Crump Files Suit After White Prosecutor Fails to Charge White Cops who Beat Black College Student Causing Brain Injury. Slave Catchers Stopped Him for Driving While Black w/o Lights On During the Day

From [HERE] A Jacksonville man has filed a federal lawsuit accusing officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office of using excessive force during a February traffic stop, which he says caused a traumatic brain injury and other harm, according to the suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Division.

William McNeil Jr. claims he was assaulted by Officer D. Bowers for driving without headlights and for not wearing a seat belt. According to the complaint, McNeil opened his car door to explain that his window was damaged and asked why he was being stopped. Bowers claimed it was due to inclement weather, though the lawsuit states there was no rain.

McNeil, questioning the legitimacy of the stop, requested a supervisor. Bowers then placed his hand on his weapon and ordered McNeil out of the vehicle, prompting McNeil to close and lock his door while continuing to request a supervisor.

Additional officers arrived, including Officer D. Miller, who reportedly agreed with McNeil Jr. that it wasn’t raining. The lawsuit says while another officer pointed a gun at McNeil Jr., Bowers apparently shattered the driver’s side window, struck McNeil Jr. in the face, forcibly removed him from the car and slammed his head into the pavement.

According to the lawsuit, the incident caused a gash to McNeil Jr.’s chin and lip, a fractured tooth and a traumatic brain injury. Miller also reportedly delivered four closed-hand strikes to McNeil Jr.’s back.

The lawsuit names Bowers, Miller, Sheriff Thomas Kevin Waters and the Consolidated City of Jacksonville and Duval County as defendants. It accuses the city and sheriff’s office of maintaining policies that permit officers to use “distractionary blows” and avoid reporting force unless injuries are evident.

McNeil’s attorneys, including notable civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump, say the incident reflects a broader pattern of unchecked violence within the department. Between 2022 and 2024, the sheriff’s office investigated 424 excessive force complaints but upheld only three, according to internal data cited in the lawsuit.

The complaint seeks more than $100,000 in damages for physical injuries, emotional trauma and accused violations of McNeil’s constitutional rights.

Jacksonville officials have not yet responded publicly to the lawsuit

‘It’s Not Science’: JAMA Study Claiming COVID Vaccines Saved Millions is Fundamentally Flawed

A report in JAMA Health Forum that estimates COVID-19 vaccines saved between 1.4 million and 4 million lives is false and based on flawed assumptions, according to a preprint paper published this week by Correlation, a Canadian nonprofit research organization.

All-cause mortality expert Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., argued in the preprint that the inputs used by Dr. John Ioannidis and his colleagues for their COVID-19 vaccine calculations were based on incorrect assumptions about infection fatality rates and vaccine efficacy.

The authors of the JAMA paper also didn’t account for harms from vaccines or compare their results to real-world data, Rancourt said.

Rancourt said his critique exposes the “mental game” used by the scientists to build a case for the COVID-19 vaccines’ lifesaving abilities. He said:

“The formula they’re applying is elegant and straightforward — anybody can understand it.

“But look at the components inside the formula. They’re based on nothing. They’re based on something that is nothing, that is based on something else that is nothing, and so on. This is nonsense. It’s not science. It’s just manipulation of concocted data.

“Here’s a smart man applying a formula, but the outcome is garbage. There is no reason to believe that any lives were saved.” [MORE]

Another Black Person's Lawsuit Against Police for Murder Dismissed w/o a Trial: Video Showed a Plainclothes Newark Cop Jump Out an Unmarked Van and Shoot Carl Dorsey. White Fed Judge Tosses Case

From [HERE] A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by the estate of Carl Dorsey III, a 39-year-old man fatally shot by a Newark police detective just after midnight on New Year’s Day in 2021.

U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton ruled Thursday that the City of Newark cannot be held liable for Dorsey’s death under federal law, rejecting claims that the city had a longstanding custom of tolerating excessive force and failed to properly train its officers.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for New Jersey by Tamara Fong, the administrator of Dorsey’s estate and guardian to his three minor children.

In the complaint, Fong alleged that Detective Rod Simpkins shot Dorseywithout justification while patrolling a high-crime area in plain clothes.

According to court documents, Simpkins exited an unmarked police SUV with his gun drawn and bumped into Dorsey, then turned and shot him in the chest.

Fong claimed Dorsey was unarmed and attempting to cross the street when he was shot and killed.

