People can be real­ly dif­fi­cult to deal with and we have seen some real­ly sil­ly actions from peo­ple as they decide to vio­late stay at home orders.
If we are to be fair, how­ev­er, it has been a long time that peo­ple have been asked to stay locked up in their homes, unless they are going out to shop for food or oth­er neces­si­ties like get­ting med­ica­tions.
On the oth­er hand, restau­rants are allowed to stay open as long as they deliv­er curb­side or to cus­tomers’ homes. Autoparts stores are allowed to remain open and so are con­ve­nience stores, laun­dro­mats (I guess the virus does­n’t get trans­mit­ted in laun­dro­mats) [drip­ping with sar­casm].
Other busi­ness­es like banks, liquor stores, and lit­er­al­ly every­thing else is allowed to stay open, albeit that own­ers of those estab­lish­ments may decide on what kinds of phys­i­cal-dis­tanc­ing method­olo­gies to employ.

A small busi­ness own­er in New York State myself, I too was forced to close my elec­tron­ics busi­ness, as well as my bar­ber­ing estab­lish­ment.
Other small busi­ness-peo­ple with sim­i­lar type busi­ness­es, includ­ing nail salons, hair­dress­ing par­lors, & small retail estab­lish­ments, and even church­es have also been ordered close.
In this regard, the gov­ern­ment seems to be pick­ing win­ners and losers. Some types of busi­ness­es are allowed to keep oper­at­ing while oth­ers are forced to close with­out any help from either the state or fed­er­al gov­ern­ment.
At the same time, nei­ther the state nor the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is pro­vid­ing any relief for the loss of rev­enue for the peri­od that we have been ordered to close in order to avoid spread­ing or facil­i­tat­ing the spread of COVID19.
So while the media & oth­er elites gab about the need to stay at home there are peo­ple who can­not afford to stay at home sim­ply because they are not able to work from home.

HERE IS A CLIP OF AN INCIDENT ON A NEW YORK CITY STREET INVOLVING AFRICAN-AMERICAN CITIZENS & NYPD COPS. REMEMBER THIS IS ALL ABOUT DISTANCING.

HERE’S IS ANOTHER..

The scenes we see play­ing out across the coun­try tell a sor­did tale of the two Americas that per­sist despite the rhetoric you hear to the con­trary.
On the one hand, there are the Black peo­ple being dealt with by police in the most ham-fist­ed fash­ion for dar­ing to be on the streets, and on the oth­er we see white peo­ple pick­ing up their guns and demon­strat­ing raw pow­er of dis­sent. In those instances, there are either no police around or they dare not inter­vene.
This is the sec­ond in a two-part series that have writ­ten in as many days. They are designed to wake the author­i­ties up to the real­i­ty that the nation is fast becom­ing a tick­ing time bomb.
The bla­tant dis­re­gard that une­d­u­cat­ed racist police are exhibit­ing for peo­ple of col­or will have dis­as­trous con­se­quences for the coun­try.
Even amidst the insid­i­ous racial divide, there are peo­ple of dif­fer­ent races who are just about seen all that they will take from the police. 

WHAT SOCIAL DISTANCING?
OBSERVE THE DIFFERENCE.

OH, THIS IS EVEN BETTER, THSE ARE PRIVILEGED CAUCASIANS, SEE ANY COPS MUCH LESS ANY COPS EVEN DARING TO TOUCH ANYONE? ME NEITHER 

THIS ONE IS NOT EVEN ON THE STREETS, THIS IS INSIDE THE MICHIGAN STATEHOUSE: WHERE ARE THE RAMBO COPS NOW?

There is a defi­ance brew­ing in the black com­mu­ni­ty because they see the con­tin­ued dis­par­i­ties in law enforce­ment. Some are quick to ask why don’t they just fol­low the law?
The answer to that is rather sim­ple, enforce the laws fair­ly, just­ly and equi­tably and with respect and peo­ple will oblige.
The con­tin­u­a­tion of phys­i­cal and ver­bal abuse of cit­i­zens by police who are paid with their tax dol­lars should not and will not con­tin­ue into per­pe­tu­ity.
Individually and col­lec­tive­ly those police depart­ments must know that they will not be able to mur­der forty-five mil­lion black peo­ple.
The police are for all intents and pur­pos­es the most dan­ger­ous ene­my to the African-American community.

So in states like New York they tell peo­ple to stay in, and well,.…… don’t wor­ry about pay­ing your mort­gage, just let them take your damn house, or don’t pay any rent, home­less­ness is not so bad.[sarcasm] The tragedy is that the peo­ple in the media real­ly have no idea what that feels like, many of them are able to work from home. I real­ly do not both­er respond­ing to the politi­cians they are such liars I don’t expect any­thing from them. For the peo­ple who real­ly needs to get back to work like myself.…..nah not the heav­i­ly armed mili­tias that are defy­ing orders just for polit­i­cal point scor­ing, the present stand­off that is brew­ing with author­i­ties is real.
The prob­lem like always in America, the gov­ern­ment wades in to black and brown com­mu­ni­ties with heavy-ham­fist­ed police tac­tics while stand­ing down in white and Jewish com­mu­ni­ties.
The unde­ni­able fact is that this pan­dem­ic like lit­er­al­ly every oth­er top­i­cal issues play out with police depart­ments demon­strat­ing why black and brown com­mu­ni­ties are prob­a­bly bet­ter off with police services.

America long became a police state, the truth is that the gov­ern­ment used the black and brown com­mu­ni­ty as guinea pigs to means-test its war­rior cops.
White peo­ple did not care because it was only those oth­er peo­ple who were dying. Only those oth­er (less­er) peo­ple who were get­ting assault­ed and abused.
Now it’s every­body, but guess what they already mil­i­ta­rized the police depart­ments, passed the [patri­ot act] and have the stooges on the Supreme Court rub­ber stamp what they did.
By the time the white peo­ple wake up to the real­i­ty that their free­doms are all gone and stop the fool­ish Republican, Democrat, left, right non­sense, it will be too late. In fact, it may already be too late.
Just like they split inden­tured whites from enslaved blacks dur­ing slav­ery they are still using col­or and pol­i­tics to divide us and we fall for it every time.

