FBI Opens Investigation, Claims Rankin County Cops Broke Into a Home and Beat and Tortured 2 Black Men Using Torture Techniques. 1 Man Shot in the Mouth No Longer Can Talk: $90M Suit To be Filed

From [HERE] The FBI has opened an investigation into the alleged beating and torture of two Black men by Rankin County deputies.

“The FBI Jackson Field Office, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi have opened a federal civil rights investigation into a color of law incident into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office,” according to a statement from the FBI.

Weeks after Rankin County deputies raided a home and beat and threatened two Black men and shot one in the mouth, a civil rights attorney is calling for justice, answers and for the deputies to be charged.

On Wednesday, Michael Corey Jenkins, 32, was released from the intensive care unit at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He underwent two surgeries to treat injuries to his mouth and head, including surgical removal of his tongue. As a result, he is unable to talk and now communicates through writing or gestures. “Easily he could have been like Tyre Nichols or on the long (list of) names of victims here of police abuse and police brutality,” said Malik Shabazz of Black Lawyers for Justice in Washington, D.C., one of Jenkins’ attorneys.

RANKIN COUNTY DEPUTIES ACCUSED OF TORTURE, WATERBOARDING On Jan. 24, Jenkins and another victim, Eddie Terrell Parker, 35, were at a home in Braxton where Parker lives with the property owner when six white Rankin deputies conducting a drug investigation raided. Shabazz said they did not announce themselves or show a search warrant. They accused the men of selling drugs and later charged them with possession of a controlled substance and possession of paraphernalia, the attorney said.

For 90 minutes, deputies exercised what Shabazz called intimidation and unjustified torture of Jenkins and Parker. The men were punched, kicked, slapped and tasered while handcuffed. They had guns pointed at them and were threatened with death, Shabazz said. The attorney said during that time, the deputies waterboarded Jenkins and Parker. Waterboarding is an illegal torture technique that involves strapping someone down, putting a wet rag in their mouth and pouring water over them to simulate drowning. “It was senseless and uncalled for,” Parker said at the news conference. “It was traumatizing and something I never thought I’d go through.” It ended when a deputy placed a gun in Jenkins’ mouth and pulled the trigger, Shabazz said. Jenkins could have died, but the bullet exited his mouth.

‘THEY ACTED LIKE MY SON WASN’T EVEN HUMAN’

When Mary Jenkins found out her son had been shot by police, she called the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department. She asked what the charges were against Jenkins, but did not get an answer. She was only told he was under investigation. “They acted like my son wasn’t even human,” she said, adding that the sheriff’s office didn’t treat her family well, kept Jenkins under their watch at the hospital and prevented them from seeing him. On Tuesday, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation interviewed Jenkins in his hospital room for the first time since the shooting, and he confirmed what deputies did to him, Shabazz said. The recounting of Jenkins’ and Parker’s experience differs from information offered by investigators and law enforcement. A Jan.25 news release from the Department of Public Safety said Rankin County deputies encountered a person – now identified as Jenkins – during a narcotics investigation at a Braxton residence and shot when he displayed a gun. During the Wednesday news conference, Jenkins shook his head when Shabazz asked whether he had a gun or handled one at any point during the incident.

SHERIFF DOESN’T ADDRESS POLICE BRUTALITY ALLEGATIONS

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey released a five-sentence statement Tuesday evening that did not address allegations of mistreatment by the deputies against Jenkins and Parker. Bailey is white.

He said the sheriff’s office contacted the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation to look into the deputies’ actions. “We are fully cooperating with that ongoing investigation and will continue to do so,” Bailey said in the statement. “Rest assured, if any deputy or suspect involved in this incident is found to have broken the law, he will be held accountable in accordance with the law.”

Shabazz said the sheriff’s office has not shared much information, including confirmation whether any officers have been placed on administrative leave. The attorney is asking for attempted murder, aggravated assault and conspiracy charges to be filed against all the deputies, all body camera footage be released and Rankin County to respond immediately reply to all records requests related to the incident.

He read the allegations of brutality from a notice to file a lawsuit against Sheriff Bryan Bailey and the government of Rankin County. After a 90-day period, Shabazz can file the lawsuit and is set to ask for $90 million in compensatory and punitive damages for the two men.

Shabazz also wants the “totally false” charges against the men to be dropped. In addition to drug charges, Parker was also charged with disorderly conduct and Jenkins was charged with aggravated assault, the attorney said. Another member of the men’s legal team, attorney Trent Walker, said they will take the lead to get the charges against Jenkins and Parker dismissed. “Something has to change because what is going on here should not go on in a civilized society,” he said.

Shelby County DA Now Reviewing Gershun Freeman's Murder: Cops Beat Naked Black Man to Death by Repeatedly Striking him with Batons, Fists and a Metal Pepper Spray Container as He Was Held Pre-Trial

From [HERE] and [HERE] The death of a Black man in a Memphis jail after a fight with corrections officers has been classified as a homicide, according to a just-released autopsy report.

Gershun Freeman, 33, died at the Shelby County Jail in Memphis on October 5, 2022. The autopsy report, conducted by the county medical examiner and released Thursday, says Freeman “had a cardiac arrest” after the altercation, which ended in officers restraining him. “CPR was initiated,” but unsuccessful. Freeman was pronounced dead at the scene. The Shelby County District Attorney’s office is now reviewing his death. 

The case is attracting attention in a city still coming to terms with the violent police beating death of Tyre Nichols on January 7. VICE News has confirmed that the Nichols’ family attorney, Benjamin Crump, will also represent the family of Gershun Freeman. 

Crump’s local co-counsel, Jake Brown, told VICE that he has watched surveillance video of the incident inside the jail.

“The video began with Mr. Freeman in an isolation cell, naked,” Brown said. “And he was shouting at the camera that was in the cell… there were no sounds and [we] couldn’t make out what he was saying, but he was very agitated about something, possibly having some sort of psychotic episode.”

The autopsy report, obtained by VICE News, noted a past history of psychosis. 

“Not long after, the camera switched to one outside of the cell, and you could see several officers come to his door and open it. And it’s not clear why they opened it,” Brown told VICE. “Mr. Freeman ran out of his cell.”

At that point, Brown said a group of officers arrived and appeared to try to apprehend him, “but they were also striking him repeatedly with batons, fists… at least one officer struck him on the head with what appeared to be a pepper spray container.” 

Brown said the corrections officers, who are deputies with the Shelby County Sheriff’s office which oversees the jail, also sprayed him with oil-based chemical irritants, and the spray made Freeman’s body slippery and hard to restrain.

“There was pronounced striking, [and] I’m not an expert on this but it seemed to be that there could have been more efficient ways to get ahold of this guy and subdue him rather than just striking him. But that’s what was happening,” Brown said.

According to Brown, the surveillance video then shows Freeman running out of the unit, called a “pod,” through multiple open doors, and up an escalator to an upper floor. 

“When he got to the upper floor, he was sort of surrounded and then sort of set upon by at least three or four deputies, who had him face down on the ground, they were on top of him. And they stayed on top of him for several minutes at least.” 

Brown said the video shows medical personnel in scrubs eventually arriving, and attempting to render treatment, but when they picked up Freeman’s body, it was limp and there was a puddle of blood under where he had been lying, especially around his head. 

The autopsy found Freeman’s cause of death to be exacerbation of “cardiovascular disease due to physical altercation and subdual.” The autopsy classifies the death as a homicide, but notes that it is “not meant to definitively indicate criminal intent."

