Republicans Claim to Love Freedom but Seem to Love White Supremacy More: GOP Blocks DC Law Revising Its Punitive Criminal Code in Order to Keep More Blacks in Greater Confinement

From [HERE] The Republican-controlled U.S. House flexed its power over D.C. on Thursday in voting to block a pair of local bills, with support from dozens of Democrats as well — the curtain-raiser this session in a long history of congressional interference in the city’s local governance.

The House voted in favor of resolutions disapproving of the two D.C. bills: one that would allow noncitizens to vote in local D.C. elections, and another marking a major revision of the city’s criminal code, which has not been comprehensively updated since 1901. While the House Democratic whip urged Democrats to vote against both resolutions, 42 Democrats joined Republicans to reject the legislation allowing noncitizen voting and 31 joined Republicans to reject D.C.’s Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022. The bills now head to the Senate, where Democrats have just a narrow majority.

“We have two acts from the Washington, D.C., council that will dilute the vote of American citizens and endanger city residents and businesses,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said of the D.C. bills on the floor Thursday, arguing that it was Congress’s “responsibility” to intervene.

The votes deal a blow to local officials who implored members of Congress to stay out of the city’s affairs, although it is exactly the type of interference they had been bracing for after the GOP took control of the House this year. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), the District’s nonvoting representative, said there is “never justification for Congress nullifying legislation enacted by the District.”

“I can only conclude that the Republican leadership believes D.C. residents, the majority of whom are Black and Brown, are unworthy or uncapable of governing themselves,” she said on the floor. [MORE]

Legal Scholar Finds that the Death Penalty is “Largely Controlled by a Handful of [White] County Prosecutors” and Whether a Defendant is Put to Death Depends Upon Race and Where He/She Lives

From [HERE] In a 2022 article published in the Idaho Journal of Critical Legal Studies, author Sidney Balman, examines the relationship between racism and geographical arbitrariness in the application of the death penalty in the U.S. As in other areas of society, he finds that Black lives are not valued equally with others. He cites the Supreme Court’s decision in McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) as the main legal obstacle to reversing this bias affecting capital punishment. “Today,” he writes, “McCleskey has come to stand for the Court’s refusal to address the racially disparate imposition of death across the nation.”

When examining the geographical disparities found in the application of the death penalty, the author argues that the bulk of cases is “largely controlled by a handful of county prosecutors,” and that the imbalance is getting worse. He concludes that “the overlap between racism and geography is not just a coincidence.”

Pennsylvania Governor Blocks Death Penalty, Calls for Lawmakers to Repeal. PA Death Row is 61% Non-White and Mostly Black (50%) in a State that is 81% White

From [HERE] Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday he will not allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and called for the state’s lawmakers to repeal the death penalty (article available here).

Shapiro, inaugurated last month, said he will refuse to sign execution warrants and will use his power as governor to grant reprieves to any inmate whose execution is scheduled.

In doing so, he is exercising an authority used for eight years by his predecessor(link is external), Gov. Tom Wolf, to effectively impose a moratorium on the death penalty in a state where it has been sparsely used. Shapiro went further, asking lawmakers to repeal the death penalty and calling it fallible and irreversible.

“Today, I am respectfully calling on the General Assembly to work with me to abolish the death penalty once and for all here in Pennsylvania,” Shapiro said. The state, he said, “should not be in the business of putting people to death.” The first execution warrant came to his desk last week, Shapiro said.

Pennsylvania’s death row is 61% non-white despite the fact that the state is 81% white. Half of the state’s death row is Black.

Twenty-seven states allow the death penalty, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

On the campaign trail last year for governor, Shapiro had said he was morally opposed to the death penalty, even though he had run for attorney general in 2016 as a supporter of the death penalty for the most heinous cases. Shapiro is shifting his stance amid shrinking support nationally for the death penalty.

Pennsylvania has 101 men and women on its shrinking death row, according to statistics from the Department of Corrections. The state has executed three people since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, as courts and now governors have blocked every other death sentence thus far.

All three men who were executed gave up on their appeals voluntarily. The state’s most recent execution took place in 1999.

White TX Authorities Murder John Balentine to Get Revenge for His Murder of 3 White People. White DA Struck All Black Jurors. Black Man's White Trial Atty Wrote a Note Calling Trial a "Lynching"

From [HERE] A man convicted of killing three teenagers while they slept in a Texas home more than 25 years ago was executed on Wednesday, the sixth inmate to be put to death in the US this year and the second in as many days.

John Balentine, 54, whose attorneys argued his trial was marred by racial bias, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, for the January 1998 deaths of Edward Mark Caylor, 17, Kai Brooke Geyer, 15, and Steven Watson, 15, in Amarillo. Prosecutors said all three were shot once in the head.

During Balentine’s trial, his attorneys passed handwritten notes among themselves essentially predicting a “LYNCHING” and rhetorically asking whether this might be a “justifiable LYNCHING.” Balentine’s appellate attorneys have argued that such overt use of race-laden terminology, especially in a case with a Black defendant and three white murder victiims, exemplified racial animus that permeated throughout the case.

Balentine’s attorneys also argued that the prosecutor’s strikes of two Black prospective jurors—which resulted in an all-white jury—were racially discriminatory. Furthermore, the jury foreperson used racist epithets, indicated he despised interracial relationships, and told his fellow jurors that a life sentence was “not an option” and that sentencing Balentine to death was “biblically justified.” During deliberations, he intimidated the other jurors who had expressed opposition to the death penalty.

Balentine appeared jovial as witnesses entered the death chamber, asking if someone could massage his feet. After a brief prayer from a spiritual adviser who held Balentine’s left foot with his right hand, the prisoner gave a short statement thanking friends for supporting him. Then he turned his head to look through a window at seven relatives of his three murder victims and apologized.

The mothers of each of the three victims were among the witnesses.

The AP claims: Balentine took two breaths as the lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital began flowing, snored twice, yawned and began snoring again loudly. The snores – 11 of them – became progressively quieter, then stopped.

At 6.36pm, 15 minutes after the injection, a physician pronounced him dead. The victims’ witnesses shared high-fives. They declined to speak with reporters.

Caylor’s sister, who was among the witnesses, was Balentine’s former girlfriend. Prosecutors said the shootings stemmed from a feud between Caylor and Balentine. Ballentine argued that Caylor and others threatened his life over his interracial relationship. Balentine is Black. The three victims were white.

Balentine confessed to the murders. One of his attorneys said Balentine turned down a plea agreement that would have sentenced him to life in prison because racist threats made him afraid of being attacked or killed while incarcerated.

Lawyers pursued two legal strategies. The first was to argue that the trial and sentencing were tainted by racism. Balentine was also among five Texas death row inmates who sued to stop the state using what they allege are expired and unsafe execution drugs. Despite a civil court judge in Austin preliminarily agreeing with the claims, the state’s top two courts have allowed three of the five inmates in the suit to be killed. Robert Fratta, 65, was put to death on 10 January and Wesley Ruiz, 43, on 1 February.

Prison officials said the state supply of execution drugs is safe.

Balentine’s attorneys also alleged the jury foreman in his case, Dory England, held racist views and bullied other jurors who wanted to sentence Balentine to life. Lola Perkins, who had been married to England’s brother, told Balentine’s attorneys England “was racist against Black people because that is how he was raised”.

In a declaration before his death in 2021, England said he pushed for Balentine’s death sentence because he worried if the accused was ever released England himself “would need to hunt him down”. England also said he threatened to report another juror to the judge for making prejudiced comments when the person “started going off about this Black guy killing these white teenagers”.

Balentine’s attorneys alleged prosecutors blocked prospective Black jurors and Balentine’s trial lawyers referred to sentencing proceedings as a “justifiable lynching”.

Randall Sherrod, one of Balentine’s attorneys, said he could not remember the note but denied that he or the other attorney, James Durham Jr, had racist attitudes toward Balentine. Durham died in 2006.

The US supreme court on Wednesday declined an appeal from Balentine’s attorneys to halt the execution so his claims of racial bias could be properly reviewed.