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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Day after day, case after case, the pat­tern is the same, police lit­er­al­ly attack and bru­tal­ly assault and mur­der mem­bers of the pub­lic (usu­al­ly black or brown peo­ple), a sham inves­ti­ga­tion is done by the very depart­ment from which the attack­ers come, and an even­tu­al pro­nounce­ment, some­times sev­er­al months or years lat­er, “the actions of our offi­cers were with­in depart­ment poli­cies and there­fore jus­ti­fi­able.“
That is, if they even both­er to release a report. It is one of the strangest of para­dox­es; the cit­i­zens whose tax dol­lars pay for police ser­vices are lit­er­al­ly serfs and peas­ants to the police depart­ments and unions.
In some states, they try to pull the wool over the peo­ple’s eyes by cre­at­ing a façade. The idea is to have inves­ti­ga­tions of police crimes done by anoth­er police agency, and they do so to give the appear­ance of fair­ness.
So the idea is to con­vince the pub­lic that the inves­ti­ga­tions are total­ly fair, impar­tial & uncor­rupt­ed as if the police don’t still do them.
If you believe that, please con­tact me; I have a few bridges for sale.
The cul­ture of mur­der & vis­cous assaults per­sists & con­tin­ues because they are gen­er­al­ly con­fined to black cit­i­zens and are large­ly car­ried out by white cops.

Police tam­per with, destroy & plant evi­dence, intim­i­date wit­ness­es, and con­duct them­selves as if they are over­lords. The rights of black & brown cit­i­zens are like a mat under their feet to be tram­pled on; the con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of black cit­i­zens mean noth­ing to most of them.
Whenever you see anoth­er video in which police attack and bru­tal­ize a mem­ber of the pub­lic, or worse, bru­tal­ly mur­der an unarmed man, look at your US sen­a­tor who autho­rized and re-autho­rized the Patriot Act.
Take a look at your Governor who has a clus­ter of state troop­ers sur­round­ing him or her; he or she does not care whether you live or die. What they care about are the police Unions that endorse their cam­paigns and deliv­er blocks of cop-vote; they dare not evoke the ire of those police unions.
If you do not accept my prof­fer, google the NYPD police benev­o­lent asso­ci­a­tion.
Take a look at the pros­e­cu­tors who are friend­ly with the cops that they are lit­er­al­ly unable to bring charges against them. This is so even when they mur­der cit­i­zens of a cer­tain race in plain sight of wit­ness­es, and the mur­der is cap­tured on record­ing devices.
That is why Daniel Pantaleo, an NYPD cop, mur­dered Eric Garner, an inno­cent man. Yet the cor­rupt, moral­ly bank­rupt Staten Island dis­trict attor­ney, Daniel M. Donovan empan­eled a grand jury of white Staten Islanders to hear the evi­dence.
A grand jury is basi­cal­ly a cir­cus, as the pan­el mem­bers only hear what the pros­e­cu­tor wants them to hear.
Staten Island is a bed­room com­mu­ni­ty for cops and fire­fight­ers, many of whom have basi­cal­ly had the job hand­ed down to them from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion.
Asking these peo­ple to find that one of their own mur­dered a black cit­i­zen is an exer­cise in futil­i­ty.
Yet that is what Daniel M. Donovan did. The evi­dence he placed before the pan­el was evi­dence to result in a return ver­dict of no indict­ment rather than one that ordered an indictment.

According to a New York Times report, two wit­ness­es said they heard a sergeant tell the offi­cers to ease up as they held Mr. Garner down on the side­walk. “Let up,” a beau­ty store man­ag­er, Rodney Lee, recalled hear­ing the sergeant say that day. “You got him already.” For min­utes as Mr. Garner lay on the ground, he was not giv­en oxy­gen by the respond­ing emer­gency med­ical per­son­nel from Richmond University Medical Center.
Despite the moun­tain of evi­dence, the cor­rupt District Attorney sent the case to a Staten Island grand jury rather than indict the mur­der­ous NYPD gang­sters who mur­dered in plain sight for the world to see.
The Eric Garner case was just one of the hun­dreds of thou­sands of cas­es in which police sim­ply mur­dered inno­cent unarmed cit­i­zens, and there were zero con­se­quences.
There is no offi­cial account­ing for the thou­sands of peo­ple police kill in the United States each year. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has no idea how many peo­ple are actu­al­ly mur­dered by the thou­sands of police depart­ments across the coun­try.
Police depart­ments have no oblig­a­tion to report to the (FBI) the num­ber of peo­ple they kill each year.
Whatever account­ing is being done today is done by a few media hous­es like the Washington Post and the Guardian. 

Over the last sev­er­al years, the killings have been brought to the fore due to cell phone cam­eras in the hands of ordi­nary cit­i­zens & social media plat­forms. Despite the killings and abuse hap­pen­ing in plain sight, Police & their unions, Prosecutors, and Judges have insist­ed that the gen­er­al pub­lic sus­pend real­i­ty and embrace the fan­tas­ti­cal non­sense that you should not trust your own eyes.
Unless, of course, the evi­dence you are wit­ness­ing is sup­posed to incrim­i­nate a mem­ber of the pub­lic, or worse yet, if the alleged offend­er is African-American, then you must revert to san­i­ty and believe your eyes or, worse, accept the police ver­sion of events.
So whether you wit­ness this hap­pen­ing while you are on the street or worse, see­ing them kick down your neigh­bor’s door and com­mit mur­der, Or whether you just hap­pen to see it on a social media plat­form, please under­stand that it is hap­pen­ing with the silent acqui­es­cence of all of your elect­ed offi­cials from top to bot­tom.
Police depart­ments are mere arms of state and local gov­ern­ments. State and local leg­is­la­tures have the pow­er to make laws that pro­tect cit­i­zens from the rav­ages of crime, includ­ing from the crim­i­nals who wear a badge and gun but are far more dan­ger­ous to the cit­i­zen’s exis­tence than those with­out badges.
It is up to them to rein in the out-of-con­trol crim­i­nals they have unleashed on the pop­u­lace. If you want to change how your com­mu­ni­ty is policed, vote only for can­di­dates who believe in your rights and not in a police state.
It also fol­lows that you must vet those can­di­dates run­ning for elect­ed office if they have the back­ing of major police unions; guess what?
They will not have your inter­est at heart.

On Nov. 4, 2016, two plain­clothes cops from the Euclid Police Department in the state of Ohio, Kyle Flagg & Vashon Williams, approached Lamar Wright with guns drawn while he was using a cell phone and sit­ting in his car. Wright, who had recent­ly had stom­ach surgery and was using a colosto­my bag at the time, ini­tial­ly thought he was being car­jacked.
Yelling and curs­ing at the motorist, the two thug cops then assault­ed mis­ter Wright. The body cam­era video shows them approach­ing the car and yelling at Mr. Wright to get out of the vehi­cle. The white thug then grabbed Mister Wright’s arm.
Wright can be heard in the video say­ing the offi­cer is hurt­ing his arm. Seconds lat­er, offi­cers use a stun gun and pep­per spray on him. Wright then exits the car and lies face down on the ground.
After the assault, they pro­ceed­ed to pile on a slew of charges to try and jus­ti­fy their bla­tant assault on an inno­cent unarmed, and sick cit­i­zen.
They also pro­ceed­ed to search his car with­out ask­ing for his con­sent.
A year lat­er, the charges which could not be sub­stan­ti­at­ed were all dropped.
Mister Wright filed a civ­il rights law­suit which claimed that the two crim­i­nals in uni­form filed false reports and charged him with resist­ing arrest and oth­er offenses.