The autopsy also noted multiple contusions on Freeman’s body, scalp lacerations and multiple hemorrhages in his head and neck. Brown says one of those hemorrhages, a 7 by 3 centimeters on the large muscle in Freeman’s neck that runs parallel to the carotid artery, suggests consistent pressure applied on Freeman’s neck.

“What we're looking at now is trying to determine the likelihood that that was the result of a knee on the neck or some kind of choke hold used,” Brown says. His team has commissioned an independent autopsy by a forensic pathologist based in Little Rock, Arkansas, which has not yet been completed.

Freeman had only been booked into the Shelby County jail four days earlier, on charges of aggravated kidnapping and domestic violence. His bond was set at $75,000.

In a statement, the Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy says upon learning of the death in October, he “immediately called in the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to investigate.” But after receiving the autopsy report on Wednesday evening, his office announced that its own Justice Review Unit will “review” the TBI’s investigation and make a recommendation to DA Mulroy once complete. 

In a phone call with VICE News, the Shelby County Sheriff’s office declined to comment on the case, noting that it was an active investigation. 

Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner, Jr. is currently a candidate for mayor of Memphis. The election is scheduled for the one-year anniversary of Freeman’s death, October 5, 2023.

Brown said Freeman’s family wants answers and accountability from the Sheriff’s department. 

“They are trying to come to terms with the fact that their son went into the Shelby County Jail on his own two feet and, the way his mother puts it, he came out with a toe tag.”

Liberal Annapolis Authorities Seek to Dismiss $75M Wrongful Death Suit Filed for Renardo Green. Cops Restrained Black Man on his Stomach Causing Cardiac Arrest; Wasn't Under Arrest or a Crime Suspect

From [HERE] and [HERE] The family of Renardo Green, a former Annapolis employee whose 2021 death in police custody was ruled a homicide, has until Wednesday to respond to the city’s request to dismiss their $75 million lawsuit.

The federal complaint, filed in December by attorneys Patrick A. Thronson, Brenda A. Harkavy, William H. Murphy, Jr., Malcolm P. Ruff and Dwayne A. Brown on behalf of Green’s wife and four children, lists 20 counts against the city, including gross negligence, excessive force and wrongful death. In the early morning of June 1, 2021, Green was in Annapolis Police custody, restrained face down on a stretcher, when he suffered cardiac arrest. He was placed on a ventilator before dying in the hospital three days later.

Victor W. Weedn, the state’s former chief medical examiner, performed an autopsy on Green last year and found he had suffered cardiac arrest while in police and fire department custody and died because he was restrained on his stomach, which prevented him from breathing. The restraint caused his heart to stop and led to brain death.

Weedn found that drug intoxication contributed to Green’s death as he had mind-altering anesthetics PCP and TCP in his system along with methadone, fentanyl and cocaine, according to his autopsy report. Weedn’s ruling that Green’s death was a homicide caused outrage among community members and elected leaders who voiced concerns about the lack of transparency in the investigation.

Although his death was ruled a homicide no chatges have been forthcoming from white liberal authorities.

The lawsuit states that face-down restraint has been known to be dangerous since 1995, when the Justice Department issued a bulletin that “alerted law enforcement to the dangers of” the practice.

In January, lawyers representing the Annapolis government filed a 50-page motion asking the U.S. District Court of Maryland to close the suit, arguing the family’s allegations were “too vague and generalized” to “draw a plausible connection” to specific law enforcement and emergency response personnel.

The 54-page complaint cites the Maryland Medical Protocols for Emergency Medical Services, which at the time of Green’s death instructed EMS responders not to restrain patients in a “face down, hobbled, or hog-tied position,” also stating that if a patient is handcuffed, they should be repositioned “in face-up position with hands anterior and secured to [the] stretcher.

“It was only after this incident that the Annapolis Police Department promulgated a revised use of force policy prohibiting the unconstitutional practice of face-down restraint,” the lawsuit states. “Unlike other police departments, at the time Mr. Green was killed, the Annapolis Police Department unconstitutionally condoned face-down restraint as a matter of custom and policy.” [MORE]

If it’s not dismissed, the city is asking the complaint be amended to provide “more specific allegations attributable” to the individual defendants, four named police officers and five unnamed paramedics. Police and fire department officials confirmed Thursday that all nine responders at Green’s apartment are still employed.

“Plaintiffs present all of their allegations in a vacuum,” the city’s motion states, “without meaningful factual detail explaining what physical contact each Individual Defendant had with Mr. Green, how each Individual Defendant engaged in unconstitutional conduct, or otherwise what actions each Individual Defendant took that provides a basis for each of their claims.”

Police and paramedics had come to Green’s apartment after his wife called for help because he was under the influence of PCP and being destructive. He was never placed under arrest or suspected of a crime.

In their December complaint, the family said they were denied access to body-camera footage of the encounter. While city leaders played the footage for three elected officials and two Capital reporters shortly after Green’s death, the family was told accessing the videos would interfere with prosecutors’ investigation into the matter.

The $75 million lawsuit, which also seeks to require mandatory training for city personnel in dealing with cases like Green’s, would be separate from any criminal indictment pursued by State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess. Though Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson confirmed earlier this month that his department had completed its part of the investigation, Assistant State’s Attorney and spokesperson Brian Marsh said it was still “an open matter” for their office, declining to comment on whether Leitess would be pursuing charges.

Green’s death took place months before a state law requiring Maryland Attorney General’s office to review police-involved deaths took effect.

Baltimore attorney Dwayne A. Brown announces a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Annapolis claiming damages for the in-custody death of Renardo Green, whose death was ruled a homicide due to being restrained face-down by police and emergency services during a June 2021 medical incident at his home. (Dan Belson)

Malcolm Ruff, an attorney who represents the family alongside Patrick Thronson, Brenda Harkavy, William Murphy and Dwayne Brown, said Thursday that the plaintiffs still have not seen any police footage from the case.

A recent Maryland Public Information Act request for the videos filed by The Capital was denied, citing the State’s Attorney’s ongoing investigation.

City leaders also have faced criticism about the lack of transparency surrounding Green’s death. Six months after the incident, both community members and elected officials spoke out against Mayor Gavin Buckley when The Capital revealed the results of an autopsy declaring Green’s death a homicide.

At the time, Buckley said he learned about the ruling “a few weeks” earlier and didn’t tell the public because of the State’s Attorney’s investigation.

Dr. Victor W. Weedn, Maryland’s then-chief medical examiner, determined Green had died because he was restrained on his stomach. Handcuffed and strapped face down on a stretcher, his position prevented him from breathing, causing his heart to stop and Green to become brain-dead.

Weedn listed Green’s cause of death as “prone restraint cardiac arrest,” noting drug intoxication as a contributing factor.

Police and paramedics responded to the 51-year-old’s Eastport apartment after his wife called for help, saying Green was under the influence of the powerful psychedelic drug PCP and breaking things around the house. She said she wanted him out of the apartment and requested an ambulance because Green was bleeding heavily after cutting his hand.

When police arrived, Green was pinned on the ground by a relative, yelling obscenities, according to police reports. Attempts by officers to calm him failed, and he was restrained with shackles and two sets of handcuffs.

Noticing he was struggling for breath — earlier in the evening, officers and medics had found Green outside disoriented, though he waved them away — police planned to take him to a hospital for an emergency evaluation.

Using a sheet, responding paramedics lifted Green onto a spine board and strapped him to the stretcher with his stomach down, applying extra straps once they moved him onto a wheeled gurney outside the building.

According to the autopsy report, Green became unresponsive while being loaded onto an ambulance or shortly thereafter, and paramedics attempted to resuscitate him. Green was revived in the emergency room but never regained consciousness.

