US Pumped $20M into a New Behavioral “Science” Propaganda Program that Seeks to Trick More Sheeple Into Taking COVID Shots by Failing to Disclose that they Cause Death, Cancer, Clots, Miscarriages etc

From [HERE] In June of 2022, the United States government pumped $20 million into a new behavioral science program that seeks to brainwash more Americans to take covid vaccines. The National Science Foundation, an entity of the federal government, transferred the taxpayer funds to the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), to advance a worldwide vaccine uptake program called the Mercury Project.

The SSRC in a non-profit group that takes in money from governments and globalist organizations to study behavioral psychology and influence people’s behavior en masse. Their Mercury Project is targeted toward vaccine resistance and seeks to implement new interventions that can effectively manipulate people to take more covid vaccines.

Mass propaganda effort currently underway to increase vaccine uptake

The Mercury Project will deploy groups of behavioral scientists to multiple regions throughout the world. They will study the reasons why people refuse the covid vaccines, and they will target the information and messages that lead people to make that decision. Their goal is to create new vaccine narratives that can be tailored to specific audiences around the globe. The behavioral research is designed to exploit the psychology of people from different ethnic and political backgrounds to increase vaccine compliance. The Rockefeller Foundation is also investing millions of dollars into this effort.

The Rockefeller Foundation and the SSRC wrote: “Following the characterization of inaccurate health information by the U.S. Surgeon General as an ‘urgent threat,’ and by the World Health Organization as an ‘infodemic,’ the SSRC issued a call for proposals to counter the growing global threats posed by public health mis- and disinformation and low Covid-19 vaccination rates.” The SSRC has already received two hundred submissions from organizations around the world. All these organizations hope to exploit the population and change human behavior through propaganda and coercion.

“With Covid-19 prevalent and rapidly evolving everywhere, there is a pressing need to identify interventions with the potential to increase vaccination take-up,” the SSRC wrote.

Over the past two years, interventions such as workplace vaccine mandates had a strong effect on human psychology, making people line up for experimental vaccines under duress because their careers and their ability to provide for their family was on the line. The vaccine passports also had a strong effect on human behavior, converting more people into guinea pigs because their livelihood and civil liberties were threatened. What other unlawful decrees will this manipulative and abusive program conjure up?

In many cases, the rule of law has been restored. Civil disobedience and court rulings have shut down vaccine passports and vaccine mandates in many places, but the threat of segregation, discrimination and lost income still looms for many people around the world – across the dilapidated healthcare field and even in the United States military! (Related: Government conducting clinical trials to learn how best to manipulate Americans to take covid-19 shots.)

World manipulators seek new interventions to coerce people to submit to upcoming covid vaccines

Some of the newly proposed interventions include: partnering with secondary school students to identify so-called covid-19 vaccine misinformation. These vaccine uptake programs are looking for ways to infiltrate curriculum and public educations systems to brainwash children into being vaccine-obedient parrots. The intervention also includes partnerships with local authorities to target covid-19 vaccine misinformation. Local authorities who enter into these partnerships will be able to target people in the community as “public health threats” if they talk about vax freedom, hold rallies on medical freedom, or educate and write books about health freedom.

The interventions will also include partnerships with trusted, influential community members who will be enlisted to amplify covid-19 vaccine propaganda to increase demand for vaccines in the local community. Additionally, the evidence against the covid-19 vaccine will be increasingly targeted for removal across the internet. Even though most of this information is already blacklisted across social media, this project will seek to reinforce previous bans and target individuals are are spreading “false or misleading” messages.

This is multi-million-dollar operation designed to infiltrate communities and push more propaganda on weary populations that have had to make decisions under duress, censorship and coercion. Even though the scientific literature overwhelmingly supports non-paranoid, natural exposure to one’s environment, a healthy lifestyle, nutrition, natural immunity and treatments if need be, the globalists still demand 100 percent obedience to deadly vaccines and will go to great lengths to manipulate the population to comply. As their efforts to control, coerce, manipulate and abuse people continue to fall short, their crimes against humanity become more obvious by the day.

A Stanford Report claims the US Government Used Sock Puppet Accounts to Spread Disinformation to Social Media Users in Russia, China and Iran to Manufacture Support for Ukraine Intervention

From [HERE] The moral high ground is almost impossible to hold. The United States has portrayed itself as the world ideal for personal freedom and government accountability, despite those holding power working tirelessly to undermine both of those ideals.

It’s not that other world governments aren’t as bad or worse. It’s that “whataboutism” isn’t an excuse for navigating the same proverbial gutters in pursuit of end goals or preferred narratives. The ends don’t justify the means. The fact that other countries violate rights more often (or more extremely) doesn’t excuse our own.

Hypocrisy and government entities are never separated by much distance. Our government has fought a War on Drugs for years, publicly proclaiming the menace created by the voluntary exchange of money for goods while privately leveraging drug sales to supply weapons to the US’s preferred revolutionaries or simply to ensure local law enforcement agencies have access to funding options that operate outside of oversight restraints.

The same government that has frequently called out other countries for disinformation campaigns and election disruption has engaged in coups and deployed its own media (social and otherwise) weaponry to push an American narrative on foreigners. 

Under President Biden, the administration (briefly) formed a “Disinformation Governance Board” under the oversight of the DHS. The intent was to prevent foreign disruption of elections and other issues of public concern. The intent may have been pure, but the reality was Orwellian. Fortunately, it was quickly abandoned.

But while the federal government sought ways to respond to the disinformation spread by foreign, often state-sponsored, entities, it was apparently doing the same thing itself, as Lucas Ropek reports for Gizmodo.

In July and August, Twitter and Meta announced that they had uncovered two overlapping sets of fraudulent accounts that were spreading inauthentic content on their platforms. The companies took the networks down but later shared portions of the data with academic researchers. On Wednesday, the Stanford Internet Observatory and social media analytics firm Graphika published a joint study on the data, revealing that the campaigns had all the markings of a U.S. influence network.

According to the report [PDF], the US was engaged in a “pro-US influence operation” targeting platform users in Russia, China, and Iran. Specific attribution is apparently impossible at this point, but evidence points to the use of US government-created sock puppet accounts (with possible assistance of the UK government) to win hearts and minds (however illegitimately) in countries very much opposed to direct US intervention.

It was not a small operation. Although likely dwarfed by operations originating in China and Russia, the US government leveraged dozens of accounts to produce hundreds of thousands of posts reflecting the preferred narrative of the United States.

