In a Credibility Contest btw an Accused White Cop and 5 Black Witnesses who Will a Jury of White Sheeple Believe? Wichita Cop Not Liable After Shooting Black Marine to Death in Front of His Family

An experienced trial attorney will tell you that it is very difficult to get a white juror to believe a white cop is lying, especially if the client is Black.  Reality or anything too real (such as racism) in court is simply unbelievable to judges and jurors in the fake world created in court. Many cops are sophisticated, masterful liars who are taught how to testify and create persuasive, detailed police reports. Mixing actual facts with nonsense sounds & looks real in court. White DA's, judges, jurors and the white media are also eager and programmed to believe anything foul cops say about Blacks. A testilying racist suspect cop only needs to presents facts in accord with the appetite of the racist suspect listener, not in accord with actual reality. 

In a case that concerns whether use of force was reasonable, like this one, the evidence simply consisted of a credibility contest between a sworn white police officer and several Black adult witnesses. According to news reports from the white media the accused cop never explained how exactly he faced imminent danger from the Black man who had a pocket knife down at his side. All he had to say was ‘a shirtless, muscular, Black marine with an aggressive look in his eye was coming toward me.’ Why would a cop make it up? Because white sheeple will believe it and use their imaginations to fill in the details. As explained by Osho Rajineesh, 'A mind that is filled with belief is a mind which can project anything according to that belief.' And most whites believe Black men are inherently criminal or a threat to their existence.

WHITE COPS’ PHOTO HIDDEN BY WHITE MEDIA TO PROTECT THE SYSTEM OF AUTHORITY AND RACISM/WHITE SUPREMACY. From [HERE] A white Wichita police officer was acting in self defense when he shot and killed a 26-year-old Marine veteran in front of the man’s family eight years ago, a jury decided Wednesday.

The family of Icarus Randolph had sued the officer, Ryan Snyder, and the city of Wichita seeking $5 million for wrongful death and other allegations in the July 4, 2014 shooting.

But an eight-day trial ended Wednesday afternoon when a jury took less than an hour to find in favor of the officer.

“I wish I could say I was amazed or shocked,” said William Skepnik, lead attorney for the family. “It’s hard for me to not see a racial component in this. I do not believe that a white man or a white family would have been treated this way. These people were treated as people that don’t matter.”

Steven Pigg, lead attorney for the officer and city, said: “The jury system works. ... This is justice.”

Over the course of the past week, the jury heard accounts from family members who witnessed the fatal shooting and from Snyder, the crisis intervention-trained officer who shot Randolph four times in the chest after he used a Taser on him.

Randolph’s mother, Beverly Allen, called 911 in the afternoon to request mental health treatment for her son, who suffered from PTSD after serving as an infantry rifleman in Iraq for three years. Randolph had been hospitalized two months earlier for a similar episode. The family believed loud fireworks on the night of July 3 triggered his PTSD.

Snyder and fellow Wichita officer Danny Brown were talking with family members in front of the house when they heard a loud bang from inside. Randolph then kicked through a sliding screen in the den doorway and emerged into the front yard.

Exactly how events unfolded in the next five to seven seconds varies based on who’s giving the account.

Everyone agreed Randolph was shirtless and wearing camouflage Marine capris. They agreed he was holding a pocket knife with an almost 4-inch blade by his side — the same knife he had been holding in his hand since he woke up that morning.

The white cops told the white jury that a shirtless, muscular Black man had an “aggressive” look in his eyes and “zeroed in” on Snyder, power-walking directly toward him with tensed muscles and clenched fists.

In direct contrast Randolph’s family members said he was staring off into the distance with an unfocused gaze and walking slowly toward a neighbor’s house with the knife at his side when Snyder moved into his path and initiated contact, first deploying his Taser and then switching to his handgun when Randolph continued to advance.

Randolph’s face was blank, sister Elisa Allen testified. “Like he was looking at something that wasn’t even there.”

Neither Snyder nor Brown issued verbal commands to Randolph before Snyder shot him. He was not suspected of any crimes. While it is clear that the white officer wanted him stop walking in his front yard, It’s not clear how exactly the officer was facing an imminent threat of death when he shot him to death. Clearly, he was not under arrest.

“It wasn’t just a head in the clouds situation. It was a determined assault situation,” Snyder testified.

Snyder said he remembers pointing his Glock 17 only at Randolph that day and that Randolph’s mother, sisters, nieces and nephews were comfortably outside of the line of fire when he shot. [he only remembers that he didn’t do anything unlawful. lol]

The family says Elisa Allen was standing directly behind her brother when Snyder fired his weapon and that he then pointed it at Randolph’s mother when she tried to approach her son after the shooting.

Snyder told the jury he was 5 to 7 feet from Randolph and backpedaling when he shot him with both the Taser and the handgun. Brown told police investigators the day of the incident that Snyder and Randolph were 10 to 15 feet apart.

Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett, a racist suspect (pictured above) decided in 2014 not to pursue criminal charges against Snyder, a 17-year veteran of the Wichita Police Department who is now a community police officer in northeast Wichita.

In what has been a seven-year court battle, the civil lawsuit was reopened in 2020 after the Kansas Court of Appeals reversed a Sedgwick County District Court’s dismissal of it.

The trial, in 18th Judicial District Court Judge Deborah Hernandez Mitchell’s courtroom, was delayed more than three months after lawyers representing the city claimed news coverage of the Wichita Police Department’s racist text messaging scandal, first reported by The Eagle, would “inject race” into the killing of Randolph, a Black man.

THANKS FOR SERVICE NGHR. “He wanted to serve his country. He felt it was the right thing to do,” Elisa Allen said.

He didn’t like to talk much about his three years in Iraq, even to his closest family members.

“He felt uneasy about the things he participated in (in Iraq) that didn’t sit right with his soul,” Ida said.

When he was experiencing an acute PTSD episode, he would sometimes go “catatonic,” family testified, saying July 4, 2014 was one such day when he remained in an unresponsive stupor as they tried to assess his wellbeing.

July 4

In a 911 call seeking an ambulance to take her son to Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph for mental health treatment, Beverly Allen told dispatch Randolph had something in his hand but that he didn’t have a weapon. Pigg argued that officers may have handled the entire call differently if they had been aware Randolph had a knife before he emerged from the house.

“I certainly didn’t want a confrontation with police with my son in that state,” said Beverly Allen, who watched a Wichita police officer fatally shoot her father in front of the family home when she was 7 years old.

“I seen my brother fall and I seen him die with his face in the dirt,” Alford said.

“We have to live with, we made the call that killed him,” sister Ida Allen said.

No Right to Be Left the Fuck Alone in Free Range Prison: LAPD Shot a Black Man in the Back as He Walked Down the Street Holding a Car Part, Threatening Nobody. White Liberal Media Analyze the Car Part

From [HERE] and [HERE] When two Los Angeles police officers confronted Jermaine Petit on an evening in July, one of them quickly realized that reports Petit was carrying a gun were inaccurate.

“It’s not a gun, bro,” the officer told his partner about the metallic object in Petit’s hand, according to video of the incident from officers’ body-worn cameras that the Los Angeles Police Department made public Thursday.

But that realization wouldn’t matter. Less than half a minute later, Petit would be shot multiple times by an LAPD sergeant firing from inside his vehicle and the officer’s partner, who failed to hear the warning that Petit was unarmed, according to the videos and information released by the department.

Petit was taken to a hospital with serious injuries but has since been released, according to this family. No officers were injured.

On July 18, a man called 911 to report he had confronted a man who appeared homeless and was behind his house in the city’s Leimert Park neighborhood, according to the recordings released by the LAPD. The man refused to leave and had pulled a “pistol” on him, the homeowner said.

Officers were dispatched and, as they were looking for the man, another 911 caller said an armed man was walking up Degnan Boulevard, just north of Obama Boulevard. A short time later, two officers pulled up alongside Petit, who matched the description the callers had given, as he walked on Obama Boulevard. The LA Times misleads here to rationalize or normalize cop conduct- cops don’t answer 911 calls. They receive info from dispatch. At any rate, all law enforcement must seek to corroborate details in order to establish probable cause or reasonable ARTICULABLE suspicion otherwise they cannot stop, search or arrest- if cops get a call for a fat, old white man wearing a tuxedo with white a beard stealing a car when they come upon a suspect they must corroborate said details and determine whether a crime is occurring right now in this moment and whether he is involved in it, that is, if you believe in such things. Actually, lets go over their statist truths here just for kicks:

The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, although only one sentence long, protects people against unjustified detentions by the government. It reads: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

In order for the police to stop you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and the person detained is involved in the activity. 

In order to frisk you the Supreme Court has ruled that the police must have independent reasonable articulable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous before they may touch you (a cursory patdown for weapons). Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion. [MORE]

Clearly these rules are only intended for white people. Non-whites are stopped, shot and then frisked because they are Non-white. This does not happen to white folks. It happens to Black and Latino people regardless of income, education, political affiliation or skin color.

Of course police cannot stop people because they have unknown black objects in their hand. There is no black object exception to so-called 4th Amendment - but racists might disagree with regard to stopping Blacks.]

The officer riding in the passenger seat quickly got out of the vehicle and ordered Petit to “come here.”

Petit continued walking away on the sidewalk, nervously turning back every few steps while repeating something unintelligible without stopping, the video shows. Again, the LA Times reporter misleads - if there is no reasonable ARTICULABLE suspicion to stop the Black man then police cannot lawfully stop him. Question here is, when they ordered him to stop, did the cops have articulable reasons to believe he had committed a crime? If so, what crime?

The officer walked after him with his gun drawn, telling him repeatedly to “take your hands out of your pockets, bro,” while his partner, who was identified by the LAPD as Officer Daryl Glover, drove ahead and stopped beside Petit, according to the video.

