Family of Isaac Goodlow reaches $9.4M Settlement: Cops Fatally Shot Unarmed Black Man Laying in His Bed in Chicago Suburb, No Cops Charged by Racist Suspect DA

From [HERE] The family of a Black man who was shot and killed by police inside his home in west suburban Carol Stream in 2024 has agreed to settle their federal lawsuit against the village and six officers for $9.4 million.

Court records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show Isaac Goodlow's family reached the settlement agreement last month, dismissing the lawsuit filed by Goodlow's sisters, Kyenna McConico and Kennetha Barnes.

The agreement prohibits either side from discussing the settlement, and under the terms of the deal, the village and the officers do not admit any liability or illegal conduct in Goodlow's death.

Goodlow was 30 years old when he was killed by Officer Daniel Pfingston as Carol Stream police responded to a domestic violence call at his home on Feb. 3, 2024.

Pfingston arrived at Goodlow's apartment building in response to a 911 call saying a "boy just jumped on my sister."  "He jumped on her, she came to our house screaming and crying, her eye is black, her lip is busted," the caller told 911. {This is media misinformation. Police don't hear 911 calls. So whatever was said would have been unknown to the cops prior to their interaction with the black man.]

Goodlow's attorneys have said the person who called 911 was the sister of a woman who had a relationship with Isaac.

When a 911 dispatcher asked if there were any weapons involved, the caller said no.

Body camera footage shows officers enter Goodlow's bedroom before he was shot and killed.

Carol Stream police have said Goodlow took an aggressive step towards them when they entered and claimed they couldn't see what, if anything, was in his hands. The officer who shot him, Danny Pfingston, no longer works for the department.

The family maintains that Goodlow was unarmed, in bed at the time of the shooting, and that the woman who called 911 was outside the apartment and not seriously hurt when police arrived.

Dupage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin chose not to charge any of the officers with a crime. [MORE]

Civil Trial Started in Chicago Police Killing of Adam Toledo. Cop Gunned Down 13 yr Old Latino Teen who Had Both His Hands Up. Cop Not Charged by Black State Attorney who Serves Elite White Liberals

Just over five years after a Chicago police officer shot and killed Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old Latino boy, during a foot chase on the city’s West Side, a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his family will be heading to trial on Monday.

In 2022, Toledo’s parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and the officer who fatally shot the boy, Eric Stillman. In their lawsuit, the Toledo family claimed Stillman did not follow department protocols as he chased and then fatally shot the boy.

In 2023 Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, a SNAG who serves elite white liberals, announced her office would not bring criminal charges against Stillman. The Toledo family, meanwhile, filed a still-pending wrongful death lawsuit against Stillman in Chicago’s federal court.

Stillman shot and killed the 13-year-old Adam around 2:30 a.m. on March 29, 2021 in the 2300 block of South Spaulding Avenue in the Little Village neighborhood.

Adam was shot after he and another man allegedly ran away from police who were responding to the area for a report of gunfire.

COPA last year released 17 bodyworn camera videos, four third-party videos and several audio transmissions and police reports related to the shooting. 

Stillman’s own bodyworn camera footage showed he and his partner briefly chasing Adam and the other man — identified as Ruben Roman — through an alley near Farragut Career Academy High School. Stillman’s partner quickly tackles Roman, while Stillman goes after Adam.

While chasing the teen, Stillman repeatedly tells him to “stop right f—— now” and to “show me your f—— hands.” The officer also tells Adam to “drop it.”

Adam can be seen briefly ducking behind a break in a fence near Farragut, then quickly reemerging. Stillman was standing about 10 feet away, pointing his gun and a flashlight at the teen. Moments later, Adam turns toward Stillman with both his hands raised, and the officer fires a single shot, striking Adam in the upper left side of his chest, near his heart.

After he’s shot, the teen stumbles backward and collapses to the pavement. Officers immediately run to him, and Stillman is the first to start rendering CPR while calling for more medical aid. More than a dozen additional CPD officers soon arrive at the scene.

As other officers and Chicago Fire Department personnel continue to perform life-saving procedures, the officer who fired the shot soon finds a gun near the break in fence where the boy was shot.

Stillman joined the CPD in 2015 after having served in Afghanistan in the United States Marine Corps.

"It has been extremely excruciating for them every day that has gone by, every family event, every child's birthday, every anniversary of his death," said Adeena Weiss Ortiz, the Toledo family's attorney, on The Chicago Report last week.

Weiss Ortiz said she plans to bring forth a variety of evidence related to the case that the public hasn't seen before and that the proceedings could include around 90 witnesses. She said the trial could "easily" last for around two months. [MORE]

Fed Ct Forced to Remind Cops, 'You Cant Use Deadly Force Against Unarmed People Posing No Threat, Even If they're Black.' Revives Terence Crutcher's Suit, Cop Fatally Shot Him in the Back w/Hands Up

From [HERE] The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals published an opinion Monday reversing the dismissal of a civil rights lawsuit brought by the estate of Terence Crutcher against the City of Tulsa and former Tulsa Police Department officer Betty Shelby. The decision in Manning v. Tulsa sends the case back to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Shelby is not entitled to qualified immunity, stating evidence supports the claim that Crutcher’s constitutional rights were violated through the use of unreasonable force. 