The family’s 54-page complaint states facedown restraint has been known to be a dangerous procedure since 1995 when the Justice Department issued a bulletin on the dangers of the practice.

The suit also cites the Maryland Medical Protocols for Emergency Medical Services, which at the time of Green’s death instructed EMS responders to avoid restraining patients in a “face down, hobbled, or hog-tied position.” If a patient is handcuffed, the protocols state they should be repositioned in a “face-up position with hands anterior and secured to [the] stretcher.”

San Mateo County Pays $4.5M Settlement after Police Lied About Murdering Chinedu Okobi. Black Man was Stalked, Smothered and Beaten to Death by a Gang of White Cops after an Unlawful Jaywalking Stop

Okobi graduated with a degree in business administration from Atlanta's Morehouse College. His family said he began to experience mental illness in 2009, but held a series of jobs, including working as a truck driver for Home Depot until January 2018. [an assumption here from statist, racist suspect media is that running from cops who are trying to kill you is crazy.]

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe declined to FILE charges AGAINST COPS WHO COMMITTED MURDER. HE IS A RACIST SUSPECT AND SAN MATEO COUNTY IS OVERWHELMINGLY RUN AND CONTROLLED BY WHITE LIBERALS AND THEIR POLITICS.

From [HERE] and [HERE] San Mateo County will pay $4.5 million to the family of a Black man who died during a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies more than four years ago in Millbrae.

Chinedu Okobi, 36, was shocked seven times with a Taser, pepper sprayed and beaten with batons as deputies tried to arrest him for jaywalking near El Camino Real and Millwood Drive on Oct. 3, 2018. He was later pronounced dead at an area hospital.

In May 2019, Okobi’s mother and daughter filed federal civil rights lawsuits against the county, claiming the deputies used excessive force and racially profiled Okobi.

The settlement was finalized in September, but it only became public this week after The San Francisco Standard filed a records request and obtained a copy of the document.

The county has agreed to larger settlements in the past, but this is the biggest to involve local law enforcement, county spokesperson Michelle Durand said in an email Wednesday.

The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office did not charge the deputies, and an internal affairs investigation found they acted within existing use-of-force policies.

Deputy Joshua Wang’s use of a stun gun was reasonable “given the totality of the circumstances and level of resistance he and other deputies met” when trying to arrest Okobi, Sgt. Jonathan Sebring wrote in a report related to the internal affairs probe.

Police claimed Okobi, a resident of Redwood City, was “running in and out of traffic” on a busy street around 1 p.m., according to an Oct. 3 press release from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, when a deputy tried to make contact with him. The press release stated that Okobi “immediately assaulted the deputy,” who then called for backup. More law enforcement officers arrived as the struggle with Okobi continued. After Okobi was arrested, he was taken to the hospital where he was later declared dead.

Contrary to police reports and media accounts the video speaks for itself and clearly contradicts the police accounts. The district attorney's office posted the footage of Chinedu Okobi’s arrest on the county website.

The black man was not running in and out of traffic and did not immediately assault any cops. On the video a car passes him and he safely crosses the street. There appears to be no traffic on the 4 lane street. He then stops on the median and waits for vehicles going the other direction to pass before he crosses the street.

EVEN THE POLICE VIDEO (above. but hidden by youtube to protect the government) CONTAINS NARRATIVE BASED ON LIES. HERE THE CAPTION SAYS HE NARROWLY MISSES ONCOMING TRAFFIC. YET HE IS NOT EVEN VISIBLE IN THE SHOT [see above]. He crosses after the car has passed him - he is one lane away. see pic below.

On the video he is seen calmly walking on the sidewalk when he is approached by an officer in a police cruiser. On the entire video he is never seen “running in and out of traffic.” When the cop initially approaches him he says something inaudible and calmly walks away from the cop and crosses the street.

While he is walking down the sidewalk cops approach him from both directions. Cops rushed out of their vehicles and began lunging at him. A white cop attempts to grab him [under arrest for what? jaywalking] and then another white cop pushes him into a sign while he has his hands up. Cops start yelling “stop resisting” as he moves away from them to get away. Cops yell “get on the ground” and then tase him. The 330-pound man then dropped to the ground screaming.

Other sheriff’s deputies arrived and a chaotic scene ensued, with deputies shouting at Okobi to turn over on his stomach, while Okobi cried, "What did I do? Someone please help me!"

After writhing on the ground Okobi then attempts to flee as cops give a slow trot chase. After the Black man punches an Asian cop in the face the cops then use deadly force as all 5 punch, pounce and smother him in the street. Like in says their Constitution - If you touch cops they can murder you.

"All of the original coverage was that my brother was running wildly through the street, he was darting in and out of traffic," Okobi’s sister, Ebele, said in a recent interview. "But what we saw is my brother walking on the sidewalk."

Ebele says the footage also refutes the description of her brother’s behavior during the arrest.

"When he was stopped, there was no assault at all, and when they tase him there's no assault," she said.

"The whole thing seems strange to me. Why you would tase someone who didn't represent a physical threat and wasn't doing anything?"

"They were so afraid of an unarmed bystander that they had to use the kind of force that turned out to be lethal. But they expect the person who's being attacked to be completely calm and understand," Ebele said.

"This is an example of a person who is dead, who should not be, based upon the seemingly over-aggressiveness on the part of police officers," said the family's attorney, John Burris.

"Police initiated this conversation, the contact, used force, used their billy clubs, pepper spray and they used a Taser a number of times — all of which contributed to his death."

$5M Lawsuit Claims Mobile SWAT Cops Broke Into Treyh Webster's Home, Murdered Him While He Was in Bed, Confiscated All Home Video Surveillance and Equipment and Lied About It

From [HERE] A wrongful-death suit alleging police malfeasance during a SWAT Team operation two years ago lays out a sequence of events that explicitly contradicts the official narrative.

The key to proving it could rest with home surveillance footage that police seized that day, according to plaintiffs’ lawyer Christine Hernandez.

“It was all caught on video,” she told FOX10 News. “And they have refused to turn any of that back over to the family. And I think that would dispute, factually, what has been said by the officers at that time.”

The federal lawsuit, filed last week, names the city and Lawrence Battiste, who was police chief at the time, and seeks “in excess” of $5 million. It alleges that police arrived at a house on Lakeview Drive East before sunrise on Feb. 4, 2021, and entered the residence without knocking and identifying themselves. Police were at the home to arrest brothers Treyh and Tyhrie Webster on witness intimidation charges.

What ensued, according to police, was a shootout that resulted in 18-year-old Treyh Webster’s death.

Battiste, who now is public safety director, said at the time that police announced their presence before entering.

“The subject continued to fire shots at law enforcement officers and subsequently the SWAT team engaged the subject that was firing at them.,” he said then. “And as a result of them engaging him, he was, he was killed on scene.”

Hernandez disputed that: “That’s not accurate. No one came out firing at the police.”

The family was on edge, according to the civil complaint, because the home had been riddled with gunfire on at least two separate occasions. The complaint states that a family member was sleeping on the couch with an AR-15 rifle and pointed it at the incoming officers but did not fire.

When he realized they were officers, he shouted, “12, 12, 12,” to signal others in the house that it was police. That matches what Battiste said at the time.

But the official account and the narrative in the civil suit diverge from there. The suit alleges that police assaulted Tyhrie Webster while he was in his bed, half asleep. His mother, Georgette Sons, took a gunshot to the foot. The civil complaint alleges the bullet came from police, but police said at the time that Treyh Webster accidentally shot his mother.

