The Dependent Media Pretends "Democratic" Israel was Forced Into "War" w/Another Nation in Order to Conceal its Ongoing Holocaust Against its Own Citizens who Have No Army, Navy or Air Force

BASIC REALITY CONCEALED BY AUTHORITY AND THEIR MEDIA From [HERE] ‣Israel and Gaza are not separate countries. Gaza is a small territory mostly surrounded by Israel and whose borders Israel controls (directly or in the case of one crossing, indirectly).

• ‣Gaza is often called an “open-air prison” -- for good reason.

• ‣Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Palestinian Arabs peacefully shared the land before Israel was created in 1948.

• ‣Israel was founded in 1948 by forcing non-Jewish Palestinians off the land.

• ‣Israel has been taking over more Palestinian land ever since...

• ‣The two “sides” are not evenly matched.

• ‣Palestinians are killed at massively higher rates than Israelis, and this has always been true.

• ‣Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have often tried nonviolent resistance.

• ‣Numerous respected organizations have documented Israel’s systemic human rights abuses and violations of international law.

• ‣Israel relies on funding and diplomatic cover from the U.S. Its actions often harm the United States

• ‣On Oct. 7, hundreds broke out of Gaza, attacked Israeli soldiers & civilians, and some took hostages. Israel disseminated atrocity claims about the attack, many of them found to be without evidence and untrue.

• ‣Israel immediately began indiscriminately shelling Gaza, killing and maiming men, women, and children of all ages.

"Gaza isn't starving. Gaza is being starved by Israel." Videos Show Genocidal, Crazy IsrAlien "Settlers" Attack and Destroy Food on Aid Trucks Headed for Gaza

From [HERE] and [MORE]. US GOVERNMENT IS LYING TO YOU - IT KNOWS BARBARIC ISRALIENS ARE STOPPING AID. From targeting humanitarian vehicles to standing by as mobs attack trucks, Israel is blocking aid from reaching Gaza.

ON MONDAY, A mob of Israeli settlers attacked aid trucks carrying food supplies to Gaza. The extremists pillaged the cargo, destroying and smashing supplies desperately needed more than half a year into Israel’s assault on the besieged enclave. Israel’s police and military traded blame, each saying the other should have prevented it, but a senior security official told Haaretz that the rioters received “inside information about the trucks’ movement” from officers.

The incident is emblematic of a pattern that has played out repeatedly for months. Israelis, either vigilante extremists or state officials, block or outright attack humanitarian aid; the United States offers a milquetoast response or extends further favor to Israel; the violence continues and even ramps up. There is ample evidence of the Israeli government looking the other way as these attacks and obstructions on aid delivery play out. None of it is secret — much of it has been documented on camera and spread through social media. [MORE]

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Happening Now in the "Grazed New World:" Video Shows IsrAliens Holocausting Humans in the North of Gaza as Sheeple in the US Believe Whatever The Dependent Media Tells Them to Believe

From [HERE] and [HERE] 10 women, 10 children and 8 men slaughtеred after Israel bоmbеd a family home in north Gaza

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Hagana, the – “Eastern ‘European’ Caucasians “Jewish,” i.e. (Kazzarian), guerrillas who in cahoots with the Rothschild parasitic hoodlum dynasty and the Royal Throne & Flush British Crown, established the so-called State of Israel, currently occupying (holed up) on the land of Palestine. (See: War, Zionism, Ideology, Religion & Racism White Supremacy)

HOIST:  House Of Israelien State Terrorism. The imperial United States and Britain propped up (hoisted and foisted) the illegal terrorist group-cum war nation State and continues to keep it propped up with a kickstand of annual multi-billion “dollar” gifts in the form of “credit,” media support, weapons, arms, logistics, intelligence and technology. [MORE]

improperty – claims or rights to ownership of land, resources or wealth that was achieved through deception, fraud, force, manipulation, coercion, threat, duress or unethical means. For example, the USA is the Improperty of the Native Americans; the State of Israel is the Improperty of the people of Palestine—as the 12 Tribes of Israel mentioned in the Bible is an allegory and not historical whatsoever. Misunderstood mythology is responsible for so much of the violence and bloodshed carried out in the name of both truth and religion—especially religious truth. (See: Tradition, The Bible, Twelve Tribes, Violence, Religious Truth, Religious Virus, Chosen People, Israel, Greed & Racism White Supremacy)

Study by a Coalition of Academic Institutions says Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza

From [HERE] A ground-breaking study by a coalition of prestigious academic institutions has concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, constitute genocide against the Palestinian people. The study, conducted by the University Network for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School, presents a thorough legal analysis of Israel’s conduct in the context of the Genocide Convention of 1948.