A defense request for the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, to temporarily stay the execution also failed and the Texas court of criminal appeals denied a request to stay Ballentine’s execution over allegations that “racism and racial issues pervaded” his trial. The appeals court denied the stay on procedural grounds without reviewing the merits.

On Wednesday, the Texas board of pardons and paroles unanimously declined to commute Balentine’s death sentence or grant a 30-day reprieve.

“Without a thorough judicial consideration of Mr Balentine’s claims, we can have no confidence that the death verdict isn’t tainted by racial bias,” said Shawn Nolan, one of Balentine’s attorneys.

For Amusement a Memphis Cop Texted Photos of Tyre Nichols After Brutal Police Beating, Murder

From [HERE] As Tyre Nichols sat propped against a police car, bloodied, dazed and handcuffed after being beaten by a group of Memphis police officers, one of those officers took a picture of him and sent it to at least five people, the Memphis Police Department said in documents released by the state on Tuesday.

The documents painted a picture of repeated misconduct by the officers, starting in the first moments after Mr. Nichols was pulled over for a traffic stop, through an arrest carried out with excessive force and continuing on through the many minutes when Mr. Nichols lay on the street in dire need of medical help.

Sending the photograph to acquaintances, including at least one outside of the Police Department, violated policies about keeping information confidential, according to the documents. But police officials said it was also part of a pattern of mocking, abusive and “blatantly unprofessional” behavior by the officers that also included shouting profanities at Mr. Nichols, laughing after the beating and “bragging” about their involvement.

The revelations came in internal affairs documents that the Memphis Police Department sent to a state agency, in which the department asked for the five officers — who have been charged with second-degree murder in Mr. Nichols’s death — to be decertified, meaning they could no longer work as police officers anywhere in the state.

In the documents, police officials described how the officers worked together as they severely beat Mr. Nichols, appeared to relish the assault afterward and then made a series of omissions and false claims in their reports about what happened.

Demetrius Haley, the officer who sent the photographs and who forced Mr. Nichols out of his car, also never told Mr. Nichols why he had been stopped or that he was under arrest. After Mr. Nichols ran away from the officers, several of them caught up with him a few minutes later and unleashed a series of punches and kicks while he was being restrained. And when one officer met with Mr. Nichols’s mother afterward, the officer “refused to provide an accurate account” of what had happened, the police officials said.

Despite policies requiring officers to activate their body cameras during “all law enforcement encounters and activities,” none of the officers’ body cameras captured the entire incident, according to the documents. One of the officers, Emmitt Martin III, at one point put his body camera in his car, the documents said.

In reports after the Jan. 7 assault, at least two of the officers said that Mr. Nichols had tried to grab an officer’s gun — a claim for which there is no evidence, according to the documents — while leaving out details of the beating.

All five of the officers were fired by the Police Department, as was a sixth who had fired a Taser at Mr. Nichols as he ran away. City officials said on Tuesday that seven more police officers were being investigated for possible policy violations in connection with the beating of Mr. Nichols, who died three days after the assault.

“We’re still adding names to the list,” Cerelyn Davis, the city’s police chief, said at a City Council hearing on Tuesday in which council members sought accountability from police and emergency management officials.

In the newly released documents, police officials said that Mr. Haley had admitted to sending a photograph of Mr. Nichols to at least five people, including two fellow officers, a civilian employee of the department and a female acquaintance. A sixth person also received the photo, the records state.

Mr. Haley’s lawyer, Michael Stengel, declined to comment, and lawyers for the four other officers did not respond to messages seeking comment late Tuesday.

The state agency, the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission, received the decertification requests on Jan. 25. A hearing has not yet been scheduled.

Videos of the beating that were released by the city last month appeared to show Mr. Haley taking pictures of Mr. Nichols a few minutes after the beating, when the officers had propped him up against a police car. The videos show Mr. Haley shining a flashlight on Mr. Nichols and appearing to take a photograph with his phone. He then looks briefly at his phone and, a few seconds later, appears to take another picture.

Memphis Police Department policy prohibits officers from using personal cellphones while performing patrol duties.

Lt. Essica Cage-Rosario, the president of the Memphis Police Association, wrote letters for each of the five officers, saying that the union objected to the department’s move to fire them before the state had completed its investigation into Mr. Nichols’s death. Lieutenant Cage-Rosario also said that the department had not provided the union with body camera video or statements from the officers and witnesses before moving to fire them, adding that those were “only a few examples of the GROSS violations” of the officers’ right to due process.

Police body camera and street camera footage appear to show Demetrius Haley taking cellphone photographs of Mr. Nichols.

The documents also fault several officers for not providing information to emergency medical workers who arrived after the beating. Mr. Haley, the documents say, did not assist medical workers who asked that he remove handcuffs from Mr. Nichols, and other officers did not disclose details about the beating that could have helped the workers provide better care.

A state board last week suspended the licenses of the first two emergency medical technicians who arrived on the scene, saying they had not provided medical care to Mr. Nichols for 19 minutes after arriving. The fire chief said that the lieutenant in charge of the E.M.T.s had never gotten off the fire truck.

Police officials also said in the documents that a civilian had witnessed at least part of the encounter and had recorded the officers with a cellphone. The witness’s opinion of the incident, according to the documents, was that officers had “left the injured subject lying on the ground, handcuffed and unattended.”

Only one officer, Justin Smith, made a substantive comment as part of the Police Department’s termination proceedings. Police officials said Mr. Smith had held Mr. Nichols by one of his arms while his partner pepper sprayed Mr. Nichols and struck him “excessively” with a baton.

In his prepared statement, Mr. Smith said that he had been the first officer to call for medical help and also said that Mr. Nichols “was violent and would not comply.” The videos released by the city do not show Mr. Nichols ever striking the officers.

The police had stopped Mr. Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker and photographer, on the evening of Jan. 7 as he drove along a street near his mother’s house. The officers reported that he had been driving recklessly, though the police chief has since said the department could not find evidence of that.

Mr. Haley and other officers approached Mr. Nichols’s car, with at least one officer aiming his gun at the car. Mr. Haley, shouting obscenities, pulled Mr. Nichols out of the car while officers yelled conflicting orders and threatened to hurt him. “You guys are really doing a lot right now,” Mr. Nichols said as he lay on the pavement. “I’m just trying to go home.”

When Mr. Haley tried to pepper spray Mr. Nichols’s face, Mr. Nichols got up and ran away as another officer fired his Taser at him. A group of officers caught up with him several minutes later — less than 100 yards from his mother’s house — and repeatedly beat him for nearly three minutes.

Mr. Haley arrived to that second scene after officers had found Mr. Nichols and was not present for much of the assault. When he arrived, officers were in the process of handcuffing Mr. Nichols, who was groaning in pain, and had pinned him to the ground on his stomach. Even so, Mr. Haley ran up and delivered a strong kick to Mr. Nichols’s head or upper body.

Mr. Nichols was left bloody on the concrete, and he repeatedly fell over after officers propped him up next to a police car.

His death sparked protests in several cities after the videos were released, and the Memphis Police Department said it was disbanding the unit that the officers had been assigned to. Known as Scorpion, it was created to target neighborhoods with high crime rates. The department also suspended two officers, one of whom had fired the Taser at Mr. Nichols as he ran away. Later, as that officer’s body camera continued rolling, the officer said, “I hope they stomp his ass.”

At the council hearing, Chief Davis said that the seven additional officers facing discipline, who have not been identified, included several who had not actually been at the scene of the assault. She said the department struggled from a lack of supervisory staff, saying that it was a bigger problem than training and that the department had been short on higher-ranking officers for years. [MORE]

Shot in the Head By Accident?Overwhelmingly White Jury Finds White Philly Cop Not Guilty in Manslaughter of Michael Dean. Unarmed Black Man Never Posed a Threat During Traffic Stop in Liberal City

WHITE COP CARMEN DECRUZ HAD A Violent past as a police officer. He was named in an excessive force lawsuit for his actions surrounding the apprehension of aBLACK teenage suspect in 2017. DeCruz and his partner at the time were accused of intentionally running over a 15-year-old boy and leaving him under their squad car while it idled for 10 minutes and burned the 15-year-old boy’s body. The teenager’s mother filed the lawsuit that specifically named DeCruz and blamed him and his partner for third-degree burns to her son’s “torso, thighs and pelvis while pinned beneath the running vehicle.” [MORE]

From [HERE] and [HERE] A Bell County jury has found a former Temple police officer not guilty on charges connected with the shooting death of Michael Dean.

