"Political Silence:" Barking and Clapping Like Seals, the Black Electorant Voted for Warnock and Others But Can’t Articulate Why. White Liberals Offer No Black Message or Agenda b/c They Don’t Have to

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

political silence – the study of the art of control. 2) censored and muted voices of the dispossessed always strengthens those privileged by the status quo. Scientists who actually engage in scientific inquiries do not take votes. (See: Voting)

VENTRILOQUIST AS VOICE, THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE.” About twenty years ago Norman Kelley observed that black people had become political weaklings, “complicit in their own political emasculation.” At one time Black Americans forcefully argued for their own seat at the table but now in their relations with the democrat party they function like trained seals or dogs that “bark and clap” at election time and shut-up afterwards. Black people, once envied and imitated by people seeking freedom throughout the world are now demobilized and have no effective political organizations, no real leaders and “black politics” is void of any substance.

For example, Blacks barked and clapped for Warnock in Georgia, like they were told by white liberals. Although much has been made of their close Senate race, it was never close amongst Black voters who automatically sided with incumbent democrat Warnock from the beginning and with rare exceptions, have expressed strongly negative feelings toward Walker, the former University of Georgia football star. Elie Mystal, a TV appointed “black pundit” imposed onto Blacks by elite whites at MSNBC, sums up the way Blacks have been told to think about the race; Walker is “unintelligent” and bereft of “independent thoughts” and “Republicans back Walker because he is going to do what he’s told ... That’s what Republicans want from their negroes: to do what they’re told.” Perhaps that is true, but Mystal’s purpose apparently was to draw a sharp contrast between Warnock and Walker – something that is not factually possible if he’s contending that Warnock functions as an independent free-agent, bucking the party line to deliver tangible solutions to the black community. Although Warnock was the senior pastor for Martin Luther King Jr’s church, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, he is no rebel. King sacrificed his life for Black people in a failed effort to neutralize white supremacy – he didn’t get his talking points or marching orders from white liberals or borrow substance from white folk. Even Hershel Walker, whom we are told is one the dumbest niggers in the world, observed that Warnok supports and parrots whatever the Democrat party leadership wants and voted with Biden 96% time. Warnock probably also believes Walker is one of the dumbest niggers in the world but only because Dems told him so. Like Walker, Warnock is a potted plant on the Dems stage, a member of The MoTeaSuh Tribe. Or as FUNKTIONARY explains, another “politically dis-appointed kneegrow who panders to Massah’s agenda—Mo’ Tea Sir?” No matter how intelligent or talented he may be, Democrats also expect “their negros” to serve them well. The black votary dogmatically votes for Warnock and others by default as it’s no longer concerned with whether its politics function to solve Black problems; it just votes against republicans.

NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS, A BLACK VASSAL.

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

The Moteasuh Tribe – the miseducated coin-operated buck-dancing, sole-shuffling, politically dis-appointed kneegrows who pander to Massah’s agenda—Mo’ Tea Sir? This tribe of sorry-ass kneegrows follow the dictates and even orchestrates the marching bandits of racism white supremacy as spewed forth from the mouthpieces of political power within the borders of the Witches Castle. It’s the Condi-Clarence-Powell complex—that is, those who do Massah’s bidding as if you weren’t kidding yourself that you were doing otherwise. Keep your eyes on the lies, the liars, and the disguise.

In reality, Warnock and an army of thousands of other black elected rolebots at all levels of government are not engaged in any “black politics” and have no “black political philosophy,” no “Black agenda” or black messaging or organizing and no explanation to account for the system of racism white supremacy affecting all aspects of black people’s lives or any response to the war being waged on law abiding Black people by police. Said black puppeticians have non-white skin and black chromosomes but for all non-cosmetic purposes they are interchangeable with their white liberal counterparts; looking and sounding like them reading from the same script. “Blackness” and “black politics” has come to mean ‘not Republican’ and not much else. Black politics has gone from being aggressively results oriented and highly organized to being tame activity channelled into voting for the Democratic Party and its grimacing white liberal and black borg candidates.

The Black electorant automatically presumes that most white republicans are racist and most white liberals are not racist. According to this clogic (means fucked up logic) Black voters are comfortable voting for liberal do-gooders without critical examination of their legislative records, campaign proposals or particularized sets of plans for Black people. For decades now, the Black votary has been electing liberals in places dominated by white liberal politics. Based on the clogic that most liberal whites aren’t racist, the quality of life and citizenship for Black residents in liberal jurisdictions should materially speak for itself and it should be far superior to living conditions for Blacks living in in republican jurisdictions- the places where most of the racists reside.

If liberal jurisdictions are ‘racist free’ then who is it cramming the jails and courtrooms with Blacks in NYC, Milwaukee, Chicago, Columbus, Minnesota, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Oakland, Atlanta, Kansas City, St. Louis, Detroit, New Orleans and others? Who is striking Blacks from juries? Who is evicting Black tenants from their homes for failure to pay rent during the government’s COVID lockdowns? Who is providing a servant (mis)education to black children? Who is running the public fool systems? Who is gentrifying neighborhoods, dislocating Black families, businesses and making blacks homeless? Who is failing to protect law abiding black people in their segregated communities and preventing them from arming themselves in self-defense from criminals? Who is surveilling, stopping, frisking, and searching law abiding Blacks at will on a daily basis? Whose police officers frequently brutalize and murder blacks with impunity? The answer is racist, white liberals. Specifically, white liberal; judges, prosecutors, jurors, landlords, government authorities, administrators, police officers, school teachers, school administrators, real estate agents, bankers, doctors, business owners, creditors etc., in places where the majority of Black people reside in the US.

In liberal jurisdictions racist liberals work together to dominate and control non-white people in all areas of people activity. Racism is a team effort, it is collective white behavior and collective white power or a conspiracy among white individuals and/or groups of white people to impersonally control and/or dominate non-white people. For instance, liberal authorities control Rykers Island, an overwhelmingly Black/Latino jail. Racist republicans aren’t imported into NYC to fuck up the jail. Individual white, liberal authorities maintain its reprehensible, filthy and dangerous state; it has a rate of violence 8X greater than other municipal jails. Recently Eric Tavira, a young Latino man, hung himself to avoid dealing with the foul conditions inside. A white, liberal judge had detained him there on a misdemeanor at the request of white, liberal prosecutors who sought high bail ($20k) to placate white liberal citizens who demand un-payable bail to keep poor Blacks and Latinos locked-up after arrest so they can feel safer. White liberal residents felt safer for the 16 months Tavira was held pre-trial – his trial delayed due to the busy court calendar, overloaded with other non-whites by white liberal judges and prosecutors. Similarly, a group of white NYPD cops recently beat and smothered a naked black man to death as they held him down in the street. His name was Daniel Prude. Afterwards the liberal media (elite white liberals), police union (controlled by white liberals), his fellow cops and the DA (beholden to elite white liberals), upheld and supported the white cops’ right to do so; no cops were charged or even fired over his murder. Importantly, black people should understand that racist conduct by white liberal government authorities in particular, is done on behalf and at the request of liberal racist citizens – the so-called allies of the black votary. Power napping Blacks describing themselves as woke need to wake the fuck up and stop barking and clapping like animals for those who are deceiving them. Republicans may indeed be enemies of Black people but Blacks are their own enemy if they mindlessly believe that Democrats aren’t also a “white party” and racist liberals aren’t presently strangling Black people to death while making it look like they are dying from natural causes. White liberal do-gooders are clowning Blacks. Never participate in your destruction.

Norman Kelley made five excellent arguments. Due to space limitations only a few will be discussed here and cannot be restated any better by BW;

1) Voting has not led to Black power or solving Black people’s problems,

2) Democrats have no messaging or organizing aimed at black people,

3) black political leadership has vanished and even where it exists it does merely as HNIC leadership as a performance act

4) Black Political Organizations in the Post--Civil Rights Era are ineffective at retail politics and wholly beholden to elite whites and

5) the black votary gets nothing for their vote as they are ignored by Republicans and taken for granted by democrats, who know there will be no repercussions for doing so.

1) Voting has not led to Black power or solving Black people’s problems. First of all, it is white propaganda that black people don’t vote. Although they are only 13% of the US population, black voters are among the most stable voting bloc in politics, despite the concerted efforts to stop them.

The overblown value of the vote itself is the real ‘propAgenda’ here; the more scarce elites make the vote, the more valuable it appears to be – but this is maya. Dr. Amos Wilson explains the Dependent Media and other vested interests ‘strive strenuously to convince the Black electorate that every conceivable problem which confronts it can be resolved through voting heavily for Black and friendly White politicians. The media is ever quick to remind the Black electorate of the historical struggles necessary to achieve their right to vote. It indicts the community for its electoral apathy and seeks to evoke guilt feelings in those who do not participate in the electoral process — making such ritualistic participation emblematic of democracy and first-class citizenship.’ Most importantly however, Wilson explains, “This is of special interest when it is realized that very few, if any, of the major political, economic and social goals achieved by Black America, including the Voting Rights Act, were accomplished through Black voting prowess. The ballot box has been a relatively impotent weapon in the achievement of major victories by the Black community. Suddenly vigorous protest and direct-action legal suits and extralegal processes such as boycotts, sit-ins, and the like, which were used so effectively by the community to achieve its sociopolitical ends and to fight injustice and oppression, have fallen far behind the election of Black politicians to achieve the same ends.”

