A 31-year-old Black man was killed by Louisiana police on Friday night while attempting to walk away from officers following an altercation at a convenience store.
Trayford Pellerin was pronounced dead at a local hospital after being struck by officer gunfire. Investigators said Lafayette police had been called to the scene following a disturbance at a convenience store along Evangeline Thruway and encountered Pellerin, who was carrying a knife
Pellerin was unaffected when police used tasers on him, the Louisiana State Police, which is investigating the shooting, said in a statement.
Footage of part of the incident, which circulated on social media, shows Pellerin walking away from at least four officers on foot, with their guns drawn, while other officers trailed in vehicles.
After a pursuit on foot, in which Pellerin has his back to officers, he approaches the doors of a second convenience store. The officers, who are only feet away, then shoot — firing at least 10 shots as heard on video — and kill him.
A state police spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the investigation is ongoing and did not provide further details.
“Once again, video footage has captured a horrific and deadly incident of police violence against a Black person who was brutally killed in front of our eyes,” said Alanah Odoms Hebert, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, in a statement. “While we need to know much more about what occurred last night, we know that it began with a routine ‘disturbance’ call and cell phone video from the scene clearly shows Mr. Pellerin moving away — not towards — police officers, only to be tased and then brutally shot dead.”
The Acadiana Advocate in Lafayette reported that this is the third time a Lafayette Police Department officer shot someone in the past five weeks. LPD interim police chief Scott Morgan told the outlet that the officers involved would be placed on paid leave, pending an investigation. His department has also turned over the investigation to state police.
Pellerin’s death comes amid a national reckoning over the use of police violence against Black people. Since the May killing of George Floyd, millions have taken to the streets in protest of racial injustice and the uneven use of police force against Black people and other minorities.
Local organizers have organized a protest over Pellerin’s death on Saturday in Lafayette.
“Trayford Pellerin should be alive today,” Odoms Herbert said. “Instead, a family is mourning and a community is grieving.”
Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum died in Kenosha Wisconsin at the hands of a deranged white supremacist who was only 17 years old. Huber, 26, and Rosenbaum, 36, died on Tuesday night after they were fatally shot while protesting in Kenosha, according to friends and family. Video from the scene that has since gone viral shows several protestors, including one carrying a skateboard, attempting to take down an armed man. According to Huber’s girlfriend Hannah Gittings, the man with the skateboard in the video was her boyfriend. “He was one of the most amazing people,” she said during a vigil on Wednesday night, The Chicago Sun-Times reported. “He had so much love in his heart for this city … he took down an armed gunman with nothing but his f — — - skateboard, and he took that f — — - bullet.”
Rosenbaum’s sister also spoke at the vigil, saying that her brother was originally from Waco, Texas, but stayed in Wisconsin to be close to his 2‑year-old daughter, The Chicago-Sun-Times reported. “He loved his daughter very much,” she said. A GoFundMe was also created in Rosenbaum’s name, though his sister discouraged donors from contributing because family members “have expenses covered” and “don’t need a GoFundMe page.”(people.com, reported)
These two young white men gave their lives for a cause to which they did not need to. They were both white and male, two critical factors when it comes to the toxic white supremacist culture that pervades America. Nevertheless, they braved being beaten by police, shot with rubber bullets, suffocated with gas, and in the end, they were killed by people the police gave water to and thanked for being there.
This is what is happening in America in 2020. This is what the world needs to see. these two heroes gave their lives for a cause greater than themselves. A cause greater than America itself, the cause of justice and equality. This publication honors their sacrifice.
A Black man in San Antonio was stopped and detained by police Tuesday while he was jogging, witnesses said, as officers searched for a suspect in a nearby domestic violence call. Video of the incident posted to social media shows officers forcefully shoving the man into a police vehicle as he screams. The arrested man, identified in a police report as Mathias Ometu, 33, was seen walking out of an apartment complex as officers arrived in response to a call about a domestic violence assault, according to a police report from the incident. Officers stopped Ometu and told him they had “reasonable suspicion to believe” he “matched the description of an alleged strangulation family violence incident,” the report said.
The police report said Ometu refused to give his name and date of birth after several requests and his “demeanor became aggressive.” Ometu refused to get in the patrol vehicle and was then “placed in the patrol vehicle” after a “long struggle,” the report said, “using only open hand techniques.”
During the incident, Ometu allegedly kicked two officers, striking one in the face, the police report said.
The victim of the family violence incident met officers and said Ometu was not the suspect, but Ometu still would not give officers his information, the report said.
He was arrested and charged with two counts of assault on a peace officer, a statement from the San Antonio Police Department said.
Jenny Rodriguez and Victor Maas, who witnessed the arrest and filmed the interaction between Ometu and police, told CNN by phone Friday that Ometu did not seem aggressive or confrontational toward the officers.
Their videos show Ometu handcuffed standing next to a police vehicle calmly for what appears to be about six minutes before two officers start to push Ometu into the vehicle. One witness noted in a video that at least one of the officers was also Black.
The video shows officers struggling with Ometu to push him into the back of a police vehicle and he is heard yelling, “You’re choking me!” several times as the struggle continues for over a minute.
As the officers shut the doors of the vehicle with Ometu inside, at least three more police vehicles arrive, the video shows.
Rodriguez said she was walking her dog when she saw the man jogging around 2 p.m. Tuesday.
All of a sudden, police arrived and began to go towards the man and started speaking with him, she said. About 10 – 15 minutes after the conversation started, Rodriguez said, they started to put him in handcuffs.
She said she knocked on the office window of her boyfriend and coworker to grab the phone to start filming. Her boyfriend, Victor Maas, also began filming.
In their videos, police officers are seen attempting to put the man into the vehicle. He appears to resist the police officers.
Maas said officers used Tasers on the man, although it is not seen during the video.
The entire incident lasted roughly an hour, according to Maas and Rodriguez, but only about 20 minutes of the interaction was included in the videos.
Police are still investigating
Ometu has posted bond on the charges and the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office is waiting for law enforcement to complete their investigation, Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales said in a statement emailed to CNN on Friday.
Once the investigation is complete, the district attorney’s office will “review all evidence and decide how to proceed with any potential criminal case,” Gonzales said.
Tess House, an attorney who has been in contact with Ometu’s family but is not yet formally representing him, was unable to comment on his behalf when reached by CNN over the phone Friday. However, she told CNN that Ometu has been released from jail but his phone is still in the possession of police.
CNN has not been able to reach Ometu or family members for comment.
