Disregarding the Jury, an Obama Appointed White Judge Reduces Black Man's $137 Million Race Harassment Verdict Against Tesla to $15 Million

From [HERE] A federal court judge pared down last year’s jaw-dropping $137 million damages award against Tesla in a racial bias lawsuit.  As covered previously here, a San Francisco federal court jury awarded $6.9 million in emotional distress damages and $130 million in punitive damages to a Black former elevator operator who worked at Tesla’s Fremont facility for approximately one year before quitting his employment in 2016.  On April 13, 2022, the judge granted Tesla’s motion for a reduction in the amount of damages in part and denied Tesla’s motion for judgment as a matter of law that it is not liable.  The judge explained in his order: “Great deference is owed to the jury’s verdict, but after careful review of the record, I conclude that the award of compensatory damages was excessive.”

Specifically, the judge reduced the emotional distress damages to $1.5 million, the highest award supported by the evidence, as compared to the $300,000 for which Tesla advocated.  With an eye toward United States Supreme Court precedent imposing constitutional limitations on punitive damages awards, the judge reduced the punitive damages to $13.5 million—nine times the amount of compensatory damages—as opposed to the one-to-one ratio Tesla proposed.  While the judge described the jury’s award as “unconstitutionally large,” he rejected the argument that no punitive damages are warranted.  The court granted the highest possible ratio of punitive damages (9:1) under the United States Supreme Court’s guidance that it is unlikely awards exceeding a single-digit ratio between punitive and compensatory damages will satisfy due process.

The former Tesla employee may not accept the reduced damages and instead request a new trial on damages – and Tesla presumably will appeal to the Ninth Circuit as well.  As we’ve noted before here, here, and here, this case well exemplifies the advantages of arbitration for employers and employees alike—arbitration offers increased speed, finality, cost-efficiency, and predictability, which are all absent in a jury trial like this one.  We will continue to monitor this case and provide any relevant updates.

CROWN Act Passed by the House, Banning Race-Based Hair Discrimination

From [HERE] The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act in a 235-189 vote. According to the bill, passed on March 18, 2022, the long-standing racial and national origin biases and stereotypes associated with hair texture and style result in racial and national origin discrimination in the workplace. Under the proposed legislation, employers would be prohibited from discriminating against individuals based on hair textures or hairstyles that are commonly associated with a particular race or national origin.

Proponents of the bill assert that African Americans or persons of African descent systematically suffer discrimination in the workplace, and that it is necessary to explicitly prohibit the implementation of grooming requirements that disproportionately affect these individuals. The bill lists examples of natural or protective hairstyles commonly worn by individuals of African descent, including hairstyles in which hair is tightly coiled or tightly curled, locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros.

Some lawmakers have questioned whether the CROWN Act is necessary, arguing that existing laws banning race-based discrimination are already applicable. Namely, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin. However, proponents of the bill contend that, while discrimination against natural or protective hairstyles commonly worn by individuals of African descent violates existing federal law, federal courts have misinterpreted these laws by narrowly interpreting the meaning of race or national origin and permitting employment policies that result in race-based hair discrimination.

For example, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has previously held that dreadlocks, though culturally associated with race, are not immutable characteristics of Black persons, and therefore could not serve as the basis of a Title VII race discrimination claim. E.E.O.C. v. Catastrophe Mgmt. Sols., 852 F.3d 1018, 1021 (11th Cir. 2016). The court ultimately held that the employer did not violate Title VII when it rescinded an applicant’s job offer after the applicant refused to cut her dreadlocks pursuant to the employer’s grooming policy. Id. Similarly, a court in South Carolina held that an employee could not establish a Title VII race discrimination claim, where she alleged that she was terminated for declining to chemically straighten or cut her natural African American hair. Nelson v. Town of Mt. Pleasant Police Dep't, No. 2:14-CV-4247-DCN-MGB, 2016 WL 11407774, at *4 (D.S.C. June 28, 2016), report and recommendation adopted, No. 2:14-CV-4247-DCN, 2016 WL 5110171 (D.S.C. Sept. 21, 2016).

Given Republican opposition to the bill, the fate of the CROWN Act as it proceeds to the Senate remains uncertain. However, even if the legislation is unsuccessful in the Senate, employers should be aware that many states have already enacted state laws prohibiting race-based hair discrimination. California was the first state to pass its version of the CROWN Act in 2019 and several other states and municipalities have enacted or are considering similar legislation. In light of this trend, employers should review their grooming and appearance policies as they relate to hairstyles.

Federal Prosecutions of Corporate Criminals Hit Record Low in 2021. Biden Upholds the Racist Misperception that "Criminals" are Black People Arrested in the Street

From [HERE] Despite the Biden administration’s pledges to be tougher on corporate crime than its business-friendly predecessor, a new report published Monday shows that corporate prosecutions reached a record low in 2021, continuing a decline that accelerated under former President Donald Trump.

Citing data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission and the Corporate Prosecution Registry, the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen notes in its analysis that just 90 corporations either pleaded guilty or were found guilty of federal crimes last year even as the Department of Justice (DOJ) — led by Attorney General Merrick Garland — announced policies aimed at strengthening enforcement efforts against white-collar offenses.

The previous record low was 94 corporate prosecutions in 2020, down from a peak of 296 in 2000.

“The Biden DOJ’s policy changes away from Trump’s soft-on-corporate-crime approach suggest enforcement against corporate lawbreakers should be ramping up, but the numbers for 2021 don’t reflect those changes,” Rick Claypool, a research director for Public Citizen and author of the new report, said in a statement.

“Deterring corporate monopolists, polluters, fraudsters and workplace abusers requires the DOJ to bring tough prosecutions,” Claypool added.

“It’s the only way to show big business that the cost of crime outweighs any perceived benefit of profit-driven lawbreaking … Garland must prioritize prosecuting these cases, and President Biden and Congress need to provide the DOJ with the resources to do the job.”

Public Citizen also found that the Justice Department’s use of so-called corporate-leniency agreements as an alternative to bringing criminal charges against law-breaking companies remains “extraordinarily high” under Biden.

Such agreements, according to Public Citizen, made up 26% of all concluded federal cases against corporations in 2021 — a decline from 32% in 2020 but a massive increase over 1996, when federal prosecutors entered leniency agreements with companies just 1% of the time.

“The rationale for the DOJ’s use of these agreements with corporations is that they facilitate corporate compliance with the law,” the report notes.

“The empirical evidence, however, shows that corporations that receive leniency agreementsinstead of facing prosecution are not deterred from reoffending.”

Image credit: Public Citizen analysis of US Sentencing Commission and Corporate Prosecution Registry data

Public Citizen points out that the Biden Justice Department has taken a number of promising steps aimed at cracking down on corporate crime, an effort that is widely popular among U.S. voters.

“Two weeks after Inauguration Day, Biden’s DOJ rescinded Trump-era policies to weaken enforcement against corporate polluters,” Public Citizen observed.

“In October of 2021, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced changes to the DOJ’s corporate enforcement policies, including ratcheting up penalties for corporate repeat offenders, widening the scope of individuals who can be implicated in corporate investigations and directing a squad of FBI agents tasked specifically with targeting white-collar crime.”

