According to FUNKTIONARY:
convenience – the mother of surveillance. Convenience is a sinking ship (USS Gullible) to apathy, conformity, servitude and slavery. Convenience is a harbinger for the impending loss of freedom and a precursor-ruse to loss of liberty. (See: Risky, Monoright, Control, Surveillance, Security, Legislation, Citizenship & Foolish)
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Only 40 percent of people in the United States believe that Black and Hispanic people face “quite a bit” or “a great deal” of discrimination, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll which was released earlier this month.
About 74 percent of Black people say their communities continue to face substantial discrimination, while just 39 percent of white respondents said that Black people face serious discrimination. [MORE]
It takes a profound denial to not see the vast unequal power and disparity between white and Black people. Yet, as the poll indicates most white folks don’t recognize it as a problem.
The insightful Black political scientist Mack Jones made the obvious logical statement, “An elementary rule of causal analysis says that the cause must exist prior to the effect.” He said vast racial disparity in all measures of socioeconomic well being dates back directly to emancipation from physical slavery. But, he observed, in any analysis of “race” you often must indulge in non-logic, “clogic,” and frivolous concepts because the normal rules of logic don’t apply.
According to the Urban League’s “State of Black America,” Black people haven’t progressed since 1965. The Black-White disparity persists across virtually every indicator for the quality of life and Blacks occupy the bottom of nearly every statistical category in the United States. For instance, census data reveals that the unemployment gap between whites and blacks is virtually unchanged over the last 50 years. The jobless rate among African-Americans has remained double to whites for over 5 decades. The median Black household income is $43,862 versus $63,823 for Whites. Across all family structures, 59% of Black families have resources that fall short of basic family budgets, versus 37% of white families. Single-parent families are disproportionately Black - they account for 55% families with children under age 18, respectively, compared to 24% of white families. Nearly one third of Black students live in poverty (32%), compared with 10% of white students. Blacks trail Whites in homeownership, the traditional path to wealth building in the country, and their homes were valued less than Whites. Along with income and wealth, the educational gap has also widened. Schools remain as segregated as before Brown v. Board of Education, which was decided over 70 years ago. 80% of African-American fourth-graders can barely read and understand mathematics and only 19% were scored proficient in math. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) just 18% of Black eighth-graders reach reading “proficiency.” And in 2015 NAEP found that only 17% of Black 12th graders were proficient at reading. [MORE] In regard to housing, although Blacks make up only 13% of the general population they account for 37% of all homeless people and account for more than 50% of homeless families with children. Similarly, Black renters comprise 18.6% of America's renter population, yet they make up 51.1 % of those affected by an eviction filing and 43.4% of those evicted nationally. Additionally, Black people disproportionately comprise 40% of the 1.8 million incarcerated people in the US. Also, the quality of Black citizenship is so low that; no matter what the Constitution says law abiding Blacks are practically prohibited from possessing guns for self-defense and they are subject to omnipresent interference by police in the liberal jurisdictions where most blacks reside as police surveil, stop, detain, smell and search their clothing, cars and generally interfere with their freedom of movement and their right to be left alone as they attempt to go about their daily lives. And so on.
ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:
Spacism – racism white supremacy applied to geographical, cultural and geopolitical space; especially the consolidation and concentration of property ownership by Caucasians and Corporations in (or with) economic and political power. 2) urban removal. 3) gentrification. (See: Racism White Supremacy, Property, Capital Punishment & Monopoly Capitalism)
In a country that big ups itself as a beacon of freedom and as a land of opportunity it would seem then that the above numbers would result in calls for a national emergency. However, as the poll reveals, most white people have another way to perceive and explain racial disparities: they believe black people are naturally inferior to white people. The reason that most white people believe they are superior to Black people is because they have white skin. Most whites imagine themselves to be a member of another "race" within the human species and a part of a human hierarchy wherein persons unable to produce color and lacking melanin are supreme and whites imagine themselves to be higher than what they imagine non-whites to be. Thus, the belief in white supremacy provides an ideological justification for the rank ordering of humanity and explains their indifference to vast racial disparity and unequal power. Based on their delusion, Black people are properly in their low social, economic and political position in the natural order of things in a white over Black system. That is, white believers in this ideology tacitly approve of the vast disparity, unequal power, permanent underclass and general low social standing in all areas of people activity experienced by Black people. If you know this about white people, you need know little else. If you do not know this about white people, virtually all else that you know about them will only confuse you.
White persons who believe in said delusion may be described as “racists” or white supremacists and the white over Black system may be described as the system of racism white supremacy as defined by Neely Fuller, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing and FUNKTIONARY. It is important to understand that because most white people believe Black people are inherently inferior to whites, it is fair to say that most white people are racist, white supremacist. Certainly, the permanent existence of the system of racism white supremacy itself is substantial evidence that most white people are (or the most powerful white people) are racist. If this were not the case then most white people would be outraged at such oppression based on a man-made political classification and would view the socio-economic problems plaguing Black people and their communities as a national emergency. To the contrary however, most whites approve of the status quo and consequently seek to dominate Black people or have master-servant relations with them or they approve of such relations.
Racists necessarily suffer from delusion because in reality race has no biological validity. FUNKTIONARY explains, races are not biologically real, nor can humans be divided into scientifically valid, biologically distinct groupings or races based on subjective, arbitrary and superficial observable criteria (genetic traits). If scientists were true to the scientific reality, we would have to map millions of genetic traits that would translate into millions of "races.”’ [MORE] ‘Race is "a totally artificial theologically-driven, biologically-based, and scientifically-invalid "European" ideology of human genetic evolution and classification coinciding with the emergence of colonialism and the rise of the transatlantic slave trade." Dr. Blynd explains, Race is not real but the psycho-socio-economic effects of racism surely are.’ ‘Race as a biological construct has been created to be wrongly confused with ethnic identity in order to establish the sense of "otherness" and de-humanization of melanated peoples around the globe.” It is “White Degeneracy wrongly cast as Supremacy.” Racism is a psycho-socio-economic reality based on a pseudo-scientific biological myth. [MORE]
The great Black scholar Dr. Dorothy Roberts explained,
“race is a political system that governs people by sorting them into social groupings based on invented biological demarcations. Race is not only interpreted according to invented rules, but, more important, race itself is an invented political grouping. Race is not a biological category that is politically charged. It is a political category that has been disguised as a biological one”
Dr. Francis Cress Welsing and Fuller explained that ‘having no biological validity, the term "race" is better translated to mean organization. The sole purpose of such organization is to maintain white domination and world control of non-whites, who have been frictionalized into made up classifications of people by racists. Thus, the only purpose of race is to practice racism.
