The list of Bill Cosby accusers has anoth­er — and very promi­nent — name.

Beverly Johnson, the pio­neer­ing 1970s-era super­mod­el who was the first African-American woman to be on the cov­er of American Vogue, alleges in an essay post­ed onVanity Fair’s web­site that Cosby drugged her in the mid-1980s and noth­ing fur­ther hap­pened seem­ing­ly only because she real­ized what was hap­pen­ing and unquiv­o­ca­bly told him off. Cosby’s attor­ney did not respond to VF and has not yet respond­ed to a request for com­ment from E! News. Johnson wrote that she went to lunch at Cosby’s New York apart­ment one day, after her agent informed her that the come­di­an want­ed her to audi­tion for the role of one of his patients on The Cosby Show and she sub­se­quent­ly met the man at a tap­ing of the then mega-hit sit­com. Cosby had also pre­vi­ous­ly host­ed her and her young daugh­ter at his home for brunch on a pre­vi­ous occasion.

“He was the Jell‑O Pudding man; like most kids, my daugh­ter loved him,” Johnson recalled their first out­ing. She wrote: “Looking back, that first invite from Cosby to his home seems like part of a per­fect­ly laid out plan, a way to make me feel secure with him at all times. It worked like a charm.” According to Johnson, on her solo vis­it to his place, they ate lunch and then Cosby asked her to try out play­ing a scene, instruct­ing her to act as if she were drunk. “When did a preg­nant woman ever appear drunk on The Cosby Show? Probably nev­er, but I went with it,” she wrote, a ref­er­ence to the fact that Cosby’s char­ac­ter, Dr. Cliff Huxtable, was an OBGYN and she was sup­pos­ed­ly being asked to play one of his patients.

Johnson alleges that Cosby insist­ed that she have a capuc­ci­no, made on his ritzy-look­ing espres­so machine, and that after she had a few sips, “My head became woozy, my speech became slurred, and the room began to spin non­stop. Cosby motioned for me to come over to him as though we were real­ly about to act out the scene. He put his hands around my waist, and I man­aged to put my hand on his shoul­der in order to steady myself. “As I felt my body go com­plete­ly limp, my brain switched into auto­mat­ic-sur­vival mode. That meant mak­ing sure Cosby under­stood that I knew exact­ly what was hap­pen­ing at that very moment.”

Johnson claims that she called Cosby a “moth­erf – ker” to his face, mul­ti­ple times, and ulti­mate­ly he grabbed her by the arm, guid­ed her out of the apart­ment, took her down­stairs and put her in a cab. “I sat in there still stunned by what hap­pened the night before, con­fused and dev­as­tat­ed by the idea that some­one I admired so much had tried to take advan­tage of me, and used drugs to do so. Had I done some­thing to encour­age his actions?” the mod­el alleges. “In real­i­ty, I knew I’d done noth­ing to encour­age Cosby but my mind kept turn­ing with ques­tion after question.”

She claims that it took a few days for the effects of the drug to wear off and, when she called Cosby’s pri­vate num­ber to con­front him, his wife answered. Camille Cosby was very polite, Johnson wrote, adding that she apol­o­gized for call­ing so late and then nev­er tried call­ing again.

“How could I fight some­one that bold­ly arro­gant and out of touch?” Johnson wrote. “In the end, just like the oth­er women, I had too much to lose to go after Bill Cosby. I had a career that would no doubt take a huge hit if I went pub­lic with my sto­ry and I cer­tain­ly could­n’t afford that after my cost­ly divorce and on going court fees.”

The now 62-year-old mod­el, actress and real­i­ty-TV star fur­ther explained that Cosby accuser Barbara Bowman’s op-ed in the Washington Post and Janice Dickinson’s explo­sive inter­view with Entertainment Tonight, both of which con­tributed to the onslaught of revived accu­sa­tions against Cosby, helped inspire her to come for­ward now after all these years. http://​www​.eon​line​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​6​0​5​8​2​5​/​m​o​d​e​l​-​b​e​v​e​r​l​y​-​j​o​h​n​s​o​n​-​a​l​l​e​g​e​s​-​b​i​l​l​-​c​o​s​b​y​-​d​r​u​g​g​e​d​-​h​e​r​-​i​n​-​t​h​e​-​1​9​8​0​s​-​w​r​i​t​e​s​-​i​n​-​v​a​n​i​t​y​-​f​a​i​r​-​s​h​e​-​t​o​l​d​-​h​i​m​-​o​f​f​-​s​o​-​h​e​-​p​u​t​-​h​e​r​-​i​n​-​a​-​cab

Hannibal Buress did­n’t real­ly say any­thing about Bill Cosby that was­n’t already out there with the help of a Google search.

