Social media plat­forms like Facebook are now basi­cal­ly troll farms for right-wing lies and pro­pa­gan­da; their aim is obvi­ous­ly to (a) dis­cred­it the Black Lives Matter Movement, & (b) show that Black pro­test­ers are not exact­ly pro­test­ers, but vio­lent extrem­ists who want to destroy America.
Of course, nei­ther is true, but as we learn as we go along, there is noth­ing that white suprema­cists will not do, includ­ing com­mit­ting mur­der and arson, to main­tain and retain white supremacy.
In many cas­es, the so-called Black anar­chists cov­ered up in black gear from head to toe, are not Black peo­ple at all, but far-right ter­ror­ist white supremacists.
In par­tic­u­lar, on Facebook, they are obvi­ous; they use false accounts to cre­ate pro-police groups. Through their “back the blue cam­paign,” this cre­ates a false, illu­so­ry effect that has fooled some cops into believ­ing that they are real allies. That they are pro-police, when in fact they are dan­ger­ous domes­tic terrorists.
The truth of the mat­ter is that as police Departments con­tin­ue to react with incred­i­ble vio­lence toward gen­uine pro­test­ers, instead of fix­ing their depart­ments, white, right-wing ter­ror­ists are allowed to com­mit crimes, some­times in the pres­ence of police, and walk away.

According to Ryan Devereux of the [Intercept], [a cache of law enforce­ment mate­ri­als was recent­ly hacked and post­ed online under the title “BlueLeaks,” pro­vid­ing an unprece­dent­ed look at the com­mu­ni­ca­tions between state, local, and fed­er­al law enforce­ment in the face of the nation­wide protests. In an analy­sis of near­ly 300 doc­u­ments that ref­er­ence “Antifa,” The Intercept found repeat­ed instances of Antifa and left-wing protest­ing activ­i­ties cast in car­toon­ish­ly grim terms along­side more sub­stan­tive reports of lethal right-wing vio­lence and threats that have received scant men­tion from top Trump admin­is­tra­tion officials.]
Even though American Law enforce­ment agen­cies knew that the por­tray­al of Black pro­test­ers in a light that depicts them as ter­ror­ists were false, those agen­cies remained silent, even as Donald Trump & William Barr paint­ed a fake & fraud­u­lent narrative.
Law enforce­ment offi­cers across the coun­try were shar­ing detailed reports of far-right extrem­ists seek­ing to attack the pro­test­ers and police dur­ing the country’s his­toric demon­stra­tions, a trove of new­ly leaked doc­u­ments reveals, accord­ing to the same reporting.

They flood Facebook posts that show police beat­ing up gen­uine BLM pro­test­ers with pro-police pro­pa­gan­da; they use the most vit­ri­olic and insid­i­ous com­ments to describe Black pro­test­ers and demand that police not only fur­ther abuse the pro­test­ers but kill them.
On the ground, far-right gun-tot­ing white mili­tias sup­pos­ed­ly sup­port­ing police, are allowed to roam the streets of cities all across the coun­try. In con­trast, the very same police bru­tal­ize gen­uine pro­test­ers against police violence.
In case after case, police stand by and watch as heav­i­ly armed mili­tia mem­bers assault and intim­i­date unarmed protesters.
It has now become clear that demar­ca­tion lines, [to the extent that one exist­ed], between Police and white suprema­cist groups, have all but dis­ap­peared. There is no pre­tense anymore.
For those rea­sons, Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old, could cross state lines from Illinois into Wisconsin, where he killed two peo­ple and seri­ous­ly injured one oth­er under the pre­text that he was there to pro­tect Wisconsin’s businesses.
Kyle Rittenhouse was not old enough to have the weapon he had, but that did not mat­ter to the police who greet­ed Rittenhouse and oth­er Militia ‑mem­bers, as they hand­ed out bot­tles of water to them and thanked him for being there.
(Yup, back­ing the Blue).

The infa­mous Umbrella man, Branden Michael Wolfe, has been linked to white Supremacy, even though he pre­tend­ed to be a mem­ber of Antifa, a group that is more myth than real­i­ty. According to Law enforce­ment, there is real­ly no Organization know as Antifa; in fact, the group’s name is an acronym for the words Anti-Fascists.
Therefore, it fol­lows that Donald Trump and his lap­dog min­ions like the Florida Drunk Matt Gaetz would demo­nize this group and label them domes­tic terrorists.
One Pro-Police web­site describes Antifa this way. Antifa, short for anti-fas­cist or Anti-Fascism Action, is a rad­i­cal far-left-lean­ing polit­i­cal move­ment, made up of most­ly autonomous groups spread through­out the United States. The move­ment has ties to anar­chism, oth­er rad­i­cal left groups like By Any Means Necessary, and is known for its mil­i­tant pres­ence at protests. Some of the bet­ter known, loose­ly orga­nized Antifa groups include Torch Antifa, Antifa Sacramento, and NYC Antifa.
Fas​.org summed up Antifa this way.

Headline after head­line blared out the facts police knew that the man break­ing store win­dows and set­ting fire to stores was actu­al­ly a white suprema­cist try­ing to stoke a race war, but that was not the nar­ra­tive that Donald Trump and William Barr want­ed into the pub­lic domain.
According to the Star Tribune, a masked man who was seen in a viral video smash­ing the win­dows of a south Minneapolis auto parts store dur­ing the George Floyd protests, earn­ing him the moniker “Umbrella Man,” is sus­pect­ed of ties with a white suprema­cist group and sought to incite racial ten­sion, police said. A Minneapolis police arson inves­ti­ga­tor said the act of van­dal­ism at the AutoZone on E. Lake Street helped spark a chain reac­tion that led to days of loot­ing and riot­ing. The store was among dozens of build­ings across the city that burned to the ground in the days that followed.
“This was the first fire that set off a string of fires and loot­ing through­out the precinct and the rest of the city,” Sgt. Erika Christensen wrote in a search war­rant affi­davit filed in court this week. “Until the actions of the per­son, your affi­ant has been call­ing ‘Umbrella Man,’ the protests had been rel­a­tive­ly peace­ful. The actions of this per­son cre­at­ed an atmos­phere of hos­til­i­ty and ten­sion. Your affi­ant believes that this indi­vid­u­al’s sole aim was to incite violence.”