Prosecutors said Carmen DeCruz shot and killed Dean, an unarmed Black man from Temple, during a traffic stop in 2019.

DeCruz has been found not guilty of manslaughter and a less charge of criminally negligent homicide in his death.

The prosecution rested its case Tuesday against DeCruz after calling a final witness during day 10 of the court proceedings.

The judge allowed prosecutors to add an additional charge of criminally negligent homicide against DeCruz, which is a lesser charge compared the manslaughter count brought by a grand jury.

Defense attorneys for the former police officer say that Dean reached for his weapon during the traffic stop and his death was accidental. DeCruz waived his right to testify on his own behalf.

The jury was apparently overwhelmingly white. The media has been describing it as “made up of 1 Black man, 1 mixed-race woman and 12 other people who are white and/or other races.” BW takes this to mean 2 non-white people and 12 whites. [MORE]

On Dec. 2, 2019 Michael Dean was stopped by Carmen DeCruz in his vehicle. According to a police affidavit, DeCruz was seen on body camera video walking in front of his patrol vehicle during the traffic stop with his handgun drawn. 

DeCruz made contact with Dean on the passenger side of the car and ordered Dean to turn off the vehicle and give him the keys, according to the affidavit.

DeCruz is seen reaching into the vehicle in an attempt to gain control of the keys with his left hand while holding his firearm in his right hand. DeCruz had the gun pointed at Dean with his finger on the trigger, according to the affidavit.

While DeCruz pulled the keys with his left hand, his right hand also pulled backward and caused the handgun to fire, striking Michael dean in the head, the affidavit said.

The affidavit stated that body camera video showed DeCruz pulling Dean from the vehicle and other officers administering medical aid until medics arrived.

Dean died at the scene. The State wanted the jury to find Decruz guilty of Manslaughter, not Criminally Negligent Homicide. According to the State, criminally negligent homicide in this case was if DeCruz did not know police policy and did not know his finger was on the trigger. Prosecutors say Decruz was aware of both.

The Defense argued the dash camera shows DeCruz’s finger in the index position on the gun – not on the trigger when walking to the passenger side of Dean’s car.

On Monday, former Temple Administrative Lieutenant Brad Hunt testified as a prosecution rebuttal witness. Hunt was on the scene of the deadly shooting handling traffic control, but he did not have any contact with Decruz or Dean.

Prosecutors asked Hunt if it was Temple Police policy to drive up and cut off a vehicle during a pursuit. He testified that it was not and that the police academy does not teach that move either.

Hunt did say the police department updated its pursuit policy six years ago, and that Decruz completed a refresher course in 2018.

During the afternoon, Temple Police Lieutenant Paul Newby testified that when an officer is in a high risk pursuit, it is ideal to wait for at least one other officer before approaching the offender.

Newby also told the court that when in a pursuit, an officer’s gun should be holstered or at least drawn closer to the officer’s body.

‘Just an Accident:’ $12 Million Settlement Reached After a Richland Cop Shot a 12 Year Old Black Boy in the Knee During a Raid though He Posed No Threat

From [HERE] Attorney Al Hofeld announced that his clients have reached a $12 million settlement after 12-year-old Black boy was shot in the knee by a SWAT officer during a raid in May 2019 at their south suburban Markham, Illinois, home.

Hofeld said the settlement came with a public apology from Richton Park and the officer who shot Amir Worship. However, the family says the settlement is not enough.

According to CBS Chicago, nearly four years ago two dozen officers from Country Club Hills and Richton Park burst into the suburban Chicago home where Worship lived with his family to serve a warrant for the mother’s boyfriend around 5 a.m.

The officers aimed assault rifles at Amir and his mother in their bedrooms while yelling demands. Amir, then 12 years old, was shot in the knee by Officer Caleb Blood after complying to their demands.

The officer claimed that the shooting was an accident, but Amir is still suffering from PTSD from the event and is permanently disabled after his kneecap was shattered. His mother said he’s lost confidence in himself.

Amir, now 16-years-old, has undergone five orthopedic knee surgeries on his right knee and is expected to need knee replacements when he gets older.

“When he goes to put his flashlight back in his vest, and then returns his arm and his hand to the handle and the trigger of the gun, the gun discharges,” Hofeld said in a statement back in 2019. “But as soon as it was clear that this 12-year-old boy didn’t pose any threat and there was no one else in the room who posed any threat, he should have moved his gun down, put it on the safety position, so it could never be discharged.”

The mother’s boyfriend was wanted for drug possession and possession of weapon with an expired firearm identification card. Both charges were dropped.

Amir’s mother filed a lawsuit against the city of Country Club Hills, the village of Richton Park, and four police officers. Blood, the officer who shot Amir, was fired but no further action has been taken against him.

“The evidence obtained in discovery shows that officer Blood’s shooting of 12-year-old Amir was unconscionably reckless, and Officer Blood must be held accountable,” said Hofeld.

The family has called for Cook County State’s Attorney to reopen the investigation into Blood’s actions on the morning of the incident. The Illinois State Police did an investigation and Richton Park Police did two investigations, but neither found any wrongdoing in the three investigations that were conducted.

“The accidental shooting of innocent, 12-year-old Amir, which could have resulted in his death, should never have occurred,” read an apology in part from The Village of Richton Park. “We acknowledge the traumatic, physical and mental harm done to him and his family. We sincerely hope and pray that Amir and his family will fully recover, mentally and physically, and live long, healthy, and productive lives.”

Video Shows a White Cop Shoot a 66 year Old Black Man in the Back 5X as He Fled and Never Posed a Threat. Stopped Unlawfully For No Apparent Reason in Columbus (OH), a White liberal city

From [HERE] People in Columbus are asking for answers from police about a man who was shot over the weekend while running from police during a traffic stop.

Michael Cleveland, 66, was shot at least once Sunday afternoon in the 1000 block of Wilson Avenue.

In an interview moments after the shooting, Beverly Coleman told 10TV that she received a call that Cleveland, who is the father of her children, was shot.

“I was nervous and I'm shocked and I'm still shocked. I can't believe it,” Coleman said Sunday evening.

Coleman questioned what led up to the shots being fired and why police felt the use of force against Cleveland was necessary.

“He's a good person, he don't bother nobody, he's a real good person,” Coleman said.

Video released by police on Monday shows two officers in a cruiser following a black Dodge truck. Officers recognized Cleveland seconds after he drove by. The officers continued to follow Cleveland until he parked behind a building, got out and ran away.

Body camera footage shows people marching in the background of where Cleveland was running. As Cleveland was running in between two buildings, officer Joshua Ohlinger, a five-year veteran of the department, fired six shots.

Pastor Frederick Lamarr and his church members were holding their monthly “Stop the Violence” event, with as may as 70 people marching along Wilson Avenue.

 “I’m still traumatized,” LaMarr said. “We out there marching so if you're shooting at Mike and if you miss him, I've got children, I've got elderly.”

In the days after the shooting, LaMarr is concerned the video will bring more community outrage.

"Me after seeing it, I'm just hurt by it [the footage]. I'm hurt by the fact that where we tried to bring about resolution as far as stopping the violence, there is a disconnect somewhere, where we all are not working together,” LaMarr said.

LaMarr said he questions why police followed Cleveland in the first place.

“As I watched, it didn't like he made no, he didn't run the stop sign, he didn't do nothing as far as breaking the law, other than, maybe if he was targeted,” LaMarr said.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is handling the investigation into the shooting.

Black Strawboss Claims His 'Heart Broke' After a White Louisiana Cop Shot an Unarmed Black Man to Death for Unknown Reasons but He Keeps the Details from Public Reports Secret and Public Video Private

From [HERE] and [HERE] A Black man was unarmed when police in Louisiana fatally shot him in the chest last week after he ran away from a domestic disturbance call, authorities said.