Twitter says that some 299,566 tweets were sent by 146 fake accounts between March 2012 and February 2022. Meanwhile, the Meta dataset shared with researchers included “39 Facebook profiles, 16 pages, two groups, and 26 Instagram accounts active from 2017 to July 2022,” the report says.

Being American doesn’t mean being better. As the authors of the report note, most of the effort was low effort: AI-generated profile photos, memes, and political cartoons were all in play. But, more notably, the accounts spread content from distinctly American government-related services like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.

This is not to say the United States government is wrong to combat disinformation being spread by countries often considered to be enemies. But it should do so through official outlets, not faux accounts represented by AI-generated photos and unquestioning regurgitation of US government-generated content. Splashing around in the disinformation sewer doesn’t make any participant any better. It just ensures every entity that does so will get dirty.

Corpse Biden’s Liarability Ratings Remain High though: He Vowed to Isolate and “cripple” the Russian economy but the US has Imported Over $6 Billion in Goods from Russia Since Ukraine Invasion

From [HERE]  In response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, US President Joe Biden vowed to isolate and “cripple” the Russian economy. However, Moscow has been able to maintain its economic strength, in part by exporting over $1 billion per month in wood, metals, food and other goods to the US. 

More than 3,600 ships from Russia have arrived at US ports since February 24, according to statistics cited by the Associated Press. While that is nearly half of the shipments over the same period compared to last year, it still amounts to over $6 billion in imports. 

The number of Russian products entering US ports suggests Biden is falling short of his pledge to isolate Moscow’s economy. Due to so-called “wind down” periods that allow companies to complete previous deals, some of the goods continue to enter the country long after the White House announced sanctions on those products, including oil and gas. Paradoxically, other Russian imports, such as fertilizer, came at the request of the Biden administration, which has urged American companies to make up for shortages.

And while the White House has seized several luxury yachts owned by rich Russians with loose ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the AP found that American and European firms are importing millions of dollars in metal from a Russian company that makes parts for Moscow’s fighter jets, highlighting another odd discrepancy in Biden’s sanctions campaign. 

Despite diplomatic pressure from Washington, other American allies are increasing their economic ties with Russia. Turkey – a NATO member – has doubled its imports of Russian oil this year. 

During Biden’s presidency, he has taken several steps to strengthen ties with New Delhi, with American troops currently engaged in war games with India on the Chinese border. But like Ankara, the country has similarly significantly increased energy imports from Moscow. The Indian rupee has also become a major currency for the diamond trade, allowing buyers to bypass US sanctions. 

Though the Western economic war was meant to negate Moscow’s military might and bring it to the negotiation table, it has so far seen little success. With Russian energy exports topping pre-war levels in recent months and the ruble rallying against the dollar, Russia’s economy appears to have fared far better than much of Europe since fighting erupted last winter. 

UPenn Seeks to Dismiss Anthropologist's Defamation Claim that She Mishandled the Remains of Victims from the MOVE Bombing

From [HERE] Along with a series of publications which want to dismiss defamation litigation from a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist, who claimed their allegedly defamatory reports of her supposed mishandling of the remains of victims from the MOVE Bombing of 1985 damaged her professional reputation and caused her to suffer harassment and death threats, the University is looking to do likewise.

Dr. Janet Monge initially filed suit in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on May 20 versus the University of Pennsylvania; UPenn officials Amy Gutmann, Wendell Pritchett, Kathleen Morrison, Deborah Thomas, Christopher Woods and Paul Mitchell, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Billy Penn, The New Yorker, ESPN, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Slate, The New York Post, Teen Vogue, Hyperallergic Media, Smithsonian Magazine, Al-Dia News and The New York Times, in addition to each of the reporters who authored stories on the events in question for those publications, plus the Association of Black Anthropologists and the Society of Black Archaeologists.

The case was removed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on July 27.

MOVE Bombing & Victims’ Remains Background

On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed a West Philadelphia house on Osage Avenue occupied by MOVE, a Black liberation organization. The resulting explosion and fire killed 11 people, including five children, and left more than 250 people homeless.

In the wake of the bombing, the children’s bones were given to then-UPenn anthropologist Dr. Alan Mann and the plaintiff, Monge, then a graduate student, for them to examine and attempt to identify, but they were unable to do so. However, the children’s remains were neither identified nor returned to the City at that time.

Instead, Mann stored the remains in his office at the Penn Museum until he retired in 2001 and joined the faculty at Princeton University. Mann left the remains with Monge, who then stored them in her office and in the Physical Anthropology Lab at the Penn Museum for the next 20 years. During this period of time, Monge showed the remains to different individuals and groups on at least 10 occasions, before using them in a demonstrative exhibit for an online video course at Princeton in 2019.

In early 2021, both UPenn and the City of Philadelphia began investigations into the mishandling of the children’s bodies, after it became known that the official order for cremation of the remains was never carried out. That cremation order was given in 2017 by Thomas Farley, the City’s now-former Department of Health Commissioner, without the permission of their family. The City later fired Farley.

During this time, the City Medical Examiner’s Office admitted that it had remains of two of the five children killed in the MOVE Bombing, who were later identified as Katricia and Zanetta Dotson.

An internal report commissioned by UPenn found that “Mann’s retention of the remains from 1985 to 2001 after he was unable to identify them, and his failure to return them to the Medical Examiner’s Office, demonstrated extremely poor judgment, and a gross insensitivity to the human dignity as well as the social and political implications of his conduct.”

The report also found likewise, that “Monge’s retention of the remains from 2001 to 2021 and their use in the Princeton Online video course demonstrated, at a minimum, extremely poor judgment and gross insensitivity to the human dignity and social and political implications of her conduct.” [MORE]

Court Overturns Ohio Death Sentence After a Racist Defense Expert Testified that 'One Quarter of Black Men were sociopaths who Should be Locked Up or Thrown Away'

From [DPIC] A federal appeals court in Ohio has overturned the death sentence imposed on an African American defendant whose defense lawyer presented testimony from a clinical psychologist that one quarter of urban Black men were sociopaths who should be locked up or thrown away. 

In a unanimous ruling on August 22, 2022, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the “racialized testimony” offered by a defense expert at the trial of Malik Allah-U-Akbar (pictured) “offends the Constitution on its face” and that Akbar’s defense counsel was ineffective in presenting it to the jury. The court, which referred to Akbar by his prior name, Odraye Jones, ordered that Akbar be granted a new sentencing trial. (Akbar legally changed his name while his federal habeas corpus proceedings were pending.)

