days in prison, which was then the longest any American exoneree had been imprisoned. 

The settlement is the largest ever awarded in an Ohio police misconduct case. Jackson will receive 40% of the settlement, and Bridgeman and Ajamu will split the rest. When the settlement was reached, Ajamu said, “Money cannot buy freedom and money certainly does not make innocence,” but explained that he and the others had agreed because “we now know that you have no other reason and no other recourse but to tell the world that you wronged three little black boys 45 years ago.” 

Terry Gilbert, one of Ajamu’s lawyers, said, “Forty-five years later, we now can say that we have some sense of completion and justice in this case.” Elizabeth Wang, an attorney representing Jackson, said, “What is 39 years of your life worth? Nobody can put a number on that. No amount of money can compensate them for what they went through.” In a statement, law firm Friedman and Gilbert, which represented Bridgeman and Ajamu, said, “This lawsuit and settlement expose the egregious misconduct by police who worked up the case, fabricated false evidence, withheld evidence of innocence, and then coerced Vernon into lying on the stand at trial. The settlement also marks the City of Cleveland’s failure to monitor and train rank and file police in the 1970s, reflected in the department’s widespread culture of racist policing and misconduct with impunity.” 

Under Ohio’s compensation system for wrongful convictions, the men had received smaller payments beginning in 2015. The same year, they filed suit against the city of Cleveland and the detectives who had engaged in misconduct on their case. The suit was dismissed by a federal district judge in 2017, but in 2019, a federal appeals court allowed most of the claims to proceed. The case had been scheduled for a civil trial this summer before the settlement was reached. 

Cleveland police and prosecutors have a long history of misconduct in murder cases. On May 1, 2020, a Cuyahoga County trial judge granted a new trial to Isiah Andrews in the 1974 murder of his wife after the Ohio Innocence Project discovered exculpatory police reports that had never been turned over to the defense. The reports implicated a man who went on to commit additional acts of violence against women. In March 2020, Melvin Bonnell, who was sentenced to death in 1988, asked the Ohio Supreme Court to vacate his conviction and death sentence after his lawyers discovered physical evidence from his case that Cuyahoga County prosecutors had repeatedly insisted since the mid-1990s had been lost or destroyed. County prosecutors also unconstitutionally withheld exculpatory evidence in the case of Joe D’Ambrosio, who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1989. County prosecutors continued to hide that evidence and oppose D’Ambrosio’s release for another two decades. 

The Cleveland police department also faces continuing accusations of misconduct. Between November 2014, when the department came under national scrutiny for the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, and February 2017, when the Cleveland Plain-Dealer investigated police settlements, the city paid 26 settlements totaling $13.2 million. Most of the settlements stemmed from cases involving police violence against civilians, including a $6 million settlement for the shooting death of Rice and $2.25 million each in the deaths of Tanisha Anderson and Dan Ficker. 

Project to ‘De-Colorize & De-Energize’ Baltimore [gentrification] in Full Swing as White Corporate Executive w/ No Name Recognition Seeks to Replace Black Mayor Locked Up for Child’s Book Scandal

“HOLLOW CITY” Study: behind bustling cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia, Baltimore has seen one of the highest rates of gentrification in the U.S. [MORE]

From [HERE] Mary Miller, a former T. Rowe Price Group executive and U.S. Treasury official, 64, is tied in the race with both former mayor Sheila Dixon, 66, and City Council President Brandon Scott, 36, according to a poll released on Friday by the Garin-Hart-Yang research group —which showed each candidate at 16 percent. Young, 65, polled at 13 percent in the survey. All four are Democrats. Three candidates are Black and Miller is white. The primary election is on June 2. The winner is almost certain to go on to win the general election in a landslide as the city is overwhelmingly Democratic.