The federal prosecutor in Shreveport, U.S. Attorney Brandon Brown, said Tuesday he’s keeping in contact with state police, which is the agency investigating the shooting.

The officer involved in Friday night’s deadly shooting at a Shreveport apartment complex has now been placed on administrative leave.

Alonzo Bagley, 43, was shot and killed Friday night in an incident involving police at the Villa Norté Apartments on Fullerton Street. Police said he appears to not have been armed when he was killed.

A spokesperson for the family said Monday it all started with a neighbor calling police because the music was too loud in Bagley’s apartment. He said Bagley and his wife were both inside when police arrived. The family spokesperson goes on to say that, at some point, Bagley ran from police and then was shot.

On Monday, Shreveport Police Department Chief Wayne Smith announced the officer involved in the fatal incident, identified as Alexander Tyler, has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, which Louisiana State Police is conducting.

Tyler was hired by Shreveport Police Department in May of 2021.

On Monday morning, members of the city council, the police chief, the mayor, and several pastors held a news conference and prayed for the family.

Louisiana State Police held a news conference Monday afternoon to update the community on the case. 

Louisiana State Police held a news conference Monday afternoon to update the community on the case. Superintendent Col. Lamar Davis, a black strawboss, first offered his prayers and condolences to the Bagley family and the citizens of Shreveport, saying these incidents “break your heart” when they occur.

Davis said police was called out Friday night to investigate the officer-involved shooting. He said preliminary info shows at 10:51 p.m. Friday, two officers responded to the apartment complex in reference to a domestic disturbance. They encountered Bagley inside the apartment. Davis said Bagley got onto the balcony of the apartment from the back door, jumped down onto the ground and ran away from the officers.

That’s when Tyler began chasing Bagley. Davis said Tyler saw Bagley after coming around a corner and fired one shot. Bagley was hit in the chest. Police said the officers began to render medical aid. Bagley was taken to Ochsner LSU Shreveport, where he later died. Davis said no weapons were found near Bagley or on his person. The killing comes just days after the ACLU of Louisiana announced a settlement with Shreveport Police Department after officers brutalized an unarmed Black man for expressing his first amendment rights. 

ACLU of Louisiana Legal Director Nora Ahmed said, “We are devastated to learn that the Shreveport police have brutalized and killed yet another unarmed Black man. Together, as a nation, we have watched another minor, routine police encounter turn into a deadly scene. 

“Just last week, we settled a case with this agency for targeting and attacking Brandon Kennedy without warning or provocation at a convenience store. It is far past time to move beyond the frame of the bad apple cop. The systemic issues within the Shreveport police department are a broken structure that has normalized racism, brutality, and impunity for officers both criminally and civilly.

“The Shreveport Police Department’s Chief of Police, who claims to be mourning with Mr. Bagley’s family, has continuously failed to enact appropriate policies and practices to hold his officers accountable for their actions. Real accountability includes direct and immediate action taken against Alexander Tyler, the man who killed Mr. Bagley, as well as a full investigation of the officers’ actions against our client, Mr. Kennedy. The Chief must be transparent with the public about why those officers were not terminated and why they have been allowed to continue to patrol the streets, endangering the Black and Brown people of Shreveport. 

“A police department that keeps officers on the force who use excessive force against those they are sworn to protect becomes the police force that kills yet another unarmed Black man. We cannot continue this pattern of abuse and the constant failure to adequately investigate excessive force.”

Strawboss Daisasking the community to remain patient as the state police conducts its investigation, which will include reviewing body and dashcam footage; he did not give a timeline on when that footage might be released to the public.

Davis said they’re still conducting a number of interviews to determine what happened; he said they have not yet interviewed Tyler. Davis also said the coroner’s office or a lab will have to determine if Bagley was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident.

Meanwhile, Bagley’s family has obtained legal representation. Haley & Associates will represent the family in any dealings going forward. Attorney Ron Haley says he believes “accountability will result in consequences in both civil and criminal courts.”

Black Strawboss Memphis Police Chief Trained with Israel Security Forces

From [HERE] THE DEATH OF 29-year-old Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers last month once again ignited outrage over the violent, militarized nature of U.S. law enforcement and placed scrutiny on police departments’ bloated budgets.

Among the objections to policing that are being revived are criticisms of a controversial series of trainings and exchange programs for U.S. police in Israel. Scores of American law enforcement leaders have attended the programs, where they learned from Israeli police and security forces known for systemically abusing the human rights of Palestinians.

Some of the Memphis Police Department’s top brass, including current Chief Cerelyn Davis, participated in the programs. Davis, who previously helmed the police department in Durham, North Carolina, completed a leadership training with the Israel National Police in 2013. While an officer with the Atlanta Police Department, Davis also established an international exchange program with Israeli police and coordinated department leaders delegations to Israel, according to an old résumé.

“We know, without a shadow of a doubt, that what takes place during US-Israel police exchanges does nothing to keep our communities safe,” Eran Efrati, director of campaigns and partnerships for the progressive group Jewish Voice for Peace. “But the exchanges refine and enhance the militarization rooted in American policing with Israeli tactics and technology of occupation and apartheid that are being tested on Palestinians on a daily basis.”

By the time she became chief in Durham, Davis seems to have changed her tune on such programs. The apparent coolness on the police-Israeli relationships came following pressure from local activists and a national campaign to end U.S.-Israel police exchanges.[MORE]

Black Councilman (NJ) Busted for Cocaine Possession with Intent to Distribute

From [HERE] Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renée M. Robeson announced today that a joint investigation by the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office’s Narcotics Task Force and the Flemington Borough Police Department led to the arrest of an elected member of the Flemington Borough Town Council on charges of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute controlled dangerous substances.

Malik D. Johnston, a/k/a Pippin J. Folk, 46, Democrat of Flemington, was charged with second- degree distribution of cocaine, second-degree distribution of methamphetamine, second-degree possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and second-degree possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. According to the prosecutor, on various occasions between December 2022 and February 2023 in Raritan Township, Johnston sold quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine to an undercover police officer. Further investigation revealed Johnston to be in possession of additional quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine with intent to distribute while in the Borough of Flemington.

Prosecutor Robeson credited the Flemington Borough Police Department and the Narcotics Task Force — which includes members of the New Jersey State Police Kingwood Station — for conducting a model investigation that led to the subject charges.

“The joint investigation demonstrates the expertise and professionalism of Hunterdon County’s law enforcement community. Illegal drug manufacture and distribution continue to pose a significant threat to public health and safety, which will be detected and prosecuted according to law.”

Second-degree charges may result in criminal penalties including, but not limited to, a term of imprisonment between five and ten years and a fine not to exceed $150,000.00.

Johnston is lodged at the Warren County Correctional Center awaiting his first appearance in court.

Despite having been charged, every defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Raised in a single-parent home, the councilman told TapInto in 2020 that when he went out to play, “there were broken needles on our playgrounds. At one point, I lived in a homeless shelter. That was the point in my life where I saw that my contribution to society could transform it for others.”

He moved to Flemington and became an electrical apprentice through Hunterdon Polytech.

“I will be an advocate for those who live here now, and those who will choose Flemington in the future and will work together for a more inclusive Flemington,” said the candidate, who would become a councilman. “I’m passionate about volunteering and want to create more opportunities to connect our residents and engage in change together.”

Under the Ostensible Purpose of Crime Reduction, Portsmouth Cops Upgrade Cameras, Buy Gun Shot Software and License Plate Readers for the Real Purpose of Surveilling People and Locking Up Blacks

From [HERE] The Portsmouth Police Department is upgrading its camera technology and installing gunshot detection software and license plate readers in an effort to deter crime and reduce response times.

A new integrated camera system called Fusus is expected to go live within the next few weeks. It will plug into the nearly 400 city-owned traffic and surveillance cameras that are already in operation.

