New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a lawsuit against Trump for violating the law as part of his efforts to generate profits. She gives the example that Mar-a-Lago was valued as high as $739M when it should’ve been at $75M. In a more than 200 page lawsuit, the Attorney General said that Donald Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization committed more than 200 criminal acts by falsifying asset evaluations to inflate their wealth. The lawsuit also names three of Donald Trump’s children: Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump. Attorney General James is seeking to permanently bar the Trump family from conducting business in New York and $250 million in penalties.
JAMES: “The club generated annual revenues of less than $25 million dollars and should have been valued at more than, valued at about $75 million dollars. However, Mar-A-Lago was valued as high as $739 million dollars. Mr. Trump used inappropriate schemes to inflate the value of his other golf clubs.”
A junior at Loyola University in New Orleans is off to a tremendous start of the school year as he nationally launches his latest invention, the Safety Pouch. The brilliant product was developed in one of the university’s entrepreneurship classes.
The Safety Pouch was founded and created by its CEO, David Price. During traffic stops, this safety tool was designed to fight against police brutality. In the middle of the pandemic, while The Black Lives Matter movement was going strong and surrounding protests, Price created his business while drawing inspiration from a caring educator. This summer, Price officially launched The Safety Pouch into more than 400 Walmart stores. The Safety Pouch is an essential driving tool for civilians and law enforcement, designed to eliminate active reaching during traffic stops. It minimizes movement within the vehicle and allows for complete visibility and storage of all driving credentials in one place. The Safety Pouch also provides a sense of relief and facilitates quicker and more efficient traffic stops for both civilians and law enforcement. During his freshman year at Loyola University, Price created The Safety Pouch as part of an assignment to develop a product that could bring change to society. As communities urgently demanded calls for racial justice and transparency in policing, Price recalled his idea, which he thought of at the age of 16, as he and his parents sat and had “The Talk.”
With his professor’s assistance, he developed a business plan, as law professors do offer some pro bono advice. Price launched the Safety Pouch as an e‑commerce brand online after sourcing manufacturers. He brought it to market in June of 2020, and within two years, The Safety Pounch saw astounding growth exceeding six figures.
Although it may sound like a dream, the journey has been far from easy. With the love and support of his family, he started his small bedroom operation business. Price fueled his concept during the pandemic, slowly making progress by hand-selling pouches at car washes, producing slow online sales and the support of local Black-owned businesses.
With the assistance of high-profile appearances and endorsements from celebrities, Price’s product went viral on social media, earning a media grant offered by the Meredith Corporation valued at $100,000.
“Gaining the opportunity to expand into 400 national brick and mortar locations is truly life-changing,” David Price, CEO And Founder of The Safety Pouch shared. “With this expansion, I hope to get The Safety Pouch in the hands of people who need it the most and contribute to restoring trust and security between civilians and law enforcement.”
To learn more about The Safety Pouch, be sure to visit thesafetypouch.com, and look for it in a local Walmart near you. Also, you can follow the brand on Instagram/Twitter (@thesafetypouch) and Facebook (The Safety Pouch). About The Safety Pouch.
Data released by the Jamaica Constabulary Force show a 4% increase over the same period last year while registering a 5% reduction in shootings over the same period. The following are the statistics.: The current murder tally is 18 below the number of homicides recorded in Jamaica in 2003 — the last year in the past two decades when murders were below 1,000.
. St James, St. Catherine North, and Westmoreland are the top three divisions since the start of the year with 132, 94, and 89 murders, respectively. . Portland recorded the fewest murders, 8, followed by Trelawny, Hanover, and St Elizabeth, all of which reported 26 murders each. . Shootings declined by 4.9 percent. . The St Andrew South division had the most, 89, followed by Westmoreland with 84. .There were 58 fewer rapes for the period compared with 2021. . Most of the 256 rapes reported to the police were recorded in St Andrew North (32). St. Mary and Kingston Central both had three each. .Robberies across the island increased by 13 percent, with 582 reported. .Robberies declined in seven of the 19 police divisions, while Manchester recorded 75 robberies, which is the highest among all divisions for the period. .Break-ins have increased by 5.2 percent, as 625 incidents were reported compared to 594 last year. .As with robberies, Manchester had the highest number of break-ins (114) — two more than it recorded over a similar period in 2021. .Police divisions in Kingston reported the least number of break-ins according to the police.
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As is customary, the devil is in the details. Numbers generally tell a story that speaks to the efficacy of policy prescriptions and whether or not strategies work and gives us an indication of shifting dynamics. Data is a set of values or information which, when analysed together, gives an inference.
. For example, it would be instructive to understand what is behind the increase in Robberies and break-ins plaguing the once peaceful parish of Manchester, particularly when armed robbery incidents have gone down in seven police divisions. . What is behind the increase in rapes in Saint Andrew North, the last police division this writer served before leaving the department? The data tend to indicate some consistency as the traditional troubled areas of St James, St Catherine North, and Westmoreland continue to lead with homicides. One bright spark in the data is the Portland, Hanover, and Saint Elizabeth parishes. The three parishes continue to lead with fewer murders. .Shootings declined by 4.9 percent. The St Andrew South division, what did the police do, if anything, that led to this decline? Were there more police patrols, more vigilance, more cars, motorcycles, and pedestrians stopped and searches done? If the answer is in the affirmative, then it behooves the police to step up those activities in a more targeted and sustained way to continue the positives. On the other hand, if these lower numbers are attributed to something like everyone watching athletic games, then neither the police nor the citizens can take comfort in what is then a temporary lull in the violence. »»»»»»>
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Inside the data are indicators for the police and the government to analyze. What measures are in place in Saint James, Westmoreland parishes, and the Saint Catherine North division? How long has the police department implemented those strategies, and what is the department doing to craft alternative measures since the strategies, if any, aren’t exactly bearing fruits? It would be interesting to understand what is driving the number of rapes committed in Saint Andrew North over other police divisions. Full disclosure I last served at the Constant Spring CIB many moons ago, so I have a soft spot for that division. I thoroughly enjoyed working at the Constant Spring CIB. I was shot in that police prescient, which included Grants Pen during my time. There was no Grant’s Pen Police Station; we serviced the entire area. Most of the 256 rapes reported to the police were recorded in St Andrew North (32) The number 32 does not seem alarming to the untrained, but to women, one or two incidents of publicized rapes are enough to drive fear into their hearts as murders do.