But for what­ev­er rea­son, the crack that the come­di­an made now (or, more accu­rate­ly, in mid-October) in which he referred to the revered fun­ny­man as a rapist was the key tremor that result­ed in the avalanche of alle­ga­tions, con­tro­ver­sy and hind­sight-is-20/20 analy­sis cur­rent­ly envelop­ing Cosby.

The for­mer sit­com star’s attor­ney has flat­ly denied mount­ing claims from, at last count, 16 women who have come for­ward as alleged Cosby vic­tims, but it seems as though every day a new per­son has sur­faced with a sto­ry alleg­ing an assault or attempt­ed assault. Since there has been so much to keep track of in such a rel­a­tive­ly short amount of time (not count­ing the nine years since an accuser sued Cosby for dam­ages), here’s a run­down of every­thing that has hap­pened since Buress’ fate­ful show:

Oct. 16: It seems like longer, but it was just in mid-October when Buress told an audi­encedur­ing a show in Philadelphia : “He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up, black peo­ple. I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a suc­cess­ful sit­com.’ Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a cou­ple notch­es.” Someone was record­ing and released the clip to PhillyMag​.com, which post­ed it on Oct. 17. It took a cou­ple of days for the “news” to go viral, but when it did…

Oct 21: In what have been his only pub­lic com­ments about the firestorm he ignit­ed, Buress said on The Howard Stern Show: “This was unex­pect­ed. I did­n’t want to do that [make head­lines]. If I were going to do that, I would have done it on my own. It was­n’t my inten­tion to make this part of a big dis­cus­sion. It was just some­thing I was doing at that venue right then.”

Oct. 30: Cosby’s planned appear­ance on The Queen Latifah Show was can­celed at his request, accord­ing to show pro­duc­er Sony Pictures Television.

Nov. 6: Cosby gives an inter­view to the Associated Press in which he’s asked about past alle­ga­tions and repeat­ed­ly says he has noth­ing to say and there’s no com­ment. Cosby tells the reporter he would “appre­ci­ate it” if this exchange could be “scut­tled” from the tran­script or broad­cast. The inter­view­er said.

Nov. 10: Someone on Team Cosby got the idea to make a meme gen­er­a­tor so that fans could put fun­ny tag lines on seem­ing­ly inno­cent pics of father-fig­ure-era Cosby. Instead, cap­tions refer­ring to the alle­ga­tions against him won the day. That’s prob­a­bly when arti­cles (both old and new) recall­ing how Cosby’s oth­er­wise illus­tri­ous career has been shad­owed by alle­ga­tions that he mis­treat­ed women, plus the eas­i­ly search­able sto­ry about a 2005 law­suit filed against him by Andrea Constand that stat­ed a num­ber of oth­er women who were ready to tes­ti­fy about their own alleged expe­ri­ences, real­ly start­ed pop­ping up. Constand, a stu­dent at Cosby’s alma mater Temple University, accused the enter­tain­er of drug­ging and assault­ing her in January 2004. A set­tle­ment notice was filed in 2008.

Nov. 13: A day after she appeared on CNN Tonight, the Washington Post pub­lished an op-ed by artist Barbara Bowman in which she alleged that Cosby drugged and raped her at his home in 1985 when she was an aspir­ing 17-year-old actress.

Nov. 15: Scott Simon’s inter­view with Cosby for Weekend Edition Saturday airs on NPR. When asked about the con­tro­ver­sy and resur­faced alle­ga­tions, Cosby has noth­ing to say and Simon, who told the come­di­an it gave him “no plea­sure” to have to ask such ques­tions, tells the audi­ence that his guest is shak­ing his head. Meanwhile, an appear­ance sched­uled for Nov. 19 on Late Show With David Letterman is canceled.

Nov. 16: Cosby attor­ney John P. Schmitt issues this state­ment: “Over the last sev­er­al weeks, decade-old, dis­cred­it­ed alle­ga­tions against Mr. Cosby have resur­faced. The fact that they are being repeat­ed does not make them true. Mr. Cosby does not intend to dig­ni­fy these alle­ga­tions with any com­ment. He would like to thank all his fans for the out­pour­ing of sup­port and assure them that, at age 77, he is doing his best work. There will be no fur­ther state­ment from Mr. Cosby or any of his representatives.”

