As the new Political silly season kicks of in the United States, thankfully they will not have Barack Obama the candidate to kick around this time. So for voters on the right here’s an opportunity to heave a sigh of relief , finally you can “have your country back”. Hopefully this will mean that you can call off your attack dogs from black men. The black guy will be out of there real soon.
Seriously though as is customary each national election cycle voters are faced with a range of options which are not sometimes as evident as the lame-stream corporate media wants you to think. For instance, On the issue of faith and Religion, the Republican Party have been carrying that message, that they are the God party for a long time. The trouble with Republican protestations of faith and values is that their actions are inherently divorced from scriptural teachings and everyday reality. Loving , caring charity, kindness, acceptance, are dirty words for Republicans. This makes their faith message unacceptable and hypocritical. In fact many people are turned off from the christian faith primarily because of the messengers.
On the other hand the Democratic party has demonstrably been more in tune with the goals and aspirations of the poor and dispossessed, unfortunately for the party and it’s supporters, the party has become a party of Godless anything-goes Liberals. So where does that leave people of faith who still believe Government has a legal and moral duty to aid the poor? There is no such option for voters in America. Both Political parties are mere pawns of the financial oligarchy.
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So as I participated in a discussion on the subject yesterday, I realized just how the Republican party have been able to totally disrespect the poor yet remain viable. They manage this despite that the majority of voters are poorer people.
As was the case last national election cycle, with Mr Piazza Herman Cain’s pretend candidacy for the Republican Party, here again is Ben Carson a retired neurosurgeon tossing his hat into the ring. The Republican party has demonstrated it has no interest in black causes, neither does it have any desire to attract black voters to the party. In all fairness to former president Bush he was able to garner about 13% of the black vote, largely because he ran as an evangelical christian. The party has fought every issue which would uplift blacks from second class citizenship to equal partnership in the American experience. In state legislators across the country republicans have passed laws which are directly antithetical to the interest of black Americans. Interestingly , despite the naked aggression of the party toward African-Americans some very notable dark-skinned people have managed to align themselves to the party. Despite the slave master’s cruelty and murderous aggression to the people they enslaved, many slaves still clamored to serve in the big house. A FEWQUOTESFROMBENCARSON (1) OnObamacare: “You know, Obamacare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. And it is, in a way — it is slavery in a way because it is making all of us subservient to the government.” (2) OnObama’s appearance: When a colleague said the president “looks clean. Shirt’s white. The tie. He looks elegant,” Carson responded: “Like most psychopaths. That’s why they’re successful. That’s the way they look. They all look great.” He later said: “But he knows he’s telling a lie! He’s trying to sell what he thinks is not true! He’s sitting there saying, ‘These Americans are so stupid I can tell them anything.’ ” (3) On similarities between the Founding Fathers, who were “willing to die for what they believed,” and ISIS: “They’ve [ISIS] got the wrong philosophy, but they’re willing to die for what they believe, while we’re busily giving away every value and every belief for the sake of political correctness.” (4) On the importance of the GOPwinning the Senate in 2014: In August, Carson said he couldn’t be sure “there will even be an election in 2016” if Republicans didn’t go on to win that fall. (His wife also said they were keeping their son’s Australian passport handy if the election didn’t go their way.)
It has been particularly important that Republicans have a couple of token blacks in high visibility positions. Like the few they rent to sit in front rows at their conventions. It was important to have cover when they viciously assail Barack Obama while hugging on a high profile black in their own party. That in their minds negates the overt racism they spewed at Obama and blacks in general. There never was and never will be a shortage of house Negroes willing to do Massa’s bidding. Black voters are faced with two distinct choices. (1) Vote for the Republican party which hates and reviles them. (2) Continue to vote for the soul-less Democratic party which takes them for granted and allows them to believe anything that one wants to do in life is okay , there are no consequence for action.
Carson like other black sell-outs before him are staples on the FOX network the Rights place to disrespect and spread racial hatred. It should cause consternation to an intelligent black person as to the motives of that network in hiring them as contributors or just to come on to discuss a topic. Despite Carson’s notoriety as a renowned and brilliant brain surgeon, he has not demonstrated the common-sense to side step that minefield. On that basis Carson joins Clarence Thomas , Herman Caine and a host of other high-profile blacks who have sacrificed integrity on the altar of being accepted by whites.
When the Civil War ended, African-Americans in Atlanta began entering the realm of politics, establishing businesses and gaining notoriety as a social class. Increasing tensions between Black wage-workers and the white élite began to grow and ill-feelings were further exacerbated when Blacks gained more civil rights, including the right to vote. The tensions exploded during the gubernatorial election of 1906 in which M. Hoke Smith and Clark Howell competed for the Democratic nomination. Both candidates were looking for ways to disenfranchise African-American voters because they each felt that the Black vote could throw the election to the other candidate. Hoke Smith was a former publisher of the Atlanta Journal and Clark Howell was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Both candidates used their influence to incite white voters and help spread the fear that whites may not be able to maintain the current social order. The Atlanta Georgian and the Atlanta News began publishing stories about white women being molested and raped by Black men. These allegations were reported multiple times and were largely false. On Sept. 22, 1906, Atlanta newspapers reported four alleged assaults on local white women. Soon, some 10,000 white men and boys began gathering, beating, and stabbing Blacks. It is estimated that there were between 25 and 40 African-American deaths; it was confirmed that there were only two white deaths.
During the oil boom of the 1910s, the area of northeast Oklahoma around Tulsa flourished, including the Greenwood neighborhood, which came to be known as “the Black Wall Street.” The area was home to several lawyers, realtors, doctors, and prominent black Businessmen, many of them multimillionaires. Greenwood boasted a variety of thriving businesses such as grocery stores, clothing stores, barbershops, banks, hotels, cafes, movie theaters, two newspapers, and many contemporary homes. Greenwood residents enjoyed many luxuries that their white neighbors did not, including indoor plumbing and a remarkable school system. The dollar circulated 36 to 100 times, sometimes taking a year for currency to leave the community. The neighborhood was destroyed during a riot that broke out after a group men from Greenwood attempted to protect a young Black man from a lynch mob. On the night of May 31, 1921, a mob called for the lynching of Dick Rowland, a Black man who shined shoes, after reports spread that on the previous day he had assaulted Sarah Page, a white woman, in the elevator she operated in a downtown building. In the early morning hours of June 1, 1921, Black Tulsa was looted, firebombed from the air and burned down by white rioters. The governor declared martial law, and National Guard troops arrived in Tulsa. Guardsmen assisted firemen in putting out fires, removed abducted African-Americans from the hands of white vigilantes, and imprisoned all Black Tulsans, not already confined, into a prison camp at the Convention Hall and the Fairgrounds, some for as long as eight days. In the wake of the violence, 35 city blocks lay in charred ruins, over 800 people were treated for injuries and estimated 300 deaths occurred.
