MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The live-streamed video of the final min­utes of Brian Quinones’ life before he was fatal­ly shot by police shows him calm­ly dri­ving a car and lis­ten­ing to music, run­ning at least one red light as he leads offi­cers on a chase through two Minneapolis sub­urbs.
At one point, the video shows, Quinones got out of the car with what appears to be a knife. Moments lat­er, some­one shout­ed an unin­tel­li­gi­ble com­mand and mul­ti­ple shots rang out. Quinones, 30, died at the scene.
His broth­er said after­ward that Quinones had been hav­ing sui­ci­dal thoughts.
The shoot­ing sparked a protest and raised ques­tions about whether police were too quick to shoot Quinones, and whether they could have used anoth­er means to stop him or help him if he was in crisis.

Shawn Price, 35, stopped Monday to pay his respects at a makeshift memo­r­i­al near where Quinones was shot. Price says based on what he heard in Quinones’ video, the num­ber of shots fired seemed to be “com­plete­ly in excess,” and he won­ders if police could have done more to de-esca­late the sit­u­a­tion. “There was no attempt at Taser or to do any oth­er method that would have pre­vent­ed, you know, this young man’s life being tak­en,” Price said.
Investigators released no new infor­ma­tion about the case Monday, includ­ing how many times Quinones was shot, or whether there was any attempt to use a stun gun. About 12 shots can be heard in the Quinones’ video. Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago law pro­fes­sor, said dead­ly force should be a last resort and police need to assess a devel­op­ing sit­u­a­tion and look for a way to de-escalate.

“Could they have respond­ed to the sit­u­a­tion in dif­fer­ent ways that would not have put their safe­ty in dan­ger?” Futterman asked.
He said police are trained to use tac­tics such as time and dis­tance to avoid the need to use dead­ly force. National best prac­tices call for train­ing offi­cers on how to work with peo­ple who may be in cri­sis. It also has become best prac­tices for many depart­ments to have cri­sis inter­ven­tion teams to work with peo­ple who are in trou­ble.
Authorities began chas­ing Quinones late Saturday after they say he ran a red light and wouldn’t pull over. In the Livestream video, Quinones, who is from Puerto Rico but had lived in Minnesota for many years, can be seen glanc­ing in the rearview mir­ror, and some­times rap­ping along with the music before he gets out of the car. Before start­ing the live stream, he post­ed on Facebook, “So sorry.”

His younger broth­er, Joshua Quinones, told Minnesota Public Radio News on Sunday that he spoke to his broth­er before the pur­suit and could hear the “sad­ness in his voice.” He said his broth­er had sui­ci­dal thoughts and “had it all planned out.” After Brian hung up, Joshua and his sis­ter went to Brian’s apart­ment. He wasn’t there, but they found his live stream on Facebook. Joshua Quinones said his sis­ter had texted her broth­er things like, “Don’t do any­thing stupid.” 

“I just think that (police) could have done bet­ter. At least tase him with a Taser,” Joshua Quinones told MPR. “But real­ly, shoot him … That’s just too much.”
No police offi­cers were hurt. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office is inves­ti­gat­ing and declined to com­ment on Monday. A state­ment released Sunday by the city of Edina says Quinones “con­front­ed offi­cers with a knife,” and the coun­ty med­ical exam­in­er said Quinones died of mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.
Five offi­cers — three from Richfield, two from Edina — were placed on paid leave, city offi­cials said.

Quinones’ video has been removed from Facebook but por­tions of it are on YouTube. It doesn’t show the shoot­ing. Authorities haven’t said whether there is squad car or body cam­era video of the incident.

Bob Bennett, an attor­ney who rep­re­sents Quinones’ wife, said he wants to see those videos. He could not con­firm whether Quinones’ fam­i­ly called police about his men­tal state, and Joshua Quinones declined to talk to a reporter Monday.

David Klinger, chair­man of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at University of Missouri-St. Louis, said that while the men­tal state of an indi­vid­ual should play a fac­tor in how police man­age and con­trol a sit­u­a­tion, it’s imma­te­r­i­al when an offi­cer is faced with an immi­nent threat.

“What dif­fer­ence does it make if the rea­son why a man is try­ing to kill you is because he hates you or because he thinks you are a demon who has been sent from anoth­er dimen­sion … if he is try­ing to kill you, you have a right to pro­tect your­self,” Klinger said.

Torri Hamilton, a civ­il rights attor­ney in Chicago, said police dis­patch record­ings would be key to find­ing out if fam­i­ly mem­bers called police and if police were made aware of con­cerns. She said any police video from squad cars or body cam­eras would also be important.

She point­ed to the case of Laquan McDonald, who had a knife in an inter­ac­tion with police in 2014, and was shot 16 times as he was walk­ing away. In that case, Chicago police offi­cer Jason Van Dyke was con­vict­ed of murder.

“Unless they are con­front­ed with dead­ly force, they can­not use dead­ly force,” Hamilton said.

The Minneapolis-St. Paul area has had sev­er­al police-involved shoot­ings in recent years that have sparked angry protests, includ­ing the 2016 killing of a black dri­ver, Philando Castile, by a police offi­cer in the Twin Cities sub­urb of Falcon Heights. Castile’s girl­friend streamed the imme­di­ate after­math of the shoot­ing live on Facebook.
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North Buffalo, NY — Jeffrey Calhoun, a 62-year old white man, is fac­ing sev­er­al charges of hate crime after he alleged­ly harassed Jeanneie Muhammad, a Black woman, dur­ing a recent road rage dis­pute. Witnesses say he bit her and called her a racial slur after she acci­den­tal­ly bumped his car.

The encounter report­ed­ly start­ed after Muhammad bumped into the car in front of her. She got out of the car and then Calhoun, who was dri­ving the oth­er car, sud­den­ly attacked her. He bit her and dis­played a hand­gun, as seen on a cell­phone video cap­tured by a bystander. They also said Calhoun used a racial slur on her.
Calhoun was indict­ed on two felony charges — unlaw­ful impris­on­ment and men­ac­ing — both as hate crime. He was also indict­ed on a felony count of imper­son­at­ing a police offi­cer and a mis­de­meanor count of third-degree assault.
Calhoun plead­ed not guilty of all the charges and is still out of prison on $75,000 bail.

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn filed hate crime charges against Calhoun, which is the first time he did dur­ing his term as DA.
“I firm­ly believe that race was a moti­va­tion here in Mr. Calhoun’s alleged actions,” Flynn told local media. “I believe I have the evi­dence that backs up my belief. Is it a slam dunk, though? It’s not.”
Flynn fur­ther explained that while hate crime “is not in and of itself a crime,” it can be used to increase the jail time of the defen­dant. In Calhoun’s case, if he is con­vict­ed of first-degree unlaw­ful impris­on­ment which is the most seri­ous of the charges he is fac­ing, he could be sen­tenced to up to sev­en years in prison.

Moreover, Calhoun was ini­tial­ly charged with attempt­ed rob­bery for alleged­ly tak­ing Muhammad’s keys and try­ing to take her purse. But Flynn decid­ed to drop that charge as the inves­ti­ga­tion found Calhoun did not intend to per­ma­nent­ly take those items. Evidence rather proved that he used a racial slur on her even though it was not seen on the video.
“In this case here, the total­i­ty of cir­cum­stances, the con­text of the entire inci­dent with his use of the alleged racial slur, is what I believe ele­vat­ed it to a hate crime,” Flynn said.
“Buffalo is a city of good neigh­bors. Buffalo is a city of love. When some­one choos­es hate, they have to face the con­se­quences. Mr. Calhoun is now fac­ing the consequences.”

Kennard was only 22-years old when he was con­vict­ed of first-degree rob­bery in 1983. He was sen­tenced to life impris­on­ment under Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Act, also known as the “three strikes law,” as he had been pre­vi­ous­ly con­vict­ed of bur­glary and grand larceny.

However, in 2013, the sen­tenc­ing guide­lines in Alabama were changed. Under the new guide­lines, Kennard would just have received a 20-year max­i­mum sen­tence.
Kennard, who is now 58-years old, told the court before his resen­tenc­ing, “I just want to say I’m sor­ry for what I did… I take respon­si­bil­i­ty for what I did in the past. I want the oppor­tu­ni­ty to get it right.”

His attor­ney, Carla Crowder, said that Kennard was “over­whelmed” by the resen­tenc­ing.
“What’s extra­or­di­nary about Mr. Kennard is that even when he thought he was going to be in prison for the rest of his life, he real­ly turned his life around,” she said. “He is over­whelmed at this oppor­tu­ni­ty, but has remained close with his fam­i­ly, so he has incred­i­ble sup­port.”
Kennard’s release from prison will be processed out by the Alabama Department of Corrections. It’s unclear what the spe­cif­ic date, but he would be return­ing home “with­in a few days.”

