Shenanigger Kevin Hart is Still Cooning for Master, SNiggering for Trinkets and Coins [a major goal of white supremacy is to Keep Black People in a Childish Condition]

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

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

Neely Fuller explains “as long as any non-white person submits to, and/or cooperates with White Supremacy (racism), that non-white person is, for all functional purposes, a child.” He explains that in a system of racism white supremacy ‘non-white people, regardless of age function as children. They are the servants to, the victims of, and the "children” under the power and direction of elite racists. Elite racists function as their parents, bosses, masters, and their major decision-makers.’ Elite racists hope and intend to keep all non-white people in a childish condition.’

Expendable Showcase Blacks like Kevin Hart have priceless value to racists in the system of racism white Supremacy and they function as tools to achieve the above stated goals. Elite racists have created an army of these rolebotic, obedient negros to SNigger, bounce, grimace or probotically parrot their masters in service of white domination and subservience to authority. FUNKTIONARY explains, “A role-bot merely plays the role of the mask - the personae - society issued and approved.” Said “coin-operated negros” are high-profile blacks that are constantly paraded before the public. They may be political dignitaries, pro athletes, entertainers, educators, business people, judges or elected officials. Anon explains, Showcase Blacks are not showcasing themselves, they are being showcased by white supremacists to promote some aspect of RSW. Among other things, Showcase blacks are utilized to control the spectrum of ideas discussed by Blacks, control the parameters of political discussion, define what kinds of ideas are "reasonable" and to assist in perverse “historiography,” creating a non-threatening Black history compatible with white domination. They are also used to “shadowbox” other Black people or paid by elites “to speak or act to do harm to other victims of racism.”

FUNKTIONARY explains:

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

Uncivilized Israeli Security Minister, Ben Gvir, Sported a Noose Pendant as he Pushed New Death Penalty Law for Palestinians

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Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, was pictured in parliament on Monday wearing a noose pendant on his lapel, as he continues to push for Palestinian prisoners to be handed the death penalty.

Posting on X, Ben Gvir boasted about wearing the icon, along with other members of his Otzma Yehudit party, in support of legislation currently passing through the parliament.

"I and the members of my Otzma Yehudit faction arrived today at the National Security Committee discussions to continue advancing the death penalty for terrorists, while wearing a pin in the shape of a hangman's noose - as a symbol of our commitment to passing the law and as a clear message that terrorists are sons of death," he wrote.

"The time has come for the death penalty for terrorists!"

Ben Gvir celebrated last month after a bill allowing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners passed its first reading. 

The bill was approved by a majority of 39 out of 120 Knesset members, with 16 voting against in Israel's parliament.

It would allow judges to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis on so-called “nationalistic” grounds. [MORE]

'Israel' Blocking US Doctors from Entering Gaza to Treat Injuries

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From [HERE] "Israel" has denied entry to several American and foreign medical volunteers attempting to reach Gaza, including trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa, who had already completed two missions treating war-wounded Palestinians and testified before the UN Security Council in May.

Sidhwa told The Washington Post that he received notice just hours before traveling from Amman on Nov. 13 that his name was no longer on "Israel’s" approved entry list.

He had planned to perform complex colostomy reversal surgeries, a critical need for thousands of injured Palestinians, and to train local teams. “He would be very helpful,” said Khaled al-Serr, a surgeon at Nasser Hospital.

Sidhwa is one of four American medical workers and dozens of international volunteers blocked in recent weeks, despite a US-backed ceasefire that was expected to accelerate humanitarian access. Foreign doctors have been central to Gaza’s overwhelmed health system, performing more than 3.5 million consultations and 50,000 emergency surgeries since early 2024, according to the WHO. [MORE]

Massa Media Jumps on the Factually Unsupportable Claim that the J6 Pipe Bomber was “Black” and the Baseless Narrative that he was a Trump Supporter

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From [HERE] The arrest of Brian Cole Jr. on Thursday for planting pipe bombs near the DNC and RNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, has exposed yet another case of media malpractice. The Trump administration quickly noted that all the information needed to catch the suspect had been available to the Biden administration for four years, and yet nothing happened. 

Rather than examine why it took so long to crack the case, the legacy media immediately pivoted to protect the Biden administration. The following morning, legacy media outlets were pushing the narrative, based entirely on anonymous sources, that the suspect told the FBI under questioning that he is a Trump supporter who was radicalized by claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

According to NBC News, “The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

Other networks promptly followed.

“During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible motive for the bombs placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters, people briefed on the matter told CNN,” CNN reported. 

CNN’s own reporting, however, thoroughly debunked this storyline. Hours prior to the story suggesting the 2020 election was a motivating factor for Cole, a separate CNN report detailed the criminal affidavit against him, which relied on purchase records of bomb-making materials, cell phone location data, and vehicle license plate reader information to identify him.

