After Black Voters Have Delivered MILLIONS of Votes to Elite Dumbocrats for Their Causes, fake Pabst-Blue-Ribbon-Cracker, Joe Scarborough/Other Elite Liberals Fail to Defend the Rights of Blacks in DC

Did Black Voters Hear Joe Scarborough and the Political Silence from Other Elite, White Liberals about the DC Crime Emergency? The Black political scientist Robert C. Smith told Black people that their votes only count on election day. Although, the democratic party has depended on loyal Black votes over the past 5 decades it has nevertheless maintained a strategy of ignoring their political and policy concerns while pandering to racist sentiment among whites - for the past 5 decades. As explained by Dr. Amos Wilson, these sophisticated neuropeans ‘project a so-called civilized, fraternal, egalitarian, liberal face while concurrently seeking to maintain White supremacy.’

According to FUNKTIONARY:

political silence – the study of the art of control. 2) censored and muted voices of the dispossessed always strengthens those privileged by the status quo. Scientists who actually engage in scientific inquiries do not take votes. (See: Voting)

Sleeping Tom – a person of Afrikan descent who has not consciously awakened to fully embrace his or her own asili (connective cultural tissue, heritage, imprimatur, and imperative). 2) a socially unconscious person of Afrikan descent who participates in secret balloting (voting). A sleepin’ Tom lives and reacts out of another culture’s asili or out of the mind of another; not their own. 3) a Negro who is unaware that he is all souled-out. 4) a Negro who isn’t aware that he is in fact and in deed a certified Sambo. 5) a broken, token Negro; a coin-operative. (See: Straw Boss, Asili, Doublemindedness, Sambo, Uncle Tom-Tom, Coin-Operated, Black Flask Brigade & Secret Ballots)

Contrary to Joe Scarborough’s purposefully stupid assertions (its all an act for the camera), the relevant question isn’t whether a city has a crime problem or not – many US cities have crime problems relative to one another (by size, population density) and it is also not an absurd question of whether law abiding Black people like crime or want crime in our communities – everyone wants to live in a safe community so long as they can enjoy their god given freedoms to go about their affairs without government interference. Rather, in The Spectacle, the media and Trump have mislead the public to believe that the federal government, specifically the president, has the authority to assert rulership over an elected City, county or state government if there is a perceived “uncontrollable level” of crime deemed an emergency by federal authorities. Yet, in reality, no such executive authority exists. Also, they have mislead the public to believe an imposition of authority may be based on immeasurable criteria or subjective beliefs. This misleading assumption confuses state authority to declare “emergency authority” within its own borders under state law with the federal government, which has no such power to do so. Wash, D.C. of course is not a state. Nevertheless, this imaginary, magical federal power also does not exist over DC due to the Home Rule Act granted by Congress in 1972. Under the Home Rule Act Congress granted the president limited authority to require DC police to provide services only for “federal purposes,” only for “48 hours” during “an emergency.” Again, no such authority exists for Trump to seize control over the DC police department or to command the DC police.

Here then, for the future, elites have set precedent in the minds of Americans that federal authority can take over local affairs whenever they deem it so, wherever they want and whether it is based on crime or some other manufactured emergency based on arbitrary criteria. Naturally, Trump cheerleaders and most racists are blind to this delusion because Black people are involved with the current emergency (just as elites have done to so-called “4th Amendment” freedoms which have become nearly meaningless for all people because of what elites have done to Black defendants with the lathered up approval of ignorant racists enjoying Black domination).

It is contemptible hypocrisy that probots such as Scarborough, government authorities and other persons professing to be ‘freedom loving’ conservatives would push the propAgenda that emergency authority (in situations where it may be lawfully invoked) can be based on immeasurable criteria, such as hyperbole, subjective perceptions, opinion polls, sad crime stories or emotional pleas etc and actually ridicule the use of statistics to justify the grant of such extraordinary, temporary authority. First of all, Trump’s emergency order is in fact based on statistics - his emergency order cites statistics from the Justice Department from 2024 - but it does so inaccurately. According to the DC Attorney General’s complaint,

“Publicly available data from both federal and local sources demonstrate that violent crime in the District is trending significantly downward. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, “[t]otal violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia [was] down 35% from 2023 and [was] the lowest it [had] been in over 30 years. That downward trend has continued. In 2025, violent crime is down 26% from this time in 2024, 51% from this time in 2023, and 35% from 2019, prior to the pandemic. Both President Trump and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia have acknowledged the decline in violent crime in D.C. in 2025.

In an April 28, 2025 press release, former interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, Jr. marked the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term “by highlighting a 25 percent drop year-to-date in violent crime across the District, credited in part to the ‘Make D.C. Safe Again’ initiative and the U.S. Attorney’s partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and [the] Metropolitan Police Department.”17

Shortly thereafter, on May 7, 2025, President Trump praised Mr. Martin, stating that on his watch, “[c]rime is down in Washington, D.C.—street crime, violent crime—by 25%. And it’s . . . people have seen . . . they’ve noticed a big difference [MORE]

Courts have made it clear that an emergency declaration must be based on substantial evidence that is verifiable and objective and which shows such action is necessary for the imminent preservation of the public peace, health, safety, welfare or morals of people. Courts have explained that an ‘emergency must be grounded in a finding of facts and not just mere statements of the motivation for the enactment and must otherwise provide an adequate basis for review. The DC Court of Appeals has explained ‘the declaration of an emergency must be ‘supported by substantial evidence in the record that shows an emergency existed.’ Hobson v. D.C., 304 A2d 637, 637 and 640 (D.C. 1973). Arbitrary declarations are a goose step in the wrong direction. Based on such “clogic” it is easy to foresee future emergencies demanding people to immediately shelter in place because authorities believe the flu “is going around” and “gotten bad” or perhaps a declaration to confiscate all firearms from all licensed gun owners in a city because of an authority’s emotional based perceptions about the ‘scourge of gun violence’ and so on.

The specific details of their crime in DC is spelled about below in the introduction of the DC Attorney General’s complaint against the Blight House. Please indulge.

INTRODUCTION

“1. More than 50 years ago, Congress empowered the people of the District of Columbia to govern themselves through the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (“Home Rule Act”), Pub. L. No. 93-198, 87 Stat. 774 (1973) (codified as amended at D.C. Code §§ 1-201.01, et seq.). Invoking its constitutional authority “[t]o exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over [the] District,” U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 17, Congress gave the inhabitants of the District of Columbia many of the “powers of local self-government” that other Americans enjoy: to elect a Mayor and a City Council, to adopt local laws, and to operate the institutions of local government—including local law enforcement—largely as they see fit. Home Rule Act, § 201. Congress reserved for itself the authority to review the District’s laws and legislate on matters of federal concern. But it otherwise left the operation of the local government in local hands.

2. By contrast, Congress gave the President an exceedingly narrow role in the governance of the District. In Section 740 of the Home Rule Act, Congress provided that if the President “determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist,” the President may require that the Mayor “provide such services” of the Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) as the President deems necessary for “federal purposes.” D.C. Code § 1-207.40(a).

3. In the 52 years since the enactment of Home Rule, no President has ever attempted to exercise this limited authority.

4. The President’s authority under Section 740 is sharply limited in time: it must terminate within 48 hours unless the President sends proper notice to Congress, and, in all events, it must terminate upon the expiration of the emergency or within 30 days, whichever comes first. Id. § 1-207.40(a)-(b). For the President to obtain MPD’s services for longer than 30 days—even in the face of an ongoing emergency—Congress must pass a joint resolution permitting the extension. Id. § 1-207.40(d).

5. Moreover, by its terms, Section 740 only permits the President to require the Mayor to “provide services” of MPD for “federal purposes.” Id. § 1-207.40(a). It does not permit the President to seize control of MPD. Nor does it authorize the President to direct MPD in the policing of local crime. Congress left that responsibility to local leaders. Id.

6. In violation of the plain language of Section 740, the President announced on August 11, 2025, that he was “placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control,” and that Attorney General Pamela J. Bondi was “taking command” of MPD “as of this moment.” He also stated that he was appointing Terrance Cole, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), as the “interim commissioner” of the MPD. Attorney General Bondi later added that Gady Serralta, the Director of the United States Marshals Service (“USMS”), would be “supervising command and control” of “the entire operation” of MPD.