In reality, Black people function as a “powerless class” having no power independent of elite whites. According to Neely Fuller in a White Supremacy System the most accurate way to describe what "class" people are in is to describe their power relationship to each other. Generally speaking, in their relationship with whites, Blacks cannot be be "upper" or "middle" - but really only under whites in a system of vast unequal power.[MORE] In nearly all the areas where the majority of Black people reside in the US, elite whites control and own all major resources (such as banks, mainstream media, major real estate, ports, utilities, factories, farms, shopping centers, large corporations, major businesses, major industry, major non-profits, unions, hospitals, etc) and generally own anything else of substantial material value. In general, elite whites function (directly or indirectly) as Black people’s; employers, landlords, creditors, bankers, land owners, supervisors and major decision-makers. Thus, in their direct or indirect relations with elite whites, most black people serve as their employees, workers, consumers, leasees, assistants, servants, tenants, patients, customers etc., or they provide some other service to them. Even most doctors, professors, scientists, lawyers or the most educated Black persons function to serve elite whites in some capacity. Fuller explained, ‘in a socio-material system dominated by wealthy, powerful racists, all major decisions involving Black people are made by elite racists. ‘Whatever a Black person gets, and/or is allowed to keep, is generally the result of decisions made by elite whites. This is the functional meaning of White Supremacy (Racism) that many Black people prefer not to acknowledge.’ [MORE] Fuller observes that in spite of any and all statements Black people may make about themselves having economic and/or political independence and the like, in the final analysis, they are all victims of the white supremacy process.” Dr. Amos Wilson similarly describes elite racists as basically “soul controllers” of Black people who control them through reward and punishment, like mice in Skinner’s lab (‘the mouse reflects the conditions that it is forced to survive under as the result of power relations btw the mouse and Skinner, the experimenter. The experimenter has power over the mouse and his circumstances and uses that power to create something new in the mouse that wasn’t there before and that is different from the other mice who were not conditioned in the lab. The conditioned mouse’s personality is socially created by the experimenter through reward and punishment because he lives under the power of the experimenter.’). Wilson asks,
‘Who has control of your food? Who has control of your electricity? Who has control of your water? Of your jobs? Who tells you what to wear when you go to work? Who tells you when to come to work...when to leave...when to go to lunch...how to speak...how to write...how to do this...how to do that...and how are these things taught, and how they are conditioned?"-- It is by reward and punishment. You do this you get paid; you don't do this you don't get paid; you get a raise, you get docked. What do we have here?’ [MORE]
Deceit is the basic tool of elite racists, who are masterful liars. Dr. Blynd explains that the system of racism is maintained not by force but through “cooperative control” over Black people primarily through deception. Thus, a major goal of white supremacy is for the true reality of Blacks to remain concealed. Dr. Wilson explained, “The very essence of pathology is a lack of knowledge of reality. How can one deal with reality if one doesn’t know what it is.’ Elite racists have deceived Black people, who have been conditioned and indoctrinated to be a very gullible people (regardless of level of education). As stated by Lerone Bennet, Black people are disposed to view the world “Whitely.” They see the world from the viewpoint of elite whites and thereby tend to react in foreseeable ways. Black folks have been made into jesusized believers in all sorts of unchallenged assumptions/lies and dogmatic programming such as christianity, democracy, statism, individualism, fairness, voting, American progress, justice, upward mobility, non-violence, moral suasion, color blindness etc. Relevant for our purposes here, elite whites have deceived the Black masses with language to confuse the words “bigotry” or “prejudice” with “racism” and used the terms interchangeably to further their own political goals. On a daily basis, elite white liberals in particular (scholars, publishers, professionals, pundits and media probots, influencers, politicians and the Black rolebots trained to parrot them), go on solemnly chattering about “racism” while cleverly “propagendizing” the artificiality that racism is mean words or hateful attitudes by bad actors or slurs, stereotypes, disrespect, affiliation with clown groups (Nazis, KKK, MAGA etc.) or as isolated acts of discrimination. Said vested interests rarely discuss any substantive definition or theory of racism.
It is important to understand that hate, disrespect and mean words have little to do with racism. Racists may hate Black people or be bigoted towards Blacks, or they may enjoy the presence of Blacks and still be racist. Rather, the gravamen of racism white supremacy is master-servant relations between whites and Blacks or the domination of Blacks by whites.
By analogy, it is safe to say that the vast majority of dog owners in the US don’t hate their dogs. But, they believe they are superior to dogs and consequently dog owners have master-servant relations with their dogs in accord with said belief. For instance, dogs function as pets and are kept on a leash, they are disciplined with sticks or belts and may be transported in a cage. Different rules and expectations for dogs exist, such as having them eat on the floor out of a dog bowl or to stay outside in a confined area and dogs have few rights and are the owner’s property and trained to serve the owner, etc.; said relationship between humans and dogs is perceived as moral and normal by most people. The dog owner’s domination is generally not based on hatred of dogs but the superiority of the human. In fact, most dog owners seem to love their dogs and do not dominate them out of disdain. Similarly, racists believe they are inherently superior to Blacks and therefore should be in dominant positions over Blacks. Said belief is not based on hatred but their delusion of superiority. To the racist, Black people's sole purpose for existing in the US is to serve white folks in some capacity and to generate wealth for them. As with human-dog relations, a social arrangement in which Black people did not serve white people or where Blacks and whites actually had arms length relations is something inconceivable to the racist mind, its as crazy to them as a dog ordering a human to sit on the floor. White supremacy is the belief in ranking humanity based solely on the physical characteristic of white skin. It is myth-information and folly to pretend that such a hierarchy is based on hatred or anger or affiliation with clown groups. Elite racists purposefully misdirect Black people about the true nature of racism to gain our “cooperative control,” and they have been tremendously successful.
