Elites at Big Pharma Pay Fact Checkers such as FactCheck.Org to Lie About the Safety of COVID Injections, thereby Destroying Informed Consent

From [HERE] FactCheck.org, the organization that flags “misleading” COVID-19 content for Facebook, is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropic organization funded by pharmaceutical giant and vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson (J&J), YouTube commentator Jimmy Dore reported.

Dore said his own shows have often been slapped with a “misleading” label when he covered issues related to COVID-19 or vaccines.

“These fact check organizations aren’t there to check facts,” Dore said. “They’re there to push a political point of view and an agenda and to discredit people.”

Dore said when the organization “fact-checked” his work in the past, its claims were always “bogus.” He said FactCheck.org never reached out to consult him about his content, it twisted his words and it never even pointed to any erroneous facts.

Instead, he said, “They didn’t like my headlines,” and they would say they were misleading.

Johnson & Johnson’s viral vector COVID-19 vaccine received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in February 2021. After the shot was linked to dangerous blood clots, its use was suspended a couple of months later and it was eventually completely pulled from the market in May 2023.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was established in 1952 by Robert Wood Johnson II, who ran J&J with a bequest of shares from the pharmaceutical giant. Today, although the foundation says it has diversified its holdings, it holds nearly $2 billion in J&J stock. [MORE]

New Map Shows Police are Primarily Killing Black People in Cities Controlled by Elite White Liberals and Doing so in Substantial Numbers. In Chicago Blacks are 30X more likely to be Killed than Whites

From [HERE] Nearly 13,400 people have been killed by law enforcement in the United States since 2013 — around 7% of the nation's homicides, according to new data released by the advocacy group Campaign Zero.

Not only does the data show a surge in killings by law enforcement since 2013, but Campaign Zero's new "Mapping Police Violence" shows specific neighborhoods in Chicago and St. Louis, with large Black populations, have a massively high proportion of killings.

Mapping Police Violence stated that it will be releasing neighborhood-level data for more U.S. cities over the next year. 

The big picture: The detailed neighborhood-level analysis reviewed by Axios suggests aggressive policing in areas with significantly higher percentages of Black, Latino and Native American residents is leading to more killings by police.

• For example, the Campaign Zero data show Black Americans were 2.9 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement in the U.S. than the general population from 2013 to July 23, 2024. 2023 was the deadliest year for people killed by law enforcement, with 1,352 police killings, according to the database.

• CHICAGO: Black residents in Chicago are 30.6 times more likely to be killed than White residents with massively higher portions of police shootings on certain streets and neighborhoods, the analysis found

  • Despite Black people comprising only 29% of the population, 76% of people killed by law enforcement were Black (excluding incidents where race is unknown).

• ST LOUIS: Black Americans also were 10.5 times more likely to be killed than White Americans in St. Louis, with higher portions of police shootings on certain streets and neighborhoods.

Despite Black people comprising only 43% of the population, 81% of people killed by law enforcement were Black (excluding incidents where race is unknown).

• NATIVE AMERICANS/LATINOS: The new mapping also shows how Native Americans and Hispanic residents were more likely to be shot by police in rural areas.

  • The map gives clues to the high number of Native Americans and Latinos killed by law enforcement in New Mexico's Four Corners region that borders the Navajo Nation.

  How it works: The database examines any incident where a law enforcement officer, whether off-duty or on-duty, uses lethal force, resulting in someone's death, regardless of whether the death is ruled "justified" or "unjustified."

  AUTHORITY KILLS: The database found that law enforcement killed an average of 1,147 people per year from 2013 to July 2023, with Black Americans accounting for 28% of those deaths nationally.

  • Black people in the U.S. are 2.9 times more likely than the general population to be killed by law enforcement.

  • The average age of a person killed by law enforcement in the U.S. is 37 years old — 33 for Black people and 44 for White people.[MORE]

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

TO SEE THE ACTUAL MAP CLICK ON IT. THE BLUE DOTS REPRESENT BLACK PEOPLE. ACCORDING TO MAPPING POLICE VIOLENCE, From 2013-2023, US law enforcement killed 1147 people per year. Despite Black people comprising only 13% of the population in the US, 28.2% of people killed by law enforcement (excluding incidents where race is unknown). This means that Black people are 2.9x more likely to be killed by law enforcement in the US. The average age of a person killed by law enforcement in the US is 37 years old (33 for Black people and 44 for white people).

The map appears to show that police are primarily killing Black people in cities controlled by elite white liberals and police are doing so in substantial numbers. Look at the highlighted areas on the map showing where police kill Blacks; Sacramento, San Francisco, LA, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Houston, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Madison, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Atlanta, Jacksonville, NYC, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, New Orleans, Miami and others.

In the above stated cities, liberal Democrats control nearly all levels and branches of government and control all local government agencies, such as police departments. Consequently, if liberal democrats really wanted to do something meaningful about police brutality - that is, controlling their own cops’ behavior in their relations with its Black and Latino residents, then the elite white liberal leadership could and would have done so at some point over the past 40-50 years. Contrary to ‘get out the vote’ rhetoric, the quality of Black citizenship stays low in these places and it does so despite high turnout by the black votary. In liberal jurisdictions, elite liberals and their “academented” Black rolebots dogmatically claim that voting will solve all their problems. Yet Black people’s so-called “rights” are tuned on and off like light switches in said jurisdictions where police surveil, stop, detain and search law abiding Black people’s clothing, their cars and generally interfere with their freedom of movement as they attempt to go about their daily lives. In such liberal places cops have mauled, injured and put thousands of Black people into greater confinement and also murdered hundreds of other Black and Brown people with impunity. The Black votary should be aware of this because it is happening right in front of their faces and has been for decades. In St. Louis for example, now and when police murdered Michael Brown, liberal democrats dominated the area’s politics with a liberal; Governor (Jay Nixon), U.S. Senator (Claire McCaskill), State Attorney General (Chris Koster), St. Louis Mayor (Francis Slay) and liberal Prosecutor Robert McCulloch. The Democratic Party has dominated St. Louis city politics for decades. The city has not had a Republican mayor since 1949 and the last time a Republican was elected to another citywide office was in the 1970s. At the federal level, in Missouri's 1st congressional district, a Republican has not represented a significant portion of St. Louis in the U.S. House since 1953. [MORE] Yet as the findings indicate above, police kill Blacks with impunity in St. Louis. What’s holding the dem apparatus back?

BARK & CLAP POLITRICKS: Like fans at an intense sporting event, a lathered up and passionate black votary acts like they have everything to lose at election time - but when the election is over they get nothing - and it is the same after every game, every year for decades. The Black electorant expects nothing in return for its vote as it goes on dutifully and robotically fulfilling its servant role. MOTIVATED SOLELY BY IRRATIONAL AND MANUFACTURED FEAR. [MORE] DR. AMOS WILSON EXPLAINED, Elite whites remain in control by keeping Black people in a state of mental maladaptiveness - maintaining this mental state is a political, social necessity, Black people must be literally kept out of their minds - and they are. [MORE]

Amos Wilson: Is Black America Dying of Natural Causes or Strangulation by White Supremacy/Racism?

Here, white liberals and their black followers may hallucinate that cities like Memphis, Baltimore, Atlanta and DC are not actually run by white liberals and may claim they are in fact run by Blacks themselves. However, whether a city is controlled by elite white liberals” has nothing to do with the number of elected black officials or appointed black authorities in a given jurisdiction. In reality, Black people function as “a powerless class” having no power independent of elite whites. Rather, in all liberal jurisdictions where blacks reside, elite whites control and own all major resources (such as banks, local mainstream media, major real estate, ports, utilities, large corporations and businesses, major industry, major non-profits, unions, hospitals, etc) and anything else of substantial material value. Neely Fuller explains, ‘in a socio-material system dominated by wealthy, powerful racists, all major decisions involving non-white people are made by elite racists. In such places elite white liberals function as the major decision makers in regards to what happens or does not happen to non-white people, particularly blacks and latinos. Elite racists are their employers, landlords, creditors, land owners, bosses and major decision-makers. Whatever a Black person gets, and/or is allowed to keep, is the result of decisions made by elite racists. This is the functional meaning of White Supremacy (Racism) that many Black people prefer not to acknowledge. [MORE] Thus, in their direct or indirect relations with elite white liberals, most black people function as their employees, workers, consumers, helpers, servants, tenants, patients, clients and customers. Contrary to liberal whitenology, racists seek to dominate non-white people - hate has little to do with it, as master-servant relations are the gravamen of the system of racism white supremacy - not mere bigotry.

The above map is part of mounting evidence that voting for liberals and supporting their causes has been a complete disaster for Blacks. Dr. Frances Cress Welsing explained Black people are currently in a “losing streak that is centuries long.” Electoral politics, participating in retail politics and voting in general has had no meaningful or tangible impact on the white over Black system of vast unequal power. In reality, as explained by Dr. Wilson, very few, if any, of the major political, economic and social goals achieved by Black America, including the Voting Rights Act, were accomplished through Black voting prowess. The ballot box has been a relatively impotent weapon in the achievement of major victories by the Black community.