Mayor and police department respond
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg said in a tweet Thursday that he is “seeking a full account of this incident, which is currently under investigation.” He has not responded to a request from CNN for further comment.
“We have to approach this situation seriously because every single resident deserves fair and equitable treatment from their city,” Nirenberg said in the tweet.
The San Antonio Police Department, in a statement emailed to CNN on Friday, said officers were called to investigate a “family violence incident.”
“The suspect fled before police arrived, but the victim provided officers with the suspect’s information and officers also obtained information that the suspect was also wanted for a felony robbery warrant,” the statement read.
“The individual contacted was in close proximity to the call and he matched the physical and clothing description provided by the victim. That was the only reason he was stopped and questioned as the officers legitimately believed he was the wanted suspect.”
The statement also said the department is aware of “several videos of the incident that have been posted online” and that the incident “will be reviewed administratively to ensure all policies were followed.”
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Protesters in San Antonio were planning to demonstrate again on Friday evening after former combat veteran Damian Lamar Daniels, 31, was fatally shot by deputies during a mental health call on Tuesday. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Thursday that Daniels and his family made four separate calls in the lead up to the shooting, reporting that Daniels was suicidal and suffering paranoid episodes. In the final callout, Salazar said deputies could see a “bulge” at Daniels’ hip that they assumed was a handgun. As they tried to detain Daniels, a struggle broke out and Daniels’ tried to grab a deputy’s stun gun and then reached for his own gun, Salazar said. Deputies were “pleading” with Daniels to let go of his gun and “it was very clear they were in a fight for their lives,” he added.
Salazar’s office released photos of the encounter “in the interest of transparency and timeliness.” “Quite frankly, I’m still really quite in awe of the restraint, the level of restraint, shown by our deputies,” he said. One photo, taken from a body camera, shows the bulge inside Daniels’ shirt. S. Lee Merritt, a family attorney, said Daniels had a legal gun on his hip “that he never removed” and his family had asked the Red Cross to get Daniels to the VA. The incident prompted protesters to gather outside the Sheriff’s office and Bexar County Jail. One organizer told San Antonio Express-News that they don’t think officers are equipped to handle mental health calls.
As we struggle to understand the deep levels of indifference, antipathy & hatred many white Americans harbor towards African-Americans, a look at the past may offer up a window of what occurred during slavery-(the what). The past may not fully explain [why,] because after over two hundred years of free labor, abject servitude, being raped, mutilated, sodomized, beaten, and have every imaginable evil visited upon them, they ought to be the ones who are owed an apology. They are the ones who are owed something. They are the ones who have the goddamn right to be angry, hateful, bitter, and vengeful. And so though the past will not explain the “why” it offers up an opportunity that may help to explain whether anything will change, based on the actions taken so far by African-Americans. From slavery to the civil war, from the Black codes which essentially re-enslaved the recently freed enslaved Black people after the civil war, to the efforts of Federal, State and Local Authorities to reestablish a system of enslavement of the Black population that was just released as a result of the Emancipation Declaration.
As it was during slavery- slave catchers used dogs to brutalize blacks.
Marching and singing will never change a damn thing, one cannot legislate a change of heart, but one can ensure that there is legislation that changes people’s actions. We may never be able to stamp out evil, ignorance out of the hearts of those so predisposed, but we sure can make it so that when they act out of those predispositions the consequences are so severe that others will think twice about following suit. That is how you change behaviors. The hunting and killing of Black people by white southern slaveholders as white liberals in the north stood passively and with the full backing and acquiescence of the Government and Supreme Court has been a staple in America. Those policies have never been flushed out of the body politic, the demons have never been exorcised. Slavery and the horrors visited on African enslaved people by slaveowners and the silence of white so-called liberals is America’s forever shame. But it is far worse than just America’s shame. If not dealt with with the correct level of mea culpa, truth& reconciliation and the appropriate levels of compensation, it may very well be America’s unraveling.
The History Channel is a good place to start for Blacks, and also for Whites & others, who would like to understand the historical underpinnings of the hatred, violence, rapes, mutilation, and death, upon which the United States was founded, instead of the propaganda of lies about its genesis based on a contrived narrative of honor and religion. In the link above, I have included a documentary for those of you who would like to set aside social media for a few minutes, set aside taking selfies of yourselves, resist posting them in order to get likes from people you do not know. I know that my statements are a bit incendiary and some may find it to be an affront to their sensibilities. That is exactly the emotion I want to provoke in you. I want you to become angry enough that you [will] do what I suggest, learn a little bit about what occurred in the past to our ancestors, in order to understand why the things that are happening to you and I, are happening today.
It continued through the sixties(60’s) to the present day.
If you do read and understand, or even watch some of the documentaries that accurately depict some of the horrors of the ignobility of slavery, you [may] start to better understand that you cannot start a project on murder and exploitation and end up with the proverbial shining city on a hill. You will understand the vicious cruelty of Presidents like Franklin Pierce who imported what he called (nigger dogs) from Cuba to hunt runaway enslaved people. The Dogs were exceptionally vicious and would literally rip the skin from the bones of the people they intercept. Pierce is from the State of New Hampshire, where there is a private University named after him today. He is viewed as one of the worst presidents ever. He was the 14th president of the United States, he was popular and outgoing, but his family life was a grim affair, with his wife Jane suffering from illness and depression for much of her life.[1]All of their children died young, their last son being gruesomely killed in a train accident while the family was traveling shortly before Pierce’s inauguration. He was a heavy drinker for much of his life, and he died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1869. Historians and scholars generally rank Pierce as one of the worst and least memorable U.S. Presidents.[w]
Modern-day slave catchers operating with the full authority of the state. Note: This man is in handcuffs, yet they allow the dog to maul him while they kneel with smirks on their faces.Qualified immunity and the impunity it breeds.
Today Franklin Pierce is long gone, he is a distant footnote in history, counted only because he has to be counted among the group. In the White House is another White Supremacist, no different than the other white supremacists who occupied that office even in recent times. In fact, apart from Barack Obama, one would have to search really hard to find a president who, even if not a white supremacist, hasn’t used racist tropes and stereotypes, at least to get into the office of the presidency. America is not about to become anything but what it is. The idea that the white majority is good and decent, is a falsehood perpetuated by the likes of Barack Obama, it was merely a figment of his imagination, or a line he needed to use to ingratiate himself to them, in order to get them to vote for him. The silent acquiescence of the white majority in the face of egregious acts of savagery against Blacks, makes them all equally as guilty as the ones who commit the acts themselves.
