GOINTELBRO aka "Frank James" Pleads Guilty in "Brooklyn Subway Terror Attack,” thereby Avoiding a Real, Contested Trial on the Merits- like False Flags in Waukesha, Charleston, Parkland and Sandy Hoax

“THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE” MOVE FAST WHEN IT COMES TO FALSE FLAGS. ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

GOINTELBRO – GOVERNMENT OPERATIVE INCOGNEGRO NOTIFYING THE ENFORCERS LIBERATING BLACKAMERICA’S RACIST OPPRESSORS. A GOINTEL-BRO IS A SORRY-ASS SOPHISTICATED HANKY-HEAD, COIN-OPERATED, SAM-BOHICAN, SNIGGER ON THE PAYROLLS OF THE F.B.I. (OR ANY OTHER ALPHABET THREAT AGENCY) AS AN UNDERCOVER INFORMANT TO FOMENT DIVISIVENESS IN BLACKAMERICA’S ONGOING CENTURIES-LONG STRUGGLE FOR SOCIOECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT AS A PEOPLE. SNIGGERS ARE EQUAL IN INTENT, AND BOUND BY THE SAME FLAW—COVERTLY SOUL-SELLING OUT THE POTENTIAL SELF-DETERMINATION OF HIS PEOPLE FOR THE SAKE OF HIS MASSA’S OVERTLY RACIST, STATIST OR FASCIST LAW. (SEE: SNIGGER, COINTELPRO, SAMBO, BLACK FLASK BRIGADE, BOHICAN & COIN-OPERATED)

HOAX - A MIRAGE THAT APPEARS AS BELIEVABLE, POPULAR (AND MARKETABLE) AS JESUS, AS TEMPTING AS SIN, AND AS CAPTIVATING AS A SWEET TABOO---WITHOUT ITS CONSEQUENCES AND SIDE-EFFECTS TOO. THE ILLUSION OF TRUTH SEEMS REAL--THE "REALITY" OF THE REEL (THE PASSING SHOW)--THE SURREAL. THE TWO MOST PERVASIVE HOAXES WE PUT OVER ON OURSELVES IS EGO AND MONEY--NEITHER HAVE ANY EXISTENCE. (SEE: PASSING SHOW, MIRAGE, ROLLING MIRROR, OBJECTIVITY, EGO, MONEY, UTOPIA, KANSAS & ALICE IN WONDERLAND)

According to media hoaxed “journalists” at the NY Times: “Frank R. James, who was accused of carrying out the worst attack on the New York subway system in years, pled guilty to terrorism in connection with an April shooting spree on a train in Brooklyn.

James, 63, appeared in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn and read aloud from a short statement confessing to the attack on a Manhattan-bound N train on April 12, for which he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

"I got on the subway train that was carrying people," said James, dressed in wrinkled khaki jail overalls and sitting at a table alongside his public defenders. "While I was on the train, I started shooting a firearm."

Judge William Kuntz accepted James' 11 guilty pleas, spoken in a voice that at times cracked. The judge ordered the government's probation department to complete a pre-sentencing report by July 4, but he did not set a date for sentencing.”

According the police/media: Just before 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 12, a man wearing a mask and an orange vest threw two smoke bombs and opened fire on a train car in Sunset Park. Images of smoke-filled train cars and subway platforms slick with blood flooded social media.

In the ensuing chaos, the shooter escaped and disappeared into the city, but he left behind an array of belongings on the train — including a gun, ammunition, bank cards and a key for a U-Haul — and a trail of video surveillance footage across Brooklyn, according to court filings.

The authorities soon identified Mr. James, who appeared to have planned an attack for days [did he plan to leave behind “an array of belongings on the train“] . He had reserved and paid for a U-Haul van in Philadelphia the week before and had driven it into Brooklyn before dawn that day. Authorities said he had parked the van in Brooklyn and then entered the subway.

Mr. James has been detained since his arrest at a jail in Brooklyn, just blocks from the subway station where the attack took place. [MORE] Mr. James, 63, faces a possible life sentence. [MORE]

Additionally a day after the incident he confessed to the crimes by calling the police tip line on himself! Yes, he snitched on himself (similar to unauthenticated “manifestos,” diaries, rap books, tweets or ISIS press releases containing admissions to the entire crime immediately found after other false flag ops).

Also, according to the NYPD there are 600 cameras where the attack took place. But all were broken or malfunctioned at the time of the attack according to the NYPD and Black Strawboss Eric Adams. [MORE]

ACCORDING TO COINCIDENCE THEORISTS, ALL 600 CAMERAS AROUND THE BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION AT ISSUE BROKE DOWN AT THE SAME TIME which happened to be the same DAY as the “shooting spree.”

There is a pattern emerging in false flags; if the perpetrator(s) survives the alleged attack, there is never a real trial, and thus no evidence the incident occurred is ever established in any law forum. A real trial never takes place, nor can it – such is the nature of false flags. A real trial necessarily means an adversarial contest between the Government or private party and an accused defendant in which evidence is rigorously tested through the pre-trial and trial process.

Unrepresented trials (where a defendant has no attorney) function as the conclusion of the show in these false flag operations. Court theater helps cement the false event as real in the public mind. In reality, understand that when a non-attorney represents himself in a murder trial, it is an uncontested trial and an uncontested trial is not a meaningful trial at all. Such a contest is like you versus Mike Tyson in his prime at MSG - a slaughter, for those unfamiliar.

In the criminal context, no trial’ means there is no contested, adversarial proceeding where the government must establish facts beyond a reasonable doubt with actual, admissible, authenticated evidence and credible witness testimony that is subject to; rigorous cross -examination, the rules of evidence, pre-trial discovery, pre-trial motions and Brady disclosures. The right to confront witnesses and cross examine them, which is the primary purpose of the 6th Amendment and essential to a meaningful criminal trial, is waived as a practical matter during pro-se trials. Such cross examination (in civil and criminal cases) on issues relevant to establishing guilt or liability frequently produces critical evidence and is the defense's tool to raise doubt and produce an acquittal or dismissal. In contrast to police allegations robotically parroted by the media, during a real trial witnesses and evidence are tested for their authenticity and veracity in an adversarial process.

In the alleged ‘Waukesha Christmas Parade Attack’ and ‘Charleston Church Massacre’ false flags both defendants “Darrell Brooks” and “Dylann Roof” respectively were unrepresented during their trials. As a result, no real pre-trial investigation or discovery by “the defense” took place. No meaningful jury selection occurred. No pre-trial motions were filed to exclude evidence, identification or statements. During “the trials” no skilled cross examination took place, no viable objections to hundreds of government requests and witness questions took place, there were no meaningful challenges to hundreds of government exhibits, foundations for evidence were improperly contested or were uncontested, authentication of social media evidence was unnecessary, any and all hearsay and double hearsay was admissible, no actual defenses were asserted, no witnesses testified on their behalf, no legitimate criminal defense or theory of the case was set forth, no effective closing was submitted and more. Such a performance by an attorney would be immediate grounds for a new trial and disbarment. As a result, no meaningful trial ever took place in either false flag episode.

In other false flags no real trial occurs due to guilty pleas (in criminal cases) and default judgments (in civil cases).

