Black Probot DA Declines to File Charges Against White Danville Cop Who Shot Homeless Black Man to Death

From [HERE] A white police officer already imprisoned for one fatal shooting in a wealthy San Francisco suburb won't face criminal charges in a second slaying, this one of a homeless Black man during a 30-second confrontation, a prosecutor said Friday.

Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton said she won't seek to try former Danville officer Andrew Hall in the death of Tyrell Wilson, who was holding a knife at the time of their confrontation in March 2021.

Hall already is serving a six-year prison sentence in the fatal shooting in 2018 of Laudemer Arboleda, 32, during a slow-speed police chase. Hall was convicted last year of assault with a firearm for firing into Arboleda's vehicle as it passed by him. Arboleda, who was unarmed and mentally ill, was hit by nine bullets as he drove away from police.

Becton said she did not have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Hall, 33, acted illegally when he killed Wilson last year while responding to reports of a person throwing rocks from an overpass onto a highway.

She called it “a difficult and challenging case” and that she and her legal team “spent a considerable amount of time and resources evaluating the evidence before coming to this conclusion.”

“As a community, we need to find ways to de-escalate law enforcement encounters where the use of force leads to tragic outcomes,” she said in a statement. "The loss of Tyrell Wilson’s life weighs on our community and I express my deepest condolences to the Wilson family.”

An attorney for Hall, Harry Stern, did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages seeking comment.

Becton has been criticized for taking two years to investigate Arboleda's death, leaving Hall on duty long enough to be involved in the second fatal shooting. Becton filed the charges one day after a jury convicted Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin of killing George Floyd.

Had she charged Hall more quickly in the earlier shooting, “this never would have happened,” said John Burris, an attorney for Wilson’s family. "This young man would not have been killed.”

Critics have also questioned whether race played a factor: Hall is white, Wilson is Black, and Arboleda of Filipino descent. Danville is a town of multimillion-dollar homes and predominantly white residents.

Video taken by a nearby motorist showed Hall standing feet away and facing Wilson before the officer appeared to move toward Wilson, as Wilson appeared to step backward. The motorist’s video doesn’t appear to show Wilson make any sudden moves toward Hall.

Becton's office said that before the shooting Wilson told Hall not to touch him, then took a folding knife from his jacket and held it by his right thigh, the blade pointing forward. He took five steps away from Hall while saying twice, "Touch me and see what’s up.”

Hall drew his gun and pointed it at Wilson, telling him to drop the knife three times. Wilson then took two to three steps toward Hall, raised the knife to his chest, looked up at the sky and said “Kill me,” according to the report by Becton's office.

Hall took about three steps backward and shot Wilson once in the head, firing just 32 seconds after he first spoke to Wilson. Wilson died at a hospital two days later.

Police previously released still photographs showing Wilson holding a bag in his left hand and a folding knife in his right hand.

A juror could reasonably conclude that Hall was in imminent danger, particularly if Wilson was “potentially engaging in ‘suicide by cop,’” Becton's report concluded.

Burris said in his view “there was sufficient evidence to justify prosecution here."

Wilson suffered from schizophrenia and Burris said he was obviously mentally impaired when Hall approached him.

“That should have been a clue right then that there was something going on with this young man,” Burris said.

“But the officer didn't back up and reassess. He became very aggressive,” Burris said. “The officer created this confrontation.”

He said the family could ask the state attorney general or U.S. attorney to review the case, noting that California law requires that police killings not only be reasonable, but necessary. Wilson's death doesn't appear necessary, given the circumstances, Burris said.

Becton charged Hall with manslaughter and assault in Arboleda's death a month after he fatally shot Wilson, but a jury deadlocked on the voluntary manslaughter count while convicting him of assault.

Hall is serving his six-year sentence at nearby San Quentin State Prison.

The Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office provides police officers to Danville under a contract, and the county has paid more than $9 million to the families of the two slain men to settle civil rights lawsuits. The sheriff's office had cleared Hall of misconduct into Arboleda’s death after its own nine-month investigation.

Latino Man Describes ‘Brutal Beating' by 5 Cops at Miami-Dade Detention Facility

From [HERE] In an exclusive interview with NBC 6, Luigi Cruz described a “brutal attack” at the hands of five corrections officers at Miami-Dade Metro West Detention Center. 

“My left eye was battered, black eye … my whole mouth was bruised up and I couldn't eat for like a day and a half,” Cruz said.

Cruz spent 60 days in custody for allegedly violating probation months after he was convicted of DUI and child neglect. He shared with NBC 6 photos showing the injuries he says he sustained during his altercation with the officers. 

“Even if you are a prisoner or inmate, at the end of the day, we're human,” Cruz said.

Cruz filed a complaint with the Miami-Dade Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Department. In it, he said the incident happened on August 26 during a “sweater exchange” in his unit. He told NBC 6 Officer Delman Lumpkin initiated the attack. 

“He (Lumpkin) said, ‘Everybody shut the f--up, get in line.’ So I look back and everybody is in line. So I'm like, ‘who are you talking to?’ and he's just like, ‘shut the f-- and get in line.’ And I thought, who are you talking to again? After that, he launched a punch,” Cruz said.

In his complaint, Cruz claims what followed was a “brutal beating,” writing, “I gave my arms up and counted 23 blows in total while handcuffed.”

"It was brutal, the blows to the head and to the neck continued, continued, did not stop,” he told NBC 6.

Two other inmates also provided witness statements supporting Cruz’ accounts.

One called the incident an “injustice” saying “a brutal beating occurred” once Cruz was handcuffed. He added, “blood was everywhere.”

The other inmate said he witnessed “officer Lumpkin strike inmate Luigi Cruz…with unnecessary force.”

Their allegations are included in Cruz’ complaint, which he provided to NBC 6.

Previous Allegations 

This isn’t the first time Lumpkin faces similar allegations.

Video obtained by NBC 6 shows the officer at the same facility punching another inmate repeatedly in 2019 until another officer stepped in.  

