In a video shared on social media ear­ly Tuesday morn­ing a white Minneapolis cop who seemed to be get­ting his rocks off the sadism of lit­er­al­ly snuff­ing the life out of a black man, pins his knee against the neck of the man who clear­ly was strug­gling to breathe on the ground.
“I can­not breathe! I can­not breathe!” the man yells as bystanders gath­ered. “Don’t kill me!” The Minneapolis Police Department announced ear­ly Tuesday that the unnamed man, who is believed to be in his 40s, lat­er died of a “med­ical inci­dent” after police respond­ed to a report of a forgery in progress on Monday.

The FBI and state author­i­ties are inves­ti­gat­ing his death as advo­cates and city offi­cials call for a quick response. The inci­dent began when two cops arrived at the 3700 blocks of Chicago Avenue South around 8 p.m. Monday, police said. Officers locat­ed the man, who they believed to be under the influ­ence, inside his car. After he got out, police said the man “phys­i­cal­ly resist­ed officers.”

“Officers were able to get the sus­pect into hand­cuffs and not­ed he appeared to be suf­fer­ing med­ical dis­tress,” a Minneapolis police spokesman said in a news brief­ing ear­ly Tuesday. “Officers called for an ambu­lance. He was trans­port­ed to Hennepin County Medical Center by ambu­lance where he died a short time later.“Police said that no weapons were used at any time by the man or the offi­cers dur­ing the encounter.
What the police press­er does not say is that the med­ical dis­tress was caused and main­tained by its killer cop refus­ing to remove his knee from the neck of the man he was lit­er­al­ly mur­der­ing in plain sight.
There was no need for the cop to have his knee pressed into the neck of the man who was already long hand­cuffed and non-resis­tant.
The ques­tion now emerges, as to whether cit­i­zens have the moral respon­si­bil­i­ty to inter­vene and stop a mur­der like this one, regard­less of who the killer is?

Darnella Frazier was on her way to see friends when she saw the inci­dent unfold­ing out­side of a Cup Foods gro­cery store on the south side of Minneapolis. She quick­ly began record­ing the encounter in a 10-minute video lat­er shared to Facebook. “When I walked up, he was already on the ground,” Frazier said in a Facebook video. “The cops, they were pin­ning him down by his neck and he was cry­ing. They weren’t try­ing to take him seri­ous­ly.” As more peo­ple gath­ered around the encounter out­side the gro­cery store, the man plead­ed that his whole body was in pain. Frazier recalled that the man’s face was being pressed so hard against the ground that his nose was bleed­ing. Witnesses begged the white offi­cer to take his knee off the man’s neck. “You’re going to just sit there with your knee on his neck?” one bystander said on the video.
The demon­ic mur­der­er showed no emo­tion as he fin­ished killing the already restrained man for absolute­ly no reason.

Minutes lat­er, the man appeared to be motion­less on the ground, his eyes closed and head lay­ing against the road. “Bro, he’s not even f — — mov­ing!” one bystander plead­ed to police. “Get off of his neck!” Another asked, “Did you kill him?” Later, the dead man was loaded onto a stretch­er and into an ambu­lance. Bystanders who remained in front of Cup Foods point­ed at the two offi­cers and said the inci­dent would haunt them “for the rest of your life.” “The police killed him, bro, right in front of every­body,” Frazier said on Facebook. “He was cry­ing, telling them like, ‘I can’t breathe,’ and every­thing. They killed this man.”

Make no mis­take about it, the man was killed on the spot despite the report put out by the Minneapolis Police Department ear­ly Tuesday that the unnamed man who is believed to be in his 40s, [lat­er died of a “med­ical inci­dent]” Bull.…..He died on the spot, he could have only be declared dead once he reached a med­ical facil­i­ty, or by the respond­ing EMT’s.
It was clear to all of the wit­ness­es stand­ing there beg­ging the state exe­cu­tion­er to get off his neck that the man was mur­dered right there in front of them.
The FBI warned almost two decades ago that white suprema­cists and skin­heads are infil­trat­ing police depart­ments all across the coun­try. To date, noth­ing has been done about root­ing them out.
This is in addi­tion to the stark real­i­ty that America’s police depart­ments were always rid­dled with racist white cops who still see black peo­ple as chat­tel to be bru­tal­ized and mur­dered.
This is anoth­er exam­ple of the Supreme court’s rul­ing on [qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty] that gives despot­ic mur­der­ers like this state-appoint­ed killer the right to mur­der the inno­cent, with­out any care or con­cern about suf­fer­ing the con­se­quences of his actions.