Dr. Wilson explains,“when we define racism in terms of attitude you'll find yourself then solving the wrong problems. White people will stop expressing those negative attitudes, they will smile more readily at you, they will even marry you and go to bed with you but you will notice that the effects of racism, like poverty and all these other things caused by racism will continue. In fact the problems will increase.” [MORE] Specifically, when we believe that racism is based on “attitude” then we miss the reality that white people are practicing racism right in front of our faces. With a view that racists are primarily mean spirited persons who use slurs and act disrespectful, gullible Blacks misdiagnose the reality that polite, neutral and professional white landlords, teachers, politicians, journalists, store managers, judges, police officers, loan officers, real estate agents etc may be practicing racism in their relations with them or other Black people. Such that it is no coincidence that Black people are disproportionately evicted, incarcerated, searched, denied loans, not hired, miseducated etc. Dr. Wilson states:
The bane of the African community is the exploitative White American community which projects a so-called civilized, fraternal, egalitarian, liberal face while concurrently seeking to maintain White supremacy. This means that the White American community must maintain African subordination while not appearing to do so. It must cannibalistically sacrifice the vitality, autonomy, and if need be, the life of the African American community while posing as its benefactor and savior. It pleads innocence while washing its hands of the blood of African people. This duplicitous task can only be accomplished by making it appear that the African community is dying of natural causes, not of an ingenious attempt on the part of the White American community to strangle it to death.
The general elements of racism white supremacy are; 1) an individual usage of his/her power or team effort of white collective power or a conspiracy among white individuals and/or groups of white people 2) to control, harm and/or dominate non-white people 3) by engaging in impersonal conduct (that may include speech) that is a) genocidal or otherwise detrimental to their social, economic, political and mental or physical well being or b) that perpetuates the white supremacy dynamic. “Conspiracy” here, as in the criminal law, means an informal or formal agreement or strategy among individual whites to engage in harmful conduct or speech on behalf of the “white race” or to benefit the “white race.” That is, as in the criminal law, an express agreement need not exist, communication amongst participants is not necessary and the participants need not know each other. However, each participant (racist) has a shared intent and mutual goal of maintaining or refining the system of domination – it is a union of wills among racists. Speech by itself cannot be racism white supremacy. The emphasis in regard to racism white supremacy is unjust behavior not speech. As explained by Neely Fuller, “I don’t care about white people calling me nigger. I am concerned with what they want to do to a nigger or what they do with people whom they think are niggers.” Doing, not talking/thinking is the operable word there (obviously criminal threats to harm and actionable words to defraud and deceive can be racist). Also, a conspiracy may be inferred from a development and a collocation of circumstances. Like a criminal conspiracy, a conspirator is guilty of every offense committed by every other conspirator in furtherance of racism white supremacy.
FUNKTIONARY explains that racism is economic discrimination by one group over and against another for the purposes of subjugation and/or maintaining the imbalance of power through cooperative control, misinformation, indoctrination, genocide and oppression. Nelly Fuller observed that there is only one functioning form of racism in the known world- White supremacy. This means there is no place in the world where Blacks dominate whites or are in control of white people and there is no system of Black Supremacy anywhere in the world. Of course Black individuals can be hateful or prejudiced towards white people. However, such conduct involves individual behavior, not systematic power. Anon explains, ‘There are NO black individuals or black organizations that have the power to strip whites of their collective right to live where they want, work where they want, get an education wherever they want, or control what white people do collectively in ANY area of human activity. There are NO black institutions that are more powerful than white institutions. Therefore, blacks do not have the COLLECTIVE POWER to diminish the quality of life for the white collective.’ As such, there is no Black racism; white supremacy is racism and racism is white supremacy.
Anon, explains “Racism is the COLLECTIVE behaviors of a group. A white individual within a system of racism/white supremacy has the implicit or explicit support of that system IF they choose to practice racism.” Collective power is the institutions and systems that benefit one group at the expense of another group, and allow one group to dominate another group in all areas of human activity.
Racism white supremacy is defined as follows:
Racism White Supremacy - psychopathic degeneracy. 2) "The local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet earth—a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people."
People who classify themselves as White, who wish to be taken seriously, and who are righteous and responsible, will only talk about ending White Supremacy (Racism) and replacing it with Justice. -Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, MD, from FUNKTIONARY
The different treatment and different perception of Black people by a majority of whites is based on their belief in their imagined superiority. Their delusion prevents them from seeing the vast disparity and unequal power between whites and blacks that has existed since emancipation as anything other the natural outcome of the inherent inferiority of Blacks. Racists seek to maintain their superior position over Blacks and maintain master-servant relations with them based on said ideology and or because they have the power to do so.
The racist delusion has nothing to do with left and right retail politics. Both democrats and republicans co-maintain the system of racism white supremacy. Really, there is no difference. Robert Smith observes that since the Kennedy-Johnson administrations both parties have acted out a symbolic, political theater in which Republicans play the party of racial reaction and “the white party” and Democrats perform the role of racial liberalism, while taking Blacks for granted, engaging meaningless symbolic politics and delivering nothing tangible to Black people or their communities in exchange for the millions of votes it receives. In fact, a substantial majority of Black people reside in jurisdictions that have been controlled by elite white liberals for decades now – areas where Blacks indisputably live an empirically demonstrable and unchanging 2nd class existence, despite their loyalty to the democratic party. Despite the rife problems that are particularly unique to the Black community, democrats have no Black agenda and never have had one.
The poll above is a reflection of what Black people are working with – a racist white majority engaged in “majority tyranny.” Years ago Lani Guinier warned of the dangers presented by a white majority that is fixed and permanent and unchangingly hostile to Black interests. FUNKTIONARY call this the “moron majority.” Ignorant black individuals who do not understand racism white supremacy as a system of white over Black domination and vast unequal power will continue to live reactionarily and seek the wrong solutions and wrong political alliances. FUNKTIONARY explains, Racism White Supremacy is a virus in the mind, a malignant meme that has both the host of the virus and the whole society sick.“ A racist is an upholder, supporter and perpetrator of the institution of the White Supremacy Dynamic.” As it explains, “The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.“ In their relations with Blacks, racists consequently function illogically, hypocritically and (unconsciously or consciously) behave as psychopaths (persons who understand right and wrong but choose to ignore it) . As such, Black people’s tireless efforts to transform or reform the conduct of racists through moral suasion or strategies that rely on the benevolence of racists (such as DEI) necessarily fail.
Additionally, Black people’s gullible expectations that “integrated” racists will properly provide medicine or properly inform them, defend or protect the rights of Black people or “do the right thing” whenever race is a variable is smoking-gun evidence of a people who don’t understand the context in which they live in. Dr. Welsing observed that we have erroneously believed we could be integrated into the white supremacy system and have depended upon racists to maximally develop Black children, communities, organizations and institutions and so forth in the same manner that white people promote their own maximal development and solve their own problems.’ [MORE] Despite their best efforts, Blacks ‘are in a continuous state of checkmate, a losing streak that is centuries long because of our failure to understand the game.’
