Facial Recognition Technology Cannot Tell Black People Apart (and maybe that's the point) and Police Use It Disproportionately to Arrest Black People, according to a Georgia State University Study

From [HERE] Imagine being handcuffed in front of your neighbors and family for stealing watches. After spending hours behind bars, you learn that the facial recognition software state police used on footage from the store identified you as the thief. But you didn’t steal anything; the software pointed cops to the wrong guy.     

Unfortunately this is not a hypothetical. This happened three years ago to Robert Williams, a Black father in suburban Detroit. Sadly Williams’ story is not a one-off. In a recent case of mistaken identity, facial recognition technology led to the wrongful arrest of a Black Georgian for purse thefts in Louisiana.

Our research supports fears that facial recognition technology (FRT) can worsen racial inequities in policing. We found that law enforcement agencies that use automated facial recognition disproportionately arrest Black people. We believe this results from factors that include the lack of Black faces in the algorithms’ training data sets, a belief that these programs are infallible and a tendency of officers’ own biases to magnify these issues.

While no amount of improvement will eliminate the possibility of racial profiling, we understand the value of automating the time-consuming, manual face-matching process. We also recognize the technology’s potential to improve public safety. However, considering the potential harms of this technology, enforceable safeguards are needed to prevent unconstitutional overreaches.

FRT is an artificial intelligence–powered technology that tries to confirm the identity of a person from an image. The algorithms used by law enforcement are typically developed by companies like Amazon, Clearview AI and Microsoft, which build their systems for different environments. Despite massive improvements in deep-learning techniques, federal testing shows that most facial recognition algorithms perform poorly at identifying people besides white men.

VIDEO IS FROM THE ACLU WHICH IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH Georgia State University Research Study

Civil rights advocates warn that the technology struggles to distinguish darker faces, which will likely lead to more racial profiling and more false arrests. Further, inaccurate identification increases the likelihood of missed arrests.

Still some government leaders, including New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, tout this technology's ability to help solve crimes. Amid the growing staffing shortages facing police nationwide, some champion FRT as a much-needed police coverage amplifier that helps agencies do more with fewer officers. Such sentiments likely explain why more than one quarter of local and state police forces and almost half of federal law enforcement agencies regularly access facial recognition systems, despite their faults.

This widespread adoption poses a grave threat to our constitutional right against unlawful searches and seizures. [MORE]

Parroting Fresno Police the White Media says ‘Roberto Corchado Had a Lengthy Criminal History’ to Justify Why White Cops Shot Him 5X in the Back and Head while His Hands were Held High - Suit Filed

From [HERE] Fresno civil rights attorney Kevin Little has filed a federal lawsuit alleging Fresno police acted illegally when offices shot and killed 29-year-old Roberto Corchado on March 4.

Little is suing the City of Fresno, Police Chief Paco Balderrama and two officers involved in the shooting, Luke Tran and Bryce Hammond, the attorney said Tuesday.

City spokesperson Sontaya Rose said Tuesday that officials cannot comment on pending litigation.

In a 32-page wrongful death lawsuit filed Friday, Little accuses the police of shooting at Corchado, a man with a lengthy criminal history, while he had his hands up and his back to the officers.

“This was clearly an unjustified shooting,” Little said during a press conference at his downtown Fresno law office.

Fatal shooting by Fresno police

Police said on the day of the shooting they were attempting to stop Corchado, who had an outstanding bench warrant for failing to appear in court and for evading police.

As Corchado was heading west on Herndon Avenue near Ingram Avenue, one of the officers used a maneuver with his vehicle to disable Corchado’s 2009 Chevrolet Malibu.

The Malibu came to rest on the center median and what happened next is in dispute. Police said Corchado fired a gun at officers, striking one officer in this bullet-proof vest. Also struck multiple times was one of the police cars.

Police also reported finding freshly spent casings inside the car and finding two firearms in or near the car.

According to the lawsuit, Corchado got out of the car with his hands raised high when Hammond ordered him to get on the ground.

Hammond is alleged to have fired five rounds into Corchado’s back and head. A photo contained in the lawsuit shows the wounds to Corchado’s body.

Lawyer says shooting ‘illegal’

Little has criticized the police “narrative” that Corchado was a dangerous man and their use of what he called a “heavily edited and curated” video showing the shooting.

He looked at a video of the same event taken by a citizen and synchronized it with the police video. The video taken by the citizen shows Corchado with his back to officers when the shooting starts. The police video does not, Little said.

“That makes it clearly an illegal shooting,” he said.

Little said Corchado did not represent an immediate threat to officers or anyone else with his back turned and his hands up.

Little is seeking financial damages to be determined at trial.

“I want to leave it in the hands of regular people, the jury, not police officers to determine if this shooting was justified,” Little said.

The Power to Initiate Violence is Evil: Benicia Cops Allow Police Dog to Tear Open White Man’s Neck and Throat Even though He Surrendered and Was Surrounded by Cops. Suit Filed, No Cops Charged/Fired

From [HERE] A white man who was attacked and mauled by a Benicia police dog that escaped from the back seat of an officer’s patrol car in 2021 has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that Benicia officers violated his constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure and used excessive force in detaining him.

The man, 36-year-old Gary Gregory, was not charged with any crime following his detention by the officers, but the dog severed his jugular vein, which required life-saving surgery, and left deep flesh wounds on his arm and shoulder, according to the lawsuit filed last week. The Vallejo Sun released body camera video of the dog attack obtained through a public records request last year.

Prior to the attack on May 17, 2021, Gregory had been walking in the East N Street Trailer Park. According to the lawsuit, Gregory lived there with his girlfriend, but they were going through a difficult break-up. He was subject to a restraining order but wasn’t violating it as his girlfriend had previously left the park.

Police had arrived at 6:28 p.m. and asked Gregory to leave. He was collecting his belongings, and the officers left without incident. But they returned less than 30 minutes later, after multiple people called and reported hearing gunshots. Police later determined there had been no gunfire.