The fore­gone is only a cou­ple of instances of that gaslight­ing that Trump, his per­son­al Attorney/​Attorney General William Barr, and oth­er right-wing dem­a­gogues feed the pub­lic about these events.
Given a com­plete­ly free hand, Donald Trump and William Barr would have police across America hunt down and destroy inno­cent Black Americans who demon­strate jus­tice and respectabil­i­ty while ignor­ing the real and present dan­ger white Militias pose to the Republic.
Remarkably the lies and dis­in­for­ma­tion seeps right into the minds of the throngs of une­d­u­cat­ed, low infor­ma­tion peo­ple who sup­port Donald Trump and hate Black people.
They argue con­tin­u­al­ly that Black black crimes are a far greater threat to Black peo­ple than Police killing Black people.
Unfortunately, some igno­rant Blacks also fall vic­tim to that nar­ra­tive because they have been vic­tims of Black on Black crime somehow.

So let us look at the facts, when Black peo­ple kill oth­er Blacks, they go to prison. The Jails and pris­ons are filled with them; they do not get paid vacation.
Blacks kill blacks 90% of the time, accord­ing to research data. Whites kill whites 82% of the time as well. What that shows is that peo­ple kill who they are around.
When the con­se­quences of slav­ery and the social con­struct of Jim crow and gov­ern­ment insti­tu­tion­al­ized racism is con­sid­ered, it is small won­der that Black peo­ple are not walk­ing around stark rav­ing mad.
Yet, what the imbe­cil­ic Donald Trump and some of his min­ions like Rudolph Giuliani would have you believe, is that Black People Killing Black peo­ple is our real prob­lem. Still, police mur­der­ing our chil­dren, our broth­ers and sis­ters are quite okay.
People can abuse us and take advan­tage of us when we are igno­rant of what is hap­pen­ing around us.
For those rea­sons, dur­ing slav­ery, our enslaved fore­bear­ers were not allowed to read or be privy to any information.
The Slavers under­stood that an informed per­son could not be a slave.
Asked what the great­est threat to the American sys­tem was, the racist FBI direc­tor J Edgar Hoover who abused every pow­er he was giv­en, replied, ” a uni­fied black race.”

Today, I believe that the Black American pop­u­la­tion is divid­ed into four groups, (a) an edu­cat­ed group that is work­ing like hell to dig the race out of the morass it’s in, (b) a group that is men­tal­ly still enslaved, those we must leave alone, © those who refuse to take up a book or any device to learn about what is hap­pen­ing around them, and final­ly, (d), the group that only picks up the Bible.
Either way, we are a long way from eman­ci­pa­tion as it ought to be, because our peo­ple have made a con­scious deci­sion to serve their for­mer mas­ters, wor­ship god and ignore their lives on earth, or trust that the very same peo­ple who enslaved our fore-par­ents are now bet­ter more enlight­ened and con­sci­en­tious peo­ple who would not do the same today.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s also a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al websites.
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AT SOME POINT WE MUST ALL COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE IS SOMETHING SINISTER GOING HERE

A 31-year-old Black man was killed by Louisiana police on Friday night while attempt­ing to walk away from offi­cers fol­low­ing an alter­ca­tion at a con­ve­nience store.

Trayford Pellerin was pro­nounced dead at a local hos­pi­tal after being struck by offi­cer gun­fire. Investigators said Lafayette police had been called to the scene fol­low­ing a dis­tur­bance at a con­ve­nience store along Evangeline Thruway and encoun­tered Pellerin, who was car­ry­ing a knife

Pellerin was unaf­fect­ed when police used tasers on him, the Louisiana State Police, which is inves­ti­gat­ing the shoot­ing, said in a statement.

Footage of part of the inci­dent, which cir­cu­lat­ed on social media, shows Pellerin walk­ing away from at least four offi­cers on foot, with their guns drawn, while oth­er offi­cers trailed in vehicles.

After a pur­suit on foot, in which Pellerin has his back to offi­cers, he approach­es the doors of a sec­ond con­ve­nience store. The offi­cers, who are only feet away, then shoot — fir­ing at least 10 shots as heard on video — and kill him.

https://​youtu​.be/​S​L​L​Q​e​-​C​4​n​U​M​?​t​=55

A state police spokesper­son told BuzzFeed News that the inves­ti­ga­tion is ongo­ing and did not pro­vide fur­ther details.

“Once again, video footage has cap­tured a hor­rif­ic and dead­ly inci­dent of police vio­lence against a Black per­son who was bru­tal­ly killed in front of our eyes,” said Alanah Odoms Hebert, exec­u­tive direc­tor of the ACLU of Louisiana, in a state­ment. “While we need to know much more about what occurred last night, we know that it began with a rou­tine ‘dis­tur­bance’ call and cell phone video from the scene clear­ly shows Mr. Pellerin mov­ing away — not towards — police offi­cers, only to be tased and then bru­tal­ly shot dead.”

The Acadiana Advocate in Lafayette report­ed that this is the third time a Lafayette Police Department offi­cer shot some­one in the past five weeks. LPD inter­im police chief Scott Morgan told the out­let that the offi­cers involved would be placed on paid leave, pend­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion. His depart­ment has also turned over the inves­ti­ga­tion to state police.

https://youtu.be/Y‑pXGA3aByk?t=113

Pellerin’s death comes amid a nation­al reck­on­ing over the use of police vio­lence against Black peo­ple. Since the May killing of George Floyd, mil­lions have tak­en to the streets in protest of racial injus­tice and the uneven use of police force against Black peo­ple and oth­er minorities.

Local orga­niz­ers have orga­nized a protest over Pellerin’s death on Saturday in Lafayette.

