White Judge Finds No Intent to Murder: A White Cop Said “I'm going to fucking choke you out" and Applied Chokehold for 40 Seconds After Antonio Valenzuela Started to Snore, Crushing his Adam's Apple

“A major strategy in the war against the Black collective is the killing of Black males. Black males are being killed daily, in ever-increasing numbers, across the country. Other as non-white males also are being killed in ever-increasing numbers. These Black and other non-white males are being killed by white males in uniforms who have been authorized to carry guns. This particular form of murder and slaughter is called justifiable homicide.”

From [HERE] A racist suspect trial judge in New Mexico on Thursday cleared a former police officer who was accused of killing a man by using a chokehold technique, a practice that has come under intense scrutiny in recent years amid calls for police reform.

The former officer, Christopher Smelser of the Las Cruces Police Department, had faced a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Antonio Valenzuela, 40, after the father of four fled from officers in February 2020 during a traffic stop in Las Cruces, a city about 45 miles west of El Paso.

Officers gave chase and fired their stun guns twice. However, the tasers did not connect. Smelser deployed it again, and misses again, in the early part of the chase.

Valenzuela runs to a chain-link fence and climbs over it. Smelser tries to grab Valenzuela on the fence but is unable to pull him down. Smelser, who loses his Taser at this point, also climbs over the fence.

On the other side of the fence, about 24 seconds after the chase began, Valenzuela begins fighting with Smelser and Tuton. The fight goes to the ground.

About a minute into the fight, Smelser gets control and tries to apply a vascular neck restraint and says: "Alright, you know what? I'm going to f***ing choke you out, bro." 

About 35 seconds later, Smelser seems to get a better hold. Forty seconds after that, Valenzuela can be heard snoring. Another 40 seconds elapse before Smelser lets go.

Valenzuela never regains consciousness. Valenzuela’s Adam's apple was crushed, he had swelling in the brain, fractured ribs and damaged blood vessels in his eyes consistent with strangulation. [MORE]

After hearing arguments from the defense and prosecutors on Thursday in a trial that began on Monday, Judge Douglas Driggers of Third Judicial District Court dismissed the charge against Mr. Smelser, 29, who could have faced up to 15 years in prison had he been convicted.

“The issue before the court is whether or not substantial evidence has been presented to this jury to show that this defendant intended to commit a crime,” Judge Driggers said in court after hearing arguments, according to The Las Cruces Sun News. “That intent was to cause the death or great bodily injury of the victim.”

Judge Driggers said there was insufficient evidence and dismissed the case, the newspaper reported.

Hector Balderas, New Mexico’s attorney general, whose office prosecuted the case, said in a statement that Judge Driggers “got it wrong by not allowing the jury to rule on the evidence of the illegal chokehold.”

“The judge’s decision today essentially acquits Smelser without the opportunity for the empaneled jury of Smelser’s peers to consider the evidence against him,” he said.

The Symbolism, Logic and Meaning of "Justifiable Homicide" in the system of racism white supremacy

The Las Cruces Police Department declined to comment on Mr. Smelser’s acquittal, but said previously in a statement that the neck restraint used on Mr. Valenzuela was prohibited immediately after the episode.

At Smelser's preliminary hearing convenes with nearly four hours of testimony, including from one of LCPD's defensive tactics trainers, who claims the circumstances regarding Smelser's run-in with Valenzuela did not warrant him being placed in a vascular neck restraint and that Smelser placed him in the chokehold incorrectly. [MORE]

The City of Las Cruces settled with Mr. Valenzuela’s family in late 2020, agreeing to pay $6.5 million and make numerous policy changes for the Police Department, including banning chokeholds and immediately firing any officer who violates the policy.

Mr. Smelser, who was with the department for four years, was fired from the force in June 2020 after Mr. Valenzuela’s autopsy report was released, the department said. Fuck the police.

Mizael Corrales was Not a Threat or Under Arrest When White San Diego Cops Murdered Him. Latino Man Fatally Shot 15X as He Backed Away from Cops in Car. Lawsuit Filed, Family Wants Charges

From [HERE] 31-year old Mizael Corrales was pulled over in a strip mall in San Ysidro under suspicion of driving a stolen Mercedes.  The Sheriff’s Department says two passengers complied with a deputy’s orders to step out of the vehicle, but Corrales did not.

Edited body camera video from the sheriff’s department shows officers at the driver’s side of the vehicle attempting to get Corrales out. The video shows the car backing away as the deputies are tossed to the ground. 

One of the deputies got back on his feet and began firing his gun at Corrales as he put the car into drive. Thirteen shots were fired. Corrales was killed.

Corrales was the father of three. He was an Uber driver, according to his family and the car he was driving belonged to a friend. They claim it was not stolen. He was also a musician who played piano every Sunday at the Apostolic church Casa de Dios in Chula Vista, where his father is a pastor.

Nearly five months to the day after his death, Corrales’ parents stood outside headquarters for the San Diego County Sheriff to announce the hiring of some high-powered lawyers to sue the department and secure justice for their family.

“He was pulling away from officers,” said Bakari Sellers, who is part of a team of attorneys handling this case. “When we looked at the video one of the things we saw was that Mr. Corrales was no threat to anyone. He was beyond the officers. The officer could not have been in any type of fear for his life, for safety.”

Sellers said Deputy Anthony Garcia, who fired the shots, should be held accountable. “This officer of 16 years does not need to be on the streets right now. We are asking for a thorough investigation into the matter," said Sellers, who also wants a thorough investigation into the department’s policies and procedures which he called “draconian."

Civil rights lawyer John Burris, who has represented Rodney King and Tupac Shakur, said, “The officer basically gave a death warrant to a man who they suspected may have been involved in a stolen car. A stolen car is not a basis upon which to kill someone.”

Burris added that he believes a criminal investigation should be launched into the deputies’ actions.

Corrales’ mother wiped away tears, saying in Spanish that her son was treated like an animal. Her husband Jose Corrales said he suffers from nightmares since his son’s death. Jose Corrales works for the city of San Diego at a cemetery. He claims he had to dig the grave of his son. “Me. The father. I shouldn’t be through that, but I have been going through pain and suffering, and I just want answers.” 

Jose Corrales says the Sheriff’s Department is “lying to him” and no longer returns his phone calls.