Kelly writes, “As the 1960s black freedom movement moved "from protest to politics," community and protest leaders became incorporated into the routines of the country's political system. By the 1970s, some of these leaders became, in effect, a national black political directorate, with power centered in the Congressional Black Caucus. Meanwhile, black America retired itself from the kind of political action that disrupted business as usual. Political energy was channeled into voting, the only legitimate form of redress of grievance as seen by dominant political elites.’ In other words, Black individuals stopped engaging in aggressive political activity as business as usual and began passively waiting every two – four years for white liberals to present them with s[elected] candidates to choose from. As a group Blacks had been engaged as a whole in their struggle for freedom and were a source of agitation to the vested interests with highly organized boycotts (not weak threats), sit-ins, walk-outs, organized protests and other activities. Said politics were solely intended to solve Black people’s problems, capture the attention of elites and most importantly to get results. However, post-civil rights, Blacks have functioned in a child like state, constant consumers of products, mindless enterstainment and social media, as if all their problems have been magically solved.

Elected Black puppeticians and appointed strawboss authorities at all levels of government have not translated into power for Black people. Black people have no power to prevent racists from practicing racism and no power to force remedies even for the most egregious injustices. Black people should witness that Minnesota, Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore or NYC or many other places where cops murder Blacks in broad daylight are all already dominated by liberal Democrats duly elected by a participating black votary. NYC, for instance is dominated by white liberal puppeticians. Among its liberal leaders NYC has a Black mayor (Eric Adams), Black Attorney Generals (Alvin Bragg, Manhattan) (Letitia James Brooklyn), Black state Assembly Leader (Carl Heastie Bronx), Black Public Advocate (Jumaane Williams Brooklyn), Black DA (Darcel Clark, Bronx), Black Borough President (Donovan Richards Queens) and numerous Black judges. Add to this Black legislators who hold 13 of 51 seats on the City Council, 22 of 150 seats in the state Assembly, and eight of 63 seats in the state Senate. There are also four Black congressional representatives —Gregory Meeks, Hakeem Jeffries, Yvette Clarke, and Jamaal Bowman and hundreds of liberal democrats all levels of government who dominate City politics and government agencies. Although voter turnout amongst Blacks in ‘the mecca’ is high, the quality of Black citizenship stays low; law abiding Blacks are frequently stopped and searched by police in their neighborhoods or cars, Blacks and Latinos make up 90% of all persons and arrested and charged, Rikers Jail is disproportionately packed with Blacks held pre-trial in reprehensible conditions, a majority of all homeless people are black, Black unemployment stays high, 63% of black families in New York are in the bottom half of the income distribution, blacks are routinely struck from juries, Blacks can be murdered in broad daylight by police without any accountability (Eric Garner) and so on. Wilson exaplined, ‘the electing of politicians to a bankrupt political system dominated by the ruling corporate elite whose values and aims are inimical to the cause of Black liberation; the election of Black politicians who are but pawns of the White Democratic Party machine and who seek to have the Black community identify its communal interest with the politicians' personal interests; the election of politicians who in no way are interested in developing a program for the economic emancipation and empowerment of the Black community, and who are not committed to the final overthrow of White supremacy, becomes clear when we recognize their bourgeois interests.” [MORE] Wilson also explained that the so-called Black bourgeoisie, a small number of Blacks who benefit from democrat politics, has no independent power on its own. Rather it maintains it status through its direct political and corporate ties to the Democratic party establishment.

Voting has not led to Black power in NYC or in many other places dominated by white liberals and their politics, it’s crazy to pretend otherwise.

2) Democrats have no messaging or organizing aimed at black people. As explained by Kelley ‘Democrats offer only boilerplate liberalism and no legislative initiative. And why would they need one? Democrats know they will suffer no sanctions from disgruntled blacks.’

Kelley explained Democrats essentially offer no substantial policy initiatives that benefit African-Americans and “No real agenda drives politics beyond having the Democratic candidate show up.”

‘Democrats don’t stand for anything in regard to Blacks; black people are voting against republicans but not for Democrats.

Here, Dems push so-called ‘climate change,’ limitless abortions, “infrastructure” and their Trump obsession onto Black people as if this ad-hoc collection of issues will address the myriad of problems in Black communities. Elite whites and their probots are quick to remind anyone that “Black voters are not a monolith, and their attitudes differ based on upbringing, geography and other factors.” Such a statement is as obvious as saying everybody is effected by gravity. Duh. No group of people is a monolith but it should be obvious that black people are not white people – and white people are not subjected to the system of racism white supremacy. Anon explains, “in the absence of white supremacy, niggers would not exist.” And white liberals’ menu of political concerns have little to do with the realities of daily life Black people face.

According to the Urban League’s 2022 State of Black America, Black people haven’t progressed since 1965. The Black-White disparity persists across virtually every line or indicator of life and quality of life in the United States. Black people occupy the bottom of nearly every statistical category of life. [MORE] US Census data reveals that the unemployment gap between whites and blacks is virtually unchanged over the last 50 years. The income and wealth gaps have actually widened. So has the gap in educational attainment. The jobless rate among African-Americans has remained double to whites for over 5 decades. Among other things, according a to a NY Times analysis the race gap in higher education has also widened. The median Black household income was $43,862 versus $63,823 for Whites. Blacks still trail Whites in homeownership, the traditional path to wealth building in the country, and their homes were valued less than Whites. [MORE] Norman Kelley observed that despite Black people’s heavy involvement in the Democratic Party schools have remained as segregated as before Brown v. Board of Education, which was decided 70 years ago. [MORE]

Beyond the statistical gaps and lack of opportunity, a 2022 State of Black America opinion poll revealed the constant mental anguish and insecurity Blacks endure. Blacks were far more likely than Whites to worry “about being paid less, passed over, having to work harder for the same amount, and even being discriminated against,” the poll found. Blacks were more worried about basic survival, putting food on the table, getting enough working hours, losing a job, being unable to pay the rent, and spending savings to make ends meet. [MORE]

Neely Fuller correctly states in the system of racism white supremacy Black people are subject to the direct and indirect power of elite racists in all areas of activity including Economics, Education, Entertainment, Labor, Law, Politics, religion, Sex and War. Therefore, elite racists are the direct or indirect masters of Black people. They are responsible for everything that happens or does not happen in regards to Black people.’ Fuller describes Black people as “the powerless class” because it accurately describes their power relationship between Blacks and whites. He explains, "in a socio-material system dominated by elite racists, all major decisions involving non-white people are made by elite racists. The elite racists are their bosses, their masters, and their major decision-makers. Whatever a Black person gets, and/or is allowed to keep, is the result of decisions made by elite racists. This is the functional meaning of White Supremacy (Racism) that many people — particularly Black people — prefer not to acknowledge. [MORE]

Its no surprise that Black people haven’t advanced since 1965 Black because “black politics” which apparently is now just democratic party politics is fear based and runs from the above realities. Dr. Frances Cress Welsing called this the “The Fear of Confronting White Supremacy.” Racist, white liberals have no intention of ever helping cowardly Blacks to confront the fear of white supremacy – it would undo their own hustle; maintaining master-servant relations while convincing gullible blacks that racism white supremacy is based on hatred. Racist white liberals don’t hate blacks just like dog owners don’t hate their dogs. Rather, they believe they are superior to dogs and have relations with their dogs in accord with said belief. Similarly, racist elite liberals don’t engage in arms length or equal relations with Blacks, instead, they dominate blacks or function as their masters in all areas of people activity in accord with their belief of superiority. With such a belief it is easy for them to rationalize that Blacks should naturally be in inferior positions and occupy lower levels of socio-economic life. Dr. Amos Wilson rhetorically asks;

‘Who has control of your food? Who has control of your electricity? Who has control of your water? Of your jobs? Who tells you what to wear when you go to work? Who tells you when to come to work...when to leave...when to go to lunch...how to speak...how to write...how to do this...how to do that...and how are these things taught, and how they are conditioned?"-- It is by reward and punishment. " You do this you get paid; you don't do this you don't get paid; you get a raise, you get docked. What do we have here?’

3) Black political leadership has vanished and viable, effective black political organizations are non-existent. Kelley wrote, “Essentially at this point in time and history black America is leaderless, drifting. This would not be an entirely unfortunate circumstance if it weren't for the development of a pernicious syndrome, the Head Negro in Charge (HNIC) Syndrome. This is a condition in which self-appointed 'leaders' hijack the political process by somehow appealing to blacks' sense of collectivity, while having an agenda that is mostly about themselves, making themselves the leader. This syndrome and black political demobilization have been aided, as I have suggested, by a black intelligentsia that has become more obsessed with pop culture and celebrity.’ Said charismatic HNIC leaders see “leadership as a performance” and image not as a realistic means to the end of solving black people’s problems and offering solutions or actually being held accountable to the black public. Over the past twenty years however, even the HNIC’s have slowly vanished (Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Sharpton) and been replaced by no one. At best, the legend Ishmael Reed explains that Black political opinion in The Spectacle is articulated by elite whites through a collection of token, wooden dummies, probots or spokepersons (black tv pundits, comedians, athletes, celebrities, etc) who have no grounding in or vetting by the black community (such as Elie Mystal, Ibram X. Kendi or Ta-Nehisi Coates). Kelley explains black people have not created any long lasting, sustainable political organizations that have a meaningful impact on retail politics or on changing the conditions under which black people live. With the exception of the Nation of Islam, he further explains that there are also no organizations that are not under the control of and beholden to elite liberal whites. All black political organizations tied to HNIC leadership (Nation of Islam (Farrakhan), the National Action Network (Sharpton) and the Rainbow Coalition (Jesse)) most likely will die when their respective celebrity leader dies because said organizations solely depend upon the larger than life personalities attached to it and lack their own independent base of organization and funding. Kelley explained, “No black charismatic -- Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X -- has ever left behind an efficient organization.” [MORE]

Even BLM, which didn’t exist when Norman Kelley made his brilliant analysis, is a loose group of obedient citizens who are organized around a slogan. BLM organizes protests against unlawful police conduct and any citizens who are concerned about police lawlessness in general attend to voice anger and frustration. Contrary to the “radical” image assigned to them by elite whites in The Spectacle, BLM essentially petitions authorities to hold police accountable and they encourage voting for Democrats. However, protesting to authorities against conduct that is already illegal or engaging in advocacy to uphold the status quo through the equal enforcement of existing laws is actually really tame or conservative politics.

