LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Kentucky State Police troop­er beat a hand­cuffed schiz­o­phrenic man after arrest­ing him in March 2019, slam­ming his head against a wall, and punch­ing and kick­ing him repeat­ed­ly before throw­ing him to the ground, accord­ing to video from a jail record­ing sys­tem. The footage sheds light on a Bowling Green case that left the beat­en man, Timothy “Michael” Heston, in jail for 11 months because state police with­held the video, a new law­suit alleges.

The law­suit claims State Police Trooper Aaron Tucker “attacked Michael, who is bi-racial, with­out provo­ca­tion, warn­ing or jus­ti­fi­ca­tion and then fab­ri­cat­ed a report about the assault.” Heston spent near­ly a year in jail; police failed to pro­vide the video to pros­e­cu­tors, defense attor­neys, or the judge, accord­ing to the suit. The charges were lat­er dis­missed. The law­suit, filed in March in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green, lists Tucker, oth­er unnamed State Police troop­ers, Warren County Regional Jail, and two jail employ­ees as plaintiffs.

The suit also claims jail employ­ees placed Heston in a restraint chair and repeat­ed­ly tased him for no rea­son. Two jail employ­ees, Melissa Causey and Andrew Cooper, are accused of “tas­ing a restrained, men­tal­ly-ill indi­vid­ual … out of dis­like for his demeanor.”. The law­suit includes a pic­ture of Heston being tased while he is in a restraint chair. The jail’s war­den didn’t imme­di­ate­ly respond to a request for com­ment. Tucker wrote in a cita­tion that he arrest­ed Heston after observ­ing him walk­ing on the side of Interstate 65 in Warren County; Heston alleged­ly threat­ened the troop­er when he stopped to talk to him, accord­ing to court records.

When the troop­er took Heston to jail on charges of ter­ror­is­tic threat­en­ing and resist­ing arrest, among oth­er charges, Heston “tensed up” when he was tak­en out of the cruis­er, resist­ed, attempt­ed to spit on Tucker and “used his head to hit me,” accord­ing to the arrest cita­tion. “After the alter­ca­tion had ensued, I was able to regain con­trol of the above offend­er by plac­ing him on the ground,” Tucker wrote. But in the video, obtained by WDRB News, Tucker gets Heston out of the cruis­er and, after walk­ing him to the door, Heston seems to weave or stum­ble and the troop­er punch­es him in the face, pins him against the wall and hits him with his fist sev­er­al more times. Tucker also knees the defen­dant in the face and chest sev­er­al times before tak­ing him to the ground, the video shows. Heston was hand­cuffed behind his back.

There is no sound in the video and it does not appear Heston was resist­ing. It is unclear if Heston spits on or toward the troop­er. “Michael was def­i­nite­ly not the insti­ga­tor nor was he able to phys­i­cal­ly pro­tect him­self from the phys­i­cal assault Officer Tucker inflict­ed upon him,” said attor­ney Amy Staples, who rep­re­sents Heston along with Elliot Slosar. The video “took my breath away.” She said Heston did not spit at the troop­er but, regard­less, “I don’t think any­thing jus­ti­fies phys­i­cal­ly attack­ing a men­tal­ly ill, hand­cuffed, restrained individual.”

State Police con­duct­ed an inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tion of the case and fired Tucker, accord­ing to the law­suit. KSP con­firmed that Tucker is no longer employed but did not com­ment on the law­suit. The charges against Heston, 27, were even­tu­al­ly dis­missed, but not until after he had been indict­ed. The law­suit claims State Police ini­tial­ly with­held the video from the pros­e­cu­tion, the defense, and the judge, caus­ing him to remain in jail until the case was ulti­mate­ly dis­missed. Heston was “active­ly psy­chot­ic” while in jail so was unable to par­tic­i­pate in his defense, Staples said.

Heston’s defense attor­ney found the video after receiv­ing dis­cov­ery mate­r­i­al from the jail in prepa­ra­tion for tri­al. Slosar, who has sev­er­al pend­ing law­suits against State Police, said: “at this time no form of con­duct these troop­ers com­mit is shock­ing.” Heston, who was diag­nosed with schiz­o­phre­nia when he was 20, was walk­ing along I‑65 in Bowling Green on March 17, 2019, attempt­ing to get to Tennessee for his son’s birth­day, accord­ing to the lawsuit.courtesy of :https://​www​.wdrb​.com/​i​n​-​d​e​p​t​h​/​v​i​d​e​o​-​k​e​n​t​u​c​k​y​-​s​t​a​t​e​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​t​r​o​o​p​e​r​-​p​u​n​c​h​e​s​-​k​i​c​k​s​-​h​a​n​d​c​u​f​f​e​d​-​m​e​n​t​a​l​l​y​-​i​l​l​-​m​a​n​/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​_​f​0​5​e​d​5​6​6​-​9​089 – 11ea-81b1-6f601210b02c.html#spark_wn=1

Georgia law enforce­ment has opened up a homi­cide inves­ti­ga­tion after two sis­ters were found dead under a bridge in the north­west part of the state. The bod­ies of Vanita Richardson and her old­er sis­ter Truvenia Campbell were dis­cov­ered Wednesday morn­ing near Rome, a city about 70 miles north of Atlanta. The girls’ deaths are being offi­cial­ly ruled as homi­cides, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed.

As report­ed by Rome News-Tribune, their bod­ies were dis­cov­ered by two Georgia Department of Transportation work­ers while per­form­ing bridge main­te­nance on the East Rome Bypass at Loop 1. Their clothes were “tat­tered,” accord­ing to WJCL. The vic­tims alleged­ly had bags over their heads and shot­gun cas­ings lit­tered near their bod­ies, though inves­ti­ga­tors have not con­firmed that infor­ma­tion, Rome News-Tribune report­ed. Richardson, who attend­ed Armuchee High School, was 19, and her sis­ter, Cambell, was 30. No sus­pects or motive has been deter­mined as Rome police and the GBI work in tan­dem in the investigation.

“We extend our deep­est sym­pa­thies to the Armuchee Community and her friends and fam­i­ly at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with them,” the state­ment read. “Vanita will be remem­bered for being a fun-lov­ing, hum­ble, and moti­vat­ed stu­dent who was mak­ing strong plans for her future.” Family and friends of Richardson and Campbell were sad­dened by the news. “She was like my sis­ter,” said Kayla Dodson, a child­hood friend of Campbell. “She was a lov­ing, car­ing per­son. I’m just heart­bro­ken.”
The GBI and Rome police have post­ed a tip line, 1 – 800-597-TIPS, for any­one who can assist in the inves­ti­ga­tion. This sto­ry orig­i­nat­ed in the (Grio​.com)

Point by point push­back against the self-loathing Candace Owens.

Having spent ten years of my ear­ly life as a law enforce­ment offi­cer, and after leav­ing law enforce­ment in 1991, I spent my entire life true to the virtues of the rule of law.
I did not need to be told that a life of crime was not a good idea; that under­stand­ing has been a part of my DNA.
In the years since I left the Jamaica Constabulary Force, I have seen how much of a lie we were told as cops serv­ing in Jamaica, that cops in America were paragons of virtue, who treat­ed peo­ple with respect, “yes sir, no sir.”
It is remark­able that hav­ing seen up close how police rou­tine­ly frame peo­ple for offens­es they nev­er com­mit­ted with­out bat­ting an eye as to the con­se­quences those false arrests will have on that per­son­’s life; I am for­ev­er changed about how I view American police.