The criminal affidavit against Cole primarily relies on purchase history of alleged bomb-making materials, cell phone location data and a vehicle license plate reader.

In 2019 and 2020, Cole purchased multiple items consistent with the components used to make the bombs at Home Depot, Walmart, Lowe’s and Micro Center stores, according to the affidavit.

Investigators then went through Cole’s purchase history and determined he bought all of those supplies over 2019 and 2020, the affidavit states. He also purchased equipment to help assemble the bombs, including safety glasses and a wire-stripping tool, the document states.

If Cole was buying bomb parts in 2019 and 2020 before the election, the notion that post-election grievances drove him to plant the bombs falls apart. The Trump supporter angle collapses even further when you look at Cole’s background.

According to a Daily Wire report, he worked at his family’s bail-bond business, which sued the Trump administration over immigration policy in a case decided in November 2020. The family operation, which included helping illegal immigrants get out of ICE facilities, doesn’t exactly scream MAGA activism. Public records show the business entangled itself in left-leaning causes, with Cole’s father even teaming up with attorney Benjamin Crump—who previously represented the family of Trayvon Martin—to demand the Biden Justice Department investigate a Tennessee prosecutor who raised questions about the bail bond company. This family profile is wildly inconsistent with the image of a die-hard Trump supporter.

But even Cole’s family says he wasn’t a Trump supporter.

Cole’s grandmother, Loretta, told the Daily Mail that Cole “has no party affiliation, never votes,” and “don’t like either party.” She described her grandson as socially withdrawn, “borderline autistic,” with “the mind of a 16-year-old,” living in his mother’s basement and grieving the death of his pet chihuahua. She also emphasized that Cole has no social media presence and never engages in political discussions online. All of this information was readily available to reporters, yet they went ahead with the Trump-supporter storyline anyway.

CNN’s Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller appeared on Anderson Cooper 360° to discuss the accused bomber’s purported statements to the FBI about his election beliefs. [MORE]

Trump Delivering Only Symbolic Politics to His Believers: Spending Millions to Hire Park Police So He Can Continue to Play Mayor of DC [vicariously pleasing racists by dominating its Black residents]

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Democratic senators are demanding the U.S. Park Police suspend their D.C. recruitment blitz and accuse the Trump administration of “hijacking this federal police force for its own authoritarian purposes,” according to a letter sent to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Monday morning.

The calls come after The Washington Post reported in October that the force is seeking to double its ranks in the nation’s capital over the next six months with a goal of becoming “the premier law enforcement agency in D.C.” — keeping the city safe “regardless of inaction” by the local police department and local elected officials, records show.

“The administration is on a deliberate hiring spree to exploit the U.S. Park Police’s jurisdiction and turn it into a tool of the President for him and his ideological extremists to impose their will on the streets of D.C.,” reads the letter. The lead author was Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the Interior Department, within which the Park Police belongs.

Three Democratic senators co-signed with Merkley: Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Ron Wyden of Oregon. In addition to demanding a hiring suspension, the letter includes dozens of questions about the associated costs and operational objectives, giving the Park Police a Dec. 19 deadline to provide answers. Lawmakers also asked whether there are plans to hire additional officers in other parts of the country. The Park Police has offices only in the D.C. region, New York and San Francisco.

The effort marks the second time in recent months that Democratic lawmakers have scrutinized the Park Police.

The Park Police are tasked with protecting national parkland and monuments. Since the president declared a crime emergency in D.C. in August, though, the agency has tightened its relationship with immigration enforcement and restructured to move its leadership one step closer to the White House. Burgum also rolled back police chase policies that allowed pursuits only for people wanted for violent felonies — a decision that the department has championed as expanding its ability to apprehend criminals but that drew swift criticism and spurred a separate congressional probe.

The expansion strategy set out to recruit, train and retain an additional 450 officers in D.C. — though that goal has since shrunk to 300, according to the police union. Even with the most optimistic expansion, the city police force would remain more than four times larger than the Park Police, which as of October had 289 sworn officers in D.C. [MORE]

Despite Crime Rates Hitting Historic Lows in 39 States, Prison Populations Have Increased [decarceration is Incompatible with the Bi-partisan Goals of Racism White Supremacy]

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From [HERE] The U.S. criminal legal system stands at a crossroads. The United States remains a world leader in incarceration, locking up its citizens at a far higher rate than any other industrialized nation.1

Between 1972 and 2009, the number of people imprisoned grew nearly 700%,2 while crime rates declined dramatically after peaking in 1991.3Imprisonment levels slowly scaled back, achieving a 25% decline between 2009 and 2021.4 Then, the prison population has resumed its growth, according to the most recently available data. The prison population grew in 2022 and in 2023, 39 states increased their prison populations.5