MDCR determined officer Lumpkin used excessive force in that incident and suspended him for 30 days. 

The Miami-Dade State Attorney decided not to file charges against the officer and asked him to be evaluated by a physiologist instead. She noted the same inmates filed over 700 complaints in a five-year period and approximately a dozen of those involved allegations of misconduct by staff. 

Attorney Victor Ruiz is representing Cruz.

"What's most concerning is that officer Lumpkin was made a part of a shakedown team after having had prior incidents of violence with other inmates,” Ruiz said.

"We're animals to them and we're not human beings at the end of the day. We, on the outside, don't see what's on the inside,” Cruz said. 

At a disciplinary hearing in September, Cruz was found not guilty of the rule violation officer Lumpkin filed against him. 

Cruz said the officers should face criminal charges and he plans to file a civil lawsuit.

Families of Black People Killed by Atlanta Cops Forced to Pass Out Flyers, Hang Up Signs and Beg for "Service" from Fani Willis. Strawboss DA Too Busy Serving Her Liberal Masters Targeting Trump

From [HERE] Through the crowd of lawyers and people on their way to court, 60-year-old Jimmy Hill walks the same downtown Atlanta street every week. He’s been doing this for the last three years to get justice for his son.

In January 2019, Hill’s son Jimmy Atchison was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer. Atchison was unarmed when he was shot in the face after a foot chase. For three years Atchison’s case has languished amidst the backlog of an estimated 11,000 cases in Fulton County caused in part by the Covid-19 pandemic.

With his son’s case still unresolved, Hill shows up every week, sometimes multiple days in the same week, to pass out fliers about his son’s death. And he makes sure to stand right below the office window of the one person he says has the power to do something: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Jimmy Hill hands out fliers in downtown Atlanta.

“I stand on the corner, and her window is right there, and I stand right there to make sure she sees me every day. And it’s not to prove a point to her because I’m going to fight anyway because that’s my son, and I love him,” he said.

An investigation by the previous administration at the Fulton County DA’s office found the shooting to be unjustified and recommended the officer who killed Atchison be charged with felony murder. The officer, who has since retired, said he thought Atchison was armed, but investigators later confirmed he wasn’t, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported. Officers were pursuing Atchison at an apartment complex while trying to arrest him on a warrant.

Though Hill says Willis could have presented his son’s case to a grand jury “long ago,” Hill believes the DA is instead more focused on notoriety.

CNN reached out four times to the Fulton County DA’s office, but never heard back.

Shortly after taking office as the newly elected DA, Willis announced she would be opening an investigation into the alleged election meddling by former President Donald Trump.

“What about police brutality? Wrong is wrong, murder is murder, crime is crime, wrong is wrong no matter who does it,” Hill said.

A familiar pain

Hill’s pursuit of justice may not be getting the attention he wants from the DA’s office, but it has inspired others.

In the last two years, other Black families who have lost their children at the hands of police have joined the weekly demonstrations. They include parents like Anthony Boykins, whose 12-year-old was killed in a crash when a Georgia State Trooper executed a pit maneuver on the car in which his son was a passenger.

“To be honest, it’s heart aching, to have to even come out here and even ask for justice. You know what I mean. Because if I would have flipped that car with the officers’ kids in it, I would be in jail right now,” Boykins said.

The trooper involved in the incident, which happened in a neighboring county, returned to work, and the incident is pending litigation.

Standing next to Hill while holding a poster with his son’s face on it, Boykins said it is “encouraging” to be alongside families who are going through similar pain. Joining Hill and Boykins every week is Venithia Cook. Her 17-year-old was shot in the back twice by a police officer in Cobb County, Georgia, in 2020.

“I’ve been told several different stories by [the] police about what happened,” Cook told CNN. “The video speaks for itself. Two seconds after he jumped out the vehicle he was shot twice in the back. He never had a chance,” she said.

The officer who shot and killed her son was cleared of wrongdoing – but Cook said she will continue to show up to demonstrate every week. Just like for Boykins and Hill, for Cook showing up on a weekly basis is “therapy.”

“Some of these families are barely holding on to their sanity. People don’t understand what police brutality does to the family and the community. It challenges your mental health,” Hill told CNN.

A backlog of cases

In April, a letter sent by Willis to the President of the NAACP chapter of Georgia and reviewed by CNN said in addition to the backlog of 11,000 cases, there was also an estimated 55,000 cases that were not properly closed by the previous administration. The NAACP says it has not heard from the DA’s office.

“Our concern is if you’re going to prosecute without fear or favor, you need to go after law enforcement who violate the public trust with the same veracity that you’re going after rappers, artists, and potentially the former president of the United States,” Georgia NAACP Chapter President Gerald Griggs told CNN.

Griggs estimates there are “dozens” of Black families in Atlanta, just like Hill, who have not yet had their cases addressed by the DA’s office.

Ramsey CTY Cops were Looking for a Black Man in his 30’s w/black hoodie, black pants and a cap But They Stopped and Attacked a 67 Yr Old Black Man with white Shirt, No Hat, Using a Walker. Suit Filed

From [HERE] and [MORE] A Black man has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Ramsey County and its sheriff's office, accusing deputies of using excessive force and violating his civil rights during a 2020 mistaken identity incident.

Michael Torrey-White, 67, and his attorney Paul Bosman allege that four officers named in the lawsuit mistook Torrey-White for a suspect in his late 30s, knocking him unconscious and allegedly assaulting him while making a wrongful arrest.

After the arrest, Torrey-White stated he was going to file a complaint against the arresting officers. He then found out an allegedly falsified police report was filed against him in the February 2020 incident, charging Torrey-White with obstructing the legal process and disorderly conduct nine days after he filed a complaint against the deputies.

Body camera footage of the arrest was requested as Torrey-White fought the charges. In July, the charges were dropped due to authorities not turning in video evidence from that night. Torrey-White and is attorney are accusing the deputies of malicious prosecution as a result.

