Bruce Schroeder, the clown look-alike judge, pre­sid­ing over the mur­der tri­al of Kyle Rittenhouse, can­not help putting his foot in his stu­pid mouth. But what would one expect from a Trump-sup­port­ing stooge who pro­hibits the pros­e­cu­tion from refer­ring to the two peo­ple Rittenhouse mur­dered as victims.
On the oth­er hand, he ruled that it is per­fect­ly fine if they are referred to as ‘arson­ists and loot­ers,’ even though nei­ther of the deceased has even been remote­ly accused of com­mit­ting either of those acts.

Bruce Schroder angri­ly admon­ish­es the pros­e­cu­tion every chance he gets. At one point, he had to silence his cell­phone after it played his ring­tone, “God Bless the U.S.A.,” a song pop­u­lar in con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal cir­cles that have been used as an entrance tune at Donald Trump ral­lies.
But that is not all; clear­ly want­i­ng the world to see his right-wing bona fides, Schroder, for no rea­son, made some com­ments that one could only attribute to an old, out-of-touch racist who is yet to real­ize we are in the 21^st century.
In break­ing for lunch, the old rel­ic com­ment­ed, “I hope the Asian food isn’t com­ing … isn’t on one of those boats from Long Beach Harbor.”

Many Asian-Americans found his idea of a joke extreme­ly offen­sive as they should. Clearly, Bruce Schroder believes in his heart that Kyle Rittenhouse is a vic­tim, not a dou­ble homi­cide sus­pect, by his def­er­en­tial treat­ment toward the defense and the mur­der sus­pect and his open hos­til­i­ty toward the prosecution.
And how about that phone ring­ing dur­ing the tri­al with the Donald Trump theme music?
It does­n’t get worse than this.
What chance does a Black defen­dant have in a court­room where this judge is the tri­er of facts?.
The usu­al apol­o­gists will argue that this judge is not a polit­i­cal hack, that he is mere­ly being a strict judge. There is noth­ing wrong with being strict. But when the same judge tells the pros­e­cu­tor that he is not allowed to refer to the two mur­dered vic­tims as -‘vic­tims’; but gives the defense attor­neys free rein to refer to the same two deceased as ‘loot­ers and riot­ers’, please explain how this is not a prej­u­diced judge?

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

Below is a video of sociopathic despot Kyle Rittenhouse, cashing in on his whiteness, in a court system that explicitly distinguishes how justice is dispensed based on racial identity.

The cir­cus play­ing out in a Kenosha Wisconsin Courthouse for all the world to see speak much loud­er than any march or social jus­tice camp­ing could ever do; it expos­es the ran­cid hypocrisy of the American crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem for the world to see.
If you are a casu­al observ­er who has no idea how Black, Latino, and Native-American accused peo­ple are treat­ed, you would think that this farce is how mur­der defen­dants are always treat­ed with white kid-gloves.
However, If you under­stand that this is not the norm and that this kind of judi­cial defense and def­er­ence of a socio­path­ic killer is only reserved for whites, you begin to see that the entire world has been brain­washed into believ­ing that there is jus­tice in America.

But this is America where Crystal Mason, a Black woman in Texas, was sen­tenced to five years in prison for attempt­ing to vote in 2016; the vote was not count­ed, and Mason had no idea she was inel­i­gi­ble to vote.
The appel­late court upheld the bla­tant­ly unjust sen­tence with­out one iota of shame to add insult to injury. These bla­tant acts of injus­tice are dai­ly occur­rences in a sys­tem in which Black Americans receive 20% harsh­er sen­tences for the same crimes than their white counterparts.
The Washington Post reports that in plain English, this is judges make sen­tenc­ing choic­es at their own discretion.
In oth­er words, judges are less like­ly to vol­un­tar­i­ly revise sen­tences down­ward for black offend­ers than white ones. And even when judges do reduce black offend­ers’ sen­tences, they do so by small­er amounts than white offenders.
Gee, I won­der why that is?
Not to be outdone,[prosecutors] are more like­ly to charge African Americans with more seri­ous charges than whites for the same crime.”
So if you thought that the inequity and injus­tice you see play­ing out with the bot­tom-feed­ing, vio­lent police, guess again, the entire sys­tem is racial­ly biased, designed to dis­pense unequal justice.
Oh wait, there is no such thing as unequal jus­tice (oxy­moron much).

During her 2018 tri­al, pro­ba­tion offi­cials tes­ti­fied that they nev­er told Mason she could not vote, but the appeals court said that didn’t mat­ter. (Of course not, she is a black woman, and in all prob­a­bil­i­ty, she did­n’t vote for the white suprema­cist Republican can­di­date)[Welcome to American jus­tice]
Mason was guilty; the court said because she knew she was on super­vised release. “Contrary to Mason’s asser­tion, the fact that she did not know she was legal­ly inel­i­gi­ble to vote was irrel­e­vant to her pros­e­cu­tion,” Justice Wade Birdwell wrote for a three-judge pan­el on Texas’ sec­ond court of appeals. (The irony is that these robed Klansmen have the word ” jus­tice” pre­ced­ing their names).
If you are white, you are imme­di­ate­ly seen as worth sav­ing, regard­less of the nature of your crimes. So a rapist or mur­der­er is allowed def­er­ence and respect by the courts, but don’t show up to vote if you are Black and are not qual­i­fied to vote based on your sta­tus in the crim­i­nal jus­tice system.
It is auto­mat­ic prison time for you. [Unknowingly] try­ing to vote when you are barred by law as a Black per­son is worse than rapes com­mit­ted by white men.