Young has been mayor for slightly over one year, taking over after puppetician Catherine Pugh resigned. Pugh was forced out by the powers that be over a so-called scandal and subsequent prosecution involving self dealing with a children’s book she authored. [A mere drop in the bucket in Trump world. Many Black politicians get disappeared quickly. Remember John Conyers?] Young previously served nine years as city council president. [MORE]

Miller has poured $1.5 million of her own money into her Baltimore mayoral campaign, a massive investment that can help her remain on voters’ screens while they’re supposed to be spending lots of time at home. 

Based on the original election schedule, candidates’ second round of campaign finance reports were due Tuesday. But under the new date, that deadline was pushed back a month.

Miller served in three high-ranking posts at the Treasury Department under President Barack Obama, including under secretary for domestic finance and assistant secretary for financial markets. She was the director of the fixed income division when she left to join the Obama administration. Prior to joining the Treasury, she spent 26 years at the Baltimore-based global investment firm T. Rowe Price. Miller said her diverse set of experiences in both the public and private sector makes her uniquely qualified to lead the city she has called home for 34 years.

Miller’s campaign provided some financial figures to The Baltimore Sun, giving voters the first glimpse into how she is managing to fund her aggressive media strategy. After jumping into the race in January with little name recognition, she’s been on voters’ TV and computer screens since mid-February, when she launched a $500,000 media buy.

Her campaign did not file in the first round of reports, which were due in January, because of Miller’s late entrance into the race.

Miller’s campaign said Tuesday that it has received more than 750 donations, raising roughly $600,000 to date. That’s on top of the $1.5 million she contributed to her campaign.

A campaign spokeswoman said Miller has spent more than $1.3 million so far on “voter contact,” including roughly $675,000 on broadcast and TV buys.

Miller has about $410,000 cash on hand, according to her campaign.

GENTRIFICATION ACCELERATED BY COVID? Journalist Nneka Nnamdi observed “Not even a global pandemic can stop the gentrification train from steamrolling Baltimore. Recently, Gov Hogan issued a stay at home order for all of Maryland to prevent a spike of COVID19 cases that could overwhelm Maryland’s healthcare systems and result in many deaths. Curiously, construction, demolition and landscaping were classified as essential under the order and the businesses have been legally able to operate throughout the rolling shutdown of the state that started several weeks ago.” [MORE] Ms. NNAMDI SHOULD understand however that gentrification and plandemics are both tools used by ELITE racists tO CONTROL BLACK PEOPLE in the system of racism white supremacy. BALTIMORE, LIKE DC, NYC AND OTHER PLACES, IS BECOMING A '"HOLLOW CITY.” ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

Hollow city- any place where gentrification has been successfully accomplished by the trick’s of the banksters, moolahsteins, powertollahs and the slum-scumlords. 2) the de-culturization, de-voicing, de-coloration and de-energizing of a city, an area within a city or a community within a city. 3) a defurbished receptacle for licensed, atomized, startified, and monocultural geographical space. (SEE VANILLA VICE).

Former Mayor Sheila Dixon’s campaign said she had more than $240,000 cash on hand as of last week, up from about $89,000 in January.

She’s raised roughly $260,000 since the Jan. 8 cutoff, a two-month period during which a Baltimore Sun/University of Baltimore/WYPR-FM poll showed Dixon had opened up a slight lead in the crowded race.

Video Shows LAPD Cop Hitting non-resisting Homeless Latino Man like a Punching Bag as Another Cop Just Watches. Suit says Officer Spit on Him During False Arrest Him for Trespass onto Vacant Lot

From [HERE] Lawyers for a Latino man who lives in a tent on an empty lot in Boyle Heights sued the city of Los Angeles and members of its police force on Monday for allegedly using excessive force and spitting on his face during an altercation that was caught on camera.

Richard Castillo, who said in the lawsuit that he lived most of his life in the 2400 block of Houston Street and was raised to two houses on the vacant lot, alleged that an agent assaulted him on April 27 while another agent watched and was arrested. spend the night in jail for no legal reason.