7. That same day, the President issued an Executive Order that invoked his authority under Section 740 of the Home Rule Act. See “Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia,” Exec. Order No. 14,333 (Aug. 11, 2025) (“EO”). The President did not identify any new or unusual exigency that justified the invocation of Section 740. Instead, he claimed that violent crime in the District is “increasing,” id. § 1, when, in fact, it has fallen 26% since 2024. The President also did not limit the scope of his order to specific “federal purposes,” instead directing the Mayor to provide any services the Attorney General deemed necessary to “maintain[] law and order in the Nation’s seat of Government.” Id. §§ 2-3. And in neither the EO nor his notice letter to Congress did the President state the period of time during which the need for MPD services was likely to continue.

8. For four days, the Administration asserted in public statements and social media posts that it had taken direct operational control of MPD, while District Mayor Muriel Bowser and MPD Chief of Police Pamela Smith stated that they were still in charge of MPD.

9. Then, on the evening of August 14, 2025, without any advance warning to MPD, Defendant Bondi issued Order No. 6370-2025, “Restoring Safety and Security to the District of Columbia” (“Bondi Order”).1 The Bondi Order purports to “order the Mayor of the District of Columbia and the [MPD] to immediately implement” multiple directives.

10. Defendant Bondi ordered that, “effective immediately,” Defendant Cole “shall serve as MPD’s Emergency Police Commissioner for the duration of the emergency declared by the President.” She further ordered that “Commissioner Cole shall assume all of the powers and duties vested in the District of Columbia Chief of Police.” And she stated that “the current Chief of Police” and all other senior leadership at MPD “must receive approval from Commissioner Cole before issuing any further directives to the MPD.”

11. The Bondi Order further purports to rescind or suspend provisions of three MPD orders issued by the Chief of Police that address MPD officers’ involvement in immigration enforcement. It also directs MPD to enforce “to the maximum extent permissible by law” certain municipal laws and regulations pertaining to unlawful occupancy of public spaces.

12. Finally, the Bondi Order generally “rescind[s]” any existing MPD directives that conflict with any of its provisions.

13. In every respect, the Bondi Order and Defendants’ assertions of authority over MPD exceed the narrow delegation that Congress granted the President in Section 740.

14. First, the Bondi Order purports to effect a complete takeover of MPD by the federal government. It installs a handpicked federal official as chief of police, grants him sweeping power to issue commands directly to MPD, and bars MPD senior leadership from acting without his approval. It also purports to suspend MPD policies that Defendant Bondi dislikes, impose enforcement policies she favors, and rescind any existing orders that stand in the way. In short, it attempts to divest the District and its residents of any control of their local police force and place it, for all purposes, under the control of the federal government.

15. Section 740 does not authorize this brazen usurpation of the District’s authority over its own government. That narrow statute permits the President and his delegee to request that the Mayor provide the “services” of MPD—nothing more. None of the directives in the Bondi Order fall within the compass of that limited grant of authority.

16. Second, Defendants have unlawfully made demands of MPD that far exceed the constraints of Section 740, which only permits the President to request “services” for a “federal purpose.” The Bondi Order directly interferes with and directs policies and enforcement related to purely local matters. The Order displaces the local Chief of Police, necessarily impacting MPD’s purely local, municipal policing functions. The Order directs enforcement of a local statute governing public disturbances on local lands. The EO additionally directs MPD to provide services to engage in purely local law enforcement activities, including “maintaining law and order” throughout the District. EO § 2. The entire structure of the statute reflects Congress’s judgment that control over local affairs should be left to the people of the District—not seized by the President based on his disagreements with local law enforcement policy.

17. Third, in invoking his authority under Section 740, the President has not articulated the nature of the “special” and “emergency” conditions with the specificity needed to determine when the purported emergency will end, as required by the Home Rule Act. On the contrary, his assertion that crime in general—and declining crime at that—represents the sort of “special” and “emergency” conditions that can trigger his authority under Section 740 sweeps so broadly that it would undermine Congress’s decision to transfer control for day-to-day governance of the city to locally elected and accountable leaders.

18. These unlawful assertions of authority will create immediate, devastating, and irreparable harms for the District. Most critically, the order threatens to upend the command structure of MPD and wreak operational havoc within the department, endangering the safety of the public and law enforcement officers alike. There is no greater risk to public safety in a large, professional law enforcement organization like MPD than to not know who is in command.

19. To redress these unlawful assertions of authority, the District seeks a preliminary and permanent injunction, declaratory relief, vacatur, and all other appropriate relief to ensure that control of MPD remains with the people of the District of Columbia and that the Home Rule Act is followed as Congress directed.” [MORE] and [MORE]

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Takeover DC Police

From [HERE] A federal judge Friday effectively halted President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to take over the D.C. Police Department.

District Judge Ana Reyes, appointed by former President Joe Biden, said in a hearing that Attorney General Pam Bondi likely violated federal law by attempting to replace the D.C. police chief with a federal official.

However, Reyes stopped short of immediately issuing a temporary restraining order after the Department of Justice said Bondi would rewrite her directive. Reyes gave Bondi until 6:30 p.m. to make the changes, warning she would issue the order if the directive was not rewritten.

The judge’s decision came just hours after D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued the Trump administration, alleging the attempted takeover violated the Home Rule Act of 1973, which allows D.C. residents to elect their mayor and council members.

Section 740 of the Home Rule Act allows the president to request the use of the Metropolitan Police Department for federal law enforcement purposes in emergency situations, but the act keeps control of the department with the mayor and police chief. The authority is also limited to no more than 30 days without congressional approval.

Bondi’s original directive claimed to replace MPD Chief Pamela Smith by appointing Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole as “emergency police commissioner,” granting him “all the powers and duties vested in the D.C. Chief of Police.”

During an evidentiary hearing Friday, Reyes appeared skeptical of the DOJ’s claim that Bondi could replace Smith and issue orders directly to the MPD. The judge said such an arrangement would effectively give Trump personal control over the police department.

“The statute would have no meaning at all if the president could just say we’re taking over your police department,” Reyes said.

Reyes also noted that the DOJ was arguing Trump could personally control the MPD even though the Home Rule Act bars the president from directly communicating with the department.

“You’re making the argument that the president can basically run the entire police department based on language that doesn’t even allow the president to talk to the police department,” she told DOJ lawyers.

Bondi’s Backtrack

By Friday evening, Bondi issued a revised directive. The new order abandons the provision giving Cole full control over the MPD and instead lists specific “services” the attorney general deems necessary under Section 740(a). The mayor must provide these services and Cole is tasked only with overseeing those limited functions.

The revised order still directs MPD to:

• Assist with enforcing federal immigration law and locating undocumented immigrants.

• Comply with all federal law enforcement database and information requests.

• Strictly enforce D.C.’s unlawful public space occupancy law.

The changes avoid directly replacing the chief or requiring all MPD orders to go through Cole, but they maintain aggressive policy shifts on immigration enforcement and homelessness.

Legal Stakes

In his suit, Schwalb alleged Trump, through Bondi’s directive, far exceeded his authority under the Home Rule Act and violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution.

The lawsuit argues Bondi’s original directive endangered public safety by upending MPD’s command structure.

“There is no greater risk to public safety in a large, professional law enforcement organization like MPD than to not know who is in command,” the complaint reads.

During the hearing, DOJ lawyers acknowledged Trump will have no authority to continue using the MPD if Congress does not pass legislation extending his order federalizing the department — contradicting the president’s earlier claims that he could act without Congress in an emergency.

“If it’s a national emergency we can do it without Congress, but we expect to be before Congress very quickly,” Trump said earlier this week.

The Trump administration is expected to appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

In addition to attempting to federalize the MPD, Trump has sent hundreds of federal law enforcement agents and deployed the D.C. National Guard to the capital.

He claimed the National Guard deployment and surge in federal personnel were needed to address rampant homelessness and violent crime, even as MPD data show crime is declining.

Trump’s use of the National Guard within the district could be affected by an upcoming court decision over his deployment of military troops in Los Angeles earlier this year.