Nov. 17: Schmitt and an attor­ney for Constand release this adden­dum: “The state­ment released by Mr. Cosby’s attor­ney over the week­end was not intend­ed to refer in any way to Andrea Constand. As pre­vi­ous­ly report­ed, dif­fer­ences between Mr. Cosby and Ms. Constand were resolved to the mutu­al sat­is­fac­tion of Mr. Cosby and Ms. Constand years ago. Neither Mr. Cosby nor Ms. Constand intends to com­ment fur­ther on the matter.”

• Entertainment Tonight airs an inter­view with Janice Dickinson in which the for­mer mod­el alleges that Cosby drugged and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed her in 1982 and that she want­ed to include the sto­ry in her 2002 auto­bi­og­ra­phy but was pres­sured by Cosby’s attor­neys to leave it out. Cosby attor­ney Martin Singer issues a state­ment call­ing her sto­ry a “com­plete lie.”

• Netflix announces the post­pone­ment of the launch of the planned com­e­dy spe­cial Bill Cosby 77.

Nov. 19: NBC pulls the plug on a devel­op­ment deal with Cosby, who was in talks to play the patri­arch in a pro­posed multi­gen­er­a­tional fam­i­ly sitcom.

• TV Land pulls reruns of The Cosby Show from its schedule.

• Raven-Symoné, who played lit­tle Olivia on The Cosby Show, slams a hoax sto­ry that claimed Cosby molest­ed her as “a dis­gust­ing rumor I want no part of.”

Nov. 20: The afore­men­tioned AP inter­view starts mak­ing the rounds, the news agency stat­ing that the entire exchange was on the record and no agree­ment was made to with­hold any of Cosby’s com­ments at any time.

• Martin Singer calls a Facebook post, in which one Linda Joy Traitz accused Cosby of try­ing to rape her more than 40 years ago, “the lat­est exam­ple of peo­ple com­ing out of the wood­work with unsub­stan­ti­at­ed or fab­ri­cat­ed sto­ries about my client.”

• Rumor Fix pub­lish­es alle­ga­tions made by Carla Ferrigno, wife of The Incredible Hulk starLou Ferrigno, that Cosby attacked her when she was a teenag­er in 1967.

• Singer slams a sto­ry giv­en to TMZ by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest actress Louisa Moritz, call­ing her claim — that Cosby forced his penis into her mouth while they were in the green room back­stage at The Tonight Show in 1971 — a new “point of absurdity.”

• Cosby Show pro­duc­ers Tom Werner and Marcy Carsey say in a state­ment: “The Bill we know was a bril­liant and won­der­ful col­lab­o­ra­tor on a show that changed the land­scape of tele­vi­sion. These recent news reports are beyond our knowl­edge or comprehension.”

• Cosby does his standup show in the Bahamas in front of a cheer­ing audi­ence, jokes that he’s an “evil man.”

Nov. 21: Model-actress Angela Leslie becomes the eighth woman to come for­ward post-Hannibal Buress, telling the New York Daily News that Cosby got her drunk and made her fon­dle him in a Las Vegas hotel in 1992.

• Las Vegas’ Treasure Island hotel announceds that a Nov. 28 Cosby per­for­mance has been can­celed “by mutu­al agree­ment.” The Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Ill., and the Tacoma Center in Washington state cross Cosby’s sched­uled appear­ances in April 2015 from the sched­ule. The Diamond Desert Casino in Tucson, Az., can­cels Cosby’s Feb. 15, 2015, appearance.

• The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art states that there is no plan to can­cel or alter its “Conversations” exhib­it, sched­uled to run until 2016, fea­tur­ing a num­ber of pieces from Cosby and his wife Camille’s per­son­al collection.

Nov. 18: Joan Tarshis tells CNN Tonight’s Don Lemon that Cosby sex­u­al­ly assault­ed her when she was 19

• Bruce Castor, a for­mer dis­trict attor­ney of Alabama’s Montgomery County tells the Daily Mail that he want­ed to pros­e­cute Cosby when Constand came for­ward, but he did­n’t have the proof to have the come­di­an arrested.

• Entertainment Tonight airs an inter­view with Janice Dickinson in which the for­mer mod­el alleges that Cosby drugged and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed her in 1982 and that she want­ed to include the sto­ry in her 2002 auto­bi­og­ra­phy but was pres­sured by Cosby’s attor­neys to leave it out. Cosby attor­ney Martin Singer issues a state­ment call­ing her sto­ry a “com­plete lie.”