The study found that Israel has committed genocidal acts of killing, causing serious harm to, and inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza, a protected group that forms a substantial part of the Palestinian people. Between 7 October last year and 1 May, 2024, Israel has killed at least 34,568 Palestinians and wounded 77,765 others in Gaza, comprising more than five per cent of Gaza’s population. Shockingly, over two per cent of Gaza’s children have been killed or injured, with approximately 14,500 Palestinian children killed in total.

The coalition’s report of the study also highlights the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including homes, hospitals, schools, UN facilities and cultural and religious heritage sites. As a result of Israel’s military offensive, 1.7 million civilians — over 75 per cent of Gaza’s population — have been forcibly displaced, and civilians face catastrophic levels of hunger and deprivation due to Israel’s restriction on access to basic essentials.

The report concludes that Israel’s genocidal acts in Gaza have been motivated by the requisite genocidal intent, as evidenced by statements from Israeli leaders expressing dehumanisation and cruelty towards Palestinians, as well as intentions to destroy and exterminate them. The patterns of conduct by Israeli military forces in Gaza further reinforce the finding of Israel’s genocidal intent, the report said.

The academic institutions call for an immediate cessation of Israel’s violations of the international legal prohibition of genocide and emphasise the obligations of all other states to refrain from recognising Israel’s breaches as legal, avoid complicity, and take positive steps to suppress, prevent, and punish further genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

[racism is not bigotry or mere words or name calling] US Agency Sues Exxon for Discrimination after Racists Hung Nooses at Plant in an Apparent Threat to Murder Black Workers

From [HERE] Exxon Mobil Corp was sued for racial discrimination by a U.S. federal agency on Thursday, with charges alleging that the oil major failed to protect workers from harassment after nooses were found at one of its facilities in 2020.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said in a statement that a Black employee at Exxon's chemical plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, found a hangman's noose at his work site in January 2020.

The EEOC said that at the time of this report, Exxon was already aware of three other such instances of nooses being displayed at the complex and a nearby refinery, and that a fifth noose was reported later in 2020.

According to the EEOC, Exxon investigated some of these incidents, but not all, and "failed to take measures reasonably calculated to end the harassment."

The federal agency alleged that Exxon's actions and omissions regarding the noose incidents "created a racially hostile work environment."

In Latest GOP Outreach Effort to the NGHR Voters [sleeping toms] Texas Governor Greg Abbott Pardons Racist Suspect Convicted in the 2020 Fatal Shooting of a Black Lives Matter Protester

From [HERE] Daniel Perry was convicted of murdering protester Garrett Foster in 2020, and has already been released from prison in Texas

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has officially pardoned U.S. Army Sgt. Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murdering Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster in 2020.

According to reports from the Austin American-Statesman, Perry — who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for Foster's murder in April 2023 — was released from prison in Rosharon, Texas, less than one hour after Abbott signed a pardon proclamation.

On Thursday, May 16, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles wrote in a statement that it recommended Perry to be pardoned on the murder conviction.

"The members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles delved into the intricacies of Perry’s case. The investigative efforts encompassed a meticulous review of permanent documents, from police reports to court records, witness statements, and interviews with individuals linked to the case," the statement reads in part.

"After a thorough examination of the amassed information, the parole board reached a decision on May 16, 2024. The Board voted unanimously to recommend a full pardon and restoration of firearm rights."

PLM [Puppetican Lives Matter]: Man who Attacked Nancy Pelosi's Husband Sentenced to 30 years in Prison

From [HERE] The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday sentenced the man who attacked former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband to thirty years imprisonment for assault and attempted kidnapping.

On October 31, 2022, David DePape was charged with the attempted kidnapping of Nancy Pelosi and the assault of her husband Paul Pelosi. The indictment alleged that DePape broke into Pelosi’s home and assaulted 82-year-old Paul with a hammer. It also stated that DePape admitted to the police that “[h]e planned to hold Speaker Pelosi hostage” to get the “truth” out of her and “would break ‘her kneecaps'” if she “lied” because Pelosi was the “‘leader of the pack’ of lies told by the Democratic Party.” On November 17, 2023, a jury convicted DePape on his charges.

The court gave concurrent sentences of 20 years of imprisonment for the attempted kidnapping and 30 years of imprisonment for the assault of Paul. The court also mandated five years of supervised release and a $200 fine.

In response to DePape’s sentencing, Pelosi’s spokesperson released a statement on X saying:

The Pelosi family couldn’t be prouder of their Pop and his tremendous courage in saving his own life on the night of the attack and in testifying in this case. Speaker Pelosi and her family are immensely grateful to all who have sent love and prayers over the last eighteen months, as Mr. Pelosi continues his recovery.

US Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey said in a press release after DePaul’s conviction: “Our public servants and their families deserve to work and live without threats and violence. Defendant’s violent plan to kidnap then-Speaker Pelosi was rooted in his virulent disagreement with her as a result of her official position … violence has no place in politics.“

5 yrs Later the Police Murder of Ronald Greene Still a Low Priority for Corpse Biden’s Justice Dept. White LA Cops Brutally Beat Shackled Black Man to Death w/Fists, Flashlights, Dragged Him Facedown

RONALD GREENE WAS A BLACK MAN WHO WAS TORTURED AND MURDERED BY WHITE TROOPERS IN LA. ON MAY 10, 2019, GREENE, WHO WAS UNARMED, DIED AFTER BEING ARRESTED BY LOUISIANA STATE POLICE FOLLOWING A HIGH-SPEED CHASE OUTSIDE MONROE, LOUISIANA. DURING THE ARREST, HE WAS STUNNED, PUNCHED, AND PLACED IN A CHOKEHOLD. HE WAS ALSO DRAGGED FACE DOWN WHILE HANDCUFFED AND SHACKLED, AND HE WAS LEFT FACE DOWN FOR AT LEAST NINE MINUTES. AT LEAST SIX WHITE TROOPERS WERE INVOLVED IN THE ARREST.

WHEN GREENE'S CORPSE WAS BROUGHT TO THE HOSPITAL, POLICE TOLD DOCTORS THAT HIS CAR HAD RUN INTO A TREE, A STORY A DOCTOR SAID "DOES NOT ADD UP", GIVEN THE NATURE OF GREENE'S INJURIES AND THE FACT THAT THERE WERE TWO STUN-GUN PROBES LODGED IN HIS BODY; POLICE LATER ACKNOWLEDGED THAT GREENE HAD DIED DURING A STRUGGLE, THOUGH WITHOUT MENTIONING ANY USE OF FORCE BY OFFICERS. ALTHOUGH AUTHORITIES REFUSED TO RELEASE BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE FOR TWO YEARS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OBTAINED AND PUBLISHED A PORTION OF IT IN MAY 2021. [MORE]

After White Cops Tortured/Brutally Murdered Ronald Green Uncivilized LA Authorities Hid Video/Reports, Begged DA Not to Charge, Lied About Cause of Death and Prevented Proper Autopsy. Feds Investigate

From [HERE] Mona Hardin has been waiting five long years for any resolution to the federal investigation into her son’s deadly arrest by Louisiana State Police troopers, an anguish only compounded by the fact that nearly every other major civil rights case during that time has passed her by.

The death of Ronald Greene in northern Louisiana on May 10, 2019, sparked outrage after The Associated Press published long-suppressed body-camera video showing white troopers converging on the Black motorist before stunning, beating and dragging him as he begged the racist suspects for his life.

Yet half a decade after Greene’s violent death, the federal investigation remains open and unresolved with no end in sight. And Hardin says she feels ghosted and forgotten by a Justice Department that no longer even returns her calls.

“Where’s Ronald Greene’s justice?” asked Hardin, who refuses to bury her son's cremated remains until she gets some measure of accountability. “I still have my boy in that urn, and that hurts me more than anything. We haven’t grieved the loss of Ronnie because we’ve been in battle.”

Justice Department spokesperson Aryele Bradford said the investigation remains ongoing and declined to provide further details.

Under federal law, no statute of limitations applies to potential civil rights charges in the case because Greene’s arrest was fatal. But prosecutors have wavered for years on whether to bring an indictment, having all but assured Greene’s family initially that an exhaustive FBI investigation would produce charges of some kind.

A federal prosecution seemed so imminent in 2022 that one state police supervisor told AP he expected to be indicted. The FBI had shifted its focus in those days from the troopers who left Greene handcuffed and facedown for more than nine minutes to state police brass suspected of obstructing justice by suppressing video evidence, quashing a detective’s recommendation to arrest a trooper and pressuring a state prosecutor.

Colorado Springs to Pay $2.1M After Slave Catcher Cops Beat Dalvin Gadson "Beyond Recognition" and Attempted to Murder Him to EnForce DUI Law. Black Veteran Pulled Over for Driving Slow on Empty Road

From [HERE] Colorado Springs city council members approved Tuesday a $2.1 million payment to settle a federal lawsuit against three police officers who were accused of beating a Black man “beyond recognition” during a traffic stop, leaving him with significant PTSD-like symptoms. 

Body camera footage released from the October 2022 stop shows officers telling Dalvin Gadson to get out of the car, after he was stopped for driving slowly and not having license plates. Gadson opens the driver’s side door, turns his body to face toward them and asks to stay seated inside.