Hernandez said police took not only the footage from the home surveillance system, but all of the equipment. She said it has video and, presumably, audio that could explain what happened. She said the city has refused requests to return the system and the footage and has not offered an explanation for why it has refused.

“The fact that they took that hard drive with the surveillance video and refused to turn it over – draw whatever conclusion you want to draw from that,” she said.

The purpose of the raid was to arrest the Webster brothers on charges that they tried to pressure the victim of a robbery by Treyh Webster to “drop the charges.” Prosecutors, ultimately, asked a judge to dismiss the witness intimidation charge against Tyhre Webster, although he did plead guilty to an unrelated charge of shooting into an occupied vehicle.

Memphis DA Agrees to Re-Open Darrius Stewart’s Case. Black Man Killed by a White Cop After Traffic Stop

From [HERE] The top prosecutor in Memphis agreed Thursday to review additional information about the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old Black man during an attempted arrest by a white police officer after the man's family asked for the case to be reopened.

Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy met with the father of Darrius Stewart and the father's lawyer. They want the case presented to a grand jury for a second time for consideration of charges against former Memphis officer Connor Schilling.

The request comes after the January arrest, beating and death of Tyre Nichols, a Black man, in Memphis. Five officers, who also are Black, have been fired and face charges including second-degree murder in connection with Nichols’ death. The district attorney’s office has said it will be reviewing past cases involving those officers.

Stewart's father, Henry Williams, and his lawyer, Carlos E. Moore, have asked for the case to be reopened under the district attorney's Justice Review Unit. The independent unit works separately from active prosecutions in the district’s attorney’s office to review past cases, and it reports directly to Mulroy.

Then-Officer Connor Schilling shot Stewart in July 2015 during a struggle following a traffic stop that escalated after an attempted arrest for outstanding warrants. Stewart was not carrying a weapon. [MORE]

Donovan Lewis' Family Files Suit Against Columbus After Police Murder. White Cop Opened Door and Immediately Shot Black Man as he Sat in Bed, Unarmed. White Liberal Prosecutor Stalls Filling Charges

From [HERE] Nearly six months after a Black man was fatally shot by a white officer while lying in bed, his family sued the officer and four others in the Columbus Police Department, calling his killing senseless and completely preventable.

The family of Donovan Lewis is seeking accountability, according to the complaint announced Thursday. Their lawyers said neither Columbus police nor Ohio’s capital city has acknowledged responsibility, and reforms are needed to prevent similar deaths.

The lawsuit also accuses longtime police officer Ricky Anderson of battery, breach of duty, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, failure to render aid and violating Lewis’ constitutional rights. Anderson and the other four officers are white.

Lewis, 20, died at a hospital following the shooting in the early morning hours of August 30, 2022. Police bodycam footage shows he was shot once in the abdomen, less than a second after an officer opened his bedroom door. Lewis appeared to be holding a vape pen, but no weapon.

Columbus police said officers had come to arrest Lewis on multiple warrants, including domestic violence, assault and felony improper handling of a firearm. No weapon was found in his home.

“This police officer fired his weapon less than a second after the door opened. That is about as reckless as a police officer can get,” Rex Elliott, the family’s attorney, said.

More than two months have passed since prosecutors were selected in December to review the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s independent investigation into Anderson’s shooting of Lewis and bring it before a grand jury. Lewis’ mother, Rebecca Duran, said she’s frustrated at how long that process is taking.

A separate lawsuit against the city of Columbus could be filed in the near future in federal court, according to Elliott.

“We now need the city to step up,” he said.

Messages left with the city and the police union seeking comment were not immediately returned.

The complaint also accuses all five officers of violating Andre’s Law, which was passed in 2021 by the Columbus City Council. It was named for Andre Hill, a Black man who was visiting a friend when he was fatally shot by an officer investigating a noise complaint in 2020. That officer, Adam Coy, pleaded not guilty to murder charges.

The law requires Columbus police officers to render immediate medical attention to an injured suspect. Officers failed to do that for Hill, and, according to the complaint, for Lewis as well.

After Lewis was killed last year, the city did stop serving overnight warrants for certain misdemeanor and non-violent felony suspects.

(White Liberal) Indianapolis Authorities Reach Settlement w/Dreasjon Reed's Family after Police Murdered Him. Liar Cops Claim He Shot @ Them But Enhanced Video Shows Him Holding 2 Phones and a T-Shirt

From [HERE] Indianapolis has agreed to pay $390,000 to settle a lawsuit by the mother of Dreasjon Reed almost three years after he was fatally shot by police following a vehicle pursuit.

Demetree Wynn sued the city on behalf of her son’s estate in June 2020, about a month after Reed's death. She brought multiple claims against the city and police, arguing that Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer De’Joure Mercer used excessive force when he shot Reed after a vehicle chase gave way to a foot pursuit.

Indianapolis police and the city deny any liability. The settlement does not stand as an admission of wrongdoing, the agreement states.

A 2020 grand jury investigation guided by white liberal prosecutors into Mercer found there wasn't enough probable cause to charge him with a crime. Following their decision, Indiana State Police presented ballistic and audio evidence to the public that they say shows Mercer and Reed exchanged gunfire right before Reed was killed.

In direct contrast surveillance video obtained by WRTV shows the moments leading up to the death of Dreasjon Reed. The video, which is about 24 seconds in length, shows Reed stopping his vehicle behind ACE Lock & Key near 62nd Street and Michigan Road after leading police on a long chase — which he was also streaming on Facebook Live.

Reed can be seen getting out of his vehicle and running with what appears to be a white t-shirt in his left hand and two cell phones in his right hand, while metro police officer Dejoure Mercer comes running after him.

WRTV stated “WRTV reviewed the surveillance video several times, using our technology to slow down, enhance, and view the footage frame-by-frame. We are reporting what we can see in Dreasjon Reed’s hands after we enhanced the video. We can see a t-shirt in his left hand, and two cell phones in his right hand. We know these are cell phones because when synced with his Facebook Live stream, you see the sky, the ground, and the individual as he runs from police.)”

“How in the world could you shoot if you had a t-shirt in one hand and a phone in the other? There is no way. You can’t … You can’t shoot someone,” Wynn said. [MORE]

Judge kept some details from the pending trial

The settlement comes less than a month before the lawsuit was set to go to trial. Days before a settlement notice was submitted to the court at the end of January, Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana approved requests from both sides to shield certain pieces of evidence from landing before a jury.

The city won its request to keep any reference to the 2020 grand jury investigation into Mercer out of the trial. It also won its request to bar statements made by IMPD Officer Steven Scott, who was suspended from IMPD for several days after a recorded comment he made about Reed's body at the scene of the shooting: “I think it’s going to be closed casket, homie.”

In October 2020 the court threw out Wynn's emotional distress claim against Scott, leaving instead the claims against Mercer and the city.

Another piece of evidence that the jury would have never heard about: after the shooting IMPD Deputy Chief Kendale Adams – one of the officers who initiated the vehicle pursuit of Reed – said he delivered a $100 check to Reed’s mom to help cover her son’s burial expenses.

The check was delivered on behalf of the local non-profit 100 Black Men of Indianapolis, a youth development organization. But the city argued there’s no evidence the check was ever cashed.

Lawsuit Filed after a White Kenosha Cop Held his Knee on a 12-year-old Black Girl’s Neck for More than 20 Seconds at Public School. White DA Declined to File Charges in City Run by White Liberals

YEAH. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR THIS WHITE LIBERAL HYPOCRISY?

