Aurora Cop Convicted for Failing to Intervene as a White Cop Pistol Whipped, Strangled and Tried to Kill a Defenseless Black Man who Begged for His Life During an Alleged Trespass Arrest

NO WAY TO CONTROL AUTHORITY. Video Shows 2 Aurora Cops Degrade and Brutalize a Black Man to Make a Trespass Arrest; White Cop Pistol Whips and Strangles Him as He Begs for Life. Both Charged

From [HERE] An Arapahoe County jury has convicted former Aurora police officer Francine Martinez for failing to intervene in excessive force used by another officer on July 23, 2021.

Body camera footage captured former officer John Haubert choking and beating Kyle Vinson, then 29, in the head with his gun while threatening to kill him. 

The officers had responded to a trespassing call on South Parker Road. Two other people ran away, while Vinson stayed at the scene. It turned out Vinson had an active warrant for an unrelated incident. He was not armed.

Footage from Haubert's body-worn camera shows Vinson gasping for air and struggling to speak. Near the beginning of the footage, as Vinson lies on his back, Haubert orders Vinson to get on his stomach while Vinson repeatedly asks, "What did I do?"

Haubert tells him he has an active warrant, the video shows. 

Haubert tells Vinson several times to "stop fighting," though Vinson does not appear to be resisting at that point. Haubert also presses his gun up against Vinson's head.

On the footage, Haubert told a sergeant after the arrest, "I was going to shoot him but I didn't know if I had a round in it or not," the documents state. Haubert also said blood on the man was from "pistol-whipping him."

White officers John Haubert and Francine Martinez responded to a call alleging three Black men were trespassing, which is a minor misdemeanor. After officers arrived at the scene, two of the men fled the scene, leaving Kyle Vinson alone. Apparently angry, the white cop decided to arrest Vinson.

The video begins with the white cop pressing his automatic weapon onto the Black man’s head, threatening his life. Vinson says ‘you have the wrong guy, I don’t have any warrants’ and asks ‘why are you arresting me.’ The Black man is visibly shaking and appears to be no threat to the police officers.

During the video the Black man repeatedly begs the officer to stop hitting him and yells "You're killing me," as Aurora police Officer John Haubert holds him down, strangles him and strikes him, the video shows.

If you move, I will shoot you," the white cop continually yells making felony threats against the man. While straggling him the officer says repeatedly "Stop fighting," as the man cries and gasps for air. Then the disfluent cop starts yelling over and over “GET ON YOUR FACE.” Vinson shows his hands surrendering and attempts to comply. Vinson was defenseless and during the attack was crying.

"I need water," Vinson yells as the body camera footage comes to an end. His head is bleeding in multiple areas and there are lumps and contusions on his face. He was hospitalized after he was arrested on suspicion of trespassing. 

Colorado's legislature created the failure to intervene charge for law enforcement officers in 2020. That law also that mandated data collection by agencies on officers' interactions with civilians and expanded requirements for when officers have to turn on their body cameras. It also requires revocation of an officer's state certification if they plead guilty or are convicted of excessive force or failing to intervene.

Martinez' conviction means Colorado's Peace Officer Standards and Training board must permanently decertify her, and she can't work as a law enforcement officer in Colorado again.

“Officers have a duty to intervene in situations like this,” said Chief Deputy District Attorney Brian Sugioka in a statement Friday following the trial. “Officer Martinez failed to do anything to de-escalate the situation and stop the assault.” 

Martinez' sentencing is scheduled for June 2.

Lathered Up CO Cops Allegedly Tased a Latino Man 35X. Police Had Pulled His Son Over Whom He Had Been Following in Another Car. Public Masters Got Enraged b/c He Asked 'Why He Had to Move His Truck?'

THE GREAT REBEL LARKEN ROSE OBSERVES:

It is very telling that many modern “law enforcers” quickly become angry, even violent, when an average citizen simply speaks to the “officer” as an equal, instead of assuming the tone and demeanor of a subjugated underling. Again, this reaction is precisely the same – and has the same cause – as the reaction a slave master would have to an “uppity” slave speaking to him as an equal. There are plenty of examples. depicted in numerous police abuse videos on the internet, of supposed representatives of “authority” going into a rage and resorting to open violence, simply because someone they approached spoke to them as one adult would speak to another instead of speaking as a subject would speak to a master. The state mercenaries refer to this lack of groveling as someone having an “attitude.” In their eyes, someone treating them as mere mortals, as if they are on the same level as everyone else, amounts to showing disrespect for their alleged “authority.”

Similarly, anyone who does not consent to be detained, questioned, or searched by “officers of the law” is automatically perceived, by the mercenaries of the state, as some sort of troublemaker who has something to hide. Again, the real reason such lack of “cooperation” annoys authoritarian enforcers is because it amounts to people treating them as mere humans instead of treating them as superior beings, which is what they imagine themselves to be. [MORE]

From [HERE] 11 News received new body cam video from Mehr Law, claiming a man was tased multiple times by deputies.