The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a seismic increase in the most serious crime, homicide, which has fortunately declined to pre-pandemic levels. By 2024, homicide rates were 49% lower than their peak level in 1991. Violent and property crime rates overall have reached historic lows: 2024’s violent crime rate was 53% lower than its peak-1991 level and the property crime rate was 66% lower.6

While crime rates are at historic lows, Americans deserve greater levels of community safety. A growing number of elected officials at the local, state, and federal levels have moved to overturn successful criminal justice reforms and revert to the failed playbook of mass incarceration, while the federal government has cut funding for important crime-prevention programs.7Instead, policymakers should respond to crime upticks with evidence-based responses, while correcting the counterproductive, costly, and cruel responses of the past.

Excessive reliance on imprisonment in the United States is ineffective at addressing crime, diverts resources from effective public safety investments, upends family stability, contributes to trauma, and disproportionately harms communities of color.8 A vast body of research has established that we can advance community safety while reducing prison admissions as well as scaling back sentences for both those entering prisons and those already there.9 . . .

The United States has made only modest progress toward ending mass incarceration amidst a historic crime drop. By year end 2024, violent crime rates reported to the police had plummeted to half of their 1990s levels, and property crime rates fell even further—just as crime rates have fallen in many other countries that did not increase imprisonment levels.23 But U.S. imprisonment levels continued to increase for nearly two decades while crime rates fell, and the modest level of decarceration since appears to be in jeopardy. [MORE]

San Diego Agrees to Pay Koana Wilson's Family $30M. The Black Teen was Running from a Criminal who was Shooting at Him when a White Cop Saw Him for 1 Second and Fatally Shot Him in the Back

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IN PHOTO 2 Konoa Wilson, left, with his father, Steven Lee Wilson.

From [HERE] The San Diego city attorney’s office has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old youth who was fatally shot by police last January in what would be one of the largest settlements of a police-involved killing case in U.S. history.

Koana Wilson was recklessly shot by a San Diego police officer Daniel Gold II while the Black teen was running away from gunshots fired by another person. He was unarmed and seeking safety and the officer saw him for only one second or less before firing as he turned the corner (see video below).

Surveillance and body-worn camera footage from Jan. 28 showed Wilson running away from someone who pulled a gun and fired at him in a downtown train station. As he exited the station, Wilson encountered San Diego Police Officer Daniel Gold. Without any warning the officer fired two shots at Wilson. The shooting happened at the Santa Fe Depot located at 1050 Kettner Blvd. in San Diego. Wilson was pronounced dead at UC San Diego Health Medical Center less than an hour later.

A resolution authorizing the proposed settlement with the family of Konoa Wilson has been added to the city council’s agenda for Tuesday morning.

“What happened to Konoa was a catastrophic failure of policing,” family attorney Nick Rowley said in a statement to City News Service. “A 16-year-old boy was running for his life. He was not a threat and not a suspect, yet he was shot in the back by a police officer who only saw him for one second before deciding to pull the trigger.”

According to the complaint,

On January 28, 2025 at approximately 8:50 P.M., Defendant GOLD and another unidentified SDPD officer were responding to an unrelated call near Santa Fe Depot.

At the same time, DECEDENT and a friend entered Santa Fe Depot at approximately 8:50 P.M.

At approximately 8:51 P.M., DECEDENT was standing on the platform next to the Santa Fe Depot train tracks when a person, unknown to DECEDENT, took out a firearm and fired gunshots in DECEDENT's direction.

DECEDENT proceeded to run away from the gunshots down a corridor of the Santa Fe Depot in hopes of reaching a place of safety.

When the unknown SDPD officer heard gunshots in the area, he called "I got shots fired" over the police radio without any description of the shooter or suspects involved.

As DECEDENT exited the Santa Fe Depot corridor, he turned right onto Kettner Blvd. Immediately upon turning the comer, DECEDENT crossed paths with Defendant GOLD who instantly, without any warning (verbal or otherwise), fired two gunshots at DECEDENT, striking DECEDENT in the right side of his torso/back area. Prior to firing the gunshots at DECEDENT, DECEDENT was only observable to Defendant GOLD for one (1) second before Defendant GOLD began shooting at DECEDENT

At no point during these events did DECEDENT brandish a weapon nor did he present a threat to the physical safety or well-being of Defendant GOLD or any other person. DECEDENT was simply running away from an unknown person who was shooting in his direction while he was on the train platform.

Immediately after being shot by Defendant GOLD, DECEDENT fell into the roadway of Kettner Blvd., screaming and writhing in pain. There, he began to bleed-out into the street.

Only after shooting DECEDENT and watching him fall to the ground did Defendant GOLD finally announce "San Diego Police."

