Federal Judge Permanently Enjoins Enforcement of the Illinois 'Assault Weapon' Ban - AR-15 Style Weapons are Not Uncontrollable or Unusual and are Suited for Self Defense

From [HERE] A federal judge in Illinois recently issued a permanent injunction against that state's "assault weapon" ban, deeming it inconsistent with the Second Amendment. The Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA) "is an unconstitutional affront to the Second Amendment and must be enjoined," U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn wrote in Barnett v. Raoul, which combines several challenges to the law, on Friday. "The Government may not deprive law-abiding citizens of their guaranteed right to self-defense as a means of offense."

McGlynn imposed a 30-day stay on his injunction to allow an appeal that seems likely to succeed. Last year in Bevis v. City of Naperville, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction against PICA that McGlynn issued in April 2023. The 7th Circuit concluded that the state was likely to prevail in its defense of the law.

The 168-page opinion that McGlynn issued on Friday, which followed a bench trial, aims to reconcile the 7th Circuit's reasoning, which was based on a distinction between "military" weapons and "Arms protected by the Second Amendment," with the U.S. Supreme Court's Second Amendment precedents. That's a tall order. But the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), which represents the plaintiffs in one of the PICA lawsuits, argues that the evidence presented at trial showed that "PICA fails even under the Seventh Circuit's misguided test," which it says "conflicts with binding Supreme Court precedent."

Illinois legislators enacted PICA in January 2023, six months after a gunman used a Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifle to kill seven people at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park. Among other things, the law bans a long list of specific rifle models, along with any semi-automatic rifle that accepts detachable magazines and has one or more of six listed features: a pistol grip or thumbhole stock, a protruding grip, a folding or adjustable stock, a flash suppressor, a grenade launcher, or a barrel shroud. PICA also bans "large capacity ammunition feeding devices," defined to include rifle magazines that hold more than 10 rounds and pistol magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.

Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch (D–Westchester) said the law was aimed at "weapons of war." That phrase suggested that Welch was talking about selective-fire rifles like those carried by U.S. soldiers, which can shoot automatically.

That was clearly not true. Such rifles are strictly regulated under federal law, which has forbidden sales of newly manufactured machine guns to civilians since 1986. PICA does not deal with machine guns; it deals with semi-automatic firearms, which fire one round per trigger pull.

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon (D–Oak Park) said PICA "begins the pushback against weapons whose only intent is to eviscerate other human beings." Since firearms are inanimate objects that cannot form an intent, and since only a tiny percentage of the guns banned by PICA are ever used to commit crimes, that remark was puzzling. But it reflected the difficulty that legislators face when they try to ban guns that supposedly are good for nothing but mass murder. [MORE]

Corpse Biden (or Whoever is in Charge) is Complicit in the Israeli-American Genocide in Gaza [and COVID Injections]

From [HERE] Past the 20-foot-high aluminum doors of the Justice Department’s Robert F. Kennedy Building, and down a long limestone hallway lined with art deco accents, Room B-206 has long served as the epicenter of the Biden administration’s prosecutorial war against former president Donald Trump. Behind the heavy wooden door is the office of special counsel Jack Smith, a highly secure redoubt where attorneys spent years building criminal cases against Trump for allegedly attempting to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, as well as for his alleged improper handling of classified documents after leaving the White House.

But now, instead of heading to trial, the prosecutors are scrambling to empty file cabinets and stuff their contents into cardboard storage boxes. As a result of Trump’s election win, the prosecution is officially halted by the Justice Department’s policy prohibiting the filing of criminal cases against a sitting president. But while President-elect Trump will likely never face the consequences of his alleged criminal actions, President Biden may one day face trial for his, albeit in a far different courtroom in The Hague.

Three thousand eight hundred miles to the east from Washington sits the International Criminal Court (ICC), a complex of six modern towers in the Netherlands not far from Peace Palace and Europol in The Hague. In the largest building, Court Tower, are three courtrooms that carry out the institution’s mandate: to prosecute perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, thereby providing justice to victims.

According to Article 1 of the Genocide Convention, the Contracting Parties, including the United States and Israel, must prevent and punish acts of genocide. Under Article III, those punishable acts include “Complicity in genocide,” such as by knowingly providing the deadly weapons used to carry it out. In 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in a case involving Bosnia and Serbia, established that the obligation to refrain from providing weapons or other assistance begins the moment a state becomes aware of the existence of a serious risk that genocide may be committed. [MORE]

Israeli Attacks in Gaza Kill at Least 71 Palestinians in 24 Hours

From [HERE] Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that Israeli attacks killed at least 71 Palestinians and wounded 176 in the previous 24-hour period as Israeli strikes continued to pound targets across the Strip.

Al Jazeera reported that Israeli strikes in northern Gaza early Thursday killed 88 people, but the Health Ministry only counts bodies that are brought to hospitals and morgues. The strikes in north Gaza targeted Beith Lahia, where 66 were killed, and the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, where 22 were killed.

“A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry said.