Chicago Race Riots (1919)
Chicago Race Riots (1919)
The “Red Summer” of 1919 marked the culmination of steadily growing tensions surrounding the great migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North during World War I. Chicago was one of the northern cities that experienced violent race riots during that period. Drawn by the city’s meatpacking houses, railway companies and steel mills, the African-American population in Chicago skyrocketed from 44,000 in 1910 to 235,000 in 1930. When the war ended in late 1918, thousands of white servicemen returned home from fighting in Europe to find that their jobs in factories, warehouses and mills had been filled by newly arrived Southern Blacks or immigrants. On July 27, 1919, an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after he challenged the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and was stoned by a group of white youths. His death, and the police refusal to arrest the men who caused it, sparked a week of race rioting between Black and white Chicagoans, with Black neighborhoods receiving the worst of the damage. When the riots ended on Aug. 3, 15 whites and 23 Blacks had been killed and more than 500 people injured. An additional 1,000 Black families had lost their homes when they were torched by rioters. President Woodrow Wilson castigated the “white race” as “the aggressor” in the Chicago uprising.
Rosewood Massacre (1923)
Rosewood Massacre (1923)
Rosewood was a quiet, self-sufficient whistle-stop on the Seaboard Air Line Railway in Florida. By 1900 the population in Rosewood had become predominantly African-American. Some people farmed or worked in local businesses, including a sawmill in nearby Sumner, a predominantly white town. In 1920, Rosewood Blacks had three churches, a school, a large Masonic Hall, turpentine mill, a sugarcane mill, a baseball team and a general store (a second one was white owned). The village had about two dozen plank two-story homes, some other small houses, as well as several small unoccupied plank structures. Spurred by unsupported accusations that a white woman in Sumner had been beaten and possibly raped by a Black drifter, white men from a number of nearby towns lynched a Rosewood resident. When the Black citizens defended themselves against further attack, several hundred whites combed the countryside hunting Black people and burning almost every structure in Rosewood. Survivors hid for several days in nearby swamps and were evacuated by train and car to larger towns. Although state and local authorities were aware of the violence, they made no arrests for the activities in Rosewood. At least six Blacks and two whites were killed, and the town was abandoned by Black residents during the attacks. None ever returned. Washington, D.C. Race Riots (1919)
Washington, D.C. Race Riots (1919)
Postwar Washington, D.C., roughly 75 percent white, was a racial tinderbox. Housing was in short supply and jobs so scarce that ex-doughboys in uniform panhandled along Pennsylvania Avenue. However, Washington’s Black community was then the largest and most prosperous in the country, with a small but impressive upper class of teachers, ministers, lawyers and businessmen concentrated in the LeDroit Park neighborhood near Howard University. By the time the “Red Summer” was underway, unemployed whites bitterly envied the relatively few blacks who were fortunate enough to procure low-level government jobs. Many whites also resented the influx of African-Americans into previously segregated neighborhoods around Capitol Hill, Foggy Bottom and the old downtown. In July 1919, white men, many in military uniforms, responded to the rumored arrest of a Black man for rape with four days of mob violence. They rioted, randomly beat Black people on the street and pulled others off streetcars in attacks. When police refused to intervene, the Black population fought back. Troops tried to restore order as the city closed saloons and theaters to discourage assemblies. When the violence ended, 15 people had died: 10 whites, including two police officers; and five African-Americans. Fifty people were seriously wounded and another 100 less severely wounded. It was one of the few times when white fatalities outnumbered those of Blacks.
Knoxville, Tennessee Race Riots (1919)
In August 1919, a race riot in Knoxville, Tenn., broke out after a white mob mobilized in response to a Black man accused of murdering a white woman. The 5,000-strong mob stormed the county jail searching for the prisoner. They freed 16 white prisoners, including suspected murderers. After looting the jail and sheriff’s house, the mob moved on and attacked the African-American business district. Many of the city’s Black residents, aware of the race riots that had occurred across the country that summer, had armed themselves, and barricaded the intersection of Vine and Central to defend their businesses. Two platoons of the Tennessee National Guard’s 4th Infantry led by Adjutant General Edward Sweeney arrived, but they were unable to halt the chaos. The mob broke into stores and stole firearms and other weapons on their way to the Black business district. Upon their arrival the streets erupted in gunfire as Black snipers exchanged fire with both the rioters and the soldiers. The Tennessee National Guard at one point fired two machine guns indiscriminately into the neighborhood, eventually dispersing the rioters. Shooting continued sporadically for several hours. Outgunned, the Black defenders gradually fled, allowing the guardsmen to gain control of the area. Newspapers placed the death toll at just two, though eyewitness accounts suggest the dead were so many that the bodies were dumped into the Tennessee River, while others were buried in mass graves outside the city. New York City Draft Riot (1863)
New York City Draft Riot (1863)
The Draft Riot of 1863 was a four-day eruption of violence in New York City during the Civil War stemming from deep worker discontent with the inequities of the first federally mandated conscription laws. In addition, the white working class feared that emancipation of enslaved Blacks would cause an influx of African-American workers from the South. In many instances, employers used Black workers as strike-breakers during this period. Thus, the white rioters eventually turned their wrath on the homes and businesses of innocent African-Americans and anything else symbolic of their growing political, economic and social power. On July 13, 1863, organized opposition broke out across the city. The protests soon morphed into a violent uprising against the city’s wealthy élite and its African-American residents. The four-day draft riot was finally quelled by police cooperating with the 7th New York Regiment. Estimates vary greatly on the number of people killed, though most historians believe around 115 people lost their lives, including nearly a dozen Black men who were lynched after they were brutally beaten. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed causing millions of dollars in damage. Up to 50 of the damaged buildings had been burned to the ground by rioters, including the Colored Orphan Asylum, which housed more than 230 Black children. The East St. Louis Massacre (1917)
The East St. Louis Massacre (1917)
During spring 1917 Blacks were arriving in St. Louis at the rate of 2,000 per week, with many of them finding work at the Aluminum Ore Company and the American Steel Company in East St. Louis. Some whites feared loss of job and wage security because of the new competition, and further resented newcomers arriving from a rural, very different culture. Tensions between the groups ran high and escalated when rumors were spread about Black men and white women socializing at labor meetings. In May, 3,000 white men gathered in downtown East St. Louis. The roving mob began burning buildings and attacking Black people. The Illinois governor called in the National Guard to prevent further rioting and conditions eased somewhat for a few weeks. Then on July 1, white men driving a car through a Black neighborhood began shooting into houses, stores, and a church. A group of Black men organized themselves to defend against the attackers. As they gathered, they mistook an approaching car for the same one that had earlier driven through the neighborhood and they shot and killed both men in the car, who were, in fact, police detectives sent to calm the situation. The shooting of the detectives incensed a growing crowd of white spectators who came the next day to examine the car. The crowd grew and turned into a mob that spent the day and the following night on a spree of violence targeting Black neighborhoods of East St. Louis. Again, guardsmen were called in but various accounts suggest they joined in attacking Black people rather than stopping the violence. After the riot, varying estimates of the death toll circulated. The police chief estimated that 100 Blacks had been killed. The renowned journalist Ida B. Wells reported in The Chicago Defender that 40 – 150 black people were killed in the rioting. The NAACP estimated deaths at 100 – 200. Six thousand African-Americans were left homeless after their neighborhood was burned.