If approved, the settlement would exceed the $27 million the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay the family of George Floyd, whose May 2020 murder by a police officer who kneeled on his neck sparked a nationwide racial reckoning.

An agenda item posted Friday said the settlement would be paid from the Public Liability Fund.

Prosecutor Used Flawed AI to Keep a Man in Jail

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From [HERE] When Kyle Kjoller, a 57-year-old welder, was ordered held without bail in Nevada County, Calif., in April, he protested. The charges against him — multiple counts of illegal gun possession — were not grave enough under California law to warrant keeping him in jail for months awaiting his trial (article available here).

Prosecutors disagreed, and offered 11 pages’ worth of reasons. But the brief they filed, Mr. Kjoller’s lawyers contend, was rife with errors that bear the hallmarks of generative artificial intelligence.

The lawyers soon turned up briefs in four separate cases, including Mr. Kjoller’s, that were filled with mistakes, all of them from the office of the same prosecutor, District Attorney Jesse Wilson. The mistakes included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. 

Wilson has acknowledged that the briefs contain numerous errors, but he has said that A.I. was used to draft only one of them, and not the one filed in Kjoller’s case.

That answer has not satisfied Mr. Kjoller’s lawyers, who have asked the California Supreme Court to investigate whether the briefs indicate a “wider pattern” of prosecutors asking courts to rule against defendants “on the basis of nonexistent case citations and holdings.”

“Prosecutors’ reliance on inaccurate legal authority can violate ethical rules, and represents an existential threat to the due process rights of criminal defendants and the legitimacy of the courts,” they wrote. [MORE]

ACLU Sues San Francisco Landlords Over Alleged AI Surveillance In Tenants’ Homes

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From [HERE] The ACLU Foundation of Northern California and two partner law firms filed a lawsuit Thursday against major landlord Equity Residential and surveillance technology vendor SmartRent, alleging the companies violated tenants’ constitutional privacy rights by forcing the use of in-home “smart” surveillance systems.

The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, challenges the installation of SmartRent technology in residential units owned or operated by Equity Residential, one of the largest corporate landlords in the United States. The complaint names SmartRent Technologies Inc. as a co-defendant and seeks declaratory and injunctive relief to halt what plaintiffs describe as unlawful monitoring inside people’s homes.

According to the ACLU, tenants in multiple San Francisco-area buildings were required to accept so-called “smart home” systems as a condition of their tenancy. The systems include digital door locks, thermostats and environmental sensors that collect data about tenants’ movements, habits and home conditions, and transmit that information to landlords and third-party technology providers.

The technology does not appear on its face to be surveillance equipment. The systems consist of digital door locks, thermostats and small environmental sensors that resemble ordinary apartment fixtures, leading tenant advocates to argue that residents may not immediately understand the extent to which activity inside their homes can be recorded or analyzed.

“It’s against the law for landlords to force tenants to have surveillance devices in their homes,” said Jake Snow, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. “This is a flagrant abuse of people’s privacy.” [MORE]

The FCC and US Puppeticians Push Law that would strip Local Control and Force Residents to Accept More Cell Towers in their Neighborhoods.

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From [HERE] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and federal lawmakers are pushing to make it easy for telecom companies to erect cell towers in communities without residents’ consent — even if the tower isn’t really needed to close a coverage gap in cell service.

If either the agency or Congress succeeds, communities will lose the right to keep unwanted towers and other wireless infrastructure away from their homes and schools, according to Miriam Eckenfels, director of Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) & Wireless Program.

“This is the most aggressive push we’ve ever seen to override local zoning, erase public participation, and force dense wireless infrastructure into residential areas under the guise of streamlining wireless infrastructure deployment,” Eckenfels said.

On Wednesday, the U.S House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced H.R. 2289, the American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025, in a 26-24 vote along party lines, with Democrats opposing it. A floor vote has yet to be scheduled as of press time.

If passed, the bill would allow wireless companies to install towers and antennas wherever they decide, regardless of whether local residents want the equipment, Eckenfels said.

The FCC, the federal agency that oversees telecommunications, is working on its own similar strategy. On Dec. 1, the agency published a notice in the Federal Register about a proposed rule to “free towers and other wireless infrastructure from unlawful regulatory burdens.”

Eckenfels called H.R. 2289 a “legislative shortcut” for what the FCC wants to accomplish.

The FCC and lawmakers don’t want any roadblocks to installing more wireless infrastructure, said tech attorney Odette Wilkens, president and general counsel for the nonprofit Wired Broadband, Inc. “They see community input as an obstacle, and they see it as a regulatory barrier because the zoning ordinances on the local level protect the people.”

Across the country, residents have been successfully keeping new cell towers and antennas from going up next to their homes and schools.