4) The role of blacks in the Democratic Party is simply to vote and shut the hell up. Black people and their welfare are not the end of the electoral process but merely the means for winning. As explained by Wilson, “For both parties electioneering is more of a social device for selling to the public, for shaping its opinion than for standing to account for past behavior and receiving instructions from the public regarding governance and policy decisions." [MORE] To much of the Black votary, whether Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, West Moore or Ralpael Warnock will ever deliver any tangible, material benefits or economical empowerment or provide substantive justice to the Black community is beside the point.

Claud Anderson explains, ‘Both White and Black candidates for public office get a free ride with Black voters.’

Anderson explains, “Black voters are led to believe there are two purposes to vote: 1) to elect the White candidate who is best able to lead and control resources or 2) to elect the Black candidate who is most deserving of a public job and personal recognition. The most we get is personal satisfaction that the candidate we supported won. We play politics just to play. Others play for the benefits of winning or being in the winner's circle. We often support campaign issues that do not benefit us. Blackness is excluded, but we hope that through some miraculous twinge of conscience, once in office the former candidate will offer us some spoils as supporters. We demand nothing and that is basically exactly what we get. We have yet to learn to play politics by the basic rules. We should stay out of any political game that promises that we will get nothing even when our candidate wins.“ Undeceiver Steve Cokely called this “playing for your sandwich.”

WHAT DOES JORDAN GET IF HE WINS? NOTHING, THE SANDWICH IS HIS. THAT’S WHITENOLOGY.’

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Two-party System – Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-dumb—working together systematically to keep you down, confused, and passively subservient to a system that is relegated to solving life’s problems and conflicts through the iron rule of political power. The real two-party system is the tail-gate and the after-party. Don’t vote—Act! Delete the Elite! Secret Ballots beget secret “government.” In order to bring in a new dawn of civilization, an advancing one, we must educate ourselves on the liberating power of symbioacracy and its four noble pillars: individuality, spirituality, noble law and knowledge—which restructure the dynamics of human relationships through the Golden Rule of serving others without being subservient to anyone while beneting all. We can invoke and activate (unleash) this dormant aspect of the Kingdom of heaven on Earth as soon as enough people have seen enough and realize that political power happens only through coercion and deception. Political structure and process has been a failing experiment for aeons. It’s not to late to join the afterparty of Reality and begin to see what the promises of infinity hold for everyone—including you and me. (See: Big Brother, Golden Rule, Contract, Kingdom of Heaven, Political Power, Authoritarianism, Iron Rule, The Representative System, Politics, VoteScam, Creativity, ChoicePoint, Republican, Tyrannolaw, Voting, Campaign Elections, VOTE, Electionomics, VOTERS, Freedom, Plutocracy & Electoral College)

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)

AZ Authorities Murder 76 yr Old Black Man Strapped to a Chair w/a Lethal Injection to Get Revenge for Murders of 2 White People. Gov Refused Request for DNA/Fingerprint Testing Using Modern Forensics

From [DPIC] In its third execution of 2022, Arizona executed Murray Hooper for a 1980 crime that was never analyzed using modern forensic methods. In the days preceding his execution, his attorneys continued to request DNA testing and pursued new claims of prosecutorial misconduct based on evidence not revealed until Hooper’s clemency hearing. All challenges to his conviction and death sentence failed. 

In an investigative report published the day before Hooper’s scheduled execution, Liliana Segura of The Intercept reviewed the issues of race, misconduct, and innocence that have been central to Hooper’s legal challenges. In an interview with Segura, Hooper continued to protest his innocence and wanted his story told even if he was executed. “Even if they got me, at least it’s out there,” he said. 

Hooper was sentenced to death in 1983 for the murders of Patrick Redmond and his mother-in-law Helen Phelps. The prosecution alleged that Hooper and two codefendants, William Bracy and Edward McCall, were hired to kill Patrick in a plan to take over his graphic design business. His conviction relied on the testimony of government informants and the eyewitness testimony of Marilyn Redmond, Patrick’s wife, who was injured but survived. 

While Hooper was awaiting trial in an unrelated Illinois murder case, Marilyn Redmond was brought to Chicago to identify him in a lineup. Despite conflicting descriptions of her attackers, Redmond picked Hooper out of the lineup. Hooper was sentenced to death in the Illinois case despite his allegations of police brutality that led to a false confession. Eventually, the judge in the Illinois murder case would go to prison for corruption, police officers in the case would be implicated in a pattern of police torture, and Hooper’s conviction would be vacated because of discrimination in jury selection. 

At his Arizona trial, Hooper’s attorneys focused on the unreliability of Redmond’s eyewitness identification, alleging that she had been shown a photo before the Chicago lineup. In response to the eyewitness identification issues, prosecution witnesses testified that Redmond had not been presented photos. Hooper’s defense team also attempted to impeach the credibility of the government informants who testified. Despite these efforts, Hooper was convicted and sentenced to death. After his trial, evidence emerged that the prosecution had not disclosed the provision of drugs, money, and conjugal visits to government witnesses. These revelations led to relief and eventual acquittal for Joyce Lukezic, accused of planning the murders, but because of Redmond’s eyewitness testimony, Hooper’s conviction and death sentence were not overturned. 

It was only in the leadup to Hooper’s clemency hearing that the prosecution revealed that Redmond had viewed a photo lineup before the in-person lineup in Illinois and that she could not identify Hooper from the photo lineup. When defense attorneys sought relief because this withheld evidence supported earlier claims about the unreliability of eyewitness testimony, the prosecution claimed that a mistake had been made and that no photo lineup existed. 

Defense attorneys had also pursued DNA and fingerprint testing of items at the crime scene, citing a recent Arizona law expanding access to testing in old cases. All requests for testing were denied.

At Hooper’s clemency hearing, defense attorneys continued to focus on his innocence claim: presenting testimony about unreliable eyewitness testimony, the misconduct throughout his case, and the absence of any physical evidence linking him to the crime. Hooper’s advanced age (76) and his lack of disciplinary issues while in prison were also discussed.

Hooper’s execution also brought attention to Arizona’s continuing exclusion of journalists from the Arizona Republic newspaper from witnessing executions. Arizona Republic reporters regularly attended executions until Arizona refused to put the outlet on its media list for the any of the three executions conducted in 2022. According to the Republic, when the governor’s office was asked about the exclusion from Clarence Dixon’s execution, a staff member attributed it to the Republic printing “false information.” The Republic had published articles that were critical of the state’s execution practices and illegal procurement of execution drugs.

What is Collective White Power? Kyrie Made to Apologize After ‘Not Disavowing Antisemitism' [Elite Racists Seek a Future Where Vast Unequal Power btw Whites/Blacks is Maintained but Speech is Perfect]

Above is fat SNigger Dummy Charles - he only speaks when his masters speak through him. Relax, its just name calling.

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

Jew – the name adopted by a Central Asian ethnic strain of humanity genetically and environmentally mutated over a period of time originating from ancient black Afrikan tribes called the Khemites (Egyptians). These Hebrews and Jews do not include the recent Eastern European Kazzarian (Ashkenazim) naturalized impostor Jew from Russia who adopted the Jewish philosophy as a religion. The “Jewish” people did not originate from Mesopotamia, as the Bible fables claim. Tera and his son Abraham (both mythological characters themselves) have names that originate from African tribal words. All of the alleged “authors” of the Old Testament documents had African tribal names. The “Jewish” people were not known as or referred to as “Jews” or “Hebrews” where they originated before they migrated from Central Asia to Western Asia (Europe). “In spite of their pretended intimacy with the Creator, the “Jews” never had a great knowledge of things cosmic and metaphysical; they were but plagiarists culling mythical artifacts they did not understand.” ~Lloyd Graham, Deceptions and Myths of the Bible, 1995. European “Jews” have about as much right to the land of occupied Palestine, as the Mongolians or the Native Americans do. Neither was indigenous to that land. There is no such race as the “Jewish” race just as there is no such thing as the “Hispanic” race. In the Bible, a Jew is an element of consciousness reached through meditation—it has nothing to do with history or ethnicity whatsoever. Read Romans 2:29.[MORE]

Exodus – a fictitious Jewish racial-existential escape story written with the sole objective to instantiate a history that did not happen, and thus, instill faith and common destiny in a self-chosen people. “Sometime is a story is told to instill faith and truth, the illustration used to get the point across need not be true! Western Asian people copied Nile Valley folk stories and personified themselves into the story, and then sold you your own story—and you bought it.” ~Dr. John H. Clarke. The people who identify themselves as “Jews” today, who in history, migrated and entered into Africa seeking and finding food and shelter had no clear culture, no clear language and no clear religion. They left with a language, culture and religion all taken from Africa. They were not Hebrews when the arrived but they were Hebrews when they left. The European Jews of the faith, gave you the illusion that everything must be dispensed to you because you invented nothing and achieved nothing. The Jewish folklore known as Exodus, metaphysically speaking, an allegorical story of the process of initiation (inner practices), i.e., the Greater Work (within one’s Self). 2) a metaphor for the march from the lower human-animal phase frequency (Egypt) to the level of quantum metaphysical overstanding (Ta Merry—or the Promised Land). Exodus is the solitary pathless path “back” to “one’s” original nature and true essence—undifferentiated, anontological, impersonal or Universal Consciousness—a movement from an apparent separate Self (which manifests as onlooking, observer consciousness) back to the Nox of pure No-Self awareness..[MORE]

From [HERE] The WSJ reports Kyrie Irving was suspended by the Brooklyn Nets for a minimum of five games without pay on Thursday night in response to the NBA star’s refusal to unequivocally disavow anti-Semitism after a weeklong drama that consumed the league. 

Hours after his suspension was announced, after declining to apologize or denounce anti-Semitism earlier in the day, Irving responded on Instagram apologizing for his comments for the first time.