A liberated black individual understands that he/she lives in the system of racism white supremacy and understands that all things happening to Black people must be analyzed in this context. He/she also understands that he/she has been politicized from birth as a member of the “black race,” which only has meaning as a political grouping and that racists are playing a survival game with him/her and that the game is going on and he/she is a participant in the game regardless of whether or not he or she wants to participate. With a clearer discernment of reality such an individual will know that he/she cannot transform the delusional mind of a racist nor can Black people build alliances with people who seek to dominate them. Freed from non-reality and the illogic of race and racism, the liberated Black individual should consequently drop all quiescence with racism white supremacy, master-servant relations and belief in pathological political “strategies.”
Such a “seeing” Black individual will begin the real work of neutralizing or destroying the power racists use to dominate Blacks and address the myriad of unjust problems plaguing Black people and their communities as the on-going state of emergency that it is.
Dr. Welsing observes that thus far, all persons such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the BPP, Marcus Garvey, Nelson Mandela and many courageous others who have attempted to establish justice and/or to eliminate racism white supremacy have utterly failed.’
Elite racists have done a great job at minimizing and burying the works of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Dr. Amos Wilson, Neely Fuller, Marimba Ani, Steve Cokely, Dr. Blynd, Elijah Muhammad and others. Racist suspect liberal scholars in particular deny their existence by omission. Unlike revolutionary black leaders from the past, said persons are rebels - and there is a big difference between rebels and revolutionaries. Bhagwan Rajineesh explained; “the revolutionary is part of the political world. His approach is through politics. His understanding is that changing the social structure is enough to change the man. The rebel is a spiritual phenomenon. His approach is absolutely individual. His vision is that if we want to change the society, we have to change the individual. Society in itself does not exist; it is only a word, like ‘crowd’, but if you go to find it, you will not find it anywhere. Wherever you will encounter someone, you will encounter an individual. Society is only a collective name, just a name, not a reality – with no substance. The individual has a soul, has a possibility of evolution, of change, of transformation. Hence the difference is tremendous. .. The rebel trusts you to create internal change; the revolutionary has no such trust in the individual.”
The Black rebels noted above were and are committed to helping change the way black people thought and how they perceive reality – and sought to ultimately enable the Black individual to change his consciousness or unlearn his indoctrination and drop the mind given to him by racists. That is, our once manipulated and remotely controlled Black consciousness can become a source of power after it has become “endependent.” If a substantial number of Black people have become so liberated then society will be forced to change as a consequence.
As stated by Marimba Ali, ‘racism is the fire ignited by white people; our response is only the smoke. And although the liberals would have it otherwise, there is no way to extinguish a fire without experiencing the smoke. White people have made the fire; we will put it out.”
A settlement was reached in the wrongful death lawsuit filed in El Paso by the family of a Mexican migrant who was killed and a survivor of a controversial Hudspeth County shooting against a West Texas prison, court documents show.
A motion filed on the afternoon of Tuesday, Aug. 19, states, "the parties have reached a settlement in this matter." The document provides no other details.
The lawsuit filed by the family of Jesus Ivan Sepúlveda Martinez and shooting survivor, Berenice Casias Carrillo, was set to go to trial Tuesday morning, but was postponed. U.S. Senior Judge David Briones was to preside over the case.
Sepúlveda's family and Casias filed the lawsuit against LaSalle Corrections V LLC, a private company that owns and operates a West Texas Detention Facility in Sierra Blanca, Texas . The men accused of shooting Sepúlveda and Casias are twin brothers, Mike Thomas Sheppard and Mark Edward Sheppard.
Mike Sheppard was the warden at the West Texas Detention Center operated by LaSalle Corrections. Mike Sheppard was allegedly on duty when the shooting happened, so the lawsuit claims his "actions impute liability to LaSalle Corrections."
Christopher Benoit, attorney for Sepúlveda's family and Casias, filed the motion announcing the settlement by asking for a remote video conference hearing because federal law "requires approval of the Court for the benefits of Mr. Sepúlveda Martínez’s two minor children."
The custodians of the children live "in a rural ejido in Durango, Mexico and will not be able to travel to the United States," stated the motion asking for a video conference hearing to take place within 60 days. An ejido is communal land used for agriculture.
The motion does not state the terms of the settlement. Benoit could not immediately be reached for comment.
The lawsuit had sought unspecified money for damages suffered by Sepúlveda's family and Casias to be determined by a jury.
Sepúlveda, 22, from the Mexican state of Durango, and Casias were shot on Sept. 27, 2022, as they and a group of about 13 migrants were walking in the desert near Sierra Blanca when they stopped to drink water out of a reservoir near Indian Hot Spring Road and FM 111.
Sepúlveda was hoping to go to Austin to work to send money back to his young family in Mexico, his family previously said.The Sheppard brothers were driving to a meeting when they spotted the group and allegedly fired at them, the lawsuit states.
Mike Sheppard allegedly shot Sepúlveda in the face and killed him. He is also accused of shooting Casias in the abdomen. She survived her wounds.
The brothers initially claimed they thought they were shooting at a javelina, court documents state.
More: 'We're destroyed': Sepúlveda family returns home with migrant son's remains
Mark Sheppard was employed as a detention officer with Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office and previously worked as a detention officer at LaSalle Corrections, the lawsuit states.
The criminal case against the brothers is in limbo with no charges filed against the brothers, court record show. El Paso District Attorney James Montoya, who represents the 34th Judicial District covers El Paso, Hudspeth and Culberson counties, has repeatedly declined to comment because the case is pending. [MORE]
Contractor Hector Madrid Reyes was driving to Home Depot in March when he was rear-ended. As he and the other driver exchanged information, a Georgia State Patrol officer pulled up and asked for their licenses. Madrid, who arrived in the U.S. from Honduras as a teenager and was awaiting a court hearing for his asylum claim, didn’t have one.
“There’s no public transportation where we’re at, no Uber or Lyft,” said his wife, Jacqueline Maravilla, about his choice to drive. “Everything's 45 minutes from everything. It's a calculated risk we have to take to support our family.”