Beit Lahia has been under a total Israeli siege since early October as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign. Hind Khoudary, a reporter for Al Jazeera, said there were no paramedics or civil defense crews left in Beit Lahia. “There are dozens of Palestinians still trapped under the rubble in the two northern areas targeted overnight – Sheikh Radwan and Beit Lahia,” Khoudary said.

Israeli strikes were also reported in southern and central areas of Gaza. In the southern city of Rafah, at least three Palestinians were killed. Israeli strikes near Khan Younis also killed at least three people.

The Health Ministry said that the latest violence has brought its death toll to 44,056 and the number of wounded to 104,268. The figures don’t account for Palestinians missing and presumed dead under the rubble, which has previously been estimated to be over 10,000. [MORE]

US Authorities Approve of Themselves and Their Ongoing Israeli-American Holocaust, Veto Gaza Ceasefire Resolution at the UN Security Council, the Only Nation to Do So

From [HERE] On Wednesday, the US again used its veto power on the UN Security Council to kill a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, a vote that came as Israel is carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign in northern Gaza, and aid levels in the Strip are at the lowest level yet.

The resolution failed in a vote of 14-1 as every other member of the 15-member Security Council, including the UK, supported the call for a ceasefire. The five permanent members — the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China — all have veto power.

The resolution demanded “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire to be respected by all parties, and further” reiterates a “demand for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.”

Even though the resolution called for the unconditional release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, the US justified its veto by saying it didn’t make the hostage release a condition for a ceasefire. “We made clear throughout negotiations we could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages,” said Robert Wood, the deputy US ambassador to the UN, who cast the vote to veto the resolution.

The vote marked the fourth time the US vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for an end to the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on Gaza. The ambassador from Algeria, a non-permanent member of the Council, slammed the US veto.

“Today’s message is clear to the Israeli occupying power: First you may continue your genocide. You may continue your collective punishment of the Palestinian people with complete impunity. In this chamber, you enjoy immunity,” said Ambassador Amar Bendjama.

The vote came just a few days after the US criticized Russia for vetoing a Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Sudan. “It is shocking that Russia has vetoed an effort to save lives – though perhaps, it shouldn’t be,” said US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who has cast previous votes to veto Gaza ceasefire resolutions.

Human Rights Monitor Says the Israeli Military Is Subjecting Gazans to Direct Killings, Extrajudicial Executions, Mass Starvation, and Ethnic Cleansing “with No Justification whatsoever”

From [HERE] A major European rights body recounts in harrowing detail the atrocities that have been carried out for the past 43 days by the Israeli regime against Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip.

Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor provided the information in a report on Monday.

The report showed how the Israeli military has been subjecting the Gazans to direct killings, extrajudicial executions, mass starvation, and ethnic cleansing “with no justification whatsoever” as part of its now-13-month-old genocidal war on the coastal sliver.

Israeli forces, the report noted, have been committing the crimes by bombing homes with residents inside, committing mass killings against displaced civilians in shelters, and targeting gatherings and vehicles.

‘Largest campaign of forced displacement in modern history’

The forces have also embarked on bringing about “the largest cases of forced displacement in modern history” against the targeted civilians, it said.

The period in question, throughout which the Israeli military has markedly intensified its deadly aggression against northern Gaza, has seen it “conducting its third incursion and military offensive” against the targeted areas and “committing heinous atrocities,” the body stated.

The combined killing and displacement routine was being carried out with the aim of “terrorizing civilians” among other things, it said.

‘They executed them in front of me’

The body cited Tamam Abdel Maqadmeh, one of the civilians, as describing some of the atrocities that the forces committed in the city of Beit Lahia.

“Conditions worsened in al-Shemaa Street, Beit Lahia, due to heavy artillery and aerial bombardment. As a result, we moved from our home near al-Shemaa Clinic to the Abbas Kilani area in the middle of al-Shemaa Street,” he said.

“On Wednesday, Israeli occupation forces began advancing into the area where we were sheltering. We stayed trapped in the house, and less than two hours later, the forces blew open the door and stormed the building,” Maqadmeh added.

“When we descended to the ground floor [on the forces’ orders], I found my brother-in-law Khaled lying dead with two gunshots to his abdomen, blood streaming from him. His eldest son, Ibrahim (21), had been shot in the head. I stood in shock for moments before a soldier threatened me to move or be shot. We were about 26 people in total.”

He noted how her sister was prevented by the invading troops from saying goodbye to her husband and son, and would keep crying, “They executed them in front of me” as Maqdameh and others would try to pull her away.

“They killed them without them moving a muscle,” he added, describing the manner of the victims’ execution.

“This happened in front of the small children—four boys and four girls—who witnessed their father and brother executed before their eyes,” Maqdameh’s sister said.

According to Euro-Med, the Israeli military has, meanwhile, been preventing civil defense and medical teams from accessing the victims, including those who have been buried under the rubble in northern Gaza, for the past 25 days.

