The All Seeing Eye on the Free Range Plantation: IsrAliens are Subjecting Gazans to Total Aerial Video Surveillance that Monitors All Movements, Communications and Tracks Social and Familial Networks

From [HERE] Discussions of the war in Gaza tend to focus on what’s visible. The instinct is understandable: Over two years of brutal conflict, the Israel Defense Forces have all but destroyed the diminutive strip on the Mediterranean coast, with the scale of the carnage illustrated by images of emaciated children, shrapnel-ridden bodies, and flattened buildings.

But underlying all of this destruction is a hidden force — a carefully constructed infrastructure of Israeli surveillance that powers the war effort and keeps tabs on the smallest facets of Palestinians’ lives.

Few people understand this system more deeply than Mohammed Mhawish, a Palestinian journalist who fled Gaza in 2024 after being targeted by Israeli airstrikes for his reporting. In a recent essay for New York Magazine, Mhawish traced the contours of Israel’s surveillance system through the eyes of the Gazans who live through it every day.

RS spoke with Mhawish over email to get his insights about how this system of surveillance has powered the war in Gaza and created a culture of fear among Palestinians. The conversation also touches on Mhawish’s decision to leave Gaza — and how he knows that Israel tried to kill him for his journalism.

RS: In your piece, you mention a poll saying that "nearly two-thirds of Gazans believed they were constantly watched by the Israeli government." How does this feeling of surveillance affect life in Gaza? How would you describe the feeling to those of us who have never experienced it?

Mhawish: In Gaza, surveillance actively structures daily life. It determines how people move, communicate, gather, and survive. Nearly everyone I spoke to understood themselves as data points inside a system that continuously observes, records, and evaluates them.

This awareness produces a constant state of constraint. Phones are treated with suspicion, even fear. People limit calls, change SIM cards, power down devices, avoid repeated routes, and hesitate before gathering with others. Parents instruct children not to linger in certain places. Journalists and medics described modifying their work because they knew patterns could be extracted and interpreted later. Surveillance works by narrowing the range of what feels safe for everyone there.

What distinguishes Gaza is that surveillance is both totalizing and opaque. People know they are being watched, but they don’t know how, by whom, or according to what criteria. There is no way to clarify a misunderstanding or correct a false assumption. The system does not explain itself. That uncertainty turns ordinary behavior into potential exposure.

For those who have never lived under it, they might need to imagine that every movement, call, or association could be logged and assigned meaning by an unseen authority, and that those judgments could lead directly to deadly consequences in real time. It is fear of being misclassified by a system that can not be challenged.

RS: Israeli officials often point to the fact that they withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2006 as evidence of their benevolence. They argue Israel had essentially allowed Palestinians to have a territory that they could govern on their own, and Palestinians had wasted that chance by allowing Hamas to take power. How does your work complicate the narrative of Israeli disengagement from Gaza? What did surveillance look like before the war?

Mhawish: My reporting shows that Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza was never a withdrawal from control. It was merely a shift in how control was exercised. Physical presence was replaced with technological dominance.

Long before the current war, Gaza existed under constant aerial surveillance, communications interception, population registries, and data-driven monitoring. Israel controlled Gaza’s borders, airspace, coastline, electromagnetic spectrum, and civil registries. Movement in and out of the Strip, access to medical care, imports, and even family reunification were all mediated through Israeli databases informed by surveillance.

Surveillance allowed Israel to manage Gaza remotely and comprehensively. Intelligence sources and prior investigations describe systems that mapped neighborhoods, tracked social and familial networks, and analyzed behavioral patterns. Control did not require soldiers on every street, only access to required sensors, databases, and algorithms capable of rendering the population legible from afar.

This fundamentally undermines the idea that Gaza was ever allowed to govern itself. Governance without sovereignty is not autonomy. Surveillance ensured that Israel retained decisive authority over Gaza’s population while maintaining the fiction of withdrawal.