That risk has grown even greater for thousands of immigrant families under the Trump administration, as officials expand efforts to deport people with little or no criminal history. The monthly number of people deported whose most serious conviction was a traffic violation — such as driving without a license — has more than tripled in the last six months, hitting almost 600 in May, according to new estimates by The Marshall Project. In total, over 1,800 people with traffic violations have been deported this year.
People with no criminal convictions at all make up two-thirds of the more than 120,000 people deported between January and May. For another 8%, the only offense on their record was illegal entry to the U.S. Only about 12% were convicted of a crime that was either violent or potentially violent. The numbers contradict officials' continued claims that immigration enforcement is focusing on the “worst of the worst” criminal offenders. [MORE]
In massa’ media’s pathological coverage of the “DC Emergency” it 1) conceals the reality that the emergency is a non-existent hoax as there are no federal cops in dangerous areas in DC and “the troops” are mostly protecting federal property and statutes and 2) that the emergency is plainly unlawful as it clearly violates the Home Rule Act, which is an act of Congress. Trump and the dependent media’s effort here apparently is to upload a new tyrant paradigm into the minds of its obedient, racist believers that federal authority may suspend the so-called “rights” of citizens anywhere and impose emergency rule based on arbitrary, immeasurable criteria whenever they deem necessary and for however long they want to. For whatever reason, racists don’t believe that this could ever happen to them where they live. But authority, which is the belief in the government’s implied right to rule over people, has no bounds and does not recognize imaginary concepts such as “race,” unless it wants to use it for its purposes. The system of power supremacy encompasses the system of racism white supremacy. Authority can also be used to destroy white life and their so-called “freedoms” it “granted” to its believers. For example, after decades of authorities destroying the 4th Amendment in order to fight the “war on [Blacks] crime,” no rational white person could argue that said amendment provides them any meaningful protection from the government.
According to FUNKTIONARY:
tyrant-paradigm – the assertion or assent to certain concepts, idea, memes, words, patterns of thinking, attitudes, beliefs, and convictions that give rise to coercive political systems. It includes the notion that the tyrants (territorial gangsters) are so omniscient and omnipotent that they can prevent natural persons from living free. The words that constitute the tyrant paradigm are enemy outposts in your mind. Tyrants “own” the minds of their oppressed victims to the extent that victims hold content and attributes of the tyrant-paradigm in the minds. The tyrant-paradigm consists of the “construction of systematic thought” and “the systematic patterns of thought” that give rise to coercive governmental and political systems. (See: Authority, The OCTOCON, Territorial Gangsters, Stationary Bandits, Government, Ideologies & Reactions)
From [HERE] “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken
Let’s not mince words: every American should be alarmed by President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tactics, theatrics and threats.
What is unfolding in the nation’s capital is a hostile takeover of our constitutional republic.
This is no longer about partisan politics, wag-the-dog distractions from the Epstein debacle, or even genuine national security concerns.
This is martial law disguised as law-and-order—the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook.
We have been traveling this slippery slope toward a police state for some time, but under Trump 2.0, the descent towards outright tyranny is accelerating.
Building on the expanded emergency powers he has claimed to wage war on immigration, wokeness and the economy, Trump is taking aim at yet another so-called “crisis”—this time, by waging war on crime in the nation’s capital, despite the fact that crime is at a 30-year low.
Under the guise of “restoring order” and “cleaning up” the streets, Trump has called in the National Guard, dispatched the FBI, and federalized the local police in order to take control of Washington, D.C.
This is how the Emergency State operates in the open.
A real but manageable problem—crime, homelessness, public disorder—is inflated into an existential threat.
Fear is manufactured, then exploited to seize more power. (In many cases, the “facts” fueling these crackdowns come directly from the president’s own disinformation machine—manufacturing the perception of danger to justify the expansion of control.)
Whether the trigger is terrorism, civil unrest, economic instability, or public health, the aim remains the same: expand the reach of federal authority, justify more militarized policing, and condition the public to accept the suspension of rights in the name of national security.
Once these powers are taken, they are never willingly relinquished. [MORE]
Can racist suspect federal authorities recognize the 2nd Amendment rights of Black people to Carry Guns for Self Defense while they also try to appear more punitive than racist suspect liberals? The concealed reality here is that the racist suspect elite, white liberals who control DC are not soft on crime. They have already crammed the overcrowded DC Jails with Black people arrested for mere gun possession. In fact, liberals in Chicago, NYC, Baltimore, Atlanta etc are also 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 become accomplices to crime and partly responsible (in addition to the criminals themselves) for victimization. [MORE]
Another concealed truth here is that the murder rate in DC is low relative to what it was. According to DOJ data, the district had 274 homicides in 2023 and 187 in 2024. Yet this is nothing compared to what it was; in 1991 there were 482 murders and 443 and 454 murders respectively in 1992 and 1993. These numbers are on a substantial downward decline in general. Nevertheless, people’s perception of the crime rate is always at odds with reality because propaganda serves a greater in purpose in the system of racism/white supremacy. Looking at the numbers outside of their historical context is part of racist propaganda programming for the racist mind and manufactured mentacidal Black mind.
ACCORDING TO DR. AMOS WILSON, Black criminals function as a negative reference group vital to maintaining the White American self-image. The Black criminal is used to support the White American community's self-serving, self-justifying judgments of itself. White America's preoccupation with Black criminality betrays its own need for reassurance; betrays its own basic insecurity regarding its projected moral purity. Consequently, the higher the incidence of reported Black criminality, the more exceptionally righteous White America feels itself to be. The more righteous it feels itself to be the more intensely and guiltlessly it promulgates and justifies its domination and exploitation of African peoples at home and abroad. [MORE]
During this bullshit emergency the president deployed nearly 2,000 law enforcement officers into a city supposedly teeming with criminals. And yet the effort netted some 380 arrests in 10 days, and many of the charges the administration has bragged about are for low-level nonviolent offenses, such as possession of narcotics or carrying a pistol without a license.
"Congrats on cracking down on crime, but…carrying a pistol without a license isn't a crime, it's a constitutionally protected right," Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) wrote in posts on X. "In high crime areas like DC, people rely on their right to keep and bear arms to keep them safe. I do." [MORE]
Massa media can’t stop bullshitting enough about gun rights. Although, the Supreme Court has made it plain that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in public, liberal puppeticians and PropaGandhi are working tirelessly to make said inalienable right illusory. Said ruling was not confusing. The court clearly stated;
Nothing in the Second Amendment’s text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms. As we explained in Heller, the “textual elements” of the Second Amendment’s operative clause— “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be in- fringed”—“guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation. Heller 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.”