STORY UPDATE
The star tri­bune is now report­ing that the demon­ic mur­der­er we saw in the video killing the man was ter­mi­nat­ed along with three oth­ers. According to the Tribune, two sources iden­ti­fied the uni­formed killer as Derek Chauvin.

Mayor Jacob Frey said at a news con­fer­ence it was clear from the video that race played a part in the encounter. “Being black in America should not be a death sen­tence,” said Frey. “For five min­utes, we watched a white offi­cer press his knee into a black man’s neck. Five min­utes. When you hear some­one call­ing for help, you’re sup­posed to help. This offi­cer failed in the most basic, human sense. What hap­pened on Chicago and 38^th last night is awful. It was trau­mat­ic. It serves as a reminder of how far we have to go.”
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In a dra­mat­ic video that has sur­faced online, a 90-year old grand­moth­er from Texas can be seen shield­ing her 21-year old grand­son, Tye Anders, from at least 3 police offi­cers who were point­ing guns at him. They were appar­ent­ly try­ing to arrest him.
The video shows the police instruct­ing Anders to exit his car, but he refused to coöper­ate at first because he was afraid. “Upon exit­ing the vehi­cle, offi­cers advised the sub­ject to walk towards them to be detained, the sub­ject then stopped and laid on the ground,” Midland Police told News West 9.

Police had their guns drawn while Anders’ fam­i­ly and friends can be heard shout­ing at police not to shoot him. One said, “Y’all gonna find any rea­son to shoot because he is Black.” Anders can also be heard say­ing he’s scared. That’s when Anders’s 90-year old grand­moth­er walked towards him with a cane and stood next to him. As offi­cers con­tin­ued try­ing to detain Anders, his grand­moth­er appeared to fall on top of him. The video end­ed with an offi­cer cov­er­ing the cam­era. Anders was tak­en into cus­tody for evad­ing police and was lat­er released on bond. According to Midland Police, they tried to stop Anders for a traf­fic vio­la­tion, but he con­tin­ued dri­ving instead until he arrived at his grandmother’s home. However, Justin Moore, a civ­il rights attor­ney who was hired as Anders’s coun­sel, claimed Anders did not com­mit any traf­fic vio­la­tion yet he was assault­ed by police dur­ing the arrest.

“Racial pro­fil­ing and pre­text stops have been at pan­dem­ic lev­els in this coun­try for gen­er­a­tions,” he said. “This inci­dent falls with­in this age-old trend of fol­low­ing Black men and arrest­ing them for fab­ri­cat­ed rea­sons.” The video, which was post­ed on social media, sparked out­rage about the police’s appar­ent use of exces­sive force. One per­son said, “Why the hell do they need sev­er­al guns, includ­ing a shot­gun, to sub­due a sin­gle, appar­ent­ly unarmed, vis­i­bly afraid man that has already sub­mit­ted and laid down to be cuffed?”

As an ordi­nary observ­er, I have always won­dered why so many ordi­nary peo­ple put their trust in the United States Supreme Court to deliv­er jus­tice when its his­to­ry has been any­thing but a court that does that.
In a recent inves­ti­ga­tion con­duct­ed by [Reuters], they exam­ined 500 cas­es to see if the Supreme Court proves Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s asser­tion that the court acts as “an absolute shield” against police account­abil­i­ty.
The study found that “qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty” has act­ed as a bar­ri­er that pre­vents police from even being tried for exces­sive force. Qualified Immunity is a doc­trine intro­duced in 1967 by the Supreme Court to pro­tect gov­ern­ment offi­cials from unnec­es­sary litigation.

But that find­ing is only the tip of the ice­berg. Police excess­es affect black Americans more than it does any oth­er race in the United States. Yet, at every turn, the Court has sided with & shield­ed police at the expense of the minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ty.
In October of 2014 [usnews​.com] report­ed that, since its estab­lish­ment in 1789, the Supreme Court had impact­ed the course of American his­to­ry, decid­ing the legal­i­ty of laws from the Missouri Compromise to the Affordable Care Act. However, through­out its rough­ly 225-year his­to­ry, the Supreme Court has large­ly failed to uphold the Constitution and pro­tect minori­ties from the injus­tices of majori­tar­i­an pol­i­tics, accord­ing to Erwin Chemerinsky, pro­fes­sor and dean at the University of California-Irvine School of Law.

• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky wrote that he had been mak­ing excus­es for the Supreme Court for some time, “There are so many deeply dis­turb­ing deci­sions. I tried to present them to my stu­dents as if they were anom­alies, and I came to real­ize that the pat­tern was much more con­cern­ing than I had real­ized”.
  “The Supreme Court exists to enforce the Constitution. I think it’s par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant that the court enforce the Constitution against soci­ety’s majori­tar­i­an pres­sures, so I think it plays a spe­cial role in pro­tect­ing minori­ties. [But] I think the court has large­ly failed through­out American his­to­ry to do near­ly enough to pro­tect racial minori­ties”. 

• In 1857 the United States Supreme Court in (Sandford V Dred Scott Court’s ver­dict fur­ther inflamed the irre­press­ible dif­fer­ences in America over the issue of slav­ery, which in 1861 erupt­ed with the out­break of the American Civil War.
  The court ruled that Congress had no pow­er to pro­hib­it slav­ery in the ter­ri­to­ries. Three of the Southern jus­tices also held that African Americans who were slaves or whose ances­tors were slaves were not enti­tled to a fed­er­al cit­i­zen’s rights and there­fore had no stand­ing in court. Source:[his​to​ry​.com]

• Plessy v. Ferguson was a land­mark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court deci­sion that upheld the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of racial seg­re­ga­tion under the “sep­a­rate but equal” doc­trine. The case stemmed from an 1892 inci­dent where African American train pas­sen­ger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks. Rejecting Plessy’s argu­ment that his con­sti­tu­tion­al rights were vio­lat­ed, the Supreme Court ruled that a law that “implies mere­ly a legal dis­tinc­tion” between whites and blacks was uncon­sti­tu­tion­al. As a result, restric­tive Jim Crow leg­is­la­tion and sep­a­rate pub­lic accom­mo­da­tions based on race became com­mon­place. Source[his​to​ry​.com]

• In ref­er­ence to the US Supreme Court, the Atlantic in July of 2018 said this about Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall.
  “Tasked with help­ing the Supreme Court bridge the gap between Jim Crow and what­ev­er came next, the first black jus­tice and the man whom President Lyndon B. Johnson once called “an advo­cate whose life­long con­cern has been the pur­suit of jus­tice for his fel­low man” was often forced to write that road map to jus­tice in oppo­si­tion to his col­leagues.“
  I pre­fer to refer to that process as estab­lish­ing a soul and a moral com­pass to a bro­ken amoral nation.

• Marshall envi­sioned a Court whose man­date neces­si­tat­ed that it reach­es through time, destroy­ing the foun­da­tion of white suprema­cy on which the Court itself had been built.The Atlantic said.
  In the same July 2018 arti­cle, the Atlantic argued; Marshall nev­er tru­ly got the Court he want­ed. His vision helped pull the body into its mod­ern role as an insti­tu­tion­al check on white pow­er. Last month, how­ev­er, the Supreme Court final­ly closed the book on that vision. Just five years after the land­mark Shelby County v. Holder deci­sion, it’s become clear that the deci­sion has hand­ed the coun­try an era of renewed white racial hege­mo­ny. And we’ve only just begun.

Harvard Professor at Law Michael J Klarman, a fel­low of the American Academy since 2009 in essay asked the question;

The fore­gone was only a small sam­pling of deci­sions that the Court has made that has sig­nif­i­cant­ly impact­ed black peo­ple in America in neg­a­tive ways. Despite this sor­did record, peo­ple still look to the court to save them from what they see as an unjust sys­tem, atop which sits the very same Supreme Court. So tell me again, do black peo­ple still look to the US Supreme Court to get jus­tice when the court itself was formed based on White Supremacy?

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 

Basketball leg­end Patrick Ewing announced on Friday that he has test­ed pos­i­tive for coro­n­avirus. The bas­ket­ball Hall of Famer, who is now the head coach of Georgetown University‘s men’s bas­ket­ball team, made the state­ment as a way to let the pub­lic know how seri­ous the dis­ease is.