Crutcher, a Black man, was shot and killed in September 2016 by Shelby, a white police officer, while he was unarmed and standing near his vehicle. At the same time Shelby fired her handgun, another officer, Tyler Turnbough, shot at Crutcher with his Taser. Shelby was charged with manslaughter days later but acquitted by a jury in 2017.

On Tuesday, Crutcher’s family, their legal team and State Senator Regina Goodwin said this moment has been a long time coming. 

While the family’s original lawsuit included several claims, the 10th circuit remanded two back to the district court: 1) whether Shelby violated Crutcher’s civil rights when she shot him and 2) whether the federal court should exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims against the City of Tulsa.

In 2024, District Court Judge for the District of Kansas Eric Melgren substantively dismissed the estate’s excessive force claims against Shelby and procedurally dismissed the state law claims against the City of Tulsa for failing to meet the requirements for supplemental jurisdiction. (Melgren was handling the case owing to the Northern District of Oklahoma’s ongoing judge shortage.)

“Here, it is plaintiff’s burden to demonstrate that it was clearly established that an officer cannot use deadly force on a suspect who: has diminished capacity; was in an open, unconfined area; reportedly committed only non-violent misdemeanors; ignored orders to stop and get on his knees as he slowly walked away from an officer towards a parked vehicle with his hands up; and when he reached the door of the vehicle lowered his arm,” Melgren wrote. “And ‘plaintiff, through his counsel, has simply failed to carry the burden assigned to him by law.’ Therefore, the court grants officer Shelby’s motion for summary judgment, finding that qualified immunity bars plaintiff’s Fourth Amendment claim against her.”

A 10th Circuit panel disagreed with Melgren’s characterization of the bar for excessive force complaints to overcome qualified immunity claims, finding it is clearly established an officer may not use deadly force against an unarmed individual who poses no threat.

“[Melgren]’s account fails to assume that Crutcher kept his hands raised when he reached the door of the vehicle,” Judge Nancy Moritz wrote. “As the estate argues, the proper iteration of the right is broader and hinges on the use of deadly force against an unarmed individual who poses no threat.”

The appeals court ultimately remanded the excessive force claim against Shelby and the state law claims against the city back to the federal district court in Tulsa.

helby’s attorney, Scott Wood, told the Tulsa World his client would talk to the City of Tulsa before deciding whether to file a petition for rehearing or an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. A spokesperson for the City of Tulsa did not respond to a request for comment before the publication of this article.

During Tuesday’s press conference, Solomon-Simmons seemed eager for the case to go to trial in federal court, but he did hint he was open to settlement negotiations.

“Unlike the criminal trial, the full story will come out if we get to federal court. And unlike the criminal trial where they didn’t hear from experts from our side, they will hear our experts if the jury gets this. And unlike the criminal trial, they will hear about Terence and his family and what it meant for him to be a part of this community,” Solomon-Simmons said. “We believe with all our might and all our heart that if the jury sees what the 10th Circuit sees, we will get justice for this family. But I hope this city does not cause this family to go through that. They have suffered enough (…) I’m calling on the city to make sure that this family does not have to see another trial.”

In its ruling, the court reiterated what it called a “baseline principle.” This means a police officer may not use deadly force against an unarmed, non-dangerous person. 

2 News Oklahoma reached out to Shelby’s attorney, Scott Wood.

In a statement, he said they are disappointed by the judge’s decision, and they stand by the position that Shelby acted reasonably.

Betty Shelby quit the Tulsa Police Department soon after the trial and became a Rogers County, Oklahoma Sheriff's Deputy.

No Justice and No Piece? Botham Jean's Family Wants Dallas to Pay the $100M Judgement it Got Against the Judgement Proof White Cop who Murdered Him- but the City Wasn’t a Defendant in the Case

The family of Botham Shem Jean has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the City of Dallas to pay nearly $100 million in damages, nearly eight years after Jean was fatally shot in his apartment by former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, according to court records.

Guyger was found guilty of murder in October 2019, and a civil trial in November 2024 resulted in Jean's family being awarded damages. Guyger appealed her murder conviction in 2020, but it was upheld by a Texas appeals court in 2021.

The suit, filed in early March, claims the city tried to cover staffing gaps by assigning officers to overtime work, leading to fatigue and increased stress. The suit notes that Guyger had clocked out from a nearly 14-hour shift on Sept. 6, 2018, the night she killed Jean. The suit also said she had worked more than 44 hours in the four days leading up to the shooting, including spending a day with the SWAT team.

Guyger, as the suit recalls, mistakenly parked on the fourth floor of the parking garage attached to the apartment community Jean and her both lived in after that shift; Guyger lived on the third floor, while Jean lived on the fourth floor. She mistakenly entered Jean's apartment and, believing him to be an intruder, fatally shot him.

Why hasn't the city paid?