“Trayford Pellerin should be alive today,” Odoms Herbert said. “Instead, a fam­i­ly is mourn­ing and a com­mu­ni­ty is grieving.”

Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum died in Kenosha Wisconsin at the hands of a deranged white suprema­cist who was only 17 years old.
Huber, 26, and Rosenbaum, 36, died on Tuesday night after they were fatal­ly shot while protest­ing in Kenosha, accord­ing to friends and family.
Video from the scene that has since gone viral shows sev­er­al pro­tes­tors, includ­ing one car­ry­ing a skate­board, attempt­ing to take down an armed man.
According to Huber’s girl­friend Hannah Gittings, the man with the skate­board in the video was her boyfriend.
“He was one of the most amaz­ing peo­ple,” she said dur­ing a vig­il on Wednesday night, The Chicago Sun-Times report­ed. “He had so much love in his heart for this city … he took down an armed gun­man with noth­ing but his f — — - skate­board, and he took that f — — - bullet.”

These two young white men gave their lives for a cause to which they did not need to. They were both white and male, two crit­i­cal fac­tors when it comes to the tox­ic white suprema­cist cul­ture that per­vades America.
Nevertheless, they braved being beat­en by police, shot with rub­ber bul­lets, suf­fo­cat­ed with gas, and in the end, they were killed by peo­ple the police gave water to and thanked for being there.

This is what is hap­pen­ing in America in 2020. This is what the world needs to see. these two heroes gave their lives for a cause greater than them­selves. A cause greater than America itself, the cause of jus­tice and equality.
This pub­li­ca­tion hon­ors their sacrifice.

WHY WOULD ANY BLACK PERSON CALL POLICE TO THEIR HOME IN AMERICA?

 By Hollie Silverman & Paul B Murphy

A Black man in San Antonio was stopped and detained by police Tuesday while he was jog­ging, wit­ness­es said, as offi­cers searched for a sus­pect in a near­by domes­tic vio­lence call. Video of the inci­dent post­ed to social media shows offi­cers force­ful­ly shov­ing the man into a police vehi­cle as he screams.
The arrest­ed man, iden­ti­fied in a police report as Mathias Ometu, 33, was seen walk­ing out of an apart­ment com­plex as offi­cers arrived in response to a call about a domes­tic vio­lence assault, accord­ing to a police report from the incident.
Officers stopped Ometu and told him they had “rea­son­able sus­pi­cion to believe” he “matched the descrip­tion of an alleged stran­gu­la­tion fam­i­ly vio­lence inci­dent,” the report said.

YET AGAIN, POLICE IS CALLED TO A BLACK HOME AND THE FAMILY END UP WITH A DEAD LOVED ONE

Protesters in San Antonio were plan­ning to demon­strate again on Friday evening after for­mer com­bat vet­er­an Damian Lamar Daniels, 31, was fatal­ly shot by deputies dur­ing a men­tal health call on Tuesday. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Thursday that Daniels and his fam­i­ly made four sep­a­rate calls in the lead up to the shoot­ing, report­ing that Daniels was sui­ci­dal and suf­fer­ing para­noid episodes. In the final call­out, Salazar said deputies could see a “bulge” at Daniels’ hip that they assumed was a hand­gun. As they tried to detain Daniels, a strug­gle broke out and Daniels’ tried to grab a deputy’s stun gun and then reached for his own gun, Salazar said. Deputies were “plead­ing” with Daniels to let go of his gun and “it was very clear they were in a fight for their lives,” he added.

Salazar’s office released pho­tos of the encounter “in the inter­est of trans­paren­cy and time­li­ness.” “Quite frankly, I’m still real­ly quite in awe of the restraint, the lev­el of restraint, shown by our deputies,” he said. One pho­to, tak­en from a body cam­era, shows the bulge inside Daniels’ shirt. S. Lee Merritt, a fam­i­ly attor­ney, said Daniels had a legal gun on his hip “that he nev­er removed” and his fam­i­ly had asked the Red Cross to get Daniels to the VA. The inci­dent prompt­ed pro­test­ers to gath­er out­side the Sheriff’s office and Bexar County Jail. One orga­niz­er told San Antonio Express-News that they don’t think offi­cers are equipped to han­dle men­tal health calls.

As we strug­gle to under­stand the deep lev­els of indif­fer­ence, antipa­thy & hatred many white Americans har­bor towards African-Americans, a look at the past may offer up a win­dow of what occurred dur­ing slavery-(the what).
The past may not ful­ly explain [why,] because after over two hun­dred years of free labor, abject servi­tude, being raped, muti­lat­ed, sodom­ized, beat­en, and have every imag­in­able evil vis­it­ed upon them, they ought to be the ones who are owed an apol­o­gy. They are the ones who are owed some­thing. They are the ones who have the god­damn right to be angry, hate­ful, bit­ter, and vengeful.
And so though the past will not explain the “why” it offers up an oppor­tu­ni­ty that may help to explain whether any­thing will change, based on the actions tak­en so far by African-Americans.
From slav­ery to the civ­il war, from the Black codes which essen­tial­ly re-enslaved the recent­ly freed enslaved Black peo­ple after the civ­il war, to the efforts of Federal, State and Local Authorities to reestab­lish a sys­tem of enslave­ment of the Black pop­u­la­tion that was just released as a result of the Emancipation Declaration.