Akbar was convicted and sentenced to death for the November 1997 murder of an Ashtabula police officer who was attempting to serve an arrest warrant. He was represented by a court-appointed lawyer, David Doughten, whom Akbar unsuccessfully tried to replace just before the start of trial with another lawyer retained by his family. Doughten hired clinical psychologist Dr. James Eisenberg as a defense mental health expert, who, while the trial was already underway, submitted an expert report to the defense in which he diagnosed Akbar with Antisocial Personality Disorder.

Doughten nevertheless presented Eisenberg as an expert witness when Akbar’s trial advanced to the penalty phase. Eisenberg then offered the jury what the court described as a “racialized” description of ADP, falsely stating that while the disorder afflicted “one to three percent of the general population,” it was present in “15 to 25 percent, maybe even 30 percent” of “urban African American males.” 

“[T]he best treatment for the antisocial, if the violations are severe, is to throw them away, lock them up,” Eisenberg said. He then credited the high incarceration rates for Black men with reducing the number of homicides, saying it “would eliminate those individuals from engaging in this conduct. So part of it is incarceration itself that precludes homicide.”

The appeals court reversed Akbar’s death sentence, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Buck v. Davis, which vacated Texas death-row prisoner Duane Buck’s death sentence after his own lawyer presented mental health testimony that Buck would be more likely to present a future danger because he was Black. Writing for the unanimous panel, Judge Richard Allen Griffin said, “Much like the expert in Buck, Eisenberg’s ‘opinion coincided precisely with a particularly noxious strain of racial prejudice’ — that of Black men as ‘violence prone’ — which offends the Constitution on its face and cannot be considered strategic.”

Will Missouri Authorities Murder an Innocent Black Man? Racist Suspect Governor Silent on Marcellus Williams’ Case 5 Years After His Execution was Stopped by Board of Inquiry Innocence Review

From [HERE] Five years after former Gov. Eric Greitens issued an execution-day reprieve for a Board of Inquiry to address questions of innocence, Marcellus Williams remains on Missouri’s death row. Though the board presented its recommendations more than a year ago, current Gov. Mike Parson has taken no action on the case. 

Williams was set to be executed on August 22, 2017. Mounting evidence of his innocence produced a groundswell in opposition to his execution and calls for an independent investigation into the case. Hours before the execution, Greitens granted Williams a stay and convened a board of inquiry to review new DNA evidence and “any other relevant evidence not available to the jury.” At the time, Greitens explained that “To carry out the death penalty, the people of Missouri must have confidence in the judgment of guilt.” Greitens later resigned from office after a scandal, and Lieutenant Governor Mike Parson replaced him and was later elected to the office.

Board of Inquiry members said that they had met quarterly until July 2021 when they made oral recommendations to the governor. The governor’s office has refused to comment on the case, citing state statutes that classify the information reviewed by the board confidential. 

Advocates have called the governor’s silence “a political stand.” Parson “want[s] to come off as someone who is tough on crime, and who is going to make sure that people convicted get their punishment,” Michelle Smith, director of community outreach and advocacy for Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, told St. Louis Public Radio. But “when an error or a mistake comes to light,” she said, “it is also part of [elected officials’] job within justice to make sure that there aren’t innocent people sitting in prison.”

Parson’s failure to act has renewed criticisms that he and other statewide officials have repeatedly obstructed the release of innocent African Americans who have been wrongfully convicted of murder. In June 2021, Parson took no action on the pardon application of Kevin Strickland, who spent 42 years in prison wrongfully convicted of capital murder, saying his application was not “a priority.” Two months later, he pardoned Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who had pled guilty to misdemeanor harassment and assault charges after pointing an automatic rifle and a handgun at peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstrators in June 2020. 

In 2001, the Missouri Attorney General’s office told the Missouri Supreme Court that Joseph Amrineshould be executed, even if the court found him to be actually innocent. Both Strickland and Amrine were later exonerated. 

Lamar Johnson remains imprisoned 26 years after he was wrongfully convicted of murder in St. Louis, despite agreement by city prosecutors that he is innocent.

Williams was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of a former St. Louis Dispatch reporter. No physical evidence links Williams to the murder, and neither footprints from the murder scene nor DNA from the victim’s clothing and under her fingernails match Williams. In the lead up to his 2017 execution date, his lawyers presented Missouri’s state and federal courts with the results of new DNA testing of the knife used in the killing, which a defense expert said excluded Williams and implicated an unknown man as the killer. The courts denied Williams an evidentiary hearing on the new evidence and declined to stay his execution. His lawyers’ motions to stay his execution were pending before the U.S. Supreme Court when Greitens issued the stay.

SNiggering Strawboss NYC Mayor Defends a Large NYPD Cop who Punched a Black Woman in the Face and Knocked Her Down b/c She Slapped the Officer's Hand [never touch Cops b/c They're Not Your Equal]

THIS IS BLACK POWER?? GET OUT THE VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS AND ELECT SNIGGERS LIKE THIS WHO ADVOCATE FOR LESS FREEDOMS AND ENCOURAGE THE USE OF FORCE? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FUCKING MIND?

From [HERE] A New York City police officer is under investigation after social-media video surfaced showing him knocking a woman to the ground during a scuffle as her boyfriend was arrested, prompting accusations of brutality and a vociferous defense on Thursday from the mayor.

The Police Department, the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the Civilian Complaint Review Board all said they were reviewing the conduct of the officer, Detective Kendo Kinsey, 46, after the recording of the Tuesday incident on West 136th Street in Harlem began circulating online. Facing growing outrage on Thursday, the police released video pulled from officers’ body-worn cameras.

The videos show the woman, identified as Tamani Crum, 19, approaching her boyfriend, Elvin James, 22, as he stands handcuffed and surrounded by officers, who had arrested him on an attempted murder charge.

In the video, an officer grabs Ms. Crum and orders her to back away before he pushes her. When she slaps his hand away, he strikes her with enough force to knock her to the ground. She lies with her hands at her head with a stunned expression for several seconds before the officer picks her up and places her in handcuffs. No officers in the video appear to give medical aid to Ms. Crum.

“He decked her,” Mr. James says in the video. “Why would you do that?”

The confrontation between the stocky officer and the slim young woman drew accusations of excessive force from residents and elected officials. But Mayor Eric Adams, who was questioned over the incident Thursday, put the blame on Ms. Crum.