RS: Israel bombed your apartment in late 2023, destroying your home and injuring you and your family. What led you to conclude that this attack was a response to your journalistic work? Did other press colleagues have similar experiences? [MORE]

Prove You Belong Here: ICE Race Soldiers Disappeared a Non-White US Citizen as She Left a Taco Bell in Baltimore; Detained for 25 Days in 4 States. Needed Volumes of Records, Expert to Obtain Release

Similar to the changing demographics in the U.S between whites and non-whites - as the number of Jews or more specifically, Semites (non-white people) rose in Nazi Germany, Jews felt the effects of many decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives. Various movement regulations and identification measures (like "Papers Please" laws)  requiring Semites to wear a yellow star for instance enabled the police to pick up any Jew, anywhere, anytime. In the U.S. no such star is necessary - it is your skin color that identifies you as a target.  [MORE] and [MORE].

From [HERE] The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday released a non-whirw Maryland woman who was held for 25 days despite evidence that her lawyers say proves she was born in the United States and is a citizen.

Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, 22, walked out of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center Wednesday afternoon in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she was met by members of her legal team, according to one of her lawyers, Victoria Slatton.

Slatton said the case against Diaz Morales has not yet been dismissed by the government and she could still face deportation proceedings. But Slatton is confident her client’s claim to citizenship has been established.

“She is a U.S. citizen. She was born here. I think that we’ve presented more than enough evidence, but we will continue to fight it until every single court accepts and acknowledges it,” she said.

Though she was relieved to see her client freed, Slatton said that the lengthy detention was unwarranted and unnecessary, and that evidence establishing Diaz Morales is a citizen was provided to the government within days of her arrest.

“I am extremely happy that she was released today, and I hope that she is never taken into custody again,” Slatton said. “But I also want it known that she was in custody for 25 days, and it should not take as much evidence as we submitted or as much of a fight as we had for a U.S. citizen to be released from custody.”

The ordeal began on Baltimore on Dec. 14 after agents pulled over Diaz Morales as she left a Baltimore Taco Bell in December with her family. 

She said she told agents she was a U.S. citizen but did not have any documentation with her.  Her sister said Diaz Morales told the agents she was a U.S. citizen.

"If people are afraid of living in a 'show-your-papers' society, they need to know this is what it looks like," Perez said. "It looks like four unmarked cars coming up on three young women and someone getting taken away while her sister shouts, 'She was born here! She was born here.'"

In a prior statement to WJZ, a Department of Homeland Security official insisted Diaz Morales' birth certificate is not valid and that Diaz Morales provided no other proof of citizenship. 

The Trump Administration alleged she entered the country illegally in the border town of Lukeville, Arizona in 2023 and claimed Mexican citizenship when questioned by border patrol at the time. 

“Dulce Consuelo Madrigal Diaz is NOT a U.S. citizen – she is an illegal alien from Mexico,” DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement emailed to The Washington Post in December. “She did NOT provide a valid U.S. birth certificate or any evidence in support of her claim that she is a U.S. citizen. On Dec. 14, ICE arrested this illegal alien in Baltimore. On Oct. 20, 2023, when CBP encountered her near Lukeville, Arizona, Madrigal-Diaz claimed she was a citizen of Mexico and was born on Oct. 18, 2003.”

Her lawyers said she "entered the United States during an emergency without access to documentation and was mistakenly processed as a noncitizen, assigned an A number, and placed into removal proceedings. That administrative error did not and cannot change her constitutional status."

"All of a sudden, the government thinks they can just shift all of this to people in these proceedings and expect them to solve all of this while they're in this black hole of the detention system," Perez said. That is absolutely terrifying, and I sincerely hope more people start to take notice of that."

Perez added, "They came to us desperate for help. They didn't know where she was. She had been disappeared into the black hole of the detention system. I want to emphasize that she was transferred five times over less than five weeks."

Four days after her arrest, a Maryland District Court judge barred the government from deporting Diaz Morales while the court considered a petition from her lawyers challenging the detention.

According to her lawyers, Diaz Morales moved from the U.S. to Mexico with her family in 2009 or 2010 and returned in 2023 to escape cartel violence. They said she was stopped by immigration officers when she reentered the U.S. In January, she received a removal order from the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).