Marching and singing will nev­er change a damn thing, one can­not leg­is­late a change of heart, but one can ensure that there is leg­is­la­tion that changes peo­ple’s actions.
We may nev­er be able to stamp out evil, igno­rance out of the hearts of those so pre­dis­posed, but we sure can make it so that when they act out of those pre­dis­po­si­tions the con­se­quences are so severe that oth­ers will think twice about fol­low­ing suit.
That is how you change behav­iors. The hunt­ing and killing of Black peo­ple by white south­ern slave­hold­ers as white lib­er­als in the north stood pas­sive­ly and with the full back­ing and acqui­es­cence of the Government and Supreme Court has been a sta­ple in America.
Those poli­cies have nev­er been flushed out of the body politic, the demons have nev­er been exor­cised. Slavery and the hor­rors vis­it­ed on African enslaved peo­ple by slave­own­ers and the silence of white so-called lib­er­als is America’s for­ev­er shame.
But it is far worse than just America’s shame. If not dealt with with the cor­rect lev­el of mea cul­pa, truth & rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and the appro­pri­ate lev­els of com­pen­sa­tion, it may very well be America’s unraveling.

https://​youtu​.be/​j​3​i​L​C​y​x​j​f​E​w​?​t​=​321

The History Channel is a good place to start for Blacks, and also for Whites & oth­ers, who would like to under­stand the his­tor­i­cal under­pin­nings of the hatred, vio­lence, rapes, muti­la­tion, and death, upon which the United States was found­ed, instead of the pro­pa­gan­da of lies about its gen­e­sis based on a con­trived nar­ra­tive of hon­or and religion.
In the link above, I have includ­ed a doc­u­men­tary for those of you who would like to set aside social media for a few min­utes, set aside tak­ing self­ies of your­selves, resist post­ing them in order to get likes from peo­ple you do not know.
I know that my state­ments are a bit incen­di­ary and some may find it to be an affront to their sen­si­bil­i­ties. That is exact­ly the emo­tion I want to pro­voke in you.
I want you to become angry enough that you [will] do what I sug­gest, learn a lit­tle bit about what occurred in the past to our ances­tors, in order to under­stand why the things that are hap­pen­ing to you and I, are hap­pen­ing today.

If you do read and under­stand, or even watch some of the doc­u­men­taries that accu­rate­ly depict some of the hor­rors of the igno­bil­i­ty of slav­ery, you [may] start to bet­ter under­stand that you can­not start a project on mur­der and exploita­tion and end up with the prover­bial shin­ing city on a hill.
You will under­stand the vicious cru­el­ty of Presidents like Franklin Pierce who import­ed what he called (nig­ger dogs) from Cuba to hunt run­away enslaved peo­ple. The Dogs were excep­tion­al­ly vicious and would lit­er­al­ly rip the skin from the bones of the peo­ple they intercept.
Pierce is from the State of New Hampshire, where there is a pri­vate University named after him today. He is viewed as one of the worst pres­i­dents ever. He was the 14^th pres­i­dent of the United States, he was pop­u­lar and out­go­ing, but his fam­i­ly life was a grim affair, with his wife Jane suf­fer­ing from ill­ness and depres­sion for much of her life.^[1]All of their chil­dren died young, their last son being grue­some­ly killed in a train acci­dent while the fam­i­ly was trav­el­ing short­ly before Pierce’s inau­gu­ra­tion. He was a heavy drinker for much of his life, and he died of cir­rho­sis of the liv­er in 1869. Historians and schol­ars gen­er­al­ly rank Pierce as one of the worst and least mem­o­rable U.S. Presidents.[w]

Today Franklin Pierce is long gone, he is a dis­tant foot­note in his­to­ry, count­ed only because he has to be count­ed among the group. In the White House is anoth­er White Supremacist, no dif­fer­ent than the oth­er white suprema­cists who occu­pied that office even in recent times. In fact, apart from Barack Obama, one would have to search real­ly hard to find a pres­i­dent who, even if not a white suprema­cist, has­n’t used racist tropes and stereo­types, at least to get into the office of the presidency.
America is not about to become any­thing but what it is. The idea that the white major­i­ty is good and decent, is a false­hood per­pet­u­at­ed by the likes of Barack Obama, it was mere­ly a fig­ment of his imag­i­na­tion, or a line he need­ed to use to ingra­ti­ate him­self to them, in order to get them to vote for him.
The silent acqui­es­cence of the white major­i­ty in the face of egre­gious acts of sav­agery against Blacks, makes them all equal­ly as guilty as the ones who com­mit the acts themselves.

Dr. Martin Luther King Junior spoke to this before they mur­dered him fifty-two years ago. King bemoaned the white peo­ple who were appalled by Bull O’Connor’s dogs tear­ing at the flesh of young African-Americans, includ­ing chil­dren, but when it came time for African ‑Americans to be grant­ed full cit­i­zen­ship there­by plac­ing all Americans on an even keel, they all backed away.
In his book titled (crimes with­out pun­ish­ment: white neigh­bors resis­tance to black entry), Dr.Stephen Meyer chron­i­cled the his­to­ry of white resis­tance to hous­ing inte­gra­tion dur­ing the first two-thirds of the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. From the author’s per­spec­tive, the book is about hous­ing dis­crim­i­na­tion and segregation‑a con­flict over res­i­den­tial space that is con­test­ed along racial lines between Blacks and whites. It is a sto­ry of Blacks seek­ing to gain access to, and occu­py, hous­ing in neigh­bor­hoods whites con­sid­ered to be theirs, and whites’ efforts to thwart, pre­vent, and deter those efforts and to exclude and expel Blacks from those neighborhoods.
Not only have they con­sis­tent­ly object­ed to Blacks in neigh­bor­hoods they con­sid­er theirs, but they have also sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly destroyed thriv­ing black towns and slaugh­tered thou­sands of African-Americans to boot.
Dr. Martin Luther King asked the ques­tion, how can you demand that a man pull him­self by his boot­straps when he has no boots?
I take it a step fur­ther, how can he pull him­self up by his boot­straps when you chopped off his damn feet & hands?

Fifty-two years after Doctor King was mur­dered, the 45^th occu­pant of the nation’s high­est exec­u­tive office, joy­ful­ly extolls to his sup­port­ers, his efforts at keep­ing Black peo­ple out of what he calls sub­ur­ban neighborhoods.
We can talk about the Rodney King beat­ing on March 3, 1991, that set Los Angeles ablaze. We can skip over the tens, pos­si­bly hun­dreds of thou­sands, pos­si­bly mil­lions of peo­ple who have had dogs rip their flesh from their bones, their only crime, the pur­suit of freedom.
We can look at what hap­pened to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, Akhai Gurley, Philando Castille, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Alton Sterling, Jacob Blake, and the long stream of our peo­ple and our ances­tors who have been mur­dered by this evil race of peo­ple. [mankind: kind of man].
We can look at the past ‘yes’.….now you tell me what has changed?

