'U Can Have Anything Except CREAM.' Juneteenth, Not a Holiday in Most States, is a Diversion for Blacks. In Reality, Racist Conditions and Master Servant Relations Have Remained Intact for Centuries

CHOCOLATE DELUXX. ‘HERE YOU GO NGHRS, A 3 DAY WEEKEND TO CALM YOU DOWN THIS SUMMER.’

In the Spectacle the Juneteenth holiday represents Black progress. However, ‘despite all kinds of programs and such pronouncements to the contrary, for the past several hundred years, white supremacist social conditions and master servant relations between whites and blacks, which IS the gravamen of the system of racism white supremacy, have remained intact as the dominant social reality.’

Like reparations [“an elusive pot of gold”], battles to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday in state legislatures ARE a “strategic diversionary tactic in the rebellion towards real liberation.” In reality elite Blacks and other Blacks showcased by ELITE racists in the Spectacle would rather push symbolic politics such as holiday celebrations, the removal of statutes or perform emotional leadership roles or voter registration drives than to confront “the implosion of [servant] public education,” vast health disparities, racial injustice or deal with the nuts and bolts work of economic development or the creation of sustainable independent Black communities and institutions. Undeceiver Amos Wilson explained that Black elites have no independent power on their own. Rather they maintain their status through direct political and corporate ties to the Democratic party establishment [plantation]. Although superior to the racist and hateful white party plantation [GOP] their vicarious leadership has little tangible affect on the lives of most Black people. Juneteenth is not Black power just because Rachel Maddow, Lebron James or Kamala Harris said so.

From [HERE] Congress and President Joe Biden acted with unusual swiftness this week in approving Juneteenth as a national holiday. That shifted the battle to the states, where the holiday faces a far less enthusiastic response.

Nearly all states recognize Juneteenth in some fashion, at least on paper. But most have been slow to move beyond proclamations issued by governors or resolutions passed by lawmakers. So far, at least nine states have designated it in law as an official paid state holiday — Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia and Washington. All but Texas, where the events of the original Juneteenth took place, acted after the killing of George Floyd last year.

This year alone, legislation to make Juneteenth a paid state holiday died in Florida and South Dakota and stalled in Ohio, all states controlled by Republicans. But even in Maryland, where Democrats control the Legislature, a Juneteenth bill passed one chamber only to die in the other.

The effort recalls the drawn-out battles over recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the last time the federal government designated a new holiday. That legislation, finally passed in 1983, scheduled the holiday to begin three years later. It set off bitter debates in the states over whether to enact their own holidays.

Warren H. Stewart Sr., pastor of the Institutional Baptist Church in Phoenix, helped lead a grassroots campaign to establish Arizona’s King holiday. But he said he did not rejoice when Biden signed the Juneteenth law. He fears it will distract from legislation on vital issues such as voting rights and police reform.

“I see it as a distraction,” Stewart said, “almost as a handout of some candy, but the meat of justice is still going to be denied.”

Bay Area Celebrates Juneteenth with "Abolish Police" Banners

Only a handful of states headed into Thursday’s signing of the federal Juneteenth law with the paid holiday on the books to be celebrated in 2021. The governors of Washington, Illinois, Louisiana and Maine, by contrast, all signed more recent laws that were set to kick in for 2022, when June 19 falls on a Sunday.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards closed state offices for a half-day Friday, only a few days after he signed Juneteenth legislation, and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was among governors who changed their states’ start dates to 2021.

In another twist, many states have laws that automatically recognize all federal holidays — even those not named in state statute.

Such was the case in Ohio, where Republican Gov. Mike DeWine issued a Juneteenth statement late Thursday and closed state offices in the manner of a hastily called school snow day. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice also declared Juneteenth a state holiday at a last-minute virtual press conference. The governors of Connecticut and Florida issued their Juneteenth proclamations Friday.

Ohio state Sen. Hearcel Craig, a Columbus Democrat who is Black, said codifying Juneteenth in state law remains essential. He is sponsoring a bill that passed the Ohio Senate unanimously last session, but time ran out for consideration in the House. Republicans control both of Ohio’s legislative chambers.

Georgia law caps the number of state holidays at 12, meaning Juneteenth could be added only if another holiday were dropped. In other states, including Oregon, whether Juneteenth becomes a paid holiday will depend on union negotiations.

In Mississippi, Democratic state Rep. Bryant Clark has filed bills to make Juneteenth a state holiday for about 15 years. All have stalled.

Clark said Friday that he will keep trying. He noted that Mississippi legislators took four years to create a state holiday honoring King after the federal holiday was established. In 1987, Mississippi legislators revised a holiday named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that had been in place for decades, creating a joint holiday honoring both Lee and King.

Two other Mississippi lawmakers said Friday that they plan to file a bill to eliminate Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday and replace it with Juneteenth.

Minnesota has recognized the third Saturday in June as Juneteenth since 1996, but the statute only obligates the governor to issue a proclamation each year honoring the observance. That’s a common situation in the U.S., where the holiday is sometimes called Emancipation Day.

Calls by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, to make it an official state holiday have failed to gain traction so far in the Legislature, the only one in the nation where Democrats control one chamber and Republicans control the other.

Hawaii had been one of only three states left not to recognize the holiday at all. A bill marking Juneteenth was signed there Wednesday and in a second holdout state, North Dakota, in April. Neither created a paid state holiday, however.

South Dakota still does not officially recognize the holiday, but Gov. Kristi Noem has issued a proclamation celebrating it. The governor does not have the power to make it an official state holiday — that must be done through the Legislature. A bill to recognize it as a working holiday fell a handful of votes short of passing this year.

It was defeated by an unusual coalition of Democrats who felt the day should be recognized as a full-fledged holiday, rather than a working holiday, and conservative lawmakers who opposed recognizing the holiday at all.

In Tennessee, an attempt to designate Juneteenth as a state holiday stalled last year after some Republican lawmakers raised questions about the $647,000 price tag. Others questioned why it was necessary when the state already recognizes Aug. 8 as Emancipation Day.

Arizona dragged its feet for years on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, until it became the only state that did not have some sort of holiday inspired by the slain civil rights leader.

That long delay cost Arizona a Super Bowl and millions of dollars in tourism revenue from canceled conventions and other events. It also inspired a boycott by singer Stevie Wonder and a protest song by Public Enemy called “By the Time I Get to Arizona.”

Gov. Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, issued an executive order in 1986 declaring Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday. Babbitt’s Republican successor, Evan Mecham, rescinded the order a year later, saying Babbitt exceeded his authority.

Mecham’s action led to years of divisive political maneuvering, including a ballot measure that ended in defeat for King holiday supporters, before Arizona voters ultimately approved the holiday in 1992.

Sworn Court Documents from Whistleblowers say the NYPD has an Arrest Quota System to Target Blacks and Latinos. Cops who Decline to 'Take People's Freedom' Lose Overtime and Get Poor Evaluations

RACISTS USE THE SYSTEM OF AUTHORITY TO FORCIBLY CONTROL NON-WHITE PEOPLE IN the FREE RANGE PRISON. From [HERE] and [HERE] White police supervisors allegedly pressured subordinate officers of color to take people's freedom in order to meet arrest quotas, new court documents say.

Four NYPD officers say in new sworn declarations that an off-the-books arrest quota system targeted Black and Latino New Yorkers — with one cop recalling a white supervisor asking, “Are you going to take someone’s freedom today?”