A guilty plea is just a guilty plea - it is not proof that anything happened in any criminal case. A guilty plea is a way to avoid an actual trial or avoid having to prove that a crime took place and that a particular individual committed it. Often, it saves time and tremendous resources. A plea is proof that a plea took place, but nothing more, it is an empty representation. For instance, a DUI plea isn’t the evidence that an individual was drunk driving. Evidence at trial such as field sobriety testing, breath tests, bodycam video, witness observations about demeanor, speech, gait, driving behavior and breath odor would be presented and challenged at a real trial. During a plea such allegations are just words on paper read out loud in court.

The guilty pleas in the Brooklyn Subway Terror Shooting and Parkland Massacre aren’t proof that said incidents actually occurred or that "Frank James" or “Nikolas Cruz” actually committed the crimes. In the Spectacle, the Dependent Media carries on as if “Nikolas Cruz” had a contested trial and was found guilty. In reality, he pled guilty last October to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the Parkland shooting. His plea triggered the “sentencing hearing” phase of his case, which only determined his sentence; specifically whether he would be put to death. Similarly, "Frank James" aka GOINTELBRO, pled guilty in the Brooklyn case. Now the court will schedule a sentencing hearing. However, as with the Parkland case if an actual, contested criminal trial took place the Government would have had the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime took place and that Cruz or James respectfully committed it. That is, the Government would have had to show that the Parkland and Brooklyn false flags were real - with actual authenticated, admissible evidence and testimony subject to cross-examination, credibility determinations, investigation and inspection in an adversarial process before a jury who would decide on the merits. That never happened.

Similarly, in civil cases a default judgment may occur where a defendant fails to respond to a court order or respond to a pleading by a deadline. Under such circumstances the defendant would be in default and subject to the entry of a default judgment. Default judgments are a drastic action because they confront the judicial preference for disposition on the merits of the case. Like a guilty plea, a default judgment is a judgment without a trial. Default judgments also don’t prove that something happened - they just mean someone lost a lawsuit because they failed to comply with a court order or deadline.

As with the guilty pleas in the alleged Parkland and Brooklyn Subway incidents, default judgements against Alex Jones don’t prove that “Sandy Hoax” actually occurred or prove that he lied when he said it was a false flag. Jones failed to respond to court orders and deadlines in multiple defamation lawsuits, so he lost by default. Nothing more. If an actual, contested defamation trial had taken place it would have been the plaintiffs burden to actually demonstrate that Jones made false statements; not vice-versa. That means that during contested trial(s) the plaintiffs would have had to prove that Sandy Hook occurred - with actual, authenticated, admissible evidence and testimony subject to cross-examination, credibility determinations and inspection in an adversarial process before a jury who would decide the case on the merits. Once a default judgment was entered by the court in the Jones’ cases the only thing left for the jury to do was to determine the amount of damages for the alleged defamation. Jones only participated in that part of the proceeding - hearings on damages after liability was imposed by default.

Default judgments and guilty pleas don’t provide evidence that things occurred in the real world, rather they are simply court mechanisms to move court dockets along. The fact that there was no trial only strengthens the doubt of persons who don’t blindly believe whatever the media and government say.

Allegations function as allegations and also proof in totalitarian systems - ‘who needs to actually prove a set of facts during an adversarial, contested trial when you have “belief” and dogma? Almost like faith based COVID “vaccines:” they’re “vaccines” and are “safe” because the media said so and they know because the government and big pharma told them so (‘take our word for it and go check our science’). The media simply parrots the government or police version of events. For what reason would you ever question a police report? Anyone who questions the police or government narrative or who seeks actual details is considered a conspiracy theorist in totalitarian systems, such as the one you are confined in.

Due to the contrived nature of the Subway Shooting Massacre narrative, the voluntary confession and the facts that; 600 subway cameras malfunctioned at the precise time of the attack, no one was killed, there is a lack of cell-phone video from people in one of the busiest cities in the country, people on video (crisis actors) are recorded doing unusual things in the midst of the attack, such as taking selfies, looking at their phones, mulling around and multiple persons appear to be pouring blood on the subway platform, persons uninjured suddenly appear to be injured etc, - this microwave terror case open and solved in less than 3 days feels synthetic and should be suspected as a false flag conducted by the government and media until proven otherwise.

Belief isn’t needed to come to such a conclusion- look at the attached videos. In contrast, belief is needed to conclude that an actual massacre occurred on the subway because the evidence has never been seen by the public. We are instructed to believe cops and whatever emotional words the media put before our eyes but it takes no intelligence to believe. An actual, contested trial could resolve any doubt as to whether this fake looking bullshit ever took place - but in false flag productions authorities rely on dogma, belief and emotion.

Why would the government do such a thing? As undeceiver Larken Rose explains, authorities terrorize or create great fear in the citizenry in order convince them to voluntarily give authorities more control, more power over them and their lives. Authorities and their Dependent Media must constantly misrepresent reality so citizens always have a bogey-man or a perceived unsolvable problem to fear. Rose states, elites “must pound into [citizens] heads, day in and day out, that the world is full of horrors and injustices , and that only the government authorities can make their lives bearable and that is necessary for them to have enormous power in order to do so.

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

cover-stories – headlines that provide cover (hiding and distraction) for the real untold and undiscussed stories behind the one’s they are really (deliberately) not covering, undressing or addressing at all. 2) planted actors and/or provocateurs providing misinformation immediately after a false flag operation—like 9-11, Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon bombing. The methodology: Sell the lie with authority, then change the subject to something emotional. For example, the cover stories about whether or not “well-intentioned” public officials (on oxymoronic characterization itself) made “mistakes” in not paying attention to obvious warnings of so-called Al-Qaida operations inside the territorial United States posed by the mock 9-11 Commission mockery. The whole thrust behind the cover-story was to specifically avoid treating the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and the fields in Pennsylvania as actual crime scenes—to avoid the contradictions in the official stories with physical evidence to the contrary, to totally ignore the blatant anomalies regarding the well-planned, orchestrated, and executed sophisticated operations (hoax) that happened and didn’t happen on that fateful day. (See: Underlying, MEDIA, Tyrant-Paradigm, Pixelated People, West-Wingers, Oklahoma City Bombing, Nine- Eleven, MEDIA NSA Position, Bush Family Crime Syndicate, Pentagon Murders, Killer-Jet, CIA, Israelians, NSA, King TUT, RUN—GMC & The OCTOCON)

false flag – staged psychological operations by government operatives and shadow elite orchestrated and perpetrated against the civilian population. False flag operations does not necessarily mean that oftentimes real people don’t die.

6 Days Later and No Public Explanation as to Why Damar Hamlin Had to Be Brought Back to Life on the Field. Dr Alexander Demands CBC to Hold Hearings on Whether Mandated Shots Caused Heart Attack

Six days after Damar Hamlin had to be brought back to life after collapsing on the football field the Dependent Media and NFL have no public explanation for what happened. The doctors providing billion dollar medical care to Hamlin probably aren’t saying, ‘we don’t know.’

According to the WSJ, Hamlin is breathing on his own and talking, marking the second consecutive day of positive milestones in his recovery. Hamlin’s physicians said that his breathing tube was removed overnight and that he has been able to speak with his family and care team, according to the Bills, who said “he continues to progress remarkably in his recovery.” Hamlin also FaceTimed into a team meeting to talk to players and coaches. 

Yet no explanation from doctors about what happened. Instead media provide “cover stories” and “reality concealment” within the meaning of FUNKTIONARY. We get the corporate talking points about “the NFL brotherhood” and that Hamlin’s charity has raised a lot of money and that NFL players can wear T-shirts in support of the safety on Sunday and other happy news about his near death experience. [MORE] What are they afraid of?