‘Shot dead while trying to retrieve food’

Beit Lahia has turned into a specific target of the campaign for the past 10 days, with the forces pushing some 5,000 civilians there into various gathering points, and targeting those who would try to return to their homes to retrieve direly-needed food, which is unavailable at the gathering sites.

“Dozens who attempted to do so (bring back food) have not returned, as they were executed in the streets,” said a civilian.

Another described the condition, in which he had found one of the victims, who had tried to return with some food.

“Beside one of the victims, there was a bag of flour. It seems he had successfully retrieved it from his home, but the Israeli army shot him as he was returning to the shelter.”

“Any food we manage to secure from nearby homes is distributed primarily to children, followed by the elderly in smaller portions. Young adults receive, at best, a single loaf of bread per day,” he said of the dire nutritional conditions at the gathering locations.

The rights body, meanwhile, denounced the international community’s reluctance to take decisive action against the Israeli regime, which has claimed the lives of more than 43,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children, during its October 2023-present genocidal war on Gaza. [MORE]

The UN is Using Africa as a Testing Ground for Controversial Digital ID Systems

From [HERE] The United Nations (but not only) has clearly chosen to focus its push on introducing digital ID systems to some of the world’s developing countries, particularly in Africa.

What’s referred to in reports as “a comprehensive initiative” is now taking place across the continent, driven by the UN development agency UNDP, as well as the UN Innovation Network, and even UNESCO (Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization). This is one of the components of what’s known as the UN’s Global Digital Compact.

Such initiatives are sold in those countries as a way to develop better access to services and improve “digital inclusion.”

But opponents around the world say the schemes create large, centralized surveillance networks prone to misuse, particularly without stringent safeguards in place.

After the UN agencies previously formalized their initiatives in Kenya, it is now the turn of Ethiopia and Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) where similar programs are being launched in cooperation with their governments.

In Ethiopia, the government is organizing ID card registration in what’s said to be a large-scale effort that encompasses financial services, healthcare, and education.

In Eswatini, the UNDP, together with the country’s government, carried out a digital readiness assessment. The goal was to find out if Eswatini’s digital infrastructure in various sectors is capable of implementing digital ID programs at this time. [MORE]

New Research Shows White Women Were Active in the American Slave Trade, Buying and Selling Black People

From [HERE] For generations, scholars argued that white women were rarely involved in the active buying and selling of Black people. But a growing body of research is challenging that narrative, documenting the significant role that white women played in the American slave trade.

Between 1856 and 1861, white women engaged in nearly a third of the sales and purchases of enslaved people in New Orleans, which was home to the nation’s largest slave market at the time, according to a working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research earlier this year.

In 1830, white women accounted for about 16 percent of the purchases and sales of enslaved people in New Orleans, the study found. Elsewhere, an analysis of runaway slave advertisements published between 1853 and 1860, which were compiled by the Black abolitionist William Still, found that white women were listed as owners in about 12 percent of the listings.

The findings demonstrate that active participation in slavery crossed gender lines, according to Trevon D. Logan, a professor of economics at Ohio State University, who was a co-author of the report with Benton Wishart, a student at the university who graduated in May.

“​​We’re talking about literally thousands of women being involved in this industry,” said Dr. Logan, who also serves as the director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s working group on race and stratification in the economy.

His report builds on extensive research conducted by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, a historian at the University of California, Berkeley, who wrote about Ms. Poore and other white women enslavers, in her book, “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South,” which was published by Yale University Press in 2019. [MORE]

DePOPULATION - Rizza Islam

COVID Shot Antidote: Due to Shedding and Food Contamination, Dangerous Self-Assembling Nanotechnology is Also In the Blood of the Unvaxxed. Dr Mihalcea Provides Simple Way To Remove It From Your Body

Dr. Abdul Alim: "Avoid Vaccinated People Like the Plague." Their Bodies Make and Shed the Spike Protein, which is Infectious. It Can Be Inhaled/Absorbed/Touched by the Unvaxed Causing Sickness, Death

10th Cir Tests Cop Immunity in New Mexico Police Murder of Elderly Latino Woman w/Kitchen Knives. Robocop Believed He Can Murder Any NonWhite Person who Possesses a Weapon, Even if they Pose No Threat

From [HERE] Questions about the importance of perception were central Wednesday morning as the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments regarding the fatal shooting of a 75-year-old woman with dementia and what leeway should be given to police officers under qualified immunity. According to FUNKTIONARY

Sovereign immunity – “government” so-called, applying the law of the jungle to its relationship to the people. We are bound by the written law but those who wrote the law are bound by the law of the jungle. Makes you feel like a fool, doesn’t it? Minority rule majority fooled? Surely, on earth as it is in heaven. Why would we ever allow “government” to assert the position that it is not bound by the same law that binds us? The answer is that we are fools sweet-talked by judges into believing that the “natural state of affairs” is to bind the people by law, and the “government” by fiat. “Government” has replaced religion as the opiate of the masses using the Media as its subduing gasses (fumes of subterfuge). (See: CHAOS, Judicial System, Constitution, Law, Domestication, Justice, Civilization, Weitiko Disease & “Government”)

On April 16, 2022, Las Cruces Police Department Officer Jared Cosper was the first officer on the scene responding to a 911 call made by Amelia Baca’s daughter, who stated that her mother had dementia and was armed with knives and threatening to kill her. 