70-Year Old Granny Who Pulled a Gun on Black Couple Will Not Go to Jail

Howell was report­ed­ly only fined $250 and ordered to pay $182.50 in court fees. Aside from that, there will be no oth­er pun­ish­ment giv­en to her in con­nec­tion with the inci­dent.
The inci­dent was caught on a now-viral video where­in Howell, an employ­ee of Kampgrounds of America, can be seen approach­ing Jessica Richardson and her hus­band Franklin. She was bran­dish­ing a gun while telling them to leave camp­ground because they had no reservation.

The cou­ple learned lat­er on from Howell’s hus­band that a reser­va­tion was not actu­al­ly nec­es­sary to access the camp­ground.
Shortly after the inci­dent, KOA con­firmed that the woman was fired and said that KOA “does not con­done the use of a firearm in any man­ner on our prop­er­ties or those owned and oper­at­ed by our fran­chisees.”
Although Mississippi is an open-car­ry state, it is ille­gal to bran­dish a weapon in a “rude, angry or threat­en­ing man­ner in the pres­ence of three or more per­sons.” Those who were found guilty can face a $500 fine, three months in jail, or both with pros­e­cu­tors regard­less if the weapon was “charged, loaded or in a con­di­tion to be dis­charged.”
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By Cheryl E Beckles

I just read a quote ‘I’m still here, so please don’t call my nest emp­ty. My wal­let is cer­tain­ly emp­ty, but not my house!’. After read­ing that, my mind began to rem­i­nisce over my life as a par­ent. I would go fur­ther and say that my nest is not emp­ty, but my nest and heart FULL.

I’m not ashamed to say that the tears came to my eyes as I began to think of my life as a Mom. These were not tears of sad­ness-not at all! They were actu­al­ly tears of grat­i­tude and joy, as I thought about the years of par­ent­ing that I have had. When the chil­dren were younger, and the house was full of kids, it was a time that was busy, bustling, bois­ter­ous, and yes-beau­ti­ful! Lest you think I seek to paint a pic­ture of per­fec­tion, I want to also let you know that it was also a time of noise, wor­ry, trou­ble, ques­tions, , sleep­less­ness, and yes-some arguments. 

Laughter filled the house, and so did slammed doors, along with peri­ods of pun­ish­ment. Grief so strong and deep that you won­der if you’ll ever laugh again. Then laugh­ter to the point that you think you may have to seek med­ical atten­tion! You know: LIFE WITH CHILDREN. And then life with young adults. And then life with young adults who think they are adults rent­ing space in your house, mak­ing up their own rules to fit their lifestyles. Numerous phas­es and stages. I say all of that to say that I am so grate­ful for the priv­i­lege to have had a ‘full nest’. And that it is still full; full of the life I have had as a MOM, WIFE, and CAREGIVER. It’s just me, hub­by, and Bud (our 7 year old lab mix who thinks he runs our lives, so I guess we have one last child at home:). a strange feeling. 

We miss the ‘boys’ as we call them. We espe­cial­ly miss Kodi, the oth­er child, who will nev­er walk through the doors of our home again (at least not on this side of life). We miss and con­tin­ue to grieve his phys­i­cal pres­ence. We miss their dai­ly com­ings and goings, involve­ment in their extracur­ric­u­lar activ­i­ties, and our dai­ly din­ners togeth­er, when we would spend so much time talk­ing, laugh­ing and shar­ing. You lis­ten to a sound and think-oh, that must be one of the boys then you real­ize it was just the wind, or the house adapt­ing to its ‘nor­mal’ of less bod­ies.
Mike and I look at each oth­er with that know­ing look of ‘it’s just you and me now, baby’. Then we laugh, and say some­thing like-‘let the games begin!’. 

This change rein­forces the fact that our chil­dren are tru­ly not ours. They are lent to us for a sea­son; we are mere stew­ards of them for a time. They are a gar­den to be tend­ed, fer­til­ized, watered, pruned, and then cut to be giv­en back to the Father for their pur­pose to be ful­filled. Each step of the way and every day, we must remind our­selves of our pur­pose as par­ents. We pray to God for a beau­ti­ful har­vest. We do the work, with His help and grace, and then sit back and wait for Him to reveal HIS best work through them. We may nev­er even see it in our life­time. We just thank Him for the priv­i­lege of trust­ing us as par­ents, and pray that our chil­dren walk in the pur­pose and call­ing that He has for them.
So I am not an emp­ty nester. Call me ‘full’. For I am joyFUL, peaceFUL, grateFUL, and yes, hope­ful. For short you can just call me ‘full’!

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee city offi­cials are offer­ing Bucks guard Sterling Brown $400,000 to set­tle his law­suit accus­ing police of using exces­sive force and tar­get­ing him because he’s black when they con­front­ed him over a park­ing vio­la­tion.
The city’s Common Council autho­rized the offer Wednesday dur­ing a closed ses­sion. Brown has 14 days to accept or decline it.
Brown’s attor­ney didn’t imme­di­ate­ly com­ment, but he planned to address it at a news con­fer­ence lat­er Monday morn­ing. Brown ille­gal­ly parked in a dis­abled spot out­side a Walgreens on Jan. 26, 2018, and was talk­ing with a group of offi­cers while wait­ing for his cita­tion when the sit­u­a­tion esca­lat­ed. Officers took him down and used a stun gun because he didn’t imme­di­ate­ly remove his hands from his pock­ets, as ordered. https://​black​amer​i​caweb​.com/​2​0​1​9​/​0​9​/​0​4​/​m​i​l​w​a​u​k​e​e​-​o​f​f​e​r​s​-​b​u​c​k​s​-​p​l​a​y​e​r​-​4​0​0​k​-​t​o​-​s​e​t​t​l​e​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​s​u​it/

Stories you did not see in the cor­po­rate US media.
This pub­li­ca­tion has con­sis­tent­ly point­ed to the hypocrisy of the UN and the Human Rights Agencies which seem pow­er­less, deaf, blind and dumb when it comes to the human rights abus­es com­mit­ted by American police.
On the oth­er hand, they are wide-eyed at the slight­est infrac­tion poor devel­op­ing coun­tries com­mit.
The ques­tion is this, why is the UN and the International Human Rights Agencies refus­ing to place a spot­light on the crimes being com­mit­ted on peo­ple of col­or in the United States?
The issue is not whether one agrees with the meth­ods of Rodrigo Duterte.
In fact, this pub­li­ca­tion does not sup­port the arbi­trary killing of human beings, regard­less of what they are alleged to have done.
It is for the courts to decide the pun­ish­ment that should be met­ed out in a uni­formed, fair and just way in which all cit­i­zens are giv­en the very same due process.
That is hard­ly what Rodrigo Duterte is doing in the Philippines. Nevertheless, the par­al­lel he drew regard­ing the killing of unarmed black peo­ple in the United States is indisputable. 

When asked to com­ment on the issue, Duterte replied: “Here comes the UN, eas­i­ly swayed, and com­ing with a very stu­pid propo­si­tion. Why would the United Nations be so eas­i­ly swayed into inter­fer­ing in the affairs of this repub­lic?” He said that while the UN was quick to crit­i­cize his admin­is­tra­tion, they seem to be “keep­ing silent” on the vio­lence in the Middle East and police bru­tal­i­ty in the United States. He added, “The Philippine gov­ern­ment is wor­ried about what is being done to the Black peo­ple there in America, being shot even while lying down. Why are the blacks being killed on trumped-up charges? There’s a hatred there being sowed by their government.”

Duterte, who is 71-years old, recent­ly won the May elec­tion after promis­ing to wage a war on ille­gal drugs and high crime in the Philippines. He says that there are 3 mil­lion drug addicts in his coun­try, and that mil­lions more are being “dev­as­tat­ed by drugs”. And most Filipinos are huge sup­port­ers of what he is doing. Meanwhile, Black Americans are also applaud­ing him for being one of the few inter­na­tion­al lead­ers that have also spo­ken out against the ongo­ing dis­crim­i­na­tion and police bru­tal­i­ty in the U.S. In 2015 alone, accord­ing to The Washington Post, more than 250 black peo­ple were shot dead in the U.S. by police offi­cers. In 2016, the num­ber of sim­i­lar inci­dents so far are just as high.