Elite white liberals are especially clowning Blacks. Fuller emphasizes that racism is primarily carried out by deception and that elite racists are “masters of deceit” and are “masterful liars.” More specifically, Dr. Wilson explains, the principal ideological goal of elite racists is to manufacture Black people’s consent to their own domination. He states, elite racists seek “to legiti­mate and justify their superordinate position and power; generate the evidence which substantiates their claims to power and legitimacy; have their rule and domination appear inevitable and "natural," i.e., not the result of deliberate, perhaps malicious intentions on their part; gain the "freely given" consent of Afrikan Americans to subordi­nation to White Power; and to continuously reproduce the conditions of Afrikan American community dependency and relative powerlessness.” Here, elites have deceived Black sheeple and caused them to misperceive elite white liberals as their political allies because they generally appear to be non-hateful and friendly to them. With such a profound and delusional misunderstanding about racism white supremacy, sleeping toms seek to have consensual relations with friendly looking, polite, well behaved and racist liberal; representatives landlords, police, judges, prosecutors, school administrators, employers, bank officials, neighbors, real estate and others who dominate them in all areas of people activity and keep them in a continuous state of checkmate decade after decade, unbeknownst to them.

Is the 4th Amendment a 2nd Class Right or Just Imaginary for Black Residents in Liberal Chicago? Before Cops Massacred Dexter Reed, They Made 50 Other Predatory Traffic Stops in 3 Days

HIGH QUALITY, MANDATORY PUBLIC SERVICE FROM RACISTS From [HERE] In the days and hours before police murdered Dexter Reed, tactical police officers conducted dozens of uneventful traffic stops on Chicago’s West Side — none of which appear to have generated so much as a ticket.

As the Civilian Office of Police Accountability continues to investigate the March 21 shooting and the traffic stop that sparked it, the oversight agency has also launched a probe to determine whether those other stops were “unjustified,” records show.

Body-camera footage obtained by the Sun-Times shows that five officers who were involved in the shooting conducted 50 traffic stops between March 19 and March 21, including eight stops that were made in the roughly three hours before they encountered Reed in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Street.

In the wake of the shooting, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling has pushed to overhaul the department’s controversial traffic stop practices under an ongoing federal consent decree. 

Advocates and activists argue the pace of court-ordered reform is too slow to address a pressing issue that was brought into sharp focus when Reed was fatally shot. Many have called on the department to immediately disband its tactical units and to stop using traffic stops as an excuse to conduct searches.

Reed was boxed in by two unmarked police SUVs, then resisted orders and shot one of the officers. The four other cops fired back, firing nearly 100 rounds, striking Reed 13 times, according to COPA and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

It’s still unclear why he was pulled over.

Still No Charges in Chicago Cops' Massacre of Dexter Reed, Shot 96X After Unlawful Stop. Amended Complaint says Cops Continued Shooting Unarmed Black Man as he Exited Car and as He Laid in the Street

ACLU says Pervasive Mass Traffic Stops are "Urgent Problem" in Chicago as Cops Arbitrarily Interfere w/Black Peoples Freedom of Movement. An Increase of 90,000 to 500,000 Stops a Year from 2016-2023

COPA has questioned whether police officials lied when they attributed the stop to a seat belt violation. More recently, city lawyers fighting a lawsuit brought by Reed’s mother have instead cited the tinted windows on Reed’s SUV.

The newly released body-camera footage shows the five officers repeatedly stopped people for both those reasons, as well as for moving violations and smoking weed. But in some cases, they didn’t appear to provide any explanation for stopping and searching people.

None of the searches appeared to result in a traffic ticket, much less a felony arrest.

Meanwhile, COPA has opened a separate investigation into another shooting incident that happened a day before Reed was killed. As the five tactical officers responded to a block where a group of people had congregated, another cop shot and killed a charging dog, angering residents.

“We don’t do nothing. Every day, we stand here getting stopped and frisked,” one person is heard saying in the body-camera footage.

The videos would seem to support criticism that heavy-handed traffic enforcement seldom leads to arrests for more serious crime. The ACLU of Illinois last year filed a lawsuit against the city on behalf of Black and Brown motorists who are stopped at much higher rates than drivers in predominantly white neighborhoods.

The practice of using traffic violations as a pretext to search vehicles and their passengers began in 2016 after the Chicago Police Department curtailed pedestrian stops under a settlement with the ACLU. The number of traffic stops rose from fewer than 100,000 in 2015 to a peak of 600,000 in 2019, after which stops dropped dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to data cited in the lawsuit, fewer than 1% of all stops made by CPD officers result in police finding drugs or weapons. The Harrison District, where Reed was shot, has the highest number of shootings per capita in the city and has led the city in total traffic stops.

Did Chicago Cops Wearing Hoodies in Unmarked Car Stop Dexter Reed b/c of a Seatbelt, Tints or b/c He was Black? Liar Cops Change Their Story, None Charged So Far in Massacre of Black Man, Shot at 96X

From [HERE] There was a hearing Wednesday on the civil lawsuit filed in the Chicago police shooting death of Dexter Reed during a traffic stop.

Plainclothes officers wearing hoodies shot and killed Reed, 26, on March 21 after a traffic stop in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Street by police in an unmarked vehicle without sirens or lights.

Authorities and their media claim Reed shot fired a bullet that grazed one of the officers but the lawsuit 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. Then four officers shot about 96 times in 41 seconds, according the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. On video officers are seen firing at Reed even as he laid on the ground.[MORE]

The city originally said officers pulled Reed over because he wasn't wearing a seat belt. Now they claim he was pulled over for tinted windows.

"Why are the lawyers now saying, 'Oh, it wasn't for a seatbelt. It was for tinted windows,'" said Shelia Bedi with the Northwestern School of Law and Community Justice Civil Rights Clinic.

Reed's white SUV did have tinted side windows in the front, which is why Andrea Kersten, Chief Administrator for the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, known as COPA, sharply questioned during her initial investigation how officers were able to see a seat belt violation through the tinted windows.

"The fact that these officers are now changing their story and and are now offering a justification for the stop doesn't change anything about the core of this civil rights lawsuit," Bedi said.

According to the complaint:

II. DEFENDANT OFFICERS CONDUCTED AN UNLA WFUL, PRETEXTUAL STOP OF DEXTER REED.

29. On the evening of March 21, 2024, at approximately 6:00 PM, Dexter drove his recently purchased white SUV on Ferdinand Street, in the City of Chicago. The weather was clear and it was still daylight. Dexter stopped his vehicle at a red light at the intersection of Hamlin and Ferdinand, facing westbound. When the light turned green, Dexter drove through the intersection and traveled westbound onto the 3800 block of West Ferdinand. Another vehicle traveled westbound, immediately behind Dexter. Dexter traveled within the speed limit and complied with the stop sign at the next intersection, Ferdinand and Avers Ave.

30. On the same date and time, Defendants CPD Officers and Tact Team members Alexandra Giampapa, Thomas Spanos, Victor Pacheco, Gregory Saint Louis, and Aubrey Webb patrolled District 11 in an unmarked, silver SUV. Defendant Officer Webb drove the vehicle.

31. While Dexter drove onto the 3800 west block of Ferdinand, Defendant Officers’ vehicle was south of Dexter, stopped at a red light.

32. After both Dexter and the vehicle traveling immediately behind Dexter traveled through the intersection of Hamlin and Ferdinand, Defendant Officer Webb approached and ran through a red light at the intersection of Hamlin and Ferdinand, turning left onto Hamlin. Video footage demonstrates Defendant Officers made the decision to target Dexter merely three seconds after his vehicle came in their line of sight.

33. Defendant Officer Webb accelerated his unmarked car to pass the vehicle traveling immediately behind Dexter. Defendant Webb then pulled the unmarked CPD vehicle alongside Dexter’s vehicle and angled it as if to sideswipe Dexter’s car. This maneuver forced Dexter to stop his car just past the northwest corner of Ferdinand and Avers Ave. Defendant Webb used this vehicle maneuver to unlawfully detain Dexter.

34. West Ferdinand Street, between Hamlin and Avers—where Defendant Officers stopped Dexter’s car—is a residential area, populated by numerous single and multiunit family dwellings, with green space and wide sidewalks for community members to enjoy.

35. Each named Defendant Officer completed a Tactical Response Report documenting Defendant Officers’ initial justification for engaging with Dexter. Those reports state Defendant Officers pulled Dexter over incident to a “traffic stop.” Defendant Officer’s reports affirms that, at the time they targeted Dexter, Defendant Officers had no information to suggest Dexter had committed any serious or violent offense. The reports further affirm Defendant Officers targeted Dexter pursuant to CPD’s Mass Traffic Stop Program.

36. Surveillance camera footage reflects that Defendants lacked reasonable suspicion to suspect Dexter of any traffic violation. Defendant Officers had no legal justification to target, stop, and detain Dexter.

37. After evaluating available video evidence regarding this traffic stop, Andrea Kersten, the Chief Administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (“COPA”) wrote to CPD Superintendent Snelling documenting concerns with the Defendant Officers’ credibility and justification for stopping Dexter. Specifically, “COPA is uncertain how the officers could have seen this seat belt violation given their location relative to (Reed’s) vehicle and the dark tints on (his) vehicle windows. . .This evidence raises serious concerns about the validity of the traffic stop that led to the officers’ encounter with (Reed).