Glover exited the vehicle and, as he was pointing his weapon at Petit from a few feet away, the first officer told him that the object in Petit’s hand was not a gun.

The two officers broke into a jog to follow Petit and Glover asked, “What is — bro, you said it’s not a gun?”

The officer’s response was muffled and Glover didn’t hear it. “Huh?” he asked. So the cop was informed it was not a gun - that’s what he actually heard.

Immediately after the exchange, Glover shouts at Petit, “Hey, drop it!.” About three seconds later, the first of three shots were fired.

The videos released by the LAPD do not make clear who fired the first shot. In the days following the shooting, the LAPD said that two officers had fired their weapons, and identified them as Glover and Sgt. Brett Hayhoe, a supervisor who had arrived at the scene as Glover and his partner were chasing after Petit.

With regard to the possession of guns by Black people the bottom line here is that blacks are prohibited from possessing guns in the system of racism white supremacy. Whether the black individual posed a threat or possessed it unlawfully or lawfully is beside the point; no guns allowed for blacks. Any black person in possession of a gun or a black object in their hand or physically near a gun or black object or any black person says they ‘have a gun,’ can be executed anytime by cops. Particularly white liberal citizens, media and professionals in white liberal cities like LA, DC, Chicago, NYC, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Seattle and many more go on enforcing their hypocrisy of white lawlessness as law and order. Apparently, they just hope sleeping Blacks never notice.

In response to questions from The Times, Capt. Kelly Muniz, a department spokeswoman, clarified that Hayhoe fired first, shooting Petit while he was still inside his vehicle. Glover then fired. It is not clear from the videos if Hayhoe or Glover shot twice. The fact that Hayhoe fired from his vehicle was first reported by Sahra Sulaiman, a writer for StreetsBlog L.A.

As Petit writhed on the ground and moved his arm, Glover and his partner yelled at him to “Stop moving!” and “Stop reaching for it!” in reference to the magical black object he had been carrying. Hayhoe exited his vehicle and ordered the officers to back up and take cover behind a car.

The object was a black metal “latch actuator,” a part of a car door’s locking mechanism, which is shaped somewhat like a small handgun.

The case garnered attention after a police spokesman at a news conference the night of the shooting lied and said Petit had been carrying a “weapon” and then Police Chief Michel Moore corrected the obviously false claim the following day, saying Petit was holding the car part.

Anger flared again at a virtual community meeting several weeks later, which was cut short after a police captain lied again and said Petit was carrying as a “nonfunctioning firearm.”

Before the release of the video, relatives and friends of Petit had spent weeks pressing the Police Department for more information about the case, which has received attention on social media and among elected officials. Congresswoman and mayoral candidate Karen Bass said in a post on her Facebook page that the reports surrounding the shooting were “increasingly alarming,” while calling for a “full and transparent” investigation.

Police are seeking a misdemeanor charge of possession of an imitation weapon to be filed against Petit. A spokesman for the city attorney’s office said Thursday that a decision had not been made on whether to prosecute Petit.

The LAPD’s decision to pursue a criminal case has drawn strong condemnations from neighbors, activists and academics, who see the department’s response as an attempt to deflect scrutiny from its officers’ actions.

Nichole Jones, the mother of Petit’s daughter, said Petit is an Air Force veteran.

Civil rights groups/Sharpton Meet w/Feds to Discuss Dietary Racism and Milk Consumption. The Collapse of Public Education or the Servant Training Provided to Black Kids in Liberal Cities Not Addressed

From [HERE] and [MORE] Twenty-eight civil rights and health care groups announced Tuesday they have requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) address “dietary racism” in national school lunch programs, raising concerns to the federal agency about forcing millions of minority children to drink cow’s milk without allowing them a healthier alternative.

In a letter to the USDA’s Equity Commission, the groups said the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) only incentivizes dairy milk, a policy they called “inherently inequitable and socially unjust” because children of color are more likely to be lactose intolerant — meaning they cannot fully digest sugars in dairy and can suffer from adverse effects after consumption.

The NSLP covers 30 million children in 100,000 schools across the U.S., a program the civil rights groups said children of color are historically overrepresented in.

“If Black lives matter, so does our health and nutrition, but the National School Lunch Program has consistently failed children of color,” said Milton Mills, a Washington, D.C., urgent care physician who has researched the topic, in a statement. “Either schoolchildren drink the milk they’re given and suffer in class while they’re trying to learn, or they go without a nutritionally significant portion of their meal.”

The letter was signed by leading national groups such as Progressive Democrats of America, the Maryland chapter of the NAACP, Switch4Good, the Center for a Humane Economy and the National Action Network Washington Bureau, which was founded by civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton.