Illustration giving an example of what is being suggested…
Here is a simple tool I developed while serving at Constant Spring. This can be incredibly useful for the detectives looking at serious crime data. Place a map of the police area on a board and source some pins of different colors. One color for murders, one for rapes, another for robberies, and stick the pins into the area on the map complainants reported crimes against them occurred. You will be surprised to see how those colored pins give you a picture of where resources should be targeted for best results. Day, date & time memorialized in complainant affidavits gives detectives a good idea of who is doing what, where, and when.
The JCF is now top-heavy, with graduates from various colleges across the Island. Gone are the days when the police were ridiculed for being dunces. Therefore, it is important that the department leaders understand that rank is not to lord over the rank and file; it is for leadership. But then again, most of the leaders in the JCF, from the Commissioner on down, have no clue about policing. Most senior leaders have degrees in areas that have nothing to do with the distinct discipline called law enforcement. Nevertheless, they have rank and are running divisions but don’t know their head from their asses.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.
From 1882 to 1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the U.S., according to records maintained by NAACP. Other accounts, including the Equal Justice Initiative’s extensive report on lynching, count slightly different numbers, but it’s impossible to know for certain how many lynchings occurred because there was no formal tracking. Many historians believe the true number is underreported.
The highest number of lynchings during that time period occurred in Mississippi, with 581 recorded. Georgia was second with 531, and Texas was third with 493. Lynchings did not occur in every state. There are no recorded lynchings in Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Black people were the primary victims of lynching: 3,446, or about 72 percent of the people lynched, were Black. But they weren’t the only victims of lynching. Some white people were lynched for helping Black people or for being anti-lynching. Immigrants from Mexico, China, Australia, and other countries were also lynched.
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White mobs often used dubious criminal accusations to justify lynchings. A common claim used to lynch Black men was perceived sexual transgressions against white women. Charges of rape were routinely fabricated. These allegations were used to enforce segregation and advance stereotypes of Black men as violent, hypersexual aggressors.
Hundreds of Black people were lynched based on accusations of other crimes, including murder, arson, robbery, and vagrancy.
Many victims of lynchings were murdered without being accused of any crime. They were killed for violating social customs or racial expectations, such as speaking to white people with less respect than what white people believed they were owed.
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As Black Americans fled the South to escape the terror of lynchings, a historic event known as the Great Migration, people began to oppose lynchings in a number of ways. They conducted grassroots activism, such as boycotting white businesses. Anti-lynching crusaders like Ida B. Wells composed newspaper columns to criticize the atrocities of lynching.
And several important civil rights organizations — including NAACP — emerged during this time to combat racial violence.
NAACP led a courageous battle against lynching. In the July 1916 issue of The Crisis, editor W.E.B. Du Bois published a photo essay called “The Waco Horror” that featured brutal images of the lynching of Jesse Washington.
Washington was a 17-year-old Black teen lynched in Waco, Texas, by a white mob that accused him of killing Lucy Fryer, a white woman. Du Bois was able to turn postcards of Washington’s murder against their creators to energize the anti-lynching movement. The Crisis’s circulation grew by 50,000 over the next two years, and we raised $20,000 toward an anti-lynching campaign.In 1919, NAACP published Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889 – 1919, to promote awareness of the scope of lynching. The data in this study offer the gruesome facts by number, year, state, color, sex, and alleged offense.
Among the campaign’s other efforts, from 1920 to 1938, we flew a flag from our national headquarters in New York that bore the words “A man was lynched yesterday.” The campaign turned the tide of public opinion and even persuaded some southern newspapers to oppose lynching because it was damaging the South’s economic prospects.
We also fought hard for anti-lynching legislation. In 1918, Congressman Leonidas Dyer of Missouri first introduced his Anti-Lynching Bill — known as the Dyer Bill — into Congress. NAACP supported passage of the bill from 1919 onward, though it was defeated by a Senate filibuster. NAACP continued to push for federal anti-lynching legislation into the 1930s.
National lynching rates declined in the 1930s, a trend that NAACP Executive Secretary Walter White attributed to anti-lynching activism, shifts in public opinion, and the Great Migration. The first full year without a recorded lynching occurred in 1952.
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The tide may have turned against lynching, but white supremacy and violence continued to terrorize Black communities. In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Till’s murder and subsequent injustice deeply affected the Black community and galvanized a young generation of Black people to join the Civil Rights Movement.
NAACP declared Till’s murder a lynching. Southeast Regional Director Ruby Hurley, Mississippi Field Secretary Medgar Evers, and Amzie Moore, president of the Bolivar County branch in Mississippi, initiated the homicide investigation and secured witnesses. An all-white jury acquitted the two men accused, who later bragged about their crimes in a magazine article.
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley, Emmet Till’s mother, decided to hold an open-casket funeral to put her son’s brutalized body on display for the world to see. Jet Magazine published photos of his body in the casket, along with the headline “Negro Boy Was Killed for ‘Wolf Whistle,’ ” causing national outrage among Black and white Americans alike, helping to catalyze the Civil Rights Movement.
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You might think of lynchings as a disgraceful and barbaric practice from the past, but they continue to this day. In 1998, James Byrd was chained to a car by three white supremacists and dragged to his death in the streets of Jasper, Texas. In 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot while jogging near Brunswick, Georgia. The three white men charged with killing Arbery claimed he was trespassing.The videotaped death of George Floyd was a modern-day lynching. Floyd was killed in broad daylight by police officer Derek Chauvin, who held Floyd down with a knee on his neck for more than nine minutes.
What we witnessed with George Floyd was that same public spectacle: someone in broad daylight with onlookers around, being killed at the hands of a law enforcement officer who has just complete disregard for human life and felt he was above the law. - Derrick Johnson, NAACP President and CEO.
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In 1918, Walter White, NAACP Assistant Secretary, initially joined NAACP as an investigator. His fair skin and straight hair made him effective in conducting investigations of lynchings and race riots in the South. He could “pass” and talk to whites but identified as Black. Through 1927, White would investigate 41 lynchings.