III. DEFENDANT OFFICERS UNLAWFULLY POINT FIREARMS AT DEXTER AND ENGAGE IN ESCALATORY CONDUCT DURING THE UNLAWFUL STOP.

38. After Defendant Officers unlawfully curbed Dexter’s vehicle, they engaged in a number of violent, threatening, and ultra-aggressive policing tactics intended to confuse and to create chaos. Defendant Officers screamed conflicting commands at Dexter, brandished batons in a threatening manner, used disrespectful and profane language, unlawfully attempted to enter his vehicle, and pointed their weapons at Dexter’s face without legal justification.

39. Defendant Officer Giampapa exited the unmarked CPD SUV from the back passenger side. She was un-uniformed and wore a hoodie and blue jeans. Defendant Officer Giampapa did not announce herself as a police officer, nor did she advise Dexter why he had been stopped.

40. Instead, Defendant Giampapa aggressively demanded “Roll the window down, roll the window down. What are you doing?” Dexter complied and completely rolled down his front driver’s side window. In response to Defendant Officer Giampapa’s question, Dexter stated that he was doing “nothing.”

41. Defendant Officer Giampapa then ordered Dexter to roll down his other windows. Body camera footage suggests Dexter became flustered and, in an effort to comply with Defendant Officer Giampapa’s commands, mistakenly partially rolled up the driver's side window instead of rolling down the vehicles’ other windows. The fact that Dexter had committed no violation, but was still subject to Defendant Officers’ aggressive threats undoubtedly created confusion and panic for Dexter.

42. After Dexter’s window rolled partially up, Defendant Officer Giampapa commanded Dexter “do not roll the window up.” At the same time, Defendant Officer Giampapa unholstered her firearm and pointed it at Dexter’s face. While she pointed her gun at Dexter, she attempted to open the driver’s side door of Dexter’s vehicle. Defendant Officer Giampapa unreasonably pointed her gun at Dexter within seconds after she approached his vehicle

43. With her gun pointed at Dexter’s face, Defendant Officer Giampapa continued yelling, screaming repeatedly “Open the doors now!” Dexter replied “Okay, Okay I’m trying.” Defendant Giampapa never acknowledged Dexter’s words and never inquired whether his window had malfunctioned or if his door was jammed. Instead, she continued screaming at him with her gun aimed at him.

44. Defendant Officer Saint Louis, who was un-uniformed wore a hoodie pulled up over his head and jeans. Defendant Officer Saint Louis did not announce himself as a police officer nor did he advise Dexter why he had been stopped.

45. Defendant Officer Saint Louis exited the unmarked CPD vehicle from the front passenger’s seat and approached the front passenger side of Dexter’s vehicle at the same time Defendant Giampapa approached Dexter on the driver’s side. Defendant Officer Saint Louis approached Dexter with an extended baton in his raised hand and immediately ordered Dexter to roll down his passenger side window and commanded “Put your ... put your window down, man,” “Hey roll this one down too... Hey, unlock it!” Seconds after he approached the vehicle, Defendant Officer Saint Louis pointed his gun at Dexter, cocking his wrist and aiming the weapon at Dexter through the windshield.

46. Defendant Officer Pacheco was un-uniformed, wearing khaki pants and a baseball cap. Defendant Officer Pacheco did not announce himself as a police officer nor did he advise Dexter why he had been stopped and curbed.

47. Defendant Officer Pacheco exited the unmarked SUV from the back passenger side and approached the driver’s side of Dexter’s vehicle. Immediately after exiting CPD’s vehicle, Defendant Officer Pacheco pointed his firearm at Dexter and began screaming "Do not f---'g roll it up. . .Unlock the f---'g door.”

48. Defendant Officer Spanos was un-uniformed, and dressed in a hoodie, khakis, and a knit cap. Defendant Officer Spanos did not announce himself as a police officer nor did he advise Dexter why he had been stopped and curbed.

49. Defendant Officer Spanos exited the unmarked SUV from the back driver’s side and approached the driver’s side of Dexter’s vehicle. Standing just a few feet from Dexter’s vehicle. Defendant Officer Spanos immediately unholstered and pointed his gun at Dexter and yelled “Put both hands up!”

50. CPD policy prohibits officers from pointing their firearms at a person unless objectively reasonable to do so.24

51. CPD’s Use of Force Policy General Order 03-02 provides that officers will “use de-escalation techniques to prevent or reduce the need for force. . .” The Policy further provides de-escalation techniques include providing a “warning and exercising persuasion and advice prior to the use of force” and determining whether the situation could be “stabilized through the use of time, distance and positioning.” The Policy also requires that CPD officers “treat all persons with courtesy and dignity which is inherently due every person and will act, speak, and conduct themselves in a courteous, respectful, and professional manner.” Finally, the Policy prohibits officers from using force unless it is the “minimum amount of force needed to provide for the safety of any person.”

52. Defendant Officers surrounded Dexter and failed to identify themselves as police officers or to explain why they conducted the aggressive, pretextual stop and trapped him in between the curb and a parked car. Defendant Officers then each unholstered and pointed their guns at Dexter at close range and screamed various and conflicting commands at him, with several of them repeatedly and forcefully pulling on his car doors and trying to get inside his vehicle. Defendant Officers’ actions created a confusing and chaotic environment and placed Dexter in objective fear for his safety, and at risk of great bodily harm. None of the Defendant Officers engaged in any type of de-escalation. Instead, they pointed their weapons at Dexter and used profane language in clear violation of CPD policy.

53. CPD’s Use of Force Policy General Order 03-02 imposes on CPD officers an affirmative obligation to intervene when they observe a use of force that is “excessive or otherwise in violation” of CPD policy. The Policy instructs officers to “verbally intervene” to stop a violation.

54. From the driver’s side of the CDP vehicle, Defendant Officer Webb observed Defendant Officers Giampapa, Saint Louis, Pacheco, and Spanos engage in the escalatory and unlawful conduct described above. In clear violation of CPD policy, Defendant Officer Webb took no action to intervene or deescalate.

55. By pointing their firearms at Dexter during a minor traffic stop and otherwise escalating this encounter as detailed above, Defendant Officers Giampapa, Saint Louis, Pacheco and Spanos engaged in an unreasonable use of force. By observing these unlawful actions and failing to take action, Defendant Officer Webb violated his duty to intervene.

IV. DEFENDANT OFFICERS DEMONSTRATED A GROSS DISREGARD FOR THE SANCITY OF HUMAN LIFE WHEN THEY SHOT DEXTER REED 96 TIMES IN 41 SECONDS AND FIRED BULLETS INTO DEXTER’S MOTIONLESS BODY.

56. Defendant Chicago Police Officers Giampapa, Pacheco, Spanos, and Webb unloaded a barrage of bullets at Dexter while he was inside his vehicle. At some point either before or after the Defendant Officers Giampapa, Pacheco, Spanos, and Webb began shooting at Dexter, Defendant Officer Saint Louis sustained a gunshot injury when a bullet grazed his wrist.25

57. After Defendant Officers Giampapa, Pacheco, Spanos, and Webb shot their weapons at Dexter for approximately 27 seconds, firing approximately 83 shots, Dexter exited his vehicle, unarmed, with hands empty and raised in sign of surrender. At this point, Dexter posed no threat of imminent harm.

58. After observing Dexter exit his vehicle, the Defendant Officers Giampapa, Pacheco, Spanos, and Webb failed to provide Dexter with any commands or warnings. Nor did any of these Defendant Officers attempt to engage in any de-escalation. Instead, they continued to shoot at Dexter in a reckless, out-of-control manner demonstrating a complete disregard for Dexter’s humanity.

59. After Dexter exited his vehicle, unarmed and with his hands empty, Defendant Officers Giampapa, Spanos, and Pacheco moved closer to Dexter.

60. Defendant Officer Giampapa shot additional bullets at Dexter.

61. Dexter collapsed to the ground at the rear of his vehicle. His head slammed into the street and lay unmoving and face down, with his head under the rear of his vehicle.

62. At this point, Defendant Officers Giampapa, Pacheco, Spanos, and Webb took no action to determine if Dexter was alive. Nor did they make any effort to secure him medical assistance.

63. Instead, Defendant Officers Spanos and Pacheco continued to shoot at Dexter even as he lay motionless, face down in the street.

64. Even after Dexter fell to the street, Defendant Officer Spanos paused his shooting, and then fired an additional three shots at Dexter’s body as he lay face down and motionless on the street.

65. Ultimately, Defendant Officers Giampapa, Pacheco, Spanos, and Webb shot 96 bullets at Dexter 41 seconds after they first encountered him. [MORE]

Reed family attorneys said the narrative change is likely to bolster and keep alive the federal civil case filed by the Reed family against the officers and the City of Chicago since the crux of the legal action is about the 4th Amendment and the reason behind the traffic stop.

"Why did they feel empowered to racially profile to escalate and to use violence before there were any gun shots?" Bedi said. "And that's really what we are fighting right now to have the board here."

City attorneys nor COPA would comment about the latest developments of the civil case.

The Reed family's lawyers said the case is not about money, it's about stopping what they say are racist traffics stops that produce deadly outcomes.

Witnesses say a Plainclothes LAPD Cop in an Unmarked, Tinted Car Fatally Shot an Unarmed Latino Teenager who Had His Arms Extended and Palms Up as He Walked Toward the Vehicle. Cop Never ID’d Himself

From [HERE] The family of an unarmed 18-year-old fatally shot by an undercover Los Angeles police sergeant last month plans to sue the city for wrongful death and is asking state prosecutors to file criminal charges.