The punishment was an escalation of a battle that had simmered for nearly a week and boiled over Thursday, when NBA commissioner Adam Silver admonished Irving for not apologizing after he promoted a movie that contains anti-Semitic themes, only for Irving to respond with another set of defiant remarks in a news conference. 

“Such a failure to disavow antisemitism when given a clear opportunity to do so is deeply disturbing, is against the values of our organization and constitutes conduct detrimental to the team,” the Nets said. “Accordingly, we are of the view that he is currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets.” [MORE]

Racism is Not About Calling Someone a Nigger. Thats Just Name Calling. What Matters is What They Plan to DO to a Nigger, What They are DOING to Niggers and what they have DONE to Niggers or Whether they are going to DO anything except talk about Niggers.’ Neely Fuller

IF you believe destroying racism is all about people saying the right words and being polite to one another then you are a plaything in the hands of others and friendly, well-mannered, sanitized white folks (racists) probably control you (literally by remote) in all areas of people activity. [MORE] It is childish fantasy to expect all people to like each other and want to live together. It is violence to make them do so. Dr. Amos Wilson made it plain;

‘Racism has little to do with overt race hatred, or with negative racial attitudes or with the projection of racial stereotypes or with whites not understanding the nature of their racism. And when we define racism in terms of attitude you'll find yourself then solving the wrong problems. White people will stop expressing those negative attitudes, they will smile more readily at you, they will even marry you and go to bed with you but you will notice that the effects of racism, like poverty and all these other things caused by racism will continue. In fact the problems will increase.

Ultimately you must recognize that racism involves the power of one race to impose its will upon another. That ultimately then it is about power and we have to face that fact.  Whites engage in racism because they have the power to do so. And if we are to end white racism then we must end white power.’

FUNKTIONARY explains, “A racist regulates the withholding, distribution and redistribution of resources between two or more groups through the actual or threatening use of force, deceit and/or power. “Racists” are upholders, supporters and perpetrators of the institution of the White Supremacy Dynamic.’

Racism/white supremacy is about the superior, dominate position of whites and vast unequal power, conditions and opportunities and maintaining that imbalance of power through your cooperative control and oppression.  Belief that racism is bigotry is a vital part of false programming uploaded into your mind by the vested interests for your cooperation and submission to your own oppression. Elite whites - publishers, scholars, professionals, media pundits and government representatives and their servant rolebotic Black parrots go on promoting this whitenology. [MORE]

FUNKTIONARY defines:

Racism White Supremacy - psychopathic degeneracy. 2) "The local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet earth—a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people." [MORE] and [MORE]

Having no biological validity, the term "race" is better translated to mean organization. The sole purpose of such organization is to maintain white domination and world control of non-whites, who have been frictionalized into made up classifications of people by racists. Thus, the only purpose of race is to practice racism.

As an instruction to a “fact finder” or person looking for the highly observable phenomenon occurring right in front of Black people’s faces, the elements of racism are; 1) a team effort of white collective power or a conspiracy among white individuals and/or groups of white people 2) to control and/or dominate non-white people 3) by engaging in impersonal conduct or speech that is a) genocidal or otherwise detrimental to their social, economic and mental or physical well being or b) that perpetuates the white supremacy dynamic. Conspiracy here means an informal or formal agreement or strategy among whites to engage in harmful conduct or speech on behalf of the “white race” or to benefit the “white race.”

FUNKTIONARY defines Racism as “White Degeneracy wrongly cast as Supremacy. Racism—a psycho-socio-economic reality based on a pseudo-scientific biological myth—is a power group dynamic, i.e., a defined a defined group cooperatively via legacy institutions exerting structured and enforced institutionalized and systemic injustice, oppression and power over another group. Racism is not individualistic, but institutional, cultural, economic, political, linguistic, self-perpetuating and systematic. Racism is economic discrimination by one group over and against another for the purposes of subjugation and/or maintaining the imbalance of power through cooperative control, misinformation, indoctrination, genocide and oppression.

To the extent that “anti-semitism” is defined as ‘insulting words or disrespect about persons who classify themselves as “jews,” it is not racism white supremacy.’ FUNKTIONARY defines as follows:

antisemantic – pertaining to statements whose deliberate purpose is to mean or impart nothing while sounding as if they express some significant point or penetrating insight—like “Adjunct” Professor. Adjunct is a title meaning “non-essential.”

anti-Semitism – “A European political ploy.” (Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.) 2) bigotry against European “Jews” and “Arabs” (as both are Semites)—although most so-called “Jews” are of Eastern European genetic lineage (from Russia). The Jewish race (Twelve Tribes of Israel) is an invented construct (mythology). (See: Twelve Tribes of Israel)

Although Kyrie Irving is a well paid NBA star he has no actual power to harm any white people or jews. Any power, money or success attained came from his white masters who profit from his physical talents. Now we see his NBA masters threatening his career and his masters at Nike canceling him. As such, like most Black people in the system of racism white supremacy he is powerless and unable to individually harm racists - to pretend otherwise is mind control or indulging in fantasy. Are there any existing Black; institutions, businesses, government authorities, media entities, unions, sports leagues who will support, defend and or finance Kyrie’s ability to issue mean tweets? Does a mean homeless man practice homeless supremacy when he insults a wealthy banker passing him on the street? If anything this episode reveals Kyrie’s experience with the reality of collective white power or collective jew power. And said power doesn’t come from voting in these bullshit elections. Anon explains;

Q: Are you saying blacks cannot be racist toward whites?

A: That’s correct. Of course, all people can be hateful or prejudiced. Those terms describe individual behaviors, not systematic power. Racism is the COLLECTIVE behaviors of a group. A white individual within a system of racism/white supremacy has the implicit or explicit support of that system IF they choose to practice racism.

If a poor man robs a rich man at gunpoint that doesn’t mean the poor man is more powerful (economically and politically) than the rich man. The poor man is an individual who committed a crime of opportunity. There are no powerful institutions or systems that support his right to rob the rich man, but there are institutions and systems that allow the rich man to rob the poor man - which is why he doesn’t need a gun to do it.

A black person who mistreats a white person doesn’t mean black people are more powerful (economically and politically) than white people. Never confuse the actions of a black individual (or a group of black individuals) that mistreats someone white as proof that black racism exists. Their “power” is limited ONLY to what they can do as individuals. There are NO black institutions or systems that support, defend, or finance the right of blacks to mistreat whites.

There are NO black individuals or black organizations that have the power to strip whites of their collective right to live where they want, work where they want, get an education wherever they want, or control what white people do collectively in ANY area of human activity. There are NO black institutions that are more powerful than white institutions. Therefore, blacks do not have the COLLECTIVE POWER to diminish the quality of life for the white collective.

Q: What is collective power?

A: Collective power is the institutions and systems that benefit one group at the expense of another group, and allow one group to dominate another group in all areas of human activity.

For example, when a white policeman shoots an unarmed black man (50 times), his fellow officers, the police chief, internal affairs, the union, the media, the prosecutor, thejudge, and thejury will support, defend, and finance that white police officer’s “right” to shoot (murder) an unarmed black person. That is white collective power.

It is rare for a white police officer to be punished for using excessive force against a black man, woman, or child. It is just as rare for a black police officer to use excessive force against a white person.

In fact, the authors were unable to find a single instance of a black police officer shooting or killing an unarmed white person in the history of modern law enforcement. This is not surprising but it is absolute proof that the black individual operating within a system of white supremacy cannot mistreat whites even if he or she is wearing a uniform, a badge, and carrying a gun.

This does not mean blacks are less likely to abuse power than whites if given the opportunity. It means blacks cannot abuse power that does not exist. The proof: there is no place in America where blacks are collectively practicing racism against whites collectively.

Q: Don’t black politicians and corporate executives represent black power?

A: Not necessarily. Having a powerful position does not make a person powerful. For example, shortly after a female employee sued the XYZ firm for sex discrimination, Ms. X and Mrs. Y are appointed to the corporate board. They will be used as proof in the upcoming trial that the XYZ firm does not discriminate against women.

Like most token board members, Ms. X and Mrs. Y are benchwarmers; not policy makers. Their “powerful” positions are an ILLUSION designed to deceive the public and the courts. The black man or woman in a (public) position of power often serves the same purpose: to give the appearance that certain companies do not discriminate.

These blacks maybe qualified for their position; however, even the “powerful” black person - regardless of title -- is still controlled by more powerful whites who limit whatever authority or power this black individual possesses.

Q: If a powerful black person mistreats a less powerful white person, isn’t he or she practicing black racism?

A: A black person whose power comes from a white institution will not be allowed to mistreat whites - unless he or she is following orders from more powerful whites. In a system of white supremacy, all whites are more powerful than blacks.

 A white supremacy system by its very NATURE forbids ALL non-white people - regardless of wealth, status, or position - from victimizing white people. Of course, a powerful black person can - as an individual - harm a white individual. For example, it was well known that OJ Simpson physically abused his white ex-wife, Nicole, but that abuse was limited to what he was able to do as an individual.

Powerful blacks present no danger to the white collective but they can be extremely dangerous to other blacks. They are often rewarded for victimizing black people (doing the dirty work), and are usually following orders from more powerful whites behind the scenes.

If they are not following direct orders, they will abuse other blacks: (1) for profit or career advancement; (2) out of fear of losing status or income; (3) out of fear of being lumped with the “inferior” black masses; (4) because of self- hatred issues, which they project onto other blacks; or (5) out of frustration because they have no real power (over whites).