Do you real­ly believe that get­ting down on your knees and pray­ing for this to stop will cause it to stop?
Do you believe that you can appeal to any kind of bet­ter Angels with­in a race of peo­ple who have exer­cised noth­ing but hatred and mur­der towards us?
If you believe that some­how all this will go away with time, please explain 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse whom some reports had his moth­er dri­ving him to Kenosha Wisconsin where he com­mit­ted murder?
If you believe that some­how the younger gen­er­a­tion is any less cor­ro­sive and insid­i­ous take a peek at their social media pro­file.….. fol­low their con­ver­sa­tions as you fol­low their old­er, less edu­cat­ed, more incred­i­bly igno­rant par­ents on chat threads.
Growing up I was taught nev­er to rev­el in the death of any­one, even an ene­my. Never in my life have I seen peo­ple laugh and rev­el in the death of their inno­cent fel­low human beings.
That lev­el of hatred will not go away.
Blacks bet­ter wake up.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer,
he is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. 
He’s also a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al websites.
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The white cop who shot Jacob Blake in the back sev­en times at point-blank range on August 23, 2020, has been iden­ti­fied as Rusten Sheskey, on some social media plat­forms. Blake was lucky to sur­vive, but is now par­a­lyzed and accord­ing to his attor­ney Ben Crump.- Crump says that it will take a mir­a­cle for Blake to ever walk again.

https://​youtu​.be/​_​K​0​B​W​X​j​J​v​5​s​?​t​=10

The youtube link above opens a win­dow into the soul of the icon­ic Martin Luther King, a man who Republicans and Democrats now pay lip ser­vice to when they want to attach them­selves to moral authority.
Martin Luther King was assas­si­nat­ed by white nation­al­ists on April 4^th, 1968. So too have lit­er­al­ly every Black leader to grace America after the igno­bil­i­ty of slav­ery been murdered.
A full 52 years after King was mur­dered, march­es con­tin­ue, riots con­tin­ue, and the con­di­tions that lead to them con­tin­ue in America.
Police killings and bla­tant bru­tal­i­ty are what the world sees, but the inher­ent racism that embold­ens police vio­lence is not always vis­i­ble but it is encour­aged by the Republicans and tol­er­at­ed by the Democrats.

America’s con­tin­ued shame­ful response to its cit­i­zen’s dis­con­tent over its racist poli­cies and their exe­cu­tion. (Image after the assas­si­na­tion of Dr. King)

A RIOT IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNHEARD(Martin Luther King Jr)

In Minneapolis, in Kenosha, in Portland, in Seattle, in New York City, in Los Angeles and cities all across America, vio­lence con­tin­ue to flare, and yet the polit­i­cal response to it is the same as it was 52 ‑years ago.
White America con­tin­ues to rel­ish in the safe­ty and seren­i­ty of white priv­i­lege that leads to pros­per­i­ty and com­fort­able liv­ing, one free from police oppres­sion. Yet they con­tin­ue to be ambiva­lent and hos­tile to the sys­temic vio­lence against Black Americans.
At the root of that ambiva­lence, is the age-old ques­tion, “what is behind white America’s hatred of Blacks?
It is one that requires a lot of thought, for hun­dreds of years white Americans have ben­e­fit­ed from the free labor of Blacks, yet when final­ly Blacks were afford­ed a small mod­icum of free­dom after the eman­ci­pa­tion dec­la­ra­tion they imme­di­ate­ly set about cre­at­ing a rigid sys­tem of hatred that to this day con­tin­ue to entan­gle blacks in its ten­ta­cles of destruction.

(King spent his life in defense of civ­il rights)

Today white peo­ple pon­tif­i­cate about law and order in sheer arro­gance, their arro­gance is usu­al­ly a func­tion of their mis­guid­ed and igno­rant beliefs in ancient tropes and stereotypes.
Even as younger whites begin to come to the real­i­ty that there can be no peace if there is no jus­tice. And even as they begin to join the right­eous cam­paign to end the insid­i­ous malig­nan­cy of racism before it destroys America, old­er less-edu­cat­ed whites still cling to old ways, fur­ther endan­ger­ing the peace and tran­quil­i­ty of the nation.
Their out­rage pre­dictably is trig­gered by bro­ken glass and smol­der­ing ruins, not by bul­let-rid­dled bod­ies and blood-drenched sidewalks.
Fifty-two years (52) after they assas­si­nat­ed Martin King the mes­sage has still not got­ten through to the nation’s lead­ers. Instead of cor­rect­ing the mal­adies that leads to the con­fla­gra­tion. They spend their time try­ing to sup­press the flare­ups of dis­sent. America’s prob­lems are American cre­at­ed. It is a prob­lem that should not exist. It is a prob­lem with sim­ple answers, stop racism, and begin the process of redemption.
Instead, there is a seg­ment of the white pop­u­la­tion that is so deeply dug in, so heav­i­ly invest­ed in the con­tin­u­a­tion of the sta­tus quo, that it seems America will march head­first into a final col­li­sion in which injus­tice and inequal­i­ty will come face to face with the forces of jus­tice & moral­i­ty on the bat­tle­field of conclusion.

(In the years since Dr. King’s assas­si­na­tion, the uni­forms have changed, so too has the weapons troops and police used, to sup­press the Black minor­i­ty changed, but cer­tain­ly, not the poli­cies and tac­tics of the American Government, not much else has.)