A spokesman for the City Attorney's Office said the office would review the lawsuit, but had no further comment.

A LAPD spokesperson said the agency does not comment on pending litigation, but in a May 4 statement, LAPD confirmed that one of the two officers involved was placed under investigation for alleged assault.

Castillo said in the lawsuit that officials believed he was trespassing on the property, but the owner of the vacant lot has been aware of his presence on the property and has never told him to leave.

The lawsuit also claims that members of an adjacent church that uses the parking lot to park have also been aware of his presence and have never asked him to leave the property.

"As a member of the Boyle Heights community, the plaintiff and his dog, Mamas, are well known to the neighborhood, which has accepted him as one of their own," says the complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court.

The lawsuit alleges that after the police approached, he was hit by an unidentified officer "in the face, head, and body," and was spat "intentionally and on purpose” while another officer was standing.

"Throughout the incident, the plaintiff was terrified of his life and experienced a lot of pain and suffering," according to the complaint, which said a cell phone recording taken by an observer went "viral” on the Internet.

According to the lawsuit, Castillo was handcuffed and taken to the Hollenbeck Police Station for reservation and processing, and remained overnight in a cell, then was released without pending charges.

According to a LAPD statement released last week, a supervisor was called to the scene and a witness who had seen part of the fight gave the supervisor a copy of the video from a cell phone.

"After reviewing the contents of the cell phone video and the video used by the officer's body involved, the supervisor notified his commanding officer and investigators from the Internal Affairs Group responded to conduct an investigation of staff complaints." said the statement.

LAPD said a formal investigation was launched and that the officer, who was not publicly identified, was assigned to domestic service pending the results.

‘They’re telling us that no matter what, we’re going to catch it.’ 43% of Inmates at FMC Fort Worth Have COVID. Aerial Photos Reveal Tent City Outside Prison

Aerial Photo of Medical Tents Outside Federal Prison in Texas. Tarrant County Judge says 40% of Inmates at FMC Fort Worth are Infected with COVID. Nationwide, the known infection rate for Covid-19 in jails and prisons is about 2½ times higher than in the general population. [MORE]

From [HERE] As of Monday, 636 inmates at FMC Fort Worth had contracted the coronavirus, according to Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley. That’s about 43% of the inmate population at the federal prison. [MORE]

New white tents constructed on FMC Fort Worth’s campus were visible from NBC 5’s Texas Sky Ranger. Those are medical tents. TV video is [HERE]

The Star Telegram explains, “The prison has added two units and a “Tent City” since the pandemic began. Inmates said they watched with anxiety as the tents went up on the tennis courts, unsure what they were. Watts said the prison plans to have 10 tents to house recovering inmates and three medical tents for those who are seriously ill. 

As of Friday, about 90 recovering inmates were moved into the tent city, Watts said.

“What they’re telling us is that no matter what, we’re going to catch it,” said Raymond Carmona, a 41-year-old inmate with coronavirus. “It’s consuming the whole compound.

Losing the Right to Choose a New Master? Greg Palast says GOP State Orderlies Have Already Purged 17 Million Mostly Non-White Voters Off the Voter Rolls for Trump, the Numbers Manipulator

Greg Palast CLAIMS THAT 'the GOP's SHRINKING white votary was not large enough to elect Donald Trump in 2016 so he stole it by creating the perception that the election would be close and then purging black, LATINO ASIAN VOTERS OFF THE ROLLS USING INTERSTATE CROSSCHECK [MORE] and [MORE]

From [Greg Palast] I get it:  We all must vote by mail—or we die.  There is really no other safe choice.

But there is much to fear, especially for minority and young voters, with a switch to all-mail voting—unless our broken absentee ballot system is fixed.

Here’s what the “Go Postal” crowd doesn’t tell you:  In 2016, 512,696 mail-in ballots—over half a million—were simply rejected, not counted.  That’s official, from the federal Elections Assistance Commission (EAC).