The officers tell him he is under investigation for a DUI and needs to get out, but he objects. Then, an officer is seen reaching into the car to get him out and a struggle ensues. 

The federal lawsuit filed in 2022 alleges two officers punched Gadson in the face and one of them kneed him in the forehead, causing him to fall back into the car. 

Footage shows an officer punching Gadson repeatedly from the passenger side of the car. According to an arrest affidavit, the officer punched Gadson to prevent him from grabbing a 4-inch knife out of the console. The footage also shows an officer kick Gadson after he was pulled out of the car and on the ground. 

The settlement represented a milestone for Gadson and the people of Colorado Springs, Gadson’s attorneys said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. Gadson will continue to seek justice by working with the Department of Justice in its investigation of the incident, his attorneys said.

Gadson filed a civil rights complaint last year alleging the officers discriminated against him because of his race and used excessive force. 

“The settlement should stand as a warning to all those who think their badges entitle them to brutalize the men and women they’ve sworn to protect and serve. You are not above the law and if your own department refuses to hold you accountable, we will,” the attorneys wrote. [lol. Nothing like gullible Sleeping Toms. Authority, the implied power to rule over others is uncontrollable.]

The federal lawsuit names Colby J. Hickman, Matthew Anderson and Christopher Hummel for violating Gadson’s constitutional rights.

Prosecutors dismissed two felony assault charges against him and a misdemeanor charge for obstructing a peace officer and resisting arrest, online court records show. He pleaded guilty to a traffic offense for not having license plates properly displayed on his car. 

A Colorado Springs police spokesperson declined to comment on the settlement, but said all three officers were still employed by the department and are “in good standing.” 

Following an internal affairs investigation, Hummel received a 10-hour suspension for making “inappropriate and unprofessional” comments toward Gadson and was removed from his position as a police training officer, according to a July 2023 internal memo. Anderson was required to take a 10-hour training on the use of excessive force for failing to follow CSPD’s use of force policies. 

Video Shows NYPD Cops Shoot Win Rozari to Death in Front of His Mom/Brother as He Begged Cops Not to Shoot. AG Tish James Failed to File Charges [Negro Rolebot Only Serves Her Racist Liberal Masters]

From [HERE] The mother and brother of Win Rozario, a Queens teen in mental distress, begged police officers not to shoot before they fired multiple fatal rounds at him, according to video released by state Attorney General Letitia James on Friday. 

The distressing body camera footage — which took place in late March in Ozone Park after Rozario called 911 — comes less than a day after THE CITY reported the family was frustrated and had called on the police to release the videos and names of the officers.

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell has defended the killing, noting that the 19-year-old had grabbed a pair of scissors from a drawer and moved toward the officers.

The released footage confirms that, but it also shows how the situation rapidly escalated, with officers Matthew Cianfrocco and Salvatore Alongi tasing and then fatally shooting Rozario, all within three minutes of arriving at the home. The video released by the Attorney General’s Office lists only the officers’ last names.

On Friday afternoon, Rozario’s family said “the officers should be fired and prosecuted for murder as soon as possible.

“It’s been over a month since we lost Win,” the statement said. “And we miss him everyday.” 

Reliving the fatal shooting is “painful and traumatic” the family added, noting they wished the video didn’t need to be made public. 

“The video that was released makes it clear that Win should be alive but the police came and murdered him in our kitchen without any care for him or us,” the family said. “The police created a crisis and killed him in cold blood.” 

The [imaginary] "Right" to Film Police from a Distance Can't Be Found in Reality or in Liberal Richmond (CA): Race Soldier Cop Abandons Suspect to Threaten and Assault Black Man who was Filming Arrest

From [HERE] A disturbing video has been released showing police dismissing a high-speed chase to attack a Black bystander filming the scene on a public street in California.

On May 5, Richmond police followed a speeding driver who parked outside of a store so he and the car’s passenger could step out of the vehicle and surrender to authorities, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Kwesi Guss had filmed police-related incidents before as a bystander and was nearby when he heard sirens. So, he pulled out his phone and planned to record what was happening, but ended up in the throes of the mess himself. The Richmond police redirected their focus from the high-speed chase.

In security footage from the store of the incident the Chronicle uploaded to YouTube, a police cruiser pulls up to the sidewalk next to a man—identified as Guss—holding a phone. An officer who was driving the cruiser, rather than running forward to the parked car from the chase, runs around the back of the cruiser and into Guss while approaching the other officers on the scene.

“Get out of the fucking way,” the officer directed to Guss, according to the Chronicle.