But the administration’s push to intensify enforcement has been hampered by a number of factors, including U.S. attorney vacancies and recalcitrance from Republican members of Congress. [MORE]

Biden Grants Clemency to 78 People During "Second Chance Month"

From [HERE] Yesterday, in the first use of his clemency power, President Brandon granted clemency to 78 people, including three pardons and 75 communtations. The Statement by President Joe Biden on the Clemency and Second Chance Month(link is external) begins with these words: 

America is a nation of laws and second chances, redemption, and rehabilitation. Elected officials on both sides of the aisle, faith leaders, civil rights advocates, and law enforcement leaders agree that our criminal justice system can and should reflect these core values that enable safer and stronger communities. During Second Chance Month, I am using my authority under the Constitution to uphold those values by pardoning and commuting(link is external) the sentences of fellow Americans.

Today, I am pardoning three people who have demonstrated their commitment to rehabilitation and are striving every day to give back and contribute to their communities. I am also commuting the sentences of 75 people who are serving long sentences for non-violent drug offenses, many of whom have been serving on home confinement during the COVID-pandemic—and many of whom would have received a lower sentence if they were charged with the same offense today, thanks to the bipartisan First Step Act.  

The full Clemency Recipient List is available here(link is external).  The following three people were pardoned: 

Abraham W. Bolden, Sr. – Chicago, Illinois
Abraham Bolden is an 86-year-old former U.S. Secret Service agent and was the first African American to serve on a presidential detail.  In 1964, Mr. Bolden was charged with offenses related to attempting to sell a copy of a Secret Service file.  His first trial resulted in a hung jury, and following his conviction at a second trial, even though key witnesses against him admitted to lying at the prosecutor’s request, Mr. Bolden was denied a new trial and ultimately served several years in federal custody.  He has steadfastly maintained his innocence, arguing that he was targeted for prosecution in retaliation for exposing unprofessional and racist behavior within the U.S. Secret Service.  Mr. Bolden has received numerous honors and awards for his ongoing work to speak out against the racism he faced in the Secret Service in the 1960s, and his courage in challenging injustice.  Mr. Bolden has also been recognized for his many contributions to his community following his release from prison.

Betty Jo Bogans – Houston, Texas
Betty Jo Bogans is a 51-year-old woman who was convicted in 1998 of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in the Southern District of Texas after attempting to transport drugs for her boyfriend and his accomplice, neither of whom were detained or arrested.  At the time of her conviction, Ms. Bogans was a single mother with no prior record, who accepted responsibility for her limited role in the offense.  Because of the harsh penalties in place at the time she was convicted, Ms. Bogan received a seven-year sentence.  In the nearly two decades since her release from custody, Ms. Bogans has held consistent employment, even while undergoing treatment for cancer, and has focused on raising her son.   

Dexter Eugene Jackson – Athens, Georgia
Dexter Jackson is a 52-year-old man who was convicted in 2002 for using his business to facilitate the distribution of marijuana in the Northern District of Georgia.  Mr. Jackson was not personally involved in trafficking marijuana, but allowed marijuana distributors to use his pool hall to facilitate drug transactions.  He accepted full responsibility for his actions at the time he was charged, and pled guilty.  Since his release from custody, Mr. Jackson has converted his business into a cell-phone repair service and hired local high school students through a program that seeks to provide young adults with work experience.  Mr. Jackson has also worked to build and renovate homes in a community that lacks quality affordable housing.

IsrAlien Zionist Group Gets White Liberals to UnInvite Alice Walker to Bay Area Book Festival Over Her Advocacy for Palestinians in "Democratic" Israel

From [DI] Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend.

There is a steep price to pay for having a conscience and more importantly the courage to act on it. The hounds of hell pin you to the cross, hammering nails into your hands and feet as they grin like the Cheshire cat and mouth bromides about respect for human rights, freedom of expression and diversity. I have watched this happen for some time to Alice Walker, one of the most gifted and courageous writers in America. Walker, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel The Color Purple,has felt the bitter sting of racism. She refuses to be silent about the plight of the oppressed, including the Palestinians.

“Whenever I come out with a book, or anything that will take me before the public, the world, I am assailed as this person I don’t recognize,” she said when I reached her by phone. “If I tried to keep track of all the attacks over the decades, I wouldn’t be able to keep working. I am happy people are standing up. It is all of us. Not just me. They are trying to shut us down, shut us up, erase us. That reality is what is important.”

The Bay Area Book festival delivered the latest salvo against Walker. The organizers disinvited her from the event because she  praised the writings of the New Age author David Icke and called his book And the Truth Shall Set You Free “brave.” Icke has denied critics’ charges of anti-Semitism. The festival organizers twisted themselves into contortions to say they were not charging Walker with anti-Semitism. She was banned because she lauded a controversial writer, who I suspect few members of the committee have read. The poet and writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, who Walker was to interview, withdrew from the festival in protest.

Walker, a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, has been a very public advocate for Palestinian rights and a critic of Israel for many years. Her friendship with Icke has long been part of the public record. She hid nothing. It is not as if the festival organizers suddenly discovered a dark secret about Walker. They sought to capitalize on her celebrity and then, when they felt the heat from the Israel lobby, capitulated to the mob to humiliate her.

“I don’t know these people,” Walker said of the festival organizers who disinvited her. “It feels like the south. You know they are out there in the community, and they have their positions, but all you see are sheets. That’s what this is. It’s like being back in the south.”

Vax is Causing Death: A Study of 200 Countries Shows Since the Vaccine Rollout COVID Deaths Have Increased by 42% and Overall Deaths from All Causes is Higher, Excess Death Rate is Up 33% Worldwide

From [JOEL SMALLEY]

Expectations

COVID death rates and cumulative excess mortality rates should begin to trend lower after the initial COVID outbreaks due to1: 

1. Deaths being brought forward from later periods; 

2. Depleted vulnerable population;

3. Greater protective herd immunity;

4. Attenuation of the virus;

5. Better treatments (more early treatment with neutraceuticals, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, less mechanical ventilation2).

The Vaccine Hypothesis

The vaccine is claimed to be substantially effective in reducing COVID mortality (by the policy-makers but not the vaccine manufacturers) and also to be safe. If these claims are true, we should expect even fewer deaths than expected above due to significantly lower COVID deaths and insignificant vaccine deaths, i.e. lower all-cause excess mortality over all.

To be certain, we should also expect to see a negative correlation between the vaccination rate and the COVID death rate, i.e. the more a country is vaccinated, the greater the decrease in COVID death rate should be observed.

GRAPHS AND STUDY ARE FROM THE UNDECEIVER JOEL SMALLEY, COVID Requiem Aeternam. OTHER GRAPHS ARE HERE

Empirical Results

The COVID death rate is higher after mass vaccinations.

There is a discernible reduction in the rate of COVID deaths in just 38 out of the 202 countries studied (19%). Therefore, in the vast majority of countries, both the rate and the number of COVID deaths after vaccination programs is higher than before.

In fact, the COVID death rate (deaths per million per day world average) rises from 1.4 to 2.0 after mass vaccinations begin, an increase of 42%. Confounders be damned!

