Video Shows White Saginaw Officer Grab Black Man, Slam Him to Ground and Repeatedly Punch Him While Kneeling On Him. Cop Charged w/Felony Battery. Cops Stopped Him for Walking in EMPTY Street @ Night

From [HERE] A white Michigan State Police trooper is facing criminal charges for repeatedly punching a small, Black man during an arrest, an incident that was captured on video.

Saginaw County District Judge Terry L. Clark on the afternoon of Friday, March 3, arraigned MSP Trooper Paul E. Arrowood, 43, on single counts of common law offense or misconduct in office and assault and battery. The former is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, while the latter is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 93 days in jail and a $500 fine.

Arrowood appeared for the arraignment via Zoom, seated within a vehicle. [how convenient to know there is no real possibility of pre-trial detainment for what would be an aggravated assault charge for non-cops]

According to the MSP, Arrowood and his partner were on patrol the night of Sept. 4 when they saw 28-year-old Michael D. Wilson walking on Webber Street near Julius Street on Saginaw’s South Side. According to Arrowood’s own report, the troopers initiated contact with Wilson for not walking on the sidewalk. No other people or cars are present and the small Black man’s conduct of walking seemed to interfere with no one at the time of arrest.

The video footage shows the troopers exit their vehicle and immediately approach Wilson, whose face is blurred out of the video to make it look less racial?, with Arrowood putting his hands on Wilson’s right arm. SO, cops approached, physically stopped him from walking and immediately put their hands on him with no explanation “because authority” in free range prison

“Time out, time out, time out,” Wilson tells the troopers as they try leading him to their vehicle. “I ain’t even doing nothing. I’m not even doing nothing. Ya’ll got your cameras on? Please do.”

Arrowood slams Wilson to the ground, who ends up chest-down. Wilson yells for help and says he can’t get his hands behind his back.

“Roll the (expletive) over,” Arrowood yells as Wilson continues screaming for help.

The other trooper pulls his Taser and says he’ll stun Wilson, while Arrowood grapples with him. Arrowood then repeatedly punches Wilson, calling him a “little b****.” Wonderful compulsory service (here, means undeclinable service) from public masters who have been delegated uncontrollable power to initiate unprovoked acts of violence onto citizen-servants, whom they are empowered to rule over, “voluntarily.” How did cops acquire this magical power that no citizens could have delegated to police?

“Put your hands behind your (expletive), (expletive) back,” Arrowood says as he keeps punching and kneeing Wilson.

Several more troopers arrive on the scene. They get Wilson on his feet and place him against a patrol vehicle as they frisk him, Arrowood asking him about a gun.

“I ain’t got no gun, ain’t never had no gun,” Wilson shouts.

“He just beat my ass,” he yells to the other troopers. “You a racist ass b****. Thank you for beating my ass. I hope your camera is on. He whupped my ass for no reason.”

Troopers lodged Wilson in the Saginaw County Jail on a charge of assaulting, resisting, or obstructing police. Prosecutors declined to charge Wilson with a crime related to the Sept. 4 incident.

The MSP suspended Arrowood on Sept. 30. He is to remain on unpaid suspension until his criminal case is resolved.

“The actions of Tpr. Paul Arrowood fall outside of MSP policy and procedure and they constitute an unwarranted use of force,” stated Col. Joe Gasper, director of the MSP. “The members of the Michigan State Police are committed to treating everyone with dignity and respect, and we will tolerate no less. When we fall short of this standard, we will hold our members accountable.”

MSP added it has two more use-of-force cases pending prosecutor review, which could result in criminal charges against troopers. Those incidents are not related to the Arrowood matter, the agency said.

Grosse Pointe Farms attorney Paul Tylenda appeared at Arrowood’s arraignment and asked Judge Clark to enter a not-guilty plea. In arguing for bond, Tylenda said his client has no criminal history, resides in Flushing, and is not a flight risk.

“I don’t believe the scope of this case presents a danger to the community [as long as he is not police],” Tylenda said.

Clark set a $7,5000 personal recognizance bond for Arrowood, though he ordered Arrowood to visit the Saginaw County Jail to be booked and fingerprinted. As a condition of his bond, Arrowood is to have no contact with his alleged victim.

In October 2020, an MSP internal investigation found Arrowood violated departmental policies during a traffic stop conducted that July on a Black civilian in Buena Vista Township. The incident involved the civilian having a legally owned pistol in his truck.

The civilian did not immediately tell officers he had the gun in his vehicle. When the Arrowood and a fellow trooper saw it, they pulled their weapons and confronted the man, placing him in handcuffs. After about 20 minutes, the troopers released the motorist from the cuffs.

The civilian filed complaints with Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the MSP, alleging racial discrimination against Arrowood and the other trooper.

First Lt. Brody Boucher of the MSP’s Professional Standards wrote the investigation cleared the other trooper, but found Arrowood violated policies.

Boucher wrote he is prohibited by law from disclosing what corrective actions have been or will be taken against Arrowood due to the finding.

Arrowood is to appear for a preliminary examination at 10 a.m. on March 21.

Memphis Cops Caught on Video Beating Gershun Freeman to Death in Jail. At Least 10 Cops Repeatedly Punch, Kick and Stomp on Naked Black Man. Beating So Brutal it Looks Like the Video was Sped Up

From [HERE] A Black man having a psychotic episode died in custody last fall after Memphis jailors punched, kicked and kneeled on his back during a confrontation, according to a video released this week by a Tennessee prosecutor.

The Nashville District Attorney’s Office released video Thursday of Gershun Freeman, 33, at the Shelby County Jail in Memphis, news outlets reported. 

The video shows Freeman was beaten by at least 10 corrections officers on Oct. 5 after he ran naked from his cell.