“I want to share that I have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19. This virus is seri­ous and should not be tak­en light­ly,” the 57-year-old stat­ed on Twitter. “I want to encour­age every­one to stay safe and take care of your­self and your loved ones.” Ewing, who was the first pick over­all in the 1985 NBA draft, made the for­mal announce­ment through the pri­vate Washington, D.C., institution’s ath­let­ic depart­ment. “Ewing has elect­ed to share his diag­no­sis pub­licly to empha­size that this virus can affect any­one,” Georgetown includ­ed in the statement.

UNVEILING OUR 44TH PRESIDENT.

Read ARNOLD KRISS’ riv­et­ing arti­cle on NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea.

It is time to rec­og­nize that racial atti­tudes exist in both offi­cers and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers. Regaining com­mu­ni­ty trust may be the least of this commissioner’s prob­lems. Losing the respect of NYPD’s hard­work­ing offi­cers who require direc­tion and lead­er­ship is bub­bling on the sur­face. Police offi­cers can see through a commissioner’s mean­ing­less polit­i­cal rhetoric.

I am not argu­ing that the NYPD is a racist insti­tu­tion, sim­ply that, since African-American and Hispanic com­mu­ni­ties have suf­fered the brunt of police con­fronta­tions, its enforce­ment poli­cies have been unfair and inef­fec­tive. It is time to hold NYPD’s com­mis­sion­er — not our cops — pri­mar­i­ly account­able for uncon­sti­tu­tion­al and dis­parate enforce­ment poli­cies. Reform starts and ends with him.


Kriss is a Manhattan attor­ney, a for­mer Brooklyn assis­tant dis­trict attor­ney, and NYPD Deputy Commissioner-Trials. He has pros­e­cut­ed a police offi­cer for mur­der, judged and dis­ci­plined offi­cers, and defend­ed them and oth­ers in his crim­i­nal practice.

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ARE GLYNN COUNTY COPS ALLOWED TO RELEASE INFORMATION DESIGNED TO AID MURDER SUSPECTS ON THE BASIS OF RACE? IF SO, IT WOULD BE INTERESTED TO GET DATA ON THE NUMBER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CRIMINALS THE POLICE IN THAT COUNTY HAS AIDED?

Another video encounter between Glynn County Police and the mur­dered 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery has found its way into the pub­lic space.
This leads us to ask rhetor­i­cal­ly, why are the police in that Georgia coun­ty going all out to pro­tect three mur­der­ers? By releas­ing infor­ma­tion on the mur­dered vic­tim, for what at best amounts to mis­de­meanor arrests, what do they hope to accomplish?

It is clear that despite the arrest of three sus­pects, there are efforts afoot to wage clan­des­tine guer­ril­la war­fare against the mur­dered Ahmaud Arbery. Taking his life clear­ly was not enough, what is evi­dent­ly hap­pen­ing is that the police in that coun­ty is part of a guer­ril­la army that is active­ly wag­ing a clan­des­tine cam­paign not just to shape pub­lic per­cep­tions against the mur­dered man but ulti­mate­ly to free the three white men who are now charged with mur­der­ing him.

It is impor­tant to ask ques­tions when there are bla­tant cor­rupt activ­i­ties like these occur­ring, but ask­ing ques­tions is clear­ly not enough.
Whoever is respon­si­ble for the release of the video encoun­ters can eas­i­ly be traced.
These body cam­era encoun­ters are sole­ly in the pos­ses­sion of the police, unless free­dom of infor­ma­tion request forces police to release them, or police release them because it is in their best inter­est to do so.
This reduces the list of per­pe­tra­tors to not just one group of pos­si­ble sus­pects, (the police), but nar­rows it even fur­ther to the police in Glynn County Georgia.

Is the police allowed to engage in this kind of activ­i­ty in order to aid crim­i­nal sus­pects fac­ing mur­der charges, on the basis of race?
We would like to hear from author­i­ties in that area, or any police author­i­ty that engages in this bla­tant­ly crim­i­nal practice.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
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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One of the nar­ra­tives that have been bandied about when­ev­er black peo­ple talk about the unlaw­ful police killing of black peo­ple, is the talk of [black on black crime].
I have said this before, peo­ple kill who they see, who they are around. In a video response to a social media post by Candace Owens in which she attempt­ed to reduce the killing of Ahmaud Arbery to some­thing that is not a [lynch­ing], I addressed that issue. She sought to ren­der the young man’s killing some­thing oth­er than a man just jog­ging but a man who through his own actions was arguably respon­si­ble for his own bru­tal murder.