‘Never Put Your Hands On Cops b/c They Are Not Your Equal in a “Copitalist" System. With regard to mere mortals self defense is measured against necessity and civilians don’t have the right to initiate unprovoked violence against others. But cops are not mere mortals in a legal system of coercion or physical force. According to statist belief “the people” have delegated or transferred to police the moral right to commit acts of unprovoked violence on people. [MORE] Question here: can you delegate a right to someone that you don’t have? where does their “authority,” the right to rule others, come from? Asked differently, if you don’t have the right to initiate unprovoked acts of force against other people then how can you delegate or authorize another person to do such things? How did police acquire such super-human powers? The answer is logically unsupportable as “the belief in “authority,” which includes all belief in “government,” is irrational and self-contradictory. Yet all modern statism is based entirely on the assumption that people can delegate rights they don’t have.” [MORE]

“The young lady came, smacked a police officer. The police officer responded,” the mayor said. “They did what the system called for. They didn’t turn off their body cameras. That’s why we have footage of what happened.”

The comments were at least the second time that Mr. Adams has defended a police officer whose conduct was under official scrutiny.

Kristin Richardson Jordan, who represents the neighborhood on the City Council, said this week’s violence reflected longstanding problems with how the police engage with the historically Black community, which has long had a tense relationship with the department.

“There is no reason for a resident that hasn’t committed a crime to be treated like a criminal,” Ms. Jordan wrote on Twitter.

Mr. Adams said he refused to second-guess the actions of the officers at the scene. He focused instead on Mr. James.

“He was armed with a ghost gun in his belt,” the mayor said. “Those officers showed great restraint. They didn’t discharge their weapons.”

Ms. Crum was arrested along with two other people who police and prosecutors say attacked officers as they were arresting Mr. James. But prosecutors dropped all but a charge of obstructing governmental administration against Ms. Crum before her arraignment late Wednesday in Criminal Court in Manhattan, where she was released without bail on the misdemeanor offense.

Her lawyer, Jaime Santana Jr., said the incident had “taken a toll” on his client, who has no criminal record. “We also fully intend on making sure this officer is held accountable for his actions,” he said after the hearing. “He absolutely used excessive force.”

Paul DiGiacomo, the president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, said in a statement posted on Twitter that the union was considering a lawsuit against Ms. Crum. “When you assault a New York City detective in order to interfere with the arrest of a man armed with a gun, there are repercussions,” he wrote.

Mr. James, who the police say was carrying a semiautomatic pistol and 20 oxycodone pills, was arraigned on drug and weapons charges. The judge, Melissa Lewis, ordered him to be held on $300,000 bail.

Albuquerque Pays $42K Settlement After Cops Tried to Kill a Small, Restrained Latino Man During Arrest and then Lied About It. Suit Says the liberal City Failed to Discipline its Uncontrollable Cops

From [HERE] The city of Albuquerque has settled a lawsuit with a man who claimed officers used excessive force that could have killed him. In 2015, Albuquerque Police Department officers were chasing Majestic Howard after catching him in a bait car.

The lawsuit states, that right before his arrest, Howard stopped running and sat with his hands up. He claims Officers Jonathan Franco kneed him in the head and didn’t mention it in his police report. “In the reports, they omitted the fact that they administered blows to Mr. Howard’s head, knowing that he had a head injury and that they could in fact kill him,” said Louren Oliveros, attorney. That head injury came from an incident a month earlier. A man suspected Howard of stealing his so he shot him in the head.

The city disclosed it paid Howard $42,500 in a settlement. After Howard’s arrest, the city did give Officer Franco a seven-day suspension. That happened a year later after the case made headlines. Right now, Howard is behind bars after being accused of driving into a house on Bridge Blvd. in a stolen car back in 2020 while out on probation in another case. Since he is behind bars, the settlements will be paid to a relative on his behalf.

Federal Indictment Says a MD Cop Unlawfully Pulled Over and Falsely Arrested a Black Man. The Cop then Peppered sprayed him while he was handcuffed and waited several hours to transport him to jail

From [HERE] A federal grand jury indicted a former Maryland police officer on charges that he violated a man's civil rights during a 2019 traffic stop — and lied about it.

Officer Phillip Dupree, 38, is accused of deploying pepper spray, in an unreasonable use of force, on a man he pulled over in Washington, DC, outside his jurisdiction, on the early morning hours of August 4, 2019, the Justice Department wrote in a news release Wednesday.

The officer then wrote up a probable cause statement fabricating a justification for why he used force, according to the Justice Department. He was employed at the time by the Fairmount Heights Police Department in a small Maryland town with a population of less than 2,000.

Dupree was indicted on charges of kidnapping, perjury, and misconduct in office by a Maryland grand jury in November 2021 for the same case.

The state indictment alleged that Dupree arrested Torrence Sinclair, peppered sprayed him while he was handcuffed, and waited several hours to transport him from the police department to the county jail. This violates the department's general orders, which state "prisoners will be transported without unnecessary delay to the nearest processing facility," according to the indictment.

Sinclair also filed a civil suit in October 2020 against Dupree and the town of Fairmount Heights. The case is ongoing.

The suit alleged that Dupree submitted charges against Sinclair "based on a fabricated rendition of facts" with "one count of resisting arrest, two counts of disorderly conduct, one count of attempted assault second degree on a law enforcement officer, one count of malicious destruction of property and one count of attempted escape second degree."

The Prince George's County State Attorney's Office dropped all charges in November 2019.

Dupree is no longer with the department, Doris Sarumi, Fairmount Heights' town manager, told Insider. Sarumi could not comment on whether Dupree was fired and for what cause because it's a pending legal matter. 

An attorney for Dupree did not respond to a request for comment.

"This officer should have never been hired by the city of Fairmount Heights," Jonathan Y. Newton, Sinclair's attorney, told Insider. "He is the quintessential example of a bad cop, and everybody at that department and a lot of people in the area knew he was a bad cop. He gambled on the fact that nobody would challenge him on it."

Dupree also was fired by three other Maryland police departments, including for issues involving excessive force, before he was hired by Fairmount Heights in 2019, records showed.

He was first fired from the Capitol Heights Maryland Police Department in 2013, according to The Washington Post.

The officer was then hired by the District Heights Police Department on June 5, 2014. But in less than a year, Dupree racked up "more citizen complaints than that of any other officer" within the department and was fired in October 2015, according to a court opinion denying Dupree's appeal to consider his termination improper.