Eckenfels said she thinks these successes prompted the FCC — which is captured by the wireless industry — and lawmakers who favor the wireless industry to push the measures. [MORE]

Regardless of Whether a FLA Officer Shot the Right or Wrong Black Teen in the Back, a White DA says the Cop Acted "in Good Faith" During Their 'Which NGHR Hunt.' 14 Yr Old Hadn't Committed a Crime

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NO CRIMINAL CONSEQUENCES AFTER COP SHOT INNOCENT BLACK BOY IN THE BACK. A so-called communication breakdown within the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office dispatch system led multiple officers on a frenzied, hour-long search for the wrong car in the wake of a fatal drive-by shooting last month in Northwest Jacksonville. Operating under incorrect information, a JSO officer shot a fleeing, unarmed 14-year-old boy in the back four times, leaving him in critical condition. The boy had nothing to do with the shooting.

State Attorney Melissa Nelson said this week the officer, Jacob Cahill, did not violate any laws by shooting the boy, who survived, because he was working in good faith on outdated information. Nelson is white. She also recently declined to file charges against the Florida cops who stopped a Black man for driving without headlights on during the daytime and beat him causing brain injury.

A black Kia Optima that the boy and his friends stole that evening from a DoorDash driver for a joy ride was initially suspected of being involved in a nearby shooting, but officers working the shooting scene quickly realized those crimes were not related.

If dispatchers had relayed to the task force that the black Kia was not linked to the drive-by, Nelson said there would not have been a full-fledged pursuit of the four teens, which damaged the Kia and one JSO cruiser, which crashed into a nearby building.

Cahill, however, who was a member of that task force, didn’t know the Kia was no longer the suspect vehicle in the drive-by shooting, so when the 14-year-old boy fled from the scene, he believed he was chasing a potential shooter, Nelson said.

Nelson characterized the circumstances as a “perfect storm” and an “unusual and unfortunate alignment of circumstances,” but the foul-up also revealed a systemic and critical failure in the way JSO dispatchers communicate with officers on the street. 

Officer Jacob T. Cahill, 27, who has been with JSO for three years, said he chased one of the teens who ran, thinking he was the driver of the crashed Kia and that he was armed. Nelson said Cahill believed that because of the prior reports, the car chase and crash, the teen’s arm position, and poor visibility, which kept him from seeing what was in the teen’s left hand.

Cahill shouted a command and almost immediately fired four shots, hitting the teen in the back.

It turned out the teen was unarmed, and his movement toward his waistband was likely just grabbing his pants.

The teen was rushed into surgery in critical condition. Nelson declined to release his name at the request of his family. She said he has been released from the hospital.

Nelson said that because of the anticipated public interest, her office sped up the review that normally takes anywhere from six to 12 months and finished it in about 30 days.

She said her team examined bodycams, surveillance, radio logs and witness statements, and consulted use of force experts before concluding that Cahill’s use of potentially deadly force was lawful and not criminal under the legal standard that looks at what a reasonable officer could have believed at the time.

“We, in reviewing his actions, must assess his actions from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, not with the benefit of hindsight, and must consider all facts known to and reasonably believed by him at the moment force is deployed,” Nelson explained. “The question is not what we know now to be true today, but what a reasonable officer could have believed in that moment based on the information available to him.” [MORE]

Apparently, the racist suspect prosecutor claims that the officer would have been justified in using deadly force against any person who fled from the police at that time, regardless of whether the individual had committed a crime or not.

Even if the teen was involved in a crime, he could not have reasonably posed a threat to the white cop as he fled - running away from the cop as fast as he could, who then shot him in the back.

Jacksonville attorney Matt Kachergus, who is representing the family of the 14-year-old boy, who The Tributary is not naming, said in a written statement that the family is disappointed that their child was shot multiple times while Cahill is likely to not be held accountable for the use of deadly force. 

 “Although the State Attorney has determined there will be no accountability for this officer, the family will seek to hold him accountable in our system of justice,” Kachergus said.

White LA County DA Asks Court to Dismiss Charges Against the 2 White Torrance Cops who Murdered Christopher Mitchell. Shot Black Man Sitting in His Car, he was Not Under Arrest. Cops Sent Racist Texts

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From [HERE] Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman moved to drop manslaughter charges Friday against two Torrance police officers who shot and killed a Black man in 2018, attempting to end a seven-year saga that saw the case rejected and then reexamined by three different elected prosecutors. Hochman is white and both officers are white.

Matthew Concannon and Anthony Chavez were indicted in 2023 for the shooting death of Christopher Deandre Mitchell, a 23-year-old car theft suspect who was in possession of an air rifle at the time he was killed. While Mitchell never pointed the weapon at either officer, Concannon told authorities he saw Mitchell reaching for what he believed was a real firearm when he opened fire.

