The New England Patriots are head­ing to the Super-Bowl sched­uled for February 1^st once again. Not without

con­tro­ver­sy how­ev­er, the Patriots Organization , no stranger to uneth­i­cal alle­ga­tions are sad­dled with League Investigations dubbed “Ballgate”. and in some quar­ters “Deflategate”. The inci­dent came to light after the Patriots defeat­ed the Indianapolis Colts, 45 – 7. Soon after that win, Bob Kravitz of Indiana’s WTHR TV tweet­ed: “A league source tells me the NFL is inves­ti­gat­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty the Patriots deflat­ed foot­balls Sunday night, as report­ed by npr.

This is not the first time the Organization is fac­ing alle­ga­tions of impro­pri­ety and uneth­i­cal behav­ior. In 2007 the Patriots faced league sanc­tions in what was monikered “Spygate” when it was dis­cov­ered they video­taped the New York Jets sig­nals. The Patriots and coach Bill Belichick were found to have video­taped the New York Jets’ signals.The spy­ing inci­dent result­ed in the NFL strip­ping the Patriots of a first-round draft pick and fin­ing Belichick.

“Under NFL rules, the home team sup­plies most of the balls used in games; the vis­it­ing team brings foot­balls for its own offense to use. All the foot­balls must be inflat­ed with­in a range of 12.5−13.5 pounds per square inch and weigh between 14 and 15 ounces.

“In wet and slip­pery con­di­tions, an under-inflat­ed ball could be eas­i­er to grip and catch. And in last night’s game, an NFL offi­cial report­ed­ly took at least one ball out of cir­cu­la­tion after sus­pect­ing it did­n’t meet league requirements.

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick says he had “no knowl­edge” about the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing his team and deflat­ed footballs.

“In my entire coach­ing career, I have nev­er talked to any play­er or staff mem­ber about foot­ball air pressure,”

As I pre­pared to leave home for work this morn­ing I over­heard sports talk­ing-heads on Television dis­cussing the sto­ry. One par­tic­u­lar sport talk­er could not find enough words to try and absolve Patriots head coach Bill Belichick of wrong doing, he claimed the poor coach may not have had any knowl­edge of any­thing that transpired.
Disgusted by this fla­grant attempt at ratio­nal­iz­ing away this lat­est scan­dal I left home for work. I could not help think­ing to myself how sav­age the ver­bal onslaught was after Ray Rice knocked out his fiancé Jenae in an ele­va­tor. I also recalled some of the adjec­tives they used to describe Adrian Petersen . Petersen plead guilty to spank­ing his son, the spank­ing left welts on the child. I was not proud of Petersen’s meth­ods . Notwithstanding, I under­stood how a father could have seen the need to dis­ci­pline his own child, the meth­ods he used were once sacro­sanct now they are viewed as barbaric.
I thought to myself , how iron­ic it is that Petersen was all apolo­getic for spank­ing his own son albeit the marks, was pun­ished like a com­mon crim­i­nal, yet the state will not lift a fin­ger to to pun­ish crim­i­nal cops who sum­mar­i­ly kill inno­cent unarmed peo­ple with­out bat­ting an eye. I cer­tain­ly was not about to give Rice a pass for his actions , which by all accounts were clear­ly criminal.

On arriv­ing at work the sub­ject cen­ter stage was once again “Deflategate”. The team at the table Mat Lauer, Al Roker and Tamron Hall was aghast that one view­er dared to ask whether the Patriots would be banned from the super-bowl. I switched the chan­nel out of disgust.
Whether the Patriots coach and it’s Quarterback Tom Brady, knew that the balls were tam­pered with is imma­te­r­i­al. From all accounts some pres­sure was report­ed­ly removed from eleven of the twelve game balls. It defies com­mon sense that Tom Brady would not have real­ized he was bet­ter able to grip the balls dur­ing the game against the Colts played in rainy con­di­tions. Brady is no new com­er to the game, his expe­ri­ence is enough to cause any­one with a brain to say “he knew the balls were tam­pered with”.

This brings us to the ques­tion of why we play sports. Different peo­ple, play­ers, coach­es and spec­ta­tors have vary­ing rea­sons why we spend so much of our time prepar­ing to play or prepar­ing oth­ers to play. There must be a rea­son why we shell out hard earned cash to pay for seats to watch our favorite teams play. Why do we take our lit­tle ones to lit­tle league or oth­er pee-wee pick­up leagues ? We do so because we are con­vinced that despite the desire to see our lit­tle ones dom­i­nate their peers, we know that sports build char­ac­ter. We believe that sports helps us pre­pare for life, it shows us when we get knocked down we don’t quit, we don’t turn away and cry, we pick our­selves up try to be bet­ter and con­tin­ue to com­pete. And if we loose we dust our­selves off, go back to the draw­ing board, do what we must and come back bet­ter next time. We com­pete know­ing when we do our best and our oppo­nents do their best, and we win, That makes us the best.

What hap­pens if we destroy the puri­ty of sports? What hap­pens if sports become about those who can cheat the best? Where is the puri­ty and char­ac­ter in win­ning by being the most dis­hon­est? Is it real­ly win­ning? Whether or not one believe the Patriots Organization through the protes­ta­tions of it’s coach and star quar­ter-back is imma­te­r­i­al. This is one more black-eye, not just for the NFL , but for sports itself. This foot­ball fan will not watch the super-bowl this year. My not watch­ing will not change a sin­gle thing about foot­ball, it will not bring a dol­lar less to the game or the com­pet­ing teams. It will cer­tain­ly bring sat­is­fac­tion to me though, that at least in my small way I stood against dishonesty.
Yes if it is proven that the Patriots deflat­ed the balls they should be barred from the super-bowl. 
If the League’s inves­ti­ga­tions reveal that the Patriots did deflate game-balls, it is a big deal , it will mean they did not learn any­thing . It would mean los­ing a few hun­dred thou­sand dol­lars and a draft pick cer­tain­ly did not dis­suade the Patriots from being dis­hon­est. If that is the penal­ty to gain an unfair advan­tage why would they not take that path any­way. The penal­ty for cheat­ing should be ban­ish­ment, noth­ing else sends a clear enough mes­sage. Anything less sends a mes­sage that teams are allowed to cheat , pay a penal­ty but pro­ceed to take it all anyway.
That approach defeats the whole idea of sports.
To bor­row a line from “Shark Tank” , ” based on that alone I’m out”. 

After six years in office and hav­ing seen his par­ty lose the House and then the sen­ate in two elec­tion cycles, the pres­i­dent declared Tuesday night “This is a break­through year,“The shad­ow of cri­sis has passed, Tonight, we turn the page.”

The President did not seem per­turbed at the prospect of fac­ing for the first time in his pres­i­den­cy a con­gress con­trolled by Republicans.
Obama seemed in no mood to be pushed around, telling repub­li­cans if they pushed leg­is­la­tion he was opposed to like the key­stone pipeline project he would veto them. In some ways the Presidents speech seemed more like a plat­form for a third demo­c­ra­t­ic term, for whomev­er the par­ty choos­es as it’s stan­dard bear­er, than a state of the union address.
The President went into the address with a 46 % approval rat­ing , gas prices just over two dol­lars per gal­lon on aver­age, unem­ploy­ment at the low­est it has ever been since 1999 at the height of anoth­er democ­ra­t’s pres­i­den­cy, Bill Clinton.
Last year saw the strongest job growth in 15 years. The unem­ploy­ment rate dropped to 5.6 per­cent. Inflation was a not a fac­tor. And with gaso­line sell­ing for just over $2 a gal­lon in many parts of the coun­try, dri­vers are expect­ed to save hun­dreds of dol­lars at the pump this year.

The President had every right to crow about his accom­plish­ments after all the econ­o­my is on steady foot­ing. The auto indus­try is roar­ing. Businesses are cre­at­ing jobs. More Americans have health care. There has been no ter­ror­ist attack on American soil on his watch thus far. Two wars of choice has ended. 
The pres­i­den­t’s leg­isla­tive accom­plish­ments are impres­sive. Whats more, he accom­plished what he did with no help from republicans. 
As most repub­li­cans sat on their hands their faces reg­is­ter­ing hatred for him and his suc­cess­es , President Obama stat­ed “I have no more cam­paigns to run”.This drew applause from repub­li­cans, Obama briskly shot back, “I know, because I won both of them.” In refrence to his two pres­i­den­tial campaigns.

The pres­i­dent was cor­rect to remind the half-wits on the oth­er side of the isle there was no dis­crep­an­cy with either of his elec­tions. Notwithstanding sup­posed Democratic Senator Joe Manchin WV, believes the pres­i­dent should have just laughed it off. Manchin hard­ly a demo­c­rat , told MSNBC mis­ter Obama should have joked with repub­li­cans , you know say­ing “come on guys that at least deserves a stand­ing ovation”.
Manchin believes the pres­i­dent should shuck and jive to white con­gres­sion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tives who hates his guts. Many observers believe Manchin, pro-coal, pro-gun for­mer Governor of West Virginia is no demo­c­rat. He has nev­er missed an oppor­tu­ni­ty to crit­i­cize the pres­i­den­t’s lead­er­ship style. With friends like Manchin who needs enemies.

President Obama talked about his belief in the good­ness of Americans, he told the world the state of the union is good. I won­der though, how truth­ful are these state­ments ? How good are a peo­ple who hate Eric Holder for telling them they are cow­ards for not address­ing racial hatreds? How good are a peo­ple who are con­tent to look the oth­er way, while scores of unarmed peo­ple are mur­dered by police, or worse, sug­gest they deserve what they got?

How good are a peo­ple who refus­es to address the intrin­sic hatred they har­bor, not just for peo­ple of oth­er races, but oth­er reli­gious beliefs and even dif­fer­ent though? 
How good are a peo­ple who go out to sup­port a movie about a sniper who killed scores of peo­ple over­seas. Yet can­not find it in their hearts to sup­port the movie “Selma“which tells the sto­ry of America’s great­est moral leader, even as they pay lip ser­vice to his life work? 

No mis­ter pres­i­dent , even as we recent­ly com­mem­o­rat­ed the life work of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, we must still be res­olute in telling America it is still a racist , xeno­pho­bic soci­ety which is quite will­ing to bomb oth­ers into obliv­ion from a dis­tance. Unconcerned about the lives of the innocent.
No Mister pres­i­dent those are not the traits of good peo­ple. Look no fur­ther than across the isle at many look­ing back at you,those are not good peo­ple, those are some of the most racist , hate­ful peo­ple any­where . There is much work to be done.