The family's suit claims the city government "refused to take responsibility" for Jean's death. The suit said the city had a legal obligation to defend Guyger and indemnify her in the case. However, the government was not a party to the family’s lawsuit. The family had originally filed the civil suit against Ms. Guyger and the city of Dallas. A judge dismissed the latter from the case in December 2019, leaving Ms. Guyger as the sole defendant.

Obviously, the officer is judgment proof and doesn’t have $100 million or anything substantially close to it - so it might as well have been a $10 Billion judgment. [MORE]

Ms. Guyger was fired by the Dallas Police Department after the shooting. She was found guilty of murder but only sentenced to 10 years in prison by a wack Black judge.

LA Authorities Continued to Pay a Fired White Cop (at least $500k) who was Found Guilty of Slamming a Black Woman Face First into the Sidewalk

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

From [HERE] White Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Trevor Kirk was convicted in February 2025 of using excessive force after he was recorded throwing a woman to the ground.

• Kirk has appealed the guilty verdict and his supporters have sought President Trump’s intervention in his case.

• Kirk lost the certification required to serve as a state peace officer but was still employed by the Sheriff’s Department until last month.

A Los Angeles County deputy who was convicted of excessive force continued to collect a paycheck for months even though he was barred from carrying a badge in California, according to Sheriff’s Department officials and county records.

A federal jury convicted Trevor Kirk in February 2025 of a felony after he was recorded throwing a woman face first onto the ground outside a supermarket in Lancaster.

Kirk, 33, was sentenced to four months in prison and his certification as a law enforcement officer was revoked by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, in effect banning him from working as a police officer in the state.

But Kirk remained employed with the Sheriff’s Department for months afterward, collecting benefits and a six-figure salary. Kirk had been relieved of duty after the 2023 encounter and was off the streets and had no other duties assigned in the department, a department spokesperson said.

Kirk was relieved of duty in July 2023. In a recording that surfaced weeks earlier, Kirk was seen responding to a report of a robbery and being approached by a woman outside a WinCo Foods supermarket.

The woman was recording deputies with her cellphone as they handcuffed a man matching the description of a suspect. Kirk then approached the woman, tried to grab her cellphone and threw her to the ground, video showed. Kirk pinned her down with a knee to her back and used pepper-spray, twice, to her face.

Kirk was charged by federal prosecutors with a felony but offered a misdemeanor plea deal before the case went to trial. Kirk declined and was convicted by a jury in February 2025 of one felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law.

After the election of President Trump, the new top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli, made the highly unusual and controversial decision to offer Kirk a post-conviction plea deal.

U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson rejected the move, writing that prosecutors presented no new evidence or circumstances to justify circumventing the jury’s verdict.

Kirk remained employed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department a year after his conviction while his attorneys appealed his case.

According to a Sheriff‘s Department spokesperson, Kirk was relieved of duty July 10, 2023. But he continued to be employed and collect a salary.

According to county data, Kirk received a total compensation of $201,062 in 2023, including benefits and overtime. He took home an additional $170,000 in 2024.

Salary data for Kirk for 2025 was not immediately available from the county, but a Sheriff’s Department spokesperson said Kirk remained with the agency until Feb. 20, 2026. [MORE]

Provocative White Hartford Cop who Fatally Shot Steven Jones Fired but No Criminal Charges Filed

A white Connecticut police officer who fatally shot a Black man 30 seconds after arriving at the scene, where three fellow officers had spent several minutes trying to de-escalate the situation, was fired Friday.

Arunan Arulampalam, Hartford’s mayor, said in a statement that he terminated Officer Joseph Magnano effective immediately in connection with the 27 February shooting of Steven Jones, who was on a city street holding a knife. The killing came eight days after a different Hartford officer fatally shot another man in a mental health crisis.

“In the body-worn camera footage of the incident, as well as publicly shared videos, I saw three officers work together as a team to de-escalate a mental health crisis in a way that exemplifies the best of our police department,” Arulampalam said. “The actions of Officer Magnano do not measure up to those standards.”

The police union has been defending Magnano’s actions, saying in social media posts that his use of force was lawful.

The state inspector general’s office is investigating the shooting and will determine whether to file criminal charges against Magnano. Earlier this month, the office released the body camera footage from the four officers who responded to the scene.

Jones’ sister, Audrey Jones, had called 911 seeking help for her brother because he was having a mental health crisis, reporting that he had a knife and had cut himself.

The body camera footage shows Steven Jones on a city street as three officers keep telling him for several minutes to drop a knife he is holding. The officers also tell him they’re there to help him.

“Steve, you’re OK. We’re going to make sure you’re OK,” Officer James Prignano tells him. “Just drop the knife. We’re going to go talk to somebody, OK?”

Jones can’t be heard saying anything in the videos.

About 12 minutes after the 911 call, Magnano arrives and draws his pistol while also ordering Jones to drop the knife, telling him “You’re going to get shot,” the video shows. A woman is heard screaming, “Don’t shoot him!”

The videos show Prignano motioning at Magnano, appearing to tell him to back away. As Jones slowly walked toward Magnano, the officer gives a final warning before shooting at Jones nine times, about 30 seconds after he got out of his cruiser, video shows.