The department is also working to install portable automated license plate reader cameras and gunshot detection software, both through Flock Safety. Once active, police say the technology will be able to detect reported stolen vehicles and trigger an alert to officers in the area with vehicle and direction of travel information. The gunshot detection software will cover about a little more than 3 miles and will activate all cameras in the area when gunfire is detected.

About $1.3 million from the city’s share of federal pandemic relief funds will help cover the cost of the project, in addition to the installation of more cameras in city-owned parking garages, for example. Portsmouth Police spokesperson Victoria Varnedoe told The Virginian-Pilot that some costs are still being estimated, but the two software systems will rely on about $325,000 of annual funding from the budget.

“We’re working on this new technology,” Varnedoe said. “It is coming and we are very close to getting it put together and operational.”

Once installed, the information from Fusus will feed into Portsmouth’s real-time crime center — another project still in the works. In a presentation to City Council in September, Chief Stephen Jenkins said the center could be staffed at all times with employees and volunteers who have graduated from the department’s Citizens Academy.

He also called the technology a “force multiplier” at a time when the department is struggling with staffing shortages. He said the software will help officers more accurately detect when and where crime is occurring, improve response times and monitor throughout the city during special events.

Capt. R. Ferrell told The Pilot he expects it to be a crime deterrent, and added that the department is currently talking with residents and business owners to ask if they want to register their cameras into the system.

Other cities in Hampton Roads have deployed similar gunshot detection systems and license plate readers. Adoption of the technology hasn’t been without some controversy, however, as privacy advocates have argued the license plate reader technology gives law enforcement the ability to track motorists’ every move.

Matt Callahan, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Virginia, said such technology is an “unfortunate and often unnecessary” use of public dollars. Among the biggest concerns is the use of such data to illegitimately enforce criminal laws, he said.

“Generally speaking, the ACLU opposes the expansion of surveillance technologies by and large,” Callahan told The Pilot. “(One) of the initiatives that the ACLU has been behind is a movement to pass local ordinances that require law enforcement agencies that want to gain new surveillance technology to go to the public and ask for public input about the use of the technology and what kind of safeguards should be in place ... The absence of public buy-in to surveillance technology really has the potential to make us all less safe.”

A bill made its way out of the House of Delegates on Tuesday that, if enacted, would require the Commonwealth Transportation Board to regulate license plate reader systems on state- or city-owned highways and delete most of the data stored after 30 days unless it’s being used in an active law enforcement investigation.

Jenkins previously said Portsmouth’s license plate reader data, managed by Flock Safety, will be purged after 30 days.

“We don’t retain any data when it comes to license plates or people’s personal information regarding that,” he said.

Varnedoe emphasized that registering into the Fusus system is optional. She said officers could monitor the city’s cameras in real time, but permission would be needed to access footage from the cameras of residents and business owners.

As part of a separate initiative, residents can currently register their cameras in a video sharing partnership by visiting the department’s website and clicking on “Surveillance Camera Mapping Program” under the “Crime” tab on the homepage.

How an FBI Informant Derailed Denver’s BLM Movement

From [HERE] An outlandish guerrilla militant who drove a silver Hearse to Denver-area Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 was secretly a federal informant with a sex crime conviction, a new podcast reveals.

The informant, Mickey Windecker, pushed an activist to buy a gun for him, resulting in the activist’s guilty plea on weapons charges. Other Denver-area activists accuse Windecker of inflaming otherwise-peaceful demonstrations, encouraging people to break windows, and leading marches directly into police traps. Windecker’s informant status was first reported this week on the podcast Alphabet Boys, which explores Windecker’s case and FBI involvement in the Colorado protests.

The Alphabet Boys podcast shared some of its documents, including recordings and an FBI summary report, with The Daily Beast, which corroborated those documents through court records and with other Colorado activists who’d encountered Windecker.

The FBI’s national and Denver offices declined to comment. Windecker did not return The Daily Beast’s requests for comment. He spoke on the phone to the Alphabet Boys podcast, after its host, Trevor Aaronson, left notes at his old apartment.

An American Fighting ISIS Is Convicted Sex Offender

“If you post something, a story about me saying supposedly I work for the FBI, I will sue the shit out of you,” Windecker told Aaronson in a voicemail. “I will take you to court and I will break you off in court for defamation of character and slander. I have already notified my attorney about this. My previous landlord notified me and sent me these papers that you put on the old door that I used to live at, stating that I work for the FBI. I do not work for the FBI. I’ve never worked for the FBI. You get proof of me working for the FBI, then I’ll say otherwise, but there’s no proof because I didn’t work for them.”

MO Authorities Execute Black Man Convicted of Murder Despite New Evidence He Was in Another State when the Crime Occurred. Souled Out SNigger Prosecutor Wesley Bell Denied His Request for a Hearing

WHO ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS WHEN AN INNOCENT PERSON IS PUT TO DEATH?

From [HERE] A Black man convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend and her three young children was executed Tuesday despite his claims that he was in another state when the killings occurred.

Raheem Taylor, 58, was the third Missouri inmate put to death since November at the state prison in Bonne Terre. It was the nation’s fifth execution this year, following a previous execution in Missouri, two in Texas and one in Oklahoma. All were by lethal injection.

Taylor kicked his feet as the 5 grams of pentobarbital were administered, then took five or six deep breaths before all movement stopped. In a final statement, Taylor said Muslims don’t die but “live eternally in the hearts of our family and friends.”

“Death is not your enemy, it is your destiny. Look forward to meeting it. Peace!” he wrote in the statement.

Taylor, who previously went by the first name Leonard, long maintained that he was in California when Angela Rowe, her 10-year-old daughter Alexus Conley, 6-year-old daughter AcQreya Conley, and 5-year-old son Tyrese Conley were killed in 2004. His supporters included the national NAACP, nearly three dozen civil rights and religious groups and the Midwest Innocence Project.

But Taylor’s innocence claims were turned aside time and again. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, a Black rolebotic liberal, last week declined Taylor’s request for a hearing before a judge, stating the “facts are not there to support a credible case of innocence.”

Taylor claims that he was not in St. Louis at the time of the murder. In support of that claim, a forensic pathologist submitted a signed affidavit that cast doubt on the medical examiner’s determination of the time of death in the murders. According to the pathologist, Dr. Jane Turner, the evidence suggests the victims were killed after Taylor left St. Louis. When prosecutors learned of his “airtight alibi,” Taylor alleges they prodded witnesses to change their testimony about the timing of the homicides, putting him in town. [MORE]

Republican Gov. Mike Parson declined to grant clemency on Monday, the same day the Missouri Supreme Court denied a stay request. Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene. [MORE]

Thanks for Your Vote NGHR but Keep the Change: Treadmilling Black Puppeticians Run Their Mouths About Police Brutality But Cops are Murdering Black People in Cities Where White Liberals are in Control

CLICK FOR FULL SIZE IMAGE. "TREADMILLING. There is abundant historical proof that protesting white fait accompli is an exercise in Black futility" - Sam Greenlee.

FUNKTIONARY EXPLAINS:

“Liberalism” – meliorism—more force, guns, smoke and mirrors (“government”). (See: Anarchy Burger)

Black puppeticians are scrambling around trying to look like they’re doing something about police brutality. Do-gooder reformers also continue making emotional speeches as if each speech might be the straw that break’s the camel’s back – that is, begging police to stop using their uncontrollable authority to murder black and brown people. Georgia's NAACP has called for superficial reforms like “better training” for police (as if that would’ve stopped the intentional murder of Tyre Nichols). Puppetician Maxine Waters (D-Calif) said not enough members of Congress are invested in police reform legislation for it to pass, even in the wake of the tragic death of Tyre Nichols [MORE] Waters’ statements are particularly interesting because she represents LA and since January 1, 2023 at least three Black men and one Latino man have been murdered by cops in LA; Anthony Lowe, a Black man with both of his legs amputated was shot to death 8x by Huntington cops as he hobbled away from them, Takar Smith was shot to death by LAPD while holding a child’s bike and posing no real threat of grievous bodily harm to them, Keenan Anderson, a school teacher, was smothered and tased to death in the street by LAPD as he begged for his life after being unlawfully stopped and the LAPD murdered Oscar Sanchez on January 3, 2023. Said murders occurred days after the first Black female mayor of LA was sworn into office and offer instant proof that Karen Bass’ election had nothing to do with black power.