“Shut your bitch ass up,” Guss reportedly replied.

The officer circles back around towards Guss, tells him to repeat what he said, and shoves him five times, causing Guss to stumble, before a woman runs over to intervene.

An officer who was already at the location, runs from one of the other police cruisers towards the scuffle, but the original officer continues to push Guss. The assisting cop pulls Guss’ left arm back to aid the first officer in handcuffing him and kicks Guss in the ankle to make him kneel on the ground.

The video does not have audio.

“I felt the asphalt just cutting in my face,” Guss said, according to the Chronicle.

The news outlet reported that Guss endured cheek abrasion and bruised ribs and that the handcuffs were so tight that they were digging into his wrists. Guss said officers “manhandl[ed]” him because they claimed he was resisting. However, he said he “wasn’t moving.”

The Richmond Police Department did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment Thursday.

White MI Trooper Murders Fleeing Black Man by Intentionally Crushing Him w/Minivan: Cop Drove Onto Sidewalk and Violently Struck Samuel Sterling. Cops Stymied Aid by Handcuffing Him in Torturous Death

From [HERE] and [HERE] The family of a Black man who was killed after he was struck by an unmarked police mini-van in Michigan spoke out on Saturday after body camera footage of the incident was released by investigators. All the cops involved were white.

Michigan State Police said it handed over its investigative report and all evidence to the state attorney general's office concerning the April 17 death of Samuel Sterling, who was being pursued by officers in Kentwood for outstanding warrants.

Sterling, 25, allegedly fled when officers approached him at a gas station and was hit by an unmarked Michigan State Police car after officers converged on him at a parking lot of a nearby Burger King, police claim. He died later in the day at the hospital.

The body camera footage released Friday showed officers rushing to Sterling on the ground after he was hit moaning in pain and said he did not have a gun. The unmarked police vehicle is seen up on a curb next to the restaurant in front of Sterling.

Attorney Ven Johnson, an attorney representing Sterling's family, said in a statement to ABC News that they were "stunned and appalled to see the MSP trooper deliberately drive over a curb - onto a sidewalk - and violently take Samuel’s life by striking him with an unmarked police car."

"No one person should be able to appoint themselves as judge, jury and executioner, yet deaths from police brutality and excessive force continue to occur too often," Johnson added.

Officers are seen putting handcuffs on Sterling and telling firefighters who responded to the scene to keep the cuffs on.

The footage released Friday came from three agencies who were part of the fugitive task force -- Michigan State Police, Grand Rapids Police Department and Wyoming Police Department -- and included footage from four sources, three officers' body camera footage and one dash camera from a police vehicle, Michigan State Police said.

"I assure the Sterling and Cage families and the communities we serve that we will continue to be transparent in this investigation and will fully cooperate with the Michigan Department of Attorney General as they begin their review," MSP director Col. James F. Grady II, who met with the family Friday, said in a statement.

The state police trooper who was driving the vehicle that hit Sterling was not wearing a body camera and his vehicle did not have a dash camera "due to his assignment on a federal task force," Michigan State Police said in a statement.

The state police launched an investigation into the incident and suspended the trooper -- whose identity has not been revealed because of the probe -- without pay.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel will review the police report and evidence and decide if any charges are warranted.

"My public integrity unit has investigated dozens of police-involved incidents and is dedicated to providing a thorough and just review and resolution in each one," Nessel said in a statement last month.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement Friday that Sterling's death was "unacceptable" and called for the termination of the officer if charges are issued.

"I have full faith that her office will work quickly to arrive at a fair and just decision as to whether criminal charges are appropriate," the governor said of Nessel.

3 Alameda Officers are Charged w/Involuntary Manslaughter for Their Murder of Mario Gonzalez: Latino Man Hadn't Committed a Crime When White Cops Smothered Him to Death as He Begged for Life

From [HERE] The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in California announced charges on Thursday against three City of Alameda police officers for involuntary manslaughter of detainee Mario Gonzalez.

The incident that ended in Mr. Gonzalez’s death began when the officers responded to a call that a man was loitering and behaving strangely in a public park on April 19, 2021.

Mr. Gonzalez was wandering at the edge of the park, near a row of houses - not harming anyone or any property. Body camera footage captured Officer McKinley approaching Mr. Gonzalez in a polite manner, asking him if he was Ok [racists and authorities are often very polite when they practice racism and/or deception or violence] Mr. Gonzalez spoke incoherently, standing near two shopping baskets of liquor bottles. [standing near baskets of booze isn’t a crime - but it made an impression on white ”journalists” at the NY Times who parrot whatever police tell them]

When a second officer arrived, the encounter escalated, as the men asked Mr. Gonzalez repeatedly for his name and identification. They grabbed his arms, and Mr. Gonzalez began to cry out. The officers brought him to the ground and held him there face down, a restraint technique that is known to pose a risk to a person’s ability to breathe. Gonzalez then died at the scene.