Portland police sus­pect­ed Allen, who has tat­toos cov­er­ing his fore­head and cheeks, was involved in bank rob­beries. However, sur­veil­lance footage of the crime shows the actu­al rob­ber has no face tat­toos. None of the tellers who wit­nessed the inci­dent described the rob­ber with face tat­toos as well. Still, Allen was charged in con­nec­tion to the rob­bery. Investigators alleged­ly altered his mug shot using Photoshop, then pre­sent­ed it to the tellers with­out let­ting them know that it was altered. Some of the tellers picked Allen out of the pho­to array of five sim­i­lar-look­ing men and iden­ti­fied him as the robber.

What the police did has since caused out­rage, with some say­ing the police pho­to­shopped an inno­cent man’s face so they could just imme­di­ate­ly make an arrest with­out exert­ing much effort. The police offi­cers involved have yet to face any con­se­quence. It is also yet to be deter­mined if Allen’s rights were vio­lat­ed and if the pho­to­shopped evi­dence would be accept­ed in court. However, police offi­cers claimed that Allen could have actu­al­ly put on a make­up pri­or to rob­bing banks so they dig­i­tal­ly cov­ered his face tat­toos to keep the wit­ness­es from being “dis­tract­ed.”

“I basi­cal­ly paint­ed over the tat­toos,” police foren­sic crim­i­nal­ist Mark Weber tes­ti­fied. “Almost like apply­ing elec­tron­ic make­up.” Meanwhile, Jules Epstein, a law pro­fes­sor at Temple University and lead­ing nation­al author­i­ty on eye­wit­ness tes­ti­mo­ny, said it is an inap­pro­pri­ate prac­tice. “It’s unbe­liev­able to me that police would ignore the fact that no teller has described a per­son with glar­ing tat­toos and make this man into a pos­si­ble sus­pect by cov­er­ing them up,” he told The Oregonian. “They’re increas­ing the risk of mis­tak­en iden­ti­ty.” https://​www​.black​news​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​p​o​r​t​l​a​n​d​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​p​h​o​t​o​s​h​o​p​p​e​d​-​b​l​a​c​k​-​m​a​n​-​t​y​r​o​n​e​-​l​a​m​o​n​t​-​a​l​l​e​n​-​m​u​g​s​h​ot/

A TV news anchor in Oklahoma City issued a tear­ful apol­o­gy to her Black co-host after she made a racist com­ment on air, say­ing he looked like a gorilla. 

During the local ABC station’s morn­ing news pro­gram last week, KOCO anchor Alex Housden, a white woman, capped off a seg­ment about a goril­la at the Oklahoma City Zoo by telling her Black co-anchor, Jason Hackett, that he resem­bled the pri­mate. The racist com­ment sparked out­rage among view­ers and went viral, and Housden made her on-air apol­o­gy the fol­low­ing day. 

“I want to apol­o­gize not only to my co-anchor, Jason, but to our entire com­mu­ni­ty,” she said through tears. “I said some­thing yes­ter­day that was incon­sid­er­ate, it was inap­pro­pri­ate and I hurt peo­ple. And I want you to know I under­stand how much I hurt you out there and how much I hurt you,” she added, turn­ing to Hackett. She told the anchor that she loved him, con­sid­ered him a best friend and knew what she said was wrong. 
“I do accept your apol­o­gy and I do appre­ci­ate your apol­o­gy,” Hackett respond­ed, adding that he con­sid­ers her a best friend too. “I do appre­ci­ate you and I do love you. All that being said … what [Alex] said yes­ter­day was wrong. It cut deep for me and it cut deep for a lot of you in the com­mu­ni­ty.” Hackett said he want­ed this to be a teach­able moment for everyone. 

“The les­son here is that words mat­ter,” he said. “We’re becom­ing a more diverse coun­try. … We have to under­stand the stereo­types and each other’s back­grounds and the words that hurt, the words that cut deep. And we have to find a way to replace those words with love and words of affir­ma­tion as well.” KOCO President Brent Hensley told HuffPost the sta­tion had no addi­tion­al state­ments to make about the “unfor­tu­nate inci­dent.”
Story orig­i­nat­ed here; https://​www​.huff​post​.com/​e​n​t​r​y​/​l​o​c​a​l​-​n​e​w​s​-​a​n​c​h​o​r​-​k​o​c​o​-​b​l​a​c​k​-​c​o​-​h​o​s​t​-​g​o​r​i​l​l​a​_​n​_​5​d​6​5​4​a​4​c​e​4​b​0​0​8​b​1​f​d​2​1​c​99c

As new data emerges that Police killings are the sixth lead­ing cause of death among young men in the United States, one can rea­son­ably expect that the con­ver­sa­tion will be shaped in a way that absolves the police depart­ments of respon­si­bil­i­ty.
Look for the cor­po­rate media and their talk­ing heads to begin the duplic­i­tous process (if at all) of pre­sent­ing this exis­ten­tial issue as one of jobs, hous­ing, drug-use and a pletho­ra of issues not ger­mane to the cen­tral point, which is police mur­der­ing black peo­ple and get­ting away with it.

According to the study pub­lished by the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences.
Police killings which can include shoot­ings, chok­ing and oth­er uses of force are the sixth-lead­ing cause of death among men of all races ages 25 – 29.
The risk of being killed by the police is more pro­nounced for black men, who are 2.5 times more like­ly than white men to be killed by police, while black women are 1.4 times more like­ly than white women to be killed by police.

According to lead researcher Frank Edwards, an assis­tant pro­fes­sor at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, “the num­bers may be an under­count.” “While the killings of Michael Brown, 18, Charleena Lyles, 30, and oth­er black men and women at the hands of law enforce­ment have brought nation­al atten­tion to the role race plays in police vio­lence against Americans, researchers lack basic esti­mates of the preva­lence of police-involved deaths, in large part because of an absence of offi­cial and author­i­ta­tive data.” Said Edwards.

There is a dis­tinct rea­son that there are no Federal or state man­dates that police depart­ments across the coun­try have strict account­ing of the num­ber of peo­ple who died as a result of com­ing in con­tact with police.
The author­i­ties know that this issue of police vio­lence is real. However, it has large­ly affect­ed black and brown peo­ple, so what’s the fuss about?

The United States keeps records of every­thing, includ­ing how mice pro­cre­ate. That it does not see fit to have an accu­rate account­ing of the num­ber of peo­ple who die as a result of con­tact with police tells a star­tling tale of how the nation sees this prob­lem.
It leaves peo­ple who care about social jus­tice to con­clude that there is no will at any lev­el to reme­di­ate this problem.

There is a com­mon prac­tice in the United States to cre­ate diver­sion­ary sce­nar­ios for press­ing issues.
For exam­ple, the exis­ten­tial cri­sis of gun vio­lence and white suprema­cy are coined as men­tal health issues, rather than the seri­ous issue of neo-nazis, hatred, and the need to put in place guar­an­tees which would cat­e­go­rize and effec­tive­ly deal with home­grown ter­ror­ist groups, as they have done in nam­ing and deal­ing with so-called Muslim extrem­ism.
The cor­po­rate media is com­plic­it in shap­ing those fraud­u­lent diver­sion­ary nar­ra­tives as well. 
In debat­ing this issue, talk­ing heads of all col­ors and stripes have fall­en into the trap the cor­po­rate media has laid for pro­tect­ing police from accountability.

It should come as no sur­prise then, that almost 15 years after the FBI warned about the influx into law enforce­ment of Neo-Nazis and white suprema­cists. The coun­try has done noth­ing about it. Instead, it has tar­get­ed the black peo­ple demon­strat­ing for the right to exist.
It is a remark­able sce­nario tan­ta­mount to a sto­ry my friend“s wife told of her love for pork.
She had a meal of pork and rice and sub­se­quent­ly fell ill. The doc­tor attrib­uted the cause of her ill­ness to the [pork], and so she stopped eat­ing [rice].
James Comey, the then FBI Director, spoke to the nation’s police chiefs after Michael Brown was mur­dered in Ferguson Missouri by a White cop, Darren Wilson.
Comey talked about what he char­ac­ter­ized as the “Ferguson effect”.
In giv­ing that lec­ture, Comey said police offi­cers were afraid of doing their jobs, out of fear of what he called ” The Ferguson effect”.
The very FBI which warned years ago about the dan­gers white suprema­cists pos­es to the coun­try, went ahead and cre­at­ed a fraud­u­lent des­ig­na­tion for the black lives mat­ter activists who were demon­strat­ing against the killing of black peo­ple by police.

The FBI labeled them “black iden­ti­ty extrem­ists”, When chal­lenged in a com­mit­tee hear­ing in the con­gress by Congresswoman Karen Bass the new FBI Director Christopher Wray gave a con­vo­lut­ed response which nev­er ful­ly answered the con­gress­wom­an’s questions.