NBC NEWS report­ed that the white 17-year-old son of Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin attempt­ed to cast a bal­lot twice on Election Day despite being too young to vote, local elec­tions offi­cials said on Friday. Youngkin’s son, who is not being named because he is a minor, tried unsuc­cess­ful­ly to vote at a polling place in Great Falls, Va., which was not the assigned vot­ing loca­tion for his home address, offi­cials told News4, an NBC News tele­vi­sion affil­i­ate in Washington, D.C. Election work­ers turned the teen away after they deter­mined he was inel­i­gi­ble to vote, Fairfax County elec­tion offi­cials said. He returned 30 min­utes lat­er and request­ed anoth­er bal­lot before being turned away again, News4 report­ed. The Fairfax County Office of Elections told News4 it was inves­ti­gat­ing the inci­dent. Still, it not­ed that it’s unclear whether any laws were bro­ken since the teen pre­sent­ed prop­er iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and did not end up cast­ing a vote.
No charges have yet been filed against the young white male; which brings us to anoth­er young white male fac­ing a tri­al in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for two homi­cides com­mit­ted dur­ing protest prompt­ed by a mur­der­ous cop, Rusten Sheskey, who shot an unarmed Jacob Blake sev­en (7) times in the back at point-blank range.
Oh, that is accept­able police behav­ior in America as long as the vic­tim is black.

The show tri­al of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, opens up America to right­eous and deserved ridicule for being a first-class hypocrite.
The per­for­mance of the tri­al judge makes a mock­ery of jurist pru­dence, mak­ing a mock­ery of the idea of an impar­tial tri­er of facts.
It is a rep­re­hen­si­ble and craven onslaught against jus­tice being dis­played, an assault steeped in racial prej­u­dice and white privilege.
It is arguable that if the dece­dents were Black, there would have been no charges filed against Rittenhouse.
At the start of the tri­al, the tri­al judge Bruce Schroeder told Prosecutors they were not allowed to refer to Rittenhouse’s dead vic­tims using the word victims.
SCHROEDER: This is a long-held opin­ion of mine, which very few judges, I guess, share with me. I think it’s loaded — the word vic­tim is a loaded, loaded word.
We all saw Kyle Rittenhouse gun down two peo­ple; there is no ques­tion of guilt. What’s at stake in a real crim­i­nal sense is his degree of crim­i­nal cul­pa­bil­i­ty and his mens re.a when he pulled the trigger.

What the fuck?
Loaded;.….… two peo­ple were mur­dered, and anoth­er injured. The snivel­ing lit­tle cow­ard mur­dered them, but Schroder decid­ed that he would use the black robe to cov­er him.
This is right-wing pol­i­tics plain and simple.
A white male sit­ting as a tri­al judge in a case in which the accused mur­der­er, a white male, is seen as hav­ing tak­en out two dis­pos­able pieces of trash who dared to demon­strate against police vio­lence against peo­ple of color.
It was­n’t the first time, and it cer­tain­ly will not be the last that a judge decides that a youth­ful white preda­tor should be pro­tect­ed by the bench rather than pun­ished as the law dictates.
In 2016 Brock Turner was con­vict­ed of three counts of felony sex­u­al assault and found him­self fac­ing up to ten years in prison after he was dis­cov­ered assault­ing an uncon­scious and intox­i­cat­ed woman behind a dumpster.
Judge Aaron Persky hand­ed down a sen­tence of six months in jail, say­ing, “A prison sen­tence would have a severe impact on him. I think he will not be a dan­ger to others.

After the sen­tence was hand­ed down, peo­ple were jus­ti­fi­ably out­raged. A peti­tion was cir­cu­lat­ed to have Judge Aaron Persky removed from the bench. It was­n’t Persky’s first or last rodeo in grant­i­ng stun­ning­ly light sen­tences to rape defendants.
Finally, on June 5^th, Persky was recalled by Santa Clara County vot­ers, who sup­port­ed his removal by a mar­gin of 61.51% to 38.49%. Persky became the first judge to be recalled in California in over 80 years. In October 2018, Persky was ordered to pay $161,825.68 to the recall cam­paign of one of his oppo­nents, which Persky had sued.
Ironically, Aaron Persky was hired by the Fremont Union High School District to coach junior var­si­ty girls’ ten­nis; this result­ed in anoth­er brouha­ha, and he was prompt­ly fired. The dis­trict announced that his employ­ment at Lynbrook High School in San Jose “has end­ed.” “We believe this out­come is in the best inter­est of our stu­dents and school com­mu­ni­ty,” the dis­trict said in a statement.

It would take five hun­dred years to doc­u­ment just how ter­ri­ble this sys­tem is; it has been under con­struc­tion for about the same length of time.
These days the courts don’t even both­er to present a façade of fair­ness; judges go about the busi­ness of cement­ing white suprema­cy with­out fear of con­se­quence, with­out shame.
This is at all lev­els up the food chain to the Supreme Court that refus­es to stop the killing of Black con­victs who are men­tal­ly inca­pable of under­stand­ing what was hap­pen­ing to them.
In some cas­es, the court refus­es to even issue a stay of exe­cu­tion into the state killing of con­demned Black offend­ers who are by all accounts inno­cent of the charges on which they have been convicted…
The Chief Justice of the Nation’s high­est court shame­less­ly said judges only call balls and strikes…
“Yeah.”
The com­mand per­for­mance on dis­play in that Kenosha court­room is Oscar-wor­thy; this writer believes it is dif­fi­cult to see how he will be con­vict­ed of the most seri­ous charges against him despite the unequiv­o­cal evi­dence assort­ed by prosecutors.
Within this sys­tem, a dou­ble mur­der­er can engage in a com­mand per­for­mance to fool the jury of his peers and be allowed time to fine-tune his act by a sym­pa­thet­ic judge who does­n’t even view his dead vic­tims as such.
I’ll tell you what’s loaded.…. it is the sys­tem that allows such a load of fecal mat­ter to pass a crim­i­nal trial.