The Lynching of Mary Turner, May 19, 1918 – Georgia
The lynching of Mary Turner in Brooks-Lowndes County, Georgia, was one of the lynching investigations by Walter White on behalf of NAACP. Abusive plantation owner, Hampton Smith, was shot and killed. A week-long manhunt resulted in the killing of Mary Turner’s husband, Hayes Turner. Mary denied that her husband had been involved in Smith’s killing, publicly opposed her husband’s murder, and threatened to have members of the mob arrested.
On May 19, 1918, a mob of several hundred brought her to Folsom Bridge, tied Mary’s ankles, hung her upside down from a tree, doused her in gasoline and motor oil and set her on fire. She was still alive when a member of the mob split her abdomen open with a knife. Her unborn child fell to the ground, was stomped and crushed. Mary’s body was riddled with hundreds of bullets.
The September 1918 issue of The Crisis carried an account of the lynching.
The Lynching of Jesse McIlherron, February 1918 – Tennessee
The lynching of Jesse McIlherron was another Walter White investigation for NAACP. Jesse was a Black man who resented the slights and insults of white men. He stayed armed and the sheriff feared him. On February 8, 1918, he got into a quarrel with three young white men who insulted him. Threats were made and McIlherron shot and killed two of the men.
McIlherron fled to the home of a Black clergyman who aided him to escape and was later shot and killed by a mob. McIlherron was captured and lynched. McIlherron was chained to a hickory tree, a fire was built, and the torture began. Bars of iron were heated and the mob amused itself by putting them close to McIlherron, at first without touching him. He grasped at a bar and as it was jerked from his grasp, the inside of his hand came with it. Then, the real torturing began, lasting twenty minutes.
During that time, while his flesh was slowly roasting, Jesse never lost nerve. He cursed those who tortured him and almost to the last breath, derided the attempts of the mob to break his spirit.
An account of the lynching of Jesse was carried in the May 1918 issue of The Crisis.
After the savage murder of nine parishioners at Mother Emanuel AME church in South Carolina my family and I visited the Church as so many others have.A profile view of the famous churchMy wife Cheryl signed the board, like thousands of others before and after us did.So did I.No words
The right to bear arms is [not] a constitutional right in Jamaica. Nevertheless, from the way guns are readily available and used on the tiny island nation of under three million people, one would think that gun rights are enshrined in the constitution. As we have seen in other societies where guns are readily available, guns do not solve problem; they create problems. There is absolutely no reason that the Jamaican Government should be in the business of allowing guns into the hands of Jamaicans, who are known for defaulting to violence as a conflict resolution remedy. At this point, it is already water under the bridge, it is a situation that will remain because those with power demand these perks, and those without want them too. And that means even if they have to acquire them illicitly. This was the scene in Sam Sharpe square Montego Bay on Tuesday between two dumbasses who, as you may have guessed, have licensed firearms, popping off shots in the crowded city center.
Most distressing of all, look at the law enforcement response to this dangerous and criminal act between two morons who should never have guns.
Having the possession and care of a firearm is a tremendous responsibility; even as a law enforcement officer, I felt a tremendous burden and a duty of care to be judicious and prudent with the weapon and under what circumstances that weapon may be discharged certainly as the last resort. Civilians are allowed weapons, and clearly, they feel no duty of care or burden to be responsible. It is like the wild west, and the poor police officers, so berated and beaten down, have no idea how to respond. We are slowly losing our country day by day.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.
Even though American police are some of the most violent and dangerous anywhere in the world, they clearly are not nearly violent enough for some Independent Arbitrators who review actions taken against violent cops and have the power to determine whether they get their jobs back or not, if fired. Independent Arbitrators means a neutral and impartial arbitrator (i) who is listed on the American Arbitration Association’s national roster of arbitrators, (ii) who has not had and does not have any past, current or potential business, professional, or personal relationship with any of the parties involved in the arbitration proceedings which would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out their responsibilities as an arbitrator, and (iii) whose conduct is guided by the Code of Ethics for Arbitrators in Commercial Disputes. The sad reality for aggrieved individuals, families, and communities that have borne the brunt of police violence this definition is not worth the paper it is written. In far too many cases, the so-called independent arbitrators who review cases of police abuse generally end up siding with the police, even though they represent a clear and present danger to the communities they policed. What’s worse is that in more cases than not, they get to return to police communities that no longer want their service or wish to see them as authority figures in those communities. We reported on this case where a Sacramento Sheriff’s deputy roughed up a 14-year-old boy two years ago, resulting in the firing of the deputy. Now an arbitrator has ruled that the deputy’s firing was too harsh, so the Sheriff was forced to give the ex-deputy his job back. This monster now has the power and the backing to do more harm, and he can now kill the innocent based on a single arbitrator that is beholden to the police.
Arbitrator Gives Job Back to California Deputy Captured on Video Beating 14-Year-Old Boy, Says Termination Was Too Harsh
Arbitrator Gives Job Back to California Deputy Captured on Video Beating 14-Year-Old Boy, Says Termination Was Too Harsh“The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office will comply with the mandate of the independent arbitrator and integrate Deputy Fowell back into the organization,” a statement from the sheriff’s office said in part.
The reinstatement sparked outrage in the activist community. Local NAACP president Betty Williams said she is “pissed” about the decision to bring him back into law enforcement.
“I’m pissed,” Williams said. “This is basically a slap in the face to the community that he is back.”
She continued, “How can we trust your law enforcement when you know you have an officer who did something like this and you bring him back to that same community and you ask us to trust you? That is absolutely a slap in the face.”
The altercation between the officer and the teen was captured in a 15-second cellphone video in April 2020 and went viral causing millions to chime in, including then-Sen. Kamala Harris, who called the deputy’s actions “a horrific abuse of power.”
In the clip of the detainment, Fowell is seen grabbing the back of Tufono’s neck, pushing his face into the ground, and punching the teen three times in his arm. The clip does not show what led up to the incident or what happened after.