The FBI which now claims it does not have the means or the author­i­ty to inves­ti­gate white Terrorism, cer­tain­ly had the time to build out a mas­sive sur­veil­lance infra­struc­ture against Black lives mat­ter activists, vis­it­ing their homes and leav­ing busi­ness cards, and gen­er­al­ly harass­ing peo­ple who had just returned home from peace­ful­ly demon­strat­ing which is a guar­an­teed first amend­ment right.
In the mean­time, heav­i­ly armed white men are butcher­ing Black and Latino and oth­er minor­i­ty peo­ple and there is no mass sur­veil­lance of these groups, because accord­ing to the FBI they need new tools.
Instead of pay­ing atten­tion to the exis­ten­tial threat white extrem­ism pos­es to the United States, the FBI tar­get­ed black activists demon­strat­ing for their right to exist. 

The names of the mur­dered are far too many to doc­u­ment. Every year American police kill thou­sands of peo­ple, large­ly peo­ple of col­or. Neither the Federal Government, nor state and local author­i­ties see a need to have police depart­ments have any account­ing data of peo­ple who have died hav­ing come in con­tact with police.
Even a pig farmer knows how many of his pigs have died any giv­en year.
In America, the Government does not care enough because the peo­ple being gunned down and choked to death are “those peo­ple”, peo­ple who were dis­pos­able from the begin­ning of this experiment. 

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, a busi­ness own­er, avid researcher, and blog­ger. 
He is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. 
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From USA today

Police three times more likely to kill black men

If you’re a black man, you are three times more like­ly to be killed by police than a white man, accord­ing to a recent study pub­lished in the American Journal of Public Health. The study looked at all-male homi­cides report­ed in the last six years. Eight per­cent of them were police killings. And of the 6,300 total male homi­cides, near­ly 1,800 of them were black men. What’s more, is that this issue is preva­lent across the coun­try. There’s not a sin­gle place in the U.S. where the risk of a black man get­ting killed by police is less than dou­ble that of a white man. 

Video shows officer restraining child

After a Facebook video of a white police offi­cer force­ful­ly restrain­ing a black boy went viral, the Georgia Police Department released the offi­cer’s body cam­era video to pro­vide con­text in the midst of racial bias accu­sa­tions. The offi­cers were arrest­ing a domes­tic vio­lence sus­pect when the man’s 10-year-old son began scream­ing and cry­ing. The boy lunged at one of the offi­cers, caus­ing them to land on the patrol car, accord­ing to the police state­ment. The offi­cer then pinned the boy to the ground. Once the boy calmed down, the offi­cer let him up and allowed him to see his father in the back of the cop car. The inci­dent is cur­rent­ly under investigation. 

Teen flees bike ticket, gets hit by cop-car

A 16-year-old boy in Sacramento was run­ning from a bicy­cle vio­la­tion when he was hit by a patrol car Sunday night. 
Police attempt­ed to stop the boy for light­ing vio­la­tions on his bike, but he ran off. The offi­cers chased after him and called for back­up, and one of the addi­tion­al police cars struck the boy. He was cit­ed for resist­ing arrest but did­n’t suf­fer any life-threat­en­ing injuries. His fam­i­ly said they plan to take legal action. A woman claims she was also hit by the cop car dur­ing the col­li­sion, but police have not yet con­firmed this sec­ond incident.

A win for immigrants

Immigrants liv­ing in Orlando, Florida, with­out legal per­mis­sion no longer need to wor­ry about being deport­ed if they talk to the city’s police force. 

Orlando com­mis­sion­ers vot­ed on Monday to stop police offi­cers from ask­ing about the immi­gra­tion sta­tus of “law-abid­ing” cit­i­zens. Crime vic­tims and wit­ness­es, as well as low-lev­el traf­fic offend­ers, need not wor­ry about speak­ing to the police. Commissioner Tony Ortiz, who con­tributed to the res­o­lu­tion’s suc­cess, explained that this was not “sanc­tu­ary city” leg­is­la­tion, but one that allows immi­grants of good char­ac­ter to live in the coun­try peacefully.

Police officer forced out for racial slur

A Kentucky police depart­ment took dis­ci­pli­nary action after one of its offi­cers called a black teen a“wild ani­mal that needs to be put down” in a Facebook post. Former offi­cer Brian Smith was inves­ti­gat­ed by the Louisville Police Department after an attor­ney com­plained that Smith’s Facebook account dis­played “deep-seat­ed bias against minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ties.” Chief Steven Conrad planned to fire Smith in January due to his Facebook posts, but ulti­mate­ly decid­ed to sus­pend him for 30 days with­out pay. Smith resigned from the depart­ment in April. 
And just today the NYPD police com­mis­sion­er fired Daniel Pantaleo the cop who mur­dered Eric Garner.

Many years ago I was at the Morgans Harbor Hotel and Marina on what I con­sid­ered a dream date with a beau­ti­ful slight­ly old­er accom­plished woman.
If my mem­o­ry serves me cor­rect­ly, the facil­i­ty had just under­gone a com­plete over­all.
It was my first return to Port Royal after hav­ing left there. I had spent months at the police train­ing facil­i­ty which was sit­u­at­ed there, but had not received any train­ing in Port Royal.
The gov­ern­ment had decid­ed to move police train­ing to Twickenham Park Saint Catherine.

It was a beau­ti­ful and warm Jamaican Saturday evening, with a light cool breeze waft­ing off the water. The place was buzzing with chat­ter as patrons min­gled and chat­ted with each oth­er amidst the clinks of cham­pagne glass­es.
From where we sat out­side under the stars, oth­er patrons chat­ted freely as they enjoyed the peace­ful beau­ty of the shim­mer­ing lights of the Kingston sky­line.
Seated next to us to one side under the umbrel­la was a group of young men who sound­ed like American tourists.
The small group of four were all male. They chat­ted­ed freely about the beau­ty and pos­si­bil­i­ties of Port Royal and the Kingston har­bor.
They were speak­ing quite loud­ly as some peo­ple tend to do when alco­hol is involved.
And so one of the group of young men (who were all white) loud­ly chimed in that he would like to own Port Royal and cut it off from the rest of Jamaica, he then com­menced to detail how he would deve­l­ope the place to suit himself.

I could­n’t help hear­ing the con­ver­sa­tion, there was no attempt to be dis­creet , and why should there be peo­ple were out enjoy­ing them­seves and hav­ing a good time. My date was obvi­ous­ly hear­ing the con­ver­sa­tion as well but her reac­tion was 180 degrees dif­fer­ent than my indif­fer­ence.
She was a woman fierce­ly loy­al to Jamaica she had trav­elled to the United States and had decid­ed that it was not a place in which she would want to put down roots.
She had pre­vi­ous­ly told me of an inci­dent in which she was shop­ping in a New York Department store and walk­ing to the door both hands occuied with shop­ping bags.
On approach­ing the exit door she said a white male turned away rather than open the door for her.
She nev­er for­got that inci­dent and the con­ver­sa­tion was enough to trig­ger a response to the con­ver­sa­tion beside us that shocked me as it must have shocked the young Americans and every­one with­in ear shot.
She lit into them as racist bitch­es who want­ed every­thing they see oth­ers have, want­ed to con­trol and own every­thing wher­ev­er they go..
Her total­ly unex­pect­ed and vis­cer­al response to what I thought was an inno­cent con­ver­sa­tion was shock­ing to me.
At that time in my 20’s the far­thest I had been out­side main­land Jamaica was indeed Port Royal.
I was no dum­my to racism, but I did not process the con­ver­sa­tion of the young men in the same prism that she did.
Her expo­sure to racism in America, was some­thing I was not exposed to and it had scarred her.

Several years lat­er, I emi­grat­ed to the United States. It was then that I changed my per­spec­tive regard­ing her response to that con­ver­sa­tion years ear­li­er.
Even though I can­not point to any spe­cif­ic acts of racism towards me per­son­al­ly, I became more and more alert­ed and sense­tive to the tox­ic under­cur­rent with­in the soci­ety.
Later I start­ed tak­ing a deep­er look at our his­to­ry, the way the laws are writ­ten and enforced and I began to form a view that though not vis­cer­al, was less acco­ma­dit­ing of my per­spec­tive at the time my friend ver­bal­ly attacked those young tourists.
The effects and prac­tices of hun­dreds of years of Racism are still in full effect in America, despite some veneers of improve­ment which are designed to pla­cate the world.
The truth of the mat­ter how­ev­er, is that Racism in America per­sists because it has been cod­i­fied into at all lev­els of the American leg­isla­tive food­chain.
Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. Segregation was legal.The black codes dur­ing recon­struc­tion was legal A ban on inter­ra­cial mar­riage was legal. Lynching was legal. Police killing of unarmed black peo­ple is legal.
At every turn some politi­cians pay lip ser­vice to racism while seek­ing elect­ed office but they nev­er both­er to tak about the fact that racism per­sists because at every lev­el the igno­ble prac­tice has been cod­i­fied in the laws and sup­port­ed by leg­is­la­tores at all levels.