Michael Gennaco, a special prosecutor hired earlier this year by Hochman to review the case, filed a motion to dismiss charges late Thursday, saying he did not believe prosecutors could prove voluntary manslaughter at trial.

But Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Sam Ohta declined to rule on the motion Friday, citing a pending review of the case by the California Supreme Court. Concannon's attorneys had previously filed a writ of habeas corpus after Ohta rejected a motion to dismiss the charges.

“I am not going to rule on this because it would be inappropriate for me to do that at this point. The Supreme Court has to tell us its decision," Ohta said.

Ohta signaled he wouldn't decide the motion until the case was withdrawn from the Supreme Court, and even then, he would need time to review the filings.

Chavez and Concannon were among those investigated in 2021 when the district attorney's office uncovered a thread of racist text messages sent by members of the Torrance Police Department. At least 15 officers with the Torrance Police Department sent approximately 390 racist, sexist and homophobic messages from 2018 to 2020. This is something that appears to be somewhat common among cops in California and elsewhere. The text messages talked about hurting and killing Black people. The messages included jokes about setting up Black men to be killed, with one officer suggesting he wanted to shoot and hang several Black suspects, and a picture of a teddy bear being lynched inside the police department’s headquarters, according to documents previously reviewed by The Times.

While The Times never found evidence that Concannon or Chavez sent any of the messages, they were both under investigation as part of the scandal, according to documents previously reviewed by the newspaper and sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Messages sent by unidentified officers used the N-word to describe Mitchell’s loved ones and celebrated other officers’ decision to use force against protesters who supported Mitchell’s family during a demonstration in front of the Torrance City Council. Several of the officers who used racist language in the messages were also later accused of using excessive force against protesters in civil lawsuits.

The shooting incident occurred when officers approached Mitchell while he was seated in a purported stolen car in a Ralphs parking lot. They claimed they spotted what was later revealed to be a "break barrel air rifle" between his legs.

Gennaco said the stock of the air rifle, which was all Concannon could see, looked "strikingly similar" to a shotgun. He fired one round, and Chavez fired twice immediately after. The two officers then retreated and waited for backup.

Nearly 30 minutes elapsed before anyone checked on Mitchell, who was then pronounced dead of a single gunshot wound, according to court records.

Christopher Deandre Mitchell’s family have maintained that Mitchell did follow commands and was never a threat to the officers, who they say never gave him a chance to surrender. They claim he was asleep in the car when the cops approached him. Black Lives Matter Los Angeles organizer Sheila Bates said Monday that the officers unnecessarily escalated the situation despite Mitchell not threatening them in any way, and they opened fire within seconds of approaching him.

The video speaks for itself - the white cops pretend to be threatened as the Black man appears calm and is trying to comply with their confusing, excited commands. Mitchell speaks in a calm, non-threatening voice and appears to be apologizing to them for not understanding their disfluent commands or not complying fast enough. Police are not facing any imminent threat of deadly harm when they fatally shoot him - at least from a reasonable, non-racist point of view.

Court Might Allow Black Man Family’s Lawsuit to Proceed: East Bay (CA) Cops Tased Deontae Faison While He Was in the Water, Watched Him Drown, Denied CPR, Still in Coma. Cops were Investigating Tags

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From [HERE] A federal judge indicated she was going to deny full summary judgment during a Thursday hearing on a case involving an unarmed man who was shocked with a Taser while in the San Leandro Bay in 2024, resulting in his lapse into a coma, saying at least some of the claims will likely go to trial.

According to his family, Deontae Charles Faison was shocked with a Taser five times by East Bay Regional Park District police officer Jonathan Knea, with two shots happening while Faison was in the water, after he fled from Knea’s questioning about possible expired tags on Faison’s car parked nearby.

U.S. District Judge Jaqueline Scott Corley called the case “tragic and troubling” and heard arguments from both sides’ attorneys, particularly regarding which, if any, of the Taser shots could be included in a qualified immunity claim for Knea, the use of excessive force and lethal force, and whether Knea was trained inadequately. Corley allowed the suit to advance in July.

The East Bay Regional Park District’s attorney Patrick Moriarty argued Faison entered the water of his own volition and questioned the claim of whether his cardiac arrest in the water was due to being shocked with the Taser or because of his supposed drowning in frigid water. During the incident and after the last fired Taser shots, Faison was captured on footage from officers’ body cameras.

“Even though we have body cameras, there is always going to be disputes,” said Moriarty.

Attorney Patrick Buelna, representing Faison’s family, said the defense was trying to “strip away and sanitize the reason why he got into the water in the first place,” and suggested he fled into the water out of fear, confusion and disorientation because he was shocked multiple times.

Police video shows white cops aggressively approach the car with a gun pointed at him threatening his life while yelling at him to get out the car. The car appeared to be lawfully parked in a picnic area. It does look like he was with a white woman, so that may have triggered racist suspect cops.