The police department released body camera footage that shows Cosper arriving and ushering two women out of the home, one of whom told him, “Please be very careful with her.”

The video shows Baca, who appeared elderly, unsteady and frail woman, holding a pair of kitchen knives and Cosper, a much larger, athletic built white man, drawing his sidearm and pointing it at Baca. He begins yelling cop mantra DROP THE KNIFE as if he were dealing with Mike Tyson in his prime. At one point Baca slowly passes both knives to one hand, mumbling an in audible answer to the officer and she slowly steps back. Less than 40 seconds into the encounter, Baca make a slow drunken like step toward the officer with the knives pointed to the toward the ground. Cosper fires two shots and Baca falls out of frame, killing her. Despite what white media the cop was obviously not under any imminent threat of attack by this old woman - it was just an excuse for a robocop to murder a non-white person because he believed he could.

The family’s lawyer, Eric Loman of Jackson Loman Stanford Downey & Stevens-Block in Albuquerque, New Mexico, argued that Cosper’s actions violated the 4th Amendment by unreasonably escalating the situation and ignoring Baca’s mental state. “The video in this case speaks for itself. And what it depicts is Amelia Baca, this frail 75-year-old woman, clearly bewildered, confused.” Loman went on to present the narrative of a woman experiencing a mental health crisis, unable to understand why a police officer was pointing a handgun at her or what instructions Cosper was giving her. 

Tyron McAlpin files $3.5M Claim: Deaf Black Man was Repeatedly Tased, Punched by 3 White Phoenix Cops

From [HERE] The legal counsel of 34-year-old Tyron McAlpin, the deaf Black man with cerebral palsy who was repeatedly Tased by police, announced their intention to sue the city of Phoenix on Nov. 19. The notice of claim against the city is $3.5 million.

McAlpin's attorneys said they will also be pursuing legal action against three Phoenix police officers for the events on Aug. 19, 2024, according to their statement.

Racial profiling is one of the many claims alleged against Phoenix PD in the suit.

On that day, Phoenix police officers Benjamin Harris and Kyle Sue responded to a trespassing call at a Circle K near Indian School Road and 12th Street. The white man they were asked to remove from the store claimed he had been attacked and pointed out McAlpin across the street.

According to footage, Harris told McAlpin to stop and grabbed him within a few seconds. There was a struggle among the men, during which Harris used a stun gun on McAlpin four times. The officers collectively punched him over a dozen times, video showed.

After the beating, McAlpin's attorneys claimed the police officers filed false reports that alleged McAlpin had committed aggravated assault while another officer wrote McAlpin stole his own cell phone.

As a result, Alpin was in jail for three weeks and faced multiple charges thatMaricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell later dropped. [MORE]

DOJ Finds Misrule, Rights Lacking for Blacks in Trenton. Uncontrollable Cops Routinely Subject Blacks to Unreasonable Force, Stops/Searches/Seizures, Arrests w/o Cause; Degrade Blacks in Liberal City

[in EVERY City Controlled by Elite White Liberals w/a Large Black Population, Cops Stop and Degrade Blacks in Grossly Disproportionate Numbers]

New Map Shows Police are Primarily Killing Black People in Cities Controlled by Elite White Liberals and Doing so in Substantial Numbers.

From [HERE] Police in New Jersey’s capital have shown a pattern of misconduct, including using excessive force and making unlawful stops, the Justice Department said Thursday, in a report documenting arrests without legal basis, officers escalating situations with aggression and unnecessary use of pepper spray.

The 45-page report comes after a roughly yearlong investigation into the Trenton Police Department, undertaken after an officer shot and paralyzed a young Black man who attempted to drive away when officers didn’t tell him why they had stopped him.

The Justice Department found the police department’s practices violate the Fourth Amendment and the report makes more than two dozen recommendations for remedial action.

“The people of Trenton deserve nothing less than fair and constitutional policing,” said U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip Sellinger. “When police stop someone in Trenton, our investigation found that all too often they violated the constitutional rights of those they stopped, sometimes with tragic consequences.”

The DOJ report paints a scathing picture of a department with about 260 sworn officers in a city of nearly 90,000 people, where many struggle due to poverty and high crime rates. The city is uniquely deprived of a property tax base that could fund public safety because of the many state government buildings. The report states:

“We have reasonable cause to believe that TPD and the City engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the Constitution. First, TPD uses excessive force, often escalating encounters when facing little resistance or threat. TPD’s excessive force includes both physical force and pepper spray. Second, TPD conducts pedestrian and traffic stops and searches without legal justification, unlawfully prolongs traffic stops, and makes unlawful arrests. These violations were especially prevalent in the Street Crimes Unit and the Violent Crimes Unit, but constitutional violations extended across the department. ..