Carlos Balli was ducking away from Arizona state officers in Glendale when Detective Brad Martin released a dog on him. The canine, Storm, chewed Balli’s nose flesh off. Storm also ripped a sizable chunk of skin off Balli’s face, leaving him scars that will stay with him for the rest of his life.
Dr. Martin Luther King Junior spoke to this before they murdered him fifty-two years ago. King bemoaned the white people who were appalled by Bull O’Connor’s dogs tearing at the flesh of young African-Americans, including children, but when it came time for African ‑Americans to be granted full citizenship thereby placing all Americans on an even keel, they all backed away. In his book titled (crimes without punishment: white neighbors resistance to black entry), Dr.Stephen Meyer chronicled the history of white resistance to housing integration during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. From the author’s perspective, the book is about housing discrimination and segregation‑a conflict over residential space that is contested along racial lines between Blacks and whites. It is a story of Blacks seeking to gain access to, and occupy, housing in neighborhoods whites considered to be theirs, and whites’ efforts to thwart, prevent, and deter those efforts and to exclude and expel Blacks from those neighborhoods. Not only have they consistently objected to Blacks in neighborhoods they consider theirs, but they have also systematically destroyed thriving black towns and slaughtered thousands of African-Americans to boot. Dr. Martin Luther King asked the question, how can you demand that a man pull himself by his bootstraps when he has no boots? I take it a step further, how can he pull himself up by his bootstraps when you chopped off his damn feet & hands?
Kyle Rittenhouse traveled from his home in Illinois to kill protesters in Kenosha Wisconsin. Cops in Kenosha gave him and other Militia-members bottles of water and thanked them for being there.
Fifty-two years after Doctor King was murdered, the 45th occupant of the nation’s highest executive office, joyfully extolls to his supporters, his efforts at keeping Black people out of what he calls suburban neighborhoods. We can talk about the Rodney King beating on March 3, 1991, that set Los Angeles ablaze. We can skip over the tens, possibly hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people who have had dogs rip their flesh from their bones, their only crime, the pursuit of freedom. We can look at what happened to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, Akhai Gurley, Philando Castille, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Alton Sterling, Jacob Blake, and the long stream of our people and our ancestors who have been murdered by this evil race of people. [mankind: kind of man]. We can look at the past ‘yes’.….now you tell me what has changed?
Joseph Malott is arrested after the police sicced their canines on him. The dogs mauled Mallot leaving him bleeding. Thankfully the DA refused to pursue criminal charges against Mallot who clearly was a victim of the system of state-sanctioned racism executed through oppressive racist police.
Do you really believe that getting down on your knees and praying for this to stop will cause it to stop? Do you believe that you can appeal to any kind of better Angels within a race of people who have exercised nothing but hatred and murder towards us? If you believe that somehow all this will go away with time, please explain 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse whom some reports had his mother driving him to Kenosha Wisconsin where he committed murder? If you believe that somehow the younger generation is any less corrosive and insidious take a peek at their social media profile.….. follow their conversations as you follow their older, less educated, more incredibly ignorant parents on chat threads. Growing up I was taught never to revel in the death of anyone, even an enemy. Never in my life have I seen people laugh and revel in the death of their innocent fellow human beings. That level of hatred will not go away. Blacks better wake up.
Mike Beckles is a former police Detective corporal, businessman, freelance writer, he is a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog chatt-a-box.com. He’s also a contributor to several websites. You may subscribe to his blogs free of charge, or subscribe to his Youtube channel @chatt-a-box, for the latest podcast all free to you of course.
The white cop who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times at point-blank range on August 23, 2020, has been identified as Rusten Sheskey, on some social media platforms. Blake was lucky to survive, but is now paralyzed and according to his attorney Ben Crump.- Crump says that it will take a miracle for Blake to ever walk again.
The youtube link above opens a window into the soul of the iconic Martin Luther King, a man who Republicans and Democrats now pay lip service to when they want to attach themselves to moral authority. Martin Luther King was assassinated by white nationalists on April 4th, 1968. So too have literally every Black leader to grace America after the ignobility of slavery been murdered. A full 52 years after King was murdered, marches continue, riots continue, and the conditions that lead to them continue in America. Police killings and blatant brutality are what the world sees, but the inherent racism that emboldens police violence is not always visible but it is encouraged by the Republicans and tolerated by the Democrats.
America’s continued shameful response to its citizen’s discontent over its racist policies and their execution. (Image after the assassination of Dr. King)
A RIOTISTHELANGUAGEOFTHEUNHEARD(Martin Luther King Jr)
In Minneapolis, in Kenosha, in Portland, in Seattle, in New York City, in Los Angeles and cities all across America, violence continue to flare, and yet the political response to it is the same as it was 52 ‑years ago. White America continues to relish in the safety and serenity of white privilege that leads to prosperity and comfortable living, one free from police oppression. Yet they continue to be ambivalent and hostile to the systemic violence against Black Americans. At the root of that ambivalence, is the age-old question, “what is behind white America’s hatred of Blacks? It is one that requires a lot of thought, for hundreds of years white Americans have benefited from the free labor of Blacks, yet when finally Blacks were afforded a small modicum of freedom after the emancipation declaration they immediately set about creating a rigid system of hatred that to this day continue to entangle blacks in its tentacles of destruction.
(King spent his life in defense of civil rights)
Today white people pontificate about law and order in sheer arrogance, their arrogance is usually a function of their misguided and ignorant beliefs in ancient tropes and stereotypes. Even as younger whites begin to come to the reality that there can be no peace if there is no justice. And even as they begin to join the righteous campaign to end the insidious malignancy of racism before it destroys America, older less-educated whites still cling to old ways, further endangering the peace and tranquility of the nation. Their outrage predictably is triggered by broken glass and smoldering ruins, not by bullet-riddled bodies and blood-drenched sidewalks. Fifty-two years (52) after they assassinated Martin King the message has still not gotten through to the nation’s leaders. Instead of correcting the maladies that leads to the conflagration. They spend their time trying to suppress the flareups of dissent. America’s problems are American created. It is a problem that should not exist. It is a problem with simple answers, stop racism, and begin the process of redemption. Instead, there is a segment of the white population that is so deeply dug in, so heavily invested in the continuation of the status quo, that it seems America will march headfirst into a final collision in which injustice and inequality will come face to face with the forces of justice & morality on the battlefield of conclusion.
(In the years since Dr. King’s assassination, the uniforms have changed, so too has the weapons troops and police used, to suppress the Black minority changed, but certainly, not the policies and tactics of the American Government, not much else has.)