[Are We Being Hoaxed?] Trump’s “DC Takeover” is Mostly Happening on TV and in Court: No Troops or Fed Cops Present in the Most Crime Ridden Hoods. No Evidence, like Iran's "obliterated" nuclear sites

From [HERE] President Donald Trump's deployment of federal law enforcement and National Guard troops has produced Humvees on the National Mall and roving bands of agents in tourist areas as part of his stated effort to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. 

But many residents of the city's highest-crime neighborhoods say they haven’t yet seen the results of Trump’s surge in the places it is needed the most.

"He probably doesn’t even know where Anacostia is," Charles Wilson, whose neighborhood has one of DC's highest rates of murder and violent crime. Wilson says the low-income area in DC's Ward 8 has endured several shootouts in which bullets struck houses, cars and even lodged in children’s bedrooms in recent years.

"I think this is all pomp and circumstance,” Wilson says, “to distract people from everything else he is doing."

One Anacostia resident, standing outside his home and watching the cruiser, confirmed that the officer was a neighborhood beat cop – and that he’s seen no additional MPD officers, federal agents or National Guard troops since Trump made his announcement, despite nightly gunshots, carjackings and other crime. He too declined to give his name, citing a pending background check for a job.

Back across the Anacostia river near the Capitol, the rough-and-tumble H Street commercial and nightlife corridor appeared quiet the night of Aug. 13. It was the site of one of the attacks cited by Trump – the 2023 near-fatal stabbing of an aide to Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky “by a demented lunatic as he walked down the street just absolutely for no reason.”

The only visible security presence was the occasional MPD cruiser driving by. But shop owners and barflies said the area has been swarmed by federal agents and police late at night since Trump's announcement.

Johnny Lu showed USA TODAY a video he took of a team of seven FBI, ICE and DEA agents patrolling the area late the night of Aug. 12, questioning and even arresting people for drinking and smoking marijuana in public. [it should go without saying that smoking and drinking are not violent crimes and not the stuff of an “emergency authorization” to suspend locally elected rule.]

Trump Delusion Syndrome? His Cheerleaders Believe; Emergency Rule Can be Imposed Anywhere Based on Arbitrary Criteria, Anything Can be an Emergency and He Can Ignore Acts of Congress (Home Rule Act)

The relevant question isn’t whether a city has a crime problem or not – many US cities have crime problems relatively to one another, and it is also not a question of whether law abiding Black people like crime in our communities – everyone wants to live in a safe community so long as they can enjoy their god given freedoms to go about their affairs without government interference). Rather, in The Spectacle, the media and Trump have mislead the public to believe that the federal government, specifically the president, has the authority to assert rulership over an elected City, county or state government if there is a perceived “uncontrollable level” of crime deemed an emergency by federal authorities. Yet in reality, there is no such executive authority. Also, Trump authorities and the media have mislead the public to believe an imposition of authority may be based on immeasurable criteria or subjective beliefs. This misleading assumption confuses state authority to declare “emergency authority” within its own borders under state law with the federal government, which has no such power to do so. Wash, D.C. of course is not a state. Nevertheless, this imaginary, magical federal power also does not exist over DC due to the Home Rule Act granted by Congress in 1972. Under the Home Rule Act Congress granted the president limited authority to require DC police to provide services only for “federal purposes,” only for “48 hours” during “an emergency.” Again, no such authority exists for Trump to seize control over the DC police department or to command the DC police.

Here then, for the future, elites have set precedent in the minds of Americans that federal authority can take over local affairs whenever they deem it so, wherever they want and whether it is based on crime or some other manufactured emergency based on arbitrary criteria. Naturally, Trump cheerleaders and most racists are blind to this delusion because Black people are involved with the current emergency (just as elites have done to so-called “4th Amendment” freedoms which have become nearly meaningless for all people because of what elites have done to Black defendants with the lathered up approval of ignorant racists enjoying Black domination).

It is also irrational hypocrisy for Scarborough to claim an emergency in general need not be based on statistics or verifiable measurable evidence. First of all, Trump’s emergency order is in fact based on statistics - the emergency order quotes statistics from the Justice Department from 2024 - but it does so inaccurately.

“Publicly available data from both federal and local sources demonstrate that violent crime in the District is trending significantly downward. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, “[t]otal violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia [was] down 35% from 2023 and [was] the lowest it [had] been in over 30 years. That downward trend has continued. In 2025, violent crime is down 26% from this time in 2024, 51% from this time in 2023, and 35% from 2019, prior to the pandemic. Both President Trump and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia have acknowledged the decline in violent crime in D.C. in 2025.

In an April 28, 2025 press release, former interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, Jr. marked the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term “by highlighting a 25 percent drop year-to-date in violent crime across the District, credited in part to the ‘Make D.C. Safe Again’ initiative and the U.S. Attorney’s partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and [the] Metropolitan Police Department.”17

Shortly thereafter, on May 7, 2025, President Trump praised Mr. Martin, stating that on his watch, “[c]rime is down in Washington, D.C.—street crime, violent crime—by 25%. And it’s . . . people have seen . . . they’ve noticed a big difference [MORE]

DO THE CRIME STORIES IN DC SOUND GOOD OR BAD TO YOU?

Secondly, it is contemptible that probots such as Scarborough, government authorities and other persons professing to be ‘freedom loving’ conservatives would push the propAgenda that emergency authority (in situations where it may be lawfully invoked) can be based on immeasurable criteria, such as hyperbole, subjective perceptions, opinion polls, sad stories or emotional pleas etc and actually ridicule the use of statistics to justify such extraordinary, temporary power. Courts have made it clear that an emergency declaration must be based on substantial evidence that is verifiable and objective and which shows such action is necessary for the imminent preservation of the public peace, health, safety, welfare or morals of people. Courts have explained that an ‘emergency must be grounded in a finding of facts and not just mere statements of the motivation for the enactment and must otherwise provide an adequate basis for review. The DC Court of Appeals has explained ‘the declaration of an emergency must be ‘supported by substantial evidence in the record that shows an emergency existed.’ Hobson v. D.C., 304 A2d 637, 637 and 640 (D.C. 1973). Arbitrary declarations are a goose step in the wrong direction. Based on such “clogic” it is easy to foresee future emergencies demanding people to immediately shelter in place because they believe the flu “is going around” and “gotten bad” or a declaration to confiscate all firearms from all licensed persons in a city because of authority’s emotional based perception about of the ‘scourge of gun violence’ and so on.

The specific details of their crime in DC is spelled about below in the introduction of the DC Attorney General’s complaint against the Blight House. Please indulge.

“1. More than 50 years ago, Congress empowered the people of the District of Columbia to govern themselves through the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (“Home Rule Act”), Pub. L. No. 93-198, 87 Stat. 774 (1973) (codified as amended at D.C. Code §§ 1-201.01, et seq.). Invoking its constitutional authority “[t]o exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over [the] District,” U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 17, Congress gave the inhabitants of the District of Columbia many of the “powers of local self-government” that other Americans enjoy: to elect a Mayor and a City Council, to adopt local laws, and to operate the institutions of local government—including local law enforcement—largely as they see fit. Home Rule Act, § 201. Congress reserved for itself the authority to review the District’s laws and legislate on matters of federal concern. But it otherwise left the operation of the local government in local hands.

2. By contrast, Congress gave the President an exceedingly narrow role in the governance of the District. In Section 740 of the Home Rule Act, Congress provided that if the President “determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist,” the President may require that the Mayor “provide such services” of the Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) as the President deems necessary for “federal purposes.” D.C. Code § 1-207.40(a).

3. In the 52 years since the enactment of Home Rule, no President has ever attempted to exercise this limited authority.

4. The President’s authority under Section 740 is sharply limited in time: it must terminate within 48 hours unless the President sends proper notice to Congress, and, in all events, it must terminate upon the expiration of the emergency or within 30 days, whichever comes first. Id. § 1-207.40(a)-(b). For the President to obtain MPD’s services for longer than 30 days—even in the face of an ongoing emergency—Congress must pass a joint resolution permitting the extension. Id. § 1-207.40(d).

5. Moreover, by its terms, Section 740 only permits the President to require the Mayor to “provide services” of MPD for “federal purposes.” Id. § 1-207.40(a). It does not permit the President to seize control of MPD. Nor does it authorize the President to direct MPD in the policing of local crime. Congress left that responsibility to local leaders. Id.

