Fresno will pay $600k to Settle Freddy Centeno Case. 12 Second Video Shows White Cops Roll Up and within Seconds Execute Mentally ill Latino Man Walking Down the Street with His Hands by His Side

From [HERE] The city of Fresno will pay more than $500,000 in a wrongful death settlement with the family of Freddy Centeno.

He was shot several times in September 2015 by two officers after police say they got reports he was threatening a woman with a gun. When cops arrived no people were present and he is merely walking down the street. The cops drive up, quickly jump out, point their guns at him, say stop and then start shooting within a matter of seconds.

Centeno had a spray nozzle for a garden hose in his hands. The white cop pretended that said object had something to do with murdering Centeno. His hands were by his side and he was no threatening anyone.

His family says the 40-year-old was mentally ill and was not a threat to officers.

He died in the hospital 23 days after the incident. The family's attorney confirmed the city will give a $600,000 settlement to Centeno's daughter for the wrongful death case.

'We thought we were availing ourselves of services they provide but they killed our son' Suit Says Parents Called for Help but 6 Indianapolis Cops Appeared and Suffocated Handcuffed Black Man to Death

From [HERE] The attorneys representing an Indianapolis family whose son died while being forcibly restrained by Indianapolis police say they have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and the officers involved to change the way law enforcement handles individuals with mental health issues.

“We brought the lawsuit because what happened was wrong,” Rich Waples of Waples & Hanger said. “Herman (Whitfield III) needed help. He didn’t need the use of excessive force and deadly force. He needed to get mental health help.”

Waples and Israel Cruz of the Cruz Law Office are representing Herman Whitfield’s parents, Gladys and Herman Whitfield Jr., in the court case. The lawyers and the Whitfields talked about the lawsuit at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.

According to the complaint filed in the Southern Indiana District Court, the Whitfields called for an ambulance in the spring of 2022 to help their son, who was having a mental health crisis. Six police officers arrived and eventually shot him with a Taser, then handcuffed him, left him lying on his stomach and put their weight on his back for three to four minutes.

Herman Whitfield said, “I can’t breathe” three times before he became unresponsive. Paramedics tried to revive him, but he never regained consciousness.

“We hope through this lawsuit that we will incentivize the police department to make sure these officers are trained … and to make sure they have policies that require them not to use this kind of force,” Waples said. “And if they have somebody down in a prone position to get them up right away so that they can breathe so that they don’t die.”

The attorneys noted the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has a mental health response unit with specially trained personnel, but the team is only available at certain times during the day. Waples said the lawsuit is also trying to push the city to make the unit available around the clock.

“When the Whitfields asked for help for their son, the correct response was to send a mental health team,” Waples said. “If that had been done, we would not be here today.”

Waples and Cruz said they met with police department leaders and reviewed the body camera video from the six officers. According to the attorneys, the police officials said they heard Herman Whitfield repeatedly say he could not breathe, and they acknowledged the officers should have been trained to put him in a seated position once he was handcuffed to facilitate breathing, but that did not happen.

According to WRTV in Indianapolis, the IMPD issued a press release after the incident, explaining the officers’ actions.

The police department said when officers arrived at the home, they were told Whitfield was “having a psychosis.” They claimed they found him walking around the home, unclothed, sweating and bleeding from the mouth.

As they were trying to deescalate the situation, they said Whitfield “moved quickly towards an officer.” and the officer fired his Taser in response.

Gladys and Herman Whitfield say they are still trying to understand what happened.

“My family has been in Marion County since at least the 1940s, paying taxes and supporting the community and working,” Gladys said. “We thought we were availing ourselves of services that they provide and then they killed our son. I’m just very disappointed and sad about what happened. I couldn’t be more sad.”

Cruz, a family friend, received a phone call from the Whitfields at 5:30 a.m. on the day of the incident.

After their son was taken to the hospital, the Whitfields were detained in their home by the police and were not allowed to follow their son to the Community East Hospital, Cruz said. Eventually, the couple ran into the garage, got into their car and, although the police were knocking on the back window to try to prevent them from leaving, were able to drive away.

However, Cruz said, once the Whitfields arrived at the hospital, medical personnel would not allow them to see their son. So they returned to their home and called Cruz.

When the attorney arrived about 7:30 a.m., the Whitfields were outside, waiting to be allowed to enter their home. Police were barring them from entry while a search warrant was executed.

“The Whitfields stayed in their car while (the police) executed the search warrant,” Cruz said. “We were fully cooperative.”

They were able to get permission from a deputy chief to leave and go to the hospital to see Herman Whitfield III. By the time the Whitfields arrived, their son had already died.

Cruz said the family wants to make sure another family does not lose a child as they did.

“What the Whitfields are looking for is change in the protocol of IMPD and how it deals with mental health and individuals who are in crisis,” Cruz said. “That’s what they’re looking for foremost.”

Federal Cop Accountability Nearly Impossible after Supreme Ct Border Patrol Case: Constitutional Rights don’t apply fully w/in 100 miles of US borders But 2/3 of the US population lives w/in the Zone

FUNKTIONARY explains “rights are myths.”