The new documents, soon to be filed in Manhattan Federal Court the Daily News has learned, add further detail to a long-running suit launched by four other non-white cops claiming they faced retaliation for not arresting enough people of color. White officers allegedly did not face the arrest expectations.

Officer Charles Spruill, who retired in 2014, has come forward to claim he was yelled at on a daily basis to meet arrest quotas.

“On one occasion in the 40th Precinct a white supervisor asked an African-American police officer, ‘Are you going to take someone’s freedom today?’” Spruill, who is Black, says in his affidavit. “The African-American police officer had no choice but to say, ‘OK, boss.’”

Last month, city attorneys filed a scathing submission in Manhattan Federal Court slamming one of the original plaintiffs, Lt. Edwin Raymond, as insubordinate and unwilling to do his job. Raymond is running for City Council while on leave from the force.

“Individuals who are not part of this case have made some baseless accusations in new affidavits in an attempt to support plaintiffs’ meritless case,” a Law Department spokesman said. “Mr. Raymond’s claims have no legal merit.”

Since the suit was filed in Manhattan Federal Court in 2015, some two dozen current and retired officers have filed legal papers backing the claim that a race-based quota system disproportionately affected minority cops.

Taken together, the affidavits illustrate how the chance for lucrative overtime shifts has been used to induce cops to go along with commanders’ demands. They also show how performance monitoring — a program ostensibly to help cops get better at the job — has allegedly been used to punish officers who don’t meet arrest quotas.

AUTHORITARIAN PROMOTED IN SERVICE OF RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY. In 2013 Inspector Christopher McCormack was caught on audio telling an officer to Target Young Black Men Wearing Dark Clothing. Since then he has been promoted and is now an assistant chief. [MORE]

Previous filings in the case have revealed NYPD jargon allegedly used in the quotas program. “Collars for dollars” referred to cops who make a sufficient number of arrests being rewarded with overtime shifts.

“Soft targets” were Asian, Jewish and white people, who weren’t to be arrested. “Hard targets” were Black and Hispanic people, the cops say.

“The NYPD has a lot of internal names for the arrest quota, but they all mean the same thing. That officers are supposed to bring in a certain amount of arrests and issue a certain number of summonses per month,” Officer Shawn Smalls, who is Black and retired in 2011, says in one of the new affidavits.

“The NYPD calls this arrest quota in the internal lingo of the police department many things. These code names include, but are not limited to, productivity indicators, goals, activity, expectations, condition, and/or performance goals.”

Officer Michael Soto says in another of the new sworn declarations that the then-commanding officer of the 40th Precinct, Christopher McCormack, arbitrarily lowered many minority officers’ performance evaluation scores after assuming his post in 2011. The evaluations are used to determine which cops receive overtime and assignments to specialized units.

“McCormack changed the evaluation for no reason other than to implement a new strategy of hunting minority civilians in order to make the arrest quota,” said Soto, who is Hispanic.

Officer Dan Quinones says in his new sworn declaration that his commanding officer at Transit District 34, Constantin Tsachas, lowered the performance ratings of officers who weren’t meeting the race-based quota.

“Basically, he would put you on the edge of performance monitoring and then dangle the carrot of overtime in front of the officers. Those officers who needed the overtime to live would have no choice but to go out and manufacture as many arrests and summons as possible,” said Quinones, who is Hispanic. “The NYPD used overtime as a way to control its officers.”

Tsachas remains with the NYPD in transit and has denied the allegations through his union.

“Minority officers who refuse to hunt Black and Hispanic civilians are stripped of overtime, negatively evaluated and placed on performance monitoring,” said attorney John Scola, who represents the plaintiffs in the case.

“This toxic culture, which permeates the NYPD, forces officers to choose between standing up for what is right and being able to feed their families.”

WHAT ARE RIGHTS IN A LEGAL SYSTEM BASED SOLELY ON PHYSICAL COERCION? According to FUNKTIONARY:

rights - fantasmatic or fictitious objects having no reality in actuality by those imagining as an identity being in possession of them. Rights are cultural gratuities perceived through various fantasy frames, recognized, and sometimes even created, by man's system of law to provide a modicum or pretense of civility under a system whereby their very undermining and violation is vouchsafed. Rights are merely rites unless you know how to assert and defend them in order to enjoy them. [MORE]

Since January 91% of NYPD Marijuana Arrests were of Black or Hispanic People

[IN PHOTO RACIST SUSPECT NYC MAYOR BILL DEBLASIO] VOTING IS AN ILLUSORY FORM OF POWER. NYC HAS THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF BLACKS OF ANY CITY IN THE US and The Democratic Party has dominated NYC politics for decades. there are many BLACK AND non-white ELECTED OFFICIALS in ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT.  

Yet Blacks still have no power TO EVEN HAVE THEIR BASIC 4TH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT RECOGNIZED. Clearly, in no way did voting for friendly white and Black politicians solve Black people’s problems in in NYC or many other places where COPS ROUTINELY INTERFERE WITH THEIR SO-CALLED RIGHTS AND murder theM in broad daylight. [MORE]

From [HERE] Police in New York City continued to arrest and issue summons to thousands of people over simple marijuana possession in the first quarter of 2021—which ended on the same day the governor signed a cannabis legalization bill into law.

Data from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) released late last week showed that police made 163 arrests and handed out 3,687 summons for marijuana possession in the city’s final quarter of prohibition. And as has long been the trend both locally and nationally, those enforcement actions disproportionately impacted people of color.

Of the 3,687 possession-related summons issued from January through the end of March, for example, 2,374 were issued to Black people, 1,089 were for Hispanic people and just 102 were for white people. When it comes to arrests, 78 targeted Black people, 70 involved Hispanic people and just six white people were arrested for cannabis.

That’s despite the fact that rates of consumption are comparable across those races.

Put another way, Black and Hispanic people accounted for 94 percent of the total marijuana summonses and 91 percent of cannabis arrests in New York City last quarter—a rate that is greatly disproportionate to the racial makeup of the city’s population.

An analysis of earlier arrest and summons data from last year showed notable fluctuations quarter-over-quarter, but the numbers for the first quarter of 2020 are fairly consistent with the new figures from this year’s first quarter. From January through March of 2020, there were 3,623 summons issued and 132 arrests over marijuana. That is marginally lower than the new first quarter of 2021 data.

But what has been broadly consistent, and a major reason that lawmakers and advocates pushed for reform in the first place, is the racial disparities in those cases. For each quarter of 2020, Black and Latinx people accounted for more than 90 percent of all cannabis arrests and summonses, as explained by the Legal Aid Society.

If the new legalization law is being effectively implemented—and NYPD officers are following updated guidance that was issued after the reform bill was signed on March 31—those numbers should dramatically decline when data for the current quarter are released.

The majority of arrests took place in two of the city’s five boroughs: The Bronx and Brooklyn.

The legalization measure signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) immediately legalized possession of up to three ounces of cannabis or 24 grams of marijuana concentrates for adults 21 and older.

The age category with the most arrests and summons last quarter was people between 25 and 34. So while the retail sales component of the law has yet to be implemented, it stands to reason that the type of offenses covered in these quarterly reports will significantly decrease in the current quarter and in the future.

That said, while smoking of marijuana in public is now generally allowed, there are still places where it will remain prohibited such as parks and other areas where smoking tobacco is banned. Plus, people can still be cited for possessing more than three ounces of cannabis, and sales remain illegal. So there will likely be some level of enforcement action despite the policy change, and advocates will be closely monitoring to see to what extent profound racial disparities persist.