Here is what the Euclid Mayor had to say about the vio­lent and fraud­u­lent arrest and abuse of an inno­cent man.
“As Mayor and Public Safety Director, it is my respon­si­bil­i­ty to ensure that the Euclid Police Department serves the pub­lic pro­fes­sion­al­ly, cour­te­ous­ly, and con­sci­en­tious­ly. The fine men and women of the Euclid Police Department con­stant­ly strive to main­tain the high­est lev­el of pro­fes­sion­al­ism and ser­vice to the pub­lic. I have, and will con­tin­ue to take the nec­es­sary steps to sup­port these efforts on behalf of the city of Euclid’s res­i­dents, busi­ness own­ers, and vis­i­tors.“
According to Wright’s team of attor­neys, mis­con­duct in the Euclid Police Department has been repeat­ed­ly exposed in the media and caught on cam­era. “There is no jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for this lev­el of force and vio­lence against an unarmed, com­pli­ant civil­ian. And on top of the unjus­ti­fied, unpro­voked attacks, EPD offi­cers have also filed false crim­i­nal charges against these indi­vid­u­als in an effort to cov­er up their own mis­con­duct,” said attor­ney Jacqueline Greene.

As if the Mayor’s state­ments weren’t offen­sive enough, Mister Wright’s case was thrown out by a judge who ruled that the cops were jus­ti­fied in their actions. Mr. Wright’s attor­neys appealed the rul­ing. We are yet to learn what has hap­pened to that appeal.
As bad as that was, in the same depart­ment, anoth­er white cop who repeat­ed­ly punched a black motorist over a minor traf­fic infrac­tion was fired by the very same Mayor.
Michael Amiott, a white cop, repeat­ed­ly punched Richard Hubbard III dur­ing a traf­fic stop. The assault was so egre­gious that the may­or fired Amiott.
The police union appealed the fir­ing, and an unelect­ed arbi­tra­tor gave Amiott his job back. Mister Hubbard’s lawyers were furi­ous.
“Mr. Hubbard, Ms. Tirado, and I are all very dis­ap­point­ed that an unelect­ed arbi­tra­tor has usurped the author­i­ty of the duly elect­ed may­or of the City of Euclid and rein­stat­ed a rogu­ish police offi­cer with a doc­u­ment­ed his­to­ry of insub­or­di­na­tion and a pat­tern of using exces­sive force upon most­ly African-American arrestees,” McNeal wrote in an email to CNN. Hubbard’s Lawyers said.

In August 2016, Amiott “lost his tem­per” at the scene of an arrest and used his gun as an “impact weapon” to sub­due a sus­pect, accord­ing to his Euclid police per­son­nel file.
Before join­ing the Euclid force, he had to resign from a neigh­bor­ing police depart­ment after mak­ing a false state­ment in a police report, accord­ing to a Mentor Police Department inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tion report.
“It is trou­bling that any­one would see it pru­dent to place such an indi­vid­ual back into a posi­tion where he can again abuse his author­i­ty and do vio­lence to cit­i­zens under col­or of law.” The lawyers for Hubbard stat­ed.
The brazen assaults and unpro­voked mur­ders you are wit­ness­ing at the hands of police are not just a thing about bad police offi­cers.
It is a sys­temic and thor­ough­ly thought-out pol­i­cy of state-spon­sored oppres­sion of African-American peo­ple, from slav­ery through the igno­ble peri­od of black codes dur­ing recon­struc­tion. From Jim Crowe to the present day, these are state-insti­tut­ed poli­cies aimed at keep­ing the black pop­u­la­tion in check. It includes elect­ed offi­cials at all lev­els.
Police are mere pawns, usu­al­ly une­d­u­cat­ed thugs who do what they are told to do; most only have a high school edu­ca­tion.
Your prob­lem is not with them; your prob­lem lies with the peo­ple you idol­ize and place in high elect­ed office.

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

Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year old unarmed Black man from Brunswick Georgia, was report­ed­ly shot and killed by two white men as he jogged through their neigh­bor­hood. The inci­dent hap­pened back in February, but no charges have yet been filed.
It was February 23^rd to be exact when 64-year old Gregory McMichael and his 34-year old son Travis report­ed­ly grabbed their shot­gun and fol­lowed Ahmaud in their truck after they saw him run past them. Both claimed that Ahmaud “looked like a sus­pect” in a string of rob­beries in the area.

Gregory, who is a retired inves­ti­ga­tor in the District Attorney’s office, said he asked Ahmaud to “stop” so they could talk. The sit­u­a­tion esca­lat­ed, and lat­er there was an alleged strug­gle with the McMichael’s. Ahmaud was shot at least twice.
Some wit­ness­es said Ahmaud, who was wear­ing a white t‑shirt on that day, was only exer­cis­ing. However, a 911 call from a near­by neigh­bor ear­li­er that day report­ed a Black man in a white t‑shirt who is “run­ning right now” from a house that was under con­struc­tion. Brunswick NAACP pres­i­dent Rev. John Davis Perry II said the shoot­ing is “trou­bling,” caus­ing oth­er peo­ple in the area to express con­cerns about the com­mu­ni­ty and racial profiling.

Meanwhile, a pros­e­cu­tor argued that the father and son who killed Ahmaud were jus­ti­fied due to the citizen’s arrest statute in Georgia. Travis, who was actu­al­ly hold­ing the shot­gun, is said to have act­ed out of self-defense.
The pros­e­cu­tor, who has since been recused from the case due to a pos­si­ble con­flict of inter­est, not­ed that Ahmaud had a crim­i­nal record. In 2018, he was con­vict­ed of shoplift­ing and vio­lat­ing pro­ba­tion, and he was indict­ed for report­ed­ly tak­ing a hand­gun to a high school bas­ket­ball game.
Neither Gregory or Travis McMichael have yet been charged or arrest­ed in con­nec­tion to the killing. Another pros­e­cu­tor from a dif­fer­ent coun­ty will deter­mine whether the case should be pre­sent­ed to a grand jury.