From March 2, 2020, to December 31, 2023, TPD officers reported using force in 815 incidents. Officers reported incidents involving physical force 744 times, OC spray (commonly known as pepper spray) 120 times, and a firearm once. Sometimes officers used multiple types of force in one incident. We reviewed a random sample of these 815 incidents.

TPD officers frequently use force that violates the Fourth Amendment. TPD officers rapidly escalate everyday interactions, resorting to unreasonable force without giving people a chance to comply with orders. TPD officers use unreasonable physical force where they face little or no threat or resistance. And TPD officers use pepper spray unreasonably. Officers spray people who pose no threat but merely challenge officers’ authority—which, on its own, is not grounds for the use of force.

1. TPD Officers Rapidly Escalate Verbal Encounters, Leading to Unreasonable Force

TPD officers frequently and unnecessarily escalate verbal encounters, rapidly resorting to using excessive force despite no threat of harm to themselves or others. This practice violates the Fourth Amendment, causes serious injuries, and breaks down trust between TPD and the residents of Trenton…

2. TPD Officers Use Unreasonable Forms of Physical Force

TPD officers frequently grab, tackle, and punch people who show little resistance to orders or pose no threat. Even when they do meet some resistance, TPD officers often resort to dangerous forms of physical force that are unreasonable based on the threat. This use of unreasonable physical force is unlawful and can cause serious harm, including physical injuries and long-lasting trauma…

3. TPD Officers Use Pepper Spray Unreasonably

The use of OC spray, or pepper spray, violates the Fourth Amendment when officers spray people who pose no threat. When used appropriately, OC spray is an option when lethal force is not justified, and helps officers gain compliance by incapacitating people for about 30 minutes, typically without permanent injury. TPD officers, however, frequently turn to OC spray when people challenge, criticize, or insult the police, even when they pose no immediate threat…

4. TPD’s Weak Oversight Contributes to its Use of Excessive Force

Weak oversight reinforces TPD’s pattern of excessive force. TPD supervisors ratify virtually all uses of force without providing meaningful feedback to officers. And TPD fails to track uses of force effectively, making it impossible for TPD to identify or correct problematic trends. As a result, although we identified numerous incidents where TPD officers used excessive force, we found no case in which a supervisor indicated a use of force was not justified. This is consistent with what we heard from senior leaders: that TPD has no use of force problem.

TPD Conducts Warrantless Stops, Searches, and Arrests in Violation of the Fourth Amendment

5. TPD Officers Conduct Unconstitutional Pedestrian Stops, Searches, and Arrests

TPD officers stop and search pedestrians without reasonable suspicion or probable cause, particularly officers in the Street Crimes Unit and the Violent Crimes Unit, who jumped out on people simply walking down public sidewalks...

6. TPD Officers Unconstitutionally Prolong Traffic Stops, Leading to Unlawful Arrests

The Fourth Amendment prohibits officers from detaining someone longer than necessary to complete the purpose of the stop and attend to related safety concerns. Officers can prolong a traffic stop to search a car or take other investigative steps only if they have a legitimate reason to think that the person is armed or concealing evidence of a crime.

TPD officers, especially those in the Violent Crimes Unit and Street Crimes Unit, violate the constitutional limits for traffic stops. We observed TPD officers stop cars for traffic violations, remove the people inside—sometimes dragging them out without ordering them to exit or giving them time to comply—and search the cars based on a mere hunch that they may find evidence of a crime or a weapon. Those searches violate the Fourth Amendment…

7. The Pattern or Practice of Unlawful Stops, Searches, and Arrests Results from TPD’s Failure to Properly Document and Record Encounters

A TPD officer who suspected the 16-year-old boy had a gun grabbed the teenager by the neck and slammed him into the hood of a car. The teenager was unarmed.

A TPD officer pepper-sprayed a man five times after the man made provocative remarks and hand gestures directed at the officer.

A TPD officer kneeled on the man’s head, in addition to stomping on his hand three times and kicking him in the shoulder.

TPD officers stopped a man and one of the officers frisked him, merely because they said they saw him adjust his waistband.

The Trenton Police Department isn’t the only one in New Jersey facing scrutiny for officer behavior and department practices. Police in Newark, the state’s biggest city, entered into an agreement with the Justice Department nearly a decade ago to implement more community-oriented policing after a similar probe. In Paterson, the state’s attorney general took over the police department after officers fatally shot a crisis intervention worker who had barricaded himself inside an apartment.

Court Enters $98M Award Against Dallas Cop who Murdered Botham Jean, But His Family Won’t Get Money b/c She is Judgment Proof, Broke. Cop Unlawfully Entered Home, Shot Black Man, Only Got 10 yrs Jail

master-servant relations are the gravamen of the system of racism white supremacy - not mere bigotry, overt hatred or affiliation with bad groups, such as the KKK or Nazis. [MORE]

ACCORDING TO BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY:

judgment-proof, adj. (Of an actual or potential judgment debtor) unable to satisfy a judgment for money damages because the person has no property, does not own enough property within the court’s jurisdiction, or claims the benefit of statutorily exempt property -because the truck driver who caused the accident was judgment-proof, the plaintiff sued the driver’s employer instead- JEAN’S FAMILY ALSO SUED DALLAS BUT THE COURT REMOVED THEM FROM THE CASE.