America’s refusal to aban­don the degen­er­a­cy of racism and the mind-numb­ing stu­pid­i­ty of white suprema­cy, has been evi­dent in its sup­port of the Apartheid régime in South Africa before it crum­bled under its own weight. It was evi­dent in the drop­ping of two atom bombs on Japan, even though the EuropeanGermans) had start­ed both world wars. It is evi­dent in its uncon­scionable sup­port for Israel, which is an apartheid régime.
Today, despite all of the talk, and the nar­ra­tive that the American peo­ple are bet­ter than this, the truth remains that they aren’t.
Professor Eddie Glaude Jr., the chair of Princeton’s Department of African American Studies, sat down with MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House” to dis­cuss the shoot­ing that killed 22 peo­ple in El Paso, Texas.
In an impas­sioned break­down of American racism Professor Glaude said :
“America’s not unique in its sins. As a coun­try, we’re not unique in our evils,” Glaude says in a 3‑minute clip from the seg­ment. “I think where we may be sin­gu­lar is our refusal to acknowl­edge them. And the leg­ends and myths we tell about our inher­ent good­ness, to hide and cov­er and con­ceal so that we can main­tain a kind of will­ful igno­rance that pro­tects our inno­cence.”

Citing the rise of the tea par­ty and how many Americans attrib­uted that to “eco­nom­ic pop­ulism” because they didn’t want to acknowl­edge that it was about race. But “social sci­en­tists were already writ­ing that what was dri­ving the tea par­ty were anx­i­eties about demo­graph­ic shifts,” he added. “That the coun­try was chang­ing, that they were see­ing these racial­ly ambigu­ous babies on Cheerios com­mer­cials, that the coun­try wasn’t quite feel­ing like it was a white nation any­more.” “People were scream­ing from the top of their lungs, ‘Yo, this is not just sim­ply eco­nom­ic pop­ulism. This is the ugly under­bel­ly of the coun­try,’” he said.

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I agree with Glaude, but it was­n’t just social sci­en­tists who were scream­ing that this was not about eco­nom­ic anx­i­ety. Obscure blog­gers (like this writer) whom nobody knows, were also doc­u­ment­ing these events for pos­ter­i­ty and shout­ing for all who would lis­ten.
One does­n’t have to be an expert to real­ize that the sup­posed good­ness of America, is afig­ment of their imigi­na­tion. A veneer of lies designed to cov­er their shame.
The aver­age white in America cares more about a dog than they care about their black coun­try­men, and thats a fact.
Follow any con­ver­sa­tion on social media in which police mur­der an inno­cent African-American, and see for your­self, that whether we like to acknowl­edge it or not, most of these peo­ple are deplorable, and utter­ly irredeemable.

Any New Yorker who kills anoth­er unlaw­ful­ly, goes to prison. Not pros­e­cut­ing and con­vict­ing this mur­der­er, sends a strong mes­sage that cops are above the laws.

The New York City police com­mis­sion­er James O’Neill has final­ly fired mur­der­ous cop, Daniel Pantaleo who choked the life out of Eric Garner more than five years ago.
“The unin­tend­ed con­se­quences of Eric Garner’s death must have con­se­quences of its own,” O’Neill said at a news con­fer­ence at police head­quar­ters in Lower Manhattan. “It is clear that Daniel Pantaleo can no longer effec­tive­ly serve as a New York City police offi­cer.”
“Mr. Garner was somebody’s son, somebody’s dad. Everyone in the NYPD under­stands that,” O’Neill said. “He should have decid­ed against resist­ing arrest, but a man with a fam­i­ly lost his life and that is an irre­sistible tragedy.” Said O’Neill.

Here is the thing, every per­son being arrest­ed has a respon­si­bil­i­ty to sub­mit to the arrest and fight the case in court if he or she so choses, even if he or she believes whole­heart­ed­ly, that the arrest is wrong or unwar­rant­ed.
However, resist­ing arrest is not a crime pun­ish­able by death. Even if New York City and the State decid­ed to make resist­ing arrest a death penal­ty offense, I doubt seri­ous­ly that the police would have the right to exe­cute offend­ers on the spot.
That is what makes the actions of Daniel Pantaleo’s actions so egregious.

A fir­ing is not ade­quate redress for a bla­tant mur­der. Regardless of who you are, mur­der is mur­der. Police offi­cers must be held to high­er stan­dards, they are giv­en the pow­er of life and death over cit­i­zens. We must hold them to stricter stan­dards of account­abil­i­ty. As a for­mer police offi­cer I total­ly under­stand a cop mak­ing the wrong call in a split sec­ond sit­u­a­tion in which he thought his or some­one else’s life is in dan­ger.
This was dif­fer­ent, Daniel Pantaleo lit­er­al­ly choked the life out of a man who kept telling him and the gang of oth­er cops on to of him ‚“I can’t breathe”.
The police per­sist­ed in pil­ing on. Pantaleo nev­er relaxed his hold on the dying mans neck until he stopped breath­ing.
He mur­dered Eric Garner with cal­lous and bla­tant dis­re­gard for human life.
The respond­ing EMT techi­cians who arrived on the scene did noth­ing to aid mis­ter Garner. They were alleged­ly fired. 

DONOVAN’S COMPLICITY

Other than the oth­er cops who par­tic­i­pat­ed in the lynch­ing of mis­ter Garner, The then Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan used his office to make absolute­ly sure that Pantaleo did not face jus­tice.
As the Huffingtonpost) point­ed out since the case occurred: In con­trast to the action of the Ferguson, Missouri pros­e­cu­tor in releas­ing all of the secret grand jury tes­ti­mo­ny in the police killing of Michael Brown, Staten Island District Attorney, Daniel Donovan (and now Congressman), on a motion by the NAACP, adamant­ly refused to make pub­lic any of the evi­dence he placed before the grand jury, or the rea­sons for giv­ing police wit­ness­es immu­ni­ty, shield­ing him­self under the cov­er of grand jury secre­cy.
Since then Donovan has been boot­ed out of the Congress by the vot­ers in Staten Island.
A NYPD judge rec­om­mend­ed fir­ing Pantaleo for using the banned choke­hold he did.
Incredibly, the much vaunt­ed Federal author­i­ties, under Trump’s Attorney General William Barr also failed to indict a sin­gle cop, even though the world wit­nessed the mur­der com­mit­ted in front of our eyes.
No doubt that deci­sion was tak­en by Barr who is well know to have said he has a zero tol­er­ance for any­one who resist police.
It seems clear that Under William Barrs Justice Department, peo­ple who resist cops aggres­sion, are fair game to become sta­tis­tics of police homicide.

This date in which 20 plus kid­napped Africans were brought to America is being com­mem­o­rat­ed in African American cir­cles as the begin­ning of slav­ery in America.
However, in an essay for the Washington Post, Eric Herschthal a post­doc­tor­al fel­low in African American and African stud­ies at The Ohio State University wrote; The arrival of those Angolans in 1619 has long served as the start­ing point of African American his­to­ry, even of racism itself. This year, the 400^th anniver­sary of their arrival, the date shows no signs of los­ing its promi­nence. Across the coun­try, sym­posiums are being held, exhi­bi­tions planned and books pub­lished. But overem­pha­siz­ing the date might, in fact, be dam­ag­ing to today’s fight for racial jus­tice.

Starting at 1619 means fore­ground­ing slav­ery and white dom­i­nance, eclips­ing the sto­ry of how Africans, both on the con­ti­nent and in the Americas, suc­cess­ful­ly resist­ed Europeans from the start. It also sug­gests a cer­tain time­less­ness to anti-black prej­u­dice, when in fact racism devel­oped over time, and was as much a con­se­quence of slav­ery as it was a cause of it. Finally, plac­ing the ori­gins of slav­ery in the South not only min­i­mizes racism’s reach — as if the South had a monop­oly on slav­ery and its jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, racism — but also deval­ues the impor­tance of Africa and the African dias­po­ra to black his­to­ry.
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What Herschthal did not men­tion in his Washington Post Essay, https://​abagond​.word​press​.com artic­u­lat­ed suc­cinct­ly what I per­son­al­ly believe is most impor­tant for us to start in order to estab­lish con­text on this sub­ject as well as to estab­lish the frame­work for the con­ver­sa­tion of American cit­i­zen­ship and maybe even reparations.