As bad as my ini­tial per­cep­tions were dur­ing the ’90s, what obtains today in American polic­ing has changed by leaps and bounds, and not for the bet­ter.
Many years ago, a for­mer col­league and I were hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion in the Bronx; he asked me, “how could you be so crit­i­cal of police when we were our­selves, police offi­cers”?
Without think­ing about it, I asked him, ” Is this the way we did polic­ing?
Dillo, as we affec­tion­al­ly called him, looked me in the eye and then dropped his gaze.….…” Nah,” he said and turned away.
My ide­al­ism around law enforce­ment is the anthe­sis of what we are wit­ness­ing in American polic­ing.
We entered law enforce­ment with the desire to help peo­ple, to be there for those who could not defend them­selves.
Those are the prin­ci­ples on which I entered law enforce­ment, but the guid­ing prin­ci­ple that has guid­ed my career has been the one I learned on enter­ing detec­tive train­ing.
“There is no greater hon­or than to be tasked with bring­ing to jus­tice the murderer/​s of the inno­cent.”

There were no pulling motorists over and fish­ing to find some­thing for which to tick­et them or worse.
No racial ani­mus could cause us to abuse our fel­low cit­i­zens or, worse, cause us to take their free­dom or their life away.
There were no plant­i­ng drugs in my world, no fal­si­fy­ing reports, and no telling lies under oath. In fact, our train­ing was cen­tered on the premise that when an offend­er com­mits an offense, he does so against the state and not against us. Those prin­ci­ples were geared at stop­ping us from tak­ing things per­son­al­ly. That con­cept is self-evi­dent in how police all across America car­ry out their duties.
When an offi­cer per­son­al­izes an offend­er’s crime or offense, he is liable to abuse that offend­er’s rights. He is liable to get in trou­ble when police offi­cers are held account­able for their actions.

The dif­fer­ence in America is that police offi­cers are hard­ly held account­able regard­less of the bla­tan­cy of their ille­gal actions.
No one expects that we sim­ply throw our offi­cers to the wolves when they make hon­est mis­takes in the heat of the moment in which they have to make snap deci­sions.
However, it can­not be that [qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty] be used to pro­tect police offi­cers from the con­se­quences of their actions when they vio­late their oath.
According to one def­i­n­i­tion, Qualified immu­ni­ty pro­tects all but the plain­ly incom­pe­tent or those who know­ing­ly vio­late the law. Law enforce­ment offi­cers are enti­tled to qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty when their actions do not vio­late a clear­ly estab­lished statu­to­ry or con­sti­tu­tion­al right.
Unfortunately for Black and Brown Americans, it has become clear­er by the day that police are free to vio­late clearly estab­lished statu­to­ry or con­sti­tu­tion­al rights with­out con­se­quence.
They do so even when wear­ing body cams and are not shy in telling peo­ple whose rights they are abus­ing. They do not care when warned that their actions could have consequences.

It is an ever-chang­ing land­scape in which the hor­rif­ic, ille­gal actions of the police are excused, tol­er­at­ed, and explained away rather than inves­ti­gat­ed, flushed out, and exposed in the pub­lic’s inter­est.
The gen­er­al idea in a democ­ra­cy is that the gov­ern­ment is answer­able to the peo­ple, not the oth­er way around.
The American polic­ing land­scape is telling a dif­fer­ent sto­ry. It gives police abnor­mal pow­ers to sup­press and abuse cit­i­zens, essen­tial­ly mak­ing police over­lords rather than ser­vants of the peo­ple.
Through a mas­sive mil­i­ta­riza­tion and pro­tec­tions from account­abil­i­ty, police have become more abra­sive, abu­sive, and much more lethal.
It is a trag­ic state of affairs that many cit­i­zens are more ter­ri­fied of the police than ordi­nary crim­i­nals.
Police fire a bar­rage of bul­lets into the bod­ies of peo­ple in their beds, peo­ple in dis­tress, unarmed peo­ple on their knees, peo­ple strapped in their cars, and peo­ple sit­ting in their homes eat­ing ice cream and watch­ing Television. They mur­der old and young and every age in between.
Police have become so lethal that even chil­dren are ter­ri­fied of them.

There are some tell-tale prac­tices that American cops engage in that are evi­dent in their engage­ments, par­tic­u­lar­ly with black cit­i­zens. They are either taught to use them, or have seen them used with­out con­se­quence, & have co-opt­ed them across the board.
(1) A bunch of cops, all yelling dif­fer­ent com­mands at a sub­ject. This tac­tic con­fus­es the sub­ject and makes it impos­si­ble for the sub­ject to be com­pli­ant.
It is used as a jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for assault­ing the sub­ject & even to jus­ti­fy killing the sub­ject if they deem it expe­di­ent to do so.
For exam­ple, in Houston, Texas, police Chief Art Acevedo has used non-com­pli­ance with police com­mands as a rea­son police use lethal force to kill a sus­pect; this is com­mon­place in Houston and oth­er police departments.

(2)Even after fir­ing sev­er­al bul­lets into a sus­pec­t’s body and he is on the ground, police con­tin­ue to shout at the mor­tal­ly wound­ed sub­ject to get on the ground as a means to jus­ti­fy the lev­el of force they used.
In most instances, the sit­u­a­tion could have been resolved sim­ply by de-esca­lat­ing and being more respect­ful of the individual.

(3)Piling on a sus­pec­t’s body and con­tin­u­al­ly yelling “stop resist­ing,” even as the sus­pect has absolute­ly no means of obey­ing any com­mands.
This tac­tic is used to jus­ti­fy beat­ing the sus­pect and demon­strat­ing that they are some kind of boss over the cit­i­zen. It also allows them to pile on charges of resist­ing arrest and assault­ing police offi­cers. In many cas­es, they beat an inno­cent sus­pect and sus­tain injuries that are blamed on the abused sus­pect.
The courts have become com­plic­it in these atroc­i­ties, in which police arrest peo­ple for resist­ing arrest when there are no base charges.
How can the resist­ing arrest be val­i­dat­ed by a court when the police had no law­ful rea­son to arrest in the first place?

(4) Firing a bar­rage of bul­lets into a per­son­’s body when the use of a taser could have suf­ficed or no force at all.
They some­times pull out gloves and pre­tend to give first aid after killing anoth­er human being.
The sys­tem allows for this kind of killing field where police can fire mul­ti­ple bul­lets into a per­son, ensur­ing they are dead when a sin­gle shot would have inca­pac­i­tat­ed the per­son.
Some [cop-oligists] have argued that a per­son­’s shot can still be dan­ger­ous. To them, I ask, have you ever been shot?

(5) The prac­tice of mul­ti­ple cops fir­ing their weapons into the body of anoth­er human being real­ly became a thing.…. after NYPD killer cops bru­tal­ly mur­dered an unarmed Amadou Diallo. They fired a total of forty-one (41) bul­lets at the unarmed man, then false­ly claimed that they thought his wal­let was a gun.
To jus­ti­fy that egre­gious slaugh­ter, the New York Police Department and its enablers coined a new term to jus­ti­fy the wan­ton, reck­less, and depraved indif­fer­ent use of lethal force. That term was (“con­ta­gious fir­ing”). That term not only worked in get­ting the mur­der­ers acquit­ted but also became a new nor­mal, a gigan­tic shift in the goal­post as to what is accept­able in police use of force on black peo­ple.
The four depraved mur­der­ers — Sean Carroll, 37, Edward McMellon, 27, Kenneth Boss, 28, and Richard Murphy, 27 –nev­er faced jus­tice for what was the unmit­i­gat­ed slaugh­ter of an inno­cent man.

(6) Police no longer use real de-esca­la­tion tac­tics to deal with peo­ple with men­tal issues or oth­ers who may be in men­tal dis­tress. They do the bare min­i­mum to try to cre­ate an illu­so­ry effect that they try to de-esca­late, but their actions gen­er­al­ly fur­ther agi­tate the dis­tressed per­son. Again, a bunch of cops point­ing guns at the sub­ject and yelling at the top of their lungs, all bark­ing dif­fer­ent com­mands.
These tac­tics end up in the death of peo­ple going through real emo­tion­al trau­ma at the hands of the police.
This makes it a life-and-death deci­sion when a fam­i­ly mem­ber decides to call the police for help deal­ing with a dis­traught loved one.
Making that call often­times becomes a bad deci­sion for the fam­i­ly.
Citizens, and in par­tic­u­lar black peo­ple, are far bet­ter off not call­ing the police to their homes at all.