NO JUSTICE OR PIECE: From [HERE] A federal jury on Wednesday awarded nearly $100 million to the family of Botham Shem Jean, a Black man who was watching television at home in Dallas when he was shot dead by a white police officer who unlawfully entered his home six years ago.

Amber R. Guyger, the officer who killed Mr. Jean, used excessive force and violated Mr. Jean’s constitutional rights, the jury concluded. It ordered Ms. Guyger to pay civil penalties to Mr. Jean’s family of $60 million in punitive damages and $38.65 million for their loss and suffering. The civil trial was held in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

It was unclear whether the Jean family would ever see any of the money, but its legal team said what mattered more was holding Ms. Guyger liable in a civil court. 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. The officer is most likely judgment proof and doesn’t have $100 million or anything substantially close to it - it might as well be a $10 Billion judgment.

“I think this jury sent the message loud and clear, that they are not going to tolerate police brutality,” Daryl Washington, one of the family’s lawyers, told reporters. “And I think that message is going to be heard not only in Dallas, not only in the state of Texas, but throughout this country.”

Ms. Guyger was fired by the Dallas Police Department after the shooting. She was found guilty of murder and sentenced in 2019 to 10 years in prison.

Mr. Jean, a 26-year-old accountant, lived in the apartment directly above Ms. Guyger’s. She told the court during her criminal trial that after finishing her shift, she entered the wrong apartment and shot Mr. Jean, thinking he was an intruder.

While she was convicted of murder, civil rights activists said her 10-year sentence was too lenient. Some also said that Ms. Guyger had received preferential treatment because she was not arrested immediately after the shooting and was initially charged with manslaughter, not murder.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Ms. Guyger’s appeal against her 10-year sentence in 2022.

27 Killed in 2024; Mounting Deaths in LA Jails (85% Non-White) Driven by Severe Overcrowding and Inhumane Conditions, such as 8 to 16 in a 4 Man Cell w/1 Toilet- in City Controlled by White Liberals

From [HERE] Another person has died in Los Angeles County jails, marking the 27th in-custody death so far this year and the 72nd since the start of 2023.

These tragedies underscore the urgency for Los Angeles County to stop the cycle of death plaguing its jails. That demands honoring the commitment the board of supervisors made in 2021 to close Men's Central Jail.

The staggering number of deaths far exceeds that of New York City Department of Correction facilities, where the rising number of deaths at the Rikers Island jail complex has led to a mounting crisis that has received nationwide attention.

The death toll in LA jails—the nation’s largest jail system—is driven by severe overcrowding, pervasive neglect and mistreatment, inadequate care inside jails, and a failure to offer robust alternatives to incarceration. A horrifying video smuggled out of Men’s Central Jail in June 2023, which shows jail staff neglecting to intervene in a violent assault that stretched for more than 10 minutes, underscores the urgent need to reduce the jail population and expand community-based alternatives to incarceration.

“Our jails are killing people—disproportionately Black and Latino men who are held pretrial—because of a culture of impunity and neglect within the LA County Sheriff’s Department, which runs the jails,” said Michelle Parris, program director of Vera California. “Jail has become the county’s default response to poverty, houselessness, and other unmet needs, and the people held in them are subjected to foul conditions and cruel treatment. Our communities would be safer if we address the root causes of instability by investing in community-based alternatives to incarceration that are proven to work, and that do not result in a new death every week.”

What’s killing people in LA County jails?

Overcrowded facilities are the most significant single factor driving jail deaths in Los Angeles. The jail system has operated as high as 16.7 percent over capacity since the start of last year. This means that not only are the facilities physically crowded, but resources are also being stretched beyond their breaking point.

The issues begin in intake, where newly incarcerated people are processed. People who have passed through the intake facilities have described them as “a living hell,” where people are left to sleep without bedding or blankets on floors covered in garbage and waste.

Beyond the squalid and cramped conditions, overcrowded jails also limit access to resources, especially medical care. Incarcerated people requesting medical care say they have faced cruel or indifferent treatment from jail staff. In particular, Los Angeles County jails provide horrendous standards of mental health care—despite being the largest provider of mental health care in the United States, with 45 percentof people currently detained there diagnosed with mental health conditions. People are chained to tables by jail staff, endure filthy living conditions, and sometimes do not even receive clothing. The county has also failed to adequately staff its jails with mental health care providers; in February 2023, 44 percent of jail mental health staff positions were vacant.