The USDA reimburses schools covered under the 76-year-old NSLP if they provide fluid milk during meals, which does not cover soy milk or other types of organic milk. Dairy milk must be served with every meal. [MORE]

ARTILLERY IS FROM Kevin “Rashid” Johnson and “Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin "Rashid" Johnson featuring exchanges with an Outlaw”

According to FUNKTIONARY:

"education" - word-generated opinions combined with force for control over competent hue-mans. 2) coercive persuasion. 3) indoctrination and regimentation. 4) braindraining. 5) developing the powers and faculties of a person. "Developing the powers" means de-veloping, or dis-veloping the powers, which means to negate, or have a privative, or reversing force on the powers. •"The invisible capital which enables its possessors to remain, or to climb on, the backs of the uneducated and to fill their heads with prejudices useful for the maintenance of either the old or the new status quo. It's Squid Pro Row, baby. -Austin Powers. The whole machinery of "education" is to make you mechanical—devoid of intelligence—reduced to an academented drone or a conforming clone for the marketplace of "society." "True education is that which is experienced, tested and digested. What can be counted and recorded is not education." -Vinoba Bhave. What passes for "an" education is second-hand experiences, misconceptions filtered through memories and lies sold in units. True education is transformative, fluid and lifelong. (See: De-education, Experience, Academented, Knowledge Scrolling, Pedagogy, Democracy, Dead Knowledge, Transformative Education, Efficiency, Language, Develop, Envelope, School, Devotion & Learning)

Public Fool System - a place where children are having unprotected education. 2) a syndromatic exercise in conformity and blind obedience to so-called "authority" (disguised repression). 3) systematic planned violence meted out on children and young adults—held hostage and hostile—daily, hourly, quarantined from the natural rhythm of things in life through Pavlovian bells and shrink-wrapped prefabricated and curriculum and distorted history. 4) a training boot camp for life-long slavery and indentured servitude to gangbankers and the Corporate State in a society created and based in violence, governed by fear, propaganda, psychogenic money and power.

Another Video Catches White and Black High School Students Mocking the Police Murder of George Floyd. Blindly Obedient Drone Kids Act Out Master-Servant Roles as Conditioned in MI Public Fool System

From [HERE] “I can’t believe kids are doing this,” parent Jaimie Nasceif told local outlet Fox 2 Detroit. “I think it’s ridiculous and something completely unacceptable.”

According to Fox 2, the video was recorded during an off-campus breakfast in August for players from Stevenson High School’s football team.

In the video, reposted to Instagram earlier this week by @metrodetroitnarc, white ninth-grade students in football jerseys stand in a circle on an outdoor patio. They surround a Black student, who kneels on the ground. The Black student wears all black clothing, except for a cloth that acts as a blindfold, and he places his hands behind his back as if he’s been arrested. The white students point water guns at him.

“I dare you to shoot him,” one of the white students says.

The white students shout a noise resembling a gunshot and tell the Black student to fall to the ground. One of the students even pushes him as a signal to fall.

“Shoot him in the head,” a student says after the Black child hits the ground.

Then, the circle of boys pretend to stomp and kick him while laughing. One of the white teammates tells the Black student to “go back to Africa.”

In a separate clip, white football players with water guns approach a Black teammate outside. (It is unclear if he is the same football player from the previous scenario.) They holler at him to “stop resisting” while pointing their guns. Then, one of the white students ends the fake arrest by tackling the Black kid.

At the video’s conclusion, someone within the group mentions George Floyd.

After the video circulated on social media, Stevenson High School Principal Kenneth L. Cucchi III told parents that it was inspired by a TikTok trend “based on the tragic death of George Floyd,” Detroit Metro Times reported. [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY

Public schools - the instrument of Hidalgo (the "Greater System") and the "State" whereby readers, writers and counters are produced who are certified as qualified to understand orders and obediently carry them out... the tenth gang-plank of the Communist Manifesto. (See: Compulsory Schooling, Indoctrination & Formal Education)

Public Fool System - a place where children are having unprotected education. 2) a syndromatic exercise in conformity and blind obedience to so-called "authority" (disguised repression). 3) systematic planned violence meted out on children and young adults—held hostage and hostile—daily, hourly, quarantined from the natural rhythm of things in life through Pavlovian bells and shrink-wrapped prefabricated and curriculum and distorted history. 4) a training boot camp for life-long slavery and indentured servitude to gangbankers and the Corporate State in a society created and based in violence, governed by fear, propaganda, psychogenic money and power. [MORE]

New UK Report Finds that More than 120,000 Non-White Workers Quit Jobs b/c of Racist Degradation

From [HERE] and [HERE] More than 120,000 workers from minority ethnic backgrounds have quit their jobs because of racism, suggests a landmark study that has found workplace discrimination is sapping the confidence of a large part of the UK workforce.

More than one in four workers from black and other minority ethnic backgrounds have faced racist jokes at work in the last five years and 35% said it left them feeling less confident at work, according to what is believed to be the largest representative survey conducted of the UK’s 3.9 million minority ethnic workers. Eight per cent of victims left their job as a result of the racism they experienced, according to the study by the Trades Union Congress.

