No Facts Indicate that Protestors Had Anything to Do w/the Murder of Secoriea Turner & It Apparently Occurred in the Driveway of a Liquor Store Directly Across from a Texaco, Not the Wendy’s

Police knew that armed folks were hanging out around a huge liquor store and had no presence there? Above, the government’s cameras at the intersection of University & Pryor. Were they also off duty? Atlanta leads nation in camera surveillance.

From [HERE] Secoriea Turner, an 8-year-old Black child was shot and killed Saturday night in Atlanta. Police said she was shot and killed in the back seat of a car after what they described as a confrontation between her mother, a friend and a group of armed suspects blocking their way on Saturday night.

Police said Turner was riding in a car with her mother and her mother’s friend when they exited the interstate at University Avenue. The police originally said, “The driver tried to turn into the parking lot at 1238 Pryor Road when he was confronted by an “group of armed individuals” who had blocked the entrance” [MORE]

“At some point, someone in that group opened fire on the vehicle, striking it multiple times and striking the child who was inside. The driver then drove to Atlanta Medical Center for help,” police said in a statement.

Police describe one of the shooters as a man dressed like a bounty hunter, wearing all black, and the other shooter as a man wearing a white T-shirt. Police are offering a $10,000 reward for any information leading to Secoriea's killers.

Atlanta Police said the shooting happened at 1238 Pryor Rd., the All American Package Store, around 9:50 p.m. [MORE] The All American Package Store is a large liquor store that was open at the time of the incident. It is directly across from a Texaco gas station and a NAPA Auto Parts store. The Wendy’s is on the other side of the liquor store and a little further down on University Avenue across a divided highway. WSBTV-CBS initially reported that it occurred closer to the gas station on Pryor Rd entrance of the liquor store lot. The dependent media has been parroting government authorities’ false inference that the child’s murder was somehow either connected to protest at the Wendy’s, or related to “the movement” or it was committed by a protester. Last month white cops murdered a Black man in the Wendy’s lot by shooting him in the back as he fled.

Stop Looting Our Black Lives! We Rebuke the Force Continuum. "A Global Spell Against Racism White Supremacy, Police Brutality, Genocide White Fragility & Genthanasia," Cast on The 4th of Their Lie

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LA to Pay $1M after an LAPD Cop Shot a Black Teenager in the Back. Liar Cop Shot Into a Group of Teens & Falsely Claimed They were Engaged in Crime but They were Actually Rapping in an Alley

From [HERE] and [HERE] The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle federal excessive force claims against an LAPD officer for firing his gun into a group of Black teenagers.

On Thursday, the city announced it would pay $985,000 to settle the case against LAPD officer Michael Gutierrez, which was set to go to trial in August.

On February 10, 2015, Jamar Nicholson, Jason Huerta, and some friends were rapping in an alley a couple of blocks from their L.A. high school. One of their friends posed with an Airsoft gun, while he was rapping and dancing in a circle.

As the teens turned off the music and headed back to school, they heard multiple gunshots, fired by Guttierez, who had seen the group and — after seeing the prop gun — fired at them. One bullet hit Nicholson in the upper back.

Even though he was shot for no reason, Nicholson, who was 15 years old at the time, remained handcuffed when transported to the hospital and while in the emergency room. Both Nicholson and Huerta remained in custody for five hours, even though LAPD learned almost immediately that the group was innocent of any crimes.

“The officer falsely claimed a crime was being committed by Blacks and a Latino as they filmed themselves rapping with a bright orange-tipped replica gun as a prop,” said the boys’ attorney, John Harris. “This shooting wouldn’t have occurred if the kids were white, or on the way to school in a Westside neighborhood. This was a classic example of the mistreatment, racial prejudice and injustice against Blacks, including Black children.”

Harris said that, after a “long and rigorous five-year battle against the city for Guiterrez’s blatant and egregious misconduct, we finally convinced them to do the right thing and compensate our clients for their physical injuries and emotional distress suffered.”

The boys’ attorneys filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the LAPD and the city of L.A. in September 2015, alleging that Guttierez violated the teens’ Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful arrest and excessive force by shooting at them and holding them unnecessarily in handcuffs for five hours.

The pair also said the shooting violated their 14th Amendment right to due process.

The city and then-LAPD Chief Charlie Beck were dismissed from the suit, but an L.A. federal judge denied Gutierrez’s qualified immunity claims, which generally protect government officials from lawsuits that claim a plaintiff’s rights were violated. The officer appealed, but an appellate court affirmed the lower court ruling.

When the trial date was set for Aug. 20, the city settled.

“Four teens rapping in an alley with a prop gun and here comes a cop in plain clothes, who, without identifying himself, shoots three times,” Harris said. “Jason (Huerta) thought they were gang members, but gang members identify themselves before shooting.”

The attorney says the case reveals racial bias within the LAPD.

“They think all Black or Latino kids who are congregating are gang members,” Harris said.

Nicholson, now 19, has not fully recovered and recently had bullet fragments removed from his back, according to Harris.

“He may suffer from this for the rest of his life,” the attorney said.

Miami Gardens Cop Charged w/4 counts of assault after Attacking a Black Woman for “Being Disrespectful" [to Govt Authority]: He Ripped Her Out of a Car, Put His Knee on Her Neck & Tased Her

From [HERE] Jordy Yanes Martel, the fired Miami Gardens officer who is accused of police brutality, was quiet as he walked out of a Miami-Dade County jail on Thursday night and into a waiting car.

Martel faces two counts of official misconduct and four counts of battery. A woman’s cellphone video showed him pulling Safiya Satchell out of her car.

Her friend, who was a passenger in the car, started filming with her cellphone when Martel got aggressive. He allegedly used his leg to cause her to fall.

The video shows him placing his knee on her neck and shooting her with a Taser.

“We believe a review of the video reflects that Martel allegedly was the aggressor,” Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said during a news conference to announce the charges against Martel on Thursday.

The incident with Martel and Satchell, 33, occurred while he was wearing his Miami Gardens Police Department uniform on Jan. 14 outside of Tootsie’s Cabaret. He responded after she was accused of being “disrespectful,” according to the arrest report.

This isn’t Martel’s only case over alleged excessive use of force. The department hired him in October 2018.

Before Fernandez Rundle’s announcement, Miami Gardens Police Chief Delma Noel-Pratt had already decided to fire Martel. Another video showed the beating of a witness at a gas station in March.

“This officer had options,” Noel-Pratt said. “He could have made other choices, but he didn’t choose that.”

After Investigating Themselves Orlando Cops Conclude it was 'Reasonable' to Kick, Repeatedly Punch & Use the Muzzle of their Guns to Hit Markeith Loyd in the Face as He Crawled on His Stomach

WERE WHITE COPS SUPER CONCERNED ABOUT THE LOST BLACK LIVES OF 2 BLACK WOMEN OR CONCERNED WITH OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY, GOVERNMENT WORSHIP AND MOTIVATED BY REVENGE?