Jones died at a hospital four days later, authorities said. [MORE] and [MORE]

Was Jawan Dallas Resisting Arrest or Reacting to the Burning Pain from a Taser? Judge says He Coincidentally Had a Heart Attack as Cops Tased and Beat Him. Black Family’s Suit Dismissed w/o a Trial

Racist Suspect Federal Judge says Jawan Dallas Coincidentally Had a Heart Attack While Cops Tased and Beat Him to Death. From [HERE] A white federal judge in Alabama dismissed a $36 million wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Mobile and two police officers on March 10, 2026, regarding the 2023 death of 36-year-old Jawan Dallas. Body camera footage released after the ruling shows the July 2, 2023, arrest where Dallas was shocked with a Taser multiple times during a struggle after being mistaken for a burglary suspect.

U.S. District Court Judge Kristi K. DuBose (in photo) ruled in favor of the city of Mobile and two police officers, concluding the case. Following the dismissal, the federal court unsealed body camera footage related to the incident, which had not been previously released to the public.

Jawan Dallas, 36, died on July 2, 2023, after officers deployed a Taser multiple times during an attempt to detain him, an event that sparked protests in Mobile.

Judge DuBose noted that a medical examiner determined Dallas primarily died from "acute myocardial ischemia and cardiorespiratory failure caused by mixed drug toxicity – including toxicity from the presence of methamphetamine."

“Unfortunately, Mr. Dallas died from a heart attack approximately twenty minutes after he was handcuffed,” DuBose wrote. She wrote that the use of force against Dallas was objectively reasonable.

Lawyers for his family disagreed with the decision and said they plan to appeal to the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

“The video evidence is striking. Jawan Dallas endured a taser/drive stun for about 44 seconds, which is longer than the recommended time, and tragically lost his life though he was not the person accused of trespassing,” lawyers for the Dallas family said in a statement.

The medical examiner found three abrasions on Dallas that were consistent with dry stun injuries and six punctures on Mr. Dallas’s back, four of which were consistent with “deeper” Taser probe injuries, according to the Tuesday ruling.

Officers approached Dallas after responding to a report of a possible burglary and trespassing at a trailer park. Dallas was in his vehicle. An officer demanded Dallas get out of the car and produce his identification. Dallas appears to tell the officer, “That’s illegal.” He is then pulled from the car and a scuffle ensues.

“Please, please, I can't breathe,” Dallas is heard saying on audio from the body camera footage.

Lawyers for the officers and the city had argued that Dallas resisted arrest. An expert hired by the Dallas family said he was not resisting but reacting to the burning pain from the Taser.

Daniels, the Dallas family’s attorney, said on Friday he believes police did not act within the law and sees inconsistencies in Prine’s account.

“Mr. Dallas was not homeless at all,” Daniels said in response to the police press conference, adding that Dallas was at the trailer park that day because he was visiting one of his friends who lives there.

The family and the family’s attorney have said eyewitnesses saw police beating Dallas, but police said the autopsy saw no evidence of “any bruising, any contusion, or any evidence of blunt force trauma.” Daniels disputes Prine’s claim that this did not occur.

“Dallas is African American, and bruising, especially if the person is deceased, may not be there,” Daniels said.

Daniels also said that it was not lawful for police to detain Daniels just because he was in the area.

“Even if officers suspect you have committed a crime, you only have to provide your name, your address, and why you’re there,” he said. “It specifically excludes having to give an identification card because (...) some people don’t have IDs. Some people don’t have a driver’s license.” [MORE]

'You Have So Many Options; Comply, Get Arrested or Die.' Rochester Cops Murder Cleavon White while Forcing Him to Get Mental Health Services, say He Reached for Cop Gun while He Fought for His Freedom

IF POLICE ARE OUR SERVANTS WHY MUST WE ASK THEM TO PROVIDE OUR BODYCAM VIDEO?

The Rochester Branch of the NAACP is calling for the release of all body camera footage from officers present at the scene where Cleavon White, an African American man, died on March 11.

The NAACP branch says White's death has left behind his significant other, Ms. Marbury, and their five children, all under the age of 8. The Rochester Police Department said the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension would conduct an independent investigation into the incident.

Video from one officer's body camera has been released. The NAACP branch says while the preliminary footage provides some insight, releasing all body camera footage from officers at the scene would ensure a more complete and transparent understanding while the investigation continues.

"In moments such as these, our shared responsibility is to ensure that truth and justice are pursued, compassion is extended, and the well-being of all impacted remains at the center of our response," said Dr. Walé Elegbede, president of the Rochester Branch of the NAACP.

The organization says it has been in direct communication with the family since the incident and is working with Marbury to secure temporary housing for the children as they navigate trauma from losing their loved one and the head of their household. [MORE]

Never Put Your Hands on a Cop b/c Servants are Prohibited from Touching Their Masters: After Samuel Brown Swatted a Baltimore Cop’s Hand the Cop Sucker Punched Him 2X Causing the Black Man's Death

DISPROPORTIONATE FORCE Family and friends of Samuel Brown gathered outside Baltimore County Police Headquarters in Towson on Friday, demanding the officer-involved in an encounter that led to Brown's death be fired and criminally charged.