Freeman had “psychosis and cardiovascular disease and died of a heart attack while being restrained,” Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said in a statement Thursday, citing the medical examiner’s report. 

Prominent civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, who is representing Freeman's family, said in a statement “he was naked and clearly suffering from a mental health crisis.” He called the death “another shocking example of police brutality” in Memphis.

Freeman’s manner of death is listed as a homicide in the autopsy report from the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center, although the report says this “is not meant to definitively indicate criminal intent.”

In his statement, the Shelby County sheriff said it was unfortunate the video does not show the whole episode. The video has been edited and includes multiple camera angles in different parts of the jail. 

The district attorney's office for Shelby County has brought in the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to look into the death. It has asked the Nashville District Attorney General's Office to act as an independent prosecutor in the case. 

Freeman was booked in jail on Oct. 1 on charges of attacking and kidnapping his girlfriend, according to court records. [MORE]

Like Mistaking Bacon for Eggs, in the Presence of Color Racist Cops Often Confuse Taser w/Gun: White FL Cop Claims He Mistakenly Shot Naked Latino Man in the Back, Paralyzing Him for Life. Suit Filed

From [HERE] A Latino man who was shot in the back by an experienced white police officer filed a lawsuit against the city of Hollywood, the officer, and others on Wednesday, claiming that “my life was wrecked.” Henry Andrews, 50, the officer who is also facing a misdemeanor charge for the shooting in 2021 and Hollywood, Florida are the targets of Michael Ortiz’s unspecified millions of dollars in demands.

In July 2022, Michael called 911 while suffering a mental health emergency. Upon their arrival, as evidenced by surveillance video, Hollywood Police aggressively restrained Michael, placed him on the ground, tased him, and shot him in the back while he was naked and visibly unarmed. Michael is now paralyzed from the waist down and wheelchair-bound.

Officers Dionte Roots and Jhonny Jimenez, who were attempting to restrain Ortiz when Andrews shot him, are also named in the federal civil rights case. According to Ortiz, not only had his life been shattered but also that of his mother, who now has to care for him and change his diapers. He dialed 911 for assistance while having a mental health crisis, but while handcuffed on the ground, he was shot.

Michael Ortiz needed assistance, but instead received a shot to the back, according to Crump. “There should have been greater accountability for the police,” Crump said. Officials from Hollywood declined to comment.

Another attorney will be engaged for the Ortiz claim, according to Jeremy Kroll, who represented Andrews in the misdemeanor culpable negligence prosecution. “Officer Andrews meant to use his Taser while reacting to a challenging and chaotic scenario, but accidently fired his gun. No malice was intended in this situation.

He admitted to using marijuana and had chest issues with them. He sounded suicidal and insane, the operators remarked. To relax, Ortiz took a shower. He wouldn’t go outside when paramedics arrived, so they had to contact the cops. Ortiz allegedly entered a corridor while naked and then became belligerent, threatening to commit suicide.

They claim that when Roots and Jimenez arrived, they were attempting to prevent him from jumping from a sixth-floor balcony. Although the city showed Shkolnik the security footage, it has not yet been made public. He claimed that after using his Taser to subdue Ortiz, Roots had him bound up and lying naked on the ground. According to Shkolnik, he was still struggling but wasn’t endangering himself or the officers if they had just backed off and allowed him to settle down.

Andrews exited the elevator as it opened. Roots attempted to Taser Ortiz once more, but the weapon did not fire. Andrews, an officer for more than 20 years, claimed in a court document related to his misdemeanor case that he reached for his Taser but instead grabbed his revolver and fired one shot into Ortiz’s back. According to Shkolnik, that occurred around ten seconds after the elevator door opened.

Andrews stated, “I truly thought I had grabbed my Taser and was firing it. Like other Tasers, Andrews’ had a handle and trigger that resembled those of a revolver. But, it was also bright yellow instead of black, a design choice meant to act as a visual alert to an officer in a crisis. In their training, police officers are taught to carry their weapons on their strong side and their stun guns on the other hip. Andrews carried out that.

War on People: Police Killed 1,096 in 2022 (only 49 Cops were Killed). While more Whites were killed by Cops, Black People were Killed at a Rate 2.5X Higher Based on their Percentage of the Population

From [HERE] The number of fatal police shootings across the country rose again last year, with officers killing 1,096 people, including a 2-year-old girl caught in a standoff.

Last year saw the most incidents since The Washington Post started tracking the deaths in its Fatal Force database in 2015, after a police officer killed Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Mo.

There were only 15 days without such a shooting in 2022.

Since 2017, the number has increased every year, and is now up about 10 percent compared with just three years ago. But criminologists caution that more data is needed to understand what is driving the rise.

“It’s hard to know if the increase is meaningful or random,” said Justin Nix, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. “We really need a better understanding of when police shoot and injure people, but more so when police avoid shooting someone.”

The pace stayed consistently high in 2022 compared with prior years. Last year, officers killed about 90 people nearly every month, a tally reached only a handful of times in each of the past seven years.

With more than 18,000 police departments nationwide, it’s difficult to pinpoint a single reason for the increase, experts said. The rate of violent crime dropped steadily after 2016 but has climbed higher since 2020. Last year, only 49 police officers were shot and killed in the line of duty, compared with 61 the year before, according to FBI data.

The demographics of those killed have remained largely the same: While more White people were shot and killed by police overall last year, Black people were killed at a rate 2.5 times higher based on their percentage of the population.

Data on fatal police shootings remains sparse. The Federal Bureau of Investigation asks state and local departments to contribute voluntarily to its collection efforts. But in the past eight years, the bureau has recorded fewer police shootings each year even as The Post’s count has increased.