This definition of “bear” naturally encompasses public carry. Most gun owners do not wear a holstered pistol at their hip in their bedroom or while sitting at the dinner table. Although individuals often “keep” firearms in their home, at the ready for self-defense, most do not “bear” (i.e., carry) them in the home beyond moments of actual confrontation. To confine the right to “bear” arms to the home would nullify half of the Second Amendment’s operative protections.
Moreover, confining the right to “bear” arms to the home would make little sense given that self-defense is “the central component of the [Second Amendment] right itself.” Heller, 554 U. S., at 599; see also McDonald, 561 U. S., at 767. After all, the Second Amendment guarantees an “individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation,” Heller, 554 U. S., at 592, and confrontation can surely take place outside the home.
Although we remarked in Heller that the need for armed self-defense is perhaps “most acute” in the home, id., at 628, we did not suggest that the need was insignificant else- where. Many Americans hazard greater danger outside the home than in it. See Moore v. Madigan, 702 F. 3d 933, 937 (CA7 2012) (“[A] Chicagoan is a good deal more likely to be attacked on a sidewalk in a rough neighborhood than in his apartment on the 35th floor of the Park Tower”). The text of the Second Amendment reflects that reality.
The Second Amendment’s plain text thus presumptively guarantees petitioners Koch and Nash a right to “bear” arms in public for self-defense.
If Alex Jones is Liable for $1B for Accurately Calling Sandy Hoax a False Flag then What are the Remedies for the Actual COVID Genocide Caused by Govt Authorities, The Dependent Media and Big Pharma?
DEFAULT JUDGEMENTS ARE WINS ONLY BY DEFAULT. THEY DON’T PROVE THE EXISTENCE OR NON-EXISTENCE OF ANYTHING. Alex Jones was ordered to pay over $1.4 billion dollars in damages in defamation cases against “the victims” of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
The dependent media has mislead the public to believe that actual trials took place and juries made factual findings that Alex Jones made false statements about Sandy Hook after examining evidence during a contested court case. Specifically, the media has mislead the public to believe that the families demonstrated with evidence that Sandy Hook actually took place and thereafter a court found Jones liable for defamation for stating otherwise.
However, contrary to constant media mischaracterization, there were no actual contested trials. Rather, default judgements were made against Jones for his lawyers’ failure to provide documents and meet court filing deadlines. No trial ever took place. Once a default judgment was made by the court the only thing left for the jury to do was to determine the amount of damages for the alleged defamation. Jones participated in that part of the proceeding. The court proceedings only pertained to how much should be awarded in damages.
Default judgments are a drastic action because they confront the judicial preference for disposition on the merits. Default judgments don’t prove that something happened - they just mean someone lost a lawsuit where something was alleged.
If an actual, contested trial defamation trial had taken place the plaintiffs would have had the burden to actually prove that Jones made false statements; not vice-versa. That is, the plaintiffs would have had to show that Sandy Hook was real - with actual authenticated, admissible evidence and testimony subject to cross-examination, credibility determinations and inspection in an adversarial process before a jury who would decide on the merits. But that never happened. In other words, if plaintiffs brought suit because Jones said Santa was fake and thereafter Jones failed to respond to the lawsuit, a default judgment would eventually be entered. Such a judgment wouldn’t make Santy real though. In The Spectacle ,The Dependent Media goes on pretending otherwise.
Once a default judgment was made by the court the only thing left for the jury to do was to determine the amount of damages for the alleged defamation. Jones participated in that part of the proceeding. Although the entry of default deprives the defaulting party of the right to contest most of the complaint’s factual allegations, that party may contest the amount of damages.
The Dependent media mischaracterized a hearing on damages as a “jury trial” in order to confuse the proceeding with an actual jury trial on the merits, which never occurred. [MORE]
From [HERE] Scrolling thru Twitter I came across a video of RFK, Jr. telling Congress that the Covid vaccines were actually developed by the DoD and given to Pfizer and Moderna so they would appear to be from Big Pharma which is why Big Pharma was given the ‘no liability’ clause. The video disappeared, was purged from my repost, and has since been deleted.
Trump takes a bow for making Operation Warp Speed one of his most definitive moments in history. He continues to completely ignore the fact that these vaccines have caused not just adverse events and death but the recurrence of CoVid in individuals. Sometimes lasting for weeks.
An NIH study of Soldiers early in the vax administration (December 2020 thru August 2021 – although published in June 2021) determined that Myocarditis had developed among 24 recipients within 4 days. The study’s authors questioned whether myocarditis should be considered an ‘adverse event’ and reportable. The conclusion was to Not Include the findings. The authors came from the Navy, Army, Marines, and Mayo Clinic. [MORE]
From [HERE] Earlier this month, President Donald Trump took control of the police in Washington, D.C.
On August 11, Trump declared a "crime emergency" in D.C., ordering "operational control of the Metropolitan Police Department" (MPD) to be "delegated to the Attorney General." He also authorized the deployment of National Guard troops and other federal law enforcement officers throughout the district. Ever since, federal authorities have been out in force, rounding up suspected criminals as well as motorbikes.
The takeover was nominally meant to protect D.C. residents from violent criminals run amok. But is that actually happening? Or are authorities just rounding people up for possessing drugs and handguns without the government's permission?
The evening of August 11, the White House posted an update. "Multi-agency task forces are hitting the streets of Washington, D.C., cleaning up crime and keeping our neighborhoods SAFE," the post claimed. "In just ONE NIGHT," agents "arrested 37 criminals," "seized 11 illegal firearms," and "issued 4 narcotic charges." In a thread, the White House showed photos of numerous arrestees and listed charges such as "failure to appear for trial on an assault offense," "carrying a pistol without a license," and "possession with intent to distribute."
"There have been over 380 total arrests since the start of the operation on Thursday, August 7," a White House official told Reason on Monday. In the process, "59 firearms have been seized" and "over 160 illegal aliens have been arrested, including known gang members and those with additional charges: assault, kidnapping, burglary, larceny, commercialized sexual offenses, smuggling illegal drugs like heroin, and more."