Even the most “powerful” blacks in America cannot practice black racism because it does not exist. Nor can they be black supremacists because black supremacy cannot co-exist within a system of white supremacy. They cannot practice white racism because they are not white. They cannot be racists of any kind; but are knowingly OR unknowingly agents (extensions) of the white supremacist system. If anyone disagrees with this premise and believes that blacks can be racist, he or she should be able to answer the following question:

Name one thing that black people - as a group -- have stopped white people - as a group -- from doing that they had a RIGHT to do? For example, denying them the right to work, own a home, live in a certain area, get a fair trial, an education, or use any public facility. [MORE]

Surging Rents from Mostly Greedy, White Landlords Push More Americans to Live with Roommates, Family Members or to 'Search for the Grate Outdoors'

THE NATIONS CAPITOL NOVEMBER 2021. PHOTO IS THE PROPERTY OF VINCENT BROWN, THE UNDECEIVER.

From [HERE] After a long stretch of record-high rents, Americans are renting fewer apartments as demand in the third quarter fell to its lowest level in 13 years. 

Some renters are choosing to take on roommates, while others are boarding with family or friends. More people are opting to stay longer in their parents’ homes or moving back in, rather than pay steep rent increases, according to a recent UBS survey.

Apartment demand in the quarter, measured by the one-year change in the occupancy of units, was the lowest since 2009, when the U.S. was feeling the effects of the subprime crisis, according to rental software company RealPage. Measured quarterly, the drop in demand was the worst of any third quarter—normally prime leasing season—in the more than 30 years RealPage has compiled the data.

Meanwhile, the apartment-vacancy rate rose to 5.5% in the third quarter, up from 5.1% the quarter prior, according to property data firm CoStar.

Rents have risen 25% over the past two years, according to rental website Apartment List, pushing many renters beyond what they can now afford. Meanwhile, inflation on other essential goods, such as food and energy, is also eating into how much people have left to spend on housing.  

“It’s a signal that rent can’t continue at the same level it has sustained over the last couple of years,” said Michael Goldsmith, an analyst at UBS. “We’ve reached a point where renters are maybe willing to pull out of the market.”  

The apartment rental market looks to be cooling following a boom that started in early 2021. After the introduction of a Covid-19 vaccine, many people—especially younger people who had been living with their parents—rushed to rent in cities around the country. That boosted apartment demand and put upward pressure on rents. Some rental apartments were even subject to bidding wars. [MORE]

More than 60% of Puerto Ricans Seeking FEMA Aid after Hurricane Maria had their Applications Denied

From [HERE] The Federal Emergency Management Agency rejected 60.5% of the 1.1 million applications Puerto Ricans filed for housing assistance after Hurricane Maria devastated the territory in 2017.

As I explained in an article published in Housing Policy Debate, an academic journal, FEMA used 41 different reasons when it declined a total of 77,000 applicants. The top reason: homeowners lacked legal titles to their properties. Without their names on the deeds, they had no way to prove that they were the true owners of the storm-damaged or destroyed homes.

Other reasons FEMA gave included that it deemed damage to be insufficient or that two households had filed with the same address – which often happens with housing constructed without building permits, architects or engineers.

Five years after Hurricane Maria, I believe the inability of those homeowners to get federal aid surely increased the impact of Fiona, a massive storm that struck Puerto Rico on Sept. 18, 2022. When community leaders assessed the damage, they encountered hundreds of homes still covered with old blue tarps because they never got a new roof after Maria.

As an urban planner who has researched disaster recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, I see those tarps as evidence that FEMA declined applications that it should have accepted. I’m monitoring the agency to see if that happens again this time.

Greatest need but least likely to get help

FEMA offers financial and housing aid after disasters to qualified households who are uninsured or whose insurance won’t cover the full cost of rebuilding. Unfortunately, in Puerto Rico and other places that are especially prone to hurricanes and other disasters, the most vulnerable residents may lack the documentation they need to secure that help.

After Hurricane Harvey soaked Texas in 2017, causing about US$125 billion in damage, FEMA rejected 30% of Texans’ housing aid applications because those households lacked deeds with their names printed on them.

Similarly, after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, FEMA denied 20,000 applicants who had long occupied homes they’d inherited from relatives without ever getting their homeownership paperwork sorted out. [MORE]

The ACLU and Others Urge Authorities to Limit Detention of Non-White Pregnant Migrants on the Imaginary “Border”

From [HERE] One 27-year-old Guatemalan woman said she had no other option but to give birth while holding a garbage can at a Southern California Border Patrol station. A Nicaraguan mother said agents denied her 6-month-old son medical care while he suffered from respiratory problems that caused pneumonia.

These are two cases that the American Civil Liberties Union cited in a letter to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency on Friday.

The organization — along with 136 additional advocacy groups and medical professionals — has urged CBP to expedite the intake proceedings for women and others who are pregnant, postpartum or nursing as well as infants.

"Given their reproductive health needs and the acute medical conditions that can come up, they should be prioritized for release on the minimum amount of time necessary for basic processing," Shaw Drake, an ACLU senior policy counsel on border and immigration issues, told NPR. "And in no case should that be more than 12 hours."

Those attempting to enter the U.S. who are taken into custody at the border are usually meant to be in CBP facilities for only a short time while they are processed, given a place in the queue of U.S. immigration court cases, and released. But Shaw said migrants can often be held in CBP detention facilities for more than three days.

Meanwhile, this past year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which handles immigration enforcement in the interior of the U.S., revised its own policy. New guidelines call for the agency to no longer detain, arrest or take into custody those who are pregnant, postpartum or nursing except in rare circumstances.

CBP declined to comment on the ACLU's accusations, but told NPR it offers a spectrum of services and support for people who are pregnant, postpartum or nursing in detention facilities. The agency says its practices include conducting welfare check-ins every 15 minutes, providing diaper changing stations and ensuring privacy to mothers who are breastfeeding.

But some doctors say they're still concerned.

Dr. Allison Estrada, a physician in San Diego who joined the ACLU letter, said she would often hear about a lack of access to showers, bathrooms, fresh food, or safe place to care for wounds from her pregnant patients who were held in detention centers.

"When I think about the lack of basic needs for these women and young children in a very delicate time in their lives, detention is absolutely not safe," Estrada told NPR.

Last year, 11 U.S. senators, including Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, expressed similar concerns to the Department of Homeland Security and asked the agency to limit the time pregnant and postpartum people are held in custody.

This spring, CBP commissioner Chris Magnus said in a letter to Blumenthal that the agency shares the desire and plans to process vulnerable groups "as quickly as possible."

But months later, there has yet to be a formal change in policy, according to the ACLU's Drake.

The ACLU letter has also asked the federal agency to release pregnant and postpartum people, along with their families, after they have been admitted and discharged from an offsite hospital rather than transferring them back to the detention facilities.

Inspector General Says the BOP Should be able to Consider Inmate Statements to Evaluate the Misconduct of Cops and Orderlies. Presently, the Govt Only Uses Inmate Testimony to Convict Black/Latinos

From [HERE] US Inspector General Michael Horowitz Thursday recommended that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) establish guidelines on the use of inmate statements in administrative misconduct investigations of BOP employees.

In an inquiry by the Office of the Inspector General, the BOP Office of Internal Affairs (OIA) stated it does not rely on inmate testimony when adjudicating misconduct findings that do not rise to the level of criminal prosecution unless there is corroborating evidence like forensic evidence or video. Horowitz claimed that interviews with BOP employees revealed further inconsistencies regarding when to rely on inmate testimony in administrative misconduct investigations.

Inmate testimony is considered without corroborating evidence in criminal and civil trials. Therefore, Horowitz argued, an inmate’s statement is worth less in an administrative investigation than in a criminal or civil trial under current BOP policies. Horowitz explained, “In short, inmates are not disqualified from providing testimony with evidentiary value in federal courts, and there is no valid reason for the BOP to decline to rely on such testimony.”

Horowitz provided three recommendations to the BOP: (1) the BOP should inform all of its employees that inmate testimony does not require corroboration for consideration in misconduct investigations; (2) the BOP should create a policy explaining how to handle inmate statements in administrative misconduct matters; and (3) the BOP should provide training to all of its employees on proper evidence standards and how to handle inmate statements.

Horowitz suggested that, if the BOP does not rely on inmate testimony absent corroboration, employees who engage in misconduct will avoid repercussions, and staff members will engage in misconduct because they believe they will not be held accountable for their actions.

Florida Study Documents Disproportionate Exclusion of Black Jurors in Jacksonville Death Penalty Cases

From [HERE] A study of capital jury selection in Duval County, Florida has found that the practice of “death qualification disproportionately excluded people of color, and Black people … in particular.” Attorneys for Dennis Glover (pictured, center), who was sentenced to death by a non-unanimous Duval County jury in 2015, commissioned the study. On October 21, 2022, State Attorney Melissa Nelson agreed to resentence Glover to life without parole.

Discriminatory jury selection was just one of several issues presented in Glover’s case. He has consistently maintained his innocence in the murder of his neighbor, Sandra Allen. His attorneys say that school records and IQ tests demonstrate that he is intellectually disabled and therefore should never have been eligible for a death sentence. His 2015 death sentence was imposed after a 10-2 jury recommendation, but it was overturned in 2017 after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida’s sentencing scheme. For five years, State Attorney Melissa Nelson rejected Glover’s requests to waive the death penalty, insisting that she would only do so if he admitted his guilt.

Death qualification refers to the process of removing potential jurors from service in a capital case because of their expressed opposition to the death penalty. To study its effects, Dr. Jacinta M. Gau, a criminal justice professor at the University of Central Florida, examined all 12 capital jury trials conducted in Duval County since 2010 for which jury information was available. She found that the death qualification process removed Black jurors at more than twice the rate of white jurors. 33.8% of Black potential jurors were eliminated by death qualification, along with 38% of other jurors of color, while only 15.5% of white jurors were eliminated.

Gau also found that the jury selection process overall, including death qualification and peremptory strikes, was particularly discriminatory against Black women. She wrote, “fully two thirds of Black women otherwise eligible, qualified, and willing to serve were excluded by the combination of death qualification and prosecutor peremptory strikes, as were 55% of Black men.”