Surveillance video capturing the killing shows a group of 12 plainclothes officers pull up in unmarked cars to South 11th Street and Dorsey crossing the street toward them.

Simpkins and Dorsey collide, and then Simpkins shoots him. Dorsey, a 39-year-old father of three, died an hour later after being transported to University Hospital in Newark.

Robert Tarver, attorney for the family, noted the video shows Simpkins turning his body and firing toward Dorsey after they collide. The Attorney General’s Office describes the shooting like this: “As Det. Simpkins was falling to the ground, his service weapon discharged once, striking Mr. Dorsey.” 

“As if it had done that by itself,” Tarver said.

Dorsey lay bleeding on the sidewalk while officers searched him and the surrounding area but did not provide medical aid, the complaint said.

He was later pronounced dead at University Hospital.

Fong’s lawsuit claimed the city had a pattern of excessive force and inadequate oversight, citing past incidents, statistics, and findings from a federal monitor overseeing police reforms in Newark.

However, Wigenton said those claims weren’t strong enough to hold the city legally responsible under the rules set by the U.S. Supreme Court in Monell v. Department of Social Services.

Naturally, the white liberal Attorney General Matt Platkin — whose office must investigate all police-involved fatalities - failed to file any charges against the white cop.

Lawsuit says Cleveland Heights Cops Fired 25 Shots at Christian Thomas while He was Unarmed, Killing Black man During Standoff. No Charges by White Liberal Prosecutors

An 18-year-old man was unarmed when he was shot to death by Cleveland Heights police officers outside his home, according to a lawsuit. 

Attorneys said Christian Thomas, 18, never pointed a gun at officers or his family and had dropped the weapon before officers fired 25 shots, hitting him nine times. 

The wrongful death lawsuit was filed Friday in federal court in Cleveland on behalf of Christian Thomas’ father, Ferrel Thomas. It accuses officers of using excessive force. 

Officers “shot and killed Christian Thomas while he was unarmed and running and posed no imminent or significant threat of death or serious injury to [officers] or any others,” attorney Stanley Jackson wrote.

The lawsuit names three police officers, but attorneys wrote that they were unsure of the identities of the officers who shot Thomas because their names were redacted on records from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. 

A Cuyahoga County grand jury in July declined to indict the officers after the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation investigated the shooting. 

The shooting happened on Aug. 29, 2024, at Thomas’ father’s house on Yellowstone Road. The father and son had been arguing, and investigators believed that Christian Thomas had taken psilocybin mushrooms before grabbing his father’s handgun.

A standoff began with Christian and Ferrel Thomas inside the house, where the father tried to convince his son to put the gun down. Family members went outside while police officers surrounded the home.

Thomas fired two gunshots while inside the home, including one before he exited, according to the lawsuit. When he finally emerged, he dropped his gun and ran, the lawsuit said. 

Three officers fired multiple shots, including two from rifles. 

Some officers told investigators they couldn’t see clearly because it was dark and fired after hearing a gunshot, the lawsuit said. [MORE]

UConn Study says Police in [white liberal] Connecticut Use Force on Black People More Often than Whites. Although Blacks Account for Only 34% of All Arrests, 41% of all Force Incidents Involved Blacks

From [HERE] A new report shows that police appear to use force more often on Black people during arrests than on white arrestees, according to one of its authors.

The report by the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at the University of Connecticut also shows it is unusual for police to use force in Connecticut, and that a small group of departments may be responsible for most of it, said Ken Barone, the institute’s associate director.

The 74-page report is the result of the second statewide use-of-force study produced under a state law. It is based on an analysis of 1,516 use-of-force incidents reported by 83 police agencies across the state. The study period was from July 1, 2022 through Dec. 31, 2023.

The study looked at race and saw a disparities when comparing the number of times force was used on Black people when compared to how many Black people were arrested during the 18-month time period: Black individuals represented 41% of all subjects in use-of-force incidents, but only 34% of arrests, the study found. 

With white people, it was just the opposite, with Caucasians making up 56% of people on whom force was used, compared to 63% of those arrested.

“What that says is force is used more frequently on a Black person who is arrested than on a white person who is arrested,” Barone said. But he said more study is needed on the race issue.

More than half of the cases in which force was used involved the same 10 police departments, the report stated.