Similarly, rolebot Cory Booker recently said "on basic fundamental issues of police reform, we have gotten no support from Republicans, and I hope people understand this." [MORE] One wonders if Booker said the same bullshit to Carl Dorsey’s family. Mr. Dorsey, an unarmed black man, was inexplicably shot to death in January 2021 by a white plainclothes Newark Cop who jumped out an unmarked police van and began shooting him. Although, it was captured on surveillance video the Attorney General led his grand jury away from filing any charges. The AG is a white liberal. Mr. Dorsey’s family is now seeking a federal probe and resorted to tweeting to the public to get justice due the white media’s lack of journalistic curiosity in his case.

Proposed reforms in the so-called George Floyd Act (creating a database for misconduct allegations, more bodycam requirements, banning chokeholds and restricting immunity) would not have prevented any of the above police killings, which involved intentional, purposeful conduct by cops. FUNKTIONARY explains ‘reform is superficial change in form and formalities (fictitious change) which only further lubricates the status quo by renovating and painting old society in new colors or appearance of change sans the change.’

Even restricting immunity won’t remedy the source of the problem, which is authority; the police officer’s power to use force offensively against citizens. Contrary to legal truths, in actual reality the police officer’s entitlement to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on citizens is immoral and there is no legitimate or rational way to account for our belief in its existence. Acts that would be considered unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by people are just as unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by government agents. Putting your hands on another human being, not in self-defense but offensively, without their consent and ‘manipulating their body in disregard of their volition is evil’, whether its done by citizens or representatives of “authority” wearing blue costumes. Larken Rose explains, “authority is permission to commit evil – to do things that would be recognized as immoral and unjustified if anyone else did them,” - subconsciously we know and understand the right to rule over other people is irrational and barbaric. [MORE]

At any rate, liberal Democrats in cities such as LA, control all levels and branches of government and control all local government agencies and government agents, such as police officers. Consequently, if liberal democrats really wanted to do something meaningful about police brutality - that is, controlling their own cops’ behavior in their relations with its Black and Latino residents, then the white liberal leadership could and would have done so at some point over the past 40-50 years.

The same can be said about numerous cities historically controlled by white liberal politics such as Cleveland, Oakland, St. Louis, NYC, Wash DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Detroit etc. Contrary to ‘get out the vote’ rhetoric, the quality of Black citizenship stays low in these places and it does so despite high turnout by the black votary. Black people’s so-called “rights” are tuned on and off like light switches in said jurisdictions where police surveil, stop, detain and search law abiding Black people’s clothing, their cars and generally interfere with their freedom of movement as they attempt to go about their daily lives. In such liberal places cops have mauled, injured and put thousands of Black people into greater confinement and also murdered hundreds of other Black and Brown people with impunity.

Here, some offended white liberals and their dogmatic black cheerleaders may hallucinate that cities like Memphis, Baltimore, Atlanta and DC are not actually run by white liberals but are in fact run by Blacks themselves. In reality however, Black people function as “the powerless class” who are in charge of nothing independently of elite whites. Neely Fuller observes that ‘in spite of all statements black people may make about themselves having economic and/or political independence and the like, in the final analysis, they are all victims of the white supremacy process.’ According to Neely Fuller in a White Supremacy System the most accurate way to describe what "class" people are in is to describe their power relationship to each other. In their relationship with whites, Blacks cannot be be "upper" or "middle" - but only under whites in a white over Black operating system of vast unequal power.

Black cops fulfill their roles dutifully because they misunderstand it completely. Black cops are Obedient Black rolebots plugged into Doggy's operating system. They worship rules, government and logic within the parameters of the lex-icon. [MORE] and [MORE] Many Black cops probably possess what Dr. Blynd calls “double consciousness”

double consciousness - the sense of looking at one's Self through the eye's (axiology) and distorted mirrors of others. 2) the psycho-mismanagement of one's neurosis. 3) intimately involved with what you hate, and torn apart from who you (think you) are. You cannot learn to use that which you refuse to acknowledge, i.e., one's heritage, roots, or asili. (See: Matah, Inauthentic, "Wille-Chip," Power, Anxiety, Anguish, LEARN & Asili.) 

Fuller accurately 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 non-white people — prefer not to acknowledge. Dr. Bobby Wright explains, 'everywhere one finds Whites and Blacks living in close proximity to each other, whether it is Chicago or Zimbabwe, the whites are in control. Yet Blacks rarely question this extraordinary universal phenomenon which defies every known statistical law of probability.'

The rebel Dr. Amos Wilson Amos asks Blacks,

‘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 we have here is reward and punishment according to their terms and criteria.’

To live under the power of another people is to be created by that people. To be rewarded or punished by that people is to be created by that people. We are living under them as the result of the exercise of the power of another people over us. Therefore, if we wish to change this situation (i.e., the conditions under which we live), then we must change the power relationships. If we are to prevent ourselves from being created by another people and are to engage in the act of self creation, then we must change the power relations.’

In liberal jurisdictions elite white liberals control and own all major resources (such as banks, local mainstream media, real estate, utilities and large corporate resources etc), anything of material value and they make most of the meaningful decisions in regards to Black residents. As such, elite whites are the direct or indirect masters of Black people in all areas of people activity. This necessarily includes controlling and directing the power of the local government, funding its elected officials campaign coffers and controlling “choices” presented to the votary. There are no local governments in existence run by Black politicians on behalf of powerful Black elites, powerful Black corporations, powerful Black mainstream media or a powerful Black votary. It is fantasy for blacks to imagine that a black puppetician such as Muriel Bowser, the mayor of DC, is controlling D.C. on behalf of powerful Black interests who pull the strings behind the scenes or that powerful Black voters have concentrated their power into the white Mayor of Memphis and are really calling the shots– especially when it is undisputed that those who own or control major real estate, industry, corporate businesses, banks, wealth and material resources are overwhelmingly elite white liberals.

For decades elite white liberals have propelled hundreds of Blacks into elected office at all levels of government. Their individual success of winning elections has not translated into power for Black people. Rather, said representatives function as puppeticans, strawbosses, Black wards and Black rolebots who work on behalf of elite white liberal masters. FUNKTIONARY states,

Straw-Boss – a Sambo who is appointed a certain oversight role for the white power structure Overseer. It is the job of the Straw- Boss to establish a formal organization to effectively and systematically carry out the wishes of the racist white supremacist power matrix while serving his own personal needs and ends through patronage power. 2) a ranking Snigger. 3) Toby. 4) “Safe-House Negro.” 5) responsible (to the white racist supremacist ideology) Negro. 6) the gatekeeper for Black professional positions gained through (acquiesced to) various sexual positions. 7) Pork Chop Boy. (See: McNegro)

black ward – a subvassal (straw boss), who held ward of the king’s vassal (a species of slave who owes servitude and is in a state of dependency on a superior lord). The vassal himself might be overseer of some other vassals. Black ward is the English equivalent to the Boulé in Greek. (See: Sigma Pi Phi, Informant & Straw Boss)

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.

Dr. Wilson explained that the so-called Black bourgeoisie aka The MoTeaSuh Tribe, a small number of Blacks who benefit from democrat politics, has no independent power of its own. Rather, it exclusively maintains it status through its direct political and corporate ties to the Democratic party establishment. Thus, Wilson observes that it is easy to understand ‘why the Black bourgeoisie aggressively seeks to convince the larger Black community that voting is the end-all and be-all of Black liberation,’ because the Black bourgeoisie has gained all it has (holding political offices or high appointive positions in government and the private sector) and its entire social standing in the Black community through its ties to elite whites in the Democratic Party and the American electoral system.’ It is important to emphasize here that, as pointed out by E. Franklin Frazier, in general the Black bourgeoisie wields no political power as a class in American society because it is composed mostly of white-collar workers, managers or small business enterprises that are insignificant in the American economy, and they do not exercise any significant power within Black communities as employers of Black labor.’

