Protecting Corporate Profit, Liar Biden Forces Settlement between railway unions and their employers, making rail strikes across the US Illegal and Denying Paid Sick Leave for Workers

From [HERE] US President Joe Biden Friday signed a bill to force a settlement between railway unions and their employers, making rail strikes across the US illegal. The president praised the bipartisan action in support of the bill, saying, it spares the nation a “catastrophe.”

The US House of Representatives passed a joint resolution on the matter on Wednesday, and the Senate approved the agreement on Thursday. Biden emphasized that “A rail shutdown would have devastated our economy,” and noted that without freight rail many US industries would have shut down. A railroad strike could have cost the nation’s economy as much as $2 billion per day.

The agreement does not provide paid sick leave for railway workers. While Biden committed to securing paid leave in the future, rail unions expressed dismay at the decision. The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters National Division President Tony Cardwell said:

It is shocking and appalling that any Member of Congress would cast a vote against any sort of provision that raises the standard of living for hard-working Americans. In fact, such a vote is nothing less than anti-American, an abdication of their oath of office and you are deemed, in my eyes, unworthy of holding office.

The bill does secure a 24 percent wage increase over the next five years, improved working conditions and improved healthcare.

As Judges Show Leniency to White Cops Who Murder Blacks, MO Authorities Execute Black Man Convicted for Murdering a White Cop After a Trial where Racist Prosecutor Deliberately Struck All Black Jurors

From [HERE] and [HERE] Despite a court-appointed special prosecutor’s request to vacate his death sentence, Missouri death-row prisoner Kevin Johnson was executed on November 29, 2022. The Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding a stay in the case less than 36 hours before the scheduled execution. Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced during the court's hearing that he would not grant clemency in the case.

White authorities murdered him by lethal injection. 

The execution went ahead after the US Supreme Court denied his request for a stay of execution. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, according to the court’s website. On Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court had denied Johnson’s request for a stay after hearing arguments that racial discrimination played a role in his prosecution.

Johnson, 37, was pronounced dead at 7:40 p.m. CT. He didn’t give a final statement, according to Missouri Department of Corrections spokesperson Karen Pojmann.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Mary Elizabeth Ott appointed E.E. Keenan as special prosecutor on October 12. Keenan’s investigation found that Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch sought death sentence for Black defendants charged with killing police officers but didn’t seek the equivalent for a white defendant, Trenton Foster, charged with the same crime. The investigation also uncovered a memo indicating that McCulloch’s team struck Black jurors “deliberate[ly]” during Johnson’s second trial. Johnson’s first trial had resulted in a hung jury. Keenan concluded that, “These facts and others leave no serious doubt that Mr. McCulloch’s office discriminated,” and, in a November 15 motion, he urged the court to vacate Johnson’s death sentence so a “lawful trial and sentence may proceed.” 

WHITE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS PRACTICE RACISM TO CONTROL AND DOMINATE BLACK PEOPLE. WHOMEVER CAME UP WITH THE FANTASTIC MYTH THAT MOST WHITE REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST AND MOST WHITE LIBERALS ARE NOT RACIST WAS A MASTERFUL LIAR, AS IT MAY TAKE BLACK SHEEPLE ANOTHER CENTURY TO UNRAVEL AND DROP SAID JESUSIZED BELIEF. IN PHOTO GOVERNOR MIKE PARSONS (R), JUDGE MARY OTT (D), PROSECUTOR ROBERT mccullough (D) AND OTHER WHITES WORKED TOGETHER TO PROSECUTE AND MURDER KEVIN JOHNSON TO GET REVENGE FOR THE DEATH OF A WHITE COP. WHITE SUPREMACY IS A SYSTEM OF WHITE BEHAVIOR - a team effort of white collective power or a conspiracy among white individuals and/or groups of white people 2) to control and/or dominate non-white people 3) by engaging in impersonal conduct or speech that is a) genocidal or otherwise detrimental to their social, economic and mental or physical well being or b) that perpetuates the white supremacy dynamic.

IF YOU BELIEVE RACISM IS ABOUT SAYING BAD WORDS AND HAVING MEAN THOUGHTS OR AFFILIATION WITH CLOWN GROUPS LIKE KKK/NAZI’S THEN YOU HAVE BEEN CONSUMING DOGMA FROM THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SEEK YOUR COOPERATIVE AND VOLUNTARY CONTROL.

Ott denied Keenan’s motion on November 16 and in a later order on November 19 cited the time constraints preventing parties from appropriately preparing for a hearing and the court from “thoughtfully consider[ing]” the facts. Ott wrote that it was “inexplicable” that these claims were brought forward only 14 days prior to Johnson’s execution date and found it “disconcerting” that the St. Louis County Prosecutor’s office requested the court appoint a special prosecutor only a month earlier in October. On November 21, Keenan filed a motion with the Missouri Supreme Court, which set oral arguments regarding the stay of execution for November 28, one day before Johnson’s execution date. “There is no benefit to the public in rushing this execution forward tomorrow,” Keenan told the court. “What staying this execution will do is allow the legal process to proceed and, whatever the outcome is, it will ensure the public can have confidence that if we have a process or the death penalty that is carried out equitably and in a way the public can have confidence in.”

If an Armed White Man Wearing a Costume Stopped a Black Man, Refused to Explain Why and Grabbed Him to Cuff Him, Would it be Reasonable for Him to Fear for His Life? La Cop Shoots Black Man on Video

From [HERE] Louisiana State Police released body camera footage showing a Rapides Parish sheriff’s deputy fatally shooting an unarmed Black man in the head during a traffic stop. The Nov. 6 incident sparked outrage in the predominantly Black city of Alexandria.

At a press conference, not only was Anderson’s body-worn camera footage shown but also footage recorded by a bystander at the traffic stop.

In the video, Derrick Kittling, 45, is seen being stopped by Deputy Rodney Anderson in Alexandria, in central Louisiana, while driving a Chevrolet Silverado pickup during the day in a residential neighborhood.

In the body-cam footage, when Kittling steps outside of his vehicle, the deputy tells him to “stay right there” but also says to walk toward his truck, which Kittling was standing beside after getting out of the driver’s seat.

Anderson is never heard saying why Kittling is being stopped. When Kittling asks why he is being stopped, Anderson does not answer.

Anderson then tells Kittling to “walk over here,” but Kittling appears to be confused.

“Walk to your truck,” the deputy says while Kittling is standing by the truck’s door and the deputy remains in his car.