For both marijuana arrests and summonses, the new data show that the majority of those took place in two of the city’s five boroughs: The Bronx and Brooklyn.

Not only will the state now save money by no longer having law enforcement pursue most adults over marijuana, but it also stands to generate a significant windfall in tax revenue once the retail market opens and matures. The state comptroller projected in a recent analysis that New York will eventually generate $245 million in annual cannabis revenue. [MORE]

Can't Pay Yurugu's Rent with Just One McJob: Retail Workers are Quitting at Record Rates for Higher-Paying Work in an Attempt to Fight “Richcraft"

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Richcraft – the sorcery of greed—the use of violence, laws, deception, theft, secret oaths, and oppression to snatch and hoard resources from and gain power over the vast majority of people’s lives through the widespread use of this vicious concoction of nefarious, lethal, legal, and demonstrably devious power. (See: COP, Gangbanking, Privilege, Aristocracy, Corporations, Usury, Power, Oppression, Violence, Greed, Deception, GIMME!, Political Money, Cultural Induction, GEO-Dollars, Control, The Pathocracy & Poor) 

wage $lave - on the hour, by the hour. “Sell your time to buy the time that other people sold.” Way down into the marrow of my bone, this much I have always known - I am unable to obey (or conform to) someone who views my time as their own. [MORE]

“STILL GOT THIS DU-RANT” From [HERE] Retail workers, drained from the pandemic and empowered by a strengthening job market, are leaving jobs like never before.

Americans are ditching their jobs by the millions, and retail is leading the way with the largest increase in resignations of any sector. Some 649,000 retail workers put in their notice in April, the industry’s largest one-month exodus since the Labor Department began tracking such data more than 20 years ago.

Some are finding less stressful positions at insurance agencies, marijuana dispensaries, banks and local governments, where their customer service skills are rewarded with higher wages and better benefits. Others are going back to school to learn new trades, or waiting until they are able to secure reliable child care.

“It was a really dismal time, and it made me realize this isn’t worth it,” said 23-year-old Aislinn Potts of Murfreesboro, Tenn., who left her $11-an-hour job as an aquatic specialist at a national pet chain in April to focus on writing and art. “My life isn’t worth a dead-end job.”

In interviews with more than a dozen retail workers who recently left their jobs, nearly all said the pandemic introduced new strains to already challenging work: longer hours, understaffed stores, unruly customers and even pay cuts. [MORE]

WSJ Analysis says Blacks and Latinos are Locked Out of “the Turbo Charged" Housing Market b/c They Can’t Afford Big Down Payments and Homes are Routinely Selling for Far More than the Listing Price

From [HERE] Would-be home buyers without big piles of cash are getting left on the sidelines.

In the turbocharged housing market, prices are surging and homes on the market are routinely selling for far more than the listing price. Those who can’t afford big down payments are often the ones losing out.

Half of existing-home buyers in April who used mortgages put at least 20% down, according to a National Association of Realtors survey. In 10 years of record-keeping, that percentage has hit or exceeded 50% three times, and all have been since last fall. A quarter of existing-home buyers in April paid cash, the highest level since 2017, NAR said.

Home prices are surging. The median existing-home price rose 19% from a year earlier to $341,600 in April, a record high, according to NAR. That is largely because there aren’t enough homes on the market to meet demand.

In such a housing market, sellers can often choose among multiple offers. Cash buyers have an advantage because they don’t need to secure mortgages, which can make the transaction go faster. Sellers sometimes worry that offers with smaller down payments are likelier to fall through during the loan-closing process, agents say.

Many borrowers who can afford only small upfront costs get loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration or the Department of Veterans Affairs. In an April NAR survey of real-estate agents, 27% said sellers were unlikely to accept an offer with an FHA or VA loan, and another 6% said sellers would refuse such an offer. These loans are less attractive to sellers because they have stricter closing conditions, real-estate agents say.

While mortgage originations of all types rose last year as home buying surged, FHA and VA loans lost market share to conventional loans. FHA loans, which often go to first-time buyers, accounted for 10% of home purchases in the first quarter of 2021, the second-lowest level since 2008, according to Attom Data Solutions.

“It’s very hard to get my FHA offers accepted,” said Olivia Chavez Serrano, a real-estate agent in Los Angeles.

Bigger down payments can cushion the housing market in a downturn. In the 2007-09 recession, home buyers who had made tiny down payments were quickly underwater as soon as home prices started to fall.

A lump sum of 20% or more can be hard to come up with as home prices skyrocket, especially without help from family members. “I’d say at least 50% of my first-time home buyers are getting gifts right now,” said Chris Borg, a mortgage broker at Vantage Mortgage Group Inc.

Low-down-payment loans and down-payment assistance programs are touted by affordable-housing advocates as crucial tools for increasing the homeownership rate, particularly for minority buyers. In 2019, a higher proportion of FHA and VA borrowers were Black or Hispanic compared with conventional-loan borrowers, according to the Urban Institute. Some congressional Democrats have proposed new down-payment assistance initiatives to help first-time buyers.

Surging home prices are also complicating appraisals, which means some buyers are being forced to shell out more cash than they had expected.

Appraisals are based partly on recent sale prices for comparable homes in the area. When housing prices rise quickly, appraisal values don’t always keep up. Mortgage lenders will typically lend only enough to cover the appraised value of a home, so when an appraisal comes in low, the buyer has to make up the difference or let the deal fall through. [MORE]

“I’m in the middle of the street" A White Cop Dispatched to Help a Black Man Ran Him Over, Killing Him. Cops Claim it was Accident but Dashcam shows Victim was Visible for 5 Secs before Being Struck

Yurugu's Perceived Survival Game w/Blacks; Is Numerical Inadequacy [dying white population] and/or Color Desire [inability to produce color] Causing Racists to Act Out Genocidally Towards Non-Whites? [MORE] and [MORE]

AFTER THE INCIDENT COPS TOLD THE MOTHER, “YOUR SON WAS SHOT.” [Murderers also Tell Lies] From [HERE] A police officer in Ohio is on paid leave after running over a Black man who called 911 for help after being shot. The man later died from his injuries.

Springfield Police Officer Amanda Rosales responded to Eric Cole‘s plea for help at around 11:15 p.m last Sunday.

Dayton CBS affiliate WHIO obtained records from the emergency call that didn’t save the shooting victim’s life.

“I’m in the middle of the street,” Cole told the 911 dispatcher on the night he died. “I’m about to die.”

He stayed on the line while police responded — sirens in the background announcing their arrival.

As Rosales sped to the scene, she ran over the victim she was dispatched to save.

“They just hit me,” Cole said.

“Who hit you?” the dispatcher asked the dying man.

“The police,” he replied.

NOTICE THAT EVEN WHEN COPS ARE SUSPECTED OF MURDER THE DEPENDENT MEDIA PRESUMES EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS TRUTHFUL. AS IF MURDERER’S DON’T HAVE CREDIBILITY PROBLEMS AND A REALLY GOOD REASON TO LIE.

Authorities said Rosales immediately stopped to render aid to the man she hit.

A second dash cam video from another patrol car following the first one also shows the incident.

Cole was airlifted to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. A preliminary autopsy showed that he had abrasions to his back and lower chest; lacerations on his left shoulder and back; internal bleeding; a fractured sternum and multiple ribs; as well as blunt force trauma to his arms, knees and legs, the TV station noted.