Jamaica’s rul­ing People’s National Party issued a state­ment over the sig­na­ture of Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Robert Pickersgill . The release harsh­ly crit­i­cized the Opposition Jamaica Labor Party for sug­gest­ing that the Tivoli inquiry be abort­ed. In the release the Party said.
Recent state­ments by the Opposition Leader (Andrew Holness), Member of Parliament for Western Kingston (Desmond McKenzie), and Opposition Senator Ruel Reid, among oth­ers, con­tin­ue the pat­tern of denial and obfus­ca­tion prac­tised by the Jamaica Labour Party with respect to their ini­tial han­dling of a legit­i­mate extra­di­tion request for now con­fessed felon Christopher “Dudus” Coke,”

The release went on to say “Jamaicans will nev­er for­get the events lead­ing up to the pro­mul­ga­tion on May 24, 2010 of a State of Public Emergency”. “The record con­firms that there was sig­nif­i­cant loss of lives, at least 70 Jamaicans are believed to have died. It is a dark and hor­rif­ic chap­ter in Jamaica’s his­to­ry, which, should nev­er be repeat­ed” Pickersgill report­ed in the release.

“As we see it, their argu­ment to end the enquiry because of cost is a ‘red her­ring’ of naked and vul­gar polit­i­cal convenience”.“They can­not sin­cere­ly or pos­si­bly be sug­gest­ing that a dol­lar cost can be placed against the val­ue of the lives which have been lost, and oth­ers which have been per­ma­nent­ly impaired, by the awful events of May 2010 which ensued under their watch and for which they must accept full respon­si­bil­i­ty to the Jamaican peo­ple,” he continued.

Of course God for­bid that some­one say ‚“You know this is cost pro­hib­i­tive at this time ” . Like every­thing else for the PNP, their peo­ple haf­fi eat a food su dis like every ting else nah stap.
What inter­est does the PNP have in the lives of res­i­dents of Tivoli Gardens ?
None !!!
Why then are they vehe­he­ment about con­duct­ing this inquiry ? To dam­age the JLP of course, they all but said so , quote:“They can­not sin­cere­ly or pos­si­bly be sug­gest­ing that a dol­lar cost can be placed against the val­ue of the lives which have been lost, and oth­ers which have been per­ma­nent­ly impaired, by the awful events of May 2010 which ensued under their watch and for which they must accept full respon­si­bil­i­ty to the Jamaican peo­ple,”

Talk about Red-her­ring ? Here is the Red-her­ring. The PNP is a trib­al par­ty which does every­thing for par­ti­san trib­al rea­sons. It is

there­fore a stretch that the very par­ty which unan­i­mous­ly vot­ed not to give law enforce­ment more time to arrest crim­i­nals run­ning back to their gar­risons, sud­den­ly care about 70 dead laborites. Whether or not the inquiry should be stopped is cer­tain­ly debat­able. The PNP’s moral jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for it’s con­tin­u­ance is insult­ing and hypocritical. 

The PNP has no moral author­i­ty to speak about loss of life. Why did the par­ty vote unan­i­mous­ly not to allow the secu­ri­ty forces more time to con­sol­i­date gains made after the Tivoli incur­sion? Everyone famil­iar with Jamaican pol­i­tics know that PNP Garrisons would have been over­turned as Tivoli was. When you have 11 gar­risons to the oth­er guy’s 1 , of course you want to keep those zones of exclu­sions which deliv­er elec­tions to you time and again . This was an almost trea­so­nous and sedi­tious act on the part of the PNP when they sided with Jamaica’s crim­i­nals . That is where a true inquiry should be directed.

You can­not moral­ly jus­ti­fy some­thing if you are immoral your­self. The deep cor­rup­tion per­va­sive in that admin­is­tra­tion makes it unfit to make state­ments on moral jus­ti­fi­ca­tions. The moral thing for this Administration to do is resign and present the Jamaican peo­ple with a gen­uine mea-cul­pa, for the decep­tion, decay and deca­dence it has unleashed on the nation over the last 40 years. Their stew­ard­ship has dec­i­mat­ed our man­u­fac­tur­ing , agri­cul­tur­al , edu­ca­tion, health and every oth­er sec­tor. Our peo­ple are refugees in many places where they are viewed as out­casts. The dam­age they wrought is equal to that done by sub-Saharan war­lords and their clans. For a coun­try with so many who claim to be intel­lec­tu­als it is hard to ignore the bla­tant igno­rance and stu­pid­i­ty of the voters.

Martin Luther King was born on the 15^th of January 1929. He was born Michael King, but his father changed his name in hon­or of the German reformer Martin Luther. Dr. King spent his life in ser­vice to human­i­ty and the cause of racial and human jus­tice. Today we hon­or Dr King and his accom­plish­ments. On Monday January 19^th we will com­mem­o­rate the life of Dr. King who would have been 86 years old had he lived. Martin King fell vic­tim to an assas­s­in’s bul­let in Memphis Tennessee on April 4^th 1968 , he was only 39 years old. The forces whose bul­lets silenced his voice thought they would win with demise, they were wrong, they cre­at­ed a mar­tyr. They ele­vat­ed him to heights not even they could imag­ine. Today many who want­ed him gone, now pub­licly sing his praise. Thank you Dr King.

When Union del­e­gates gath­er to seek a way for­ward meet­ings some­times get rau­cous. As a mat­ter of fact these meet­ings are where dis­agree­ments gets ironed out, as del­e­gates seek con­sen­sus on ways for­ward. So it’s not out of the ordi­nary that del­e­gates at the New York City’s Police Department Benevolent Association meet­ing on Tuesday got a lit­tle, should I say testy. The New York Daily News reports that at Antun’s in Queens PBA del­e­gates engaged in exchanges of heat­ed shout­ing and shov­ing between what they char­ac­ter­ized as an insur­gent group of del­e­gates opposed to long time Union head Patrick Lynch and Lynch’s supporters.

Lynch has been at the head of the PBA since 1993 and has ran unop­posed since then. Over the years how­ev­er Lynch has been more of an embar­rass­ment than a help to police offi­cers by his utter­ances and pub­lic stances. It appears that final­ly some mem­bers of the rank and file are start­ing to wake up to those realities. 
At Tuesdays meet­ing one cop — one of about 350 in atten­dance — took ver­bal jabs at Lynch, who has called on de Blasio to offer a mea cul­pa for what he see as a con­tin­ued lack of sup­port for police.
“They don’t want an apol­o­gy,” one cop said, as mem­bers near­ly came to blows. There was push­ing, shov­ing and lots of scream­ing at Patrick Lynch, pres­i­dent of the 23,000-member union. The in-house bat­tle erupt­ed over the issue of what patrol offi­cers real­ly need — an apol­o­gy from Mayor de Blasio or bet­ter equip­ment and more offi­cers to back them up on the streets. “This is what my mem­bers want!” one cop yelled near the end of the rau­cous meet­ing. “They want more cars, bet­ter vests, more man-pow­er!” The yelling , push­ing and shov­ing report­ed­ly con­tin­ued until Lynch stormed out.

By any mea­sure cops decid­ing to air their dis­af­fec­tion with Lynch’s lead­er­ship ‚does them­selves a tremen­dous ser­vice by oppos­ing Lynch. Most peo­ple who crit­i­cize police are not anti-police as Lynch seem to believe. In fact Lynch’s rhetoric makes it impos­si­ble to sup­port the NYPD unless one is a lack­ey , for whom the depart­ment can do no wrong. As a firm believ­er in the rule of law , and an ex-police offi­cer, I can­not in good con­science sup­port the NYPD based on Lynch’s behav­ior over the years.
In this medi­um I have repeat­ed­ly said that rank and file offi­cers of the NYPD would do well with­out Patrick Lynch as the head of their Union.
Being a loud mouth con­fronta­tion­al wan­na-be tough guy, who has acri­mo­nious rela­tion­ships with every Mayor and every­one except cops and blind cop-sup­port­ers is hard­ly the way to get cops the best deal pos­si­ble. In fact it could be argued that Lynch has cost cops sup­port based on many of the shock­ing state­ments he has made over the years.
Blaming Eric Garner for his own death, after the rest of the world watched Daniel Pantaleo squeeze the life out of the Staten Island res­i­dent, using an ille­gal choke-hold, was not only offen­sive it showed Lynch to be a un-car­ing sub-human cretin.
As the fam­i­ly griev­ed the loss of their loved one and the city erupt­ed in protest the least Patrick Lynch could have done is keep his mouth shut.
But being a self pro­mot­ing nar­cis­sist for whom cops can do no wrong, Lynch went pub­lic in December 2014,saying quote,
“We feel bad­ly that there was a loss of life but unfor­tu­nate­ly Mr. Garner made a choice that day to resist arrest.”
This was far from the only out­ra­geous state­ment com­ing from Lynch, June 2000,Bruce Springstein released a song in response to the killing of unarmed African Immigrant Amadou Diallo by NYPD cops who fired 41 shots at the young man with mul­ti­ple shots hit­ting his body, killing him instant­ly. Lynch said ‚Singer Bruce Springsteen has begun per­form­ing in con­cert a song called “American Skin” — the title seems to sug­gest that the shoot­ing of Amadou Diallo was a case of racial pro­fil­ing — which keeps repeat­ing the phrase, “Forty-one-shots.” I con­sid­er it an out­rage that he would be try­ing to fat­ten his wal­let by reopen­ing the wounds of this trag­ic case at a time when police offi­cers and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers are in a heal­ing peri­od, and I have let his rep­re­sen­ta­tives and the press know how I feel about this song.

July2010 Lynch defend­ed a cop who was video­taped shov­ing a bicy­clist from his bike and assault­ing him say­ing, “The anar­chists were look­ing for a con­fronta­tion with police and found it in an rook­ie offi­cer try­ing to do his job the best way he knew how. The con­di­tion­al dis­charge doesn’t mit­i­gate the fact that New York City has one less police offi­cer today who could have served the city well”.
Instances of Lynch’s unin­tel­li­gent and poor­ly thought-out dia­tribes are numer­ous and well doc­u­ment­ed. We hope that the rank and file mem­bers of the NYPD will wake up and remove this alba­tross from their necks. Clearly the respect, sup­port and secu­ri­ty they seek will not come with Lynch’s bel­li­cose rhetoric and con­fronta­tion­al style. The meet­ing in Queens Tuesday may not mean that Lynch is on his way out. However it appears that at least a small cadre of offi­cers would like to see a dif­fer­ent style of lead­er­ship. I agree with them. One is much more like­ly to attract Ants with hon­ey than Vinegar.
It is time for some­one oth­er than old Archie Bunker Patrick Lynch to lead the rank and file. Cops must take respon­si­bil­i­ty when they make mis­takes, not demo­nize vic­tims fur­ther. Lynch’s time has come and gone. We fer­vent­ly hope rank and file cops will show Lynch the door and that sergeants will send Ed Mullins right along with him.