THE ACLU EXPLAINS:

The Problem

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects Americans from random and arbitrary stops and searches.

According to the government, however, these basic constitutional principles do not apply fully at our borders. For example, at border crossings (also called "ports of entry"), federal authorities do not need a warrant or even suspicion of wrongdoing to justify conducting what courts have called a "routine search," such as searching luggage or a vehicle.

Even in places far removed from the border, deep into the interior of the country, immigration officials enjoy broad—though not limitless—powers. Specifically, federal regulations give U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) authority to operate within 100 miles of any U.S. "external boundary."

In this 100-mile zone, Border Patrol agents have certain additional authorities. For instance, Border Patrol can operate immigration checkpoints.

Border Patrol, nevertheless, cannot pull anyone over without "reasonable suspicion" of an immigration violation or crime (reasonable suspicion is more than just a "hunch"). Similarly, Border Patrol cannot search vehicles in the 100-mile zone without a warrant or "probable cause" (a reasonable belief, based on the circumstances, that an immigration violation or crime has likely occurred).

In practice, Border Patrol agents routinely ignore or misunderstand the limits of their legal authority in the course of individual stops, resulting in violations of the constitutional rights of innocent people. These problems are compounded by inadequate training for Border Patrol agents, a lack of oversight by CBP and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the consistent failure of CBP to hold agents accountable for abuse. No matter what CBP officers and Border Patrol agents think, our Constitution applies throughout the United States, including within this “100-mile border zone.”

Much of U.S. Population Affected

Many people think that border-related policies only impact people living in border towns like El Paso or San Diego. The reality is that Border Patrol's interior enforcement operations encroach deep into and across the United States, affecting the majority of Americans.

Roughly two-thirds of the United States' population lives within the 100-mile zone—that is, within 100 miles of a U.S. land or coastal border. That's about 200 million people.

Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont lie entirely or almost entirely within this area.

Nine of the ten largest U.S. metropolitan areas, as determined by the 2010 Census, also fall within this zone: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego and San Jose. [MORE]

From [HERE] Attorneys and civil rights advocates fear a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling will make it harder for people to sue federal law enforcement agents who violate their rights during warrantless searches.

On June 8, the court ruled against a man who had sued a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent for excessive force, allegedly violating his Fourth and First Amendment rights.  

Now, advocates say they worry, based on past Supreme Court cases, the 6-3 decision could be broadly applied to all federal agencies, not just border agents.

That could mean federal agents are protected from those lawsuits in nearly all of New England because the court has already held the Fourth Amendment doesn’t fully protect people against unreasonable searches and seizures within 100 miles of an international border or coastline.

Save for a southern chunk of Vermont and a small corner of northwestern Massachusetts, all of New England lies within the so-called 100-mile border enforcement zone due to the proximity to Canada and the Atlantic Ocean. About 210 million people — about two-thirds of the United States’ population — live within the zone nationwide, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

“This case really has made it nearly impossible to hold (federal officials) accountable when there’s a Fourth Amendment violation or other constitutional violations,” said ACLU of Maine Legal Director Carol Garvan.

The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable search and seizure by police and other government representatives. Typically, local and state law enforcement officers must obtain a warrant signed by a judge before conducting searches.

Attorneys and advocates are also concerned about the racial implications of the Supreme Court's June 8 ruling because of the disproportionate number of civil rights violations involving people of color in lawsuits against law enforcement officials at all levels.

"I do think that will be made worse by this ruling,” said Garvan.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the largest federal police agency in the country and employs nearly 20,000 agents. It, along with other immigration and national security agencies, has a track record of racial discrimination, according to a two-year investigation by Georgetown University Law Center. 

What the Supreme Court's border enforcement ruling does and doesn't do

The Supreme Court ruled June 8 against a man who had sued a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent for excessive force near Washington's border with Canada. The 6-3 decision in Egbert v. Boule blocked the man’s attempts to hold federal agents accountable for allegedly violating his Fourth and First Amendment rights.

The decision doesn’t alter federal agents’ unique authority within the 100-mile border enforcement zone, nor does it gut Fourth Amendment protections. 

Instead, Egbert narrows the options American citizens have to hold federal agents accountable for their actions, according to legal experts who spoke to the USA TODAY Network.

Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees are authorized under 8 U.S. Code § 1357 to “board and search for aliens” without a warrant on any “railway car, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle” within the 100-mile zone.

The law also allows border patrol to go onto private land, but not homes, within 25 miles of the border “for the purpose of patrolling the border to prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the United States.”

Americans may file civil rights lawsuits against state and local police under a Reconstruction-era federal law, but that law doesn’t apply to federal law enforcement. Claims against federal agencies are instead allowed under a Supreme Court precedent from 1971.

Lower courts have been divided since then on whether suits should be allowed against federal police in national security matters such as border patrols, among other circumstances. The debate bears similarities to debates surrounding qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that protects local police officers from liability for civil rights violations in many circumstances.

Under Egbert, federal agents would now be similarly immune unless the circumstances of the alleged violations in the 100-mile border zone match those of previously heard cases, Garvan argued.