The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office has yet to release an official cause of death; a determination is reportedly “pending.”

Recently-released dash cam footage from the officer’s patrol car shows that Cole was in full view — visibly bleeding through a white tee shirt in the middle-left side of the street — for roughly five seconds before he was hit by the patrol car.

Springfield Police Chief Lee Graf identified Rosales as the officer in question during a press conference earlier this week.

“This was an accident,” Graf said. “It doesn’t mean it’s okay. It was an accident. This was not an intentional act on the part of the officer. I am sure of that. From what we are initially piecing together, remember this is all under investigation, the lead officer was trying to catch the addresses on the house. Eric was lying in the street as you can see from the videos — and the officer did not see him.”

“That camera focuses where it’s pointed,” the police chief continued. “It’s not an indicator of what the officer was seeing.”

But advocates are not taking the police department’s word for what happened to Cole.

Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who has a successful track record of representing victims of police violence, demanded justice via Twitter.

“Eric Cole, a shooting victim, was on the phone with 911 when Springfield Ofc. Amanda Rosales ran over him with her police cruiser!” he tweeted on Wednesday. “Eric later died. The just-released dashcam shows he was visible to Ofc. Rosales for 5 SECONDS before she ran over his body! #JusticeForEricCole.”

The Springfield chapter of the NAACP said it wished to be part of the investigation.

“We will make sure of transparency,” Springfield NAACP President Denise Williams said — addressing Cole’s family members. “That’s part of our job. We will have every piece of paper with the information on it. That’s our job. We’re gonna stay in it with you mom, until the end.”

The family isn’t convinced either — because police did not initially mention that an officer ran Cole over that night.

“He said, ‘Your son has just been shot,’ never once was I told that an officer ran over my son,” Cole’s mother Regina Wilson told local NBC affiliate WDTN. “Why was I not told at the scene that she ran over my son?”

“I want the officer held accountable just like if they get the suspect, they will hold him accountable,” the distraught mother added.

Rosales has been a cop for two years. Her since-paused-with-pay role at SPD is her first assignment post-police academy. She graduatedfrom Clark State Community College in January 2020, according to an SPD Facebook post.

Neuropeon Charged w/Attempt Murder Pleads Guilty to Lesser Felony after Firing his Handgun into a Carful of Black Teenage Girls, Striking 1 Outside a Trump Rally in Iowa [FAGA], was Wearing Body Armor

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From [HERE] A neuropeon supporter of Donald Trump pled guilty to felony charges for firing his handgun into a carful of Black teens outside a pro-Trump rally near the Iowa Capitol last December, injuring one.

Michael McKinney, 26, pleaded guilty Wednesday to intimidation with a dangerous weapon and willful injury, charges that each carry up to 10 years in prison. He’s expected to receive a prison term at his Aug. 9 sentencing, but the parole board may determine how long he actually serves.

Under a plea agreement that a prosecutor called “generous,” the state will dismiss four charges including attempted murder and won’t seek sentencing enhancements that would require McKinney to serve a mandatory minimum of five years on each count before becoming eligible for parole.

McKinney, an Army veteran and resident of Saint Charles, Iowa, admitted that he intentionally fired into the girls’ vehicle, “causing the occupants to fear serious injury from my action.” He acknowledged that one of the girls, 15, was shot in the leg and seriously injured.

His trial had been scheduled for Monday and McKinney had been expected to argue he fired in self-defense after the girls’ car backed into a Trump supporter’s pickup truck.

McKinney was wearing body armor and heavily armed when he participated in a pro-Trump parade of slow-moving vehicles through Des Moines on Dec. 6. Police say he had a pistol, another firearm in his vehicle and was carrying two loaded magazines.

A car carrying four Black teenage girls began following the caravan as it passed through the heavily Democratic city, with occupants trading epithets with Trump supporters.

A confrontation broke out between the teenagers and the much larger group of Trump supporters at a Capitol parking lot. Witnesses and the teen driver’s mother say the clash included racial and political taunts on both sides.

Trump supporters surrounded the girls’ car, yelling and honking horns, so the driver put the car in reverse and struck a pickup. Bystander video shows McKinney pulling a handgun from his waistband and firing into the car from 15 feet (4.5 meters) away.

The girl who was shot had been arguing with the crowd through the vehicle’s sunroof.

Authorities downplayed the political and racial context of the shooting, saying it grew out of a traffic dispute. The rally had been sponsored by Women for America First, the pro-Trump group that later hosted the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., before the Capitol insurrection.

Trump supporters blasted authorities for charging McKinney, arguing that his shot protected rallygoers by scaring the car away and noting that McKinney frequented pro-police “Back the Blue” rallies.

The plea drastically reduce his prison sentence. Had McKinney been convicted on all counts at trial, he would have been required to serve 32 years behind bars. McKinney’s lawyer can argue at sentencing that whatever prison terms he receives on each count should run concurrently.

A Racist Randomly Attacked and Chased a Black Man for 13 Minutes on His Way Home from Work in Las Vegas. The Neuropeon said he was "at War with Black People." Charged w/Attempt Murder, Hate Crime

Yurugu's Perceived Survival Game w/Blacks; Is Numerical Inadequacy [dying white population] and/or Color Desire [inability to produce color] Causing Racists to Act Out Genocidally Towards Non-Whites? [MORE] and [MORE]

From [HERE] A 24-year-old white man was arrested Wednesday after attacking and chasing a Black stranger for 13 minutes while yelling racial slurs at him in Las Vegas, according to an arrest report.

John Arellano, who is white, faces charges of attempted murder, assault on a protected person and hate/bias crime, according to Clark County Detention Center records.

Las Vegas police were dispatched at about 5 p.m. Wednesday to a bus stop near Fairwood Circle and Jones Boulevard after a report of a suspect actively chasing a victim.

Upon arriving, officers told Arellano get on the ground. Arellano turned to the officers with fists clenched and began marching toward them, the report said. Police used a nonlethal bean bag shotgun and a stun gun on Arellano before arresting him.

The man being chased told police that he was walking home from work when Arellano called him a racial slur and punched him in the face. Arellano then chased the man for approximately seven blocks and only stopped when police arrived, the report said.

While in custody, Arellano said racial slurs when referring to the man and admitted that he punched him.

“John stated ‘I should have killed that black guy I hit,” the report said.

Arellano also told police he is at war with Black people.

Arellano’s description matched a suspect who attempted to stab a Black woman the night prior near the same location, police said.

He is being held on $30,000 bail and has a status check set for Tuesday morning.

The NOI says the US Govt is Suppressing Safe COVID Treatments to Push Deadly "Vaccine." Claims Americans are 22x more likely to die than Cubans and Chinese people are 517x better off than Americans

From [HERE] The U.S. government and mass media are keeping the public blind to possible inexpensive treatments for COVID-19, while pushing vaccines like a drug-pusher promotes cocaine. The vaccine producers are distributing their so-called vaccines under the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), based upon their being no other treatments or therapies that can fight COVID-19. 