Demonstrators gathered in a lot outside police headquarters on a blustery Friday afternoon, calling for Ofc. Derek Hadel, a nine-year veteran of the force, to be prosecuted. Brown, 56, died on February 27, eleven days after he hit the pavement when Hadel punched him during an early morning encounter along Security Boulevard in Woodlawn.

Kamar Brown, Samuel Brown's son, drove to Maryland from Georgia."Justice. For some type of correction for the police, for my family. All want is justice for him," Kamar Brown told WMAR-2 News.

Protesters say Hadel had other options, and that recently released body-worn camera footage, which does not include audio in several portions due to buffering, does not tell the full story. DJ Quicksilva, a friend of Samuel Brown, pushed back on the characterization of events leading up to the encounter by some on social media.

"Can we please stop the narrative that Samuel Brown got pulled over for drunk driving, and just got out the car and attacked the police? That is not a fact, that is an opinion that you're trying to make to further their narrative, to get officer Derek Hadel off of fired and prosecuted, that we want," he said during remarks at the Friday demonstration. Hadel is white.

The public video, released by the Maryland Attorney General's Office, shows Hadel approaching Brown, asleep in the driver's seat, around 3:30 a.m. A case report said Hadel woke Brown up and smelled alcohol on his breath. At first, Brown refused to get out of the car, but eventually got out and approached Hadel after Hadel forcefully closed the car door.

During the confrontation, Brown tried to bat the officer's hand down, and Hadel punched Brown in the face twice, causing Brown to hit the pavement. Brown died less than two weeks later.

"Sam did not deserve the death penalty. Sam did not deserve to be punched like that. Sam did not deserve what happened to him," said Billy Murphy, an attorney for the family.

The Attorney General's Office will investigate and will ultimately decide whether Hadel is charged. The Baltimore County Police Department said it is cooperating with the investigation.

For Kamar Brown, the response from the community has shown him how loved his father was.

"The city of Baltimore has shown it. They've shown that they love him, they've shown that he's made an impact here, and they've shown that he's always cared for this city," Kamar Brown said. [MORE]

Hypocritical Cops in Their Feelings after Citizen-Subjects Hit Them with Snowballs and Express Dissatisfaction with NYPD's Un-Declinable "Public Service" that is Provided thru Unprovoked Violence

According to FUNKTIONARY:

citizens – those who instinctively seek permission or ask themselves whether or not they are allowed to do anything before they act. Citizens (serfs, subjects or slaves), possess a “ruled” mind-virus mentality. 2) the hapless residents of the great democracy whose Constitution deliberately throttled democratic rule. (See: Citizenship, Plutocracy & Slavery)

Citizenship – non-consensual jurisdiction. 2) the voluntary or involuntary unilateral conversion a natal filiation into a political subservience and affiliation. Citizenship demonstrates that one is a political gang-member owing allegiance and fealty to a Corporate State and the dictates of its laws, dictators, rulers (elected or unelected) and the collective (combined) power of its organizers, adminstraitors, smoke-screeners, invisible financier-owners, court systems and enforcers. 2) modern self-flagellation. Citizens are stockholders of commercial establishments (corporate fictions) called States. Government has no duty to protect anyone (Bowers v. Devito, 686 F.2d 616). Therefore, because there’s no duty to protect, there is no duty of allegiance. Without these “duties,” there are no “citizens.” Because there are no “citizens,” there is no “nation” and of course, no “illegal aliens.” Have you consented and volunteered (unknowingly or knowingly) to be a slave or is this “government” forcing you into slavery? Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master, and for the remainder, just any master will do. [MORE]

Although we all know that an unwanted offensive touching by another person is wrong and that physical force used offensively on people against their will is immoral and evil, nevertheless, when such conduct is done by government agents they are exempt from rules of morality and legality due to the concept of “political authority.” As Michael Huemer explained, “acts that would be considered unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by non-governmental agents will often be considered perfectly all right, even praiseworthy, when performed by government agents” because they are believed to possess “authority.” Authority is the hypothesized moral property that 1) enables governments to use physical coercion (here meaning violence) in ways not permitted by citizens and 2) legally obliges citizens to obey government agents, rules and orders under the threat of physical harm (coercion). Where a government legitimately has “authority” it thus has the implied right to rule over people in a particular place or jurisdiction.

To be clear, all persons have the natural, inalienable right to defend themselves and come to the defense of others if they believe another person is in imminent danger from an aggressor. Private security guards work under this natural law of self-defense. In contrast though, police officers and other representatives of authority have the additional “power” to act offensively as aggressors - to initiate unprovoked acts of violence against people whenever they deem it necessary to enforce law. As such, police are permitted to engage in conduct that “citizens” can never lawfully do, such as; stop individuals, touch them against their will, attack (make arrests) people, kill people, interfere with their freedoms in many ways (search interrogate, order etc), kidnap people (that is, ‘detain and transport’) or imprison them because higher authorities have empowered them to do so. [MORE]

Was Rep Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Working to Solve Any of the Many Problems Plaguing Black Communities or was She Stealing Fed Disaster Money? Congressional Committee Finds She was Stealing

The House Ethics Committee has determined Florida Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick violated House rules after examining accusations she funneled federal disaster relief funding into her congressional campaign, the panel’s chairman said Friday.