Denver, CO — A recently proposed bill in Colorado imposing legal penalties on police officers who interfere with citizens filming them could soon become law. The state’s House Of Representatives passed the bill this week, and it will now move on to vote in the Senate. If it becomes law, the bill would reportedly require police officers to have someone’s consent or a warrant to physically take or destroy a persons camera or footage. If an officer violates this law, the victim would then be able to seek damages up to $15,000 plus attorney fees. This would also be the first law in the country that would guarantee civil damages to people who have their recording rights violated by police.
After passing in the House on Wednesday, Colorado House Bill 15 – 1290 will now make its way to the Senate for a final vote. Police union officials are not happy about the bill, and they say that it treats officers unfairly and holds them to a standard that citizens are not held to, which is ironic because police typically behave as if they were above the law, and not subject to the same standards as everyone else. “The CACP does not believe that the people who put their lives at risk every day should have different standards of liability than anyone else in government,” police union representative AnneMarie Jensen, said in a statement. According to 7 News Denver, Rep. Joe Salazar, co-sponsor of the bill, said House Bill 15 – 1290 has support from both Democrats and Republicans and is not intended to penalize police. “It takes a very special person to be a police officer,” Salazar said. “We want to honor them, but at the same time, we have a few bad apples who need to be aware that their conduct now has major, major consequences.”
One of the incidents that caught the attention of Salazar was the case of Bobbie Ann Diaz. Diaz was trying to film what happened after police shot and killed 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez. As Diaz was trying to film the incident, she says an officer stopped her and threatened her with arrest if she continued to film. “At that time, (the officers) put Jessie down and they were on their knees yelling at Brianna that she better not record. She better not,” Diaz said. “She got scared. She got intimated. These are big officers and she didn’t want to make things worse.” Diaz didn’t know that she was protected by law to film the police as long as she wasn’t interfering with their investigation. Only through shining light into the darkness, i.e., filming police encounters, will enough people finally see how corrupt and violent this system is becoming. Your right to film the police must be protected.
Suggesting that Hamas’ Mashaal is more committed to peace than Netanyahu, Carter says he had no desire to meet with PM during trip.
Former US President Jimmy Carter had harsh words for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday, saying a meeting with him would be a “waste of time.”
Carter is in the midst of a three-day visit to Israel working to bring about a two-state solution. He met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Saturday, but did not meet with Netanyahu or President Reuven Rivlin.
According to Carter, he had no intentions of meeting with Netanyahu, who refused to meet with him in any case, but would have liked and did request to meet with the President.
Rivlin, however, on the advice of the Foreign Ministry, declined, due to Carter’s staunch “anti-Israel opinions” and known sympathy for Gaza-based terror organization Hamas.
In addition to calling a meeting with Netanyahu a “waste of time,” the former President took another shot at the Prime Minister during an interview with Channel Two News, asserting that peace is not on his agenda.
“The [Elders Group] stands for peace and human rights, and if humanrights and peace are not on Netanyahu’s agenda, I understand why he does not want to meet us,” Carter charged.
Earlier on Saturday, Carter urged Palestinian Arabs to hold elections to end the rapidly growing fierce enmity between Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) in Judea and Samaria.
During the Channel Two interview, Carter maintained his stance that Hamas is not a terrorist organization, adding that Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal is “strongly in favor of the peace process.”
While saying he “deplored” criminal acts” by members of Hamas against “innocent” Israeli citizens, Carter claimed not all members of Hamas are terrorists, and that he is seeking the moderate members of the organization.
He was not so complimentary in his assessment of Netanyahu, saying thatthe Prime Minister is not “in favor of a two-state solution” and therefore not committed to peace.
“I don’t see that deep commitment on the part of Netanyahu to make concessions which [former prime minister] Menachem Begin did to find peace with his potential enemies,” Carter said.
“They will be held accountable” !!! And correctly so.… That was the answer Marilyn J. Mosby,Maryland state’s attorney for Baltimore City give to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, in response to Hayes question about cops potentially not turning up to testify in criminal cases as a means of protests for her decisive actions. As decisive and right as Mosby’s retort was, the very notion that that could be a strategy of public servants who are paid by the very community to do a job is in of itself a damming indictment of the culture of intimidation, murder, fear and extortion which is slowly coming to light about America’s police departments.
Despite the clear and unequivocal killing of Eric Garner by Police on New York’s Staten Island, the Prosecutor Daniel Donovan short-circuited the process, literally preventing Cop Daniel Pantaleo from facing criminal charges, while simultaneously giving the appearance to the public that he was doing all he could in the interest of justice. For white men in particular in America justice has basically been what they say it is. Even as they manipulate and distort the process to suit their own ends. In Maryland as in other states there are disparate laws in place which makes it literally easy for police to break the laws without fear of prosecution. The New York Times reports on a law called the police officer’s bill of rights. The law is similar to at least a dozen across the country, commonly known as police officers’ bills of rights. But Maryland’s, enacted in the early 1970s, was the first and goes the furthest in offering layers of legal protection to police officers. Among its provisions is one that gives officers 10 days before they have to talk to investigators. The law has been a concern of Baltimore’s mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, since even before her city was racked by protests after the death of Mr. Gray from spinal cord injuries he sustained while in police custody.“When I went down to Annapolis to try to fight for reform, simple reform of the enforcement bill of rights, people looked at me like I had three eyes,” Ms. Rawlings-Blake said at a news conference on Thursday, her latest of a string of complaints about the law this week. Earlier this year, Jill P. Carter, a Democratic lawmaker in the Maryland House of Delegates, introduced a bill that would have eliminated the 10-day rule. The legislation never advanced out of committee in the face of intense opposition from police unions around the state.
While the state laws protecting police officers vary, they generally allow officers a period of time — from 24 hours to several days — before requiring them to speak to investigators. The legislation also often provides other protections unavailable to civilians, including limiting the amount of time officers can be questioned and prohibiting investigators from lying to obtain an admission of wrongdoing. In addition to the 10-day rule, the Maryland law also limits the time in which a complaint may be made against an officer to 90 days from the incident — even if the victim remains hospitalized with severe injuries or is otherwise incapacitated.“The law must both effectively respond to police misconduct and protect those dedicated law enforcement officers who are unfairly targeted,” said the statement from the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association and the Maryland Sheriffs’ Association. “Citizens and other public employees are entitled to due process before the government takes negative action against them, and our law enforcement officers deserve nothing less.”
But criminologists say the special legal protections for officers erodes public trust in the police during a time that public confidence in officers has fallen after a series of deaths of unarmed black men and boys around the country.“These are rights that civilians are not entitled to,” said David Harris, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School and an expert on police accountability. “Don’t you think that two or 10 days is the perfect time to get your story straight, talk to other officers, get the forensics results to make sure you don’t make mistakes?”
We agree with that assessment. As a former law enforcement officer,I find it insulting that anyone would suggest that a cop could use lethal force on a member of the public yet is not obligated to speak to anyone for up to 10 days. Despite the protestations of the heads of the afore-named police agencies , those special privileges ought to be stripped away if they are to engender the trust and respect of the communities they serve. We are still going to use the term communities they serve, even though from all indications police departments across America are hell-bent on control and domination of the African-American communities they patrol.