NBC 7 reached out to the San Diego County Sheriff to get their take on the accusations, but they declined to comment due to pending litigation.

San Diego Police conducted the initial investigation into the shooting. They have now turned the case over to the San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan. A spokesperson for the DA said the case is still under review.

The modern US Border Patrol is a national police force with dangerous capabilities, author warns

From [HERE] In Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States, geographer Reece Jones argues that Supreme Court precedent, a growing workforce and mission creep have made the U.S. Border Patrol a national police force that operates without appropriate accountability.

In this episode of the Modern Law Library, Jones and the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles discuss the creation of the U.S. Border Patrol in 1924 in the wake of racist immigration laws. Jones shares how a “Wild West” mentality thrived within the service in its early years; how language restricting the Border Patrol’s actions to within a “reasonable” distance resulted in a 100-mile border zone; and how two California public defenders in the 1970s brought four critical cases before the U.S. Supreme Court that dealt a heavy blow to Fourth Amendment rights in the border zone.

Jones describes how the original mission of the Border Patrol to curtail illegal immigration expanded to include drug searches and anti-terrorism missions. That mission creep resulted in Border Patrol agents snatching protestors off the streets of Portland, Oregon, during protests after the killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020.

They also discuss how Border Patrol checkpoints could potentially be used in states that criminalize abortions to control and monitor the travel of pregnant people within the 100-mile border zone. [MORE]

$7.5M Settlement in Jemel Roberson's Case, Murdered by Police After He Stopped a Real Mass Shooting at a Bar. White Cop Pretended He Didn't Know Black Man was a Security Guard, Shot Him in the Back 4X

From [HERE] The Village of Midlothian has arrived at a $7.5 million payout to settle a wrongful death lawsuit in the shooting of Jemel Roberson, a Black security guard outside a Robbins nightclub in 2018, the Chicago Tribune reports. 

On Nov. 11, 2018 racist suspect Midlothian police officer, Ian Covey, shot the black security guard as he was detaining a suspected gunman who opened fire at the bar where he worked. The security guard, 26-year-old Roberson, stopped a mass shooting at the bar and was killed after the incident was over. Four people were shot and wounded by the gunman before Roberson stopped him. [MORE]

The shooting outside Manny's Blue Room Lounge has drawn national headlines, outrage and questions about whether race factored into the officer’s decision to open fire. Roberson was black. The officer is white.

Roberson was armed and licensed to carry a gun. He apprehended the gunman outside the bar, pinned him down and was waiting for police help when a responding officer from Midlothian arrived. 

Police say the officer ordered Roberson to drop his gun. Witnesses say they shouted at Covey that Roberson was a security guard. Roberson was wearing a hat emblazoned with the word “security” when he was shot. Mr. Roberson, who was licensed to carry a firearm, was holding the man at gunpoint.

The person Roberson apprehended had allegedly fired a weapon inside the bar moments earlier, wounding multiple people and drawing Covey and police officers from surrounding jurisdictions to rush to the establishment.

“I hear some people say he was shot,” Ms. Roberson said. “My son was not shot. My son was murdered.”

In October 2020, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, a Black rolebotic servant of white supremacy, declined to press charges against the officer.

Roberson's family filed a federal lawsuit against the Village and the then-unnamed officer, accusing the officer of using excessive force, and claiming the officer's decision to shoot Roberson was unreasonable, unprovoked, and unjustified. In October 2020, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx declined to press charges against the officer.

IsrAlien Authorities Caught Hiding Children's COVID Injection Injuries. Leaked documents show government keeping data from public while approving children’s boosters

From [HERE] Children aged 5-11 are suffering vaccine injuries, including neurological adverse events, at about 6 times the rate of 12-17 year old children. 

Raw data - 2x the injury rate of teens

Israel’s Ministry of Health commissioned a study analyzing reports of adverse events from Pfizer's COVID vaccine to the nation’s vaccine database, known as the Nahlieli system, between December 2021 and May 2022. The research team was headed by Professor Matti Berkowitz, director of the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit at Assaf Harofeh Hospital (Shamir).

In raw numbers, Berkowitz found that children in the 5-11 age group had twice as many adverse events following the Pfizer shot as children in the 12-17 age group. That doubling of vaccine injuries is, in itself, extremely disturbing, and should have been immediately brought to the attention of the nation’s parents.

Worse - 6x the injury rate of teens

Unfortunately, the doubling of adverse events is only the beginning of the bad news. Dr. Yaffa Shir-Raz, a health and risk communication researcher at the University of Haifa and at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya), notes that the 2-dose immunization rate for 5-11 year olds is less than 18%, while older children have rates of 55-72% (3-4 times higher).

All things being equal, the young children would thus be expected to have ⅓-¼ of the number of adverse events experienced by the older children, not twice as many. This means that the adverse event rate for young children is actually 6-8 times that of the older children, i.e., at 600-800% of the baseline injury rate!

While there are slightly more children in the 5-11 year old group than in the 12-17 age group, it does not come close to accounting for the mind blowing rate increase in the younger group.

New vaccine injuries not included in Pfizer's leaflet

The findings by Professor Berkowitz were presented to the Ministry of Health’s Department of Epidemiology about three weeks ago, in early June 2022, together with graphs depicting the severity of the data, broken down by injury types, as well as additional alarming information: 

. . . the team identified and characterized neurological symptoms that were not previously known and are not mentioned in the physician's leaflet of Pfizer's Comirnaty vaccine, including Hypoesthesia (partial or complete decrease in skin sensitivity), Paraesthesia (abnormal skin sensation such as numbness, tingling, stinging or burning), tinnitus, dizziness and more. [Emphasis added].

Changes to menstrual cycle are long-lasting

Dr. Shir-Raz reports that Pfizer representatives have claimed to have “no knowledge of long-term adverse events.” The research team found, however, that many side-effects of the vaccine are indeed long-term. In the case of changes to the menstrual cycle, 90% of the women reported the change to be long-lasting. Thus,

the research team made it clear to the Department of Epidemiology that Pfizer needed to be notified regarding the long-term adverse events identified. [Emphasis added].

Pfizer should be informed, but not the public?

What you don’t know can hurt you

When some three weeks passed without the Health Ministry making these findings public, those privy to the information became concerned that parents were not being given the information necessary to act with “informed consent” in determining whether to inject their own children. 