According to the lawsuit, on Feb. 28, 2020, the sheriff's office received information about a fight taking place in a parking lot near an apartment complex where Torrey-White and his daughter live separately in Falcon Heights. The description of the suspect police were looking for was given as "African American, in his late 30s, wearing a black hoodie, black pants and a hat with the letters LSW on it."

Torrey-White went outside to the parking lot at the time to check on his daughter's truck, after she called Ramsey County Dispatch to report someone "dodging a vehicle in the parking lot." The 67-year-old went outside without his hearing aids inserted, according to federal court documents.

It's noted in the filing that Torrey-White was wearing "a white shirt and brown windbreaker jacket" at the time, with no hat. None of the 911 callers reported the suspect using a walker, either.

One of the deputies responding to the area "pushed Mr. Torrey-White into a brick wall, hitting his head and back against the wall." That's when Torrey-White lost consciousness, according to the lawsuit. He then woke up to being handcuffed with the officer allegedly putting weight on the man's back, making it difficult for Torrey-White to breathe.

When he asked what he had done wrong, the arresting officer told Torrey-White to "shut up." Three other deputies responded to the scene, stating that the man "was being detained." Torrey-White also claimed that one of the female officers at the scene inappropriately touched him in his private parts, asking him "what's this?" 

After scattering his belongings from his walker and finding nothing, one of the deputies eventually took handcuffs off of Torrey-White and let him go. He suffered head and back injuries during the incident, according to the lawsuit.

After Torrey-White filed a complaint with Internal Affairs, he faced charges "without probable cause and without reasonable belief that the prosecution will succeed."

Which Nigger = Any NGHR Will Do: Suit Says 2 Fayetville Cops Were 'in Pursuit of a Black Man Fugitive' So They Demanded ID from a Black Woman and Dragged Her from Car When She Didn't Give It to Them

From [HERE] and [HERE] A Black woman is suing a city, its police department and its officers for false imprisonment and negligence for an incident she said left her traumatized and bruised.

Two civil rights attorneys have filed a federal lawsuit against the Fayetteville Police Department for constitutional violations on behalf of a 22-year-old woman who was arrested in her car on private property.

Video taken by the woman arrested, Ja'Lana Dunlap, from Fayetteville, shows her being yanked out of her vehicle by officers, slammed against her vehicle and being asked for her I.D. The federal lawsuit alleges she was then placed in handcuffs.

Dunlap was arrested and then eventually let go because police did not find that she did anything wrong, according to Fayetteville Police Chief Gina Hawkins.

Hawkins said police were looking for a "potentially" dangerous man at the time and in the area where Dunlap was taking photographs in a vacant lot.

Dunlap said she taking pictures of the lot for her employer. She was in her parked car when police approached her, according to her two attorneys, Harry Daniels and Carnell Johnson.

Hawkins made a request to the N.C. Superior Court to release the two officers' body camera footage. In North Carolina, police departments have to petition the court to release their officers' body camera footage.

The lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleges that the two Fayetteville police officers who detained Dunlap — Ryan Haddock and Amanda Bell — did not have enough "reasonable suspicion" to do so.

Johnson and Dunlap had harsh words for law enforcement during Tuesday's press conference, asserting that the officers, who were both white, would not have used violence against Dunlap if she was also white.

"You never know, being African-American, if your life can end by police, even if you didn't do anything wrong," she said.

Dunlap said she hopes by suing the Fayetteville Police Department, she can speak up for others who can't. She knows that violence from police against the Black community is a persistent problem and hopes to usher change into Fayetteville.

“I really just want to speak up for people who can’t speak up for themselves,” said Dunlap-Banks at a press conference on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

“I just want to make it clear that you have to speak up for yourself. You have to demand respect. Whether they wear a badge or whether they’re just in regular clothes. And if you’re wearing that badge, if you’re wearing a uniform, then you’re supposed to protect us not harm innocent people.” "You're supposed to protect and serve, not harm innocent people."

On Sept. 6, Dunlap-Banks was in an empty lot taking photos of the grounds for a property management company where she works. She paid for garbage pickup on the property and was taking pictures to show her boss. The video Dunlap took only shows about one minute of the police encounter, and Daniels and Johnson are pushing for more.

The lawsuit says her Fourth Amendment rights were violated when officers "wrongfully and unjustifiably stopped, seized, and arrested [Dunlap] when Bell and Haddock surrounded and interrogated [Dunlap], thereby restricting her movement, and subsequently dragged her out of her vehicle, took her vehicle keys, and her placed in her handcuffs."

Dunlap said her refusal to provide the Fayetteville police officers with her I.D. prompted the officers to be more aggressive in questioning her. According to the federal lawsuit, police took her phone and threw it on the ground, ending her recording.

Under North Carolina law, individuals are not required to identify themselves except under certain circumstances, like a traffic violation, Johnson pointed out.

The federal lawsuit is seeking damages of more than $75,000 for injuries and degradation Dunlap suffered during the arrest.

After being pushed against her vehicle and handcuffed, the lawsuit says Dunlap began to have trouble breathing. She has an underlying condition of sickle-cell anemia, which contributed to her being unable to breathe.

She started breathing irregularly and began vomiting, the lawsuit says, and tried to bend down and vomit.

"Bell and Haddock continued yanking on [Dunlap] for her to stand upright," according to the lawsuit. "[Dunlap] pleaded with and begged officers to let her kneel down to vomit, but they continued to hold her against the vehicle."

"As [Dunlap] was vomiting in pain, officers opened [her] fanny pack without her consent and took out [her] identification card," the lawsuit continues.

Johnson wants the police body camera video to be released to show this incident and shed light on what happened to Dunlap when her phone turned off.

The lawsuit says that Fayetteville Police Sgt. Kempf arrived to the scene and saw Dunlap in pain. When he did, he immediately uncuffed her and spoke with the two officers on the scene. Dunlap was eventually given her keys back and allowed to leave, according to the lawsuit.

Fayetteville Police Chief Gina Hawkins, who is also named in the federal lawsuit, said the officers were pursuing a fugitive in the area and wanted to check to see if Dunlap-Banks was involved.