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

We have no choice but to bring these events to you because we are certain that the mainstream media aren’t bring them to you.
The mainstream media fall over themselves to bring you fluff stories that depict cops as heroes; our job is to bring you the facts as they really are, good and bad.

Alberto Covarrubias, a Chicago police offi­cer who shot and killed Michael Craig, a Black man who called 911 with a domes­tic vio­lence com­plaint last month, had a his­to­ry of drink­ing and was dis­ci­plined for his on-duty behav­ior in the past, records show.
According to doc­u­ments obtained by the Daily Beast, the fatal shoot­ing of Craig was only Covarrubias’ most recent incident.

In 2018, for­mer super­in­ten­dent Eddie Johnson filed charges with the board regard­ing the officer’s abil­i­ty to per­form his duties fol­low­ing his March 2016 arrest for domes­tic dis­tur­bance dur­ing which Covarrubias report­ed­ly “appeared to be intoxicated.”
The offi­cer was also accused of threat­en­ing a fel­low cop and tam­per­ing with paper­work in a squad car. During his arrest, Covarrubias refused to take a breath­a­lyz­er test and was lat­er charged with assault for threat­en­ing anoth­er officer.

At the time Johnson tes­ti­fied that Covarrubias admit­ted to being “under enor­mous amounts of stress relat­ed to his job as police offi­cer and that he did not drink pri­or to join­ing the Police Department.” He also stat­ed that Covarrubias claimed he was “affect­ed by the pover­ty, despair, and vio­lence that he encoun­tered on a dai­ly basis.”

Though Johnson had been look­ing to have Covarrubias fired, instead the offi­cer was sus­pend­ed, despite being found guilty of all charges against him. His sus­pen­sion last­ed only three months and he was rein­stat­ed short­ly after seek­ing treat­ment for his drink­ing prob­lem and had been cleared for duty by a psychologist.

Now Craig’s fam­i­ly is ques­tion­ing whether Covarrubias was ever real­ly fit to return to work fol­low­ing the trag­ic event that took place in the ear­ly morn­ing hours of Oct. 4 when the offi­cer arrived at Craig’s home.

“[The offi­cer] some­how con­vinced this [police] board that he was all set to go and fit for duty,” attor­ney for the fam­i­ly, Michael Oppenheimer said dur­ing a press con­fer­ence. “The super­in­ten­dent said he was unfit for duty, he was a dan­ger to the com­mu­ni­ty, he was unfit for duty and inca­pable of han­dling a weapon.”

Craig called 911 ask­ing for police because he said his wife was hold­ing a knife to his throat as he lay in bed. Craig’s young son had ran to a neigh­bor to inform them, and they too called the police. When cops arrived they met the lit­tle boy out­side as he explained to them what was going on. Body cam­era footage showed Covarrubias walk­ing up the stairs to Craig’s apart­ment where he and his wife were arguing.

The offi­cer pulled out both his Taser and firearm almost imme­di­ate­ly upon arriv­ing on scene and fired both weapons when enter­ing the bed­room, hit­ting Craig, ABC 7 Chicago report­ed. Covarrubias fired again at Craig when the man tried to sit up. Craig’s old­er son Patrick Jenkins told reporters, “My dad laid there like a dog and died.”

The offi­cer has not been charged as the inves­ti­ga­tion into the inci­dent is still ongoing.

Watch video below.

Police have pep­per sprayed young peo­ple, shocked them with Tasers or body-slammed them, often after con­fronting them over the most minor of offenses.

Abbie VanSickle and Weihua Li, The Marshall Project.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — On a warm September Sunday in 2016, a small Black teenag­er in a pink T‑shirt biked through nar­row city streets and rolled into an inter­sec­tion. So did a Chevy Cruze, dri­ven by an 85-year-old man head­ing home from church.
The next thing 15-year-old Brianna Stuart knew, she was lying dazed on the pave­ment, she said in an inter­view. The dri­ver alert­ed 911 about the accident.
Her mom would be so mad at her, she thought. Her par­ents had warned her nev­er to talk to police with­out them in this major­i­ty-white com­mu­ni­ty – and told her not to bike in this part of town.
She cursed at offi­cers try­ing to ques­tion her and climbed back on her Huffy.