Pay close attention to Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Greece, Greenland, Guyana, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Isle of Man, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Monaco, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor, Turks and Caicos, UAE, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Wallis and Fortuna to see what happens when you aggressively vaccinate a naïve population, especially in the middle of an outbreak.

All-cause excess mortality rates are higher after mass vaccinations.

In 69% of the countries that report all-cause mortality (70 out of 101), the rate of cumulative excess mortality is higher after COVID vaccination programs. In not one single country is cumulative excess mortality lower than it was at the time mass vaccination programs began.

In fact, the excess death rate (deaths per million per day world average) rises from 3.1 to 4.1 after mass vaccinations begin, an increase of 33%.

The rate of increase in COVID mortality appears to be positively correlated with the vaccination rate. In other words, those countries that have lower vaccination rates (e.g. numerous African countries) also have lower increases in COVID mortality. Conversely, those countries that vaccinated early and aggressively (e.g. Europe, North America and Israel) have suffered comparatively worse.

Incidentally, it also seems that those countries with lower vaccination rates also had lower COVID mortality rates prior to vaccination campaigns, possibly indicative of having fewer interventions.

Nevertheless, the rate of increase in the COVID death rate after mass vaccinations is also positively correlated with the vaccination rate.

Multiple linear regression confirms the results. Analysis of the COVID death rate after vaccinations as a function of vaccinated population and COVID death rate before vaccinations reveals statistically significant positive correlation with both variables (p= 3.6% and 0.0% respectively) and explains almost 40% of the variability.

In other words, the COVID death rate after mass vaccination continues in the same manner as it did before but is exacerbated in proportion to the rate in which the population is vaccinated. This is, of course, the exact opposite of what you would expect if the vaccine were effective in reducing COVID mortality.

Observing each of the 202 countries in the study, the following patterns are apparent:

1. The COVID death rate continues in much the same rate after mass vaccination as before;

2. The COVID death rate increases after mass vaccination or emerges where prior to mass vaccination, it was insignificant or completely absent;

3. The COVID death rate decelerates where there the population vaccination rate is low.

Conclusion

The Safe and Effective™ vaccine hypothesis is rejected.

In fact, according to the evidence, the more obvious conclusion is that the COVID vaccine has caused more death, not less, so much more in fact, that it has actually wiped out the expected natural declines and caused yet more death still.

The signal is significant in terms of temporal proximity and consistency across countries regardless of geography and demographics.

Applying the Bradford Hill criteria3:

1. Strength of association - vaccinated (richer) countries have relatively more COVID death than less vaccinated (poorer) countries.

2. Consistency across countries and continents.

3. Specificity - the vaccine kills people.

4. Temporality is observed in a significant number of countries, especially those vaccinating aggressively in the middle of outbreaks.

5. Biological gradient - there is an evident positive correlation between vaccination rate and COVID death rate and increase in COVID death rate.

6. Biological plausibility - the 2-week period of immunosuppression immediately post injection has been very widely observed and reported, as have the plethora of fatal adverse events. The evidence suggesting that variants are spawned due to unnatural selection is also growing4.

7. Coherence - we get the same information from analyses of vaccine adverse event reporting systems, hospital records, national surveillance systems, even the vaccine trial data itself (albeit hidden in the data appendices)5, and other independent mortality analyses with different methods6.

8. Experiment - the entire world has been subjected to a massive clinical trial without consent. Fortunately, different countries had different rates of vaccine uptake so comparative study has been possible to demonstrate causality, especially between countries with similar geographic and demographic qualities.

9. Analogy - Marek’s chickens (1970)7.

This is a global public health failure of truly unprecedented and epic proportions.

DC Shooting Sounds Like Bullshit: A 23 year Old Latino Guy Fires 200 Shots at Upper Crust School and Strikes 4 People. Then Confesses on Wikipedia. Could Afford 2 Expensive Apts in DC and Fairfax

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY::

false flag – staged psychological operations by government operatives and shadow elite orchestrated and perpetrated against the civilian population. False flag operations does not necessarily mean that oftentimes real people don’t die.

In DC, citizens essentially have no 2nd Amendment rights but its not a big deal to most of its liberal white votary who advocate for less rights and more government control over their lives. Dr. Blynd explains that a gun ban is a precursor to slavery. Larken Rose explains,

"Transforming independent individuals into slaves requires exten­sive indoctrination. The way they view life, the world, and them­selves must be molded into an outlook that is compatible with tyranny. They must be trained to be scared of the world, and always to be seeking some "authority" to protect and take care of them. Whenever a problem arises, they should look to their rulers for the solution rather than taking it upon themselves to fix it. 

One of the main problems that the peasants must be trained not to deal with themselves is violent conflict. It is imperative that they view you (and your enforcers) as the only protection against rob­bery, assault, and murder. In short, they must be indoctrinated in such a way that they do not even want to be able to defend them­selves. The reason is simple: if the peasants feel capable and enti­tled to "enforce justice" themselves, they might just decide to enforce a little justice against you. And that obviously won't do. [MORE]

From [HERE] Raymond Spencer, the 23-year-old police say fired more than 200 rounds from a Northwest D.C. apartment window Friday, had no criminal record at the time of the shooting.

According to the journalism-free dependent media, who only parrot information provided to them by the police, he fired randomly at people 200 times, striking four. Yep 4 out of 200 for a sniper?

“Authorities expressed amazement that more people were not struck or even killed, and said it will take police many days to collect evidence and fully document the damage over a vast number of city blocks.” [MORE]

The Washington Post further stated this

“Officials said police have not developed a motive for Friday afternoon’s shootings in the Van Ness area, but it appeared the suspected gunman, 23-year-old Raymond Spencer of Fairfax County, Va., engaged with Wikipedia pages related to the recent subway attack in New York City and a 2018 school shooting in Florida.”

“Engaged with Wikipedia pages? “He allegedly read about those highly publicized [false flag] events on his computer and?

Then, after shooting up the street he logged onto Wikipedia to write about what he had done and then snitch on himself on 4Chan. The WashPost states,

A Wikipedia page for the Edmund Burke School was searched several times and edited, including a line added about an hour after police said the shooting started when Spencer wrote: “A gunman shot at the school on April 22, 2022. The suspect is still at large.”

On a separate online forum, called 4chan, a user identifying as Raymond Spencer posted four minutes after the reported shooting started, “Dear God please forgive me.”

The following post seemed to taunt police: “They’re in the wrong part of the building right now searching XD.” Later the user wrote: “Waiting for police to catch up with me.”

It also states,

On Wikipedia, Spencer last updated his user page at 3:58 p.m. Friday, soon after the shooting. The page said he was an “a AR-15 aficionado” in his biography. The page has since been removed from the platform. [right]

Sounds like circumstances in other false flags- which always are open and quickly closed with a confession from a diary, manifesto, social media or a press-release (ISIS) and unidentified neighbor. Like a movie, the villain is always quickly apprehended without issue (see the Dylann Roof slow speed chase lol or the recent ff arrest in NYC), killed or commits suicide.

Spencer attended Wheaton High School in Montgomery County as recently as 2016 according to the school district. He was living in a new apartment building in Fairfax County at the time of the shooting.