When the officers arrived, they immediately found Gregory near the park entrance, drew their guns on him, and ordered him to raise his hands. One of the officers who arrived was Officer Christopher Francis, who left open his driver’s side door and a hatch that separated the front seat from the back, where he kept his police dog Apollo.

All use of force offensively is immoral and evil. 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. Contrary to legal truths, the government’s implied power (authority) to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on citizens is immoral and evil. 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 the lawsuit, the officers yelled “multiple and confusing mixed instructions to [Gregory], and to each other.” They pinned him to the ground on his stomach. Gregory complied with the officers’ commands but heard the dog barking and expressed that he was afraid of it.

While Gregory was detained on his stomach, Apollo — an 85-pound Malinois — ran through the open partition in Francis’ car, out the front door, and latched onto Gregory’s neck. Francis yelled at the dog to let go, but the dog would not obey his commands. The dog bit Gregory for about 25 seconds before Francis could  physically pull the dog off him.

“The forced ‘release’ was not a mere opening of the dog’s jaw,” the lawsuit states. “It was a complete tearing open of [Gregory’s] neck and throat with a gruesome and audible rip as the dog was wrenched away by Officer Francis.”

Blood poured from Gregory’s neck. The officers searched and handcuffed Gregory and secured the dog before providing medical attention.

The city hired Chaplin and Hill Investigative Services — a firm owned and operated by former law enforcement officers — to conduct an investigation. It concluded that Benicia police should change its policies regarding dogs to “protect the public from unintentional contact with the canine.”

It also found that Francis had violated department policy because he “neglected his duty to protect the public,” which “amounts to unsatisfactory work performance.” However, the department did not discipline Francis for the incident.

In fact, in interviews with investigators, Francis said that he had no concern about the dog’s behavior.

“As a handler, I consider this a street fight. He did what he's been trained to do,” Francis said. “I know he's going to do his job if he ever needs to.”

A Dying Latino Man Begged for Help but was Denied Medical Care by Inhumane Authorities in El Paso County Lail, lawsuit filed on behalf of Cristo Canett alleges

From [HERE] A 48-year-old man died in the El Paso County jail after the facility’s medical staff ignored his deteriorating health and obvious extreme pain for hours, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the man’s sister Monday.

Cristo Canett, 48, died in the jail on April 26, 2022, after he suffered a perforated duodenal ulcer — an ulcer that created a hole in the lining of his small intestine, according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Such ulcers allow intestinal fluids to leak into a person’s abdominal cavity, which can cause infection, sepsis and death, the complaint states.

It’s a treatable condition, but jail medical staff refused to give Canett any help beyond mild painkillers even as he moaned in pain, could not walk and complained about nausea and abdominal pain for hours, the complaint alleges. The lawsuit names as defendants the jail’s medical provider, Wellpath, as well as El Paso County Sheriff Joseph Roybal, the El Paso County Board of Commissioners and several individual medical providers.

Canett was the 14th person to die in the jail since Wellpath, a controversial private company, took over inmates’ medical care in 2020, according to the lawsuit, which alleges the deaths show a pattern of negligence and malpractice by Wellpath.

“Mr. Canett’s deterioration and death was utterly predictable given (Wellpaths’) decisions to ignore Mr. Canett’s obvious symptoms of a life-threatening medical condition, their refusal to take a full medical history or timely gather his hospital records, their refusal to seek higher-level evaluation and treatment, and their refusal to send Mr. Canett to the hospital,” the complaint read.

Canett was arrested on April 24, 2022, at the emergency room at Centura-St. Francis Hospital in Colorado Springs. He’d gone to the emergency room to seek medical attention for rapidly worsening pain in his stomach and back, according to the lawsuit. While there, he got into a dispute with his sister about the use of a shared car, according to the complaint. The sister’s husband called Colorado Springs police.

The officers arrested Canett, telling him there was a warrant out for his arrest because he had failed to return to the halfway house where he lived. But Canett told the officers he had permission not to return on time to the halfway house because he was seeking medical care. The officers then spoke with the halfway house employees, who said they “did not mean to submit an ‘escape’ warrant” because they knew Canett was at the hospital, according to the lawsuit.

A police sergeant nevertheless arrested Canett. She removed him from the emergency room before he saw a doctor.

The sergeant, “a medically untrained layperson, decided to refuse Mr. Canett medical care on the basis of nothing more than her own ill-informed personal opinion that Mr. Canett was seeking drugs,” the lawsuit reads.

Canett was then jailed, where his condition worsened over the next 24 hours. Although he repeatedly sought medical help, Wellpath’s staff did not help him, thoroughly evaluate him, send him for more intensive care or call for an ambulance, according to the lawsuit.

Instead, when Canett stripped naked and moaned on the floor of his cell, struggling to breathe and crying out in pain, Wellpath employees gave the man Tylenol and Ibuprofen, the lawsuit alleges.

Around 1 a.m. on April 26, 2022, a deputy in the jail realized he could no longer hear Canett’s loud moaning and went to check on the man. He found Canett unresponsive on the floor of his cell; staff started CPR but could not revive the man. He was declared dead at 1:41 a.m.

In More than 290 Cases NY State Guards Brutally Beat Prisoners and Lied about It but None Were Fired

From [HERE] Shattered teeth. Punctured lungs. Broken bones. Over a dozen years, New York State officials have documented the results of attacks by hundreds of prison guards on the people in their custody.

But when the state corrections department has tried to use this evidence to fire guards, it has failed 90 percent of the time, an investigation by The Marshall Project has found.

The review of prison disciplinary records dating to 2010 found more than 290 cases in which the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision tried to fire officers or supervisors it said physically abused prisoners or covered up mistreatment that ranged from group beatings to withholding food. The agency considered these employees a threat to the safety and security of prisons.

Yet officers were ousted in just 28 cases. The state tried to fire one guard for using excessive force in three separate incidents within three years — and failed each time. He remains on the state prisons payroll.