Attorney Harry Daniels said the officers treated Dunlap-Banks aggressively because of her skin color.

The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, Oct. 25, argues that North Carolina is not a “stop and identify” state, so Dunlap-Banks was not required to show proof of identification and had already given officers her full name.

“She wasn’t required to do that. But she did. That wasn’t good enough,” Daniels said at Tuesday’s press conference. “They wanted identification. You know, some people say where I’m from a long time ago, they wanted to slave papers. You need to show who you are.”

The woman’s attorneys said the violent interaction triggered a sickle-cell crisis. Dunlap-Banks was so afraid for her life that she started hyperventilating and vomiting, it alleges. However, the officers would not give the woman room to vomit and continued “yanking” her upright, the lawsuit says.

A Cumberland County judge on Tuesday granted Hawkins’ request for permission to release body-worn camera footage of the incident. Dunlap-Banks captured one minute of the interaction on her cell phone. Both officers asked the woman multiple times to get out of the vehicle that attorneys said she had just sat back in without starting the ignition. Bell also asked Dunlap-Banks to show her identification card, which was visible in her transparent fanny pack across her waist.

“You’re not getting it because I haven’t did anything wrong,” she told the officers.

The lawsuit alleges that officers tried to pull the woman out of the car because they realized she was recording them. The video also shows that Bell eventually released Dunlap-Banks’ arm, allowing her to get out of the vehicle. Court documents allege the woman was “forcefully placed” in handcuffs and slammed against her vehicle.

The video Dunlap took only shows about one minute of the police encounter, and Daniels and Johnson are pushing for more. According to the federal lawsuit, police took her phone and threw it on the ground, ending her recording.

The lawsuit says the “illegal and prolonged restraint of” the woman in handcuffs “amounted to false imprisonment” under North Carolina law. In addition, officers fail to meet their duty of care, and the city and its police agency are negligent by failing to vet, train and supervise its officers properly.

Dunlap-Banks’ attorney Xavier Torres de Janon said the department has a reputation for police brutality against Black people. Fayetteville police officers shot and killed Jada Johnson on July 1 after she called 911 to report a home invasion. When police arrived on the scene, Johnson had a gun to her head. Police officials said Johnson was shot while they tried to disarm her.

Torres de Janon named Johnson and four other African-Americans harmed during encounters with the police agency.

“This is not an issue of a couple of bad apples because we’re seeing that the tree is rotting. We are seeing that the roots are rotten,” he said. “And so when we demand justice for Ms. Ja’Lana, we demand justice for these other people and for the other Black and brown people in Fayetteville who might suffer when they meet a police again and again and again.”

Which-Nigger [‘guilty by simply being, not association’]: Lamonte McIntyre, an Innocent Black Man, Spent 23 Years in Prison. His Release Exposed Decades of Police Corruption in Liberal Kansas City

 According to FUNKTIONARY:

Which-Nigger – any native Black American who is routinely racially and spatially profiled for arrest as a likely target-suspect. A “Which Nigger” is never guilty by association—but guilty by simply being—a Black man in the wrong place at the wrong time near any alleged or actual crime, waiting for the “justice” railroad (oncoming train) and unaffordable legal representation thereby leaving him with a public defender that will ensure he will be afforded some extra time in prison.

Dr AMOS WILSON WROTE: In its oppression of Black America, White America faces a major dilemma. The White ruling class seeks to project a self-image and public image which are liberal and nonviolent. It wishes to assume the appearance of being faithfully committed to protecting the constitutional and civil rights guarantees of all residents — regardless of race, color, creed, or condition of previous servitude — and to be perceived by them as inherently humane. At the same time the ruling class wishes to retain its power to rule, to maintain its tremendous wealth, power, hegemony and privileges. Thus it is confronted with a major contradiction: it cannot actualize its projected image and commitments without destroying the bases of its identity and power.[MORE]

From [HERE] Chapter 2: The Wrong Lamonte. In 1994, Kansas City, Kansas, police arrested Lamonte McIntyre for a double homicide he didn’t commit — sending him to prison for more than two decades before he was finally exonerated. Except McIntyre was a mile away from those Hutchings Street murders. As it turns out, the only evidence police had to charge McIntyre was his first name, and the coerced testimony of two eyewitnesses.

Lamonte McIntyre stepped into the sunshine as a free man for the first time in 23 years on October 13, 2017. An innocent man, he'd spent more than half of his life in prison. But his release was about much more than how he'd been set up for a double murder he didn’t commit.

Two years after McIntyre’s release, a federal grand jury began investigating the many claims his case brought to light.

And this September, five years later, FBI agents arrested one of the men who’d helped send him to prison: former Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective Roger Golubski.

Golubski is now awaiting trial on six counts of depriving two women of their civil rights by sexually assaulting and kidnapping them.

Residents of Kansas City, Kansas, have called for the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a full-scale investigation of the police force. The case has generated so much attention that Jay Z’s Team Roc took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post urging a federal investigation and donated $1 million to the Midwest Innocence Project, which helped with McIntyre’s case.

Long before all this attention, plenty of people in Kansas City, Kansas, understood all too well how it felt to live in a place where one cop, or one prosecutor, had enough unchallenged power to railroad a 17-year-old kid. [MORE]

When an Innocent Black Man is Locked Up 38 yrs for Murdering a White Woman who's the Real Criminal? Maurice Hastings Released Following DNA Test. Sought Testing Decades Ago but White DA Denied Request

From [HERE] A Black man who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder of a white woman and two attempted murders has been released from a California prison after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to a different person, the Los Angeles county district attorney said.

The conviction of Maurice Hastings, 69, and a life sentence were vacated during a 20 October court hearing at the request of prosecutors and his lawyers from the Los Angeles Innocence Project at California State University.

“I prayed for many years that this day would come,” Hastings said at a news conference on Friday. “I am not pointing fingers. I am not standing up here a bitter man, but I just want to enjoy my life now while I have it.”