“We can’t do any­thing because of this coro­na stuff,” Arbery’s moth­er Wanda Cooper told the New York Times. “We thought about walk­ing out where the shoot­ing occurred, just doing a lit­tle march, but we can’t be out right now.”

The dai­ly reck­less, & wan­ton use of dead­ly force by American cops all across the coun­try con­tin­ues. Police depart­ments are allowed to inves­ti­gate them­selves, result­ing in a total lack of trust between the pub­lic and the depart­ments.
Their inves­ti­ga­tions gen­er­al­ly end up with what­ev­er atroc­i­ty they com­mit­ted being ruled with­in depart­men­tal guide­lines.
Even when they com­mit mur­der, local and fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tors gen­er­al­ly refuse to pros­e­cute them, the log­ic being that they are the very same peo­ple pros­e­cu­tors rely on to gath­er evi­dence and help to pros­e­cute mem­bers of the gen­er­al pub­lic when they run afoul of the law.
Judges give their tes­ti­mo­ny much more cre­dence than an aver­age per­son giv­ing evi­dence, even as there is a nev­er-end­ing list of videos show­ing cops plant­i­ng evi­dence on inno­cent cit­i­zens and in their con­struc­tive pos­ses­sion.
On the rare occa­sion that American cops are pros­e­cut­ed, they gen­er­al­ly ask for a bench tri­al. A bench tri­al is one in which evi­dence is heard by a judge with­out a jury and a ver­dict is arrived at by the same judge.
Hardly are police offi­cers ever con­vict­ed when they receive a bench tri­al.
Across the coun­try judges, pros­e­cu­tors and police are gen­er­al­ly indis­tin­guish­able in tone. Police unions are major donors to the cam­paigns of elect­ed judges and where applic­a­ble, that of pros­e­cu­tors of their choice as well. This cre­ates a con­flict, but no one bells the cat, so it per­sists.
The aver­age cit­i­zen faces a stiff uphill climb to get a fair shake when the police are the crim­i­nals.
When the vic­tim of police crimes is black or brown, jus­tice is often just a pipe dream.

In addi­tion to the awe­some pow­ers they are giv­en, includ­ing to take life, they are also giv­en a spe­cial lay­er of pro­tec­tion that most oth­er cat­e­gories of work­ers do not have. That extra shield is called [Qualified immu­ni­ty]. Qualified immu­ni­ty pro­tects a gov­ern­ment offi­cial from law­suits alleg­ing that the offi­cial vio­lat­ed a plain­tiff’s rights, only allow­ing suits where offi­cials vio­lat­ed a “clear­ly estab­lished” statu­to­ry or con­sti­tu­tion­al right.
Qualified immu­ni­ty is not immu­ni­ty from hav­ing to pay mon­ey dam­ages, but rather an immu­ni­ty from hav­ing to go through the costs of a tri­al at all. Accordingly, courts must resolve qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty issues as ear­ly in a case as pos­si­ble, prefer­ably before dis­cov­ery.(Law​.cor​nel​.edu)
Doctors have to pay for insur­ance so too are lawyers forced to have insur­ance against mal­prac­tice.
Literally, every pro­fes­sion­al must have insur­ance except the police. Yet when police offi­cers betray their oaths, and on the rare occa­sions that they are held account­able for their crimes, the finan­cial cost is borne by the very same aggriev­ed tax­pay­ing public.

Because there is a need to keep the for-prof­it pris­ons and jails full. And because of America’s insti­tu­tion­al­ized built-in racism which tar­gets poor black and brown peo­ple for over-polic­ing and sub­se­quent mass incar­cer­a­tion, nei­ther the states nor the Federal gov­ern­ment will lift a fin­ger to rein in the reck­less killings of inno­cent unarmed peo­ple by out of con­trol rene­gade police.
Additionally, all across the coun­try, police depart­ments have become a hotbed of white nation­al­ism and bare­ly below the sur­face tox­ic racism against peo­ple fo col­or. Well over a decade ago the FBI warned about this trend. President Barack Obama’s Justice Department took some active steps to cur­tail some of the killings and ille­gal activ­i­ties. Many depart­ments were forced to enter into con­sent decrees with the Justice Department led by Eric Holder, to insti­tute a change in poli­cies and pro­to­cols.
The Trump jus­tice depart­ment, begin­ning with for­mer Alabama’s Republican US Senator Jeff Sessions, and now William Barr, has since dis­con­tin­ued most of those con­sent decrees. In addi­tion to that, Trump him­self has encour­aged police to be more aggres­sive and vio­lent toward the peo­ple they come in con­tact with.
“When you arrest them and place your hand on top of their heads before they enter the car, don’t be so nice, you can remove your hand,” Trump told a bunch of cheer­ing cops.
To their cred­it, a few Police chiefs pushed back against Trump’s dan­ger­ous state­ments, they reit­er­at­ed that they would con­tin­ue to ensure that their depart­ments pro­tect the rights of all citizens.

In June of 2016 writ­ing for com​plex​.com Sara David in an arti­cle titled;
[The Supreme Court Sets a Dangerous Precedent By Ruling That Cops Can Break the Law] said, a divid­ed U.S. Supreme Court ruled that in some cas­es, evi­dence of a crime can be used against a defen­dant even if police obtained it ille­gal­ly. According to the Associated Press, the 5 – 3 deci­sion drew “heat­ed dis­sents from lib­er­al jus­tices who warned that the out­come would encour­age police to vio­late people’s rights.” The rul­ing comes in a case in which South Salt Lake City Police Department nar­cotics detec­tive Douglas Fackrell stopped defen­dant Joseph Edward Strieff in 2006. Fackrell sus­pect­ed Strieff of being involved in drug activ­i­ty, but didn’t actu­al­ly have “rea­son­able sus­pi­cion,” which is required by the U.S. Constitution for inves­ti­ga­to­ry stops.

In her dis­sent Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote stri­dent­ly;
The Court today holds that the dis­cov­ery of a war­rant for an unpaid park­ing tick­et will for­give a police officer’s vio­la­tion of your Fourth Amendment rights. Do not be soothed by the opinion’s tech­ni­cal lan­guage: This case allows the police to stop you on the street, demand your iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, and check it for out­stand­ing traf­fic war­rants — even if you are doing noth­ing wrong. If the offi­cer dis­cov­ers a war­rant for a fine you for­got to pay, courts will now excuse his ille­gal stop and will admit into evi­dence any­thing he hap­pens to find by search­ing you after arrest­ing you on the war­rant. Because the Fourth Amendment should pro­hib­it, not per­mit, such mis­con­duct, I dissent.