In just over two months there will be anoth­er pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. In fact, the Republicans are only halfway through their con­ven­tion, or more like a cav­al­cade of feal­ty to the dear leader.
Without equiv­o­ca­tion, the Republicans have made it clear that they have zero regard for the con­cerns of the still oppressed Black pop­u­la­tion. From that par­ty’s high­est lead­ers to the low­est sub­jects, they have called for more inequal­i­ty, more oppres­sion, more death to be vis­it­ed on the Black minor­i­ty pop­u­la­tion in the United States.
The death of Black cit­i­zens at the hands of their racist police evokes laugh­ter and deri­sion from them. Criminal records with dis­or­der­ly con­duct & jay­walk­ing, are pulled and used to jus­ti­fy sum­ma­ry exe­cu­tion by police.
The Democrats with 90% Black sup­port, its most loy­al base of sup­port, still pan­ders to white vot­ers- vot­ers that have shown hos­til­i­ty and aggres­sion to black causes.
As cities burn, they resort to the same old tac­tics, more police, more nation­al guard, more state-spon­sored vio­lence in response to the con­se­quences of,— state-spon­sored violence.
No nation can sur­vive while being at war with itself. As pover­ty, hunger, home­less­ness, lack of health­care, edu­ca­tion, and police vio­lence fuels the smol­der­ing embers of dis­af­fec­tion, the nation’s lead­ers either stoke the embers that will inevitably ignite the flames result­ing in a roar­ing infer­no, or they turn away and pre­tend that there is no clear and present danger.
If they con­tin­ue to act as they do the flames will engulf us all.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer,
he is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. 
He’s also a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al websites.
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In July of 1999, 10% of the African-American pop­u­la­tion in Tulia, Texas, a small town of 5,000 in the Texas Panhandle, was arrest­ed on drug charges sole­ly on the tes­ti­mo­ny of a sin­gle under­cov­er offi­cer. The arrests of 46 peo­ple, 39 of them black, result­ed in 38 con­vic­tions for var­i­ous drug charges with sen­tences of up to 90 years in prison. In ear­ly April 2003, a Dallas judge threw out all 38 drug con­vic­tions from Tulia because they were based on ques­tion­able tes­ti­mo­ny from a sin­gle under­cov­er agent accused of racial prej­u­dice. On June 16, 12 of the defen­dants remain­ing in the case (most of the oth­ers accept­ed plea-bar­gains in order to avoid lengthy prison sen­tences), were freed after Texas Gov. Perry signed a bill autho­riz­ing their release.

The offi­cer respon­si­ble for the racial­ly moti­vat­ed arrests is Tom Coleman, a Texas cop with a check­ered past and a self-declared fond­ness for racial epi­thets. At the time, Coleman was work­ing for the Panhandle Regional Narcotics Task Force, one of an esti­mat­ed 1,000 drug task forces oper­at­ing across America with very lit­tle over­sight or account­abil­i­ty. According to Randy Credico of the William Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, which was instru­men­tal in bring­ing Tulia to the pub­lic’s atten­tion, “The Panhandle task force was the ben­e­fi­cia­ry of Coleman’s lies. The more busts he made and the more con­vic­tions he helped win, the more fed­er­al grant mon­ey the task force received.”

Perversely, in this ““bucks-for-busts”” world, Coleman was named Texas’ out­stand­ing nar­cotics offi­cer in 2000. This is sur­pris­ing since Coleman kept no writ­ten records, not a sin­gle pho­to­graph was tak­en, no video was shot, and no one observed his buys. Every ensu­ing con­vic­tion relied only on his word. The Texas judge who freed the defen­dants in June called Coleman “the most devi­ous, non-respon­sive law enforce­ment wit­ness this Court has wit­nessed in 25 years on the bench in Texas.” According to the Court’s find­ings, Coleman sub­mit­ted false reports, mis­rep­re­sent­ed his inves­tiga­tive work, and misiden­ti­fied var­i­ous defen­dants dur­ing his investigation.

Subsequent to the April rul­ing, Coleman was indict­ed on three counts of per­jury in an unre­lat­ed case. Although he faces up to 10 years in prison, his mis­deeds in the Tulia case have yet to be for­mal­ly rec­og­nized. Furthermore, the ““Tulia 12”” have not been com­plete­ly exon­er­at­ed. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals must approve the rul­ing for their con­vic­tions, and those of the 26 oth­ers ensnared in the bogus drug sting, to be thrown out. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles should also do its part by par­don­ing the defen­dants or grant­i­ng clemen­cy or com­mu­ta­tion in the cases.

The ACLU of Texas has urged state law­mak­ers to vote for a bill that requires cor­rob­o­ra­tion of under­cov­er law enforce­ment offi­cers’ tes­ti­mo­ny before a defen­dant is con­vict­ed. However, racial­ly moti­vat­ed arrests and vio­la­tions of civ­il lib­er­ties like the Tulia case, con­tin­ue to run amock in our judi­cial system.
(Provided by the ACLU)

One Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven-bul­lets in the Back.

The killings have become so com­mon­place nowa­days that there is hard­ly a point in detail­ing them one by one, even though each sto­ry needs to be told.
Do you recall when the American Government would feign inter­est in human rights? You remem­ber that, oh, so you do read and, you do pay atten­tion. Yup, they start­ed a war in Iraq under the guise of bring­ing Democracy and human rights to an old coun­try. One that has sur­vived and thrived for thou­sands of years, long before there was any thought of some­thing called American Democracy, but I digress.
Okay, so I went too far back, so let us leap for­ward a cou­ple of thou­sand years.…… For those of you who served in law-enforce­ment in Jamaica, some of you read. You will recall when the Americans used their state depart­ment to cas­ti­gate and penal­ize tiny Jamaica about alleged law-enforce­ment abuse?