In 2018, he was fired from Prince George's Community College campus police force after eight months on the job, a spokesperson for the college wrote in an email to Insider. He was terminated for "performance" reasons.

While Dupree was with the Fairmount Heights Police Department, the officer was indicted on one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud by the US District Court.

He and two other police officers were accused of working together in 2019 to report false thefts of their own debit cards to law enforcement in order to claim insurance money and reimbursement from several banks.

A trial for the officers was tentatively set for January 23, 2023.

'Just b/c Your Hands are Up Doesn't Mean Cops Won't Shoot:' Suit says Newark Never Explained Why a Plainclothes Cop Jumped Out an Unmarked Van and Shot Carl Dorsey to Death or What crime he committed

From [HERE] The family of Carl Dorsey III, a South Orange resident who was fatally shot by a Newark Police Department detective, is still seeking answers from authorities around the shooting incident more than a year after his death.

Without even as much of an update from the Attorney General’s Office on an investigation into the incident to date, the grieving family has taken legal action, announcing Wednesday that they filed a civil lawsuit in State Superior Court against the Newark Police Department, the City of Newark, and the officers involved for the unwarranted and unlawful killing of Dorsey.

“We announced this today, not in a joyful mood but in a sorrowful, somber mood knowing that this is a journey that this family is going to have to move forward with,” said Robert Tarver Jr., an attorney representing Dorsey’s family in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit comes after Dorsey was killed in a police shooting that occurred on Jan. 1, 2021. At approximately 12:03 a.m. near Woodland Avenue and South 11th Street in Newark.

Officers, including Det. Rod Simpkins, had reportedly arrived on the scene after hearing gunshots fired in the area. 

Private security camera video confiscated by the police and later released by New Jersey's attorney general shows Dorsey running across the street as an unmarked van appears in the frame and comes to a screeching halt. A detective Simpkins quickly exits the sliding door of the van and then he appears to intentionally run into Dorsey in order to stop or slow him down.

After the detective collides with Dorsey he turns and shoots Dorsey dead. Dorsey falls to the ground, where he is no longer visible between the cars. It is not clear how many times Simpkins discharged his weapon or how many bullets struck Dorsey.   

The officer gets to his feet and walks toward Dorsey as two more officers emerge from the car.

Four more officers then run on screen from farther back up the street passing the area of the shooting and heading down the street. Simpkins is still standing over Dorsey on the ground.  He then walks away in the direction of the other officers. They all disappear off screen before someone walks back up the sidewalk and appears to bend down toward the victim. A group of officers also walk back and gather around where the man is lying on the ground. 

During the 1 minute 46 second footage, no one is seen administering medical assistance. 

The video is the only footage so far found of the incident. There is no dashcam or bodycam footage from the incident because the police claim no video exists and New Jersey state law does not require plainclothes officers to use them.

The state Attorney General's Office, which is investigating the fatal shooting, said no weapon was recovered from Dorsey or from the immediate area. 

Tarver said during a press conference held at the Gateway Center in Newark that the video of the shooting incident demonstrated that Dorsey posed no threat to police and that he was shot while moving away from officers.

“You can take a look at the video. The video is clear. The video is unambiguous,” Tarver asserted.

Weeks after the shooting, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said that he found the information to be “tragic and disturbing" but incomplete.

“While the Attorney General’s Office is conducting an ongoing investigation, we are asking the public’s help to fill in some gaps,” Baraka said in a statement. "We will be asking the Attorney General’s Office to turn over information to our consent decree unit to review if the use of force or any other policy was violated.”

Charges in the lawsuit include the use of excessive, unlawful force and that the city failed to correct a pattern and practice of unlawful behavior that had not been corrected.

The lawsuit states that in 2009, Simpkins was a defendant in a lawsuit in which he was alleged to have pulled over, in plainclothes, a football coach and two teenagers. The lawsuit states that during the motor vehicle stop, Simpkins pointed his gun at the people in the vehicle and told them, “You have no f***ing rights.”

Madinah Person, Dorsey’s sister, said her family was “devastated by the whole experience.”

“I would just like to say to the officer that killed my brother and to the officers that watched him die on the concrete that I’m very disappointed in you as human beings,” said Person. “I’m very disappointed in you as cops and using your right to protect and serve. You did not protect and serve my brother. 

The lack of response from authorities has irked community leaders, too.

Larry Hamm, chair of local social justice advocacy group People’s Organization For Progress, has led multiple rallies and marches across Newark to raise awareness around what he believes was an unjust killing of Dorsey.

“Carl Dorsey should be alive today,” Hamm said. “But he was a victim - as far as we're concerned - of the use of excessive force. Over the past 18 months, we have organized protests to bring public attention to the death of Carl Dorsey because we have determined to not let this get swept under the rug.”

What’s even more frustrating for the family, Tarver said, is that it remains unclear if any corrective action was taken against Simpkins for the fatal shooting. Following the shooting, the detective was placed on administrative leave until an investigation is complete.

Video Shows White Cops in Liberal, Columbus Murder a Black Man; yet Cops, Media Pretend it Might Not Be Murder. Cop opened bedroom door, immediately fired @ Donovan Lewis as he sat up in bed, Unarmed

From [HERE] The killing of an unarmed Black man shot in bed by an Ohio police officer this week was “utterly senseless,” a lawyer for the man’s family said Thursday, calling for accountability and immediate reform amid a spate of police shootings in Columbus, the state capital.

In body-camera footage of Tuesday’s shooting released by authorities, a Columbus police officer pushes open a bedroom door and immediately fires at Donovan Lewis, 20, as he sits up in bed.

Officers had entered the apartment around 2:30 a.m. with a police dog to serve Lewis arrest warrants on charges of domestic violence, assault and improper handling of a firearm, Sgt. Joe Albert of Columbus police said.

In the footage, officers can be heard telling Lewis to crawl out of the room after he was shot. Lewis was handcuffed on the bed and died after being taken to a hospital. Rex Elliott, the lawyer representing Lewis’s family, told reporters Thursday that the young man was “treated like an animal.”

A probe is being conducted by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations.

Andrew Ginther, the mayor of Columbus cautioned that a thorough accounting of what had occurred would take time.

The officer who shot Lewis was Ricky Anderson, a 30-year member of the force who is assigned to the canine unit. Anderson has been placed on paid administrative leave per department policy, Albert said.

Lewis’s killing was the third police shooting in the city in the past week, according to the Columbus Urban League, a nonprofit community organization that seeks to empower Black Americans.