Leaked documents

The concerned individuals then leaked the data and graphs, which eventually came into the hands of the Professional Ethics Front, an independent Israeli group of physicians, lawyers, scientists, and researchers, who “aim to address the ethical issues related to the COVID-19 crisis in Israeli society.” This watchdog group addressed a letter and follow up correspondence to the official State Comptroller of Israel, Matanyahu Englman, a Knesset appointee charged with overseeing the legality and ethical conduct of public sector institutions:

The findings have been brought to our attention, and they are serious and indicate a risk to children, and in particular to young children aged 5-11 … 

The group argued that the information should be disclosed, even if the data is still expected to go through additional analysis,

Out of fear that there is a blatant violation of parents' right to informed consent, and because it constitutes gross negligence, and puts children and infants at risk”. 

Too busy to respond?

Despite Israeli law making it clear that the State Comptroller act independently of the executive branch, they have not responded in any way to the group’s requests, prompting the group to file a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) to get the full report to the public with an acknowledgement of its authenticity. This delay in response comes even as Israel has just approved booster shots for young children and stands poised to add babies and toddlers to the COVID vaccination schedule.

Matches previous reports on danger to small children

This passive monitoring analysis (based on reports initiated by parents) matches the alarming findings from an active monitoring study of adverse events in children aged 5-11 in Israel (tracking every child in the study), which “also demonstrated acute safety signals.”

Matches findings of danger to babies

If small children are having difficulty absorbing the contents of the COVID vaccines, one might expect babies and toddlers to also face dangers from the injections That is just what Dr. Shir-Raz found in an analysis she conducted with her colleague Ranit Feinberg, of Pfizer data on children under 4:

. . . contrary to the FDA's briefing document claiming that the majority of adverse events in Pfizers' clinical trial were non-serious – at least 58 cases of life-threatening side effects in infants under 3 years old who received mRNA vaccines were reported. For some, it is unclear if they survived …

Shir-Raz found the most common serious adverse events to be

life-threatening bleeding, anaphylactic shock, anticholinergic syndrome, encephalitis, hypoglycemia and neuroleptic syndrome. In most of the reported cases, these are multi-system injuries.

In one egregious case, with no indication of whether the baby was enrolled in a Pfizer experiment and lacking any other explanation about how a baby just a few weeks old received the COVID shot, Shir-Raz reports,

"Chest pain; cardiac arrest; Skin cold clammy". This short description of a cardiac arrest, which occurred one hour after receiving a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, is taken from the VAERS system - the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (case number 1015467), and it does not refer to an elderly person, nor to a young adult, or even a teenager. It is hard to believe, but this report refers to a two-month-old baby.

Ominously, this infant’s outcome is labelled unknown. 

This case was reported as serious with seriousness criteria-life threatening from HA. No follow-up attempts possible. No further information expected.

Macron's Minority Government Defeated on Genocidal "Vaccine" Passports

From [HERE] French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a humiliating setback in parliament after his vaccine passport scheme was defeated.

Macron's minority government wanted to extend the policy whereby anyone entering France has to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test.

However, the right-wing populist National Rally (RN), the hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) and the right-wing Republicains (LR) all united to vote against the policy.

Macron's government lost the vote by a margin of 219 votes to 195.

"The bill's defeat was met with wild cheering and a standing ovation from opposition lawmakers, in footage that was widely circulated on social media," reports the Telegraph.

The bill was one of the first put to parliament by the new minority government, highlighting how Macron will find it incredibly difficult to get new laws passed in the country. Elisabeth Borne, the French Prime Minister, condemned the vote.

"The situation is serious. By joining together to vote against the measures to protect the French against Covid, LFI, LR and RN prevent any border control against the virus. After the disbelief on this vote, I will fight so that the spirit of responsibility wins in the Senate," she tweeted.

As we previously highlighted, the French Minister of Health admitted that vaccine passports are a "disguised" form of mandatory vaccines, despite President Macron claiming vaccine mandates "will not be compulsory."

On the first day the new program was in place, police in Paris were visibly patrolling bars and cafes demanding customers show proof they've had the jab.

Mark Zuckerberg Caught on Video Warning COVID Injections are experimental and 'we don’t know the long-term side-effects of modifying people’s DNA and RNA and if it causes mutations, other risks'

From [HERE] A leaked video of Meta Platforms, Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed him cautioning his inner circle of the unproven effects of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines he called “experimental gene technology.”

Aware of the unsubstantiated curing effects and potential dangers of the vaccines, the tech giant chief felt compelled to alert his people regarding the shots on July 16, 2020 – five months before the initial rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.

“I just want to make sure that I share some caution on this [vaccine] because we just don’t know the long-term side-effects of basically modifying people’s DNA and RNA to directly encode in a person’s DNA and RNA basically the ability to produce those antibodies and whether that causes other mutations or other risks downstream,” Zuckerberg said in the leaked video, which was taken during an internal meeting at Facebook (FB).

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe noted during the release of the video last year that Zuckerberg would have been “censored on the platform” if what he said to his staff in July was posted on Facebook. He would be “basically violating his own code of conduct,” O’Keefe said.

“It is yet another case of ‘one rule for thee, and another for me’ that the elite use to control the masses,” news website News Punch said.

Back in 2019, the media magnate spoke in front of students at Georgetown Universityabout the importance of protecting free expression. He highlighted his belief that giving everyone a voice gives power to the powerless and pushes society to be better over time– a belief that is at the core of Facebook, he said.However, the freedom to express has been throttled on Facebook and the other major social media platforms in recent years.

Meta had censored 20 million posts since start of pandemic

Last year, FB and Instagram (IG), which is also under the Meta Platforms umbrella, banned major groups, accounts and IG pages for speaking out and raising concerns and doubts about the vaccines’ adverse effects.

According to a Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report last year, FB removed 65 of its own and 243 IG accounts for spreading “misinformation” about the COVID-19 vaccines. They have removed more than 20 million individual posts since the start of the pandemic.

In an interview with CBS in August last year, TV anchor Gayle King asked Zuckerberg to release information on how many people have viewed and shared FB posts containing misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine.

He admitted that FB has removed millions of posts containing misinformation from their website, but failed to answer when pressed by the host on how many people viewed or shared these posts.