A person claiming to be Tufono’s sister posted on Twitter, “My baby brother who is 14 years old. All of this over a swisher there’s more footage but I wasn’t able to upload it all. Please repost, we just want justice for my baby!“He was charged with ‘resisting arrest.’ But what was he even being arrested for?? For having a swisher? & they ended up letting him go so what was all of this for?? Smh he was left with scratches and chest pains! this was so unnecessary!” she wrote.
The officer approached the young man after he asked a stranger for some tobacco.
“And that’s when the cop pulled up,” Tufono said at the time. “And he asked me what was that in my hand. And I had gave him, as soon as he asked me that, I just gave it to him.”
He said initially he was not coöperative, saying that was his “mistake.”
Two years ago, after the altercation, the teen’s aunt Leata Tufono said at a press conference that he was emotionally and physically scarred, ABC 10 reports.
The deputy was terminated by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office after a professional standards unit investigated his engagement with the 14-year-old, determining he went too far when detaining him.
Fowell’s attorney William Creger filed his appeal on his client’s behalf in October 2020, claiming his termination was unwarranted.
“The sheriff’s office was entitled to take Deputy Fowell out of the public spotlight for a while,” the lawyer said. “The arbitrator said (Fowell) didn’t do everything perfectly, he could’ve handled it in a different way … but it didn’t need to rise to the level of termination.”
An arbitrator determined he was unjustly fired, ruling his employment should be restored.
Touting accolades like the officer being named the 2019 “Employee of the Quarter” for the force and later the same year receiving the life-saving medal for his saving a little girl’s life by using CPR, the lawyer argued Fowell’s exemplary law enforcement record was instrumental in the decision in his favor.
Much of the details of his restoration to the police force are not public. Fowell is considered a “peace officer” under California law and their records are protected and not available.
According to a recent amendment approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 30, 2021, relating to peace officers, “peace officer personnel records and specified records maintained by any state or local agency, or information obtained from these records” are to be kept “confidential” and not “disclosed in any criminal or civil proceeding except by discovery.
Tufano’s attorney John Burris said in a statement, “It raises real safety concerns for the client who’s been nervous about this officer and hopes that he doesn’t have the chance to see him.”
“At the end of the day, I hope the officer has been retrained on how to deescalate situations, particularly when he’s dealing with teenagers who are involved with minor transgressions,” the lawyer said.
“His conduct, in this case, was over the top and clearly did not give consideration that this was a young person.”
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office has not released any further statements on Fowell’s rehiring.
Day in day out, people of color are exposed to these outrageous actions from Jackasses in uniform and for no other reason other than the people they are abusing are Black. Speaking as a former police officer who faced real danger, not a contrived danger, intended to evoke sympathy if you are told there was a robbery. You receive the information from the dispatcher that the car is a certain make, model, color, with a certain color person in it. Aren’t you at least clued in that there will be dozens of cars that make, model, and color around? So you must read carefully not to overreact?
Worse yet, if you are told that the person in the car is a tall slim man, why would you stop at gunpoint a car with a woman and her children and handcuff them? I’ll tell you why. They do not feel a duty of care, and they would not stop the same car with a white woman and her children, yank them out, cuff them and subject them to the terror of their wannabe-Rambo warrior-style policing. How do these mental-midgets put handcuffs on the girl and her mother when the dispatch told them the person they were looking for was a tall slim male. But that is what they did to Deondra Hawkins, her autistic son, and her 14-year-old daughter at an Atlanta gas station. http://<iframe src=”//content.jwplatform.com/players/8DXURwcj-srWXYojL.html” width=“640” height=“360” frameborder=“0” scrolling=“auto”></iframe
“It was pure confusion. The police pulled up with their guns out and demanded we get out of the car, and I had no idea what I could have possibly have done,” Hawkins said. This not policing; it is a manifestation of amped-up morons with too much power and support acting out their Rambo fantasies on vulnerable people. Hawkins and her children were horrified as police yelled conflicting commands at her and her shocked children. It is important to remember that her son is an autistic male who could have become flustered and made a sudden move that would unleashed a barrage of cop-bullets, killing all three. Or maybe the conflicting commands are designed for exactly that outcome, knowing they will not be held accountable?
Hawkins says nearly a week after the horrifying experience, the police have not reached out to her to apologize, and she and her children are dealing with the psychological effects of their police encounter. She wants the police to receive better training to prevent incidents like this from happening to other innocent people. “Better training so they don’t handle people so roughly and better training where they don’t suspect everyone of being a suspect,” she said. No dear, training is not the problem, they are doing exactly what they are told to do. Abusing you is exactly the point.
Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.
A California mother and daughter have filed a lawsuit against police officers for excessive force. Mariah Hereford and her mother Monet Hereford said Hemet Police violently arrested them and Mariah’s fiancé in front of their home while her children watched. The incident was captured on video and also witnessed by neighbors. “Help! Help! You’re hitting my head! Help!” Mariah screamed and cried in cellphone video.
The Hereford’s attorney said an officer grabbed Mariah by the hair and repeatedly slammed her head on the ground. The officer hooked his fingers underneath the woman’s jaw and yanked her, attorney Toni Jaramilla said. The incident left Mariah with a concussion, bruises and a scar.
Mariah Hereford has a permanent scar after Hemet Police officers slammed her head on the ground. (Photo courtesy of Toni Jaramilla)
Mariah and her mother said they were recording Hemet police officers as they arrested her fiancé when officers knocked their phones out of their hands and grabbed the women.
Cellphone video captured the officers as they wrestled with family pets while Hereford’s four children cried and screamed. Hemet Police Chief Eddie Pust said the older woman refused to back away when asked. Body camera video shows that the officers were confronting the younger woman about car keys when they arrested her. Attorneys said Ryan Gadison was on his way home from work last March when two Hemet Gang Enforcement officers followed him in his 2020 Dodge Challenger. They flagged him in his driveway. Mariah, Monet and the children, who are between the ages of 3 and 9, met Gadison outside. Police officials said Gadison repeatedly honked his horn.