The Atlantic reports that dur­ing ques­tion­ing, Fackrell “relayed Strieff’s per­son­al infor­ma­tion to a police dis­patch­er — a rou­tine prac­tice dur­ing police stops — and learned Strieff had an out­stand­ing traf­fic war­rant.” The detec­tive then arrest­ed Strieff based on that war­rant, and found a small amount of metham­phet­a­mine on his per­son; Strieff was charged and con­vict­ed for unlaw­ful pos­ses­sion. On Fackrell, U.S. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her pop­u­lar dis­sent, “In his search for law­break­ing, the offi­cer in this case him­self broke the law.”

In her wis­dom, the learned Associate Justice Sotomayor was right on the mon­ey. quote, Do not be soothed by the opinion’s tech­ni­cal lan­guage:
Since then police across the coun­try has been on a ram­page, stop­ping motorist and even pedes­tri­ans, demand­ing their Identification. There are count­less videos of some of those encoun­ters on social media plat­forms in which peo­ple walk­ing down the streets are stopped and iden­ti­fi­ca­tions demand­ed from them by the police.
Failure to slav­ish­ly and prompt­ly hand over your iden­ti­fi­ca­tion to these over­lords gets the pre­dictable response, “you are ham­per­ing my inves­ti­ga­tion”. There was no inves­ti­ga­tion, to begin with, but the ille­gal fourth amend­ment infringe­ment based on no crime, is now deemed to be a law­ful inves­ti­ga­tion with which cit­i­zens must com­ply, or risk arrest, being bad­ly beat­en or killed.
Well, there is your Supreme court for you, a court many peo­ple see as their last resort for jus­tice.
The same court that ruled slav­ery was legal. Jim crow was legal. Separate but equal was legal. Black peo­ple were only ³⁄₅ of a human being. Interracial mar­riage was ille­gal. Affirmed cit­i­zens unit­ed, (cor­po­ra­tions are peo­ple). Will not inter­vene to save an inno­cent con­demned man’s life because his brief was not filed in time.

THE DAILY RECKLESS & WANTON USE OF DEADLY  FORCE BY AMERICAN RAMBO COPS CONTINUES UNCHECKED.
THEIR UNLAWFUL AND UNCONSCIONABLE USE OF LETHAL FORCE  PLACES NOT JUST THE LIVES OF PEOPLE UNDER THEIR SCRUTINY IN DANGER, BUT ALSO THE LIVES OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

The may­or of Austin, Texas, says he’s “dis­turbed” by a video he has seen of the fatal shoot­ing of a man by an Austin police offi­cer as the man drove away from police. 
Mayor Steve Adler says in a state­ment Monday that 42-year-old Mike Ramos does not appear to be threat­en­ing, but was fatal­ly shot and that “there are many questions.” 

Austin police chief Brian Manley said Monday that he under­stands com­mu­ni­ty con­cerns about the shoot­ing and that police, the dis­trict attor­ney, and oth­er agen­cies are inves­ti­gat­ing while offer­ing con­do­lences to Ramos’ family. 

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Detroit, MI — Deborah Gatewood, a 63-year old health care work­er from Michigan, has died due to com­pli­ca­tions of the coro­n­avirus after she was report­ed­ly denied a test mul­ti­ple times from the very hos­pi­tal where she worked.

Gatewood, who worked at Beaumont Hospital for 31 years, report­ed­ly showed COVID-19 symp­toms, includ­ing cough and fever, in the third week of March. “They [Beaumont] sent her home say­ing you are show­ing signs of COVID-19,” Kaila Corrothers, Gatewood’s daugh­ter, told FOX 2 Detroit. “So they were con­firm­ing that she most like­ly had COVID, but they did not test her.” Gatewood report­ed­ly vis­it­ed the ER four times and request­ed to be test­ed, but was told to just rest at home and take cough med­i­cine. Her con­di­tion con­tin­ued to wors­en until she was found unre­spon­sive in bed.

She was tak­en by ambu­lance to Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit where she was test­ed pos­i­tive for the virus. After bat­tling extreme­ly high fever and devel­op­ing bilat­er­al pneu­mo­nia, she sad­ly died. Corrothers expressed her dis­ap­point­ment with Beaumont Hospital, say­ing they have neglect­ed her mother’s severe con­di­tion. “The fact that she got infect­ed by doing the job she did for 31 years and she couldn’t get tak­en care of by her own fam­i­ly, mean­ing Beaumont, it’s sad. It is dis­heart­en­ing, to say the least,” she said. Meanwhile, Beaumont Hospital has yet to com­ment on the par­tic­u­lar case but said, “As patients come to Beaumont for care dur­ing this pan­dem­ic, we are doing every­thing we can to eval­u­ate, triage and care for patients based on the infor­ma­tion we know at the time. We grieve the loss of any patient to COVID-19 or any oth­er illness.”

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Atlanta Mother of Twin Boys Dies From Coronavirus at 36-Years Old

Atlanta, GA — Brent Green, a 36-year old African American moth­er of twins who had no known under­ly­ing con­di­tions, has died due from coro­n­avirus. Her fam­i­ly believes she start­ed get­ting sick after going to the gro­cery store to buy food for her children.

“She was hap­py, going around doing every­thing that she need­ed to do,” Linda Green, Brent’s moth­er told WSTV about her. She was a respon­si­ble employ­ee work­ing for a rep­utable com­pa­ny in Atlanta and a lov­ing moth­er to 12-year old twin boys. However, a few days after a trip to the gro­cery store, she began hav­ing a headache and short­ness of breath. She was hos­pi­tal­ized, where she test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19. Her con­di­tion ini­tial­ly seemed to be get­ting bet­ter, but it even­tu­al­ly turned to the worse.

Her moth­er had a chance to speak to her for the last time and told her, “Fight baby and do every­thing you can to come back to me.” She remem­bered Brent respond­ed, “‘I love you too mama.’ Those were the last words I heard come out of my daughter’s mouth.” Linda Green want­ed to share her daughter’s expe­ri­ence to serve as a les­son to oth­ers to take the coro­n­avirus seri­ous­ly. “Please do all the things you can to fight this dis­ease and not be among each oth­er and take it light­ly,” Green said. “If you con­tin­ue to mis­lead and think that this is not for real, you will not see the peo­ple that you love (again).”