Gau’s results are consistent with a recent study of death qualification in North Carolina. Researchers from Michigan State University studied jury selection in Wake County (Raleigh) from 2008 to 2019. The researchers found statistically significant evidence of racial disparities in death qualification, with Black potential jurors removed “at 2.16 times the rate of their white counterparts.” That research was submitted as part of a challenge to death qualification on behalf of Brandon Xavier Hill, who is facing capital charges in Wake County.

Marginalized Black and Native American Farmers Sue USDA Over Broken Promises for Debt Relief

From [HERE] As the U.S. Department of Agriculture sidesteps legal concerns over previously promised debt relief targeted at minority farmers in favor of broader measures, some producers have launched a new legal battle to secure the funds they believe they’re due.

Leaders of Native- and Black-led farmer organizations have filed a joint class action lawsuit on behalf of any “socially disadvantaged” farmer who filed for USDA debt relief included as part of the American Rescue Plan Act.

ARPA allocated $4 billion to marginalized producers to pay, in some cases, up to 120 percent of each farmer’s debt. Qualifying farmers received contracts that guaranteed them the money. Some farmers took those contracts or letters of guarantee to their loan institutions, certain their debts would be repaid.

In June 2021, white farmers in several states claimed the program was discriminatory and succeeded in receiving multiple federal court injunctions against the USDA. The resulting cases stymied the USDA’s efforts to issue the debt relief, just weeks before the first funds were scheduled to be paid, leaving producers who applied for the aid empty-handed.

Kara Boyd, president of the Association of American Indian Farmers. (Courtesy photo)“These farmers are facing foreclosures because they didn’t get help,” said Kara Boyd, president of the Association of American Indian Farmers, one of the groups involved in the new case. “They’re trying to stay afloat because they were promised help and now it may not get to them. In the meantime, they’re losing their farms.”

To work around the potential for protracted lawsuits, lawmakers repealed the funding as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, and replaced it with a $3.1 billion fund for “distressed borrowers” of USDA Farm Service Agency loans. The Inflation Reduction Act also included $2.2 billion for farmers who “have suffered discrimination” through USDA programs.

According to a report from the Center for Public Integrity, 33 percent Farm Service Agency direct loans to American Indians and Alaska Natives are delinquent as of this year. 

However, Boyd and other critics of the move say the broader focus of the Inflation Reduction Act funding effectively reduces the amount of money available to socially disadvantaged producers who were previously promised relief. 

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit assert that repealing the ARPA debt relief constitutes a contractual violation and damages disadvantaged farmers’ chances of receiving aid. The lawsuit aims to secure the promised 120 percent debt relief for socially disadvantaged farmers who signed contracts promising them the money.

A moratorium on farm foreclosures remains in place for loans directly offered by the USDA, but not for loans issued by other institutions that the USDA has guaranteed. That has left struggling minority farmers with the “wrong” type of loan in danger of losing everything, Boyd said. 

She recounted heard stories from marginalized producers dealing with potential foreclosures across the country. 

“Some farmers are being forced into bankruptcy, others into foreclosure or selling off land, livestock and/or equipment to make payments on loans that were paid off according to a USDA contract or letter to their guaranteed lender,” Boyd told Tribal Business News. “We have been in constant conversation with farmers from across the United States and U.S. territories trying to calm the hearts and minds of Native American, Black, Asian and other minority farmers to prevent farm foreclosures and even suicides.” [MORE]

Dr Cornel West Pops Up to Support the Effort to Protect the Graves of Slaves, "free persons" and Native Americans from Being Desecrated in Thoroughfare, Virginia

From [HERE] The Coalition to Save Historic Thoroughfare Monday announced that internationally-respected professor, author and justice activist Dr. Cornel West has offered his support for the effort to protect the graves of slaves, freedmen/freedwomen and Native Americans from being desecrated in Thoroughfare, Va.

That coalition recently filed a lawsuit against International Investments, LLC (IIL), Virginia’s Prince William County, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors and County Executive Elijah Johnson “for their deliberate and egregious actions in the failure to protect and eventual desecration of a private, historically recognized, protected, and culturally significant cemetery belonging to the families of freed slaves and indigenous Native Americans – the Scott Cemetery.” NOTE: International Investments, LLC is also known as “The Farm Brewery at Broad Run.”

In the video, Dr. West said in part:

“We want to put a limelight on the precious folks in the cemeteries…Black cemeteries, Indigenous people cemeteries in the county of Prince William County in Thoroughfare.

“We refuse to standby to see those cemeteries desecrated in any way-- demeaned or degraded in any way. And are willing to do what is necessary in the name of love and justice...and in the name of Allah and God. And in the name of what any decent person would want to do to make sure that those people are treated with dignity and decency in those cemeteries.” [MORE]

Search for Tulsa Race Massacre Victims Uncovers 17 Additional Unmarked Graves in Cemetery

From [HERE] Another 17 unmarked adult burials were found at Tulsa's Oaklawn Cemetery as the city continues its efforts to find the unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Eleven fully-exposed graves and one partially exposed grave were found in an area west of headstones belonging to Reuben Everett and Eddie Lockard, the only known marked graves in the cemetery.

Experts then found another five graves, Oklahoma State Archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said in an update Monday. Hand excavation work is underway to determine which of those burials are candidates for exhumation.

"Much like last year, we're trying to do every step of this process as respectfully as possible," she said.

Multiple experts, including a forensics team, are assisting in the collection of DNA samples from the exhumed remains. A pastor or another member of the clergy will also be present as the remains are transported to the forensic lab.

The excavation is expected to be completed by Nov. 18, the city said in a news release. [MORE]

Black Men Exonerated in Murder of Malcolm X Accept $36M Settlement

From [HERE] and [MORE] The city of New York is settling lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, agreeing to pay $26 million for the wrongful convictions which led to both men spending decades behind bars.

The state of New York will pay an additional $10 million. David Shanies, an attorney representing the men, confirmed the settlements on Sunday.

“Muhammad Aziz, Khalil Islam, and their families suffered because of these unjust convictions for more than 50 years,” said Shanies said in an email. “The City recognized the grave injustices done here, and I commend the sincerity and speed with which the Comptroller’s Office and the Corporation Counsel moved to resolve the lawsuits.” [MORE]

Black Man Murdered by Firing Squad: $50M Lawsuit says Cops Shot at Porter Burks 38 Times from "Long Range." Detroit Police Refuse to Provide Video, Cops' Names and The Dependent Media Conceals Story

From [HERE] Attorney Geoffrey Fieger filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against the city of Detroit and five unnamed Detroit Police officers in connection with the Oct. 2 fatal shooting of 20-year-old Porter Burks, whose mental illness "often caused psychosis," the suit said.

The lawsuit, filed in Wayne County circuit court, claims gross negligence, assault and battery, "wanton & willful misconduct," and a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act because of Burks' mental illness, which was so severe he often hallucinated, and, during one episode, "thought there was a squirrel living inside him," according to the 18-page filing.

During a press conference in his Southfield office, Fieger, flanked by Burks' relatives, labeled the death "the execution-style killing of Porter Burks," adding: "It's nonsense that something like this could occur in a civilized society." [its nonsense that he thinks this is a civilized society]

Burks, who reportedly suffered from schizophrenia, was killed after a videotaped confrontation with police officers, who repeatedly asked him to drop the small knife he was wielding as he stood many feet away from them. When Burks moved toward the officers, although numerous cops were present, only five of them opened fire, discharging 38 bullets, 19 of which struck Burks, according to an autopsy report from the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office that was distributed at Fieger's press briefing.

Burks was too far from law enforcement for a taser to be effective, according to the police chief (?)

The autopsy report included a toxicology screen, although the document indicated "part or all of the testing was unable to be performed ... test was canceled due to (quantity not sufficient)."

Fieger said that was "inexplicable," and said he'd never seen that notation on a toxicology report during his career as an attorney. An email to the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office Tuesday was not immediately returned.

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

Probot – a propagandizing programmed robot. A representative from an organization, agency or institution, especially the Internal Revenue Service, Pentagon, State Department, or Blight House, whose assignment is to make prepared statements and answer “cooked” (prepared) questions at news conferences, briefings and the like. A probot is a proxymoron who conveys programmed disinformation in computerized language and bureaucratese jargon. A probot is one who disseminates lies, distortions and convenient mass truths composed by a superior overruling elite. (See: Proxymoron)

Black strawboss and probot Police Chief James White released a statement Tuesday describing the Burks shooting as "truly a tragic event."

"The Department will continue to advocate for greater resources for the mental health community and will take every opportunity to improve its response to people suffering from mental illness," White said. "We firmly believe that if appropriate mental health facilities and treatment plans had been available, this situation may have been avoided. Regrettably, the DPD remains the primary emergency response service for individuals suffering from mental health emergencies."

In previous statements, White has said publicly that the officers involved in the Burks situation appeared to have followed their training, although he stressed letting the investigation, which is being conducted by Detroit Police and Michigan State Police, run its course.

During the probe, the five officers who pulled their triggers have been placed on administrative leave, per department policy.

Fieger said the police version of events is “propaganda” designed to mislead the public. Burks has no criminal records or arrests. [MORE]

The police chief claimed that the knife Porter had was 8 inches. Attorney Fieger however, said it was a mere foldable pocked knife with a 3 inch blade. Feiger also stated that Porter was “a tremendous distance” from police when he was executed by them. Specifically he said Porter was an estimated 46 feet from the cops when they shot him. He described it as an execution by “firing squad.”

Feiger said Porter was lifting up his arms when he was shot. He also confirmed that police also tased him. The attorney said after shooting the man 38 times the cops handcuffed his corpse in the street. Police then inexplicably took the body to the hospital,. Fieger said the police chief should explain why the body was dropped off there without telling doctors or medical staff what occurred.