(7) Observance of a mul­ti­plic­i­ty of these police shoot­ings paints a rather stark pic­ture that police are not par­tic­u­lar­ly in the busi­ness of sav­ing lives.
Shockingly, it appears that they are itch­ing to see how they can cre­ate a jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for shoot­ing at a sus­pect, even when they are on calls that include no alle­ga­tions of crim­i­nal wrong­do­ing.
This is some­times true across the racial spec­trum, par­tic­u­lar­ly in com­mu­ni­ties of col­or.
Black & Brown peo­ple are gen­er­al­ly either bad­ly bat­tered and bruised sec­onds after police arrive or, worse, are left bleed­ing out mere sec­onds after being alive.

Unless there is glar­ing irrefutable evi­dence of police wrong­do­ing, fol­lowed up by mass social action in the streets, courts are will­ing part­ners in these mis­car­riages of jus­tice, so much so that the police do not see a rea­son to care about com­mit­ting them, even when they are being pho­tographed or videotaped.

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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.

Three men from Cleveland, Ohio — 63-year old Rickey Jackson, 65-year old Wiley Bridgeman, and 62-year old Kwame Ajamu — have been award­ed a set­tle­ment for $18 mil­lion near­ly 45 years after their wrong­ful con­vic­tion and impris­on­ment in con­nec­tion to a rob­bery and mur­der case in 1975.

Jackson, Bridgeman, and his broth­er Ajamu, for­mer­ly known as Ronnie Bridgeman, were then aged 18, 20, 17 when they were accused and con­vict­ed for the dead­ly rob­bery of Harold Franks. They were con­vict­ed based sole­ly on a tes­ti­mo­ny of a 12-year old boy, which even­tu­al­ly turned out to be false tes­ti­mo­ny. The boy admit­ted that he was coerced by Cleveland police to pro­vide wrong­ful tes­ti­mo­ny dur­ing the tri­al. The three men were all exon­er­at­ed and freed in 2014.

“For 45 years, our clients nev­er gave up hope that some­day their night­mare would be over,” said their attor­ney, Terry Gilbert. “That time has come with this final res­o­lu­tion pro­vid­ing some mea­sure of jus­tice and clo­sure. But the phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al trau­ma our clients were forced to endure is an exam­ple of the deep flaws of a racist crim­i­nal legal sys­tem focused on results rather than truth and jus­tice.” The three have reached an $18 mil­lion set­tle­ment fol­low­ing a law­suit against the city of Cleveland for police mis­con­duct, fal­si­fy­ing evi­dence, and coerc­ing a wit­ness. It is report­ed­ly the largest set­tle­ment ever made in the his­to­ry of the state of Ohio.(BN.COM)

New York City’s twice-elect­ed Democratic Mayor Bill De Blasio is show­ing his true col­ors. Many peo­ple long believed that De Blasio is not a leader by any stretch of the imag­i­na­tion, and they are being proven cor­rect by the Mayor’s fail­ure to stop the NYPD thugs who go around beat­ing up peo­ple of col­or indis­crim­i­nate­ly.
We wrote about this recent­ly show­ing the tale of two cities, one in which NYPD thugs aggres­sive­ly assault black and brown cit­i­zens, while on the oth­er hand, in servile fash­ion, polite­ly hand­ing out masks to white peo­ple in a park sit­ting close­ly togeth­er, no phys­i­cal distancing.

Everyone knows that the NYPD has long been an incred­i­bly racist out of con­trol group of thugs. That is not to say that there have not been good offi­cers in the depart­ment, far from it.
Nevertheless, the NYPD is large­ly pop­u­lat­ed with a bunch of Irish and Italians who have basi­cal­ly ben­e­fit­ted from [affir­ma­tive action] mem­bers can attest to being the third gen­er­a­tion in the depart­ment and hav­ing mul­ti­ple rel­a­tives serv­ing along­side them.
This essen­tial­ly makes the NYPD a kind of closed mem­bers club despite the Blacks and Latinos serv­ing, either with sealed lips or doing the most to be accept­ed, like the Hispanic thug pic­tured above.
The NYPD has a his­to­ry of fal­si­fy­ing arrests, plant­i­ng drugs, lying under oath, assault­ing cit­i­zens, mur­der­ing cit­i­zens, tar­get­ing black & brown res­i­dents of the city for arrest and incar­cer­a­tion & far more.
They see the depart­ment as their own, regard­less of who is in Gracie Mansion, they do not believe they are account­able to any­one.
Bill de Blasio, in the typ­i­cal fash­ion of oth­er Mayors, before him, has been cowed into sub­mis­sion by a depart­ment, many peo­ple see as mere­ly a gang of out of con­trol, unac­count­able thugs.

According to the [NewYork Post], a right-wing local news­pa­per, New York State’s Attorney General Letitia James announced that her office is look­ing into the NYPD’s prac­tices as it relates to the Mayor’s social-dis­tanc­ing orders.
“It is inher­ent­ly wrong to aggres­sive­ly police one group of peo­ple, yet ignore anoth­er group that com­mits the same infrac­tion,” James con­tin­ued. “The NYPD must bet­ter ensure that a New Yorker’s race, col­or, and the neigh­bor­hood does not deter­mine how they are patrolled.”Said the AG.
According to the [Post] James called on the NYPD to address the issue as reports and videos have sur­faced on social media show­ing vio­lent arrests dur­ing social dis­tanc­ing calls in black and Hispanic neigh­bor­hoods. The AG’s office high­light­ed one video tak­en in the East Village on May 2 that showed a black man being tack­led, punched and dragged on the side­walk before the offi­cer — who moments ear­li­er had his Taser out — knelt on his neck and hand­cuffed him. A video tak­en a day lat­er shows offi­cers approach­ing a group in front of Brownsville homes and one of the peo­ple get­ting flipped on his stom­ach by an offi­cer.
Instead of mak­ing arrests in major­i­ty-white neigh­bor­hoods, how­ev­er, cops just issued sum­mons­es and gave out masks to thou­sands of peo­ple who vio­lat­ed social dis­tanc­ing rules in pub­lic parks, the AG’s office said.

Instead of apol­o­giz­ing to the pub­lic, for what are clear instances of (a) assaults against cit­i­zens & (b), dis­parate polic­ing based on race, the head of the [police gang], the com­mis­sion­er, Dermot Shea, defend­ed the thug cop’s actions, by gaslight­ing the issue, com­plain­ing that speak­ing out against their abuse of cit­i­zens, is set­ting them up to be assault­ed.
No, I believe that your thugs are set­ting them­selves up for what you are pre­dict­ing. How long do you think that you will pull a Lion’s tail before it bites back?
”“I will also not have my police depart­ment called a racist police depart­ment.”Said Shea.
Well, there you have it, [his depart­ment] screw you if you do not like what we do.
Over to you Mayor de Blasio, oh wait, you are too pissed scared to ever offend them again. I recall how they turned their backs on you and dis­re­spect­ed you in every way they could after you chal­lenged them for abus­ing cit­i­zens after you first took office.
Don’t feel bad they did it to Mayor Dinkins, the city’s first black Mayor, they called him the “wash­room atten­dant”. They even racial­ly pro­filed Benjamin Ward their own African-American com­mis­sion­er, whom some of them did not know..
You Mayor De Blasio, even­tu­al­ly end­ed up kiss­ing their ass­es and now you have giv­en them carte blanch to do what­ev­er they have always done, abuse black and brown res­i­dents of the city to fill the jails.