But that’s just the tip of the ballot-berg of uncounted mail-in votes.  A study by MIT, Losing Votes by Mail, puts the total loss of mail-in votes at a breathtaking 22%.

Move to 80% mail-in voting and 25 million will lose their vote.

And not just anyone’s mail-in ballots are dumped in the electoral trashcan.  Overwhelmingly, those junked are ballots mailed by poorer, younger, non-white Americans.

Senator Amy Klobuchar’s proposed bill takes baby steps to expanding vote-by-mail protection but will barely bite into the 22% loss of votes especially among minorities.

Columbia Law professor Barbara Arnwine, founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition, says that a move to mail-in voting is, “really, really dangerous to the Black vote.” Millions of low-income voters who rarely vote absentee will now have fill out multi-step forms for the first time, which, “will lead to disaster,” says Arnwine.

Vote by mail is not as simple as “pick and lick”—picking candidates and licking the envelope.

Eight states, including the swing states of Wisconsin, North Carolina and Klobuchar’s Minnesota, require mail-in voters to have the ballot signed by a witness. The required double-verification is a nightmare—it requires breaking the lock-down—and is an invitation to ballot challenges.

Three states, including swing state Missouri, require the ballot to be notarized. (Alabama requires a notary or two witnesses.)

All but six states “verify” your signature against your registration signature. Partisan officials decide if there is a “match.”  No less than 141,000 ballots were rejected as “unmatched” in 2016.

Why?  To prevent vote fraud, someone stealing your ballot and voting in your name. President Trump warns, “Mail ballots are very dangerous for this country because of cheaters.”

Except, Mr. President, let’s not mix fruit-cake theorizing with the facts.  Rutgers Professor Lorraine Minnite found just six verified cases of voter impersonation over 12 years of voting nationwide. The Election Law Journal reported that, “the proportion of the population reporting voter impersonation is indistinguishable from that reporting abduction by extraterrestrials.”

The CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project report, Whose Absentee Votes are Counted?, shows rejection rates higher for Democrats than Republicans, higher for younger than older voters, and higher for non-English ballots.  Surprised?

Plus, some states require all or first-time voters to mail in a copy of their ID; another hurdle for the poor, those without driver’s licenses or those who may have the wrong ID and not know it.  Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Ann Jacobs told me that 182,000 state university students have photo IDs—which cannot be used to vote. Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 by less than 23,000 votes.

Nationally, over 100,000 absentee ballots were deep-sixed because they are missing a signature—in many cases, the second voter signature required in some states.  In California, Asian-American voting rights activist Hyepin Im was horrified to find that Korean-American absentee ballots were tossed because the Korean language ballots ask for the voters signature in Korean. Not surprisingly, the voters signed with Korean characters, disqualifying their mail-in ballot.

And another 100,000 ballots are lost in presidential elections because of postage due.

Racist Suspect Authorities in Illinois Have Tested Fewer than 2% of its Majority Black Prison Population for COVID-19

GRAPH IS FROM THE PRISON POLICY INITIATIVE

From [HERE] Illinois has tested fewer than 2% of inmates for COVID-19.

Thousands have been quarantined across multiple facilities because of potential exposure and 11 have died, according to information released by the Illinois Department of Corrections.

This low level of testing has raised alarm among advocates and lawmakers.

They say it makes it difficult, if not impossible, to understand the true picture of the outbreak in Illinois prisons and respond to it appropriately. That includes taking steps to contain the outbreak and limit its spread into the communities where prisons are located, which are oftentimes rural and may have limited hospital capacity.

About 186 inmates and 160 staff members had tested positive for COVID-19 according as of Friday, according to IDOC’s website. Of those individuals, the vast majority have recovered: 119 staff and 146 inmates.

Illinois has not been mass testing at prisons, even when outbreaks are identified among some staff and inmates.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a racist suspect, said that “the more testing we have available to us, the more we will be testing in all of those congregate settings.”