In general, Black puppeticians are literally creations of white liberals who must continually demonstrate their alignment with their liberal masters ideology to avoid being filtered out or easily replaced [see the Congressional Black Caucus – nearly all members are beatable by a viable candidate during any given election cycle]. Anon explains in ‘the system of white supremacy black individuals who derive their authority from powerful whites or powerful white institutions are forbidden from harming other whites (unless instructed to do so). Anon states:

“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.”

We know intuitively that black cops would never and have never beat a white person to death in the manner Tyre Nichols was. In fact, in the entire history of modern law enforcement less than five (5) black police officers have ever killed an unarmed white person [MORE]. Anon states, “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." Important to BW’s focus here, it is further proof that Black puppeticans are essentially powerless and also have no power to prevent racists from practicing racism and no power to force remedies even for the most egregious injustices.

The Black electorant should witness that Minnesota, Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit or NYC or many other places where cops murder Blacks in broad daylight are all dominated by liberal Democrats duly elected by a participating black votary. NYC, for instance is controlled by white liberal puppeticians and complementary Black rolebots. Among its 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 white liberal democrats all levels of government who dominate City politics and government agencies. Nevertheless, 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 with crimes, 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 and so on.

Wilson explained, ‘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.”

Led by white liberals black people are going in circles. 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] According to NSBA nearly one third of Black students lived in poverty (32%), compared with 10% of white students in families living in poverty. While white liberals whine about Florida AP classes and captivate Blacks with fantasy talk about reparations, 80% of African-American fourth-graders can barely read and understand mathematics and only 19% were scored proficient in math. [MORE] According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) just 18% of Black eighth-graders reach reading “proficiency.” [MORE] And in 2015 NAEP found that only 17% of Black 12th graders were proficient at reading. [MORE] In 2017, Ballou High School in DC came under intense scrutiny for pushing failing students through to graduation in order to achieve a 100% graduation and college acceptance rate. Teachers stated that many of their 12th graders couldn’t read and write. In 2017-18, only 7% of public school teachers and 11% of public school principals were Black. [MORE] and [MORE]

The Black votary automatically presumes that most white liberals are not racist and do not practice racism. Said presumption appears to be the only substance of present day black politics – as “blackness” or authenticity is entirely measured by “non-republican-ness” and although whites are not subject to the system of racism white supremacy or the same socio-economic circumstances, white and black liberals are perceived to have the same common issues. According to this clogic Black voters are comfortable voting for white liberals and complimentary black rolebots without critical examination of their legislative records, campaign proposals or without regard as to whether they even have a particularized set of plans or any messaging for Black people.

WASHINGTON D.C. 2022. PHOTO IS THE PROPERTY OF VINCENT BROWN, THE UNDECEIVER.

However, if most liberal whites aren’t racist, then the quality of life and citizenship for Black residents in liberal jurisdictions should just materially speak for itself right? If most liberal whites aren’t racist, then the quality of life and citizenship for Black residents should be far superior to living conditions for Blacks living in republican jurisdictions- the places where most of the real racists reside . . . right?

If liberal jurisdictions are basically ‘racist free’ then who has crammed the jails with Blacks in NYC, Milwaukee, Chicago, Columbus, Minnesota, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Oakland, Atlanta, Kansas City, St. Louis, Detroit, New Orleans and others? Who maintains the jails in reprehensible conditions in LA, DC, Atlanta and NYC? Who has stuffed a backlog of criminal cases and crowded courtrooms with Blacks in these places? Who is striking Blacks from juries on a daily basis? Who is evicting Black tenants from their homes for failure to pay rent, even during the government’s COVID mindless lockdowns? Who is it providing a servant (mis)education to black children in its poverty schools? Who is it running their public fool systems? Who is gentrifying neighborhoods, dislocating Black families, businesses and making thousands of black people homeless in these cities? Who is failing to protect law abiding black people in their segregated communities while simultaneously preventing them from arming themselves in self-defense from criminals? Who is it in charge of the police officers 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 liberals. Specifically, white liberal; judges, prosecutors, jurors, landlords, government authorities, administrators, police officers, school teachers, school administrators, real estate agents, bankers, doctors, business owners, store managers, neighbors, creditors etc., in places where the majority of Black people reside in the US. If you are looking for racists who wear KKK costumes or MAGA hats riding in the bed of a pick-up truck yelling ‘NGHR’ then you really don’t understand the system of racism white supremacy because you are missing the racists all around you and you are easy prey.

In liberal jurisdictions racist liberals work together to dominate and control non-white people in all areas of people activity. Racism is not primarily about name calling and hatred. The gravamen of racism white supremacy is master-servant relations; racists imagine themselves to be superior to non-white people, thus they seek to have master servant relations with them and dominate them in all areas of people activity. The statistics cited above, for instance, are not an injustice to racists. Rather, it is basically the way things should be in a white over black system of unequal power. Said white over Black arrangement is not based on hatred but imagined superiority and difference based on their belief in race, a granfalloon. 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. Importantly, black people should understand that racist conduct by white liberal government authorities in particular, is done on behalf and at the request of racist liberal citizens – the so-called allies of the black votary. Power napping, sleeping toms need to stop barking and clapping like seals 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 elite liberals aren’t presently strangling Black people to death in these cities while making it look like they are dying from natural causes. White liberal do-gooders are clowning Blacks. Never participate in your destruction.

According to FUNKTIONARY

racist suspect – any white person who is capable of practicing racism against non-whites. In general, if a Caucasian is able to be a Racist (White Supremacist), he or she may be one and should be presumed to be racist. According to Neely Fuller, as long as white supremacy exists, every person classified as ‘white’ should be suspected of being Racist (White Supremacist). Since all whites are able to practice racism in a white supremacy system if they choose to do so, it is correct (and logical) to use the term “racist suspects” to identify whites who do not openly function as white supremacists (racists). Caucasians who do nothing to oppose white supremacy are its silent partners (accomplicies) benefiting from this worldwide social political economic arrangement of (economic and psych-social) domination. Those who do nothing about it or cooperate with it are also racist/white supremacist. Noted psychiatrist, Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, MD, has stated, “people who classify themselves as White, who wish to be taken seriously, and who are righteous and responsible, will only talk about ending White Supremacy (Racism) and replacing it with Justice.” (See: Justice)

‘Tough-on-Crime [Blacks]’ Policies Are at Odds With the Presumption of Innocence

From [HERE] We launch into 2023, with big, ambitious plans for the coming year, buoyed by last year’s successes — including six exonerations, two vacated death sentences, over 10 policy wins, a first-of-its-kind research convening and so much more. 

While we continue our core exoneration and policy work, and deepen our understanding of the role of racial bias in wrongful conviction, we are warily observing a dangerous trend that threatens to undermine our country’s progress toward a truly fair and equitable criminal legal system. Increasingly, we’re seeing policymakers ignoring the lessons of the past and embracing the tough-on-crime rhetoric that drove decades of mass incarceration and countless wrongful convictions.

We must never forget how incendiary language and stiff criminal codes led to an unprecedented rise in incarceration — and wrongful conviction — in the ‘80s and ‘90s, as well as a proliferation of unjust law enforcement practices targeting Black, brown, and poor communities that transformed a generation. Today, we are still working to undo these harms, which have come at a high and unnecessary cost  — almost $182 billion every year, according to one report — to the government and impacted families. 

Yet, we’re still seeing a renewed emphasis on tough-on-crime policies and rhetoric, despite the fact that throughout the country violent crimes, including murders, were down in 2022. For example, since taking office last year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has embraced tough-on-crime policies, arguing that judges be allowed to consider a person’s “dangerousness” when determining whether bail should be granted. And in New Jersey, we’re seeing an influx of proposed tough-on-crime bills. 

It is not lost on us that the recent tough-on-crime talk and policy proposals come on the heels of significant reforms, which include amendments to New York’s cash bail system and the election of progressive prosecutors across the country. In the bigger picture, this chatter and these proposals follow the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the murder of George Floyd, and the broad calls for racial justice and criminal legal system reform.