Midland, VA — Levi Norwood, a 17-year old white teen, alleged­ly killed his moth­er and broth­er because he believed they were racist for dis­ap­prov­ing of his Black girl­friend. His father recent­ly died after alleged­ly com­mit­ting sui­cide. Levi alleged­ly shot and killed his 34-year old moth­er, Jennifer Norwood, and 6‑year old broth­er, Wyatt, last February inside their home in Fauquier County, Virginia. He then alleged­ly wait­ed for his 37-year old father, Joshua Norwood, to come home and shot him in the head, injur­ing him. Levi fled the scene with a stolen car and went to North Carolina where he was found shoplift­ing at a Target store. He was arrest­ed and is being held at a region­al juve­nile deten­tion cen­ter await­ing tri­al. Most recent­ly, his father was found dead inside their home. Authorities said no foul play is sus­pect­ed and believed he com­mit­ted sui­cide. His cause and man­ner of death have yet been con­firmed by the med­ical exam­in­er. Their rel­a­tives believed Joshua killed him­self because “his pain was so deep, and he saw no oth­er way out,” Joshua’s aunt, Rebecca Norwood, wrote on Facebook, accord­ing to the Washington Post. “He told me he died the night his wife and lil boy were killed and he was just an emp­ty shell of a per­son.” After his death, Joshua was crit­i­cized when his appar­ent racist behav­ior sur­faced on his Facebook. He and his wife were alleged­ly against their son hav­ing a rela­tion­ship with a Black girl.

DETAILED STORY AS CARRIED BY THE WASHINGTON POST.

Father of Va. teen accused of killing his mom and broth­er is found dead in same house;

By Ian Shapira and Michael E. Miller April 21, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. EDT
His moth­er begged him not to give up. But two months after his wife and 6‑year-old son were killed and his old­er son was charged with mur­der, Joshua Norwood saw only one way for­ward, he told his moth­er, Ginny, on Monday. “He said for me not to be sor­ry, be hap­py because he would be with Jen and Wyatt,” Ginny Norwood wrote on her Facebook page.
Joshua hung up and wrote one last mes­sage. “He sent me a text and said, ‘I love you’ and that he need­ed to be with them,” Ginny wrote. Then Joshua returned to the liv­ing room of his Northern Virginia ranch home. It was there, on Valentine’s Day, that he had dis­cov­ered the bod­ies of Jennifer Norwood, 34, and Wyatt, 6. And it was there, at 3:30 p.m. Monday, that Fauquier County sheriff’s deputies dis­cov­ered Joshua’s body. They were called to the house by his moth­er, who lives in Maine.

“My boy, my only boy, My son Joshua killed him­self a cou­ple hours ago,” Ginny wrote on Facebook. Her son suf­fered trau­ma to his upper body, but no foul play is sus­pect­ed, the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office said. An offi­cial cause of death will not be declared until an autop­sy is com­plet­ed, said James Hartman, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office. He declined to pro­vide fur­ther details. The death marks the lat­est tragedy in the Norwood fam­i­ly. Levi, a 17-year-old junior at Liberty High School, has been charged with first-degree mur­der in the killings of his moth­er and broth­er.
Joshua’s aunt, Rebecca Norwood, wrote on Facebook that he had tak­en his life because “his pain was so deep, and he saw no oth­er way out.” “He told me he died the night his wife and lil boy were killed and he was just an emp­ty shell of a person.”

A month after the deaths of his wife and son, Joshua Norwood filed a peti­tion to restore his gun rights. According to his peti­tion, he had been invol­un­tar­i­ly admit­ted to a facil­i­ty or ordered to manda­to­ry out­pa­tient treat­ment in the Richmond area from March 11 to March 13. He was sched­uled for a hear­ing on Tuesday in Fauquier County General District Court, but the pro­ceed­ing was pushed back to May 11 because of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic, accord­ing to court records and the court clerk. “He was real­ly upset that police had tak­en his guns,” said one acquain­tance who had spo­ken to him in recent weeks. “He want­ed to be able to pro­tect him­self, now that he was alone.” In a pre­vi­ous inter­view with The Washington Post, Joshua Norwood described com­ing home with a bou­quet of flow­ers for his wife about 6 p.m. on Valentine’s Day. When he opened the door to their brick house on Elk Run Road, a gun­shot rang out from the base­ment, and the bul­let grazed his head, he said. Norwood, who often car­ried a gun, fired back, and his assailant fled the house.

The father found his wife and youngest son fatal­ly shot and lying under blan­kets in the liv­ing room. It wasn’t until the next day that he learned the alleged cul­prit was his old­er son. “Every day for the rest of my life,” he said, “I’m going to wake up, look in the mir­ror, and I’m going to have a scar down my face, my head, as a mem­o­ry of the worst day of my life, when my fam­i­ly got tak­en away.” Eventually, Levi was tracked down in North Carolina, arrest­ed and returned to Northern Virginia. He is being held at a region­al juve­nile deten­tion cen­ter, await­ing tri­al. It’s unclear how his father’s death will affect his case. Scott Hook, Fauquier County’s commonwealth’s attor­ney, declined to com­ment. In the after­math of the killings, Joshua Norwood had come under scruti­ny for his own behav­ior, fac­ing accu­sa­tions that he was a racist who object­ed to his son’s hav­ing a black girl­friend. His Face­book page fea­tured a well-known say­ing by white suprema­cist David Lane: “We must secure the exis­tence of our race, and a future for white chil­dren.” The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Lane as “one of the most impor­tant ide­o­logues of con­tem­po­rary white supremacy.”

Norwood appears to have made dozens of posts on the white suprema­cist web­site Stormfront. And the acquain­tance, who met Norwood on Stormfront and last spoke to him ear­li­er this month, said Norwood was wor­ried the police inves­ti­ga­tion would reveal his white suprema­cist ties. “He didn’t want any infor­ma­tion com­ing out taint­ing his rep­u­ta­tion or embold­en­ing his son’s defense case,” accord­ing to the acquain­tance, who spoke on the con­di­tion of anonymi­ty to avoid asso­ci­a­tion with Stormfront. But Norwood insist­ed in February that he was not a white suprema­cist. He said he could not remem­ber why he pro­mot­ed Lane’s max­im on Facebook. Levi Norwood’s girl­friend has not returned mes­sages from The Post, and her par­ents have declined inter­view requests.

Their fin­ger­prints are all over every act of bar­barism that has ever been vis­it­ed on inno­cent black Americans. From induc­ing enslaved men to engage in sex­u­al encoun­ters with them and when caught cry­ing rape.
From cry­ing rape when enslaved men denied them sex­u­al favors.
From the Tulsa Riots to Rosewood, From the Emit Till mur­der to Susan Smith and every case in between, white wom­en’s fin­ger­prints have been all over the mur­der of inno­cent black peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly black men.
Today, they would rather pay their last pen­ny to help save the life of a stray dog than show a sin­gle iota of empa­thy to a mur­dered black child.
The lack of empa­thy is noth­ing new; white women have always embarked on the sys­tem­at­ic killing of black chil­dren whom they chose to beat to death for the most minor child infrac­tion dur­ing slavery.