During her 25-day detainment, Diaz Morales was transferred often and held in five detention centers in Maryland, Louisiana, Texas and, finally, New Jersey. Her lawyers were only able to speak to her twice during her detention, Slatton said.

On Tuesday, Diaz Morales’s lawyers filed additional documents with EOIR to support their client’s citizenship claim, including hospital records from her birth that included her footprints and her mother’s fingerprints. They also provided clearer versions of her Maryland birth certificate and immunization records, which they had previously provided to the court and DHS.

The new filing included an extensive analysis of all of Diaz Morales’s birth and immunization records by C. Nicholas Cuneo, an assistant professor of pediatrics and medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

“While a few discrepancies exist, such as variations in recorded birth weights and the absence of first and middle names on the birth certificate, these can often be attributed to routine clerical practices and, in the case of the incomplete birth certificate, potential language barriers faced by non-native English speakers navigating a bureaucratic state records system,” Cuneo wrote in his assessment. “Overall, the documents reviewed not only suggest Ms. Diaz Morales’s continuity of care as an infant, but they also substantially support her claim of being a U.S. citizen born in Maryland.”

On Wednesday evening, Diaz Morales was being driven home to Maryland by her lawyers. She said she was looking forward to seeing her 5-year-old son and the rest of her family.

“Now that I am free, I feel much better, but while I was detained, the lows were really low and I felt very sad, but I thank God now it’s over,” Diaz Morales said, speaking in Spanish with her lawyer interpreting. “I want to hug my son first and then my family.”

Full statement from Diaz Morales' legal team on her release 

"Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales is a United States citizen by birth. She was born in Maryland on October 18, 2003, a fact established by a certified Maryland birth certificate, contemporaneous hospital records from Laurel Regional Hospital, medical affidavits, and Maryland public health immunization records beginning in infancy. These are primary, government-created records generated at the time of birth by United States medical providers and state authorities. A medical expert conducted an extensive and thorough review of these records and confirmed, "Overall, the documents reviewed not only suggest Ms. Diaz Morales's continuity of care as an infant, but they also substantially support her claim of being a U.S. citizen born in Maryland."

"Dulce later entered the United States during an emergency without access to documentation and was mistakenly processed as a noncitizen, assigned an A number, and placed into removal proceedings. That administrative error did not and cannot change her constitutional status."

"Despite this evidence, Dulce was held in immigration detention for twenty-five days. During that time, she was transferred five times between facilities, separated from family, denied access to counsel, and confined in conditions that were deeply troubling and inappropriate for any person, let alone a United States citizen. She experienced prolonged detention, instability, and uncertainty as she was moved repeatedly through the system. Her confinement was not the result of any criminal conduct, but of bureaucratic error compounded by institutional inertia. No United States citizen should be subjected to weeks of detention, repeated transfers, and degrading conditions simply to establish what the government already had the means and resources to confirm."

"This case also raises profound concerns about precedent. By requiring Dulce and her legal team to produce extraordinary volumes of proof to secure her release, the government has effectively shifted the burden onto United States citizens to affirmatively prove their citizenship while incarcerated. That inversion of responsibility is dangerous. Citizenship, and the rights conferred upon citizens, should not depend on a person's ability to assemble records from behind detention walls, nor should liberty hinge on how much documentation a citizen can marshal under duress. If this becomes normalized, any citizen who lacks immediate access to paperwork and professional counsel becomes vulnerable to incarceration first and verification later."

"Although Dulce has been released from custody, her case is far from over. She remains under ICE supervision and, because DHS opposed counsel's motion and has refused to terminate, she still faces the threat of deportation. Until her proceedings are formally corrected and safeguards are enforced, Dulce's freedom remains conditional, and the risk that this could happen again to her or to others remains very real. While we will continue to fight for her despite alienage being DHS's burden to prove, we are deeply troubled that the fight has been prolonged." [MORE]

Analysis Shows ICE Cop Fired 3 Fatal Shots from the Side of White Woman's SUV as it Veered Past him- but in Clown World Instructions Have Been Given on what to Believe and how to Believe it

From [HERE] A deadly encounter in Minneapolis on Wednesday between federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a 37-year-old woman escalated in a matter of seconds.