“Unless your claim you’re bringing now is just like one of those previous cases, then you’re out of luck,” said the ACLU of Maine legal director.

What the Supreme Court justices wrote about protecting federal agents against civil rights suits 

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the 6-3 majority in the June 8 Egbert ruling, said Congress is better equipped than federal courts to authorize unreasonable search and seizure lawsuits against government employees. 

Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch agreed in a concurring opinion.

"Weighing the costs and benefits of new laws is the bread and butter of legislative committees," Gorsuch wrote. "It has no place in federal courts charged with deciding cases and controversies under existing law.” [MORE]

3 More Black Men Held Pre-Trial at Rikers Island Die in Less Than a Week at Barbaric, Raggedy Ass NYC Jail. Whom or What Can Dems Blame it on . . .Republicans, Guns?

THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE INMATE POPULATION OF THE JAIL COMPLEXES ON RIKERS ISLAND ARE 56% BLACK, 33% LATINX/HISPANIC, 7.5% WHITE, AND 3.5% MIXED RACE/OTHER WITH ROUGHLY 85% OF THE POPULATION IN PRE-TRIAL CONFINEMENT. ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE UNABLE TO PAY BAIL ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE REMANDED ON RIKERS ISLAND. ACCORDING TO A 2008 REPORT ON THE EDUCATIONAL EXPANSION ON RIKERS ISLAND ROUGHLY 80% OF INMATES DO NOT HOLD A GED, AND NEARLY ONE THIRD OF ALL 18 TO 21 YEAR OLD INMATES DO NOT READ PAST A 5TH GRADE LEVEL

From [DN] and [MORE] In New York City, three men who were recently held at the city-run Rikers Island jail complex have died in less than a week. The deaths are leading to new calls for control of the jail to be handed over to an outside body. Dr. Robert Cohen, who serves on the Board of Correction which oversees Rikers, said, “The City of New York, despite their best efforts, is not capable of maintaining a minimally safe environment for people in custody.” At least nine people have died so far this year after being held at Rikers.

Mississippi County to pay $2.75M after Inhumane Jail Authorities Refused to Give White Man Insulin for 7 Days. Nurse, convicted of Manslaughter, Ignored Him as He Begged for Help

From [HERE] A Mississippi county has agreed to a $2.75 million settlement in a federal lawsuit for the wrongful death of an insulin-dependent inmate held in the county jail.

William Joel Dixon, 28, died in his jail cell at the George County Regional Correctional Facility on Sept. 24, 2014, after seven days without insulin. The George County jail’s former nurse, Carmon Sue Brannan, 58, is serving a 15-year manslaughter sentence for Dixon’s death.

“Simply put, this matter arose from a senseless and tragic combination of a lack of basic human compassion and policies which prevented those who wanted to help Joel from being able to help him," said Garner Wetzel, one of the attorneys who represented the inmate’s estate.

Dixon died despite the jail having insulin on hand to treat him. His mother delivered one batch of insulin to the jail, and a George County jailer fetched another batch from the glove compartment of Dixon’s car at the time of his Sept. 17, 2014, arrest. During the jail stay, Dixon repeatedly begged for help as his condition deteriorated; Brannan ignored those pleas, blaming his symptoms on methamphetamine withdrawal.

The wrongful death lawsuit was filed on behalf of Dixon’s estate; his mother, Donna Dixon; and his children against George County, Brannan and the city of Lucedale. A judge later dismissed Lucedale as a defendant.

The settlement represents more than half the county’s general fund budget of $4.3 million, The Sun Herald reported. George County supervisors passed the resolution Monday agreeing to the settlement amount. The county’s insurance carrier has paid more than $500,000 in attorney’s fees and had agreed to pay $250,000 of the overall settlement amount.

U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden ordered the county to pay $1 million within 14 days of the May 31 judgment in federal court in Gulfport. The remaining $1.75 million is due within 90 days of the settlement date, Ozerden's order said.

The judgment also calls on George County officials to write a letter of apology to Dixon’s family.

“The Dixon family endured eight heart-wrenching years of criminal and civil litigation and a groundless claim against Joel’s mother for defamation,” Wetzel said. “Throughout, the Dixon family conducted themselves with dignity despite their loss and rallied around Joel’s children.”

Wetzel said the county’s agreement “closes a chapter in this sad ordeal.”

The Dixon family expressed appreciation for the public’s interest in the case but asked for privacy "so that Joel’s children be permitted to move forward with their lives just like any other young people.”

The family also thanked their team of attorneys and former District Attorney Tony Lawrence and Assistant District Attorney Cherie Wade for their successful prosecution of the criminal case against Brannan.

Wetzel said the family hopes the judgment motivates officials nationwide to ensure that inmates receive proper medical care.

“Their fervent hope is that the tragedy of Joel’s death leads to meaningful change to prevent these preventable and needless losses of life," he said.

Lawsuit Filed Against Warren Police after Traffic Stop Attack: Black Man said Cops Beat him So Bad, He Doesn’t Remember what Happened

From [HERE] Some controversial cell phone video shows a young Black man’s violent confrontation with Warren police.