• Netflix announces the post­pone­ment of the launch of the planned com­e­dy spe­cial Bill Cosby 77.

Nov. 19: NBC pulls the plug on a devel­op­ment deal with Cosby, who was in talks to play the patri­arch in a pro­posed multi­gen­er­a­tional fam­i­ly sitcom.

• TV Land pulls reruns of The Cosby Show from its schedule.

• Raven-Symoné, who played lit­tle Olivia on The Cosby Show, slams a hoax sto­ry that claimed Cosby molest­ed her as “a dis­gust­ing rumor I want no part of.”

Nov. 20: The afore­men­tioned AP inter­view starts mak­ing the rounds, the news agency stat­ing that the entire exchange was on the record and no agree­ment was made to with­hold any of Cosby’s com­ments at any time.

• Martin Singer calls a Facebook post, in which one Linda Joy Traitz accused Cosby of try­ing to rape her more than 40 years ago, “the lat­est exam­ple of peo­ple com­ing out of the wood­work with unsub­stan­ti­at­ed or fab­ri­cat­ed sto­ries about my client.”

• Rumor Fix pub­lish­es alle­ga­tions made by Carla Ferrigno, wife of The Incredible Hulk starLou Ferrigno, that Cosby attacked her when she was a teenag­er in 1967.

• Singer slams a sto­ry giv­en to TMZ by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest actress Louisa Moritz, call­ing her claim — that Cosby forced his penis into her mouth while they were in the green room back­stage at The Tonight Show in 1971 — a new “point of absurdity.”

• Cosby Show pro­duc­ers Tom Werner and Marcy Carsey say in a state­ment: “The Bill we know was a bril­liant and won­der­ful col­lab­o­ra­tor on a show that changed the land­scape of tele­vi­sion. These recent news reports are beyond our knowl­edge or comprehension.”

• Cosby does his standup show in the Bahamas in front of a cheer­ing audi­ence, jokes that he’s an “evil man.”

Nov. 21: Model-actress Angela Leslie becomes the eighth woman to come for­ward post-Hannibal Buress, telling the New York Daily News that Cosby got her drunk and made her fon­dle him in a Las Vegas hotel in 1992.

• Las Vegas’ Treasure Island hotel announceds that a Nov. 28 Cosby per­for­mance has been can­celed “by mutu­al agree­ment.” The Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Ill., and the Tacoma Center in Washington state cross Cosby’s sched­uled appear­ances in April 2015 from the sched­ule. The Diamond Desert Casino in Tucson, Az., can­cels Cosby’s Feb. 15, 2015, appearance.

• The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art states that there is no plan to can­cel or alter its “Conversations” exhib­it, sched­uled to run until 2016, fea­tur­ing a num­ber of pieces from Cosby and his wife Camille’s per­son­al collection.

You can’t deny that Shonda Rhimes is an incred­i­bly influ­en­tial fig­ure in the mod­ern TV land­scape. Hey, she’s tak­en over the entire line­up for one of the biggest net­work’s biggest nights of the week! TGIT, y’all! But when the Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder exec­u­tive pro­duc­er was hon­ored with the Sherry Lansing Award for lead­er­ship dur­ing The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Breakfast this morn­ing, she gave an extreme­ly pow­er­ful speech that has us bow­ing down.

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Why? Because even though she was being rec­og­nized for being a woman who is a pio­neer and a leader in her indus­try and break­ing the glass ceil­ing, she denied that she broke through any glass ceil­ings. Check out her full speech below, and be pre­pared to fall in love with Rhimes even more:

“When my pub­li­cist called to tell me that I was receiv­ing this hon­or, I screwed up my face and I said, ‘Are you sure? Me?’ And he said, ‘Yes.’ And I said, ‘Why?’ And then I said, ‘No real­ly, why?’ “And I made him call and ask for some writ­ten rea­son why I was get­ting this award. Because I real­ly and tru­ly was wor­ried that there might have been some kind of mis­take. “I want to pause for a beat here to say that I don’t say these things to be self-dep­re­cat­ing and hum­ble. I am not a self-dep­re­cat­ing, hum­ble per­son. I think I’m pret­ty fan­tas­tic. But I also think that The Hollywood Reporter Sherry Lansing Award is extra­or­di­nary — as is Sherry Lansing her­self. So…no, real­ly, why?

“They sent a writ­ten rea­son why I was get­ting this award. It said many nice things but the main thing that it was said was that I was get­ting the award in recog­ni­tion of my break­ing through the indus­try’s glass ceil­ing as a woman and an African-American.