From [HERE] Orlando Police have released the results of an internal review of the arrest of convicted killer Markeith Loyd.

All four officers involved have been found to have acted reasonably. The report details what happened the day Loyd was arrested in January of 2017.

Loyd had been on the run for more than a month after murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend Sade Dixon.

In early January, Lt. Debra Clayton was at a Walmart when officials say she spotted Loyd. Authorities said when she confronted him, Loyd shot and killed Clayton.

A week later, the police tracked down Loyd to a home off Lescot Lane. Police surrounded the home and tried to arrest Loyd.

Before the arrest, police said Loyd threw two guns out of the house and then proceeded to crawl out on his stomach wearing a bullet proof vest.

In the report, the four officers who went to arrest Loyd said they believed he might be armed and thought he could even be trying to lure police in to shoot them. He was unarmed.

As officers moved in to handcuff Loyd, they told investigators he continued to resist arrest and, at one point, even moved towards one of the officer’s guns.

The report said that is when officers kicked and punched Loyd repeatedly. Two of the officers used the muzzle of their guns to hit Loyd in the face and back, a report said.

Naturally, the police did not interview as part of the investigation. However, as he was being escorted to jail after his 2017 arrest with his face covered in blood, he repeatedly yelled, “They beat me up” to members of the media.

As Markeith Loyd moaned from inside an Orlando Police Department interview room in 2017, officers and Orange County deputies cracked jokes, congratulated each other on nabbing the accused cop killer earlier that night and snapped photos of him with their cell phones. Loyd repeatedly complained about the injuries to his face — he’d eventually lose an eye, a result of a beating delivered by law enforcement during his apprehension earlier that night — and asked for one of his handcuffs to be loosened, explaining it was cutting off his circulation.

Loyd’s defense lawyer, Terence Lenamon, has asked a judge to allow the video to be shown at his upcoming first-degree murder trial. It reveals the “animus and prejudice” against Loyd held by then-Orlando police Chief John Mina and his officers, Lenamon argues. [MORE] His second murder trial was scheduled for may but was postponed. A new trial date has not yet been scheduled. [MORE]

Loyd lost his left eye as a result of the beating. His lawyer also claims he now suffers from multiple traumatic brain injuries. He accused officers of excessive force.

After reviewing all of the evidence investigators determined the officers actions were reasonable given the situation.

“The officer's actions were justified in this situation involving an individual who killed one of our officers, Lieutenant Debra Clayton. And I know this is hard sometimes for people to process that or understand that, but it is very clear and it has been vetted through several channels and they all came up with the same conclusion,” Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon said.

All four officers involved in Loyd's arrest were asked by investigators if they used excessive force as retaliation for the murder of Debra Clayton. All four said no. What cop would admit to committing felonies? [MORE]

Suit Filed after White Palo Alto Cop Shoved a Latino Man Against a Metal Railing, Threw him Face-down to the Ground & Denied Med Care. Liar Cop said He was Selling Drugs but Video Shows Otherwise

From [HERE] A Latino man has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city’s police department alleging that a white officer violently slammed him to the ground outside a doughnut shop last summer, then denied him medical care and lied about the incident.

The lawsuit, filed by plaintiff Julio Arevalo on Wednesday, claims that Agent Thomas DeStefano assaulted and unlawfully arrested him in a parking lot on July 10, breaking a bone in his face and giving him a concussion.

DeStefano has been named in two previous excessive force suits, including a case leading to the largest settlement in recent city history. The suit alleges he is one of many officers upholding a broader culture of abuse within the department, and it names Police Chief Robert Jonsen as a defendant, among other Palo Alto officers. A police spokesperson declined to comment on pending litigation.

“The culture and pattern and practice of the agency is not taking serious law violations by their officers seriously, and in fact encouraging and enabling that process,” said Cody Salfen, Arevalo’s lawyer.

The incident unfolded early July 10 outside of Happy Donuts on El Camino Real. According to surveillance footage released by Salfen and reviewed by this news organization, Arevalo left the 24-hour shop with a doughnut in tow before DeStefano approached him in the parking lot.

As Arevalo walked back toward the entrance of the shop, DeStefano shoved him against a metal railing several times and threw him face-down onto the ground. Arevalo briefly lost consciousness, the suit says; in the surveillance footage, his feet flailed while DeStefano knelt on top of him.

In the minutes that followed, more officers arrived and Arevalo was led, handcuffed, out of the frame. Officers took him straight to the police station and denied him medical care until hours later, according to the suit, which says he suffered a broken facial bone, a concussion and a laceration to his chest.

The suit says DeStefano claimed in a police report that he had seen Arevalo complete a “hand to hand” drug transaction with a man in the parking lot. Video footage showed Arevalo talking to a woman and two men outside the shop before DeStefano approached him, but they did not touch. Another man also paced in the parking lot; he and Arevalo did not interact within the frame of the video.

Officers arrested Arevalo on suspicion of violating probation and resisting arrest, but the Santa Clara County District Attorney did not charge him. The suit claims that DeStefano unlawfully detained Arevalo before even knowing Arevalo was on probation, only checking his status with dispatch later in his police car.

A subsequent internal Palo Alto police investigation determined that DeStefano had acted reasonably, according to the suit, and rejected Arevalo’s initial November 2019 claim of excessive force. Salfen maintains that the investigation was flawed from the start in part because one of the officers in charge is a close friend of DeStefano’s and was a groomsman in his wedding.

“The public has entrusted Palo Alto to basically police themselves thus far, and we’ve seen time and time again that’s not working — we see these incidents happening over and over,” Salfen said.

Back in February 2018, resident Gustavo Alvarez alleged in another federal lawsuit that several officers — DeStefano among them — kicked down his door, dragged him outside and smashed his head into a car windshield because he was gay, mocking his sexual orientation during and afterward.

Officer Christopher Conde said he suspected Alvarez of driving without a license, but admitted in court proceedings that he couldn’t be certain he had seen Alvarez behind the wheel before following him home. Although the city and department disputed the suit’s claims, they ultimately settled for $572,500.

DeStefano was also named in a 2014 lawsuit as one of several officers who broke the arm of a Los Altos man during a traffic stop and unlawfully arrested him, a claim which was later settled for about $250,000.

Arevalo seeks $10 million in damages.

Like the Constitution says If You Flee from Cops They Can Brutalize You: 8 LA Cops Charged for Brutal Assault on 2 Black Men who Surrendered after Not Pulling Over for Seat Belt Stop, Ticket Dismissed

From [HERE] When Chico Bell eventually stopped the Chevrolet truck he was driving as police officers pursued him in January, he and another man in the vehicle raised their hands in what a district attorney in Louisiana said in a statement was “an apparent attempt to surrender without resistance.”