In 2019, the FBI started a new use-of-force data collection, which is not yet publicly available. So far, the bureau said that 10,000 law enforcement departments have contributed. But The Post found that more than 200 departments whose officers had fatally shot someone were not on the FBI’s list.

In a statement, the FBI said that it “makes every effort through its editing procedures, training practices, and agency outreach” to ensure its data is accurate, but that local departments are responsible for what they report. [MORE]

1 in 20 Homicides in US are Committed by Police and the Numbers are Increasing [Authority, the Implied Right to forcibly control citizens, is Immoral and Has No Rational Basis for its Existence]

From [HERE] In the US, an estimated one in 20 gun homicides are committed by police, as law enforcement killings have failed to decrease despite years of nationwide protests.

There were more than 25,000 total homicides in the US in 2020 and 26,000 in 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). National data for 2022 is not yet available.

Police shooting deaths represented 5% of all gun homicides in 2020 and 2021, and total police killings represented nearly 5% of all homicides, according to the best available public data.

Because only a small number of deadly incidents each year receive wide media attention, many Americans may not realize that “a meaningful fraction of homicides in the US are police killings”, said Justin Feldman, a researcher at the Center for Policing Equity.

There is fear, with mass shootings and gun violence in general, but police contribute a large part to those numbers

The number of US homicide victims who die in mass shootings each year, for instance, is smaller than the number killed by police. While definitions of “mass shooting” vary, the estimated number of people killed in these incidents have ranged from a few dozen to 700 people a year in recent years.

“There is a lot of fear, with mass shootings and gun violence in general, that some stranger will show up wherever you are and kill you,” said Samuel Sinyangwe, the founder of Mapping Police Violence. “But police contribute a large part to those numbers.”

The circumstances for many murders are listed as unknown in the FBI’s incomplete national crime statistics database, but in 2020 nearly 4,000 people were listed as being killed by a friend or an acquaintance, and about 1,800 were known to be killed by a stranger.

Some police departments have much higher rates of police killings than others. In Vallejo, California, which is known for police violence, the police department was responsible for 30% of the city’s homicides in 2012. Police killed six people that year; a single officer killed three people in three different incidents, and was later promoted.

More than 32,000 Americans have been killed by police since 1980, but official public health statistics have undercounted the number of killings for decades, according to a 2021 study from University of Washington researchers published in the Lancet, a prominent medical journal. Over the past four decades, US police have killed Black people at a rate 3.5 times higher than white people, and have also killed Hispanic and Indigenous people at higher rates, the study estimated.

The rate of fatalities from police violence rose even when the nation’s overall homicide rate sharply declined, with the rate of deaths from police violence rising 38% from the 1980s to the 2010s, the study found.

The US has much higher rates of both police killings and overall homicides than other wealthy countries. In Europe, the combined number of police killings and state executions remains in the single digits each year in many countries, according to data from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The US’s annual rate of police killings and state executions, with more than 1,000 deaths a year, is more comparable to Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Cameroon, Libya and Sudan, according to IHME data.

At least one international study has found the rate of police killings “strongly correlates” with overall homicide rates across multiple countries, but also noted that data on police violence is likely to be less reliable in countries where police kill more frequently.

A 2018 paper published in the American Journal of Public Health found that “police were responsible for about 8% of all homicides with adult male victims between 2012 and 2018”, or about one in 12. Frank Edwards, a Rutgers University sociologist and the lead author of that study, said it was not surprising that the current percentage of police homicides would be somewhat lower than 8% when factoring in the killings of women and well as men, and as the national total number of homicides had also increased sharply since 2020.

Public databases from news outlets and non-profits still offer more complete and reliable data on police killings than the US government, more than seven years after the nation’s FBI director called it “embarrassing and ridiculous” that newspapers produced a more accurate national count of US police shootings than the Department of Justice. Mapping Police Violence, for instance, tracks police killings using a combination of state law enforcement data and incident data drawn from media reports and public records requests.

It’s not only national crime data that’s flawed when it comes to homicides by police. For decades, more than half of police killings have been mislabeled as generic homicides or suicides in the CDC’s official death statistics database, said Eve Wool and Mohsen Naghavi, two of the authors of the Lancet paper on police killings.

The undercounting of police killings in public health data is a result of coding failures by coroners, medical examiners and other public health officials, many of whom “work for or are embedded within police departments”, the researchers found.

Because of the lack of official statistics, Feldman and Edwards said, comparing the count of police killings in non-profit databases like Mapping Police Violence with the CDC’s total homicide numbers is the most accurate way to estimate the percentage of homicides committed by police.

Global System of Authority and White Supremacy: UK Report finds Black Men are 7 Times More Likely to Die After Police Restraint

From [HERE] UK nonprofit group INQUEST Monday reported that Black men are 7 times more likely to die than their white counterparts following the use of restraint by police. INQUEST says that its findings highlight the continued “reality of institutional racism” in the UK criminal justice system. The report pointed to the recent deaths of three Black men, Chris Kaba, Oladeji Omishore and Godrick Osei, as a “reminder of the urgency of the action needed.”

INQUEST’s analysis of unpublished official data from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found that the categorisation of certain deaths is “obscuring” the extent of racial disproportionality. Often the deaths of Black people following police contact are categorised as “other deaths following police contact” instead of deaths “in or following police custody.” INQUEST says that this makes the annual number of deaths in custody “appear lower than the reality.”

The IOPC recommended that an officer be “reminded” of the standards of professional behaviour in only one case from 2015 to 2021. INQUEST says investigators “simply take at face value the officers’ denial that race played a part in their actions.” Currently the IOPC only determines whether a tribunal “could” find that the officer’s conduct amounted to misconduct. INQUEST’s analysis demonstrates that there has been “no real progress” following the watchdog’s acceptance of institutional racism.