The Pilgrims were not even the first white peo­ple. There were white peo­ple already liv­ing in:

• Albany, New York
• Sante Fe, New Mexico
• St Augustine, Florida
• Jamestown, Virginia
• San Juan, Puerto Rico

There were already Jews in New Mexico, Filipinos had already arrived in California and there were blacks liv­ing in Virginia, Florida and Puerto Rico. People who would become Chicanos were already in the south-west. All here before the Pilgrims came over on the Mayflower. https://​abagond​.word​press​.com/​2​0​1​2​/​1​1​/​2​1​/​a​m​e​r​i​c​a​-​d​i​d​-​n​o​t​-​s​t​a​r​t​-​w​i​t​h​-​t​h​e​-​p​i​l​g​r​i​ms/
In writ­ing about Racism and social injus­tice in the wider Americas, and it’s per­va­sive intran­si­gence in the United States, I have con­sis­tent­ly argued that in order for the prop­er con­text to be estab­lished, there needs to be a once and for all debunk­ing of the myth that white Europeans dis­cov­ered the Americas.
The gen­e­sis of any intel­li­gent con­ver­sa­tion must be estab­lished on a base­line of facts, not on the non­sen­si­cal notion that Christopher Columbus dis­cov­ered lands on which exist­ed many dif­fer­ent races of peo­ple liv­ing, some for thou­sands of years.

The cen­tral tenet on which the con­tin­ued sense of white enti­tle­ment to America, is premised is the false per­cep­tion it har­bors of own­er­ship.
There is an irrefutable case to be made for black own­er­ship of America on the basis of their shed blood, rape, and oth­er crimes com­mit­ted against them.
There is the ever com­pelling case to be made for hun­dreds of years of servi­tude and enslave­ment for which African-Americans are yet to be com­pen­sat­ed.
But out­side of those two fun­da­men­tal­ly indis­putable claims, there is the lit­tle issue that before they got here, our ances­tors were long here.
One of the ques­tions I have always asked is why are African-Americans so pas­sive in the land their ances­tors slaved and died for?
Who would have more right to this land than black peo­ple I have con­sis­tent­ly inquired?
Why have African-Americans adopt­ed a pos­ture of fear and sec­ond class cit­i­zen­ship when they have as much right, and arguably more right than any­one else to be here? It is there that I believe this con­ver­sa­tion needs to begin.
It is fun­da­men­tal­ly impor­tant that when a bul­ly steps to you that you hold your ground and ensure that your space is nev­er vio­lat­ed.
That inalien­able right to exist as a full cit­i­zen does not infringe on the right of any­one who wants to exist peace­ably.
Nevertheless, it should be a warn­ing to those who would seek to impose bul­ly­ing tac­tics as a means of infring­ing on the rights of others.

By Dominique Mosbergen

No crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion will be launched into the actions of two white police offi­cers in Texas who led a hand­cuffed black man by a rope through the city of Galveston, state offi­cials said. The offi­cers, iden­ti­fied as P. Brosch and A. Smith, have report­ed­ly also returned to their jobs.
Brosch and Smith pro­voked out­rage ear­li­er this month after a pho­to of them rid­ing horse­back while lead­ing 43-year-old Donald Neely down a street cir­cu­lat­ed on social media. Neely had been arrest­ed on a mis­de­meanor tres­pass­ing charge on Aug. 3 — but, accord­ing to the Galveston Police Department, a trans­porta­tion unit had not been avail­able at the time to trans­port Neely to a police sta­tion so the offi­cers employed a “trained tech­nique” of using mount­ed hors­es to escort the man. 

In the face of pub­lic back­lash, Chief Vernon Hale apol­o­gized for the offi­cers’ behav­ior, say­ing that though the pair had used a tech­nique that’s a “best prac­tice in some sce­nar­ios, I believe our offi­cers showed poor judg­ment in this instance and could have wait­ed for a trans­port unit at the loca­tion of the arrest.” Hale added that his depart­ment had “imme­di­ate­ly changed the pol­i­cy to pre­vent the use of this tech­nique and will review all mount­ed train­ing and pro­ce­dures for more appro­pri­ate meth­ods.” The chief’s apol­o­gy and promise to end the prac­tice assuaged some crit­ics ― but oth­ers have con­tin­ued to call for the offi­cers to be fired or face dis­ci­pli­nary action. “What they did was real inhu­mane,” Neely’s broth­er, Andy Neely, told KPRC-TV. “They treat­ed my broth­er as if he was a dog.”

Adrienne Bell, a Democratic can­di­date run­ning for Congress in Texas’ 14^th District, said on Facebook ear­li­er this month that the inci­dent had led to wide­spread “anger, dis­gust and ques­tions from the com­mu­ni­ty.”
The Washington Post report­ed on Saturday that the two offi­cers had returned to work days after Neely’s arrest. A state probe had also con­clud­ed that Brosch and Smith would not face a crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion for their actions, the paper not­ed. 
The Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety, which con­duct­ed an inde­pen­dent probe into the inci­dent, said in a state­ment that “there was noth­ing” the offi­cers did “that war­rant­ed a crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion.”
Brosch and Smith “had not vio­lat­ed the law,” the divi­sion con­clud­ed.
A fam­i­ly lawyer said Neely’s sis­ter, Taranette Neely, didn’t have a reac­tion to the Texas Ranger deci­sion and was “await­ing the con­clu­sion of the full inves­ti­ga­tion,” accord­ing to ABC News. 
The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office is also con­duct­ing its own probe into the inci­dent, the sta­tion noted.

Long before Donald Trump ever emerged on the polit­i­cal land­scape with his racism, xeno­pho­bia, Misigoyny and reli­gious big­otry against Mexicas, Blacks, Muslims, women, and for­eign­ers from coun­tries he deemed shit­hole coun­tries, there was Patrick Buchanan.
Before Buchanan, there was George Wallace, and mil­lions of oth­er retard­ed thinkers like them.
Most impor­tant­ly the fuel which keeps the fire of racism going in America is the igno­rance of rough­ly half of its white pop­u­la­tion.
Changing racial demo­graph­ics evokes a mor­tal fear in that part of the pop­u­la­tion, who are now scared shit­less that a major­i­ty-minor­i­ty pop­u­la­tion will (a) remove from them their white priv­i­lege and (b) hold them account­able for their own, and the sins of their fathers. 

The con­cen­tra­tion camps hold­ing Latino and Black immi­grants seek­ing asy­lum and the attempts to water down and ulti­mate­ly roll back (Roe v Wade) are two dis­tinct attempts to halt and roll back the brown­ing of America.
The killing and mass incar­cer­a­tion of Black men and women must also be seen as an inte­gral part of that strat­e­gy to retain white suprema­cy in America. Recently revealed tapes of a con­ver­sa­tion between then California Governor Ronald Reagan and the President at the time, Richard Nixon, is proof, at least to my mind, that they are resent­ful of any pow­er in the hands of black peo­ple.
The ascen­den­cy of Barack Obama to the Presidency was crit­i­cal mass for this ret­ro­grade pop­u­la­tion.
There is sim­mer­ing angst in America which exist among the white pop­u­la­tion, or some seg­ments at least. Their sense of los­ing what they char­ac­ter­ize as [their coun­try] is real. They feel real griev­ance from their per­cep­tion that oth­ers, [immi­grants] and Blacks, suc­cess­es, wher­ev­er they exist, are occur­ring at their expense.
This sense of vic­tim­hood has cre­at­ed a fer­tile space for the fomen­ta­tion of vio­lent anti-immi­grant hatred.
That hatred has been cost­ing the lives of Black, Jewish, Hispanic, Muslim lives all across America every sin­gle day.
Instead of call­ing it what it is the Media Houses, includ­ing CNN and oth­ers con­vene sil­ly town hall dis­cus­sions to talk about sui­cides, gun-con­trol, men­tal-issues and every­thing they can come up with to deflect from the real­i­ty that [white ter­ror­ism in America is a thing].
According to the [BussinessInsider​.com]US coun­ties where Donald Trump held a cam­paign ral­ly saw a 226% increase in report­ed hate crimes com­pared to sim­i­lar coun­ties that did not hold a ral­ly, polit­i­cal sci­en­tists at the University of North Texas said in a Washington Post analy­sis.
That is the heart of the matter.