What happened next, according to law enforcement officials, was a violent assault by eight police officers that left Mr. Bell with a broken eye socket and the other man who was in the vehicle, Damon Robinson, with his nose broken in several places.

On Monday, each of those eight officers, all from the Shreveport Police Department, was indicted on a charge that he had used excessive force. The charge carries a maximum possible penalty of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.

According to James E. Stewart Sr., the district attorney in Caddo Parish, La., the episode began on Jan. 24, on Central Street in Shreveport, when officers tried to stop Mr. Bell’s truck because of seatbelt violations.

But, according to Mr. Stewart, Mr. Bell, 39, drove away from the officers, who then pursued him. Citing video from police vehicles, Mr. Stewart said that Mr. Bell threw several objects from the truck before it eventually stopped. The officers later said that they had recovered small amounts of ecstasy and cocaine and a stolen gun along the route of the chase, the district attorney said.

The chase, which took place in the early morning hours, ended about a mile and a half away, according to a lawmaker who represents the area.

According to Mr. Stewart, when Mr. Bell stopped the Chevrolet on Linwood Avenue, he and his passenger appeared to raise their hands through the vehicle’s side windows, apparently to surrender to the officers.

Mr. Stewart said that officers and one deputy from the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office approached the vehicle. Then, Mr. Stewart said, the officers violently assaulted both men. Mr. Bell was pulled out of the vehicle through the driver’s-side window, before he was hit, kicked and shocked with a Taser by police officers, the prosecutor said.

Mr. Robinson, 43, who initially remained in the vehicle, was punched several times by one officer while others held his hands, Mr. Stewart said. Officers then took Mr. Robinson out of the vehicle and put him on the ground, the prosecutor said, and one officer hit Mr. Robinson in the face with a flashlight while his hands were behind his back.

The sheriff’s office notified the district attorney’s office about the deputy’s concerns with what had happened after the pursuit.

The eight officers were identified by the district attorney’s office as Aaron Jaudon, 29; D’Andre Jackson, 24; Mark Ordoyne, 25; William Isenhour, 23; Christopher McConnell, 35; Brandon Walker, 27; Treveion Brooks, 24; and David Francis, 45.

A spokesman for the Shreveport Police Officers Union did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment on Tuesday night.

A lawyer for Officer Jackson said in a statement on Tuesday night that “these officers were put in dangerous situation created by those who chose to engage in criminal activity in a high-speed chase.” He added, “We look forward to our day in court.”

Officer Ordoyne referred an inquiry to his lawyer, who did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment. Efforts to reach the other officers on Tuesday night were unsuccessful.

Mr. Stewart said the charges that had initially been placed against Mr. Bell and Mr. Robinson after the Jan. 24 stop were dismissed “due to unnecessary excessive force being used by S.P.D. officers to make the arrest.”

Mr. Bell had been charged with fleeing police officers, possession of controlled substances, obstruction of justice and cyberstalking. Mr. Robinson had been charged with resisting an officer. Efforts to reach Mr. Bell and Mr. Robinson on Tuesday night were not successful.

Ben Raymond, the Shreveport police chief, said in a statement that an investigation into the episode had begun on the day it happened. “All parties are innocent until proven guilty,” he said, “and in order to preserve the officers’ rights to due process I will not make any further comments at this time.”

Angie Willhite, a spokeswoman for the Police Department, said that Officer McConnell had been fired on May 8; that Officer Ordoyne had resigned on June 17; and that the six other officers were on administrative leave.

LeVette Fuller, a City Council member who represents the area where the episode took place, said in an interview on Tuesday, “There is a tenuous relationship with the police, and it has been that way for a long time.”

“I’m wondering how often things are happening,” she said. “I think citizens are telling us things are happening more often than we are willing to believe.”

At the End of a Chain of Orders Cops Can Impose Harm Regardless of Your Choices b/c Laws are Commands Backed by Violence: SAC Pays $15k after White Cops Beat Black Man to Enforce Idling Car Law

"Lawless Society - a socio-juristic human relation confliguration where law is upheld, codified, and deified over humanity. If you fear or worry about its advent, you'll certainly never recognize its presence. 2) a Police State of the Overruling Class" - from FUNKTIONARY.

LEGAL SYSTEM BASED ON VIOLENCE & PHYSICAL COERCION. From [HERE] and [MORE] The City of Sacramento is paying $15,000 to settle a police brutality lawsuit.

Video shows the 2018 incident outside of a convenience store in South Land Park. An officer asked Craig Williams for his ID after he left his car idling. When Williams refuses, the officer slammed him against the wall and took him into custody.

In the lawsuit, Williams said the fact that he is Black was a substantial factor in the alleged assault. Sacramento NAACP spokesperson Betty Williams also said Craig Williams’ arrest was racially motivated and called for an independent investigation in 2018.

Sioux Falls Refuses to Release Video of Violent Arrest of 2 Black Women Dragged from Car b/c Cops Own the Public's Videos & Use them Mostly to Prosecute Citizens & Masters Don't Serve Servants

From [HERE] Sioux Falls police won't release video footage from police cameras while they review the arrest of a juvenile that was caught on a social media video over the weekend and criticized for excessive use of force, the police chief said.

Videos of the arrest on Saturday shortly after 3 a.m. were taken by a bystander and posted on social media, drawing accusations that officers had used excessive force while they responded to a call for an alleged assault in downtown Sioux Falls.

The videos on social media show white officers threatening to shoot someone in a car who did not obey their commands to stop the car. Police then broke the car's window with a baton, dragged the Black female driver from the vehicle and forced her to the ground. The officer proceeded to place his knee on the driver's neck while she lied on her stomach on the ground. The driver was later identified as 17-year-old Janaisa Williams.

White officers then dragged TyJon Hardiman, 19, out of the backseat of the car.

“I was very scared when they threw me to the ground. I didn’t know what to do. I had my hands behind my back. I thought I was going to get killed. They were already threatening to shoot us for no reason. I did not know what happened,” Hardiman told KELO-TV.

Hardiman, who's Black, said the encounter with police comes at a “perfect" time to help “prove something is obviously wrong with the law enforcement."

“That (video) is only a small piece of the interaction,” Sioux Falls Police Chief Matt Burns said during a police briefing with news media Monday morning. “I think that’s a key to understand.”

He said the department is reviewing what happened to determine if officers used excessive force. But police will not release video from body cameras, dashboard cameras or security videos, he said. Public records law in South Dakota does not require video footage from police cameras to be released.

Burns said before the police made the arrest, an officer tried to stop the vehicle, which was stuck in traffic, by reaching through the driver's window and turning off the keys. But the driver fled, rolling up the window and dragging the police officer for a short distance.