The district attorney, George Gascón, said in a statement: “What has happened to Mr Hastings is a terrible injustice. The justice system is not perfect, and when we learn of new evidence which causes us to lose confidence in a conviction, it is our obligation to act swiftly.”

The victim in the case, Roberta Wydermyer, was sexually assaulted and killed by a single gunshot to the head, authorities said. Her body was found in the trunk of her vehicle in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood.

Hastings was charged with special-circumstance murder and the district attorney’s office sought the death penalty but the jury deadlocked. A second jury convicted him and he was sentenced in 1988 to life in prison without parole.

Hastings has maintained his innocence since he was arrested.

At the time of the victim’s autopsy, the coroner conducted a sexual assault examination and semen was detected in an oral swab, the district attorney’s statement said.

Hastings sought DNA testing in 2000 but the DA’s office denied the request. Hastings submitted a claim of innocence to the DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit last year and DNA testing last June found that the semen was not his.

The DNA profile was put into a state database this month and matched that of a person convicted of an armed kidnapping in which a female victim was placed in a vehicle’s trunk, as well as the forced oral copulation of a woman.

That suspect, whose name was not released, died in prison in 2020.

The district attorney’s office said it was working with police to further investigate the involvement of the dead person in the case. 

New Complaint Board Will Investigate Racial Profiling Complaints and Make Discipline Recommendations but the Public Has No Control Over NYPD Cops Authorized to Attack and Murder Blacks in Liberal NYC

Liberal NYC Authorities Refuse to Admit they Murdered Daniel Prude but Settle for $12M. Provocative White Cops Put a Hood Over Handcuffed Black Mans Face, Piled On Top and Suffocated Him in the Street

From [HERE] The New York City oversight body that examines police misconduct will now have the authority to investigate claims of racial profiling, as well as officers’ misuse of body cameras, and recommend disciplinary measures in those cases, officials said on Monday.

The changes will strengthen the influence of the oversight body, known as the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which receives complaints from residents, determines whether there is evidence to substantiate those claims and then recommends disciplinary measures to the New York City Police Department.

The Police Department previously investigated bias claims itself, but few cases were substantiated. Between 2014 and 2021, the department investigated 3,480 such allegations, including complaints that officers had discriminated against people because of race, gender, sexual orientation or housing status. The department found only four cases that warranted discipline, according to a federal monitor’s report in May.

Last year, the City Council passed a law that revised the city charter to explicitly grant the Civilian Complaint Review Board the authority to investigate such cases. The new rules took effect this weekend after a months long process to adopt them. [MORE]

Racist PA Republicans Pretend Like They're Victimized by Urban Crime Despite Living Miles Away and Fake Concern About Black Lives: State Reps File Articles of Impeachment Against Philadelphia DA

From [HERE] Republican members of the Pennsylvania State House Wednesday filed articles of impeachment against Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. State Representative Martina White, the only Republican legislator from Philadelphia, is the lead sponsor of the resolution.

The House referred the resolution to the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning. The committee has not yet scheduled its next meeting to potentially discuss the resolution. If approved by the committee, the resolution will go to the full House for a vote. With only three days remaining on the House legislative calendar, the House will most likely need to extend the legislative session to consider the impeachment.

Like federal impeachments, the Pennsylvania impeachment process requires a simple majority of the state House. Republicans are in the majority and forecasters predict that Republicans will retain control of the chamber after the midterm elections on November 8. If impeached, the legislation would move to the state Senate for a trial. The conviction and removal from office of Krasner requires a two-thirds majority of the Senate. While Republicans have a majority in the Senate, they need to flip five seats to have a two-thirds majority.

Republican legislators filed the articles of impeachment without the recommendation of the House Select Committee investigating Krasner’s office. The Select Committee’s interim report, released on Monday, makes no mention of a crime and does not recommend impeachment. The articles of impeachment cite “misbehavior in office” as Krasner’s primary charge.  A recommendation of impeachment may still come with the release of the final report.

Kranser maintains that the investigation by House Republicans is politically motivated. In September, the House held Krasner in contempt for not complying with a legislative subpoena.

Democrats are Embracing the Same Police who Surveil and Murder Law Abiding Black People On a Daily Basis – b/c They Know There Will Be No Sanctions from the Emasculated, Powerless Black Votary

BARK AND CLAP NGHR. BLACK POWER(LESS) - THE DECLINE OF BLACK POLITICS IN AMERICA. VOTING AGAINST REPUBLICANS AND FOR NOTHING. NORMAN KELLEY EXPLAINED ‘DEMS HAVE no message or any kind of organizing to deal with the problems faced by black people in America. Nothing beyond "the basic political pabulum that we've been hearing for the last 40 years.

boilerplate liberalism but no legislative initiative. And why would they need one? Democrats know they will suffer no sanctions from disgruntled blacks. This sad state of affairs where black votes are as much as taken for granted by DEMOCRATS is the culmination of 40 years of decline of black politics. In reality, blacks have steadily lost influence and a sense of self-empowerment by ceasing to be organized in any meaningful fashion, having given into pseudo-political mobilization over non-issues such as "atonement" and reparations over the past 20 years. One could even argue that blacks have not been sufficiently organized since the 1960s.’ [MORE]

From [HERE] It’s all over the news, from CNN to Fox News: violent crime, particularly homicides, robberies, and aggravated assaults are continuing to rise after the initial uptick at the start of the global pandemic. From The Seattle Times, to the The New York Times, to the Washington Post, the bourgeois press – aided by right-wing pundits and politicians – is quick to lay blame on the 2020 Justice for George Floyd protests, the largest protest movement in the country, for its role in pressuring Democrats to defund the police.