In just over two months there will be another presidential election. In fact, the Republicans are only halfway through their convention, or more like a cavalcade of fealty to the dear leader. Without equivocation, the Republicans have made it clear that they have zero regard for the concerns of the still oppressed Black population. From that party’s highest leaders to the lowest subjects, they have called for more inequality, more oppression, more death to be visited on the Black minority population in the United States. The death of Black citizens at the hands of their racist police evokes laughter and derision from them. Criminal records with disorderly conduct & jaywalking, are pulled and used to justify summary execution by police. The Democrats with 90% Black support, its most loyal base of support, still panders to white voters- voters that have shown hostility and aggression to black causes. As cities burn, they resort to the same old tactics, more police, more national guard, more state-sponsored violence in response to the consequences of,— state-sponsored violence. No nation can survive while being at war with itself. As poverty, hunger, homelessness, lack of healthcare, education, and police violence fuels the smoldering embers of disaffection, the nation’s leaders either stoke the embers that will inevitably ignite the flames resulting in a roaring inferno, or they turn away and pretend that there is no clear and present danger. If they continue to act as they do the flames will engulf us all.
Mike Beckles is a former police Detective corporal, businessman, freelance writer, he is a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog chatt-a-box.com. He’s also a contributor to several websites. You may subscribe to his blogs free of charge, or subscribe to his Youtube channel @chatt-a-box, for the latest podcast all free to you of course.
In July of 1999, 10% of the African-American population in Tulia, Texas, a small town of 5,000 in the Texas Panhandle, was arrested on drug charges solely on the testimony of a single undercover officer. The arrests of 46 people, 39 of them black, resulted in 38 convictions for various drug charges with sentences of up to 90 years in prison. In early April 2003, a Dallas judge threw out all 38 drug convictions from Tulia because they were based on questionable testimony from a single undercover agent accused of racial prejudice. On June 16, 12 of the defendants remaining in the case (most of the others accepted plea-bargains in order to avoid lengthy prison sentences), were freed after Texas Gov. Perry signed a bill authorizing their release.
The officer responsible for the racially motivated arrests is Tom Coleman, a Texas cop with a checkered past and a self-declared fondness for racial epithets. At the time, Coleman was working for the Panhandle Regional Narcotics Task Force, one of an estimated 1,000 drug task forces operating across America with very little oversight or accountability. According to Randy Credico of the William Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, which was instrumental in bringing Tulia to the public’s attention, “The Panhandle task force was the beneficiary of Coleman’s lies. The more busts he made and the more convictions he helped win, the more federal grant money the task force received.”
Perversely, in this ““bucks-for-busts”” world, Coleman was named Texas’ outstanding narcotics officer in 2000. This is surprising since Coleman kept no written records, not a single photograph was taken, no video was shot, and no one observed his buys. Every ensuing conviction relied only on his word. The Texas judge who freed the defendants in June called Coleman “the most devious, non-responsive law enforcement witness this Court has witnessed in 25 years on the bench in Texas.” According to the Court’s findings, Coleman submitted false reports, misrepresented his investigative work, and misidentified various defendants during his investigation.
Subsequent to the April ruling, Coleman was indicted on three counts of perjury in an unrelated case. Although he faces up to 10 years in prison, his misdeeds in the Tulia case have yet to be formally recognized. Furthermore, the ““Tulia 12”” have not been completely exonerated. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals must approve the ruling for their convictions, and those of the 26 others ensnared in the bogus drug sting, to be thrown out. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles should also do its part by pardoning the defendants or granting clemency or commutation in the cases.
The ACLU of Texas has urged state lawmakers to vote for a bill that requires corroboration of undercover law enforcement officers’ testimony before a defendant is convicted. However, racially motivated arrests and violations of civil liberties like the Tulia case, continue to run amock in our judicial system. (Provided by the ACLU)
One Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven-bullets in the Back.
The killings have become so commonplace nowadays that there is hardly a point in detailing them one by one, even though each story needs to be told. Do you recall when the American Government would feign interest in human rights? You remember that, oh, so you do read and, you do pay attention. Yup, they started a war in Iraq under the guise of bringing Democracy and human rights to an old country. One that has survived and thrived for thousands of years, long before there was any thought of something called American Democracy, but I digress. Okay, so I went too far back, so let us leap forward a couple of thousand years.…… For those of you who served in law-enforcement in Jamaica, some of you read. You will recall when the Americans used their state department to castigate and penalize tiny Jamaica about alleged law-enforcement abuse?
Ok then, if you are able to recall those events, you will also recall that even as they demonized the JCF for what they characterized as [extrajudicial killings], their over 18’000 police departments pretty much investigated themselves and still do to this day, they operate outside of any independent’s agencies ability to investigate their operations, and the Government itself placed itself above all international bodies that would monitor the use of force by law enforcement agencies around the world. That blatant and arrogant stance by America in placing itself above international laws is not confined to police use of force, it also applies to the International court of justice that they have been instrumental in setting up in the Hauge after the second world war. After the court ruled that the United States’ covert war against Nicaragua was in violation of international law (Nicaragua v. the United States), the United States withdrew from compulsory jurisdiction in 1986 to accept the court’s jurisdiction only on a discretionary basis.[9] Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter authorizes the UN Security Council to enforce Court rulings. However, such enforcement is subject to the veto power of the five permanent members of the Council, which the United States used in the Nicaragua case. In other words, the United States by its actions, placed itself and the powerful veto-wielding members of the council, above international laws.
No American politician, or other leaders from any western white-run nation that may have violated international law have ever been arrested and charged, much less brought before the Hauge Tribunal. Are we to believe that the only Politicians who break international laws are black and brown ones from Africa and the Middle East? I can think of a few that aren’t black or brown who has been accused of committing breaches against international laws and they are moving around freely with nary a care in the world. Not a single one has found themselves before the International court since the Germans did after the second world war. Instead, only Black and brown leaders have been dragged before the court, literally rendering it devoid of legitimacy. As a consequence, some African Nations have removed their countries from the authority of the court. The biased & arrogant nature of the American’sactions has jeopardized populations around the world, making them vulnerable to abuse by despotic leaders. If their leaders are not subject to international laws who will hold them accountable? Oh, I forgot, the Americans will bomb them into obeying American dictates. But this is not about America’s arrogance on the international scene, at least not in this article, it is about American police who operate nationally, yet outside any accountability from inside the United States or the outside world.