An officer who broke his baton hitting a prisoner 35 times, even after the man was handcuffed, was not fired. Neither were the guards who beat a prisoner at Attica Correctional Facility so badly that he needed 13 staples to close gashes in his scalp. Nor were the officers who battered a mentally ill man, injuring him from face to groin. The man hanged himself the next day.

In dozens of documented cases involving severe injuries of prisoners, including three deaths, the agency did not even try to discipline officers, state records show.

For decades, the workings of the prison discipline system had been hidden from public view under a secrecy law adopted at the urging of the state’s powerful law enforcement unions. But after the Legislature repealed that law in 2020, The Marshall Project obtained more than 5,600 records of disciplinary cases against prison employees, for issues ranging from physical abuse of prisoners to sleeping on the job.

The records probably reflect only a fraction of the violence guards have inflicted in New York’s corrections system, experts said. Many prisoners do not file complaints because they fear retaliation or not being believed. And in most of the state’s 44 prisons, officers do not wear body cameras, which sometimes help prove abuse. These records do not detail prisoner attacks on officers, which the department and the guards’ union said have increased in recent years.

A key reason the prison system finds it so hard to get rid of guards is the contract the state signed in 1972 with the union. The agreement requires any effort to fire an officer to go through binding arbitration, using an outside arbitrator hired by the union and the state — a system the union has successfully kept in subsequent contracts. Only a court can overturn arbitration decisions. [MORE]

98.1% of Killings by Police from 2013-2022 Did Not Result in Officers Being Charged with a Crime, according to Mapping Violence

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A Real Mass Shooting: A State by State Analysis Reveals Black People are Killed by Police at Higher Rates than Any Other Group in 45 States. In What States Are You Most Likely to be Killed by Cops?

From [HERE] On average more than 1,000 people are fatally shot by police each year, according to data collected by the Washington Post.

In 2022, the number of people shot and killed by police—1,096—reached a record high, as confidence in police reached a 30-year low. Fewer than half of all Americans reported having confidence in the police, according to a Gallup poll, the lowest level since 2020 in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Put another way, the majority of Americans have little or no confidence in law enforcement.

Stacker cited data from the Washington Post’s fatal police shootings database to look at the rate of fatal police shootings across every state and Washington D.C. in the U.S. since 2015. Rates are calculated using 2020 Census population data. If no demographic has at least five incidents, rates by demographic are not included.

The data presents troubling trends indicative of systemic issues throughout the institution of law enforcement nationwide. Despite representing just 12% of the U.S. population, Black people are killed by police at higher rates than any other racial group in 45 states. In four out of the remaining five states, police shot and killed Native Americans at the highest rate. Only in New Hampshire did white people represent the largest share of people killed by police.

One out of every five victims identified by the Washington Post had a history of mental illness or was experiencing mental distress when they were shot. 

One of the most troubling trends is a lack of institutional accountability. As fatal police shootings have increased, fewer of these incidents are reported to the federal government. The Washington Post found that only one-third of the fatal police shootings included in its database were also present among FBI data.

While all agencies are asked to report these incidents, compliance to report homicides through the Uniform Crime Reporting System—including officer-involved shootings—is mandatory only for federal law enforcement. Negligence, clerical errors, miscommunication, and willful noncompliance are just some of the reasons for discrepancies.

Each state is ranked [here]

Video Shows Sacramento Cops Fail to Protect a Black Business from Ongoing Burglary- Too Busy Surveilling Law Abiding Blacks [cops have no legal duty to provide public service to any particular person]

From [HERE] In a glaring example of the woeful incompetence of the government’s monopoly on violence, a Black family-owned clothing boutique in North Sacramento was left to the mercy of brazen thieves last Wednesday. The damning evidence of the police department's failure was all captured in detail on the store's multiple surveillance cameras, showcasing the grim reality of a society in which those entrusted to protect are instead conspicuous by their absence.

Universal Clothing Boutique, the life's work of Contreina and Frederick Adams, found itself the target of two audacious thieves. The culprits nonchalantly shattered the front window with a cart before embarking on a casual spree of theft, making off with an estimated $30,000 worth of merchandise. The couple is now reeling from the sheer audacity of the act and is in shock over the extent of the damage as well as the failure of the security force they are compelled by law to fund.

Seemingly predicting the lack of police response, the suspects returned to the scene just two hours later, this time brandishing a gun and threatening Contreina. The crime took on a painfully personal dimension for the couple, according to KCRA, who have been pillars of their community, often offering free meals and clothing to local families in need.

"It's just unfair," Frederick said, his words echoing the frustration of countless others who have found themselves let down by a system that seems incapable of providing protection when it matters most.

Their surveillance footage, intended as a security measure, instead served as a testament to the disheartening indifference of the Sacramento Police Department. It clearly showed two separate police vehicles driving past the ongoing burglary, oblivious or uncaring to the criminal activity unfolding in front of them.

"I kind of felt defenseless," Contreina admitted. "You're hoping you can jump through the camera or alert them."

The couple's faith in the police department is understandably shaken. Police did eventually arrive at the store, but only a full ten minutes after the burglary. This incident is yet another glaring example of the systemic inadequacies of law enforcement, highlighting the disturbing reality: when seconds matter, police are just minutes away.

YES. PRIVATE ARMED SECURITY, HIRED, FIRED AND CONTROLLED BY THE COMMUNITY WOULD BE FAR SUPERIOR TO PUBLIC MASTERS WHO SOMEHOW OBTAINED IRRESPONSIBLE, UNCONTROLLABLE POWER OVER US IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES THAT CANNOT BE DECLINED.

IF THERE IS NO LEGAL DUTY TO PROTECT US, WHY SHOULD WE BE OBLIGATED TO OBEY POLICE??

On a daily basis (through various forms of indoctrination in The Spectacle) we are made to believe that police are primarily engaged in actual police work and are aggressive crime fighters sacrificing themselves to act on behalf of people. Such conduct is perceived as the fulfillment of the government’s legal obligation to all citizens pursuant to the social contract, a hypothesized agreement whereby citizens voluntarily agree to obey government authority in exchange for police protection and other services from the government.