Every sin­gle non-white group that has served in the NYPD has sued the depart­ment for Racist and oth­er dis­crim­i­na­to­ry prac­tices. Women, Blacks, Brown, and even white women have also sued the depart­ment for sex­ism and all kinds of dis­crim­i­na­to­ry prac­tices.
The depart­ment is answer­able to no one, not the city coun­cil, and God’ knows, not to the Mayor, they have ren­dered them­selves scared shit­less, of offend­ing the 38,422 strong gang.
People say there are good cops in the NYPD as there are good cops serv­ing in oth­er depart­ments.
I say if you are a good cop step for­ward when you see these instances of racial abuse. Step for­ward when you see these instances of dis­parate polic­ing.
If you are too much of a cow­ard that you sur­ren­der your dig­ni­ty and sense of worth to cor­rup­tion you have no right to any claim that you are a good cop.

Benjamin Ward an African-American grad­u­at­ed magna cum laude from Brooklyn College. He was on the law review of Brooklyn Law School while being a cop. He was appoint­ed Commissioner of Police by Mayor Ed Koch.
The rank-and-file despised Ward because he forced the inte­gra­tion of Blacks, Hispanics & women into the NYPD’s super­vi­so­ry posi­tions.
Positions the enti­tled Irish & Italians and oth­er whites viewed and still believe to be their God-giv­en birthright.
Oh no, Commissioner Shea. I know you don’t want any­one to call [your] depart­ment racists, why would you, we are too dumb to read or research your depart­men­t’s sor­did past.
The killings, the assaults, fal­si­fi­ca­tion of evi­dence, per­jury, plant­i­ng of guns and oth­er evi­dence, all aimed at incar­cer­at­ing peo­ple of col­or, we will sim­ply ignore those.

We will also ignore the hun­dreds of thou­sands of inno­cent peo­ple ensnared in your drug war, whol­ly aimed at fill­ing jails with bod­ies and padding arrests sta­tis­tics.
We will also ignore the five black & brown boys who were wrong­ful­ly arrest­ed and charged for assault­ing a cen­tral park jog­ger they did­n’t even see, much less assault. Nah … their arrest and pros­e­cu­tion had noth­ing to do with racism in the NYPD.
We will ignore the false arrests of peo­ple who nev­er smoked or sold drugs but end­ed up swept up from places they worked or on the streets and charged with mar­i­jua­na sales and pos­ses­sion.
No com­mis­sion­er Shea, those are not racist actions, in fact, your depart­ment is not racist, after all the city of New York only has black and brown res­i­dents right?
Your state­ments are not only igno­rant, but they also prove what peo­ple already knew and believe, that you are just the head of what they see as a crim­i­nal gang. A gang that robs drug deal­ers and turns around and sells them right back on the streets.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
He is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. 
He’s also a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al web­sites.
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An All-American Story Of Two Boys From The East Side Of Baltimore.
Story by D. WATKINS

There’s me, D., a Black man straight out­ta the guts of sys­temic pover­ty, smoth­ered by racism, edu­cat­ed in a stereo­typ­i­cal col­lec­tion of dilap­i­dat­ed schools and nour­ished in a lit­er­al food desert where sal­ads for din­ner meant a four mile trip from home. I was raised in the crack era, where I learned to cook up, pack­age and slang crack in and around a city that was occu­pied by a mil­i­ta­rized police force that harassed every­body, even the non-crack slangers.

The oth­er is Danny Hersl. He was one of six kids, and he lost his father when he was only 7. He took it rough, but he had four broth­ers and a sis­ter and, with the sup­port of their tight-knit com­mu­ni­ty, the Hersls made it through.

Even though his fam­i­ly was far from wealthy, Hersl still grew up white in white America, in a sys­tem that tra­di­tion­al­ly rewards mediocre white­ness. But although Hersl could still bask in the mighty gift of white­ness, he didn’t have a lot of finan­cial options in the new econ­o­my, with the clos­ing of the steel mills in Baltimore which had sup­port­ed gen­er­a­tions of une­d­u­cat­ed work­ing-class white peo­ple. His big break came when he was accept­ed into the Anne Arundel County Police Academy. He spent three months there before being accept­ed to the Baltimore Police Department.

Hersl had joined the drug war, and now it wasn’t just his white­ness that set him apart, but also the blue uni­form and the sil­ver badge that helped him flex that white­ness. In the large­ly Black neigh­bor­hoods where he policed, his word was lit­er­al­ly law. “I’m the police. I can do what I want,” he often told peo­ple he stopped on the streets.

Read the full sto­ry here:

Breonna Taylor, who was work­ing as an EMT in Kentucky when the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic start­ed, was report­ed­ly killed after being shot 8 times by police who mis­tak­en­ly entered her apart­ment. Her fam­i­ly is fil­ing a law­suit accus­ing the offi­cers of wrong­ful death, exces­sive force, and gross negligence.

Back in March, Taylor, who was only 26-years old, was shot and killed by Louisville Metro Police offi­cers while serv­ing a drug war­rant at her apart­ment, but noth­ing ille­gal was found there. It was even­tu­al­ly found out that the police went to the wrong home and the real sus­pect was actu­al­ly already in cus­tody before the raid. Taylor’s fam­i­ly is suing the LMPD offi­cers, say­ing they “blind­ly fired” into the home, fir­ing shots into Taylor’s house and neigh­bor­ing apart­ments “with a total dis­re­gard for the val­ue of human life,” accord­ing to the lawsuit.

Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who was at the apart­ment thought they were being robbed so he fired at the offi­cers who force­ful­ly entered. He was arrest­ed and charged with the attempt­ed mur­der of a police offi­cer. Sgt. John Mattingly, who was shot in the leg dur­ing the inci­dent, detec­tives Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison were placed on admin­is­tra­tive reas­sign­ment in con­nec­tion to the inci­dent. More than that, Taylor’s fam­i­ly is seek­ing jus­tice. The law­suit her fam­i­ly filed demands a tri­al by jury. “Not one per­son has talked to me. Not one per­son has explained any­thing to me,” Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s moth­er, told The Courier Journal. “I want jus­tice for her. I want them to say her name. There’s no rea­son Breonna should be dead at all.”

National civ­il rights attor­ney Ben Crump is join­ing local attor­neys Sam Aguiar and Lonita Baker in the legal team to help Taylor’s fam­i­ly find answers. Crump has rep­re­sent­ed in sev­er­al big cas­es includ­ing the recent shoot­ing of Ahmaud Arbery. Meanwhile, the LMPD has not made a com­ment regard­ing the inci­dent, stat­ing “the Public Integrity inves­ti­ga­tion into this case remains ongo­ing, there­fore it would be inap­pro­pri­ate for us to com­ment beyond what we already have said imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the incident.”

There is a cri­sis brew­ing in America that has pre­cious lit­tle to do with COVID-19. In fact, though he is extreme­ly dan­ger­ous this cri­sis pre­dates Donald Trump’s mega­lo­ma­nia and nar­cis­sism,.
The entrenched racism on which America was built & has thrived, now seems des­tined to destroy her.
Not many coun­tries have fought a war against itself in order to con­sti­tute, the United States has. For that rea­son at least one would imag­ine that one civ­il war would serve as a warn­ing to Americans.
Yet some of the very same char­ac­ter­is­tics which caused the American civ­il war seem to be at play today, lit­er­al­ly threat­en­ing the out­break of another.

Among the many strate­gies employed in the United States against black peo­ple and black men, in par­tic­u­lar, is the prac­tice of crim­i­nal­iz­ing them ear­ly, then using their crim­i­nal records as a life-devalu­ing mech­a­nism, that legit­imizes their state-sanc­tioned killing.
State-sanc­tioned killings do not always mean killed by police. It can mean killings done by vig­i­lantes that go un-pros­e­cut­ed by the sys­tem. Even where pros­e­cut­ed, as a result of largescale upris­ings, they gen­er­al­ly result in no crim­i­nal penal­ty for the guilty par­ty because of endem­ic racism entrenched in the sys­tem and into the sub­con­scious of police, pros­e­cu­tors, judges and juries.