Police later caught up with the vehicle in a parking garage where a bystander captured the arrest on video.

Officers arrested one person inside the vehicle in connection to the assault call to which they were responding. Lovetee Teah, 21, of Sioux Falls, was charged with simple assault, Burns said.

Buffalo Cops are Unaccountable [we can’t fire them], Immune from Liability, Uncontrollable [they have power to forcibly control us] & Some are Unidentifiable, Wearing No Name Tag on Their Costumes

From [HERE] Members of the Buffalo Police Department covered their name tags while guarding Strawboss Mayor Byron Brown’s house Wednesday evening, a dubious practice seen across the U.S. during the recent police brutality protests.

Photos taken by WBFO show at least three white officers with dark tape or fabric over their uniform name tags during a protest last month, which marched to Brown’s private residence in the city’s Hamlin Park Historic District. Two of the officers also appeared to have patched the thin blue line flag, associated with the Blue Lives Matter movement, onto their uniforms. 

Buffalo police’s policy manual says that officers must wear their name tag on the “outside of the outermost garments” while in uniform, and that any mutilation or destruction of the name tag must be immediately reported through the chain of command. If the police commissioner determines carelessness was involved, the officer could face a disciplinary penalty.

As for the thin blue line flag, the policy manual specifically says that officers cannot add patches to their uniform or wear “unauthorized insignia.” [MORE]

How did cops acquire the power to make themselves unknown to the public? Probably the same magical place they got their right to forcibly control us.

We are told that governmental power comes from the people. That is, we delegate our individual power to the government for it to act on our behalf through its representatives. In their representative capacity politicians and judges have delegated or granted to police and other governmental workers the power to act. No different than the way an owner of a business delegates powers to his/her employees to act as his/her agents to get business done. However, it goes without saying that people can’t delegate powers or rights they don’t individually possess.

Clearly, citizens have the right to defend themselves and to come to the defense of others but citizens have no right to commit unprovoked acts of violence on other people. So if we have delegated our individual powers to lawmakers and lawmakers have empowered police officers to act on our behalf, how could police acquire the right to commit acts of unprovoked violence on people? That is, initiate the use physical force on people. Can you delegate a right to someone that you don’t have? where does authority, the right to rule others [or the power to give commands that citizens have a moral & legal duty to obey] come from? Asked differently, you don’t have the right to initiate unprovoked acts of force against other people - so how can you delegate or authorize a government representative to do such things? How did police acquire such super-human powers?

All modern statism or belief in “authority” is based entirely on the assumption that people can delegate rights they don’t have.” 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.”

In regard to symbols of authority, such as the police costume, undeceiver Jeremy Locke explains the following:

“Culture seeks to enforce authority by impressing upon the minds of people that they are inferior to law. When people believe that they are worth less than law, they will believe that it is their rightful place to obey.

The symbols that authority uses to create the illusion that people have limited worth are very similar throughout history. The robes of modern judges compare to the robes of royalty. The wigs of late European politics compare to the crowns of royalty. The uniforms of law enforcement and the armor of knights. Captain, general, senator, magistrate, sheriff, prince, lord. Titles, clothing and badges have been used in every culture in history to create the illusion of authority.

Culture focuses the mind on symbols such as honor, loyalty, devotion and duty. Such symbols are not new. It is easy for most people to recognize the foolishness of loyalty to king, dictator or communism. However, people still fall to modern symbols such as law, democracy and patriotism. If the objective of a symbol is obedience, it is evil.

Police officers carry badges to show that they are duly authorized enforcers of the law. They enforce the law upon you, but you did not authorize them. This is the illusion of authority. Culture hides tyranny behind the trappings of meaningless symbolism. It would have you believe that law is authorized to reign over you however it pleases. It hides the fact that only you can give that permission. Instead, it presumes permission by birthright, or by the geometry of your location relative to its borders. It is an illusion.

Should law truly be the authorized agent of defense or production, it would have to receive the permission of every single person it claims to represent. It would have to allow every person to extricate themselves from that authority if law failed to meet its obligation.

Law never seeks permission and never will. It does not represent you, it represents evil.” [MORE]

Provocative White Buffalo Cop Felt Disrespected b/c a Latino Woman Talked to Him As If They Were Equals, So He Called Her a “F*cking C*nt" & Blocked Her from Filming an Ongoing Arrest

‘GET OFF THE SIDEWALK. BECAUSE ITS A PUBLIC SIDEWALK.” Racists are the most provocative people in the world and they love to provoke LATINO AND Black people. Ask Martin Bashir OR MANY OTHERS what happens when you REACT [not respond] to the stupidity of RACISTS. here, HOWEVER THE YOUNG LATINO WOMAN REFUSED TO TAKE THE BAIT.

More at [FTP].

Larken Rose explains:

“It is very telling that many modern “law enforcers” quickly become angry, even violent, when an average citizen simply speaks to the “officer” as an equal, instead of assuming the tone and demeanor of a subjugated underling. Again, this reaction is precisely the same – and has the same cause – as the reaction a slave master would have to an “uppity” slave speaking to him as an equal. There are plenty of examples. depicted in numerous police abuse videos on the internet, of supposed representatives of “authority” going into a rage and resorting to open violence, simply because someone they approached spoke to them as one adult would speak to another instead of speaking as a subject would speak to a master. The state mercenaries refer to this lack of groveling as someone having an “attitude.” In their eyes, someone treating them as mere mortals, as if they are on the same level as everyone else, amounts to showing disrespect for their alleged “authority.”

Similarly, anyone who does not consent to be detained, questioned, or searched by “officers of the law” is automatically perceived, by the mercenaries of the state, as some sort of troublemaker who has something to hide. Again, the real reason such lack of “cooperation” annoys authoritarian enforcers is because it amounts to people treating them as mere humans instead of treating them as superior beings, which is what they imagine themselves to be. To wit, if someone was confronted by a stranger (without a badge) who started interrogating the person in an obviously accusatory way and then asked to be allowed to search the person’s pockets, his car, and his home, not only would the person being accosted almost certainly refuse, out he also would probably be outraged at the request. “Of course you can’t rummage through my stuff! Who do you think you are?” But when strangers with badges make such requests, they are the ones offended when the targets of their intrusive, unjustified harassments, accusations and searches object, and refuse to “cooperate.” Even when the “officers” know full well that the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution specifically dictate that a person has no “Legal” duty to answer questions or consent to searches, such “lack of cooperation” – i.e., the failure to unquestioningly bow to the enforcer’s every whim and request – is still seen by the “police” as a sign that the person must be some sort of criminal and enemy of the state. From the perspective of “law enforcers,” only a despicable lowlife would ever treat representatives of “authority” in the same manner as he treats everyone else.