Bignorant, Ex-NFL Player Uche Nwaneri Dies Suddenly from Heart Attack @ 38. He was a Jesusized Believer in Experimental, Forced Medical Treatments and Advocated for COVID Shots (Rest in Dogma mf)

From [HERE] Former NFL player Uchechukwu Nwaneri, who vociferously advocated for mandatory vaccines, died suddenly last Friday, with a coroner reporting he likely suffered a heart attack.

Nwanaeri, 38, was reportedly found dead at his home in West Lafayette, Ind., according to theLafayette Journal & Courier.

More from the Courier:

Nwaneri drove up from Georgia, police said, and he was at his wife’s West Lafayette’s house in the 2600 block of Willow Drive when he apparently collapsed, Costello said.

Nwaneri’s wife found him unresponsive in a bedroom in her house about 1 a.m. Friday and called 911, Costello said.

Tippecanoe County Coroner Carrie Costello told the Courier an autopsy on the former Jacksonville Jaguars lineman found no evidence of foul play and “Preliminary results indicate a possible heart attack, pending toxicology results.”

Nwaneri was vocal about his support for the Covid jab on social media and espoused support for mandatory vaccine schemes and vaccine passports, at one point saying, “MANDATE THE VACCINE. Jail anyone who refuses.”

Like a good citizen he took one for Uncle Brother’s team. Bye.

According to FUNKTIONARY:

bignorance – big-time ignorance; ignorant of being ignorant, unaware of being unaware. There is ignorance and then there is ignorance of ignorance. The first is bliss, the second type is deadly. If you don’t know that you are ignorant, you can never do anything about your ignorance. Most of us are ignorant of being ignorant. But once you become aware that you then you can start working on it by working on yourself through various self-knowledge and self-remembering modalities. The most fundamental of these modalities is what I refer to as “Unlearning” or being informed that you’re not just uninformed but misinformed and the ways to overcome this condition and the underlying condition that lead (or gave rise) to it—thereby becoming a reality hidden from you jet readily recognizable by those who have awakened. (See: Unaware)

Jesusize – to believe in something (or someone—real, mythologized or imagined) or even worship it, based on little (scant and sketchy) to no evidence in support of it (single-source propaganda), and uncorroborated accounts that fly in the face of known history, facts and science. 2) to turn fiction or fictional accounts into fact and history through propaganda, indoctrination, coercion and violence. Just because a man called “Jesus” did not exist in history does not mean that you cannot become the Christ you are awakening in (or at least to) the Divine Mystery. (See: Jesus Seminar)

Dogma – Am God (spelled backwards). 2) a puppy’s mother—a bitch. 3) instructions on what to believe and how to believe it. 4) truth pressed and starched to appear crisp. 5) any kind of truth that justifies the institutionalized structure of the organization. Reality isn’t wrinkle-free. Every dogma has its day—and a dogma that chases its catechism, will definitely be busy. Dogma is the edifice of ignorance (in the form of static superstitions) and bastion of banality inside your thinking apparatus and thinking process. Dogma is the expression of the belief system that must be adhered to; hatred is the enforcer. Dogma is the rulebook of the particular truth that is being enforced by hatred. The truth that is played with is the game— the rules that enforce how the game is played is the dogma. Dogma is a protector of objective truth; and truth is a prophylactic for reality. Dogma is the bug (fatal flaw) and true believers are the replicating viruses that propagate and distort the internal model of the nature of reality directly experienced within nondual consciousness. People perceive reality’s forms as direct threats on (and to) their truths because they are merely living (in truth at the mythic or rational level of consciousness) and not Alive (living God in reality) at the higher states, levels or realms of consciousness. Nondual consciousness unfolds itself the highest realization that a divine being can experience appearing-as-process in the space-time continuum. “Any time you have a doctrine where that is the truth that you assert, and that what you call the truth is unassailable, you’ve got doctrine, you’ve got dogma on your hands. And so Cosmos is…an offering of science, and a reminder that dogma does not advance science; it actually regresses it.” ~Neil DeGrassi Tyson. Dogma is the straightjacket of the spirit. Before you ever had the opportunity to even ask the question, the answer was given to you. Dogma is believing in borrowed answers to questions you never had the chance to formulate or ask. True believers are people who believe in answers without asking. Believing in borrowed answers is convenient and comfortable. Questioning is never comforting; to question one has to go within oneself. Dogma’s staying power lies in its ability to feed on any experience, digest, then defecate it while pronouncing it as a piece of duty. [MORE]

NBA Hall of Famer John Stockton says COVID Shots are Injuring, Killing People. Thus, The Dependent Media Claims He's Crazy [to Offend Their Masters, Big Pharma, who Own Them and Control Programming]

From [HERE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

MEDIA – Mind-controlling Everyone’s Decisions and Ideologies in America. 2) Mindless Entertainment Deviation Indoctrination Alienation. 3) “Multi-Ethnic Destruction In America.”~Professor Griff. 4) Brainwashington, Drone City. 4) Mentally Entraining Drone Information Anonymously. 5) Marginally Entertaining Distraction In Amerika.

Study Shows Race is a Substantial Factor in Wrongful Convictions: 70% of People Proven Innocent Over Past 5 yrs were Black. Blacks 7X More Likely than Whites to be Falsely Convicted of Serious Crime

From [HERE] According to a recent study of wrongful convictions, the number of people convicted of crimes who have been proved innocent has increased 70% in the last five years. An analysis of those cases revealed that race is a substantial factor in why people are wrongly convicted.

The report, Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States 2022, reviewed the cases of 3,200 innocent defendants exonerated in the U.S. since 1989 and found that Black Americans are seven times more likely than white Americans to be falsely convicted of serious crimes. This is true across all major crime categories except for white collar crime.

Black Americans are seven times more likely than white Americans to be falsely convicted of serious crimes.

For homicides, the risk of a wrongful conviction in cases where the victim was white is nearly twice that of cases where the victim was Black. Racial disparities are even worse for sexual assault crimes, where Black people are eight times more likely to be wrongly convicted than a white person for a crime involving sexual violence. Again, the risk of a wrongful conviction increases dramatically if the victim is white as opposed to a person who is Black.

Racial disparities are most extreme in cases involving drug crimes. Black people are 19 times more likely to be wrongly convicted of a drug crime than white people.

Can a Public Service be Compulsory? Can Racists Provide it? White Cop Fired for Making a "Feces Sandwich" and Giving it to Homeless Black Man was Rehired by a Nearby Town but Let Go Over Bad PR

From [HERE] and [HERE] The white SAPD officer who was fired for allegedly making a sandwich with feces and giving it to homeless person in 2016 has now been terminated from his position with Floresville Police Department. 

Floresville officials said Matthew Luckhurst had been working as a reserve officer for the city, having been "signed on" a few months after he was let from the San Antonio Police Department. According to Mayor Cecelia Gonzalez-Dippel, reserve officers don't work full-time, aren't paid and serve on a volunteer basis—but the city was apparently unaware of his history of alleged misconduct.  

The city released a statement confirming Luckhurst was "released" from the reserve program on Tuesday, adding they will be changing their hiring policies. 