The 10 cities and towns that used force the most during the study period were New Haven, with 124 incidents; Hartford, 109; Waterbury, 108; East Hartford, 100; Norwalk, 63;  Meriden, 55; Manchester, 45; Stamford, 40; and New London and West Hartford, which both said they had 36 incidents of force during the study period. [MORE]

Another Contrived Gov Tale Sold to Racists: A 'Black Career Criminal' Cut a “Ukrainian Refugee,” Yet There's No Blood on Her Body and White Women Always Avoid Black Men like DeCarlos Brown in Public

AUTHORITIES ARE FUCKING WITH OUR SENSES AND DOGMATIC BELIEFS. As a general rule in all public places in an urban environment, particularly trains, buses, elevators and public streets white women generally go out of their away to avoid Black men who look like DeCarlos Brown. If you have not noticed this then you have missed reality. In general, where there are open seats on uncrowded public buses and trains, entering passengers evaluate each open seat and choose the one that appears most comfortable, safe or convenient to them.

In this matter, a blonde white woman entered a train that appeared to be 1/3 full and without scanning the train for a seat she immediately sat down in front of DeCarlos Brown, a Black man with long dreadlocks wearing a hoody. He looks sketchy, possibly out to murk - he also is the only person not on a phone. As such, her entrance on the train and seating in close proximity, directly in front of him with her back to him with her headphones on was unusual because most white women avoid black men in public places - especially when there appeared to have been several other seats open and other white folks on the uncrowded train.

Additionally, the white woman is not bleeding after her throat is allegedly slashed by the Black man. In the full second video no blood is present on her neck, face, hands or clothing. In the second video, after she falls to the floor, blood is inexplicably seen on the train seat where she had been sitting. But it makes no sense that her lower half or bottom would be bleeding after only her neck was cut. Also, as observed by Mr. Trumptastic before the incident, the black man appears to open and then close the pocket knife before the assault, which would render it incapable to slash her throat. That is, the black man seems to attack her with a closed knife. However, clearer video may explain this.

As with most false flags, although the incident happened less than 48 hours ago the government and media have already supplied the public with bios of the participants, family album photos, a full confession, partial government video, in an open and closed case. In the overwhelming vast majority of assaults and murder cases the government takes months to provide such information. Undoubtedly, the media will move on in less than 36 hours in order to avoid any scrutiny of details. As with most false flags there will probably be no contested trial and independently verifiable autopsy. Also, look for Brown’s alleged family members or neighbors to pop up with more inculpatory hearsay statements he made - since there is probably no “manifesto” or crimes confession diary, as in other government hoaxes.

Similar to other false flaggotry this episode has a narrative tailored to a particular groups of believers. Here, Neuropeons are provided a story that is told in accordance with racist dogma, predispositions and fears. Namely, its “the Black career criminal” vs "‘the blonde Ukraine Refugee who Sought Safety’ in an urban city in the US. No reason is provided for the attack except that ‘he is crazy and Black and out to kill.’ Such a non-explanation fits well in the racist ego. As explained by Dr. Amos Wilson, “In the context of White American domination there is no innocent Black male, just Black male criminals who have not yet been detected, apprehended or convicted. Their mere presence inspires in White Americans, fears of being assaulted, raped, robbed, or some other indefinable dread of being criminally victimized. Fantasies of the sexual molestation of White females by rapacious Black males are common to the White American male and female consciousness, and are frequent themes of their literary, cinematic, and pornographic productions.”

Despite the facts that 1) nearly 99% of crimes committed against whites are committed by whites and 2) white people are unaffected by most street crime involving Black people, the dependent media nevertheless projects white people as the most frequent victims of street crime. A recent study by the Sentencing Project found that White Americans overestimate the proportion of crime committed by people of color, and associate people of color with criminality. Exaggerated crime rates are part of “white propaganda” which Dr. Blynd explains as a game two can play—which consists simply in repeating '"I am better than you" and "you are utterly unlike (opposite to) me" over and over again; despite the historical record to the contrary.” As explained by Wilson, the myth of black violence serves important roles in justifying and rationalizing white supremacy and in supporting the white American ego and personality (fabrications).

Wilson explains, 

"Alleged Black criminality, while evoking White American fear and loathing, reassures them of their vaunted self-worth, their assumed innately superior moral standing, of their self-congratulatory self-constraint in contrast with presumed Black American unworthiness, innate inferior moral standing, inherent criminality, lack of self-constraint and self-control.