The video is from November of 2022 involving the Las Animas County Sheriff’s Office. Mehr Law states the man, Kenneth Espinoza, was reportedly tased 35 times. This all happened during a traffic stop when Espinoza and his son were traveling to Walsenburg.

Attorneys tell 11 News this incident happened when Kenneth Espinoza and his son were traveling through Trinidad in separate vehicles. Attorneys say Espinoza was told to move his truck from behind deputies cars during the traffic stop. In the video, as Lieutenant Henry Trujillo approached Espinoza to ask him to move his car, Espinoza asked why he had to leave.

Deputy Mikhail Noel then approached Espinoza’s truck, asking him to leave twice. Attorneys tell 11 News as Espinoza started to leave, Deputy Noel shouted for him to stay, pulled out his pistol and pointed it at him. Attorneys tell 11 News Espinoza was tased 35 times while being removed from his truck. Espinoza was then put into the deputies patrol vehicle.

Attorneys tell 11 News Espinoza’s face and lips were bruised in this incident. The law firm says the excessive force was not needed in this situation.

“Even if he was going to take it a step farther, he could have just knocked on the window and say hey man, what are you doing,” said Kevin Mehr, Kenneth Espinoza’s Attorney. “Do you know this guy? Just actually listened to what Ken had to say.”

— Brian Sherrod (@briansherrodtv) April 24, 2023

Las Animas Sheriff Derek Navarette tells 11 News Espinoza was only tased once. This is according to data taken from the tasers. Sheriff Navarette also says Espinoza was not struck by either deputy during the altercation. You can see his response down below.

According to court records, Espinoza faced charges of resisting arrest and assault on a peace officer. The charges were dropped in December. Attorneys tell 11 News they plan to file a civil suit against the Sheriff’s Office.

This is video provided through Lieutenant Henry Trujillo’s body cam video. It can be viewed here.

This is video provided through Deputy Mikhail Noel body cam video. It can be viewed here.

Stay Away From Carroll County (KY) If You're Black: White Cop who Killed Breonna Taylor Hired by Authorities in 95% White County. Fatally Shot Black Woman as She Slept. No Charges Filed by Sambo AG

From [HERE] The Louisville police officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor was hired by another department in Kentucky last week, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

Myles Cosgrove, who was fired by the Louisville Metro Police Department in January 2021, has been hired by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, its chief deputy Rob Miller told the Courier-Journal.

Carroll County is about an hour's drive northeast of the Louisville Metro Police Department. Carroll County is 95.16% white.

Cosgrove never faced legal repercussions for the fatal shooting of Taylor, a 26-year-old unarmed Black woman who died in her apartment during a botched drug raid in March 2020, after police entered her home on a no-knock warrant. Cosgrove was determined to have fired the fatal shot that killed Taylor.

Miller, the chief deputy, addressed the lack of legal charges against Cosgrove when justifying his hiring to the Courier-Journal. He said his department ran a background check on Cosgrove, which he passed, the newspaper reported.

"We felt like he was a good candidate to help us in our county," Miller said, adding that Cosgrove's experience working for a police narcotics department would help reduce the flow of drugs in the area, per the Courier-Journal. [MORE]

NYPD Claims Francis Romaine Choked an Officer but Video Shows 4 Provocative Cops Grab, Punch and Throw the Defenseless Black Man to the Pavement and Hold Him Down by Pressing a Knee Into His Neck

From [HERE] The NYPD has launched an internal investigation after video emerged showing officers punching a Black man as they placed him under arrest. 

Video exclusively obtained by CBS2 shows officers from the 40th Precinct holding the man's hands back as another repeatedly punches him in the head. 

The exclusive video shows the violent arrest of a Black man by NYPD officers. 

It happened at Prospect Avenue and East 149th Street Sunday, April 16. Contrary to Dependent media video shows an NYPD officer getting into the face of a Black man and then initiating force against him by grabbing his shirt, pushing him backward and then fighting him. In a matter of seconds, four officers surrounded him. Three officers held his arms down as one repeatedly punched him in the head before throwing him to the ground. A female officer appears to employ the unauthorized tactic of leaning on the man's neck to make the arrest. 

The NYPD said officers were conducting an investigation when 29-year-old Francis Romaine approached them "aggressively," and refused multiple orders to back away. When officers tried to arrest him, police say Romaine choked a sergeant. However, the video reveals that the police lied as the Black man is defenseless and does not appear to fight back as cops attack him.

Romaine was arrested multiple charges, including assault on a police officer and resisting arrest. He has since made bail and is out of jail. 

Video Shows Angry White Cops Attack an Activist who Entered an NYPD Station and Politely Asked His Public Masters How to File a Complaint

"The child who is taught to believe the law will be his protection is the child who will become the victim of its own beliefs." - DR BLYND.