In other words, the police acted without the authority of a warrant and there was no basis for the stop or detention and there was no reasonable and articulable suspicion that Mario loitered or otherwise interfered with anyone or any property. As, such the white cops violated Mario’s so-called “4th Amendment rights” - if you believe in the existence of such things.

An initial investigation did not find any police misconduct. The autopsy pointed to methamphetamine as the cause of death, with stress from the restraint, obesity and alcoholism as contributing factors. But the District Attorney’s Office reopened the case later, and a second autopsy pointed to asphyxiation from the restraint as the cause of death.

The District Attorney’s Office charged the officers with involuntary manslaughter under section 192(b) of the California Penal Code. That statute criminalizes “the unlawful killing of a human being without malice … in the commission of a lawful act which might product death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection.” That means the prosecutors need to prove that the officers were negligent in restraining Gonzalez and that the restraint caused his death.

'Outrageously escalatory' behavior from Provocative Chicago Cops After Bullshit “Seatbelt Stop” left Dexter Reed Dead, family says in Lawsuit

From [HERE] The family of a Black man killed in a barrage of bullets by Chicago police filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging the officers involved were “outrageously escalatory” in the traffic stop that left motorist Dexter Reed dead and an officer wounded.

The lawsuit against the City of Chicago and the five officers involved in pulling Reed, 26, over on March 21 outlines 17 counts, including three counts of excessive force, wrongful death, and two violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act that hints at a key part of Reed’s past.

The 81-page filing obtained and reviewed by USA TODAY is the latest development in the case that has sparked controversy in the city ever since Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability released footage of the traffic stop.

"Officers who initially approached Dexter’s vehicle were outrageously escalatory," the lawsuit says, adding they used "wildly disproportionate force against Dexter — repeatedly shooting at him even when he clearly presented no threat."

The city has said Reed had a gun and fired first. Chicago’s Law Department said Wednesday that the "city has not been served with the complaint and does not comment on pending litigation."

Seat belt check [4th Amendment is Imaginary]

The story of Reed’s death begins with five Chicago Police officers pulling over the 26-year-old for a seatbelt violation, according to officials. Reed didn’t comply with officers and the situation escalated, according to bodycam footage reviewed by USA TODAY.

Reed fired first and officers responded with as many as 96 shots in 41 seconds, the police accountability office said. Reed was awaiting trial in a gun case, Cook County court records show, and he had a gun, his lawyers said.

A bullet grazed one of the officers in the shooting, according to the lawsuit. But it does not clearly say Reed fired the bullet, saying the officer was hit "at some point either before or after" the other officers began shooting.

Regardless, how the traffic stop unfolded has caused an uproar. The head of the city’s accountability board questioned the truthfulness of the officers involved; the officers have a history of complaints, according to records USA TODAY obtained via FOIA request; and bodycam footage of the shooting shows officers firing on an apparently unarmed and down Reed.

2 counts of 'willful and wanton conduct'

The lawsuit, brought by Reed’s mother Nicole Banks, lists 17 counts; 8 are against the city and the rest are against the officers.

The counts against the officers are making an unconstitutional traffic stop; three counts of excessive force; denial of medical care after Reed was shot; two counts of "willful and wanton conduct" for escalatory behavior and wrongful death; assault; battery; and two counts against the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The ADA charges are based on Reed experiencing PTSD, according to the lawsuit.

The counts against the city include one for a pattern of “unconstitutional traffic stops,” for a pattern of “excessive and escalatory force” and a violation against the Civil Rights Act for targeting Reed, who was Black. [MORE]

Jury of Sheeple Found it Reasonable for Chula Vista Cops to Kill Oral Nunis While Forcing Him to Get Mental Health Services: Cops Put Frail 5’4 Black Man in WRAP Device, Spit Hood and Suffocated Him

From [HERE] A San Diego federal jury has ruled in favor of a group of Chula Vista police officers in a civil trial alleging excessive force was used by the officers while responding to a mental health call, resulting in a Black man’s death.

In a verdict returned Tuesday afternoon, jurors found that four responding officers were not negligent and did not use excessive force against 56-year-old Oral Nunis, whose family members called 911 on March 13, 2020, after he tried to jump from a second-story window at his daughter’s home.

Attorneys representing the family argued Nunis calmed down and was willing to leave the home with police to undergo a mental health evaluation, but became agitated when the first responding officer insisted on handcuffing him.