Over a decade and a half ago the FBI warned about KKK and other white supremacist elements infiltrating law enforcement. This is in addition to the fact that American police departments have always been agencies of death and oppression to the black community. The American Government to date has done nothing worthwhile, outside of what the Obama Administration did in getting a few departments to enter into consent-decrees with the US justice department with a view to implementing some measured reforms. In other words, the head, which is the Government (the Dog), cannot get police, (the tail), to comply with the laws, much less best practices. So in this dystopian Orwellian existence, the tail wags the dog. There are a couple of elements at play here, (a) Qualified immunity: This is a doctrine literally created by the United States Supreme court, that protects government employees from exposure to civil actions when they are acting on behalf of the state.
Qualified immunity doctrine gives government officials broad — if not entirely limitless — protection against federal lawsuits. The Supreme Court held in Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982), “government officials performing discretionary functions, generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” In practice, however, qualified immunity can protect truly egregious conduct by police. As the Supreme Court put it in Malley v. Briggs (1986), qualified immunity “provides ample protection to all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.”[vox] The convoluted standard that would make one such employee liable to civil action by an aggrieved party is that he/she would have to have known that his/her actions were so egregious and that there was established precedent in a case already decided similar to the one being brought.
Simply put, if there is no similar case already decided by the courts that match the one a defendant wishes to pursue, there is a greater chance of a snowball surviving in hell, than that case prevailing. In other words, the Court gave police carte blanche to do whatever they want without consequence. (b) Police Unions are so powerful that Mayors Governors and legislators are petrified to cross them, so the country is virtually locked in a mafioso vice-grip in which it’s citizens are being murdered by the state but the politicians are powerless to do anything about it. Politicians are beholden to the police Unions because they accept money from them during their campaigns. In fairness to them, it is a difficult problem, if they refuse their support they have to face an electorate that idolizes the police with the criticism that they are anti-law ‑enforcement.
(d) Additionally, the white nationalist in the white house encourages law enforcement not to be kind and gentle to people they arrest. He did so as he addresses law enforcement gatherings across the nation. A couple of law enforcement agencies pushed back against his advice, but the vast majority of them yucked it up, as he made those statements. Who do you think were the people he was telling those state-sanctioned abusers to be brutal to? Do Do you think they were white people? To date, nothing has been done about the FBI’s warning. Police will continue to kill Black men, it is okay by the white house, it is okay by the supreme court, it is okay by the Republicans in the US House & Senate, it is okay by Republican Governors, Mayors, and Legislators, It is okay by prosecutors and it is okay by a whole bunch of white people. (e) All across America, there is a plurality of white people who have no problem with police killing Black people, their parents and grandparents attended lynchings and gleefully enjoyed them.
Months ago it was George Floyd in Minneapolis, Derrick Chauvin knelt on his neck until he was dead. Yesterday it was Jacob Blake in Kenosha Wisconsin, seven bullets to his back. They do not even pretend that the person they shoot had a weapon anymore. It is okay according to white juries and courts to shoot Black people, what the hell do they care if they are shot in the back? What do they care about how many times they are shot, or where the bullets land? The cop who shot Jacob Blake decided when he pulled the trigger seven times, that it was okay to shoot him in the back. That is textbook policing.….… his union will come out saying that he had a warrant or that he was reaching for a weapon so the coward who fired the seven bullets is justified under the law. They will trot out the criminal record they made sure he had from he was in school and that will be justification for what happened to him on Sunday, August 23rd.
Mike Beckles is a former police Detective corporal, businessman, freelance writer, he is a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog chatt-a-box.com. He’s also a contributor to several websites. You may subscribe to his blogs free of charge, or subscribe to his Youtube channel @chatt-a-box, for the latest podcast all free to you of course.
It is as if they have learned nothing or they are demonstrating that they do not care. Either way, this cannot be allowed to go on. Either way what has been happening in the streets since the murder of Minneapolis native George Floyd by members of that city’s police department has not been working and it is clear that a more caustic approach must be adopted to put an end to this level of state-sanctioned impunity.
.….…..KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Officers deployed tear gas early Monday to disperse hundreds of people who took to the streets following a police shooting in Kenosha that also drew a harsh rebuke from the governor after a video posted on social media appeared to show officers shoot at a Black man’s back seven times as he leaned into a vehicle.
A person was hospitalized in serious condition following a shooting by officers about 5 p.m. Sunday as officers were responding to a “domestic incident,” the Kenosha Police Department said in a news release. Police in the city, which is in the southeastern corner of Wisconsin about 40 miles south of Milwaukee and 50 miles north of Chicago, did not provide details about what led to the shooting, but said the person was transported to a hospital in Milwaukee for treatment.
By late Sunday, multiple vehicles were set ablaze and windows were smashed along city thoroughfares as crowds faced off with law enforcement. Officers in riot gear stood in lines and SWAT vehicles remained on the streets to move people away from city buildings despite the declaration of an overnight curfew. Tear gas was used to disperse groups of people, according to reporters at the scene.
In a video posted on social media that appeared to show the shooting from across a street, three officers could be seen shouting and pointing their weapons at the man as he walked around the front of a parked SUV. As the man opened the driver’s side door and leaned inside, one officer grabbed his shirt from behind and then fired into the vehicle. Seven shots could be heard on the video, though it was unclear if more than one officer fired.
Gov. Tony Evers on Sunday night condemned the shooting of the man, whom he identified as Jacob Blake, saying in a statement that “while we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.”
The Wisconsin Department of Justice, which is investigating the shooting, did not release any details about the officers who were involved except to say they had been placed on administrative leave.
Following the shooting, social media posts showed neighbors gathering in the surrounding streets and shouting at police. Some could be heard chanting “no justice, no peace” while others appeared to throw objects at officers and damaged police vehicles.
Later Sunday, in a scene that mirrored the widespread protests over the police shootings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black people, marchers headed to the Kenosha County Public Safety Building, which houses the police and county sheriff’s departments. Authorities mostly blocked off the building, and some officers were positioned on the roof as protesters marched beside lines of honking cars as they made their way to the building.
Outside the station, protesters clashed with officers dressed in riot gear, including plastic face masks, who occasionally used their shields and batons to push people back.
Meanwhile, Evers indicated that he intends to take further action over the shooting“I have said all along that although we must offer our empathy, equally important is our action,” he said. “In the coming days, we will demand just that of elected officials in our state who have failed to recognize the racism in our state and our country for far too long.”(contributed).
Last week, rappers Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion released a collaboration called “WAP,” which stands for “wet-ass pussy,” and American Flag Emoji Twitter went apocalyptic. The rap superstars’ latest song was a celebration of vaginas, sexual arousal, and their use of either to get men to buy them rings and pay their tuition. Many people streamed the song and watched the music video lamenting the fact that the virus would keep us from properly enjoying it with our friends. Conservatives treated the song as some kind of personal affront.