He moved into an apartment in Fairfax County in February 2021 but also rented the apartment on Van Ness in January 2022. The median price to buy an apartments in that all-white upper crust neighborhood start at $500k. Rental costs in said area and the 70% white Fairfax area are off the chain, $3k a month or so? Where did our poor shot, 23 year old, “AR-15 aficionado” get his millions from?

Police found six firearms in the D.C. apartment -- four long guns and two handguns, three fully automatic -- and three additional firearms in the Fairfax apartment.

The Post stated,

Multiple law enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive investigation, said Spencer’s only known tie to the District appears to be that sparsely furnished apartment at the AVA Van Ness, in which they found assault rifles, at least one handgun, a tripod stand for a firearm and a mattress on the floor.

The apartment that police are describing as a “sniper’s nest” overlooks Edmund Burke School in the 2900 block of Van Ness Street, which appears to have drawn the shooter’s attention at afternoon dismissal.

Spencer’s parents still live in Silver Spring, Md. Neighbors tell 7News the family was quiet and polite.

“I was surprised to hear, but anything is possible in this day and age,” one family neighbor said when he learned Spencer was the chief suspect in Friday’s shooting.

Police said Spencer set up a "crows nest" in a D.C. apartment Friday. Images posted to the anonymous chat 4Chan under the name "Raymond Spencer" show a sparsely furnished apartment full of guns. Police believe Spencer assembled at least one of those weapons himself.

More than 800 unspent rounds were also found in the D.C. apartment and thousands of rounds were found in the Fairfax County apartment, he added.

White Supremacy is the Ultimate Affirmative Action: Steve Nash’s $9 Million a Year Non-Coaching Failure is Proof of White Privilege, 'an invisible package of unearned assets bequeathed to Caucasians'

According to FUNKTIONARY:

 White privilege – an invisible package of unearned assets bequeathed to all Caucasians. 2) an invisible weightless knapsack of advantages including but never limited to: special provisions and dispensations, over-passports, code words, maps, signs, codebooks, visas, clothes, vistas, tools, etc. of which most Caucasians are oblivious to wearing or utilizing.

 white supremacy – White Presumacy. (See: Racism, Windigo, Yurugu, Western Civilization & White Presumacy)

White Hood Removed: Name of Cop who Killed Patrick Lyoya Released [where Cops are Too Slow/Weak to Stop a non-dangerous Person, it's Unlawful to Use Deadly Force to Make an Arrest (for whites only)]

COPS ARE SERVANTS WORKING FOR US? Larken Rose explains, ‘In this system, it is patently obvious who commands and who obeys. It is claimed that “the government works for us; it is our servant.” Again, such a statement does not even remotely match the obvious reality of the situation; it is little more than a cult mantra, a delusion intentionally programmed into the populace in order to twist their view of reality. And most people never even question it. Most never wonder, if “government” works for us, if it is our employee, why does it decide how much we pay it? Why does our “employee” decide what it will do for us? Why does our “employee” tell us how to live our lives? Why does our “employee” demand our obedience for whatever arbitrary commands it issues, sending armed enforcers after us if we disobey? It is impossible for “government” to ever be the servant, because of what “government” is, To put it in simple, personal terms, if someone can boss you around and take your money, he is not your servant; and if he cannot do those things, he is not “government.” However limited, “government” is the organization thought to have the right to forcibly control the behavior of its subjects via “laws,” rendering the popularly accepted rhetoric about “public servants” completely ridiculous. To imagine that a ruler could ever be the servant of those over whom he rules is patently absurd. Yet that impossibility is spouted as indisputable gospel in “civics” classes.

From [HERE] Christopher Schurr is the Grand Rapids police officer seen in video shooting Black man Patrick Lyoya to death after an April 4 traffic stop, Chief Eric Winstrom confirmed Monday. Lyoya was shot in the back of the head. The liar white cop claimed he had to do so because he said Lyoya was reaching for his taser. Video appears to contradict said statement.

"In the interest of transparency, to reduce ongoing speculation, and to avoid any further confusion, I am confirming the name already publicly circulating — Christopher Schurr — as the officer involved in the April 4 officer involved shooting," Winstrom said in a statement. 

Schurr remains on administrative leave without police powers while an investigation into the shooting continues, Winstrom said.

Among other things such as prosecution and arrest Lyoya's family, lawyers and others have been demanding the release of the officer's name.

“An intentional three-week delay in releasing the name of the involved officer, which they clearly knew at the moment of the shooting, is offensive and the exact opposite of being ‘transparent,'" Ven Johnson, one of the family's attorneys, said in a statement. "Once again, we see the Grand Rapids Police Department taking care of its own at the expense of the family’s mental health and well-being.”

National Action Network founder and president the Rev. Al Sharpton, who eulogized Lyoya at his funeral Friday, also had called for police to release the officer's name.

“Every time a Black man or woman is arrested in America, their name is immediately put out," Sharpton said Monday in a statement. "But when this officer put the gun to the back of Patrick Lyoya’s head and decided to pull the trigger, his family had to wait three weeks to find out the name of the man who killed him. Transparency is the first step toward justice in Patrick Lyoya’s name, but it certainly isn’t the last.”

IF COPS ARE TOO SLOW OR WEAK TO CATCH SOMEONE CAN THEY EXECUTE THEM? Police said Lyoya was stopped for having an improper license plate on his vehicle. After the stop, he attempted to run from the officer, who chased and tackled him. The cop was too physically weak to control the black man, so rather than let him go he executed him.

As stated, Lyoya was under arrest for a traffic violation, which is a minor misdemeanor. As such, he was not a fleeing felon. At any rate, the Supreme Court has explained the use of deadly force to prevent escape is unconstitutional, at least in regard to white citizens that is. The Court has explained,

The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect. 

A police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead… Where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others, it is not constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force. Thus, if the suspect threatens the officer with a weapon or there is probable cause to believe that he has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm, deadly force may be used if necessary to prevent escape, and if, where feasible, some warning has been given. 

Tennessee v. Garner - 471 U.S. 1 at page 11 (1985).

Who's Crazy? White Tulsa Cops Taunt and Laugh @ a 70 Year Old Black Woman in Mental Distress before Brutally Assaulting Her. ['Racism is a virus in the mind, making its hosts and entire society sick']

THE PSYCHOPATHIC RACIAL PERSONALITY. DR. BOBBY WRIGHT EXPLAINS THAT BY AND LARGE, WHITE PEOPLE TREAT EACH OTHER HUMANELY. BUT IN THEIR RELATIONS WITH NON-WHITE PEOPLE, RACISTS FUNCTION AS PSYCHOPATHS. 'PSYCHOPATHS SIMPLY IGNORE THE CONCEPT OF RIGHT AND WRONG. THE RACIST HAS NO MORALITY WHERE RACE IS THE VARIABLE.' [MORE]

From [HERE] Racist suspect Tulsa police officers taunted and laughed at a 70-year-old black woman having a mental health crisis before violently arresting her, recently released bodycam footage shows.

The video has sparked outrage, but the Tulsa Police Department says its officers followed protocols when they kicked down a bathroom door and tackled LaDonna Paris in an incident last October. Paris had locked herself in the bathroom of a Habitat for Humanity store and refused to leave. She has late-onset bipolar disorder and was having a manic episode.