Anderson then steps out of the patrol car and asks Kittling to keep his hands out of his pockets. Kittling then walks to the back of his pickup truck, as directed. Anderson grabs Kittling’s left arm.

“What’s the issue?” Kittling asks Anderson.

Anderson says Kittling isn’t following his orders and tells him to turn and face the truck. Kittling asks the deputy if he can get his phone, but the deputy responds “We will get to that” and stops him from getting his phone.

Kittling appears to remain confused during the entire encounter.

“What I did? What is wrong with you? While are you grabbing on me, man? Why are you grabbing on me, bruh?” Kittling asks Anderson.

“It’s tragic with what happened to Derrick, but unfortunately it is more than likely to happen again.”

- Rev. Randy Harris, Mt. Triumph Baptist Church in Alexandria

The deputy tells Kittling to put his hands behind his back several times, but Kittling, still confused, asks Anderson, “For what?”

At this point, just about 4 minutes and 30 seconds into the interaction — a struggle begins.

The sheriff’s office claim that Anderson “lost control” of the Taser and that Kittling retrieved it while it was on the ground during the struggle.

In the video, the deputy can be seen pulling out the stun gun and firing at Kittling. Kittling appears to try to block the Taser before the two end up struggling on the ground.

The officer is seen fighting with Kittling from various angles. The struggle lasts about one minute, then the deputy fires a shot.

“Shots fired, shots fired,” Anderson says.

From the deputy’s dashboard camera, he is seen carrying the gun and looking at Kittling while he is on the ground.

Anderson then makes a call toward other officers and tells them he shot Kittling in the head.

Black strawboss Col. Lamar Davis, head of the Louisiana State Police, told local media during the press conference that Kittling was stopped for a window tint violation and having a modified exhaust.

When asked by reporters on Sunday, Louisiana State Police did not indicate whether Anderson violated department policy.

“We are also gathering that information with regards to their protocols, their policies, their training and so forth. And we will be able to better determine that information once we receive that,” Davis said at the press conference.

Davis also said the agency had not determined whether Kittling was tased. Davis also would not say if the taser ever struck Anderson during the struggle.

“We can’t say for certain that he was actually tased or whether the officer was tased. There is a lot that goes into researching this.”

Kittling’s family has retained civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump to represent them.

Since Kittling’s fatal shooting, protests have been held throughout Alexandria.

“That sheriff’s department under the current Sheriff Mark Woods has a plethora of problems when it deals with African Americans,” Rev. Randy Harris, an organizer and protester in Alexandria, told HuffPost. “It’s tragic with what happened to Derrick, but unfortunately it is more than likely to happen again. I have zero faith in the sheriff’s department.”

John Crawford Case Revived: Without Warning a White OH Cop Fatally Shot a Black Man Shopping @ Walmart w/a Toy Gun @ His Side. A White 911 Caller Had Falsely Reported 'Black Male Pointing Gun @ Kids'

No Right to Bear Toy Guns/Black Objects for Blacks: BLACKS ARE PROHIBITED FROM HOLDING ANY BLACK OBJECTS OR GUNS IN THEIR HANDS IN PUBLIC, EVEN IN OPEN CARRY STATES LIKE OHIO. No matter what legal truths may exist in court books and statutes etc., in actual reality Blacks are prohibited from possessing guns in the free range prison. Blacks are subject to omnipresent interference by cops with their freedom of movement and their right to be left the fuck alone, Black people are 3X more likely than whites to be murdered by cops and the police have no legal duty to protect any particular citizen from harm unless they are in custody (known as “the public duty doctrine”). Said factors exist in a legal context in which law enforcement is uncontrollable by citizens, generally unaccountable to them, police can’t be hired or fired by citizens and have irresponsible, limitless power over people to take life on the street as they see fit while providing a compulsory “service” that citizens have no “right” to decline. [MORE]

AS SUCH, BLACKS HAVE NO MEANINGFUL RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE IN A SYSTEM OF RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY.

Whether the black individual poses a threat or possessed it unlawfully or lawfully is beside the point; all that matters is the skin color of the black object holder. 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, anyplace by cops. [MORE]

From [HERE] A federal appeals court has revived a wrongful death claim against Walmart by the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer inside a store in Beavercreek after picking up a pellet rifle from a shelf.

Twenty-two-year-old John Crawford III was shot at the store in suburban Dayton in August 2014 after a white man called 911. A judge dismissed his family’s wrongful death claim, but a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed that in a 2-1 decision Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.

Two judges concluded “a reasonable jury could find that Walmart failed to prevent Crawford from carrying a look-alike AR-15 openly around the store,” which could alarm shoppers, confuse police and cause an officer to respond as though the weapon were real.

The decision means the family can proceed toward trial on the wrongful death claim along with its other pending claims against the retailer, including negligence, one of the family's attorneys, Michael Wright, said Friday.

Friday evening, Walmart responded to a request for comment from News Center 7.

“We take the safety and security or our customers seriously and continue to sympathize with [the] family of John Crawford. We respectfully disagree with the court’s ruling, and we will continue defending the company,” said Randy Hargrove, senior director, National Media Relations Corporate Communications for the Bentonville, Arkansas, company.

The family previously settled a wrongful death claim with [WHITE] Beavercreek and its police.

A grand jury [WHITE PROSECUTORS] declined to indict the officer who shot Crawford.

Ronald Ritchie, the white 911 caller who reported that a Black man was “pointing a gun at children and people” in the store also wasn’t charged. The prosecutor who made that decision said he didn’t find evidence that the caller knew the information he provided was false. However, video synced with the time of his 911 call clearly show the Black man was not even interacting with other shoppers in the store, let alone pointing a gun at children or people. At any rate, police are required to independently corroborate the information they receive from dispatch and other sources in order to establish probable cause. When the white cop encountered Crawford he posed no threat to anyone.

In real life Crawford picked up an un-packaged BB/pellet air rifle from a display inside the store's sporting goods section and continued shopping in the store. Another customer, Ronald Ritchie, a racist suspect, called 911. According to Ritchie, Crawford was pointing the gun at people and at children walking by, and messing with the gun. All of the statements were lies or inaccurate statements.

Security camera footage showed that Crawford was talking on his cellphone and holding the B.B. gun as he shopped, but at no point did he aim the B.B. gun at anyone. His family said he was talking to the mother of his two children. Crawford continues to walk through Wal-Mart aisles and passes by other customers, who do not appear to react to his presence. 