The decision, handed down in a press release from the bipartisan ethics committee, comes just hours after the panel convened an exceedingly rare public hearing to discuss the Florida Democrat’s conduct.

Little was divulged about how the ethics panel arrived at its conclusion. Committee chairman and Mississippi Representative Michael Guest said in a statement lawmakers deliberating on whether there was “clear and convincing evidence” to back up the fraud accusations against Cherfilus-McCormick determined that the counts had been “proven.” Discussion about the congresswoman’s conduct lasted “well past midnight,” Guest said.

Ethics Committee

chairman added the panel will hold a hearing after the House returns from its April recess to discuss possible sanctions against the Florida Democrat. [MORE]

‘Is there a Role that Auto-Coons Won’t Perform?’ Capitol One Uses Coin-Operated Tokens Chahls Barkley, Magic and Sam Jackson to Sell Bank Services to Racists and NGHRS During College Championship

“WHAT’S IN YOUR MIND?’ A MIND VIRUS. Fuck white supremacy. Dr. Blynd explains,  “You don’t belong to any hierarchy—nobody is lower or higher than what “you” imagine yourself and “others” to be.”

According to FUNKTIONARY:

auto-coon – (noun) a cookie-cutter rapper/entertainer that sells his/her community and dignity out to profit from ignorance. Auto-coons are typically produced in great numbers by major recording labels and corporate media. (Verb) –to fall back on the gimmicks, buffoonery, and swagger-jacking to sell records due to lack of intelligence, real talent, and creativity.

Despite Having Video from Multiple Angles and Public Support, Weak Dumbocrats Too Cowardly to Arrest and Charge ICE Cops who Murdered 2 Americans in Broad Daylight 3 Months ago, file civil suit

Last week Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration over its refusal to cooperate with state investigators probing the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents earlier this year, as well as the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who was wounded but survived.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot Good, a 37-year-old US citizen, on January 7; an unidentified agent shot Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan national, on January 14; and Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez fatally shot Pretti, a 37-year-old US citizen and nurse, on January 24.

“These shootings are just three examples of the violent actions committed by federal agents in Minnesota during the surge,” stresses the new lawsuit, filed in a Washington, DC federal court by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, and Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans.

“Federal agents also carried out illegal stops, sweeps, arrests, and dangerous raids in sensitive public spaces,” the complaint notes. “The surge created widespread fear among Minnesota residents, both citizens and noncitizens. It caused hundreds of millions of dollars in economic harm. And it flooded Minnesota’s federal courts with lawsuits challenging the unlawful detentions that resulted from the operation.” [MORE]

IF 2 COPS WERE MURDERED ON VIDEO BY CITIZEN-SUBJECTS AN ARREST AND PROSECUTION WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IMMEDIATELY.

Attorney Marjorie Cohn explains: A Minnesota prosecutor should charge Ross with first-degree murder. . .

Minnesota Murder Statutes

Given the politics of the case it would seem wise for the state to take charge of the prosecution and to resist efforts by federal authorities to take over the case.

Under Minnesota law, a person who causes the death of a human being with premeditation and the intent to kill is guilty of first-degree murder and shall be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Intent to kill can be shown by circumstantial evidence. Ross’ shooting at Good’s head from a short distance is proof of an intent to kill.

Premeditation can occur in moments; there is no minimum amount of time required. It can happen over a matter of months or in a matter of seconds. Ross has a gun in his hand, methodically raises it and shoots at Good multiple times, while saying, “Fucking bitch.” This is evidence of premeditation. 

There is sufficient evidence for a prosecutor to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ross is guilty of first degree murder.

When a person has the intent to kill but acts without premeditation, he or she is guilty of second-degree murder, and may be sentenced to a maximum of 40 years in prison.

Even if a jury does not find beyond a reasonable doubt that Ross premeditated the murder of Good, it would likely convict Ross of second-degree murder in light of the strong evidence of his intent to kill her.

Causing the death of another by perpetrating an eminently dangerous act with a depraved mind and no regard for human life constitutes third-degree murder which carries a maximum of 25 years in prison and/or a maximum fine of $40,000. [MORE]

Ron Paul: ‘There is No GOP ‘Civil War’ Over Iran, there is simply a Reassertion of Control by the Elites who Actually Control the Republocrat Party’

The reaction to Joe Kent’s principled, patriotic resignation from the Office of National Intelligence—and the numerous MAGA obituaries that appeared shortly thereafter—seem to share in common the idea that Donald Trump’s decision to go to war on behalf of Israel is both (a) surprising and (b) will cause a fissure within the Republican Party from which it might not recover.

There is little reason to believe either assertion: This is what the Republican Party has been since the end of the Cold War. It is not the GOP of Nixon or Kissinger or Reagan or Bush, Sr., or Shultz or Baker or Scowcroft. It is the Party of Bibi and Murdoch all the way through.