Yet, in reality, crime data demonstrates that police don’t protect Black and Latino people and are not really involved in ‘police work’ in our communities. Rather, authorities use the perception and reality of crime to stalk, surveil, manage, control and kill Black and Latino people. Any beneficial “public service” provided by cops is random, incidental or done only under the most egregious or convenient circumstances and even then, it is done primarily to maintain manufactured public relations and provided on a compulsory, involuntary basis. Professor Alex Vitale states, “It is largely a liberal fantasy that the police exist to protect us from the bad guys. He further states, ‘the police have never really been about public safety or crime control.’ As the veteran police scholar David Bayley argues,

“The police do not prevent crime. This is one of the best kept secrets of modern life. Experts know it, the police know it, but the public does not know it. Yet the police pretend that they are society’s best defense against crime and continually argue that if they are given more resources, especially personnel, they will be able to protect communities against crime. This is a myth.”

Police in Sacramento and elsewhere don’t primarily protect or serve Black or Latino people. In reality, police exist primarily to manage the behavior of Blacks & Latinos within a free-range prison controlled by the belief in Government authority. Their goal is to place Blacks and Latinos in greater confinement.  Any protection or help from police to Blacks or Latinos is random or incidental. As FUNKTIONARY states, "people who are awake see cops as mercenary guards that remind us daily through acts of force, that we are simultaneously both enemies and slaves of the Corporate State - colonized, surveilled and patrolled by the desensitized and lobotomized drones of the colonizers."

Despite said practical reality it is an undisputed legal truth that police have no legal duty to protect any victim from violence from other private parties, unless the victim was in governmental custody. [MORE] and [MORE]. The Supreme Court has explained that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen. Among other things, this means for instance that police departments and their officers have no legal duty to protect any particular person and police cannot be sued for any failure to protect citizens under the Constitution or any federal statute. Unless a state negligence law exists allowing such a lawsuit, victims cannot hold police liable for a failure to protect them from harm from crimes. Courts throughout the nation have upheld and expanded on what is known as the “public duty doctrine.” Said “well established” rule from the Supreme Court that has been expanded upon by courts nationwide is known as the “public duty doctrine.” The DC Court of Appeals explained,

“the District of Columbia appears to follow the well established rule that official police personnel and the government employing them are not generally liable to victims of criminal acts for failure to provide adequate police protection.

This uniformly accepted rule rests upon the fundamental principle that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen.

A publicly maintained police force constitutes a basic governmental service provided to benefit the community at large by promoting public peace, safety and good order. The extent and quality of police protection afforded to the community necessarily depends upon the availability of public resources and upon legislative or administrative determinations concerning allocation of those resources. Riss v. City of New York, supra. The public, through its representative officials, recruits, trains, maintains and disciplines its police force and determines the manner in which personnel are deployed. At any given time, publicly furnished police protection may accrue to the personal benefit of individual citizens, but at all times the needs and interests of the community at large predominate. Private resources and needs have little direct effect upon the nature of police services provided to the public. Accordingly, courts have without exception concluded that when a municipality or other governmental entity undertakes to furnish police services, it assumes a duty only to the public at large and not to individual members of the community.”

Most recently in the so-called Parkland “mass shooting” a lawsuit alleging a failure to protect children was dismissed without controversy. A federal court ruled that students were not in “custody” and dismissed all claims concerning a failure to protect by police while children were allegedly killed and injured.

Both the failure of police to provide protection services to Blacks and Latinos and the public duty doctrine are simply more proof the social contract between government and citizens is bullshit. Specifically, the theory is that there is a “social contract” between people and the government in which the government protects the people and enforces the laws, in exchange for citizens’ obedience and taxes. That is, people have agreed to obey the government and do so voluntarily in exchange for government services. Mutual obligations, a promise for a promise, are a necessary element of all contracts. Where persons mistakenly believe they have a contract and one party fails to fulfill an obligation, the other is necessarily excused from performing her obligation. A contract places both parties under an obligation to each other, and one party’s rejection of his contractual obligation releases the other party from her obligation.

With regard to the social contract undeceiver Michael Huemer states,

‘individuals are supposed to be obligated to obey the laws promulgated by the state. Sometimes citizens violate those laws, in which case the state’s agents will punish the citizen, usually with fines or imprisonment. Given the wide and indefinite range of laws that might be created by the state and the range of punishments to which one might be subjected for violating them, an individual’s concessions to the state under the social contract are quite large. The state, in turn, is supposed to assume an obligation to the citizen, to enforce the citizen’s rights, including protecting the citizen from criminals and hostile foreign governments.’

Citizens are contractually obliged to obey all laws and commands and when they fail to do so the government punishes the citizen, usually with fines or imprisonment. However, pursuant to the public duty doctrine, authorities are bound to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it and to whom they choose, but no one in particular. Dr. Blynd asks “Makes you feel like a fool, doesn’t it?”

Why does any of this matter? [MORE]

Analysis of the Jan 6 Honkey Kong Insurrection Demonstrates It was a Simulated Riot w/Paid Crisis Actors Wearing Earpieces, Fake Tear Gas, Blood, Glass, Professional photographers and Stage Managers

Former IRS Agent Sherry Jackson Asks; ‘Can Anyone Identify the Section of the Internal Revenue Code that Makes the Average Worker Liable for Income Tax?’

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The Supreme Court Rules IRS agents Have Nearly Unbounded Power to Secretly Obtain People's Bank Records If They Owe Taxes

From [HERE] and [HERE] Republicans have made political hay out of President Biden’s plan to supersize the IRS, and here’s another bumper crop: The Supreme Court held this week that revenue agents who are chasing a debt have almost unbounded power to secretly obtain bank records on people in a delinquent taxpayer’s orbit, even his lawyers. Reversing this is up to Congress.