This was odd. Surely “WAP” wasn’t the first explicit song they’d ever heard. Why the meltdown when there is so much other stuff going on? I think I have an idea, and it has something to do with all that other stuff. The song was about Black bodies, and in the past few months, white conservatives have made it clear that our bodies are supposed to be for labor, not for our own enjoyment. Just look at these responses. DeAnna Lorraine, who previously ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi, called the song “disgusting and vile” and linked Cardi B to Democratic senators.
Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion just set the entire female gender back by 100 years with their disgusting & vile “WAP” song.
DeAnna Lorraine
@DeAnna4Congress
Remember, Bernie Sanders campaigned with Cardi B. Kamala Harris called her a role model. The Democrats support this trash and depravity!
James Bradley, who is currently running for Congress in California, claimed he “accidentally” heard a song that had yet to be released on the radio and decided to drop some racist tropes about Black dads.
Perhaps most comical of all was Ben Shapiro, conservative talk show host and avid tweeter, reading the lyrics aloud on his show. Shapiro was so horrified by such a brazen display of women enjoying sex that he censored the word pussy, giving meme makers the gift of the phrase “wet-ass p‑word.”
The message seemed to really offend the talk show host. “Pay my tuition just to kiss me on this wet-ass pussy,” Megan Thee Stallion raps. “This is what feminists fought for!” Shapiro says incredulously. “This is what the feminist movement was all about.”
While Shapiro and the others were busy wringing their hands about feminists indoctrinating children with scary rap lyrics, the country remains in serious crisis, especially for Black and Brown people.
Sometimes you just need someone to put it plain. Enter country legend, Dolly Parton.
In a recent cover story interview with Billboard, Parton discussed her life during the global pandemic, the possibility of selling her publishing, and she even opened up about the importance of making sure her estate is in order. The standout part of the interview, however, involved three words: Black Lives Matter.
“I’m not out here to tell you what to do, I don’t want you to tell me what to do. But, I just do what my heart tells me to do,” Parton told Billboard. “I ask God to direct me and lead me and if I got his direction, then I don’t have to worry too much about anything else. I understand people having to make themselves known and felt and seen. And of course, Black lives matter. Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!”
“First of all, I’m not a judgmental person. I do believe we all have a right to be exactly who we are, and it is not my place to judge,” she added. “All these good Christian people that are supposed to be such good Christian people, the last thing we’re supposed to do is to judge one another. God is the judge, not us. I just try to be myself. I try to let everybody else be themselves.”
I’m not one to praise white folks for basic human decency (because after all, supporting the Black Lives Matter movement is simply the humane thing to do), but I do want to note that it is primarily white folks’ responsibility to check their own folks. It is their “9 to 5,” indeed. We tired.
Perhaps now that an icon of many racists’ beloved music genre said it, maybe it’ll stick? Like Lauryn Hill once spit, “I add a ‘Motherfucker’ so you ignant niggas hear me.” Maybe Parton had to throw in some “white asses” so you ignant racists hear her.
Will they listen, though? Eh, I’m sure the embarrassingly proud upholders of white supremacy will just dig into their bag of oppression and throw out some misogyny at her for daring to speak up for Black lives.
Fifteen(15) year-old Minnijean Trickey surrounded by a group of white hecklers September 1957,as she tried to attend classes at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas , home state of US senator Tom Cotton.
Brown v Board of Education, the landmark 1954 supreme court ruling that segregated schools were unconstitutional, should have meant she and fellow pupils could take their places at Central High. But Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas, in the deep south, remained defiant and used the national guard to block their enrollment. The African American children were left in limbo for three weeks.[adapted] Three weeks later, on 25 September, the group braved a hostile white crowd, climbed the school steps, and were escorted to class by US army troops. They became known and revered as the Little Rock Nine.
The cases or white racism can be found spread out across social media platforms, in newspapers, on television, in some history books, on websites, and even on podcasts. They are so myriad and voluminous that we are almost numb to them. Specific instances of it are so egregious that they stoke much of the anger that we have seen across the country culminating in violent street protests. There was never any question about racism in America, the world understands the promise of America but it is not delusional about the past and present of America. What makes America’s racism so intransigent is that it is Government policy, enforced by police.
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones registering to attend classes . Vivian was one of the first two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963, and in 1965 became the university’s first black graduate.
Contrary to what you may have heard about racism in America, that somehow the government is working tirelessly to eradicate this ugly and ignorant scourge from itself, it is not true. Racism is codified in literally every law passed at every level in America. It is validated and where necessary brought back by the highest court in the country. (See Shelby Alabama Vs Holder). (See citizens united). It is not like there is a set of laws that are being dismantled ever so slowly, with hope for a brighter future. Many younger white people are morbidly racist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic as their older counterparts, even as many are enlightened and brave in fighting against injustices in a system they did not help to create. Arkansas Republican US Senator Tom Cotton, and Florida Republican Representative Matt Gaetz are two that immediately comes to mind. It is no great wonder then, that the vast majority of cases of racism in America, somehow has police playing some part in the whole affair. American police see themselves as enforcers of the social construct in its original intent. They envisage themselves as the last line of defense between an endangered fragile white America and an imaginary invading horde of black and brown, lesser humans, who are determined to tear down the castle walls.
September 11th 1956 African-American students being escorted from Sturgis High School in Wisconsin by armed National Guardsmen.
As the most recognizable face of racism in America, the incoherent, inarticulate Donald Trump, made the case on Wednesday, August 12th in Texas: “You know the suburbs, people fight all of their lives to get into the suburbs and have a beautiful home,” Trump said during a talk in Midland, Texas. “There will be no more low-income housing forced into the suburbs. … It’s been going on for years. I’ve seen conflict for years. It’s been hell for suburbia.” This from the guy who was sued by the Federal government years ago for refusing to allow Black people access to his buildings. This is also the guy who wanted the innocent Central Park five executed, and still refuses to acknowledge their innocence today. The guy who said that violent racists in Chorletsville were ‘good people”. Yes the same one who has thousands of children locked away in cages. “Oh my. I mean, it’s not even a dog whistle anymore,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D‑Conn.) wrote on Twitter. “Our President is now a proud, vocal segregationist.”