Feiger said there should be at least 5 body camera videos and private “ring camera” camera video that police confiscated after the incident.

Feiger said he was treated worse than an animal. [MORE]

Fieger explained on Tuesday there were several other, less-deadly, options officers could have chosen when they encountered Burks in the street carrying the knife in his right hand.

"You could've shot him with a tranquilizer like they'd have done with a wild animal," Fieger said. The attorney said White's claim that the officers followed their training wasn't true, adding: "All I saw on that video was an officer reaching out his hand ... and then they shot (Burks)."

According to the lawsuit, "Mr. Burks' mental illness often caused psychosis. He saw hallucinations and heard voices that were not there. During one of his hospitalizations, Mr. Burks thought there was a squirrel living inside of him. His efforts to extricate the squirrel were to no avail.

"When Mr. Burks was getting regular, effective treatment, he could respond normally," the suit said. "He enjoyed dancing and listening to music like most 20-year-olds.

"When his illness manifested, Mr. Burks became paranoid and many times felt threatened if seeing or hearing things that were not there," the lawsuit said. "When these flare ups of his disease occurred, Mr. Brooks was taken to the hospital by either family or the police. His medications were often adjusted and re-administered."

REMIXED AND EDITED BODYCAM FROM ONE OF THE “NUMEROUS OFFICERS” PRESENT.

The day before his death, "Mr. Burks arrived at the family residence agitated and with a pocketknife in his possession," the lawsuit said. "Mr. Burks' mother told him he could not come into the home with a pocketknife. She called police to request that they help get her son safely to the hospital for treatment. This request was not unusual because the DPD were very familiar with Mr. Burks and have assisted with taking Mr. Burks to the hospital on several prior occasions."

Burks left the home before officers arrived, the suit said. Then, at 4 a.m. on Oct. 2, "Mr. Burks returned to the residence," according to the lawsuit. "He was told he could not return with the pocketknife. Worried about his mental health, Mr. Burks' brother dialed 911."

Four days after the incident, Fieger announced plans to file a lawsuit, but he had to wait until a Wayne County Probate Court judge appointed Burks' mother, Quieauna Wilson, as the estate's representative. Fieger said Tuesday that process had been completed, and added he's considering also filing a federal civil rights lawsuit.

Liberal LA Puppeticians Willing to Pay for Cops Right to Remain Violent: Approve $50M to Cover Settlements for Murdering 4 People and Paralyzing Another in Police Funding Rebate

From [HERE] The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors have approved a total of nearly $50 million in payments to settle four lawsuits and one legal claim alleging misconduct by sheriff’s deputies in incidents that left four men dead and one paralyzed.

Two of the cases involved how department personnel dealt with people experiencing a mental health crisis.

One of the men died after being tased and beaten by deputies, according to his family’s lawyer. Another was paralyzed after being shot in the back. In both incidents, parents called 911 for help with children experiencing a mental health crisis. And in both incidents, deputies used force inside the men’s own bedrooms.

One settlement settled a suit over the high-profile killing of Andres Guardado. Another resolved a claim regarding a bystander who was shot and killed during a shootout. The fifth payout settled a case involving a man who died in custody.

“This is what a mindblowing lack of accountability looks like,” ACLU attorney Andres Kwon said. “The financial cost is extraordinary, yet it pales in comparison with the human cost.” [MORE]

Gangster Sacramento Government Shot Darrell Richards to Death While His Hands Were Up and Then Empanelled an Overwhelmingly White Jury to Decide His Parents Wrongful Death Case. Mistrial Declared

From [HERE] The jury returned a hung verdict in the trial of the police shooting and killing of Darrell Richards, a 19 year old Black man yesterday after three days of deliberation.

Senior U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez declared a mistrial after the jury told him they could not reach a unanimous verdict.

The wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Sacramento and the Sacramento Police Department lasted just over two weeks.

Vang, Richards’ mother, said she doesn’t feel good about knowing she’ll have to go through another trial but is thankful that she has the chance to.

“I feel good to have the opportunity to keep fighting thanks to the one juror who believed in the truth and not the lies,” Vang said.

Melissa Nold, one of the attorneys for Richards’ parents, said the  jury pool really lacked diversity, even more than usual. 

“We had lots of people with close police connections, including at least one of the jurors that was seated for the trial,” Nold said. “It’s very hard to convince people that marry and date police to see fault in them.”

Vang thinks the jury already had their minds made up before the trial began.

“At the end of the day it didn’t matter how good or how many facts were proven. It all lies in the hands of the jury and I knew the majority were undercover bias,” Vang said. “A lot of people are for the police until it happens to one of their loved ones.”

Richards was shot 10 times by police after running from police and an hours-long standoff that ended around 3:00 a.m. in the backyard of a Curtis Park home  on Sept. 6, 2018. Dispatchers received a call about a man wearing a mask and pointing a firearm at people along Broadway near Tower Cafe. “Decedent was not holding a firearm at the time that he was shot to death," the suit states.“I had a bad feeling from the gate because of the selection of the jury we had,” Vang said.

According to the complaint:

Sacramento Police Officers watched Darell jump a fence and then enter a backyard outside of their view. At the same time, a California Highway Patrol (hereinafter CHP) aircraft was on scene assisting the search. From the air, CHP Officer Young was able to observe Darell jump the backyard fence, cross through the backyard and disappear under the cover of tree. The CHP aircraft tracks via heat sensing technology from an elevation of approximately 6,000 feet in the air. During the same timeframe, Sacramento Police Department S.W.A.T. team was deployed to the area and set up a one block perimeter with the assistance of a California Highway Patrol (CHP) aircraft. CHP Officer Young assessed the scene from the air and determined that the one-block perimeter was good, because he did not observe Darell leave that block. Sacramento Police Officers were holding positions around the small, approximately 10 parcel block, to ensure that Darell did not leave that one-block area.

Defendant Lieutenant Sood held a briefing to inform officers of their plan to locate Darell. Prior to Lt. Sood’s briefing, Sacramento Police Officers located Darell’s backpack, which he discarded while running from officers. The backpack contained identifying information, a possible suicide note and a receipt from ‘Big 5 Sporting Goods’ which recorded the sale of a Sig Sauer pellet gun purchased earlier the same day.

The Defendant Officers were informed prior to initiating the search that their fellow officers had found Darell’s backpack and the contents included within it, including the receipt for the pellet gun. Officers were informed about Darell’s possible suicidal ideation and his recent police contacts, which revealed potential organic or drug induced mental health issues.

The Defendant Officers made no efforts to contact and/or involve Darell Richards’ family, despite knowing his identity, address and potential for self-harm.

Defendant Lt. Sood intentionally did not summon assistance from other departments or agencies. Indeed, Lt. Sood made no efforts to obtain the 24-hour a day on-call Crisis Intervention Team, or any mental health experts, despite finding documents in Darell Richards’ backpack indicative of a potential suicidal subject and evidence that Darell purchased a pellet gun earlier the same day. [MORE]

At approximately 3:15 a.m., witnesses saw Officer Yesenia deploy a K-9 unit into the backyard of 2017 1st Avenue, without issuing a warning. The K-9 Officer went into the backyard, urinated and went back to the Officers. Officer Yesenia deployed the K-9 Officer a second time. This time according to witnesses, the K-9 Officer appeared to locate someone under the backyard deck and then returned to the Officers. Nevertheless, Officers entered the yard without announcing themselves or providing Darell an opportunity to surrender.

At this point, Darell had been hiding for approximately three hours. The police had made no attempts, whatsoever to contact him. Inexplicably, none of the officers on scene attempted to make contact with Darell, despite knowing his name and that he wrote a suicide note and was carrying a pellet gun. Moreover, none of the officers on scene attempted to contact Darell’s family, despite knowing that he had recent police contact where the family informed officers they suspected the police contact was due to a mental illness. Furthermore, none of the officers on scene attempted to contact Darell via his cell phone or social media accounts or issue Darell any commands or orders to surrender. Perhaps most egregious, none of the officers on scene identified themselves as police officers or warned Darell that they intended to deploy a police K-9 into the yard.

Immediately thereafter, numerous SWAT Officers, including Defendants Edgerton and Cox, and Officers Yesenia and Tiner entered the backyard in stealth mode and rounded the corner of the home. As they were midway through the yard, Officer Tiner heard a noise and pointed his 1000 lumin rifle light at Darell’s face, ostensibly blinding Darrell, and screamed “show me your hands” while Defendant Cox simultaneously yelled “drop the gun.” The team never assigned specific officers to be the point of contact and deliver commands, which resulted in both officers providing contradictory commands at the same time, after failing to identify themselves as police officers.

Within seconds, Sgt. Todd Edgerton and Officer Patrick Cox opened fire, striking Decedent multiple times in the head and body. Mr. Richards died as a result of his injuries.

None of the officers’ body worn camera show what Darell was doing at the time of the shooting. Defendant Edgerton’s body worn camera would have shown what Darell was doing when he was shot, but he conspicuously failed to activate it during the course of this incident.

Darell Richards had a gunshot entry wound in the palm of his right hand, indicating that he had one or more hands raised during the shooting.

None of the officers on scene ever announced themselves or identified themselves as police officers at any time in the three hours prior to shooting and killing Darell Richards. In fact, no one from the Sacramento Police Department ever notified Darell Richards of the heavy police presence prior to sneaking up on him and shooting him.

Neither of the Defendant Officers identified themselves as police officers or warned Darell Richards of their intent to use deadly force, prior to shooting and killing him.

To date, there has been no disciplinary decisions made regarding this incident and the statute of limitations for employee discipline has passed.

Attorneys for Richards’ parents argued that police did not follow protocols and procedures during a SWAT Team situation.

“The cops sat there on the stand under oath just lying trying to justify their evil act,” Vang said

Attorneys for the City and police never could provide any videos of their claim of Richards pointing a pellet gun at officers.