Gadison told the officers he was nervous because of the “stereotype” about interactions between Black men and white police officers, video shows. The officer tells Gadison, he is “misinformed.” The body camera video shows the officer told Gadison that his license was suspended and ordered him to put down his keys and wallet down and get out of the car. The officer also asked for permission to search Gadison’s car. Gadison refused, the video shows. Can you get a little closer and record this guy,” Gadison said as he motioned to the women. “I am recording,” the officer said in the video. Gadison threw the keys out of his window. Police said he threw it in the same direction as the women.
The attorneys said officers targeted Gadison because he was “driving while Black” in a “nice” car. Cellphone video shows Gadison was pinned to the car and arrested. The attorneys said the police searched his car but nothing illegal was found. Cellphone video show officers approached Mariah Hereford’s 54-year-old mother and told her to “back up” and “move” as she filmed the arrest. When the video panned away, an officer knocked the cellphone to the ground and “threw her against the vehicle and tightly handcuffed her,” the family’s attorneys allege. Video from Mariah Hereford’s phone shows the arrest, and police body camera video also confirmed. Pust said the women were getting in “close proximity to the officers.” Body camera video showed the exchange between officers and the mother and daughter before Monet Hereford was arrested.
“I am going to take both of you to jail if you don’t back up,” an officer said.
“For what?” Both of the women asked.
“For obstructing an arrest,” the officer said.
“I am asking a question,” one of the women said off camera.
A handcuffed Gadison told Mariah to stand by the dogs that were chained closer to the house as one of the officers attempted to pull him away to the squad car, the body camera video shows. He also instructed one of the women to close his car door and lock it. The attorneys allege that a male officer searched the older woman by grabbing and probing between her legs and groin area, even though a female officer was present. “This case is just atrocious,” Jaramilla said. “They had an absolute right to videotape what was happening, and that was what caused them to get angry and retaliate and violate their rights when they were doing that.” Mariah Hereford backed away from the car after her mother’s arrest and stood near the dogs. Officers approached her, the video shows. In the cellphone footage, she can be heard screaming “back up,” “let go of me,” as her phone appears to hit the ground. The cellphone video went dark, but the phone still captured the audio.
Police body camera shows one of the dogs bit an officer as he charged at Hereford. Another officer pulled the dog off from the back of its collar, and Hereford tried to grab the dog from officers.
“Rocky! Rocky! Let go, Rocky!” Hereford said.
The body camera video showed Mariah Hereford continued to reach for the dog as officers continued to pull it away.
“Let go of the key now,” an officer said.
“I don’t have the key. Get out of my face,” Hereford said. She placed one hand up and another officer grabbed the other.
“Shut your f — ing mouth,” an officer said.
“No, you shut your f — ing mouth,” Hereford said.
Body worn camera shows the officers tackled the woman. The children’s screams and cries overpowered the sound of an active car alarm. Hereford let out several screeches and cries for help. At one point, she told police officers that they hit her head. The entire scuffle was not caught on video. “Stop! Just give them what they want! Just give them what they want,” one of the children said. The voice stretches over all the other noise. “Please! Stop! Leave her alone! Leave her alone!” The Herefords have filed a civil rights lawsuit against Hemet and its officers and are seeking damages for violation of rights, trespassing, wrongful arrests and imprisonment, emotional distress, assault and battery.
The attorneys said Gadison and Monett Hereford were each arrested for obstructing arrest, a misdemeanor. Mariah Hereford was arrested for resisting a peace officer resulting in injury, a felony, but no actual charges were filed against anyone. “The fight against injustice and violence against women is also about law enforcement needlessly violating women for sport,” Jaramilla said. “Nothing about Mariah and Monett Hereford was a threat to these officers or justified the brutality these officers inflicted on a mother and grandmother,”Jaramilla said Americans have a constitutional right to record law enforcement officers protected under the First Amendment.Federal case law states: Americans have “a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties.” “We should all do that because oftentimes, these videos are what’s going to be the key to achieving justice,” Jaramilla said. The Hemet Police Department did not respond to requests for comment, but the chief released a video statement with body camera footage on March 14.
“The Hemet Police Department takes claims of excessive use of force or misconduct very seriously,” Pust said. “We believe it is important to be transparent and provide factual information to the public as soon as possible to uphold department accountability, maintain trust within the community. First appeared @ AtlantaBlackstar
Two days ago, I wrote about comments the Jamaican Prime Minister made in Montego Bay about the lethality of the criminal gangs operating in Jamaica in an article titled Jamaican Prime Minister shook over Haitian leader’s demise. In a tongue-in-cheek kind of way, I mocked the PM for only concluding that the gangs he formerly underestimated in words and policy now all of a sudden threaten Jamaica’s sovereignty because his contemporary in Haiti was murdered. Tongue-in-cheek or not, the message was serious; those of us who have spent time in the trenches have not been silent about the threat these criminal gangs pose, not just to individual Jamaicans but to the nation’s sovereignty itself. This medium was created over a decade ago to highlight exactly these events that have been allowed to fester in our country. https://mikebeckles.com/jamaican-pm-shook-over-haitian-leaders-demise/ In my Wednesday article, I name-checked Horace Chang, he happens to be the Member of Parliament for one of the Island’s most intractable garrisons; Chang is also the Island’s National Security Minister; oxymoron, I know! I name-checked Chang because Prime Minister Holness made his comments in the Parish of Saint James and referenced areas in Chang’s constituency within Saint James.
Horace Chang
Needless to say, now two members of parliament, one from either political party, have called for people in the diaspora to [stop] sending guns and ammunition to gangsters in Jamaica. As you may guess, the two have garrison constituencies; Horace Chang of the JLP has a St James constituency, and Phillip Paulwell of the PNP has the infamous East Kingston and Port Royal constituency. The two made the comments during a sitting of the joint select committee that is considering the four-year-old Law Reform (Zones of Special Operations) (Special Security and Community Development Measures) Act, that the administration has been using as its primary crime-fighting tool. It is good to see that finally, these two political dinosaurs after decades in politics, have come to their senses and are speaking with one voice against this cancer of transnational criminal gangs. Nothing brings home to politicians the seriousness of kissing the ass of criminals than seeing one of their own getting deleted, albeit in another country. All of a sudden it’s all eyes wide open, “I guess we aren’t as safe and untouchable as we once thought”.