6. In violation of the plain language of Section 740, the President announced on August 11, 2025, that he was “placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control,” and that Attorney General Pamela J. Bondi was “taking command” of MPD “as of this moment.” He also stated that he was appointing Terrance Cole, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), as the “interim commissioner” of the MPD. Attorney General Bondi later added that Gady Serralta, the Director of the United States Marshals Service (“USMS”), would be “supervising command and control” of “the entire operation” of MPD.

7. That same day, the President issued an Executive Order that invoked his authority under Section 740 of the Home Rule Act. See “Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia,” Exec. Order No. 14,333 (Aug. 11, 2025) (“EO”). The President did not identify any new or unusual exigency that justified the invocation of Section 740. Instead, he claimed that violent crime in the District is “increasing,” id. § 1, when, in fact, it has fallen 26% since 2024. The President also did not limit the scope of his order to specific “federal purposes,” instead directing the Mayor to provide any services the Attorney General deemed necessary to “maintain[] law and order in the Nation’s seat of Government.” Id. §§ 2-3. And in neither the EO nor his notice letter to Congress did the President state the period of time during which the need for MPD services was likely to continue.

8. For four days, the Administration asserted in public statements and social media posts that it had taken direct operational control of MPD, while District Mayor Muriel Bowser and MPD Chief of Police Pamela Smith stated that they were still in charge of MPD.

9. Then, on the evening of August 14, 2025, without any advance warning to MPD, Defendant Bondi issued Order No. 6370-2025, “Restoring Safety and Security to the District of Columbia” (“Bondi Order”).1 The Bondi Order purports to “order the Mayor of the District of Columbia and the [MPD] to immediately implement” multiple directives.

10. Defendant Bondi ordered that, “effective immediately,” Defendant Cole “shall serve as MPD’s Emergency Police Commissioner for the duration of the emergency declared by the President.” She further ordered that “Commissioner Cole shall assume all of the powers and duties vested in the District of Columbia Chief of Police.” And she stated that “the current Chief of Police” and all other senior leadership at MPD “must receive approval from Commissioner Cole before issuing any further directives to the MPD.”

11. The Bondi Order further purports to rescind or suspend provisions of three MPD orders issued by the Chief of Police that address MPD officers’ involvement in immigration enforcement. It also directs MPD to enforce “to the maximum extent permissible by law” certain municipal laws and regulations pertaining to unlawful occupancy of public spaces.

12. Finally, the Bondi Order generally “rescind[s]” any existing MPD directives that conflict with any of its provisions.

13. In every respect, the Bondi Order and Defendants’ assertions of authority over MPD exceed the narrow delegation that Congress granted the President in Section 740.

14. First, the Bondi Order purports to effect a complete takeover of MPD by the federal government. It installs a handpicked federal official as chief of police, grants him sweeping power to issue commands directly to MPD, and bars MPD senior leadership from acting without his approval. It also purports to suspend MPD policies that Defendant Bondi dislikes, impose enforcement policies she favors, and rescind any existing orders that stand in the way. In short, it attempts to divest the District and its residents of any control of their local police force and place it, for all purposes, under the control of the federal government.

15. Section 740 does not authorize this brazen usurpation of the District’s authority over its own government. That narrow statute permits the President and his delegee to request that the Mayor provide the “services” of MPD—nothing more. None of the directives in the Bondi Order fall within the compass of that limited grant of authority.

16. Second, Defendants have unlawfully made demands of MPD that far exceed the constraints of Section 740, which only permits the President to request “services” for a “federal purpose.” The Bondi Order directly interferes with and directs policies and enforcement related to purely local matters. The Order displaces the local Chief of Police, necessarily impacting MPD’s purely local, municipal policing functions. The Order directs enforcement of a local statute governing public disturbances on local lands. The EO additionally directs MPD to provide services to engage in purely local law enforcement activities, including “maintaining law and order” throughout the District. EO § 2. The entire structure of the statute reflects Congress’s judgment that control over local affairs should be left to the people of the District—not seized by the President based on his disagreements with local law enforcement policy.

17. Third, in invoking his authority under Section 740, the President has not articulated the nature of the “special” and “emergency” conditions with the specificity needed to determine when the purported emergency will end, as required by the Home Rule Act. On the contrary, his assertion that crime in general—and declining crime at that—represents the sort of “special” and “emergency” conditions that can trigger his authority under Section 740 sweeps so broadly that it would undermine Congress’s decision to transfer control for day-to-day governance of the city to locally elected and accountable leaders.

18. These unlawful assertions of authority will create immediate, devastating, and irreparable harms for the District. Most critically, the order threatens to upend the command structure of MPD and wreak operational havoc within the department, endangering the safety of the public and law enforcement officers alike. There is no greater risk to public safety in a large, professional law enforcement organization like MPD than to not know who is in command.

19. To redress these unlawful assertions of authority, the District seeks a preliminary and permanent injunction, declaratory relief, vacatur, and all other appropriate relief to ensure that control of MPD remains with the people of the District of Columbia and that the Home Rule Act is followed as Congress directed. “ [MORE]

In Jesus' Name Mike Huckabee Justifies Israeli Military Murdering Aid Seekers in Gaza During the Real Crime Emergency

From [HERE] The US ambassador also mocked the idea of using 'non-lethal' forms of crowd control by suggesting to send the 'girl scouts'

In an interview published by The Times of Israel on Wednesday, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee justified the Israeli military’s shooting of unarmed Palestinians attempting to get aid in the Gaza Strip.

Defending the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Huckabee downplayed the reports of people being killed by the IDF near GHF sites but admitted that it does happen. “Have there been instances where maybe people were shot by IDF soldiers? Best I can tell, that has happened,” the ambassador said.

Huckabee claimed that IDF soldiers only fire at civilians when they’re being rushed by a large crowd. “You have a group of, let’s say, 10 or 15 IDF soldiers. They’re manning a perimeter. You have 2,000 or 3,000 people who suddenly are rushing toward a position. They’re first given a verbal warning. Please stop. Second thing they get, shots fired in the air. Third thing, shots fired at the ground. And if they’re still rushing toward them, it’s probable that some people are shot in the midst of that because [the soldiers] don’t know why they’re coming. Are they coming to overrun the position?” he said.

But eyewitness accounts from Palestinians contradict Huckabee’s claims, and videos have shown groups of unarmed Palestinians coming under fire while taking cover. Tony Aguilar, a retired US Army Green Beret who worked at GHF sites, has said the IDF regularly fires live ammunition at unarmed people as a form of “crowd control,” including when their backs are turned and they are walking away from GHF sites.

Israel’s use of live ammunition on aid seekers has included tank and artillery shells. Huckabee appeared to mock the idea of using “non-lethal” means of crowd control during the interview. The interviewer said that he wished there were “non-lethal crowd control methods” being used in Gaza, and Huckabee replied, “Don’t we all.”

The interviewer then noted that there are non-lethal means to control a crowd, to which Huckabee replied, “What are you going to do? Get Girl Scouts to take them in?”

Since the GHF began operating at the end of May, the Health Ministry in Gaza has recorded the killing of 1,881 aid seekers and the wounding of 13,863. The majority of the casualties occurred near GHF sites, while many others were killed or hurt while attempting to reach UN aid trucks. According to UN numbers from August 1, 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food; 859 in the vicinity of the GHF sites and 514 along the routes of food convoys.

Just Like Jesus Said, 'Crush the Homeless, Can't Live Outside Unless the Government Sayeth So:' On Trumps Order Authorities Tear Down Encampments and Cram People’s Belongings into Garbage Trucks

From [HERE] After President Donald Trump said homeless people in D.C. must be moved far from the city, crews tore down an encampment near the Kennedy Center on Thursday morning and crammed people’s belongings into a garbage truck.

A homeless senior citizen and members of a small group of protesters quoted the Bible as they urged the federal government and D.C. to protect homeless people.

“I look at it as anti-Christian. I remember the passage of, ‘As you have done to the least of these, you have done unto me.’ The idea that he’s targeting us and persecuting us feels wrong to me,” said David, a 67-year-old who said he had stayed at an encampment in the Foggy Bottom area for over six months. He quoted Matthew 25:40.

News4 video shows crews jamming a mattress into a garbage truck. We saw a heap that included tables, appliances and what appeared to be gas-powered heater. Some people stacked their belongings in shopping carts and left the area.