Ricardo “Ricky” Ramirez Jr. was shot and killed by Sgt. Michael Pounds around 10:30 p.m. July 13 while the plainclothes vice officer was conducting a prostitution enforcement detail along South L.A.’s Figueroa corridor. Pounds shot the young man from behind his car’s dark-tinted driver’s side window.

The night of the shooting, an LAPD vice unit broadcast over the police radio that the “occupants of a silver Cadillac wearing ski masks [were] in a possible dispute with the driver of another vehicle,” according to a release from the department. Pounds was alone in an unmarked car when he began following the suspect vehicle, which police said later stopped across both lanes of traffic on 66th Street. 

According to the police report, two men got out of the Cadillac and “approached the front driver and passenger sides of the vice sergeant’s vehicle” as it was stopped in the roadway. That is when Pounds opened fire through his window, striking Ramirez, who fell to the ground as the others fled.

Paramedics took Ramirez to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. 

In a legal claim filed Wednesday, attorney Christopher Dolan alleged the shooting was an unprovoked attack on an unarmed young man who was in town from Northern California after graduation. 

Although the claim alleges assault, battery and violation of civil rights and seeks compensation, Dolan said the family wants reforms, including video cameras in undercover vehicles to capture officers’ behavior.

The lawyer said that prior to the shooting, Pounds “tailgated and aggressively menaced” the Cadillac from his dark sedan with blacked-out window tinting. 

“Unarmed, Ricky and another passenger exited the Cadillac and approached the sedan, asking — arms extended, palms up — why they were being followed,” Dolan said. 

“Without hitting any lights or siren or identifying himself as a police or rolling down the window, a single shot was fired through the driver’s side tinted window directly into the heart of Ricky,” the lawyer said Wednesday at a news conference outside police headquarters while surrounded by two dozen supporters clad in T-shirts featuring the teen’s face.

Dolan said the shooting was “without justification and in violation of police policy designed to save lives. ... The police must be held accountable in order for these killings to stop.” 

He said Pounds never identified himself as a police officer

“Ricky never knew that he was approaching an officer, never made any threats or contact with the vehicle and was shot for asking why the car was harassing them,” Dolan said.

Ramirez’s mother, Renee Villalobos, cried while addressing the crowd in front of police headquarters, saying, “I will never have my son back.”

“The police sergeant was sitting in an unmarked car, and he decided to kill and shoot my son for no reason at all,” she said. “I want to know why the police officer is not handcuffed and charged for the murder of my son.”

After Ramirez was shot, the other young men fled “in fear for their lives, unaware that the shot was fired by an LAPD officer,” according to the claim.

LAPD units pursued the fleeing Cadillac, according to a release from the department, and eventually handed off to the California Highway Patrol, which stopped the vehicle on the 15 Freeway in San Bernardino County. 

The three occupants of the car were taken into custody without incident, including the driver, 26-year-old Israel Dezama, who was arrested for felony evading, police said. The other two occupants were later released from custody. 

“Ricky, my only son, was a good kid, made everybody smile and feel loved. He was at the threshold of his whole life, having just graduated, and the LAPD shot him, causing him to fall through death’s door,” said the teen’s father, Ricardo Ramirez Sr. “Hiding behind tinted glass, without any warning, Ricky was killed. His only crime was being young and of color. This has to stop.”

Ramirez’s father said that said despite police reports, his son “did not have a weapon; he didn’t have a ski mask.” 

Los Angeles police said in a statement that no weapons were recovered.

Ramirez’s family and Dolan have called on Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, whose office handles fatal police shootings on unarmed persons, to file murder charges against Pounds.

Unlike Cops, Security Guards Can’t Use Force Offensively and Can Be Held Accountable: 4 White Hyatt Hotel Guards Charged w/Murder of D’Vontaye Mitchell after Brutally Beating, Smothering Black Man

Newly released security footage - shared by the attorney for D'Vontaye Mitchell's family, shows D'Vontaye Mitchell being dragged across the floor, punched, and kicked moments before his death outside of a Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Court documents show security manager Todd Alan Erickson, front desk agent Devin W. Johnson-Carson, security guard Brandon LaDaniel Turner and bellman Herbert T. Williamson have been charged with felony murder.

From [HERE] Prosecutors charged four Hyatt hotel security guards Tuesday with being a party to felony murder in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death.

According to a criminal complaint, the four employees dragged Mitchell out of the Hyatt Hotel on June 30 after Mitchell entered a woman’s bathroom and held him on his stomach for eight or nine minutes.

One of the employees told investigators that Mitchell was having trouble breathing and repeatedly pleaded for help, according to the complaint.

Relatives of Mitchell and their lawyers had previously reviewed hotel surveillance video provided by the district attorney’s office. They described seeing Mitchell being chased inside the hotel by security guards and then dragged outside where he was beaten.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is part of a team of lawyers representing Mitchell’s family, has said video recorded by a bystander and circulating on social media shows security guards with their knees on Mitchell’s back and neck. Crump has also questioned why Milwaukee authorities had not filed any charges related to Mitchell’s death.

Aimbridge Hospitality, the company that manages the hotel, said previously that several employees involved in Mitchell’s death have been fired.

In reality “Defund the Police” was nothing ever more than a message on a sign, let alone being an actual crafted policy proposed to “legistraitors.” At best it is an ill conceived plan to somehow stop police brutality by giving the police smaller budgets. But having less money can have no effect on the granfalloon of “authority” or the right to forcibly control others. Police with small budgets in poor countries have no problem brutalizing citizens when they deem it necessary to do so. As such, “defund the police” was a reactionary slogan on sign that reflects real anger in the street about police authority and master servant relations between citizens and police.

The real threat to elites from “defund the police” is the fact that police services provided by the government can be summarily replaced by private security. Rather than reducing tax dollars budgeted to cops as a remedy to somehow stop police brutality, “Defund the police” or replacing police could simply mean community hired and fired trained security workers who have a contractual duty to aid people in peril and a natural right to come to the defense of others but who have no right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on people. Therefore, there would be no need for a police department.

Security workers have the same rights that people have because all persons have the natural right to defend themselves and come to the defense of others if they believe the other person is in imminent danger from an aggressor. However, in the US legal system people have no general legal duty to rescue or aid other people in danger. Thus, security workers can be contractually obliged to aid people in peril and could be held accountable directly to the people who hire and fire them.

An essential difference between private security workers and police officers is that security workers possess no government authority or right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on other people. Unprovoked violence against others or the use of “force” is the basis of all social evils and can only be used in the sense of attack not defense. [MORE]

Sheriff Quits Amid Backlash from the Police Murder of Sonya Massey [As Long as Cops Can Use Force Offensively, They Will Continue to Kill People]

From [HERE] Jack Campbell, the Illinois sheriff whose deputy was charged with murder after fatally shooting a Black woman in her home last month, said Friday that he would leave his position by the end of the month amid calls from the public and the governor that he do so.

The sheriff said in a statement obtained by WAND, a local television news station, that the “current political climate” made it impossible for him to continue in his role leading the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office and that he would retire no later than Aug. 31.

Sheriff Campbell had previously said he would not resign as he faced criticism for having hired Sean Grayson, the white deputy who shot Sonya Massey, 36, despite knowing that Mr. Grayson, 30, had two convictions for driving under the influence on his record, including one that had led to Mr. Grayson’s premature discharge from the Army in February 2016.

Mr. Grayson fatally shot Ms. Massey at her home in Springfield, Ill., on July 6 after she had called the emergency services because she believed an intruder was in her home. [MORE]

Nothing can change with regard to police brutality so long as police have the power to use force offensively on “citizens.” In fact, despite the falling violent crime rates since 1993, police killings have increased. According to Mapping Police Violence, “Police killed more people in 2023 than any year in more than a decade. Police have continued to kill at a similar rate in 2024.“ Police killed at least 1,247 people in 2023. Black people were 27% of those killed by police in 2023 despite being only 13% of the population. Thus far, there have been only 9 days in 2024 where police did not kill someone. Black people are most likely to be killed by police and are three times more likely than whites to be killed by police. 33% of Black people killed by police were running away, driving away or otherwise trying to flee. Regardless of race, there is no accountability: 98.1% of killings by police from 2013-2023 did not result with officers even being charged with a crime. [MORE]

Petitioning puppeticians for reforms, or begging them to enforce the status quo by punishing police for conduct that is already illegal or begging them to defund or lower police department budgets can have no effect on the extraordinary police power to use force offensively on citizens. Said non-reformable and uncontrollable power to initiate the use of unprovoked violence on people is called “authority.” [MORE]

Baltimore Cops were Searching for a Robbery Suspect When They Attacked a Black Man who was Filming. Cops Slammed Him to the Concrete and Put a Gun to His Face, Though He Hadn't Committed a Crime

From [HERE] A Baltimore man is alleging excessive force against several Baltimore City police officers.

It comes after the court case against him was dismissed. The police department said its Public Integrity Bureau's Special Investigations Response Team began investigating immediately after the incident, and the internal investigation is ongoing.

The arrest happened in the 1900 block of East Oliver Street. Detectives said they were looking for an armed robbery suspect. Jaemaun Joyner said he was filming a video for a memorial of a friend.