This phenomenon of oscillating between progress and retrenchment is, of course, not new. Instead, it is a tragic hallmark of our country’s history. 

After the Civil War and Reconstruction, we saw the emergence of Black Codes, convict leasing, and lynchings. After the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the government passed the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, which gave significant funding and power to law enforcement. As Black incomes soared in the 1990s, President Clinton passed one of the most draconian crime bills in history and the New York City Police Department implemented a stop-and-frisk policy that — at its height — resulted in almost 700,000 innocent Black and Latinx people being stopped and searched on public streets. Less than 10% of those stops produced arrests or seizures of guns, drugs, or contraband. And despite the creation of President Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force that, amongst other things, called for greater regulation of surveillance technologies, we have seen an increased use of these unreliable and unvalidated technologies, like facial recognition technology, in already overpoliced communities of color with potentially damaging consequences. 

The Rush to Convict and Imprison

The case of the Exonerated Five — who celebrated the 20th year of their exoneration last December — powerfully demonstrates how tough-on-crime approaches can and do ensnare the innocent. The Five were convicted in the midst of a wave of such policies, and just about every factor that we know contributes to wrongful convictions — racism, police and prosecutorial misconduct, the use of lies and deception in the interrogations of minors, false confessions, and a trial by media — played a role.

At the time of their prosecution, the War on Drugs and the juvenile superpredator myth drove a perception of lawlessness and unchecked danger to which policymakers responded with a bevy of tough-on-crime rhetoric, policies, and practices.

It was in this overheated climate that Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise and Antron McCray — all of whom were teenagers — faced police who, in an overzealous attempt to secure confessions, made false statements which unfairly pressured the teens to falsely implicate themselves. This tactic — which remains legal in most states — is known to produce false confessions, especially among children. Indeed, 27% of the Innocence Project’s 241 exonerations and releases, and 11% of the cases recorded by the National Registry of Exonerations since 1989, were the product of such false confessions. Through our advocacy, five states have now outlawed the use of deception in the interrogation of juveniles. Ultimately, as you know, the Five were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to serve between five and 15 years in prison. 

In 2023, we will be supporting legislation in over 10 states to stop deceptive interrogation tactics. And we will continue to push to ensure that all 50 states record all police interrogations as a means of improving transparency and creating an indisputable account of the proceedings. Thirty states are already doing this, so we’re over halfway there. 

An Overloaded System and the Guilty Plea Problem

Tough-on-crime policies and the aggressive, high-volume police and prosecution practices they demand also obstruct true justice and drive wrongful convictions by backlogging courts, overwhelming public defenders, holding people in jail for months before trial, and incentivizing guilty pleas — whether accurate or not. 

In the U.S., 95% of felony convictions are secured through guilty pleas. And according to the National Registry of Exonerations, 25.6% of the 3,343 exonerations in the United States since 1989 involved a guilty plea.

The case of exoneree and Innocence Project Re-entry Coach Rodney Roberts is a perfect illustration. In 1986, Mr. Roberts was arrested in New Jersey after getting into a fight. After several days in jail, he was blindsided when he learned that he was being charged with the kidnapping and rape of a 17-year-old girl. His public defender told him he would face life in prison if he went to trial, so Mr. Roberts pleaded guilty, believing that doing so was his only chance to return home to his family and, in his words, “salvage my life.” He spent seven years behind bars and another 10 years fighting for his innocence before DNA testing helped to exonerate him. [MORE]

Although the White, Liberal City of East Lansing is Only 7% Black, 50% of All Police Encounters with Minors Involved Black Teenagers

From [HERE] The East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD, reported a separate 21 incidents in which a minor was transported, arrested, issued a citation, or stopped from July to December 2022. 12 of the 21 incidents involved a Black minor. 

In addition, five of the 11 reported incidents where an officer used force, it included force being used on a Black minor, according to the December 2022 use of force report.

The department also reported 19 incidents in which department employees transported, arrested, issued a citation to or stopped a person who is or appears to be experiencing homelessness from July to December 2022.

More than 50% of the incidents reported included a Black man. Black people make-up 6.8% of  East Lansing’s population as compared to 77.4% white population, according to the U.S census. 

The findings of these reports were discussed by the city’s Independent Police Oversight Commission at their Feb. 1 meeting. 

Commissioner Ron Fink, citing an incident in the report in which five white officers and a social worker were deployed to an 18-year-old Black female subject home experiencing a crisis, said the excessive amount of white officers deployed to the subject’s house would make her uncomfortable. 

“You have a Black community that already doesn't trust the police in general in this community,” Fink said. “There’s still gonna be that stigma there, right? That could have actually caused this woman to kill herself.”

Commissioner and social worker Amanda Morgan said it’s important to recognize what could be a trigger for individuals in crisis, which may include an all-white team of deployed officers.

The police department only has one social worker who works during the day, according to ELPD Capt. Chad Pride.

The commission made a recommendation to the department in regards to the completed investigation into a complaint filed by Sean Flanagan, who alleged ELPD officers Jeff Horn and Brittany Monroe performed an illegal search and seizure of his nephew and his nephew's belongings after he had a seizure in front of Target on Grand River Avenue on May 23, 2022.

Flanagan's nephew was unnamed in the investigation documents. 

The complaint investigation conducted by ELPD Captain Chad Pride found that the officers violated ELPD's "exception to the search warrant rule," as Flanagan's nephew did not consent to the search of him and his belongings, was not in custody, under arrest or in need of assistance for the protection of his life during the search. 

Flanagan's nephew was told by officers he needed to stay until paramedics checked him out, also violating ELPD policy regarding "persons refusing EMS care."

Pride’s investigation concluded the "fair and impartial policing" policy was not violated, along with code of conduct, assault and battery, false imprisonment and harassment policies. [MORE]

Black Man on Death Row Hung Himself after the Supreme Ct Denied Review for a 2nd Time. Ineffective Defense Attorney Failed to Investigate or Present “Abundant” Mitigating Evidence During Sentencing

From [HERE] On January 21, 2023, Texas death row prisoner Terence Andrus hanged himself at the age of 34, a little more than 6 months after the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of his case for a second time. His lawyer,Gretchen Sween, told the Los Angeles Times that “he’d been careening toward the abyss,” since their decision. “He was broken.”

In 2008, at the age of 20, Andrus killed two people during an attempted carjacking while high on PCP-laced marijuana. He was sentenced to death in 2012 by a jury that was unaware of his diagnosis of affective psychosis – a mood disorder causing hallucinations for which he was diagnosed in elementary school – parental neglect as a child, or the trauma he endured in juvenile detention. Beginning at the age of 16, he spent 18 months at an overcrowded juvenile detention center, where he was given high doses of psychotropic drugs and placed in solitary confinement, consisting of a cold and filthy cell for extended periods, either for engaging in self-mutilation, suicidal feelings, minor adolescent infractions, or at his own request to escape the violence in the facility.

Andrus had twice appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court citing inadequate trial representation. In June 2020, the Court ruled in favor of Andrus 6-3, finding that his counsel failed to properly investigate or present “abundant” mitigating evidence during the penalty phase of the case, which included his “ordeal” in juvenile detention, which left “an already traumatized Andrus all but suicidal.” The Court directed the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reconsider “whether Andrus has shown that counsel’s deficient performance prejudiced him.”

In May 2021, the TCCA reaffirmed an earlier decision, stating that “[t]he mitigating evidence is not particularly compelling.” A second appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied review in June 2022, with three dissents.

Just days after Andrus’ suicide, Texas death row prisoners filed a lawsuit on January 26, 2023 against the state for their unconstitutional conditions of confinement, including indefinite solitary confinement, minimal health care, and improper access to counsel. Most of the 181 prisoners have spent years enduring days of 22 hours to 24 hours of solitary confinement, about 75 of whom have endured these conditions for more than two decades. The lawsuit claims that such conditions are unconstitutional as it violates the 8th amendment’s right against cruel and unusual punishment. Prolonged and indefinite solitary confinement is also a violation of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, more commonly known as the Nelson Mandela rules.