Elliott, the attorney representing the Lewis family, described the officer’s actions as reckless and inexcusable during a news conference Thursday. He was accompanied by Lewis’s parents, siblings, grandmother and aunt. Relatives wept as Elliott replayed the footage of the shooting.

“While we support the investigation announced Tuesday by Police Chief Bryant, there’s also no question that the video tells us all, every single one of us, exactly what happened in the early morning hours of August 30,” Elliott said.

There was “no justification” for police “to shoot an unarmed man trying to get out of bed” as officers were instructing him to do, Elliott said.

“Columbus police. If you are inside, make yourself known,” one officer says. Off camera, a man can be heard saying, “They are sleeping.” The officer repeats: “Come on out. Come out now.”

A police dog enters the apartment and begins barking. Officers then follow the dog toward the room where Lewis was sleeping and open the door. A light illuminates Lewis starting to sit up in bed, and Anderson instantly fires. As Lewis writhes and moans, he is told to “crawl” out of the room and to stop resisting arrest. He is shown being handcuffed on the bed.

The police chief said that Lewis may have had a vape pen or electronic cigarette in his hand when he was shot, the Columbus Dispatch reported. Such an object is not visible in Lewis’s hand from the perspective of the body-cam footage, but it is later seen on the bed.

Akron police release video of officers shooting Black man dozens of times

“Police shot and killed Donovan Lewis while he was in one of the most vulnerable places a person can be — bed. As the investigation unfolds, some may point to the fact that the police were attempting to execute a warrant when they shot Mr. Lewis, as if to suggest that an alleged offense warrants immediate execution,” Kelly Sampson, director of racial justice at the anti-gun-violence organization Brady, said in a statement.

Elliott questioned why police chose to execute the warrant in the middle of the night.

“I think all of us in this room probably had parents tell us nothing good happens at 2 o’clock in the morning,” the lawyer said. “The explanation by Chief Bryant that, ‘Well, we do that because we have to be sure that they’re at home,’ is nonsense. The reality is that felony warrants are executed every day in daylight hours.”

The killing is the latest example of an unarmed Black American being shot by police. Black Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than White Americans, according to a 2019 study by Northwestern University. Numbers are even starker in Ohio, where Black people are 4.5 times more likely to be killed by police than White people.

In December 2020, Andre Hill, a 47-year-old unarmed Black man, was shot four times by a Columbus officer while leaving a friend’s house. His family received a $10 million settlement from the city. Last year, an officer fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black 16-year-0ld, outside her home. That officer was cleared of criminal wrongdoing after an investigation.

60 Days Ago White Cops were Recorded Shooting Jayland Walker 50X as He Fled. Although No Other Info is Needed to Establish Probable Cause for Murder, White AG Claims He Doesn't Have a Full Picture Yet

On June 27, 2022, at approximately 12:30 a.m., Akron, Ohio, police officers killed Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man who was unarmed. 8 cops (all white) shot at him 90 times and struck him 46 times as he fled away from them.

On July 6th In a seven-minute message posted on his YouTube page Wednesday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost addressed the state's investigation into the shooting death of Jayland Walker by the Akron Police Department in white, liberal Akron.

"The investigation will be objective, professional, and independent," Yost pledged. "There are many questions about what happened. Was the force necessary? What led police to shoot a young man so many times? What could have been done to prevent this in the first place?"

Yost stressed that the footage was just a portion of the overall investigation. Yost is a racist suspect and a republican.

"A few seconds of video does not provide us with the full picture, the full context of an incident that unfolded over many minutes, in many different locations. We have to let our investigators find the whole picture and seek out the truth, the whole truth, because that's what we all want is the truth," Yost stated. [MORE] yes, truth over reality.

ARTILLERY ABOVE IS FROM KEVIN RASHID JOHNSON [MORE]

When Mr. Yost refers to investigating and reviewing the evidence what exactly is he referring to? Jayland Walker was shot to death in one place. Sixty days have gone by. Does he mean interviewing the suspected killers and gathering their testimonial statements - that is, statements made by cops in anticipation of litigation and made after cops have lawyered up and reviewed video several times? Such evidence is subjective and self-serving and therefore should have little to no weight … who wants to be charged with murder?

The investigation appears to be pretense for painstakingly crafting some legal defense for cops as they comb through videos searching for some dark splotch visible only to mind blocked racist sheeple that might resemble a gun in Jayland’s hand (even though it was on the car seat and Jayland was outside the car, running for his life and away from 8 armed white folks) and for any possible exculpatory information no matter how immaterial to support the white cops’ right to remain violent and murder Jayland Walker and any other non-white person whenever they want to. Yost appears to be functioning like a criminal defense attorney, delaying, and zealously working to acquit white cops - not seeking accountability for authority.

Video recordings are unique by their nature. In general, a video recording is made through a fixed lens or “eyewitness” and the moving images presented can be played backwards, forwards, in slow motion, magnified and played over and over again. Such a perspective is one of a kind in criminal cases. In this matter, there is no evidence comparable to the video recording. As such, the lex-icon (“law as image - the appearance of justice (the form) over the substance of justice via truth and law over humanity.” ) is falling apart.

The videos captured the entire incident. Said 8 bodycamera videos are the only non-testimonial, objective, evidence in this matter. The videos contain information material to every element of murder, which is the intentional killing of human being by another without excuse, justification or mitigation. Probable cause is a low standard when it is applied to mere mortals (especially black citizens) on a daily basis in courtrooms by white prosecutors and judges. The government only has the burden to prove that more likely than not cops committed murder when they shot at a defenseless man over 90 times as he fled away from them posing no threat. That is not hard to do here if the cops are treated like human beings and not super-human representatives of authority exempt from morality.

As explained by an inmate in New Mexico the authorities are taking measures just to say they took measures. They’re not doing anything to help us & everyone knows that". In reality the legal system produces nothing else but the appearance of justice. FUNKTIONARY explains the lex-icon sustains your belief in the legitimacy of the legal system as a whole. Within the lex-icon elite whites go through great effort to produce a show of “fairness.” This production includes the court’s emphasis on “procedural due process,” “professionalism” and leaves out no detail as it includes plastic flags, oaths, black robes, elevated judge platform, formalities, high ceilings, latin phrases etc. Also, occasional dismissals and acquittals of Black defendants or convictions of white cops are a necessary part of the illusion.