The report also critically reveals patterns arising from death that evidence racist stereotypes of Black men from police, which it says are not substantially scrutinised, equating them with dangerousness and criminality. INQUEST highlights that this is an ongoing issue. However, in 2021, the UK Home Office claimed that Black men are not more likely to die in custody cases where use of force or restraint is present.

Director of INQUEST Deborah Coles highlighted that the “stark” evidence shows “institutional racism is embedded in police culture.” She warned that the failure to examine the potential role of race in deaths involving police “render racism invisible…and prevents justice, accountability and change.”

“Sitizens” on Panel to Determine Whether a Miami Cop Used 'Too Much Force' When He Grabbed a Black Man by His Throat and Dragged Him [Any Level of Force Used Offensively is Evil No Matter Who Does It]

From [HERE] The actions of three Miami police officers during a 2021 arrest are under scrutiny by the department and the city’s Civilian Investigative Panel, which says excessive force was committed and captured on police body camera footage.

The December 2021 video shows a Miami police officer, Sgt. Gary Sampson, in a heated exchange with a man named Georges Auguste.

Amid a verbal squabble, Auguste tells the officer: “You’re on my property, b----!”

Sampson then grabs Auguste by the throat.

That video and and another taken after Auguste’s arrest, showing the man being dragged by Officer Bens Mocombe at a local hospital, are now at the center of a Civilian Investigative Panel probe.

“So the police department believed the officer engaged in excessive force. We believe the same and our panel will hear that info and create their own recommendations and findings,” Rodney Jacobs, who leads the Civilian Investigative Panel, said.

Jacobs said it was MPD’s internal affairs department that brought the case to the panel’s attention during a routine audit.

The CIP’s report states: “Sergeant Sampson failed to document the fact he grabbed the male in the neck/throat area.”

Three officers in total are part of the excessive force and improper procedure investigation involving Auguste.

“(Investigators) found in their review of one of (the officers’) reports, it did not match what they saw in the body camera footage,” Jacobs said.

The case was presented to the panel to review the findings and offer recommendations Tuesday night.

Ultimately, Miami police will decide whether to impose discipline.

Even restricting immunity won’t remedy the source of the problem, which is authority; the police officer’s power to use force offensively against citizens. Contrary to legal truths, in actual reality the police officer’s entitlement to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on citizens is immoral and there is no legitimate or rational way to account for our belief in its existence. Acts that would be considered unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by people are just as unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by government agents. Putting your hands on another human being, not in self-defense but offensively, without their consent and ‘manipulating their body in disregard of their volition is evil’, whether its done by citizens or representatives of “authority” wearing blue costumes. Larken Rose explains, “authority is permission to commit evil – to do things that would be recognized as immoral and unjustified if anyone else did them,” - subconsciously we know and understand the right to rule over other people is irrational and barbaric. [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

sitizen – a spot-sitting strip-mined, split-mind captive-subject-vassal-member of a so-called “government.” (See: Onlooker, citizen, Sheople, Human Resources, Moron-majority, Psheep, SIT & Tick-Tock)

Force – the source or sources of all possible actions of the particles or materials of the universe(s). 2) the manipulation of a man or woman in disregard of its own volition or nature. 3) the use of an outside physical coercion of any kind by one or more humanoids against another or others in order to make him/her or them obedient and compliant to his/her or their will. 4) the basis of all social evils and can only be used in the sense of attack not defense. 5) You must! In the way I say! 6) the social disease. “Force (coercion) and fraud are the foundation of all social systems and the source of the aroma which they exhale.” ~Max Nomad. “Force” operates to remove personal volition from opportunity to act or not act. Someone “makes” you behave in a certain way by threatening to injure or enslave you, someone you love, or something you prize, if you do not behave in that way. Force operates to obtain an intended behavior when the forced party would otherwise have exhibited a different behavior. Punishment, pain, suffering, and discomfort characterize force. Unfortunately, governments only function by misuse of force—mistreatment, duress and coercion. Once established, they put laws into effect by threatening persecution, imprisonment, fine, or death against all who don’t comply with those laws—including the use of the force continuum. “That which is imposed by force is sooner or later deposed by force.” ~ Mikhail Naimy. In reality, force is neutral, it is how it is applied that colors its action. The greatest and highest force in the universe is love unfolding in each moment. (See: Government, Autonomy, Justice, Fiction, Fraud, Corporate State, Freedom, Forgery, Racism White Supremacy, Religion, Authority, Violence, Coercion, Deception, Language, Force Continuum, Capital Punishment & Gerp)

Video Shows Cop Carrying, Throwing Black Woman to the Ground in (Liberal) New Orleans; Agency Investigates Itself

VIDEO:Black New Orleans Cop throws a Black woman to the ground on Mardi Gras parade route on behalf of his White Liberal Masters. Enjoy your illusions, get out and vote for more liberal masters! pic.twitter.com/mrFys4r1UZ

— neworleanspulse (@neworleanspulse) February 23, 2023

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Recent Pew Research Poll Finds 80% of White People are Against Reparations for Black Americans

From [HERE] Discussions about atonement for the enslavement of Black Americans have a long history in the United States, and efforts toward reparations for slavery and racial discrimination have moved forward in some places in recent years. In 2021, Evanston, Illinois, became the first U.S. city to create a reparations plan for its Black residents, and California that year set up the nation’s first state-level reparations task force. Earlier this year, Harvard University created a $100 million “Legacy of Slavery” fund to allow scholars and students to examine the university’s connections to slavery. 