One of the issues that have been pushed to the back­burn­er as COVID ‑19 dom­i­nates the news is the issue of racism and the part white women play in it.
It can­not be lost on any­one that since Donald Trump ascend­ed to the Presidency, he has made no bones about being the most open­ly white nation­al­ist racists to occu­py the White House in our life­time.
We all knew that even among the best of them, if we can appro­pri­ate­ly use the term [best]to describe degen­er­a­cy, Republican or Democrat, at best, they were all rabid racists.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIGNED THE EMANCIPATION DECLARATION INTO LAW.

Yet still, here was Republican Abraham Lincoln, in a let­ter to pub­lish­er Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune;
I would save the Union. I would save it the short­est way under the Constitution. The soon­er the nation­al author­i­ty can be restored; the near­er the Union will be “the Union as it was.” If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slav­ery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slav­ery, I do not agree with them. My para­mount object in this strug­gle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slav­ery. If I could save the Union with­out free­ing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by free­ing all the slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by free­ing some and leav­ing oth­ers alone I would also do that. What I do about slav­ery, and the col­ored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I for­bear, I for­bear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less when­ev­er I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more when­ev­er I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to cor­rect errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED BOTH THE CIVIL AND VOTING RIGHTS ACTS INTO LAW.

Yet still, here was Democrat Lyndon Johnson: A crass & boor­ish spec­i­men. Some his­to­ri­ans believe Johnson to date has been the worst of the lot of them and may, to date, be the most revolt­ing ever to attain the pres­i­den­cy.
The National Post​.com argues Lyndon Johnson has been the most vul­gar pres­i­dent to date, As the world awaits the next nasty utter­ance from Donald Trump, one can only mar­vel at how his­to­ry itself has end­ed up in (lan­guage alert!) — a “shit­hole.” Amid the chron­ic shock and hor­ri­fied reac­tions, peo­ple have become blind to the fact that he is not (yet) the most dis­gust­ing U.S. pres­i­dent in liv­ing mem­o­ry. That title actu­al­ly belongs to a Texan Democrat, Lyndon B. Johnson, a howl­ing, flat­u­lent tor­men­tor of women whose cussing and racism remain breath­tak­ing today. And if you’re offend­ed by Trump’s lev­el of vul­gar­i­ty, you real­ly — real­ly — don’t want to read any fur­ther.
A record­ed 1964 tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion with Jack Valenti touched on Johnson’s elec­toral chances in Texas for an upcom­ing pres­i­den­tial race: Said Johnson, “I think I can take every Mexican in the state and every n — -r in the state.” “All they (the vot­ers) ever hear at elec­tion time is n — -r, n — -r, n — -r!”. Speaking of appoint a black jurist to the court Johnson went on, “When I appoint a n — -r to the bench, I want every­one to know he’s a n — -r.”

So we have estab­lished that racism is as much a social con­struct in America, as accept­ed & prac­ticed, as American as apple pie.
One of the false beliefs relat­ed to race is the idea that the face of racism in America is that of white males, and this could not be fur­ther from the truth. As I have writ­ten sev­er­al times over the last cou­ple of years, in par­tic­u­lar when the issue of Donald Trump’s racism comes up for dis­cus­sion, white women have used the safe­ty of hid­ing behind their white men, even as they per­pet­u­ate and indulge in the most vicious forms of racism.
In the three years that Donald Trump has been President of the United States, a real phe­nom­e­non has tak­en shape. One that many peo­ple have found cute names for. Some peo­ple have even found this phe­nom­e­non amus­ing; unfor­tu­nate­ly, because the result can result in death, it is absolute­ly no laugh­ing mat­ter.
It is a mat­ter of white women call­ing the police on black peo­ple for engag­ing in the most mun­dane activ­i­ties that we all engage in, in our dai­ly lives.

There seems to be an invig­o­rat­ed awak­en­ing in white women and an ener­gized spir­it to engage in bla­tant racism since Donald Trump took office. However, it can­not all be laid at Trump’s feet, no mat­ter how repug­nant he is.
We have all seen the videos of white women call­ing the police to arrest black peo­ple bar­be­cu­ing in the park. Studying in a com­mon area in a col­lege dorm. Sitting in a Starbucks cof­fee shop. In Cleveland, Huntington Bank apol­o­gized after an employ­ee called the police on a black man try­ing to cash his pay­check. Shopping at a CVS and using a coupon. Alison Ettel was filmed as she called the police on an 8‑year-old black girl sell­ing water with­out a per­mit. A white neigh­bor called the police on 12-year-old Reggie Fields as he was cut­ting grass in his neigh­bor­hood as part of his sum­mer busi­ness. Last sum­mer, Jaequan Faulkner, 13, opened a hot dog stand hop­ing to raise mon­ey to buy clothes. It was report­ed for not hav­ing a per­mit. In October, a Brooklyn woman was cap­tured in a viral video appear­ing to call 911 and claim­ing a young boy had groped her inside a deli. The footage shows young chil­dren cry­ing as she’s mak­ing the alleged call to the police, who nev­er show up. The woman was lat­er con­front­ed with sur­veil­lance footage con­firm­ing the boy nev­er groped her. On social media, users dubbed her “Cornerstore Caroline.“
It goes on and on, play­ing golf, stay­ing at an AirB&B, nap­ping on a couch, vis­it­ing the pool, run­ning a busi­ness, mak­ing a white woman sus­pi­cious, mak­ing a white woman uneasy, I could go on all day.

For some peo­ple who have nev­er lived in black skin in America, these things may seem pret­ty run-of-the-mill. There is noth­ing run of the mill about these racist calls to the police, and they are designed to use the police to kill the object of their hatred.
The bru­tal­i­ty and vio­lent ten­den­cies of police who kill black peo­ple are old­er than apple pie, com­ing from as far back as slav­ery.
No, there was noth­ing called police offi­cers dur­ing slav­ery; back then, they were over­seers on the plan­ta­tions and, even­tu­al­ly, slave patrols who ran down enslaved peo­ple flee­ing bondage in search of free­dom.
The sheer bar­barism of that era, in which slave patrols would have dogs lit­er­al­ly eat the flesh from run-away peo­ple, beat and muti­late them, is still evi­dent today.
Police still use dogs to muti­late black peo­ple who are already sub­dued, beat, and ulti­mate­ly mur­der them, even though they are unarmed and offer no resis­tance.
On the con­trary, white ser­i­al killers are treat­ed with the soft­est touch­es. They are gen­er­al­ly well pro­tect­ed, includ­ing being tak­en to get fast food after they mas­sa­cred mul­ti­ple inno­cent people.