Again, this is not how most of these people view the world before becoming “officers of the law.” In their authoritarian enforcement training, they are specifically taught to treat people as inferiors, to always try to gain control of everyone and everything the moment they arrive on a scene, telling everyone where to go, what to do, when they can speak, and so on. They are not merely told that they have the right to boss everyone around, which would be dangerous enough; they are trained that they must, in every situation, use whatever it takes – commands, intimidation, or outright violence – to get everyone present to bow to their “authority,” and are taught that it is a crime for anyone to fail to unquestioningly bow to their will, which they characterize as “disobeying a lawful order. “

‘Black Male, Brown Hoodie’ in Free Range Prison. White GA Cops Believed They Had Enough Info to Stop & Bodyslam Antonio Smith (Hgt, Wgt, Build, Age, Complexion, Hair style, etc. Unnecessary)

THE 4TH AMENDMENT IS AN ILLUSION. brazen cops so frequently abuse their power that no one—no Black motorist, no juvenile, no adult, no professional of any kind—could make a compelling argument that constitutional rights afford Black people any real protection from COPS, - not on the street. [more]

From [HERE] A Black man who was slammed to the ground as he was wrongly arrested is suing the Georgia city of Valdosta and numerous Valdosta Police Department officers for excessive force and for violating his civil rights, according to court documents.

In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court, Antonio Arnelo Smith, a Valdosta resident, also accused the police department of illegal arrest, false detention, assault as well as battery and is seeking $700,000 in a settlement.

The city attorney was served with a copy of the lawsuit on Monday and "the city has not had time to review the document and therefore cannot comment on the content of the suit," according to a VPD statement released the same day.

A statement from Valdosta Police posted to Facebook said "the VPD was dispatched to the Walgreens at 2815 North Ashley Street in reference to a report of a male outside the business harassing customers, screaming loudly, and asking customers for money. The subject was reported to be an African American male wearing a brown hoodie and blue pants." The statement indicates that two officers began independently searching the scene and found two different men who matched the description, one, who turned out not to be the man that the 911 call was made about, had felony warrants. The other, who was the subject of the 911 call, did not, but information conveyed over the police band was misinterpreted.

VPD released a five-minute body camera video of the incident from Sergeant Bill Wheeler. Nathaniel Haugabrook II, an attorney representing Smith, sent CNN an 11-minute body camera video from Officer Dominic Henry.

Haugabrook told CNN over the phone Thursday that the incident on February 8 began when an employee at the Walgreens on North Ashley called 911 because a man was asking customers for money at the location.

Haugabrook said that after one officer approached the man in question, another customer told a separate officer that the man who had been harassing them had walked down the street.

Haugabrook said that his client was down the street when Henry approached him and asked for his identification. Smith complied with the officer and handed over his ID.

In body camera video from Henry provided to CNN by Haugabrook, Smith is seen talking to the officer, telling him that he was at the location for a Western Union for his sister and they know him.

He tells the officer that he hasn't done anything and to call his sister in Florida for confirmation of his story.

The video shows another officer, identified to CNN by Haugabrook as Wheeler, his badge is also visible in the video, sneak up and come up behind Smith and put him in a bear hug.

Smith asks "What are you doing?" and Wheeler says, "Listen to him and put your hands behind your back," before he slams him to the ground, gets on top of him and cuffs him.

Haugabrook said his client was unable to put his hands behind his back because of how Wheeler was holding him. Haugabrook told CNN that because of how he was being held, Smith's wrist was broken when he was slammed to the ground by Wheeler.

"I don't think anyone can listen to his crying and wailing the agony he's in without their heart dropping," Haugabrook said of the video.

"This is the other guy. The guy with the warrant is over there," Henry tells the other three and points down the road.

Smith is told by the officers to stay on the ground. [MORE]

Can You Decline Govt "Services" from Yurugu? Unable to Suppress the Joy of Destroying Black Life, White Cops Selfie Themselves Laughing & Smiling While Reenacting Their Murder of Elijah Mclain

According to FUNKTIONARY

Yurugu - a mythological figure within the Dogon tribe (Africa) who is "the incomplete being" (fiend without a face) referring to Neuropeans (neurotic Europeans) within the European asili. 2) a regressive (degenerative) state of consciousness where the soul is cut off from itself. 3) the inability to recognize or abate unacknowledged destructive capabilities. Yurugu also expresses itself and manifests as the pathological condition that utterly fails to convince those in geographical proximity of its harmlessness, therefore has to kill them. Yurugu is in a vicious spiral increasingly at odds with his own humanity—as fragmented, pathological, and distorted as it is. (See: Asili, Caucasian, Racism White Supremacy, Elite, Western Civilization, Neuropean, WASP, Privilege, Oppression, Scarcity, Violence, Genocide, Manifest Density & Ma'afa)

MORE [HERE] Thank goodness they were fired. But the public didn’t fire them, nor could they fire them or decline or resist the compulsory public service they “offer us” by force. If government is not voluntary then what is it? Is it slavery?

Undeceiver Lysander Spooner stated:

“One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will. All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them. And all governments—though the best on earth in other respects—are nevertheless tyrannies to that portion of the people—whether few or many—who are compelled to support them against their will. A government is like a church, or any other institution, in these respects. There is no other criterion whatever, by which to determine whether a government is a free one, or not, than the single one of its depending, or not depending, solely on voluntary support.”[MORE]

McClain died at a hospital after a violent arrest on the evening of August 24, 2019. McClain was walking home after he had gone to a corner store to purchase tea. Although one of the officers acknowledged that McClain was not a suspect of criminal activity, during an unlawful stop the 140-pound Black man was tackled and pinned to the ground by three white officers using a “carotid control hold” [sleeper hold] on him. After McClain was handcuffed, authorities injected him with ketamine. The drug is used for sedation purposes.

McClain suffered cardiac arrest during the ambulance ride to a nearby hospital. Elijah McClain was declared “brain dead” on Aug. 27 at a local hospital, where he was later taken off life support.

The Aurora officers involved are Randy Roedema, Jason Rosenblatt and Nathan Woodyard. [MORE]

Dealing w/Yurugu: Venezuela President Tells EU Ambassador to Exit the Country following Its Efforts to Assist [White] Territorial Gangsters [govt] Steal Their Resources [oil, bauxite, iron, silver]

With the World’s Largest Oil Reserves Venezuela is "a Threat" to White Supremacy.

From [HERE] and [HERE] Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro on Monday ordered the EU ambassador Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa to leave the country within 72 hours. Her expulsion came hours after the EU placed sanctions on 11 Venezuelan officials for “undermining democracy and the rule of law in Venezuela.”

The sanctions are against those who were “responsible notably for acting against the democratic functioning of the National Assembly,” specifically in the removal of the democratically elected congressional president Juan Guaidó and his subsequent replacement by Maduro’s ally Luis Parra. Despite his removal, Guaidó has maintained the international support of the US and the EU.