Americans view the prospect of reparations mostly negatively, a 2021 Pew Research Center survey found. Three-in-ten U.S. adults say descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. should be repaid in some way, such as given land or money. About seven-in-ten (68%) say these descendants should not be repaid.

COMPLETE CHART AND SOURCES IS HERE. ALSO A Washington Post-ABC News poll FOUND wide opposition to reparations AND Gallup found that nearly 70% of Americans are against the government providing cash payments to slaves' descendants.

Views of reparations for slavery vary widely by race and ethnicity, especially between Black and White Americans. Around three-quarters of Black adults (77%) say the descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. should be repaid in some way, while 18% of White Americans say the same.

There are also notable differences by partisan affiliation. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, views are split: 48% say descendants of enslaved people should be repaid in some way, while 49% say they shouldn’t be repaid. By comparison, only 8% of Republicans and GOP leaners say these descendants should be repaid in some way, and 91% say they should not.

When it comes to age, younger adults are more likely than older ones to say the descendants of enslaved people should be repaid: 45% of adults under 30 take this view, compared with 18% of adults 65 and older.

When Americans are asked about the legacy of slavery’s effect on Black people today, 58% of the overall public says this affects the position of Black people in American society at least a fair amount, with 28% saying it affects them a great deal. Four-in-ten U.S. adults say the legacy of slavery has not much or not at all affected the position of Black Americans in the country today.

As with views of reparations, racial and ethnic differences on this question are notable. Black Americans (85%) are more likely than Hispanic (64%) and White (50%) Americans to say the legacy of slavery affects the position of Black people in the U.S. a fair amount or a great deal.

The partisan gap on this question is also wide. More than eight-in-ten Democrats (82%) say the legacy of slavery affects Black people in the U.S. a fair amount or a great deal, more than 50 percentage points greater than the share of Republicans who say this (29%).

Black Americans are much more likely to identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party; only about one-in-ten Black voters identify with or lean toward the Republican Party. As of 2020, White voters are slightly more evenly split, but the GOP has an advantage (53% to 42%).

Some racial, ethnic and partisan differences over who bears responsibility for reparations, what form they should take

In the Center’s 2021 survey, the 30% of Americans who favored reparations were also asked about the institutions and individuals who bear responsibility for repayment. They were presented with four options: the U.S. federal government, businesses and banks that profited from slavery, colleges and universities that benefited from slavery, and descendants of families who engaged in the slave trade.

Three-quarters of reparations supporters say the federal government has all or most of the responsibility to repay descendants of enslaved people. A smaller share, though still a majority, say businesses and banks that profited from slavery (65%) have all or most of the responsibility. Fewer say the same about colleges and universities that benefited from slavery (53%) and descendants of families who engaged in the slave trade (44%).

Attorneys Claim Dallas Police Murdered Kyle Dail in a Convenience Store During Unlawful Arrest. Video Shows 4 Lathered-Up White Cops Ambush Black Man and Fatally Shoot Him After He Dropped Gun

From [HERE] A civil rights attorney representing the family of Kyle Dail says he's filing a lawsuit on the family's behalf saying the Dallas Police Department used excessive force when Dail was fatally shot during an attempted arrest last summer.

Dail was in a Dallas convenience store on July 27, 2022, when police officers approached him from behind and attempted to take him into custody. Police said Dail was wanted for eluding police and selling drugs outside a gas station earlier in the evening.

In the video, officers can be heard telling Dail, "Don't move, don't move," and he can be heard saying "I'm not moving. I'm not moving. I can't breathe."

Dallas Chief of Police Eddie Garcia said Dail resisted and that as officers struggled to get him into custody he pulled out a handgun from his pocket and raised it in the air in front of an officer's face.

"Dail transitions the weapon from his right to his left hand then throws the weapon to another aisle in the business. A moment after Dail threw his weapon, Officer Hoffman fired his duty weapon," Garcia said, describing the video.

Attorney Justin Moore, who filed the lawsuit against the city, police department and officers, said in a statement this week that "all video evidence from the incident shows that Kyle was not a threat and was shot in the back unnecessarily."

Moore added that the department has not provided any evidence, including video evidence, that affirms Dail was the person selling drugs or eluding police and that his arrest may have been the result of bad police work and mistaken identity.

"We are fighting the police, we’re fighting the media:" Attorney Says DC Cop Shot Kevin-Hargraves Shird in the Head from Behind as He Fled and Posed No Threat to Cop. Lawsuit Pending

From [HERE] and [HERE] The family of Kevin-Hargraves Shird plans to sue the D.C. police sergeant who shot and killed the 31-year-old man in Fort Slocum Park last July. This comes after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. announced last week they were declining to file charges.

“While this officer may not ever face criminal charges for what he did, he will have his day in court with the estate of Kevin Hargraves-Shird,” Yaida Ford, a civil rights attorney representing Hargraves-Shird’s family, told DCist/WAMU on Tuesday.

Ford held a press conference on Tuesday afternoon to dispute the assertions made by the office of the U.S. Attorney for D.C in its decision to not prosecute the officer who shot Hargraves-Shird, Sergeant Reinaldo Otero-Camacho. Ford, who met with the USAO last week shortly before their decision was released, said the statement released by the USAO contained “glaring inaccuracies” regarding the evidence in the case. The USAO declined to comment further on the case, and extended “sincerest condolences to the family as they try to process this profound loss,” according to a statement shared with DCist/WAMU on Wednesday morning.

“Both I and the family were really shocked to see some of the remarks,” Ford said. “This statement was very, very concerning and…wildly, wildly irresponsible. For [his family] this ropened a wound. As much as I can try to manage expectations about what’s going to happen with a criminal investigation before a civil case is filed, you cannot prepare them…it was so raw.”