From [HERE] A white Wisconsin police officer, working as a school security guard while off duty, is facing a lawsuit from the family of a 12-year-old Black girl after he held his knee on her neck for more than 20 seconds while breaking up a fight at school.

The lawsuit accuses the officer, whose actions were caught on tape, of using an illegal chokehold.

Also named in the action against the security guard are the city of Kenosha and the Kenosha unified school district that the girl’s father, Jerrel Perez, hold responsible for the “unreasonable and excessive force” used against his daughter during the incident last year.

The officer, who was working off-duty security at the school, was named as Shawn Guetschow. He has since resigned from the school district, but remains a police officer. His lawyer, Sam Hall, will “vigorously defend” him and the district, according to a statement reported by the Washington Post.

The incident, involving the school students, which was captured on security camera video, took place in the cafeteria of Lincoln middle school on 4 March last year. Another girl is seen approaching Perez’s daughter, who pushes her off, and a fight ensues.

Guetschow is seen pulling the other girl away, scuffling with the daughter and falling to the ground with her, whereupon he appeared to kneel on her neck for about 20 seconds as he handcuffed her, before pulling her up and walking her out.

In the 14-page lawsuit seeking unspecified damages, which was filed on Monday, Perez alleges his daughter was unable to breathe during the incident, and suffered physical and mental trauma that required treatment for almost a year.

In a statement, Perez’s lawyer, Drew DeVinney, said: “Although she is not healed from her trauma, she is ready to stand up for herself.” He said the girl had relocated with her father to Illinois as a result of the incident.

The filing alleges Guetschow had a reputation for having a short temper during previous employment with another police department, and was improperly trained by Kenosha police and the school district.

His performance with the nearby Lake Geneva police department was graded “unacceptable”, the lawsuit claims, and he was assessed as “emotional, panicked or loses their temper”.

It further states Guetschow did not issue any commands to Perez’s daughter during the restraint, which caused a brain injury, cervical strain and recurrent headaches.

Guetschow, it claims, “acted with malice or in reckless disregard” of the girl’s rights.

The case has drawn parallels with the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds in May 2020.

In a Facebook post following the middle school incident last year, Perez posted side-by-side images of the Minnesota officer Derek Chauvin, who was fired and later convicted of murder, kneeling on Floyd’s neck, and Guetschow doing the same to his daughter, and the caption: “What’s the difference?”

By law, police officers in Wisconsin are prohibited from using chokeholds, defined as “the intentional and prolonged application of force to the throat, windpipe, or carotid arteries that prevents or hinders breathing”, except in life-threatening situations or self-defense.

Hall, in a statement to the Associated Press, said state prosecutors decided not to bring charges against Guetschow, and the US attorney’s office in Milwaukee determined he didn’t commit any civil rights violations.

The Kenosha city attorney Matthew Knight [racist suspect in photo above] declined comment and said the city had not seen the lawsuit yet.

The Police Dog is a Weapon Used by Terrorcrats and Race Soldiers to Niggerize and Compel Obedience to Authority

From [HERE] Some of the most horrifically indelible images of the Civil Rights struggle show police dogs attacking young demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Birmingham became emblematic of animalistic police brutality against non-violent protestors—but it wasn’t unique at the time. And the racial weaponization of dogs isn’t just something of that time, as examples from Abu Ghriab (2004) to Ferguson (2014) show.

Scholar Tyler Wall doesn’t think it’s coincidental that K-9 units were introduced in police departments across the country during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s, however. Quoting advocates of the day, Wall writes that dogs were deployed as tools to “civilize the savagery of urban (dis)order by pacifying urban space.” In practice, this meant dogs were deployed in the “criminalization of the so-called Negro problem,” to “police the material and symbolic boundaries of the color line,” and to enforce the dehumanization of people of color.

“The mystical power of the police dog […] was its apparent ability to recognize the boundaries dividing those bodies in need of protection—white propertied bodies—from those darker bodies prowling on the boundaries of white bourgeois order.” [MORE]

Unlike False Flags, 3 Yrs Later and No Justice for Manuel Ellis' Murder. Video Shows Cops Repeatedly Punch, Choke, Taze and Kneel on Black Man. Hogtied Him w/Spit Hood for 6 Min. Trial Continued Again

From [HERE] Once again, the trial for the three Tacoma police officers charged in the killing of Manny Ellis has been delayed.

On March 3, 2020, lifelong Tacoma resident Manny Ellis died while being arrested by Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine, three on-duty Tacoma police officers.

Ellis was a 33-year-old African American man who died on March 3, 2020, during an arrest by police officers in Tacoma, Washington, a city run by white liberals.

The Pierce County Sheriff's Department initially claimed that Ellis had attacked a police car and then attacked officers, leading to the arrest. State prosecutors quoted civilian witnesses as saying that Ellis did not attack the police car or officers; they also said it was the officers who initiated the use of physical force on Ellis after a conversation.[4][5] 

Video of the incident showed officers repeatedly punching Ellis, choking him, using a Taser, and kneeling on him.[6][7] State prosecutors stated that "Ellis was not fighting back", citing witness statements and video evidence.[8] A police radio recording showed that Ellis said he "can’t breathe".[9] Ellis told officers "can't breathe, sir" multiple times, according to prosecutors.[10] Ellis was hogtied, face-down into the street asphalt, with an officer on him, for at least six minutes, and a spit hood was placed on his head in this position, stated prosecutors.[10] Ellis died at the scene while receiving medical aid from paramedics.[3]

Ellis’ final statements are a grim echo of George Floyd’s last words: a police radio recorded Ellis repeatedly pleading “can’t breathe, sir.”

Rankine is charged with first-degree manslaughter. Manslaughter typically indicates a reckless disregard for life but does not involve malice or an intent to kill. Collins and Burbank are charged with second-degree murder. 

The trial was originally scheduled for Jan. 30, 2023 but has now been delayed yet again until September 2023, pending the outcome of a Washington Supreme court case set to determine whether internal affairs statements from an officer who was not charged should be released to prosecutors.

There have been no functional repercussions for Burbank, Collins or Rankine. During the internal investigation, they were placed on administrative leave and continued to receive their salary from the city of Tacoma. Although they were detained in jail pending the trial, they were bailed out that very same day by a local Tacoma businessman. For three years, they have gone about their lives in our community awaiting trial. They have been able to go grocery shopping, relax at home with loved ones and celebrate the holidays. 

Meanwhile, Ellis’ family and friends are still living a nightmare. Three years later, Manny is still dead, legal fees are piling up and the court date is continually pushed back. For victims of police brutality and their families, justice is shallow, if it ever comes at all.

Unfortunately, this is not uncommon in the United States. Trials involving unjust killings and police misconduct against citizens can drag on for years. Those who are convicted of a crime are often handed sentences involving house arrest, probation, or a few paltry years in prison. 

In a finance-based legal system such as the one we have in America, you have to be able to pay to retain a lawyer to even file charges. If you are poor, you cannot afford justice. The US census reports that Black people experience poverty at a significantly higher rate than white people (21% versus 9%). In a country with heavily entrenched systemic racism, people of color are far more likely to experience police violence. Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit that keeps track of police shootings, reports that although Black people are 13% of the US population, they make up a disproportionate 27% of those who are killed by police. Combining these two factors, people of color are far more likely to be killed by police as well as be unable to access legal justice. 

An on-duty police officer can be reasonably assured that they will not be found culpable for any acts of racial violence committed against the public. The police in the United States possess functional legal immunity, performing in the field as judge, jury, and executioner. Operating like any other gang in their territory, police possess a monopoly on the use of force, and any resistance against that force is a potential justification for your execution in the street. That should scare you. It scares me.