"For the citizens of Floresville, we do apologize for the confusion. We were notified last weekend," the statement reads. "We are changing the hiring procedures for stricter rules on background checks. The next update will come from the office of the city manager." [MORE]

The white Texas police officer was fired from the San Antonio police department after two incidents involving feces.

Even when bad cops face consequences, police union rules often insulate them from punishment—even for "vile and disgusting" behavior.

In 2016, officers with the San Antonio Police Department cleared a homeless encampment from a private parking lot. Matthew Luckhurst, a bike patrol officer involved in the effort, was trying to get the residents to clean up on their way out when he allegedly offered a homeless man a shit sandwich—literally, dog feces on bread.

Luckhurst would later attest that he had picked up the feces with a discarded piece of bread so he wouldn't step on it, then put it in a food container which he assumed the man would throw away. But David Ramos, a fellow officer who was present, testified that Luckhurst had laughed about it at the scene before later telling other officers that he "had made a sandwich and force-fed someone." Ramos said that was false but claimed that "Luckhurst had spread the rumors because he was a prankster."

Luckhurst was fired in October 2016, with San Antonio arguing that he had created a liability for the city if the man had eaten the sandwich and become sick. The chief of police called it "a vile and disgusting act that violates our guiding principles of 'treating all with integrity, compassion, fairness and respect.'" But according to local government code, officers must be disciplined within 180 days of the incident in question. There was some confusion over the exact incident date, partly because Luckhurst's body camera was not turned on. Arbitrators determined in March 2019 that the department acted too late and ordered Luckhurst reinstated.

By that time, Luckhurst had committed another shitty prank: A female San Antonio officer complained about the cleanliness of the women's restroom facilities at the police station. In response, Luckhurst and another officer in June 2016 defecated in a toilet in the women's bathroom and spread a brown substance on the seat. Luckhurst bragged about it to other officers. The department placed him on another indefinite suspension, and in June 2020, four full years after the incident, an arbitrator affirmed the termination.

But earlier this month, the San Antonio Express-News reported that just five months after his final firing, Luckhurst was hired as a reserve officer by the police department in Floresville, Texas, 30 miles away. This week, after being inundated with emails, Floresville Mayor Cissy Gonzalez-Dippel announced that on December 13, "Matthew Luckhurst was released from employment," and the city would be "implementing stricter hiring policies for all city of Floresville employees."

After Luckhurst's second termination was upheld, San Antonio City Manager Erik Walsh said, "This individual clearly has no business wearing an SAPD uniform, and it should never have been this hard to fire him." This is a common problem among police departments: In Washington, D.C., for example, the city's police department reinstatedat least 37 fired officers over six years, at a cost to the city of more than $14 million in back pay. Nearly half of the officers had been terminated for conduct deemed a "threat to safety."

But Luckhurst's case provides a further example of how it is hard for a fired officer to stay fired. When Floresville hired Luckhurst, a cursory Google search would have revealed his history. Timothy Loehmann, the Cleveland police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, has been hired as an officer twice in recent years, each time resigning when it was publicly reported. Loehmann was fired not for shooting an unarmed child but for concealing that a police department where he'd been previously employed had deemed him "unfit for duty."

Just like with Luckhurst, Loehmann's history posed no problem in securing further employment as a police officer, and he only left when public outcry demanded it.

California Report says Police Stop Blacks 2 Times as Much as Whites and Search Black Teens 6 Times as Much, even though Only 6% of the State is Black [CA is Dominated by White, Liberal Democrats]

From [HERE] An annual state report released on Tuesday showed that in California, law enforcement action by police was nearly twice on Black people than Whites. The report found that California law enforcement searched Black teenagers almost six times more than white teens during vehicle and pedestrian stops, AP reported. 

The annual report was released by California's Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board, which focuses on police brutality and racial injustice in the US. 

The report said, "The data show that racial and identity disparities persist year after year. The Board remains committed to analysing and highlighting these disparities to compel evidence-driven strategies for reforming policing and eliminating racial and identity profiling in California."

The Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board gathered data from 58 law enforcement agencies on vehicle and pedestrian stops in 2021. These 58 agencies include the 23 largest departments in the state, which collectively made nearly 3.1 million pedestrian and vehicle stops.

The data basically includes how an official differentiates one's race and gender, even if it's different from how the individual identifies, to determine bias. 

According to the board's report, in these 3.1 million stops, police officers perceived nearly 42 per cent of individuals to be Latino or Hispanic. 

Over 30 per cent of individuals were perceived as white, while 15 per cent as Black. 

However, in the state, according to the 2021 census, only 6.5 per cent of individuals made up Black while 35 per cent were White. 

The report said that despite being stopped by officers, no actions were taken indicating the Black individuals stopped were not engaged in criminal activity. 

NYPD Settles Stop/Frisk Class Action w/5 Plaintiffs for $450k. But Cops Still Have Uncontrollable Authority to Stop Law Abiding Blacks and Check Names for Warrants Whenever They Want in Liberal NYC

From [HERE] The New York City Police Department has reportedly agreed to settle a class action lawsuit challenging its “digital stop and frisk” practice, according to NBC New York.

The challenged NYPD digital stop and frisk practice refers to situations in which officers would conduct a prolonged street stop while they checked for arrest warrants and potential connections to other cases.

Under the terms of the NYPD settlement, officers may only conduct warrant searches during street stops if they have “reasonable suspicion” that the person they stopped was committing or was about to commit a crime, or if there is probable cause that the person had committed a crime.

In addition, the NYPD has reportedly revised its policy on conducting street stops and is training officers on the policy. Under the terms of the NYPD settlement, all officers must be trained on the new policy by Jan. 31.

The NYPD will also pay $453,733 in damages and attorneys’ fees. Each of the five named plaintiffs will receive a payment ranging from $3,000 to $19,000.

Plaintiffs say NYPD digital search and frisk tactics were unconstitutional

The NYPD class action lawsuit was filed in 2019 and alleged that the practice was an unconstitutional violation of the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against illegal detention and unlawful search and seizure. Critics raised concerns that officers could stop individuals for minor infractions and use the stop as an excuse to conduct a search into their criminal record.

People of color were often targeted for the NYPD digital stop and frisk practice, according to the class action lawsuit.

“This lawsuit has always been about bringing justice to innocent New Yorkers who are baselessly detained in the street so aggressive NYPD officers can run their IDs,” plaintiffs’ lawyer Cyrus Joubin said.

Nicholas Paolucci, a spokesperson for New York’s law department, noted that the NYPD settlement “was limited to these individual plaintiffs and does not indicate a broad issue.” He says the NYPD will clarify its existing policy to clarify when officers are allowed to check for arrest warrants during a stop.

The NYPD has faced several lawsuits in recent years, including class action lawsuits alleging excessive force and brutality against Black Lives Matters protesters. The police department was also recently hit with a class action lawsuit alleging it illegally made sealed arrest records public.

WSJ Analysis Finds Police Nationwide are Failing to Stop the Rise of Murders of Black Woman or to Solve the Cases [the numbers are Confounding Only if You Believe Cops Exist to Serve Black People]

From [HERE] When homicides surged across America during the pandemic, murders of Black women and girls rose more dramatically than other groups. At the same time, the proportion of those killings solved by police fell faster than other demographics in nearly two dozen cities. 

Some 2,077 Black women and girls were killed in 2021, a 51% increase over 2019 and the largest jump of any racial or gender group during that period, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall, the number of killings nationwide increased 34% during that time frame.