White America's self-appreciation is enhanced as it insatiably feeds on overblown reports about Black criminality while denying its own incomparable criminal record, and its own racist-imperialist incubation and giving birth to the very same criminal forces which now threaten to destroy it.

Black criminals function as a negative reference group vital to maintaining the White American self-image.”  [MORE]

Additionally, unless you are a coincidence theorist, it is most unusual that the incident occurred the day after Trump’s fake DC crime emergency expired and his paper boat plans to fight urban crime using military troops in “blue cities” began to fall out of the news cycle. Said clearly unlawful, racist theater played to the same group of lathered-up, hyper-alert Neuropeons always ready to consume anything to confirm their delusions. It also comes at a time when elites seek to boost support for spending billions on their Ukraine war.

Due to the contrived nature of the evidence this insta-terror case feels synthetic and should be suspected as a false flag operation conducted by the government and media until proven otherwise. If Crimethinc would create fake vaccines for the purpose of genthanasia and biocide then surely It would have no problem fake stabbing a woman on a train.

Why would the government do such a thing? Many reasons -but mostly because sheeple will believe it and use their imaginations to fill in the missing details in accord with their beliefs and dogma. As undeceiver Larken Rose explains, authorities terrorize or create great fear in the citizenry in order convince them to voluntarily give authorities more control, more power over them and their lives. Authorities and their Dependent Media must constantly misrepresent reality so citizens always have a bogey-man or a perceived unsolvable problem to fear. Rose states, elites “must pound into [citizens] heads, day in and day out, that the world is full of horrors and injustices , and that only the government authorities can make their lives bearable and that is necessary for them to have enormous power in order to do so.” Specifically, under the ostensible purpose of crime fighting, its actual purpose is mission creep to continue expanding the power of the executive and planting the idea in sheeple’s mind that military occupation of US cities is lawful, normal and emergency rule may be imposed by authority based on arbitrary criteria.

The great rebel, the Buddha said: "All beliefs are dangerous. You should not believe, you should see.”

Osho Rajineesh stated, "a mind filled with belief always goes on projecting things in the world, it sees things which are not there. This is the problem. The mind which believes is always vulnerable and always provides an opportunity to be exploited by the cheaters - and the cheaters are all around."

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Hoax - a mirage that appears as believable, popular (and marketable) as Jesus, as tempting as sin, and as captivating as a sweet taboo---without its consequences and side-effects too. The illusion of truth seems real--the "reality" of the reel (the Passing Show)--the surreal. The two most pervasive hoaxes we put over on ourselves is ego and money--neither have any existence. (See: Passing Show, Mirage, Rolling Mirror, Objectivity, Ego, Money, Utopia, Kansas & Alice in Wonderland)

Belief- the psychological calm of imagined certitude safely beyond de-stabilizing doubt and troublesome reality-entanglement. 2) a construction of approximate truths, absolute truths, mass truths and primary myths, based on genetic predisposition, and environmental and socio-psychological conditioning. 3) the institutionalization of the unknowable, i.e., a conviction that is not necessarily based upon any empirical, direct-mind or experiential knowledge. 4) a non-physical surviving thought-form. 5) any conclusion based on a fundamental assumption; the evidence of things not seen, no longer actively sought. 6) an intellectual
rationalization surrounded by (based on) "'proofs," reasons and arguments. 7) that which springs out of cultural ideology. 8) the greatest fiction. 9) a trick of the mind to repress doubt. 10) a mental doubt-suppression tactic. A suppressed doubt is neither faith nor even trust. 11) repressed doubt. 12) an explicit or implicit assent to dogmatic propositions (with or without overgrown religious foliage) on someone else's authority. 13) reverential blindness that thwarts fresh perception and intuitive apperception. 14) a prejudice without any experience to support it. 15) a peculiar blend of fatiloquent assertion on one hand and adamant
denial on the other. 16) a manic flirtation with the terminally unprovable. 17) certainty based in the unknown. 18) having another "see" it for you while seeing him see it (for you)—in effect being for another. 19) a conclusion without the verification of direct experience—make-believe made real. 20) the inability or unwillingness to master the requisite logic or reason to counterbalance (or overcome) the willingness to be misled. [MORE]

With "Trump's Blessing" IsrAlien Warplanes Blew Up a Residential Building in Qatar, a sovereign nation, ‘b/c Hamas was Meeting for Peace Talks’

From [HERE] The Israeli military launched airstrikes in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday in an attempt to target Hamas political leadership, marking a major Israeli escalation in the region that dims any hope of a ceasefire in Gaza.