“Many told us they experienced racist bullying, harassment – and worse,” said the TUC general secretary, Frances O’Grady. “And alarmingly, the vast majority did not report this to their employer … Ministers need to change the law so that employers are responsible for protecting their workers and preventing racism at work.”

One black Caribbean lecturer in the south-west of England told researchers: “I drive a nice car and one member of staff asked me if I was a drug dealer, because how else could I afford [it]?” When she reported the incident she was told ​​“it’s because of the area of the country we live in, which is predominantly white”.

A British Indian woman from London, who was told she was overlooked for a job because the company didn’t want front-facing staff wearing “funny clothes”, said she had never reported a racist incident because she was afraid she would lose her job. The survey found only 19% of those who had experienced harassment reported the most recent incident to their employer. Almost half feared it would not be taken seriously.

Dr Halima Begum, the chief executive of the Runnymede Trust, a race equality thinktank, said the findings showed many employers lacked “accountable structures supporting employees to report racist incidents”.

“Without adequate action from employers the pervasiveness of racism mounts, and it’s this lack of accountability which tips any single accusation within a workplace from an individual ‘bad apple’ to an institutional problem.”

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, which represents human resources professionals, said the 1,750-person survey was a “stark reminder that far too many black and minority ethnic workers still face discrimination in the workplace on a regular basis”. It said the findings should provide fresh impetus for the government to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay reporting.

Examples of racism given in focus groups ranged from children asking a teacher with a non-British accent where she is from, to people being told to “go back to your country”. Workers aged 18 to 24 were significantly more likely to say they had experienced racism than older workers. [MORE]

How Racists Use Race to Affect Your Credit Score

From [HERE] When looking at the numbers, you can't ignore the racial disparity in credit scores.

Rates of subprime credit scores in majority-Black, Hispanic and Native American communities are at least 1.5 times higher than in majority-white communities, according to a 2022 report from the Urban Institute, a nonprofit think tank. FICO defines subprime as poor or fair credit scores that fall below 670.

A low credit score or no credit history can make borrowing difficult and expensive. If you can't access good credit products, you may struggle to build wealth. Here's how discrimination can affect credit scores and what you can do to build and protect your credit.

How Credit Scores Are Developed

Your credit scores are derived from data in your credit reports compiled by the three major credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

Scoring systems are based exclusively on the information in those reports, says credit expert John Ulzheimer, formerly of FICO and Equifax. "Race is never on the report and is not considered in a score," he says. "Neither is your address or a ZIP code where racial diversity is different."

Lenders supply the credit bureaus a steady stream of consumer credit information, such as the date you opened an account, the balance and whether the account is paid on time.

For revolving credit products, such as credit cards, the amount of the credit line will show up on your credit report. Collection agencies and courts also provide data to the credit bureaus, which means collection accounts and bankruptcies appear.

Credit scoring companies, such as FICO and VantageScore, use proprietary algorithms that emphasize different factors to create scores of between 300 and 850. Higher numbers predict lower credit risk, and scores can change as credit reports are updated.

To have a credit score, you first need to use credit products that are reported to the credit bureaus. But to develop a good credit score, you must use those products responsibly for a long time.

So, in theory, credit scores should not be affected by race. But an individual's credit is built on his or her history, and for Black Americans, that history may well include a lack of generational wealth partly because of past discriminatory practices like redlining, which denied mortgages in minority neighborhoods. Though redlining was outlawed in the 1960s, Black homeownership still lags; the National Association of Realtors reported that, as of 2020, homeownership rates were about 72% for white households, 62% for Asian, 51% for Hispanic and 43% for Black.

Average Credit Score by Race

Credit scores differ vastly when broken down by race. The credit card processing company Shift found these average FICO scores in 2021:

• Asian, 745.

• White, 734.

• Hispanic, 701.

• Black, 677.

Then there's the issue of credit invisibles, or people with no credit history or report at any of the three bureaus. If you don't do business with companies that report to the credit bureaus, you will be penalized when applying for credit. A thin credit file appears riskier to lenders, resulting in credit denials or higher interest rates for the borrower.

Roughly 15% of Black and Hispanic consumers are considered credit invisible, compared with 9% among white and Asian consumers, according to the most recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau data. An additional 13% of Black and 12% of Hispanic consumers have unscored records, compared with 7% of white.

How Lending Discrimination Affects Borrowing Opportunities

Lending discrimination prevents qualified borrowers from seeking homes in certain neighborhoods and building wealth through homeownership.

Ulzheimer points to a recent case of lending discrimination affecting borrowing opportunities. The CFPB and the Department of Justice found that Trident Mortgage Co. intentionally discriminated against families living in majority-minority neighborhoods in the Philadelphia area and ordered the company to pay more than $22 million in damages.

Tiffaney Williams, an Atlanta credit educator with a doctorate in business from Trinity International University, has seen lending discrimination firsthand.