White offi­cers pulled the 100-pound girl off her bike by her back­pack straps, a police body cam­era video shows. As she strug­gled to get away, they shoved her against a build­ing and locked her wrists into cuffs while she sobbed and cursed and screamed. “You let that badge go to your head,” a bystander called out.
The police car­ried the increas­ing­ly hys­ter­i­cal teen to a patrol car, but she refused to put her feet inside, the video shows. The police on the scene lost patience. “I’ll spray her,” one said.
He waved the pep­per spray toward her face, and then pushed down on the can­is­ter. It hissed, twice. Stuart shrieked and cried out, “I can’t breathe!” She con­tin­ued to wail as the offi­cers milled around out­side the car.
The police depart­ment said its offi­cers han­dled the sit­u­a­tion cor­rect­ly. But bystander video – of a kid’s bike acci­dent that esca­lat­ed out of con­trol – spread on social media.
The inci­dent echoes sim­i­lar scenes across the coun­try: A 9‑year-old girl in Rochester, New York, pep­per-sprayed as she sat in hand­cuffs in the back of a patrol car, cry­ing for her dad. A teenage girl at a Texas pool par­ty, wres­tled to the ground by an offi­cer. An Iowa teen, pep­per-sprayed by police as she wait­ed for the bus after school. All were Black.
Read the full sto­ry here; https://​www​.usato​day​.com/​i​n​-​d​e​p​t​h​/​n​e​w​s​/​i​n​v​e​s​t​i​g​a​t​i​o​n​s​/​2​0​2​1​/​1​1​/​0​2​/​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​h​u​r​t​-​m​a​n​y​-​t​e​e​n​s​-​e​a​c​h​-​y​e​a​r​-​a​l​a​r​m​i​n​g​-​n​u​m​b​e​r​-​b​l​a​c​k​-​g​i​r​l​s​/​8​5​5​7​9​6​0​0​02/

Like Rabid Dogs, they attack for no reason. They themselves can not articulate the reasoning behind their attacks, because they generally attack before finding out if a crime has been committed, or ascertaining who is the victim from the aggressor.
Thank your US supreme court.
What you will see in this video will more than shock or outrage you, it will sadden you that any nation would commit this kind of barbarism against it’s citizens.
What kind of monster would do this to another human being?

An inves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in a New Orleans sub­urb after a video cap­tured a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy fling­ing a 4‑foot‑8 Black woman just min­utes after she had been attacked by a group of boys.

It’s unclear who cap­tured the graph­ic footage, but in a clip that has since gone viral, the uniden­ti­fied deputy could be seen grab­bing Shantel Arnold by the wrist and drag­ging her along the pavement.

At times, the deputy could be seen lift­ing Arnold up and slam­ming the 100-pound woman to the ground repeat­ed­ly. Witnesses say that at one point, the deputy slammed Arnold’s head into the pave­ment so hard that sev­er­al of her braids ripped straight from her scalp, the Nola reported.The inci­dent report­ed­ly took place on Sept. 20

However, Arnold’s hor­rif­ic expe­ri­ence that Monday start­ed well before her inter­ac­tion with the deputy. Bystanders told the out­let that Arnold’s slim frame and a miss­ing eye she suf­fered from a pri­or car acci­dent made her an easy tar­get for the three boys that accost­ed her min­utes before the deputy arrived.

The youths beat the woman and slammed her to the ground as bystanders jeered while she tried to defend her­self with a stick.

That attack, which also was cap­tured on cell­phone video, went on for min­utes until 71-year-old Lionel Gray ran the boys off, the New Orleans news­pa­per reported.

When Jefferson Parish deputies caught up to Arnold — who was walk­ing home cov­ered in dirt and in a gen­er­al state of dis­ar­ray — she refused to talk about the incident.

Witnesses said that’s when the deputy stopped his vehi­cle, grabbed the woman and threw her to the ground as Arnold flailed fruit­less­ly against the much larg­er man. The video ulti­mate­ly ends as the deputy crouch­es down and puts a knee onto the woman’s back.

Arnold would lat­er describe the encounter to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office inter­nal affairs divi­sion: “I’m on my way home. I ain’t make it all the way to the block, the police come out of nowhere, swarm­ing, get­ting me like, ‘Come here.’ I’m like, ‘What’s going on? I just got beat up by two chil­dren, what ya’ll doing?’”

“She didn’t have a chance to pull away because, you know, this guy was strong. He grabbed her arm and some kind of move he made, and she went down to the ground,” Gray, who is like a step­fa­ther to Arnold, told JPSO investigators.

WATCH VIDEO OF THE ENCOUNTER

We have no pow­er to stop these atroc­i­ties that are vis­it­ed on peo­ple on a dai­ly basis, but we try to bring them to you in the hope that your sen­si­bil­i­ties will be shocked and that you will wake up to what is happening.

A fam­i­ly has been left heart­bro­ken and demand­ing answers while four Richmond County Sheriff’s Office mem­bers were put on admin­is­tra­tive leave fol­low­ing a tas­ing inci­dent in Augusta, Georgia. Jermaine Jones Jr., 24, was hos­pi­tal­ized after being tased and died days lat­er, Macon​.com reports. He was rid­ing in a car with his father and uncle on Oct. 12 when the vehi­cle was pulled over.
After find­ing a gun and crack pipe in the car, Jones, who was on parole, ran and was tased by an offi­cer, accord­ing to offi­cials with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.

“AFTER BEING TASED, MULTIPLE OFFICERS DETAINED HIM,” STATE INVESTIGATORS SAID. “THERE WAS A STRUGGLE BETWEEN OFFICERS AND JONES IN THE ATTEMPTS TO DETAIN HIM.”

While on route to the Richmond County Jail, offi­cers say Jones “expe­ri­enced symp­toms requir­ing med­ical treat­ment.” Once he was in med­ical care, Jones was list­ed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. Just two days lat­er, on Oct. 14, Jones’ fam­i­ly says he was in a coma with seri­ous brain injuries. A doc­tor told the fam­i­ly that his brain injuries were not con­sis­tent with only being tased.

“THE ONLY MARKS HE HAD WERE IN HIS HEAD,” KEYANA GAINES, JONES’ MOTHER TOLD WJBF.