“Well. I call my pub­li­cist back. Because I just don’t know about this. I mean, I’m con­cerned now.

“I come from a very large, very com­pet­i­tive fam­i­ly. Extremely com­pet­i­tive. And by com­pet­i­tive, I mean, my moth­er says we’re not allowed to play Scrabble any­more when we get togeth­er because of the injuries and the tears. One of the rules in my fam­i­ly is you don’t ever get a tro­phy for par­tic­i­pa­tion, you don’t get a tro­phy for just being you. So get­ting an award today because I’m a woman and an African-American feels…I was born with an awe­some vagi­na and real­ly gor­geous brown skin. I did­n’t do any­thing to make either of those things happen.

“To get all Beyoncé about it, peo­ple: ‘I woke up like this.’ Seriously. I know this isn’t an award because I’m a woman or because I’m African American. I know that it’s real­ly about break­ing the glass ceil­ing that exists in the face of being a woman and being black in this very male, very white town.

“But I haven’t bro­ken through any glass ceilings.

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“Do they know I haven’t bro­ken through any glass ceil­ings? I ask my pub­li­cist. He assures me that I have. I assure him that I have not. I have not bro­ken through any glass ceil­ings. If I had bro­ken through any glass ceil­ings, I would know. If I had bro­ken through a glass ceil­ing, I would have felt some cuts, I would have some bruis­es. There’d be shards of glass in my hair. I’d be bleed­ing, I’d have wounds.

“If I’d bro­ken the glass ceil­ing, that would mean I would have made it through to the oth­er side. Where the air is rare. I would feel the wind on my face. The view from here — way up here where the glass ceil­ing is bro­ken — would be incred­i­ble. Right? So how come I don’t remem­ber the moment? When me with my woman-ness and my brown skin went run­ning full speed, grav­i­ty be damned, into that thick lay­er of glass and smashed right through it? How come I don’t remem­ber that happening?

“Here’s why: It’s 2014.

“This moment right here, me stand­ing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of net­work tele­vi­sion full of women of col­or, com­pet­i­tive women, strong women, women who own their bod­ies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be hap­pen­ing right now.

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What will Police killings inspire in the way of change in America?
Over the lase sev­er­al months police have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly mur­dered unarmed black men even in the face of nation­al out­cry from con­sci­en­tious people. 
The killings con­tin­ue with­out any care, recog­ni­tion or thought of “what if we are held account­able for this one” ?
Which leaves rea­son­able observers to con­clude they do not believe they will be held accountable .
After a Florida Jury exon­er­at­ed wannabe-cop George Zimmerman, Police have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly killed dozens of unarmed black men under ques­tion­able cir­cum­stances. Each time the lies they tell become more bizarre and out­landish. To hear them try to artic­u­late what caused them to use lethal force is dif­fi­cult to watch. 
Lying absolute­ly does that.

Police and oth­ers con­tin­ue the killing after this list was released.
Twelve year old Tamir Rice killed in a park with a toy gun when Police drove up and opened fire in less than two sec­onds the child laid on the ground dying from two bul­lets in his young body.
An unarmed Akai Gurley killed by a New York City Rookie hous­ing cop in a dark stair­well . Police was quick to say he did noth­ing wrong but label his death an accident.
Since Gurley’s killing the rash of police killing of black and Latino men have gone on unabat­ed, with no end in sight. In fact no one knows just how many peo­ple police kill each year, much less those killed under dubi­ous cir­cum­stances. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI does not have report­ing from the tens of thou­sands of police agen­cies in the coun­try on who or how many they kill. They aren’t even man­dat­ed by Law to report the num­ber of cit­i­zens they kill.

The United States Congress is large­ly silent, so too are state leg­is­la­tures across the coun­try, even as police con­tin­ue to kill, giv­ing worn-out tired excus­es for the sum­ma­ry mur­ders they com­mit daily.
One of the expla­na­tions we hear is that police do not go out intend­ing to kill any­one. This is a load of crock , In instance after instance cops are caught telling cit­i­zens they want to kill them. They are caught on audio/​video record­ing devices threat­en­ing to murder. 
Rather than fix the prob­lem states are begin­ning to take more of the rights cit­i­zens have to record police abuse. Even though it is per­fect­ly legal as per the US Supreme Court for cit­i­zens to record Police activ­i­ty as long as they do not hin­der cops, Police con­tin­ue to assault, intim­i­date, arrest, and abuse cit­i­zens who do and destroy their prop­er­ty in the process with­out consequence.
Recently a NYPD cop was caught on cam­era harass­ing a black man dig­ging into his pock­ets and con­fis­cat­ing his mon­ey. When the man demand­ed that his mon­ey be returned to him he was roughed up while oth­er good cops (sic , stood by and did nothing.
His mon­ey was nev­er returned to him. When the gen­tle­man, his sis­ter and onlook­ers com­plained the cop pep­per-sprayed them in their faces, repeatedly. 