The official added that on Sunday night alone, "there were a total of 69 arrests" and "6 illegal firearms were seized." There were also arrests for carrying a pistol without a license, driving under the influence, possession with intent to distribute, and "possession of a prohibited weapon—12" knife." Agents also nabbed four people who had arrest warrants for misdemeanor offenses.
This was the result, the official noted, of "22 multi-agency teams" deployed throughout the entire city, encompassing "over 1,950 participants."
The president deployed nearly 2,000 law enforcement officers into a city supposedly teeming with criminals. And yet the effort netted some 380 arrests in 10 days, and many of the charges the administration has bragged about are for low-level nonviolent offenses, such as possession of narcotics or carrying a pistol without a license.
"Congrats on cracking down on crime, but…carrying a pistol without a license isn't a crime, it's a constitutionally protected right," Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) wrote in posts on X. "In high crime areas like DC, people rely on their right to keep and bear arms to keep them safe. I do."
Granted, misdemeanor assaults and driving under the influence should not be dismissed. And while Trump has a history of rounding up supposedly hardened criminal migrants with no criminal records, it's possible some of the "over 160 illegal aliens" arrested in D.C. really are "known gang members" or have committed "assault, kidnapping, burglary, larceny," and more.
But many of the charges hardly merit the involvement of a multiagency federal task force funneling hundreds of agents into the city. Not to mention, the agents being funneled into the capital are not the best equipped to handle the task at hand.
"Federal agents assigned to patrol Washington as part of the federal takeover of the US capital are taking on duties that fall outside their usual jobs, provoking consternation that they've been diverted from work they were trained for to tasks they've never done," wrote Bloomberg's Myles Miller.
"National Guard troops are generally not trained in local policing or de-escalation and should never be used for federal immigration purposes," added the American Civil Liberties Union. "President Trump has also ordered FBI personnel and other federal officers, who similarly are not trained for local policing, to patrol the city."
Nevertheless, the Republican governors of Ohio, South Carolina, and West Virginia all agreed to deploy up to 750 of their own National Guard troops to D.C.
"I'm all for cracking down on crime in DC," Massie wrote, "but arresting law abiding citizens and confiscating their firearms solely because they don't have government paperwork will not ultimately improve public safety. 29 states have proven this by recognizing permitless-carry."
From [HERE] Federal officials, in public and in federal courtrooms, are lying about the existence of video footage from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Utah Attorney Jesse Trentadue believes his brother was interrogated and tortured to death in August 1995 because federal authorities mistakenly thought he was “John Doe #2” in the Oklahoma City Bombing. For the past 30 years, Trentadue has filed 7 major federal FOIA lawsuits seeking documents and evidence, and has already obtained 2 million documents. Trentadue doggedly pursues the many lies federal authorities have told over the years about the bombing, and the illegal federal program “PATCON” that he believes was involved in his brother’s murder, and which is still ongoing today.
One of the critical lies, which still informs the mainstream narratives and dominates most media coverage of the case, is that there was no second bomber alongside Timothy McVeigh that day. McVeigh was convicted of the bombing and executed on June 11, 2001.
Even though multiple eyewitnesses noticed two men exiting the Ryder truck transporting the bomb to the Alfred P. Murrah building that day, the narrative from federal officials is firm that McVeigh acted alone while in Oklahoma City.
This issue would be easy to solve if there were video of the truck arriving and the explosion.
The government has claimed, consistently in public and in court, that no such video exists. The FBI Section Chief David M. Hardy has said in court filings under oath, that no such video exists.
But documents show FBI Agents taking possession of such video, and even describing the contents of such video, in their reports. Jesse Trentadue believes that multiple videos exist of the truck and the bombing, and federal officials refuse to release it because it shows a second bomber whom Trentadue believes was a federal agent. [more]
Aspartame — the artificial sweetener found in everything from Diet Coke and sugar-free chewing gum to children’s medications — may raise the risk of the most common type of stroke by causing inflammation and disrupting blood vessel health and blood flow, according to new research.
Published last month (July 2025) in Scientific Reports, the study is the first to combine advanced computer modelling techniques to examine how aspartame interacts with processes in the body that can lead to a stroke or affect its severity, its authors said.
The findings add to longstanding concerns about the sugar substitute’s impacts on the brain and heart.
“Given that aspartame is one of the most pervasive artificial sweeteners used in the global food industry, its cumulative effects from long-term, low-dose exposure may indirectly affect cerebrovascular [brain blood vessel] health through metabolic interference,” the researchers said.
Ischemic stroke, which accounts for about 87% of all strokes in the U.S. and is a leading cause of death globally, occurs when a blood clot blocks a brain blood vessel, cutting off oxygen and causing brain cells to die. Common risk factors include high blood pressure, smoking and Type 2 diabetes.
Aspartame — also marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, Sugar Twin and AminoSweet — is up to 200 times sweeter than sugar and promoted as a way to cut calories and sugar intake, especially for people with diabetes.
Its safety has been debated for decades, with studies linking aspartame consumption to chronic diseases, weight gain and even aggressive brain cancer.
This study provides preliminary systematic insights into the potential neurotoxicity mechanisms of aspartame, its authors said. They found that aspartame strongly binds to and influences five key genes that code for proteins linked to ischemic stroke.
These proteins help regulate inflammation (the body’s response to injury or infection), blood pressure, and the strength and function of blood vessels. Disruptions may:
Raise blood pressure.
Trigger inflammation in the brain and blood vessels.
Weaken blood vessel walls and the brain’s protective barrier (blood-brain barrier), allowing harmful substances to enter the brain and worsen a stroke. [MORE]
From schools to military installations, gun-free zones have a long history of turning otherwise secure places into hunting grounds for criminals.
The recent active shooter incident at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta on August 8, 2025, resulted in the death of one police officer and the gunman himself. Like all federal facilities, the CDC bans firearms on its premises, creating the type of target-rich environment that attracts mass shooters. Although this shooting did not turn into a mass casualty event, that risk remains high when gun-free zones remain in place.
The shooting at Fort Stewart further demonstrates the absurdity of disarming trained military personnel on their own installations. When Army Sergeant Quornelius Radford opened fire on his colleagues with his handgun, fellow soldiers were forced to tackle him with their bare hands while he continued shooting. These are the same warriors we trust to defend America overseas with sophisticated weaponry, yet they cannot defend themselves or their comrades on American soil.