As Black Lives Matter activists march, and as people of all color took to the streets to demand fundamental change in the way police operate in America, the fundamentalist right who are the defenders of white supremacy will not go willingly. They have had well over four hundred years to entrench heir roots deep into the national consciousness. Someone said, “a hit dog holler”, the blatant racism you see and hear will get a lot worse before anything gets better. They are not even pretending that they care to hide the unimaginable racist attacks they level at people of color, and why should they? Trump is their leader and they believe that he will be in office forever, giving legitimacy to their most base instincts.
U.S. Marshals escorting Ruby Bridges, one of the first African Americans students to attend a white school.
One sergeant of police in Colorado Springs tried to hide behind pseudonyms while encouraging people and his colleagues to kill all of the protesters blocking thoroughfares. it was not a one-time error in judgment, he made the same comments in more than one social media posts which was eventually investigated and we are told he was, get this.….….….……suspended for five days. Sergeant Keith Wrede made the comments on June 30. The first comment was made in response to a live stream of a Black Lives Matter protest where demonstrators blocked an interstate for over an hour. Here is the kicker.….. CSPD Chief Vince Niski wrote a letter to the public Monday expressing his solidarity with those outraged by Wrede’s online behavior — calling his comments “unprofessional, distasteful, and not reflective of our department” — but also defending his decision not to fire him. Here it is people.….… “While his statements were harmful and reprehensible, I cannot deprive the community of a good police officerand his services because of an isolated incident of an error in judgment.”
Attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama, Governor of Alabama George Wallacestands at the door of Foster Auditorium while being confronted by US Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach.
I hope you did not miss the part about a “good police officer and his services”. It lined right up with Donald Trump’s characterization of violent racist in Chorletsville, ‘as good people’. So a demonstrably mentally-deranged, sociopathic, wannabe, mass-murderer, is deemed to be a good officer and is allowed to continue wearing a badge and gun, to dispense his brand of law enforcement on people of color in Colorado Springs Colorado. Based on these irrefutable facts, it is important that Black people understand, that when white people talk about good police officers, their idea of good cops does not comport with their idea of what that may look like. Considering of course that the vast majority of African-Americans have never been exposed to anything that could be characterized factually, as good policing.
U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, brother of the President, chose not to meet this challenge with a court test by arresting the Governor. Instead, the Federal Government turned again to the use of troops. A few hours after being turned away by the Governor, the federal authorities returned — this time backed by troops. The segregationist governor stood down
Mike Beckles is a former police Detective corporal, businessman, freelance writer, he is a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog chatt-a-box.com. He’s also a contributor to several websites. You may subscribe to his blogs free of charge, or subscribe to his Youtube channel @chatt-a-box, for the latest podcast all free to you of course.
Can police departments really say they’re making an earnest effort to weed out the violent, corrupt, and racist police officers in their units if they aren’t willing to immediately fire those who say or post things online that indicate that they are extrajudicial execution cases waiting to happen? A Colorado Springs police officer thought he was masking his identity when he used a pseudonym to post — on more than one occasion — the words “KILLTHEMALL” in response to stories about Black Lives Matter protesters. After an investigation identified the officer behind the posts, he was suspended…but not fired.
CBS Denver reports that Sergeant Keith Wrede made the comments on June 30. The first comment was made in response to a live stream of a Black Lives Matter protest where demonstrators blocked an interstate for over an hour. Most of the protesters reportedly had already left by the time police arrived, so it’s unclear what prompted an allegedly stable and professional law enforcement officer to respond to the story by virtually shouting, “KILLTHEMALL.” On a related post, Wrede repeated the sentiment by commenting “KILLEMALL” while using a Facebook profile under the name Steven Eric. An internal affairs investigation found that Wrede was behind both posts and he was later suspended for five days, made to give up more than $2,000 in wages, and reassigned from his specialized unit to a different position in the department.
CSPD Chief Vince Niski wrote a letter to the public Monday expressing his solidarity with those outraged by Wrede’s online behavior — calling his comments “unprofessional, distasteful, and not reflective of our department” — but also defending his decision not to fire him. “It was determined,” Niski wrote, “that the comments were made off-duty out of frustration and there was no indication of any physical action or intent to cause harm. I am in no way minimizing Sergeant Wrede’s words. His comments were unacceptable, have damaged our relationship with members of our community, and fell short of our standards.”
“While his statements were harmful and reprehensible, I cannot deprive the community of a good police officer and his services because of an isolated incident of an error in judgment,” he continued. “We hope that you can accept our apology and be assured that the CSPD and Sgt. Wrede will continue to faithfully serve the public.”
Note: If you’re going to apologize to people concerned about police violence, maybe don’t refer to a cop who probably fantasizes about going full Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on anyone in a BLM shirt as a “good police officer” you’re unwilling to “deprive” the people of.
Niski should have followed what one North Carolina police department did after catching a few of their cops fantasizing about killing Black people. About a week before Wrede was caught expressing his willingness to re-enact the climax scenes from Smoking Aces on protesters blocking highways, a Wilmington, N.C., sergeant discovered a nearly two-hour-long recording from a patrol car created by an “accidental activation” where three officers were caught conversing at length about how they “can’t wait” for a civil war to break out so they can “slaughter” Black people. Those officers were immediately fired because bruh, what if they stayed on the job and later actually did the shit they were wet dreaming about?
How silly will the CSPD look if Sgt. Wrede ends up starring in the next viral video where an unarmed Black person is killed by a cop turned executioner? I’m going to go ahead and paraphrase Maya Angelou and say, “When a cop shows you who they are, you damn sure better believe them the first time because them mother fuckers got guns and badges and will ‘KILLTHEMALL.’”
I’m just saying, there are some cops the streets need to be “deprived” of. Originated @ the root
Luis Orlando Santos Santiago, a 54-year old man from Florida who reportedly stopped a Black teenage boy and detained him after falsely accusing him of breaking into cars, has been charged with false imprisonment. On the morning of June 9, a teenage boy, who was not identified due to privacy concerns, was riding his bicycle to go to basketball practice. Santiago then stopped him, interrogating him and asking him his home address. Santiago told the boy that he was being detained before calling 911. He told the dispatcher that he was an “off-duty officer” and he detained the boy after allegedly catching him stealing on video. He even accused that the boy stole the bicycle he was riding.
When police responded to Santiago’s 911 call, the boy who was stopped was hyperventilating while his hands were above his head, according to a statement. Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren added the boy was afraid that Santiago had a gun since he kept reaching for his pockets. The police immediately verified that the boy had not committed any crimes when they arrived at the scene. They then drove the boy to his basketball practice. After an investigation, authorities also found out that Santiago was not an officer but a former security guard. He was arrested and charged with false imprisonment for illegally detaining the teenager. Meanwhile, the boy’s family hopes “justice [will] be served by holding the perpetrator accountable,” Titus O’Neil, a professional wrestler who is a friend and supporter of the boy, told WFLA. “It is our sincere hope and desire that the outcome from this situation will show that there is zero-tolerance for racial profiling and harassment in Hillsborough County, and that zero tolerance will extend throughout our state and our country,” O’Neil added.