Severe conditions in the county’s jails provoked a visit from a panel appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in April 2023 and, in May, triggered protests by health care workers in the jails, who say that staffing shortages have left them unable to provide care to patients in these dangerously overcrowded facilities. [MORE]

Remotely Controlled Black Rolebot Alvin Bragg To Resume His Focus on Prosecuting Black People and Will Postpone Trump Lawfare Indefinitely, Since It Can’t Stop Him From Becoming President

MR. BRAGG CAME INTO OFFICE VOWING NOT TO CHARGE NUMEROUS NON-VIOLENT CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER. BUT HE MUST’VE MEANT TO PROMISE ‘NOT TO CHARGE WHITE FOLKS’ BECAUSE SOMEBODY IN HIS OFFICE IS FILLING UP MANHATTAN COURTROOMS AND RIKERS ISLAND JAIL WITH BLACK PEOPLE. BOB GANGI, DIRECTOR OF THE POLICE REFORM ORGANIZING PROJECT AND LONGTIME COURT WATCHER, SAYS HE’S SEEN LITTLE CHANGE FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE IN THE BACK ROW OF MANHATTAN ARRAIGNMENTS.

“THEY WERE STILL PROSECUTING LOW-LEVEL BROKEN-WINDOWS TYPE CASES, IT SEEMED TO US, AS OFTEN AS VANCE’S OFFICE WOULD DO,” GANGI SAID, REFERRING TO BRAGG’S IMMEDIATE PREDECESSOR AS MANHATTAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, CY VANCE JR. [MORE].

DATA FROM THE COURT MONITORING PROJECT DEMONSTRATE THAT THE NYPD TARGETS BLACKS AND LATINOS: AS BLACKS/LATINOS MAKE UP 90% OF ALL NYPD ARRESTS, MOSTLY FOR VICTIMLESS CRIMES. WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH THE NYPD, MR. BRAGG’S DA OFFICE IN MANHATTAN — ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST AND LEAST EQUAL PLACES IN THE COUNTRY — HAS CONVICTED BLACK PEOPLE OF FELONIES AND MISDEMEANORS AT A RATE 21 TIMES GREATER THAN THAT OF WHITE PEOPLE OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES. THIS DISPARITY IS THE LARGEST OF ANY COUNTY IN THE STATE. [MORE]

Trump is Not a “Convicted Felon” Until he is Sentenced From [HERE] For months, the left pounded the drum that the lawfare waged against then-former President Donald Trump was all about “upholding the law” and had nothing to do with the impending election. They insisted Trump was some kind of criminal mastermind and claimed that this narrative was confirmed when a jury of “peers” convicted him in May in a Manhattan show trial.

But now that Trump won the election, the Manhattan case brought against him is falling apart at the seams. On Tuesday, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed to indefinitely delay Donald Trump’s sentencing — previously set for next week — after the former president was re-elected in a landslide victory.

But certainly there should be no hesitation about sentencing a 34-time “felon” like Trump — unless the case was never about “justice” or the “law.”

Bragg claimed Trump made payments to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, who then allegedly paid pornographer Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about an alleged affair — but Bragg failed to clarify exactly how such alleged actions were illegal. It’s a case that the Federal Elections Commission, Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to bring.

Bragg, in his zeal to destroy Trump, enlisted the help of Colangelo (who was formerly No. 3 in President Joe Biden’s DOJ and was hired to reportedly “jump-start” the investigation) and argued that Trump should have classified the alleged payments as a campaign expense rather than a legal fee. He claimed the payments were made to influence the 2016 election. Cohen, however, blew up Bragg’s argument while on the stand, confirming to the court that when the allegations first surfaced in 2011, Trump was concernedabout how the story would affect his family.

Trump’s sentencing was scheduled for Nov. 26. Just over a week ago, Colangelo asked Judge Juan Merchan to delay proceedings until his team could figure out its course of action following Trump’s victory. Merchan gave prosecutors until Nov. 19 to make a decision.

In his Tuesday letter to the court, Bragg acknowledged the possibility of delaying the sentencing until after Trump’s upcoming term.

“[C]onsideration must be given to various non-dismissal options … such as deferral of all remaining criminal proceedings until after the end of Defendant’s upcoming presidential term,” Bragg said.

Tuesday’s letter from Bragg and his team agreeing to delay proceedings means one thing — this case wasn’t about “justice” or “the law.” It was about interfering in the 2024 election and trying to toss Trump in jail so that he couldn’t land in the White House.

"A toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation:" Puff Daddy's Attorneys Request Video After Liberal Fed Prosecutors Raid His Cell to Unlawfully Seize Notepads, Protected Attorney Communications

From [HERE] Attorneys for hip-hop impresario Sean “Diddy” Combs told a federal judge in lower Manhattan on Tuesday they had collected enough evidence to allege a violation of their client’s constitutional rights.

The dustup that led to the court calling an emergency hearing was an October sweep of the defendant’s jail cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Several different law enforcement agencies took part in the raid. And, to hear the defense tell it, investigators repeatedly crossed the line by photographing several pages of Combs’ notebooks. This snooping has allegedly led to the prosecution becoming “privy to defendant’s and defense counsel’s trial strategy, including areas of expert testimony, witness strategy, and other confidential matters” in violation of the attorney-client privilege.