Meanwhile, the number of unsolved homicides of Black women and girls rose by 89% in 2020 and 2021 compared with 2018 and 2019, according to a survey of 21 U.S. cities by The Wall Street Journal. It was a far bigger increase than any other demographic group during this period, data provided by the cities show.

The numbers are confounding to law enforcement, criminologists and community groups, who said they have yet to gain a complete understanding of the disparities. 

They pointed to several variables that might have contributed to the changes, including the overall rise in homicides of Black women and girls, staffing shortages in police departments and deepening distrust of police in some Black communities following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

One factor, according to some in law enforcement: a shift in the types of homicide cases in which Black women and girls were victims. Police have typically solved more homicides of women than men. Killings of women often involve husbands, boyfriends or ex-partners, who are quickly identified. Men are more often killed in gang- and drug-related shootings or fights with strangers, cases that can be tougher to crack.

Amid a quarter-century high in gun violence during the pandemic, more Black women and girls were caught in the crossfire of drive-by shootings and other attacks where they weren’t always the intended targets, police said. These cases are often more difficult to solve.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which reports annual crime data nationwide, doesn’t fully track clearance rates by race and gender. The Journal queried more than 30 cities across the U.S., including the nation’s 10 largest. Most also said they don’t track such data. Twenty-one cities agreed to share both the number of homicides and the number of those cases cleared since 2018, along with the race and gender of the victims.

In these cities, the share of homicide cases for Black women and girls cleared by police—either by arrest, charges filed or identification of a suspect beyond the reach of authorities—fell to 59% in 2020 and 2021 from 67% in 2018 and 2019. Clearance rates for white women and girls fell from 78% to 73% over the same time period. 

Clearance rates for men were lower to begin with, but saw smaller drops in that period, or none at all, remaining at 58% for white men and boys and dropping from 45% to 41% for Black men and boys, who had the lowest clearance rate of all. The overall homicide clearance rates in those 21 cities during that period fell to 49% from 51%.

Some states and cities have started examining differences in homicides and clearance rates for cases involving Black women and girls. The Los Angeles City Council in May ordered the city’s civil rights department to conduct an analysis of the issue. [MORE]

Chicago Trib Analysis Finds Its Easier for Black Residents to Get Pizza Delivery than for Them to Get Cops to Respond to 911 Calls [its White, Liberal Propaganda that Police Exist to Protect/Serve Us]

From [HERE] The Sunday sun was an hour or so from rising over the lake as the Jeffery Pub was closing on Aug. 14, sending patrons out the door and on their way.

It had already been a rowdy end to the night. Just after 4:30 a.m., somebody had called police to report an assault. During the wait for officers to arrive, an altercation spilled out onto the street. And then somebody made a chilling threat.

“I got something for you,” a man allegedly said, adding an obscenity, before he turned and walked a half-block north on Jeffery Boulevard, got into a car and pulled into traffic.

The man, according to court records, then floored the gas pedal and rammed it into the crowd. Four people were struck, including three who died.

The crash occurred at 4:58 a.m., according to court records. That was 27 minutes after the first 911 call about the earlier assault, but no officers had shown up by then.

An officer wasn’t dispatched to the bar until 5:20 a.m. and didn’t arrive until 5:35 a.m., city data shows. That was well after firefighters had arrived to start tending to the wounded — and 64 minutes after the first 911 call.

That lag highlights a staggering reality for Chicago residents: If you dial 911, it may be a while before police show up — even if the situation is so serious that department policy calls for an “immediate” response.

While police do respond relatively quickly to many calls, a Tribune analysis of 2022 city data found that tens of thousands of serious calls lingered in the 911 system for longer than it typically takes to get a pizza delivered.

Chicago has long struggled with times when there are too many calls for assistance and not enough police to respond, but the latest findings illustrate how significant the problem has become and how the burden isn’t shared evenly.

The Tribune’s analysis, based on data the city released last year as required by a legal settlement, also shows the waits for police can be particularly long in several South Side districts where the majority of residents are Black.

In some districts, including District 3 where the Jeffery Pub is located, nearly half the immediate-response calls made from January through November 2022 sat for 10 minutes before operators could dispatch an officer to start heading toward them.

Citywide, the wait for an officer to be dispatched topped an hour for more than 21,000 calls, according to the city’s data. That was roughly 1 of every 24 high-priority calls.

And those delays are only part of the problem. The time it takes to dispatch an officer doesn’t include the time it takes for a 911 operator to ready the call to be dispatched, nor the time it takes once the call is dispatched for the officer to arrive at the scene.

Analyzing the total response time is difficult because for many calls in the city’s data set no arrival time is logged. Even with those limitations, the Tribune identified thousands of additional calls in which officers didn’t report arriving to a scene within an hour of the 911 call being placed.

All told, the wait for police exceeded an hour for more than 29,000 high-priority calls in 2022, the Tribune found, and the true number is likely higher.

Those results are just for the “immediate” dispatch calls, which range from robberies in progress to someone spotted with a gun. Chicago police have two other lower-priority categories for calls — “rapid” dispatch and “routine” dispatch — where the data show that wait times are even more likely to exceed an hour.

A Chicago Police Department spokesperson did not respond to detailed questions about the Tribune’s findings, including possible reasons for delayed responses and why some dispatch times for high-priority calls exceeded 60 minutes. Instead, the department issued a brief statement saying it was “committed to timely response to calls for service within every neighborhood citywide.”

“Patrol resources are frequently analyzed and adjusted to ensure calls for service are responded to by officers in a timely manner,” the statement said.

That vague answer isn’t good enough for the head of the newly seated Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, Anthony Driver Jr.

“I think they should prove it,” Driver said. “If that is the case, they should have no problem publicly explaining what these numbers mean and defending the data they are putting on their website.”

The commission, created by city ordinance and formed this summer, was intended to give community leaders more input into who runs the police department and how it operates. The commission quickly became the latest entity to question what Chicago police are doing to better position officers across the city, particularly in an era when the number of active officers has shrunk.

Driver said the Tribune’s findings reinforce the dramatically different realities Chicagoans experience depending on where they live.

“It doesn’t instill confidence ... that when I call the police, as a Black man on the South Side, that I will get the same response as some of our North Side counterparts,” he said.

Missing data, chronic delays

Last year, the city quietly began posting charts on police response times, based on the same data it was forced to release as part of the legal settlement reached in fall 2021.

Inexplicably, the charts focused only on the final portion of a response: the time it takes, once officers are dispatched to a scene, for the first officer to arrive. In essence, the charts measure the travel time for officers, excluding the time it took for a 911 operator to pick up the phone, to discern the nature of the call and to hand the call off to a dispatcher, as well as the time that elapsed before the dispatcher directed an officer to the scene.

The charts also come with a big caveat: The data they’re based on doesn’t include all high-priority calls. In a third of those calls, the department didn’t track when officers arrived at the scene, so those calls were excluded from the department’s calculations. The department also warned that some of the arrival times logged may be inaccurate.

The city has said officers racing to high-priority calls may be too distracted in life-or-death situations to log arrival times properly. But the Tribune found record keeping was even spottier for lower-priority calls, such as parking violations, which suggests that adrenaline rushes aren’t always to blame.

Even given these limitations, the data on officers’ travel times isn’t flattering to the department.

In November, officers’ median travel time to the scene was 9.5 minutes for the highest-priority calls. In New York City, by contrast, the equivalent figure was less than 4 minutes, according to numbers posted online for a similar period. (In cases where an event results in multiple 911 calls, the earliest dispatch and arrival times are used to measure responses.)