Rights are myths. Rights are cultural gratuities perceived through various fantasy frames created to provide a pretense of civility under a system whereby their very undermining and violation is vouchsafed- FUNKTIONARY

New York Court Rules State Police Can’t Keep Hiding its Misconduct Records From the Public

From [HERE] In 2020, the New York State legislature finally took a tool of opacity out of law enforcement’s hands. For forty years, law enforcement agencies had the option of rejecting officer misconduct records requests by citing 50-a, the law that said these records could be considered exempt from the state’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). 

Notably, the law did not mandate law enforcement agencies keep these records locked up. All it said was that they could cite this law as a reason for denying records requests. The NYPD finally re-read the law in 2016 and used it as an excuse for its refusal to continue publicly posting information about closed internal investigations. (The other excuse given, believe it or not, was “to save paper.”) 

Perhaps the weirdest footnote of the now-dead law is that fact that it was used as the basis of the NYPD’s union’s lawsuit against the NYPD, which cited 50-a as the reason the NYPD could not legally release body camera footage.

As soon as the law went into effect, so did the legal challenges. But law enforcement’s early wins were soon outpaced by their losses. Litigation forced the NYPD to comply with the repeal of 50-a. (I mean… to a point. The NYPD doesn’t really comply with any public records law.)

The NYPD learned the expensive way it was required to follow the law, just like every other law enforcement agency in the state. Now, it’s the state’s own law enforcement agency that’s learning this lesson, as C.J. Ciaramella reports for Reason.

The New York State Police (NYSP) must turn over decades of disciplinary records and complaints against troopers, a New York state judge ruled today.

In response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), acting Supreme Court Justice Keri Savona ruled that the NYSP must begin disclosing misconduct records from 2000 through 2020. (Unlike most states, New York’s Supreme Court is its trial-level court system.) The ruling is the latest defeat for police unions, which have been fighting to limit the scope of a 2020 law that made police disciplinary files public record. [MORE]

PropaGandhi Use Opinions to Generate Statistics and Grab Guns: There is No Evidence Children Are More Likely to Die by Guns Than Vehicles

According to FUNKTIONARY:

PropaGandhi – passive social non-resistance propaganda. 2) obedience-based servitude to the enforcers of granfalloons uncommonly known as Corporate States and any other group-entities. Mahatma Gandhi mostly walked barefoot which produced calluses on his feet. He also had a very weird diet sprinkled with bouts of fasting which made him rather frail and suffer intermittently from halitosis—this made him… “A super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.” (See: Poser, Class, Mass, Racism White Supremacy, Gun Control & Caste)

statistics – opinions dressed as facts. 2) the disembodied abstraction of numerical signifiers and graphic ghosts that are conjured up in an attempt to support a political posture already taken. 3) a pseudo-scientific system used to manipulate physical reality. Statistics is a weak model. Statistics is like a bikini—what they reveal are suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. With statistics, there is only modeling of the distribution of events. Also, with statistics, you always have the luxury of having high trends in low spaces to dissemble, portend or otherwise pretend. Anyone who cites a statistic has an investment in the statistic cited—statistics don’t just show up uninvited. Statistics generate opinions, but more often, opinions generate statistics. Figures lie and liars figure their way out of lies—so it figures. Dogma and statistics are kissing-cousins. We do not believe what we prove with statistics, we prove what we believe. Statistics are a snap-shot in time of what has been. If you want to be a has-been, believe in statistics. (See: Dogma, Opinions, Beliefs & ICE)

From [HERE] Another year brings about another opportunity for gun control activists and their media lackeys to manipulate CDC fatal injury data to push a misleading factoid on children and firearms.

This is how it works: Step one, acquire statistics on firearm-related deaths among children ages 1-14. Step two, combine that relatively low number with the far greater number of firearm-related deaths involving juveniles and young adults ages 15-19, or even ages 15-24. Step three, present the resulting data as the shocking number of “children” (ages 1-19 or 1-24) who are subjected to “gun violence” each day/week/month/year. Step four, use the disingenuous statistic to advocate for pre-determined gun control policies.

Upon the release of the CDC’s 2021 fatal injury data, gun controllers dredged up this tactic once again. As with overall violent crime, firearm-related violence has been elevated in recent years, alongside the conscious implementation of soft-on-crime criminal justice policies. Sadly, younger people were no exception to this increase.

However, anti-gun researchers and the media abuse the CDC’s data to create misleading headlines, such as the one on this March 29, 2023, CNN article titled, “Children and teens are more likely to die by guns than anything else.”

As the CNN article discusses “children and teens,” consider the data on children – ages 0-12. For this cohort, firearm-related injuries are not the leading causes of death and are not higher than motor vehicle deaths. The number of motor vehicle deaths in this age group is more than double that of firearms-related deaths. The number of motor vehicle deaths in the 0-14 age group is 55 percent higher than firearm-related deaths. Moreover, when examining those ages 0-16, motor vehicle deaths are still higher than firearm-related deaths.