Phillip Paulwell
Both Chang and Paulwell spoke out about what they surmise to be a pipeline of guns and ammunition flowing into Jamaica, even as they blame international partners for not doing enough to help stop it. Hahaha, I’m going to do some surmising myself. Do these guys even read or understand anything that is happening in the world? Let me guess; at the very minimum, one of the unnamed international partners is the United States, right? Quick question though, are you guys up to speed with what is happening in the United States? I mean seriously, the United States will not take action to ban the weapons that are slaughtering thousands of its own citizens each year; what makes you think this so-called international partner care about your situation? There is no ‘they’ to fix our situation, ‘they’ are incapable of fixing their own. Therefore, ‘they’ is ‘us’, it is up to ‘us’, ‘we’ as a collective of Jamaicans to step up to the plate and take care of our own shit. I am tired of the worn-out excuses that there is no money, you find money to do other things, train and equip the security forces, they have the strength and fortitude to do what you politicians and others are too chicken-shit to even understand much less attempt. How about both of you Members of Parliament, (just referring to you as such makes me nauseous, how about you tell the police about the criminals operating in your garrisons for a start? Talk is cheap it begins with the man in the mirror.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.
One would have thought that with the departure of Terrence Williams from INDECOM, the new Commissioner Hugh Faulkner would have come to the Agency clear-eyed and fully conversant of the role the agency must play in maintaining trust between the citizenry and the people. At the same time, INDECOM is obligated not to erode trust, or worse, create mistrust of the security forces, keeping in mind the complicated job they have in a violent, crime-ridden society. Unfortunately, like so many facets of Jamaican life, INDECOM has chosen to engage in hype over substance, spotlight over results. It is shocking that an agency that has no reason to be speaking to the media about what it is tasked with doing, falls over itself to put information into the public space when it wasn’t even asked to, and ends up putting lies into the public space. Not only have INDECOM continued Terrence Williams’s crusade of lies disinformation and disunity, but it has also clearly decided on animus rather than cohesion. Like moths to a fireball, INDECOM is drawn to the spotlight and for no other reason than to be divisive. What they seem to forget is that when you seek the spotlight, you may have to contend with more heat than you bargain for. Under Terrence Williams’ leadership, INDECOM created and stoked the embers of discord between the public and the police for a decade until the Jamaican people’s eyes opened to the consequences of what INDECOM and Terrence Williams were doing. In the end, Terrence Williams bowed out like a chastened mongrel, tail between its legs, much like Carolyn Gomes was discredited and exposed for her lies as head of JFF, the foreign-funded anti-Jamaican, anti-police agency that has been a driver of violent crimes in our country. There is no lesson learned by Faulkner or his underlings. The glare of the spotlight is too great, so they have clearly decided to walk right into the flames that will engulf them, rather than do the damn job they are paid to do and shut their mouths. After the police quick and decisive action on May 10th, the police accosted a car transporting men who had just murdered a businessman in the Swallowfield community after robbing him. Two of the men were killed in a shootout, and another was arrested. However, before the facts could be fully ascertained, INDECOM issued press releases.
(INDECOM, in a release, indicated its intent to investigate the incident and noted that there had been speculation, confusion, and inaccuracy in the initial reports, which require clarity. “The details of the circumstances of the discharge of weapons were under examination,” )said INDECOM. INDECOM is under no obligation to issue any press release; it is not a law-enforcement agency; it is an OVERSIGHT agency tasked with [investigating alleged misconduct]. Even if there are allegations of misconduct, the agency’s mission as authorized by the billy goats that make up the parliament, is to investigate, not to speculate. Not to add legitimacy to false assertions aimed and hurting the police. But that is exactly what the agency did, and the police pushed back against the misinformation. However, no lesson was learned, INDECOM was again forced to take down lies it posted to its website alleging that officers who should have attended and submitted affidavits to its offices did not do so. Instead of making a phone call, they put lies on their site, aimed specifically at harming the officers involved and the JCF as a whole. What is wrong with picking up the phone and asking,” hey gentlemen, we were supposed to meet; what’s happening”? That would be too respectful, too amicable; there would be no value derived from being civil when the objective is to taint through lies and disinformation. Unfortunately for the pathological liars who can’t even run their own pathetic little ship, they never bothered to check to see if the officers were in their own offices before publishing the lies. The officers had receipts indicating that they [did] attend, it was INDECOM’s own incompetent so-called investigators who were not there to take the affidavits. INDECOM was quick to report to the media that the three officers would be charged criminally for not attending their offices in September of last year. Still, they never issued an apology to the officers for it’s lying and incompetence. Instead, according to the Observer, INDECOM issued a release stating that the three cops will not be subject to prosecution for the alleged breach and have since attended its offices to be interviewed. No mention that they fucked up in their glee to be the big boss, no apology to the officers or the JCF. Nothing. Over the ten years that INDECOM has been in existence, there is no secret that I abhor that agency, not because it is not needed, but because of the way it was structured and allowed to operate. Consequently, the way it has been allowed to operate crime has all but inundated the small island of 2.8 million. Repeated calls from this medium have gone unheeded despite the thousands who have died because of what INEDCOM is allowed to do. There have been no fixes to the agency, even with the increases in violent crimes and thousands of Jamaicans’ deaths because the police are afraid of the persecution and witch-hunt when they go after the killers. Now we know that there isn’t even a media policy written into the INDECOM act that would restrain these disseminators of lies from running to the media instead of doing their damn jobs. At the same time funds continue to flow in from Canada, England, and the United States to fund this Trojan Horse.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.