Within Chicago, the data shows travel times varied dramatically among the city’s 22 police districts, ranging from a median of 5.8 minutes to nearly 12 minutes. (A median means half the calls took more time and half took less.)

But perhaps the most troubling revelations come from data that’s missing from the posted charts: the time it takes to send out an officer after the 911 operator readies a call for dispatch.

In essence, that’s the middle leg of the emergency response, the one before the travel leg that the city charted online. This information was buried in massive data sets the city posted at the bottom of the website, below the charts. Unlike the travel leg, times are listed for nearly every call, and reporters analyzed those numbers for all calls received from January through November 2022.

There will always be some lag when dispatching police, but it should be minimal. In New York City, for example, for its highest-priority calls during a similar period, that city reported a median time of 90 seconds between the time a 911 operator transferred the call to a dispatcher and the time when the first officer started heading toward the scene.

In Chicago, the Tribune found the same measurement for high-priority calls was more than double New York City’s, with a median time of 3.1 minutes. And in some places, the lag can be far greater, particularly in some South Side districts. [MORE]

Possible to Integrate Racism? The Office of Civil Rights Finds a Record Number of Discrimination Complaints Filed by Black Parents Nationwide in the Public Fool System

From [HERE] In both cases the reforms included educating students to recognize and report discrimination, and training school staff in how to respond to it. In Iowa, the district also agreed to reimburse the parents of the Black student for therapy the student needed as a result of the harassment.

The majority of complaints in the past year, as in previous years, allege discrimination against students with disabilities — a population whose plight became more visible during the pandemic when schools drew federal scrutiny for failing to serve such students during school closures.

In Colorado, advocates filed complaints citing a range of violations, including segregating disabled students from their peers in dilapidated trailers. In Arizona, complaints allege that disabled students were bullied by other students and staff members and disproportionately disciplined for disability-related behavior.

“Families really thought that something might change when we went back, and instead many families were stuck with the same bureaucracies that have always failed their kids,” said Denise Marshall, the chief executive officer of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, a disability rights advocacy group. “What we see from our members is that they’re desperate for somebody to do something about what they see as the chaos that public education is in right now.”

Some of the highest-profile complaints filed with the department show how culture wars waged by adults affect the nation’s children. [MORE]

LA County to Pay $20 Million for Beachfront Property Once Seized from Black Family

From [HERE] The great-grandchildren of a Black couple whose beachfront property in Southern California was seized by local officials in 1924, and returned to the family last year, will sell it back to Los Angeles County for nearly $20 million, an official said on Tuesday.

The Manhattan Beach site once housed Bruce’s Lodge, a resort established in 1912 by the property’s owners, Willa and Charles Bruce, as a place where Black tourists could go to avoid harassment at a time of rampant discrimination against Black people in California and beyond. It was known informally as “Bruce’s Beach.”

Manhattan Beach officials condemned the property in 1924, paying the Bruces $14,500 and saying that they needed it for a public park. They ultimately left it undeveloped for more than three decades, and the couple lost a legal battle to reclaim it. The land was later transferred to Los Angeles County and now hosts a training center for lifeguards.

But three years ago, nationwide demonstrations against racism and police brutality led to a resurgence of local interest in the Bruce family’s campaign. And last July, after Los Angeles County and the California state legislature worked out the legal details, the county returned to the property to the couple’s closest living heirs, their great-grandsons Derrick and Marcus Bruce.

Derrick and Marcus Bruce declined to comment on Wednesday through George Fatheree, a lawyer for the family.

Janice Hahn, who chairs the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said on Tuesday that the owners had decided to sell the property to the county for nearly $20 million, a value that her office said was determined through an appraisal process.

“This is what reparations look like and it is a model that I hope governments across the country will follow,” Ms. Hahn said on Twitter.

The county received notice of the sale from the family on Dec. 30, and the escrow process will likely be completed in 30 days, Liz Odendahl, a spokeswoman for Ms. Hahn’s office, said in an email on Tuesday evening. Members of the Bruce family could not immediately be reached for comment.

Duane Yellow Feather Shepard, a relative who lives in Los Angeles, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday night that the family was “very satisfied” with the sale price. He said they had wanted to sell the property because it is zoned only for public use.

Report: Inhumane Tennessee Authorities Have Repeatedly Violated Their Own Execution Protocols Since 2018

From [HERE] An independent investigation into Tennessee’s execution practices has found that the state repeatedly failed to follow its own protocols in performing seven executions and preparing for an eighth between 2018 and 2022. Governor Bill Lee (pictured) commissioned the investigation in May 2022, shortly after he called off the execution of Oscar Smith “[d]ue to an oversight in preparation for lethal injection.” The report, which was publicly released on December 28, 2022, found that the same oversight that occurred in the leadup to Smith’s execution – failure to test the lethal-injection drugs for endotoxins – had also occurred in the preparations for the seven previous executions. 

The investigation report, authored by former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton, examined all executions in Tennessee since 2018, when the state last revised its execution protocol. During that time, two people were executed by lethal injection; five were executed by electrocution, but the state prepared lethal injection drugs in case they changed their choice of execution method; and one execution was called off after preparations had already begun. The report found that the state never provided a copy of the protocol to the compounding pharmacy that provided the execution drugs. The execution drugs were required to be tested for potency, sterility, and endotoxin contamination. The endotoxin test was only conducted in one of the eight instances. In one case, potency tests were also not performed, and in another, one drug failed potency testing. “The fact of the matter is not one TDOC employee made it their duty to understand the current Protocol’s testing requirements and ensure compliance," the report said. Many of these failures had already been documented in a May 25, 2022 report by The Tennessean

"[Tennessee Department of Correction] leadership viewed the lethal injection process through a tunnel-vision, result-oriented lens rather than provide the necessary guidance and counsel to ensure that Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol was thorough, consistent, and followed," the report concludes. It offers several recommendations, including hiring an employee or consultant with a pharmaceutical background to “provide guidance in connection with the lethal injection process,” providing the execution protocol to the drug supplier, and establishing a team to review testing data before each execution. 

Governor Lee, in a statement, identified four steps his administration will take in response to the report: “1. Make staffing changes at the department’s leadership level. 2. Hire and onboard a permanent TDOC commissioner in January 2023. 3. New department leadership will revise the state’s lethal injection protocol, in consultation with the Governor’s office and the Tennessee Attorney General’s office. 4. New department leadership will review all training associated with the revised protocol and make appropriate operational updates.”

Court Recommends New Trial for Jewish Death Row Prisoner, Trial Judge’s Virulent Hatred of Jews Violated his Rights

From [HERE] A Dallas County judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of a Jewish death-row prisoner be overturned because his trial was poisoned by the virulent anti-Semitic bigotry of the Texas judge who presided over his case.

In a scathing 42-page set of fact findings issued on December 13, 2022, Judge Lela Lawrence May (pictured, left) recommended that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) grant a new trial to Randy Halprin (pictured, right), finding that former Dallas County Judge Vickers Cunningham “harbored actual, subjective bias” against Halprin at the time of his trial because Halprin is Jewish. May credited the testimony of numerous witnesses that Cunningham subscribed to a White Christian Nationalist ideology, held long-standing bigoted views against Blacks, Hispanics, gays, Catholics, and Jews, and “planned to ensure convictions and death sentences for [Halprin and his] co-defendants in order to advance his personal interests” in becoming Dallas District Attorney.