This does shift when examining those ages 15-19. Over 80 percent of the firearm-related deaths that occur in the 0-19 age group happen among juveniles and young adults ages 15-19. This disparity shouldn’t be surprising. The 15-19 cohort is far more often engaged in the type of street crime that can give rise to firearm-related violence and that many jurisdictions have decided to address in a more lenient manner in recent years. The conflation of this age group with young children is even more absurd when one considers that in the vast majority of jurisdictions, those 15 and older can be prosecuted as adults.

The next time you see a shocking headline about children and firearms, keep in mind how those pushing a political agenda have no interest in the truth.

Washington State Officially Abolishes Death Penalty

From [HERE] The state’s high court struck down the death penalty in 2018, but the law remained on the books. Besides the death penalty, Senate Bill 5087(link is external) also eliminated other laws, including a measure that allowed sterilization(link is external) as criminal punishment.

“It’s official. The death penalty is no longer in state law,” Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee said on Twitter after the signing. He also thanked legislators and other leaders who were part of the decade-long effort to end the practice, including the state's attorney general.

In 2014, Inslee issued a moratorium on the death penalty. In 2018, Washington’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down the death penalty, calling it arbitrary and racially biased. “To the extent that race distinguishes the cases, it is clearly impermissible and unconstitutional,” Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst wrote in the lead opinion.

A 2014 report by the University of Washington also found that jurors in the state were "more than four times more likely to impose a death sentence if the defendant is black."(link is external)

Twenty-seven states still have the death penalty. As of April 1, 2022, there were 2,414 people on death row in the United States, according to data(link is external) from the Death Penalty Information Center. 

Research Shows Bias in the Application of Felony Murder and Accomplice Liability Causes Blacks/Latinos to be Sentenced for 1st degree Murders they Didn't Personally Commit at Greater Rates than Whites

From [HERE] A forthcoming article in the Denver Law Review discusses two theories of homicide law, the felony murder rule and accomplice liability, that create group liability for the actions of an individual. The article, written by Professors G. Ben Cohen, Justin D. Levinson, and Koichi Hioki states that “Research suggests that the administration of accomplice liability [and] felony murder doctrines disproportionately impact Black and minority defendants,” causing minority defendants to be sentenced for first degree murders they did not personally commit at greater rates than white defendants. The researchers’ explanation for this disparity is that “Americans automatically individualize white men, yet automatically perceive Black and Latino men as group members.” 

According to the article, “Most modern felony statutes provide that a death that results from the commission of a specifically listed felony … constitutes first-degree murder for which the maximum penalty is death or life imprisonment.” Accomplice liability “impute[s] responsibility to one person for the actions of another.” Between the two, if a group of defendants commits a felony and a person dies during its commission, all members of the group could be charged with capital murder in certain states.

The authors conducted a national empirical study on a diverse sample of Americans, identifying the way in which implicit racial bias potentially infiltrates the operation of the accomplice liability felony murder rule. In addition to identifying the racial disparities in concluding that a defendant acted individually, mentioned above, the study found that: “mock jurors held Latino defendants more responsible for – and ascribed greater intentionality for – the same felony-murder style killing; and… mock jurors’ memories of case facts actually became sharpened when reading about Latino defendants, demonstrating that aggressive stereotypes of certain groups can pave the way for heightened criminal responsibility.” 

The article concludes that “The risk that implicit bias plays a role in charging decisions and jury verdicts provides sufficient concern to warrant elimination of the doctrine. … The risk that jurors assessing liability for these types of offenses will assume group responsibility for the actions of Black and Latino defendants but ensure that white defendants are assessed culpability solely for their own actions, warrants limitation of the use even in non- mandatory life without parole sentences.”

The ACLU says the Biden Administration is Monitoring and Retaining the Speech of Citizens and non-Citizens. Among Other Things, Authorities Use Info to Decide if Non-Citizens Can Stay in the US

From [HERE] The Biden administration has been quietly deploying and expanding programs that surveil what people say on social media, using tools that allow agents and analysts to invisibly monitor the vast amount of protected speech that occurs online. For years, these kinds of tools have been increasingly used for a range of controversial law enforcement and intelligence purposes. But some of the most troubling programs continuously monitor the social media posts of non-citizens to decide who gets to live, study, or stay in the United States.

If you’re an immigrant or visa-holder in the United States and believe you’ve been affected by this social media monitoring, the ACLU wants to hear your story.

Social media accounts are extensions of ourselves. A single social media account can reveal a map of our family and friends; a catalogue of our personal preferences and political views; and, of course, a comprehensive diary of our thoughts and speech. Given the trove of information available online, social media surveillance threatens our rights to speak freely and live without fear of constant government scrutiny.

Through our ongoing FOIA lawsuit, the ACLU has obtained documents showing that a wide range of government agencies are monitoring and retaining the speech of U.S. citizens and non-citizens alike — whether or not those individuals are suspected of any criminal wrongdoing. Agencies continue to pour millions of dollars into technology that enables this sustained tracking of social media activity.