“But remember, we also have nursing homes, we also have these developmentally disabled homes and so many other areas that also need testing. So again, it takes a lot more testing than we have today,” he said during his televised press conference Monday. [MORE]

Always Offered the Appearance of Justice in a System of Injustice: Georgia AG asks [Racists at] the Justice Dept to Probe Murder of Black Jogger & Assigns [Rookie DA] Black Woman to the Case

SOUNDS GOOD [law as image in the Spectacle Society.] From [HERE] Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr on Monday tapped a new lead prosecutor in the murder case of Ahmaud Arbery — the fourth since the young black man was killed in February while jogging in Glynn County, Ga. 

Joyette Holmes, district attorney of the Cobb County Judicial Circuit and the first black woman to serve in that position, is taking over the case following a video of the shooting that went viral after it was posted online last week. The footage ignited national outcry and a cascade of questions over why no arrests were made in the 10 weeks since Arbery's Feb. 23 killing.

Meanwhile Carr formally requested the Justice Department to investigate the handling of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery's case, whose death ignited widespread outrage after local authorities waited more than two months to arrest suspects. 

“We are committed to a complete and transparent review of how the Ahmaud Arbery case was handled from the outset,” Carr said in a Sunday statement. “The family, the community and the state of Georgia deserve answers, and we will work with others in law enforcement at the state and federal level to find those answers.”

Arbery, 25, was shot to death Feb. 23 near Brunswick, Ga., while jogging. It’s not in dispute who killed him: Two white men, Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael, have acknowledged doing so. But they claimed they had reason to suspect Arbrey of wrongdoing, and that he had been shot in an altercation with them.

However, a graphic video surfaced on May 5 showing them chasing Arbrey down and shooting him. The public raised concerns about racial injustice and spurred law enforcement officials to finally arrest the McMichaels two days later. 

They were charged with murder and aggravated assault - 74 days later. “I think had we not seen that video, I don't believe that they would be charged," Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” adding: “It's heartbreaking that it's 2020, and this was a lynching of an African-American man.”

Carr’s request Sunday included an investigation of the communications and discussions by and between district attorneys related to the case. [MORE]

In a statement on the Cobb County district attorney's Facebook page, Holmes said, "Our office will immediately gather all materials related to the investigation thus far and continue to seek additional information to move this case forward."

She added, "We appreciate the confidence that Attorney General Carr has in our office's ability to bring to light the justice that this case deserves." 

In a statement, the state attorney general thankedAtlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tom Durden, who had led the case since mid-April, but added the "case has grown in size and magnitude since he accepted." Carr said that "another office is better suited from a resource perspective to now handle the case."

Holmes has led the Cobb County District Attorney's Office since July. She previously was both a prosecutor and defense lawyer in the county, according to her biography on the county website. [MORE] Said bio explains that Holmes was sworn in as District Attorney of the Cobb Judicial Circuit less than a year ago on July 1, 2019.

[A Major Goal of Racism White Supremacy is to Put Non-White People in Greater Confinement] The US Leads the World in Incarceration with 2.2 million people in prisons & jails; 67% are Non-White

The Sentencing Project explains, “The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration. There are 2.2 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails—a 500% increase over the last 40 years. Changes in law and policy, not changes in crime rates, explain most of this increase. The results are overcrowding in prisons and fiscal burdens on states, despite increasing evidence that large-scale incarceration is not an effective means of achieving public safety.

. . . A series of law enforcement and sentencing policy changes of the “tough on crime” era resulted in dramatic growth in incarceration. Since the official beginning of the War on Drugs in the 1980s, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses in the U.S. skyrocketed from 40,900 in 1980 to 452,964 in 2017. Today, there are more people behind bars for a drug offense than the number of people who were in prison or jail for any crime in 1980. The number of people sentenced to prison for property and violent crimes has also increased even during periods when crime rates have declined.