To keep their authorization and monopoly, the drug companies have gotten the government and mass media to hide known and proven therapies for COVID-19. We will first introduce you to proven treatments, then later go into the hidden agenda behind these so-called vaccines.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in his monumental July 4, 2020 presentation called “The Criterion” warned the people not to take these experimental vaccines for COVID-19, especially while there are potential therapies available. He said:

“I asked God to bring down the virus heavily on Florida because 90 miles from Florida our Cuban family, when the plague broke out in Wuhan, they went to Hubei province in Wuhan and with the Chinese they corrected it and drove it out of Wuhan. Don’t we need something that Cuba has? But you have an embargo on Cuba. …”

In a May 13, 2020 Reuters articled entitled “With Castro-era biotech, Cuba seeks to compete in coronavirus treatment race,” it was reported that:

“None of the nearly 3,000 healthcare workers who used interferon nose drops became infected with the novel coronavirus. …. They included more than 500 with high exposure to infected patients, the Chinese researchers said. … The island nation says it has been successful in treating the novel coronavirus at home and in China, and that 80 countries have already expressed an interest in buying its interferon alpha 2b.”

“None of the nearly 3,000 healthcare workers who used interferon nose drops became infected with the novel coronavirus. …. They included more than 500 with high exposure to infected patients, the Chinese researchers said. … The island nation says it has been successful in treating the novel coronavirus at home and in China, and that 80 countries have already expressed an interest in buying its interferon alpha 2b.”

In the meantime, America continues to blockade Cuba, thereby depriving American citizens of proven therapies for COVID-19. So how has America, Cuba, China and other countries fared over the last year fighting this coronavirus, even before there were any so-called vaccines?

Below we have compared the deaths per 100,000 population between the U.S. and eight other so-call Third World countries. When you crunch the numbers, you find that the United States has registered 181 deaths per 100,000. And yet Cuba deaths per 100,000 are only eight. So, people in the U.S. are 22 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than are the Cubans. By this same measurement Chinese people are 517 times better off than Americans. 

This should be eye opening! How is it that COVID-19 broke out in China first, and way before there were any so-called vaccines China had broken the grip of this virus by asking Cuba for help with her interferon alpha 2b. Today China only has 4,636 COVID deaths for its entire population of 1.4 billion, and the U.S. now counts 601,000 deaths for its much smaller population of 330 million. Not only does America have the most racist historical medical malpractice, but it has—by far–THE WORST RECORD OF COVID DEATHS ON PLANET EARTH.

Dr. Ridgely Abdul Mu’min Muhammad asked readers:

What happened in the six African countries? Johns Hopkins University keeps a running count of mortality rates for 180 countries since the beginning of the COVID-19 “outbreak.” The data below was taken from their May 27, 2021 update.

And here is something else that Dr. Fauci and mainstream media do not want their terrified public to know. There is another cheap, widely used drug that has now been shown to be most effective against COVID-19—Ivermectin. On December 8, 2020 Dr. Pierre Kory testified to the Senate Homeland Security committee on “Focus on Early Treatment of COVID-19” that “Ivermectin is highly safe, widely available, and low cost. Its discovery was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine, and is already included on the WHO’s ‘World’s List of Essential Medicines.’”

“Nearly all studies are demonstrating the therapeutic potency and safety of ivermectin in preventing transmission and progression of illness in nearly all who take the drug. We now have data from over 20 well-designed clinical studies, ten of them randomized, controlled trials, with every study consistently reporting large magnitude and statistically significant benefits in decreasing transmission rates, shortening recovery times, decreasing hospitalizations, or large reductions in deaths.”

He went on to describe the benefits that were achieved in Peru and Mexico after deploying mass ivermectin treatments between August and October of 2020. These benefits were so compelling that recently Mexico City implemented a similar program, that resulted in an incredible 52–76 percent reduction in hospitalizations.

"Im So Scared!!" Hon Cops ID'd Themselves After Murdering Lindani Myeni. Chinese Couple Panicked in the Presence of a Black Man who had Mistaken Their Home for the Temple Next Door and Promptly Exited

From [HERE] Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is condemning the Honolulu Police Department for the fatal shooting of a Black man as various versions of what led to the death continue to emerge.

“Lindani Myeni’s killing is yet another sensational racialization and criminalization of an innocent unarmed black man at the hands of police not following the law and proper police procedures,” Sharpton said in a statement Thursday. 

Sharpton weighed in on the April 14 shooting of Myeni after lawyers representing his widow in a wrongful death lawsuit made public this week a doorbell video showing the 29-year-old arriving at a house, taking off his shoes and quickly leaving after his presence confused the occupants. Myeni repeatedly apologized to the couple.

Police responding to a 911 call shot him a short time later outside the house. The video reveals the fact that cops never announced themselves in a very dark area as they shined a bright light into the Black man’s face.

The lawsuit said he likely mistook the home for a temple next door that’s open to the public. Unarmed, the Black man from South Africa was wearing a traditional Zulu headband with a tuft of fur at the forehead.

BUT THEY ARE OUTSIDE and THEY DON’T LOOK SCARED

Sabine and Dexter Wang, visiting Hawaii from New Jersey for more than a month, were “freaked out” when a stranger walked into the Honolulu home where they were staying and acted oddly, Scot Brower, an attorney representing the homeowner and the tourists said.

“He didn’t get no permission. He didn’t get any consent. He went in that house,” Brower said.

Myeni told Sabine Wong “something like I have I have video on you. You know why I’m here,” rummaged through the house and said he owned a cat there, Brower said. 

He never mentioned the temple or being lost to the couple, Brower said. 

Sabine Wang pretended make a phone call saying someone broke into the home, hoping that would be enough to get Myeni to leave, Brower said. However, the video reveals that he had already left before she made the call.

She then called 911 and told an operator about the man and and that he had no weapons in his hands, according to a recording of the call released by police. 

In the doorbell video, Myeni is heard in the video outside the home saying repeatedly, “I’m sorry.” He puts his shoes on and leaves promptly after he entered, the footage shows. 

The Wangs have provided inconsistent stories about what happened, said Bridget Morgan-Bickerton, an attorney for Myeni’s wife, Lindsay Myeni.

“Nothing the Wangs have said justifies the way that officer approached Lindani or justifies that they did not announce themselves as police,” she said. 

Myeni wouldn’t have known it was police shining bright lights in his eyes on a dark night, the lawsuit said. 

The Wangs, who needed Mandarin interpreters at their depositions in the lawsuit, could have misunderstood what Myeni said during the brief encounter, Morgan-Bickerton said.

“He may have made a comment about the cat,” she said. “But I don’t think that should end in death.”

“It is a sad indictment on Americans that their country continues to be associated with the senseless murder of Black people,” said Nonhlanhla Khoza, an African National Congress member who is an official in Mr. Myeni’s home province, KwaZulu-Natal. [MORE]

Prosecutors said Honolulu Cops fired 10 shots without provocation into the rear window of a Car, Murdering a 16 Yr Old Driver and Attempted Murder of Teen Passenger. Afterwards Cops Lied About it

From [HERE] and [HERE] A Honolulu police officer has been charged with second-degree murder in what prosecutors called the unjustified fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy after a high-speed chase in April. Two other officers have been charged with second-degree attempted murder for their roles in the confrontation.

The charges were announced on Tuesday by prosecutors in Honolulu, less than a week after a grand jury had declined to indict the officers in connection with their actions leading up to the death of Iremamber Sykap on April 5.

“The evidence supports the conclusion that the defendants’ use of deadly force in this case was unnecessary, unreasonable, and unjustified under the law,” Christopher T. Van Marter, a deputy prosecuting attorney, wrote in a criminal complaint.

Prosecutors said that Geoffrey H.L. Thom, the officer charged with second-degree murder, had fired 10 shots “without provocation” into the rear window of a Honda driven by Iremamber, hitting him eight times.