After the security camera footage was released, Ritchie recanted his statement that led to the fatal shooting and stated, "At no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody", while maintaining that Crawford was "waving it around". Two white officers of the Beavercreek Police arrived at the Walmart shortly after their dispatcher informed them of a "subject with a gun" in the pet supplies area of the store.

RACIST SUSPECT 911 CALLER RONALD RITCHIE. RACISTS FUNCTION AS AN AUXILIARY POLICE FORCE AGAINST BLACKS IN A SYSTEM OF RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY. SIMILAR TO NAZI GERMANY, WITH REGARD TO NON-WHITES, ESPECIALLY BLACK MALES, WHITE FOLKS ARE WATCHING YOU WITH HYPER-ALERTNESS. IF ANYTHING YOU DO MAKES THEM FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE THEY WILL CALL THE COPS ON YOU. IN THE CONTEXT OF WHITE AMERICAN DOMINATION TO THE RACIST, THERE IS NO INNOCENT BLACK MALE, JUST BLACK MALE CRIMINALS WHO HAVE NOT YET BEEN DETECTED, APPREHENDED OR CONVICTED. THEIR MERE PRESENCE INSPIRES IN WHITE AMERICANS, FEARS OF BEING ASSAULTED, RAPED, ROBBED, OR SOME OTHER INDEFINABLE DREAD OF BEING CRIMINALLY VICTIMIZED.' [MORE]

The video shows Crawford continuing through the store. He paused at some store shelves, and it appears he’s still on the phone, fiddling with the gun as it swings, pointed toward the ground. Then, police enter the frame to his side; you can see Crawford turn his head, fall to the ground, scramble in the other direction, then turn back around before ultimately falling to the ground. It’s unclear whether he dropped the gun before being shot or after.

Sean Williams, one of the two police officers that arrived, shot Crawford in the arm and chest. He was later pronounced dead at Dayton's Miami Valley Hospital.

According to Crawford's mother, the video shows the officers fired immediately without giving any verbal commands and without giving Crawford any time to drop the BB gun even if he had heard them.

The Guardian revealed that immediately after the shooting, police aggressively questioned Crawford's girlfriend, Tasha Thomas, threatening her with jail time. The interrogation caused her to sob uncontrollably, with hostile questions suggesting she was drunk or on drugs when she stated that Crawford did not enter the store with a gun. She was not yet aware of Crawford's death at the time of the interrogation. Thomas died in a car crash months later.

Following the shooting a grand jury decided not to indict any of the officers involved on charges of either murder, reckless homicide, or negligent homicide.

Lead prosecutor Mark Piepmeier, also a racist suspect, said that the case revolved around whether Crawford obeyed police orders to drop the gun. “Was the officer reasonable to think himself or someone else would receive physical harm?” Piepmeier said at a news conference, the Enquirer reported.  “The law says police officers are judged by what is in their mind at the time. You have to put yourself in their shoes at that time with the information they had.”

Less than two weeks before the incident Officer Williams and others received what prosecutors called a “pep talk” on how to deal aggressively with suspected gunmen. Williams and his colleagues in Beavercreek, a suburb of Dayton, were shown a slideshow invoking their loved ones and the massacres at Sandy Hook, Columbine and Virginia Tech while being trained on 23-24 July on confronting “active shooter situations”.

“If not you, then who?” officers were asked by the presentation, alongside a photograph of young students being led out of Sandy Hook elementary school in December 2012. A caption reminded the trainees that 20 children and five adults were killed before police arrived.

The white prosecutor then took the unusual step of presenting the set of 11 slides from a presentation given to officers in the July session and other evidence to a grand jury in Greene County. Piepmeier signaled that the slides may have been important to the decision. “A question I have, and I think a jury would have, is how are the officers trained to deal with a situation like that,” he told reporters. [wha? does that sound like he wanted to prosecute the cop?]

He described the presentation as “almost like a pep talk for police officers,” which informed them: “You have to go after these things, you can’t ignore them”. They were told to rid themselves of the mindset that “it’s a bad day to be a cop” when confronting people who “have used, are using or are threatening to use a weapon to inflict deadly force on others”. [MORE]

“And that was, really, the question for this jury,” said the special prosecutor. “Looking at everything, was the officer reasonable in thinking that either himself or someone else was going to receive death or serious bodily harm”. [MORE]

Crawford’s family released a statement after the grand jury decision: “The Wal-Mart surveillance video and eyewitnesses prove that the killing of John H. Crawford III was not justified and was not reasonable. It is undisputed that John Crawford III was in Wal-Mart as a customer and was not posing a threat to anyone in the store, especially the police officers.”

Crawford's mother believes that the surveillance tape shows the police lied in their account of events, and has spoken out against the killing at a "Justice for All" march. The family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Walmart and the Beavercreek police department. [MORE]

The Justice Department conducted its own investigation. White prosecutors at the Justice Department declined to issue charges against the white officer.

U.S. Attorney Benjamin Glassman, racist suspect in photo, said they found insufficient evidence to pursue charges against Beavercreek police Officer Sean Williams, who fired the fatal shot. They said investigators analyzed store surveillance video using resources at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, interviewed witnesses and used an independent crime scene reconstruction expert in their review.

"The government would be required both to disprove his (Williams') stated reason for the shooting — that he was in fear of death or serious bodily injury — and to affirmatively establish that Officer Williams instead acted with the specific intent to violate Mr. Crawford's rights," they said in a statement, adding that the evidence "simply cannot satisfy those burden.

Racist 911 Caller and Cop Niggerize a 9 Yr Old Black Girl Collecting Insects: Child Detained in Street After White Man Falsely stated, ‘There’s a Black woman spraying trees. Wearing Hoody. Scares me’

From [HERE] The mother of a 9-year-old Black girl in Caldwell is speaking out after her neighbor – a former town council member – called the police because the child was spraying spotted lanternflies.

"You don't call the police on a 9-year-old. You call the police when there is danger. Bobbi was not a danger to anyone,” says Monique Joseph.

Joseph says her daughter Bobbi has been trying to save one tree at a time along her block in Caldwell from the insects, which are an invasive species. She's been doing it with a homemade solution she learned on TikTok, using vinegar, water and apple cider.

But on one of those days, neighbor Gordon Lawshe called the police.

“There’s a little Black woman walking and spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees on Elizabeth and Florence,” Lawshe said in the call. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me though.”