The sanctions also stated that those included on the involved in “politically motivated prosecutions and creating obstacles to a political and democratic solution to the crisis in Venezuela, as well as serious violations of human rights and restrictions of fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of press and speech.” With the 11 new additions to the list, the new total number of those sanctioned is brought to 36 individuals affected by “a travel ban and an asset freeze.”

In a Monday broadcast on state television, Maduro reportedly said, “If they can’t respect Venezuela, then they should leave it.” He also added that “A plane can be loaned for her [Pedrosa] to leave,” because Venezuela’s air space is currently closed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

A rich White man with western ties raised his fist in the air and proclaimed himself president of Venezuela and US authorities agreed. [MORE] This is the kind of shit the government does on your behalf. It is a conspiracy that unites white supremacy elites: republicans, democrats, dependent media in a quest to dominate another non-white country [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

territorial gangsters - individuals (masquerading as "the State" so-called) who skillfully use fraud, coercion, and terror to claim "jurisdiction" (so-called) over their victims who happen to be in some geographic territory. Territorial gangsters brainwash their victims (the pixelated populace) so that they will work for them not only like slaves but actually as slaves. (See: Stationary Bandits, Statutory Oppression, Jurisdiction, Allegiance, Involuntary Servitude, Slave & Tyrant-Paradigm) 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. All acts of terrorism, even those carried out by those outside of the fold of the machinations of Corporate State and its minions (territorial gangsters), are either political or religious expressions. One's man's ideology is another man's religion and vice-versa. Terrorism and the terrorists who carry it out is a kind of psycho-economic Thug-of-War—leaving the countless shattered lives of innocents in its wake. (See: Corporations, War, Corporate State, Territorial Gangsters, Patriot Act, Mononright, Wargasm, Racism White Supremacy, Cryptocracy, Sovereignty, Crimethlnc, Violence, Coercion, Oppression, BOP & Gangbanking)

Over 1/3 of Inmates at San Quentin Have COVID. Inhumane Orderlies Ignored Warnings to Reduce 120% Overcrowded Prison & Locked Up the Infected in Dirty, Shared Quarantine Cells w/o Electrical Power

From [HERE] and [HERE] Nearly 200 death-row prisoners in California have been infected by a coronavirus outbreak that, news reports say, has “torn through” the nation’s largest death row. 

Fueled by an influx of infected prisoners during a prison transfer at the end of May 2020, the COVID-19 virus has exploded through San Quentin State Prison (click to enlarge picture). The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases among the incarcerated soared past 1,300 Thursday and more than 100 prison staff members have the virus, according to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.including 196 on death row. More than a quarter of the state’s 725 death-row prisoners have now tested positive for the disease.

Anger and frustration mounts among prisoners locked in small cells for days at a time. Showers are infrequent. So is phone access. Families hunt for scraps of information about incarcerated loved ones who may have fallen ill.

And it’s worse for the nearly 1,400 prisoners with the virus, well over a third of the entire population at San Quentin. Incarcerated sources say the quarantine cells are dirty and don’t have electrical power, so small amenities, such as the ability to heat food and water, don’t exist there. Incarcerated sources now under quarantine tell NBC Bay Area many are forced to share cells, despite being COVID positive.

The outbreak killed Richard Stitely, 71, who was found dead in his cell on June 24 after exhibiting symptoms of the coronavirus. He was the first condemned California prisoner to die of COVID-19. Stitely had refused testing prior to his death, and prison officials would not confirm his cause of death. However, Marin County officials reported on June 29 that Stitely had posthumously tested positive for COVID-19. 

Eighty-nine San Quentin staff members have also tested positive. 

Marylou Hillberg, a lawyer who is representing two men on death row, noted that California’s death-sentenced prisoners are especially vulnerable to COVID-19. “It’s an aging population on Death Row,” she said. “There’s a lot of folks who have medical conditions that make them especially fragile: heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, hypertension.” She added that she feels “totally helpless to do anything” for her clients in the midst of the outbreak.

In one month, San Quentin went from zero known infections of the novel coronavirus to more than 1,000. On May 30, 121 men were transferred from the California Institution for Men in Chino, which at the time had the state’s largest number of infected prisoners. Though prison officials claimed the men had been tested prior to the transfer, many had been tested weeks before the move without being retested. A federal judge overseeing medical treatment in California’s prisons called the transfer a “significant failure.” San Quentin has now surpassed Chino as the prison facility with the most COVID-19 cases, and it accounts for more than 20% of the total 4,800 confirmed cases in the entire California prison system. Twenty-three prisoner fatalities have been attributed to COVID-19 across the state, including 16 at the facility in Chino.

As of April 30, 2020, San Quentin was incarcerating people at 122.5% of its design capacity, with 3,776 occupants. [MORE]

Public health experts from the University of California–Berkeley and the University of California–San Francisco warned prison officials in mid-June that San Quentin’s population would need to be cut by 50% to avoid a major outbreak. Some prisoners have received expedited parole, and prisons have halted intakes from local jails, but the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has not undertaken the kind of efforts recommended by public health experts. According to San Quentin officials, “Air-conditioned tent structures are in the process of being set up to help provide on-site locations for additional physical distancing in housing and for medical triage.”

Fed Court Spoils Trump's Campaign Promise to Detain Non-White Migrant Children During COVID, Disappointing His Genocidal Neuropeon Base

From [HERE] US District Court Judge Dolly Gee ruled on Friday that the federal government cannot keep migrant children detained during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In its minutes, the court stated that while it “appreciates both ICE’s and ORR’s efforts to reduce the number of Class Members in their custody during the pandemic,” the plaintiffs challenging the ongoing custody of migrants “identified issues, mistakes, or omissions in both the ORR and ICE Juvenile Coordinators’ reports.”

The court ordered that, by July 17, ICE must release minors to available sponsors or with their guardians “with all deliberate speed” while also maintaining protocols such as social distancing, masking, and enhanced testing within detention areas. Furthermore, the court ordered that the ICE Juvenile Coordinator will supply reports on their compliance with the release or transfer of minors. While both parties will still have the opportunity to respond to the order, the court has already scheduled a video status conference for August 7 to discuss compliance.

The case originated in 1997 when the government entered the Flores Agreement to protect all minors in immigration-related detention.  Since 1977 there have been changes to the government’s policies as well as broader immigration law resulting in a gap between the original purpose of the law and present-day implementation.