Nunis then ran out of the home, where he was subdued and held on the ground by a group of officers. A restraint device called a WRAP was placed on Nunis, as well as a mesh spit hood.

Nunis was later moved into an ambulance but stopped breathing, went into cardiac arrest, and later died at a hospital. No drugs or alcohol were detected in his system.

Anthony Sain, an attorney representing the city of Chula Vista, told jurors that based on what was reported to officers during the 911 call and how Nunis acted after officers arrived, the officers acted reasonably.

Sain said that before any officers arrived, they were told Nunis had physically struggled with his own family members as they tried to prevent him from leaping out of the window.

The attorney said “5150” calls, in which a person can be involuntarily detained while in the midst of a mental health crisis, are among the most dangerous ones officers face, can easily turn violent, and that “securing” the person as quickly as possible is in line with police training.

Once outside the home, Nunis wasn’t complying with officers’ commands and was physically combative, Sain said. Though the officers outweighed the diminutive Nunis, who stood at about 5 feet, 4 inches tall, Sain argued that Nunis was able to fight and struggle with the officers for several minutes.

The family’s attorneys argued the officers didn’t follow proper protocols for dealing with someone undergoing a mental health crisis and that they ignored the risks associated with positional asphyxia by pinning Nunis to the ground.

Sain argued that a medical examiner ruled out asphyxia as a contributing factor, and that the WRAP device and spit hood do not constrict breathing. Instead, Sain argued Nunis’ death was caused instead by exertion and stress, stating that by struggling with the officers, he “fought so hard that he overtaxed his body.”

In 2021, the District Attorney’s Office announced that no criminal charges would be brought against any of the officers involved.

No Matter what the Constitution says Blacks are Prohibited from Possessing Guns: White FLA Cop Shot a Black Man to Death Seconds After He Opened Front Door w/a Gun @ His Side, Had Committed No Crime

The quality of Black citizenship is so low that; no matter what the law says, Blacks are prohibited from possessing guns, Blacks are subject to omnipresent interference by cops with their freedom of movement and their right to be left the fuck alone, Black people are 3 times more likely than whites to be murdered by cops and the police have no legal duty to protect any particular citizen from harm unless they are in custody (“the public duty doctrine”). Said factors exist in a legal context in which law enforcement is uncontrollable by citizens, generally unaccountable to them, can’t be hired or fired by citizens and has irresponsible, limitless power over people to take life on the street as they see fit while providing a compulsory “service” that citizens have no “right” to decline.

2ND AMENDMENT FOR WHITES ONLY From [HERE] Under mounting pressure to offer a justification for the fatal police shooting of a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman in his own apartment last week, a Florida sheriff on Thursday released body camera footage of the deadly encounter.

The footage shows Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, answering the door of his apartment in the Florida Panhandle and immediately being shot by a White deputy from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The video also shows that Airman Fortson was holding a gun at his side, within split seconds the white cop began firing.

When the officer seized the Black man he was not under arrest and had not committed any crime.

The footage released Thursday shows that the deputy, who has not been identified, had been told by a woman at the apartment complex in Fort Walton Beach, in the Florida Panhandle, that he should go to apartment No. 1401 because of an apparent domestic dispute there.

It is unclear who the woman is, why the deputy had been called in the first place and whether the apartment number was correctly identified.

When the deputy arrives at Apartment 1401, the footage shows, he first knocks without identifying himself. He then knocks again, says, “Sheriff’s office, open the door,” and steps away from the door.

Seconds later, the deputy shifts to the other side of the door, knocks and announces himself again, the footage shows.

Airman Fortson then opens the door, holding in his right hand a gun that appears to be pointed downward. The deputy says, “Step back,” and then fires several times at the airman, who raises his left hand in front of his chest, according to the footage.

After Airman Fortson falls back, the deputy yells, “Drop the gun!”

“I don’t have it,” Airman Fortson replies.

The deputy calls in emergency medical services and tells Airman Fortson, “Do not move.”

Mr. Crump said on Thursday that Airman Fortson was shot six times and that he was alone in his apartment.

9th Circuit Court Rules that Laws Prohibiting People w/Non-Violent Convictions from Possessing Guns Violate the 2nd Amendment b/c People Have The Right to Carry Arms in Public for Self-Defense

From [HERE] Yesterday, in United States v. Duarte, No. 22-50048 (9th Cir. May 9, 2024) (available here(link is external)), a split panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that  under New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to Duarte, a non-violent offender who has served his time in prison and reentered society. The opinion, written by Judge Bea and joined by Judge VanDyke, begins:

       18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) makes it a crime for any person to possess a firearm if he has been convicted of an offense “punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.” Steven Duarte, who has five prior non-violent state criminal convictions—all punishable for more than a year— was charged and convicted under § 922(g)(1) after police saw him toss a handgun out of the window of a moving car. Duarte now challenges the constitutionality of his conviction. He argues that, under the Supreme Court’s recent decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to him, a non-violent offender who has served his time in prison and reentered society. We agree.