“Do you have any clothing, description or anything?” the dispatcher asked.

“A real small woman, real tiny. She’s got a hood on,” Lawshe replied.

Police responded to the call and that interaction was recorded on a police body camera. The officers quickly realized there was no danger.

“She’s obviously fine,” the officer said regarding Bobbi.

Joseph says that after the interaction Lawshe did apologize.

"He did apologize under the guise of telling me he was reporting a lost little girl,” Joseph says.

But she says that this upset her because it was different from the call to police.

"He used triggering words that have led to the death of too many Black and brown children and even adults. ‘Black,’ ‘I'm scared,’ ‘She's wearing a hood,’” Joseph says.

Lawshe has since hired an attorney who has sent a message to the media.

“Since Mr. Lawshe has been accused of being a racist, he and his family have received threats to their person and property. Mr. Lawshe and his family have been defamed and will continue to be defamed until the innuendo and direct accusations and attacks against Mr. Lawshe and his family cease."

Joseph says that she wants her daughter to know that she is not in trouble and that she wasn’t doing anything wrong. "The job at that minute was to make sure Bobbi knew she wasn't doing anything wrong,” Joseph says.

Joseph says she is speaking out because whether it's Bobbi or another child, he or she should be able to walk outside without being profiled and questioned by police officers.

Joseph says she contacted the Caldwell police chief to try to arrange a private conversation between her and Lawshe but he declined. The two neighbors have not spoken again.

Atlanta to Pay Only $1M to Settle Rayshard Brooks Case: White Cop Murdered Black Man by Shooting Him in the Back as He Fled from Misdemeanor Arrest, Posed No Threat. Cops Could Have Got Arrest Warrant

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

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

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

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

THE WHITE COPS HAD BROOKS’ CAR, DRIVERS LICENSE AND KNEW HIS ADDRESS. He could have been arrested at a future time. as such, the use force was unnecessary and evil

From [HERE] The Atlanta City Council on Monday voted to approve a $1 million settlement payment for the family of Rayshard Brooks, who was shot and killed by a police officer.

Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was shot following a confrontation with two white police officers in June 2020. The shooting came just weeks after the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer. It sparked a new wave of demonstrations in Atlanta against police brutality and racial injustice.

A white special prosecutor appointed [racist suspect in top left photo] consider the case announced in August that the use of deadly force was “objectively reasonable.” Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, said he would not pursue charges against Officer Garrett Rolfe, who shot Brooks, and Officer Devin Brosnan.

Attorneys for the Brooks’ family say they remain disappointed that no charges were brought against the officers, but they said Monday that Brooks’ family is pleased to have reached a settlement with the city. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed in September 2021 by Brooks’ widow, Tomika Miller, and his estate.

The City Council voted 15-0 Monday to approve the settlement. It said they “continue to hold out hope that the Dept. of Justice will intervene in this matter.”

Police responded on June 12, 2020, to complaints of a Black man sleeping in a car in the drive-thru lane of a Wendy's restaurant. Police body camera video shows the two officers having a calm conversation with Brooks for nearly 40 minutes.

White police officers said he resisted arrest after failing a field sobriety test during the Friday night incident. After a struggle they shot him as he fled away from them.

Video shows Brooks on the ground outside his car, struggling with two police officers.

Brooks grabbed the Taser of one officer. After a few seconds, Brooks broke free from the officers and began to run from police. One officer then used a Taser on him. The pair then run out of the frame of the video. 

Seconds later gun shots are heard along with someone yelling "I got him!" The video then shows Brooks prone on the ground. The black man posed no threat as he fled away from the white cop; at the time of the shooting the white cop had to have been at least 30 feet away from him. He was smart to run - they were trying to kill him.

Rolfe was fired the day after Brooks died, but his dismissal was reversed in May 2021 by the Atlanta Civil Service Board. The board found that the city failed to follow its own procedures for disciplinary actions.

Alabama Governor Suspends Legalized Murders of Inmates Due to A History of Botched Executions. Its Death Row is 50% Black, even though the state is Only 18% Black

From [HERE] After two failed execution attempts and a torturous multi-hour execution of a third person within the past four months, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has officially suspended executions in Alabama. Today, the governor asked the state’s attorney general to withdraw pending motions to set execution dates for Alan Miller and James Barber. She also asked the Attorney General’s Office to forgo seeking additional execution dates until the Alabama Department of Corrections conducts a “top-to-bottom review” of the state’s execution process.

In response to the governor’s announcement, EJI issued the following statement:

Governor Ivey’s call for a suspension of executions is a welcome and huge relief to many of us who see the tragedy that has come out of these horrific failed executions.

A society is judged not just by its response to crime and criminality but also by how it treats people who are imprisoned, condemned, and punished.

What has happened during executions in Alabama is unconscionable, unnecessary, and completely avoidable.

State officials need to own their failures with these recent torturous executions, and our dangerous and out of control prisons, if things are going to improve.

Lower federal courts in both of the recent executions took the rare step of telling Alabama officials that executions should not proceed given the uncertainty and unreliability surrounding Alabama’s protocols and procedures. The State ignored these federal orders, which resulted in shocking, torturous proceedings that provided justice to no one.

Improved reliability will require state officials to not just blame condemned prisoners, lawyers, and others who have a right to insist on constitutional procedures that are not cruel.

It will mean thoroughly examining their own protocols and procedures and being less secretive and dismissive of the great responsibility they have if they are going to engage in lethal punishment.

A History of Botched Executions and Attempted Executions

Governor Ivey’s announcement came just days after Alabama failed in its attempt to execute Kenny Smith. Mr. Smith had been strapped to a gurney for over an hour while state correctional staff tried unsuccessfully to establish IV access. The State called the execution off shortly before midnight on November 17.

The State’s botched attempt to execute Mr. Smith is actually the third time in the past four years that it has failed to carry out a lethal injection. On September 22, Alabama botched its attempt to execute Alan Miller when prison staff could not establish intravenous access and the execution had to be suspended.

And in 2018, Alabama was forced to call off its execution of Doyle Hamm because prison staff could not set an IV line after two and a half hours. Then-ADOC Commissioner Jeff Dunn told reporters, “I wouldn’t characterize what we had tonight as a problem,” but photographs revealed that the execution team had jabbed Mr. Hamm with needles more than 10 times in his feet, legs, and groin, likely puncturing his bladder.

Less than four months ago, a protracted and gruesome process was revealed surrounding the July 28 execution of Joe James, who was subjected to several hours of torturous needle sticks before he was executed.

Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm issued a statement today agreeing with Governor Ivey’s action. “Everything is on the table,” he said, “from our legal strategy in dealing with last minute appeals, to how we train and prepare, to the order and timing of events on execution day, to the personnel and equipment involved. The Alabama Department of Corrections is fully committed to this effort and confident that we can get this done right.”

Tennessee Supreme Court Strikes Down Mandatory Life Sentences for Children

From [EJI] The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on Friday that it is unconstitutional to automatically sentence a child to life imprisonment with no possibility of release for 51 years.

Tyshon Booker was 16 years old when he was arrested in the shooting death of G’Metrik Caldwell. He was tried as an adult and convicted of felony murder and aggravated robbery. He was automatically sentenced to life in prison, a 60-year sentence requiring at least 51 years of incarceration. The Tennessee Supreme Court held that this sentence violates the Eighth Amendment because a court sentencing a juvenile must have discretion to impose a lesser sentence after considering the child’s age and other circumstances.

The court relied on Miller v. Alabama, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles contravene the “foundational principle: that imposition of a State’s most severe penalties on juvenile offenders cannot proceed as though they were not children.”

“Youth matters in sentencing,” Tennessee’s high court wrote, quoting U.S. Supreme Court precedent. Sentencing judges must be allowed to consider the defendant’s youth to ensure that the most severe sentences “are imposed only in cases where that sentence is appropriate in light of the defendant’s age.”

The court reasoned that three essential rules from Supreme Court precedent apply to life sentences: punishment must be proportionate; steps must be taken to minimize the risk of imposing a disproportionate sentence on a child; and these steps must allow the sentencer to consider the mitigating qualities of youth, including the child’s lack of maturity and underdeveloped sense of responsibility, vulnerability to negative influences, and inherent capacity for change and rehabilitation.

“Tennessee is a clear outlier in its sentencing of juvenile homicide offenders,” the court wrote. In fact, Tennessee’s automatic life sentence is the harshest in the country. The state’s 60-year life sentence requiring a minimum of 51 years in prison denies any possibility of parole for longer than any other state.

And Tennessee statutes that require a juvenile homicide offender to be automatically sentenced to life imprisonment allow for no consideration of the ways in which children are constitutionally different from adults for purposes of sentencing. “In Tennessee, there is no sentencing hearing,” the court wrote. “There is no recognition that juveniles differ from adults. And the sentencer has no discretion to consider or impose a lesser punishment.”

The court concluded that Mr. Booker’s mandatory life sentence violates the Eighth Amendment. To remedy the constitutional violation, the court granted Mr. Booker an individualized parole hearing where his age and other circumstances will be properly considered after he has served between 25 and 36 years.

Justice Gorsuch says Court Should Require 12-person Juries. 'Smaller juries are less likely to include non-white people and May Prevent Defendants from Having a Jury Representative of the Community'

From [HERE] The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review Arizona's use of eight-member criminal juries over the fierce objection of Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote in a dissent that the smaller panels flout centuries of formerly "inviolable" precedent (article available here(link is external)).

Justice Gorsuch said the court should have taken up the case of Ramin Khorrami, an Arizona man convicted by an eight-member criminal jury of fraud and theft. Arizona is one of six states that allow six- or eight-person juries to hear felony cases.

"By the time of the Sixth Amendment's adoption, the 12-person criminal jury was 'an institution with a nearly 400-year-old tradition in England,'" the justice said. The dozen-member jury was "long and justly considered inviolable," he said, suggesting the framers may have taken it as so obvious and accepted they didn't think it needed spelling out.

Smaller juries are "less likely to include members of 'minority groups' and thus threaten to deprive defendants of a fair possibility of obtaining a jury composed of a representative cross-section of the community," Gorsuch wrote Monday.

Monday's dissent noted that Justice Brett Kavanaugh also would have voted to take up the case.

The other five states that allow felony juries of fewer than 12 are Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah, according to the Supreme Court petition.

The case is Khorrami v. Arizona, case number 21-1553, in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Judge Rules Black Woman Can't Watch Missouri Authorities Murder Her Father. Kevin Johnson's Execution Set for Tuesday, Convicted for Murdering White Cop in Racist Trial Conducted by White Liberal DA

White Judge Denies Gov Request to Stop Kevin Johnson's Execution for Killing White Cop. The Same White Liberal DA from Michael Brown's Case Struck Black Jurors and Sought Death on the Basis of Race

From [HERE] A 19-year-old Black woman is too young to witness Missouri authorities execute her father, who was sentenced to death for killing a white police officer when he was a teen, a federal judge ruled.

Khorry Ramey requested to be present for Kevin Johnson’s final moments, but US District Judge Brian Wimes, who is Black, said in a ruling that execution witnesses need to be at least 21 years old, NBC News reported.

Missouri and Nevada are the only states that require witnesses to be 21, Ramey’s attorneys argued.

“I’m heartbroken that I won’t be able to be with my dad in his last moments,” Ramey said in a statement, adding that he “has worked very hard to rehabilitate himself in prison. I pray that [Gov. Mike] Parson will give my dad clemency.”

Johnson, now 37, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 29 for the 2005 killing of Kirkwood Police Officer William McEntee, a crime he committed when he was 19 and Ramey was 2.

He selected his daughter as one of the five people permitted to witness his death, but the Missouri Department of Corrections rejected the request, a move the ACLU argued violates both the First and Fourteenth amendments.

“Missouri executes people, like Mr. Johnson, for crimes committed as adults but before their 21st birthday illustrates the irrationality of the statute’s requirement that execution witnesses not only be adults but also at least 21 years old,” the filing states.

Missing her father’s execution will cause Ramey “irreparable harm,” her attorneys said.

Last week a Special Prosecutor appointed to review death row inmate Kevin Johnson’s case filed a motion to vacate Johnson’s death sentence – a highly unusual move in a system where prosecutors always push to uphold convictions and sentences. It asked the court to vacate his conviction due to the pervasive racism in his trial. His trial was prosecuted by Robert McCulloch, the same racist suspect liberal DA who sabotaged the Michael Brown grand jury and declined to file any charges against the white cop who murdered him the street. A white judge denied the request.

Shawn Nolan, attorney for Kevin Johnson, said, “The Special Prosecutor’s investigation and motion to vacate raise serious concerns about whether Mr. Johnson received the death penalty because he is Black.”