Like David, protesters also quoted Scripture.

“Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their maker. Proverbs 14:31,” one sign said.

White House officials said earlier this week that homeless people in D.C. can go to shelters, treatment or jail.

“Homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment, to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental health services, and, if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to jail time,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday.

Israel Used US Weapons to Bomb Hundreds of Schools in Gaza, HRW says

The Israeli military has “unlawfully and indiscriminately” used US-supplied munitions to bomb hundreds of school shelters in Gaza, killing hundreds of civilians, according to a damning new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Titled Gaza: Israeli School Strikes Magnify Civilian Peril, the report documents over 500 Israeli airstrikes on school buildings, many of which were being used as shelters by displaced Palestinians.

HRW investigated two specific attacks on schools, the Khadija girls’ school in Deir al-Balah and Zeitoun C school in Gaza City, where at least 49 people were killed, including children.

In both cases, HRW found no evidence of military targets, rendering the strikes “unlawfully indiscriminate” under international law. The Israeli military frequently claims that it targets school shelters in Gaza where Palestinian resistance fighters have been hiding.

“Israeli strikes on schools sheltering displaced families provide a window into the widespread carnage that Israeli forces have carried out in Gaza,” said Gerry Simpson, HRW’s associate director for crisis, conflict, and arms. [MORE]

[Israel First] US Government Participates in Real Crime Emergency: Israeli Forces Murder 123 Palestinians in 24 Hours, Another 8 people starved to death due to the US-backed Israeli blockade

From [HERE] Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday that Israeli forces killed 123 Palestinians and wounded 437 over the previous 24-hour period as the IDF is intensifying strikes on Gaza City and areas to the north.

Heavy US-backed Israeli attacks have continued throughout the day on Wednesday, and medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 45 people were killed in Gaza City. The IDF has ramped up its attacks on Gaza City since the Israeli cabinet approved a plan to completely take over the city.

Residents of Gaza City told Reuters that many homes were destroyed by overnight Israeli airstrikes in the eastern neighborhoods of Zeitoun and Shujaiyya. Al Jazeera journalists also reported intensified attacks on areas to the north of Gaza City, including Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, and Jabalia, cities that have already been almost entirely destroyed.

Israeli troops have continued massacring desperate Palestinians seeking aid. The Health Ministry said that it recorded the deaths of 21 Palestinians who were attempting to get food, bringing the total number of aid seekers killed since the end of May to 1,859.

Staff at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, told The Associated Press that at least 14 Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops in an area about 1.8 miles from a distribution site run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Another five Palestinians were killed while trying to reach an aid site near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza.

On top of the violent deaths, Palestinians continue to die of starvation due to the US-backed Israeli blockade. The Health Ministry said that it recorded eight deaths due to famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, including three children. “This brings the total number of victims of famine and malnutrition to 235, including 106 children,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.

The Health Ministry said that the violent death toll since October 7, 2023, has reached 61,722, and the number of wounded has climbed to 154,525. Studies have found that the ministry’s numbers are likely a significant undercount.

Police Chief Trump's Unelected Crime Boss Jeanine Pirro Vows Revenge on Upper Crust White Guy Who Threw Subway Sandwich @ Federal Cop. Bolsters 'Crime Stats' by Overcharging Simple Assault as a Felony

From [HERE] D.C. U.S. Attorney General Jeanine Pirro announced on Wednesday that a white man seen on video throwing a sandwich at a federal officer is now facing federal charges. 

The incident happened around 11 p.m. on 14th Street. 

According to police, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was in the area with other CBP agents and members of Metro Transit Police when the suspect, 37-year-old D.C. resident Sean Dunn, began yelling at the officer. 

A police affidavit states that Dunn told the officer, "f*** you! You f***ing fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!" 

Officials say Dunn continued his conduct for several minutes before crossing the street and continuing to yell obscenities at the officer. He then threw a sandwich at the officer and ran away. 

He was apprehended and was taken to the MPD Third District police department to be processed. 

He reportedly told an investigator, "I did it. I threw a sandwich." 

Dunn is now facing a federal assault charge. Online court records don't list an attorney for Dunn.

D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro put out a video on Wednesday addressing the incident. 

"The president's message to the criminals was, ‘if you spit, we hit," she says in the video. 

"He thought it was funny. Well, he doesn't think it's funny today because we charged him with a felony—assault on a police officer. And we're going to back the police to the hilt. So there! Stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else!" Pirro said before crossing her arms and smirking. 

Enforcing Black People's Play "Rights" a Low Priority to Racist Authorities: No Charges for Slave Catchers in Violent William McNeil Arrest. Stopped for Driving While Black w/o Lights During the Day

A Jacksonville, Florida, sheriff's deputy seen on video striking a Black college student in the face during an arrest that began with an unlawful traffic stop will not face criminal charges in connection with the Feb. 19 incident, prosecutors announced on Wednesday.

The announcement, in the case involving 22-year-old William McNeil Jr., came in an 16-page memo released by the state attorney for the 4th Judicial Circuit Court, which serves Clay, Duval, and Nassau counties in Florida.

"The State Attorney's Office has reviewed this matter to determine whether any of Officer [D.] Bowers' actions constitute a crime. We conclude they do not," the memo stated. [MORE]

A video shows sheriff's deputies beating and punching McNeil during a traffic stop after he repeatedly questioned why he was being pulled over and refused to exit his vehicle in an incident that occurred on Feb. 19, 2025.

Waters said that "the State Attorney's Office has determined that none of the involved officers violated criminal law," but highlighted that the deputies' actions are now being examined in an "administrative review," which will determine if the deputies "violated JSO policy." He also identified the deputy who broke the car window and punched McNeil as officer D. Bowers.

A FREE RANGE PRISON. Authorities and “dependent media” often mischaracterize police stops of Black drivers and Black citizens as ‘minor intrusions’ or temporary interferences with their freedom. For example, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, an elite white liberal, attacked a NYC court decision which ruled stop and frisk unconstitutional, by claiming, “stop and frisk is not racial profiling.” In reality, the pervasive use of authority to arbitrarily stop law abiding Black people against their volition terrorizes and degrades their humanity and “citizenship” and chills their inherent human right to freedom of movement.

Black scholars Naa Kwate and Shatema Threadcraft explain that unlawful stops of Black people lead to “Embodied stress, fear and trauma” because “the subject knows that any encounter may well end in death—and moreover, that the death may go unpunished.” The frequency of such “routine” stops ‘produces bodies that are harassed, stressed and resource deprived, if not altogether dead.’ Kwate and Threadcraft state, “Even those who are not stopped fear being stopped, fear death, and thus also find themselves in the grip of this form of necropower.” The omnipresent threat of being stopped for no reason by police is a form of “torture-lite” according to scholar Paul Butler. Here, the difference between adherent rights and inherent rights should be understood. FUNKTIONARY explains,

adherent rights – privileges disguised as so-called “rights” created by men via deceptive word-manipulation in written form called “symbolaeography,” and legal documents. 2) privileges granted by an apparent or putative authority at the expense of one's inherent or unalienable ‘rights.’ Also, “rights deriving from the corporate government (against itself) that can be liened against or taken away at any time by the creator or grantor of the bestowed right or benefit.”

inherent rights – unalienable and unassailable rights. Also, “All individual’s have unalienable rights. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. [MORE]

“rights” – useful fictions declared in order to make agents of another type of fiction (“government”) have to play along in their deadly theatrical (tragicomedy) game. 2) mere fictions, the contemplation of which leads only to a progressive social, personal, racial and jurisprudential separation from reality. Discussion and debates about “rights” merely evades the FAQ, i.e., the frequently avoided question of who is to enforce any “right” and who will benefit from the pretense. [MORE]

unalienable rights –You can't surrender, sell or transfer unalienable rights, they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can't under any circumstances be surrendered or taken. [MORE]

Hans Buchheim explains, ‘The humanity of each person is the interior reference point of every natural or inherent right. We are all naturally endowed with rights - rights that we possess because we are human beings (regardless of whether we have earned them or are deemed worthy of them by a government authority) – these rights are not given or taken away. Said rights are necessary to human dignity and autonomy - among other things, these natural rights include the right of freedom of movement, the right to be free from detentions, seizures, searches and the right to be left the fuck alone.’