But this is based on a false assumption that the Democrats have defunded the police. The movement against George Floyd’s police murder and against systemic racism did not achieve the main demands of reappropriating bloated police budgets in favor of community programs and resources, or reforming the police force with greater community oversight. Despite being the largest protests in U.S. history, the movement’s lack of clear structures left it vulnerable to Democratic Party co-optation. [MORE]

k. but lowering police budgets really has nothing to do with a cop’s ability to take your life or interfere with your rights at will. Budgets don’t effect authority. Also there is nothing wrong with armed security and everyone wants to live in safe communities but believing that some persons have the legal and moral right to forcibly control others and that, consequently, citizens have a moral and legal obligation to obey is irrational and the basis of all social evils. [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

voting – a pacification (sucker) process which allows the votary to make choices provided to her/him, not decisions. 2) a “privilege” of U.S. citizens to do it behind a curtain—as long as they do it alone. 3) political masturbation exercises for those who can’t cop real power. 4) a habitually accepted imposition that gives the votary-vassal-suckers an illusion of inclusion or participation. 5) an act of self-abuse. People mistake their voting for their voice—as the voice of the people is seldom, if ever, their own. [MORE]

1 in 19 Black People are Disenfranchised. More than 1 in 10 Can’t Vote in 8 States. If They Could Vote Would Their Votes Benefit Black People or White Liberals and the Democratic Party?

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

The Electorant – the willfully ignorant electorate—the suckers (voters and “taxpayers”) who delegate and abdicate their power to elected and appointed officials (employees) and the system through which voters’ will is subverted through statutes, laws and policies not approved or even known in the election process. The ‘electorant’ are always ranting and raving about their sordid and assorted conditions when they are responsible for them by being ignorant of the nature of delegated power and its effect, i.e., arbitrary power wielded with impunity and State-sanctioned immunity. The electorant have no recourse but to fuss and talk about change—utterly clueless. All power of the State resides in those who hold the purse strings. Control of the “money” is in the hands of those who further use it to corrupt others in order for one to retain power (dynastic banking cartel families) and the other to remain in power (politician). It is a symbiotic racket and one that continues unabated. (See: Voters, GEO-Dollars, “Monetized Debt,” Federal Reserve System, Willful Ignorance, Political Money, Gangbanking, Elections, MONEY, S&M Banking, Taxpayers, Second Tax, Dumbing-Down, Colonized Mind & Citizens of the United States)

A new report from the Sentencing Project states:

Overview

Laws in 48 states ban people with felony convictions from voting. In 2022, an estimated 4.6 million Americans, representing 2 percent of the voting-age population, will be ineligible to vote due to these laws or policies, many of which date back to the post-Reconstruction era. In this election year, as the United States confronts questions about the stability of its democracy and the fairness of its elections, particularly within marginalized communities, the impact of voting bans on people with felony convictions should be front and center in the debate.

This 2022 report updates and expands upon 20 years of work chronicling the scope and distribution of felony disenfranchisement in the United States (see Uggen, Larson, Shannon, and Pulido-Nava 2020; Uggen, Larson, and Shannon 2016; Uggen, Shannon, and Manza 2012; Manza and Uggen 2006; Uggen and Manza 2002). As in 2020, we present national and state estimates of the number and percentage of people disenfranchised due to felony convictions, as well as the number and percentage of the Black and Latinx populations impacted. Although these and other estimates must be interpreted with caution, the numbers presented here represent our best assessment of the state of felony disenfranchisement as of the November 2022 election.

Among the report’s key findings:

• An estimated 4.6 million people are disenfranchised due to a felony conviction, a figure that has declined by 24 percent since 2016, as more states enacted policies to curtail this practice and state prison populations declined modestly. Previous research finds there were an estimated 1.2 million people disenfranchised in 1976, 3.3 million in 1996, 4.7 million in 2000, 5.4 million in 2004, 5.9 million in 2010, 6.1 million in 2016, and 5.2 million in 2020.

• One out of 50 adult citizens – 2 percent of the total U.S. voting eligible population – is disenfranchised due to a current or previous felony conviction.

• Three out of four people disenfranchised are living in their communities, having fully completed their sentences or remaining supervised while on probation or parole.

• In three states – Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee – more than 8 percent of the adult population, one of every 13 adults, is disenfranchised.

• Florida remains the nation’s disenfranchisement leader in absolute numbers, with over 1.1 million people currently banned from voting, often because they cannot afford to pay court-ordered monetary sanctions. An estimated 934,500 Floridians who have completed their sentences remain disenfranchised, despite a 2018 ballot referendum that promised to restore their voting rights.

• One in 19 African Americans of voting age is disenfranchised, a rate 3.5 times that of non-African Americans. Among the adult African American population, 5.3 percent is disenfranchised compared to 1.5 percent of the adult non-African American population.

• More than one in 10 African American adults is disenfranchised in eight states – Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Virginia.

• Although data on ethnicity in correctional populations are unevenly reported and undercounted in some states, a conservative estimate is that at least 506,000 Latinx Americans or 1.7 percent of the voting eligible population are disenfranchised.

• Approximately 1 million women are disenfranchised, comprising over one-fifth of the total disenfranchised population.

Click here to read the full report.

New EJI Report on the Slave Trade Explores the Origins of the Myth of Racial Inferiority -a Narrative of White Propaganda Used to Justify Genocide, Manufactured Unequal Conditions and Mistreatment

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:
white propaganda – a game two can play—which consists simply in repeating “I am better than you” and “you are utterly unlike (opposite to) me” over and over again; despite the historical record to the contrary. (See: Black Propaganda, Intoxification, Oppositional Imaging, Oppositionalism, Neuropeans, Superiority Complex, Caucasian & Disinformation)

superiority complex – a deep-seeded repression of an inferiority complex (based in the fear of genetic annihilation) with no escape or reconciliation device. (See: White Supremacy, Inferiority Complex, Yurugu & Weiteko Disease)

From [HERE] Today, EJI releases the newest report in our series on the history of racial injustice. The Transatlantic Slave Trade traces the history of enslavement back to 1501, when Europeans started kidnapping and trafficking African people to the Americas.

Over the 365 years that followed, European and American traffickers forced nearly 13 million African people to endure the agonizing Middle Passage across the Atlantic Ocean.

At least two million people died during the voyage. Millions survived the traumatic journey only to find themselves trapped in a violent, race-based system of brutal bondage that enslaved their children at birth.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade is one of the most violent, traumatizing, and horrific eras in world history—but too few people have confronted this history truthfully.