Iremamber died shortly after the shooting, according to prosecutors, who said that one of the bullets fired by Officer Thom had pierced Iremamber’s aorta and another had fractured his spine and that one of the bullets had pierced his lung, causing extreme internal bleeding.

Iremamber’s brother, Mark Sykap, who was in the front passenger seat, was struck in the right shoulder and the left hand when the officers opened fire, a criminal complaint said. He survived.

The shooting happened after a high-speed chase, according to investigators, who said that the car had been idling on a city street when three officers opened fire. The police said that the car had been reported stolen two days earlier and had been connected to an armed robbery, a purse snatching and a theft.

The gearshift lever of the car was still in the drive position when Iremamber was shot, and the vehicle struck an empty patrol car, climbed onto the sidewalk, went through a fence and landed in a canal about 10 feet below street level, investigators said.

Prosecutors said that Officer Thom had written in a police report that the Honda had rammed his patrol car and had reversed toward him. But body camera footage, they said, contradicted those statements. His patrol car had a few minor paint chips and scuff marks, a criminal complaint said.

Iremamber died shortly after the shooting, according to prosecutors, who said that one of the bullets fired by Officer Thom had pierced Iremamber’s aorta and another had fractured his spine and that one of the bullets had pierced his lung, causing extreme internal bleeding.

Iremamber’s brother, Mark Sykap, who was in the front passenger seat, was struck in the right shoulder and the left hand when the officers opened fire, a criminal complaint said. He survived.

The shooting happened after a high-speed chase, according to investigators, who said that the car had been idling on a city street when three officers opened fire. The police said that the car had been reported stolen two days earlier and had been connected to an armed robbery, a purse snatching and a theft.

The gearshift lever of the car was still in the drive position when Iremamber was shot, and the vehicle struck an empty patrol car, climbed onto the sidewalk, went through a fence and landed in a canal about 10 feet below street level, investigators said.

Prosecutors said that Officer Thom had written in a police report that the Honda had rammed his patrol car and had reversed toward him. But body camera footage, they said, contradicted those statements. His patrol car had a few minor paint chips and scuff marks, a criminal complaint said.

If convicted, all three face mandatory life sentences with the possibility of parole, according to prosecutors, as well as at least 20 years without the possibility of parole because their alleged crimes involved semiautomatic firearms. It is unclear if the officers have lawyers yet.

In May, the Sykap family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Honolulu and the officers who were involved in the shooting.

2 yrs Ltr Rolebotic DA Gets Around to Charging a White Danville Cop w/Murder for Shooting an Unarmed Filipino Man 9X as He Posed No Threat. During the Delay, Same White Cop Killed a Homeless Black Man

From [HERE] A San Francisco Bay Area police officer who is accused of fatally shooting two mentally ill men in the past three years pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges Wednesday in the case of the first shooting in 2018, a court official said.

Officer Andrew Hall of the Danville Police Department was charged in April with two felony counts for the 2018 shooting death of Laudemer Arboleda, an unarmed Filipino man who was slowly driving away from police when Hall shot him nine times.

Hall appeared Wednesday at the Contra Costa County Superior Court in the city of Martinez for his arraignment and entered his not guilty plea, court spokesman Matt Malone said.

Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton announced in April that Hall was being charged with felony voluntary manslaughter and felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm for Arboleda’s death.

Becton came under criticism for the timing of the charges, which were announced one day after former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man whose death last May helped spark a national reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality.

Critics have asked why it took so long and say the delay had deadly consequences.

On March 11, just weeks before the charges were filed, Hall, who is white, shot and killed Tyrell Wilson, 33, a Black homeless man in Danville, a wealthy suburb east of San Francisco. The Wilson shooting is still under investigation by the District Attorney’s office.

Police video footage of both shootings have raised questions about Hall’s conduct.

In bodycam and dashboard footage from the 2018 incident, officers are seen slowly pursuing Arboleda through the city of Danville after someone reported a suspicious person in a residential cul-de-sac.

The video from the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department, which contracts police services to Danville, shows Hall stopping his patrol car, getting out and running toward the sedan driven by Arboleda. Hall opened fire and kept shooting as Arboleda’s car passed by, striking him nine times.

Hall testified at an inquest that he was afraid Arboleda would run him over.

Becton said in April that Hall “used unreasonable and unnecessary force” that endangered “not only Mr. Arboleda’s life but the lives of his fellow officers and citizens in the immediate area.”

Civil rights attorney John Burris, who is representing Arboleda’s family, says Hall generated a threat where none existed and then tried to shoot his way out of it.

“The officer claims it was imminent danger, and it was not,” Burris said. “The officer himself was not in danger. He shot into a moving car when he himself was in a position of safety.”

1 Cop Found Guilty after 3 White Cops Kicked and Beat an Undercover Black Cop w/Batons During St Louis Protests. Jury Too Stupid to Reach a Verdict on Cop who broke cell phone to Destroy Evidence

From [HERE] A St. Louis jury has convicted a former police officer of a felony civil rights charge in the beating of a Black undercover officer at a protest in 2017. Dustin Boone, who aided other officers in their attack on Luther Hall, a detective, was found guilty of deprivation of rights under color of law Thursday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. He faces a prison term as long as 10 years. The jury could not reach a verdict on the other defendant in the case. Former officer Christopher Myers was charged with trying to destroy Hall's cellphone to sabotage a future investigation. Earlier Thursday, jurors told the judge they were stuck but were sent back to keep deliberating, per KMOV. It was the second trial for both defendants, after the first ran into similar deadlocks with a different jury. A third officer has been acquitted in the case.

Hall was attacked during protests after a white police police officer, Jason Stockley, was acquitted of murder in the death of a Black suspect in September 2017. Boone and Myers are white. As the protest ended, prosecutors said, the officers encountered Hall on a downtown street and mistook him for a protester, per the AP. Hall didn't identify himself to avoid giving himself away to people nearby, he later said. His colleagues beat him "like Rodney King," Hall said, leaving him with permanent damage even after repeated surgeries. He settled a lawsuit against the police department for $5 million. Boone had repeatedly sent racist text messages, for which his lawyer made no excuse in court. He also had sent texts endorsing the use of violence against protesters, prosecutors said.

Costantin told jurors in her closing statements Tuesday that Hall was committing no crime and there was no probable cause to arrest him. Boone targeted Hall because he mistook him for a protester, she said. Boone had a history of sending racist texts and celebrated the use of violence against protesters and others, she said, citing examples of those texts.

Myers was captured in Hall’s cellphone video standing over him shortly before Myers used a collapsible baton to try and destroy Hall’s phone, she said. Myers also took the battery out of Hall’s camera, mistaking it for a memory card, she said. [MORE]

After Withholding Public Video Authorities Change Jamal Sutherland's Death Certificate to "Homicide." SC Prison Cops Tased and Smothered Black Man and Had a Knee on His back for Over 2 Minutes

From [HERE] and [HERE] A Black man in South Carolina who was pepper-sprayed and tasered by police officers died of abnormal heart event, authorities have said. 

Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal told reporters that Jamal Sutherland’s death was changed from "undetermined" to "homicide," reports said on Thursday. 

O’Neal said that the man died “as the result of a cardiac event,” which was likely a fatal dysrhythmia, also called an abnormal heart rhythm.

The incident happened earlier this year, but body camera footage of his death was released by authorities last month.