The feds say Remo Polselli owes $2 million. In searching for his assets, the IRS demanded that Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America turn over records on his wife and a law firm where he was a longtime client. The agency notified neither Mrs. Polselli nor the law firm, which means they legally had no right to object. The law says no notice is required for IRS summonses “in aid of the collection” of an assessment “against the person with respect to whose liability the summons is issued.”

A conservative appellate judge argued in a dissent that what the law really means in context is that the IRS can secretly get records for accounts in which the delinquent taxpayer has a “legal interest.” Under this reading, Mr. Polselli would get no notice or opportunity to quash a summons on his bank, but the law firm certainly would. Alas, that approach convinced none of the Justices.

“This argument does not give a fair reading to the phrase ‘in aid of the collection,’” Chief Justice John Roberts writes for a unanimous court in Polselli v. IRS. Even if the summonses “did not reveal bank accounts in which Mr. Polselli has a legal interest, they could lead to assets parked elsewhere.” Yet the Justices acknowledge the privacy concerns.

“We do not dismiss any apprehension about the scope of the IRS’s authority to issue summonses,” the Chief writes. “Tax investigations often involve the pursuit of sensitive records. In this case, for instance, the IRS sought information from law firms concerning client accounts.” Then what is the limiting principle? “The Government proposes a test turning on reasonableness,” he writes. But the Court leaves that question for another day.

How exactly are innocent citizens supposed to challenge the “reasonableness” of a summons they don’t know exists? Mrs. Polselli and the law firm found out that the IRS was seeking their information only because the banks told them. This puts businesses in the position of having to choose whether to squeal and anger the IRS or keep quiet and alienate clients.

The Supreme Court has said what the bad law is, and Congress should add this to its agenda on the IRS. Mr. Polselli ought to pay his taxes. Still, agents shouldn’t get to Hoover up blameless people’s bank records with no real judicial review, on the mere suspicion that Mr. Polselli wrote a check to somebody in his Rolodex. [MORE]

Elite GOP Racists Reward SNigger Daniel Cameron for Failing to Charge Any Cops who Murdered Breonna Taylor and for Treating Black Lives and Issues Frivolously. Will Face Racist Suspect in KY Gov Race

Electoral politics has been a complete failure for Blacks. Electing ROLEBOTIC Black PROXYMORONS AND GRIMACING RACIST SUSPECTS for decades at all levels of government has had zero effect on Black people’s powerless status. FUNKTIONARY explains,  

Electoral politics - a polylogue of agreed-upon illusions and false (deflectionary) issues. (See: Politicking & Pathocracy)

A “BONE-US” FOR BLACKS OR SNIGGER DANIEL? With Attorney General Daniel Cameron becoming the first African American nominee for governor by a major political party in the Commonwealth, how will it affect the black electorant come November?

Will he bring more sleeping toms to the Republican side, or will there be a divide in Kentucky’s African American votary? [MORE] Or will Deez Nutz run again and pull an upset?? Big questions to answer on the plantation but no one ever asks, why have any master?

Daniel Cameron is the first Republican elected to the office since 1944 and is the first African-American Attorney General of Kentucky. He is a so-called Black conservative who was endorsed and heavily promoted by racists Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell. In fact, Mitch McConnell “hand-picked” his former staffer Cameron to run for Attorney General to strengthen his own political empire before his own re-election in 2020.

Prior to Cameron’s election as AG in 2019 he had never tried a case of any kind, never represented an actual client in a court case and had no courtroom experience. He also never argued a legal brief before either the appellate court or the Supreme Court — at the state level or federal level. Cameron’s only experience was working as general counsel for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for 2 years, working as a law clerk and working for a law firm that focused on lobbying - positions that have no meaningful relevance to prosecutorial trial and appellate work. [MORE] and [MORE].

After being sworn in on December 17, 2019, one of the first major things the newly elected AG did was call for halting abortions in Kentucky during the coronavirus pandemic, arguing it was an elective medical procedure that should fall under the statewide ban for the duration of the pandemic. [MORE] Cameron said he has not personally experienced the kind of racism the demonstrators are marching against. [MORE]

On May 13th Attorney General Daniel Cameron was named as a Special Prosecutor in the investigation into the death of Louisville EMT Breonna Taylor. The Republican was appointed by Gov. Andy Beshear, a white democrat, after calls for investigations grew in Kentucky and nationwide. \

Cameron failed to bring charges against officers who killed Taylor while she slept in her Louisville apartment – where they fired 32 shots -- on March 13, 2020. Her death sparked national outrage and protests.

It should go without saying but this coin-operated BOHICAN is also not qualified to be governor. Although he couldn’t run a toll both, he can and will do whatever elite racists tell him to do.

As explained by Martin Luther King Jr., ‘elite racists often appoint unqualified negros into positions of authority so that matters of great importance to Blacks will be handled frivolously.’

In consideration of all the above the operative question here is; for what reason did governor Beshear, a racist suspect democrat, appoint this opporTomist to prosecute the Breonna Taylor case?

US Attorney Rachael Rollins to Resign in Wake of Damning Ethics Reports. Black Rolebot Didn’t Do Much for Blacks but Went All Out for White Liberals, maintaining her Token Power/Status by Serving Them

The top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts is set to resign after watchdog reports released on Wednesday found she violated longstanding Justice Department rules and possibly the law by trying to sway a local election, attending a Democratic fundraiser featuring first lady Jill Biden, and taking other politically motivated actions.

The ethical imbroglio surrounding Rachael Rollins, the U.S. attorney in Boston, is a blow to the White House, which fought to secure her confirmation over concerns from Republicans about what they described as Rollins’s lenient, soft-on-crime policies as a local district attorney. 

In a pair of searing reports, the Justice Department’s inspector general and another federal watchdog, the Office of Special Counsel, characterized Rollins’s 16-month tenure as a top federal prosecutor as roiled by unprofessionalism and misconduct. 

Rollins’s conduct “fell far short of the standards of professionalism and judgment that the Department should expect of any employee, much less a U.S. Attorney,” wrote Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s office, in a 161-page report.