So-Called "Racist Buffalo Supermarket Shooter" Sentenced to Life After Taking Guilty Plea. Like Most Flags; All Emotion, Few Facts, Limited Video and No Actual Contested Trial on the Merits Occurred

Don’t human beings bleed when they get shot by a high powered rifle at close range? See video below. IT CONTAINS NO BLOOD, LOOKS FAKE AS FUCK.

From [HERE] The man who killed 10 people in a racist massacre at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., last year was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday.

The 19-year-old white gunman, Payton Gendron, pleaded guilty to 15 counts brought by Buffalo prosecutors stemming from the May 14 attack at Tops Friendly Markets in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Gendron’s charges included first-degree murder and domestic terrorism, with the latter carrying a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. 

Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan sentenced him Wednesday to life in prison without parole for the domestic terrorism charge and for each of the 10 counts of first-degree murder, which will run concurrently. 

“There is no place for you or your ignorant, hateful and evil ideologies in a civilized society. There can be no mercy for you, no understanding, no second chances,” Judge Eagan said before the sentencing. “The damage you have caused is too great, and the people you have hurt are too valuable to this community. You will never see the light of day as a free man ever again.”

Smoking Gun Proof of a False Flag? A Racist Discussed Critical Race Theory w/a Black Man Before Shooting Up a Grocery w/a Gun that had NGHR On it? Microwave Murders Solved w/Manifesto, No Cell Video

Would Real People Smile and Laugh After Witnessing a Mass Shooting? No. But Actors Would Do So During a False Flag: Duper Delight Buffalo False Flag

Corpse Joe is Correct, Racism is Poison. But Whats that Got to Do w/the False Flag in Buffalo? The Real Question is, Can a Person Get Shot and Not Bleed? [blind Believers create their Own Deceivers]

The sentencing came at the end of an emotional and tense hearing in which several people, including a survivor and relatives of those who died, gave emotional statements about the massacre’s impact. At one point, a person rushed toward the gunman. Gendron later apologized for his actions.

Gendron killed 10 people and wounded three others in the racist attack last year. All but two of the 13 victims were Black and included an 86-year-old grandmother, a retired Buffalo police lieutenant and a church deacon. The massacre was among the deadliest mass shootings in 2022 and rattled a community already facing decades of disinvestment. [MORE]

Charges Dropped Against Black Journalist Arrested by White Cops While Covering Ohio Train Derailment

From [HERE] Criminal charges filed against NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert were dismissed after police officers in East Palestine, Ohio arrested him on Feb. 8.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said Wednesday (Feb. 15) that he dropped the case after his office reviewed video and documentary evidence. Lambert was charged with misdemeanors for resisting arrest and criminal trespassing.

“While journalists could conceivably be subject to criminal charges for trespassing in some situations, this incident is not one of them,” Yost said in a statement. “The reporter was lawfully present at a press conference called by the Governor of the state. His conduct was consistent with the purpose of the event and his role as a reporter.”

Lambert and other reporters were covering Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s news conference to update local residents about the status of a derailed train transporting toxic chemicals. The event started about two hours late, causing a conflict with Lambert’s scheduled live NewsNation report.

CBS News Pittsburgh reported that the police said Lambert was talking loudly while on air from the back of the school gymnasium where the press conference was taking place. Body camera footage showed that state national guard commander Maj. Gen. John Harris confronted and pointed a finger at Lambert before pushing the reporter with one hand in the chest. Lambert responded by pointing and talking back to Harris in what became a heated exchange.

Authorities said Lambert was told to leave the news conference but refused several times. Two officers handcuffed Lambert and escorted him to a police SUV. Lambert is Black and the officers are white.

In his statement, Yost said tensions were high following the derailment and the police appeared to be following the lead of the National Guard.

“Regardless of the intent, arresting a journalist reporting at a press conference is a serious matter,” Yost said. “Ohio protects a free press under its constitution, and state officials should remember to exercise a heightened level of restraint in using arrest powers.”

Latino Defendants in Colorado are More Likely to be Incarcerated than White Defendants, according to study

From [HERE] A first-in-the-nation study by eight Colorado district attorney’s offices shows that Hispanic defendants are more likely to be sentenced to jail or prison than white defendants who are facing similar charges and have similar criminal histories.

The study, released Wednesday, looked at criminal prosecutions by the Denver District Attorney’s Office and seven other DA’s offices across the state, including in Boulder, Jefferson, Arapahoe, Douglas, Larimer, Summit, Eagle, Gunnison and La Plata counties, among others.

The effort examined at least 327,000 cases filed and resolved between 2017 and mid-2022, with some district attorney’s offices studying shorter timeframes within that six-year window. The researchers controlled for factors such as defendants’ ages, criminal history, gender and severity of charges to try to pinpoint how each defendant’s race impacts the court process.

“It helps us more compare apples to apples,” said Lauren Gase, project director for the Colorado Prosecutorial Dashboard Project, which launched in September with eight district attorney’s offices and is now adding another five offices to the endeavor.

The study focused on points in a criminal case in which prosecutors can influence the outcome, including charge reductions and plea offers, dismissals and sentencing. The researchers found different areas of disparity in various offices.

In Denver, white defendants were more likely to see drug charges reduced from felonies to misdemeanors or from misdemeanors to petty offenses than similarly situated Black defendants, the research showed, with about 57% of white defendants likely seeing a reduction compared to 48% of Black defendants and 52% of Hispanic defendants.

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said in a statement Wednesday that the finding was “of concern” and needs further review. In other counties, like Arapahoe, Douglas and Boulder, white defendants were more likely to be given deferred judgments than similar Black defendants. Deferred judgments allow defendants to have the cases against them dismissed if they comply with various court-set criteria for a specified amount of time.

The disparities need further study to determine why the differences exist, said Chris Wilcox, 18th Judicial District senior chief deputy district attorney. And there are some limitations in the study, Gase cautioned. In particular, she noted that the criminal history control is limited because it only includes prior charges from the eight judicial districts that participated in the study, not from other areas in the state or places outside Colorado.

“It’s also important to read the data in a broader context,” Wilcox said. “For example, a Black defendant is more likely to have their case dismissed in its entirety, but less likely to receive a deferred judgment.”

Across seven of the eight district attorney’s offices studied, Hispanic people were more likely to be sentenced to jail or prison than similarly situated white or Black defendants. Denver’s office did not release that dataset.

In the Fifth Judicial District, which includes Eagle, Summit, Lake and Clear Creek counties, 54% of Hispanic defendants were likely to be sentenced to jail or prison on a felony charge, compared to 41% of similar white defendants, the research showed. In property crimes, 39% of Hispanic defendants were likely to be incarcerated, compared to 30% of white defendants. Considering all cases between June 2018 and June 2022, 19% of Hispanic defendants in the Fifth Judicial District were likely to be sentenced to incarceration, compared to 16% of white defendants.

“What the data is currently showing us is that the only difference is race,” said Fifth Judicial District Attorney Heidi McCollum. “And that is absolutely concerning to us. We are aware of that disparity and we are continuing to delve deeper as to what is causing this… Whatever it is, we want to make sure that similarly situated defendants are treated equally.”

She said her office plans to examine what factors might be impacting the disparity, and noted that very few Spanish-speaking defendants participate in the district’s recovery courts — special courts focused on helping those with drug and alcohol addictions avoid jail in favor of recovery through peer counseling, support groups and therapy.