A source told Al Jazeera that the attack occurred while Hamas officials were gathered to discuss a ceasefire proposal from the US. Suhail al-Hindi, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said that Hamas’s leadership survived the attack, while the son of acting Hamas political bureau chief Khalil al-Hayya was killed, along with several of his aides. Qatar’s Interior Ministry said that a Qatari security officer was also killed in the attack.

Hamas later issued a statement that said none of its political leaders were killed in the attack. It said a total of six people were killed, including al-Hayya’s son, four office staff, and the Qatari officer.

According to Israeli media, Israeli warplanes dropped more than 10 bombs on a residential building where Israel believed Hamas leaders were gathering, an area of Doha near schools and embassies. Qatar has hosted a Hamas office since 2012, a step it took at the request of the US.

Sources told Middle East Eye President Trump “blessed” the attack on Qatar, which his a major non-NATO ally of the US and hosts about 10,000 US troops, although US officials speaking to other media outlets claim that the US was notified while Israeli warplanes were in the air.

Israeli Channel 12 reported, citing an Israeli official, that US President Donald Trump gave the green light for the Israeli occupation to launch airstrikes on Hamas leadership in Qatar. The channel added that Washington maintains control over Qatari airspace, requiring “Israel” to coordinate with the US before carrying out such operations.

In an official statement, the Qatari Foreign Ministry condemned what it described as a “cowardly Israeli attack” targeting residential compounds in Doha where members of Hamas’ political bureau were residing. The ministry stressed that Qatar would not tolerate any act undermining its security and sovereignty. [MORE]

At Least 19,400 Children Murdered in Gaza by Israel Authorities as Genocidal Holocaust Marks 700th Day

From [HERE] Children in Gaza account for more than 30 percent of deaths since Israel began its genocide nearly two years ago, as the besieged enclave remains the "most dangerous place to be a child".

According to the latest figures from the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, at least 19,424 children have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023 - the equivalent of one child every 52 minutes. Among them are 1,000 infants under the age of one.

An additional 42,011 people have been wounded in ongoing Israeli shelling, accounting for 26 percent of the total wounded population of 161,583.

Meanwhile, women (10,138) and the elderly (4,695) constitute 23 percent of the overall death toll. Men make up 46.7 percent of casualties (29,975).

The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) communications manager Tess Ingram said that the "suffering of children in the Gaza Strip is not accidental".

Malnutrition and famine are weakening children’s bodies as displacement strips them of shelter and care, and bombardments threaten their every move," Ingram said. 

She noted that Palestinian life is being "dismantled" under escalating Israeli attacks, lack of necessities and soaring malnutrition among children and their families. Ingram stressed that even so-called "safe zones" have posed a grave danger for civilians, noting that the "unthinkable" is unfolding in Gaza City.

The Israeli military has repeatedly targeted Israeli-designated "humanitarian zones" across the Gaza Strip since the start of the genocide.

At least 64,300 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023. Over 83 percent of those killed are civilians, according to the Israeli military's own data. 

Ingram warned that the latest Israeli operation in the city could bring further catastrophe for families residing in the area, adding that the north "is fast becoming a place where childhood cannot survive".

"It is a city of fear, flight and funerals," she added. 

KKKexit: On the Last Day of Trump’s Unlawful and Involuntary Rule Over DC, 80% of Residents Tell Globocop to 'Please Get the Fuck Out!'

About 8 in 10 D.C. residents oppose Trump taking control of D.C. police and federal troops patrolling the streets, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll. Compared with last year, significantly fewer D.C. residents say that they worry about being a victim of carjacking, theft, home burglary or assault.

ON Sept 6 Thousands march in D.C. against law enforcement takeover [MORE]

From [HERE] Parts of President Donald Trump’s so-called “emergency” takeover of Washington, D.C., may be winding down, but the federal presence in the nation’s capital appears far from over.

As D.C. residents brace for the possibility that National Guard soldiers and federal agents could become a permanent fixture in the city, congressional Republicans are gearing up to clamp down even harder on the municipal government with a massive tranche of new legislation.