Investigators said Rollins leaked nonpublic information to Boston newspapers to damage a candidate for the Suffolk County district attorney election, her former post, and buoy her preferred successor. Rollins then lied about that activity when questioned by investigators, the inspector general said. The office referred the false-statement allegations to the Justice Department in December, but prosecutors declined to pursue charges. Suffolk County’s territory includes Boston.

The watchdogs also said Rollins continued to accept contributions into the account she used to campaign for Suffolk County district attorney well after she was sworn in as Boston’s top federal prosecutor in January 2022, possibly violating the Hatch Act, which puts restraints on political activity by federal officials.

The inspector general referred its findings to the Office of Special Counsel, which has exclusive jurisdiction to investigate suspected Hatch Act violations. In a blistering report, that office said Rollins’s conduct amounted to an “extraordinary abuse of her power” and described her violations as “among the most egregious transgressions” of the Hatch Act that it had ever investigated.

Rollins, the first Black woman to serve as Boston’s U.S. attorney, will submit her resignation letter to President Biden by close of business on Friday, her attorney Michael R. Bromwich said, adding that she was proud of her office’s work on gun violence and civil rights during her 16 months of leadership. [MORE]

95% of All Prosecutors are White and Only 5% of All Attorneys are Black in Lilly-White Legal Profession. Yet in The Spectacle Black DA's are Ever present to Create the Appearance of inclusion/fairness

According to a recent study only 1% of all elected prosecutors are Black women. According to the same study only 2% of all elected prosecutors are Black men while 95% of all prosecutors are white.

Most people have little understanding of the awesome power of prosecutors (aka district attorneys or attorney generals) or the term "prosecutorial discretion." Media misinformation and lack of information about prosecutors and what they are up to is an intentional part of our conditioning or mind shampoo process. Prosecutors have the power to decide; whether to charge a person with a crime (police make arrests and refer matters to prosecutors who determine whether to prosecute), what charges to paper (charge) and present to the court, whether to seek pre-trial confinement or release and what, if any, release conditions to seek, what kind of plea offer to make, what level of resources to expend to prosecute, what information to disclose to the defense, what kind of sentence to seek & recommend to the court (such as confinement, probation or to defer the imposition of a sentence), whether the death penalty will be sought and whether probation should be revoked or extended. They also have a say in whether to seal arrest records or expunge criminal convictions. Further, prosecutors set broad policies, deciding the aggressiveness with which different laws will be enforced, and other law enforcement officials often follow their lead. Additionally, the power of the prosecutor (or the executive) even in the face of egregious misconduct is basically unchecked by judges or state bar organizations, whom are also overwhelmingly white. [MORE]

Said decisions made by prosecutors are overwhelmingly made by white people about non-white people because the vast majority of prosecutors are white and criminal defendants are disproportionately non-white.  Specifically, 95% of the 2,437 elected state and local prosecutors across the country are white, and 79 percent are white men (by comparison, white men make up 31 percent of the population of the United States). Also, most States have no Black prosecutors. [MORE]. On the federal level 87% of all US Attorneys are white - as 8% of assistant U.S. Attorneys are African American and 5% are Latino. [MORE] and [MORE].

In the context of all attorneys, according to the ABA only 5% of all attorneys are Black. Said number has remained steady since 2009. The legal profession is overwhelmingly white: specifically, it is 85% white, 5% Black, 5% Latino, 2% Asian American and 1% Native American. [MORE] and [MORE]

The low numbers of Black attorneys may sound surprising because elite racists in The Spectacle go through so much effort to give us the misleading impression that Black prosecutors and lawyers are plentiful. Neely Fuller explained that the operating system of white supremacy is carried out through deception and/or indirect or direct violence. [MORE] On a regular basis television, movies, news shows and other media programming Black attorneys, particularly black female attorneys are paraded before our eyes. As stated, the legal profession is lily white. In fact only 1% of all prosecutors are Black women. This illusion is necessary to maintain the belief of progress, inclusion and the appearance of justice in a participatory legal system based on consent.

Alternatively, as with other things in the system of racism white supremacy, where elite racists cannot conceal reality then they make the subordinate position of Blacks appear to be natural, inevitable (systematically occurring by unidentified persons) or merely coincidental and never the result of intentional purposeful activity by elite whites.

The role of Black prosecutors is simply to help make the prosecution of Black defendants appear fair to Black people and also to do anything else their white liberal bosses tell them to do. Racism is the dominant feature of the criminal justice in the United States and a major goal of the white supremacy system is the greater confinement of substantial numbers of non-white people, particularly Blacks. Not dissimilar to professional Blacks in other areas of people activity, the Black attorney primarily functions to help solve elite white people’s problems in some legal capacity - not solve his own peoples problems, as he has not been trained or been given the means to change his subordinate social situation or acquire power to do so - the black prosecutor is in the courtroom to play a complementary role in the system of racism white supremacy. As explained by Kenneth Montgomery, a former Black prosecutor for the Brooklyn, New York district attorney’s office, “prosecution is about locking black people up.” “I thought that because of who I was, because of the street and academic smarts I had, I was able to do some things that were more in line with justice. But, it was like putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound. In the long run, I didn’t think it was worth it, so that’s why I left.” [MORE].

As such, black attorneys function as court room props to create the appearance of justice in the criminal justice system. A system that is rigged and about as real as the plastic emblems above the judge. Like a lego-land courtroom set everything is accounted for to create the product of the appearance of justice; this includes Black defense attorneys, Black prosecutors, probation officers and black courtroom staff -all these folks are essential, without them it wouldn't look right. Such deception is necessary in order to maintain Black people’s belief in the system of democracy and in its concepts of “fairness,” “equality” and “justice.” Our belief in it, is its only real power. Without such belief the system would collapse - that is, the system of RWS, which concerns a “power group dynamic” or a consensual master/servant relationship between whites and Blacks would cease to be cooperative. Said white over Black relationship is predicated upon false consciousness programming from birth, relentless propaganda and many, many lies consumed by gullible Black sheeple.