A video obtained by 11 News shows police arriving to the scene in East Baltimore as one officer attempts to hold 24-year-old Joyner and place him in custody. Police body-worn cameras captured the May 23 incident, but the body-worn camera video does not show anything prior to Joyner's arrest.

"This is straight excessive force beyond any means necessary," said Jessica Rubin, a defense attorney.

Joyner's attorneys allege excessive force because of the takedown and the way officers pinned Joyner to the sidewalk.

"These officers went over the top. This was unnecessary, unprovoked and in the end, unacceptable," said Tony Garcia, a defense attorney.

In the video, the officers yelled at Joyner as they attempted to put him in handcuffs. Viewers can also hear him yell several times about an officer allegedly putting something in his pocket. The attorneys said they are alarmed to see what happened to their client, especially the alleged actions taken by Officer Conner Johnson.

"The statement of probable cause never mentions Detective Johnson or Officer Johnson pulls out that gun and presses his head and his temple and holds his head down with the service weapon while he has his other hand around his neck," said Hunter Pruette, a defense attorney.

According to a court charging document, "(Officers) were attempting to place Mr. Joyner in handcuffs. He was able to get away and attempted to flee on foot. This detective (PHIL POLANCO) was able to grab Mr. Joyner with both hands as he tried to run by me and conducted a forcible takedown."

"My son will not be a victim. If I can save any other parent from going through this, that's the goal," said Rhonda McCain, Joyner's mother.

The court record indicates officers recovered a handgun, eight live 22 caliber rounds, a magazine and a powder substance which they suspect is heroin.

"The Maryland State Police Gun Center advised that Mr. Joyner does not have any prohibiting factors which disqualify them from possessing a firearm... The investigation for the armed robbery is still ongoing," the charging document read

Prosecutors dismissed the case against Joyner on Monday. 11 News did check with the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office, and was told that the case was dismissed for further investigation.

Judge Denies the Government’s Request to Dismiss a Disabled Black Teen’s Suit. Burlington Cops Put a Spit Bag Over His Face and Injected him with Ketamine though He Posed No Threat and Didn’t Flee

From [HERE] A Vermont judge has denied the city of Burlington’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against a Black teenager whose mother had called law enforcement to teach him a lesson about stealing.

When the 14-year-old, who has behavioral and intellectual disabilities, failed to hand over the last of the stolen e-cigarettes on May 15, 2021, two officers physically forced him to do so, according to the lawsuit and police body camera video shared with The Associated Press by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont. The teen was handcuffed and pinned to the ground in his house as he screamed and struggled, according to the lawsuit.

He was injected with the sedative ketamine and taken to a hospital, according to the lawsuit and video.

The lawsuit, filed by the teen's mother, accuses officers of treating him differently because they perceived him as aggressive due to his race. It also alleges that injecting him with ketamine was “race-based disparate treatment." Burlington officers had visited the home before and were aware of the teen’s disabilities, the lawsuit says.

“Too often, victims of police violence are denied their day in court because of an unjust legal doctrine called ‘qualified immunity,‘” Vermont ACLU attorney Harrison Stark wrote in a statement. “We are thrilled that ... the Court has agreed that this ‘get-out-of-court-free’ card is no excuse to close the courthouse doors."

The city did not immediately return an email seeking comment. A city spokesperson said in February that an investigation found that officers and fire department EMTs acted according to city and state regulations and policies.

The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify minors who are accused of crimes.

Body camera video shows two officers talking calmly to the teen, who is sitting on a bed. His mother tells him to cooperate; she goes through drawers and finds most of the remaining e-cigarettes and tries to get the last one from him.

Officers say if he turns the e-cigarettes over, they’ll leave and he won’t be charged. He doesn’t respond. After about 10 minutes, the officers forcibly remove the last of the e-cigarettes from his hand by pulling the 230-pound teen's arms behind his back and pinning him against the bed.

The city argued that officers conducted a reasonable search and seizure; that its police and fire departments are not subject to the Vermont Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act and that they made reasonable efforts to account for the teen's disabilities; and that its police and fire departments are protected by qualified immunity, according to the judge.

"The crime was not serious, he did not pose an immediate threat, and he did not try to ‘evade arrest by flight,'” Vermont Superior Court Judge Helen Toor wrote in her ruling July 31. The officers also should have taken into account his reported mental health condition, she wrote. "That might have involved waiting more than 10 minutes before using any kind of physical force," she wrote.

Toor also wrote that “the allegations are more than sufficient to support a claim of racial discrimination." She also wrote the court “has no basis to dismiss any of the claims on qualified immunity grounds at this stage.” The city has three weeks from the judge's ruling to respond. A city spokesperson said by email on Tuesday that the city did not want to “comment on, or make predictions about, the likelihood of any particular outcome as this case moves forward through the court.”

The use of ketamine on suspects has recently come under scrutiny. At least 17 people died in Florida over a decade following encounters with police during which medical personnel injected them with sedatives, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.

In Burlington, after the city investigated, the mayor at the time ordered the fire department to review the use of ketamine, and the state has updated protocols to require a doctor's permission, the city spokesperson said in February. Paramedics in the Burlington teen's case did get a doctor’s permission even though it wasn't required at the time, she said.

"Single Source Propaganda" in Effect as the Entire Massa’ Media Campaigns for SNiggering Borg Kamala, Promoting the Ongoing Grimace, Similar to Its PropAgenda for COVID Shots as "Safe and Effective"

WEIRD? IF YOU SEE A MF WITH A PERMANENT GRIN, WAVING AND POINTING AT YOU AND YOU'RE NOT AT A BURGER KING OR A CIRCUS, THEN GO THE OTHER DIRECTION.

From [HERE] The Democrats’ new presidential candidate, who’s never won a single primary vote, might have been crowned but hasn’t given a real interview or even an extemporaneous political statement since Democrat bigwigs pushed Biden aside. In a functioning liberal ‘democracy,’ this would be pretty big news.

The last time the vice president of the United States had a press conference was December 2023. The last time sat down with any media was June 24, when she was interviewed by the sycophants on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Before that was the “Momala” Harris interview with Drew Barrymore, which might be the most cringe-worthy display of fawning in recorded history.

“What is the incentive for her [to take more questions]?” a person close to Harris’ campaign told Politico recently. “She’s getting out exactly the message she wants to get out.”

Indeed, it’s quite the paradox. The media continue to baby Kamala and get her message out to the public, so Kamala doesn’t feel the least bit of urgency in clarifying her record.

If they were so inclined, the naval-gazing media could probably get Kamala out of her shell by doing some honest, deep dives into her history and positions. If her lack of transparency were a daily top-of-the-fold story she would be compelled to speak.

Say what you will about Donald Trump, but he’s done scores of interviews and pressers over the past few months, many of them with antagonistic venues — including taking questions at the National Association of Black Journalists convention just weeks after surviving an assassination attempt.

Kamala hasn’t spoken to a hostile outlet in years. She won’t even take questions from her fans. [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Propagenda – propaganda developed and directed to a particular audience as a means of predictive programming for accepting someone’s agenda as their very own. (See: $pinfidels, Predictive Programming & Coin-Operated)

$nigger – a sold-out snitching-smiling Sambo-Negro. 2) a South-Bender offender. $niggers smile for nothing except an empty mind while selling-out their own kind. They typically have an intellectual base yet are devoid of intelligence, thus promoting the on-going smiling face. They also often giggle and have a frivolous conception of society and scant knowledge of the vestiges of the trans-Atlantic slave trade that even brought their sorry-ass selves to shore. $niggers are traitors and pawns of the downpressors. Watch the company you keep! [MORE]

sniggering – the modus vivendi of opportunist (sell-out) compromises. 2) the actions of SNiggers. (See: Coin-Operated)

Neocrats – men and women who willingly sell body and spirit (soul—authentic self) for conveniences (amenities of privilege) offered by Hidalgo, the Gangbankers, stationary bandits and the New God “Corporate State.” (See: CON)

Elite White Liberals Remove and Replace Cori Bush with a New NGHR More Controllable and Pliable to Their Authority and Non-Black Agenda as SNAG Wesley Bell is S[e]lected to Missouri House Seat

From [HERE] Incumbent progressive Rep. Cori Bush lost the Democratic primary in Missouri against a well-funded challenger backed by pro-Israel group Aipac.

Bush’s loss to St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell, age 49, is a major electoral win for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has targeted members of Congress who criticized Israel on the national stage. The congresswoman is the second member of the left-leaning House “Squad” to lose a Democratic primary this summer, after Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.) was defeated in June.

With 99% of the vote counted, Bell had 51.2% to Bush’s 45.6%, according to the Associated Press projection.

Bush, age 48, spent the summer on the campaign trail fundraising and fending off accusations that she had broken too often with her party. 