As I pointed out exactly three years ago, on March 20, 2023, in the pages of The Spectator, the idea that there is a brewing ‘civil war’ within the Republican Party over foreign policy would be nice, if it were actually true. Then as now, stories appeared in Beltway broadsheets claiming that the GOP was at war with itself over foreign policy. The Washington Post predicted “A Republican ‘civil war’ on Ukraine” on March 15, 2023. Only yesterday, March 19, 2026, POLITICO published a piece warning that “The Number of MAGA Fractures Is Growing.” The day before that, March 18, 2026, the UK’s Independent newspaper published a piece titled, “House Republican warns of MAGA civil war if Trump withdraws from NATO.”

What is now unfolding isn’t a GOP civil war over Iran—it is simply a reassertion of control by the people who actually control the Republican Party. We should understand this group as distinct from Republican voters, who most assuredly do not control the President or the Party apparatus on Capitol Hill.

Among the top GOP donors in 2024 were some of the least discriminating supporters of the far-right regime in Israel. The widow of the Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, Miriam O. Adelson, donated $148,294,900; hedge fund manager Jeffrey Yass donated $100,322,180; another hedge fund manager, Paul E. Singer, donated $64,795, 800. And on it went. [MORE]

Doing Nothing for Black People, Controlled by Israel: House SNigger Puppeticians Sabotage Vote on Iran War Powers Despite Having Enough Votes to Pass, as Dumbocrats Pretend to Be Against Colonial War

ACCORDING TO THE FUNKTIONARY:

sniping – late-night covert sneak attacks on public space by outlaw cognitive nocturnal operative-activists armed with mindliberating ideas, posters, broadsides, brushes, and buckets of wheat paste. (See: Subvertising)

$nigger – a sold-out snitching-smiling Sambo-Negro. 2) a South-Bender offender. $niggers smile for nothing except an empty mind while selling-out their own kind. They typically have an intellectual base yet are devoid of intelligence, thus promoting the on-going smiling face. They also often giggle and have a frivolous conception of society and scant knowledge of the vestiges of the trans-Atlantic slave trade that even brought their sorry-ass selves to shore. $niggers are traitors and pawns of the downpressors. Watch the company you keep!

sniggering – the modus vivendi of opportunist (sell-out) compromises. 2) the actions of SNiggers. (See: Coin-Operated)

KneeGrow Puppeticians Delay War Powers Resolution until after congressional recess: Democratic leaders plan to delay a vote on their War Powers Resolution until the House returns in mid-April. Privately and publicly, Rep. Greg Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has been arguing that while Democrats are on board, he needs more Republican support. Yet Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson are solid backers (Davidson confirmed his support to Drop Site on Thursday) and Nancy Mace has made the case for it, too. Mace told Drop Site that she had not heard from Democrats about her position. With those three Republicans voting yes, if Democrats hold their caucus they could pass the resolution, and yet they’re declining to put it on the floor. A rather testy Meeks told our Hill intern Lillian Franks that he is not bringing the Iran War Powers vote on to the floor this week because he is confident it would lose. He won’t force a vote today or tomorrow “because we can’t win. When you see me put the bill on the floor, that means we’re gonna win. I know how to count,” he said. “I know how to do my job.” (Watch here.)

From [HERE] Democratic Party leaders are under fire after it was reported that they plan to wait until mid-April to hold a vote to rein in President Donald Trump’s powers to wage war with Iran.

Punchbowl News reported on Tuesday that US House lawmakers had abandoned plans to hold a vote this week on a war powers resolution introduced by Rep. Greg Meeks (D-NY), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

A previous war powers resolution, which came to the floor just days after the US and Israel launched the war at the end of February, failed by a razor-thin margin when four pro-war Democrats—Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), Jared Golden (D-Maine), Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), and Juan Vargas (D-Calif.)—joined the bulk of Republicans to kill it.

But Democrats would likely be in a position to “win” the vote if it were held this week. Andrew Solender reported on Tuesday for Axios that following intense criticism from the grassroots base and pressure from party leadership, “most, if not all, of the four defectors are expected to flip and vote for the measure this time.”

Massa Media and Trump Pretend to Disagree About War on Iran to Rehabilitate the Myth of an Independent Media but They Serve the Same Masters. The Dependent Media Has Pushed Iran Propaganda for Decades

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From [HERE] Janine Jackson: House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Brian Mast declared of Iran, “This murderous regime has posed an imminent threat against every American, both at home and abroad, for the last 47 years,” leading many, at home and abroad, to reach for their dictionaries.

The Trump White House’s war on Iran is unpopular in the US. Even the highest level of public support for this conflict falls far lower than that at the start of most other conflicts, including World War II, the Korean War and the Iraq War, reports the New York Times.

That may have something to do with the parade of rationales being offered. Popular Information has a roundup of the (so far) 17 different reasons the Trump regime has given to date for why we went to war.

And all of it normalized by corporate media that allow recorded history to be put up for debate, that pretend we haven’t seen what we’ve seen, leaving today’s warmongers free to draw up a historical narrative, or several, that serve their present purpose.