Pervasive, arbitrary stops function to “niggerize,” degrade humanity and humiliate Blacks in public, rendering them “unsafe, unprotected, subjected and subjugated to random violence” by government authority. The undeceiver Jeremy Locke points out that “slavery is not a concept of totality . . . The ultimate slavery is murder . . . Slavery is found both in the partial and complete destruction of freedom.” Prolific stops by cops everywhere a large number of Black people reside, inhibit their freedom of movement and function as a tool to keep Blacks confined to a physical, social and symbolic space. Thus, elites use arbitrary stops to help dominate Black people and control their movements by force. Such stops are a form of slavery. The result is a 2nd class “citizenship” for Blacks. Legal scholar Charles Epps observes, “police stops convey powerful messages about citizenship and equality. Across millions of stops, these experiences are translated into common stories about who is an equal member of a rule-governed society and who is subjected to arbitrary surveillance and inquiry.” FUNKTIONARY makes it plain, “People who are awake see cops as mercenary security guards that remind us daily, through acts of force, that we are simultaneously both enemies and slaves of the Corporate State”

Another Black Person's Lawsuit Dismissed w/o a Trial: NY Judge Rules Against Black Firefighter Injured by COVID Shot w/Permanent Heart Damage. Forced to Get Injected or Be Fired by NYC Government

mRNA COVID injections are not “vaccines” within the meaning of Supreme Court case precedent because they don’t prevent transmission or provide immunity from COVID. As such, COVID shots are simply medical treatments and do not the pass strict scrutiny under the Constitution because individuals have the fundamental right to refuse medical treatment. [MORE]

From [HERE] Black New York City firefighter O’Brian Pastrana, who was forced to retire after he was diagnosed with permanent heart damage following the mandated COVID-19 shot, is not entitled to financial compensation for his losses, a federal judge ruled last week.

U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan ruled that none of Pastrana’s fundamental rights were violated when he was denied a medical exemption — even though he experienced a severe reaction to the first shot — and compelled to either get fully vaccinated or be fired by the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) (city run by elite liberals).

Cogan said the vaccine mandate wasn’t to blame for Pastrana’s injury, as he claimed. “In this case, Pastrana always had a choice between receiving the vaccine and keeping his job.”

Pastrana also “was free to decide between taking the vaccine or seeking different employment” in another department or a neighboring state, Cogan ruled. And he was “free not to receive the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, potentially sacrificing his career.” As a result, the city can’t be held accountable for his injuries, Cogan ruled.

Based on the facts presented, Cogan granted the city’s motion for summary judgment, ruling in the city’s favor without a trial.

Christina Martinez, one of Pastrana’s attorneys, said the court sidestepped the unconstitutional conditions doctrine, which prohibits the government from conditioning a public benefit, like employment, on the waiver of a constitutional right.

Video Shows a Realitarian Speaking Reality to Fauci’s Truths During His Trip to a Hood in DC, Ruining His Door to Door, Genocidal Sales Pitch for Experimental COVID Shots Based on “The Science”

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Realitarian – one who acknowledges reality over truth, substance over form, subjective truth over objective truth, natural over artificial, clarity over fuzziness and see abidance of presence in expanded awareness. 2) one who subscribes to the applied radical transformative Realigion of Reality-Cracking. 3) one who rigorously hacks his or her own brain (wetware) for bugs and viruses in the indoctrination program codes (memons) acquired and running throughout one’s mortal consciousness in this earthuman life. (See: Suddenlightenment, Psylence, Poetic Vision, Slavespeak & Realigion)

Ben Crump says Video Proves a PA Parole Agent Murdered Marchello Woodard; Police Claim a Cop Shot Him b/c He was Dragged by the Black Man's Car But Video Shows It Hadn't Moved When Shots were Fired

From [HERE] The family of Marchello D. Woodard — the 43-year-old Erie man fatally shot by a state parole agent on July 2 — now has heavyweight legal backing.

Ben Crump, the prominent civil rights attorney who represented the families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in two of the most high-profile police killing cases in recent years, is now representing the Woodard family.

Crump, along with Philadelphia attorney Thomas Fitzpatrick, joined Woodard’s family Aug. 7 at Second Baptist Church in Erie, pledging to a lively crowd their intention to fight for justice in the shooting death of Woodard, who was Black.

At the heart of their argument, the attorneys said they obtained video from community members that contradicts the Pennsylvania State Police account — that a state parole agent shot Woodard because Woodard was dragging the agent with Woodard’s car along East 27th Street. 

Instead, Crump claims, the footage shows the car was stationary when the agent opened fire.

“The video is the most important piece of evidence,” Crump said. “Regardless of what the parole officers put in their reports — if it doesn’t match up with the video, then we know that it’s not true because we ain’t blind and we can see the video.”

"The case is on the video,” Crump said. “They fired those shots and that car had not moved.”

He added, “It was wrong to use unnecessary, excessive force … this was an unnecessary shooting, this was an unjustified shooting and this was an unconstitutional shooting of Marchello Woodard.”

Crump is calling for the parole agent’s arrest. He emphasized that while the district attorney and state attorney general have the authority to bring criminal charges, his legal team has the discretion to file a wrongful death lawsuit if justice is not served.

“It’s about equal justice,” he said. “You should not be able to kill somebody unjustifiably just because you have a badge and a gun. This is America. And the Constitution and due process and equal justice matter.”

District attorney Claims to Still Be Reviewing Evidence

Fitzpatrick said they have already spoken with Erie County District Attorney Beth Hirz but stressed that the decision on whether to charge the parole agent rests with her.

“If they don’t like our video, then they should have their own video,” Fitzpatrick said. “If (the parole agents) were wearing body cams, they would have their own video.”

The parole agents were not wearing body cameras because state parole agents do not have them, according to the state Department of Corrections. A department spokeswoman said the department is in the process of buying body cameras.

The White Camden County Cop who Killed Leonard Cure Faces Federal Charges of Excessive Force in Multiple Arrests

A white Camden County deputy who fatally shot a Florida man during a traffic stop is now facing federal charges related to repeated use of excessive force during arrests.

Staff Sergeant Buck Aldridge, who was relieved of duty following a federal grand jury indictment, is accused not only of excessive force but also of preparing misleading reports to justify his actions.

The U.S. Department of Justice indictment alleges Aldridge committed civil rights violations in multiple cases and falsified records to support his use of force.

Georgia civil rights activist Christina Kittle, who has been closely following the case, expressed concern over the timing of Aldridge’s removal from duty. “The fact that the Officer is just now being relieved of duty is concerning,” she said.

Aldridge gained national attention after a 2023 traffic stop of 53-year-old Leonard Cure, which ended with Aldridge shooting Cure to death. The stop occurred in October 2023 on I-95 near the Florida-Georgia line. However, it remains unclear if the shooting of Cure is among the specific use-of-force incidents cited in the federal indictment.

Kittle reacted to the indictment’s 13 counts against Aldridge, calling it a reflection of a broader systemic issue. “The fact that the officer had a record showing multiple counts of excessive force — that goes back to being a systemic issue.

“There’s no accountability for these officers. The first incident of excessive force should’ve been looked into, but I think the indictment said there were like 13 cases. That should’ve never piled up that high… so yeah, needs to be a bigger look into the institution entirely.”

She also stressed that routine traffic stops like Cure’s should never escalate to gunfire.

“Traffic stops are the most common interactions that everyday people have with police officers. I don’t wanna live in a world where they end in violence.”

Dashcam and bodycam footage from the traffic stop show a confrontation that escalated rapidly, culminating in Aldridge shooting Cure at point-blank range after deploying a stun gun.

“Who holds the accountable. Why is it up to the community to be the ones to have to finally lose somebody for there to be accountability? It should never have to come to that,” Kittle added.

Leonard Cure was exonerated just three years before his death, after spending 16 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Following the shooting, Cure’s family filed a $16 million federal lawsuit accusing Aldridge of excessive force and former Sheriff Jim Proctor of failing to address the deputy’s violent history. [MORE]

After a Jury Found an LA Cop Guilty of a Felony For His Attack on a Black Woman Fed Prosecutor Dropped the Felony Charge and Court Rewarded Cop w/a 4 Month Sentence - 3 Prosecutors Resign in Protest

From [HERE] and [HERE] Federal prosecutors Tuesday moved to dismiss the indictment and vacate the judgment in the case of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy whose original felony conviction for assaulting and pepper-spraying a Black woman was reduced to a misdemeanor by a judge who then sentenced him to four months behind bars.