Years ago, Patrick Buchanan wrote:” Mexico has tak­en back the entire west­ern states with­out fir­ing a sin­gle shot”.
Pat Buchanan.….
“We have accept­ed today the exis­tence in per­pe­tu­ity of a per­ma­nent under­class of scores of mil­lions who can­not cope and must be car­ried by soci­ety — fed, clothed, housed, tutored, med­icat­ed at taxpayer’s expense their entire lives. We have a depen­dent nation the size of Spain in our inde­pen­dent America. We have a new divi­sion in our coun­try, those who pay a dou­ble or triple fare, and those who ride for­ev­er free”.— Suicide of a Superpower
Pat Buchanan
”[W]hite America is an endan­gered species. By 2020, whites over 65 will out-num­ber those 17 and under. Deaths will exceed births. The white pop­u­la­tion will begin to shrink and, should present birth rates per­sist, slow­ly dis­ap­pear”.— Suicide of a Superpower
Pat Buchanan
According to [MediaMatters], Even Richard Nixon found the views of his for­mer speech­writer, Buchanan, too extreme on the seg­re­ga­tion issue. According to a John Ehrlichman memo ref­er­enced in Nicholas Lemann’s “The Promised Land,” Nixon char­ac­ter­ized Buchanan’s views as “seg­re­ga­tion for­ev­er.”
After Nixon was reelect­ed, Buchanan warned his boss not to “frit­ter away his present high sup­port in the nation for an ill-advised gov­ern­men­tal effort to forcibly inte­grate races.” [Salon​.com, 9/​4/​99]

ESSAY

In a July 2016 essay titled Will, the West Survive the Century? Pat Buchanan wrote the fol­low­ing.
“Nativism … xeno­pho­bia or worse” is behind the tri­umph of Brexit and the sup­port for Donald Trump, railed President Barack Obama in Ottawa. Obama believes that resis­tance to trans­for­ma­tion­al change in the char­ac­ter and iden­ti­ty of coun­tries of the West, from immi­gra­tion, can only be the prod­uct of sick minds or sick hearts. According to The New York Times, he will spend the last months of his pres­i­den­cy bat­tling “the nativism and nation­al­ism” of Trump and “Britain’s Brexiteers.” Prediction: Obama will fail. For ris­ing eth­nona­tion­al­ism and mil­i­ta­riza­tion of fron­tiers is baked in the cake, if the West wish­es to remain the West. Behind that pre­dic­tion lie the star­tling fig­ures of the U.N.’s “World Population 2015” chart, which just arrived. Consider but a few of those fig­ures. Between now and 2050, Europe will lose 32 mil­lion peo­ple. Not one European nation has a fer­til­i­ty rate — 2.1 chil­dren per woman — suf­fi­cient to keep it alive. A quar­ter of all Europeans are 60 or old­er. The tribes that cre­at­ed the West are pass­ing away. Contrast Europe with Africa, just across the Mediterranean. Between now and 2050, Africa will add 1.3 bil­lion peo­ple, to reach 2.4 bil­lion in 2050. Then its pop­u­la­tion will dou­ble again, to 4.4 bil­lion, by 2100. Only 5 per­cent of Africans are 60 or old­er, while 41 per­cent of Africans are 15 or younger. Given the tyran­ny, des­ti­tu­tion, and dis­ease that afflict Africa, what — oth­er than bar­ri­ers, bor­der guards and war­ships — is there to stop tens of mil­lions of young African men from cross­ing over in com­ing decades to fill the emp­ty spaces left by dying Europeans? The Arab-Muslim pop­u­la­tion of North Africa alone, from the west­ern Sahara and Morocco to Egypt and Sudan, will add 130 mil­lion peo­ple in 35 years. Egypt will add 60 mil­lion, to reach a pop­u­la­tion of 151 mil­lion by 2050. Yet Egypt will still have only the fifth-high­est pop­u­la­tion of Muslims, behind Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. While impos­si­ble to find a Western coun­try with a fer­til­i­ty rate that will pre­vent its native-born peo­ple from dying off, it is dif­fi­cult to find a Muslim coun­try that does not boast a ris­ing or explod­ing pop­u­la­tion. If the future belongs to the young, it belongs to Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans, and it belongs to Islam. Eastern Europe presents the grimmest pic­ture in Europe. Between now and 2050, Poland will lose 5 mil­lion peo­ple; Ukraine almost 10 mil­lion; and Russia 15 mil­lion. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will see one-sixth of their com­bined pop­u­la­tion dis­ap­pear. Such loss­es are com­pa­ra­ble to those of World War II. In per­cent­age terms, Ukraine will suf­fer most. By mid­cen­tu­ry, its pop­u­la­tion will have shrunk by 21 per­cent, to 35 mil­lion. Is this not a graver mat­ter than whose flag flies over Crimea? The bleak­est prospects belong to Japan, home to some of the most capa­ble, indus­tri­ous and advanced peo­ple on earth. Between now and 2050, Japan will lose 19 mil­lion peo­ple and see its pop­u­la­tion fall to 107 mil­lion. A third of the nation is already 60 or old­er. Only 1 in 7 Japanese are under 16. Japanese are the old­est peo­ple on earth. In com­ing decades, a large slice of Japan’s pop­u­la­tion will be work­ing to sup­port health care, pen­sions and wel­fare for the aged, infirm and dying. And the United States? With Mexico and Central America adding 56 mil­lion peo­ple in 35 years, either the U.S. secures its south­ern bor­der or the 11 – 12 mil­lion immi­grants here ille­gal­ly will have mil­lions of new com­pa­tri­ots. America is already evolv­ing into anoth­er coun­try. Though the U.S. is pro­ject­ed to grow by 67 mil­lion peo­ple in 35 years, this growth will be whol­ly among Hispanics, Asians, and African-Americans. In each of the past four years, non-Hispanic white Americans have reg­is­tered more deaths than births. Between July 2014 and July 2015, the Asian-American pop­u­la­tion grew by 3.4 per­cent, and the Hispanic pop­u­la­tion grew 2.2 per­cent. The black pop­u­la­tion was up 1.3 per­cent. But the white pop­u­la­tion grew by only 0.1 per­cent. White America has begun to die. Can Obama real­ly believe that amnesty for undoc­u­ment­ed immi­grants is still in the cards with a Republican Congress scorched by the forces behind Trump? Can he believe that the right-wing par­ties pro­lif­er­at­ing across Europe, which see their nations imper­iled by a ris­ing tide of Muslim immi­grants and refugees, will pack it in and sup­port the EU’s march to a transna­tion­al super­state that con­trols immi­gra­tion and bor­ders? What has been tabled for dis­cus­sion this year, in Europe and America, is the future of the West as an iden­ti­fi­able civ­i­liza­tion to be cher­ished and defend­ed by the peo­ples whose ances­tors cre­at­ed it. And Obama’s rev­er­ence for Islam notwith­stand­ing, the West remains the great­est civ­i­liza­tion of them all. Belatedly, Western Man appears to have decid­ed to defend the shire, pull up the draw­bridge, and man the para­pets on the cas­tle walls. As for Trumpism and the Brexiteers, Mr. President, in the words of Jimmy Durante, “you ain’t seen noth­ing yet.”

The African American pop­u­la­tion is greater than that of Canada’s. In fact, the African-American pop­u­la­tion, accord­ing to the 2010 cen­sus, was 42 mil­lion as opposed to Canada’s pop­u­la­tion of just over 37 mil­lion. Yet Canada is a big pow­er­ful pro­gres­sive coun­try.
African American’s spend­ing pow­er of 1.5 tril­lion dol­lars annu­al­ly, far exceeds that of many European coun­tries gross domes­tic prod­uct. Yet African-Americans are afraid to take charge and own their coun­try, opt­ing instead to cow­er in fear at white aggres­sion and bul­ly­ing tac­tics, which are born of their own fears and trepidation. 

Latinos and Hispanics sur­passed African-Americans as the sin­gle largest minor­i­ty group in the coun­try about a decade ago, with a pop­u­la­tion now esti­mat­ed to be at 52 mil­lion. This infor­ma­tion is in the pub­lic domain for every­one to see if they so choose.
Pat Buchanan’s essay on the sub­ject brings the issue into sharp syn­op­tic focus, even if one dis­agrees with the idea behind the essay per se.
The rapid increase in a) vio­lent white extrem­ism, and the pro­lif­er­a­tion of white hate groups since President Barack Obama ascend­ed to the pres­i­den­cy, b) the pro­lif­er­a­tion of white extrem­ist vio­lence against minor­i­ty groups is in no way divorced from the silence of the Republican Party even at the most egre­gious incite­ment to vio­lence by Donald Trump.
There is an inces­sant stream of dai­ly racist invec­tive released into the air­waves by FOX and the net­work of talk radio sta­tions which feed the will­ing and gullible, a dooms­day sce­nario for the white race as artic­u­lat­ed by Pat Buchanan and others.