“Whether or not those services are able to be provided in any particular defendant’s native language is something we’re looking into,” she said. “Do I think a language barrier would account for 100% of the disparity we are seeing? I don’t think so. But until we delve further into this data, I don’t want to speculate on what the reasons are. I want to get to the bottom of it.”

More severe sentencing for Hispanic defendants was seen to varying degrees across all seven offices that published the data. Christian Gardner-Wood, chief deputy district attorney in Boulder County, said Wednesday that the office is also planning further study.

“The big question for us is why is that number higher for Hispanic defendants, and we don’t know the answer,” he said. “That’s really the next step for us, one to deal with the disparities, to do training for our staff, we’re looking at screening better for diversion, but we also, as a next step, want to do more data analysis and continue to be data-informed and data-driven.”

Sentences are handed down by judges, who consider input from both the prosecution and defense when determining whether someone should go to jail and for how long.

Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said the court system reflects broader ingrained societal racism.

“A lot of the data you are looking at here is exactly what you would expect for any jurisdiction in the United States,” Dougherty said. “Every single jurisdiction in the United States. The difference is here in Colorado we are pulling the curtain back and actually doing something about it ourselves.” [MORE]

NYT Analysis Finds The High Cost of Living, Unsafe Neighborhoods, Uncontrollable Police and Poor Schools is Causing a Mass Exodus of Black Families from NYC- a City Run by White Liberals

The NYT has report “an exodus of Black residents from New York City. From 2010 to 2020, a decade during which the city’s population showed a surprising increase led by a surge in Asian and Hispanic residents, the number of Black residents decreased. The decline mirrored a national trend of younger Black professionals, middle-class families and retirees leaving cities in the Northeast and Midwest for the South.

The city’s Black population has declined by nearly 200,000 people in the past two decades, or about 9 percent. Now, about one in five residents are non-Hispanic Black, compared with one in four in 2000, according to the latest census data.

The decline is starkest among the youngest New Yorkers: The number of Black children and teenagers living in the city fell more than 19 percent from 2010 to 2020. And the decline is continuing, school enrollment data suggests. Schools have lost children in all demographic groups, but the loss of Black children has been much steeper as families have left and as the birthrate among Black women has decreased.

The factors propelling families like the Rodneys out of the city are myriad, including concerns about school quality, a desire to be closer to relatives and tight urban living conditions. But many of those interviewed for this article pointed to one main cause: the ever-increasing cost of raising a family in New York.” [MORE]

NYPD Civilian Review Board Finds 146 Cops Engaged in Misconduct to Silence People Protesting the Police Murders of Black People. But No Cops Charged w/Crimes or Fired in City Run by White Liberals

From [HERE] The Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) took 590 pages to tell the tale of NYPD misconduct during the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement. The official police watchdog’s report—published this past Monday, Feb. 6—substantiated allegations against 146 individual officers during the protests following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. 

“The Black Lives Matter Protests that occurred in the summer of 2020 were massive in scale, but not unprecedented in nature,” said CCRB Interim Chair Arva Rice in a statement. “Given what is happening across the country regarding reproductive rights, immigration, affordable housing and police brutality, people will continue to protest for their rights. 

“It is key for New York to know how to best respond to protests, especially protests against police misconduct. It is also of the utmost importance that officers be held accountable in order to rebuild the public’s trust in the NYPD.”

The CCRB received more than 750 complaints over misconduct stemming from the George Floyd protests and that 226 of them have been fully investigated so far. Of those, 88 complaints carrying 269 individual allegations against the 146 officers were substantiated. More than half of the substantiated allegations involved excessive force, most with a baton or pepper spray. Rice later told the Amsterdam News such a report was essential for New Yorkers to feel safe about protesting police brutality without becoming subject to it. 

“Being ​​able to put together concrete cases of those times when there was misconduct that took place and to be able to put out a set of recommendations, I think is very strong for our city and we want to make sure that the police department hears us and is able to implement the recommendations that we laid out,” she said.

Such recommendations include updating crowd control training, designating medical treatment areas and providing voucher cards when property is seized. In addition, the CCRB suggests common-sense practices like not taking action against protesters who are compliant and dispersing, and not interfering with outside observers and members of the media. 

“Many of the demonstrations were so dynamic and shifted, and were hard to predict as far as how many people [there] would be, what strategies would be involved in some of these demonstrations,” said retired detective Marq Claxton. “You caught the police department [at] the heels, and I think a lot of individual police officers may have been overcompensating for being caught off-guard and being under-resourced.”

But even after a 590-page report, there are still loose ends in the CCRB’s investigation. Rice says there are 59 unidentified officers in the received complaints, in addition to potential unreported victims. She cites failures to log officer activity properly and enforce proper identification and body-worn camera use as major roadblocks to a complete picture of misconduct during the George Floyd protests. 

“Not being able to see officers’ badges and covering their badges [so] somebody couldn’t figure out who they were, the paperwork was sloppy, so we couldn’t figure out who was assigned to which march on any given day [and] the equipment wasn’t assigned correctly,” said Rice. “All those things made it hard, and all of this in the midst of a pandemic [make it moreso].”

Preliminary data from the protests show Black New Yorkers only made 12% of complaints about police misconduct during the George Floyd protests despite making the most overall complaints to the CCRB in 2020. While the CCRB stressed inconclusive findings, Rice recalls a 2020 rally led by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams she attended as the first Black Lives Matter protest with majority white participants. Claxton adds some organizations purposely put white protesters at the forefront to defend and protect their Black counterparts from police misconduct.

After the report, the CCRB can only make recommendations to Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell for discipline, so the ball is now in the NYPD’s court. Of the 146 officers, 89 are recommended for charges and specifications, which are reserved for the most serious allegations of misconduct and can result in revoked vacation days, suspension or termination if the department finds them guilty, according to the city’s website.

And the police are pushing back against the CCRB. The NYPD issued a response from acting Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters Carrie Talansky shortly after the report’s publication, claiming some of the findings and recommendations are obsolete or redundant. The letter says the NYPD assessed its crowd control strategies in April 2021 and said most uniformed service members received amended training by the end of that year. 

The Police Benevolent Association of New York City (PBA), the union representing most NYPD members, criticized the CCRB’s report and defended the officers’ actions.

“Once again, the anti-cop activists at CCRB are trying to pin the blame on individual police officers for management failures and the chaos created by violent agitators,” said PBA President Pat Lynch in a statement. “We are still awaiting ‘accountability’ for the city leaders who sent us out with no plan and no support, and for the criminals who injured more than 400 of our brothers and sisters.”

The NYPD similarly blamed the hostile conditions for officers during the protests, commending them for the low percentage of substantiated allegations in the complaints made. 

Still, disciplinary recommendations by the CCRB are frequently waved off by the department. Only Daniel Pantaleo, who killed Eric Garner in 2014, was fired by the NYPD due to the board’s investigation. In 2020, the New York Times reported the department regularly rejects a majority of the CCRB’s disciplinary recommendations for serious misconduct.

“That is a challenge, because as a civilian complaint review board, we believe that we should be able to have a recommendation that is final,” said Rice. “The final arbiter for discipline in the NYPD is the police commissioner and we believe that [it] should rest with CCRB.”

The New York City Council also responded to the report, acknowledging some of the disciplinary measures made against the offending officers but demanded further accountability. It also mentioned NYPD responsibility for body-worn camera failures and the lack of EMT support.

“The CCRB’s report outlines misconduct and obstruction with investigatory efforts that must be addressed,” said Speaker Adrienne Adams. “Independent investigatory bodies need to have better access to body camera footage and compliance from the NYPD to investigate civilian complaints. The CCRB must play a vital role in police accountability that ensures public trust, and this will also require resolution of the agency’s understaffing. The Council will continue reviewing the report and consider legislative policy changes to help prevent these same issues from occurring in the future.”