In this inci­dent no one was arrest­ed, the Police alleged­ly stat­ed only $67 was tak­en , as if that legit­imized the bla­tant armed rob­bery recorded.
Lamard Joye, and his sis­ter Lateefah Joye the vic­tims through their lawyer, say they have evi­dence of bank with­drawals done, in an effort to head of alle­ga­tions that the mon­ey may have been ille­gal­ly obtained.
The Police Union chimed in say­ing that ama­teur videos record­ed when police are involved in oper­a­tions are the prob­lem and should be outlawed.

Even when the crime is com­mit­ted in full view,the NYPDPBA head Patrick Lynch and his sup­port­ers con­tin­ue to dis­tort, obfus­cate and lie about what is actu­al­ly seen by cit­i­zens. The NYPD has for years stolen monies from cit­i­zens whom they claim are drug deal­ers. In many cas­es they do not report ever tak­ing these wads of cash and cit­i­zens are left to lick their wounds with­out recourse.
We con­tin­ue to hear that the NYPD is the world’s best Police depart­ment despite the crimes many in the depart­ment com­mit. If of course we take sup­port­ers of the depart­ment at their word that indeed it is the best, what does that say about the state of polic­ing in America?

It says that crit­ics are indeed cor­rect that most police depart­ments are now jack-boot­ed death squads, ded­i­cat­ed to abus­ing, rob­bing and killing peo­ple of color.
One of the talk­ing points com­ing out of this epi­dem­ic of mur­der is the ques­tion, “Why are white Americans not out­raged by these killings” The truth is that the demon­stra­tions have gar­nered the sup­port of white Americans of all ages and socio-eco­nom­ic stand­ing. It would be disin­gen­u­ous to sug­gest only blacks are out­raged. In fact white peo­ple are on the streets voic­ing their dis­plea­sure at events and are being abused and arrest­ed by police equal­ly with their black coun­ter­parts. They under­stand they are not safe if this is allowed to continue.

Notwithstanding, there is rough­ly one half of America which absolute­ly loves what is hap­pen­ing. To that part of the pop­u­la­tion the black and brown peo­ple must be cur­tailed, cor­ralled and con­tained , if not worse. Blacks for their part are far less like­ly to take assault from the Klux-Klux-Klan in this day and age with­out a fight.
They know it.
However, what if they placed police uni­forms on the Klan?
The peo­ple they don’t like can­not legal­ly fight back against the duly con­sti­tut­ed author­i­ty of the states, enshrined in their police officers.
Check-mate !!!.

The polit­i­cal right which is large­ly white Anglo-Saxon and male is like a wound­ed ani­mal. That demo­graph­ic iden­ti­fies itself as Republican , Conservative, and Tea ‑Party. They saw a man of col­or and his fam­i­ly occu­py the white house. They see a black man head the Justice Department.
Have you ever won­dered why they hate Barack Obama and Eric Holder with such venom?
I sug­gest you hold your noses switch to FOX tele­vi­sion and guar­an­teed you will come away with a bet­ter under­stand­ing of why police are mur­der­ing black peo­ple unchecked. You will also come to the real­iza­tion that absolute­ly noth­ing will be done to rein in killer cops.
Well over Four hun­dred years of white suprema­cy is com­ing to an end. Those who had lives of priv­i­leged and pow­er are not about to relin­quish them with­out a fight.

As such, those who shucked and jived after the mar­gin­al gains of the 50’s and 60’s will have to pre­pare to fight the very same bat­tles their par­ents and grand par­ents fought, only dif­fer­ence this time is that the ene­mies of jus­tice are doing so under the guise and cov­er of the law.
Not that they did not , in the fights of yester-year, they are much more deter­mined this time, too much is at stake. There is a col­ored man in the white house.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman wrote to Governor Andrew Cuomo request­ing that the Governor give his office the Authority and respon­si­bil­i­ty to pros­e­cute Police who kill unarmed civilians.

Schneiderman said quote: “In New York, and across the coun­try, the promise of equal jus­tice under law has been erod­ed by a series of tragedies involv­ing the death of unarmed per­sons as a result of the use of force by law enforce­ment officers,”.