Halprin is one of the so-called “Texas 7” who escaped from a maximum-security Texas prison in December 2000 and subsequently robbed a sporting goods store. Dallas police officer Aubrey Hawkins was killed responding to the robbery. While several of the escapees fired shots, Halprin has consistently maintained that he opposed bringing guns to the robbery, did not carry a gun, and did not fire any shots. He testified at trial, “before the robbery, I even told [the others], I’m not going to go in and carry a gun, and there was a little argument. … And so I told them I wasn’t going to pull a gun and they said, fine, just gather clothes, grab a shopping cart, and gather clothes.”

Halprin was sentenced to death under Texas’ controversial “law of parties,” which allows defendants to be convicted and punished based upon the actions and intent of others, if the defendant played even a small role in a crime that resulted in a person’s death. Four of the “Texas 7” have been executed, one committed suicide, and a sixth, Patrick Murphy, who remained in a car in the parking lot and did not participate in the robbery, remains on death row after the Texas Board of Pardons denied his application for clemency.

While Halprin’s appeal from the denial of his initial habeas corpus challenge to his conviction and death sentence was pending in federal court, evidence became available that for the first time publicly documented Judge Cunningham’s bigotry. The revelations came to light in 2018 when Cunningham was running for Dallas County Commissioner, following an earlier failed attempt to become Dallas District Attorney. During the race for commissioner, Cunningham’s brother Bill publicly disclosed that Vickers Cunningham had established a living trust for his children, conditioned upon their marrying a white Christian of the opposite sex. His brother also asserted that Cunningham was a long-time bigot who had frequently used the n-word to describe Black people, often referring to cases involving Black defendants as “TND” or “Typical N****r Deals.” 

After further investigation, Halprin’s lawyers uncovered evidence from Cunningham’s relatives, court employees, and political campaign workers that they also had heard him talk about “GD Jews,” “filthy Jews,” and “f***ing Jews.” The investigation also revealed that Judge Cunningham — who presided over the trials of the six living members of the Texas Seven — had referred to the men with various racial, homophobic, and anti-Semitic slurs, describing them as “the Mexican, the queer, and the Jew” and vowing to “get them all the death penalty.” He also specifically referred to Mr. Halprin as “the k***” after the trial. Three of the Texas Seven who were tried in front of Cunningham and subsequently were executed were Latino.

With this new evidence, Halprin filed a new federal habeas petition in May 2019 seeking to overturn his conviction and death sentence. Dallas prosecutors responded in June 2019 by seeking a warrant for his execution, which Judge May issued in July. Halprin then filed his judicial bias claim in state court and sought a stay of execution to allow him to pursue that claim. On October 4, 2019 — six days before he was scheduled to die — the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay and returned the case to the Dallas court to resolve his claim.

On remand, prosecutors agreed to submit the case to the court based on witness affidavits, after which Judge Mays found that “Judge Vickers Cunningham possessed anti-Semitic prejudice against Halprin which violated Halprin’s constitutional right to a trial in a fair tribunal, equal protection, and free exercise of religion.” The “only remedy” for Halprin, Mays wrote, is “a new fair trial.” However, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed that ruling and returned the case to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing, saying that live testimony was necessary before the court could conclude that Cunningham was biased.

At that hearing, Halprin presented evidence spanning decades of Cunningham’s repeated use of bigoted racial, religious, ethnic, and homophobic slurs. Judge Mays found that credible testimony had established that Cunningham exhibited a pattern of anti-Semitism that “was fully formed by the time he was old enough to drive,” and that he “took pleasure in disparaging Jews and abusing people of color throughout his life.” She also credited testimony that Cunningham continued to refer to Halprin and others of the Texas Seven with slurs during the course of his unsuccessful campaign for Dallas District Attorney after the trials and found no credible innocuous reason to explain Cunningham’s repeated reference to Halprin as “the Jew,” “Jew Halprin,” and “Randy the Jew.” 

Mays concluded that Cunningham had “viewed the Texas 7 trial as a means of advancing his political career and agenda which included asserting White supremacy over Blacks and Latinos in Dallas County.” Mays recommended that the TCCA, which retained jurisdiction over the case, vacate Halprin’s conviction and sentence, finding that Cunningham’s bias violated Halprin’s rights to due process, equal protection of the law, and free exercise of religion.

Illinois Ct Allows Racist Cash Bail System to Remain in Place [there's No Empirical Evidence Pretrial Detention Increases Safety- Only Proof it Keeps Blacks in Greater Confinement, its true purpose]

WHATS WRONG NHGR? You Don’t Have $10,000 in the bank to post bail? From [HERE] The Supreme Court of Illinois Saturday put a hold on the controversial Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act, finding that the pretrial release provisions under the act violated the Illinois Constitution.

The SAFE-T Act is a criminal justice reform law impacting many aspects of the criminal justice system such as policing, pretrial, sentencing and correction. Notable provisions include a body camera mandate for police officers and increased transparency in custodial death cases.

More than 60% of defendants are detained before trial because they can’t afford to post bail, according to a study finding that the impact falls most heavily on minorities and low-income people.

Nationally, the average bail amount for felonies is $10,000, according to the report released Thursday by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The report is titled The Civil Rights Implications of Cash Bail.

A total of 631,000 people are held in jails every day, and 74% are awaiting trial, the report said.

Research suggests that people of color may be subjected to higher bail amounts and are more likely to be perceived as dangerous during bail hearings, according to the report.

One study, for example, found that when monetary bail was set for Black defendants, it was in significantly greater amounts than for white defendants.

Research also shows that Black and Hispanic defendants have higher rates of pretrial detention than white defendants and are more likely to have financial conditions imposed.

Pretrial detention has collateral consequences, such as job losses, housing insecurity, family problems and an increased likelihood of engaging in future criminal conduct, the report noted. Those consequences have led to increasing concerns, especially given the lack of empirical research showing that pretrial detention increases public safety. [MORE]

65 counties sued to stop the law from going into effect on January 1. Kankakee County Judge Thomas Cunnington of the 21st Judicial Circuit heard a consolidated lawsuit on the matter. Kankakee County State’s Attorney Jim Rowe argued that the legislation was unconstitutional since it violated the separation of powers clause of the Illinois Constitution and amendments to section 9, Article I of the Constitution were not put to a vote on the ballot. The judge ruled in favor of the argument, which means that bail reform and pre-trial release provisions cannot go into effect. 

Governor of Illinois J.B. Pritzker said that Cunnington’s ruling was a “setback for the principles we fought to protect through the passage of the SAFE-T Act.”

The Supreme Court of Illinois upheld Cunnington’s ruling in an emergency supervisory order, stating:

The administration of the justice system is an inherent power of the courts upon which the legislature may not infringe and the setting of bail falls within that administrative power, the appropriateness of bail rests with the authority of the court and may not be determined by legislative fiat…..the pretrial release provisions do violate this separation of powers principle underlying our system of governance by depriving the courts of their inherent authority to administer and control their courtrooms and to set bail.

Illinois House Leader Jim Durkin called the ruling a “victory for the often neglected victims of crime and the men and women of law enforcement who wear the badge every day.”