Buelna cited the “not heavily litigated but clearly established” state-created danger doctrine as a possible way to show Knea put Faison in mortal danger by shocking and leaving him in the water without aid. The doctrine is a legal theory designed to allow a lawsuit for constitutional violations against state actors who put others in a dangerous situation that leads to injuries.

During the hearing, Corley had a spirited back-and-forth with Moriarty, saying several times she couldn’t infer certain ideas in the defendant’s favor during summary judgment and that there were still some facts in dispute.

Further complicating the case, she noted, was the lack of case law about people being shocked with a Taser in water and that Faison cannot testify for himself about what he was thinking or what happened before and after he was shocked.

“I have a lot here to go through,” Corley said, remarking the arguments Moriarty and Buelna made at the hearing were “super helpful today.” [bullshit. let a jury decide]

According to his family, on April 5, 2024, Faison set out for a day at Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline Park with a friend when he was approached by Knea, who activated his vehicle’s lights and instructed them to sit on the car’s bumper.

The family says Knea said the car next to Faison had expired tags and that it belonged to him, despite never seeing Faison drive it.

When asked his name, Faison provided Knea with an alias. After running his name through the district system without any matches, Knea called for backup.

After 20 minutes, Faison attempted to leave the area, and Knea drew a gun on him. Faison ran toward the Bay, and Knea deployed his Taser, first hitting Faison in the back a few feet from the water.

Faison collapsed but got back up and walked into the water. There, his family claims, officers reapplied the Taser to him multiple times, against the district and Taser manufacturer’s orders, at one point stating, “He is not going to make it.”

The officers watched him yell for help for nearly 40 minutes until he lost consciousness and then dragged him out of the water. At no point did the officers render CPR to Faison, the family claims.

Faison has been in a coma and on life support since that day.

Faison’s family is seeking punitive and statutory damages against the officers and the district for assault, violations of his constitutional rights, negligence, false imprisonment and misrepresenting the harm he endured to medical staff.

“We are hopeful that the plaintiff has enough claims to go to trial,” Buelna said after the hearing.

Faison’s family filed the lawsuit in August 2024. The park district moved to dismiss earlier this year.

The East Bay Regional Park District is a special district that operates within Alameda and Contra Costa counties in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It maintains its own police and fire departments, separate from the county.

1 New Haven Cop Pleads Guilty in the Randy Cox Case. 5 Officers Intentionally Paralyzed Black Man by Slamming On the Brakes while he was Not Belted in an Empty Police Van, then Denied Medical Care

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From [HERE] A New Haven police officer has pleaded guilty in the 2022 case of Randy Cox, who was left paralyzed after hitting his head and neck inside of a police van. 

Sgt. Betsy Segui took a plea deal, while the other officers charged rejected the plea deal and are headed to trial. If convicted, all three could face up to a year and a half in jail. 

Segui pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless endangerment.

She also received a 60-day suspended sentence and a six-month conditional discharge. 

The fifth officer charged, Ronald Pressley, accepted the same plea deal.

However, Officer Oscar Diaz, and former officers Jocelyn Lavandier and Luis Rivera, rejected the same plea deal from the state. 

Ray Hassett, the attorney representing Rivera, said not all of the officers played the same role in the incident. 

“Everybody feels really bad for Mr. Cox and what happened to him. It’s a tragedy, but these officers, as Will established in court, had nothing to do with his injuries. They didn’t exacerbate them; they didn’t create them,” said Hassett. 

Four of the officers were fired by the city, but Diaz was reinstated earlier this year after the state labor board overturned his firing. 

Segui’s bid to return to the department was rejected, while arbitration cases for Lavandier and Rivera are still open.

Attorney Daniel Ford, who represents Lavendier, said he’s looking forward to their day in court.

“I don’t think she did anything wrong here and I think a jury is going to agree with all of it,” said Ford. 

In June of 2022, Randy Cox was arrested by New Haven police and charged with weapons offenses. 

He was then put in the back of a police transport van driven by Diaz. 

On the way to the police department, the van stopped short. 

Cox, who was in the back of the van with no seatbelt, flew into a wall inside the van, hitting his head and neck. 

New Haven State's Attorney John P. Doyle Jr. said Cox tried to tell the officers he was hurt. 

“He was met with comments by officers that he was not injured and that they were going to remove him from vehicle,” said Doyle Jr. 

Body cam footage shows Cox being taken out of the vehicle, being placed on the ground and then being placed in a wheelchair. 

He was later dragged into a holding cell. 

As a result of this incident, Cox is now paralyzed from the mid-chest down. 

The offenses Cox was charged with were eventually dropped by the state. 

“The conduct and the behavior of the officers the scene and in that detention center was reckless to Mr. Cox indifference to his person and in different to his claims,” added Doyle Jr.  