But, four days lat­er, Jones was pro­nounced dead at Augusta Medical Center. Inv. Richard Russell, Deputy Leslie Gaiter, Deputy Parker Leathers, and Deputy Christopher Brown were all placed on leave Friday. Jones’ fam­i­ly is demand­ing answers about the injuries he sus­tained to his head and brain. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) and Richmond County Coroner’s Office are inves­ti­gat­ing. The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office has yet to release body­cam footage of the arrest. “From the time they put him in hand­cuffs to the time he was sup­posed to be trans­port­ed to Phinizy Road (jail), some­thing hap­pened to my child,” Jermain Jones Sr. said.

“I DON’T HAVE FAITH,” GAINES ADDED. “I DON’T TRUST THE SYSTEM.”

Jones is described as a “gen­tle soul” and a “great father and son.”

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans fil­i­bus­tered a major vot­ing bill Wednesday that would allow auto­mat­ic and same-day vot­er reg­is­tra­tion and make Election Day a holiday.

The 49 – 51 vote on the pro­ce­dur­al motion was short of the 60 need­ed to advance the leg­is­la­tion to the next stage, mark­ing the sec­ond time this year that Republicans have pre­vent­ed a Democratic-backed vot­ing bill from mov­ing forward.

The mea­sure, known as the Freedom to Vote Act, had full Democratic sup­port Wednesday after the par­ty scaled back an ear­li­er, more expan­sive bill to win the back­ing of cen­trist Sen. Joe Manchin, D‑W.Va. All 50 Democratic-vot­ing sen­a­tors backed the bill, but Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D‑N.Y., changed his vote to “no” to allow him to request anoth­er vote in the future, a com­mon pro­ce­dur­al maneuver.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R‑Ky., had vowed that Republicans would oppose the measure.

“It is my hope and antic­i­pa­tion that none of us will vote for this lat­est iter­a­tion of Democratic efforts to take over how every American votes all over the coun­try,” he said Tuesday.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the Republican who has been most will­ing to engage with Democrats over vot­ing rights, explained her vote to block the bill ear­li­er, say­ing she was more inter­est­ed in the House-passed John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Read the full sto­ry here;https://​www​.nbc​news​.com/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​/​c​o​n​g​r​e​s​s​/​s​e​n​a​t​e​-​v​o​t​e​-​m​a​j​o​r​-​v​o​t​i​n​g​-​r​i​g​h​t​s​-​b​i​l​l​-​r​e​p​u​b​l​i​c​a​n​s​-​p​r​o​m​i​s​e​-​b​l​o​c​k​-​n​1​2​8​1​9​6​6​?​f​b​c​l​i​d​=​I​w​A​R​0​e​q​Q​_​V​m​f​B​5​I​r​Q​3​p​u​Z​g​B​k​y​_​z​T​M​L​n​j​g​0​h​d​7​r​H​H​P​s​I​a​s​Q​N​N​D​z​V​n​c​k​j​g​C​t​TAI

Our Mission: To com­bat cor­rup­tion through the devel­op­ment, imple­men­ta­tion, and enforce­ment of Anti-Corruption leg­is­la­tion, pol­i­cy, and ini­tia­tives, through our high­ly com­pe­tent staff and effi­cient sys­tems, process­es, and procedures.
Our Vision The region­al lead­ers in Anti-Corruption pol­i­cy and leg­isla­tive frame­work devel­op­ment;  enforce­ment; and gal­va­niz­ing part­ners towards real­iz­ing and sus­tain­ing a cor­rupt-free soci­ety for cit­i­zens, res­i­dents, and visitors.

So says the integri­ty Commission of Jamaica.

The Integrity Commission, like oth­er agen­cies of Government, are Acts of the Jamaican Parliament.

The Integrity Commission is a Commission of Parliament, which is gov­erned under the Integrity Commission Act, 2017 (ICA). The ICA effec­tive­ly merged the oper­a­tions of the fol­low­ing entities:

1. the for­mer Office of the Contractor General, which had the pri­ma­ry respon­si­bil­i­ty of ensur­ing that Government pro­cure­ment pro­ce­dures and the issuance of Government licens­es and per­mits were free of impro­pri­ety and irregularity;
2. the for­mer Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, to which Public Officials were required to file their income, asset, and lia­bil­i­ty state­ments annu­al­ly; and
3. the for­mer Integrity Commission (Parliamentary), to which Parliamentarians were required to file their income, asset, and lia­bil­i­ty state­ments annu­al­ly. ‘(Commission’s website).

Like the INDECOM Act was cob­bled togeth­er because of the bad behav­ior of police offi­cers, the Integrity Act came into being because of the cor­rup­tion of pub­lic offi­cials, includ­ing parliamentarians.
I don’t think that any­one would dis­agree that the Police need­ed over­sight or that the politi­cians need­ed to have a body that has the author­i­ty to see how they han­dle pub­lic mon­ey in particular.
In the same way that the police and mil­i­tary neces­si­tat­ed the for­ma­tion of INDECOM, oth­er pub­lic sec­tor agen­cies made the integri­ty com­mis­sion necessary.
Unfortunately for the tax­pay­ing pub­lic, cor­rup­tion and graft have result­ed in a bloat­ed bureau­cra­cy that sucks up monies that ought to have gone to edu­cat­ing the youth and car­ing for the elderly.