UNDERSTANDING HER SERVANT ROLE IN CORRUPT SYSTEM [ALL GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT]. IN 2017, WHITE ORLANDO COPS PULLED STATE ATTORNEY ARAMIS AYALA OVER B/C SHE WAS BLACK

FUNKTIONARY explains:

The Spectacle - a constructed reality; the concrete inversion of life; via the autonomous movement of the apparently non-living. 2) the mirrorization of the noumenon into the phenomenal universe without understanding or overstanding it as such an objectivization in duality. The Spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relation among people mediated by images. The Spectacle is a theoretical construct—a tool for explaining many things about society; how people live vicariously through the dominant images of production, consumption and power relations. It is the thoughtfofms in which people create, contemplate and consume mediated by images of what-life-is, so that they will forget how to live radically for themselves. It is the totality of images and illusions that alienate people from living, its the primary production of modern societies. It is ideology materialized. It is the social relations that are mediated by the mass media; it is what makes people apathetic and reduces them to inactivity. It is what prevents people from realizing what their collective problems are and dissolving them. It is what perpetually absorbs people into activities that prolong their misery. [MORE]

“injustice” - the by-product of authority and its enforcement through legal fictions: the Corporate Police State and their tribunals. 2) forced obligations. injustice is the systematic means by which the greedy keep in check the needy. Injustice pervades; justice is incidental, accidental and random. “The paradox of injustice emerging out of justice has only occurred because the different standards of what is just have both been called justice.” JD Unwin. (See Holodeck Court, Greed, Control, Vices, Involuntary Servitude, Positive Law, Volunteered Slavery, War on Drugs, Master’s Rent, Lawful , Legal & Judicial Victimization).

According to the National Association of Realtors Only 3% of US Homebuyers are Black. Less than 10% of Black Renters Can Afford to Buy the Typical Home in White Over Black System of Vast Unequal Power

Across the U.S., the share of first-time homebuyers dropped to a record low, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), making up 26% of all buyers in 2022, down from 34% last year.

But it’s even harder for Black homebuyers. In 2022, the typical first-time buyer getting keys to a starter home was 36 years old, an all-time high, and white (88%). About 16% of U.S. adults identify as non-Hispanic Black or African American, but just 3% of buyers are Black — down from 6%. And while the U.S. homeownership rate increased to roughly 66% in 2021, the rate among Black Americans lags significantly (44%), only increasing 0.4% in the last 10 years, NAR reported in another study. That’s nearly 29 percentage points less than white Americans (72.7%), representing the largest Black-white homeownership rate gap in a decade. Less than 10% of Black renters can afford to buy the typical home. [MORE]

2nd and 4th Amendment Rights Exist in Books But Not in Reality for Blacks: Video Shows a Baltimore Cop Unlawfully Stop a Teen, Chase Him for an Unknown Crime and then Shoot Him in the Back 4X

ABOVE IS THE MOMENT BALTIMORE POLICE OFFICER SHOT TEEN IN THE BACK 4X - HE WAS RUNNING AS FAST AS HE COULD AND POSED NO THREAT TO POLICE

From [HERE] and [HERE] Baltimore police released edited body camera footage on Tuesday showing an officer shooting a Black teenager in the back as he fled. The teenager was badly wounded and lost several organs, and police said they discovered a gun with him following the shooting on Thursday.

Witnesses said that police officer Cedric Elleby was sitting on a stoop talking to Mekhi Franklin, 17. In the video another cop is seen standing. Franklin stands and casually and slowly walks away; Elleby followed him.

It is unclear what the officer said to Franklin and the other individual when he approached them because the audio is not on the first part of the video. The cop is walking in the street following the two young men as they slowly walk on the sidewalk.

After one minute and 16 seconds the audio starts: “Come here,” Officer Elleby says to Franklin, to which the teenager replies: “What bro?” Officer Elleby then lunges at Franklin, trying to grab him, but Franklin pulls away and begins to sprint in the opposite direction.

At this point, when the police officer ordered him to stop and he stopped, Franklin had not committed any crime. Nor did police claim he committed a crime or have reasonable suspicion that he did. In order for the police to stop you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and that you are involved in the activity. Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate or unclear and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion.

Baltimore Police Deputy Commissioner Richard Worley said Elleby was on patrol in the area and saw Franklin “displaying characteristics of an armed person.” Characteristics of an armed person? No facts were offered to support this assertion; the cop did not see a gun prior to the stop. As such, the cop’s mere unparticularized belief is not a sufficient basis to justify the initial stop, which was therefore unlawful.

Officer Elleby chases Franklin through a grassy area, a back alley, and then nearby the sidewalk in broad daylight. The chase lasted for about 30 seconds.

Officer Elleby shouts at Franklin to stop and put the gun down, after he pulls what appears to be a firearm out of his pants. The gun appears to still be in Franklin’s hand, but the footage does not show Franklin turning toward Elleby or pointing the gun at him during the foot chase. The teen appears to be running as fast as he can away from the cop. Officer Elleby then fires four shots as the teen turned a corner, and Franklin collapses in an alley in front of a rowhome. The gun can be seen laying on the ground away from his body.

An emotional and chaotic scene followed the shooting, with residents arriving at the shooting scene as Elleby and another officer attempted to render aid to Franklin. Voices are heard shouting in the background.

“You just shot him for nothing,” one civilian is heard saying in the background.

Police said Officer Elleby is part of the department’s district action team, which are plainclothes units tasked with “proactive” policing that focus on armed people, making traffic stops and foot chases.

However, the Supreme Court has clearly explained the 2nd Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in public in case of public confrontation. The Court “further confirmed that the right to “bear arms” refers to the right to “wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.” As such, Baltimore’s policy of surveilling, stopping and searching otherwise law abiding Black people for gun possession, a so-called “inalienable right,” is unconstitutional.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office said they are not investigating the shooting at this time, but Mayor Brandon Scott has promised a thorough investigation. Keira Franklin, the mother of the teenager, said this is not the first time police harassed her son.