“I think, to some degree, there are also different definitions that people have over what misinformation is. A lot of the stuff that’s actually the hardest for us to really address is not what I would call ‘misinformation’ but instead another category that I would call ‘hesitancy,'” he said at the time. (Related: House Republicans demand Zuckerberg surrender all communications with Fauci over covid-19 and “vaccine hesitancy” censorship.)

One of the well-known personalities that have been banned from social media is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer who emerged as one of the most influential voices during the early days of the pandemic.

Kennedy Jr., who describes himself as a vaccine safety advocate, was not impressed with Bill Gates’ track record of pushing vaccines on vulnerable populations, causing serious health problems in some cases. Subsequently, Meta “fact-checkers” banned Kennedy Jr. from Instagram for speaking out about vaccine safety.

Activist says The World Economic Forum and Bill Gates are Buying Up Dutch Farmland to Make People Dependent on Government. Farmers are Ungovernable b/c they are self-sustaining and own lots of land

From [HERE] The WEF Great Reset global leaders are rushing to implement their sinister agenda because the plan is to have everything in place 2030 – Agenda 2030. The following clip and summary come from an interview by Ezra Levant of Rebel News with a Dutch activist. She discusses the Nitrogen Policy pushed by the World Economic Forum, and its role in stealing farmland. Don’t underestimate Bill Gates’ role either.

The Netherlands doesn’t need a Nitrogen Policy. It isn’t a crisis and nitrogen isn’t a problem. Holland is a small country surrounded by larger countries that don’t have to abide by a Nitrogen Policy. The real reason for the policy is the Dutch government wants the land.

Farmers are ungovernable in the sense that they are self-sustaining and own a lot of land.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte is very deeply embedded in The Great Reset of the World Economic Forum.

The Dutch minister who has pushed this nitrogen law has a brother-in-law who owns the Dutch online supermarket called PICNIC.

Bill Gates invested 600 million Euros in PICNIC last year. PICNIC is building the most sustainable European supermarket.

The WEF Great Resetters are rushing now because the plan is to have this all done by 2030 – Agenda 2030.

The elite “see a future for us where we are completely dependent on the State, eat bugs, they own your land, you own nothing and you’ll be happy is what they say.”

They want the Dutch dependent. They also plan to use some of the lands for asylum seekers. They push open borders. Agenda 2030 is the New World Order.

The North Dakota Attorney General is Investigating a Land Transaction Involving One of the Biggest Farmland Owners in the US; Bill Gates. Why is this Psychopath Buying Farmland?

From [HERE] Bill Gates has no benevolent bone in his body, so why is he loading up on American farmland? The manufactured food crisis has been in development for several years, giving him plenty of time to position himself for maximum return: When food prices skyrocket, as they are now, Gates will reap a windfall. ⁃ TN Editor

The North Dakota Attorney General’s office is investigating a land transaction involving one of the biggest farmland owners in America, billionaire Bill Gates.

In a letter dated June 21, Attorney General Drew Wrigley’s office asked the Red River Trust, an entity connected to Gates, about a recent purchase of a multi-thousand-acre potato farm, according to local news KFYR.

Wrigley’s office informed the trust that all corporations or limited liability companies are strictly “prohibited from owning or leasing farmland or ranchland in the state of North Dakota” and “engaging in farming or ranching.”

“In addition, the law places certain limitations on the ability of trusts to own farmland or ranchland,” the letter said.

Red River Trust has 30 days to respond from June 21 to Kerrie Helm, the AG’s Corporate Farming Enforcement Division, about the farm purchase.

“Our office needs to confirm how your company uses this land and whether this use meets any of the statutory exceptions, such as the business purpose exception, so that we may close this case and file it in our inactive files,” the letter continued.

A corporation or LLC “found in violation” of the anti-corporate farming laws could face harsh penalties, such as a $100k fine and one year to divest the land.

AgWeek revealed the trust spent $13.5 million on a 2,100-acre potato farm in Pembina County in November 2021.

Over the years, Gates has quietly amassed 270,000 acres of farmland across the country through personal investment vehicles, though still a small slice of the nearly 900 million total farm acres.

Gates isn’t alone. Other billionaires, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, have recently increased farmland holdings.

Could this be why billionaires are buying so much farmland?

Are Sheeple Losing the Right to Choose Their Masters? Coincidence Theorists believe the Removal of Puppeticians in Sri Lanka, UK and Japan Last Weekend was Spontaneous, No Such thing as The Pathocracy

According to FUNKTIONARY

territorial gangsters – individuals (masquerading as “the State” so-called) who skillfully use fraud, coercion, and terror to claim “jurisdiction” (so-called) over their victims who happen to be in some geographic territory. Territorial gangsters brainwash their victims (the pixelated populace) so that they will work for them not only like slaves but actually as slaves. (See: Stationary Bandits, Statutory Oppression, Jurisdiction, Allegiance, Involuntary Servitude, Slave & Tyrant-Paradigm)

coincidence theories – the naïve belief that problems (and solutions to them) happen spontaneously, that nothing is ever foreseen, plotted, planned or conspired through collusion by the wealthy and powerful. (See: Pathocracy, Fronts, Predictive Programming, Conspiracy Theories, Laws, Technetronic Age, WARS & Council on Foreign Relations)

“wet jobs” – black operations Intelligence cover name denoting a covert political operation where bloodshed is required. 2) FBI Hostage Murder Team. U.S. Army Special Forces, attached to the Phoenix Project / Operation, obey orders to “destabilize targeted governments by murdering government officials, elites, professionals, bankers, military leaders, teachers, professors and medical professionals.” America now uses FBI Division 5, CIA Division 4, and elements from within the Department of Defense (DOD) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for its dirty work called “wetworks” operations where assasinations are carried out on behalf of the psychopathic controlling elite and their interlocking families and crime syndicates. “America is also a country of assassinations of our countrymen...OUR countrymen...” ~James Baldwin. Black operatives along with badged assassins use trap and kill zones setup in advance designed to trap and kill anyone entering it. When bullets are hitting your conveyance before you even have a chance to react then that’s a kill zone. “Find your line—make a stand. Don’t give up! It matters how you stand.” ~Challice Finicum. When you read and truly understand the implications of the Public Rights Doctrine, Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14th Amendment, Corporate Person hood, Nationality Act, US v. Babcock, Adminstrative Procedures Act, and others, you will realize that the republic was overthrown via legislation. Act is if you are free and you will be reminded that you are not and be me with the force continuum. May the Force be With You instead! (See: CIA, FBI, Black Flask Brigade, Force Continuum, Jackals, Free-Range Slavery, Government, Murder, Violence, Police State, Tyranny, Injustice & Bush Family Crime Syndicate)