The watchdog celebrates three decades as an independent agency this year. The CCRB was initially divorced from the NYPD by the city’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins, a decision met with a police-led riot—that included PBA leaders and Rudy Giuliani—that the city’s second and current Black mayor Eric Adams has likened to the Jan. 6 United States Capitol insurrection. 

CoinOperated MassaBator Stephen A Smith Has Emotional MeltDown on Jay Williams While Shadowboxing Kyrie to Defend Genocidal COVID Injections on Behalf of His Elite White Masters at Pfizer and Disney

According to FUNKTIONARY:

coin-operated – the apt name for ravenous, puerile and greedy (“mine-controlled”) folk who only act if there is money, power or fame in the game (endeavor)—typically and consciously undertaken underhandedly at another’s expense. 2) anyone with a sell-out-slot that doubles as a mouth or who easily bends south—a south-bender repeat offender. 3) the subsumable drive for money, prestige, influence and power. 4) those that calculate and manipulate to get what they want— usually at the expense of others whom they claim to represent. 5) the description of (and name for) someone whose sole motivation is ‘paper-chasing.’ The living-larger supercilious sell-outs have to use the cracks of their arse as a discredit card swiper—since the stakes are higher and call for more drastic measures and high-volume transfers (the booty of sell-out treasures) can only be accessed in the form of plastic pleasures. They call them token Negroes because they are coinoperated. If you put money in them they will dispense (‘espew’—espouse and spew) the view, vision, wishes, ideas, thoughtforms, ideology, hopes and dreams of the customer. “The price of a dollar is a lot cheaper than the price we pay for violating our own inner integrity.” ~Rafael Catalá. You can easily spot coin-operated people because they always have one dry itchy hand out (waiting to be greased or bribed), the other groping for a handout, and their mouth-slots are always open. Some coin-operatives are equal orifice deployers, i.e., they will use both ends to satisfy others’ desires as a means to achieve or finance their own desired ends—these are better known as CO-HO’s. (See: Piece-Activists, Sniggers, Massa’bators, BOHICANs, Purcheat, Greedy, Ho-Reps, Selfishness, NSA Position, Politicians & Racism White Supremacy)

massa’bating – the practice of a native Black American “coming” to terms with his or her Negrohood—or sell-out status—by mechanically stroking the pulsating ego of the massa’ and then jacking into the Matrix for his sole gratification, i.e., the continuance of global racism white supremacy. Just imagine taking off from Airstrip One flying around the world on Air Force One drinking some Victory gin with a buck-dancing massa’bator with a grimace that doubles for a grin. A male massa’bator cannot possibly be self-respecting as long as he is self-erecting the edifice of oppression through the self-protection of historical amnesia—forgetting where he has “come” from. Massa’bators give auto-eroticism a bad reputation by word association at the angle of incidence. Massa’bators always jump to get their Party members off—the hook that is, by taking the heat when political friction gets too hot for their masters as they vacillate back-and-forth. The one thing a massa’bator never comes to—is the conclusion that he or she is one. (See: CONDI, NSA Position & Coin-Operated)

NEVER NEVER PARTICIPATE IN GENOCIDE OR GENTHANASIA.

"Showcase Blacks" like Stephen A. Smith are high-profile blacks that are constantly paraded before the public. They may be political dignitaries, pro athletes, entertainers, educators, business people, judges or elected officials. Their real purpose is to mask the REALITY of being black in America. [MORE] They are rewarded handsomely for their activities by elite whites who control the media and the domain of discourse.

Showcase Blacks are a necessary illusion of the media, which Dr. Blynd calls  a "mind shampoo"- shaping the thoughts and understandings of Black people with miseducation about themselves and their environment giving them a false consciousness - a mind filled with lies, non-realities and self-hatred. 

Neely Fuller explains that Racial Shadow Boxing occurs when victims of racism (non-white people) are directly or indirectly, "assigned", bribed, coerced, and/or otherwise influenced, by the racists (white Supremacist), to speak or act to do harm to other victims of racism. White Supremacists oftentimes hide behind others whom they use as shadows of themselves. [MORE] Shadowboxing is a tool used by racists to filter out Blacks who are perceived as threatening [for some reason] to elite racist whites or who have fallen out of favor with them. Shadowboxing also is used to set the parameters or outer bounds of conduct & discussion by Blacks - conduct/speech deemed undesirable by racists is ridiculed [here, its Kyrie]. In contrast, showcase Blacks are rewarded with elevated status among their masters and promoted for their shenaniggerisms or sniggering conduct. 

In the system of white supremacy/racism Blacks are programmed to act and function like children with each other and most importantly in their roles with whites - who act as their functional parent, masters. [MORE] Childish, massa-bator Steven A is a probot full of fury and noise, signifying nothing except whatever he is told to parrot. He has spent a lifetime filling his mind with accumulated nonsense and argues about nothing day in and day out. 

After the White Liberal Run NBA Destroyed His Career, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Rejects Idea of Apology [Apology = a Trick to Manipulate, Reform the Offenders Image, Lay the foundation for Future Offenses]

WOW. A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX AS A BLACK PERSON WITH INTEGRITY WAS actually ON TELEVISION for a few minutes. IN PHOTO ABOVE, AN UNCOMFORTABLE MOMENT AS CRISS-CROSSED OVER, PROBOTIC BLACK PSYBORGS ON THE TODAY SHOW TRY TO RELATE TO CRAIG MELVIN’S STORY ABOUT AN AUTHENTIC BLACK PERSON.

According to FUNKTIONARY:

psyborgs – humanoids. (See: Humanoids, Probot, Recall Button, Mega-Frame & Proxymoron)

Humanoid – an arrested human life-wave incapable of mobilizing his/her own intentions or self-initiated actions. 2) anyone disposed to seek outside his/herself in order to intend a full action based on willed intent. 3) a self-servient, obedient, outward-looking, fearful, and bridled. 4) an ill-eased gang-member (by their paranoia ye shall know them). 5) a prematurely deadened and stiffened human being. 6) a human being sounding as if were still a spiritual be-ing human. 7) vacuous existence—fearful, suspicious and delusionary. “The consciousness of the humanoid is the consciousness of the slave.” ~ Thomas Hanna. (See: Authoritarian, Obedience, Slavery, HUGG LIFE, Meaning, Fear, Inner Work, Authority, Will, Free Will, Freedom, Awakening, Free-Range Slavery, Cultural Tyranny, Plectonath, Greater Work & WTFU!)

Borgs – human becomings who have been word-conditioned with the language shampoo of predictive programming to function as cells in a group-entity. We are living in a world inhabited by man-made machines and machine-made men. With the humanization of machines dominating the mechanization of man we have entered into a kind of dimensional insanity wherein madness underscores alien mutation. (See: Predictive Programming, Brainchipping, Instinct & Intellect)

PROP – People Running On Programs. You have been programmed. With few exceptions, we have all become “Rolebots” acting out our expectations communicated to and created within our psyche by society and the dominant culture. Prop is truncated for “propaganda.” We are “rolebots” (mechanical slaves to our programming) with our body-minds thinking, talking, and acting along conditioned paths (with predictable outcomes) unable or unwilling to edit or even remove (override) our head-tapes and deviate from our subroutines. (See: Rolebot, Cultural Conditioning, Religion, Indoctrination, Predictive Programming, Ideology, Language, Habits, Zombie, Slaptivity, Naptivity, Programming, Tradition & Approval)

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)