Ok then, if you are able to recall those events, you will also recall that even as they demo­nized the JCF for what they char­ac­ter­ized as [extra­ju­di­cial killings], their over 18’000 police depart­ments pret­ty much inves­ti­gat­ed them­selves and still do to this day, they oper­ate out­side of any inde­pen­den­t’s agen­cies abil­i­ty to inves­ti­gate their oper­a­tions, and the Government itself placed itself above all inter­na­tion­al bod­ies that would mon­i­tor the use of force by law enforce­ment agen­cies around the world.
That bla­tant and arro­gant stance by America in plac­ing itself above inter­na­tion­al laws is not con­fined to police use of force, it also applies to the International court of jus­tice that they have been instru­men­tal in set­ting up in the Hauge after the sec­ond world war.
After the court ruled that the United States’ covert war against Nicaragua was in vio­la­tion of inter­na­tion­al law (Nicaragua v. the United States), the United States with­drew from com­pul­so­ry juris­dic­tion in 1986 to accept the court’s juris­dic­tion only on a dis­cre­tionary basis.[9] Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter autho­rizes the UN Security Council to enforce Court rul­ings. However, such enforce­ment is sub­ject to the veto pow­er of the five per­ma­nent mem­bers of the Council, which the United States used in the Nicaragua case.
In oth­er words, the United States by its actions, placed itself and the pow­er­ful veto-wield­ing mem­bers of the coun­cil, above inter­na­tion­al laws.

No American politi­cian, or oth­er lead­ers from any west­ern white-run nation that may have vio­lat­ed inter­na­tion­al law have ever been arrest­ed and charged, much less brought before the Hauge Tribunal. Are we to believe that the only Politicians who break inter­na­tion­al laws are black and brown ones from Africa and the Middle East?
I can think of a few that aren’t black or brown who has been accused of com­mit­ting breach­es against inter­na­tion­al laws and they are mov­ing around freely with nary a care in the world.
Not a sin­gle one has found them­selves before the International court since the Germans did after the sec­ond world war.
Instead, only Black and brown lead­ers have been dragged before the court, lit­er­al­ly ren­der­ing it devoid of legitimacy.
As a con­se­quence, some African Nations have removed their coun­tries from the author­i­ty of the court. The biased & arro­gant nature of the American’sactions has jeop­ar­dized pop­u­la­tions around the world, mak­ing them vul­ner­a­ble to abuse by despot­ic leaders.
If their lead­ers are not sub­ject to inter­na­tion­al laws who will hold them accountable?
Oh, I for­got, the Americans will bomb them into obey­ing American dictates.
But this is not about America’s arro­gance on the inter­na­tion­al scene, at least not in this arti­cle, it is about American police who oper­ate nation­al­ly, yet out­side any account­abil­i­ty from inside the United States or the out­side world.

Over a decade and a half ago the FBI warned about KKK and oth­er white suprema­cist ele­ments infil­trat­ing law enforcement.
This is in addi­tion to the fact that American police depart­ments have always been agen­cies of death and oppres­sion to the black community.
The American Government to date has done noth­ing worth­while, out­side of what the Obama Administration did in get­ting a few depart­ments to enter into con­sent-decrees with the US jus­tice depart­ment with a view to imple­ment­ing some mea­sured reforms.
In oth­er words, the head, which is the Government (the Dog), can­not get police, (the tail), to com­ply with the laws, much less best prac­tices. So in this dystopi­an Orwellian exis­tence, the tail wags the dog.
There are a cou­ple of ele­ments at play here, (a) Qualified immu­ni­ty: This is a doc­trine lit­er­al­ly cre­at­ed by the United States Supreme court, that pro­tects gov­ern­ment employ­ees from expo­sure to civ­il actions when they are act­ing on behalf of the state.

Qualified immu­ni­ty doc­trine gives gov­ern­ment offi­cials broad — if not entire­ly lim­it­less — pro­tec­tion against fed­er­al lawsuits.
The Supreme Court held in Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982), “gov­ern­ment offi­cials per­form­ing dis­cre­tionary func­tions, gen­er­al­ly are shield­ed from lia­bil­i­ty for civ­il dam­ages inso­far as their con­duct does not vio­late clear­ly estab­lished statu­to­ry or con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of which a rea­son­able per­son would have known.”
In prac­tice, how­ev­er, qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty can pro­tect tru­ly egre­gious con­duct by police. As the Supreme Court put it in Malley v. Briggs (1986), qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty “pro­vides ample pro­tec­tion to all but the plain­ly incom­pe­tent or those who know­ing­ly vio­late the law.”[vox]
The con­vo­lut­ed stan­dard that would make one such employ­ee liable to civ­il action by an aggriev­ed par­ty is that he/​she would have to have known that his/​her actions were so egre­gious and that there was estab­lished prece­dent in a case already decid­ed sim­i­lar to the one being brought.

Simply put, if there is no sim­i­lar case already decid­ed by the courts that match the one a defen­dant wish­es to pur­sue, there is a greater chance of a snow­ball sur­viv­ing in hell, than that case pre­vail­ing. In oth­er words, the Court gave police carte blanche to do what­ev­er they want with­out consequence.
(b) Police Unions are so pow­er­ful that Mayors Governors and leg­is­la­tors are pet­ri­fied to cross them, so the coun­try is vir­tu­al­ly locked in a mafioso vice-grip in which it’s cit­i­zens are being mur­dered by the state but the politi­cians are pow­er­less to do any­thing about it. Politicians are behold­en to the police Unions because they accept mon­ey from them dur­ing their cam­paigns. In fair­ness to them, it is a dif­fi­cult prob­lem, if they refuse their sup­port they have to face an elec­torate that idol­izes the police with the crit­i­cism that they are anti-law ‑enforce­ment.

Because of that, Powerful police unions in big cities like New York can pret­ty much do as they please out­side the lines of what the duly elect­ed Mayor or coun­cil mem­bers like, and be as dis­re­spect­ful as they want to them with­out consequence.
At the end of the day, the Mayor will crawl back to the Union, tail between the legs, heap­ing praise on the union that had just heaped dis­dain and dis­re­spect on him or her.
© White Americans gen­er­al­ly glo­ri­fy and wor­ship police, pri­mar­i­ly because police have always been oppres­sive toward Blacks. Getting a major­i­ty of whites to acknowl­edge that there is a police prob­lem in America is a tall order because of their hatred for their Black neighbors.