The Tulsa Police Department says Paris had an aerosol can and a lighter and was trying to set the bathroom on fire. It's what happened before police kicked down the door, though, that's drawing attention. The body camera footage shows a Tulsa police officer arcing her taser, asking Paris if she wants to get tased, and rattling the door to taunt the clearly distressed woman.

"This is gonna be so fun," the officer says as she and her partner wait for another officer to arrive and kick down the door.

Tulsa has a special response team to handle people experiencing mental health crises, but it was busy at the time. Instead, police tackled Paris, bloodying her face. She spent a month in jail on charges of arson, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other charges before a judge dropped all of the charges.

The Tulsa Police Department released full footage of the incident and defended the arrest.

"To be clear, the banter between the officers outside of the presence of the suspect can be received as unprofessional and has been addressed with the officers," Tulsa Police Capt. Richard Meulenberg said in a statement. However, Meulenberg said that the "overall actions of the officers and the way in which the call was handled is within the policies of the Tulsa Police Department."

The Solomon-Simmons Law office is now representing Paris."The TPD officers involved were fully aware that Ms. Paris was suffering a bipolar manic episode, yet they still viciously provoked and attacked Ms. Paris while laughing off her disability as if it were a joke," the law firm said in a statement. "We are disgusted by this outrageous behavior caught on video and the fact that the Tulsa Police Department has attempted to shift the blame for the incident onto the victim of a mental health episode and police brutality."

According to "FUNKTIONARY, THE KEY HOLDERS ENPSYCHLOPEDIA:"

mind viruses – memes with both the anchor and carrier embedded into its payload. Mind viruses are stealth psychopathogens in that they can mutate to penetrate our natural defenses undetected, pretend to be part of us, and compel us to spread them further. (See: Memes, Memetics, Evolution, Religion, Government, Corporate State & Taxation)

Racism -  White Degeneracy wrongly cast as Supremacy. Racism—a psycho-socio-economic reality based on a pseudo-scientific biological myth—is a power group dynamic, i.e., a defined group cooperatively via legacy institutions exerting structured and enforced institutionalized and systemic injustice, oppression and power over another group. Racism is not individualistic, but institutional, cultural, economic, political, linguistic, self-perpetuating and systematic. Racism is economic discrimination by one group over and against another for the purposes of subjugation and/or maintaining the imbalance of power through cooperative control, misinformation, indoctrination, genocide and oppression. Racism is the socioeconomic and cultural bequest of colonialism, neo-colonialism and the vestiges of the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Afrikans and their descendants. Racism has its bio-physiological origins in the immune response of primitive life-forms to foreign matter and has its geo-psychological roots in the response of primitive humans encountering more intelligent ones based on the meme of scarcity and the fear of genetic annihilation through genetic assimilation. "Racism destroys men—and women—as much by what it denies them as by what it metes out to them." -Isaiah Thomas. "It is pathological for Blacks to keep attempting moral suasion on a people who have no ethics or morality where race is a variable." -Bobby Wright.

"If you can't keep something but you can't give it up, you have to render it unrecognizable; racism has been defined out of existence and repackaged so that whites could retain its perks, especially the psychological ones. It has undergone existential plastic surgery. To keep it buried alive in its unholy grave, a host of Strangelovean anti-intellectualisms have been developed and honed." -Debra J. Dickerson. Racism White Supremacy is a virus in the mind, a malignant meme that has both the host of the virus and the whole society sick. White Supremacy (Degeneracy) is socially engineering Black Consciousness and/or also responsible for the falsification of Black consciousness. "If you don't understand racism white supremacy, everything else you think you know will only confuse you." -Neelly Fuller, Jr. (See: White Supremacy, Yurugu, Park Day, Declaration of Endependece, Ma'afa & Caucasion). [MORE]

Will the Same Child Actors be Available to Pop-Up and Do Encore Performances as Witnesses at the Parkland False Flag Trial? Jury search restarts anew amid dispute

From [HERE] The judge overseeing jury selection for a man who murdered 17 people at a Florida high school declared that the process will start over Monday, after prosecutors and defense attorneys argued that she erred when she didn't question 11 potential jurors who said they would not follow the law before she dismissed them.

In granting the motion filed by Nikolas Cruz 's prosecutors over the strong objection of his attorneys, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer nullified two weeks of work by prosecution and defense lawyers, forcing them to begin the entire process anew Monday.

As a result, almost 250 potential jurors who had said they could sit for a four-month trial will not be called back next month for further questioning over whether they could fairly judge Cruz, who pleaded guilty in October to murdering 14 students and three staff members at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. More than 1,200 candidates had been screened.

The 12-member jury that will be selected after a two-month winnowing process will decide if Cruz, 23, is sentenced to death or life in prison without parole. The restart will push back opening statements from June 14 to June 21. They had already been delayed from May 31. [MORE]

Justice Department Finds Unconstitutional Conditions at Mississippi Prison

From [EJI] The Justice Department announced last week that it uncovered unconstitutionally dangerous conditions at Mississippi State Prison at Parchman, the state’s oldest and largest prison, located on the site of a plantation where enslaved people were forced to labor.

In a 59-page report detailing the findings from its two-year investigation, federal prosecutors wrote that Mississippi “routinely violates” the constitutional rights of people incarcerated at Parchman by failing to protect them from violence and self-harm, denying them adequate mental health treatment, and subjecting them to prolonged periods in solitary confinement.

“Our investigation uncovered evidence of systemic violations that have generated a violent and unsafe environment for people incarcerated at Parchman,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, head of DOJ’s civil rights division, said in a statement.

The Justice Department found that the Mississippi Department of Corrections “allows widespread violence to occur at Parchman” through its lack of staffing, poor supervision, untimely response to serious incidents, inadequate investigations, and other failures.

Investigators identified at least 10 known homicides since 2019, including three in a single week in January 2020 “where one incarcerated person suffered 89 stab wounds, a second incarcerated person similarly suffered 75 stab wounds, and a third incarcerated individual died from strangulation.”

Staff are so unresponsive that it took over three hours to discover that a man had been stabbed to death in a shower area, the report found, and people who have been attacked and stabbed have set fires in their own cell and punched an officer in desperate attempts to get medical attention.

The prison’s lack of mental health treatment, failure to take adequate suicide prevention measures, and overreliance on solitary confinement has contributed to 12 deaths by suicide in the past three years, investigators found.

All 12 occurred in restrictive housing, where incarcerated people are held for months and even years in dilapidated, crumbling buildings with collapsing ceilings and holes in the walls and floors. DOJ found that people are locked down in dark cells with no lights, working toilets, or clean water, and temperatures that often reached over 100 degrees and climbed as high as 145.1 degrees.

The Justice Department concluded that the “severe, systemic” conditions at Parchman are exacerbated by chronically deficient staffing and supervision.

“[P]ersonnel is an issue that we need to continue to improve,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves acknowledged, while also noting that his state is one of the poorest in the country.

But investigators concluded that the problems could not be blamed wholly on lack of resources. Poor management of the complex, stemming from a lack of accountability and effective supervision, also contributed to the violent and squalid conditions at Parchman, they wrote.