In recent years, the government has ramped up its efforts to monitor the social media activities of non-citizens. At least two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programs involve the monitoring of non-citizens who have come to the U.S. for school, work, or other reasons. Under the Visa Lifecycle Vetting Program, DHS monitors the online activities of individuals in the U.S. on student or business visas — from the moment they apply for a visa throughout their stay in the United States. Under another program known as Continuous Immigration Vetting, DHS may monitor social media and a number of other sources for “derogatory information” about non-citizens, starting when a person applies for an immigration benefit until they become a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Who Social Media Surveillance Hurts

The government’s social media surveillance can have immense consequences. For example, in August 2019, CBP officers denied entry to Ismail Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian student from Lebanon traveling to start his freshman year at Harvard. Ismail, like other non-citizens hoping to enter the United States, was likely subject to the State Department’s policy requiring nearly all visa applicants to disclose their social media handles. After an hours-long interrogation about Ismail’s political views, religious affiliations, and friends’ social media posts, Ismail’s visa was canceled and he was promptly deported.

While Ismail was eventually allowed to pursue his studies in the U.S., the government continues to engage in the suspicionless social media monitoring of non-citizens, including many Black and Brown immigrants and visitors who want to become citizens or pursue degrees here. Once DHS collects this information, it may use it to guide immigration decisions, including those involving deportation, visa revocations, and naturalization.

Suspicionless monitoring of social media infringes the rights of people who are living in the U.S. and are protected by the First Amendment. Individuals who suspect they are being surveilled may fear expressing themselves freely out of concerns over government scrutiny or retaliation. This is a loss for the people whose speech is chilled and for all those who benefit from vibrant online conversations and exchanges of ideas.

Government surveillance also often disproportionally targets racial and religious minority communities and those who dissent against government policies. The ACLU has called on both DHS and the Justice Department to reform their policies that allow biased profiling and investigations. And of course, surveillance undermines our basic notions of privacy. Even individuals who post publicly online do not expect the government to digitally archive their online activity without any suspicion, or to scrutinize their friends, contacts, and associations on social media platforms.

Social Media Surveillance is Ineffective and Inefficient

Social media surveillance is also ineffective and lacks empirical support. Analyzing social media is notoriously difficult, given the sheer volume of information and the many ways in which individuals’ online messages can be misinterpreted — especially when those posts span many different languages and cultures. One office within DHS recently rejected a proposal to expand the agency’s collection of social media information after concluding that the monitoring had little utility. The Biden administration has also reportedly considered halting social media vetting for some categories of refugees given concerns about “the efficiency of the process.”

Given the harms of this surveillance, and its demonstrated lack of effectiveness, DHS should end its existing social media programs. Until then, we need to know more about how the government monitors our social media and the impact of this surveillance on communities and individuals.

If you think you are or have been affected by this surveillance, we want to hear from you. Please fill out this form or email us directly at sms_intake@aclu.org. The ACLU will keep strictly confidential any information you provide and will not share it outside the ACLU without your permission.

Ayanna Pressley and Other Massachusetts Puppeticans Introduce Legislation to End Qualified Immunity, the Law of the Jungle Legal Standard for Police in their Relations with Citizens

From [HERE] Massachusetts lawmakers in Congress have reintroduced legislation which would allow people to sue police officers and other state and local government officials.

The Ending Qualified Immunity Act would eliminate the doctrine created by the Supreme Court, which protects police officers from individual liability for violating a person's constitutional rights.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., said the bill ensures police, and all officials, are held accountable for their actions.

"It makes no sense that the very people responsible for enforcing the law face no consequences for breaking it," Pressley contended.

The bill was first introduced in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, and Pressley argued it provides the families of those abused by police with the healing they deserve. Supporters of qualified immunity said officers should not have to fear lawsuits when dealing with potentially dangerous suspects.

More than 1,000 people in the U.S. were killed by police last year, a record high, according to the nonprofit Mapping Police Violence.

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said for decades, qualified immunity has shielded officers who use excessive force, far too often suffered by Black and brown Americans.

"There will be no true justice until there is racial justice," Markey asserted. "And there will be no racial justice until we end qualified immunity."

Markey added victims and their families are due their day in court against those officials who violate their civil rights. At least forty lawmakers have signed on as co-sponsors of the bill.

Puppeticians Push to Reopen Abusive Pittsburgh Juvenile Youth Prison to Put Black Teens in Greater Confinement

From [HERE] In 2021, Pittsburgh’s Shuman Juvenile Detention Center was closed after an investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services uncovered numerous instances of abuse and neglect of children at the facility. Now, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and members of the Allegheny County Council are pushing for a reopening of the facility to address an alleged spike in youth crime. County funds for the youth prison have since been reallocated, and politicians are now looking to reopen the center under the auspices of private shareholders instead of the county government.