“That should concern everyone about the integrity of this sentence, but it should especially disturb judges tasked with protecting the integrity of the legal system, a responsibility that is at its apex when a death sentence is on the line. Instead, the motion was summarily denied in just a few hours.”

Nolan said Johnson’s appeals have not ended.

“Our hope is that the court will reconsider that ruling or that the Supreme Court of Missouri will order the evidentiary hearing that is required by law in this circumstance. There is no reason for this execution to go forward without this process,” Nolan said.

“To do so would make a nullity of the statute authorizing prosecuting attorneys to file such motions when the facts at their disposal compel them to do so.”

According to Nolan, the State argued that “at every stage of the capital prosecution overseen by former Saint Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, race played a decisive factor. The Special Prosecutor concluded that as a result, the State’s prosecution violated the Equal Protection clause.”

The Special Prosecutor also included these facts:

-Of the five police-killing cases that occurred during his tenure in office, McCulloch sought the death penalty for four Black defendants and declined to seek it against the one white defendant charged with killing a police officer.

-In that case, McCulloch’s office sent a written invitation to defense counsel to submit mitigating evidence and granted the defense nearly a year to prepare their arguments against the death sentence. However, in the cases with Black defendants, McCulloch never issued an invitation to submit mitigating evidence that might convince him to not seek death.

According to the motion to vacate, the Special Prosecutor attempted to contact McCulloch several times during his investigation into the case during the past month. McCulloch did not acknowledge any attempts at contact “all while giving a two-hour news media interview.”

The Special Prosecutor’s investigation also showed that no one on Mr. Johnson’s prosecution team could justify their actions to pursue death for cases with Black defendants and not in a case with a white defendant.

The Special Prosecutor also argued that Mr. Johnson’s prosecutors “intentionally discriminated against Black jurors,” based on his discovery of a prosecution memo that revealed an intent to impermissibly strike jurors based on race.

McCulloch and his team’s racial discrimination against jurors only highlights the pervasive racism underlying the entirety of Mr. Johnson’s trial. 

“The harmful effects of eroding individual rights under the pretext of law and order are real-and they are rampant all over the country.” HBCU Files Claim After GA Cops Stop/Search Bus for No Reason

QUALITY OF BLACK CITIZENSHIP IN THE FREE RANGE PRISON AT NEW LOWS. BRAZEN COPS SO FREQUENTLY ABUSE THEIR POWER THAT NO BLACK SHOPPER, PEDESTRIAN, MOTORIST, JUVENILE, ADULT OR BLACK PROFESSIONAL OF ANY KIND—COULD MAKE A COMPELLING ARGUMENT THAT SO-CALLED CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AFFORD ANY REAL PROTECTION FROM COPS.

From [HERE] Shaw University announced Monday that it has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice seeking a review of a a traffic stop in South Carolina last month in which students on a bus were forced to have their belongings searched by law enforcement.

Paulette Dillard, the president of the historically Black university, has accused law enforcement officers in Spartanburg County of racially profiling the 18 students traveling on the contract bus from Raleigh to a conference in Atlanta in early October.

Two South Carolina sheriffs have denied that racial profiling played a part in the traffic stop.

But at a news conference Monday, Dillard said the issue is how the alleged minor violation turned into a drug search.

“The harmful effects of eroding individual rights under the pretext of law and order are real — and they are rampant all over the country,” she said. “Let’s be clear: Racism is about power and systems, and just because there isn’t a knee on someone’s neck doesn’t mean that no harm is being done.”

At a news conference last month, Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright called the racial profiling accusations “just false.” Officers stopped the unmarked bus because it had been swerving, he said. The stop was part of “Operation Rolling Thunder,” a weeklong anti-drug campaign in which deputies and officers with agencies from around the state patrol the county’s highways.

“If anything we’re ever doing is racist, I want to know it. I want to fix it and I want to never let it happen again,” Wright said. “But this case right here has absolutely nothing to do with racism.”

A leashed dog “ran through the baggage,” turning up nothing illegal, Wright said. Police body camera footage shows officers searching several bags in the bus’ underbelly storage. The driver received a warning.

The university’s complaint states that a lane violation would be insufficient justification for a drug search and the students’ right to privacy was violated because while the driver consented to a compartment search, passengers didn’t consent to a search of their individual luggage. It also alleges that Operation Rolling Thunder disproportionately targeted Black drivers.

Most importantly, voluntary consent to a search can be withdrawn at anytime.

Steve Mueller, the sheriff of Cherokee County, said the officers “didn’t do anything wrong” and could not have known the races of the people inside the bus when they pulled it over.

Democratic members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation asked the Justice Department last month to investigate the incident.

The traffic stop comes after an April incident in Georgia, where sheriff’s deputies pulled over the Delaware State University women’s lacrosse team bus and searched it for drugs. Tony Allen, the president of the HBCU, said he was “incensed” and accused the law enforcement officers of intimidation and humiliation.

Since Declaring Racism a "Public Health Crisis" White Liberals in Milwaukee Got Sicker: Black Residents were 18X More Likely to be Frisked and 5X More Likely to be Pulled Over than Whites Last Year

COMPLEMENTARY, GULLIBLE BLACK BORGS WATCH AS a MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MASTER SYMBOLICALLY DELETES RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY IN 2019. THANKS BUDDY

Black Citizenship Low in Milwaukee, a City Dominated by White Liberal Politics From [HERE] More than halfway through a court-ordered reform process, Milwaukee police are still disproportionately searching people of color in traffic and pedestrian stops and too often doing so without justification, new reports say.

Black residents were 18 times more likely to be subjected to a frisk and 4.8 times more likely to be pulled over than white people last year, according to two monitoring reports authored by the Boston-based Crime and Justice Institute released this fall.

Hispanic and Latino residents were 2.4 times more likely than white people to be frisked after encountering police in a traffic stop, informal street interview or another kind of encounter. And even accounting for differing crime rates, Milwaukee officers conducted frisks more often in Black, Hispanic and Latino neighborhoods than in white neighborhoods, the reports found.

The results are discouraging for activists who sought to reform the department's stop-and-frisk practices. Fred Royal, a vice president of Milwaukee's NAACP branch who works closely with the Police Department, said he did not expect a major cultural change to occur in four years but was still disappointed with the progress.

"I can’t understand how they cannot do the constitutional policing that they say they’ve been so committed to doing, which would justify those stops and frisks," he said.

Police and other city officials maintain the consent decree has led to notable improvements.