The Justice Department observed that state officials failed to act despite knowing about these conditions for years. Their “deliberate indifference” in the face of widespread reports about unlivable and unsanitary conditions, rising numbers of violent murders and suicides, dangerously low staffing levels, and mounting concerns that gangs were filling the void contributed to an outbreak of violence on December 31, 2019, that continued for weeks.

Even though prison officials knew about these crises, the report explains, “records show a staff that was caught off guard, utterly overwhelmed and ultimately unable to adequately and quickly respond to fighting and significant injuries in multiple buildings.”

The Justice Department’s investigation of conditions at Parchman and three other Mississippi prisons began in February 2020. Ms. Clarke said her department’s investigations at the Southern Mississippi Correctional Institute, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, and the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility are ongoing.

The department is also looking into reports of abuse and neglect at prisons in Georgia and five detention facilities for juveniles in Texas, according to The New York Times.

Federal prosecutors can sue the state if it fails to remedy the unconstitutional conditions at Parchman, but Ms. Clarke said she believes state officials will work with the department to address the problems.

The Justice Department made similar findings about unconstitutional conditions in Alabama’s prisons for men in 2019, but when Alabama’s Department of Corrections failed or refused to correct conditions, federal prosecutors filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state in December 2020.

Iowa and Mass Courts Rule that ‘Business Interruption Insurance’ Doesn't Cover COVID Loss from Government Shelter in Place Orders that Quarantined All Healthy People During Plandemic

From [HERE] The top state courts in Iowa and Massachusetts have ruled that restaurants can’t recover COVID-19 shutdown losses from "business interruption" policies.

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled April 22 (here and here), while the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled April 21 (here), report Reuters and Law.com.

The Associated Press and the Des Moines Register also have coverage of the Iowa ruling, while Law360 also has coverage of the Massachusetts ruling.

The Iowa court ruled against the Wakonda Club and Jesse’s Embers, both located in Des Moines, Iowa. They claimed losses under business-interruption insurance after Gov. Kim Reynolds’ orders caused them to close in March 2020 and then limit operations.

The restaurants’ business-interruption insurance had covered a direct physical loss or damage to property. The Iowa Supreme Court said the shutdown didn’t constitute such a loss.

“The mere loss of use of property, without more, does not meet the requirement for a direct physical loss of property,” the Iowa Supreme Court said.

The Iowa Supreme Court said its decision was based on Iowa law, but it noted that every other federal appeals court that has ruled on similar policy language has ruled for insurers.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled against Coppa, Toro and Little Donkey restaurants in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The case also involved insurance policies that cover a direct physical loss or damage to property.

“We conclude that ‘direct physical loss of or damage to’ property requires some ‘distinct, demonstrable, physical alteration of the property,’” the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said.

Two restaurants had shut down in-person dining and a third closed for business following a March 2020 order by Gov. Charles Baker. All three allowed limited in-person dining in June 2020 when Baker modified his order.

IsrAliens Commence Their Annual Ramadan Blood-Spilling [Neuropeans go on Pretending they Have a Genetic, Cultural, Ancestral Connection to Afrikan Hebrews, the original people who occupied Palestine]

From [HERE] JERUSALEM, PALESTINE – We are barely halfway into the month of Ramadan and already the toll has gone beyond 20 Palestinians dead and countless wounded. Al-Aqsa mosque has been raided and the images of militarized Israeli police storming the mosque, beating and shooting indiscriminately at worshipers, demonstrate what was clear from the beginning: Israel wants this month to be as bloody as possible for Palestinians. There must be someone among the Israeli decision-makers who believes that spilling endless amounts of Palestinian blood and desecrating Al-Aqsa will satisfy the beast of Israeli public opinion. History has shown that that person is wrong.

People will often ask what is the “end game” for Israel, or what is it that Israel really wants – assuming that the violence and shedding of Palestinian blood is just temporary, and perhaps somewhere there is a loftier goal. However, the answer is looking us right in the face: Israel wants to destroy all that is dear to Palestinians – holy places, historic monuments, Palestinian homes and institutions, the Palestinian landscape – and to take as many Palestinian lives as possible in the process. It has been more than one hundred years since the Zionists set foot in Palestine, and Zionism and its crowning achievement, the apartheid regime of Israel, demonstrate clearly what the “end game” is for Israel.

 First Palestine

The boundary between religion and nationalism was intentionally blurred by the Zionists very early on. Zionism claims that the Jewish religion is a nationality and therefore religious symbols have become symbols of national identity and importance. Starting with the concept of “the Holy Land of Israel – most of which, though not all, exists within Palestine – Zionists turned what was always a religious, spiritual yearning into a national symbol. For thousands of years, Jewish people prayed for the Messiah so that we could live in a world without wars, a world where all people worship their creator in peace. However, even though the Jewish people never made such a claim, the Zionists claim that the Jewish scriptures are proof that Palestine belongs to them.

The Zionists turned religious yearning into a national goal that has to be achieved by force. They purposefully misinterpreted the yearning to pray in Jerusalem as a desire to gain sovereignty at all cost, thus turning one of the most sacred places for both Jews and Muslims into a bloody battleground.

 Then Al-Aqsa

What almost became the Zionist national anthem, and is perhaps better known around the world than that anthem, is the song Jerusalem of Gold. This song was commissioned by Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kolek just a few weeks prior to the 1967 Israeli assault on Arab countries, an assault that became known as The Six Day War. The name “six days” is also a reference to Jewish scripture, where it is stated that the Almighty created the world in six days. [MORE]

Gods Wearing Black Robes Answer Advocates' Prayers and Cancel Ritual Human Sacrifice: TX Court Halts Its Scheduled Murder of Latino Woman to Consider New Evidence [belief in Authority is Irrational]

From [HERE] Melissa Lucio was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for the death of her 2-year-old daughter. On Monday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay, saying new evidence in the case should be considered. 

Ms. Lucio, 53-years-old, was sentenced to death in 2008 after a jury found the mother of 14 guilty of capital murder. The state argued that her daughter Mariah was the victim of abuse and that she had died of trauma to the head. 

Ms. Lucio’s attorneys have argued that their client is innocent, and that Mariah’s death was accidental, after the 2-year-old fell down a flight of stairs. They said that although Ms. Lucio originally repeatedly told the police that she didn’t kill her daughter, after a five-hour interrogation, she made a false confession. 

Five of the jurors who sentenced Ms. Lucio have since publicly questioned their decision. 

The appeals court on Monday ordered the 138th Judicial District Court of Cameron County to consider fresh evidence in the case, including “previously unavailable scientific evidence” and the accusation that the state “suppressed favorable” evidence.

“I am grateful the court has given me the chance to live and prove my innocence,” Ms. Lucio said in a statement after the decision. “Mariah is in my heart today and always. I am grateful to have more days to be a mother to my children and a grandmother to my grandchildren.”

Luis Saenz, the district attorney for Cameron County, where the case was held, didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. Former Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos is serving a 13-year federal sentence for bribery and extortion.

Vanessa Potkin, director of special litigation at the Innocence Project and one of Ms. Lucio’s attorneys, said new evidence would exonerate her client.