Situated in the primarily Black neighborhood of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar, Shuman Center’s nearly 50-year history had been marred with controversy. Years of allegations of mistreatment by staff culminated in a heroin overdose occurring in the facility in August 2021 that was not treated for nearly an hour before paramedics arrived. The center had been operating under provisional licenses since 2015 due to the large number of complaints it received, and it continued to see an increase in violations before the license was fully revoked shortly after the overdose. The center acted as a punitive measure against impoverished youth and youth of color, often as the beginning of a long cycle of incarceration. Similar trends have been seen across the United States, the country with the highest youth incarceration rates in the world. 

Since its shutdown, local politicians and business owners have complained that Shuman’s absence has led to an uptick in violent crime amongst youth downtown. The mayor of Pittsburgh, Ed Gainey, and his administration see this carceral philosophy totally in line with their recently unveiled “Plan for Peace,” a campaign to reduce violent crime in the city of Pittsburgh. So far, the campaign has primarily resulted in a tripling of police presence in downtown, low-income and predominantly Black neighborhoods, and strict curfews proposed for youth in these same areas. At a news conference on a triple homicide shooting in October, before the information of any suspects had been released, Gainey inexplicably blamed the closure of the former Shuman Center. He stated, “We should have never closed Shuman without a plan.”

Recent Gallup Poll Shows Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• 16% of Americans have a great deal/quite a lot of confidence in newspapers

• 11% have some the degree of confidence in television news

• Democrats' confidence low but higher than Republicans', independents'

From [HERE] Americans' confidence in two facets of the news media -- newspapers and television news -- has fallen to all-time low points. Just 16% of U.S. adults now say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers and 11% in television news. Both readings are down five percentage points since last year.

Gallup has tracked Americans' confidence in newspapers since 1973 and television news since 1993 as part of its annual polling about major U.S. institutions. The latest readings are from a June 1-20 poll that saw declines in confidence ratings for 11 of the 16 institutions measured and no improvements for any.

Television news and newspapers rank nearly at the bottom of that list of institutions, with only Congress garnering less confidence from the public than TV news. While these two news institutions have never earned high confidence ratings, they have fallen in the rankings in recent years.

A majority of Americans have expressed confidence in newspapers only once -- in 1979, when 51% did. But there is a wide margin between that and the second-highest readings of 39% in 1973 and 1990. The trend average for newspapers is 30%, well above the latest reading of 16%, which is the first time the measure has fallen below 20%. The percentage of Americans who say they have "very little" or volunteer that they have no confidence is currently the highest on record, at 46%.

Confidence in television news has never been higher than its initial 46% reading in 1993 and has averaged 27%, considerably higher than the current 11%. This is the fourth consecutive year that confidence in TV news is below 20%. And for just the second time in the trend, a majority of Americans, 53%, now say they have very little or no confidence at all in TV news.[MORE]

Elite Racists at CNN Terminate Showcase Black Don Lemon because All Showcase Blacks are Disposable and Replaceable in the System of Racism White Supremacy

SOUR Don Lemon SQUEEZED OUT at CNN. Given a Bag of Nachos and Told ‘We’re Nacho Employer No Mo.’ Don Lemon is simply a showcase Black - a celebrity “auto-coon” creation of elite racists, rewarded and punished by them. They do with him whatever they want. Elite racists who run CNN fired him.

Neely Fuller correctly states that in the system of racism white supremacy Black people are subject to the direct and indirect power of elite racists in all areas of activity including Economics, Education, Entertainment, Labor, Law, Politics, religion, Sex and War.

In the area of “entertainment” the dependent media, “a segregated white-owned enterprise with billions of dollars at their disposal,” makes great use out of Showcase Blacks to control the behavior and thinking of Black and other non-white people. Said auto-coons have priceless value to racists in the system of racism white Supremacy.

Showcase Blacks are “coin-operated,” high-profile blacks that are constantly paraded before the public. They may be political dignitaries, pro athletes, entertainers, educators, business people, judges or elected officials. In general, their real purpose is to mask the REALITY of being black in America. [MORE]

Showcase Blacks are literally the creation of elite racists who launch and promote their careers on various platforms they own and control. Elite racists (liberal or republican) are the deciders, choosers and creators for the success or failure of showcase Blacks; they select and groom the potential celebrity as they see fit. Most have no independent power or ability to have the same success without the backing of elite racists. As such, said coin-operated Blacks are compromised sambos and SNiggers paid to do as their white masters direct them. Showcase Blacks are rewarded handsomely for their activities and their created personas are a career investment. But they are also disposable and easily replaceable.