Safaree Samuels put in work dur­ing his 11-year rela­tion­ship with Nicki Minaj, but he refus­es to be her “employ­ee.” Just before Christmas, the 32-year-old rap­per took cen­ter stage on Twitter to rant about his ex-love. On Tuesday, he had the chance to tell his side of the sto­ry. “I walked away,” he told New York City’s Power 105.1 FM’s “The Breakfast Club.” “I’m not going to say I broke up, but I’m the one who walked away,” he added. “I packed up my stuff and I left.” Minaj dished on their break up when she last inter­viewed with Power 105’s Angie Martinez. “This is some­body I grew up with,” the Queens-born rap­per said about Samuels. “I don’t even know how I’m going to func­tion with­out that per­son in my life. I nev­er lived my life as a famous per­son with­out him.”

When the “Bang Bang” rap­per did acquire fame, things start­ed to change in their rela­tion­ship. “Anything you don’t appre­ci­ate will be tak­en. God sees your ungrate­ful evil soul,”

She tweet­ed in late December. “Wanted fame. I gave u my bless­ing. I still love. I still love. I’ll always love. So dis­ap­point­ed,” she con­tin­ued, pulling lines from her hit “Pills N Potions” off her lat­est album “The Pinkprint,” which is said to have sev­er­al songs inspired by Minaj’s heart­break. While Samuels — whose rap name is Scaff Beezy — imme­di­ate­ly shot back on Twitter telling his ex-lady to “stop look­ing for pit­ty (sic),” he was reluc­tant to go fur­ther on the social media site. It was­n’t until Tuesday when he real­ly laid it all out. “I just got to the point where the respect was­n’t there,” he said. “Everyone around her works for her, you know?” he explained.

“So it got to the point where it was like, I’m your man. I’m who you go to sleep with every night. I’m who you wake up with every morn­ing. And it got to the point where I was being treat­ed like an employ­ee, instead of like her man.“Nydailynews.com

“The police must do every­thing they can to keep us safe”.

How many times have you heard this statement ?
Too often.
People say this with­out giv­ing a sin­gle thought to the con­se­quences of what it means to give police unfet­tered power.

Police Agencies and their offi­cers are wary and dis­trust­ful of over­sight and trans­paren­cy. Police fun­da­men­tal­ly believe they take risks so they deserve some lee-way. And they are giv­en much lee-way. But how much do they need? Does that mean they can­not and should not be held account­able for anything?

They believe many crit­ics are ardent anti-law-enforce­ment, anti-police anarchist.
True some are, there are many for whom cops can do noth­ing right.
Those are bal­anced out by those for whom cops can do no wrong.
Having left law-enforce­ment 24 years ago I am more sen­si­tized to some of the con­cerns cit­i­zens have and how they per­ceive law-enforcement.
It also brings into sharp­er focus how peo­ple are treat­ed, not just by law-enforce­ment offi­cers, but by the larg­er crim­i­nal jus­tice system.

Police offi­cers close ranks when out­siders ques­tion what they do. Nowhere is this more bla­tant than in the World’s largest Police Agency, the NYPD.

The NYPD has five Unions rep­re­sent­ing offi­cers at vary­ing ranks with­ing the struc­ture. The Patrolman’s Benevolent Association (NYPD-PBA being the largest rep­re­sent­ing approx­i­mate­ly 35,000 cops under the rank of Sergeant. At the head of the Union is Patrick Lynch.
Lynch is a loud-mouth rab­ble rous­ing self pro­mot­er who absolute­ly rel­ish­es the idea of hear­ing him­self talk. Ed Mullins is a sergeant, he heads the SBA the Union which advo­cates for sergeants. Recently Mullins referred to the Mayor as a nincompoop.
There’s respect for you!

Oversight and trans­paren­cy are good for police. It qui­ets crit­ics and pro­tects the lives of Officers. Yet cops are the first to resist over­sight and transparency. 
When cit­i­zens are unhap­py and believe there are cov­er-ups bad things hap­pen to police.
Immediately fol­low­ing the das­tard­ly and rep­re­hen­si­ble deci­sion by the Staten Island grand jury in the Eric Garner case, four cops were shot, two fatally.
Is that the kind of envi­ron­ment NYPD cops want to work in? How about vot­ing loud-mouthed right wing moron Lynch out and watch peo­ple coa­lesce around you? How about kick­ing Ed Mullins out, show respect to all cit­i­zens then watch peo­ple show you respect?

Respect? Where is the respect for the fam­i­lies who want­ed the Mayor to attend the funer­al of their loved ones? Where is the respect for the Mayor him­self? Where is their respect for their boss the Commissioner? Where is their respect for the city?
There is none !
The point is that the NYPD and it’s unions want the Mayor to agree with them killing peo­ple with­out account­abil­i­ty. They want to have every­one in their cor­ner so when they cir­cle the wag­ons there is no daylight.
How dare this Mayor, the father of a black son, tell his son to be cau­tious around police? Why would he do that? Police only unlaw­ful­ly and rou­tine­ly kill black men?
When they do no mat­ter the evi­dence there is no con­se­quence . So whats he talk­ing about ? This has gone on for hun­dreds of years, it’s noth­ing new, where does he get off not sid­ing with us?

The prob­lem with the NYPD as with any police agency is that there is a fail­ure of lead­er­ship. For the most part Rank and file cops are used as rev­enue agents and when it suits loud mouthed self-serv­ing idiots like Lynch and Mullins’ pur­pose, they are used for Political purposes.
When NYPD cops whine about not get­ting respect, whine about not get­ting sup­port, like cry-babies, they are actu­al­ly say­ing they are not sub­ject to civil­ian author­i­ty. The recent and ongo­ing dis­play of arro­gance and disrespect com­ing from mem­bers of the NYPD are not only the actions of cops who believe they are above the laws. It is a soft coup-de-ta to the duly con­sti­tut­ed author­i­ty vest­ed in the city’s Mayor,who hap­pened to cam­paign on Police reform.

The Police Union through it’s grand-stander-in-chief Patrick Lynch, swore that a 94% drop in tick­ets and sub­poe­nas issued does not rep­re­sent a work slow-down by cops unhap­py with the Mayor. They are incensed with the Mayor for allow­ing cit­i­zens to protest the unlaw­ful killing of Eric Garner by Daniel Pantaleo a Staten Island cop.

Even though Patrick Lynch and Ed Mullins lied that there was no work stop­page, he issued instruc­tions for cops to go back to doing their jobs to about 50% of their capacity.
His instruc­tions are do your job , just don’t be too zeal­ous. This we are told came as the chief of depart­ment threat­ens to crack down on cops , as he responds to pres­sure from com­mis­sion­er Bratton.

Crime con­tin­ues to drop with the absence of stop and frisk, or what is ref­er­eed to as the bro­ken win­dows pol­i­cy in new York City. Coupled with the 94% drop in low lev­el arrests and the issuance of sum­mons­es and sub­poe­nas, it proves that the City’s minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ties are bear­ing the brunt of over-polic­ing , result­ing in extreme and undue fines and penal­ties. Many of the City’s pub­lic Defenders who watched a pre­cip­i­tous drop-off in the num­ber of peo­ple dragged before the courts, have stat­ed that New Yorkers are being brought before the courts on trumped up charges.

As it is in Ferguson Missouri, in cities and towns all across America, it is in New York City, Police are being used as rev­enue Agents.
Those who would give up their rights in pur­suit of secu­ri­ty end up with nei­ther. [Benjamin Franklin]

The more pow­er police gets is the more they crave. What they need is not more pow­er but more over­sight. We have already giv­en up too much of our rights and we still haven’t seen the secu­ri­ty we crave, At what point do we real­ize we have wound our­selves into a cocoon from which we may nev­er be able to extri­cate ourselves?
If the way America’s cops are behav­ing is a good met­ric by which we may mea­sure whether we have gone too far, we have already gone too far.

A few days ago we took the lib­er­ty to com­ment on year-end crime sta­tis­tics sup­plied by Jamaican law-enforce­ment and trum­pet­ed by the coun­try’s nation­al secu­ri­ty minister..
Authorities informed the coun­try, Murders dropped 16 per cent, shoot­ings were down 12 per cent, rape had fall­en by 23 per cent and aggra­vat­ed assault by 17 per cent. Of note is the fact that Police killings have dropped a pre­cip­i­tous 54% against the last cor­re­spond­ing peri­od See: https://​mike​beck​les​.com/​1​6​-​r​e​d​u​c​t​i​o​n​-​i​n​-​m​u​r​d​e​r​-​r​a​t​e​-​c​o​m​m​e​n​d​a​b​l​e​-​y​et/
As we cel­e­brat­ed the fact that over 250 less Jamaicans were mur­dered than the last cor­re­spond­ing peri­od , we cau­tioned on January 3^rd that we did not nec­es­sar­i­ly see low­er crime num­bers as a trend .
Reason being , despite the efforts of the Minister, and the police with the help of the mil­i­tary to under­take cer­tain com­mu­ni­ty out­reach pro­grams and raids, we did not see any­thing new which would lend itself to a sus­tain­able drop in crime. In fact we warned that we may yet see a dra­mat­ic spike in crime because there is no proven for­mu­la com­ing from law enforce­ment which can be direct­ly proven to decreas­ing crime. Coupled with the ane­mic econ­o­my and down­ward pres­sure on lot­to scam­mers , we believed then and now the envi­ron­ment is rife for a mas­sive spike in crim­i­nal­i­ty in the country.
The fact of the mat­ter is that inso­far as the JCF is con­cerned it appears low­er crime num­bers are pure­ly a func­tion of luck.
Don’t get me wrong I am all for luck keep­ing 256 more peo­ple alive. What we are say­ing is sim­ply that we have to find more sci­en­tif­ic and prag­mat­ic ways to keep more peo­ple alive, pre­vent more women from get­ting raped, pre­vent more peo­ple from get­ting shot and across the board reduce and elim­i­nate lawlessness.
As if to show author­i­ties that they are pow­er­less to stop crime, Jamaican crim­i­nals are on a tear , killing a report­ed 21 peo­ple over the first 6 days of the new year. Those report­ed killed may not nec­es­sar­i­ly be the only peo­ple mur­dered. That rep­re­sents only those which are report­ed to author­i­ties. At this pace the coun­try is once again on pace to see rough­ly 1,300 cit­i­zens slaugh­tered by year end. Poof there goes the 16% reduc­tion in murders.
The JCF has at it’s head now a PhD , many of the senior com­mand struc­ture have under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate degrees. We were once told this was need­ed to keep crime under control.
We too believed the cal­iber of peo­ple being recruit­ed into the JCF had to improve. We believed train­ing need­ed to be more reflec­tive of the sophis­ti­ca­tion of crim­i­nals and should be ongo­ing. We believed that the pri­ma­cy of the Agency’s push should be (1 Community Policing and (2 an effec­tive Criminal Investigations Branch, which would work hand-in-hand with com­mu­ni­ty policing.