Does the Illuminati Really have 'Every Part of Your Body Bugged' or Has the Secret Society Been Replaced by More Sinister Motherfuckers? The Illuminati Defined in FUNKTIONARY

According to FUNKTIONARY

The Illuminati – the Order of Illumined Ones, called by different names in different times as far back as thousands upon thousands of years into the mists of antiquity, organized to be masters over the masters of the world through coordinated secretive, pathological, and all unscrupulous means. Contrary to popular disinformation, Adam Weisphaut did not start the Illuminati in 1776, as you had the Jesuit Ignatius Loyola and his jolly band of outlaws in the 1500’s being members of the “Alumbrados” or the “Illumined Ones” in Spain. They were a remnant of the Knights Templars who were murderously disbanded and driven underground. The thousand points of light as espoused by George Bush, Sr., is veiled Illuminati allegory for the thousand secret societies acting independently but serving one goal at the top. These Europeans used to call Isis the goddess of a thousand faces. This is high occultic Masonry above your lowly Blue Lodges and Scottish Rite variety. All “governments” and so-called judicial systems within them service the accounts and the Agenda of the Pathocracy. They served the Pathocracy at the top of the Capstone. The original order was actually all about individual prosperity and meritocracy, not global tyranny. The Illuminati, today, is merely an archetype of this intent and blueprint. They no longer exist as a functioning secret society. There are individuals and cabals collaborating for your continued oppression, but it isn’t the historical Illuminati. (See: Knights Templars, Skull & Bones, Pathocracy, The Capstone, CrimethInc., BOOLANY, Law, Greater System, The Matrix, Gangbanking, Justice, Holodeck Court, Racism White Supremacy, Wallflower Order, Freemasonry, Agenda 21, Philanthropy, Checking Account, Monetary System & OWL)

After Shooting a Defenseless Black Man 60 Times, Fragile Akron Cops Play the Victim Role: Police Chief Instructs Cops to Stop Wearing Name Tags Due to Threats (of Accountability)

From [HERE] During Thursday's press briefing to address the police officer involved fatal shooting of 25-year-old Jayland Walker, Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett was asked about reports that officers in the city are no longer wearing badges or name tags.

And while Mylett said that officers are still wearing badges, he did admit that he has instructed officers to remove their name tags due to threats stemming from Walker's shooting.

"Every officer is wearing a badge. I authorized them to take their name tags off because of the threats that were made against our officers and the bounties that were placed on officers' heads," Mylett said. "People were getting their names off of their uniforms, getting on social media and elsewhere and going into our Facebook page here in the police department to identify, get a picture, send that picture and that image out into the public. In some instances, they got family photographs and put it out on social media. But because of the threats that were made against our officers, I authorized them to take off their name tags."

Mylett said that any officer who is asked for his or her identifying information is directed to provide their employee number and if the person was not satisfied with that, a supervisor would be summoned to the scene to deal with the situation. [MORE]

PROJECTION AS A WAY OF LIFE FOR AUTHORITARIANS AND RACISTS. The "War on Cops" is a belief system unsupported by facts. Contrary to authoritarian propaganda designed to control thought and manufacture false relations, multiple studies reveal that it is safer than ever to be a police officer! The number of line-of-duty deaths has declined dramatically over the last five decades. Policing is a much safer profession now than it was 50 years ago. Despite a 75% drop in deaths, however, there has been remarkable stability in geographic-, temporal-, and incident-level characteristics. Also, several notable changes over time reflect favorably on improved safety in policing, such as declines in deaths resulting from aircraft crashes and accidental gunfire. Other trends are troubling, though, such as the stability in deaths during auto pursuits and a two-fold increase in deaths from vehicular assaults.

The number of deaths continues to drop despite a few high-profile incidents in which cops were targeted and killed. What's interesting is officers' lack of concern for their own safety, as is evidenced by the numbers of deaths related to vehicle pursuits.

In reality cops are more like to kill themselves than to be killed by citizens. As the number of officers killed in the line of duty decreased, the number of cops taking their own lives has increased. The website Blue H.E.L.P. (Honor. Educate. Lead. Prevent.) has been tracking these numbers for years in an attempt to prevent police officer suicides.

Cops are killing themselves at a rate nearly equal to 4 times the rate they are dying in the line of duty and this subject seems entirely taboo. Last year, it was nearly five times higher.

A report commissioned by the Ruderman Family Foundation showed that officers’ highest risk of death is by suicide with most deaths in California and Texas. [MORE]

Authority and freedom cannot co-exist. If a “public servant," such as a police officer, is uncontrollable, unaccountable, can’t be hired or fired by you, has irresponsible power over you and provides a compulsory “service” then he is actually your Master. Lysander Spooner, stated “It is of no importance that I appointed him, and put all power in his hands. If I made him uncontrollable by me, and irresponsible to me, he is no longer my servant, agent, attorney, or representative. If I gave him absolute, irresponsible power over my property, I gave him the property. If I gave him absolute, irresponsible power over myself, I made him my master, and gave myself to him as a slave. And it is of no importance whether I called him master or servant, agent or owner. The only question is, what power did I put into his hands? Was it an absolute and irresponsible one? or a limited and responsible one?”

Unarmed Black Man fleeing on foot Massacred by an army of lathered-up, barbaric white cops. Cops claim he failed to pull over for an unknown traffic violation, so they went on a manic chase. Cops Claim he fired a gun while driving - but have no tangible evidence that a gun was discharged. Nor did they say who they believed he shot at. He was unarmed and posed no threat as he fled from cops on foot. He was not wanted for a felony - it was a traffic violation. Cops never saw a gun because it was on his car seat, out of view at all times from the killers.