"I've had clients with the exact same scores and financial situations almost mirrored," Williams says. "The minority was rejected. My white client's credit request was accepted on the same exact day."

She adds: "It also weighs heavy on the client's confidence to build credit and wealth, making them back away from their goals."

Other Race-Related Factors That Hurt Credit Scores

Disparities in wealth, student loan debt and financial literacy are factors that can hurt credit scores for different racial groups. Much of the problem with credit scores stems from the income gap, says Ramona Ortega, founder of My Money My Future, a financial services firm helping millennials of color build wealth.

The difference between "the average wealth of a white family and that of a family of color is huge," Ortega says. "That alone impacts credit scores. If you have a higher income, you are more likely to pay your bills on time and are offered higher credit limits."

The median income in 2020 for Black households was $45,870, compared with $55,321 for Hispanic, $74,912 for white and $94,903 for Asian households, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Regardless of income after graduation, Black households carry more student debt, which can hurt their creditworthiness, reports the Brookings Institution. Student loans can be problematic for credit scores, Ortega says.

Black college graduates owe an average of $25,000 more in student loan debt than their white counterparts, according to a 2022 report by the Education Data Initiative.

Misinformation about credit also can work against communities of color, Ortega says. The sense is that "all credit is bad," she says, which leads to avoidance of traditional credit products.

Some types of credit favored by Black borrowers, such as payday loans, aren't factored into credit scores. Black and Latino consumers are more likely than white consumers to depend on high-interest financial services such as payday lenders and check-cashing counters because their neighborhoods have fewer banks, according to a Brookings Institution analysis. [MORE]

San Jose Removes “Bascom” from Buildings and Streets as Records Reveal the Bascom Family Bought Slaves, Unjustly Enriched Themselves

From [HERE] For decades, the Bascom family name has adorned one of San Jose’s busiest thoroughfares, a bustling light rail station and prominent buildings around the city.

But now the California pioneers whose lineage in the area dates back to the Gold Rush era are the latest historical figures to come under scrutiny over their ties to the slave trade.

Spurred by county health workers who questioned the family’s past, Santa Clara County has decided to remove the name from Valley Health Center Bascom — an outpatient clinic established in 1985 — replacing it with “San Jose.”

“I think it’s about time,” said Herbert G. Ruffin, a historian who has investigated the Bascoms’ history, about the county building name change. “This is just the beginning.”

According to records, Dr. Louis Hazelton Bascom, who came to the city with his wife and seven children in 1849 from Kentucky, bought an unidentified Black man upon his arrival to be his cook for four years — a troubling account that prompted the health workers to seek to have the name removed.

The move places the Bascoms on a long list of historical figures around the Bay Area and beyond whose names have stirred debate amid a reckoning of the country’s racist past.

It also may put a wide variety of sites around San Jose that bear the Bascom name on the chopping block, most significantly a 158-year-old, 5-mile-long avenue that runs through both San Jose and a small chunk of Campbell. The Bascom name also appears on a San Jose community center, light rail station and public library, which came under fire a year ago when a petition was created to change the name for the same reasons, though the effort has so far gone nowhere.

Santa Clara Valley Medical Center CEO Paul Lorenz said county health workers approached him in April about removing the family’s name.

“When the history of the Bascom family, including slave ownership, became known, we listened to the thoughtful and constructive opinions of our physicians and staff,” said Lorenz in a statement. “By doing so, and by changing the clinic’s name, we uphold our beliefs and commitment to our community, employees, and patients.”

On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to rename the hospital. The vote was part of a wider rebranding effort that included a handful of other health centers at a cost of around $250,000.

At the center of the Bascom controversy is a May 1887 article penned by historian M.H. Field in The Overland Monthly, a now-defunct national magazine once based in California.

“It was not till spring that Doctor (Bascom) found a black man who could cook,” wrote Field in a larger story about the family’s arrival in San Jose. “He paid $800 for him.”

Still a mystery are the exact circumstances surrounding the cook’s arrangement, as well as what eventually happened to the man after a four-year period with the Bascoms, as additional documentation hasn’t come to light.

Ruffin, whose 2014 book “Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley” mentions the Bascoms, said that the history of slavery in California around the time of the Gold Rush was complicated and murky. Though California was established in 1850 with statewide legislation banning the practice, localities such as the then-capital San Jose did not enforce the law for roughly five years. This meant that a free person could be sitting in the same room as someone who was enslaved.

Field makes mention of this in the 1887 article. “Folks said (the cook) wouldn’t stay — for, of course, he was free in California — but he did,” he wrote.

Ruffin says that the evidence that the Bascoms purchased the man — combined with similar stories he’s investigated around that time in California — indicates the cook was a slave.

“A free person does not get purchased for $800,” said Ruffin, an associate professor of African American studies at Syracuse University.

Louis Bascom and his wife, Anne Marie, are both buried at the Oak Hill Funeral Home in south San Jose. Described as “early California pioneers” on their gravestone, their home was known as a “center of activity” within the community. Louis practiced medicine but liked to farm, the gravestone states, and he and his wife eventually moved to Santa Clara near where Bascom Avenue is located.