And few Americans have acknowledged how coastal communities in the U.S. from New England to New Orleans were permanently shaped by the trafficking of African people and the generational wealth it created.

Our latest report explores the origins of the myth of racial difference—a narrative of racial inferiority that defined Black people as less human than white people.

Rooted in the need to justify genocide and enslavement, this belief in racial hierarchy survived slavery’s abolition, fueled racial terror lynchings, demanded legally codified segregation, and continues to haunt our nation.

At our Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, and in our series of reports on racial justice, we follow the myth of racial difference and its legacy from enslavement to mass incarceration.

Erick Tavira's Family Files Lawsuit Against Rikers. Latino Man w/Mental Health Issues Hung Himself Waiting 16 Months for Trial. Held on $20k Bail for Misdemeanor in Reprehensible Jail Run by Liberals

From [HERE] The grieving family of the latest detainee to die in New York City jails has filed a wrongful death claim against the Correction Department.

Erick Tavira, 28, used a bedsheet to hang himself about 2:15 a.m. on Saturday in a mental observation unit at the George R. Vierno Center at Rikers Island. He is the 17th person to die in custody this year.

The circumstances, including whether staff had been monitoring him, remain unclear and are under investigation.

“According to [the Correction Department’s] own version of events he never should have been able to take his life while in a mental observation unit,” said the family’s lawyer M.K. Kaishian.

Tavira struggled with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as a teen, the family said.

“When he sought help from hospitals, courts, judges or systems, they failed him again and again,” the family said.

Kaishian said Tavira was arrested for assault on a police officer when he went to Metropolitan Hospital in East Harlem to seek treatment for his mental condition.

“He was actively seeking mental health care at the time and he was criminalized for it and now he’s dead,” Kaishian said.

Tavira was let go on supervised release and then arrested again June 13, 2021, for a misdemeanor. He was accused of attacking a 14-year-old boy without provocation in Washington Heights. At the time, Tavira was living at a homeless shelter on Randalls Island.

Facing assault and strangulation charges, Tavira was ordered held on $20,000 bail because of the previous charge of assaulting the officer, landing him at Rikers Island.

Tavira was optimistic on the phone with family during the 16 months at Rikers before his death, reminding his relatives to put funds in his commissary account right up until the week he died. But Kaishian said the family was also aware he wasn’t getting the treatment he needed while there.

“He was always checking in on us and putting our needs first,” the family said. “He eagerly looked forward to reuniting with us as a free person.”

A rally in memory of Tavira and the 32 other people who have died in the jails since Jan. 1, 2021, is planned for Tuesday at City Hall.

“The Department of Correction has been on notice that the conditions in its jails are deplorable and deadly but has, at best, repeatedly refused to protect the people in its custody or meet their most basic needs,” the family said. “Meanwhile, others in power knowingly and continually send New Yorkers to [Correction Department] jails, places from which many, like our beloved Erick, will never come home alive.”

As Liberals in Baltimore Seek to Criminalize More Things Black People Do, a White Judge is Mad b/c 2 Black Men Wrote "Racist" in Soap Suds on His Windshield after He Declined their Request to Clean it

From [HERE] A federal judge overseeing Baltimore Police’s reform efforts called officers last Sunday and reported that a pair of squeegee workers gave him the middle finger, spat on his car and wrote “racist” in suds on the windows.

No property was damaged, no one was injured, and neither squeegee worker was charged in the incident, according to a police report. But U.S. District Court Judge James K. Bredar’s run-in with squeegee workers, and the ensuing police response, has renewed focus on squeegeeing and raised questions about the necessity of having law enforcement respond to certain situations.

“The fact of the matter is not every challenge should be met with policing and prosecution,” said Dave Jaros, who heads the University of Baltimore School of Law’s Center for Criminal Justice Reform.

Bredar and his wife were stopped last Sunday afternoon at the intersection of North Avenue and Mount Royal Terrace when two squeegee workers approached their SUV and offered to clean the windshields, according to a police report. Bredar and his wife refused them, and the pair became hostile, with one of them giving the middle finger to Bredar’s wife, the report said.

Bredar, who was a passenger in the SUV, took a photo of that man, age 20, who then proceeded to spit on the car, the judge later told police. Bredar, who is White, reported that the other worker used his squeegee to spell out the word “racist” on the SUV windows.

After the couple drove off, Bredar called Baltimore Police, asking the department to send officers to the intersection. Once there, the worker who apparently gave the middle finger spoke with officers, who gave him a warning and told him to stop squeegeeing at that intersection. [MORE]

Unelected Black Rolebot DA Walks Out of Debate in Liberal San Francisco After Being Heckled by Black Protesters, Students

This is the moment protesters heckled the District Attorney of San Francisco off a university stage after she postponed a trial set to prosecute a police officer.

DA Broke Jenkins, a black rolebot who is running for office by promising to restore order after ousting her predecessor, left after around 10 minutes of heckling.

Among other things, the students were demonstrating against Jenkins' postponement of a trial against Christopher Samayoa, a San Francisco police officer who shot and killed alleged carjacker Keita O’Neil in 2017.

The DA is set to face SF voters four days after she was appointed to replace the recalled Chesa Boudin.

A poll conducted by Bay Area-based EMC Research found Jenkins leading the race with 49% of survey respondents, 20 points ahead of her nearest rival - as she is the candidate supported by the wealthy liberal, white establishment. [MORE]

“McDonald’s Takes Billions from Black Consumers and Gives Almost Nothing Back." McDonalds Fails to Dismiss Byron Allen’s $10 Billion Lawsuit. Suit Claims It Refuses to Advertise with Black Media

EAT IT FAST WHILE ITS HOT B/C ITS NASTY WHEN IT COOLS DOWN. McDonald's Commercials Use "Showcase Blacks" to Imply that Speed Eating its 1/4lb Sugary SHamburger & "Genocide Fries" Won’t Cause McSweats or McIndigestion

From [HERE] Byron Allen’s $10 billion racial discrimination lawsuit against McDonald’s will go to trial next May after the fast food giant tried and failed to have the suit dismissed three times.