The controversial plea agreement triggered the resignation of multiple federal prosecutors, according to reporting by the Los Angeles Times.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Eli A. Alcaraz and Brian R. Faerstein, along with section chief Cassie Palmer, resigned in protest after the new U.S. Attorney approved a post-trial plea deal for Deputy Trevor Kirk. Kirk had been found guilty of a felony for assaulting and pepper-spraying a woman outside a Lancaster WinCo supermarket in 2023. [MORE]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed its unopposed motion in Los Angeles federal court for a judge’s order to dismiss the indictment, vacate the judgment and exonerate Trevor Kirk’s bond.

U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson last month granted in part the government’s motion to dismiss the allegations in Kirk’s indictment that raised his conviction from a misdemeanor to a felony. While the court tossed the felony allegations, it did not strike any portion of the jury verdict, which found Kirk guilty of using unreasonable force.

However, Wilson did reject a portion of the post-conviction plea deal that stipulated a sentence of one year probation for the misdemeanor conviction.

Kirk, 32, of Santa Clarita was convicted in federal court in February of one felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law for the force used in June 2023 during an encounter with a woman during a shoplifting investigation outside a supermarket in Lancaster.

At the beginning of May, the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed an unusual post-conviction plea and sentencing agreement in which Kirk would plead guilty to a misdemeanor and admit under oath that he “used unnecessary force.”

The plea deal — which required Wilson’s approval — overturned the jury’s felony verdict and reduced Kirk’s possible prison exposure of 10 years to one year.

Following the filing of the post-conviction plea agreement, four federal prosecutors withdrew from the case.

Kirk’s attorney, Tom Yu, has described his client as a “hero, not a criminal.”

Now, the U.S. Attorney’s Office wants to drop the entire case.

“We thought Trump’s new U.S. Attorney’s Office could not stoop any lower, but it seems like Mr. Essayli and Mr. Keenan’s insistence on being Trevor Kirk’s BEST defense attorney has no limits,”  civil rights attorney Caree Harper wrote in an email to City News Service, referring to Bill Essayli, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Keenan, one of the prosecutors in the case.

In March, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Professional Association said the initial prosecution of Kirk was “wrongful and politically charged” and his actions, as seen on body-worn camera video, were “lawful, restrained, and aligned with training.”

Association President Cesar Romero said the union “stands unwaveringly” with Kirk.

“This isn’t just about one deputy — it’s an assault on every law enforcement officer who puts their life on the line daily,” Romero said in a statement. “We will not back down. Trevor has our full support, and we will fight alongside him and his loved ones until justice is restored.”

Evidence showed Kirk and another deputy were responding on June 24, 2023, to a possible robbery at WinCo Foods by a man and a woman. According to court papers, Kirk and his fellow deputy arrived at the scene, handcuffed a man matching the suspect’s description and detained him, while a woman fitting the description of the second suspect recorded the deputies with her phone.

The indictment states that Kirk then approached the woman — identified as Jacy Houseton — and attempted to grab her phone without issuing any commands. The woman turned away, prompting Kirk to grab her arm, hook his left hand behind her neck and forcefully throw her to the ground, prosecutors said.

While on the ground, Kirk yelled at Houseton to “get on the ground,” and she told him the video had already been posted on YouTube, according to the indictment.

Federal prosecutors initially said Kirk then placed his knee on the woman’s shoulder, and when she yelled for him to stop and used an expletive, he pulled his right arm back with a clenched fist and threatened to punch her in the face.

The indictment says Kirk used his department radio to call in a misleading report that he was in a fight.

Court papers further state that shortly thereafter, without giving any additional commands to Houseton, Kirk sprayed her twice in the face with pepper spray. The woman received medical attention for the spray and injuries received from being thrown to the ground, evidence shows.

The jury heard that Kirk then drafted and submitted a misleading report to the sheriff’s department in which he portrayed Houseton as a threat to his physical safety, claiming that the woman assaulted him, attempted to hit him and took a “fighting” stance.

At the time charges were filed last year, the sheriff’s department said Kirk was relieved of duty pending the outcome of the case.

Now, the U.S. Attorney’s Office wants to drop the entire case.

“We thought Trump’s new U.S. Attorney’s Office could not stoop any lower, but it seems like Mr. Essayli and Mr. Keenan’s insistence on being Trevor Kirk’s BEST defense attorney has no limits,”  civil rights attorney Caree Harper wrote in an email to City News Service, referring to Bill Essayli, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Keenan, one of the prosecutors in the case.

In March, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Professional Association said the initial prosecution of Kirk was “wrongful and politically charged” and his actions, as seen on body-worn camera video, were “lawful, restrained, and aligned with training.”

Association President Cesar Romero said the union “stands unwaveringly” with Kirk.

“This isn’t just about one deputy — it’s an assault on every law enforcement officer who puts their life on the line daily,” Romero said in a statement. “We will not back down. Trevor has our full support, and we will fight alongside him and his loved ones until justice is restored.”

Evidence showed Kirk and another deputy were responding on June 24, 2023, to a possible robbery at WinCo Foods by a man and a woman. According to court papers, Kirk and his fellow deputy arrived at the scene, handcuffed a man matching the suspect’s description and detained him, while a woman fitting the description of the second suspect recorded the deputies with her phone.

The indictment states that Kirk then approached the woman — identified as Jacy Houseton — and attempted to grab her phone without issuing any commands. The woman turned away, prompting Kirk to grab her arm, hook his left hand behind her neck and forcefully throw her to the ground, prosecutors said.

While on the ground, Kirk yelled at Houseton to “get on the ground,” and she told him the video had already been posted on YouTube, according to the indictment.

Federal prosecutors initially said Kirk then placed his knee on the woman’s shoulder, and when she yelled for him to stop and used an expletive, he pulled his right arm back with a clenched fist and threatened to punch her in the face.

The indictment says Kirk used his department radio to call in a misleading report that he was in a fight.

Court papers further state that shortly thereafter, without giving any additional commands to Houseton, Kirk sprayed her twice in the face with pepper spray. The woman received medical attention for the spray and injuries received from being thrown to the ground, evidence shows.

The jury heard that Kirk then drafted and submitted a misleading report to the sheriff’s department in which he portrayed Houseton as a threat to his physical safety, claiming that the woman assaulted him, attempted to hit him and took a “fighting” stance.

At the time charges were filed last year, the sheriff’s department said Kirk was relieved of duty pending the outcome of the case.

White Clark County Cops Had No Proof Jenoah Donald Had Drugs but They Stopped Him Anyway. Then Cops Pretended a Screw Driver in the Car was Deadly so They Fatally Shot Him. Gov to Pay $3.5M/No Charges

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

CORPORATE POLICE STATE - THE ENFORCER OF THE COMMODIFICATION OF LIFE WITHIN THE SPECTACLE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY. ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT HE OR SHE IS IMMUNE TO THE BASELESS DESTRUCTION OF HIS OR HER LIFE (INCLUDING IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS) BY A "GOVERNMENT" OR CORPORATION DOES LIVE IN A HAPPY MENAGERIE—ENJOY YOUR ILLUSIONS. (SEE: GUPI & JUDICIAL VICTIMIZATION)

From [HERE] The Clark County Council agreed Wednesday to pay $3.5 million to settle the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Jenoah Donald, a Black motorist killed by a Clark County sheriff’s deputy in February 2021.

The family filed the $17 million wrongful death lawsuit in February 2022 in U.S. District Court in Tacoma alleging wrongful death, assault and battery, negligence, and deprivation of civil rights. It named as defendants Deputy Sean Boyle, who shot Donald; Deputy Holly Troupe, who struggled with Donald in his car; then-Sheriff Chuck Atkins; and multiple unknown sheriff’s office employees.

The parties agreed last month to dismiss the claims against Boyle and Troupe, leaving Clark County as the sole remaining defendant. Trial was set to begin June 9.

A statement from county spokeswoman Joni McAnally said despite the settlement, the county “continues to deny liability for this unfortunate incident.”