The Attorney General’s request a swift response from some of New York City’s District Attorneys.

Kenneth Thompson in Brooklyn and Richard Brown in Queens expressed oppo­si­tion while the Bronx’s Robert Johnson and Manhattan’s Cy Vance had seri­ous reservations. 
“As the duly elect­ed dis­trict attor­ney of Brooklyn, I am adamant­ly opposed to the request by the New York State Attorney General for author­i­ty to inves­ti­gate and poten­tial­ly pros­e­cute alleged acts of police bru­tal­i­ty,” Thompson said. “No one is more com­mit­ted to ensur­ing equal jus­tice under the law than I am.”

“It’s an insult to the intel­li­gence and the integri­ty of every pros­e­cu­tor in the state of New York, as well as every grand juror who exam­ined the facts and the evi­dence,” said Michael Palladino, pres­i­dent of the Detectives Endowment Association.

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association endorsed Schneiderman for state attor­ney gen­er­al in October.

On Monday, the union pres­i­dent Pat Lynch said Schneiderman’s request was all wrong.“There is absolute­ly no rea­son to alter the exist­ing sys­tem because if the rule of law and rule of evi­dence as they stand in the State of New York are fol­lowed dis­pas­sion­ate­ly and hon­est­ly, then the out­come will be right and just regard­less of what office han­dles a case,” he said.

I am not sure whether Schneiderman’s inten­tions are right­eous, how­ev­er just because the Police Unions are opposed, I believe the Governor should con­sid­er­ing sign­ing that Executive Order. It appears that New York City’s DA’s are more inter­est­ed in allow­ing their egos to rule their judge­ment rather than heed the cry from the pub­lic. If for no oth­er rea­son Thompson of Brooklyn and Johnson of the Bronx should under­stand both being African Americans.

The tone deaf­ness of the city’s DA’s and their col­leagues in the Police Department is exact­ly what

the pub­lic is com­plain­ing about. Yet both the DA’s and Police are inca­pable of under­stand­ing that their rela­tion­ship are too close to engen­der trust.
As I stat­ed in a pre­vi­ous Article the prob­lem of police abuse is cer­tain­ly not a prob­lem of police only, but is much deep­er to include District Attorney’s offices and much more.

Attorney General Schneiderman not­ed that sim­i­lar pro­pos­als to require spe­cial pros­e­cu­tors to han­dle cas­es in which cops kill unarmed civil­ians have been around for years in the state Legislature but nev­er enact­ed. He indi­cat­ed an exec­u­tive order by Cuomo might put pres­sure on the law­mak­ers to act.

In the past 15 years, police have been indict­ed in only four cas­es, and one of those indict­ments was lat­er dismissed.

As we deal with the avalanche of police mur­der of unarmed black men, cit­i­zens and oth­er stake­hold­ers con­tem­plate a way for­ward. We must rec­og­nize that this prob­lem is much deep­er than meets the eyes. Local DA’s are quick to step for­ward to defend their inde­pen­dence, no one but them­selves believe that baloney.
There is a lot more to wor­ry about when pro­pos­als to require spe­cial pros­e­cu­tors to han­dle cas­es in which cops kill unarmed civil­ians lan­guish in the state Legislature with­out a vote.
The ques­tion is why? Police Unions are big donors , they deliv­er huge chunks of votes to politi­cians who tow the line. Most impor­tant­ly Police Unions in some regards are ordi­nary thugs, they use hard nosed tac­tics to keep leg­is­la­tors in line, par­tic­u­lar­ly those in swing dis­tricts. Being brand­ed soft on crime is more than enough to get one vot­ed out of office. This is a chance for Cuomo to step up and make a dif­fer­ence. Lets see if he will sign this order or bow to police and ego­tis­ti­cal District Attorneys.

Kings County, Brooklyn dis­trict attor­ney Kenneth Thompson began to impan­el a grand jury to decide the fate of Officer Peter Liang, the man who shot and killed 28-year-old Akai Gurley. 

Gurley was killed when Officer Peter Liang and his part­ner, also new to the force, were patrolling a pitch-dark stair­well with flash­lights late Thursday, police said. Gurley, 28, was leav­ing his girlfriend’s apart­ment after she had braid­ed his hair, accord­ing to the girl­friend, who is not his daughter’s mother.