Tyler Wade says officers beat him so bad, he doesn’t remember much of what happened. He, and his attorney, want to hold those officers accountable, raising questions about the Warren Police Department's use of force policy.

Attorneys say the video shows Warren police officers pulling Tyler Wade from a car, onto the ground.  Then — it appears at least one officer is kneeling down and punching Wade, while another is standing and kicking him.

"Since the incident happened, I’ve had blurred vision in my right eye, extreme headaches and dizziness," Wade said. "Especially in the back of my head, sometimes at night when I go to sleep. Whenever I stand up, I feel dizzy."

Wade also said the officers knocked one of the braces off his teeth.

On Thursday, he spoke for the first time since the incident, along with his mother.

"When I first saw the video, I cried a lot," Wade's mother said. "It was hard to watch, seeing that they pulled him out of the car and just beat on him."

Wade’s attorneys believe their client is a victim of police brutality and excessive force.

"He did exactly as he was told to do; he raised his hands and surrendered," said James King, attorney with the Cochran Firm. "He was ordered not to move, so he did not. He didn’t even reach for his seatbelt because if he did, he felt like if he would have reached for his waistline, he would have been shot and killed.

"In exchange for his cooperation, Tyler received a first-class ticket to the hospital."

Wade’s attorneys want the names and badge numbers of the officers involved.

They haven’t formally filed a lawsuit but will represent Wade who is facing felony charges including fleeing police, weapons and drug violations.  Wade’s attorneys deny there was a weapon.

Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer says what happened in the video was a result of Tyler Wade resisting arrest.

"The Warren Police Department proactively reviewed this incident just like any other use of force incident," Dwyer said. "This incident was classified for further review by department personnel."

Commissioner Dwyer says an Internal Affairs review found one of the officers in the incident, violated the department’s use of force policy.

He didn’t say which one - but added that officer is on leave with a lengthy, disciplinary suspension.

"Officers are obligated to protect the rights of the public," he said. "Including those accused of having committed crimes in every situation and to ensure the health and well-being of every person, taken into custody.

"So let me make it clear: Excessive use of force by Warren police officers is not, and will not be tolerated."

Tyler Ward’s attorneys are asking for body camera video from those Warren police officers, FOX 2 also put in a request for the same footage and will share it once we get it.

Daunte Wright's Fam to Receive $3.2M. White Cop Murdered Black Man by Shooting Him in the Back and Lied About it. Claimed She Confused a Taser for a Gun (like confusing bacon w/eggs). Only 2 yrs Jail

MURDER IS THE ULTIMATE SLAVERY

From [HERE] The city of Brooklyn Center, Minn., has agreed to pay a $3.2 million settlement to the family of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in April 2021 near Minneapolis. The officer said she meant to fire her Taser instead.

The settlement, announced on Tuesday by the legal team for Mr. Wright’s family, will be finalized after an agreement is also reached on “non-monetary” measures, including training for the city’s police. The lawyers said on Tuesday that they anticipated the agreement would include training for the Brooklyn Center Police Department on topics including officer intervention, implicit bias, de-escalation and how to approach mental health crises. 

As part of the settlement, the University of St. Thomas is set to provide the Police Department with free training on cultural proficiency and implicit bias and other complete nonsense that has nothing to with uncontrollable government authority or neutralizing the system of racism white supremacy.

TWO YEARS IN PRISON FOR MURDER. Kimberly Potter, the former Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright last April, was sentenced to two years in prison.

Ms. Potter, a 26-year veteran, testified that she thought she had drawn her stun gun when she shot the 20-year-old in the chest with her 9mm handgun after a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb turned up an outstanding warrant.

Prosecutors had sought a sentence of seven years and two months, the presumptive sentence under Minnesota guidelines for someone with no prior record. Her lawyers sought probation, citing her years of public service and remorse.

The judge said Ms. Potter, 49 years old, would serve 16 months in prison and eight months of probation if she shows good behavior, which is in line with state guidelines. [MORE]

According to the criminal complaint:

STATEMENT OF PROBABLE CAUSE

Your Complainant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Charles Phill is employed by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. In that capacity, ASAC Phill and SSA Sam McGinnis have reviewed reports and body worn camera footage (BWC) and gathered additional evidence related to this case and to Defendant. Based on that information, your Complainant states the following to establish probable cause:

On April 11, 2021, around 1:53 p.m., Brooklyn Center Police Officer Anthony Luckey and his Field Training Officer, Defendant KIMBERLY ANN POTTER (DOB: 06/18/1972) conducted a traffic stop on a white Buick

bearing Minnesota license plate 841UBY near 63rd Avenue North and Orchard Avenue North in Brooklyn Center, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Officer Luckey identified the driver as Daunte Demetrius Wright. There was also an adult female passenger in the front passenger seat. Officer Luckey informed Mr. Wright that the officers stopped him because the vehicle had an air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror and the tabs on the Buick were expired. Officer Luckey returned to his squad car to conduct a record check for Mr. Wright, during which he learned that Mr. Wright had an outstanding arrest warrant for a gross misdemeanor weapons violation. As Officer Luckey ran these checks, Sergeant Mychal Johnson arrived to assist the officers. Officer Luckey and Defendant then re-approached the driver’s side of the Buick to arrest Mr. Wright on the warrant. Sergeant Johnson approached the passenger side of the vehicle.