At this point, there is real­ly no need to name names. The names of those mur­dered are far too many, far too indeli­bly etched into our psy­ches to ignore. They burn and scar the tis­sues of our souls. They ignite a fit of anger inside us many did not know was pos­si­ble, the heat of that anger makes it dif­fi­cult not to com­bust.
The strat­e­gy is not only about crim­i­nal­iz­ing, incar­cer­a­tion & ulti­mate­ly anni­hi­la­tion. It is sup­port­ed by demo­niza­tion, through pro­pa­gan­da. It includes fraud­u­lent data to make their argu­ments that black peo­ple com­mit more crimes than whites. The ulti­mate strat­e­gy after recon­struc­tion was to nul­li­fy the exis­tence of the new­ly freed black enslaved pop­u­la­tion.
By crim­i­nal­iz­ing ear­ly, the father is removed from the home and there­by unable to pro­vide for his family.

It shames him in the eyes of his black woman and reduces him to a worth­less n****r unwor­thy of respect.
It has worked like a charm, it is a cul­tur­al norm to hear black chil­dren praise their moth­ers as paragons of virtues and degrade their fathers as worth­less punks.
This strat­e­gy was not only used in the United States but across the board to sub­ju­gate the black race and effec­tive­ly demon­strate that it is an infe­ri­or race. [It is a strat­e­gy that kills the par­ents, then mocks the chil­dren for being orphans]
Even among the sup­pos­ed­ly more edu­cat­ed “woke class” in the black com­mu­ni­ty, rather than work to fix or least talk-through and under­stand those insti­tu­tion­al­ized mine­fields with a view to fix­ing them, their strat­e­gy is to exploit those fis­sures to pur­sue a gay agenda.

Essentially the fields have been mined but in some cas­es, we have con­tin­ued to ignore the real­i­ties of what rid­ing over those mines entails.
In oth­er cas­es, [as a peo­ple], rather than blame those who plant­ed the mines, we get mad at the dis­mem­bered vic­tims.
Instead of appro­pri­ate­ly chan­nel­ing our anger where it ought to be we inter­nal­ize it, caus­ing our­selves more stress and of course the resul­tant con­se­quences of that stress. Self-hate. Violence toward each other.Hatred of each oth­er. Etc.

The United States’ pop­u­la­tion stands at around 328.2 mil­lion peo­ple in (2019). The 2020 cen­sus may have some­thing to say about that num­ber.
There were 42 mil­lion black non-Hispanic peo­ple in America accord­ing to the 2010 United States Census, when includ­ing Multiracial African Americans, mak­ing up 14% of the total U.S. pop­u­la­tion.
That num­ber com­prised 12.1% of the pop­u­la­tion in 2010. In 2013, black males account­ed for 37% of the total male prison pop­u­la­tion, white males 32%, and Hispanic males 22%.

One can look at these sta­t­ics and form a lazy opin­ion as to what they mean. On the face of it, it’s easy to extrap­o­late from it that of the three groups black men based on their numer­ic per­cent­age in the pop­u­la­tion have a propen­si­ty to com­mit more crimes than the oth­er two eth­nic groups.
That nar­ra­tive serves the inter­ests of those who plant­ed the landmines.

For the rest of us not par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in intel­lec­tu­al dis­hon­esty or racial pejo­ra­tives, these stats are far more nuanced and some­what reveal­ing.
When. peo­ple are denied a fair shake at every turn, denied good schools, crim­i­nal­ized from grade school lev­el, denied basic neces­si­ties like clean drink­ing water, even clean air to breathe. When the fathers are sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly removed from the home through mass-incar­cer­a­tion strate­gies & when their com­mu­ni­ties are tar­get­ed for harsh polic­ing that seeks to incar­cer­ate, intim­i­date, and even for bru­tal treat­ment, it becomes dif­fi­cult to ignore that what is hap­pen­ing is inher­ent­ly wrong.
It reveals the inher­ent moral bank­rupt­cy in a sys­tem that has at its very roots a desire to exter­mi­nate the black race.
Nothing that I could write on this page could even begin to scratch the sur­face of the intrin­sic moral bank­rupt­cy that cre­ates and fuels this system.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
He is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. 
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.

A group of white peo­ple armed with weapons demand­ed entry into the home of a black woman and her son in Pender County, North Carolina, late last Sunday night and refused to leave. Reportedly lead­ing the group was a mem­ber of the New Hanover Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Jordan Kita, who was armed and in uni­form dur­ing the inci­dent in ques­tion despite being off-duty and employed in a dif­fer­ent coun­ty. The mob claimed they were on the look­out for some­one named Josiah in con­nec­tion with the dis­ap­pear­ance of a young girl, accord­ing to an attor­ney now rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­ly. They wouldn’t take no for an answer when Monica Shepard and her son Dameon, a high school senior, told them repeat­ed­ly that no one by that name lived at that resident.

From WECT:

When Dameon attempt­ed to shut the door after telling the group who he was, Lea says the New Hanover County deputy stuck his foot in the door and demand­ed to come inside. Shepard woke up dur­ing this com­mo­tion and also tried to get the group to leave her prop­er­ty, indi­cat­ing the per­son they were look­ing for did not live there. Once again, accord­ing to Lea, the group con­tin­ued to ques­tion the Shepards, demand­ing to come inside. The deputy also blocked Shepard from clos­ing her door. Lea says at some point the group real­ized they were at the wrong res­i­dence and start­ed dis­band­ing, but by that time the Pender County Sheriff’s Office was called to the disturbance.

From CBS17:

Two deputies arrived to talk with the Shepards. Lea notes the group of peo­ple, includ­ing those who were armed, returned, and fol­lowed the deputies to the Shepards’ prop­er­ty. According to Lea, the deputies took no names of those in the group and didn’t inves­ti­gate the sit­u­a­tion. A cap­tain who arrived on the scene also did not take any action. Lea says the same cap­tain returned to the Shepards’ prop­er­ty the next day on his own, indi­cat­ed it would be com­pli­cat­ed to arrest any­one, but said he’d “look into it.”

Kita was final­ly charged with forcible tres­pass, break­ing and enter­ing, and will­ful fail­ure to dis­charge duties on Friday — almost a week to the break-in, and only after the family’s lawyer wrote to the District Attorney’s Office and asked them to inves­ti­gate the ter­ror­iz­ing inci­dent. He has also been fired, accord­ing to WECT. A sec­ond per­son, Robert Austin Wood, will be charged with going armed to the ter­ror of the pub­lic, District Attorney Ben David said.
Meanwhile, the Pender County Sheriff’s depart­ment is pat­ting itself on the back for doing absolute­ly noth­ing on the night in question.

From WECT: 

Sheriff Cutler admit­ted at the news con­fer­ence Friday they may have had enough evi­dence to make an arrest on the night of the inci­dent, but said he was proud his deputies dif­fused the sit­u­a­tion that night and they want­ed to make an informed deci­sion on this situation.

The oth­er mem­bers of the group remain at large.
Another rea­son why every black house­hold must have legal guns.

New York City has a Mayor who is an Italian-American, mar­ried to an African-American woman.
Bill di Blasio is one of two things when it comes to the NPPD’s prej­u­diced law-enforce­ment.
(1) he either agrees with it though he likes to pass him­self off as a pro­gres­sive 
Or
(2) he is scared of the (thug)… I meant police (gang) …I meant union.

They turned their backs in uni­son against him before. He seems to be try­ing his lev­el best not to cross them ever again.

This thug employed to the NYPD is actu­al­ly kneel­ing on the body, knee on the neck of a human being. The vic­tim’s crime?
(Not adher­ing to social-dis­tanc­ing rules).
This crim­i­nal thug has a his­to­ry of assault­ing cit­i­zens and has already cost New Yorkers tens of thou­sands of dol­lars in assault pay­ments ordered by the courts, paid out to the vic­tims of his raw vio­lent aggres­sion.
This mad demon­ic crea­ture is still on what they call the New York City Police Department. Obviously, they are wait­ing for him to mur­der some­one.
After all, it took them almost five years to remove Daniel Pantaleo who mur­dered Eric Garner in plain sight of every­one. And that only hap­pened after years of social activism, and a lot of pres­sure.
The NYPD and the oth­er police depart­ments nation­wide love these kinds of ani­mals. They fight tooth and nail to keep them on regard­less of what crimes they com­mit, or they sim­ply qui­et­ly give them a nice rec­om­men­da­tion and allow them to go to anoth­er police depart­ment where they con­tin­ue to ter­ror­ize black and brown cit­i­zens.
These ani­mal­is­tic thugs are lit­tle more than rabid dogs, leach­ing off tax-pay­ing cit­i­zens, yet they have zero regard for the peo­ple who pay their salaries and benefits.