Without re-lit­i­gat­ing the non­sense, I will speak to the ques­tion of why it is incor­rect to make a com­ment about black-on-black crimes, with­out first under­stand­ing or includ­ing the fun­da­men­tals of the insti­tu­tion­al­ized road­blocks that have been mount­ed in the way of African-Americans, result­ing in the soci­etal mal­adies that may be evi­dent in their com­mu­ni­ties today. After slav­ery was even­tu­al­ly abol­ished on paper, states and com­mon­wealths embarked on a sys­temic attack against the recent­ly freed men & women who had just got­ten their so-called “free­dom”.
I should hur­ry to point out that across the entire spec­trum where Black-African peo­ple were kid­napped from their homes and sub­ject­ed to unimag­in­able treat­ment includ­ing enslave­ment, no effort has been made to make them free much less to com­pen­sate them or their off­springs for the dehu­man­iz­ing treat­ment they suffered. 

There is a dif­fer­ence between set­ting some­one from & mak­ing them free.
I can set a per­son free in the mid­dle of the Sahara desert with no water, food, direc­tions, or trans­porta­tion and then claim that I set him free.
Without pro­vid­ing the tools men­tioned, I mere­ly set the per­son free, I did not make him free.
Without those tools, the per­son has almost no chance of sur­vival.
That has been the black expe­ri­ence in the west­ern world.
There were no forty acres and a mule the prover­bial promise made by the American gov­ern­ment to blacks which it imme­di­ate­ly reneged on.

Slave own­ers have been com­pen­sat­ed, all across the west­ern world in which the das­tard­ly act of slav­ery was prac­ticed. Yet, the peo­ple that suf­fered the most, “the enslaved peo­ple them­selves,” have been denied any attempt at a just sem­blance of com­pen­sa­tion, for what has been done to them.
No amount of mon­ey could begin to com­pen­sate for the geno­cide and enslave­ment that was vis­it­ed on black Africans, yet rather than mak­ing an attempt to air out what occurred and begin­ning a process of resti­tu­tion and rec­on­cil­i­a­tion, west­ern nations, includ­ing the United States, has stead­fast­ly refused to address the issue.

Killing a child’s par­ents then laugh­ing at the child and berat­ing him for being an orphan requires some kind of bold-faced audac­i­ty. Yet is what those who would gaslight and weaponize black vio­lence seeks to accom­plish.
Even giv­en the priv­i­lege of white skin, remov­ing cer­tain basic ameni­ties from peo­ple, leads to dev­as­tat­ing neg­a­tive con­se­quences for them.
The so-called opi­oid cri­sis is one exam­ple of that.….Six states — Montana, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Oklahoma — actu­al­ly expe­ri­enced decreas­es in opi­oid death rates between 2007 and 2017. By con­trast, The Rust Belt suf­fered the largest increas­es in opi­oid over­dose death rates over the same time frame. Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Ohio all expe­ri­enced increas­es in excess of 300 per­cent. According to the (Sentinel​.com).
The real­i­ty is that in over­whelm­ing num­bers, these deaths are white peo­ple in areas where fac­to­ries have closed and peo­ple have found them­selves with­out good-pay­ing jobs, or no jobs at all.

The sad irony is that when African-Americans suf­fered the strain of pover­ty, high unem­ploy­ment, police tyran­ny, sub­stan­dard schools, poor liv­ing con­di­tions, dirty drink­ing water, dirty air to breathe, poor health­care, and all of the oth­er struc­tur­al con­structs cod­i­fied into law by their own gov­ern­ment, and they end­ed up using crack cocaine that was plant­ed in the com­mu­ni­ties, they were char­ac­ter­ized as crim­i­nals, ani­mals, unwor­thy of atten­tion.
Instead of deal­ing with it as a social issue, the American gov­ern­ment dou­bled down by acti­vat­ing its so-called war on drugs.
The war on drugs end­ed up adding insult to the injury of the indig­ni­ty that 500 years of oppres­sion had wrought. It was no war on drugs, it was a war on black peo­ple designed to pack the for-prof­it pris­ons with black bod­ies.
With the fraud­u­lent war rag­ing on black and brown peo­ple, jail cells were filled, some with guilty some with the inno­cent swept up by the igno­ble system.