FUNKTIONARY further explains:

lexiconned – mislead (conned) by (inside-the-circle) lexical definitions and their deft definers. 2) word-conditioning. (See: Belief, Oughtism, Symbolaeography, Group-Entity, White Lies, Truth-Based Reality, Language & Oughtomatism)

legal system – the underworld inverted and sanctioned for public consumption, control and compliance over the masses. The same system down through the ages runs the legal system on the outside world as a front for the people to believe in while running the underworld as well. (See: Law, Lawyer, Lawyers, Statutes, Proclamations, Tyranny & Nobility)

Report says White college graduates have over 7X the wealth of Black college graduates and the Black and white racial wealth gap is Expanding

MN lists 10 things Black America needs to know about college debt.

1. White college graduates have over seven times the wealth of Black college graduates.

According to Contexts, a sociology magazine that describes itself as making “cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers,” education is not always the great equalizer.

“The median white adult who attended college has 7.2 times more wealth than the median Black adult who attended college and 3.9 times more wealth than the median Latino adult who attended college,” contexts reported.

2. Students taking out loans to finance education has increased by 20 percent.

According to the Pew Research Center, students who took out student loans to fund their education rose from 49 percent in 1993 to 69 percent in 2012. This percentage represents approximately seven out of every 10 college students.

3. The Black and white racial wealth gap is getting worse.

While Black people are more educated than ever before, the racial wealth gap has worsened in the last 20 years.

According to the Economic Policy Institute’s State of America Wages report released in 2019, the racial wealth gap among Black and white college graduates increased from 17.2 percent in 2000 to 22.5 percent in 2019.

Among those with advanced degrees, the wealth gap increased from 12.5 percent to 17.6 percent.

4. Black college graduates have thousands more in college debt than white graduates.

According to the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, “Black college graduates have nearly $25,000 more student loan debt: an average of $52,726 in student debt, compared to $28,006 for the typical White bachelor’s graduate.”

5. Black college graduates owe more in college debt, while white graduates owe less.

“On average, Black graduates owe 6 percent more than they have borrowed, while White graduates owe 10 percent less than they have borrowed,” the initiative says.

It also says, “Nearly half (48 percent) of all Black graduates owe more on their federal undergraduate loans four years after graduating with bachelor’s degrees, compared to just 17 percent of White graduates.”

6. More Black students receive Pell Grants than any other demographic.

Statistics show Black students received the most Pell grants of all demographics to help fund their education. The Education Data Initiative shows that 58 percent of Pell Grant recipients were Black in the 2015-2016 school year, which is the most recent data available by race and gender. [MORE]

IRS Revokes Tax-exempt Status of N.C. NAACP

From [HERE] North Carolina's influential state chapter of the NAACP has lost its federal tax-exempt status for failing to file tax returns for three years, according to the federal government.

The Internal Revenue Service stripped the civil rights organization's state chapter of its tax-exempt status May 15 under a process that automatically revokes the designation for nonprofits that fail to file federal tax returns for three consecutive years, according to a post on the IRS site. The status change was made public this month.

The state chapter has been a prominent voice in decrying the policies of the state's Republican-controlled legislature, including challenging voter access laws in recent years. Earlier this month, the civil rights group scored a victory when the state Supreme Court ruled a lower court must consider nullifying a voter ID mandate approved by citizens in 2018.

The loss of federal tax-exempt status was first reported by The News & Observer in Raleigh. The newspaper reports that experts on charitable giving say losing the status could hinder fundraising efforts and potentially drain the organization's resources through taxes on donations and fines.

The newspaper reported that the national NAACP intervened in 2019 to place the state chapter under a punitive administratorship, giving the national organization more input in how the state branch is staffed and operated. The state and national organizations are working to restore the branch's tax-exempt status. [MORE]

Alabama City Cuts Sales Tax on Groceries [“taxes – a euphemism for stealing—theft”]

From [EJI] Alabama is one of only three states in the U.S. that tax groceries at the full state sales tax rate without any credit or rebate.

The state takes in roughly $500 million each year in state grocery taxes, while data from the USDA shows that 17% of adults and 23% of children in Alabama struggle with food insecurity—the fifth highest rate of food insecurity in the country.

To help residents cope with the rising price of food, the City of Clay in Jefferson County, Alabama, voted last week to cut its share of Alabama’s sales tax on groceries from 4% to 2%.

“I think we’ll have more people shopping at the Pig and Publix because of this,” Mayor Charles Webster toldal.com. “People will come to our city to save a little money.”

Starting on November 1, shoppers at the Publix and Piggly Weekly in Clay will pay 8% instead of 10% in sales tax on fruits, vegetables, meat, bread, and other food items.

The tax reduction will expire on October 31, 2024.

Most states exempt groceries from their sales tax. Kansas and Virginia ended their state grocery taxes this year, leaving only 11 of the 45 states with a sales tax that still impose it on groceries.

Illinois also suspended its grocery tax for the fiscal year.

Except for Alabama, Mississippi, and South Dakota, the states that tax groceries offer a reduced rate for groceries or provide an offsetting grocery tax credit to help low-income families who spend a larger share of their income on food.

Families with annual incomes less than $20,800 pay almost eight times more as a share of their incomes in sales taxes than the top 1% of families, on average.

“Sales taxes on groceries have an especially harmful impact on income and racial inequities,” the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported in 2020, because “low-income families tend to spend a larger share of their income on groceries.”

[SOUP – Society of Overworked Underpaid People] Strategic Starvation and The Benefits of World Hunger

According to FUNKTIONARY:

SOUP – Society of Overworked Underpaid People. 2) Society of Oppressed Underdeveloped People. 3) Society of Obsolete Underprivileged People. 4) Single Oppressive Unified Pattern. 5) Strapped Overruled Useless People. The Ruling Overclass along with Doggy, Hidalgo, the Beasthood, CrimethInc., et. al, have no more use for the majority of people on the planet, therefore prepare for further depopulation efforts to permeate the planet such as existing ones, e.g., AIDS, strategic starvation, biological warfare, genetic manipulation, Eugenocide and other nefarious stratagems and techniques.

starvation – under the vagaries of hunger. The problem of hunger and starvation across the planet is not the lack of food. It is the lack of love and the lack of compassion. Food deserts are made by neglect, by a lack of vision—not of provision. A consciousness that allows itself to believe in lack is part of the problem. When we think abundance while dethroning the abundantly greedy holding positions of power around the world, we will greatly reduce hunger and starvation globally. It all starts between our two ear lobes. The starvation of inspiration is the motivation. Think Abundantly, Act Accordingly!