You are going to find this real­ly hard to believe, par­tic­u­lar­ly those of you who are star­ry-eyed about America because you have nev­er been to America, this image above is in the very same city.
The same issue applies. On the one hand, cops are hand­ing out masks to white peo­ple sit­ting close beside each oth­er. On the oth­er hand, walk­ing on the streets of your neigh­bor­hood evokes the response you see in the top image above, a black man get­ting the s**t beat­en out of him and an ani­mal­is­tic thug sit­ting on his neck.
You decide for your­selves what the dif­fer­ence is.
The ques­tion that remains is, is this kind of injus­tice sustainable? 

Little Richard, the singer/​musician known as an orig­i­nal pio­neer for his con­tri­bu­tions to the pop­u­lar­i­ty of Rock and Roll music, has died. CNN con­firms that he was 87-years old, and had been sick for 2 months with can­cer. He died at his home in Tennessee.

Little Richard, who was very ener­getic and flam­boy­ant in his per­for­mances, had many hit songs includ­ing “Tutti Frutti,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Jenny, Jenny”, “Slippin’ and Slidin,” and “Good Golly Miss Molly”. He report­ed­ly sold more than 50 mil­lion records dur­ing his decades-span­ning career.

Born Richard Wayne Penniman in 1932, he began show­ing signs of musi­cal genius at a very young age. At the age of 19, he had already tak­en on the name “Little Richard,” and began his music career after sign­ing to RCA Victor and then Peacock Records in 1953. But his inter­na­tion­al suc­cess real­ly took off when he signed with Specialty Records in 1955. He was one of many artists in the 1950s and 60s era that helped break the col­or bar­ri­er between Blacks and whites.

We try our best to increase aware­ness about some of the things we iden­ti­fy as con­tin­ued exam­ples of entrenched white suprema­cy in America. How they shape lit­er­al­ly every issue in the African-American com­mu­ni­ty, and the need for greater edu­ca­tion and mil­i­tan­cy of though in the black com­mu­ni­ty.
The vicious actions of the police we see dai­ly, brazen acts of dis­re­spect cul­mi­nat­ing in acts of vio­lent aggres­sion & brutish state spon­sored mur­der.
But their actions are only the tip of the ice­berg that lurks wait­ing to sink the ship of black exis­tence.
Working to bring atten­tion to these issues some­times seem futile, we can hard­ly focus many of our peo­ple to read a sign on the locked door of a store in a pan­dem­ic, and so they return to the same locked store day after day rather than sim­ply read the damn sign.

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery in a Satilla Shores neigh­bor­hood in the State of Georgia by Gregory McMichael 64, a for­mer Glynn County police offi­cer, and a for­mer inves­ti­ga­tor with the local dis­trict attorney’s office, and his 34-year-old son Travis McMichael, as he jogged down a road has begun to evoke shock and anger across the coun­try.
Despite the wall-to-wall pan­dem­ic com­men­tary in the [bought and paid for media], the fact that nei­ther of the mur­der­ers has been arrest­ed, has many peo­ple won­der­ing how a man run­ning down the street could be mur­dered and no one has been arrest­ed?
To those, I say wel­come to America, to those I say google some names, Emmit Till. Travon Martin. etc. etc etc.
Google the Chicago Riots, Google the Tulsa Massacre. Google the Rosewood mas­sacre. on and on it goes.

The behind the scenes acts of col­lu­sion to cov­er up this crime should alarm every American regard­less of col­or.
In the end, we are all in this thing togeth­er, whether we real­ize it or not. In the post-war con­fes­sion first made in German in 1946 by the German Lutheran pas­tor Martin Niemöller,-Niemöller chas­tised German Clergy, includ­ing him­self for not speak­ing out about the purge of Jerman Jews from German soci­ety.
In his prose Martin Niemöller, wrote;
First, they came for the social­ists, and I did not speak out—
 Because I was not a social­ist.
Then they came for the trade union­ists, and I did not speak out—
 Because I was not a trade union­ist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
 Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.
Maybe it’s time that whites on both sides of the polit­i­cal divide begin to real­ize that there is no immu­ni­ty. In this coun­try in which a gen­er­a­tion fought and died to put down the rise and rapid growth of Nazism, anoth­er gen­er­a­tion is march­ing under that very ban­ner. Some 75 mil­lion peo­ple died dur­ing WW 11 includ­ing 20 mil­lion mil­i­tary per­son­nel.
A large per­cent­age of that 75 mil­lion were white peo­ple, hate has no morals.

The caul­dron of cor­rup­tion and con­spir­a­to­r­i­al malfea­sance should set aboil the blood or every per­son who claims to rev­el in the con­cept of Americanism. 

HERE IS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

HERE IS THE POLICE INCIDENT REPORT DONE ON THE MURDER OF Ahmaud Arbery.

Public Release IncidentReport for G20– 11303
Narrative
Subject: fired Officer: Brandeberry # 128 Date: 02/​23/​2020
Report:
On Sunday, February 23, 2020, I respond­ed to the inter­sec­tion of Satilla
Drive and Holmes Drive in ref­er­ence to shots fired. While in the route I was advised there were shots fired and a male on the ground ” bleed­ing out “. A short time lat­er I was advised the male on the ground was deceased.

Upon my arrival, I observed Officer Minshew ( 184) set­ting up a perime­ter.
I began speak­ing with Gregory McMichael who was a wit­ness to the inci­dent. McMichael stat­ed there have been sev­er­al Break-ins in the neigh­bor­hood and fur­ther the sus­pect was caught on sur­veil­lance video. Mi
his front yard and saw the sus­pect from the break-ins “haul­ing ass” down Satilla Drive toward Burford Drive. McMichael stat­ed he then ran inside his house and called to Travis ( ) and said: ” Travis the guy is run­ning down the street lets go”. McMichael stat­ed he went to his bed­room and grabbed his.

Magnum and Travis grabbed his shot­gun because they ” did­n’t know if the male was armed or not”. Michael stat­ed ” the oth­er night” they saw the same male and he stuck his hand down his pants which lead them to believe the male was armed.
McMichael stat­ed he and Travis got in the truck and drove down Satilla Drive toward Burford Drive McMichael stat­ed when they arrived at the inter­sec­tion of Satilla Drive and Holmes Drive, they saw the uniden­ti­fied male run­ning down Burford dri­ve McMichael then stat­ed Travis dri­ve down Burford and attempt­ed to cut off the male. He stat­ed the uniden­ti­fied male turned around and began run­ning back the direc­tion from which he came and ” Roddy “attempt­ed to block him which was unsuc­cess­ful Michael stat­ed he then jumped into the bed of the truck and he and Travis con­tin­ued to Holmes in an attempt to inter­cept him.

McMichael stat­ed they saw the uniden­ti­fied male and shout­ed: ” stop stop,
we want to talk to you”. Michael stat­ed they pulled up beside the male and shout­ed stop again at which time Travis exit­ed the truck with the shot­gun. McMichael stat­ed the uniden­ti­fied male began to vio­lent­ly attack Travis and the two men then start­ed fight­ing over the shot­gun at which point Travis fired a shot and then a sec­ond lat­er there was a sec­ond shot. Michael stat­ed the male fell face­down on the pave­ment with his hand under his body.
McMichael stat­ed he rolled the man over to see if the male had a weapon.
I observed blood on McMichael’s hands from rolling the uniden­ti­fied male over. Photographs were tak­en of McMichael’s hands and were uploaded to Spillman.]