It should come as no sur­prise that gap­ing loop­holes were left in the way the Integrity com­mis­sion Act was writ­ten; why would cor­rupt politi­cians write a law cov­er­ing all bases?
It should also come as no sur­prise that some of the peo­ple in the most sen­si­tive posi­tions in the gov­ern­ment are now opposed to demands by the Integrity Commission in a new vol­un­tary dec­la­ra­tion form issued by the commission.
A notice of motion for amend­ments to the declara­to­ry form was issued to Parliament on March 20. One senior mem­ber of the gov­ern­ment described the form as quote “repug­nant.” Hahaha.….
In the same way that police offi­cers could oper­ate with­out any­one look­ing over their shoul­ders at every­thing they do, if only they car­ried them­selves with dis­tinc­tion and oper­at­ed with­in the bounds of the laws, politi­cians and oth­er pub­lic sec­tor work­ers could also have avoid­ed this intrusion.
It was politi­cians in par­tic­u­lar who siphoned off bil­lions of tax­pay­ers dol­lars and avoid­ed prison time that caused low­er-rung gov­ern­ment work­ers to believe pub­lic ser­vice was an oppor­tu­ni­ty to enrich themselves.

The Integrity Commission’s Director of Information and Complaints, Craig Beresford, said the form is being intro­duced because a large num­ber of dec­la­ra­tion forms are incor­rect and have infor­ma­tion gaps. “It was an oppor­tu­ni­ty for peo­ple to ensure that their dec­la­ra­tions are accurate.”
“We are giv­ing peo­ple an oppor­tu­ni­ty to go back and look. We have not looked to see if you have left off things; that’s not the start­ing point. Over the years, we have been get­ting dec­la­ra­tions where all we get is sig­na­tures, not even infor­ma­tion,” he stressed. “The rea­son why we have now intro­duced that new form let­ter ask­ing per­sons to revise your statu­to­ry dec­la­ra­tions is because we are find­ing that a lot of them are inac­cu­rate. We are not try­ing to entrap anyone.
The “we are not try­ing to trap any­one” com­ment came after Government Minister Pearnel Charles Jnr argued that” if the let­ter were not received by all pub­lic ser­vants there would be rea­son for those who received it to ensure that they get nec­es­sary legal advice to ensure that they don’t place them­selves in a posi­tion that could amount to entrapment.
Public sec­tor work­ers in devel­oped coun­tries are forced to under­go rig­or­ous back­ground checks even before enter­ing pub­lic ser­vice; addi­tion­al­ly, they must main­tain a record of cir­cum­spec­tion reviewed annually.
Even as I per­son­al­ly call for greater clar­i­ty in how laws are writ­ten, let it be under­stood that no pub­lic-sec­tor work­er should feel him or her­self above scruti­ny. The teeth in the new demands are exact­ly what is needed.
Those hol­ler­ing the loud­est at this new demand for account­abil­i­ty should look at their own con­duct and that of their peers. Imagine sign­ing a dec­la­ra­tion with­out fill­ing in the required infor­ma­tion demand­ed by law?
“A hit pig hollers,” those hol­ler­ing the loud­est may be the ones who need to fill out the damn ques­tion­naire and not just add their signature.
If you do not like the heat, get out of the kitchen. Get out; you do not have a right to be in pub­lic ser­vice; it is a priv­i­lege, it is that simple.

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

You would think that these clowns would be deterred from com­mit­ting crimes know­ing that there are cam­eras everywhere.
In fact, they them­selves are often wear­ing body­cams, yet they go right ahead and com­mit seri­ous felonies on camera.
Violent assaults, plant drugs, murder.…..nothing is off lim­its because police offi­cers know that the prospect of them being charged for their crimes are next to nill.
The United States Supreme Court’s doc­trine of qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty enables and shields these mon­sters and allows them to con­tin­ue on their mad crim­i­nal rampage.

Indianapolis officer charged after video showed him kicking

handcuffed man in face.

The cop fac­ing two felony charges and has been sus­pend­ed with­out pay after body cam­era video showed him kick a hand­cuffed Black man in the face.

Police say Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Sgt. Eric M. Huxley used unnec­es­sary force while arrest­ing a man down­town last month. Prosecutors on Tuesday charged Huxley with offi­cial mis­con­duct and bat­tery after they say he kicked Jermaine Vaughn, 38, in the face while help­ing to arrest the man on Sept. 24.

After an inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tion, IMPD Chief Randal Taylor rec­om­mend­ed Huxley, a 14-year police vet­er­an, be removed from the force, law enforce­ment offi­cials told reporters at a press con­fer­ence Tuesday morning.

“I’m upset,” Taylor said before show­ing a video of the arrest. “It hurts me to see any of our offi­cers treat some­one the way you’re going to see here. T

Kenosha, Wis. police Officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot Jacob Blake in the back sev­en times last year, will not face fed­er­al civ­il rights charges in court. NBC News reports that the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday that pros­e­cu­tors decid­ed against charg­ing Sheskey because they didn’t find enough evi­dence to prove “beyond a rea­son­able doubt that the offi­cer will­ful­ly vio­lat­ed the fed­er­al crim­i­nal, civ­il rights statutes.”This comes months after state pros­e­cu­tors declined to charge Sheskey and two oth­er offi­cers at the scene. Blake was shot in August 2020. Officers approached Blake that day after the moth­er of his three chil­dren called police and said he was try­ing to leave with her vehi­cle, which had the chil­dren in the back seat. Blake was left par­a­lyzed from the waist down as a result of the shooting.
From the Associated Press.