“Medical evidence shows that Mariah’s death was consistent with an accident,” she said in a statement. “But for the State’s use of false testimony, no juror would have voted to convict Melissa of capital murder because no murder occurred.”

The case has garnered local, state and national attention. It was the subject of a 2020 documentary, “The State of Texas Vs. Melissa.”

Philly Cops Believed a Black Woman Driving w/2 Kids was a Protester, So They Broke the Windows, Pulled Her Out by Her Hair, Beat Her w/Batons and Took Her Son. 20 Cops Involved (all White) 1 Charged

From [HERE] A white Philadelphia police officer was arrested on aggravated assault charges in connection with the beating of a 28-year-old mother, who was pulled from her vehicle by police during civil unrest in October 2020 and then separated from her toddler. Video shows cops, who appear to be mostly white, acted barbarically as they were apparently lathered-up in a rage because a police murder of a black man was being protested.

The charges against Darren Kardos, 42, follow an 18-month investigation launched after cell phone video captured the chaotic scene in West Philadelphia just after police had fatally shot a Black man in the neighborhood.

The footage showed a throng of officers swarming an SUV, bashing in the windows, pulling the driver and a passenger out of the vehicle, beating them, and then removing a child from the backseat.

The driver was Rickia Young, a Black home health-care aide from North Philadelphia who said she was trying to pick up her teenage nephew nearby, but was attacked by officers after inadvertently getting caught between police and agitators in the early-morning hours of Oct. 27, 2020.

Kardos, a seven-year veteran of the 19th District, was one of two officers fired last spring after an internal investigation into the incident determined he used excessive force, including physical abuse with a baton.

District Attorney Larry Krasner said Thursday that video shows Kardos used his metal baton to bash in Young’s car windows, and then pulled her out of the car by her hair, “after which she was struck by fists, batons, and a number of unknown objects.”

Krasner also said Kardos “made claims about the victim’s actions that were not corroborated by video evidence.”

Kardos turned himself in last week and was released on bail. He is being represented by the Defender Association, which did not respond to a request for comment.

Public posts on Kardos’ Facebook page showed he disapproved of the protests that swept the nation in May 2020 following the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. In one post, Kardos railed against antifa, and in another, he wrote that his Facebook followers should unfriend him if they have “empathy for the rioters or protesters.” He also shared a video of a man who suggested protesters in the streets “be ran over.”

The Police Department’s Internal Affairs unit investigated 19 officers in connection with the incident, said spokesperson Sgt. Eric Gripp. Aside from the two officers including Kardos who were dismissed, one officer was suspended for 30 days by Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw, and two officers received “command-level reprimands,” he said.

Eleven officers are currently awaiting disciplinary hearings, and one officer who was awaiting such a hearing resigned in October, Gripp said. Two officers were cleared by internal affairs.

Krasner said his office could not comment on whether the investigation is ongoing or if more officers will face charges. He said investigators have not determined if body-worn camera footage from the incident will be publicly released due to its sensitive content and the potential for the case to go to trial.

“The law applies equally to everyone, and this office is going to be even-handed, follow the facts, and apply the law to police in the same way that we’ve applied the law to everyone,” Krasner said. “I don’t think there’s a good, hardworking, decent police officer in the United States, let alone Philadelphia, who thinks it’s a great thing to brutalize a mother who is simply trying to comply with police commands. To separate her child, leave her wondering for hours what has happened to her child, while a national organization essentially tries to malign and defame them.”

The city in September paid Young $2 million, and both Mayor Jim Kenney and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw condemned the actions of some of the officers. But the Police Department has never offered an explanation for why police descended on the vehicle.

Young said she had driven to West Philadelphia to pick up her 16-year-old nephew at a friend’s house when she reached a part of Chestnut Street that was barricaded by police. She tried to make a U-turn, she said, but was blocked by people throwing bottles and debris.

Rickia Young during a news conference announcing a $2 million settlement with the city. She was driving through West Philadelphia when she was pulled out of her vehicle by police, beaten, and separated from her toddler in October 2020.

After she was pulled from the SUV and beaten, she said, she was detained in a police van, driven to police headquarters, then taken to the hospital and handcuffed to the bed. She was never charged with a crime in connection with the incident.

Her injuries included bruising, large cuts, and a swollen trachea, she said. A lawyer representing her nephew, who was in the passenger seat, said the teenager required surgery to repair shattered bones in his hand.

Young said an officer had told her that her son would be taken to the Department of Human Services, Philadelphia’s child welfare agency. Young’s mother said she found him hours later with police in a cruiser near DHS offices in Center City.

READ THAT AGAIN:

THIS IS NOT INCOMPETENCE OR IGNORANCE. RATHER, IT IS INTENTIONAL LIES TOLD BY MOTHERFUCKING LIARS WHO WANT TO PUT US IN GREATER CONFINEMENT AND HAVE US CONSENT TO OUR OWN SUBJUGATION. According to FUNKTIONARY:

officialies – official lies of the state—lying in state, restating or reinstating a lie. If your conditioning is sophisticated enough, the lies (both the obvious and more subtle ones) will be inaudible, incomprehensible, and undetectable to you. The way to turn lies into truth is to “officialize” them through the mouthpiece of the Corporate State of denial. All “governments” lie and spy on each other first, and then it lies and spies internally on the suspected-until-found-guilty members of the hapless body-politic. Figureheads of state can move their mouths forever, but the lies sound just the same.

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A female officer was at some point photographed clutching the boy. The next day, the image was shared on social media by the National FOP, which posted an inaccurate caption saying that police had saved the child. It deleted the picture after an Inquirer reporter asked about it.

The Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau has not determined who took the picture. Young filed a lawsuit against the National FOP, which is pending.

The activity in October came after two Philadelphia police officers fatally shot 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr., who was wielding a knife and lunging toward police. His family had called 911 requesting assistance for Wallace, who they said was experiencing a mental health crisis.

The investigation into Wallace’s death remains ongoing. The city paid his family $2.5 million to settle claims over his killing.

When a Racist Michigan Cop Saw a Black Teen Delivering Newspapers He Assumed He was Burglarizing White People’s Homes, So He Detained Him and Threatened to Kill Him. Cop Now is Charged w/Felonies

He’s “a Black male in the area, and he needs to be checked,” the white cop said on the 911 recording. “He’s trying to ram me!” the white cop said of the teen backing up and trying to talk to him. “I’m going to go shots fired if he does it again!”

From [PINAC NEWS] Off-duty Michigan cop Chad Vorce was insistent that the Black teen he had just profiled and stalked and threatened with a gun last year be charged with felonious assault, even after it became clear the 17-year-old boy was doing nothing more than delivering newspapers in the cop’s neighborhood.

But the DeWitt police officer ended up being the one charged with felonious assault earlier this month along with felony firearm possession and official misconduct after a lengthy investigation by the Michigan Department of Attorney General.

Vorce also ended up losing his job at the DeWitt Police Department last year where he had worked for 18 years, a law enforcement agency made up of less than 50 officers, serving a municipality of less than 5,000 just outside of Lansing.

Vorce, however, appealed the termination and was reinstated by an arbitrator who determined that all he needed was a little “sensitivity training with regard to racial and other related protected characteristics.”