According to time stamped BWC footage, at 2:01:11 p.m., Officer Luckey asked Mr. Wright to step out of the vehicle. Mr. Wright opened the door of the Buick at 2:01:22 p.m. and got out of the Buick at 2:01:30 p.m. At 2:01:31, Officer Luckey asked Mr. Wright to turn around and place his hands behind his back. Mr. Wright did so. Officer Luckey then began attempting to handcuff Mr. Wright. At 2:01:36 p.m., Sergeant Johnson told Mr. Wright that he was under arrest and at 2:01:39 p.m., Defendant added that Mr. Wright had a warrant. At 2:01:43 p.m., Officer Luckey told Mr. Wright not to tense up. At that time, Officer Luckey and Mr. Wright were standing near the open driver’s side door of the Buick. Defendant was standing behind and to the right of Officer Luckey. Defendant walked up to Mr. Wright at 2:01:45 p.m. and, at 2:01:48 p.m., took a piece of paper from Mr. Wright’s hand using her left hand. Defendant immediately transferred the paper to her right hand.

At 2:01:49 p.m., Mr. Wright pulled away from Officer Luckey and got back into the driver’s compartment of the Buick. Officer Luckey maintained a grip on Mr. Wright, to keep physical control of him so as to pull Mr. Wright back out of the Buick. Sergeant Johnson, who was on the other side of the vehicle, leaned inside the Buick through the passenger door.

At 2:01:55 p.m., Defendant stated, “I’ll tase ya,” and simultaneously moved the piece of paper she was holding from her right hand to her left hand. One second later, at 2:01:56 p.m., Defendant’s right hand, holding her department-issued Glock 9mm handgun, came into view of her BWC. Defendant pointed her handgun at Mr. Wright and tracked with Mr. Wright’s movements as he and Officer Luckey continued moving. Defendant again announced, “I’ll tase you,” at 2:01:58 p.m. and continued pointing her handgun at Mr. Wright. At 2:02:00 p.m., Defendant said, “Taser, Taser, Taser.” Sergeant Johnson and Officer Luckey both immediately began disengaging from Mr. Wright. One second later, at 02:02:01 p.m., Defendant pulled the trigger and discharged her handgun one time, firing a single round of ammunition. The bullet

entered the left side of Mr. Wright’s chest and sequentially perforated the left 6th rib and 5th intercostal

muscles, left lung, pericardium, heart, pericardium once again, right lung, and right 4th intercostal muscles before partially exiting the right chest wall, perforating the skin, and becoming lodged in the right side of Mr. Wright’s chest. When she fired the handgun, Defendant was standing outside the driver’s side door and in close proximity to Officer Luckey. Defendant’s handgun was just inches below Officer Luckey’s arm pointing into the driver’s compartment of the Buick, in the direction of Mr. Wright, the passenger, and

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Sergeant Johnson. Defendant fired her handgun close to Officer Luckey’s face, and the discharged cartridge casing from Defendant’s handgun appeared to strike Officer Luckey in the face as it was ejected.

At 2:02:02 p.m., Mr. Wright said, “Ah, he shot me.” The Buick then traveled short distance down the street, where it crashed into another vehicle. Defendant stated at 2:02:03 p.m., “Shit!” and at 2:02:05 p.m., “I just shot him.” Another officer asked, “you did?” and Defendant responded, “yes.” At 2:02:09 p.m., Defendant stated, “I grabbed the wrong fucking gun,” and repeated again, “I shot him.” At 2:03:09 p.m., Defendant stated, “I’m going to go to prison.” At 2:07:27, Defendant stated, “I killed a boy.” Other officers and paramedics responded. Medical personnel were unable to revive Mr. Wright and Mr. Wright was pronounced dead on scene at 2:18 p.m. Assistant Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Lorren Jackson later conducted an autopsy and determined Mr. Wright’s cause of death to be a gunshot wound and deemed the manner of death a homicide.

SSA McGinnis later collected and reviewed the layout of Defendant’s duty belt. SSA McGinnis observed that Defendant’s handgun was holstered on the right side of the belt, set in a straight-draw position, requiring Defendant to use her right hand to draw the handgun. Defendant’s Taser was holstered on the left side of the belt, also set in a straight-draw position, requiring Defendant to use her left hand to draw her Taser. The Taser is yellow with a black grip, while the handgun is entirely black. Additionally, the texture of Defendant’s handgun has a distinct grip from that on her Taser. Defendant’s Taser is also equipped with a manual safety switch which the operator must physically disengage before the Taser can be discharged and with a laser-sighting feature, which causes a laser indicator to appear on target when the Taser is being aimed after the safety is disengaged. Defendant’s Glock handgun is not equipped with such features.

During her 26 years as a police officer, Defendant received a substantial amount of training, including training related to use of force and, specifically, to the use of Tasers and firearms. Defendant completed annual recertification training courses on each of these weapons. These courses included training on how to draw, aim, and use each weapon correctly. The training material for these courses also included notices alerting Defendant to the possibility and risks of drawing a handgun instead of a Taser.