Police chiefs and their supporters are being terribly myopic if they believe that when the anger of the people erupt they will be safe because they have big guns and armored personnel carriers. The Politicians who vote to give them unmitigated powers to abuse citizens are not doing them service . There will be just so much that people will take. On that note police officers must avail themselves to the realities that they have no power that was not given them by the people. That power can get them in serious trouble as we now see in Baltimore Maryland. As it becomes clearer by the day that white men who control prosecutors offices and other positions of power, use and abuse those powers as instruments of white supremacy.
African-Americans must seize some of that power, wrenching them away from the likes of Daniel Donovan of Staten Island and William Bratton in New York City. That power must be wrenched from the immoral demons who control power in Tulsa Oklahoma who did not lift a finger to indict the savages who told Eric Harris, “Fuck your breath.” As Harris screams in pain, crying out that he didn’t do anything to deserve being shot, an unnamed deputy replies, “You fucking ran. Shut the fuck up.” Eric Harris died later as cops knelt on his head even after he was shot and in terrible pain. Whose idea is that of policing?
These are the kinds of things White Supremacists do to people of color in America while wearing police uniforms. If other countries did these things America would be on it’s high horse , pontificating about morality, human rights and democracy. They would with-hold funding as a punishment for what they term “Human rights abuses”> It’s time for America’s hypocrisy to be exposed for the world to see. It’s blatant hypocrisy to pretend that your hands are clean while your agents use your laws to oppress and suppress ethnic minorities in order to further the ignoble practice of racial superiority.
At the same time black Americans cannot look to one 35 ‑year-old woman to be it’s savior. Celebrating an indictment of the cops who contributed to the killing of Freddy Gray goes to the heart of how beat-down black people are. They celebrate indictments. Behind the scenes the same structure which created the police murder culture is still intact. Nothing has changed. When will things change. Your guess is as good as mine. It damn sure wont change because blacks ask whites to have a heart and do the right thing.… It never worked , it wont work. Change will come to the black community when that community say “this stops today” mean it and rise up like a mighty nation.. Within this nation.…..
Police officers erecting a barricade in Baltimore on Tuesday. Even before protests about the death of Freddie Gray, complaints were made about a state law that gives special legal protections to officers suspected of abusing their power. Credit Mark Makela/Getty Images
As Justice Department officials began meeting with community leaders in Baltimore this week in the early stages of their civil rights inquiry into the death of Freddie Gray, they heard repeated complaints about a state law that gives special legal protections to police officers suspected of abusing their power. The law is similar to at least a dozen across the country, commonly known as police officers’ bills of rights. But Maryland’s, enacted in the early 1970s, was the first and goes the furthest in offering layers of legal protection to police officers. Among its provisions is one that gives officers 10 days before they have to talk to investigators. “There should be no reason why they should have 10 days to get their story together,” said Tré Murphy, coördinator for the Baltimore United for Change Coalition, who attended one of the meetings. “They are not being held accountable, and frankly, we need to do something about it.”
People in Baltimore stand against police violence.
Police have a right to due process like everyone else. With that said the Baltimore Police Union’s attitude seem to be that their officers are above the laws. No one is above the laws. It is only when laws are applied fairly and equitably can a nation expect to have peace and order. What seem to be happening is that these Union Reps are in shock , clearly they are not used to having their officers held accountable for their crimes. In Staten Island and Ferguson Missouri and other municipalities all across America white men in control of the system have demonstrably abused the system to suit their own. That is not Justice that is not fairness. It is only when everyone are subject to the same treatment under the law that peace will prevail.
Whites live in a Utopian enclave where they are shielded from the viscous assault of police. In many cases the police have simply removed the sheets and replaced them with police uniforms. How do people fight back against the law? Therein lies the problem. And they know it. Most cops are cowardly punks who would not dare step to a black man unless he is hiding behind a badge. For those who are ready to pounce , I am a former police officer, what these savages are doing is not policing. Those who support them or remain silent are just as bad. The lie you hear them tell that only a small amount of cops are criminals is simply that, a lie…
Seventy-seven-year-old Hollywood icon Morgan Freeman has been watching coverage of the protests in Baltimore, and he is far from satisfied with what he’s been seeing. “Look at MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN,” he told the Daily Beast’s Marlow Stern. “Go between those three. There’s a take, there’s a take, and there’s a take. It’s just commentary. CNNwants to be pure news, but the others are just commentary. They’re just commenting on things.”
“Fuck the media,” he added. He did acknowledge, however, that the coverage was better than Ferguson, because at least “some young reporters” are listening to the complaints of the protesters — protesters who, in an interview with Newsweek’s Zach Schonfeld, Freeman said he supported.
“I was watching the news last night,” he said, “and [a protester] said, ‘You know, when we were out here marching peacefully, nobody was here. And now we start burning the place down, everybody is listening. What do you think we’re gonna do to be heard?”
“She’s got a point there,” he added. Freeman continued, noting that technology has it made it possible to document “the terrorism [the black community] suffers from the police.”
“Because of the technology — everybody has a smartphone — now we can see what the police are doing,” he explained. “We can show the world, ‘Look, this is what happened in that situation.’ So why are so many people dying in police custody? And why are they all black? And why are all the police killing them white?”
Freeman added that the most common excuse police have used when involved in fatal shootings is they feared for their safety. “Well, now we know — you feared for your safety while a guy was running away from you, right?”
As he told Stern in the Daily Beast interview, “now, at least, you can see his hands were up in the air. ‘What part of your safety were you afraid of?’ The guy was running away, ‘What part of your safety was in danger?’”
Kevin Moore, pictured here, came forward with the video and later his identity to explain what he saw the day of Freddie Gray’s arrest.
The witness that recorded video of Freddie Gray’s seemingly painful arrest, Kevin Moore, was taken into custody by Baltimore police, according to a report.
In the wake of Gray’s death, Moore came forward with cell phone footage of the controversial arrest and later said police tackled the 25-year-old victim like “a piece of origami.”
It’s believed police detained Moore Thursday night along with two other people after handing over a copy of this video to detectives with the department’s Office of Internal Oversight.
Photography is Not a Crime reports authorities took Moore into custody at gunpoint during a traffic stop. He was released two hours later.
An image from surveillance footage was released by Baltimore police showing Moore at the site of Gray’s capture, an intimidation tactic, Moore believed.
“They plastered my face all over the Internet like (they) don’t know who I am when (they) very well know who I am,” Moore told Photography is Not a Crime after his arrest.
The two suspects, identified as Chad Jackson and Tony White, by Counter Current News, are members of We Cop Watch.
Attempts by the Daily News to reach organizers behind We Cop Watch were not immediately returned.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby announces charges during a news conference on Friday,
Marilyn Mosby announces charges during a news conference on Friday,
Baltimore’s chief prosecutor is promising justice for Freddie Gray.
Six cops were charged Friday in the death of Gray, whose fatal neck injury while in police custody has sparked massive protests.
The criminal charges — including murder, manslaughter and assault — were announced by State Attorney Marilyn Mosby during a dramatic press conference in front of City Hall.
“Mr. Gray’s death was a homicide,” she said, prompting some in the crowd to applaud and call out “Justice!” as she announced the prosecution.