Tacoma-based Herrmann Law Group said Donald “was the target of an illegal ‘pretextual stop’ ”by Deputy Sean Boyle on Feb. 4 in Hazel Dell.

The law firm cited a 1999 Washington Supreme Court case that found it’s unconstitutional for police to use a traffic stop as an excuse to investigate suspected criminal activity.

“The deputies believed Jenoah was leaving a drug house, but they did not have probable cause to pull him over for a drug crime. So, instead, the deputy pulled him over using the excuse of a defective rear light,” Lindquist said.

Deputy Boyle said during an interview that Donald was initially cooperative before other deputies arrived on scene. When Boyle went back to his vehicle to run the ID, another white deputy, Holly Troupe, had arrived and saw what she described as a “ball-handled” sharp object — later determined to be a screwdriver. [“a ball-handled” sharp objected?? Only a liar cop would describe a screw driver in such a novel way. And if she lied she could also ]. A third deputy, Greg Agar, also arrived for the broken headlight stop.

During the unlawful stop deputy Troupe claimed she saw a weapon in Donald's car, when there wasn't one. She saw a screwdriver. While in his patrol car, Deputy Boyle heard another deputy tell Donald, "show me your hands."

When Boyle returned, he ran up Donald's car, opened the door and told him he needed to get out and he threatened to use a police dog on him. He eventually punched Donald in the nose, investigators said, and Troupe attempted “pain compliance” techniques with her hands under Donald’s jaw.

That lead another officer to attempt to forcefully remove the 30-year-old from the vehicle.

According to prosecutors, Donald grabbed Deputy Boyle's outer vest, making his taser inaccessible. Meanwhile, the engine of the sedan Donald drove remained on. During the assault on Donald, deputies said they heard the engine revving. Boyle told investigators Donald grabbed him by the ballistics vest and pulled him toward the car.

No body camera footage exists from the encounter, so investigators relied heavily on the accounts of the officers involved.

Prosecutors claim the car started to move forward while Donald reportedly still had a grip on Deputy Boyle. Prosecutors claim unable to grab his taser, Deputy Boyle fired two shots, hitting Donald. Another deputy was in the process of drawing her weapon when the shooting happened.

After the shooting the police told Donald’s family he was dead but he had actually survived. He died a week after the shooting, after he was taken off life support. [MORE]

Portland Approves $3.75M for Police Murder of Immanueal Clark: White Cop Shot Black Man in the Back w/AR-15 and Then Denied Medical Help. Cops Were Looking for a White Suspect, No Charges by White DA

The City of Portland will settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought against the Portland Police Bureau from a November 2022 fatal shooting.

The estate of Immanueal Jaquez Clark will receive the $3,750,000 settlement.

Clark was 30 years old when he was shot and killed by white Portland officer Christopher Sathoff.

The suit alleges police had no probable cause or reasonable suspicion to stop the car that Clark-Johnson was driving on Nov. 19, 2022, as part of an armed robbery call.

Grand jury transcripts revealed in September that police surrounded and approached Clark-Johnson’s car based on a very general description of the suspected getaway car in the robbery and before officers at the robbery scene had obtained surveillance footage of the car.

Clark-Johnson and others in the car also didn’t match the description provided by the robbery victim, according to attorney Juan Chavez and audio of the 911 call.

On his initial 911 call, the victim said the three to four suspects who took off in a car were “white, definitely white” men, according to the audio. The dispatch report that appears on police mobile computer screens also described the suspects as white men, dispatch records indicate.

“It’s clear as day from the first 911 call from the robbery victim that he described he was robbed by three to four white guys in a car,” Chavez said in an interview. “The fact that they staged this high-risk felony stop for a car that at best they had reasonable suspicion to pull over for a traffic violation, then of course, you’re going to have a terrible result like this. It was just unreasonable for officers to have approached this car in this way.”

Police had been alerted to an armed robbery in the parking lot of the Super Deluxe fast-food restaurant on Southeast Powell Boulevard and 50th Avenue at 12:27 a.m. shortly before the shooting. The caller reported that a person wearing a ski mask and hooded jacket had pounded on his car window with a handgun.

The lawsuit details a different set of events from what Portland Police Bureau (PPB) described at the time: Clark-Johnson was simply "standing near" the parked and non-running car. When officers attempted the "stop," the lawsuit continued, Clark-Johnson ran away. Clark-Johnson was unarmed and not threatening the officers, the suit said. 

Officer Christopher Sathoff then shot Clark-Johnson in the back with an AR-15 rifle, the suit said.  

"The police then left him to lay on the concrete parking lot, writhing in pain and bleeding out, for 26 minutes before providing any medical attention," the lawsuit said. 

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Portland, alleges that not only did police have little reason to stop the sedan but they failed to come up with a plan on how to approach the car once they did.

“For almost half an hour, while Mr. Clark-Johnson lay severely wounded and begging for help, officers tried to get him to crawl toward him. Neighbors heard his cries and would have gotten him medical aid but were prevented by police,” the suit says.

The suit sought unspecified damages for the alleged violation of Clark-Johnson’s civil rights, his death and the cost of his medical care, burial services and memorial service. Chavez, representing Clark-Johnson’s family, is director of Oregon Justice Resource Center’s civil rights project. [MORE] and [MORE] and [MORE]

Another Unarmed Black Person Posing No Threat Murdered by Cops in Aurora, a City Run by White Liberals: Lawsuit Claims Police Shot Rashaud Terrelle Johnson During "low priority" Trespass Investigation

From [HERE] Attorneys representing the family of an unarmed man shot and killed by an Aurora police officer called that shooting "the worst Aurora police killing since Elijah McClain" and have filed a wrongful death lawsuit, they announced on Tuesday. Lawyers for the man's family say he was experiencing a mental health crisis at the time the officer shot him.

Rashaud Terrelle Johnson was shot and killed by Aurora Police Officer Brandon Mills in a field next to The Parking Spot, a parking lot at East 56th Avenue and Himalaya Street near Denver International Airport, on May 12. Johnson, 32, was identified by the Adams County Coroner's Office later that month.

Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain said at the time that Johnson attacked Mills after police were called to the parking lot for reports of a suspicious person who parking lot employees thought was trying to break into cars.

Edited body-worn camera footage from the officer, which the department released a few days later, showed Mills in a physical struggle with Johnson. The video showed that Johnson charged at Mills. Chamberlain said that during that struggle, Johnson had pulled a magazine containing extra ammunition for the officer's firearm out of his belt pouch.

Video shows Mills getting off the ground and taking several steps away from Johnson. Mills draws his gun, pointing it at Johnson while giving him commands to get on the ground.

"Get on the ground. Get on the ground now! Get on the ground. I'm gonna shoot you if you do not get on the ground," Mills can be heard saying in the video. Johnson starts walking toward Mills, who then shouts, "stop! Get back!"

Mills then fires two shots, striking Johnson. Denver police officers arrive a few minutes later.

Rashaud’s parentS, Taushica Carter and Christopher Johnson

Neil Sandhu, an attorney with Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC, the law firm representing Johnson's family, says that the public will never know why Johnson was behaving the way he did that day he was killed.

"Rashaud's effervescent life was cut short when he was shot and killed by Officer Mills of the Aurora Police Department, despite the fact that Rashaud posed no imminent threat of serious bodily harm," he said. "For the next few hours, people who worked at The Parking Spot made about four 911 calls. In each of those calls, they made a few things apparent: Rashaud posed no threat. They told 911 over and over again (that) the man they were calling about did not have a weapon. The only thing they wanted was for Aurora to dispatch somebody to get Rashaud some help."

Sandhu said the employees were "rebuffed" by the 911 operator each time, until Mills was dispatched.

"Instead of showing him a way out, Officer Mills decided to corral Rashaud against that fence, barking commands at him and demanding answers, even though Rashaud didn't appear to register any of the questions," he said.

Sandhu questioned why Mills didn't try to create space or put something between Johnson and himself after Johnson had run toward the officer.

"He created a few feet of separation between him and Rashaud, pulled out his gun, and paused for a few minutes while Rashaud looked at the ground. But inexplicably, Officer Mills decided to reengage. He raised his weapon again (...) and he again started barking commands at Rashaud. And it was only in that moment that Rashaud decided to look up and start slowly pacing again towards Officer Mills," he said. [MORE]