(d) Additionally, the white nation­al­ist in the white house encour­ages law enforce­ment not to be kind and gen­tle to peo­ple they arrest.
He did so as he address­es law enforce­ment gath­er­ings across the nation. A cou­ple of law enforce­ment agen­cies pushed back against his advice, but the vast major­i­ty of them yucked it up, as he made those statements.
Who do you think were the peo­ple he was telling those state-sanc­tioned abusers to be bru­tal to? Do Do you think they were white people?
To date, noth­ing has been done about the FBI’s warning.
Police will con­tin­ue to kill Black men, it is okay by the white house, it is okay by the supreme court, it is okay by the Republicans in the US House & Senate, it is okay by Republican Governors, Mayors, and Legislators, It is okay by pros­e­cu­tors and it is okay by a whole bunch of white people.
(e) All across America, there is a plu­ral­i­ty of white peo­ple who have no prob­lem with police killing Black peo­ple, their par­ents and grand­par­ents attend­ed lynch­ings and glee­ful­ly enjoyed them.

Months ago it was George Floyd in Minneapolis, Derrick Chauvin knelt on his neck until he was dead. Yesterday it was Jacob Blake in Kenosha Wisconsin, sev­en bul­lets to his back. They do not even pre­tend that the per­son they shoot had a weapon any­more. It is okay accord­ing to white juries and courts to shoot Black peo­ple, what the hell do they care if they are shot in the back? What do they care about how many times they are shot, or where the bul­lets land?
The cop who shot Jacob Blake decid­ed when he pulled the trig­ger sev­en times, that it was okay to shoot him in the back. That is text­book polic­ing.….… his union will come out say­ing that he had a war­rant or that he was reach­ing for a weapon so the cow­ard who fired the sev­en bul­lets is jus­ti­fied under the law.
They will trot out the crim­i­nal record they made sure he had from he was in school and that will be jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for what hap­pened to him on Sunday, August 23^rd.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer,
he is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. 
He’s also a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al websites.
You may sub­scribe to his blogs free of charge, or sub­scribe to his Youtube chan­nel @chatt-a-box, for the lat­est pod­cast all free to you of course.

It is as if they have learned noth­ing or they are demon­strat­ing that they do not care. Either way, this can­not be allowed to go on. Either way what has been hap­pen­ing in the streets since the mur­der of Minneapolis native George Floyd by mem­bers of that city’s police depart­ment has not been work­ing and it is clear that a more caus­tic approach must be adopt­ed to put an end to this lev­el of state-sanc­tioned impunity.

.….…..KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Officers deployed tear gas ear­ly Monday to dis­perse hun­dreds of peo­ple who took to the streets fol­low­ing a police shoot­ing in Kenosha that also drew a harsh rebuke from the gov­er­nor after a video post­ed on social media appeared to show offi­cers shoot at a Black man’s back sev­en times as he leaned into a vehicle.

A per­son was hos­pi­tal­ized in seri­ous con­di­tion fol­low­ing a shoot­ing by offi­cers about 5 p.m. Sunday as offi­cers were respond­ing to a “domes­tic inci­dent,” the Kenosha Police Department said in a news release. Police in the city, which is in the south­east­ern cor­ner of Wisconsin about 40 miles south of Milwaukee and 50 miles north of Chicago, did not pro­vide details about what led to the shoot­ing, but said the per­son was trans­port­ed to a hos­pi­tal in Milwaukee for treatment.

https://​youtu​.be/​o​e​Q​p​2​M​7​X​-​t​Q​?​t=2

By late Sunday, mul­ti­ple vehi­cles were set ablaze and win­dows were smashed along city thor­ough­fares as crowds faced off with law enforce­ment. Officers in riot gear stood in lines and SWAT vehi­cles remained on the streets to move peo­ple away from city build­ings despite the dec­la­ra­tion of an overnight cur­few. Tear gas was used to dis­perse groups of peo­ple, accord­ing to reporters at the scene.

In a video post­ed on social media that appeared to show the shoot­ing from across a street, three offi­cers could be seen shout­ing and point­ing their weapons at the man as he walked around the front of a parked SUV. As the man opened the driver’s side door and leaned inside, one offi­cer grabbed his shirt from behind and then fired into the vehi­cle. Seven shots could be heard on the video, though it was unclear if more than one offi­cer fired.

Gov. Tony Evers on Sunday night con­demned the shoot­ing of the man, whom he iden­ti­fied as Jacob Blake, say­ing in a state­ment that “while we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for cer­tain is that he is not the first Black man or per­son to have been shot or injured or mer­ci­less­ly killed at the hands of indi­vid­u­als in law enforce­ment in our state or our country.”

https://​youtu​.be/​u​v​6​u​E​q​L​k​S​D​M​?​t=4

The Wisconsin Department of Justice, which is inves­ti­gat­ing the shoot­ing, did not release any details about the offi­cers who were involved except to say they had been placed on admin­is­tra­tive leave.

Following the shoot­ing, social media posts showed neigh­bors gath­er­ing in the sur­round­ing streets and shout­ing at police. Some could be heard chant­i­ng “no jus­tice, no peace” while oth­ers appeared to throw objects at offi­cers and dam­aged police vehicles.

Later Sunday, in a scene that mir­rored the wide­spread protests over the police shoot­ings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and oth­er Black peo­ple, marchers head­ed to the Kenosha County Public Safety Building, which hous­es the police and coun­ty sheriff’s depart­ments. Authorities most­ly blocked off the build­ing, and some offi­cers were posi­tioned on the roof as pro­test­ers marched beside lines of honk­ing cars as they made their way to the building.

Outside the sta­tion, pro­test­ers clashed with offi­cers dressed in riot gear, includ­ing plas­tic face masks, who occa­sion­al­ly used their shields and batons to push peo­ple back.

Meanwhile, Evers indi­cat­ed that he intends to take fur­ther action over the shooting“I have said all along that although we must offer our empa­thy, equal­ly impor­tant is our action,” he said. “In the com­ing days, we will demand just that of elect­ed offi­cials in our state who have failed to rec­og­nize the racism in our state and our coun­try for far too long.”(contributed).