Jayland was murdered for failing to comply with an order to pull over and an order to remain in his vehicle or to stop. In other words, he was murdered for failing to comply with authority. All laws or commands by authorities are threats backed by the ability and willingness to use violence/force against those who disobey. The reality is simply obey authority or go to jail or be murdered. Fool yourself if you want to, but there is nothing consensual or voluntary in our legal system. The legal system is entirely based on and anchored in physical coercion, violence.

Authority is not real, it is simply a belief. Authority is the belief in the government’s implied right to rule over people in the first place. Authority is the belief that some people have the legal and moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have a legal and moral obligation to obey.’ Michael Huemer defines political authority as “the hypothesized moral property in virtue of which governments may coerce people in certain ways not permitted to anyone else and in virtue of which citizens must obey governments in situations in which they would not be obligated to obey anyone else.”

In real life authority is a granfalloon, an unreality. FUNKTIONARY explains Authority “has no meaning in reality,” it “is the means by which society uses to control its population.” Authority is a “cartoon” or an “image of law” because among other things the social contract is a lie told to you by your masters. Consequently, there is no rational justification for anyone or entity to rule over other human beings. Authority is rule through coercion.” Coercion here means physical force. “Laws” are threats backed by the ability and willingness to use violence/force against those who disobey. Huemer explains ‘the legal system is anchored by a non-voluntary intervention, a harm that the state can impose regardless of the individual’s choices.’ The only actual choice authority presents to citizens is to obey commands and laws or go to jail. Locke states, “The lie of tyranny is that you will maintain the freedom of life by obeying authority. The choices it offers you are a lifetime of obedience or death.”

[Disarming law-abiding people makes it easier for criminals to commit crime Everywhere but in The Spectacle] Data shows States with higher rate of gun ownership don't correlate with more gun murders

From [HERE] Calls have rung out across the nation demanding gun control laws in a bid to curb violent crimes such as the recent series of mass shootings. Data, however, show that in states with higher percentages of households with at least one gun, crimes are not higher than in states with strict gun laws. 

"Gun ownership is higher in states with fewer restrictions, and homicide rates in these states are lower. People can protect themselves," George Mason University Professor Emerita Joyce Lee Malcolm told Fox News Digital of what she's found through her research. Malcolm pointed to a study on burglars from 1986 that found 34% of burglars interviewed reported "to having been scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim."

Fox News Digital compiled FBI data from 2019 detailing murders and gun murders per 100,000 population for most states, as well as assembled Rand Corporation data released in 2020 showing the percentage of households with at least one firearm in 2016. The data does not reflect the skyrocketing violent crimes of 2020 and likely undercounts the current percentages of homes with at least one firearm as it does not reflect the influx of Americans who rushed to arm themselves in 2020. 

The data show that many states with higher percentages of gun ownership had lower or similar murder and gun murder rates to states with strict gun control. Montana and Wyoming came in the top spots for states with the highest percentages of gun ownership, with more than 66% of households with at least one firearm. However, the states also saw murder and gun murder rates similar to states with strict gun laws. 

In 2019, Montana recorded 1.5 gun murders per 100,000 population and 2.5 murders per 100,000 population. In Massachusetts - which tied with New Jersey for lowest gun ownership in the country at 14.7% of households with at least one gun - the state saw similar murder rates to Montana, at 1.25 gun murders per 100,000 people and 2.12 murders per the same population. 

In California, where just over 28% of households had at least one gun in 2016, there was a rate of more than four people murdered per 100,000 population and nearly three gun murders per 100,000 population in 2019. While in Maryland, where about 30% of households owned at least one firearm, according to 2016 data, murders per 100,000 population jumped to roughly nine, while more than seven people per 100,000 were victims of gun murders. 

Fox News Digital examined gun ownership in the U.S. in 2010 and found it was at about the same levels as in 2016. Gun ownership spiked in 2020 during the pandemic amid the summer's riots and protests, partially driven by first-time gun owners from different racial and political backgrounds. Gun sales have also spiked in states with strict gun laws, such as California, with firearm store owners in the Los Angeles area last year attributing the sales to the increase in violent crimes. 

John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, examined the data compiled by Fox News Digital and said that though "graphs making comparisons across places are very common," "they are too simplistic as they don't account for many other reasons that crime rates can vary (such as law enforcement, drug gang problems, demographic, and cultural differences)."

He advised looking at a singular place over time to see how crime rates change "as gun ownership rates change and to compare them in many different places." He noted that there are places around the world that "have banned either all guns or all handguns, yet every single time that those bans have been enacted, murder/homicide rates have gone up."

"The explanation is simple: while you might take some guns away from criminals, if you primarily have law-abiding people obeying the ban, you mainly disarm law-abiding people and make it easier for criminals to commit crime," he said. 

A series of recent mass shootings rocked the U.S. and rekindled calls from elected officials and activists to enact gun control measures. [MORE]

More Legal Guns Reduced Crime in Brazil. Homicide Fell 34% after Government Made Firearms Permits Easier and Cheaper for Law Abiding Citizens to Obtain

From [HERE] “Lives are on the line,” President Biden said after the Supreme Court held New York state’s restrictive gun-permit regime unconstitutional last week. Gov. Kathy Hochul warned: “This could place millions of New Yorkers in harm’s way.” Brazil’s experience suggests otherwise.

In 2018, the year before Jair Bolsonaro became president, Brazil had one of the highest homicide rates among developed countries: 27.8 per 100,000 people, compared with 5 per 100,000 in the U.S. Mr. Bolsonaro’s solution: “Give guns to good people. Let people have guns so that they have the chance to defend themselves.”

In Brazil black-market firearms are widely available to criminals, and 70% of murders in 2019 involved guns. When Mr. Bolsonaro took office, there were about 330,000 licensed firearm owners in Brazil. At the time, according to the BBC, “only strictly defined groups of people, including police and security officials are able to obtain a gun license.” In 2019, when Mr. Bolsonaro’s many changes began taking effect, Brazil added more than 400,000 licensed firearm owners. 

During his presidential campaign, critics said he had it dangerously wrong. A Bloomberg Opinion writer scoffed: “It’s hard to buy the current proposals championed by gun lobbyists and a few political yahoos who aim to make Brazil safer by slackening controls.”The New York Times wrote in a news story that his proposals were “worrying some experts who argue that more guns fuel more violence.”