In a joint statement from Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s office, the Police Department and the Fire and Police Commission, the city said it is investing more time to determine what specifically is driving the disparities and is requiring more officer training on identifying biases.

“The city is resolute that constitutional policing occurs in each and every police interaction,” the statement said. “Mayor Cavalier Johnson is committed to assisting the FPC and MPD with the appropriate resources to attain the goals of the settlement agreement.”

The reform process, known as a consent decree, stipulates that Milwaukee police must meet certain benchmarks for at least five years. Four years into the agreement, the state's largest police agency has not met all of those requirements for a single year.

Black People are More than 3X Likelier to Face Homelessness than Whites in the UK and US [necessarily includes jurisdictions dominated by liberal politics and where Black Voter Turnout is High]

THE SYSTEM OF RACISM WhiITE SUPREMACY IS A GLOBAL SYSTEM. THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONCERNS THE UK BUT African Americans, who represent 13 percent of the general population , account for 39 percent of people experiencing homelessness and more than 50 percent of homeless families with children. This imbalance has not improved over time. [MORE]

From [HERE] Black people are more than three times as likely to experience homelessness than their white counterparts, with a third of those who had been homeless also reporting discrimination from a social or private landlord.

The findings are from a new UK-wide study published by Heriot-Watt University, which found “overwhelming evidence” that people from Black and other minority ethnic communities face disproportionate levels of homelessness. 

The report found race, ethnicity and discrimination-related factors affect homelessness risks indirectly as well directly, through increased levels of poverty or the chances of being a renter rather than an owner. This, in turn, increases exposure to homelessness. Once the indirect effects were accounted for, the study found the relative risk of homelessness for Black and some other ethnic minority-led households grew significantly. 

Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust, the race-equality think-tank, said the report made for “extremely difficult reading”, but that “sadly, its findings aren’t surprising”. 

“What this research makes clear is that the heightened risk of homelessness faced by certain ethnic minority communities cannot be fully explained in socioeconomic or demographic terms alone, but is in fact down to a person’s race and ethnicity when those other factors remain a constant across all those experiencing homelessness.”

Matt Downie, the chief executive of Crisis, the homelessness charity, added that the study’s findings “should shame us as a country”.

The new report’s conclusions echo those of 2005 research for the then-Labour government, which found Black and minority ethnic households were around three times likelier to become statutorily homeless than the white population. 

Earlier in 2022, Inside Housing reported that households with a Black lead applicant accounted for 9.7% of the 268,560 households owed an initial prevention or relief duty in England in 2020-21, despite Black people making up only 3.5% of England’s population. By contrast, while 84.9% of people in England are white, 69.6% of homeless households in 2020-21 were white. 

The new study referenced almost identical data from 2021-22, with Black-led households accounting for 10% of homelessness cases and white ones 68%.

The Heriot-Watt research, which drew on a wide range of statistical sources, found Black people reported disproportionately high levels of homelessness across a broad spectrum of experiences.

This included sleeping rough (termed ‘core homelessness’), applying to a council for homelessness relief, and simply perceiving oneself as being without accommodation, having lost a settled home. 

It concluded that, in England, Black households were more than three times likelier than white ones to apply to a local authority as being homeless or threatened with homelessness. Households of mixed ethnicity were twice as likely as white ones to apply. 

While figures have tended to show Asian-led households as being under-represented in homelessness statistics, a picture that was borne out in the new study, researchers concluded that people from Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities were especially likely to experience ‘hidden homelessness’.

The study found 24% of Pakistani- and Bangladeshi-led households experienced overcrowding between 2017 and 2019, compared with 14% of Black-led households, 8% of Indian-led households and just 3% of white-led ones. 

Across the same timescale, it concluded that Black, and Pakistani and Bangladeshi households were five times likelier to experience affordability problems than their white counterparts. Black, and Pakistani and Bangladeshi people were twice as likely to be private tenants facing unaffordable rents, and three times as likely to have any form of housing need. 

Besides reaffirming evidence demonstrating the disproportionate experience of homelessness among people from Black and some other minority backgrounds, the new study also uncovered links between homelessness and discrimination. 

Drawing on data from the English Housing Survey, researchers found that 32% of Black people who had been homeless had also experienced discrimination from a social or private landlord – double the level of those who had not been homeless. A similar pattern was evident among Asian households and, to a lesser degree, among those of mixed ethnicity. 

The report suggested the finding could indicate that experiences of discrimination drive heightened exposure to homelessness, or that Black and other minoritised ethnic groups who become homeless are exposed to higher levels of discriminatory behaviour, or both.   

Glen Bramley, a professor of urban studies at Heriot-Watt and co-author of the report, said he found the apparent link between homelessness and the experience of racism “particularly distressing”, even among the other “shocking disparities” revealed. 

“This needs further investigation, and we are committed to this ongoing work,” Professor Bramley said. “In subsequent reports, with more in-depth statistical analysis and through the addition of a supporting body of qualitative evidence, we hope to better inform the housing sector and government and, in turn, help to address these stark inequalities in the most extreme forms of housing need.”

Mr Downie said the homelessness sector, as well as national and local government and society more widely, “must acknowledge and root out the injustices [uncovered] and advocate for long-term systemic solutions if we’re to ultimately end homelessness for good”.

Responding to the new report, Polly Neate, the chief executive of Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, said that racial inequality and discrimination were “hard-wired into our housing system”. 

“The direct link between homelessness and racial discrimination cannot be ignored and more has to be done – Heriot-Watt’s work is helping to lead the way,” Ms Neate said. 

“Homelessness is a structural problem that needs major structural solutions,” she added. “Any commitment to ending homelessness and creating a fair and secure housing system must take into account the clear role that the legacy of racial discrimination has played and how it continues to plague society.”

Sandy Hoaxed 2nd Edition - The Sandy Hook Gun Control False Flag

Crisis Actor in Club “Q” False Flag Claims He was Shot 7 Times in the Back w/an AR-15, but on Video Has No Problems Constantly Raising and Waving His Arms Around

[In the Spectacle News-Actors Show You How to React to News] Biden is Still Separating NonWhite Immigrant Kids from their Families but White, Liberal Media Conceals the Story b/c It Has Dogma to Sell

From [HERE] The persecution for her work as a lawyer in Colombia had gotten so bad that Victoria and her husband, Anton, decided they needed to start lying to their son. They couldn’t stay in Colombia any longer, but they also recognized the dangers of fleeing — especially with their son, Felipe, who was 10 at the time. So they told Felipe the family was taking a vacation to Mexico. Maybe they would even get to go to the United States, they said.