Police were trying to forcibly pull out Sutherland from his cell. Two deputies shouted at the man to get on his stomach, before he said he can’t get up, the footage showed.

Then Sutherland was tasered and pepper-sprayed several times by the officers and can be heard in the footage screaming in pain. 

One of the officers placed his knee on Sutherland’s back for more than two minutes, and the Black man can be heard saying “I can’t breathe.” Sutherland was pronounced dead after an hour of this incident. 

Is Police Abuse Caused by Bad Actors or Is it the Result of Giving Cops Uncontrollable Authority Over People? Cop who Killed Kajieme Powell Got Rehired in St Ann and Brutally Assaulted a White Man

Abuse of authority by individual bad actors is not the problem - authority itself, the moral right to forcibly control others, to rule over other people who have an obligation to obey is the source of the problem, a curse upon humanity. As explained by Larken Rose “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.”

FUNKTIONARY explains that unprovoked violence against others or the use of “force” is the basis of all social evils and should only be used in self-defense of yourself or others. The concept of authority is a farce; literally “Authority” is “make believe.” Where did governmental authority or the right to forcibly control others come from?

Governmental power comes from the people. That is, we delegate our individual power to the government for it to act on our behalf. However, it goes without saying that people cannot delegate powers or rights that they do not possess. So if people have delegated their powers to police officers to act on our behalf, how did police acquire the right to commit acts of unprovoked violence on people? Asked differently, if you don’t have the right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence against other people, then how can you delegate or authorize police officers to do so? How did government representatives and police acquire such extra or super-human powers?

LATINO STRAW BOSS ABOVE enjoys his magical powers of authority and SAID HE HAD NO PROBLEMO HIRING THE COP WHO SHOT Kajieme Powell TO DEATH IN NEARBY ST. LOUIS. If a “public servant," such as a police officer, is uncontrollable by you , unaccountable to you, can’t be hired or fired by you, has irresponsible power over you and provides a compulsory “service” to you then he is actually your Master.

THE BEST PEOPLE EMPOWERED TO KILL AND INTERFERE WITH “YOUR RIGHTS” WHENEVER THEY SAY SO. From [HERE] A former St Louis police officer with a track record of violence, including the killing of a mentally disturbed Black man that was condemned as amounting to an execution, has been convicted of beating a suspect as he lay restrained and prostrate on the ground.

Ellis Brown III was found guilty by a federal jury last week after an internal police inquiry cleared him over a car chase in 2019 which ended with the then detective severely kicking Steven Kolb after he surrendered.

Kolb was so badly injured he was taken to hospital. The former officer faces up to 10 years in prison.

But Brown is better known as one of two St Louis officers who shot dead Kajieme Powell in 2014, just 10 days after another police officer killed Michael Brown a short distance away in Ferguson, invigorating the Black Lives Matter movement and sparking weeks of civil unrest.

While Michael Brown’s death drew national and international protests, BLM organisers in St Louis paid less attention to Powell’s killing, in part because he was carrying a knife during what appeared to be a mental health crisis.

But the circumstances of the 25-year-old’s death were in many ways even more controversial. While Michael Brown was wrestling with a police officer before he was shot, critics said Powell was clearly mentally disturbed when Ellis Brown and his colleague opened fire just seconds after arriving on the scene.

The former detective left the St Louis police several years later after he was caught lying about a car pursuit that resulted in a crash.

But Ellis Brown’s history, including other allegations of violence and of fabricating evidence, has raised questions about the ease with which police officers with bad records are able to move between departments after he swiftly found a job with the city of St Ann, a St Louis suburb. There Brown rose to be head of detectives until his arrest for assaulting Kolb.

Kolb was arrested after a high-speed chase through St Louis before he crashed along with several police cars. He tried to make a run for it before lying on the ground with his hands outstretched.

Brown then assaulted him, breaking ribs and bones in Kolb’s face.

“Ellis Brown was interested in one thing and one thing only: retribution,” the prosecutor, Sirena Wissler, said in her closing argument.

Although he was initially cleared by his own department, federal investigators charged him after video footage from a bank camera showed the assault.

Similarly, video of Brown’s shooting of Powell seven years ago raised questions about his conduct. It shows the Black man pacing outside a store from which he was alleged to have stolen soft drinks and donuts. Powell does not interfere with passersby but when the police arrive and stop several yards away, he is seen to be holding a steak knife and shouts at them to kill him. They make no attempt to de-escalate the situation and order him to the ground.

After he takes a step toward them, Ellis Brown and his colleague each fired six shots. It is less than 15 seconds after they arrived on the scene.

Witnesses to the shooting said it was clear that Powell was in crisis and questioned why lesser force could not have been used. Powell’s family said he suffered from manic depression and schizophrenia, and is suing the St Louis police.

The city’s police chief, Sam Dotson, initially claimed that Powell was charging at the officers while brandishing the knife in “an overhand grip” but the video showed this was not true. The St Louis city prosecutor, Jennifer Joyce, declined to prosecute Ellis Brown or his colleague, saying they were acting in self-defense.

In the following years, Brown came under investigation over a number of other accusations of use of excessive force as well as fabricating evidence after using virtually identical language in 19 applications for search warrants, mostly over drugs, which resulted in a trial being halted and several other cases being thrown out.

Brown was forced out of the St Louis department four years ago after he was found to have lied about an incident in which he pursued a vehicle that crashed and caught fire without helping the driver or reporting it to rescue services. But the disgraced officer was able to find a job at the St Ann police department and was later promoted to head its detective division.

The St Louis Post-Dispatch reported that officers with poor records are shuffled between dozens of small police forces in the St Louis area as small municipalities with tight budgets overlook histories of misconduct in order to hire experienced officers forced to accept lower pay.

Among those hired by St Ann were Joshua Becherer, who resigned from St Louis police in 2017 after he was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault for pointing a loaded rifle at a woman’s face and threatening to kill her. Others taken on by the department include a St Louis officer who pistol whipped a 12-year-old girl and then lied about the circumstances, and another who shot a Black colleague who was out of uniform in circumstances that indicated racial profiling.

Among Brown’s colleagues in the St Ann detective bureau was an officer who left the St Louis force after he was accused of using a stun gun on a handcuffed man who was lying on the ground.

Violent, White Prosecutor Still Seeks Justice/Revenge on Black Man Despite the Fact that IN Cops Allowed K-9 to Maul Him for Over 20 secs Puncturing Trachea, Cutting Carotid Artery and Neck Tissue

WORKING ON BEHALF OF RACIST SUSPECTS TO COMMIT VIOLENCE AGAINST NON-WHITE PEOPLE.

From [HERE] Richard Bailey Jr. faces battery charges for the events that preceded him being mauled by a Lafayette police K9 on May 9, 2020.

Bailey's attorney, Swaray Conteh, told the Journal & Courier that Bailey turned himself in on Wednesday and had an initial hearing Thursday where his bail was set at $10,000 surety bond and $1,000 cash bond. They are working to post Bailey's bond, Conteh said.

Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings was appointed special prosecutor to review the criminal allegations against Bailey, 46, 2825-B Dorssett Drive, Lafayette.

On June 3, Cummings filed 11 charges against Bailey. They are: criminal confinement, battery with a deadly weapon, battery with moderate injury, strangulation, intimidation,  resisting law enforcement, interfering with reporting a crime, criminal  mischief, public intoxication and two counts of battery.