According to pro-gun researcher John Lott’s findings, “since 1950, 94% of the mass public shootings have taken place in areas where law-abiding citizens have been banned from having guns.” Even more damning, Lott’s research reveals that mass shooters often seek out gun-free environments because they understand these zones guarantee minimal resistance. This pattern demolishes the naive assumption that posted signs and regulations deter criminals who are hell-bent on committing dastardly deeds. [MORE]
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners secured a major victory today after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a mandate overturning California’s “one-gun-per-month” restriction, setting a historic precedent.
In June, a unanimous decision from the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of SAF and its partners in Nguyen v. Bonta, SAF’s challenge to California’s one-gun-per-month gun rationing law. SAF is joined in the case by the Firearms Policy Coalition and San Diego County Gun Owners PAC, two FFL gun dealers, and six private citizens, including Michelle Nguyen, for whom the case is named.
Background on Nguyen v. Bonta.
California’s “one-gun-per-month” law, first enacted in 1999, limited most people to buying only one handgun in any 30-day period, later expanding the restriction to include all firearms. Supporters claimed the rule would curb straw purchases and illegal gun trafficking.
In 2020, Michelle Nguyen, other individuals, two gun stores, and several pro-Second Amendment groups—including the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), Firearms Policy Coalition, and San Diego County Gun Owners PAC—filed suit, arguing the law violated the Second Amendment.
The case reached the Ninth Circuit after SAF won a summary judgment in federal district court. In June 2025, a unanimous three-judge panel ruled that the law was facially unconstitutional, finding that the Second Amendment protects the right to own multiple firearms and to acquire them without “meaningful constraints.” The court also concluded there was no historical tradition in America supporting a law like California’s.
On August 14, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued its formal mandate, making the decision final—marking the first time the court has struck down a gun control law outright for violating the Second Amendment. [MORE]
Georgia’s new wrongful conviction compensation law entitles people to $75,000 for each year they wrongfully spent behind bars, and $100,000 per year for time spent on death row. But receiving that money isn’t automatic. The law replaces Georgia’s old system, which required navigating the highly politicized world of the General Assembly and often led to wildly inconsistent awards, if they were granted at all. Two people who could be impacted by the law are Ashley Jordan and Albert Debelbot — a Columbus couple who spent 12 years in prison for the death of their newborn daughter before ultimately having their convictions overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court.[MORE]
From [HERE] Over the past two weeks, two Florida death row prisoners filed fresh challenges to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ decisions to sign his tenth and eleventh death warrants of 2025. On July 29, 2025, Kayle Barrington Bates (also known as Maud Dib Al Sharif) brought a civil suit against Gov. DeSantis alleging Florida’s execution warrant process “is infected with racial discrimination and unconstitutional arbitrariness.” Included in the claim is a statistical analysis showing that “95% of the executions that Governor DeSantis has authorized involved white victims.”
“Governor DeSantis has not executed a single white defendant for killing a non-white defendant[.]”
On the afternoon of the same day Mr. Bates’ lawsuit was filed, Gov. DeSantis issued a warrant for the execution of Curtis Windom, who was convicted of the killing of Johnnie Lee, Valerie Davis, and Mary Lubin, all of whom were Black. On August 3, 2025, attorneys for Mr. Windom filed a motion arguing that “the postconviction defense bar [is] overwhelmed by an unprecedented number of death warrants being signed [this] year…every two weeks,” and that “the time in which postconviction counsel can even respond has been reduced by 33%.”
Florida’s process for determining executions and clemency operates in complete secrecy. Under Gov. DeSantis, Florida has already carried out more executions than any other state this year, and has scheduled the executions of Mr. Bates for August 19, 2025, and Mr. Windom for August 28, 2025. There are many questions surrounding the governor’s secretive decision-making process — he alone decides who will be executed, and when, and refuses to provide the public with an explanation for this decision.
On July 29, 2025, Mr. Bates’ attorneys filed a civil lawsuit against Gov. DeSantis under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging racial bias in Florida’s executions warrant process. Mr. Bates, who is Black, was originally sentenced to death in 1983 by an all-white jury. His conviction rested on a confession made under the pressure of a five-hour interrogation by police and without the presence of legal counsel. He was resentenced to death in 1995 in a non-unanimous 9 – 3 jury vote. Florida and Alabama are the only two states that authorize juries to recommend death sentences with a non-unanimous vote. The U.S. Supreme Court has never directly ruled on whether jury unanimity is required in death sentencing.
Mr. Bates’ complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, including a stay of execution. It presents statistical evidence of racial disparities in Florida’s use of the death penalty, noting “under Governor DeSantis’ administration…a defendant who is convicted of killing a white victim is over fifteen times more likely to be executed than a defendant whose victims are not white.” It notes as well that “[n]early 88% of Florida’s modern executions have been for cases with white victims,” and argues that “Florida’s current prioritization of white lives cannot be viewed independently of its devaluation of Black lives.” [MORE]
Two D.C. civil rights attorneys believe there are more victims of violence and abuse inside D.C. juvenile justice facilities, and they want to hear from their families.
Tuesday in downtown D.C., the attorneys E. Paige White and Bernadette Armand announced a lawsuit against the District, D.C.’s Department of Youth and Rehabilitation Services (DYRS), DYRS Director Sam Abed and Kelvin Powell, a former guard at DC’s Youth Services Center (YSC). The YSC is the District’s juvenile jail.
Powell was convicted in July of repeatedly sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl under the care of DYRS.
"It is clear by the fact that this happened over and over and over again that nobody was watching,” White said Tuesday.
"Powell's assaults occurred over several months between late 2021 and early 2022 while the victim was residing at the YSC in Northeast D.C.," according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of D.C.
In the lawsuit, White alleges DYRS didn’t monitor surveillance video that would have shown Powell, the guard, allegedly going in and out of the girl's cell and taking the girl off the unit. The suit alleges those movements are outside DYRS policy but were not caught.
The suit also alleges Powell had a history of sexual abuse at DYRS. [MORE]
In Indiana, a "buffer" law makes it illegal to approach within 25 feet of a police officer who has ordered you to stop approaching. District court: preliminarily enjoined as vague. Seventh Circuit(link is external): Totally agree. The law gives officers unfettered discretion to arbitrarily issue do-not-approach orders and then start making arrests. "The Fourteenth Amendment will not tolerate a law subjecting pedestrians to arrest merely because a police officer had a bad breakfast—no matter how bitter the coffee or how soggy the scrambled eggs." [MORE]
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