The 25-year-old Gray “suffered a severe and critical neck injury” while being driven unrestrained in a police wagon April 12 and “was not breathing at all” by the end of the ride,” Mosby said. He died a week later.
The officers — who detained him even though he committed no crime — also ignored his repeated pleas for help, Mosby charged.
The driver of the van, Officer Caesar Goodson, was charged with depraved murder that carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison plus other counts including manslaughter.
Lt. Brian Rice, the highest ranking cop involved, was hit with manslaughter, assault and misconduct charges.
Four others — Officers William Porter, Edward Nero, Garett Miller and Sgt. Alicia White — were variously charged with manslaughter, assault, misconduct and false imprisonment.
They all face up to 10 years behind bars for the top count. The six cops, who’ve been suspended since Gray’s death, are expected to get arraigned Friday afternoon.
Mosby, who at 35 is the youngest top prosecutor of a major city, said the accusations “are not an indictment on the entire force.”
She said they were the result of a thorough investigation by the police integrity unit, investigators and evidence collected by police and the medical examiner.
“I heard your calls of ‘no justice, no peace,’” Mosby said. “Your peace is sincerely needed as we seek to deliver justice for this young man.”
The rallies responding to the police custody death still show no sign of stopping, with Trayvon Martin’s mom arriving Friday for a 3 p.m. rally led by a prominent local pastor.
Freddie Gray, seen here in an image taken by his fiancé Jamiea Speller in the summer 2013, died on April 19th while in police custody in Baltimore.
After Monday’s destructive demonstrations — which led to buildings and cars being burned and at least 20 police officers getting injured — each night has seen increasingly peaceful protests, save for a brief flare-up between protesters and police Tuesday night.
Employees at the CVS that infamously burned down at the start of the riots have been working at other locations and even those who don’t are getting compensation, the company said.
“Given the extraordinary circumstances this week, we are paying our Baltimore employees for their regularly scheduled hours,” said spokesmoman Erin Britt.
On Thursday night, the streets were quiet and calm by curfew time, with reporters on the streets appearing to outnumber protesters. New York Knicks player Carmelo Anthony, a Baltimore native, walked with protesters Thursday and urged his hometown to “rebuild.” Some police officers were seen hugging protesters.
The more things change the more they remain the same. Many Americans white and black are quick to point to what they see as a seismic shift in race relations in America. The best barometer they believe is the fact that a half-white man sits in the white house as president of these united states. Obama himself seem to believe that his ascendancy to the highest elected office signify that Americans are more decent and good that people think they are.
To some in the black community any form of living will do. They are quite content with being second class citizens, as long as they can go to their jobs, go shopping then find some form of entertainment afterwards. In fact entertainment seem to typify their very existence. So it really doesn’t matter how bad things are in their neighborhoods, they still claim the dilapidated and squalid conditions, professing their love for the run-down deprived communities. Many of them do not want the apple cart disturbed , so any form of social upheaval is greeted with the strongest condemnation from them, even though they are the victims of state abuse. Hundreds of years of physical and psychological abuse has left the American black broken and content with any life their white counterparts allows them to live.
It is sad to watch their pathetic acceptance of this second class designation, being told what to say and do in their own country. I have always marveled at black Americans willingness to cede America to their white counterparts. Every white in America takes ownership of America. They speak of America as their country. Blacks don’t. Blacks are quite willing to cede ground to whites which defies logic and common sense, at least as far as a am concerned. On that basis it is inherently difficult for others to side with and help blacks in their plight in a land they have not yet claimed. It appears that a hundred years from now they will still be running away from getting their spines severed and their larynx crushed at the hands of agents of white owners of America[sic]
Freddie Gray, pictured in a hospital bed after being arrested by Baltimore City Police, died from injuries sustained while in custody.
Is it possible that Freddie Gray could have severed his own spine and crushed his own voicebox?
From a medical standpoint, it is unlikely that the 25-year-old Baltimore man injured himself in the back of that van. The severity of his injuries seem too grave for him to have done that to himself simply by thrashing around or banging his head on something. It is more likely that there was some type of direct blow to either the front or back of his neck, or somewhere along the spinal cord along his back. How does a spinal cord injury happen? A spinal cord injury is “damage to the spinal cord that results in a loss of function such as mobility or feeling.” This type of injury is most often caused by a traumatic blow of the kind that would be sustained in a car accident, severe fall or an act of violence.
There must be a sudden, traumatic blow to the spine that fractures, dislocates, crushes or compresses one or more of the vertebrae, or when a gun shot or knife penetrates the spinal cord. After a spinal cord injury, bleeding, inflammation and swelling occurs, and fluid builds up in and around the spinal cord.
Freddie Gray is pictured being arrested by Baltimore police on April 12. Later, Gray can be seen being dragged by the cops into the van, and it seems as though he was already unable to walk.
Without immediate treatment, this can lead to permanent paralysis, or in Gray’s case, death. Baltimore police officers have already been suspended for failing to get Gray prompt medical care.
The higher in the back or neck the spinal cord injury occurs, the more dysfunction a person will have as a result. So with a spinal cord injury that occurs from a blow to the neck, a person usually loses function in the arms and legs.
The man said he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the van and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to a police document quoted by the newspaper. They were separated by a metal partition, and the man did not actually see Gray trying to harm himself.
As seen in a video taken by a witness who saw Gray being put into the back of the van, Gray was being dragged by the cops into the van, and it seems as though he was unable to walk.
The ability to control your limbs after a spinal cord injury depends on where along the spinal cord the injury took place, and how severe the injury is. If Gray was showing signs of loss of function in his legs before being put in the van, how could the injury have taken place in the van?
There are a number of signs and symptoms that can occur very shortly after a person suffers a spinal injury. These include extreme back pain, pressure in the neck, head or back, weakness, loss of coördination or paralysis in any part of the body, as well as difficulty with balance and walking, impaired breathing after injury and oddly positioned or twisted neck or back.
As seen on the video, Gray was clearly in pain, screaming that he was hurt, and could not walk. He was also having trouble breathing because he kept asking for his inhaler.
Now, let’s talk about the crushed larynx. Also known as a laryngotracheal injury, a crushed larynx is pretty rare in adults, except when there is blunt force trauma to the front of the neck, such as strangulation, or blows to the trachea from fists or feet.
This is usually caused by a car accident when the passenger does not have a seatbelt on, in the front seat, or driving, and there are no protective airbags.
In this case, the person in the front seat or driver is thrown forward and the front of the neck either hits the dashboard or steering wheel.
The direct blow to the front of the neck crushes the larynx against the spine of the neck. This type of injury can also occur during sports, fights, falling forward onto a blunt object such as the handle bars of a bicycle, or during strangulation. Depending on the severity of the impact, the larynx and trachea can compress against the spine.
Is it possible that Gray’s larynx was crushed first, causing the spinal cord injury? Maybe that caused the spinal cord injury. In order for this to happen, there would have to have been a direct blow to the front of his neck, which is unlikely to have been a self-imposed injury in the back of the van.
This could also explain why Gray had trouble breathing. If the blow to the front of the neck is severe and/or low, the larynx and trachea can become completely separated, causing airway obstruction and difficulty breathing.