In the six months before this incident, Defendant completed two Taser-specific training courses. For example, on March 2, 2021, Defendant attended a four-hour training course pertaining to the Taser. This course involved a classroom component, which provided detailed and substantive information concerning the function, proper use, and safety concerns associated with using Tasers; a practical component; and a written test. After this training, Defendant was certified for use of the Taser X7. On Defendant’s certificate of completion, Defendant provided her signature, acknowledging that she had read and understood the information and warnings provided by the manufacturer regarding safe use of the Taser. One of those warnings states: “Confusing a handgun with a CEW [Taser] could result in death or serious injury. Learn the differences in the physical feel and holstering characteristics between your CEW and your handgun to help avoid confusion” and instructs officers to “always follow your agency’s guidance and training.” In other prior Taser trainings completed by Defendant, including another on November 5, 2020, Defendant likewise signed paperwork acknowledging that she received, read, and understood identical warnings.

Ravens linebacker, Jaylon Ferguson Dead at 26 . . . from Natural Causes or COVID Injections? Would the Dependent Media Tell Us or just Keep Pretending Like its Normal for Healthy People to Die Young?

Dr Mercola: In an Effort to Conceal the Reality of Deaths Caused by COVID Injections the Dependent Media Has Started Highlighting a Medical Phenomenon called “sudden adult death syndrome” (SADS)

NGHR Shit: Court Makes Legal Sandwich with Bill Cosby. Found Liable for sexual assault on White teen in 1975. [Only Black People Would be Subjected to a Trial Based on a Half Century Old Evidence]

Lawyers celebrate. All white, all liberals.

According to FUNKTIONARY

lex-icon – law as image—the appearance of justice (the form) over the substance of justice via truth and law over humanity.

legal sandwich – the Judge who makes plenty of bread, the Prosecutor, who is typically a dough-boy, and the defendant, who is the lunchmeat (catch) of the day—waiting to be devoured by the blindfolded lady in juridical drag—MisAmerica.

From [HERE] A California jury has found that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager. Huth, now 64, was awarded $500,000 after four bizarre days of deliberations. Although Cosby's been accused of sexual misconduct by 60 women, this was the first civil case to reach trial. Cosby, who denies a sexual encounter occurred, did not attend the trial in Santa Monica.

According to Tuesday's verdict, jurors believe Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact, that he reasonably believed Huth was under 18, and that the actor was driven by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor, according to the Associated Press. It's a big setback for the once beloved comedian, who was freed from prison last year. Nevertheless, his spokesperson calls the verdict another "huge victory."

"This was a huge victory for us because they [were] looking for millions of dollars. That amount will not cover the legal bills and we will be appealing that matter. However, Mr. Cosby will not be paying punitive damages," Andrew Wyatt tells Yahoo Entertainment. [MORE]

Throw Another BOHICAN On the Fire: as Poll Numbers w/Blacks Dip Biden Adds Keisha Lance Bottoms as Blight House Advisor. Racists Often Surround Themselves w/Grimacing SNiggers to Look/Feel Superior

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

OPPORTOMIST – A STRAIGHT-UP OPPORTUNIST WHO REVELS IN HIS TOKENHOOD. 2) A TOKEN HOOD HANDPICKED AND TAKEN OUT OF THE ‘HOOD. 3) A LAWN JOCKEY. 4) A “YES-MAN” FOR THE “OTHER MAN” IN DEROGATION OF THE “BROTHERMAN.” AN OPPORTOMIST IS AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN NAMESLUG WHO HAS BEEN ACCULTURATED AND CULTURALLY CONDITIONED INTO SELF-HATRED AND SEEKS PERSONAL GAIN THROUGH OBSEQUIOUS BEHAVIOR TO CAUCASIAN OVERLINGS. (SEE: SAMBO, CRISS-CROSSOVER, DAMS & MAINSTREAM) [MORE]

From [HERE] Coin-operated opporTomist Keisha Lance Bottoms's addition to President Joe Biden's circle of senior White House advisers will help shore up the president's falling approval ratings among black voters, allies believe.

Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, is replacing Cedric Richmond as director of the White House's Office of Public Engagement and is viewed as a rising star in the Democratic Party. She was included on Biden's short list of vice presidential contenders and was a critical Biden surrogate in pushing Georgia blue in the 2020 race, but she chose not to run for a second term as mayor in the spring of 2021 despite a 68% approval rating in some polls.

Biden's own approval ratings, especially among black voters, have cratered amid nationwide inflation and other economic concerns. Morning Consult clocked Biden's approval in early June at just 39%, his lowest mark as president, putting him neck and neck with former President Donald Trump's ratings during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. 