In August, Trump invoked a rarely used provision of the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act, letting the White House seize control of the city’s police during “special conditions of an emergency nature.” He also ordered in the National Guard and about 500 federal agents, leading to thousands of arrests.

The administration’s authority over Metro Police, however, is limited by law to 30 days — a window set to close this week.

Trump has suggested that he would need “long term” control over D.C. police and has contended that he would not need congressional approval to extend that power. Congress would almost certainly need to greenlight such action.

But, for now, it appears unlikely that the president will attempt to seize extended control over D.C.’s police force.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser established a joint emergency operations center last week to coordinate local government efforts with federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The move was seen as paving the way for a long term or even indefinite federal presence in the capital city.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Tuesday that Congress hadn’t been asked to weigh in on Trump’s D.C. takeover and suggested Bowser’s order made action unnecessary.

“I think if you have an agreement — I understand it as an agreement — between the White House and local leadership, I’m not sure Congress has any necessity to do anything,” he said. “So, we’ll see.”

Trump’s control of D.C.’s police is set to expire, but lawmakers are preparing a broad legislative overhaul of the city’s criminal justice system, including how local judges are selected. On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee is set to take up more than a dozen Republican-led bills expanding congressional oversight of D.C. governance.

Among those measures is one that would give Congress a 60-day window to review any law passed by the D.C. council and would speed existing mechanisms for lawmakers to overrule legislation approved by the municipal government.

The panel will also weigh bills boosting penalties for certain crimes in D.C., capping “youth offender” status at 18 and letting prosecutors seek adult charges for offenders as young as 14 for some offenses.

Another measure would remove D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb and replace him with a presidential appointee. Voters have elected the city’s top local prosecutor since 2010.

House Republicans are also pushing to amend the Home Rule Act to eliminate D.C.’s judicial nominations commission, which for decades has recommended candidates for the city’s superior and appellate courts to the White House. The panel currently includes attorneys representing the president and the D.C. mayor, as well as members of the city council, the D.C. Bar and the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for D.C.

Under the proposed bill, the authority to appoint judges to the capital’s municipal court system would lie solely with the president.

Democrats blasted the Republicans’ push as an attack on D.C.’s tradition of self-governance. Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.’s nonvoting House delegate, called it an “escalation in the current wave of extreme attacks on D.C. home rule.” [MORE]

FreeDumb Loving GOP Puppeticians Eager for Bush-Trump to Expand Military Use on US Soil

From [HERE] National Guard troops patrolling the streets of U.S. cities. Weapons of war deployed against international gangs suspected of drug trafficking. Military bases and resources redirected to mass immigration enforcement operations.

President Donald Trump is swiftly implementing his vision of the military as an all-powerful tool for his policy goals. It’s ground that presidents have hardly ever crossed outside of times of war, and experts say it’s remaking the role of the most powerful military in the world and its relationship with the American public.

Yet as Trump has dramatically stepped up his use of military force, fellow Republicans in Congress — where authorization for such actions is supposed to originate — have done little but cheer him on. That’s giving the president significant leeway as he raises plans to send troops next to Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans.

“If I were one of those mayors, I’d be glad to have the help,” said Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, speaking from a Capitol building where National Guard troops were patrolling the surrounding city. “I think the big city Democrats are really making a mistake. I think they’re being tone deaf.” [MORE]

Destroying Freedom to Make us Safe: Drones and Robotic Cameras are Flying All Over Maryland, Surveilling Law Abiding People for "public order" [the will of agents operating on behalf of elites]

Since 2019, dozens, if not hundreds, of law enforcement agencies across the country have adopted similar Drone as First Responder (DFR) programs, using the technology to put eyes on a situation sooner and, sometimes, in a clearer way.

But as drones reach more areas, including Baltimore County, concerns over privacy and surveillance often follow.

Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, has urged lawmakers for years to issue guardrails for DFR programs. Daring success stories may justify a program’s beginning, but Stanley said with expansions and new uses, “it’s important not to make policies based on anecdotes.”

“You don’t want a world where, from the minute you walk out of your front door in the morning until you get home at night, you’re constantly aware that there are flying robotic police cameras … that could be focused on you at any time,” Stanley told The Baltimore Sun. “You have no way of knowing. That’s just not a way for free people to live.” [MORE]

Black Homeownership Rate Drops to Lowest Level Since 2021, Latino Homeownership Increased

The Black homeownership rate fell to 43.9% in the second quarter—the lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2021. That’s down from 45.3% a year earlier, marking the largest year-over-year decline since the third quarter of 2021. 