Bear in mind that elite white supremacists/racists control the show. Showcase Blacks are not showcasing themselves, they are being showcased by white supremacists to promote some aspect of RSW. [MORE]

Showcase Blacks are tools for mind control and a necessary illusion of the racism/white supremacy system. Elite racists have created an army of these rolebotic, celebrity Blacks. FUNKTIONARY explains, “A role-bot merely plays the role of the mask - the personae - society issued and approved.” A main function of showcase blacks is to control the spectrum of ideas discussed by Blacks, control the parameters of dissent, parameters of political discussion and define what kinds of ideas or activities are "proper" and "reasonable" for Blacks to discuss or engage in. Through showcase blacks, elite whites present a numerous array of “black” personalities and characters in movies, tv, social media programming whom are obedient citizen-subjects to authority, pliable and in general compatible with the white supremacy dynamic and the servant role in a white over Black system. Showcase Blacks thus function as rolebots to Black viewers who mimic and integrate said characters into their own personality and falsified Afrikan consciousness. “People see, people do.” Such “black” characters generally are SNiggering, dancing, singing, begging, emotional, joking, always non-serious, thug, nigger/ho/bitch, ongoing smiling face, sambo characters and reactionary personas who would never be fit to neutralize the system of racism white supremacy or destroy the master/servant relationship.

Anon explains that ‘showcasing prominent Blacks; deceives the black collective about the realities of racism, neutralizes the legitimate claims of racism by blacks and offers a pressure relief valve for the explosive build-up of frustration and rage within the black collective. If blacks believed they had nothing to gain, the nation would be at risk from millions of blacks who had nothing to lose. In reality, the high visibility of Showcase Blacks actually confirms just the opposite. The more prominent the Showcase Blacks — who are just a tiny percentage of the black population — the worse things are getting for the black masses. In other words, the need to increase deception should serve as a warning to the black collective.’

All About Ratings or Controlling the Message? According to AdWeek Tucker Carlson Had the Highest Ratings By Far, Dominating All Cable News Shows

Ratings chart is from Adweek. His last show, which was not announced as his last show, drew 2.65 million viewers.

All About Ratings or Controlling the Message? Elites Terminate the Most Popular TV News Show. According to AdWeek Tucker Carlson Had the Highest Ratings By Far, Dominating All Cable News Shows

Disturbing Master's Peace: Tucker Carlson Had to Go After Helping Expose Pfizer's Ongoing Gain of Function Research and Undercutting the False Depiction of the Unarmed Jan 6 Honkey Kong “Insurrection”

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An actual “journalist,” racist suspect Tucker Carlson actually challenged government narratives. As a member of The Dependent Media Tucker misunderstood his role: the goal is to conceal reality not reveal it. According to FUNKTIONARY:

television – mind control—an electronic conduit telling lies to disrupt and distort your vision. 2) the warlock’s glass ball. 3) Home Propaganda Network. It is the most insidious form of mind-control that’s ever been invented. Television, as a passive addiction, cripples people’s ability for self-observation, introspection and self-remembering. It veils us from our true selves by offering an inverse projection of our hyper-active disposable culture and its anti-cathartic audio-visual anti-depressants. Television is called a medium and rightly so because it isn’t rare and it’s never well-done—and that’s the message. Technologically, television appears as the art of the surface, as opposed to the old cinema—the illusion of depth. Physiologically, the pulsing light of the television screen after dark—viewed over time—fries one’s pineal gland by eroding melatonin secretion. Even skin cells read light to your pineal gland. Wear rose-tinted glasses at night when watching T.V. to block out green light. It’s best to remove the television from your bedroom—if you can’t stomach removing it entirely from your house—and rest in total darkness. Get me off…camera. T.V.? C’mon, better watch it now! “Television is for appearing on, not looking at.” ~ Noel Coward. Be more mindful. Be more careful. (See: Mind Control, Introjection, TV, Pineal Gland, Programming, Mindfulness, Diet, Melanin, Looking, Seeing, Explosure, Illuminati, The Media, Subconscious Mind, Televisionary, Conditioning, MEDIA, Crap & Televidiot)

Creating the Virus and “the Cure:” Coin-Operated RecogNegro Executive Tells Undercover Journalist Pfizer is Making COVID “Variants” to Infect People (gain of function research) to Sell More Injections

The Media – the Spectacle-Cabal who love freedom of the press, but abhor freedom of speech. The Media is the Fourth Estate of Government (created, owned, administered and controlled by Pathocrats). It is one of the most essential arms of “government.” They couldn’t give you their Matrix Reality without it—likewise they couldn’t keep you imprisoned in it without it. The News Anchor holds down the Ship of State at the Port of Lies. How is it that shareholders of Media conglomerates also sit as anchors and bring you their master’s views as if it could ever be objective or news? “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ~ Malcolm X. (See: Television, Perception, MEDIA, Senses, CON, Normal, Pathocracy, NEWS, Corporate Media, Control, COG & Pixelated People)

Media Attacks Tucker Carlson Over Honkey Kong Jan 6th Revelations. Claim 39,000 Hours of Footage Showing Neuropeon Cops and Protesters Calmly Interacting w/Each Other Inside Capitol is Disinformation