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      At step one of Bruen, we easily conclude that Duarte’s weapon, a handgun, is an “arm” within the meaning of the Second Amendment’s text and that Duarte’s “proposed course of conduct—carrying [a] handgun[] publicly for selfdefense”— falls within the Second Amendment’s plain language, two points the Government never disputes. Bruen, 597 U.S. at 32. The Government argues only that “the people” in the Second Amendment excludes felons like Duarte because they are not members of the “virtuous” citizenry. We do not share that view. Bruen and Heller foreclose that argument because both recognized the “strong presumption” that the text of the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms that belongs to “all Americans,” not an “unspecified subset.”Bruen, 597 U.S. at 70 (quoting District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 581 (2008)). Our own analysis of the Second Amendment’s publicly understood meaning also confirms that the right to keep and bear arms was every citizen’s fundamental right. Because Duarte is an American citizen, he is “part of ‘the people’ whom the Second Amendment protects.” Bruen, 597 U.S. at 32.

     At Bruen’s second step, we conclude that the Government has failed to prove that § 922(g)(1)’s categorical prohibition, as applied to Duarte, “is part of the historical tradition that delimits the outer bounds of the” Second Amendment right. Bruen, 597 U.S. at 19. The Government put forward no “well-established and representative historical analogue” that “impose[d] a comparable burden on the right of armed self-defense” that was “comparably justified” as compared to § 922(g)(1)’s sweeping, no-exception, lifelong ban. Id. at 29, 30. We therefore vacate Duarte’s conviction and reverse the district court’s judgment entering the same.

Judge Smith's dissent starts this way: 

     Whether felons have a Second Amendment right to bear arms is settled in our circuit. They do not. United States v. Vongxay, 594 F.3d 1111, 1115 (9th Cir. 2010). Until an intervening higher authority that is clearly irreconcilable with Vongxay is handed down, we, as a three-judge panel, are bound by that decision. See Miller v. Gammie, 335 F.3d 889, 893 (9th Cir. 2003).

    The Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), did not overrule Vongxay. Instead, Bruen reiterates that the Second Amendment right belongs only to law-abiding citizens. Duarte’s Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), as applied to nonviolent offenders, is therefore foreclosed. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.

Due Process Only for the Wealthy: Supreme Court Says After an Arrest, Cops Can Seize Your Car Without a Hearing. Car Owners Can Challenge the Seizure in Court - If They Can Afford to Do $So

If you lend your car to a family member or friend who is stopped and arrested for drug charges while driving your car in Alabama, state law permits seizure of a car “incident to an arrest” so long as the state then “promptly” initiates a forfeiture case.  

In Culley v. Marshall, No. 22-585 (May 9, 2024)(link is external), the Court considered what test should district courts apply to determine whether a state or local government must provide a preliminary hearing to someone who has had property seized under a civil asset forfeiture law. In a 6 to 3 opinion delivered by Justice Kavanaugh, joined by Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and BarrettJ. The Court held:

When police seize and then seek civil forfeiture of a car that was used to commit a drug offense, the Constitution requires a timely forfeiture hearing. The question here is whether the Constitution also requires a separate preliminary hearing to determine whether the police may retain the car pending the forfeiture hearing. This Court’s precedents establish that the answer is no: The Constitution requires a timely forfeiture hearing; the Constitution does not also require a separate preliminary hearing.

Justice Gorsuch also filed a concurring opinion, joined by Justice Thomas. Justice Sotomayor dissented, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson. The dissenters criticize the majority's adoption of a universal rule that due process never requires the minimal check of a retention hearing before a police officer deprives an innocent owner of her car for months or years. The majority's rule "cannot be squared with the context-specific analysis that th[e] Court's due process doctrine requires." The majority's rule ignores the reality that police often have financial incentives to seize cars, hold them indefinitely, and then rely on an owner's lack of resources to forfeit those cars to fund agency budgets, all without any initial check by a judge as to whehter there is a basis to hold the car in the first place. What's more, "officers have a financial incentive to target marginalized groups, such as low-income communities of color, who are less likely to have the resources to challenge the forfeiture in court."  Given the diverse schemes adopted by states, some with adequate safeguards and some without, the dissenters argue the Court "should have identified the applicable due process test and left lower courts the flexibility to apply the appropriate test in these myriad circumstances." [MORE]