Police said the offi­cers walked down the stairs onto an eighth-floor land­ing when Gurley and his girl­friend opened a stair­well door one floor down, after giv­ing up on wait­ing for an ele­va­tor. Police said Liang, patrolling with his gun drawn, fired with­out a word and appar­ent­ly by acci­dent, hit­ting Gurley from a dis­tance of about 10 feet.

Community Organizations includ­ing the grass­roots orga­ni­za­tion BK Nation, has demand­ed that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton bring things to an end:
BK Nation through a Representative Kevin Powell said ‚“We do not believe this was an acci­dent, but a pat­tern of reck­less dis­re­gard for the lives of young men of col­or in our community”.
Regardless of what hap­pens this will anger some groups. Residents and local African-American groups argue this case is just one more exam­ple of the low val­ue Police place on the lives of young men of col­or, par­tic­u­lar­ly black men.
Police Agencies and their sup­port­ers will point to the tremen­dous risks offi­cers face dai­ly as they patrol high crime Housing projects across the nation.
Both sides of the argu­ment has mer­it. Police have demon­strat­ed scant regard for the lives of Young men of col­or, and African Americans in particular.
On the oth­er hand it is incred­i­bly nerve-rack­ing for offi­cers who patrol these crime rid­den hous­ing projects. After all no one deserves to be killed sim­ply because they went to work.
Regardless of the NYPD’s pro­to­col to it’s offi­cers regard­ing how patrols should be done mis­takes were made which may be direct­ly or indi­rect­ly attrib­ut­able to the death of Akai Gurley.
Questions remain.
♦ Why two junior offi­cers were on patrol by themselves?
♦ Why were they doing ver­ti­cal patrols,( going from ground to roof, if they were told not to, as alleged?
♦Why did offi­cer Liang have his gun drawn?
♦Did the open­ing of the door below the offi­cers con­sti­tute enough of a fear fac­tor to cause Officer Liang to believe he and his part­ner were in danger?
♦ If Officer Liang’s part­ner did not un-hol­ster his weapon , it could rea­son­ably be con­strued that any per­ceived fear Liang had may not have been anchored in reality.
Despite all of this, and the tragedy of the loss of this young man and the trau­ma to his fam­i­ly , I believe it would be anoth­er tragedy were he to be indicted .
With what we know so far about this shoot­ing, it would appear that Officer Liang and his part­ner may have ignored Department guide­lines. Liang may not have the nerves or judge­ment required of a good offi­cer, but I see no intent to harm.
When every aspect of what we know is con­sid­ered, tak­ing police side into con­sid­er­a­tion, Officer Liang may need retrain­ing, or even more severe depart­men­tal penal­ty to include but not con­fined to dismissal.

Despite the harm some offi­cers do, we must be mind­ful that Cops face incred­i­ble risks while we sleep at nights. We need to remind our­selves that Officers are peo­ple too, they make mistakes.
It would be trag­ic were the law to pun­ish this offi­cer in light of what we know, because of some of the actions of oth­er police officers.
Lets not throw out the baby with the bath-water.

Those of you who like to pre­tend , what the world just wit­nessed is state execution.Carried out with­out a crime being com­mit­ted , a tri­al, or a ver­dict of guilt.
But it goes deep­er than that it is also state Thuggery at it’s finest. Cops who believe they are the Law. Not Law Enforcement Agents. But the law.
Stupid so-called black lead­ers talk about diver­si­ty in police depart­ments, as if that’s a panacea to the sys­temic prob­lem of police killings.
There was a female sergeant there, did she stop the mur­der? No she did noth­ing. Not only that, there were oth­er black cops there, obvi­ous­ly they were scared shit-less to inter­vene as their white killer com­rades abused and killed mis­ter Garner.

Black America is in seri­ous trou­ble.
When we talk about good cops every-time the ques­tion of mur­der­er cops comes up, we remove the shine from the ball.
We divert the nec­es­sary anger from this exis­ten­tial prob­lem.
You can­not claim to be a good cop if you stand by and watch abuse, to include mur­der hap­pen and take no action to stop it .
As a for­mer cop, for­mer col­leagues were some­times mad at me for step­ping in and pre­vent­ing abuse of cit­i­zens.
That in no way com­pro­mised theirs or my effec­tive­ness as tac­ti­cal offi­cers or as detec­tives.
If any­thing it allowed me/​us to be more effective.
Insofar as the New York inci­dents go there are enough bod­ies to show that this is a sys­temic prob­lem of cops who were indoc­tri­nat­ed under the Racial,divisive doc­trine of Rudolph Giuliani, exe­cut­ed by William Bratton and ex-con­vict Bernard Kerik.