Just today, I wrote about the rabid mon­sters that the US Supreme Court has turned loose on American peo­ple of color.
Remarkably, this new case came to light from Dayton, Ohio, when I pub­lished the arti­cle linked below, I was­n’t even aware of this incident.
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Just lis­ten to the tone and tenor of this piece of shit in police uni­form; he is a rabid dog poised to kill.
It mat­tered not that the para­plegic man might have a his­to­ry of break­ing the law. If he was not com­mit­ting an offense at the time, he should be treat­ed with the utmost respect. However, this is not what hap­pened; the dirt­bag in uni­form oper­at­ing under the col­or of law decid­ed that he would attack and phys­i­cal­ly abuse a para­plegic man who could not fight back.
The Dayton Police is now inves­ti­gat­ing itself, and so this filthy thug in uni­form will suf­fer no con­se­quences. At best, that city’s tax­pay­ers will be made to pay for this most egre­gious human rights abuse, and it will be busi­ness as usu­al. They report­ed that they found mon­ey after they searched his car, no ille­gal drugs or weapons were found so I guess hav­ing mon­ey in one’s car is a crime.

.A per­son­’s crim­i­nal his­to­ry is not grounds to legal­ly stop them while they are driving.
.The piece of shit cop said the stop was about dark tint the motorist was not cit­ed for dark tint. Do you know why? Because the lying thug knew that it was an ille­gal traf­fic stop.
But nev­er mind that, the United Supreme Court gave them the right to ille­gal­ly stop whomev­er they want, search with­out a war­rant or jus­ti­fi­able cause, and if they find evi­dence of a crime that ille­gal­ly obtained evi­dence is good in an American court of law.
.Police can­not legal­ly stop some­one and order them out of their vehi­cles because they may have had a his­to­ry of drug deal­ing, so that they may have drug dogs sniff around their vehicle.
.This is exact­ly what Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer told the six morons on the court who decid­ed in 2016 that cops can lie to cit­i­zens. The evi­dence would still be admit­ted into evi­dence — a clear, deci­sive abro­ga­tion of American cit­i­zens’ fourth amend­ment rights.
Based on what the Supreme Court has allowed them to get away with there is absolute­ly no crimes too egre­gious for them to com­mit against citizens.
Oh by the way the two dirt­bags are still on the streets, no consequence.……
Please watch the video below.

In the footage from last month, per the Dayton Daily News, Clifford Owensby was pulled from his car, pinned to the ground, and then hand­cuffed before he was placed in a police cruis­er. Owensby is para­plegic, which means he can­not use his legs, and said that he was injured dur­ing the ordeal. “I feel like they don’t even respect me as a cit­i­zen,” Owensby said.
While some of the encounter was record­ed by a bystander, the body cam­era footage has paint­ed a clear­er pic­ture. The ini­tial rea­son for the stop, as the police have claimed, was due to con­cerns over the tint on one of the car’s win­dows. After a child was in the back of the car, but not in a car seat, the approach­ing offi­cer asked Owensby to step out of the vehicle.
“I’m para­plegic. I got help get­ting in,” he said. “Well, I’ll help you get out,” the offi­cer in the clip replied. “Well, I don’t think that’s going to hap­pen, sir,” Owensby said. The offi­cer then told him that due to his crim­i­nal his­to­ry, they would get a K‑9 unit to sniff the vehi­cle. The two went back and forth for a bit, and even­tu­al­ly, Owensbyu called a fam­i­ly mem­ber to come to assist.

A 22-year-old Black man was shot to death out­side a night­club in Oregon last month by a white man after he, the local dis­trict attor­ney said, had hit on the man’s girl­friend in a “respect­ful” man­ner. Barry Washington Jr. was fatal­ly shot out­side The Capitol night­club in Bend, Oregon, at 12:11 a.m. on September 19, the Bend Bulletin reported.

Ian Mackenzie Cranston, 27, was arrest­ed on September 30 after a Deschutes County grand jury indict­ed him on six charges con­nect­ed to Washington’s killing, includ­ing sec­ond-degree mur­der, first-degree manslaugh­ter, sec­ond-degree manslaugh­ter, first-degree assault, and two counts of unlaw­ful use of a dead­ly weapon.

“Justice for J6” was a flop — but the Jan. 6 insurrection has fueled growing support for white extremist violence

America’s tor­tured, racist past cre­at­ed orga­ni­za­tions like the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People(NAACP). The(CLU) was found­ed on February 12^th, 1909, in New York City, while the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) came 11-years lat­er, on January 19^th, 1920, found­ed in 1920, again in New York City.
A good barom­e­ter of their suc­cess is the lev­el of attacks against these orga­ni­za­tions, even as it is rather reveal­ing to see the par­ties that attack these organizations.
The New York City Police Department(NYPD) and some of its syco­phants have made them­selves bit­ter adver­saries to the ACLU) for decades now.

ACLU
Since the nation’s found­ing, the fab­ric of American soci­ety has been woven with deeply racist poli­cies, prac­tices, and atti­tudes that harm Black and Indigenous peo­ple of col­or. These poli­cies have led to an unequal sys­tem where white peo­ple have both implic­it and explic­it advan­tages because of the col­or of their skin, lead­ing to bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ties in jobs, edu­ca­tion, and hous­ing.

Please view the video to see why the work of these orga­ni­za­tions is crit­i­cal from now on.

NAACP
To make our vision a real­i­ty, we will: Ensure the polit­i­cal, edu­ca­tion­al, social, and eco­nom­ic equal­i­ty of all cit­i­zens. Achieve equal­i­ty of rights and elim­i­nate race prej­u­dice among the cit­i­zens of the United States. Remove all bar­ri­ers of racial dis­crim­i­na­tion through demo­c­ra­t­ic processes.