States then went ahead and passed laws mak­ing it impos­si­ble for a felon to vote, mak­ing it impos­si­ble for a felon to law­ful­ly own a gun.
So they took away one of the most fun­da­men­tal rights the black pop­u­la­tion had, the right to chose who rep­re­sents them polit­i­cal­ly, & then they went fur­ther elim­i­nat­ing their sec­ond amend­ment right to bear arms as well.
All this while whites in sub­ur­bia bought up all of the guns they need­ed, and binged on all the cocaine their lit­tle hearts desired.
Black Americans, users and push­ers were sadis­ti­cal­ly locked away and the keys dis­card­ed as a result of their new three-strikes laws, there was no empath or sym­pa­thy for nei­ther addicts nor their sup­pli­ers. Entire com­mu­ni­ties were dec­i­mat­ed. When they could not find enough crack addicts to fill the jails in their war on drugs they turned to pot sell­ers and smok­ers.
The over­whelm­ing black crack epi­dem­ic was crim­i­nal. The over­whelm­ing opi­oid abuse which is most­ly a white event, has been deemed a cri­sis.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
He is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. 
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Police in Colorado is seek­ing the public’s help to iden­ti­fy a man who went gro­cery shop­ping while wear­ing a Ku Klux Klan hood this week­end, though a sim­i­lar case in San Diego recent­ly end­ed with the police throw­ing up their hands and going, “This is America.” Some white peo­ple have used their priv­i­lege to respond to the cur­rent COVID-19 pan­dem­ic by refus­ing to fol­low pub­lic health orders to wear masks and not go out to get bad hair­cuts. Others, like this man who went out to get some milk while wear­ing a wrin­kled KKK hood, have respond­ed by turn­ing masks into emblems of their white suprema­cist desires: Read the full sto­ry here.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Kentucky State Police troop­er beat a hand­cuffed schiz­o­phrenic man after arrest­ing him in March 2019, slam­ming his head against a wall, and punch­ing and kick­ing him repeat­ed­ly before throw­ing him to the ground, accord­ing to video from a jail record­ing sys­tem. The footage sheds light on a Bowling Green case that left the beat­en man, Timothy “Michael” Heston, in jail for 11 months because state police with­held the video, a new law­suit alleges.

The law­suit claims State Police Trooper Aaron Tucker “attacked Michael, who is bi-racial, with­out provo­ca­tion, warn­ing or jus­ti­fi­ca­tion and then fab­ri­cat­ed a report about the assault.” Heston spent near­ly a year in jail; police failed to pro­vide the video to pros­e­cu­tors, defense attor­neys, or the judge, accord­ing to the suit. The charges were lat­er dis­missed. The law­suit, filed in March in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green, lists Tucker, oth­er unnamed State Police troop­ers, Warren County Regional Jail, and two jail employ­ees as plaintiffs.

The suit also claims jail employ­ees placed Heston in a restraint chair and repeat­ed­ly tased him for no rea­son. Two jail employ­ees, Melissa Causey and Andrew Cooper, are accused of “tas­ing a restrained, men­tal­ly-ill indi­vid­ual … out of dis­like for his demeanor.”. The law­suit includes a pic­ture of Heston being tased while he is in a restraint chair. The jail’s war­den didn’t imme­di­ate­ly respond to a request for com­ment. Tucker wrote in a cita­tion that he arrest­ed Heston after observ­ing him walk­ing on the side of Interstate 65 in Warren County; Heston alleged­ly threat­ened the troop­er when he stopped to talk to him, accord­ing to court records.

When the troop­er took Heston to jail on charges of ter­ror­is­tic threat­en­ing and resist­ing arrest, among oth­er charges, Heston “tensed up” when he was tak­en out of the cruis­er, resist­ed, attempt­ed to spit on Tucker and “used his head to hit me,” accord­ing to the arrest cita­tion. “After the alter­ca­tion had ensued, I was able to regain con­trol of the above offend­er by plac­ing him on the ground,” Tucker wrote. But in the video, obtained by WDRB News, Tucker gets Heston out of the cruis­er and, after walk­ing him to the door, Heston seems to weave or stum­ble and the troop­er punch­es him in the face, pins him against the wall and hits him with his fist sev­er­al more times. Tucker also knees the defen­dant in the face and chest sev­er­al times before tak­ing him to the ground, the video shows. Heston was hand­cuffed behind his back.