Those of you who watched the video of Ahmaud Arbery’s lynch­ing that was leaked, now know that every word of what the police claimed the McMichaels stat­ed in their state­ments were indeed lies.
Furthermore, the author­i­ties who are charged with law enforce­ment, police, and pros­e­cu­tors knew that the video evi­dence of Ahmaud Arbery’s slaugh­ter exist­ed, knew what was in it, yet they took no action to act on what was their sworn duty. In fact there is evi­dence that they sought to mis­lead the fam­i­ly even after they had lost their love one.
They are now call­ing for an inquiry as to how the video was leaked which is the most remark­able of ironies, con­sid­er­ing that they should be in jail for abdi­cat­ing their sworn responsibilities.

According to the [New York Times], Shortly after the shoot­ing, the pros­e­cu­tor for the Brunswick judi­cial dis­trict recused her­self because Gregory McMichael had worked in her office. The case was sent to George E. Barnhill, the dis­trict attor­ney in Waycross, Ga., who even­tu­al­ly recused him­self from the case after Mr. Arbery’s moth­er argued that he had a con­flict because his son also works for the Brunswick dis­trict attor­ney.
However, before recus­ing him­self George Barnhill wrote a report to the Glynn County Police Department.

George Barnhill’s let­ter to Glynn County Police Department.

After talk­ing by tele­phone with you yes­ter­day, I appre­ci­ate there is imme­di­ate pres­sure on your depart­ment as to the issue of Arrest”. Since I have already giv­en you an ini­tial opin­ion the day after the shoot­ing, I feel I can still com­ment on this lim­it­ed issue. First
I am the cur­rent elect­ed District Attorney for the Waycross Circuit, I have worked as a crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tor for some 36 years. As an Assistant District Attorney in Waycross and Brunswick, as Chief Assistant in Waycross for 20 years and served as the District Attorney for the last 5 years; I have been active­ly involved in over 100murder cas­es and assist­ed oth­er pros­e­cu­tors with at least 100 more. I have no idea how many Aggravated Assault cas­es involv­ing gun­shots and wounds of all types; Plus I have attend­ed count­less schools, class­es, and sem­i­nars on crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion and crim­i­nal acts and evi­dence. I and one of my Senior Trial Attorneys have reviewed the evi­dence exten­sive­ly and con­cur on all points.

Second
As to the case at hand: Itismy pro­fes­sion­al belief the autop­sy con­firm­swhatwe­had already viewed as shown in the video tape, with the pho­tographs & from the wit­ness state­ments tak­en imme­di­ate­ly atthe scene. The autop­sy sup­ports the ini­tial opin­ion we gave you on February 24^th , 2020 at the brief­ing room in the Glynn County Police Department after review­ing the evi­dencey­ouha­datthat­time. Wedonotseegroundsforanarrestofanyofthethreeparties.

Third
It appears Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael, and Bryan William were fol­low­ing, in pur­suit of a bur­glary suspect,t with sol­id first-hand prob­a­ble cause, in their neigh­bor­hood, and asking/​telling him to stop. It appears their intent was to stop and hold this crim­i­nal sus­pect until law enforce­ment arrived. UnderGeorgia Law this is per­fect­ly legal,
OCGA17‑4 – 60 A pri­vate per­son may arrest an offend­er if the offense is com­mit­ted in his pres­ence or with­in his imme­di­ate knowl­edge. If the offense is a felony and the offend­er is escap­ing or attempt­ing to escape, a pri­vate per­son may arrest him upon rea­son­able and prob­a­ble grounds of suspicion .”

Fourth

It clear­ly appears Travis McMichael and Greg McMichaelhad firearms­be­ing car­ried in an open fash­ion . The inves­ti­ga­tion shows nei­ther of them to be con­vict­ed felons or under felony super­vi­sion , they were in a motor vehi­cle owned by Travis McMichael. UnderGeorgia Law this is lega­lopen carry .

OCGA 16– 11– 126

a) Any per­son who is not pro­hib­it­ed by law from pos­sess­ing a hand­gun or long gun may have or car­ry on his or her per­son a weapon or long gun on his or her prop­er­ty or inside his or her home, motor vehi­cle, or place of busi­ness with­out valid weapons car­ry license.
(b) Any per­son who is not pro­hib­it­ed by law from pos­sess­ing a hand gun or long gun may have or car­ry on his or her per­son a long gun with­out valid weapons car­ry license, pro­vid­ed that if the long gun is loaded, it shall only be car­ried in an open and ful­ly exposed manner.” 

Fifth
The video made by William Bryan clear­ly shows the shoot­ing in real­time. From the said video it appears Ahmaud Arbery was run­ning along the right side of the McMichael truck then abrupt­ly turns 90 degrees to the left and attacks Travis McMichaelwho was stand­ing at the front left cor­ner of the truck. A brief skir­mish ensues in which it appears Arbery strikes McMichael and appears to grab the shot­gun and pull it from McMichael The shot is through Arbery s right-hand palm which is con­sis­tent with him grab­bing and pulling the shot­gun at the bar­rel tip, the 2^nd and 3^rd wounds are con­sis­tent with the strug­gle for the shot­gun as depict­ed in the video, the angle of the 2^nd shot with the rear of the butt­stock being pushed away and down from the fight are also con­sis­tent with the upward angle of blood plume shown in the video and that McMichael was attempt­ing to push the gun away from Arbery while Arbery was pulling it toward himself.

The 3^rd shot too, appears to be in a strug­gle over the gun. The angle of the shots and the video show this was from the begin­ning or almost imme­di­ate­ly became– a fight over the shot­gun. Given the fact Arbery ini­ti­at­ed the fight, at the point Arbery grabbed the shot­gun, under Georgia Law, McMichael was allowed to use dead­ly force to pro­tect him­self.
Just as impor­tant­ly, while we know McMichael had his fin­ger on the trig­ger, we do not know who caused the fir­ings. Arbery would only have to pull the shot­gun approx­i­mate­ly 1/ 16^th to 1/​8th of one inch to fire weapon him­self and in the height of an alter­ca­tion, this is entire­ly pos­si­ble. Arbery s men­tal health records & pri­or con­vic­tions help explain his appar­ent aggres­sive nature and his pos­si­ble thought pat­tern to attack an armed man.

OCGA 16 – 3‑21UseofForcein Defense, once con­front­ed with a dead­ly force sit­u­a­tion an indi­vid­ual is allowed to use dead­ly force to defend them­selves or oth­ers OCGA 16 — 3– 23 . 1Georgia ’ s No Duty to Retreat law, an indi­vid­ual is not required to back away from or sub­mit to an attack; OCGA 16 ‑3– 24 [b] The use of force which is intend­ed or like­ly to cause death or great bod­i­ly harm to pre­vent tres­pass on or oth­er tor­tious or crim­i­nal inter­fer­ence with real prop­er­ty oth­er than a habi­ta­tion or per­son­al prop­er­ty is not jus­ti­fied unless the per­son using such force rea­son­ably believes that it is nec­es­sary to pre­vent the com­mis­sion of a forcible felony.
OCGA16‑3 – 24.2 A A A 

A per­son prop­er­ly and legal­ly defend­ing them­selves are immune from pros­e­cu­tion For the above and fore­go­ing rea­sons, it is our con­clu­sion there is insuf­fi­cient prob­a­ble cause to issue arrest war­rants at this time.

As to any fur­ther issues on whether to present this to a Glynn County Grand jury, that will have to wait for the next District Attorney s review. Please con­sid­er this an OPEN file until that deci­sion is made and restrict the release of any infor­ma­tion under the Georgia Open Records Act requests.