Mass incarceration has not touched all communities equally. Sentencing policies, implicit racial bias, and socioeconomic inequity contribute to racial disparities at every level of the criminal justice system.”

Pew Research recently explained, “The nation’s imprisonment rate is at its lowest level in more than two decades. The greatest decline has come among black Americans, whose imprisonment rate has decreased 34% since 2006.” Nevertheless, this is drop in the bucket.

Sentencing Project states, “Today, people of color make up 37% of the U.S. population but 67% of the prison population. Overall, African Americans are more likely than white Americans to be arrested; once arrested, they are more likely to be convicted; and once convicted, they are more likely to face stiff sentences. Black men are six times as likely to be incarcerated as white men and Hispanic men are more than twice as likely to be incarcerated as non-Hispanic white men.” [MORE]

FREE RANGE PRISON. RWS requires the greater confinement of substantial numbers of non-white people. Undeceiver Neely Fuller makes it plain that “The White Supremacists know that a world system based on Racism White Supremacy requires that substantial numbers of non-white people be greatly restricted in their movements from place to place. The White Supremacists restrict the movements and activities of non-white people so as to keep them idle, and/or keep them from becoming constructively sufficient.

The Racists make certain that large numbers of non-white people exist under conditions that will most likely cause them to do things that will give racists an “excuse” to put them in Greater Confinement.”

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] 

70% of Inmates Test Positive for Coronavirus at Lompoc “Low Security" Federal Prison Operated by the 'US Bureau of Gender Annihilation, Family Destruction & the Intentional Spread of COVID'

According to the LA Times “The number of inmates infected with the coronavirus at a federal prison in Lompoc, Calif., shot up to 792 this week, making it the largest federal penitentiary outbreak in the nation, surpassing a facility on Terminal Island in San Pedro, where 644 inmates have contracted the virus.

The Federal Correctional Institution, Lompoc (FCI Lompoc) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in California. It is part of the Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Lompoc) and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

Nearly 70% of the inmates at Lompoc have tested positive, exploding by more than 300 in recent days, officials said Friday. FCI Lompoc along with Terminal Island now account for about 47% of all the federal inmates who have tested positive nationwide. Both prisons have done widespread testing of hundred of inmates even without symptoms. 

Eleven staff members are also infected at the Lompoc facility, which houses 1,162 low-security inmates. A military mobile hospital has been built on the grounds to cope with the growing number of stricken patients. 

At a neighboring medium-security prison on the same grounds, 31 inmates and 14 staff have become infected, officials said. Two inmates have died after contracting the virus there. Combined, the two federal prisons in Lompoc have had 823 infected inmates, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Santa Barbara County Supervisor Gregg Hart on Friday expressed dismay with the prison and said that the county’s public health department has no power over the federal prison complex. “We have been consistently rebuffed by prison authorities,” he said. So high are the numbers coming out of FCI Lompoc that of 311 new cases reported in Santa Barbara County on Friday, it accounted for all but one, Hart said. 

Hart said the prison numbers are making it hard for the county to meet Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new requirements for more widespread reopening around the state. Hart said state legislators from the area are now talking to officials in the governor’s office. 

Dr. Henning Ansorg, the county’s public health officer, said about 70% of the inmates’ tests at the Lompoc prison are coming back positive. 

“The vast majority of positive individuals report minor or no symptoms,” Ansorg said. The numbers are reflective of an institutional environment where people are housed in close quarters. He said the numbers at the prison may actually be higher because there is a lag time in reporting. 

While Ansorg said most of the inmates show few or no symptoms, some have been hospitalized. Santa Barbara County has 1,032 cases with about 80% being in the two federal prisons.

One man died within days of his release last month, officials said. Efrem Stutson, 60, was released from Lompoc on April 1 after serving 27 years for selling cocaine. Within hours of getting off a bus in San Bernardino, he was hospitalized. Five days later he was dead after contracting COVID-19. His sister said he became sick as he was about to be released and was hardly able to walk off the bus.”[MORE]