Simply put, gain­ing the trust of com­mu­ni­ties cre­ates intel­li­gence streams which places crim­i­nals in jeop­ardy. When peo­ple are afraid of being caught they think twice about com­mit­ting crimes.
Fewer crimes, low­er num­bers. Those who do com­mit crimes would have to deal with the real­i­ty of know­ing they will be held account­able. Again, less crime because more peo­ple are held account­able for their actions.
Crime will not be reduced from 103 old hope road. It will depend on a com­mit­ment from whichev­er admin­is­tra­tion is in pow­er. It will depend on that admin­is­tra­tion hav­ing an under­stand­ing that crime eats away at the stan­dard of liv­ing of it’s peo­ple. It requires an admin­is­tra­tion which is itself above board, not steeped in corruption.
More than any­thing else it requires an intel­li­gent leader who under­stand that con­struc­tive crit­i­cism and advice is not an invi­ta­tion to engage in brawls befit­ting of vira­goes in Kingston 13 tenements.
It requires a leader who is not mere­ly con­cerned with being prime min­is­ter, bliss­ful­ly un-nerved as Rome burns.
It requires lead­ers with the basic under­stand­ing that crime chas­es away investors.
As long as Jamaicans con­tin­ue to elect and re-elect old-style gar­ri­son thugs to the par­lia­ment then they must be pre­pared to con­tin­ue to wash away the blood.

“I think it’s a nar­ra­tive that fol­lows you because it’s an inter­est­ing head­line. It’s more of a media-dri­ven top­ic.” Aniston quipped to Cowan that “every­body has” moved on. “You guys still talk?” he con­tin­ued. “You friends?” “We’ve exchanged good wish­es and all that sort of stuff to each oth­er, but not a con­stant thing,” Aniston replied on if she stays in touch with Pitt. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/jennifer-aniston-talks-brad-pitt-divorce-10-years-article‑1.2065976

The Ugandan musi­cian and pop star

was recent­ly denied a visa from the UK. Gay rights cam­paign­ers in the UK have peti­tioned to bar Wine from enter­ing the coun­try because of his homo­pho­bic song lyrics that incite vio­lence. Wine’s songs encour­age vio­lence against homo­sex­u­als. Because of his very pub­lic homo­pho­bic stance, Wine will not be allowed to vis­it or per­form in the UK.
 
Cultures at Odds
In Wine’s home­land of Uganda, homo­sex­u­als recent­ly faced life impris­on­ment for their sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion. The law for life impris­on­ment has been over­turned; how­ev­er, homo­sex­u­al­i­ty is still viewed as a crime in Uganda. Wine’s lyrics do not mince words. His lyrics encour­age Ugandans to fight and even kill homo­sex­u­als. In the UK, of course, anti-gay feel­ing is not to be tol­er­at­ed. A 2008 UK gov­ern­ment act for­bids vio­lence against any­one on the grounds of their sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion. The UK Home Office, how­ev­er, will not com­ment about Wine’s spe­cif­ic case. The case, how­ev­er, calls atten­tion to the cul­tur­al dif­fer­ences between the two nations.
 
Canceled Gigs
Wine was sched­uled to play in London as well as Birmingham. He has been forced to can­cel those gigs. Wine has spo­ken pub­li­cal­ly about his anti-gay feel­ing. He is unapolo­getic for his stance and cites that he is not in the minor­i­ty con­cern­ing his feel­ings in his home­land. In Uganda, there have been calls to hang gay peo­ple. While Wine has not incit­ed vio­lence against homo­sex­u­als when speak­ing pub­li­cal­ly, his lyrics tell anoth­er sto­ry. Ultimately, it was those lyrics that will pre­vent him from see­ing Big Ben in person.
 
A Matter of Opinion
Although Wine has been crit­i­cized by human rights groups for his anti-gay stance, he has asked them to allow him his right to his own opin­ions. Wine is well known for his stance, which has prompt­ed some to ques­tion his regard for his own gay fans. Wine has not addressed that ques­tion and, of course, it remains improb­a­ble that he has any con­sid­er­ing his views. Fans of Wine don’t think that his opin­ions will impede his career even though he can’t appear in the UK. In fact, when the stars songs were pre­vi­ous­ly banned in his home coun­try for their explic­it lyrics about life in the ghet­to, his pop­u­lar­i­ty only increased.
 
Ghetto President
Wine has referred to him­self as a “ghet­to pres­i­dent,” which is a bla­tant ref­er­ence to his youth spent grow­ing up the ghet­tos of Uganda. He under­stands pover­ty to the core, which is one rea­son why fans flock to him. He under­stands the plight of the peo­ple. Many of his lyrics can be uplift­ing; how­ev­er, he cer­tain­ly does­n’t shy away from con­tro­ver­sial stances. In fact, he has stat­ed that at least he is free in his home­land to express him­self as he chooses.
 
UK fans of Wine will not be able to see the artist per­form live – at least not in the UK. The denial of Wine’s visa lends strength to the 2008 act. It is like­ly that oth­er artists that take a stand against gays pub­li­cal­ly will not be invit­ed into the UK either. — See more at: http://​www​.gnd​.com/​h​o​m​o​p​h​o​b​i​c​-​p​o​p​-​s​t​a​r​-​d​e​n​i​e​d​-​u​k​-​v​i​s​a​.​p​h​p​?​r​e​f​=​o​b​&​a​d​_​i​d​=​2​9​9​9​2​5​3​4​#​s​t​h​a​s​h​.​U​S​k​Q​h​g​o​A​.​d​puf

August 5^th 1981 less than 2 years into his first term Ronald Reagan fired over 11’000 Federal Air Traffic Controllers who ignored his orders

to go back to work. The mass fir­ing of fed­er­al employ­ees slowed com­mer­cial air trav­el, but it did not crip­ple the sys­tem as the strik­ers had fore­cast. Reagan brand­ed the strike ille­gal. He threat­ened to fire any con­troller who failed to return to work with­in 48 hours. Federal judges levied fines of $1 mil­lion per day against the union. To add to the woes of the fired Controllers, 3,000 super­vi­sors joined 2,000 non­strik­ing con­trollers and 900 mil­i­tary con­trollers in man­ning air­port tow­ers. Before long, about 80 per­cent of flights were oper­at­ing nor­mal­ly. Air freight remained vir­tu­al­ly unaf­fect­ed. Regan did not stop there he insti­tut­ed a life­time ban on the fired con­trollers. In October 1981, just over two months lat­er the Federal Labor Relations Authority de-cer­ti­fied PATCO, the con­trollers Union.
Some call it union bust­ing, it may well have been, but none will deny that what the President did was nec­es­sary to pre­vent fur­ther mass dis­rup­tion in air trav­el which would have dis­as­trous con­se­quences for the country.
More than any­thing Reagan demon­strat­ed that he would not be bul­lied by sub­or­di­nates. No one doubt­ed the resolve of Reagan from there on in.

April 10^th 2006 Roger Toussaint, the pres­i­dent of the tran­sit work­ers’ union who led bus and sub­way work­ers in a strike that crip­pled New York City for three cold days in December, was sen­tenced to 10 days by Justice Theodore T. Jones of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Additionally Toussaint was fined $1000. Ed Watt, the union’s sec­re­tary-trea­sur­er, and Darlyne Lawson, its record­ing sec­re­tary, were each fined $500, but were not sen­tenced to jail.

In hand­ing down sen­tence Justice Jones said “It is unfor­tu­nate that it came down to an ille­gal strike, but it was nonethe­less ille­gal.” The charges stemmed from the union lead­er­ship’s fail­ure to order tran­sit work­ers back to work after Justice Jones ruled that they must do so under the state’s Taylor Law, which pro­hibits strikes by pub­lic employees.

Fast for­ward to the actions of NYPD cops who have made it a habit now of being dis­re­spect­ful to the Mayor of the city of New York. Mayor Bill deBlasio who did exact­ly what he ought to have done in address­ing the con­cerns of cit­i­zens of the city regard­ing unlaw­ful police con­duct , now seem to be bend­ing over back­ward to demon­strate to some thug­gish gang­ster-cops with­ing the NYPD that he is on their side. Essentially the tail now appear to be wag­ging the Dog. In two pre­scients in the Brooklyn neigh­bor­hood where two cops, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were killed recent­ly cops have vir­tu­al­ly insti­tut­ed a work stop­page. There has been a 94% drop in tick­ets writ­ten and sum­mons­es issued. Whether you agree with over polic­ing which cre­at­ed the high­er num­ber of sum­mons­es and tick­ets hand­ed out to begin with, is a legit­i­mate debate. What is not legit­i­mate is cops tak­ing it upon them­selves to insti­tute an ille­gal work stop­page while receiv­ing their pay.

Under no cir­cum­stances would this coup-de-ta be tol­er­at­ed in the pri­vate sec­tor, nei­ther would it be tol­er­at­ed in any oth­er area of the public

sec­tor. Work stop­page and out­right dis­re­spect have no place in the work­place. At the heart of Some com­mu­ni­ties com­plaint is the issue of police dis-respect which leads them to abuse and kill peo­ple with­out con­cern for penal­ties under the laws. What is it then which allows police to believe they can kill and no one should ques­tion them on it? Further why does police believe that their boss the Mayor, have no author­i­ty to hold them account­able for their actions when they are clear­ly in the wrong ? The rea­sons are clear. Police believe they are not sub­ject to the laws which gov­ern every­one else.
Police have huge sup­port , in the United States, par­tic­u­lar­ly on the polit­i­cal right. Not because the polit­i­cal right are law and order enthu­si­asts. In fact Staten Island Republican Congressman Michael Grimm is a typ­i­cal Republican hyp­ocrite when it comes to the rule of law. He is slat­ed to be sen­tenced on Federal tax eva­sion charges lat­er this month. The stark real­i­ty is that the right sup­port police who they see as a bar­ri­er between them­selves and black Americans.