The Chicago Crusader reports the trial is set for May 30, 2023, after Judge Fernando Olguin determined last month that McDonald’s failed to meet the bar to prove Allen’s Entertainment Studios made no reasonable claim for discrimination.

“McDonald’s apparent refusal to even offer terms for advertising on The Weather Channel makes little business sense given that The Weather Channel has higher ratings and wider distribution than the two [white-owned] comparator networks,” Olguin wrote in the dismissal.

Allen, the owner of the Allen Media Group, filed the $10 billion lawsuit alleging McDonald’s, which has an advertising budget of more than $1 billion, has refused to advertise on his networks and spends just $5 million advertising with Black media.

The suit also claims McDonald’s created an “African American Tier” with a smaller advertising budget where Allen’s TV networks have been categorized.

This isn’t the first time McDonald’s has been sued for racial discrimination. In 2020, 52 Black former McDonald’s franchise owners filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming they faced “systematic and covert racial discrimination,” with McDonald’s denying them the same opportunities as their white counterparts. A federal judge recently dismissed the class-action lawsuit, but the plaintiffs have until Oct. 21 to file an appeal.

Last year, the burger chain bought 13 locations from former MLB player Herb Washington as part of a settlement in a racial discrimination lawsuit. Washington, who once owned more than 20 McDonald’s locations, sued the burger chain claiming it racially discriminated against him by having him purchase low-volume restaurants in Black neighborhoods and forcing him to downsize his base years later after grading his locations unfairly.

MCTROUBLE. PHOTO ABOVE is FROM “SUPER SIZE ME,” a movie about THE SHAM BURGER CHAMP.

In a statement, Allen explained the motive for his lawsuit.

“This is about economic inclusion of African American-owned businesses in the U.S. economy,” Allen said in a statement according to the Crusader. “McDonald’s takes billions from African American consumers and gives almost nothing back. The biggest trade deficit in America is the trade deficit between white corporate America and Black America, and McDonald’s is guilty of perpetuating this disparity.”

Last year, McDonald’s said it would increase advertising with Black-owned companies from 2% to 5% of its total budget by 2024.

Allen has sued other large companies for their lack of Black advertising, including Comcast cable.

Oldest Black-Owned Insurance Company Goes Quietly into Liquidation

From [HERE] After more than 120 years, the oldest black-owned insurance company in the United States has all but come to an end, and will soon be liquidated.

North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., which began in 1898 and whose iconic headquarters building helps define the Durham skyline, stopped writing new business in 2016. With a heavy debt load, it was placed into rehabilitation two years later, according to local news reports and state regulators.

The rehab and recovery has not succeeded. This week, a Wake County judge approved a petition from state regulators that the 240,000-policy insurer be liquidated. Premiums and claims will be covered by the North Carolina Insurance Guaranty Association, the state Department of Insurance said.

“The entry of an order of liquidation enjoins all persons from instituting any action at law or in equity or any attachment or execution against NC Mutual,” the insurance department said on its website.

Questions can be directed to the claims department at (800) 626-1899 or (919) 682-9201, and claims correspondence should be sent to NC Mutual, P.O. Box 281709, Nashville, TN, 37228.

NC Mutual was founded by several Carolina businessmen who initially sold burial insurance. The firm eventually expanded to 48 U.S. states and created other institutions, including Mechanics and Farmers Bank, according to reports in Spectrum News 1 and the Triangle Business Journal.

The company was credited with establishing Durham as a burgeoning business hub known as “the Black Wall Street.” But in later years, reports said that The Mutual, as it was known, lagged in technology, customer service and underwriting.

Strawboss Chicago Mayor in Talks w/Feds Over Forced City Reforms in Environmental Racism Probe. Pollution, Storage and Waste from Factories and Plants in Latino/Black Areas Impacting Residents Health

ELECTING BLACK ROLEBOTS IS BLACK POWER? WHERE EXACTLY HAVE THE BLACKS BEEN EMPOWERED? ACCORDING TO SOPHIE RASOF:

Environmental racism is a term used to describe the disproportionate exposure to toxic and hazardous waste in low-income minority communities due to the inequality of environmental policymaking and laws (Pellow 2000 and Brulle and Pellow 2006). Environmental racism is an extension of the systematic racism that minority groups have faced in the United States throughout history. Specifically, Latinx and African Americans are at a systematic disadvantage, unable to access appropriate resources, and are put at a higher risk for health and economic disparity. In Chicago, factories and industrial manufacturing production plants are placed in predominately Hispanic and Black communities. Air, water, and ground pollution from these production facilities impede on the health of the overall community both directly or indirectly. The collective exposure to these pollutions is at much higher rate than the surrounding white-affluent neighborhoods. Improper storage of hazardous waste, illegal dumping, and lack of education and protection for the workers all contribute to unjust and unequal environmental protection. This is a human health crisis causing higher rates of asthma, cancer, respiratory illness, lead poisoning, and cardiovascular disease seen at exponentially higher rates in these communities (Brulle and Pellow 2006). The accessibility to healthcare is limited in low-income minority and immigrant communities. This, in combination with unsafe living conditions, leads to suffering of specific populations. Chicago’s segregated neighborhoods allow for specific minority communities to be targeted and ultimately exploited. [MORE]

From [HERE] Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration is negotiating with President Joe Biden’s housing officials over potential city reforms after federal investigators accused Chicago of environmental racist zoning and land-use practices.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has held off on making an official declaration of next steps in an almost two-year civil rights investigation. The agency could force the city to make significant and permanent changes to its planning processes or risk losing millions in federal dollars.

After Lightfoot just months ago appeared to be bracing for a fight, HUD said Thursday that the two sides are now in discussions.

“The department seeks to obtain voluntary resolution of matters throughout the course of an investigation and has paused enforcement processes to advance negotiations,” HUD said in a written statement. [MORE]