“This happened previously with the same police officer,” she said.

Legal truths must give way to reality. Police officers so frequently abuse their power that no rational person could make a compelling argument that so-called constitutional rights provide black people any protection from cops or the government in general. Law abiding Black people’s so-called 4th Amendment rights are turned on and off like a light switch in cities controlled by white liberals; Chicago, Milwaukee, NYC, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Washington D.C. etc. Black people’s “freedom of movement” is restricted by cops who stop, search, frisk, detain and arrest them at will. The only thing upholding the 4th Amendment is your belief in it.

Similarly, white liberals have worked tirelessly to make the so-called inalienable 2nd Amendment right to self defense remains illusory especially to Black people living in crime ridden cities such as Baltimore. In fact, liberals in Chicago, DC, NYC, Baltimore, etc are filling the jails with Blacks charged with mere gun possession while simultaneously making very few arrests of persons who used guns in violent crimes. [MORE] When authorities prevent individuals from being able to defend themselves the government becomes accomplices to crime and partly responsible (in addition to the criminals themselves) for victimization. [MORE]

Recent research shows that most people convicted for felony gun possession don’t go on to commit a violent crime, and the majority of those sentenced to prison for gun possession don’t have past convictions for violence. Instead, people who already committed violent crimes are more likely to do so again.

In Chicago for instance, according to the Marshal Project, ‘The racial disparities in this enforcement are glaring. Although Black people comprise less than a third of the city’s population, they were more than 8 in 10 of those arrested for unlawful possession in the timeframe we reviewed. The number of Black people arrested could fill every seat at a Chicago Bulls game and then some; the majority are men in their 20s and 30s.

The consequences of these arrests are long-lasting. If convicted, people face a year or more in prison, depending on the charges. Even without time behind bars, those we interviewed faced damning criminal records, time on probation, job loss, legal fees and car impoundments.

Officials justify the focus on confiscating guns — even if they are not being fired at anybody — as a way of curtailing violence. But these tactics have not substantially reduced shootings in Chicago. In fact, as possession arrests skyrocketed, shootings increased, but the percentage of shooting victims where someone was arrested in their case declined. [MORE]

Your possession of "rights” given to you by a magical government, which functions as your master, is cult belief. Rights are myths. As stated by Dr. Blynd, “There is no freedom in the presence of so-called authority.” The belief in “authority,” which includes all belief in “government,” is irrational and self-contradictory; it is contrary to civilization and morality, and constitutes the most dangerous, destructive superstition that has ever existed. Rather than being a force for order and justice, the belief in “authority” is the arch-enemy of humanity.” [MORE]

Video Shows 3 White Asheville Cops Attack a Black Man w/a Broken Arm, Pin Him by Holding His Neck Down in the Street, Searching for a Gun He Didn't Have. Liar Cops Then Claim He Assaulted Them

From [HERE] White police officers pinned a Black man by the neck, searching for a gun he did not have, according to video by the man's fiancé.

Members of a May 13 crowd gathered in the Erskine-Walton neighborhood sounded alarmed and shouted for the three or more Asheville Police Department officers to stop as they struggled with Devon Lewis Rayshawn Whitmire on the ground.

One bystander can be heard in the video shouting, "He can't breathe," drawing comparisons by local community activists to high-profile fatal police encounters with other Black men, including George Floyd.

Whitmire, 27, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of assault, including assault on a government official inflicting serious injury. On May 17 he remained in the Buncombe County Detention Facility under an $85,000 bond. His next court date is June 2. [MORE]

White Indianapolis Cop Pleads Guilty to "Deprivation of Rights" for Stomping a Homeless Black Man's Head While he was Handcuffed and Held Down on Sidewalk.

From [HERE] A white Indianapolis police sergeant pleaded guilty this week to violating the civil rights of a homeless man, whom he kicked in the face during an arrest in 2021, federal authorities said.

The officer, Eric Huxley, is currently suspended from his role at the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the Indianapolis Star reported. He entered a guilty plea in federal court on Monday of violating the civil rights of an arrestee by using excessive force, a felony charge that is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Huxley was indicted last October on one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law. The charge came just over a year after the illegal arrest, on Sept. 24, 2021, of a man identified in court documents by the initials J.V., the Justice Department said. 

While on patrol in downtown Indianapolis, authorities allege that Huxley received a call from another officer requesting assistance to confront "a disorderly person" on Monument Circle. Huxley responded to that request, and the officers placed the man under arrest for disorderly conduct before searching his property. 

When officers tried to remove his belt, the man "became confrontational with the officers," leading one to use "a department-approved takedown maneuver to bring J.V., who had already been handcuffed, to the ground," the Justice Department said. As the arresting officer held the man down with one hand, another restrained his legs. 

Although these tactics meant the man could not move, Huxley then used his foot to stomp on the man's head while he was handcuffed. The incident was recorded by police body cameras and can be seen in the footage.

"Despite knowing that J.V. had been effectively restrained and posed no further danger to officers or the public, Huxley then intentionally raised his right foot and drove it down onto J.V.'s head and face," the Justice Department said in a news release announcing Huxley's guilty plea.

In a statement included in the release, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, of the Justice Department's civil rights division, emphasized the brutal nature of Huxley's crime. 

"This police officer violently and callously assaulted a homeless man who posed no threat," said Clarke. "The Justice Department will continue to investigate and prosecute law enforcement officers for violating federal civil rights laws."

U.S. Attorney Zachary Myers, of Indiana's southern district, added that, in addition to traumatizing victims, "police officers who break the law and use excessive force damage the community's trust in the law enforcement profession" and called for those who commit crimes to be "identified and prosecuted."

A sentencing hearing for Huxley has not yet been scheduled. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment followed by supervised release, according to the Justice Department. Prosecutors will ask for a reduced sentence in exchange for Huxley's guilty plea, but a federal judge will determine the final sentence using federal guidelines and other statutory factors.

Huxley also faces official misconduct and battery charges in Marion County, Indiana, CBS 4 reported.