There is no sound in the video and it does not appear Heston was resist­ing. It is unclear if Heston spits on or toward the troop­er. “Michael was def­i­nite­ly not the insti­ga­tor nor was he able to phys­i­cal­ly pro­tect him­self from the phys­i­cal assault Officer Tucker inflict­ed upon him,” said attor­ney Amy Staples, who rep­re­sents Heston along with Elliot Slosar. The video “took my breath away.” She said Heston did not spit at the troop­er but, regard­less, “I don’t think any­thing jus­ti­fies phys­i­cal­ly attack­ing a men­tal­ly ill, hand­cuffed, restrained individual.”

State Police con­duct­ed an inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tion of the case and fired Tucker, accord­ing to the law­suit. KSP con­firmed that Tucker is no longer employed but did not com­ment on the law­suit. The charges against Heston, 27, were even­tu­al­ly dis­missed, but not until after he had been indict­ed. The law­suit claims State Police ini­tial­ly with­held the video from the pros­e­cu­tion, the defense, and the judge, caus­ing him to remain in jail until the case was ulti­mate­ly dis­missed. Heston was “active­ly psy­chot­ic” while in jail so was unable to par­tic­i­pate in his defense, Staples said.

Heston’s defense attor­ney found the video after receiv­ing dis­cov­ery mate­r­i­al from the jail in prepa­ra­tion for tri­al. Slosar, who has sev­er­al pend­ing law­suits against State Police, said: “at this time no form of con­duct these troop­ers com­mit is shock­ing.” Heston, who was diag­nosed with schiz­o­phre­nia when he was 20, was walk­ing along I‑65 in Bowling Green on March 17, 2019, attempt­ing to get to Tennessee for his son’s birth­day, accord­ing to the lawsuit.courtesy of :https://​www​.wdrb​.com/​i​n​-​d​e​p​t​h​/​v​i​d​e​o​-​k​e​n​t​u​c​k​y​-​s​t​a​t​e​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​t​r​o​o​p​e​r​-​p​u​n​c​h​e​s​-​k​i​c​k​s​-​h​a​n​d​c​u​f​f​e​d​-​m​e​n​t​a​l​l​y​-​i​l​l​-​m​a​n​/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​_​f​0​5​e​d​5​6​6​-​9​089 – 11ea-81b1-6f601210b02c.html#spark_wn=1

Georgia law enforce­ment has opened up a homi­cide inves­ti­ga­tion after two sis­ters were found dead under a bridge in the north­west part of the state. The bod­ies of Vanita Richardson and her old­er sis­ter Truvenia Campbell were dis­cov­ered Wednesday morn­ing near Rome, a city about 70 miles north of Atlanta. The girls’ deaths are being offi­cial­ly ruled as homi­cides, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed.

As report­ed by Rome News-Tribune, their bod­ies were dis­cov­ered by two Georgia Department of Transportation work­ers while per­form­ing bridge main­te­nance on the East Rome Bypass at Loop 1. Their clothes were “tat­tered,” accord­ing to WJCL. The vic­tims alleged­ly had bags over their heads and shot­gun cas­ings lit­tered near their bod­ies, though inves­ti­ga­tors have not con­firmed that infor­ma­tion, Rome News-Tribune report­ed. Richardson, who attend­ed Armuchee High School, was 19, and her sis­ter, Cambell, was 30. No sus­pects or motive has been deter­mined as Rome police and the GBI work in tan­dem in the investigation.

“We extend our deep­est sym­pa­thies to the Armuchee Community and her friends and fam­i­ly at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with them,” the state­ment read. “Vanita will be remem­bered for being a fun-lov­ing, hum­ble, and moti­vat­ed stu­dent who was mak­ing strong plans for her future.” Family and friends of Richardson and Campbell were sad­dened by the news. “She was like my sis­ter,” said Kayla Dodson, a child­hood friend of Campbell. “She was a lov­ing, car­ing per­son. I’m just heart­bro­ken.”
The GBI and Rome police have post­ed a tip line, 1 – 800-597-TIPS, for any­one who can assist in the inves­ti­ga­tion. This sto­ry orig­i­nat­ed in the (Grio​.com)

Point by point push­back against the self-loathing Candace Owens.