Local historian Frank Maggi said that a number of early Californians also were slaveowners, including the state’s first governor Peter Burnett, whose name was taken off of a San Jose middle school in 2019 and replaced with the title of a local Native American tribe because of the politician’s racist past. James Reed, who has a street named after him in San Jose and was one of the organizers of the ill-fated Donner Party, also was a slave owner.

NY AG Fines Keller Williams Reality for Steering White Property Buyers Away from Black/Latino Areas and Directed Non-Whites into Areas with Fewer White Residents

From [HERE] After being accused of racial discrimination, three Long Island brokerages are to pay $115,000 in a settlement with New York State.

According to an announcement from the New York State Attorney General’s office released on Tuesday, Keller Williams Greater Nassau, Keller Williams Realty Elite, and Laffey Real Estate will pay the penalty as part of a settlement. The three brokerages were implicated for racial discrimination in a Newsday investigation in 2019. The New York Office of the Attorney General opened an investigation into these brokerages and several others after the Newsday exposé.

“Efforts to discriminate against any New Yorker’s fair access to housing cannot, and will not, be tolerated,” Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement. “These investigations have uncovered a pervasive culture of allowing unlawful discrimination and violations of every New Yorker’s right to fair housing. These settlements should send a clear message: if you discriminate and deny New Yorkers their basic right to housing, we will take action.”

According to the release, the penalties will fund fair housing training for agents and the enforcement of fair housing laws in Suffolk and Nassau Counties on Long Island. Laffey will pay $30,000 to the state and $35,000 to Suffolk County to conduct unannounced fair housing training of any Laffey agent at any Laffey Branch. Both Keller Williams franchises are required to pay $25,000 to Suffolk County and spend $25,000 on fair housing training for its agents, according to the attorney general’s office.

“Real estate professionals in New York state have an obligation to provide fair and equitable services to all,” Robert J. Rodriguez, New York’s Secretary of State, said in a statement. “Housing discrimination is illegal, and the Department will not tolerate New Yorker’s rights being violated. This comprehensive fair housing settlement demonstrates that New York’s leadership is making sure every New Yorker has equal access to housing. The penalties and agreements with these real estate companies educate their agents about housing laws to ensure New Yorkers are protected.” 

Discrimination uncovered by Newsday

The discriminatory practices were discovered in a 2019 Newsday investigation. The publication found that “numerous” Long Island real estate agents tried to steer white property buyers away from minority neighborhoods, and directed minorities into areas with fewer white residents.

As part of the investigation, actors went into real estate offices posing as prospective homebuyers. Diane Leyden, a manager at Laffey Real Estate in Great Neck, was captured on a hidden camera steering a actor posing as a Hispanic homebuyer away from whiter areas, and lecturing him on viewing properties outside of his budget, without any insight into his finances. On the other hand, in Leyden’s interactions with a white actor, she was seen not offering any of the same warnings on budgeting, and guiding the buyer towards whiter neighborhoods.

“Do you want your kids to be in school with kids that they relate to?” she asked the white actor, according to the attorney general’s investigation.

Another Laffey broker, Nancy Anderson, asked a Black actor for proof that he had been pre-approved for a mortgage before agreeing to show him any properties, a step she did not make any white actors take.

Over at the Keller William franchises, the investigation stated that agent Le-Ann Vicquery of steering a Black homebuyer into the minority neighborhood of Brentwood, while warning a white tester to research gang violence in the neighborhood.

As a result of the Newsday investigation, Vicquery and 22 other agents were sued by the New York Department of State. After initially winning her case, Vicquery ended up having her real estate license suspended for 30 days after the state won an appeal.

The majority of the brokers named in the investigation have not admitted to any wrongdoing. When asked to appear at a New York State Senate hearing in December 2019, only one of the 68 agents asked agreed to appear. In addition, the Keller Williams branches have strongly denied that they ever steered anyone away from certain neighborhoods based on their race.

Keller Williams Greater Nassau, Keller Williams Realty Elite, and Laffey Real Estate had not returned requests for comment by the time of publication.

Google Unveils New Rules to Ban Smartphone Apps that Provide Info Contrary to Big Pharma in Uncle Brother's Latest Attempt at "Single Source Propaganda" for its Deadly Vaccines and Harmful Drugs

From [HERE] Google Play, the Android smartphone-based app store, has unveiled sweeping new rules that ban apps deemed to contain or promote “misleading health claims that contradict existing medical consensus, or (that) can cause harm to users.”

Issued on August 31, Google Play’s new “health misinformation” policy is an in-app censorship sweep that targets any and all apps that even so much as question official health policy about vaccines, including the idea that “vaccines can alter one’s DNA.”

Google is also going after apps that advocate for “harmful, unapproved treatments” such as vitamin C, vitamin D, ivermectin, or any number of other remedies that the government has deemed to be “misinformation.” (Related: Google no longer allows any mention of covid vaccines in Google Surveys.)