Black voters still approve of Biden at a higher rate than the general population, but the Washington Post and Ipsos found that just 70% of black voters gave Biden positive marks in June 2022, down 8% since April 2021. Just 23% of black respondents said they "strongly approved" of the job Biden has done as president, and 32% said they did not think Biden cared about areas that matter to black voters, up 9 points compared to the 2020 campaign. [MORE]

Dr Ryan Cole: ‘This is the Largest Experiment in Human History. Deaths from COVID Shots are Higher than Any Medical Product Ever Used. They Cause Immune Suppression, Leading to Increased Cancer Rates'

From [HERE] As a pathologist analyzing diseased body tissues, Dr. Ryan Cole, MD, (Twitter @drcole12) has seen an alarming and wide-ranging increase in injuries from Covid-19 injections...what he calls a "nuclear bomb." Miscarriages, heart conditions, cancers and compromised immune function are just some of the harms that Dr. Cole (rcolemd.com) is fighting to make the public aware of.

• Immune suppression

• Increased cancer rates

• Reactivation of latent viruses

• 30,000 VAERS deaths, over a million adverse reactions

• All-cause mortality is higher in the jabbed

• Persists in the body for at least 60 days

  Dr. Ryan Cole: “This is a dangerous product with no track record being used willy-nilly on humanity for a virus that no longer exists [and] does nothing but cause increased disease in those who now get additional series of these shots.”

'Putting millions of 5G antennas w/o any biological test of safety is a heinous crime b/c 5G is a weapon Intended to Cause physical/psychological harm masquerading as a benign technological advance'

From [HERE] “Putting tens of millions of 5G antennas, without a single biological test of safety, has to be about the stupidest idea anyone has had in the history of the world” – Professor Martin Pall

Professor Pall is wrong, Mark Steele said in a 15-page report: “It is not a stupid idea but a heinous crime if one understands the motive behind this deployment. 5G is a compartmentalised weapons deployment masquerading as a benign technological advance for enhanced communications and faster downloads.”

“The 5G network has the capability to target acquire and attack the vaccinated due to their nano metamaterial antenna Covid-19 vaccine. Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) require the 5G networks to maintain their geo-position and navigate their environment to the target; these weapons cannot rely on satellite communications due to the potential for inclement weather events and signal latency to disrupt their signals so they must have localised 5G networks.”

Steele clarified the definition of a weapon, it’s “a device, tool, or action that has been fashioned to cause physical or psychological harm in breach of the primary legislation.”

“The compartmentalisation of weapons systems development has played a crucial role in not alerting those within the regulatory authorities and telecommunications industry to the real purpose and intentions of those ultimately driving and funding the deployment of 5G and biological chemical weapons masquerading as Covid-19 vaccines for a planned control and command kill grid.

“The world is blindly following the plans of the technocratic elite and the military-industrial-pharma complex to terminate large numbers within populations across the world with no regard to the primary legislation.

“5G is a weapon system, a crime against humanity so monstrous that even an educated person would find it unbelievable on first inspection of the facts. The prima facie evidence of this globalist depopulation agenda is unequivocal and should be tested in the courts so that the conspirators involved in this murderous plan can be brought to justice. This is the greatest crime ever to be perpetrated on mankind and all of God’s creation.”

Expert Report on Fifth Generation (5G) Directed Energy Radiation Emissions in the Context of Nanometal-contaminated Vaccines that include Covid-19 with Graphite Ferrous Oxide Antennas, Mark Steele, February 2021

Dr Russell Blaylock: 'Why would you tell people to take a vaccine that has killed 500,00 People? In the past, if a vaccine killed 50 people, they would pull the vaccine. But They Keep Promoting It'

Igor Chudov: Pfizer Injection Causes COVID Reinfections, Disables Natural Immunity

From [HERE] Reinfections in vaccinated (vs unvaccinated) people were never proven in a large official randomized controlled trial, until now. As you know, randomized controlled trials offer the gold standard of evidence: randomize people between a vaccine group and a placebo group, and see if the vaccine group does better than the placebo group. 

Fortunately, we have data from Pfizer’s own official trial submitted to the FDA. This randomized controlled trial concerns vaccinating young kids and proved beyond doubt that vaccination causes repeated reinfections. Look at Page 38:

What is that page saying? There were a total of 12 kids-participants who managed to get two COVID infections within the time frame of the trial. 11 of them were vaccine recipients and only one received no vaccine!

Say that again?

Out of 12 kids who had two COVID infections, only ONE was in the never-vaccinated group! 

Mind you, as the above passage says, all of these 12 reinfected children, never had Covid prior to the trial. So what caused vaccinated children to develop a disproportionate amount of repeat infections? The vaccine, of course. It is a randomized controlled trial, after all.

Thanks to Pfizer, we finally know that Covid reinfections are real and that their vaccine causes them by disabling natural immunity.

A little caveat is that Pfizer made the trial purposely complicated (because it is a resuscitated FAILED trial where they added one more booster dose and more kids). Pfizer vaccinated the control group. This complication somewhat affects the 6-23 months age category, but still shows obvious vaccine failure. 

The 2-4-year-old group is much less complicated: all reinfections happened in the vaccinated participants, five of six were from the first-vaccinated group. “All of these participants received 3 doses of assigned study intervention, except for one participant in the BNT162b2 group who received two doses”. We have a smoking gun that reinfections are vaccine driven. [MORE]

Do You Understand Racism? For the Past 140 Years 98% of All Black Individuals Have Worked for White Owned or Controlled Business, Government or Non-Profits. Serving Whites, Enriching Their Communities

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Racism White Supremacy - psychopathic degeneracy. 2) "The local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet earth—a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people." -Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, MD. Hate and oppression can never reign. Only love is supreme.