But Vorce returned to work as a city employee at the same pay rate but with no law enforcement duties because his law enforcement certification became inactive upon termination, according to the Lansing State Journal.

He was in the process of getting re-certified as a cop when he was charged with the three felonies on April 7.

The incident took place on January 14, 2021 at around 7 a.m. as Vorce was driving his son to school when he noticed a white van driven by the Black teen and immediately deemed it suspicious because cars had been stolen from that neighborhood a month earlier.

He began following the van and noticed it would make frequent stops, furthering his suspicions.

The teen, Alexander Hamilton, told police he was in the van placing newspapers in plastic bags in order to deliver them to subscribers when Vorce pulled up alongside him.

“Hey, are you lost or something,” Vorce asked Hamilton.

“No, I’m just doing me,” Hamilton responded and continued bagging the newspapers.

Vorce told investigators he placed his truck in reverse to try and read the license plate number on the white van but the van drove off so Vorce began to follow him.

Realizing he was being followed, Hamilton told investigators he then placed the van in reverse in order to tell the driver he was delivering newspapers since it had not become evident to him.

But that made Vorce fear for his life, believing he was going to be rammed, so he also placed his truck in reverse to move away from the van, then hopped out of the truck with his gun drawn, ordering the teen to “stop! stop!”.

“He tried to ram me,” Vorce told the dispatcher as he continued following the van. “I’m going to go shots fired if he does it again.”

Hamilton told investigators that he was in fear for his life upon seeing an angry man with a gun ordering him to step out of the van, so he drove out of the neighborhood and pulled into a Sunoco gas station where he began driving in circles around the pump in order to draw attention to the man he believed was trying to murder him.

Vorce followed him to the gas station and pulled his truck in front of the van, stepping out once again with his gun drawn, threatening to shoot and kill the teen. Two witnesses said Vorce’s behavior was very unprofessional, according to internal reports.

That was when Michigan state police officer Luke Shafer arrived, the main investigating officer, who said he encountered Vorce and Hamilton yelling at each other.

“When I see a Black guy in my neighborhood, I think you’re doing stuff like this,” Vorce was telling Hamilton, referring to cars being stolen from his neighborhood.

Vorce then tried to pressure Shafer into arresting Hamilton on charges of felonious assault, claiming the teen had tried to ram him, an allegation which Hamilton denied.

Neither Shafer nor the two sergeants he called that morning were inclined to arrest Hamilton on felony charges, according to footage from Shafer’s dash camera which you can view below.

“You’re not taking anybody to jail,” said Michigan State Police Sergeant Brian Beuge. “I don’t care how much pressure DeWitt city puts on you, this officer.

“As far as I’m concerned, he pushed it too far.”

Nevertheless, the teen spent 38 minutes handcuffed in the back of a DeWitt police car, an officer who responded to the scene despite it being out of his jurisdiction.

Vorce continued playing the victim by sending an email later that morning to the Lansing State Journal, the newspaper that employed Hamilton, trying to get him fired by accusing him of smoking marijuana while working, an allegation which had not been brought up earlier.

This morning at approximately 709 am I noticed a suspicious vehicle stopped in the roadway in front of my residence, (Shadybrook Ln, Dewitt). I asked the driver if he was lost. He responded, ” I’m just me doing me.” I promptly called 911 for the suspicious activity and followed the vehicle. We have had recent stolen vehicles and larceny from automobiles in our neighborhood. The driver fit the description of the accused. While following the vehicle it attempted to ram my vehicle several times. (Side note- I am a police officer and am trained in suspicious activity and felonious assault.). I drew my weapon and Identified myself as a police officer and told him to stop. The driver drove to a gas station at Airport Rd near Clark Rd. The driver started driving recklessly around the parking lot until PD arrived. The driver smelled of marijuana and was uncooperative with PD. The driver identified himself as an LSJ delivery driver, something he should have told me at first contact. I have decided to not press charges on felonious assault but I would like if he were put on a separate route for my safety and the safety if my family.

That email was a violation of the police department’s social media policy and was a factor in his termination, according to the internal affairs report and his termination letter.

Hamilton’s attorney, Dustyn Coontz, filed a lawsuit against Vorce and the city of DeWitt on April 8, the day after Vorce was charged, which you can read here.

Watch the video below of the conversations between Michigan state police officer Luke Shafer and his two sergeants about how to handle the “predicament” of an off-duty cop out of his jurisdiction threatening to shoot and kill a teenager delivering newspapers.

Although a Police Cruiser Blocked Mubarak Soulemane's Car Door from Opening and His Windows Were Up, a White Cop 'Feared Being Stabbed' So He Shot Him 7X. Cop Charged w/Manslaughter for said Murder

From [PINNAC NEWS] A white Connecticut state trooper turned himself in Tuesday after he was charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing a Black man more than two years ago following a high-speed pursuit with a man in a stolen car.

Connecticut State Trooper Brian North said he was in fear for the lives of fellow officers because the man driving the stolen car had a knife while sitting in the driver’s seat.

But investigators determined the shooting of Mubarak Soulemane on January 15, 2020 was not justified.

According to the 133-page investigative report by the Connecticut Office of Inspector General which you can read here:

On January 15, 2020, at approximately 5:05 p.m. on Campbell Avenue, West Haven, Connecticut, after an extended pursuit on I-95, Connecticut State Troopers Brian North, Joshua Jackson, and Ross Dalling successfully stopped a stolen 2012 Hyundai Sonata being operated by Mubarak Soulemane. The troopers’ police vehicles effectively blocked-in the Hyundai. Shortly after the stop, Trooper North fired seven shots through the driver’s side window of the Hyundai. The bullets struck and killed Soulemane who was seated in the driver’s seat holding a knife.

Stated briefly, the investigation establishes that, at the time Trooper North fired his weapon, neither he nor any other person was in imminent danger of serious injury or death from a knife attack at the hands of Soulemane. Further, any belief that persons were in such danger was not reasonable. I therefore find that North’s use of deadly force was not justified under Connecticut law.

It further states,

The second set of inquiries concern the necessity to use deadly force. Once the police effectuated the stop, they had control of the situation. It is fair to ask whether they disregarded less lethal options.

Jackson yelled for Soulemane to get out of the car twice as he approached the driver’s side of the Hyundai. There was no further communication with him before North discharged his weapon. Only thirty-six seconds elapsed between North taking a position next to the driver window and his firing his gun through that window. Would a reasonable officer have made further attempts to talk to Soulemane either himself or possibly waiting until an officer with crisis intervention training could respond? Rappa told Inspectors that he broke the window to communicate with Soulemane, and facilitate the use of less lethal means to gain control of him. A reasonable police officer would have realized that the police were in control of the situation and the opportunity existed to take a tactical pause to explore the use of methods other than deadly force.

North fired seven shots. Was that reasonable? It is certainly possible that one shot might have disabled Soulemane from attacking others yet not kill him. The law is clear that 20/20 hindsight is inappropriate in evaluating an officer’s conduct given the split second decisions officers must make in dangerous situations. The law is also clear, however, that the officer’s conduct must be reasonable to be justified. In the present case, that standard of reasonableness was not met.

North was released on a $50,000 bond and is due back in court on May 3, according to the New York Times.