By comparison, the Hispanic homeownership rate inched up slightly (to 48.8% from 48.5% a year earlier), and there were small declines in both the non-Hispanic white homeownership rate (to 74% from 74.4%) and the Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander homeownership rate (to 62.1% from 62.8%).

“Rising unemployment is one likely reason the homeownership rate for Black families has dropped recently,” said Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather. “The recent wave of federal layoffs hit Black households badly because government jobs have historically been an avenue of upward mobility for Black workers. DEI programs have also been dismantled in workplaces across the private and public sectors, which may have resulted in fewer Black employees being hired or promoted.” [MORE]

Black Unemployment Rose to 7.5% and has Increased for 3 Months Straight. It is Double the Rate for Whites, which Remains Unchanged at 3.7%

The racial gap in the labor market is widening. The unemployment rate for Black Americans rose to 7.5% in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. That’s up from a seasonally adjusted 7.2% in July and 6.0% in May.

Black women’s unemployment rate rises to 6.3%. [MORE]

Meanwhile, the white unemployment remained unchanged at a seasonally adjusted 3.7% in August and was slightly lower than in May. [MORE]

While the overall unemployment rate rose just 0.1 per cent over the past year, Black unemployment jumped 1.4 per cent. In contrast, unemployment rates for white and Asian Americans decreased slightly compared to the previous year.

Bush-Trump's So-Called Deadly Boat Attack is an Act of Murder and a Violation of International law, But Hard to Prove It Actually Occurred (like most false flags) Without Authenticated Evidence

Experts are condemning the U.S. military strike that killed 11 people on a boat in the Caribbean last Tuesday, saying that the bombing was in violation of international law.

The Trump administration has claimed — without providing evidence — that the casualties of the strike were members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuela-based gang that it has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

“Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, following the attack.

“Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE!”

The White House posted an image on social media of Trump looking at a phone showing footage of the boat being hit. “TERRORISTS ELIMINATED. ADIÓS,” the post says, with an emoji of a person placing items in the trash. 

In another post, the White House said: “ON VIDEO: U.S. Military Forces conducted a strike against Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists. The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the U.S. The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action.”

The Trump administration has circulated a brief black and white video that it says shows the fatal strike. AP reports that the White House “did not immediately explain how the military determined that those aboard the vessel were Tren de Aragua members.”

The outlet also noted that the video “is not clear enough to see if the craft is carrying as many as 11 people” and “did not show any large or clear stashes of drugs inside the boat.”

Experts say the administration’s deadly strike violated international law.

“Labeling someone a terrorist and deploying the military does not make them a military target,” Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement to Truthout. “These actions amount to an extra-judicial killing, a violation of international law, which should raise extraordinary concerns.”

“Using military forces to kill alleged drug traffickers is an act of murder, not war.”

“Without clear limitations on presidential and military authority, we may find this administration claiming that it can execute alleged drug dealers at home without any judicial process as happened under the Duterte regime in the Philippines,” Warren continued. [MORE]

Taxation w/o Representation: DC Rep Eleanor Holmes Norton (88 Yr) Running for Re-election Despite Being Physically Compromised and Unable to Stop Trump’s Involuntary Rule, Opposed by 80% Residents

The oldest member of the House of Representatives believes she is capable of serving for at least another three years despite widespread concerns about her health and calls for her to retire. 

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democratic non-voting member from Washington, D.C., currently in her eighteenth consecutive term, intends to run for re-election in 2026.

She is 88 years old and has served in Congress since the early 1990s. A D.C. native and civil rights champion who grew up in a segregated capital, Norton has pushed legislation to help district residents, including passing tax credits for college and first-time home purchases.

Her stature looms large on Capitol Hill, where she is a familiar face. But she increasingly looks frail, feeble and unable to navigate herself without assistance.

The delegate doubling down on running for office next year comes just days after she was seen struggling to walk at a public speaking engagement at the Capitol.

‘Are you OK on your own?’ an aide for the D.C. delegate asked the aging member in a hot-mic moment while walking the octogenarian to the speaking podium.

‘I’ll be right here,’ the aide reassured Norton before letting go of her arm and shuffling to the background of the news conference.

Despite these physical challenges, she’s not ready to hang up the trappings of elected office. [MORE]