All kinds of Apologies, Symbolic Gestures, PropaGandhi & Reification Offered in “The Spectacle" to Lay a Foundation for the Next Murder by Police & Maintain Obedience to Authority

Last night rolebot Regina Romero, the 1st Latino mayor of Tucson was interviewed by rolebot Rachel Maddow about the torturous police murder of Carlos Ingram Lopez. Romero simulated delayed outrage about an incident that took place 3 months ago and Maddow asked scripted questions. In great deference to their masters and reverence to authority Romero couldn’t say whether a murder took place on the video in which white cops sit on Lopez while he is restrained and suffocate him to death by putting a plastic wrap over his face as they laugh and order him to “calm down” until he is gone and Maddow couldn’t think of a real follow-up question to ask. Do-gooders are some sick motherfuckers. [MORE]

FUNKTIONARY explains, to “apologize” is to “lay the foundation for a future offense.” An “apology” is “a plea bargain in disguise” or can be a device to avoid conflict. Apology is a trick - applied as anger solvent - you need not be authentic in your apology as it is merely a social device (gesture) to detonate anger. Apologies, like excuses, are not for the benefit of the one to whom they are made, but the one who makes them.” FUNKTIONARY further states,

reform - superficial change in form and formalities (fictitious change) which only further lubricates the status quo by renovating and painting old society in new colors. 2) appearance of change sans the change. Reform is always in the service of the status quo and the politician: it serves the privilege of the past not the promise of the future. Reform creates hypocrisy as a matter of course. Reform is the first stage in the three "P,'s" in hue-man evolution; the other two being revolution and rebellion. There are two basic types of reformists: those who are preparing the ground for Third Eye revolution and those who are trying to prevent the conscious revolution. (See: Revolution, Status Quo, Barbarian, Meme & Change)

reformers - naive politicians. They came to do good and stayed to do well. Reformers themselves get reformed into the structure, consciousness and content of the dominant exploitative system--and thus become the system. (See: Revolution)

Reification - the artifice and act of converting men and women into incorporeal abstractions, and abstractions into tangible things through the cunning of manipulation of words. 2) word crafting specifically scripted to deceive. 3) mental conversion of an abstract concept into a material thing. Reification means any unwarranted extension of reality in the thing perceived or conceived. To reify is to take as real something which is not real or to confer a greater reality upon something than that which it has. Thus, reification means the taking as real that which is only apparently real; the taking as factual, concrete, or perceptual that which is only conceptual, the taking as absolute. That which is only relative. Taking the relational as if it had an existence, not necessarily a tangible existence, of its own. Webster informs us that reification is derived from the root word "Reif' meaning 'robbery' or 'to rob. Most of our socio-economic problems as well as our existential confusions and ontological delusions arise from our ignorance of the nature and application of reification in and grafted onto our lives (life-waves). Reification is one of the eight attributes of the OCTOCON. Through reification, we are robbed of reality with another's absolute truth (inverted falsehood). "Am I to blame if hallucinations and visions are alive and have names and permanent addresses?" — Karl Kraus. (See: "Dollar," Strawman, Absolute Truth, Symbolaeography & The OCTOCON) 

The Spectacle - a constructed reality; the concrete inversion of life; via the autonomous movement of the apparently non-living. 2) the mirrorization of the noumenon into the phenomenal universe without understanding or overstanding it as such an objectivization in duality. The Spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relation among people mediated by images. The Spectacle is a theoretical construct—a tool for explaining many things about society; how people live vicariously through the dominant images of production, consumption and power relations. It is the thoughtfofms in which people create, contemplate and consume mediated by images of what-life-is, so that they will forget how to live radically for themselves. It is the totality of images and illusions that alienate people from living, its the primary production of modern societies. It is ideology materialized. It is the social relations that are mediated by the mass media; it is what makes people apathetic and reduces them to inactivity. It is what prevents people from realizing what their collective problems are and dissolving them. It is what perpetually absorbs people into activities that prolong their misery. It is the mediated stream of unreality that channels desire-energy against itself, producing a separate world, a pseudo-world apart form one's self-history—from all those powerful institutions of Self-actualization. It is what motivates people to live a pseudo-life in submission to products and machines, basking passively in the acceptance of oppression, to blindly do what is manifestly against their own self-interest, to pollute the land they love and the air they breathe—it is a fundamental sickness of modern societies superimposed over and aided by the "Rolebots" (clones and drones) of Corporate State. It is the mass media and the propaganda from the pure war machine and the military prison industrial police state complex.

PropaGandhi - passive social non-resistance propaganda. 2) obedience-based servitude to the enforcers of granfalloons uncommonly known as Corporate States and any other group-entities. Mahatma Gandhi mostly walked barefoot which produced calluses on his feet. He also had a very weird diet sprinkled with bouts of fasting which made him rather frail and suffer intermittently from halitosis—this made him... "A super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis." (See: Poser, Class, Mass, Racism White Supremacy, Gun Control & Caste).

obedience - a Self-Other irreversible relationship in which there is only communication (mind-to-mind), i.e. no contact, and an imbalance of power. 2) the highest form of the power-fear systemic. 3) slavery sold to both children and adults alike deceptively packaged in a respectfully sounding label. 4) reverse terrorism. You can compel obedience but you cannot compel responsibility or respect. Everyone should have a say in waking-up to (or waking up from) whatever they have been programmed to obey. It is difficult to reduce to obedience anyone who has no wish to command. If you can't read very well and follow it up with the absence of critical thinking skills, then obey your masters and oppressors until you can—for your own survival. Life is more trouble-free when you obey. If you speak TV-English, by all means obey the beast, if you like freedom of movement with your slavery. TV's ought to have warning labels: "Use of this device can be hazardous to your freedom.'" How can you take a man seriously who watches T.V. obediently, drinks habitually and desires freedom too? The historian Howard Zinn is clear on the role obedience has played on our conditions throughout the centuries. "[Civil disobedience] is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions of people have been killed because of this obedience. ...Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is people are obedient while the jails are full with petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem." More atrocities are commited in the name of economics than in the name of hate, ideological or religious intolerance. (See: Authority, God, Atrocities, Conditioning. TV, War, The COMB, Control, Power, Violence. Religion, Should. Duty, Hatred, Other, Inhumanity, Communication, Programming, Indoctrination, Poverty, Gangbanking, Education, Unlearning. Force. Orderlies, Police, Force Continuum. Judicial Tyranny, Residency, Labor, Property, Servitude, Critical Thinking, Holodeck Court, Questioning, Pulpit. TUFF. Authenticity. Fear & Authoritarians).

Delayed Gov Outrage @ Gov Murder of Latino Man who Begged for Life as Tucson Cops Laugh & say “Calm Down" while Sitting on Him & Suffocating Him to Death w/Plastic Wrap Over His Face

The police chief of Tucson, Ariz., abruptly offered to resign on Wednesday while releasing a video in which a 27-year-old Latino man, Carlos Ingram Lopez, died in police custody two months ago. Yes it had happened two months ago and wherever said police orderly is employed it won’t bring Mr. Lopez back. He was defenseless and treated worse than an animal by genocidal white cops who carried on with a contemptuous, cavalier attitude during the episode; laughing at certain points, calling him “dude” and yelling “shut the fuck up” and ordering him to “chill” as they literally took his breath from him.