Doyle Jr. made it clear that Cox is prepared to testify if necessary, at trial. 

The judge will hear arguments next month on whether the officers will be tried together or separately.

 The first trial is expected to begin on Feb. 9, 2026. 

White Antioch Police Officer Sentenced To 7.5 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Injure, Oppress, Threaten or Intimidate Residents Through the Use of Force

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From [HERE] Former Antioch police officer Devon Christopher Wenger was sentenced today to seven-and-a-half years in federal prison for conspiring to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate residents of Antioch through the use of unreasonable force, conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids, and obstructing justice. Senior U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White handed down the sentence.

Wenger, 33, formerly of Oakley, California, was indicted in two separate cases. In April 2025, following a three-day trial, a federal jury convictedWenger on one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute anabolic steroids and one count of obstruction of justice. In September 2025, following a seven-day trial, a jury convictedWenger of conspiracy against rights. Wenger was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals in September 2025 and has remained in federal custody since then.

“Devon Wenger and his co-conspirators believed the badges they wore gave them a license to break the law. They were wrong. Today, the court held Mr. Wenger accountable for his betrayal of the public trust placed in him,” said United States Attorney Craig H. Missakian.

“Devon Wenger’s sentencing marks another significant step in a multi-year effort to uncover and confront corruption within the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments. His conviction, along with the earlier convictions in this case, underscores that no one is above the law. The FBI and our partners are committed to holding those who violate the civil rights of others and betray the public’s trust accountable,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Agustin Lopez.

According to court documents and the evidence presented at the September 2025 trial, Wenger and two other Antioch Police Department officers, Morteza Amiri and Eric Rombough, conspired with each other and others about using excessive force against individuals in and around Antioch. The uses and intended uses of excessive force included deployment of a police K9, deployment of a 40mm “less lethal” launcher, and other unnecessary violence. The evidence showed that Wenger and others deployed uses of force as punishment to subjects beyond any punishment appropriately imposed by the criminal justice system. Wenger also withheld details about uses of excessive force from police reports and other official documents.

Wenger, Amiri, and or Rombough engaged in numerous communications in furtherance of the conspiracy, including an April 2019 communication in which Wenger sent a photo and booking information for a suspect to Amiri and Rombough and requested that they “[p]lease find this guy[] and f— him in the a–.” Rombough responded “Deal,” and Amiri responded “ill bite em.”

Later in 2019, Wenger broke the arm of a young female shoplifting suspect, then pushed her sister to the ground, handcuffed the sister, picked the sister up and grabbed her neck, and smashed the sister’s face into the side of the patrol car, as captured on video. However, Wenger wrote in his police report that as he was escorting the sister to a patrol car, she attempted to pull away from him and that as a result of her actions she “subsequently fell onto the side of the patrol vehicle.”

In August 2020, after Amiri deployed his K9 to apprehend a suspect in Pittsburg, California, with Wenger, he wrote to Wenger “if pitt didn’t have all those body cams and that was us… we would have f—ed him up more. he didn’t get what he deserved.” Wenger responded, “I agree. That’s why I don’t like body cams.” The next night, Wenger wrote to Amiri, “We need to get into something tonight bro!! Lets go 3 nights in a row dog bite!!!” Amiri and Wenger exchanged additional messages and bloodied photographs after engaging with another suspect that night, and following Amiri’s deployment of his K9 to bite a suspect in a homeless encampment the subsequent evening. At the end of the week, Amiri wrote to Wenger, “let’s f— some people up next work week,” to which Wenger agreed.

According to court documents and evidence presented at the April 2025 trial, in February 2022, Wenger set up the sale of anabolic steroids, a Schedule III controlled substance, between Daniel Harris, who was at the time also an Antioch Police Department officer, and a third individual. Law enforcement officials seized the package of anabolic steroids destined for Harris before they arrived, although Wenger continued to communicate with Harris about supplying the third individual with anabolic steroids, including offering to give this individual some of Wenger’s own while they waited for the delayed package.

On March 23, 2022, at 8:03 a.m., the FBI began calling and sending text messages to Wenger telling him that they were outside of his residence with a warrant. It was not until 9:00 a.m. that Wenger appeared for the FBI to seize Wenger’s cellular phone. Later forensic examination of that device showed that specific entries related to the anabolic steroid distribution conspiracy had been deleted.

In addition to the prison term, Judge White also sentenced the defendant to a three-year period of supervised release. A hearing to determine the amounts of restitution owed to victims is scheduled for January 27, 2026.

The case is being prosecuted by the National Security & Special Prosecutions Section and the Oakland Branch of the United States Attorney’s Office. This prosecution is the result of an investigation by the FBI and the Office of the Contra Costa County District Attorney.