From [HERE] We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour.

We in developed countries sometimes see poor people by the roadside holding up signs saying "Will Work for Food". Actually, most people work for food. It is mainly because people need food to survive that they work so hard either in producing food for themselves in subsistence-level production, or by selling their services to others in exchange for money. How many of us would sell our services if it were not for the threat of hunger?
More importantly, how many of us would sell our services so cheaply if it were not for the threat of hunger? When we sell our services cheaply, we enrich others, those who own the factories, the machines and the lands, and ultimately own the people who work for them. For those who depend on the availability of cheap labour, hunger is the foundation of their wealth.

The conventional thinking is that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs. For example, an article reports on "Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom".1 While it is true that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs, we need to understand that hunger at the same time causes low-paying jobs to be created. Who would have established massive biofuel production operations in Brazil if they did not know there were thousands of hungry people desperate enough to take the awful jobs they would offer? Who would build any sort of factory if they did not know that many people would be available to take the jobs at low-pay rates?

Much of the hunger literature talks about how it is important to assure that people are well fed so that they can be more productive. That is nonsense. No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that work.

The non-governmental organization Free the Slaves defines slaves as people who are not allowed to walk away from their jobs. It estimates that there are about 27 million slaves in the world,2 including those who are literally locked into workrooms and held as bonded labourers in South Asia. However, they do not include people who might be described as slaves to hunger, that is, those who are free to walk away from their jobs but have nothing better to go to. Maybe most people who work are slaves to hunger?

For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.

Notes 1 Tom Phillipps, "Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom". The Guardian. Online, 9 March 2007.
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,2030144,00.html
2 Free the Slaves. Online, 2007. http://www.freetheslaves.net/

In Apparent PR Stunt Racist Suspects at Bank of America Unveil ‘Zero Down Payment Mortgages' for Black/Latino Areas. Applicants Must Show Perfect Rent/Utility Bill Payments thru Govt COVID Lock Downs

From [HERE] Bank of America is offering mortgages for first-time homeowners that do not require down payments, minimum credit scores or closing costs in a program that aims to boost homeownership rates among first-time Black and Latino buyers.

Under the trial program, which was announced on Tuesday, Bank of America will offer loans to people in certain predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Charlotte, N.C.; Dallas; Detroit; Los Angeles and Miami. Eligibility for the program, which is called the Community Affordable Loan Solution, is based on income and location, and requires no mortgage insurance.

From BoA, “Bank of America Introduces Community Affordable Loan Solution™ to Expand Homeownership Opportunities in Black/African American and Hispanic-Latino Communities”:

Bank of America today announced a new zero down payment, zero closing cost mortgage solution for first-time homebuyers, which will be available in designated markets, including certain Black/African American and/or Hispanic-Latino neighborhoods in Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and Miami. The Community Affordable Loan Solution™ aims to help eligible individuals and families obtain an affordable loan to purchase a home. 

The Community Affordable Loan Solution is a Special Purpose Credit Program which uses credit guidelines based on factors such as timely rent, utility bill, phone and auto insurance payments. It requires no mortgage insurance or minimum credit score. Individual eligibility is based on income and home location. Prospective buyers must complete a homebuyer certification course provided by select Bank of America and HUD-approved housing counseling partners prior to application.

This new program is in addition to and complements Bank of America’s existing $15 billion Community Homeownership Commitment™ to offer affordable mortgages, industry leading grants and educational opportunities to help 60,000 individuals and families purchase affordable homes by 2025. Through this commitment, Bank of America has already helped more than 36,000 people and families become homeowners, having provided more than $9.5 billion in low down payment loans and over $350 million in non-repayable down payment and/or closing cost grants. To date, two-thirds of the loans and grants made through the Community Homeownership Commitment has helped multicultural clients to achieve homeownership.

Bank of America also has a 26-year relationship with the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), through which the Bank has committed to providing an additional $15 billion in mortgages to low-to-moderate income homebuyers through May 2027.

According to the National Association of Realtors, today there is a nearly 30-percentage-point gap in homeownership between White and Black Americans; for Hispanic buyers, the gap is nearly 20 percent. And the competitive housing market has made it even more difficult for potential homebuyers, especially people of color, to buy homes.

“Homeownership strengthens our communities and can help individuals and families to build wealth over time,” said AJ Barkley, head of neighborhood and community lending for Bank of America. “Our Community Affordable Loan Solution will help make the dream of sustained homeownership attainable for more Black and Hispanic families, and it is part of our broader commitment to the communities that we serve.” [MORE]

Banks have contributed to racial gaps in homeownership rates by approving fewer loans with less favorable terms for Black applicants than for white borrowers with similar credit profiles, Dr. Ray said. It’s important, he added, that more financial institutions take steps like the one Bank of America has announced to correct the inequalities of the past and to be part of the solution.

@Armanwalker said Black home ownership rates remain at our near all-time lows and that the real-estate gap has been increasing. “These are not predatory loans,” @Armanwalker said. 

A Twitter user called @Benhem612 raised the question of whether the Bank of America program will be combined with protections to prevent homes from being sold for “pennies on the dollar.” 

Twitter user @CamTsn compared the program to Ninja loans, which are loans provided with little or no attempt to investigate the ability to repay. “What a great idea, offer Ninja loans 2.0 at the top of a housing bubble,” @CamTsn said. “I am absolutely sure this will not negatively impact minorities and their communities.” [MORE]

A Mistrial is Declared Over Engineers' Role in the Flint water crisis. Jury of Sheeple Unable to Decide if Firms should bear some responsibility for Contaminated Water

From [HERE] A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after jurors said they couldn't reach a verdict in a dispute over whether two engineering firms should bear some responsibility for Flint's lead-contaminated water.

Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, known as LAN, were accused of not doing enough to get Flint to treat the highly corrosive water or to urge a return to a regional water supplier.

A mistrial was declared in federal court in Ann Arbor, Michigan, court spokesman David Ashenfelter said.

After hearing months of evidence, the jury began full deliberations on July 25 but also took a planned 11-day break before returning Tuesday.

The trial centered on the engineering firms and the effects of lead on four children, not all Flint residents. But the result was being closely watched because it would likely influence possible settlements or trials in other cases.

Veolia and LAN were not part of a landmark $626 million deal involving thousands of residents of the majority-Black city, the state of Michigan and other parties. [MORE]