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). 

Senate LegisTraitors Advance bipartisan gun control law Making It More Difficult for Law Abiding Citizens Under 21 to Defend Themselves Against Uncontrollable Government Authority or Criminals

From [HERE] The US Senate Tuesday advanced a gun safety measure aiming to address and prevent gun violence by a vote of 64-to-34, clearing the way for further consideration of the bill.

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act aims to enact a variety of measures, including enhanced background checks for gun purchasers under 21 years of age, the implementation of state crisis intervention programs, and millions of dollars for school safety funding. It will also close the “boyfriend loophole,” which allowed people convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence that did not live with their victims to retain ownership of firearms.

Republican US Senator Pat Toomey spoke in support of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, stating that “[t]his bipartisan gun safety bill protects the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens while taking steps to make our communities safer.”

Similarly Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham said, “will help us avert a mass killing [rather] than prevent a law-abiding citizen from losing their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”

The bill will still need to pass both the US Senate and House of Representatives and be signed by the President in order to become law.

Avoid Hertz. Class Action Claims Hertz Keeps Falsely Accusing Its Customers of Car Theft and Issued Arrest Warrants To Cut Costs. 1 Plaintiff Spent 3 Months in Jail and Lost His Home and Business

From [HERE] and [HERE] New Jersey contractor Hanna “John” Ayoub paid $2,309 to extend the rental of a Dodge Ram from Hertz Car Rental at the Wilmington, Del., train station in April 2019. Unfortunately, in a twist that isn’t as rare as one might think, the transaction resulted in three months of jail time for Ayoub – along with the loss of his home, business and tools – after Hertz accused him of stealing the truck. 

“They said that they had no record of the extension on the vehicle despite speaking to them a day before and receiving confirmation,” Ayoub said. “Everything just turned into a nightmare from that point onward.”

Along with more than 180 former Hertz customers, Ayoub is now suing the company for $529.7 million in federal bankruptcy court. The plaintiffs claim that they were detained by police, arrested and sometimes sent to jail for “stealing” cars that they had legally rented. Hertz filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2020 to restructure its business and unload $19 billion in debt after the pandemic left the company with a fleet of 700,000 cars that nobody wanted to rent.

Hertz files roughly 3,365 stolen car reports on those who rented cars from the company each year. According to an Inc. report, Hertz released this number on Feb. 10 after the company lost a court motion to keep the records sealed to avoid a “competitive disadvantage.” The disadvantage Hertz is referring to is not that people might hesitate to rent cars from the company because of a potential theft charge. Instead, the company is worried that other rental car companies will use the information to figure out how it manages its inventory, the complaint alleges. 

As Hertz VP Michael Severance put it in court: 

I can imagine a scenario where, let’s say, they know the number of annual police reports that they file and now they know ours. Let’s say they file more or less than us, so they could interpret that to mean we have better front-end controls, for example, preventing thefts, and they could look for ways to improve their abilities to reduce thefts.

However, bankruptcy judge Mary Walrath was not impressed, and she demanded that Hertz release the number of theft-by-conversion reports it files on customers.

Most of these alleged “thefts” happen when a rental customer decides to extend their rental. According to the lawsuit, when the customer calls Hertz to request the extension, the company places a temporary hold on the card the customer used to rent the car. If the hold fails to go through because the customer is close to their credit card limit or has yet to pay their bill, Hertz reports the car stolen “by conversion.” 

However, unbeknownst to anyone other than Hertz, after the customer pays the bill and returns the car, the company does not withdraw the theft report, does not release the information to the public, and never notifies the customer that there was ever a problem. In addition, Hertz failed to validate and verify the information for arrest reports to reduce costs, essentially “letting the police find the cars it has lost,” according to the lawsuit.

That’s what happened in 2007 to Pennsylvania salesman Brent Williams, who rented a Ford Mustang from Hertz in Florida. After driving the car for two months, he was arrested for theft, even though he had proof that he had paid $600 a week to use the car. When no lawyer showed up to represent Hertz at the court hearing, Williams assumed that the matter had been dropped until 2016, when a trooper found the outstanding warrant for the theft of the Mustang when he pulled Williams over for a traffic violation in Pennsylvania. After he spent 30 days in jail the charges were finally dropped, but Williams received no apology from Hertz. “They kept me shackled the entire time,” he said. “It’s almost like being kidnapped.”

Hertz says it cares deeply about its customers, but apparently finds it less expensive to pay settlements than to fix a computer system that fails to track rental payments and instead lands dozens of customers in jail. Hertz insists that only a very small – “tiny, tiny” – fraction of its police reports results in the arrest of innocent people. However, lawsuits have been piling up against the company related to conversion arrests for over a decade, meaning that thousands of customers could have been arrested and jailed for no reason other than legally extending their rental agreements with Hertz.