Voters in St. Louis faced a barrage of advertisements over the past few months in a $19 million primary that tested the power of Aipac and other pro-Israel groups to target Democrats who have criticized Israel over how it is conducting the war in Gaza. [MORE]

An army of thousands of black elected and [s]elected officials (borgs) at all levels of government are not a reflection of “black power.” Rather, they are representatives of a powerless people – powerless to prevent racists from practicing racism against them and powerless to solve their own problems. So-called “black” leaders, such as Eric Adams, Barak Obama, Kamala Harris or Lori Lightfoot, are not engaged in “black politics” nor do they espouse any “black” political philosophy, or do they have any articulable “Black agenda.” These highly controlled individuals function as straw bosses, black wards, rolebots and puppeticians who literally ‘perform leadership’ to Blacks on behalf of wealthy white interests and serve as their “human resources.” The individual political successes of black elected and [s]elected officials has not translated into power for the Black masses much in the same way that successful Black athletes and entertainers also do not tangibly empower Blacks- as they enrich the pockets of wealthy whites who own and control the sports and “enterstainment” industries. Showcase Blacks and puppeticians alike derive and maintain their success, relevance and prestige from their usefulness and allegiance to elite white liberals.

To Disarm Citizens, Elite Liberals Use Their US Senate Puppeticians to Intensify Attacks on Clarence Thomas - the Court’s Leading Proponent of the Right to Bear Arms in Public for Self-Defense

From [HERE] Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden has escalated his investigation into billionaire Harlan Crow’s tax treatment of luxury trips provided to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to a letter sent to Crow’s attorney on Monday.

In the letter, Wyden, a Democratic Senator from Oregon, expressed concern that Crow may have improperly benefitted from business-expense tax deductions for lavish gifts, including luxury travel:

I am deeply concerned that Mr. Crow may have been showering a public official with extravagant gifts, then writing off those gifts to lower his tax bill. This concern is only heightened by the Committee’s recent discovery of additional undisclosed international travel on Mr. Crow’s private jet by Justice Thomas. As I consider legislative solutions to curb potentially abusive deductions, I am offering you one final opportunity to address the tax treatment of yacht and jet trips involving Justice Thomas.

Last month, Wyden joined fellow Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse — Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts — in asking US Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate possible ethics and tax violations connected with a spate of high-end gifts Thomas had previously failed to disclose. According to that letter, these gifts included multiple free trips on a private jet, yacht travel, lodging, tuition payments for a family member of Thomas, and real estate transactions.

The senators wrote at the time:

We do not make this request lightly. The evidence assembled thus far plainly suggests that Justice Thomas has committed numerous willful violations of federal ethics and false-statement laws and raises significant questions about whether he and his wealthy benefactors have complied with their federal tax obligations. Presented with opportunities to resolve questions about his conduct, Justice Thomas has maintained a suspicious silence.

Justice Thomas’ trips with Crow were first revealed in a ProPublica report that alleged Thomas had failed to disclose numerous gifts from Crow and others including vacations, flights on private jets, tuition payments for his great nephew’s education, and loan forgiveness. The report ignited a firestorm over judicial independence and the ties between wealthy elites and the nation’s highest court. [MORE]

UNCLE TOM MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT IF PROPAGANDI IS AFTER HIM. Justice Thomas destroyed the emotional clogic of freedumb/slavery advocates in the case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen. In the opinion he also dropped a few “revelation sandwich” reminders for serious, responsible Black individuals to consider in light of the facts that 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. While discussing the existence of the right to carry weapons for self-defense against public confrontation during Reconstruction, Justice Thomas discussed the historical need for Blacks to vigorously defend themselves in a violent, racist society:

In the years before the 39th Congress proposed the Fourteenth Amendment, the Freedmen’s Bureau regularly kept it abreast of the dangers to blacks and Union men in the postbellum South. The reports described how blacks used publicly carried weapons to defend themselves and their communities. For example, the Bureau reported that a teacher from a Freedmen’s school in Maryland had written to say that, because of attacks on the school, “[b]oth the mayor and sheriff have warned the colored people to go armed to school, (which they do,)” and that the “[t]he super- intendent of schools came down and brought [the teacher] a revolver” for his protection. Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., 658 (1866); see also H. R. Exec. Doc. No. 68, 39th Cong., 2d Sess., 91 (1867) (noting how, during the New Or- leans riots, blacks under attack “defended themselves . . . with such pistols as they had”).

Witnesses before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction also described the depredations visited on Southern blacks, and the efforts they made to defend themselves. One Virginia music professor related that when “[t]wo Union men were attacked . . . they drew their revolvers and held their assailants at bay.” H. R. Rep. No. 30, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., pt. 2, p. 110 (1866). An assistant commissioner to the Bureau from Alabama similarly reported that men were “rob- bing and disarming negroes upon the highway,” H. R. Exec. Doc. No. 70, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., 297 (1866), indicating that blacks indeed carried arms publicly for their self- protection, even if not always with success. See also H. R. Exec. Doc. No. 329, 40th Cong., 2d Sess., 41 (1868) (describ- ing a Ku Klux Klan outfit that rode “through the country . . . robbing every one they come across of money, pistols, papers, &c.”); id., at 36 (noting how a black man in Tennes- see had been murdered on his way to get book subscriptions, with the murderer taking, among other things, the man’s pistol).

Blacks had “procured great numbers of old army muskets and revolvers, particularly in Texas,” and “employed them to protect themselves” with “vigor and audacity.” S. Exec. Doc. No. 43, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., at 8. Seeing that government was inadequately protecting them, “there [was] the strongest desire on the part of the freedmen to secure arms, revolvers particularly.” H. R. Rep. No. 30, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., pt. 3, at 102.

On July 6, 1868, Congress extended the 1866 Freedmen’s Bureau Act, see 15 Stat. 83, and reaffirmed that freedmen were entitled to the “full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty [and] personal security . . . including the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.” §14, 14 Stat. 176 (1866) (emphasis added). That same day, a Bureau official reported that freedmen in Kentucky and Tennessee were still constantly under threat: “No Union man or negro who attempts to take any active part in politics, or the improvement of his race, is safe a single day; and nearly all sleep upon their arms at night, and carry concealed weapons during the day.” H. R. Exec. Doc. No. 329, 40th Cong., 2d Sess., at 40. [MORE]

The Right to Bear Arms is an Imaginary Right: 4th Circuit Ct Upholds Maryland's AR-15 Ban. Ignorantly Claims it is a Military Weapon; Yet No Army in the World Uses a Rifle that is Only Semiautomatic

FUNKTIONARY EXPLAINS there are NO TYRANTS; only tyranny exists. How can one man or woman rule a multitude against their will except through mind control and word-conditioning control? “Find out the exact amount of injustice any people accept, and you will find out the exact amount of injustice they receive..

From [HERE] The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has announced they will seek Supreme Court review in Bianchi v. Wilkinson, SAF’s challenge to Maryland’s assault weapons ban, after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law.

“Today’s decision from the 4th Circuit is unsurprising given their prior decision in Kolbe,” said SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut. “We believe, much like in Kolbe, the court’s analysis is flawed and that the challenged law is unconstitutional. We will be filing a petition for certiorari at the Supreme Court, as this case presents an excellent vehicle for the Court to settle this debate once and for all.”

In the 65-page opinion, judges for the majority wrote:

“The assault weapons [refering to the common AR15 rifle] at issue fall outside the ambit of protection offered by the Second Amendment because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense.” Chief Judge Diaz drafted a concurring opinion, with five other judges joining.

Judge Richardson drafted a dissenting opinion, with four other judges joining, stating:

“The Second Amendment is not a second-class right subject to the whimsical discretion of federal judges. Its mandate is absolute and, applied here, unequivocal…In holding otherwise, the majority grants states historically unprecedented leeway to trammel the constitutional liberties of their citizens.”

Joining SAF in the case are the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Field Traders, LLC., and three private citizens, David Snope, Micah Schaefer and Dominic Bianchi, for whom the case is named.

“The court relied heavily on the distinction between ‘military style’ arms and those appropriate for self-defense use,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “This distinction runs completely contrary to the mandates of Heller and Bruen, and now sets the stage for another petition for SCOTUS review of the case.”

In a brief dissent last month related to an Illinois ban on the “assault weapon,” Justice Clarence Thomas said that the overwhelming popularity of the firearm (AR-15), coupled with its non-military operation, makes it a clear fit under the Second Amendment. [MORE] Thomas wrote:

The Seventh Circuit’s decision illustrates why this Court must provide more guidance on which weapons the Second Amendment covers. By contorting what little guidance our precedents provide, the Seventh Circuit concluded that the Second Amendment does not protect “militaristic” weapons. See 85 F. 4th, at 1199. It then tautologically defined “mili- taristic” weapons as those “that may be reserved for mili- tary use.” Id., at 1194. The Seventh Circuit’s contrived “non-militaristic” limitation on the Arms protected by the Second Amendment seems unmoored from both text and history. See Friedman v. Highland Park, 577 U. S. 1039, 1041 (2015) (THOMAS, J., dissenting from denial of certio- rari). And, even on its own terms, the Seventh Circuit’s ap- plication of its definition is nonsensical. See 85 F. 4th, at 1222 (Brennan, J., dissenting) (“The AR–15 is a civilian, not military, weapon. No army in the world uses a service rifle that is only semiautomatic”). In my view, Illinois’ ban is “highly suspect because it broadly prohibits common semi-automatic firearms used for lawful purposes.” Friedman, 577 U. S., at 1042 (opinion of THOMAS, J.). It is difficult to see how the Seventh Circuit could have concluded that the most widely owned semiautomatic rifles are not “Arms” protected by the Second Amendment. [MORE]

Tim Walz On FreeDumb; MIN is 3rd in US at Locking Up Black People, Blacks are 5X More Likely to Be Killed by Cops in MIN. Also Mandated Deadly Shots and Locked People in Their Homes During COVID

FREEDUMB ADVOCATES TALK ABOUT FREEDOM BUT HATE FREEDOM. Elite white liberals hate; self-defense, free speech and are proponents of stopping, searching, interrogating and surveilling law abiding people, especially if they are Black or Latino. These racists are filling their reprehensible jails with Black people in places such as Minneapolis, D.C., NYC, LA, Chicago, St. Louis and everywhere they live with Black people. They worship blind obedience to authority and law over humanity. When they speak on “freedom” apparently they mean freedumb or privileges granted to them by a governmental master (not inherent freedom) such as “the right” to commit aborticide 24/7 at any time during a woman’s pregnancy? Authentic freedom has nothing to do with master’s favors in a free range prison.