With this type of injury, the neck must be immediately stabilized to prevent worsening of unrecognized cervical spine injuries. Gray allegedly asked for medical attention multiple times, yet he did not receive it until after he arrived at the police station, where he was found unconscious in the back of the van.
It is unclear which injury happened first, or whether one caused the other, but it seems clear that there was nearly no way he caused the fatal injuries himself.
Dr. Samadi is a board-certified urologic oncologist trained in open and traditional and laparoscopic surgery, and an expert in robotic prostate surgery. He is chairman of urology, chief of robotic surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital and professor of urology at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. He is a medical correspondent for the Fox News Channel’s Medical A‑Team and the chief medical correspondent for am970 in New York City, where he is heard Sundays at 10 a.m.
Freddie Gray, arrested by Baltimore police on April 12, died a week later of a severed spinal cord.
Do not entertain people white nor black uncle Toms who appear on television and other media demanding that you condemn damage to property. When they condemn Police murder and abuse and help us stamp it out, then and only then should we listen to their concerns. When we say black lives matter we must make it absolutely clear that we will no longer tolerate or allow them to devalue the life of our people while they ask us to multiply and respect the value of their property. The trade-off for the peace and social order they crave should and must come at the cost of social justice. There should be no peace until there is justice and respect for all Americans. In case after case we see police use undue and excessive force, kills someone and exercise blatant disregard for that person’s right to life.
In fact the actions of these cops in many cases are so aggravating that it is stunning that any person looking at the evidence would not be nauseated and disgusted. They murder people then after shooting them down they do not lift a finger to administer aid to the person. They then falsify reports deliberately lying that they administered life saving assistance to the victims. In case after case the system does not hold them accountable for their thuggery and murderous behavior.
A video shows Officer Michael Slager, who is white, firing eight shots at 50-year-old Walter Scott as Scott has his back to him and is running away. Scott, who was unarmed, was struck five times. They then lied that they administered aid to the dying Scott. Eric Courtney Harris was killed by 73-year-old Tulsa, Oklahoma, “reserve deputy” police officer Bob Bates. Bates yells, “I shot him! I’m sorry.” Meanwhile, Harris is crying, “He shot me! He shot me, man. Oh my God. I’m losing my breath.” “Fuck your breath!” a cop responds. “Shut the fuck up!” “You shouldn’t have fucking ran!” his colleague adds as they hold Harris down. Harris died about an hour later at a nearby hospital. Neither of the savages who held Bates down and killed him after he was shot has been arrested.
These are the savages who patrol America’s streets and exact vengeance in the name of law enforcement. These are modern day Slave patrols. One of the most absurd statement I’ve heard is that Freddie Gray injured himself , this is the most preposterous thing imaginable and you guessed it , it is being advanced by the media. No doubt those narratives were planted by the Baltimore Police , fully conversant that the media would gobble it up loop it until it gets woven into the narrative which eventually then becomes fact. Of course one guest who is a medical doctor strenuously debunked that myth, arguing that cops severed the spine of Freddy Gray, plain and simple.
It is frustrating but understandable though, that a people leaderless, and clueless to what they deserve will continually be used , abused and murdered because those who wield power, know they will not stand up and defend themselves.
A GOVERNMENTOFTHEPEOPLEFORTHEPEOPLEBYTHEPEOPLE ! Right ? A country formed on the power of the individual citizen. A Government made up of individual citizens. A system in which the citizen government fears the people, not the other way around. In fact the people are guaranteed that right to remove the Government if the Government become tyrannical .
SOWHATHAPPENED? The financial Oligarchs pick the political puppets. Money talks. Remember “citizens united”? In fairness this was the status-quo long before the Supreme Court’s citizens united decision. The Political puppets hire waves and waves of goons, arm and indoctrinate them and the circle is complete. So what happen to that concept of a Government of the people for the people by the people? It never existed
Egyptians stood their ground and were not intimidated by their Government structure which had been in place for thousands of years
During the American supported so-called Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East, the world witnessed people stand up and defy tyrannical governments, some thousands of years entrenched in places like Egypt and Libya, and Tunisia. Governments in Egypt , Tunisia, Syria and others rolled out Military might in a show of force, designed to intimidate the people into capitulating and returning to the status-quo. The people stood their ground and one by one those tyrannical regimes fell. People power is democracy. In America Federal Agents were forced to back down from white fundamentalists in Nevada.
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Hundreds of heavily armed militia members celebrated their victory over federal law enforcement officers on Saturday after they secured the release of Cliven Bundy’s captured cattle.
In an embarrassing climb-down, the Bureau of Land Management retreated from its high profile standoff with Bundy and his rag-tag bunch of anti-federalists after the BLM attempted to forcibly capture nearly 1,000 of his cattle. The militia member showed up at corrals outside Mesquite to demand the animals’ return to rancher Cliven Bundy. Some protesters were armed with handguns and rifles at the corrals and at an earlier nearby rally.
Thanks: Rancher Cliven Bundy, middle, addresses his supporters along side Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie, right, on April 12, 2014
Bundy, 67, doesn’t recognize federal authority on land he insists belongs to Nevada. His Mormon family has operated a ranch since the 1870s near the small town of Bunkerville and the Utah and Arizona lines. ‘Good morning America, good morning world, isn’t it a beautiful day in Bunkerville?’ Bundy told a cheering crowd after his cattle were released, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. A number of Bundy’s supporters, who included militia members from California, Idaho and other states, dressed in camouflage and carried rifles and sidearms.
Wild west: The Bundy family and their supporters drive their cattle back onto public land outside of Bunkerville, Nev. after they were released by the Bureau of Land Management on Saturday
During the stand-off, some chanted ‘open that gate’ and ‘free the people.’ A man who identified himself as Scott, 43, said he had traveled from Idaho along with two fellow militia members to support Bundy. ‘If we don’t show up everywhere, there is no reason to show up anywhere,’ said the man, dressed in camouflage pants and a black flak jacket crouched behind a concrete highway barrier, holding an AR-15 rifle. ‘I’m ready to pull the trigger if fired upon,’ Scott said.
Fanatical: The edge of a Cliven Bundy supporter camp is shown near the Virgin River Saturday, April 12, 2014, near Bunkerville, Nevada
The dispute between Bundy and federal land managers began in 1993 when he stopped paying monthly fees of about $1.35 per cow-calf pair to graze public lands that are also home to imperiled animals such as the Mojave Desert tortoise. Support: An armed civilian waits nearby in some bushes as the Bundy family and their supporters gather together under the I‑15 highway just outside of Bunkerville, Nevada Land managers limited the Bundy herd to just 150 head on a land which the rancher claims has been in his family for more than 140 years.
Support: An armed civilian waits nearby in some bushes as the Bundy family and their supporters gather together under the I‑15 highway just outside of Bunkerville, Nevada
The government also claims Bundy has ignored cancellation of his grazing leases and defied federal court orders to remove his cattle. ‘We won the battle,’ said Ammon Bundy, one of the rancher’s sons. Hundreds of Bundy supporters, some heavily armed, had camped on the road leading to his ranch in a high desert spotted with sagebrush and mesquite trees. Some held signs reading ‘Americans united against government thugs,’ while others were calling the rally the ‘Battle of Bunkerville,’ a reference to a American Revolutionary War battle of Bunker Hill in Boston.