If over 11,000 Federal Air Traffic con­trollers can be fired with the stroke of Reagan’s pen and their Union de-cer­ti­fied, cops can be fired . If a New York City Union leader and oth­ers can be impris­oned for fight­ing for a liv­able wage for their mem­bers why are cops exempt from the rule of law?
This is a moment where Bill deBlasio may once and for all show these thugs who is in charge. Yet deBlasio is a Democrat, and Democrats do not make deci­sive deci­sions. Patrick Lynch and the oth­er police Union boss­es knows deBlasio will not squash them like bugs, that is the rea­son they con­tin­ue with what is clear­ly a soft coup de ta . The moment when the Mayor should haven take deci­sive action was right after they turned their backs to him at Woodhull Hospital, he missed that boat. Going for­ward deBlasio will have no con­trol over the City’s 39.000 cops, he has no one to blame but him­self. They are uni­formed essen­tial ser­vice employ­ees there are ways to con­trol them . deBlasio missed his chance at leadership.

Despite anoth­er eco­nom­i­cal­ly chal­leng­ing year for Jamaicans, there is at least one area of the pub­lic sec­tor which appears to be improv­ing the qual­i­ty of life and in some cas­es deter­min­ing whether Jamaicans live or die. For the first time in years the Jamaica Constabulary Force(JCF has report­ed that there are reduc­tions in major crime cat­e­gories against the last cor­re­spond­ing period.

Murders have dropped 16 per cent, shoot­ings are down 12 per cent, rape has fall­en by 23 per cent and aggra­vat­ed assault by 17 per cent. Of note is the fact that Police killings have dropped a pre­cip­i­tous 54% against the last cor­re­spond­ing peri­od. This is good news across the board for the country.Remarkably the low­er crime num­bers and the par­al­lel low­er inci­dents of police killing bears out what I have always believed. In most cas­es, if crim­i­nals do not threat­en police with bod­i­ly harm they will not be shot. This is not always the case but from my decade long expe­ri­ence it is true in many cas­es of police use of lethal force in Jamaica.

Peter Bunting , Minister of National Security is ecsta­t­ic about the down­ward trend in the crime stats, as he should be, already some are tak­ing pot shots at the Minister that he prayed for Divine inter­ven­tion at the start of the new Year but have not cred­it­ed God with the drop in crime across the board. Minister Bunting took con­sid­er­able flack for what some char­ac­ter­ized as his naïveté , when he sug­gest­ed that Jamaica need­ed divine inter­ven­tion to help with it’s crime prob­lem. That aside, 1005 Jamaicans were killed at the hands of crim­i­nals. In a Country of 2.7 mil­lion a 16 % reduc­tion in homi­cides pales when looked at par­al­lel to the killing of 1005 human beings.

As Jamaicans cel­e­brate a new year, down­ward trend­ing crime num­bers, and less police killings it is nat­ur­al for politi­cians to say their poli­cies are work­ing . Minister Bunting to his cred­it, gave cred­it to the men and women of the police depart­ment for the low­er num­bers. The fact is there are more police offi­cers on the streets with the merg­er of the JCF and ISCF ‚which are now under one uni­fied command.
The police point to their efforts in arrest­ing lot­to-scam­mers, remov­ing guns from the streets and oth­er ini­tia­tives which they say are the rea­sons for low­er crime num­bers. Noticeably they have also been far more inter­ac­tive with the pub­lic. Police ‑pub­lic inter­ac­tion is cru­cial if the Constabulary is to arrest the gal­lop­ing crime wave in the coun­try. Other

inter­est­ed par­ties like church­es are also involved in bridg­ing the divide.
Community polic­ing is a tried and proven method of polic­ing which has borne fruits in many coun­tries. It is imper­a­tive that the JCF con­tin­ue it’s out­reach to the pub­lic. Over the years indi­vid­ual offi­cers have had their own out­reach to the pub­lic which has borne sig­nif­i­cant fruit for the country.
I am still some­what skep­ti­cal that the down­ward trend will be sus­tained because (1 Of the absence of a well artic­u­lat­ed prov­able for­mu­la , and (2 An econ­o­my that is at best anemic.
Despite this we con­grat­u­late the law enforce­ment com­mu­ni­ty, mem­bers of civ­il soci­ety who are get­ting involved and mem­bers of the pub­lic some of whom are start­ing to real­ize that the life they save may be their own.

Q:What hap­pens to a mem­ber of the pub­lic who dri­ves some­one to the scene of a crime?
A:That per­son is a prin­ci­pal in the com­mis­sion of the crime.
Q:What hap­pens to some­one who holds some­one down and allow anoth­er per­son to take that per­son­’s life, even if he/​she did not deal the death blow?
A: That per­son is a prin­ci­pal offender.
Q:What hap­pens to some­one who know­ing­ly hides, har­bors, or help anoth­er to con­ceal evi­dence of a crime?
A:That per­son is crim­i­nal­ly liable as an acces­so­ry after the fact
Q:What hap­pens to some­one who will­ing­ly plays even the most minute role in the com­mis­sion of a crime?
A: That per­son may still be pros­e­cut­ed as pro­vid­ed by law.
Okay you get the pic­ture , you par­tic­i­pate in the com­mis­sion of a crime you are going to jail ‚but does that rule apply to all criminals?
In fact, whether the offence is mur­der, or a mis­de­meanor, say sell­ing un-taxed cig­a­rettes, it’s still an offence irre­spec­tive of who com­mits it Right?
If you said right to my last ques­tion you would be wrong!
What do you mean wrong , are you nuts Mike?
No not in New York State inci­den­tal­ly. If you sell un-taxed cig­a­rettes you are going to jail. If for any rea­son you weren’t sell­ing any cig­a­rettes at the time the police comes around and wants to arrest you for the thou­sandth time even though you may not have been guilty on that occa­sion you will be killed.
So what hap­pens to the actu­al killers, this is America , I know they will be held account­able, they are going to jail. This is the coun­try which locks up more of it’s cit­i­zens than any other?
Well I’m glad you asked, you see, not all mur­ders are murders!
Especially if you are black.
What !! Of course all mur­ders are mur­ders, what are you talk­ing about?
Not so fast, if a mur­der is com­mit­ted by the Police it is not murder!
It is called a jus­ti­fi­able homicide.
What are you talk­ing about? That sort of thing only hap­pened in Apartheid South Africa and that end­ed years ago.
The Police are there to pro­tect all of us, you are so wrong Mike!!!
Yah , tell that to the fam­i­lies of these killed by police right here in the good old US of A.

Rumain Brisbon, 34, Phoenix, Ariz. — Dec. 2, 2014.
Tamir Rice, 12, Cleveland, Ohio — Nov. 22, 2014.
Akai Gurley, 28, Brooklyn, NY — Nov. 20, 2014.
Darrien Hunt 22 Saratoga Springs Utah Sept 16, 2014
Kajieme Powell, 25, St. Louis, Mo. — August 19, 2014.
Ezell Ford, 25, Los Angeles, Calif. — August 12, 2014.
Dante Parker, 36, San Bernardino County, Calif. — August 12, 2014.
Michael Brown, 18, Ferguson, Mo. — August 9, 2014.
John Crawford III, 22, Beavercreek, Ohio — August 5, 2014.
Tyree Woodson, 38, Baltimore, Md. — August 2, 2014.
Eric Garner, 43, New York, N.Y. — July 17, 2014.
Victor White III, 22, Iberia Parish, La. — March 22, 2014.
Yvette Smith, 47, Bastrop, Texas — February 16, 2014.
McKenzie Cochran, 25, Southfield, Mich. — January 28, 2014.
Jordan Baker, 26, Houston, Texas — January 16, 2014.
Andy Lopez, 13, Santa Rosa, Calif. — October 22, 2013.
Miriam Carey, 34, Washington, D.C. — October 3, 2013.
Jonathan Ferrell, 24, Bradfield Farms, N.C. — September 14, 2013.
Carlos Alcis, 43, New York, N.Y. — August 15, 2013.
Larry Eugene Jackson, Jr., 32, Austin, Texas — July 26, 2013.
Deion Fludd, 17, New York, N.Y. — May 5, 2013.
Kimani Gray, 16, New York, N.Y. — March 9, 2013.
Johnnie Kamahi Warren, 43, Dotham, Ala. — December 10, 2012.
Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, Cleveland, Ohio — Nov,29, 2012.
Reynaldo Cuevas, 20, New York, N.Y. — September 7, 2012.
Chavis Carter, 21, Jonesboro, Ark. — July 29, 2012.
Shantel Davis, 23, New York, N.Y. — June 14, 2012.
Sharmel Edwards, 49, Las Vegas, Nev. — April 21, 2012.
Tamon Robinson, 27, New York, N.Y. — April 18, 2012.
Ervin Jefferson, 18, Atlanta, Ga. — March 24, 2012.
Kendrec McDade, 19, Pasadena, Calif. — March 24, 2012.
Rekia Boyd, 22, Chicago, Ill. — March 21, 2012.
Shereese Francis, 30, New York, N.Y. — March 15, 2012.
Wendell Allen, 20, New Orleans, La. — March 7, 2012.
Nehemiah Dillard, 29, Gainesville, Fla. — March 5, 2012.
Dante Price, 25, Dayton, Ohio — March 1, 2012.
Raymond Allen, 34, Galveston, Texas — February 27, 2012.
Sgt. Manuel Loggins, Jr., 31, Orange County, Calif. — February 7, 2012>
Ramarley Graham, 18, New York, N.Y. — February 2, 2012.
Kenneth Chamberlain, 68, White Plains, N.Y. — November 19, 2011..
Alonzo Ashley, 29, Denver, Colo. — July 18, 2011.
Kenneth Harding, 19, San Francisco, Calif. — July 16, 2011.
Raheim Brown, 20, Oakland, Calif. — January 22, 2011.
Reginald Doucet, 25, Los Angeles, Calif. — January 14, 2011.
Derrick Jones, 37, Oakland, Calif. — November 8, 2010.
Danroy Henry, 20, Thornwood, N.Y. — October 17, 2010.
Aiyana Jones, 7, Detroit, Mich. — May 16, 2010.
Steven Eugene Washington, 27, Los Angeles, CA — March 20, 2010.
Aaron Campbell, 25, Portland, Ore. — January 29, 2010.
Kiwane Carrington, 15, Champaign, Ill. — October 9, 2009.
Victor Steen, 17, Pensacola, Fla. — October 3, 2009.
Shem Walker, 49, New York, N.Y. — July 11, 2009.
Oscar Grant, 22, Oakland, Calif. — January 1, 2009.
Tarika Wilson, 26, Lima, Ohio — January 4, 2008.
DeAunta Terrel Farrow, 12, West Memphis, Ark. — July 22, 2007.
Sean Bell, 23, New York, N.Y. — November 25, 2006.
Henry Glover, 31, New Orleans, La. — September 2, 2005.
Ronald Madison, 40, and James Brisette, 17, New Orleans, La. — Sept. 4, 2005.
Timothy Stansbury, 19, New York, N.Y. — January 24, 2004.
Alberta Spruill, 57, New York, N.Y. — May 16, 2003.
Ousmane Zongo, 43, New York, N.Y. — May 22, 2003.
Orlando Barlow, 28, Las Vegas, Nev. — February 28, 2003.
Timothy Thomas, 19, Cincinnati, Ohio — April 7, 2001.
Prince Jones, 25, Fairfax County, Va. — Sept. 1, 2000.
Ronald Beasley, 36, and Earl Murray, 36, Dellwood, Mo. — June 12, 2000.
Patrick Dorismond, 26, New York, NY — March 16, 2000.
Malcolm Ferguson, 23, New York, N.Y. — March 1, 2000.
Amadou Diallo, 23, New York, N.Y. — Feb. 4, 1999.