Deputy City Attorneys Sean Richmond and Deputy City Attorney Matthew Day told the Sacramento Bee that they appreciated the jury’s work on the case.

“We understand it was a tough case to get a verdict on … and respect the conclusion of the jury," Richmond said.

Nold said it was frustrating and emotionally draining to have to take this case back to trial.

“It definitely is, civil rights work isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s really hard to explain to the family because they sat through the trial and felt it went a different way,” Nold said.

Vang thinks the jury already had their minds made up before the trial began.

“At the end of the day it didn’t matter how good or how many facts were proven. It all lies in the hands of the jury and I knew the majority were undercover bias,” Vang said. “A lot of people are for the police until it happens to one of their loved ones.”

Nold said her team will be retrying this case as soon as possible “to get the justice and accountability Darell deserves.”

“They already silenced my son, they will not silence us. They recklessly took his precious life then tried to criminalize his character,” Vang said. “The fight continues and doesn’t end here.”

A White Cop Believed a Car was "Suspicious” b/c a Black Man was Sleeping in it. So He Tried to Drag Him Out and then Shot Him to Death. Cuyahoga Jury Awards Luke Stewart's Family $4.4M

From [HERE] A Cuyahoga County jury has awarded a multi-million dollar judgment to the family of a man shot and killed by a Euclid police officer. 

Officer, now Sgt. Matthew Rhodes was cleared of criminal wrongdoing, but this afternoon a jury decided the officer and city were liable for his wrongful death.

The jury awarded the family of Luke Stewart $4.4 million in compensatory damages. 

His family says although the money won’t bring back their loved one, they believe it sends a strong message to the Euclid Police Department.

“I think that Mr. Rhodes got a taste of his own medicine. Stop doing wrong, play by the rules,” said Luke Stewart’s mother, Mary Stewart, after the court hearing downtown at the Justice Center.

The family of the 23-year old says after five years of fighting the legal system, they believe justice has been served. 

Investigators say in March 2017, officers responded to a suspicious vehicle and found Luke Stewart asleep inside his car. 

They say an officer saw a marijuana cigarette and drug paraphernalia. An investigation revealed when Officer Rhodes tried to pull Luke Stewart, who wasn’t armed, from the vehicle to question him, Stewart put the car in drive.

Officer Rhodes said he was hanging onto the vehicle and eventually jumped inside, where he punched Luke Stewart, shot him six times with a taser, then finally three times with his gun, killing him. 

The Stewart family never believed deadly force was necessary.

“It took this family five years of pain and fight to get to this point where members of the jury saw the truth and did what was right to hold this officer accountable for his wrongdoing and we’re grateful to them for doing that,” said Sarah Gelsomino, one of the Stewart family’s attorneys.

Luke Stewart’s mother says the last five years have been difficult and she would exchange the $4.4 million judgment to have her son back.

“He has two boys, they’re 9 and 11. They’re at the age that they understand what’s going on and they really don’t like it at all. They feel Rhodes killed their dad for no reason and they miss their dad, they miss being around him,” she said.

The city of Euclid issued a statement, saying they are disappointed with the outcome of the trial and they’re evaluating their next course of action. 

Black Man’s Lawsuit says White Cops Broke Into His Porch, Piled On Top of Him and then Punched and Choked Him to Make False; Arrest, Imprisonment and Prosecution in Lansing, a White Liberal city

From [HERE] Lansing police officers choked, beat and asked medical providers to administer ketamine to a man during and after a May 2020 arrest, according to lawsuit filed Monday in federal court seeking at least $850,000 in damages.

Glenn Wayne Stewart, of Lansing, in a lawsuit filed Monday, Oct. 31, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, accused officers Anthony VandeVoorde, Joseph Bacigal, Brandon Russell, Alina Harrington and Jason Murdock of acting illegally when they arrested him on the screened-in porch of his North Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard residence on May 15, 2020, after claiming he assaulted his sister.

Court records show Stewart was charged May 15, 2020, with resisting and obstructing a police officer, and assault and battery. Officials set his bond at $5,000, which he posted three days later. A preliminary examination took place about four months later on Sept. 17, 2020, at which time Judge Kristen Simmons dismissed both charges.

In the lawsuit filed on Stewart's behalf by attorneys Brendon Basiga and J. Nicholas Bostic, Stewart claims officers used excessive force in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights, failed to prevent the use of excessive force, invaded his privacy, committed a false arrest, subjected him to false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, and said the city of Lansing failed to train and supervise its officers.

Stewart is asking for least $25,000 against each officer for each of six counts in the lawsuit. The city of Lansing also is named in the lawsuit and Stewart is seeking at least $100,000 from the city. In addition to physical injuries and the humiliation of the incident, he claims he has also developed anxiety, particularly when he sees police officers.

"(Stewart) was injured to the extent that he suffered the anxiety, stress, and worry associated with facing criminal charges carrying a possible period of incarceration and out-of-pocket expense," the lawsuit added.

LPD Public Information Director Jordan Gulkis said the city has not been served with the lawsuit, and officials can't comment.

Stewart's suit claims police responded to his home about 12:30 a.m. May 15, 2020, after a neighbor called police claiming Stewart was "being loud and making threats." VandeVoorde and Bacigal began speaking with Stewart, who was standing on his porch next to his sister.

Police used the determination that Stewart assaulted his sister as a reason to break open the enclosed porch's door and detain the man. The suit says police took Stewart to the floor and held his limbs and torso as they struck his neck and ribs. At least one other officer choked him, he said, and his nose began to bleed, soaking his protective COVID-19 facemask in blood.

"Defendants were yelling at plaintiff to put his arms behind his back while he was already on the floor but he was unable because at least two of the defendants had their body weight on his back and his arms were under him," the suit claims.

After being arrested and taken to police headquarters, Stewart complained about injuries and was transferred to a hospital emergency room. While at the hospital, the lawsuit said, Harrington prepared a petition for a "Person Requiring Treatment" that included false and misleading statements.

Stewart had refused medical treatment, according to the lawsuit, but the suit mentions "statements" made by the man as the reason for "chemical restraint."

Basiga did not respond to an immediate request for comment regarding the content of those statements.

"The Person Requiring Treatment petition was provided so the medical staff could give a chemical restraint to Plaintiff and treat Plaintiff without his consent," the lawsuit said, noting the restraints used were the drugs Ketalar and Ativan, also known by their generic names ketamine and lorazepam. The medications left him unable to move and leave the hospital.

When asked whether police officers prepare such petitions, Gulkis said "the police department does not dictate treatment of patients."

He was also placed on a respirator while having difficulty breathing, sustained a contusion on his hand, had multiple abrasions and blood in his urine.

"Plaintiff’s blood work returned with an elevated level of a protein that develops when blood clots break apart and is associated with pulmonary embolism," the lawsuit said. A pulmonary embolism is a sudden blood clot in an artery within a lung. He was discharged from the hospital the next morning.

Black Neighborhood Leader in Kansas City Begs Her White Liberal Masters for Better Treatment After Cops Dragged Her Out of a Car to En-Force Their Traffic Code

From [HERE] A Black Kansas City neighborhood leader says she was racially profiled by an Independence police officer, who she says used excessive force during a traffic stop last month.

Rachel Riley was pulled over on October 4. The 57 year old has been president of Kansas City’s East 23rd St. Pac Neighborhood Association for eight years. She’s been involved with the organization for two decades.

According to Riley, Officer Brett Schmidli reached into her truck, pulled her out and slammed her against the vehicle.

“My face just bounced,” she said in a phone interview Tuesday recounting the incident. “I’m going ‘What did I do? What did I do?’”

She was arrested and taken to jail on a railroad crossing violation and failing to have insurance information. A police report also lists interfering with police.

A court records check shows no charges have been filed. On Thursday, protesters plan to gather in Independence to express their outrage. “What we’re saying is stop the racial profiling,” Riley said.

“Stop the racism. Stop the discrimination.”

Officer Jack Taylor, a spokesman for IPD, said answers about Riley’s allegations concerning racial bias “would come from an internal investigation and to this date, there has not been a complaint made to initiate that investigation.”

He said the officers participate in annual training on racial profiling and bias. ”The Independence Police Department does not permit racial profiling or racial bias when deciding to take law enforcement action in a given incident,” Taylor said.

According to an Independence Police Department report, Schmidli saw Riley go through a railroad crossing as the warning arms started to move down. He activated emergency equipment and she stopped.

“I observed the driver appeared somewhat sluggish or tired,” the police report said. She didn’t have identification on her, but he was able to confirm the driver as Riley, the police report said. It also said she was “irritable during the stop and did not appear to want to speak much with me.”

He wrote the summons and called for backup. He and another officer asked Riley to exit the vehicle so they could check her eyes to make sure she was not impaired.

The police report said Riley was uncooperative and stated she feared for her safety. “I grabbed on her right arm and pulled her from the front seat,” the police report said.

A computer check came back with no warrants. Schmidli wrote in his report that he was unable to administer a field sobriety test because Riley was uncooperative.

She was taken to the detention center. The officer’s report said he gave Riley 20 commands during the encounter including warnings that she would be arrested if she did not comply.

Riley said she was stunned the traffic stop escalated from a ticket to being grabbed out of the vehicle and taken to jail. She also said she was violently searched in sensitive areas by a female officer.

“I’m going ‘Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?’” she said. After she was slammed into the vehicle, she said she just started praying to God.

In the weeks since, she has felt traumatized and found it difficult to drive without being afraid. She believes her civil rights and due process rights were violated. “We want justice,” Riley said.

The police department stops, searches and arrests Black drivers at a disproportionate rate, according to a report released earlier this year by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. That data showed in 2021, Black motorists accounted for 18% of all traffic stops. Missouri is 11.8% Black, according to the U.S. Census. Black and Hispanic drivers were searched 8.5% and 7.9% of the time, respectively, compared to 6.8% of white motorists.