Representing the family, Ford said she will be filing suit against Reinaldo Otero-Camacho in “short order,” alleging the officer did not follow basic D.C. police protocol when he fired his gun without a verbal warning or command.

Otero-Camacho shot and killed Hargraves-Shird in the Brightwood Park neighborhood last summer, while responding to a 911 call regarding a shooting of two juveniles near Georgia Avenue and Longfellow Street NW. Otero-Camacho pursued a white sedan believed to be linked to the 911 call, until the sedan crashed into a curb on Madison Street NW, according to the USAO’s statements. Otero-Camacho, while still in his police car, pulled his gun out, according to body-worn camera footage that was released shortly after the shooting.

Three individuals exited the vehicle, including Hargraves-Shird. According to the USAO’s report, Hargraves-Shird appeared to return to the car to “look through it for something,” and began to flee when Otero-Camacho arrived. The officer, exiting his vehicle, screamed “gun, gun, gun, gun,” and fired one shot, striking Hargraves-Shird in the right ear, according to the USAO.

Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for D.C. (who is white), issued a press release last Thursday stating that after a nearly seven month investigation into the shooting, there was “insufficient evidence” to bring federal or local charges against Otero-Camacho. In the USAO’s brief explanation of its determination, issued on Feb. 9, federal investigators claim that “based on the entry wound of the bullet, as well as Sergeant Otero’s and Mr. Hargraves-Shird’s positioning, Mr. Hargraves-Shird was likely facing Sergeant Otero at the time he fired his weapon.”

Ford disputes this statement, describing the USAO’s claim as “irresponsible” conjecture. A forensic pathologist hired for the family reported that Hargraves-Shird’s head was slightly rotated to the right when he was shot, as if he was looking behind him, according to Ford.

“[The USAO’s] testimony completely contradicts the evidence that Kevin was running away (he was 100 feet from the officer when his body fell after being shot) and that Kevin was looking back over his right shoulder, while running, as the officer said ‘gun, gun, gun, gun,'” Ford said in a press release on Tuesday. “That is how the bullet entered his right ear. If he were facing the officer, the bullet would have hit him in the face or entered his head from the front.”

According to the USAO, the investigation included a review of physical evidence, body-camera footage, radio and forensic reports, an autopsy, and interviews of police and civilian eyewitness accounts. There was a party happening near the shooting that afternoon, but an inflatable moon bounce blocked civilians’ the view of the incident, according to the USAO. Ford said the evidence presented by USAO also does not confirm that Shird was ever carrying the gun that was recovered a few feet from where he fell to the ground. (According to the USAO, the gun has Hargraves-Shird’s DNA on it.)

In the days after the shooting, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said he could not comment on Otero-Camacho’s action, seeing as he had not been interviewed yet, and because body-camera footage does not always show the full scope of a scene, or what an officer may have perceived to be threat. But Ford told DCist/WAMU that during her meeting with the USAO, she learned Otero-Camacho had not provided a statement to prosecutors, and instead asserted his Fifth Amendment right. She also said that prosecutors had not produced further evidence to prove that Otero-Camacho believed he was under threat, or that he had issued any lawful command beyond yelling “gun, gun, gun, gun.”

“As these cases play out in real life, it does not appear that officers can ever be wrong in estimating the level of danger with which they are confronted,” she said, adding that the city needs a mechanism of investigating officers that is not linked to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which often works closely with the Metropolitan Police Department.

The USAO automatically reviews cases of excessive force to determine if the officer violated federal civil rights law or local D.C. law. This determination is a “heavy burden,” according to the USAO, and prosecutors must typically be able to prove the officers “willfully used more force than was reasonable necessary.” Ford said she and Hargraves-Shird’s family understand the burden of proof in criminal cases, but that the USAO’s lack of evidence in its statement was “shocking.”

“The criminal side is different from the civil side of things, there’s a different standard of proof, and I think the family might have been able to accept that. But to then add remarks and statements to a press release when there’s no evidence to back that up, in fact the evidence is contrary to that, was very shocking” Ford said. “It’s one thing to jury process that your loved one has died at the hands of an officer, it’s another to see the U.S. Attorney’s Office make these remarks regarding evidence that just wasn’t there.”

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Only one D.C. officer in recent memory has been convicted, or even charged, for an on-duty murder. Terence Sutton was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown in December. Hylton-Brown was killed during a chase by Sutton in October 2020. Hylton-Brown was riding a scooter and collided with a vehicle after turning onto a street; he died in the hospital days after the crash. Sutton and his supervisor, Lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky, were also found guilty of obstruction and conspiracy. (They are awaiting sentencing but are likely to appeal the verdict.)

In 2018, the city reached its largest settlement in a case of a fatal police shooting. Officer Brian Trainer shot killed an unarmed Black man, Terrence Sterling, in 2016, and did not not face charges.Years later, the city settled a $3.5 million wrongful death lawsuit with Sterling’s family. (After an internal review, D.C. police concluded that Trainer was not in danger when he fired, and ruled the shooting unjustified.)

Ford conceded that money won’t bring justice for the family — but in the absence of a criminal case, its the only place to turn. Otero-Camacho may still face disciplinary consequences from MPD, as its internal investigation into the shooting is on-going. As of last Friday, a spokesperson told DCist/WAMU that he was currently on a non-contact status, meaning he is not patrolling or engaging with the public.

“I don’t care how much money you give them, they have to accept that the officer or the department or the culture won’t be corrected, and that there will be no genuine accountability,” Ford said.

Baton Rouge to Pay $1.17M Settlement After Cops Violently Silenced People Protesting the Police Murder of Alton Sterling

From [HERE] The city of Baton Rouge will pay a $1.17 million settlement to 14 people who accused local law enforcement of using excessive force and violating their First Amendment rights at a protest over Alton Sterling’s death in 2016.