There is a certain unmistakable look to them, even though there are others who wear suits, or look differently, but are just as toxic. They range from older to middle-aged and even younger, they are sometimes tattooed and wear sleeveless shirts. They generally have some paraphernalia on their clothing that mimics the colors of the American flag. They are usually loud, obnoxious, profusely ignorant, and therefore very dangerously violent. Many of them are avid motorcyclists, they generally have long rap sheets, others, not so much, because, despite their lives of crime, the system ignores them and targets innocent Blacks instead. They pretend to be the most patriotic Americans by the paraphernalia with which they adorn themselves, and from their military service, even though not all of them served in the military. They vote straight Republican, (as you may know they hate the Democratic party for signing the civil and voting rights acts into law). They are the least of Americans based on their support for the confederacy and Naziism, two ideologies that real Americans rose up against and defeated.
Confederate General Gen. Braxton Bragg, for whom one of the Army’s largest bases, (Fort Bragg) outside Fayetteville, North Carolina was named. “These men were, by definition, traitors who had conducted war against the United States,” said Newcity, deputy director for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Duke University. Nevertheless, there is a whole slew of military bases scattered around the country named after these traitors, at the same time, there are countless statues and edifices that have been constructed, not just in the South but all across the country, commemorating these traitors who took up arms against America and were ultimately defeated.
Today they copy the look of the past, and their intent is the same. Un-American, violent, determined to use all means available to them to create a white ethnological state. The problem for Americans not with this toxic ideology, is that when the government finds common cause with these criminals there is reason to be scared for the future of the country. When they are parts of the police departments and occupy all levels of government all the way to the very top, it is time to break the glass and grab the hose. Many are active members of the sundry violent militia groups operating across the country. They have murdered innocent Americans, using guns, bombs, automobiles, and other weaponry, yet there seems to be a general sense of tolerance for their crimes. It is anyone’s guess whether the federal government has a full appreciation of the threat they pose or even cares to know. They pretend to support the Police, but their support for law enforcement only goes to the extent that law enforcement acts as a tool of oppression against black people. And yes, many police officers are members of those violent hate groups.
The shocking reality is that despite the crimes these white supremacists groups commit, and despite the existential threat they represent as far as the government is concerned, it is business as usual. America’s codependent, weird relationship with the far-right ideologies that embrace Nazism and the former confederacy, must be viewed within the framework of those forces endgame, which as I said before is the creation of a white ethnostate, and the continuation of white supremacy. So, though there may be those who do not necessarily embrace Nazism or even the former Confederacy, the fact that these neo-Nazi, fascist groups embrace the idea of continued white privilege, they give them tacit support, or at the very least, they remain silent about them.
Understanding that brings the support white people gives to police into sharper focus. There are more whites murdered by violent out of control police, however, based on Black’s numeric representation in the population, they are killed at a more alarming rate than any other group. Under normal circumstances, white people would be up in arms over the unlawful killing of their own people. Police departments would have been abolished, defunded, and new and more citizen-centric measures put in place to deal with community demands. Because police are killing Blacks at the rate they are, and because it serves certain racists ends, then those white people, (usually men) who end up dead at the hands of police, are accepted as collateral damage.
Regardless of what you are told, American policing came out of slave patrols. Slaveholders did not care how brutally runaway slaves were treated when they were caught by the ragtag murderers who made up those slave-patrols. They wanted them beaten and mutilated so badly that no other slave would ever dare consider running away in the future. Nevertheless, they were still property, and so given the choice of keeping them alive or having them killed, they would rather have the egregiously mutilated runaways alive to continue working their plantations than dead. In the process of recapturing a runaway, the murdering scum sometimes killed them, but the plantation owners were not about to hold them accountable even though he had lost his property. The fact that runaways were caught, and killed was lesson enough to scare the others, bringing them in alive was the icing on the cake. The plantation mentality still pervades American society today. “Sure, the police may kill some black people in ways that raise eyebrows, but the larger strategy of using police to keep blacks in their place is what’s important, so we support our police”.
Mike Beckles is a former police Detective corporal, businessman, freelance writer, he is a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog chatt-a-box.com. He’s also a contributor to several websites. You may subscribe to his blogs free of charge, or subscribe to his Youtube channel @chatt-a-box, for the latest podcast all free to you of course.
Barack Obama blasts Trump at the funeral of John Lewis , lashing out at those work hard to stop Africa-Americans from voting.
John LewisPresident Barack Obama eulogizing his friend John LewisPresident Bush speaking at John Lewis’ funeral service.President Bill Clinton speaking at John Lewis’ funeral serviceLaying in state at the capitol rotunda
It is remarkable when common sense is shunted to the side in order to make way for the absurdity of ridiculous political theater. But such is the time in which we now live, truth and honesty are vices to be shunned. Lies and distortions treasured artifacts. Such was the case when Herman Caine, mister 999 flat tax, single-issue former Republican presidential candidate decided to follow the Trump campaign of deceit and lies, by attending Trump’s disastrous June 20th rally in Tulsa. Eight members of Trump’s advance team tested positive for the coronavirus and his campaign staff had to self-isolate afterward in case of infection.
Death is the great equalizer, no one can claim victory at the death of another, we are all scheduled to die. However, Herman Caine made a conscious decision to engage in that theater of the absurd, and it cost him the most precious gift he was given, his life. I will not venture to suggest that had he stayed home he would have been alive today, I believe our personality traits, the things we believe and engage in are all parts of what will ultimately lead to how we leave this world. Nevertheless, his passing ought to be a warning to the skeptics who would discard the conclusive findings of science on the altar of the inane and retarded.
This virus has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world and sickened millions. This is no ordinary flu as some would have you believe. Even though the people we put our trust in, in the scientific community may not deserve most of it, still, we must respect the science and heed the warnings. Black people in particular, with our compromised immune systems have a duty to exercise care. When we fail to exercise care, the results are usually swift and clear.
Mike Beckles is a former police Detective corporal, businessman, freelance writer, he is a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog chatt-a-box.com. He’s also a contributor to several websites. You may subscribe to his blogs free of charge, or subscribe to his Youtube channel @chatt-a-box, for the latest podcast all free to you of course.
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By Hollie Silverman 