It was all a ruse to keep their son calm, to protect them from people who might target them as they traveled through Mexico.

Once they hit U.S. soil in late May, the family found Border Patrol agents and gave themselves up to ask for asylum, after which they were placed in detention to await processing. 

“I’m sorry, my beautiful child,” Victoria recalled telling Felipe. 

He was upset with his parents — they had lied to him; this was no vacation — but couldn’t contain his excitement about being in the United States. 

“We weren’t running or hiding,” Victoria later said. “I brought evidence to show immigration officials in support of our asylum application and told the immigration officials about why we fled Colombia to save our lives.”

Despite her preparations, Victoria became nervous when, a few days into their detention, agents took Felipe away, saying that they were taking him to an appointment. He was gone most of the day. That evening, another agent brought him back; his mother hugged him tightly. 

One or two days later, on or about May 29 — the exact date is unclear — Victoria and Felipe were taken to another room from which they could see, but not speak to, Anton. After some paperwork and an interview, an officer told Victoria that they were taking Felipe to have a snack. 

“They opened the door, took him away, and then closed the door,” Victoria said. She had heard about family separations, but didn’t think the U.S. government was still taking kids away from their parents. 

Victoria sensed something was amiss and began asking officials where her son was. “I don’t know,” immigration officials told her repeatedly. Almost six months later, she hasn’t seen him.

More than 5,500 children, including breastfeeding infants, were forcibly separated from their parents during the Trump administration’s family separation policy, which began as a pilot program in El Paso in early 2017. On June 20, 2018, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials to stop separating families, but the practice continued. In 2019, the Texas Civil Rights Project documented 272 cases of family separation. Most of those cases — 223 — were extended family members, including siblings, aunts, uncles or grandparents, or legal guardians or step-parents. 

In January 2020, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) established select criteria under which children can in fact be separated from their families: Immigration authorities may only do so if they deem the parent unfit, if the parent is going to be prosecuted for a felony, if the parent is hospitalized, or other specific circumstances.

The incoming Biden administration promised to stop such separations for good and offer reparations for the previous administration’s harms.

But as the case of Felipe shows, immigration officials have continued to separate parents and children in violation of the policy. From the start of the new administration to August 2022 — the latest month for which data has been published — U.S. authorities have reported at least 372 cases of family separation. [MORE]

BE SAD ABOUT THIS. BOO-FUCKING HOO. MADDOW AND OTHER WHITE LIBERAL LIARS RIDE THE WAAMBULANCE ONLY WHEN REPUBLICANS SEPARATE NON-WHITE KIDS AT THE IMAGINARY BORDER.

Despite Eviction Papers Served on Poor Tenants by Warnocks Church, He Claims Otherwise. Rolebotic Black Media Rarely Critically Examines Black Incumbents, Supporting Them Only b/c of NonRepublicanness

From [HERE] This Vietnam Veteran Paid His Past-Due Rent. He Still Faces Eviction From Ebenezer Baptist Church’s Apartment.

A Vietnam veteran says he still faces eviction from the low-income apartment building owned by Sen. Raphael Warnock's (D., Ga.) church, even though he paid his past-due rent.

Columbia Residential, which manages Ebenezer Baptist Church’s low-income apartment building in Atlanta, served a dispossessory notice to Phillip White on Sept. 20 for $192 in unpaid rent. White, an African-American Marine veteran who served two combat tours in Vietnam, provided money order receipts to the Free Beacon on Thursday showing he made a $542 rent payment on Nov. 2. But Columbia Residential hasn’t filed a motion to dismiss its case, indicating it still intends to evict White.

It’s not clear why Columbia's dispossessory notice against White remains open following his Nov. 2 rent payment. Warnock said in October that no one had been evicted from his church’s property, a claim undermined by court records showing that authorities have carried out two court-ordered writs of possession against residents since the start of the pandemic.

White said he expects the building to resume evictions after Warnock is clear of his Dec. 6 runoff election against Republican Herschel Walker.

"He said there would be no evictions," White, 69, said. "He knew that was a lie. What he was really saying is there would be no evictions until after the election."

Warnock has repeatedly dodged questions about evictions from his church’s apartment building since the Free Beacon broke the story in October. On Thursday, Warnock refused to tell reporters if he thought the eviction notices were wrongly sent, or if he had even looked into the issue. Earlier, on Sunday, the Democrat railed against the "vicious and venomous" critics of his church, saying they "attack the church of Jesus Christ."

Ebenezer Baptist Church, which pays Warnock a $7,417 monthly housing allowance, owns 99 percent of the dilapidated Columbia Tower at MLK Village. The church tapped Columbia Residential, one of the nation’s leading eviction filers, to manage the property on its behalf.

Walker launched an attack ad on Friday accusing Warnock of preying on the poor while lavishing himself with lucrative benefits from his church. The Republican has also offered to pay the past-due rents of the more than a dozen residents of Columbia Tower who have faced eviction since the start of the pandemic. But White said Thursday he didn’t want the help.

"I help me. I got to tighten my belt and do the things I need to do," the veteran said. "If I do that, I'll feel good. I'll sleep better at night, sleep real good."

Warnock called his opponent’s offer to pay the back rents a cynical ploy to "exploit" the residents facing eviction from his church’s apartment building. He also accused Walker of sullying the name of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. for "short-term political gain."

Thursday was the second time White spoke with the Free Beacon. White, who doesn’t own a phone, told the Free Beacon in early October the building managers at Columbia Tower treat him "like a piece of shit."

The Free Beacon had unfettered access to Columbia Tower and spoke with residents inside the building when this reporter first visited the property in early October. On Thursday, however, a security guard who identified himself as Jones was on site to keep reporters out.

"They don’t want no media in the building," he said.

Feds: 31 Kids Found Working Overnight On Meat Plant “Kill Floors”

From [HERE] Federal investigators are moving against a massive sanitation company that’s accused of employing children as young as 13 on dangerous overnight shifts at food processing plants. The Department of Labor requested a temporary injunction Wednesday against Wisconsin-based Packers Sanitation Services after investigators found at least 31 children employed to clean industrial equipment. A Labor Department complaint said at least two child workers suffered caustic chemical burns and other injuries while working on the floor where cattle are butchered at a plant in Grand Island, Nebraska. Investigators said they found child workers also at two plants in Minnesota.