Representative Steve King from Iowa’s 4^th con­gres­sion­al dis­trict has a his­to­ry of mak­ing what some con­sid­er racist com­ments and retweet­ing racists con­spir­a­cy the­o­rists garbage.
But, King’s behav­ior is not an anom­aly, oth­er than some­times being too far out over his skis, Steve King’s posi­tion is a fea­ture and not a bug to the aver­age white.
Most if not all present-day Republicans feel exact­ly the same way and so too do some white Democrats.
The Republican par­ty has all but ful­ly purged itself of all pre­tense of inclu­sion. All of the blacks except Tim Scott, the South Carolina US Senator are gone. Texas CongressmanWill Hurd has decid­ed he will not run for reelec­tion in 2020. The par­ty of white men is not even attrac­tive to white women as most of the women in the par­ty are now gone.

If the killings are any­thing to go by, the white man may have decid­ed to take Pat Buchanan’s words lit­er­al­ly.
The Western Man appears to have decid­ed to defend the shire, pull up the draw­bridge, and man the para­pets on the cas­tle walls.
I say except much more vio­lence, much, much more. A wound­ed ani­mal is a dan­ger­ous animal. 

GALVESTON, Texas — The Galveston Police Department is apol­o­giz­ing for the way offi­cers arrest­ed a man over the week­end in down­town Galveston.
The depart­ment says two offi­cers arrest­ed a 43-year-old man for crim­i­nal tres­pass at 306 22^nd Street. The man was hand­cuffed and a rope was clipped to the hand­cuffs before he was led to walk down the street by the two offi­cers on horseback.

Police say he was being led to 21^st Street and Market Street where the Mounted Patrol Unit was stag­ing from.
A pho­to of the arrest was tak­en and shared on social media. It shows the man walk­ing between the hors­es and the offi­cers with his hands behind his back and one of the offi­cers hold­ing the blue rope. “While this tech­nique of using mount­ed hors­es to trans­port a per­son dur­ing an arrest is con­sid­ered a best prac­tice in cer­tain sce­nar­ios, such as dur­ing crowd con­trol, the prac­tice was not used cor­rect­ly in this instance.” the depart­ment said.

The offi­cers involved were appar­ent­ly famil­iar with the man and were told that he had been warned against tres­pass­ing at the loca­tion sev­er­al times. The depart­ment sent out a press release about the sit­u­a­tion on Monday.
“First and fore­most I must apol­o­gize to (the man arrest­ed) for this unnec­es­sary embar­rass­ment. Although this is a trained tech­nique and best prac­tice in some sce­nar­ios, I believe our offi­cers showed poor judg­ment in this instance and could have wait­ed for a trans­port unit at the loca­tion of the arrest. My offi­cers did not have any mali­cious intent at the time of the arrest, but we have imme­di­ate­ly changed the pol­i­cy to pre­vent the use of this tech­nique and will review all mount­ed train­ing and pro­ce­dures for more appro­pri­ate meth­ods.” said Galveston Police Chief Vernon L. Hale, III “We under­stand the neg­a­tive per­cep­tion of this action and believe it is most appro­pri­ate to cease the use of this tech­nique. The police chief has tak­en imme­di­ate action to sus­pend this tech­nique of trans­porta­tion dur­ing arrests.” the depart­ment said. https://​www​.wcnc​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​n​e​w​s​/​l​o​c​a​l​/​g​a​l​v​e​s​t​o​n​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​c​h​i​e​f​-​a​p​o​l​o​g​i​z​e​s​-​f​o​r​-​p​h​o​t​o​-​o​f​-​m​o​u​n​t​e​d​-​o​f​f​i​c​e​r​s​-​l​e​a​d​i​n​g​-​h​a​n​d​c​u​f​f​e​d​-​m​a​n​-​b​y​-​r​o​p​e​/​2​8​5​-​c​7​4​a​c​b​3​0​-​8​248 – 42e2-a53f-7074b81056f6?fbclid=IwAR34Ue9K9fvaliP9ThnnLTilPTa5Pxwz8w47VTrFtT3ua2-

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Editors note..
New Information from the arrest­ed man’s fam­i­ly revealed that he is men­tal­ly ill and home­less.
One of the rea­sons for the out­rage is the still raw scabs of racism in which black peo­ple remem­ber their ances­tors, shack­led and dragged behind hors­es rid­den by white men who had kid­napped them.

Memorials now line the streets of Dayton, Ohio,’s his­toric Oregon District, just one day after a masked gun­man shot and killed nine peo­ple ear­ly Sunday morn­ing.
CNN reports the shoot­er 24-year-old Connor Betts wore a bul­let­proof vest and hear­ing pro­tec­tion the night he stormed the pop­u­lar nightlife dis­trict in down­town Dayton. In a span of 30 sec­onds, the gun­man fatal­ly shot his own sis­ter and injured at least 27 oth­ers.
Police killed Betts with­in 30 sec­onds of him open­ing fire, Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl told reporters.

“The offi­cers imme­di­ate­ly advanced toward the gun­fire and with­in approx­i­mate­ly 20 sec­onds, they engaged the sus­pect, who was active­ly fir­ing and attempt­ing to enter a crowd­ed liquor estab­lish­ment,” Biehl said, accord­ing to CNN. Most of the vic­tims, whose ages ranged from 27 to 57 years old, were black. They include Lois Oglesby, Saeed Saleh, Derrick Fudge, Logan Turner, Nicholas Cumer, Thomas McNichols, Beatrice Warren-Curtis, Monica Brickhouse, and Megan Betts, the shooter’s sis­ter.
Dayton police said they didn’t yet have suf­fi­cient evi­dence sug­gest­ing racial bias in the shoot­ing. CNN, cit­ing law enforce­ment sources, says offi­cials searched the gunman’s home and found writ­ings express­ing his inter­est in killing peo­ple. This was backed up by the Dayton Daily News, which inter­viewed sev­er­al of Betts’ for­mer class­mates and reports the gun­man was sus­pend­ed from his high school for cre­at­ing a “hit list” of stu­dents he want­ed to kill (CNN reports that this list was sep­a­rat­ed by gen­der into a “kill” and “rape” list).

From the Dayton Daily News:

[A]cquaintances say the warn­ing signs — signs of the shooter’s unusu­al obses­sion with killing and death — cropped up long ago.

“This isn’t a mys­tery to me,” said one mid­dle school class­mate. “I’m furious.”

The class­mate, who spoke on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty, said the shoot­er once said he fan­ta­sized about tying her up and slit­ting her throat. The fetish was so macabre that even the shoot­er admit­ted he was scared of his thoughts, the woman recalled him saying.

… The woman said she and her par­ents told Bellbrook police about the bizarre admis­sion, but the woman said she felt she wasn’t tak­en seri­ous­ly, despite the would-be shoot­er includ­ing her on a hit list.

Despite this, the shoot­er was able to acquire an assault-style rifle from Texas, offi­cials say.

From CNN:

Police recov­ered the rifle that was used in the shoot­ing, [Chief] Biehl said. It was ordered online from Texas but trans­ferred to the sus­pect at a local firearms deal­er, the police chief said. Authorities also found a shot­gun in the shooter’s 2007 Toyota Corolla, which was parked near­by. That weapon was acquired from a sep­a­rate local firearms deal­er, Biehl said.

“There’s noth­ing in this individual’s his­to­ry or record that would have pre­clud­ed him from pur­chas­ing that firearm,” Biehl said.

According to the Dayton Daily News, memo­ri­als now line East Fifth Street, where the mass shoot­ing took place. The largest one is out­side Ned Peppers Bar, where “can­dles, bal­loons, and hand­writ­ten notes” mark the place where the gun­man began and end­ed his short ram­page, the out­let writes. Other busi­ness­es on the street have post­ed the names of the vic­tims on let­ter boards, and “Dayton Strong” mes­sages were writ­ten on the side­walks. During a vig­il last night hon­or­ing the vic­tims, atten­dees began shout­ing at Ohio Governor Mike DeWine as he gave remarks, chant­i­ng, “Do some­thing! Do some­thing!”
According to the Gun Violence Archive, a non­prof­it which tracks every mass shoot­ing, there have been 251 mass shoot­ings in 2019 — more mass shoot­ings than days so far this year. Read more @
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