The city’s Metro Council approved the settlement in a 7-4 decision Wednesday, five-and-a-half years after the protest in which the plaintiffs say they were wrongly arrested.

“This settlement should send a message to all law enforcement agencies,” William Most, attorney for the plaintiffs, told WAFB-TV Thursday. “If you won’t hold your officers accountable, we will.”

The 2017 lawsuit states the 14 plaintiffs — two of whom were identified as journalists — attended the July 10, 2016, protest in downtown Baton Rouge when they were arrested for allegedly obstructing a highway or public passageway.

Widespread protests occurred following the fatal shooting of Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man, who was shot six times by a white Baton Rouge police officer outside a convenience store. The deadly interaction was caught on cellphone video. The officer was never charged.

In 2021 the Metro Council approved of a $4.5 million settlement to Sterling’s children.

Palm Beach Gardens Settles Corey Jones Suit for $2M. Liar Cop Murdered Black Man Seeking Roadside Help; Audio Proved Cover-Up

 From [HERE] and [MORE] A South Florida city has reached a $2 million settlement with the family of a Black motorist who was fatally shot by a police officer after his vehicle broke down on an interstate off-ramp more than seven years ago.

The city of Palm Beach Gardens released a statement saying it had reached a settlement Thursday through mediation with the family of Corey Jones. The settlement is for the full amount covered by the city’s insurance policy, which the insurance carrier has offered to pay since 2016, according to the city’s statement.

Fired Palm Beach Gardens Officer Nouman Raja was convicted of manslaughter and attempted murder in 2019 and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the October 2015 killing of Jones. Raja was the first Florida law enforcement agent in nearly 30 years to be convicted and sentenced for an on-duty killing.

Prosecutors contended Raja escalated what should have been a routine interaction into a deadly confrontation with Jones, a 31-year-old housing inspector and part-time drummer.

Raja was not in uniform and never identified himself as a police officer before opening fire on the motorist, prosecutors said — a direct contradiction to the arrested officer’s story. An audio recording shows that the cop lied over and over about what happened. 

Audio reveals the officer, who was investigating car burglaries, was immediately aggressive with Jones and began barking commands at him without ever saying he was with the force.

Jones was leaving a late-night gig on Oct. 18, 2015 when his car broke down on the side of I-95. The 31-year-old musician called AT&T roadside assistance for help, and the call was still connected when Raja, who is of South Asian descent, exited an unmarked white van and approached the stalled car.

That recording captured the exchange between the two men.

“You good?” Raja, dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, asked.

Jones said he was fine, prompting Raja to ask “Really?”

“Yeah,” Jones replied, according to the audio.

Suddenly, Raja became belligerent, and started yelling at Jones.

“Get your f-----g hands up! Get your f-----g hands up!” he shouted as Jones pleaded “hold on, hold on!”

“Get your f-----g hands up! Drop!” Raja screamed again before firing two shots, prosecutors said.

Jones began running down an embankment and into the grass as Raja fired several more shots, killing him. Jones' unfired gun was found about 75 feet from his SUV. Jones' body was found another 125 feet away.

In a 911 call that prosecutors say Raja placed about 30 seconds later, the officer yelled for Jones to drop his gun — even though they say he knew Jones had been hit and was dying on the ground. Jones’ family said he had recently purchased the gun to protect the expensive drum gear in his vehicle's trunk and had a permit for the weapon.

But about four hours after the shooting, Raja voluntarily sat down with a Palm Beach County sheriff's detective and recounted the shooting.

He claimed that he walked up to Jones’ van thinking it had been abandoned, and he was surprised to find Jones inside.

"The door swung open and, uh, this guy jumps outside immediately," Raja told the investigator. "He got out of the van and then he's like, 'I'm OK, I'm OK man.' And at which point I said, 'Hey, man, police, can I help you?'”

Raja claimed that when he identified himself as a cop, Jones became violent.

“And the second I said police, he jumped back and I clearly remember him drawing and...pointing a gun at me,” he said. "It's just like, you know, your family flashed in front of you, your kids flashed in front of you.”

He said he ordered Jones to drop the gun and then fired when he didn't. [MORE]

Google Hides Patent Data Showing Rothschild was Involved in COVID-19 Testing Since 2015

From [HERE] Compare the two following screenshots. The first screenshot shows the Google Patents publication of a system and method for testing for covid-19, dated 18 August 2022, which is also mentioned in our book Hope Amidst a Tsunami of Evil.

The second screenshot (from 21 February 2023) shows the same entry with some changes which have been made after September 2022.

Same link—two different versions.

Spot the differences: Image 1) shows the year 2015. Rothschild is stated as the applicant in 2020.

Image 2) begins with the application made in 2020 after the pandemic began. The name Rothschild is left out.

Accessed 18 August 2022:

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Autopsies Confirm COVID Jab Hazards in Youth

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• When the COVID shots were first introduced, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made several claims about them that have since been proven completely false, including the claim that the mRNA would remain in the injection site, and that both the mRNA and resulting spike protein would rapidly be eliminated from your body

• The mRNA goes everywhere and can remain intact for a month of more. Ditto for the spike protein your cells produce

• Spike protein has been found in the brains of people with encephalitis (brain inflammation) and in jab-induced shingles lesions. Both mRNA and spike protein have been found in lymph nodes more than 60 days post-jab. Full-length mRNA has also been shown to circulate in people’s blood for up to 28 days post-injection, and it’s been detected in breastmilk

• Research shows the primary difference between those who developed symptoms of myocarditis and those who didn’t was that symptomatic patients had markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein unbound by antibodies in their plasma. Those who remained asymptomatic had no free spike protein in their blood. This would suggest that free-floating spike protein is a problem

• Autopsies of two teenage boys found dead in their beds three and four days after their second dose of Pfizer concluded jab-induced heart damage was to blame. The myocarditis described in these instances did not have the typical histopathology of myocarditis. Instead, both cases resemble catecholamine-induced injury, similar to the cytokine storm experienced in severe SARS-CoV-2 infection

From [HERE] When the COVID shots were first introduced, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made several claims about them that have since been proven completely false.