This list is by no means com­plete, nei­ther does it rep­re­sent all of the unarmed peo­ple mur­dered by police.
There are a huge cross sec­tion of peo­ple for whom cops can do no wrong, espe­cial­ly when they kill black people.
They are cop-apol­o­gists. Lately with the killing of of two New York City Cops every­one is a cop-apol­o­gist. Everyone is shed­ding tears. There is absolute­ly noth­ing wrong with cry­ing for two dead offi­cers. As a for­mer cop I wel­come the out pour­ing of love the NYPD is get­ting after these two deaths. 
As much as I feel sym­pa­thy for the fam­i­lies of the two slain offi­cers, I can­not share in the hand wring­ing because of the bla­tant dis­re­gard the police depart­ment and their (copol­o­gists new­ly coined phrase)[sic] friends,showed to the fam­i­lies of those who unlaw­ful­ly died at the hands of police. When Patrick Lynch blamed Eric Garner for his own death and copol­o­gists heaped scorn on the fam­i­ly and on Garner’s weight that was dis­gust­ing and unfor­giv­able. Then they have the nerve to blame the deaths on the Mayor and oth­ers. Not sat­is­fied they engage in the dis­gust­ing, dis­re­spect­ful spec­ta­cles of turn­ing their backs on the Mayor.
It is time every con­sci­en­tious per­son of col­or turn their backs on these creeps when­ev­er they come across them.
It does not mat­ter how many copol­o­gists sing their prais­es, it does not make them wor­thy of respect.
But Mike they say the police keep us safe, that’s what the peo­ple on FOX say. Giuliani the for­mer Mayor also said so . In fact a lot of very impor­tant peo­ple say the police are great. They say there is no prob­lem of police abuse in the United States. They say offi­cers go out and put their lives on the line every day to keep “us” safe. How can what you are say­ing be true when all of these peo­ple say the cops are there to pro­tect “us”?

Well did you ask these nice peo­ple to tell you exact­ly who “us“is?

Former New York City may­or, the all-know­ing Rudolph Giuliani wants the Mayor to apol­o­gize to the NYPD . In a state­ment to CBS face the Nation the race-baiter in chief beseech­es Mayor deBlasio to apol­o­gize to cops. The dis­gust­ing Giuliani knows he would nev­er apol­o­gize no mat­ter how wrong he was. Never mind that the Mayor has absolute­ly noth­ing to apol­o­gize for. In fact the Mayor should fire every cop who demon­strate dis­re­spect to him.
Nowhere else can employ­ees dis­re­spect their employ­ers and keep their job.
What makes New York City Cops any different ?
What is absolute­ly dis­gust­ing is the apol­o­gists who con­tin­ue to pre­tend that Mayor deBlasio or any­one else is respon­si­ble for what is hap­pen­ing to cops, except cops themselves.

It is also rep­re­hen­si­ble that Media hous­es and racial­ists like Giuliani can spread bull that police are under attack .
Un-pun­ished crim­i­nal acts by police are under attack. As in any war some­times there are inno­cent casu­al­ties. Some peo­ple feel that they have no out­let to express them­selves sub­se­quent­ly they kill oth­ers , loot and com­mit acts of arson and oth­er destruc­tion to infra­struc­ture. Pretending that pro­test­ers are the prob­lem is not only dis­hon­est it is counter pro­duc­tive. If all com­mu­ni­ties are policed the same way , with respect and civil­i­ty we would not all be hav­ing this dis­cus­sion. New York’s may­or Bill deBlasio must be com­mend­ed . He ran on reform­ing Police, he won and he is doing just that. He is reform­ing the old boys club and the good old boys and those who lick their boots do not like it. There is much to be said for a man like the Mayor who stand on his con­vic­tion to effect change despite the noise, than can be said for the State’s Governor who is an absolute dis­grace as far as lead­er­ship is concerned.

Of course no one should expect lead­er­ship from Andrew Cuomo who sold out his Democratic Colleagues, keep­ing them out of pow­er in the state’s sen­ate. And who just hap­pen to be fac­ing ethics Investigations.
The state’s gov­er­nor has a respon­si­bil­i­ty to stand with the Mayor yet Cuomo is con­spic­u­ous­ly silent as the city’s police force engages in con­tin­ued defi­ance and engage in a qua­si coup. At least as far as the Mayor’s author­i­ty is concerned.
So lets exam­ine the argu­ments of cops and sup­port­ers like Giuliani, and oth­er cop apologists.

The Mayor threw police under the bus when he spoke about cau­tion­ing his bi-racial son Dante to be care­ful around cops. They argue that police are not bad peo­ple and there is no sys­tem­at­ic prob­lem of abuse in the NYPD. 
I won­der what sta­tis­tic they are look­ing at. Over the years there have been tor­ture and a mul­ti­plic­i­ty of ille­gal killings of inno­cent New Yorkers by the NYPD, and hun­dreds of mil­lions paid out to com­pen­sate cit­i­zens who endure these abus­es. Despite that they main­tain that there is no sys­temic prob­lem in the depart­ment. This leads ratio­nal thinkers to con­clude that since the assaults, tor­ture and killings met­ed out to blacks and Latino peo­ple is not a prob­lem, the NYPD must be train­ing them to com­mit these crimes against citizens.

Mayor deBlasio would be remiss in not warn­ing his son to be care­ful around these dis­re­spect­ful jack-boot­ed thugs. Who did they think they were hurt­ing when the turned their backs on the Mayor as he spoke at Ramos’ funer­al. Who were they hurt­ing when they turned their backs when he went to Woodhull Hospital after two of their col­leagues were killed. Despite the class-less thug­gery dis­played by the goons in blue, none of the dis­plays were as bad as as the dis­play in front of 884 new recruits at Madison Square Gardens . The endem­ic prob­lem of indis­ci­pline must sure­ly have been made worse with this dis­play in front of these new recruits. What kind of respect will these young cops have for the cit­i­zens they police if they see such dis­re­spect go unpun­ished for the Mayor of the city. What kind of respect will they have for poor, pow­er­less black and brown peo­ple in under-served communities?

When you are caught on cam­era chok­ing some­one until he dies and the laws which are sup­posed to pro­tect all peo­ple are ignored and the killers walk free, what did they believe was going to happen?
Who is respon­si­ble when some­one is exe­cut­ed by police and some­one takes it onto him­self to exact revenge? Is it the Mayor who address the prob­lem, or is it the peo­ple who com­mit­ted the killing?
There is a mas­sive sleigh of hand being employed by police and their apol­o­gists, they want you to believe the prob­lems you wit­nessed, the prob­lems of killings, the steal­ing of mon­ey from cit­i­zens are real­ly not hap­pen­ing. What they want you to believe is that the cit­i­zens who demon­strate for changes and account­abil­i­ty for ille­gal police prac­tices are in the wrong.

They want you to believe police are under attack. Police are not under attack. Illegal police killings are under attack. Every New Yorker and indeed every­one should be offend­ed when they tell you that the lives of Eric Garner Michael Brown or the dozens of unarmed black men are worth less than those killers who parade around with badges and guns.
Do not be con­sumed with the non­sense they ped­dle. Irrespective of whether some­one com­mits a crime or not, police have zero author­i­ty to sum­mar­i­ly kill an offend­er because of it.
One of the strate­gies they employ is to trot out rap sheets of young men who police kill unlaw­ful­ly, as if hav­ing a rap sheet gives police the pow­er to sum­mar­i­ly kill them. That of course is after they cre­ate con­vo­lut­ed lies and dis­tor­tions of being attacked or being afraid for their lives. Giuliani was one of the archi­tects of that strat­e­gy dur­ing his tenure as Mayor of New York City. As such Giuliani has no moral, much less eth­i­cal author­i­ty to give advise to this Mayor. In fact Giuliani is a big part of the prob­lem the city faces with the ille­gal acts being com­mit­ted by cops.
Giuliani used that strat­e­gy to demo­nize and dehu­man­ize Patrick Dorismond a secu­ri­ty guard in 2000, when NYPD cops mur­dered him. Giuliani the Mayor then, hur­ried not only to release, but dis­tort the crim­i­nal record of an unarmed secu­ri­ty guard who had been shot to death in an alter­ca­tion with an under­cov­er cop.Giuliani even released a sealed juve­nile record of Patrick Dorismond’s arrest for rob­bery and assault when he was just 13. “People have the right to know the back­ground and record of a per­son involved in a crim­i­nal sit­u­a­tion,” he said, adding dark­ly, “He’s no altar boy.” Giuliani failed to men­tion that the juve­nile arrest arose from when Dorismond punched anoth­er kid in the nose in a dis­pute over a quar­ter and that the charges had been dropped before the case even went before a judge. Nor did Giuliani men­tion that Dorismond’s arrests for assault and weapon pos­ses­sion as an adult had been reduced to dis­or­der­ly con­duct, a vio­la­tion. In fact, Dorismond had nev­er been con­vict­ed of a crime On top of that, Dorismond actu­al­ly had been an altar boy, at Holy Cross Church in Brooklyn. As the Dailynews Michael Daly wrote then.