According to FUNKTIONARY:

freedumb – the state of unrecognized psychological captivity (brain hemispheric hostage) that sheeple remain in because they don’t speak the language of reality nor constantly edit truth from perfecting heart to perfecting power—and when truth is spoken around them, refrain from being open, or impervious to it thus being forever chained to its distortions and limitations. 2) the mindset that proposes “since we are liberated, we are also free.” 3) the mindset that operates upon the notion that you can have individuality without accountability or responsibility. 4) the pretense that reality is truth and viceversa. People cherish unwarranted assumptions and relish their freedumb because they have been socialized into selfcensorship along with misidentification with the ego-mind—the absence of knowledge of Self. (See: Phfreedom, Truth, Unfreedom, Dumbelievers, Self, Belief Systems, Objective Truth, Individuality, Objective Reality, True Self & Reality)

academented – the brittle psychological condition resulting from years of indoctrination and predictive programming at an Academy or system of institutionalized compulsory “education.” 2) overdosing on our addiction to logical thinking and succumbing to its deleterious side effects of mental meltdown and spiritual sclerosis. 3) minds that have fossilized into fixed modes of dualistic thinking. 4) too busy thinking to realize the absence of seeing. 5) dumbing yourself down by degrees. [MORE]

Like elite white liberals and their media claim, puppetician Tim Walz is all about FreeDumb and he is:

• A recent report from the Sentencing Project finds that Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons across the country at nearly five times the rate of whites, and Latinx people are 1.3 times as likely to be incarcerated than non-Latinx whites. Seven states maintain a Black/white disparity larger than 9 to 1: California, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Wisconsin. See above chart [MORE]

• Based on population, a Black person was 4.5x as likely and a Latinx person was 6.3x as likely to be killed by police as a White person in Minnesota from 2013-21. [MORE]

• Although Blacks make up only 6% of the MIN population they are 27% of all arrests. [MORE]

• Police in Minneapolis, a city controlled by elite white liberals, stopped Black people at 7.8 times the rate of white people, and Indigenous people at 10 times the rate from 2020 to 2022; the rate for searches was even worse. The DOJ found that MPD retaliated against protesters and journalists engaging in First Amendment-protected activities during the demonstrations [MORE]

• Puppetician Walz forced people to get injected with deadly, experimental COVID shots [MORE] He also helped to destroy informed consent by falsely claiming the injections were safe and incentivized teens by offering a a $100,000 scholarship to college if they got a COVID shot. [MORE] Walz issued an executive order that prohibited any resident of Minnesota from leaving his or her house, except as permitted by him. It was perhaps the most overtly fascist measure in America’s history.”

What have the Freedumb loving elite white liberals been up to in super-liberal Minnesota recently?

• Liberal Minneapolis to Pay more than $700k to Settle Claims that Cops Attacked Demonstrators who Protested the Police Murders of Black People

• Unwanted White Minnesota Cop Doesn't Serve Black People & Can't be Fired: Judge Re-Instates Public Ruler who Assaulted a Somali Teen & Told Him to Get Out the Park

• JUSTICE SYSTEM or SYSTEM OF WHITE SUPREMACY? White Cop Actress who Murdered Daunte Wright Sentenced to Only 2 Years. Judge Says Cop's Misuse of Her Absolute, Uncontrollable Authority was "A Mistake”

• FULL OF SHIT: White Liberal Prosecutor Drops Murder Charges against White MN Trooper who Shot Ricky Cobb. Takes the Word of the Cop Despite Video Showing Him Shoot Fleeing Black Man as He Drove Away

• White Minn Cop "Sorry" He Got Caught Brutally Attacking a Black Man who Posed No Threat, Breaking his Eye Socket. "Black" Rolebot DA Gives Him a No Jail Plea, Dismisses Felony for his Liberal Masters

• 2 Minneapolis Cops Fatally Shot a Black Man (Tekle Sundberg) from the Roof of an Apartment but Fail to Articulate what Prompted Them to Do So. Bodycam Not Released, Ben Crump Retained

• St Paul Approves $1.3M for Police Shooting of Marcus Golden. White Supremacy Mystery Remains Unsolved as Footprints and Tire Tracks in the Snow and Bullet Casings Show Cops Murdered Him as He Fled

• White MN Cops Looking for a Black Male in His 30’s Attacked a 67yr Old Black Man who Uses a Walker. After he Filed a Complaint Cops Charged Him for Obstruction, a Special Charge for NGHRS who Complain

• 4 Yrs Later, No Quick “Justice" for Jamar Clark Like the White Woman Got in Minneapolis [Police Chief Fired, Bodycams Mandatory, Black Cop Convicted & $20M Settlement in Less than 2 Yrs]

• [White Cops are Always Justified in Shooting Armed Non-White People] Prosecutor Fails to File Charges Against White St Paul Cops who Shot Native American 21 Times from 10 ft Away in His Home

• Based on an “Anonymous" Tip, White St Paul Cops were Looking for Any “Black Man w/Dreadlocks" when They Stopped & Assaulted Frank Baker & their Released K-9 Mauled His Leg- 1 Cop Arraigned

• On the Anniversary of George Floyd’s Murder by Police “Journalists” are Asking 'Has Anything Changed?' Of Course Not. Police Still Have the Uncontrollable Power to Use Force Offensively Against People

The Supreme Ct Barred Executing the Intellectually Disabled But Allows Exceptions: TX Authorities Murder 1) Black Man for Killing a 2) White Woman b/c 3) His Atty's Waited Too Long to Raise the Issue

From [HERE] A Black man who claimed an intellectual disability in a late attempt at a reprieve was executed Wednesday evening for the killing of a white woman who was jogging near her Houston home more than 27 years ago.

Arthur Lee Burton, 54, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m. local time. He was condemned for the July 1997 killing and attempted rape of Nancy Adleman, a 48-year-old mother of three. 

Burton appeared nervous as he lay strapped to the death chamber gurney and a spiritual adviser prayed briefly over him, the inmate’s right leg twitching under a white sheet that covered him from his chest to his feet.

“I want to say thank you to all the people who support me and pray for me,” Burton said when asked by the warden if he had a final statement, his voice repeatedly cracking with a sharp breath after saying several words.

“To all the people I have hurt and caused pain, I wish we didn’t have to be here at this moment, but I want you to know that I am sorry for putting y’all through this and my family. I’m not better than anyone. I hope that I find peace and y’all can too.”

He nodded to his brother, Michael, watching through a window nearby, took four gasps as the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began taking effect, then appeared to yawn before all movement stopped. He was pronounced dead 24 minutes later.

Adleman had been brutally beaten and strangled with her own shoelace in a heavily wooded area off a jogging trail along a bayou, police said. According to authorities, Burton confessed to killing her, saying “she asked me why was I doing it and that I didn’t have to do it.” He recanted this confession at trial.

Hours before the scheduled execution time, the U.S. Supreme Court declined a defense request to intervene after lower courts had previously rejected Burton’s request for a stay.

Burton’s lawyers had argued that reports by two experts and the records showed Burton “exhibited low scores on tests of learning, reasoning, comprehending complex ideas, problem solving, and suggestibility, all of which are examples of significant limitations in intellectual functioning.” They had argued the evidence was a strong indication of an intellectual disability that made him “categorically exempt from the death penalty.”

Prosecutors, however, argued that Burton had not previously raised claims of an intellectual disability and that he had waited until eight days before his scheduled execution to do so.

An expert for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, which prosecuted Burton, said in an Aug. 1 report that he had not seen any evidence Burton suffered from a significant deficit in intellectual or mental capabilities.

“I have not seen any mental health or other notations that Mr. Burton suffers from a significant deficit in intellectual or mental capabilities,” said the report by Thomas Guilmette, a psychology professor at Providence College in Rhode Island.

The Supreme Court in 2002 had barred the execution of intellectually disabled people. But it has given states some discretion to decide how to determine such disabilities. 

Burton was convicted in 1998 but his death sentence was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2000. He received another death sentence at a new punishment trial in 2002.

In their petition to the Supreme Court, Burton’s lawyers accused the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals of rejecting their claims of intellectual disability because of “hostility” toward prior Supreme Court rulings that criticized the state’s rules on determining intellectual disability.

In its filing to the Supreme Court, the Texas Attorney General’s Office denied that the state appeals court was refusing to adhere to current criteria for determining intellectual disability.

Burton was the third inmate put to death this year in Texas, the nation’s busiest capital punishment state, and the 11th in the U.S.

On Thursday, Taberon Dave Honie is scheduled to be the first inmate executed in Utah since 2010. He was condemned for the 1998 killing of his girlfriend’s mother.