Dependent Media – Establishment (dependent) media is both unwilling and incapable of reporting events truthfully, accurately, or without extreme bias. News coverage is just that—covering-up-(masking) and distorting the events and those wielding the power behind the events (those reported and deliberately unreported). News coverage has simply become “disinfotainment” with the sole purpose of perception and knowledge containment as well as reality concealment. You report in the interests of those who paying you to do so. (See: MEDIA, NBC & NEWS)

Promotion of the Ongoing Smiling Face Pays Off for SNigger Chahls: Elite Racists Reward CoinOperated Negro Barkley w/Prime Time Show w/Negropolitan Gayle King (Racists and NGHRS Both Love Negrosis)

THE REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS OF WHITE SUPREMACY “CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King and former National Basketball Association player Charles Barkley will host a weekly primetime show on CNN starting this fall, the network said Saturday.

The new show, “King Charles,” will start this fall and will air on Wednesdays. Ms. King, 68, is a well-known national news figure who will bring broad experience to CNN’s lineup. She will continue her responsibilities at CBS while hosting the CNN show.

Mr. Barkley is already part of the Warner Bros. Discovery WBD -1.81%decrease; red down pointing triangle family as one of the hosts of the popular “Inside the NBA” program on its TNT channel. He is outspoken on a range of issues beyond basketball.

The show is CNN Chief Executive Chris Licht’s latest experiment in primetime, as the network struggles to find a formula that can boost ratings. Last month, CNN posted its lowest ratings in at least three decades among viewers 25 to 54 years old, according to Nielsen, and its average of 535,000 primetime viewers in the first quarter as of March 24 was down 35% from a year earlier. [MORE]

A major part of white supremacy is the annihilation of Black self respect. Dr. Amos Wilson stated, "the most powerful obstacle against the liberation of Afrikan peoples from White domination and exploitation is not the ability of Whites to use superior military or police firepower or their threat to use it against Afrikan insurgency, but is their ability to engage in unrelenting psychopolitical violence against the collective Afrikan psyche." [MORE] 'Their devastatingly ingenious use of it against the minds of Afrikan peoples which represent the greatest threat to Afrikan survival.' [MORE]

FUNKTIONARY explains that social relations between Blacks and whites are mediated by false images and narratives within The Spectacle. In this constructed reality the totality of the messaging and images presented are the actual materialization of the ideology of racism white supremacy. Dr. Blynd states The Spectacle is “the mirrorization of the noumenon into the phenomenal universe without understanding or overstanding it as such an objectivization in duality.” Relentless propaganda helps to maintain the cooperative master servant relationship between Blacks and whites and has kept Black people in a "continuous state of checkmate” and a “losing streak that is centuries long.” [MORE]

The master-servant relationship must be destroyed, not updated and refined. Nevertheless, niggers [here meaning those who indulge in master-servant relations] only want master “to do the right thing” or seek better master servant relations.

Doc Blynd observes, “The thing about a nigger is that you won’t know one when you see one (unless you’ve become one or sporadically act as one), rather you will only see one when you really ignore one—that’s when a real nigger will appear (show up and show out). A nigger never really arrives anywhere—a nigger simply “comes out” (exposing himself by imposing himself on others) with unstoppable insistence and unflappable persistence when various situations precipitate its manifestation. Niggers are not born—they are made in the likeness of the prevailing confluence of psychological states and socio-economic conditions (e.g., mentacide, self-hatred, drug addiction, and double-consciousness—due exclusively, or at least primarily, to racism white supremacy), and the level (or state) of consciousness present in their upbringings and current surroundings. Have you observed in general that most niggers exhibit a need to get out, but don’t desire going anywhere in particular? Niggers amplify the intrigue tied up between man and being, having and not having, accountability and no-countability, needing and wanting, and being and doing. Not all niggers are blacks; not all blacks are niggers—the tacit commonalities are not confined to race or localities, but to complicit modalities. That’s why niggers act the same regardless of their locale or game.”

According to FUNKTIONARY

Niggeroe – one who seeks to create or profit from degrading and distorted images of all-things-Afrikan, dark, or black.

Negropolitan – a $nigger who spreads the lie that “Blacks that work against other Blacks do not exist.” 2) a Sambo who comes in a variety of colors with many flavors. 3) a very confused Black man or woman who is pink (communist or socialist) by ideology, white (by cultural conditioning or colonized mindset), and brown (skin pigmentation). (See: Rentellectual, Niggeroe, Niggermarole, Strawboss, Colonization, Racism White Supremacy, Double-Consciousness, Self-Hate, $nigger & Samboism) 

Negrosis – the psychological disease affecting and afflicting native Black Americans, Afrikans, Afrikan-Americans, Negroes and all other people of Afrikan genetic heritage characterized by double-consciousness resulting from the falsification of Afrikan consciousness, history and applied spiritual sciences. (See: Double-Consciousness & Asili)

sniggering – the modus vivendi of opportunist (sell-out) compromises. 2) the actions of SNiggers. (See: Coin-Operated)

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