Brazil’s pre-2019 laws looked like the wish list of American gun-control advocates. Owning a gun without a license carries a four-year prison sentence. By comparison, almost no state in the U.S. requires a license to own a gun, and 25 states don’t require a license to carry a gun. 

In Brazil aspiring gun owners have to be at least 25, undergo psychological and technical aptitude screening, show proof of employment, and explain why they want a firearm. Mr. Bolsonaro eliminated the psychological and other screening requirements. 

By November 2021, Mr. Bolsonaro had made 32 changes to ease Brazil’s gun laws. Brazilians were allowed to own more and more-powerful guns—up to six guns and up to .50 caliber, the same maximum caliber as the U.S. He raised the maximum annual ammunition purchase to 5,000 rounds a year from 50. He made it easier to carry concealed handguns in public. 

Before Mr. Bolsonaro, Brazilians had to pay $260 for a new gun license and $25 every three years to renew it. This put legal gun ownership out of reach of the poor. The initial license fee has fallen to around $18.50, and licenses are good for 10 years. 

Instead of surging, crime declined sharply in Brazil. In three years under Mr. Bolsonaro, the homicide rate has fallen 34%, to 18.5 per 100,000.

The media and gun-control advocates were wrong about Brazil. Mr. Biden and Ms. Hochul should take note.

Mr. Lott is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of “More Guns, Less Crime.”

Key Part of New York Concealed-Carry Law Challenged in Court

From [HERE] A key part of a newly-passed gun law in New York got its first challenge on July 11 as more Republicans are expected to join similar legal efforts.

Carl Paladino, a Republican, filed a lawsuit challenging Section 5 of the gun law in the federal court in Buffalo.

The challenged section bans concealed carry licensees from bringing their concealed weapons into private businesses unless the owners put up signs saying guns are welcome. People who bring guns into places without such signs could be prosecuted on felony charges.

Section 5 will turn the Second Amendment’s guaranteed right to self-defense into a right New Yorkers may only exercise after receiving permission from strangers, the lawsuit claims.

Paladino also planned to file a motion to block this section before it takes effect on Sept. 1.

“I am confident that I will win my lawsuit, and I am prepared to take this all the way to the Supreme Court to do so,” he said in a statement.

Paladino is competing in a primary in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which runs from the suburbs of Buffalo to rural communities along the Pennsylvania border.

He’s apparently not the only Republican who’s challenging the strict gun law.

State Republican Party Chair Nick Langworthy, who also is competing in that GOP primary, said last week the party would challenge the law as part of a coalition.

Hochul: Ready to Defend Gun Law in Court

New York lawmakers this month approved an overhaul of licensing rules after the Supreme Court struck down a 109-year-old state law that required people to demonstrate an unusual threat to their safety to qualify for a license to carry a handgun outside their homes.

The sweeping law signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to take effect Sept. 1. [MORE]

Buffalo Supermarket Reopens Today, 2 Months after the Government's Apparent False Flag [better quality PG Rated Video Still Shows a Bloodless "Massacre" by “The White Supremacist”]

From [HERE] On Friday, Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., is set to reopen its doors to the public just over two months after an alleged white supremacist went on an alleged shooting spree that left 10 black people dead. The first person killed was a white person during this bullshit governmental operation.

According to reports, Friday’s reopening follows a remodeling and a new design.

A moment of silence will be held at the location Thursday, which marks the two-month anniversary of the May 14 shooting that shook the nation.

Elected officials and community members will reportedly attend that memorial.

more videos of this false flag are [HERE] 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.

Applebee’s to Pay $100,000 to Settle Racial Discrimination Lawsuit. Employees Consistently Degraded Black Man at Work. When He Complained to Corporate Office He Was Fired

 From [HERE] Neighborhood Restaurant Partners Florida, LLC (NRP), which operates an Applebee’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill restaurant in Plant City, Florida, has agreed to pay $100,000 and furnish comprehensive injunctive relief to settle a sexual orientation and race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, two members of the restaurant’s staff verbally harassed a black employee by subjecting him to racial and homophobic epithets on a consistent basis. In addition to making derogatory comments, one of the harassers wore Confederate flag paraphernalia while he was working at the restaurant. During the course of the harassment, the employee complained to various levels of management at the restaurant, but no actions were taken by the employer. Eventually, the employee attempted to contact NRP’s corporate offices. After this, his scheduled hours were cut and he was forced to quit.

This alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits discrimination based on race, sexual orientation and prohibits retaliation. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Neighborhood Restaurant Partners Florida, LLC, Case No. 8:21-cv-01931-VMC-JSS) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.

“No employee should have to endure homophobic and racist harassment by co-workers,” said EEOC Regional Attorney Robert E. Weisberg. “Failing to take corrective action to correct a work environment permeated with racial and homophobic slurs, and, even worse, punishing an employee for reporting harassment, will not be tolerated.”

The three-year consent decree resolving the EEOC’s lawsuit, approved by the federal court, requires NRP to pay $100,000 in monetary relief. The company will also provide specialized training on sexual orientation and race discrimination to human resources officers and managers to ensure they are aware of their obligations to prevent workplace discrimination and how to address complaints. The decree also requires NRP to appoint an internal consent decree monitor to review complaints of sexual orientation and race-based harassment and provide EEOC with reports of harassment complaints which also describe its actions taken in response to the complaint.

“At all times, not only during Pride Month, the EEOC is committed to robust enforcement of Title VII’s protections against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination,” said EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows. “This case also shows that racist slurs and paraphernalia remain a persistent problem that employers should be prepared to address in prompt and effective ways.”

Evangeline Hawthorne, the EEOC’s Tampa field office director, said, “While the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia was a huge step forward, LGBTQ+ employees still face discrimination in the workplace The EEOC is committed to taking action where an employer treats an individual differently because of his or her sexual orientation or race.”

In Mistaken Raid Albuquerque Cops Kill 15 yr Old Black Boy in Fire. House Burned Down after Cops Used Tear Gas Canisters/Rounds of Powder-based Chemicals During a StandOff w/Man Not Wanted on Warrants

From [HERE] and [HERE] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico is calling on New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas to conduct a thorough, independent and transparent investigation into the July 6, 2022 Albuquerque Police Department (APD) and Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) SWAT standoff that caused a house fire and ended in the tragic death of 15-year-old Brett Rosenau. 