Liz Cheney survived being booted from her number 3 leadership spot in the Qanon party, formerly known as the Republicans. I posted on my social media page this evening the following statement. Quote: “I want you all to think on this, the Republican caucus in the house is taking a secret vote on whether Liz Cheney should keep her post. Cheney stood up for Democracy. Not on whether to expel Marjorie Taylor Greene”. That was the point, I thought. Not that Liz Cheney eventually survived and will keep her leadership post in a secret ballot, but Cheney was being forced to run the gauntlet for standing up for truth and her oath to the Republic. While the Qanon right-wing caucus in congress gave Marjorie Green a standing ovation. I shed no tears that Liz Cheney was forced to run the gauntlet; she is a neo-con whose politics should scare any rational American.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
The important thing in this latest iteration of Marjorie Green’s shit-show, is that the speaker of the house, the great Nancy Pelosi, will schedule a vote on Thursday, February 4th, that vote will decide whether Marjorie Green gets to sit on the House’s education and budget committees. The real laugh about this solemn vote is that the traitorous Qanon right-wing party will have to vote publicly, with no secret ballot. Pelosi will place them on the record having to either condemn her hate and lunacy with a vote of yes to remove her. Risk being run out of the party by the Trump insurrectionist mob, or vote no and forever be identified as Qanon members of the house. A beautiful choice for me if you ask me.
Kissing the ring of the loser.
The Democrats asked Kevin McCarty to attend to the pressing issue of Marjorie Green. McCarthy held a four-hour meeting with his seditious caucus- then appeared with his face red from the stress of preparing to lie and his lips dripping with the putrid saliva of mendacity. Kevin McCarthy came out of the meeting, mispronounced Qanon, and said he doesn’t know what it is. What a stinking liar; he absolutely knows what it is; his entire caucus is Qanon. Kevin McCarthy was dead set that they will be retaking the house in 2022, but I have news for him. I would humbly suggest here and now that. Democrats will hold the house with an improved majority. David Perdue pretended he could not pronounce Kamala Harri’s name in the running to hold on to his Georgia Senate seat. He lost.
Kevin McCarthy will not become speaker in 2022; he is a pathetic conniving little man with no character., he stands for nothing, and will eventually fall and be stepped over by the more caustic Jim Jordon. All McCarthy can hear are the footsteps of Jim Jordon in the background. Jordon will take over the caucus as soon as he slips, and the transformation will be complete.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Louisville Metro Police Department has officially fired two detectives and sanctioned others for their actions surrounding the raid that left Breonna Taylor, 26, dead in her apartment.
Detectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes, who were fired Tuesday, are the latest detectives the department has terminated in connection with the fatal police shooting of Taylor.
A third detective, Brett Hankison, was fired in June for “blindly” firing 10 rounds into her apartment.
Cosgrove, who the FBI concluded fired the shot that killed Taylor, violated procedures for use of force, and failing to use a body camera during the March 13 search warrant.
Jaynes, meanwhile, the officer who secured the search warrant for Taylor’s apartment, was found in violation of department policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation. Read more here; https://www.usatoday.com/news/
Before I say what I will, let me first say this, whatever you will tell me about how difficult Policing is, how officers have to make life and death decisions in seconds. I know. I have been there. And I did it all. Glad I got that out of the way.
The American courts are partially culpable for the impunity with which the nation’s police officers use lethal force, beginning with the Supreme Court’s shield, known as [qualified immunity]. Consequently, lower courts have all but given police carte blanch to do as they please in the process of enforcing the laws. Local prosecutors are supposed to prosecute offenders, regardless of who they are when they break the laws. They, in large measure, have all but given up on prosecuting killer cops. Instead, they have become tax-payer funded lawyers that defend cops from being prosecuted. This they do through a series of methods, including presenting only exculpatory evidence to empaneled grand juries with a view toward results of ‘no true bill”, non-indictments. Even in cases where the evidence is clear as day, prosecutors twist themselves into pretzels to explain why they cannot indict the kkk ‑killers in uniform. When prosecutors act as defense lawyers to corrupt and murderous cops, they don’t need to hire defense attorneys. The people are forced to pay prosecutors to defend when they should be prosecuting. The final barrier to police accountability is police unions. Contrary to the griping about them, however, the unions are not nearly as powerful as the politicians would have us believe. They pretend to have no leverage in changing how police behave because the unions protect dirty, killer cops. It is a lie. An employee cannot hold an employer to ransom. The sad reality is that Police unions help fund the campaigns of judges, prosecutors, and politicians and all the way up the food chain. It isn’t easy to move decisively against the people who fund your political campaign. So the politicians dither around the edges, but nothing substantive gets done to change police behavior. Even if you set aside the foregone, Legislatures can throw out the rules and enact new laws that remove police unions from having a say in how police officers are disciplined. In fact, police unions should only have a say in pay and working conditions, not whether police officers who commit crimes are allowed to get away with murder. Legislatures have it in their power to change those realities; their close ties to the police unions stand in the way.
When the standard for the use of deadly force is the irrational decision-making of seriously flawed individuals, these are the results. When poorly trained racists are allowed to kill, then gallingly claim that they thought the person had a gun, these are the results. When cops, who time and again abuse the very citizens they are sworn to protect, and are allowed to remain as police officers, and in many cases are rewarded with promotions, what incentive do they have to stop murdering innocent citizens? The tragedy inherent in these killings, is the mealy-mouthed responses of the politicians in both political parties. When asked to respond to these crimes against humanity, they default to the canned praise of police BS; the majority of our police officers are decent, hard-working people who lay their lives on the line to protect all of us”. What unadulterated bullshit by the way? No one asked them to join, they joined because they wanted the job, they have every responsibility to follow the laws, not break them. Rather than forcefully responding to the crimes of the murderers in uniform., the political hacks engage in canned praise for the killers. It is incomprehensible that in the world’s oldest democracy, agents of the state can summarily take the lives of some citizens using irrational arguments, “I thought he had a gun” or “I feared for my life.” If you kill someone because you could not wait to see if they had a gun, you are basically saying that police have the legal right to murder any citizen as long as they cannot see the person’s hands. If you have such irrational fears, you have no business being a police officer. Many of you who read this article will question these assertions; you are free to do so; nevertheless, the very disrespectful words of Adam Coy toward the shot and dying Andre Hill speaks volumes. The officer’s lack of action to stop the bleeding of the wounded Andre Hill, speaks directly to their lack of respect for his humanity.
Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog mikebeckles.com. He’s contributed to several websites. You may subscribe to his blogs, or subscribe to his Youtube channel @chatt-a-box, for the latest videos.