As we record on March 12, some 251 groups have sent a letter to Congress demanding they vote against any additional funding for this unconstitutional war, which is now costing an estimated billion dollars a day. Signers included Public Citizen, the ACLU, Greenpeace, J Street and National Nurses United. “A supplemental worth $50 billion,” the letter notes,

would be enough to restore food assistance for 4 million Americans, establish universal pre-K education, and pay for the annual construction of more than 100,000 units of housing.

CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We’re going to revisit some of those conversations today. [MORE]

Disfluent, Stupid, Puppet President Unable to Articulate Any Rational Reason for Unprovoked War Against Iran. ‘Shifts Justifications like Someone Changing a Shirt’

From [HERE] and [MORE] Does Puppet Trump think Americans are stupid?

After he announced in a video that “a short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran” to “defend the American people” by eliminating “imminent threats” to Americans at home and abroad, the president then listed some of his reasons for taking the U.S. to war.

Presumably, he would tell us about this threat and just how imminent it was.

Trump said, “For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted ‘Death to America’ and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries.”

Okay, but 47 years? Pro-Palestinian protesters in America chant things that are perceived as meaning death to Israel, but no one in either country considers that rhetoric an act of war by the U.S. 

What was the president talking about, exactly?

Trump went to the 1979 hostage crisis under President Jimmy Carter. He talked about the 1983 bombing by Iranian proxies of a U.S. marine barrack that killed 241 American servicemen. That was a tragedy dealt with by President Ronald Reagan, who chose to bring American soldiers home. Trump said Iran “knew and were probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole” that happened 26 years ago in 2000, when Bill Clinton was president.

Trump went on to other events including Iranian support for the October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel by Hamas that took over 1,000 lives and many hostages, including Americans. That happened under President Joe Biden.

But through all his attempted rationalizations at no point did Trump provide a solid, pinpoint—and perhaps most importantly, new—reason for why it was necessary for the U.S. to begin a regime change war at this very moment, something other American presidents did not do when dealing with the Iranian attacks he cited.

Trump’s many “reasons” amounted to really no reason at all. Any intellectually honest observer was left fairly clueless.

Enter Congress. More specifically the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which shared a post on X congratulating the president on “ending” Iran’s “forever war” with the U.S.

I swear I’m not making this up.

“President Trump is ending the forever war that Iran has waged against America for the last 47 years,” the committee’s X account shared, adding “Thank You POTUS.”

So according to this bipartisan committee, a war has been going on between Iran and the U.S. for nearly half a century and Trump’s actions over the weekend were merely a decisive and strong president finally putting an end to it. The balls on these people!

Almost every major poll showed that Americans overwhelmingly did not want the U.S. to go to war with Iran prior to the attacks. Americans were not asked, hypothetically, “Do you want Trump to end the current U.S.–Iran war?” because few to no Americans perceived their country as being in a war with that country. [MORE]

Wolfgang Ischinger, former German diplomat and head of the major European security forum, said Trump has shifted American justifications for the war. According to Ischinger, Washington initially spoke about “regime change” in Iran on the first day of the operation. However, that explanation quickly disappeared from official messaging.

He said the justification changed “like someone changing a shirt,” noting that the idea of regime change now appears only marginally in public statements or has disappeared entirely. [MORE]

Like the Vast Undercount of Murdered Palestinians, Trump and Massa Media are Myth-Counting the Number of Dead US Soldiers in Iran to Project the Myth of US Invincibility in an Ongoing Psyop

Ralph Nader: Massa Media is MythCounting the No. of Humans Murdered by Israel to Minimize Palestinian Lives and Accountability for Its Barbarism. Death Toll Closer to 1M, Contrary to Myth-Information

The Exact Numbers of Palestinians Murdered by IsrAlien Soldiers Regularly Parroted by Master's Media are "Mythematics-" unfounded, empirically invalid conclusions for political motives or mind control

From [HERE] The escalating confrontation between Iran and the United States has entered a volatile information-warfare phase after Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, publicly claimed that “a number” of American troops have been captured since the conflict began, framing the allegation as proof that Iranian forces are successfully resisting what Tehran characterizes as US-led aggression.

Larijani did not disclose the number of captives or their locations, instead linking the alleged captures to the broader timeline of hostilities that began approximately one week prior to March 7, 2026.

Larijani’s remarks emerged as the war triggered by joint strikes by the United States and Israel against Iranian nuclear and missile infrastructure evolved into a complex confrontation spanning air defence engagements, special operations activity near sensitive nuclear facilities, and a rapidly intensifying struggle for narrative dominance across international media and social platforms.

While Larijani warned that US President Donald Trump was allegedly concealing American casualties to maintain domestic support for the campaign, the statement was immediately rejected by United States Central Command (CENTCOM), which categorically denied that any American personnel had been captured and dismissed the Iranian claims as wartime propaganda.

Larijani’s statements were circulated widely through Iranian state media networks and social platforms, creating a powerful domestic narrative portraying Iran as successfully repelling American incursions even as US military officials maintain that coalition operations remain tightly controlled and strategically limited.

The claims surfaced amid broader reports circulating within Iranian media ecosystems alleging the downing of US fighter jets and ambushes on American special operations units near sensitive nuclear sites, further intensifying the perception battle surrounding the war’s early operational outcomes. [MORE]