On July 6, APD’s SWAT team executed an arrest warrant for 27-year-old Qiaunt Kelley in a Southeast Albuquerque residence Kelley was visiting that resulted in an hours-long standoff. An unknown number of tear gas canisters and rounds of powder-based chemicals were thrown into the home. The home caught on fire during the standoff and Kelley exited but Rosenau was found dead inside as well as a family dog. News reports this morning confirm Rosenau’s cause of death was smoke inhalation. While patience is required to determine the details of this encounter, the facts that have already surfaced present real questions concerning the training and experience of APD’s SWAT team and the dangers presented if tear gas canisters are used improperly. 

Barron Jones, senior policy strategist at the ACLU of New Mexico, issued the following statement: 

“Any time a police encounter leads to the death of a person in our community, we must demand a full and unbiased accounting of how it happened. It is especially heartbreaking when our community loses a child in an interaction with local police. 

This latest incident is another tragic example of an extremely deadly year for the Albuquerque Police Department. New Mexico regularly ranks first or second nationwide in the rate of people killed by police. This is a systemic statewide problem mostly affecting people of color who are disproportionately victims of police violence. 

The loss of yet another Black child during a police encounter is a story all too familiar and should trigger scrutiny from the highest levels. Rosenau’s loved ones deserve answers and our community must be assured that proper accountability will be applied to fatal police encounters like this one.”

WARRANT? DEPENDENT MEDIA PARROTS WHATEVER AUTHORITIES TELL THEM TO SAY

From [HERE] In the days following a deadly SWAT raid on a house that burned down in Albuquerque’s International District, police and local media repeatedly said that the man they were trying to arrest that night was wanted on a federal warrant.

The morning after the incident, Police Chief Harold Medina said at a news conference that the Department’s Investigative Support Unit (ISU) was searching for Qiaunt Kelley who “had some felony warrants, one from the state level, one from the federal level.”

Later in the same news conference, a lieutenant said they had found “two active warrants for Mr. Kelley” in an internal police database, one for a “federal probation violation for carjacking” and another for “unlawful taking of a motor vehicle out of the city of Santa Fe.”

Over the course of the next three days, local media including the Albuquerque Journal, KRQE and KOB uncritically repeated this false information.

However, a search of federal court records over the past month by Source New Mexico shows no federal warrant issued against Kelley or any property associated with him.

There were no federal warrants for Kelley in N.M. when SWAT was called out to the house Kelley was visiting on July 6, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.

“In the district of New Mexico, there were no federal warrants at that time,” said Scott Howell, spokesperson for the N.M. District Office.

On Monday, the Journal, again citing police, reported that Kelley was wanted “on felony warrants.” That is also not true.

In reality, New Mexico Corrections Department Probation and Parole Division Director Melanie Martinez on March 21 signed a warrant for Kelley’s arrest, saying he violated five conditions of his parole.

A parole violation is not a felony and is not handled by a criminal court. Instead, it is adjudicated by the state Probation and Parole board.

Kelley was on parole after having completed his sentence in a 2018 carjacking in Las Cruces, according to court records.

Albuquerque Police Department Det. Eric Endziel used the arrest warrant as part of his reasoning to ask Second Judicial District Court Judge Britt M. Baca-Miller for a search warrant, giving police legal authority to search the house where they found Kelley and 15-year-old Brett Rosenau and two cars parked in the driveway.

Source New Mexico reviewed copies of the arrest warrant and the search warrant.

Reached for comment on Tuesday, Albuquerque Police Department spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said the references to a federal warrant were mistaken, and that detectives told him on Tuesday there is no federal warrant.

“There is an ongoing investigation by APD and a federal law enforcement agency that could result in federal charges,” Gallegos said. “I was under the impression on the morning of the incident that the investigation had resulted in a warrant.”

Gallegos did not respond to a question asking which federal police agency he was talking about.

Kelley was transferred from the Bernalillo County jail to a state prison on Monday and remains in custody as of Tuesday. He has not been charged with anything other than parole violations, according to a search of state court records on Tuesday.

Albuquerque police have also noted in news conferences and releases that Kelley is a “person of interest” in other crimes, but so far he has not been named as a suspect in any of them. His involvement in them, and whether he was involved at all, remains to be shown.

“In addition to being an absconder for the parole violation, our detectives wanted to get him into custody and attempt to question him for that investigation, as well as separate investigations into a homicide and an officer-involved shooting,” Gallegos said Tuesday. “The fact that he was considered a person of interest in three different violent crimes also led to making his apprehension a priority.”

After hours of SWAT tactics on Wednesday night, where officers launched cannisters of tear gas, pepper spray and flash-bang devices into the home where Kelley was, the residence caught fire.

Firefighters delayed entering the building because, Medina said, there were concerns Kelley was armed, and he was still inside. When he surrendered after the house was burning, Albuquerque Fire Rescue entered and found Rosenau dead, according to news releases.

Early reports from the Office of the Medical Investigator indicate the teen died of smoke inhalation, and police say investigators are looking into whether the munitions police used ignited the blaze. 

When things go wrong with police actions, folks are often demonized, said Barron Jones. He is a senior policy strategist at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and a former journalist.

“This is a situation where we want that person to look as bad as we possibly can, to either justify or mitigate the actions taken by APD that night,” Jones said. “I’m not saying that is the case, but that is a thing that happens.”

The fact that Kelley was wanted for violating parole is significant, because right now, the way the warrant is written, we don’t see that there was any immediate danger, Jones said. And the police response resulted in a tragedy — all over parole violations.

“It’s significant because we believe this is not an immediate call to where this person is in the community, wreaking havoc, where you have to take the steps that were taken that night that led to the tragic loss of life of a 15-year-old boy and the destruction of a person’s home,” Jones said. “If a little patience were exercised, I think there would have been a different outcome.”

It’s also an unfortunate example of how the media sometimes takes law enforcement’s statements as gospel, Jones said.

“Overpolicing of communities of color is a major problem,” Jones said. “And I just wonder if the approach would have been a little bit different if it was in another part of town.”

These kinds of SWAT callouts, he added, do not make us safer.

“The community is traumatized. A family lost their home. A family is displaced. A young child who barely started living lost their life, which is a horrible tragedy,” Jones said, “and there is a further erosion of trust between the community and APD.”