Sincerely

George E. Barnhill District Attorney Waycross Judicial Circuit

George Barnhill’s sum­ma­tion does four (4) obvi­ous­ly immoral things. (1) He asked the Glynn County Police to sus­pend real­i­ty, there­by embrac­ing a the­o­ry that is not sup­port­ed by what is evi­dent in the video, ie a stalked man mak­ing a seri­ous and more than rea­son­able attempt to avoid an armed poten­tial­ly dan­ger­ous aggres­sor in his direct path by going the oth­er way around a vehi­cle stopped in the mid­dle of the road, & defend­ing him­self against that aggres­sion. (2) Injecting his own opin­ions into a clear case of mur­der, by unscrupu­lous­ly using the vic­tim’s record as a means to jus­ti­fy his killing. (3) Making ref­er­ence in his sup­posed-legal opin­ions as to the men­tal state of
Ahmaud Arbery even though he is not a psy­chi­a­trist, or has any train­ing that would qual­i­fy him to make such eval­u­a­tions.
More impor­tant­ly, we see once again police and pros­e­cu­tors trot­ting out black vic­tim’s crim­i­nal records as a form of jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for their mur­der.
(4) It appears their intent was to stop and hold this crim­i­nal sus­pect until law enforce­ment arrived. George Barnhill even know­ing the facts of what occurred, default­ed to label­ing the vic­tim a quote; “crim­i­nal sus­pect” there­by cre­at­ing a pho­ny jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for his mur­der.
Even if he was a crim­i­nal sus­pect, no one, (includ­ing police), has the author­i­ty to mur­der him.
Barnhill attempt­ed to get into the mind of the two killers by assum­ing what they were think­ing, quote;” It appears their intent was to stop and hold this crim­i­nal sus­pect until law enforce­ment arrived”. There is no evi­dence of that, nei­ther of the actors involved, made any attempt to noti­fy the police before set­ting out with their guns and record­ing device, in what may only be seen as a mod­ern-day posse/​lynch mob.

UPDATE

Since this sto­ry was pub­lished, the two mur­der­ers have been arrested.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
He is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. 
He’s also a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al web­sites.
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Under what cir­cum­stances would two black peo­ple kill a white jog­ger and an arrest was­n’t made?
Oh, scratch that, under what cir­cum­stances would a white per­son be killed with­out an entire police depart­ment out stop­ping every black per­son in sight, search­ing vehi­cles, bust­ing down doors look­ing for the killer/​s?
In fact, a com­mand post would have been set up and a spe­cial task force set up specif­i­cal­ly to find any n****r, and bring him in dead or alive.
If you can­not find the real killer bring any N****r, dead or alive, we don’t give a shit.

That is what happed to five black & brown boys after a white woman was vio­lent­ly sex­u­al­ly assault­ed and left for dead in New York City’s Central Park on April 19, 1989.
The NYPD and pros­e­cu­tors did not care that the group of boys hauled in by the cops were inno­cent. They want­ed blood and any n****r blood would suf­fice. The boys were con­vict­ed and impris­oned, some in high places even took out full-page adver­tise­ments demand­ing that they are giv­en the cap­i­tal punishment/​lynched.
Years lat­er they were all exon­er­at­ed as evi­dence sur­faced that they had noth­ing to do with the assault.

More than two months ago a young man was jog­ging in a Georgia neigh­bor­hood when he was set upon by an armed father & son lynch mob and mur­dered, while anoth­er pho­tographed the killing.
Their sto­ry, they [thought] he was bur­glar­iz­ing hous­es under con­struc­tion and so they chased him down and killed him.
That expla­na­tion was good for inves­ti­gat­ing police offi­cers and pros­e­cu­tors, who sim­ply shrugged and said: “ok, good enough, noth­ing to see here”.
And that was that!
A for­mer pros­e­cu­tor who had exam­ined Arbery’s case told police the McMichaels act­ed with­in the scope of Georgia’s cit­i­zen arrest statute and that Travis McMichael fired his weapon in self-defense.
Not sure what the crime was as the dece­dent was not found with any prop­er­ty belong­ing to any­one.
I’m also at a loss as to why the pair of Rambo-wannabes did not sim­ply pick up the phone and called police to relay their sus­pi­cions.
Although on sec­ond thought, that may have result­ed in the very same out­come for Ahmaud Arbery.

Twenty-five-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down on the streets of the Brunswick neigh­bor­hood on that Tuesday night by for­mer Brunswick District Attorney’s Office inves­ti­ga­tor Greg McMichael,& his son Travis McMichael on Feb. 23^rd. Today is May 6^th and nei­ther of the two has been arrest­ed for the mur­der of Arbury, much less charged crim­i­nal­ly.
This evokes the mem­o­ry of the small-time thug named George Zimmerman who mur­dered Trayvon Martin in Florida. Zimmerman attacked & mur­dered the teenag­er on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida claim­ing he looked sus­pi­cious.
Zimmerman claimed a stand your ground defense, despite being the one with the gun who approached and appre­hend­ed the teenag­er.
In typ­i­cal American jus­tice, Zimmerman was not arrest­ed or charged until there was wide­spread world­wide con­dem­na­tion of the inci­dent and protests.
In the end, he was charged, a sham tri­al result­ed, the six jurors — all of them women — delib­er­at­ed for 16½ hours. Five of the women white; one a minor­i­ty, [not black], pos­si­bly a [Hispanic], (the race of Zimmerman), returned a ver­dict of not guilty.

It is remark­able that the two vig­i­lantes could mur­der Arbury, despite not hav­ing broached their first oblig­a­tion, which was to call the police if they wit­nessed or sus­pect­ed him of com­mit­ting a crime, or may be about to com­mit a crime and not imme­di­ate­ly be arrest­ed.
Even if Ahmaud Arbery did com­mit a crime and was run­ning down the street, they had no legal right much less author­i­ty to arm them­selves and attempt to accost him under the guise of a *cit­i­zens arrest*, without(a) first hav­ing attempt­ed to call the police,(b) fol­low safe­ly behind, since they were deter­mined to accost him at all cost.

The actions of Greg McMichael,& his son Travis McMichael is a mod­ern-day lynch­ing that can­not stand.
The atten­dant trav­es­ty of police & pros­e­cu­tors in not imme­di­ate­ly tak­ing action to arrest the two, is anchored in slave-patrol laws and oth­ers which gave whites the pow­er to kill black peo­ple with­out legal con­se­quence.
As anoth­er nation­al elec­tion cycle begin to heat up this inci­dent is sure to suck up a lot of the oxy­gen and will cer­tain­ly dom­i­nate con­ver­sa­tions in the weeks and months to come.
None of that will bring Ahmaud Arbery back his fam­i­ly. The built-in prin­ci­ple that a black man has no right that a white man should respect is still an unspo­ken part of how black peo­ple are treat­ed in America.
This is so in the way whites respond to blacks and how police enforce the laws.
Black skin in America is the equiv­a­lent of guilt, white skin inno­cence.
That con­cept is so built into the DNA of white peo­ple and by exten­sion ‑the police, that a call to the police involv­ing a white offend­er and a black vic­tim will see the police arrive and almost always auto­mat­i­cal­ly go to the white offend­er to get an expla­na­tion of what happened?

Racism is insid­i­ous, it is dan­ger­ous, it has always been so. Unfortunately, black peo­ple have not ful­ly mobi­lized to deal with this can­cer that has killed tens maybe hun­dreds of mil­lions of us over hun­dreds of years.
Whites on the right would sim­ply like to deny that it exists. Whites on the left would like these instances of out­right racist mur­ders to be seen as iso­lat­ed inci­dents, not a con­se­quence of Americans’ per­pet­u­al racist igno­rance.
Former Obama Vice President & Democratic pre­sump­tive nom­i­nee Joe Biden has called for the arrest of the two killers. So far this case though wide­ly report­ed in blogs and on social media, has cer­tain­ly not gar­nered the atten­tion it deserves nationally.

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

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

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

HERE’S IS ANOTHER..

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

WHAT SOCIAL DISTANCING?
OBSERVE THE DIFFERENCE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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