Rolebot Mayor Regina Romero on Thursday expressed confidence in the police chief, Chris Magnus, and said he would stay on the job. In great deference to her masters and in worship of government authority last night on Rachel Maddow’s show she couldn’t even say that a murder took place on the video. Evidently she has had time to rehearse her reactions because she knew about the video at some point before its public release, but like the cops, she kept it quiet. Not to worry because Maddow doesn’t press non-Trump issues.

The video is reprehensible but you should watch - if for no other reason other than to understand that anyone at anytime can be subjected to the senseless destruction of his/her life by government authority. It is not abuse of authority - authority itself, the right to forcibly control others, to rule over other people who have an obligation to obey is evil and is the source of the problem. Here, said problem trumps another intertwined problem at play, racism white supremacy, because the force continuum or authority will continue to oppress after RSW is eventually neutralized or destroyed.

The video, taken by police officers’ body cameras and not made public until Wednesday, depicts a gruesome episode on April 21. Before his death, Mr. Lopez is seen handcuffed while pleading repeatedly in English and Spanish for water and for his nana, or grandmother and he is clearly begging, crying for his life. While he was restrained, Mr. Lopez continually told the officers he could not breathe. The cops never appear to be in any danger of imminent harm. They laugh, yell “calm the fuck down” and call him “dude” and tell him to “chill out” as they put a plastic blanket over his face and smother him with it until he’s gone.

As if it were a plus, Chief Magnus said officers did not use a chokehold on Mr. Lopez. But he said they violated training guidelines by restraining the victim in a prone position, face down, for about 12 minutes before Mr. Lopez went into cardiac arrest and died at the scene. [MORE]

Right. Violated “training guidelines” - not a criminal law or morality because authorities are held to another, super-human standard. It is a super human standard because it refers to special powers that other people do not possess. Although people have no right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on others, somehow “the people” have magically delegated said powers to government representatives and police officers, who are representatives of authority. Cops have said extra-human official, discretionary authority to stop, detain and arrest citizens and commit other unprovoked acts of violence when they deem it necessary to do so. Such power carries with it a moral and legal obligation for citizens to obey. Said power is an illusion and a non-reality that has captivated the minds of citizens. Firing and re-hiring and reforming cops will not alter authority - it only exists in your mind.

Larken Rose explains,

“Authority” can be summed up as the right to rule. It is not merely the ability to forcibly control others, which to some extent nearly everyone possesses. It is the supposed moral right to forcibly control others. What distinguishes a street gang from “government” is how they are perceived by the people they control the trespasses, robbery, extortion, assault and murder committed by common thugs are perceived by almost everyone as being immoral, unjustified, and criminal. Their victims may comply with their demands, but not out of any feeling of moral obligation to obey, merely out of fear. If the intended victims of the street gang thought they could resist without any danger to themselves, they would do so, without the slightest feeling of guilt. They do not perceive the street thug to be any sort of legitimate, rightful ruler; they do not imagine him to be “authority.” The loot the thug collects is not referred to as “taxes,” and his threats are not called “laws.”

The demands and commands of those who wear the label of “government,” on the other hand, are perceived very differently by most of those at whom the commands are aimed. The power and control the “lawmakers” in “government” exert over everyone else is seen as valid and legitimate, “legal” and good. Likewise, most who comply with such commands by “obeying the law,” and who hand over their money by “paying taxes,” do not do so merely out of fear of punishment if they disobey, but also out of a feeling of duty to obey, No one takes pride in being robbed by a street gang, but many wear the label of “law-abiding taxpayer” as a badge of honor. This is due entirely to how the obedient perceive the ones giving them commands. If they are perceived as “authority,” a rightful master, then by definition they are seen as having the moral right to give such commands, which in turn implies a moral obligation on the part of the people to obey those commands. To label oneself a “law-abiding taxpayer” is to brag about one’s loyal obedience to “government.”

In the past, some churches have claimed the right to punish heretics and other sinners, but in the Western world today, the concept of “authority” is almost always linked to “government.” In fact, the two terms can now be used almost synonymously, since, in this day and age, each implies the other: “authority” supposedly derives from the “laws” enacted by “government,” and “government” is the organization imagined to have the right to rule, i.e., “authority.”

It is essential to differentiate between a command being justified based upon the situation and being justified based upon who gave the command. Only the latter is the type of “authority” being addressed in this book, though the term is occasionally used in another sense which tends to muddle this distinction. When, for example, someone asserts that he had the “authority” to stop a mugger to get an old lady’s purse back, or says he had the “authority” to chase trespassers off his property, he is not claiming to possesses any special rights that others do not possess. He is simply saying that he believes that certain situations justify giving orders or using force.

In contrast, the concept of “government” is about certain people having some special right to rule. And that idea, the notion that some people – as a result of elections or other political rituals, for example – have the moral right to control others, in situations where most people would not, is the concept being addressed here. Only lose in “government” are thought to have the right to enact “laws”; only they are thought to have the right to impose “taxes”; only they are thought to have the right ) wage wars, to regulate certain matters, to grant licenses for various activities, and o on, When “the belief in authority” is discussed in this book, that is the meaning being referred to: the idea that some people have the moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have the moral obligation to obey.

It should be stressed that “authority” is always in the eye of the beholder, If the one being controlled believes that the one controlling him has the right to do so, then the one being controlled sees the controller as “authority.” If the one being controlled does not perceive the control to be legitimate, then the controller is not viewed as authority” but is seen simply as a bully or a thug. The tentacles of the belief in authority” reach into every aspect of human life, but the common denominator is always the perceived legitimacy of the control it exerts over others. Every “law” and “tax” (federal, state and local), every election and campaign, every license and permit, every political debate and movement – in short, everything having to do with “government,” from a trivial town ordinance to a “world war” – rests entirely upon the idea that some people have acquired the moral right – in one way or another, to one degree or another – to rule over others.

The issue here is not just the misuse of “authority” or an argument about “good government” versus “bad government,” but an examination of the fundamental, underlying concept of “authority.” Whether an “authority” is seen as absolute or as having conditions or limits upon it may have a bearing on how much damage that “authority” does, but it has no bearing on whether the underlying concept is rational. The

U.S. Constitution, for example, is imagined to have created an “authority” which, at least in theory, had a severely restricted right to rule. Nonetheless, it still sought to create an “authority” with the right to do things (e.g., “tax” and “regulate”) which the average citizen has no right to do on his own. Though it pretended to give the right to rule only over certain specific matters, it still claimed to bestow some “authority” upon a ruling class, and as such, is just as much a target of the following criticism of “authority” as the “authority” of a supreme dictator would be. [MORE]