The judge overseeing the case appeared aghast at the incident.

“What happened here?” U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian asked the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, according to a courtroom report by Inner City Press. “Why were they taking photos of Mr. Combs’ notebooks?”

The government’s attorney said the investigator in question was not a member of the prosecution team, but rather, a Bureau of Prisons official focused on dealing with violations of jail rules and would not have been there otherwise. The prosecutor went on to allege that Combs, in fact, had been violating said rules and had been caught by the BOP investigator monitoring his communications.

“Is this a Fourth Amendment violation?” the judge asked the government.

The prosecutor replied that the government had no prior knowledge the BOP investigator would be part of the sweep and insisted they only learned about the photos of the notebooks after the sweep.

Combs attorneys say this is a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation.

“According to the Government, these nineteen pages were given to, and are in the possession of, the trial team, which has already started using these privileged materials to its advantage, including its opposition to bail,” the defense’s Tuesday filing reads.

The defense letter motion catalogs the extent of the breach:

Based on the materials provided as Exhibit A, it appears a government investigator (“Investigator 1”) took photographs of several different items. These include (i) intact pages from two different legal pads, (ii) pages of an address book, (iii) a ripped- out, folded-over page of a third legal pad, (iv) a ripped-out page of another legal pad and (v) a ripped-out page of yet a different legal pad, as will be described below…

And, in a footnote, the defense objects to the notion that one mere “notebook” was rifled through — describing the documents as having been collected from “a number of legal pads.”

The government conceded that at least some of those materials were legal in nature — but argued that they were not stored in a way that immediately identified them as legal, Inner City News reports.

During the hearing, lead defense attorney Marc Agnifilo said he and his client were not even sure about the extent of the breach.

The government pushed back — saying they had provided the defense with even more than the 19 pages of legal-related information.

The judge did not seem convinced.

“Is it standard procedure to photograph notebooks, rather than take them so it could be known they were taken?” Subramanian asked.

To which Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik replied: “I don’t know.”

The court was also concerned about how the government learned about the existence of the privileged materials.

The prosecutor argued that a filter team had provided them after collecting them as part of a “covert” investigation. When asked to explain why the government still needed a filter team to deal with discovery since charges had already been brought, the prosecutor said the grand jury investigation was ongoing — holding out the possibility of additional charges in the case.

During the hearing, the court seemed amenable to at least some of the materials being made unavailable for government use.

Combs’ attorneys argued the sweep itself was a pretext — and asked the judge to grant them surveillance footage of the raid itself.

The defense told the court they would likely consider filing a motion to dismiss the indictment or a motion to have the present prosecution team removed from the case.

Embry Kidd to Join Thin Ranks of Black Male Circuit Judges - only the 2nd Black Man appointed to a Federal Appeals Court in the Past Decade

From [HERE] President Joe Biden’s nominee to be only the second Black man appointed to a federal appeals court in the past decade was confirmed by the Senate, sending Embry Kidd, a US magistrate judge in Orlando, Florida, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (article available here(link is external)).

The White House has prioritized demographic diversity in its judicial nominations and has almost doubled the number of Black women on the circuit courts.

Biden has appointed more women and people of color and others with non-traditional backgrounds not common to the federal bench, including public defenders and civil rights attorneys.

Kidd would be Biden’s second Black male appellate appointee after Andre Mathis was confirmed to the Sixth Circuit in 2022.

Kidd would replace Judge Charles Wilson, the second Black judge to serve on the Eleventh Circuit, which covers Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. Wilson was appointed by Bill Clinton to the seat vacated by the first Black man on the court, Joseph Hatchett.

GOP Senators Demand FEMA Records After Black Orderly Admits Staff Skipped Homes with Trump Signs

From [HERE] Republican senators led by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) are demanding that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) hand over records regarding its survivor assistance teams reportedly skipping over homes displaying pro-Trump signs or flags, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

A former FEMA supervisor last week admitted to instructing her team — who were visiting homes in Lake Placid, Florida, after Hurricanes Helene and Milton — to skip homes with Trump signage, but claimed it was not an “isolated” event. She said it was happening in North and South Carolina and that senior FEMA leadership were aware of it.

Tillis, along with 18 other Republican senators, sent FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell a letter Tuesday demanding she hand over all relevant communications between the former supervisor, Marn’i Washington, and her team, the number of homes that were skipped, and the reason they were skipped.

The senators also asked what FEMA did after it was made aware of Washington instructing her team to skip those homes, what the agency will do to look into her claim it was not an isolated incident, and if it is against the law for FEMA leadership to direct staff to skip homes based on political beliefs. Lastly, they asked what FEMA will do to contact skipped homes.

The letter was signed by Tillis, Ted Budd (R-NC), Mike Braun (R-IN), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), John Cornyn (R-TX), Joni K. Ernst (R-IA), John Kennedy (R-LA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), James E. Risch (R-ID), James Lankford (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Tim Scott (R-SC), Rick Scott (R-FL), John Boozman (R-AR), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), and John Hoeven (R-ND). [MORE]