They are arro­gant, cocky, and they are bru­tal. They will not stop being dis­re­spect­ful bul­lies until the sys­tem which cre­at­ed, empow­ered, and pro­tects them take the pow­er from them.
The pow­er that allows them to bru­tal­ize and mur­der with­out fear of con­se­quence. The sys­tem that allows immu­ni­ty to cre­ate impuni­ty. A sys­tem that val­ues com­pli­ance to barked orders, (even ille­gal orders), than it val­ues cit­i­zen’s rights. (mb).

A for­mer Louisiana state troop­er was indict­ed by a fed­er­al grand jury in Shreveport on Thursday, Sept. 23, for using exces­sive force against a Black man dur­ing a 2019 arrest.
Jacob Brown, 31, was indict­ed on a sin­gle count of depri­va­tion of rights under col­or of law, accord­ing to a release from the Department of Justice. If con­vict­ed, Brown faces a max­i­mum sen­tence of 10 years in prison, three years of super­vised release, and a $250,000 fine.
Federal inves­ti­ga­tions into dead­ly and vio­lent inci­dents involv­ing Louisiana State Police and arrestees remain open and ongoing.
In May 2019, Andrew Bowman, 46, was pur­sued by offi­cers fol­low­ing an alleged traf­fic vio­la­tion. Bowman con­tin­ued dri­ving to his home and parked before offi­cers approached and phys­i­cal­ly removed him from the vehicle.
By the time Brown arrived on the scene, Bowman was already on the ground. Video and police records show he struck Bowman with a flash­light 18 times in 24 sec­onds. Brown lat­er jus­ti­fied his actions as “pain com­pli­ance.” No weapons or drugs were found in the vehi­cle. Bowman still faces a list of charges, includ­ing bat­tery of a police offi­cer and resist­ing an offi­cer. He has filed a fed­er­al law­suit against the state police and oth­er law enforce­ment involved in the arrest, alleg­ing “unrea­son­able, unnec­es­sary,” and neg­li­gent behav­ior from the offi­cers involved, and claims they could have used “ver­bal judo” and oth­er tac­tics to de-esca­late the sit­u­a­tion. Louisiana State Police said detec­tives learned that Brown failed to report the use of force to his super­vi­sors and mis­la­beled the footage of the inci­dent. Brown resigned in March 2021.

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Officers com­plain of alleged racism in Millersville, Tenn.

Black and white Tennessee offi­cers report­ed their department’s alleged racism to Black Lives Matter (BLM).

The depart­ment of Millersville, Tenn., alleged­ly has a cul­ture of harass­ment and intim­i­da­tion, so Robert Black cre­at­ed a fake Facebook to con­tact his local BLM chap­ter, The Daily Beast reported.

During that time, the assis­tant police chief, Dustin Carr, was under inves­ti­ga­tion for alleged­ly assault­ing his wife, who was her­self alleged­ly involved in an affair with a drug sus­pect. Black and oth­er police offi­cers claim they were fired for not com­ply­ing with “Blue Lives Matter.”

In addi­tion to ques­tion­ing the police depart­ment man­age­ment, Black endured alleged sex­u­al harass­ment, includ­ing a female offi­cer grab­bing his gen­i­tals, and a sec­ond inci­dent in which a male alleged­ly made dis­parag­ing com­ments about Black’s bira­cial son.

In a new law­suit, Joshua Barnes, a for­mer Millersville Police sergeant who is Black, claims the depart­ment har­bors a cul­ture of harass­ment and intim­i­da­tion. Robert Black, who is white with a bira­cial son, has joined Barnes in the law­suit.

The lawsuit’s three defen­dants are Millersville Police Chief Mark Palmer, Assistant Chief Dustin Carr and the city of Millersville. Palmer told The Daily Beast that all com­ments must be addressed to the city man­ag­er, which did not return requests for com­ment, and nei­ther did Carr.

Palmer and the city had already in the past faced racial dis­crim­i­na­tion alle­ga­tions. In 2015, two Black offi­cers sued Palmer for racial dis­crim­i­na­tion, claim­ing that each of them was told “I don’t like n — –s.”

One of the men, Anthony Hayes, claimed Palmer took him to a for­mer Ku Klux Klan leader’s home, where Hayes “was sub­ject­ed to an extend­ed con­ver­sa­tion in the pres­ence of KKK memorabilia.”

Hayes claimed that Palmer placed a copy of a KKK mag­a­zine in his police lock­er, with a sticky note that read, “This was left for you — don’t let your sub­scrip­tion run out.”

“You can’t find this any­where,” Black said of the KKK mag­a­zine. “That’s why I hit up BLM reps. I was like, ‘hey y’all…’”

In their response to the law­suit, the city denied the alle­ga­tions against Palmer. The city manager’s office has not respond­ed to a request for com­ment from Changing America.

Brian McCartherenes, the oth­er offi­cer who sued Palmer, said they were being forced out of their post after they accused the depart­ment of racism.

According to a police memo, McCartherenes was fired for alleged racist con­duct, telling a new Black offi­cer at the time, “At the end of the day, remem­ber you are Black.” McCartherenes says he intend­ed the com­ment as a warn­ing about the risks of the job.

Robert Black was fired by the city man­ag­er for incit­ing a protest on Sept. 11, 2020, but the protest was rel­a­tive­ly peace­ful with­out any­thing get­ting dam­aged or any­one get­ting arrest­ed, con­trary to the warn­ings of the then-city man­ag­er who alleged­ly told Black in pri­vate to “tell every­one who is involved in this [BLM protest] that we are com­ing after them next!”