Dr Vernon Coleman: The PCR Test Can Kill You – and Could Be Used to Vaccinate You

From [HERE] Right from the start of 2020, my articles and videos about covid attracted an enormous amount of abuse. But the one article which seemed to attract most abuse was one in which I warned about the dangers of the PCR test. Journalists and broadcasters who wouldn’t know what to do with a scientific paper if they were given one, jumped up and down with great indignation. I was vilified for having said such a thing. But now that more and more doctors are belatedly beginning to wake up to the fact that there was no pandemic, that covid was just the annual flu and that the heavily promoted vaccine doesn’t work and is dangerous, it is time to take another look at the evidence about the PCR Test. (For the record I have a one inch thick stack of scientific papers proving that the PCR test is dangerous and can be lethal. Curiously, those scientific references appear to have disappeared from the internet – or are at least difficult to find.)

We all know now that PCR tests are useless for finding cases of covid-19 but very good at helping governments keep us in our own homes under house arrest. In some parts of the world, the PCR tests are banned as utterly useless. I explained precisely what’s wrong with these misused tests in an article on this website subtly called ‘The PCR Test Is Useless for Covid-19 (But Useful for Crooked Governments). 

The big problem, of course, is that the British Government, for example, deliberately ignores the WHO guidelines and does the test in a crooked way which would, in a just and sensible world, result in Johnson, Hancock and their advisors crowded into the dock. 

You’d get as good a result if you just divided people into two groups: those with a vowel in their surname and those without a vowel, and then announced that the ones with the vowel all had covid-19 and the rest all needed to change their names within seven days or pay a huge fine. 

So, everyone with functioning brain tissue knows that the PCR test is useless, except for political reasons, and that the whole testing programme is an outrageously expensive and disruptive shambles. Only government ministers, scientific advisors and pseudo-journalists at the wretched BBC think that PCR tests are valuable. Did you know, by the way, that the Government has allegedly hired 900 consultants to help with the test and trace scheme? The consultants are being paid £1,000 a day each though what they do for that I cannot imagine. That’s £900,000 a day. I suspect that 99.99% of the population would be happier if the £900,000 a day were spent on dentists. 

But that’s not the half of it. Most people seem to have accepted the need for regular PCR testing. Indeed, people in the UK queue up to have it done as often as possible – as though they get some sort of thrill out of having a complete stranger stuff something into a bodily orifice – pushing it in as far as it will go, twizzling it about a bit, and then pulling it out and buggering off without so much as ‘a thank you very much I’ll give you a ring tomorrow and we’ll have dinner and then do it again’. 

There is talk of children having daily tests though I haven’t been able to find any evidence that this would be a good idea for anyone other than the hugely profitable industry now involved in making and looking at the swabs. 

What no one ever mentions is that the PCR tests are dangerous and can, if done improperly, case excruciating pain. This is probably why some countries don’t like them. There is indeed a great deal of confusion about how far the swab should go. (Or should that be the Klaus Schwab) In Australia, the guidelines are that the swab should only go a few centimetres up the nostril but nasopharyngeal swabs can go much further. The United States Department of Health and Human services says that the swab should reach a depth equal to the distance from the nostrils to the outer opening of the ear. That’s a huge distance. In Ottawa, Canada, the recommendation is half that distance. 

In October last year (2020) I reported on at least one case where a healthy individual had noticed cerebrospinal fluid pouring out of her nose after an invasive PCR test. That really isn’t something you want happening. The woman concerned, who was in her 40s, had a PCR nasal swab test and later went to see a doctor complaining of vomiting, a runny nose, a headache and a stiff neck. The pseudo-journalists at the BBC can, if they are interested in facts, find the details in the JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Surgeons found that the fluid running down her nose was cerebrospinal fluid – the fluid that protects the brain. [MORE]

Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier Will Likely Die in Prison After Parole Denied. Framed for the Murder of 2 FBI Agents

From [HERE] On July 2, Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), a leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, was denied parole by the U.S. Parole Commission, ensuring that he will most likely die in federal prison.

Suffering from serious health issues as he nears 80, Peltier is serving two consecutive life sentences for killing FBI agents, Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in June 1975.

Imprisoned for nearly 50 years, Peltier has maintained his innocence and there are grounds to believe him.[1]

The federal government, for example, withheld a ballistics report at Peltier’s trial indicating the fatal bullets did not come from his weapon, according to court documents Peltier filed on appeal.

One prosecution witness, Michael Anderson, testified during cross-examination that he was threatened by an FBI agent, and said that he agreed to testify in exchange for criminal charges against him in another case being dropped.

Another witness, Myrtle Poor Bear, said that she had been coerced into signing a false affidavit implicating Peltier and that her life had been threatened. “They had the law in their hands, and could do anything,” she said of the FBI. [MORE]

KCPD Refuse to Release "Their" Video of White Cop Shooting Amaree’ya Henderson in the Face After a Suspect Traffic Stop. A Lawsuit is the Only “Justice” Available as White Prosecutors Fail to Charge

From [HERE] The mother of a Black man killed in a Kansas City, Kansas, traffic stop last year has filed a lawsuit against the local government, claiming her son was unarmed and posed no threat to police when an officer shot him to death in his car.

Amaree’ya Henderson of Kansas City was killed in April 2023 after an officer jumped on the door frame of his vehicle to prevent Henderson from leaving a traffic stop, according to the lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District of Kansas Office in Kansas City, Kansas.

Attorneys for Pauletta Johnson, his mother, argue that the officer fired “blindly” into the vehicle — while Henderson’s girlfriend was in the passenger seat — and put himself in danger. He killed the 25-year-old when other, safer courses of action were available, the lawsuit says.

“A vehicle pulling away from a traffic stop does not give a police officer continued permission to kill a non-threatening citizen,” attorneys wrote in the lawsuit, adding that there was never an allegation that Henderson was “armed with any type of weapon” and that he was not wanted for a crime.

The lawsuit names the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, the police department and Officer Austin Schuler as defendants.

“Both the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice investigated the facts of the case and determined that criminal charges against Officer Schuler were not warranted,” they said in a statement.

On April 26, 2023, Henderson and his girlfriend Shakira Hill had just finished a DoorDash delivery in the Shawnee Heights neighborhood when Schuler pulled them over on Metropolitan Avenue, near the 12th Street Bridge, the lawsuit says.

Apparently the traffic stop was unlawful - as police have not explained any lawful reason for the stop. Hill said Henderson was not violating any traffic laws.

Hill said the officer approached the driver’s side window, but it was broken. She said they rolled down the back window. Hill said that she and Henderson asked the officer multiple times why they had been pulled over, but that the officer did not provide them with a reason.

Henderson gave the officer his license and registration, according to the lawsuit. The couple believed the officer was writing them a ticket for expired plates, according to the lawsuit, and Henderson contacted his mother via FaceTime.

According to the complaint, more uniformed officers arrived on the scene and Schuler again approached the vehicle with his flashlight. Attorneys allege that during the confrontation, the officer unnecessarily escalated the situation by pulling open the door of Henderson’s vehicle.

The attorneys say Henderson, fearing for his life, began to drive away as Schuler planted himself on the doorjamb, pulled out his gun and shot the 25-year-old in the arm and face. The vehicle collided with a parked car. According to Attorney Nuru Witherspoon

‘Officer was not threatened, and was not in the path of the vehicle’. ‘In fact, he put himself in harm’s way by hopping onto the frame of the vehicle.’

Amaree’ya Henderson’s car travels for 220 to 250 feet before it strikes a parked vehicle after he is shot in the face and torso at close range.

According to police, the officer was treated in hospital for minor injuries after the shooting.

In addition to wrongfully killing Henderson, the indictment also accuses the officer of violating police policy and training.

None of the officers used de-escalation techniques during the traffic stop, the lawyers allege. And shooting a motorist behind the wheel of a moving car — a practice generally discouraged by policing experts — is limited by KCK police policy to situations in which an officer or another person is in danger.

In March 2023, a month after the shooting, U.S. District Attorney Mark Dupree’s office said no criminal charges would be filed against the officer. Prosecutors reviewed the evidence and concluded the officer reasonably feared for his life when the vehicle sped away at a “high rate of speed” and Henderson “ignored commands” to stop.

Requirements for bodycam images

The Henderson shooting sparked community protests in 2023, along with broader calls for transparency from area activists. Leaders of the police reform group Justice for Wyandotte last year called on law enforcement to release footage of the shooting, a step it has taken in some cases to prosecute Black people, including the killing of a former police detective who disarmed an officer in 2022.

Bodycam footage of the Henderson shooting has never been made public. In Kansas, family members and their attorneys can view such footage privately, but state law limits the situations in which videos can be shared widely.

Body camera footage is considered criminal investigation data and is released to the public at the discretion of the police or other officials, such as the prosecutor.

The Kansas Star’s request for a copy of the video was denied by the United States Government in December.

A recent Star investigation into body camera disclosures in the state found that law enforcement released only one video of eight fatal police shootings over a five-year period.

In April, the brother of a man killed in February 2023 filed a lawsuit over footage of that police shooting. The case is still pending in Wyandotte County Superior Court.

The lawsuit filed Friday by Henderson’s mother alleges constitutional rights violations and wrongful death. It seeks a jury trial in federal court.