A special prosecutor investigated the allegations of excessive force against Bailey by Lafayette police Officer Joshua Saxton, whose dog mauled Bailey by the neck for 30 seconds.

During that mauling, Saxton's dog punctured Bailey's trachea, cut his carotid artery, damaged Bailey's tissue in his neck, injured Bailey's shoulder and broke his finger, according to medical records provided last year to the Journal & Courier.

The special prosecutor's report into Saxton's actions was filed June 1 with the court, Conteh said. That report does not recommend charges against Saxton or the other two Lafayette police officers who apprehended Bailey, Conteh said.

“I was loud and everything because I was scared a little bit,” Bailey said of his initial encounter with two police officers. 

“… I was trying to plea my case to the police."

The officers' body camera video shows officers responding to a battery report in the 3600 block of Brampton Drive caught up with Bailey on Windemere Drive. The videos show Bailey refusing to get off his moped as the officers requested of him. It also shows Bailey threatening to fight.

With three officers on scene to detain Bailey, Saxton releases the lock to his police vehicle, and his police dog runs to him and begins to maul Bailey on the neck. Saxton does not remove the dog from Bailey's neck for 30 seconds, according to the body camera.

“I wasn’t fighting the dog,” Bailey insisted last year during an interview. “All I did was reach up and grabbed the dog’s mouth ‘cause he’s on my throat. That was the natural reaction. I’m not fighting the dog or trying to hurt the dog. The dog’s hurting me.”

A hearing in Tippecanoe Circuit Court is scheduled next week to discuss the special prosecutor's report on police excessive force, Conteh said.

Conteh indicated last year that the use of force against Bailey was excessive and racially motivated. The officers who responded to the call were white. Bailey is black.

Conteh and Bailey's team of attorneys said last year that they might file a civil suit against Lafayette police and Saxton. That lawsuit has not been filed as of Thursday, Conteh said, but it is still being discussed.

While Attempting to Deliver Newspapers Black Man Discovers His "Freedom of Movement" is Limited in a "Free Range Prison." $5M Suit Filed after Tacoma Cops Troll, Stop, Search and Detain Black Man

BLACK CITIZEN DROPPED THE CITIZEN ROLE AND KNOWLEDGED THE INVOLUNTARY NATURE OF HIS RELATIONSHIP with the government and its orderlies. It is a GOVERNMENT HE CANNOT RESIST, NO MATTER WHAT.

The undeceiver LARKEN ROSE OBSERVED, ‘anyone who does not consent to be detained, questioned, or searched by “officers of the law” is automatically perceived, by COPS, 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.’

From [HERE] A Black newspaper carrier confronted by racist suspect Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer in January has filed a legal claim against the county, seeking at least $5 million in damages.

Attorneys representing Sedrick Altheimer submitted the tort claim Tuesday, contending Troyer's actions during the controversial Jan. 27 incident violated Altheimer's constitutional rights and caused him "severe emotional distress."

A copy of the tort claim — a precursor to a potential lawsuit — was released by Pierce County's risk management office after a public-records request.

The tort claim says witnesses will attest to harm caused by the "racial profiling, false arrest and unnecessary use of excessive force" on Altheimer, "whose only crime was 'being a black man in a white neighborhood.'"

Troyer, who faces multiple investigations over the incident, has denied wrongdoing and says he did not racially profile Altheimer. The video speaks for itself, for those who have eyes to see.

Altheimer, 24, was driving his regular newspaper delivery route Jan. 27 when Troyer began following him in his personal SUV.

The two wound up in a 2 a.m. standoff in which Troyer called emergency dispatchers, repeatedly saying Altheimer had threatened to kill him.

That call sparked a massive police response, with more than 40 units from various police agencies rushing toward the scene. Most were called off after Tacoma police arrived, but Altheimer was "confronted at gun point, removed from his vehicle [and] frisked for weapons all while trying to explain he was at work," the tort claim states.

Upon questioning by a Tacoma police officer, Troyer walked back his claim that Altheimer threatened him, according to a police report. He has disputed the police report's account.

In an interview in March, Altheimer said he was shocked and frightened by the large police response called in by Troyer to a quiet Tacoma neighborhood. "That's the crazy thing. I never did threaten him. I was just asking questions, like 'Are you a cop?'" he said at the time.

Troyer, who did not identify himself to Altheimer as a law enforcement officer, has previously stated he started following the newspaper deliveryman because he saw a driver he believed was behaving suspiciously near his home. No reasonable articulable facts actually support this claim.

Body camera recordings from that night show Altheimer visibly frustrated at the aggressive police response, which included at least one officer with his gun drawn. Noticeably absent from those recordings were any showing Tacoma police questioning Troyer; the officer who wrote the report said he mistakenly left his camera at a police station in his rush to respond to the scene.

The incident, which remained secret until The Seattle Times reported it in March, has led to calls for Troyer's resignation, and the state Attorney General's Office has opened a criminal investigation into potential false-reporting charges.

Separately, the Pierce County Council has hired former U.S. Attorney Brian Moran to examine whether Troyer violated Sheriff's Department policies or professional standards. Black Lives Matter activists also have asked the FBI to open a civil rights probe..

Altheimer has worked as a newspaper carrier for Steiner Distribution since 2015, "and is considered a reliable and hard worker," the tort claim states, noting he is the primary support for his five children "and works hard to fulfill his obligations."

Uncivilized SC Supreme Court Stays its Scheduled Murder of Freddie Owens to Offer Him the Option of Being Executed by Firing Squad in Accord with New Law

‘The “Death Penalty” is proof that man is still living in the barbarous age.’ - Osho. According to DPIC, The South Carolina Supreme Court has vacated death warrants for two death-row prisoners scheduled to be executed this month, staying their executions until the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDOC) complies with a newly enacted state law requiring that it offer condemned prisoners the option of being executed by firing squad. 

In separate orders issued on June 16, 2021 in the cases of Brad Sigmon, who faced a June 18 execution, and Freddie Owens, who was scheduled to be executed June 25, 2021, the court ruled that attempting to execute the men by electrocution without offering them the alternative of lethal injection or firing squad violated the “statutory right of inmates to elect the manner of their execution.” Both orders also directed the court’s clerk “not to issue another execution notice until the State notifies the Court that the Department of Corrections, in addition to maintaining the availability of electrocution, has developed and implemented appropriate protocols and policies to carry out executions by firing squad.”

The stays marked the second time this year the court had halted Sigmon’s and Owens’s executions because of the state’s inability to lawfully carry them out. On February 4, the court vacated an execution noticescheduling Sigmon’s execution for February 12, finding that “the execution is currently impossible” because South Carolina had no lethal injection drugs on hand. It then directed the clerk “not to issue another execution notice in this case until the State notifies this Court that the Department of Corrections has the ability to carry out the execution by lethal injection, that the petitioner has made an election to be electrocuted, or that there has been some change in the law which will allow the execution to take place.” On May 4, the court stayed Owens’s scheduled May 14 execution on similar grounds. 

The new law enacted in May in response to the SCDOC’s inability to obtain execution drugs, changed South Carolina’s default method of execution from lethal injection to the electric chair and directed death-row prisoners to choose electrocution, firing squad, or lethal drugs, if available, as the means of their death. If the prisoner did not make a selection, the law mandated execution by electric chair.

If the executions had been permitted to proceed, they would have been the first in South Carolina in more than a decade and the state’s first forced execution by electrocution in more than twenty years.