Firepower: Protester Eric Parker from central Idaho aims his weapon from a bridge next to the Bureau of Land Management’s base camp where seized cattle
The large crowd at one point blocked all traffic on Interstate 15. Later, as lanes opened up, motorists honked to support the demonstrators and gave them a thumbs-up sign. Las Vegas Police Lt. Dan Zehnder said the showdown was resolved with no injuries and no violence. Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie was able to negotiate a resolution after talking with Bundy, he said. The fight between Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management widened into a debate about states’ rights and federal land-use policy.
Deal: Cliven Bundy shakes hands with Sheiff Doug Gillespie on Saturday morning as the rancher comes to a deal to stop federal agents rounding up his cattle
From Ferguson Missouri , to New York city New York, from Cleveland Ohio to Baltimore Maryland the pressing issue of police killing unarmed black men is front and center. Black citizens amass to protest these killings and the government responds with massive show and use of force.
In Baltimore Gov.thugs confiscate posters and terrorize citizens who are exercising their constitutional rights
The shocking thing to me is that they actually obey the government’s curfews in these instances. Why would you allow the government to tell you to go home and stay home at 10.00pm until 5.00 am the next day? You are an adult, it’s your city, it’s your country, isn’t it? You are demonstrating against police killings yet you bow to the very same police dictates , threats and intimidation? Who do you expect to take you seriously after that?
These are the scenes which greeted black protesters in Baltimore Maryland. Lets show the world how America handles protest from it’s citizens
If you have a Government of the people for the people and by the people, why are they killing your children and using the very same agents to herd you like cattle into designated areas when you protest? Why do you allow them to tell you where you may stand? Why do you allow them to tell you when you may stand there? Why do you allow them to tell you if you may stand there? What are they going to do gun you all down?
The American black has grow so accustomed to being beat down they don’t even know what they want. It is shocking to hear them talk about their great neighborhoods in Baltimore after a few buildings went up in smoke. In some of those neighborhoods unemployment stand at fifty percent. Gang violence is the norm. Poverty abounds. Police assault and kill with no accountability. To date they still have not bothered to tell the family of Freddy Gray how come their son ended up with a broken neck and severed spine in their custody. Yet they listen to the unconscionable white structure tell them to trust the system. The same system which is an “unjust criminal system”.
Baltimore Police officers arrest a man following the funeral of Freddie Gray near Mowdamin Mall
When you finally gather up the will to demonstrate you allow the white power structure through it’s corporate media to tell you to say your neighborhoods are great. I though it was the poverty and hopelessness which bred the drug-dealing and death? I thought it was the pervasive disregard the power structure had for you which allows the police to disrespect you? I thought you were marching because your sons and husbands, brothers and nephews were being mauled and killed in the streets by the armed goons they place to keep you in check? Do you still believe they are there to protect you? How then do you go on television to lament when the youth speak in the only language the power structure understand? Even King who believed in the fallacy of non-violence, understood the reason for rioting. Stating quote.“Rioting is the language of the unheard”.
freddie gray arrest
Those who perpetually talk about violence solves nothing, are the most afraid of violence. They are the ones who do not want the apple cart up-ended. They are the ones who benefit from police oppressing the underclass. It is tragic when the underclass believes and buys into the lie that marching will somehow solve it’s problems. What has changed since King and others marched over 50 years ago? They want order without giving you justice. Both sides have something to give , both sides have something to lose. They want order and peace then demand justice. You have given them 400 years of blood and servitude and they keep demanding you wait . Wait for what ? What kind of people are you who are more concerned with what your enemy thinks of you than to have your dignity and self-respect? How do you expect others to gravitate to your cause when you fold like a cheap tent in the face of intimidation? How can you prefer to live on your knees than die on your feet?
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica’s most prominent human rights organization has closed its legal department and laid off staff after losing its longstanding status as a charity, a leader of the group said.
Barry Wade, chairman of the Jamaicans for Justice, said the government rejected the watchdog group’s application to renew its charity status, forcing it to dramatically cut its operations and turn down certain grants from international donors. It now also faces some $100,000 in back taxes.
Wade said Tuesday the denial came due to concerns about the group’s advocacy for legislative change, a reason he said is “puzzling.” He also asserts that the decision is “contrary to international norms.”
The government’s Department of Cooperatives and Friendly Societies, which rejected the group’s renewal application, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Over the years, police officials have portrayed Jamaicans for Justice as being sympathetic to criminals and some politicians have accused it of trying to make the island look bad. But the group is widely respected among many. In 2008, one of its founders received the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for her work against police slayings.
Last year, the organization’s reputation took a hit in Jamaica when it introduced a sex education program for children’s group homes that it acknowledged was not properly vetted. The matter made headlines for weeks on the island, in large part because the sex education material for young wards of the state included references to anal sex, which is illegal in Jamaica.
In 2013, the rights group waged a petition and online video campaign demanding reforms in the treatment of children in state care that prompted Youth Minister Lisa Hanna to describe the work as “dangerous and clearly designed to damage the reputation of the country.”
In a Tuesday statement, Jamaicans for Justice said a new board elected over the weekend will focus on getting the group’s charitable status back and hopefully reach a settlement with the government regarding back taxes.
Governor Larry Hogan has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard to address the growing violence and .
Rather than adopt measures to fix the dangerously smoldering problem of police abuse in America, state Governors trot out national guards to show force when the volcano erupt in places. How long do they think they will be able to play whack-a-mole?
This is a systemic problem which has persisted for a long time . Police abuse is nothing new in America,
Sean Bell
if you tune out the noise of America’s self-righteous hypocrisy about human rights you realize just how badly America’s police forces are, when compared to police departments in other countries in the western world.
Michael Brown
In truth they get away with abuse of black citizens largely because the black community is a fractured disoriented entity with differing and self serving positions. As such state Legislators are under no pressure to reign in their police departments. Police departments for their part generally operate as laws onto themselves with little or no oversight or accountability.
There are no uniformed accountability for Americans killed by the tens of thousands of law-enforcement agencies around the country. It is basically left up to Agencies like the American Civil Liberties Union to try to figure out how many citizens are killed by agents of the government.
As America project it’s influence abroad, one built on the misnomer of equality on democracy, the
Amadou Diallo
sporadic eruption of violence on it’s streets exposes the abuse of minorities at home. This abuse is not new, it has characterized the soul of America since it’s inception. What is happening now is that the world is able to see for itself what America’s minority communities have complained of all along.
John Crawford
Sadly the problem of police abuse will not be going anywhere anytime soon. As we have maintained in these columns before,the issue of police abuse must be addressed at the level of state legislatures. State legislatures are responsible for enacting laws which govern everyone including cops. Police departments are agents of the state. They do what they do at the behest of the states. When they kill ‚they do so on the authority granted to them by the states. When they are not held accountable , it’s the states decision not to hold them accountable.
Hurling bottles and stones at police, burning businesses will not fix the problem. State Governors and legislatures must be held accountable for the actions of their agents. Incredibly for black America there will be no return on the 1.3 trillion dollars it is slated to spend this
Abner Louima
year on goods and services. Just recently companies like Walmart and a host of others were up in arms against Indiana’s religious freedom law.