“Jesus said, ‘He who is with­out sin, let him cast the first stone,’ ” the priest there said as he pre­pared for the funer­al. “Patrick’s dead and they’re still throw­ing stones at him.” Yet the racist, divi­sive hyp­ocrite Rudolph Giuliani had a com­plete turn­about when it was his daugh­ter under scruti­ny. “It’s a pri­vate mat­ter,” he said after his 20-year-old daugh­ter was arrest­ed for shoplift­ing. “And, it’s going to stay that way.”
These are the immoral hyp­ocrites who are crit­i­ciz­ing Al Sharpton and oth­ers who have the char­ac­ter to speak out against injus­tice. This hyp­ocrite is not con­tent with the dam­age he did to the city as a result of the seeds of hatred he sowed nor the dis­re­spect he nur­tured and encour­aged in the NYPD. He is now mis­chie­vous­ly play­ing Monday-morn­ing-quar­ter­back to every move the present Mayor makes. Giuliani is a pub­lic­i­ty hound whose own fam­i­ly can­not stand him and are alien­at­ed from him

The nar­ra­tive has been changed every­one is back in love with cops at least in some com­mu­ni­ties. News Networks are solic­it­ing dona­tions to pay off the mort­gage of the two slain offi­cers. Noble yes, these two cops were prob­a­bly good cops, we don’t know . Noble that their fam­i­lies should not be left des­ti­tute, that their chil­dren should not be left to suf­fer. Where is the same respect to the wife and chil­dren of Eric Garner. Where can peo­ple donate to the fund for the daugh­ter of Akai Ghurley ?
You see how hyp­o­crit­i­cal you are when you cry croc­o­dile tears for the lost lives of one set of peo­ple yet com­plete­ly ignore the suf­fer­ings of those you do not like?
It does not make you good, it does not make you human . It makes you sub-human hyp­ocrites. All lives are cre­at­ed by God Almighty, from the pres­i­dent to the pau­per. The blood of the inno­cents are on the heads of all of you , you should be ashamed but you are not. You are not ashamed about slav­ery. You are not ashamed about Jim Crow seg­re­ga­tion. You have no shame for the lynch­ings, nei­ther are you remorse­ful for over 400 years of geno­ci­dal pogrom which has dec­i­mat­ed a peo­ple whom you blame for what you have done to them. 
Why would any­one believe you would be ashamed of killing a few more ?.….….….…

David Clarke, the African-American sher­iff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, says it is time to for­give white soci­ety for the sins of slav­ery. Clarke, a fre­quent crit­ic of President Barack Obama, said Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File” that Obama has done noth­ing to heal race rela­tions after his elec­tion as the first black pres­i­dent in 2008.
“Who would have thought that after the elec­tion of the first black pres­i­dent in the his­to­ry of the United States that we would need a peri­od of Reconstruction to try to put this coun­try back togeth­er?” Clarke said.
Rather than try to heal racial rifts, Obama has tak­en sides, the sher­iff said.
He not­ed that Attorney Gen. Eric Holder has said the coun­try is too cow­ard­ly to talk about race.
“Well, I’m not, and I’m ready to engage him in that con­ver­sa­tion,” Clarke said. “We have to begin to ask when white soci­ety is going to be through pay­ing for the sins of slav­ery. We’re now pun­ish­ing peo­ple for sins they did­n’t commit.”[newsmax.com]

Clarke who is of course a reg­u­lar on FOX is mar­ried to a white woman. He has wide and dis­parag­ing views on President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, The Reverend Al. Sharpton, and now New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio.
Despite the Tea-Party type invec­tive being hurled by this new Benedict Arnold David Clarke, both he and the men he has a prob­lem with are all reg­is­tered Democrats.
The truth is that Clarke is a wolf in sheep cloth­ing, he runs as a Democrat but is fact a water-boy for the right against President Obama. David Clarke has tak­en on the role once held by van­quished Florida’s Tea-Party oper­a­tive Allan West . Look for a lot more from this black Uncle Tom to con­tin­ue mak­ing out­ra­geous state­ments as the Right-wing estab­lish­ment ele­vates him as their new mon­key and feed him scraps from their table.

Once again mem­bers of the New York City Police Department demon­strat­ed for the World that con­trary to the con­trived hype about their Organization being the best, they are real­ly a bunch of dis­re­spect­ful thugs.

As they did when Mayor Bill deBlasio vis­it­ed Woodhull Hospital after two of their col­leagues Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were alleged­ly killed by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, sup­pos­ed­ly as they sat in their patrol cars on a Brooklyn street. 
They once again demon­strat­ed the dis­re­spect they dish out to cit­i­zens daily. 
Once again to the Mayor, this time with the sup­port of oth­ers who trav­eled to the city to attend funer­al ser­vices for Ramos.
Even as they demon­strat­ed their rep­re­hen­si­ble dis­re­spect to the Mayor, they suc­ceed­ed in show­ing the world just how disrespectful,arrogant, and out of con­trol American cops tru­ly are.
Yes those who trav­eled from oth­er cities who joined in the shock­ing dis­play of dis­re­spect to the city’s Mayor also tar­nished the uni­forms of the cities and the States they came from. Ultimately they showed the rest of the world that in America the final author­i­ty is police author­i­ty . America is a total police state. A place now where even elect­ed offi­cials are afraid of the pow­er of the police.
If these police Agencies can behave this way to a Caucasian Mayor, a man of pow­er, what are their actions when they engage cit­i­zens in poor neigh­bor­hoods? Unfortunately that is the rea­son we are here, this is the full cir­cle response that brought us to this place of lamen­ta­tion and mourning.

Once again the chief archi­tect of NYPD dis­re­spect, Rudolph Giuliani insert­ed him­self into the brouha­ha by stat­ing on CBS face the Nation quote. 

“As long as de Blasio con­tin­ues count­ing the Rev. Al Sharpton among his clos­est allies, he deserves cops’ dis­trust”, Giuliani said.“When he los­es Al Sharpton maybe then he can have a bet­ter rela­tion­ship with the New York City Police Department,” Giuliani said. “If you would like to have a poster boy for hat­ing the police, it’s Al Sharpton.” “Mayor de Blasio, please say you’re sor­ry,” Giuliani said on “Face the Nation.” “He cre­at­ed an impres­sion with the police that he was on the side of the protesters.”

Never once did El Deuce Giuliani men­tion that part of the rea­son the NYPD is such a dis­re­spect­ful bunch of thugs is because he led a drunk­en throng of them in 1992 onto the steps of city hall in an attempt to intim­i­date then Mayor David Dinkins ‚the city’s first African American Mayor. The divi­sive lit­tle self-serv­ing turd nev­er men­tioned that there he goad­ed them to dish out rep­re­hen­si­ble, racist invec­tive at Mayor Dinkins.
“He cre­at­ed the impres­sion with the police that he was on the side of the pro­test­ers” Eric Garner was choked to death in broad day­light by Daniel Pantaleo on a video which need­ed no enhanc­ing for clar­i­ty. Yet a police boot-lick­ing grand jury on Staten Island made the deci­sion that the black man’s life was not worth indict­ing one of their own. 
That is American Justice. 
On whose side should a con­sci­en­tious Mayor be? Shouldn’t any and every­one be on the side of fair­ness and justice.
How could a self pro­mot­ing Giuliani who is a lawyer by trade fail to make the con­nec­tion that jus­tice must be served for all if the sys­tem is to work? Or should the sys­tem only work for Giuliani and his Italian and oth­er European American friends? Is that what America is all about?
Or is that what America is all about?
To those hyp­ocrites in long robes who sup­pos­ed­ly rep­re­sent and preach God’s word, your hell will be worse than that of those who mur­der the innocent. 
You who stand there in front of a sea of cops and lament and thank the cops for what they do, yet nev­er have a word of kind­ness for the fam­i­lies of the under-served, the pow­er­less, the down-trodden.
You are Charlatans. 
You are Devils , wolves in sheep clothing. 
You who remain silent when the inno­cent lives of the poor and pow­er­less are being squeezed out of their very being, as they say with their last breath “I can’t breath”,I can’t breathe”” I can’t breathe”.
You remain silent.
Now you pon­tif­i­cate in front of a sea of blue !!!
Ask your­selves , what would Jesus do?
You are hea­thens who have no respect for human­i­ty. You are Pharisees, no won­der peo­ple are turn­ing from the Church, you are Impostors. !
Police have no more right to life than any­one else.
Police have no more right to respect than any­one else.
Police have no more right to thanks than any oth­er set of workers.
Police offi­cers are paid to do a job, those who fall over and pros­trate them­selves at the foot of police and their unions do so because they are not sub­ject to the harsh cru­el­ty of Police aggres­sion abuse and murder.

Are all police offi­cers bad ? 
No !
But police are sup­posed to police the rest of us thats the start­ing point, so they must be held to a high­er stan­dard. It fol­lows there­fore that when police com­mit atroc­i­ties against the very peo­ple they are sworn to pro­tect and their col­leagues do noth­ing it makes them all guilty. 
We must sup­port police to do the job we ask them to, and we must sub­ject them to the same laws that every­one else is sub­ject to.
Unless of course what they are asked to do is not the same for everyone.
As Commissioner Bill Bratton reit­er­at­ed part of his own eulo­gy, not­ing that cops need to have more empa­thy for con­cerns about police abuse, par­tic­u­lar­ly in black com­mu­ni­ties. “I made com­ments yes­ter­day in my eulo­gy about see­ing each oth­er to under­stand,” Bratton said. “When I say ‘see each oth­er,’ that means to not look past each oth­er, but to real­ly see what is moti­vat­ing what we’re experiencing.”