According to Google, “conversion therapy” is another “harmful health practice” that cannot be advocated for in any apps available on Google Play. One wonders if this means that Bible apps are now forbidden since the Holy Word addresses unnatural homosexual behavior.

Big Tech is the government’s Ministry of Truth

The timing of this new policy change coincides with a major shift in the government position on things like masking and even vaccinating. Suddenly, the government is no longer pushing these things like it once was, which begs the question: Will Google be able to keep up with accurate censorship?

In 2020, Tony Fauci was insistent that Pfizer’s mRNA (messenger RNA) injection was 90 percent effective against the Fauci Flu, which he called extraordinary. Fast-forward to 2022 and now Deborah Birx is basically admitting that she, Fauci, and others lied about the shots.

The newest claim is that everyone “knew” that Chinese Virus injections were not effective at preventing infection. They all just lied about it to pad the pockets of Big Pharma and complete Operation Warp Speed.

Big Tech, meanwhile, has struggled to get the narrative right at any given time. On one day, social media and tech platforms are having to silence people for saying that the shots are ineffective, while the next the government itself is saying they are ineffective.

Still to this day, Facebook is banning users of notoriety who claims that covid injections might not keep a person safe from infection. YouTube is doing the same thing, even going against World Health Organization (WHO) directives about the shots.

“Even after the consensus changed and some of the censorship rules were quietly dropped, most of the censored posts and channels weren’t reinstated,” reports Reclaim the Net.

“The new health misinformation rules add to Google Play’s extensive set of existing misinformation rules which prohibit apps containing ‘election misinformation’ and ‘misleading’ content. Google Play has already removed thousands of apps under these existing rules.”

Rockefeller Foundation Funds Behavioral Scientists to Push Genocidal COVID Injections in Africa and the Americas

From [HERE] An initiative funded in part by the Rockefeller Foundation is investing an initial $7.2 million in behavioural research focused on convincing more people to get the Covid-19 injections, the foundation announced last week.

The initiative is called The Mercury Project, run by the Social Science Research Council (“SSRC”). In September 2021, the SSRC received a three-year $7.5 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation toward the costs of launching a research consortium to drive acceptance and uptake of Covid-19 vaccination efforts and provide insights to counter health misinformation and disinformation. The grant will fund research through 31 August 2024.

The Rockefeller Foundation is a globalist organisation founded by oil magnate and robber baron John D. Rockefeller in 1913. Since then, the Foundation has influenced many of the world’s largest and most powerful institutions, including the World Health Organisation and the National Institutes of Health.

An initiative funded in part by the Rockefeller Foundation is investing an initial $7.2 million in behavioural research focused on convincing more people to get the Covid-19 injections, the Foundation announced last week. 

The initiative is called ‘The Mercury Project’, run by the Social Science Research Council (“SSRC”). In September 2021, the SSRC received a three-year $7.5 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation “toward the costs of launching a research consortium to drive acceptance and uptake of Covid-19 vaccination efforts and provide insights to counter health mis- and dis- information.” The grant will fund research through 31 August 2024. 

The Rockefeller Foundation is a globalist organisation founded by oil magnate and robber baron John D. Rockefeller in 1913. Since then, the Foundation has influenced many of the world’s largest and most powerful institutions, including the World Health Organisation and the National Institutes of Health.  

The Foundation’s $7.5 million grant to SSRC for The Mercury Project remains the lion’s share of a total $10.25 million also granted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 

“The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) announced it will provide an initial USD 7.2 million in direct research funds to 12 teams working in 17 countries in order to better understand how health mis- and disinformation spreads, how to combat it, and how to build stronger information systems, while increasing Covid-19 vaccination rates,” said the Rockefeller Foundation in a statement. 

The SSRC last week announced its first cohort of “social and behavioural scientists from around the world to generate much-needed new research on locally tailored solutions in Bolivia, Brazil, Côte D’Ivoire, Ghana, Haiti, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, United States, and Zimbabwe.” 

Each team on The Mercury Project will receive over $600,000 to research such topics as “Combatting health misinformation with community-crafted messaging: Developing a scalable community-driven approach in Latin America and the United States.” Teams will also study how to “harness influencers to counter misinformation” and censor dissenting viewpoints on social media through “network-transforming interventions for reducing the spread of health misinformation online.” 

In addition to research, the Rockefeller Foundation joins George Soros’ Open Society Institute (“OSI”) in funding local community efforts to inject residents with Covid-19 injections. 

Earlier this month, Frontline News revealed earlier this month that the Orthodox Jewish community in Baltimore has unknowingly been the target of an injection campaign funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Open Society Institute. The campaign is run by fellow resident Laura Kurcfeld and her team of five vaccine evangelists, who are funded by VALUE Baltimore’s BMoreVaxxed initiative. VALUE Baltimore, in turn, is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and OSI. 

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.