Darrien Hunt
That law said people have a right to refuse performing services to homosexuals if that service conflicts with their religious belief. Where is their support for the tens of thousands of black men killed in America over the decades, even when the killings happen in their store as happened to John Crawford in Beaver Creek Ohio?
The business community does not care about the money blacks spend. They know that money will not stop. They know that as a people blacks are splintered and without leadership. They understand full well that even if developed, no strategy of withholding support to their businesses would be successful because of the uncooperative nature of blacks.
Kijimeee Powell
A uncooperative nature which is centered around a rapacious consumerist desire for material possessions, coupled with it’s desire to seek validation through its spending. Conversely they are fully aware that Homosexuals have
Akai Gurley These lives matter as much as any other , cop or whomever…
serious money power but most importantly they are immensely capable of galvanizing support to their cause.
It’s absolutely shocking to hear the black talking heads on television whenever an American city erupts in violence against police crimes. The narrative is certainly never centered on the burning issue at hand which is America’s killing of unarmed black men. The conversation is always deflected to the peripheral issues of poverty, lack of jobs and opportunists which though germane are not central to the burning issue of police violence.
Eric Garner
Police are not killing people because they are poor, they are doing so because they do not believe they will be held accountable. They do not believe they will be sent to prison. That’s whats at issue.
Another American city erupts in violence. This time it’s Baltimore Maryland over the death of Freddy Grey who died from a severed spine while in Police custody. It is the same as usual Grey was a criminal with an expansive rap-sheet. Police effect a violent arrest took him into custody and now he is dead.
citizens make their voices heard
For some in the White community it’s no big deal it’s just another nigger dead. For the black community it is one more example of police acting as judge jury and executioner. Many in the Black community believe racial diversity in police departments is the answer to the epidemic of police brutality in America. I disagree it has anything to do with the way police behave.
America’s police departments have displayed a tone-deafness to police murder of citizens
Lost in the noise as always, is the never ending litany or peripheral issues affecting the African-American community, it makes good talking points until the winds died down and it’s back to the status-quo. The fact of the matter is that police departments have to take responsibility for the actions of the people they put into the communities to act as police officers.
Violence erupts following funeral for Freddie Gray in Baltimore
During Martin O’Malley’s administration as mayor, the department had become 43% African American.[25] While progress has been made to improve the department’s relationship with Baltimore’s now majority African American community, improvements are still being made to the department which for several years has been subject to criticism for its treatment of African American citizens. Police community relations have remained strained with the war on drugs that has plagued several African American neighborhoods in East and West Baltimore and coincidentally enough, many of the most despised officers in several of Baltimore’s African American neighborhoods are also African American.wikipedia.
Freddy Gray Protest Erupts In Chaos As Baltimore Police Cars Get Smashed
How long do they think they will be able to sustain the simmering cauldron of anger and resentment that is threatening to engulf us all? When Dr.King marched and fought over 50 years ago the number one issue facing black Americans was police brutality. Today the problem is the same. States in America have demonstrated a maddening tone-deafness in dealing with the issues of police brutality and murder. Governors elected by the people stand with police abuse of black citizens. American Governors reaction to police abuse withing their states have the predictable default position of mobilizing the national guard.
This is a powder keg…
The truth is some are afraid to tackle police unions and others do not care to do anything about the problem. The police should take no comfort in the silence or tacit acquiescence of some within the white community who support them when they engage in criminal conduct. They are the ones who will face the music when the palpable anger becomes too much to be kept under a lid. They can talk about looting and destruction of property all they want, rather than condemn they better learn the pertinent lessons real fast. We shall overcome will not appease this generation .…
Freddie gray’s spine severed while in the custody of Baltimore Police…
There is a war going on in America. It’s not the war on terror they tell you about, it is the war on black men by their own Government. The American Civil Liberties Union reports that over 100 Americans were killed at the hands of police in just the month of January. Digest that just for a minute.….…
Every time there is a police killing, the police and their supporters, including elected officials move the goal-post on the latitude cops have under the laws o kill black people. We have seen an unarmed Michael Brown killed and left in the streets of Ferguson like a piece of road-kill. We are told that the cop had every right to fire those bullets into him because he was a thug who deserved to die. Now we know that it’s okay for the police to exterminate those in society white people do not like, what better way to do it than under the cover of the law?
We watched as Eric Garner had the life squeezed out of him by Daniel Pantaleo ‚a Staten Island cop. The system tells us there was no crime committed , despite Garner repeatedly telling the bunch of savages on top of him that he couldn’t breathe. Garner had committed no crime, and certainly had a right to resist being harassed and or arrested. Long Island Congressman Peter King a Republican tells us if someone can’t breathe they can’t speak. King is not a Doctor, neither is he qualified to speak on medical issues. It did not prevent the ignorant jackass from opening his pie-hole and making himself look even more stupid than his appearance.
What happened to telling someone “you are under arrest”? Why do cops go out looking to abuse and kill people? Don’t you dare tell me they do not go out looking to kill people!! many of them do. Let’s cut the bull.. They do not serve the interest of the public, well not the black segment. Which may argue why so many whites have no problem with the mass police slaughter of blacks in America. Every little jackass of a cop now sees himself/herself as a Rambo super-cop. The most inconsequential , trivial situations are immediately escalated in order that they may show they have the power to take life and inflict pain. Just how much longer do they believe they will get away with this.
Why does every simple arrest always have to be about 6 guys piling onto a single suspect? In many cases confrontation could easily be avoided if officers simply ask suspect to turn around and submit to being arrested. Why does every arrest have to be escalated into a Rambo style take-down? The simple truth is many of these guys running around as cops see some sections of the population as the enemy. Many have returned from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They have been given homes in Police departments all across the country. In many instances the hardware at their disposal are the same as that which they had on the battlefields. Everything is in place. They need an enemy and a war.….. This is not to say every soldier who returned and became a cop is a danger to the public, but many are. Neither does it mean that there aren’t many non-military psychopaths wearing police uniforms who get to act out their aggression on America’s most hated race, while hiding behind a badge. Since Barack Obama was elected President there has been a massive rise in white groups all across the country. So too has there been more and more instances of white supremacists in America’s police departments. It is no coincidence that there are more slaughter of blacks by whites dressed up in police uniforms than at any other time.
Whether it’s multiple rounds into the bodies of the unarmed Michael Brown , Tamir Rice, John Crawford,and the scores of faceless others. Whether it’s the choking death of Eric Garner as he pleads with them to release their death grip. Or whether its the severed spine of Freddie Gary, the list of police atrocities go unabated while states do nothing to harness the wanton waste of life by their Agents. This carnage did not start yesterday, it won’t end tomorrow. It will end when black people make it end. It did not begin with 41 bullets which snuffed out the life of Amado Diallio , neither did it begin with the savage barbaric act of sodomy on Abner Louima by a NYPD monster named Justin Volpe. It continue to happen because pro police racist demagogues continue to spread the lie that America’s police are the best in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Denver, 
It is unclear which injury happened first, or whether one caused the other, but it seems clear that there was nearly no way he caused the fatal injuries himself.