Yes what they are expe­ri­enc­ing is some blow-back from the pain of those who feel they can get no jus­tice. No jus­tice in the way Police treat them. No jus­tice in the way the crim­i­nal Justice System responds to their com­plaints. No jus­tice or empa­thy from those who sup­port those who abuse them. Maybe its time mem­bers of the NYPD chuck the Giuliani , Patrick Lynch approach and embrace the lat­est advice of Commissioner Bratton . This may save then a lot of heart-ache, it would save a lot of pain on both sides if they spend time re-train­ing and re-ori­ent­ing, rather than trolling social media look­ing for threats against them. Building bridges through respect is the best secu­ri­ty ‚not erect­ing more walls and look­ing over their shoulders.

Actor James Woods has tak­en to Twitter to lay blame at the feet of the Reverend Al

Sharpton for the killing of Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu,two NYPD cops.
Woods who is an admir­er of George W Bush and a groupie of for­mer New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
No sur­prise there, Giuliani went on FOX to declare that President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Mayor Bill deBalasio are respon­si­ble for the killing of the two cops.
The racist xeno­phobe Woods has blamed the President for every­thing since he took office includ­ing a claim that the President is a “threat to the future and integri­ty of the repub­lic”.  It’s not clear what this hag­gard train-wreck is expect­ing from mak­ing these wild unfound­ed accu­sa­tions. He makes them any­way, even while he claims he may nev­er work in Hollywood again.
This Jack-ass who claims Reverend Al Sharpton is a pig would know the smell of pigs if you ask me . He seem to spend a lot of time in Pig-pens from his rants and gen­er­al appearance.

The lying racial­ist Giuliani lashed out at Bill de Blasio, President Barack Obama, and Attorney General Eric Holder. Speaking on Fox News, Giuliani said: “We’ve had four

months of pro­pa­gan­da start­ing with the pres­i­dent that every­body should hate the police.“He added, “They have cre­at­ed an atmos­phere of severe, strong, anti-police hatred in cer­tain com­mu­ni­ties, and for that, they should be ashamed of them­selves.”

New York’s black com­mu­ni­ty and many who love jus­tice have demon­strat­ed their dis­gust for the un-just sys­tem which con­tin­ue to have two sets of rules , one for white res­i­dents and police and anoth­er for blacks and lati­no residents.
The lat­est sequence of events being the chok­ing death of Eric Garner at the hands of Daniel Pantaleo and his friends. It was a shock­ing and unmit­i­gat­ed evi­dence that Black and Latino men are being sum­mar­i­ly killed by NYPD cops and the sys­tem refus­es to hold them accountable.
Conversely the same NYPD have arrest­ed a Baruch College Professor and oth­ers, on the alle­ga­tions that they assault­ed mem­bers of their department.
The video used in that instance have been shaky and far less clear than that in the Garner case..
Despite the clar­i­ty of the video and the fact that the choke-hold has been banned for 20 years the cop has not been indicted.
That choke-hold was banned when anoth­er cop Francis Livoti killed Anthony Baez using a choke-hold, sim­ply because a foot­ball had struck the patrol car Livoti was in. Despite the ille­gal­i­ty of the tech­nique used by Pantaleo and the fact that Eric Garner was not com­mit­ting a crime, a grand jury impan­eled by Staten Island DA Daniel Donovan refused to return an indict­ment on what is clear­ly a case of unlaw­ful police homicide.

The irony of the Staten Island grand jury’s hypocrisy, is that Eric Garner was choked to death alleged­ly for sell­ing loose cig­a­rettes, a minor white col­lar tax misdemeanor.

While the Borough over­whelm­ing­ly re-elect­ed the white Michael Grimm to the US Congress while he was under Federal indict­ment on Felony Tax charges. Grimm has since plead­ed guilty to a sin­gle count of aid­ing in the prepa­ra­tion of a false tax return in 2009 and also agreed to pay an unde­ter­mined amount of resti­tu­tion to the IRS and New York State on tax returns dat­ing from 2007 to 2010. Grimm faces a max­i­mum sen­tence of three years in prison and is set to be sen­tenced on June 8 Grimm a for­mer FBI Agent once threat­ened to throw a reporter off a bal­cony sim­ply for ask­ing about his felo­nious activ­i­ties. Under House Rules Grim who has pledged not to resign under pres­sure from democ­rats may not be allowed to vote in the house, even if he is allowed to keep his job. Grim’s case is arguably the high­est-pro­file pub­lic cor­rup­tion case in New York in decades by some estimates.

The admit­ted Tea-Party Felon was re-elect­ed to Congress. Eric Garner was mur­dered for unproven un-taxed cig­a­rette sales. Yea to the good law abid­ing peo­ple of Richmond County and oth­er areas who re-elect­ed a crim­i­nal. You know we like our white criminals.
None of the racists both­ered to men­tion the shoot­ing ambush of two State Troopers over in the Poconos a cou­ple months ago . One troop­er was killed the oth­er seri­ous­ly wound­ed when Eric Frien ambushed them dur­ing a shift change at their barracks.
Was it Obama , Holder, and Sharpton who insti­gat­ed that, where was Giuliani and the oth­er jack-ass Woods then?

The web­site (moth­er­jones reports that FBI data shows that, though African Americans are arrest­ed and incar­cer­at­ed at a high­er rate than whites, the major­i­ty of assailants who felo­nious killed police offi­cers in the past year were white.

This fact would be lost on the race-baiter Rudolph Giuliani and the jack-ass James

Woods and the oth­er right wing boot-lick­ers for whom cops can do no wrong. When you live in a soci­ety where you are auto­mat­i­cal­ly giv­en a pass based on the col­or of your skin of course you are going to defend those who enforce your right to that entitlement[sic.

Giuliani nev­er made any attempts to hide the fact that he is an ene­my of the black com­mu­ni­ty. Neither has he in the years when he was Mayor or since he left the Mayoralty pre­tend­ed to like us. That is per­fect­ly okay, I can­not for the life of me see any­thing I would per­son­al­ly want to do with a Rudolph Giuliani. What I cer­tain­ly will not have is Giuliani tell me who I should have rep­re­sent me, and I darn sure do not care about some drunk­en atten­tion-seek­ing actor named James Woods.

The Reverend Al Sharpton has report­ed he has received death threats. Sharpton’s has always stood up for racial jus­tice and fair­ness. Much to the cha­grin of Giuliani and oth­er white Racists who ben­e­fit from white privilege.

The black com­mu­ni­ty dis­joint­ed, dis­il­lu­sioned, and uncon­cerned about it’s future, is not immune to falling once again for the divi­sive nar­ra­tive of those who prop­a­gate racial hatred like Rudolph Giuliani

and oth­ers. Many have already bought into the anti Sharpton lie Giuliani and his friends at FOX has ped­dled for years.
Many who now use Dr. King’s name lav­ish­ly and shame­less­ly, want­ed him dead when he spoke up about the injus­tice they cre­at­ed and nurtured.
They hate Al Sharpton because he is effec­tive in shin­ing a light on their inequity. They would not wor­ry about Sharpton if no one lis­tened to him. They revile him because he has the gall and temer­i­ty to stand and shine a light on their immoral­i­ty. During Dr, King’s time they called him every deroga­to­ry name they could think of . Nigger,Communist, white-pros­ti­tute-lov­ing-fraud, and those were the good names. They demand­ed that he com­mit sui­cide. When their coer­cion to sui­cide did­n’t work , they put a bul­let in him. Unfortunately for them, Dr. King’s words con­vict them today more-so than it did while he yet lived.

It’s Christmas time, the time of year when Christians stop and embrace that warm feeling,..
The time we cel­e­brate the birth of Jesus Christ.
Many who nev­er set foot in a Church , syn­a­gogue, Cathedral, Mosque or any oth­er place of wor­ship still take time out to cel­e­brate the season.
Associated with the sea­son are protes­ta­tions of love and good­will to each oth­er. It’s a time when friends and fam­i­ly come togeth­er to fel­low­ship share and enjoy each oth­er’s company.
This Christmas like most is not with­out tri­als and tribu­la­tion. Of course as it was when Jesus was born tur­moil abounds.
Fast for­ward to this year and cir­cum­stances are not much dif­fer­ent. Families in New York and all across America are in mourn­ing for loved ones slain by police.
Police depart­ments are in mourn­ing for their com­rades killed by mem­bers of the public.
It was­n’t sup­posed to be this way.

As New York city gath­ers to mourn the two fall­en officers.
As peo­ple of all col­or and creed stopped to pay respects.
As peo­ple stop to place wreaths, light can­dles and lay bouquets.
As the Mayor falls all over him­self to ingra­ti­ate him­self with a Department long out of control.
As the Media falls all over itself with round-the-clock cov­er­age, just stand­ing in ran­dom places where noth­ing is occur­ring fil­ing reports which says noth­ing new.
I had this thought.

Why can’t all peo­ple share in the pain of others ?
Why do so many ridicule the pain and suf­fer­ing of oth­ers, even as they expect and demand that oth­ers share in the pain they feel for those they hold dear ?
Why not lis­ten to the con­cerns of oth­ers, as we ask that they lis­ten to our concerns ?
What gives us the right to believe we are some­how bet­ter than oth­ers, on the basis of skin col­or, finan­cial or soci­etal standing ?
As we mourn our own, those we revere and respect, what is it which keeps us for under­stand­ing the pain of those who lost their loved ones, those we deem beneath us ? Those we think unwor­thy of care, com­pas­sion, respect.
Whether it’s con­ve­nient, palat­able or not , whether we like the sound of it or not we reap what we sow.
The tragedy is that the evil sown by the wicked, does­n’t always come back to the sow­er, it some­times come back on the innocent. 
The rain falls on the just and the unjust.

Tragedies are also oppor­tu­ni­ties for sec­ond chances. 
God is a God of sec­ond chances.
This Christmas as some pre­tend to hon­or God for his son Jesus the light of the world. 
As we meet and greet those we love and cherish.
As we enjoy our beau­ti­ful homes , friends and loved ones.
As we enjoy sump­tu­ous din­ing and fine wine.
Let us take a moment to reflect and remem­ber those less fortunate.
Let us not judge their human­i­ty based on their sta­tion in life.
Let us all be less hyp­o­crit­i­cal to Jesus’ birth and remem­ber the way he lived his life, in ser­vice to oth­ers, with respect and ded­i­ca­tion to those out­cast from society.
Each and every one of you have it inside of you.
Just stop for a minute and reflect on the less pompous you.
Rip . Eric Garner .
RIP . Michael brown.
Rip . Rafael Ramos.
RIP. Wenjian Liu.
Rest in peace all those who lost their lives, you are all God’s children.
One and all.