The web­site (face2​faceafrica​.com) suc­cinct­ly writes, “What escapes many peo­ple is that the whim­si­cal killing of enslaved Blacks in the U.S. dur­ing slav­ery, and even after by white folks with­out puni­tive con­se­quence is based on laws passed by white politi­cians, who hap­pened to be plan­ta­tion own­ers as well. One such devi­ous law is the Casual Killing Act of 1669 which declared it legal to kill a slave while cor­rect­ing because mal­ice could not be pre­sumed. The “casu­al killing of slaves” says that if a slave dies while resist­ing his mas­ter, the act will not be pre­sumed to have occurred with “prepensed mal­ice.”
Does the penul­ti­mate & last lines ring a bell? Let us look at those two lines again, [if a slave dies while resist­ing his mas­ter, the act will not be pre­sumed to have occurred with “prepensed mal­ice.”]
Now, do you see it?
When you see a bunch of mur­der­ous cops beat­ing the hell out of a black per­son while six of them are sit­ting on him/​her, yelling “stop resist­ing” over and over again, the idea is to jus­ti­fy killing that per­son.
As long as they yell out, stop “resist­ing,” no mat­ter what crimes they com­mit there­after will be deemed jus­ti­fied when they inves­ti­gate them­selves.
These con­di­tions are not new; they were cod­i­fied into laws and form part of the fab­ric of insti­tu­tion­al­ized racism built into the American body politic.
The new real­i­ty is this, “If a black per­son dies while resist­ing his new mas­ter [the police], the act will not be pre­sumed to have occurred with “prepensed mal­ice.”]
Now google the name Eric Garner. Walter Scott. Laquan McDonald. Michael Brown. Philando Castille. John Crawford. Sandra Bland. Miles Hall. Alton Sterling. Amadou Diallo. Sean Bell. .….….….

(Killedbypolice​.net) reports that though there are proven meth­ods that have result­ed in few­er deaths at the hands of police, only a few police depart­ments have adopt­ed them.
One of the strate­gies that I believe would be of much help is the duty to inter­vene if anoth­er offi­cer uses exces­sive force.
The fact that they have not adopt­ed these mea­sures and, in par­tic­u­lar, hold­ing oth­er cops account­able sends a strong mes­sage that there is no inten­tion to stop the killer dogs from mur­der­ing inno­cent peo­ple of col­or.
You pay their salaries through your tax­es; they kill you and serve their own racist interests.

But the laws passed to make it no big deal to kill black peo­ple were actu­al­ly passed to pro­tect white women who would mali­cious­ly beat and kill black chil­dren.
The cry­ing that we now see when white women are caught in bla­tant acts of racism or when they ille­gal­ly offend a black per­son is noth­ing new. White women have always been at the cen­ter of the bar­barism unleashed against inno­cent black cit­i­zens.
Whether it be the hor­rif­ic mur­der of Emmitt Till, the Tulsa Riots, to Susan Smith, who killed her chil­dren and blamed a black man, engag­ing in hor­rif­ic acts of racism and revert­ing to the lit­tle damsel in dis­tress has been their modus Operandi as long as this igno­ble sys­tem has exist­ed.
Sure the men pro­vide the mus­cle but behind the mus­cle are the devi­ous, dev­il­ish brains that have fer­til­ized racism and allowed it to con­tin­ue to grow.

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

Nationwide: Bishop Gerald O. Glenn, the 66-year old pas­tor and founder of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Chesterfield, Virginia, has report­ed­ly died from COVID-19. He alleged­ly defied warn­ings to avoid reli­gious gath­er­ings and still con­tin­ued to preach that “God is larg­er than this dread­ed virus” before con­tract­ing the coronavirus.

When author­i­ties start­ed to advise social dis­tanc­ing, Glenn still appar­ent­ly held in-per­son church ser­vices and said he would keep preach­ing “unless in jail or the hos­pi­tal.” A day after his ser­mon on March 22, the state offi­cial­ly banned all gath­er­ings of 10 peo­ple or more.
A few days after, Glenn test­ed pos­i­tive of COVID-19. He was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal where his con­di­tion con­tin­ued to wors­en even with a ven­ti­la­tor. He sad­ly died of COVID-19 on April 11, church offi­cials announced on Facebook.

Moreover, his 65-year old wife, Mother Marcietia Glenn, their daugh­ter, Mar-Gerie Crawley, and 2 oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers have test­ed pos­i­tive for the coro­n­avirus. Meanwhile, Church mem­bers held a vig­il to mourn the death of Bishop Glenn. Senator Tim Kane of Virginia also expressed his grief on his death.
“My heart sinks as I learn this morn­ing that Bishop Gerald Glenn, pas­tor of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church, died yes­ter­day from COVID-19,” Kaine wrote on Twitter the day after his death. “He was a friend and pil­lar of Richmond faith com­mu­ni­ty. May all do as much for so many.”

Philadelphia, PA — Dr. Ala Stanford and oth­er African American doc­tors (most­ly women) from Pennsylvania have launched the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to pro­vide free mobile coro­n­avirus test­ing to under­served com­mu­ni­ties in hopes to pre­vent fur­ther spread of the virus, espe­cial­ly among Black people.

Dr. Stanford, who is a pedi­atric sur­geon, owns a pri­vate prac­tice and a Black-owned med­ical con­sult­ing firm called REAL Concierge Medicine. She is also on staff at Abington-Jefferson Hospital in Hatfield Township. She says she launched the ini­tia­tive because she want­ed to do some­thing about the increas­ing num­bers of cas­es and deaths relat­ed to COVID-19 in com­mu­ni­ties where Afriacn Americans live.

Initially, she cre­at­ed and uploaded a video try­ing to dis­prove the myth that African Americans were resis­tant to COVID-19. But even though some were wor­ried that if they had the virus, they couldn’t get tested.

That’s when she decid­ed to form Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium with her col­leagues in the med­ical field as well as church­es in the Black com­mu­ni­ties in Philadelphia. Having some test­ing kits on hand, Stanford and the oth­er doc­tors “put our sup­plies togeth­er and we went out to the com­mu­ni­ty,” she told WHYY.

Those who want to be test­ed can sign up for an appoint­ment online. The group is test­ing any­one, par­tic­u­lar­ly in under­served com­mu­ni­ties, who has coro­n­avirus symp­toms or known con­tact with some­one who test­ed positive.

They have set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds to pro­vide COVID-19 test­ing, advo­ca­cy, and edu­cate Black peo­ple about the coro­n­avirus dis­ease. It has so far raised more than $25,000 of its $50,000 goal.