The SAFE-T Act is controversial because it abolishes cash bail. Non-violent defendants no longer must post bail before trial. Exceptions to this include defendants deemed a risk to public safety or a risk of escaping. Republican lawmakers and law enforcement stakeholders argued that the law will lead to a rise in crime. Democratic lawmakers and advocates for criminal justice reform argue that abolishing cash bail is necessary to prevent discrimination against the poor.

NO CHARGES from White Liberal DA After 5 LA Cops Murdered Frederick Holder: Black Man Shot 30X at Close Range after Inarticulable Stop. Cops Claim Lighter (found under the car) Looked Like a Gun

From [HERE] and [HERE] The office of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced this week that it would not charge deputies Christopher Conger, Javier Fierros, and Jackie Rojas for shooting and killing Frederick Holder on June 23, 2021. Holder, a 28-year-old unarmed Black man, was driving a box truck and stopped at a red light on a freeway on-ramp in Norwalk, California.

The office said in a statement to Knock LA, “We know that this is not the news that the friends and family of Mr. Holder wanted to hear today. Their loss remains immeasurable. We can assure the public that the investigation was extensive and our analysis was thorough. We do not take these decisions lightly. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is a very high standard. This declination does not mean that they have been absolved of any moral or civil responsibility.”

In their analysis, the DA’s office writes that, “the deputies acted in lawful self-defense and defense of a third party when they fired their weapons, reasonably believing, based on a totality of the circumstances, that deadly force was necessary to defend against a deadly threat.”

The deputies involved include Christopher Conger, Javier Fierros, and Jackie Rojas — all of which are still active members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department.

The deputies appear to have violated several departmental policies during the shooting. They failed to wear body cameras, engaged in a pursuit outside of procedure, and opened fire on an occupied vehicle on a crowded freeway on-ramp. Conger, Fierros, and Rojas are still on duty.

Just after 9:50 AM on June 23, 2021, a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter operator requested a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) unit to attempt to stop a white Ford utility box truck Holder was driving. The helicopter also stated over dispatch that he was monitoring the vehicle for reckless driving after a call from the LAPD’s Southwest Station. The helicopter operator said the truck was “not wanted” for anything, but that he would continue to pursue it from the air because the tailgate was open.

The police have failed to explain exactly what facts tend to show that the Black man was driving erratically, recklessly or impaired. Such facts might be for instance, illegal lane changing, swerving, driving at inconsistent speeds, starting and stopping and facts indicating that pedestrians or other drivers were affected. The so-called 4th Amendment prevents police from stopping drivers without reasonable and articulable suspicion that the motorist had been or was engaged in unlawful activity - insofar as such “rights” are applied to white citizens in the free range prison. See Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648, 661 (1979). Driving described as “erratic,” “reckless” or “impaired” are legal conclusions that must be supported by actual, articulable facts. Without more facts, the initial stop appears to be unlawful.

Christopher Conger said in a statement that his partner, deputy Steven Douma, radioed to Conger that he was going to initiate a felony traffic stop. [However, no felony had been committed]. It is against LASD’s policy to pursue vehicles for reckless driving. The department manual of policies and procedures states that:

A pursuit shall not be initiated or continued: Once it has been determined that the driver of a vehicle is refusing or failing to yield and the only known reason for the intended stop is:

  • An infraction or misdemeanor crime (including California Vehicle Code (CVC) violations), except as provided above;

  • Any crime not classified as a serious felony, as described in this section; or

  • A possible grand theft, vehicle.

Four LASD vehicles surrounded the truck on a residential street. According to the department, the deputies used a public announcement system to instruct Holder to exit the truck. He drove away slowly south on Piuma Avenue and was pursued by deputies. He drove onto the freeway on-ramp and merged with traffic stopped at a red light.

Deputies parked their vehicles behind Holder and exited carrying firearms. None of them were wearing body cameras, despite the department requiring the activation of body-worn cameras during vehicle stops and pursuits. According to the DA’s report, Conger had placed his own dash camera inside his vehicle.

The video shows Conger, Fierro, and Rojas briefly speaking from behind an LASD sedan, then proceeding toward Holder’s truck.

LASD policy explicitly states that “firearms should not be discharged at a stationary or moving vehicle, the occupants of a vehicle, or the tires of a vehicle unless a person in the vehicle is imminently threatening a Department member or another person present with deadly force by means other than the moving vehicle.” Furthermore, internal LASD documents state that “shooting at a vehicle is inherently dangerous and almost always ineffective.”

Department policy also states that once a pursued vehicle has stopped, deputies must develop a tactical plan, utilize “less lethal” weapons, and assign designated shooters as well as fire discipline and shooting backdrop — meaning the amount of times one fires and what is behind the target of fire, respectively.

Deputies Conger, Fierros, and Rojas did not do any of this.

In his statement, Conger says he was within three feet of the passenger door when he saw Holder “sitting in the driver’s seat. He was looking to his left — over his left shoulder out the driver’s side window, and he was holding his right hand up against his chest holding what I believe[d] to be a small pistol.”

Fierros said that Holder held the object across his chest with his right hand and pointed it at him. The item Conger and his colleagues say they believed was a gun is a butane lighter.

When Conger saw Holder with the lighter in his hands, he yelled, “Gun! Gun! Gun!” and fired ten rounds from a .223 rifle at Holder. Fierros says he “backpedaled” and fired at Holder until his weapon was empty. He then reloaded his weapon and fired some more — because, he says, he heard “other rounds” and thought Holder might be shooting at him. Fierros estimates he fired 19 times. Rojas did not give a voluntary statement.

COPS CLAIM THEY IMMEDIATELY MOVED EVIDENCE ON THE SCENE. Fierros said that he approached the truck and opened the driver door. Deputy Jose Pimentel said he stepped into the cabin and saw what looked like the butt of a gun near Holder. When he picked it up, he realized it was too light to be a firearm. For some reason, he moved the lighter from where it was and put it underneath the truck. Fierros believes (?) he was present when this happened. Three sergeants who responded to the scene had body-worn cameras and captured this on video. But the view is obstructed and does not show where in the cabin the torch lighter was located, according to the DA’s report. [Of course if there was no lighter at all cops would have no defense. As ridiculous as it sounds, the lighter must be in Holder’s hand and be pointed at the cop for there to be an imminent threat of danger to the officer. For what reason would police be moving material evidence around a crime scene? If a cop lied one time why would you trust anything he says? Nevertheless, the white DA and white media believe and parrot whatever police tell them especially when it comes to murdering Black people - if you believe “Authority” can be used somehow to help humanity then you are indeed a plaything in the hands of authorities and on the wrong website].

The deputies said they tried to provide medical aid but stopped when they saw Holder appeared to be deceased.

The gunshot wounds left Holder unrecognizable to his family. Earlier this year, Knock LA obtained the autopsy photos of Frederick Holder. Sources said the wounds to his body indicated he was shot at a range of no more than 10 feet with an assault rifle, blowing off his mouth.

His sister, Hali Holder, said “His face was blown off, mouth, teeth, tongue,” his sister said of the aftermath of the deadly shooting. Photos show chunks of Holder’s face and body missing.

The Holder family and supporters held numerous rallies on behalf of justice for Frederick, urging the district attorney to follow through with charges on the officers involved in his shooting death.

But the family says they have received pushback from former Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who refused to meet with them and even called them “fools” during a community forum event in Feb. 2022, where Holder’s sister called Villanueva’s deputies out.

Villanueva and Garcon are democrats.

The family said it took police over a week to inform them of Holder’s death.