They claimed the mRNA in the shot would remain in and only affect the cells around the injection site. They also claimed the mRNA and resulting spike protein wouldn't last long in your body. The mRNA, they said, would vanish within "a few days," and the spike protein produced by your cells would be eliminated within "a few weeks."

As it turns out, virtually every cell in your body is exposed to the mRNA and can remain intact for a month or more. Ditto for the spike protein your cells produce. Spike protein has been found in the brains of people with encephalitis (brain inflammation)1 and in jab-induced shingles lesions.2 It can bioaccumulate in several organs,3 4 including reproductive organs.

Both mRNA and spike protein have been found in lymph nodes more than 60 days post-jab.5 Full-length mRNA has also been shown to circulate in people's blood6 for up to 28 days post-injection,7 and it's been detected in breastmilk.8

In early August 2022, the CDC suddenly deleted those statements from its website — probably because they realized their lies were catching up to them. The cleanup effort was caught, however. Disclose TV exposed the deletion on its Twitter account,9 with an archived link showing the CDC's original webpage.

Free Spike Protein Linked to Jab-Induced Myocarditis

From the get-go, physicians and scientists warned that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was the most toxic part of the virus, and hence making your cells produce it for an undetermined amount of time could be an unmitigated disaster. Their warnings were "debunked" and censored, but mounting evidence now proves their concerns were valid — and should have been shared to prevent the loss of life.

We now have case reports, studies and autopsy findings showing that people suffering from post-jab myocarditis have mRNA-induced spike proteins in their hearts and blood.

Interestingly, a January 2023 study 10 in the journal Circulation found "extensive antibody profiling and T-cell responses" both in those who developed post-jab myocarditis and asymptomatic jabbed controls.

The primary difference between those who developed symptoms of myocarditis and those who didn't was that symptomatic patients had "markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein unbound by antibodies" in their plasma. Those who remained asymptomatic had no free spike protein in their blood. This would suggest that free-floating spike protein is a profoundly serious problem. As concluded by the authors:

"Immunoprofiling of vaccinated adolescents and young adults revealed that the mRNA vaccine-induced immune responses did not differ between individuals who developed myocarditis and individuals who did not.

However, free spike antigen was detected in the blood of adolescents and young adults who developed post-mRNA vaccine myocarditis, advancing insight into its potential underlying cause."

Autopsy Reports Confirm Jab-Related Myocarditis

mRNA programming the heart cells to produce spike protein is also profoundly bad news. A case report 11 published in September 2022 describes the case of a 55-year-old man who died from acute myocardial infarction and lymphocytic myocarditis four months after a dose of Pfizer. As his first dose, he'd received the AstraZeneca shot. According to the author:

"SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein, but not nucleocapsid protein was sporadically detected in vessel walls by immunohistochemical assay … These findings indicate that myocarditis, as well as thrombo-embolic events following injection of spike-inducing gene-based vaccines, are causally associated with a injurious immunological response to the encoded agent.

Because of the fact that the immune response to a first gene-based vaccination is very low in comparison with the immune response to the second vaccination, the found adverse events has rather to be attributed to the mRNA-based second vaccination as to the initial vector-based one." [MORE]

Medicare Data Shows COVID Injections Increase Your Risk of Dying

Steve Kirsch reports In this article, I publicly reveal record-level vax-death data from the “gold standard” Medicare database that proves that:

1. The vaccines are making it more likely that the elderly will die prematurely, not less likely

2. The risk of death remains elevated for an unknown period of time after you get the shot (we didn’t see it return to normal)

3. The CDC lied to the American people about the safety of these vaccines. They had access to this data the entire time and kept it hidden and said nothing.

If there is one article for you to share with your social network, this is the one.

Executive summary

Isn’t it a shame that none of the world’s governments make the vaccination-death records publicly available? My claim is that if they did that, it would end the debate instantly and prove to the world that the vaccines are unsafe. So that’s why they keep it locked up.

But apparently there is one whistleblower who is interested in data transparency. 

Last night, I got a USB drive in my mailbox with the Medicare data that links deaths and vaccination dates. Finally! This is the data that nobody wants to talk or even ask about. 

I was able to authenticate the data by matching it with records I already had. And the analysis that I did on the data I received matches up with other analyses I have received previously.

The nice thing about this Medicare data is that nobody can claim that it is “unreliable.” Medicare is the unassailable “gold-standard” database. It’s the database that the CDC never wants us to see for some reason. They never even mention it. They pretend it doesn’t exist. So you know it is important.

Do you want to know what it shows? 

It shows that these shots increase your risk of dying and once you get shot, your risk of dying remains elevated for an unknown amount of time. And that’s in the very population it is supposed to help the most!

Now you know why the CDC, which has always had access to the Medicare records, has never made them publicly available for anyone to analyze to prove that the vaccines are safe. Because the records show the opposite. That’s why they keep the data hidden from view and it’s why they NEVER talk about it.

Today, in this article, you will finally get to see what nobody outside the HHS has ever seen before: the “gold standard” Medicare records, i.e., the truth. You can analyze it yourself. [MORE]

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