The national silence at the well-planned, well-executed Christmas Morning RV bombing in Nashville, Tennessee, is striking. The entire incident and the complexity of the act itself, has faded away with 2020 like a bad memory as if it never happened. But the reality is that it did happen. (Anthony Quinn Warner, a white male, did rig a vehicle with explosives, and he did detonate it in a major metropolis, allegedly killing himself in the process. That ought to drive terror into the hearts of the nation, but it hasn’t, because Anthony Quinn Warner just happen to be a white male. Stop just for a minute and think about the media feeding frenzy that would be in high gear today, had the bomber being identified as Jamal Muhammed? Forget about the gullible corporate media for a second and imagine the language that would be coming out of the House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats alike. Many politicians would be calling for bombings, and in all likelihood, war plans would have been on the table for airstrikes on the Nation to which the bomber may have had some ties, no evidence needed. Think this statement is hyperbolic? Please explain the rationale for the attack on Iraq?
So how does a nation manage this bi-polar response to actions that amount to the same thing? Sources familiar with the Nashville bomb investigation told the media that authorities are looking into evidence that Anthony Quinn Warner was interested in various conspiracy theories, including some involving “lizard people.” Authorities believe Warner also spent time hunting for alien life forms in a nearby state park. So there you have it, folks, the poor guy is just a paranoid whack-job with mental issues, that ought to put everything to rest, right? Have you noticed that for the most part, whenever these white terrorists exact harm on the nation using violence, they all seem to have three names? Just a thought! More shocking than the fact that there is silence from the White House to the little house on Main street, is the sad reality that these acts are not even seen as acts of terror. Many in the Republican Party, including William Barr, Michael Flynn, and others, wanted Demonstrators peaceably demonstrating against police violence to be charged with Sedition against the United States. For these same clowns, the complex premeditated act of building and detonating an explosive device in a major American City does not rise to sedition. If Republicans believe that Anthony Quinn Warner is an American terrorist, we are yet to hear it from them. In fairness, the Democrats are just as silent as their Republican and Media contemporaries.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog mikebeckles.com. He’s contributed to several websites. You may subscribe to his blogs, or subscribe to his Youtube channel @chatt-a-box, for the latest videos.
Indications are that investigators going through the Nashville blast-scene may now have a person or persons of interest in mind. The blast — which injured three people and caused massive damage to the city’s downtown area — emanated from a white RV parked on 2nd Avenue at 6.40 am on Christmas morning. Some analysts theorize that the RV, which broadcasted a recorded message warning people to get away from the area and gave a countdown before the blast occurred, may have been designed to target law-enforcement. The idea is that as law-enforcement is drawn to the area to investigate, the RV would detonate, killing them. The blast reportedly injured several people.
At this point, there has been no confirmation from the FBI or local police as to who was involved, whether tissue allegedly found at the scene was indeed human tissue, or who exactly may have been involved at this early stage of the investigations. White supremacist groups have been known to pose the greatest danger to the United States. They are heavily armed, and well organized. They have demonstrated their desire and capabilities to take innocent lives on a grand scale. From Timothy McVeigh in the Okholohama city bombing, to Mother Emanuel, to Kyle Rittenhouse, their goal is to murder the innocent. Despite the clear and present danger they pose, law enforcement authorities’ attention, including local police departments, seems to be focused elsewhere.
The Trump administration on Friday dramatically expanded the federal government’s ability to carry out the death penalty and use archaic methods of execution that would prove to be a national embarrassment if used in Trump’s waning days as president.
At a time when every other constitutional democracy and many religious faiths have condemned capital punishment because of its cruel assault on human dignity, Trump and his cronies have again thumbed their noses at the world and at common decency. The new rule is worded with deceptive simplicity: “Federal executions are to be carried out by lethal injection or by any other manner prescribed by the law of the State in which the sentence was imposed.” Behind this bureaucratic prose hides a stark fact: In our supposedly civilized nation, the federal government now will be able to hang, electrocute, gas, or shoot individuals if it does not want to kill them by lethal injection
While lethal injection is by no means an execution panacea, Trump and his minions have embraced outdated ways of carrying out death sentences. They have revived them almost entirely for their symbolic value rather than their need to use them in the unlikely event something goes awry with the lethal injection protocol. But, practically speaking, nothing now stands in the way of the federal government’s plan to put people to death by a single dose of pentobarbital. The Trump administration is cruelly taking advantage of the fact that this country’s 22 remaining death penalty states, because they have had real difficulties obtaining lethal injection drugs, have kept older methods on the books as a last resort. Today, nine Southern and border states prescribe death by electrocution as an alternative method of execution. Six states authorize execution by gas, and the firing squad is the alternative in three more. Remarkably, three states — Delaware, New Hampshire, and Washington — still allow for death by hanging if lethal injection is unavailable or impractical.
Here is a brief observation of the PNP. Socialism, as a political construct, has been a failure across the Globe, save and except for the Scandinavian region of Europe that practice a kind of pseudo-socialism in their almost homogenously white societies. The socialism that they practice, guarantees everyone a rather comfortable standard of living if they pay a much higher rate of taxation. of note is the fact that those societies were previously independently wealthy nations, some of which had conquered parts of Africa and plundered its resources. Note: the socialism they practice is not the ideological, beret-wearing fist thrusting revolutionary style socialism that the PNP continues to offer to the Jamaican people.
The drubbing the PNP suffered at the polls over the last two election cycles, along with the losses they sustained in the by-elections, would be a wake-up call to a serious political party that understands polling data and trends. Unfortunately, the party fails to see that the younger generation is more interested in a market economy that allows them to shine on their own. Young people see how other millennials and generation Xers are living in other countries and they want that lifestyle.….… They do not want a political party that is offering them freebies that they know it cannot deliver anyway.
Jamaicans do not want Socialism/Communism, China, Russia, and most of the Eastern European nations that had subscribed to that political ideology have moved their economies away from that failed construct since the fall of the Soviet Union. It is shocking that in 2020 almost three decades since Michael Manley took Jamaica down the rabbit hole of Democratic Socialism, that these washed up idiots are still expecting Jamaicans to vote for them and their failed ideology that people all around the world have long eschew, except for China, Cuba, North Korea, and Belarus to a certain extent.
Mike Beckles is a former police Detective corporal, businessman, freelance writer, he is a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog mikebeckles.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.
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