In the aftermath, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said the woman had committed an act of “domestic terrorism,” first disobeying officers’ commands and then weaponizing her SUV by attempting to “run a law enforcement officer over.” President Donald Trump said the woman “violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer.”

A frame-by-frame analysis of video footage raises questions about Trump world accounts of what occurred. An unidentified agent moved into the pathway of the SUV. But the agent was able to move out of the way and fire three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, according to the analysis.

Video taken by a witness shows Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle, a burgundy Honda Pilot SUV, stopped in the middle of a one-way road in a residential area of south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. That footage and other videos examined by The Washington Post do not show the events leading up to that moment.

The agent, who has not been publicly identified, can be seen standing behind Good’s SUV, holding up a phone and pointing it toward a woman who also has her phone out. The two appear to be recording each other.

The agent then walks around the passenger side of Good’s vehicle. [MORE]

Public transit problems disproportionately impact Black, vulnerable communities

From [HERE] From Chicago to Los Angeles, Houston to New York City, some of the country’s largest and most populous cities are facing financial stress. 

According to analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts, published earlier this year, at least 20 of the country’s 25 largest cities must close budget gaps, as cities experience budget challenges related to rising costs, revenue sources that are struggling, reduced federal support and increased fiscal and economic uncertainty.

When cities are plagued by financial stress, essential services such as transit and infrastructure can be affected, further marginalizing already marginalized communities. Transit systems in various cities are experiencing funding gaps, with cities adding bus and rail systems to their budget cuts.

… Non-White communities made up 60% of riders, and 24% of riders were Black, according to the report. While 13% of U.S. households had incomes below $15,000, 21% of transit-using households had incomes below $15,000. Most riders used transit to get to and from work or to shop. “The overall majority of people who ride public transit are non-White, with Black people comprising the largest single group. So, when you cut funding for public transportation, when you refuse to invest in public transportation infrastructure, particularly as it relates to the inner cities, then what you have is a situation whereby these persons find it difficult to get back and forth to work,” Student Min. Haleem Muhammad said. “Public transportation is a necessity because most of the poor don’t have vehicles or have cars.”[MORE]

Human feces dripping from ceilings due to bad plumbing? Report Reveals Inhumane Conditions at Baltimore Jail, Mostly Black Inmates Lacked Basic Necessities in Facility Controlled by Elite Liberals

From [HERE] Maryland’s Department of Corrections released a report Wednesday revealing extensive structural and safety issues at the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic, and Classification Center (MRDCC) in Baltimore, problems that led to the jail’s shutdown in December.

The report, prepared by Chicago-based Walker Consultants, exposed crumbling infrastructure that deprived inmates of basic necessities such as communal spaces for recreation, meals, and personal or medical visits. The facility, built in 1981 as a short-term intake center, was housing individuals for over a year, far exceeding its original design.

These issues were first raised by planning firm CGL, after the firm had previously conducted a more general assessment of regional correctional facilities.

As a result of their study, CGL wrote in a memo to the Maryland Departments of General Services and Public Safety and Correctional Services that it was the company’s “professional opinion that the existing building does not meet the minimum requirements for the purposes intended for incarceration.”

The Walker report was shared Wednesday with The Baltimore Sun in response to a public information act request lodged after the facility’s closure.

Safety and building issues

The Walker report delved into a litany of safety and building issues faced by inmates and staff on a regular basis, including the facility’s failing heating and cooling systems, as well as its malfunctioning plumbing and fire alarm systems.

Investigators mentioned human feces dripping from ceilings in the facility due to its faulty plumbing infrastructure, and a 2022 mattress fire that its malfunctioning fire alarm system failed to activate its sprinkler system to abate.

DCPSCS officials were not able to share whether any inmates were injured in the fire, though they did say that agency and management were aware of many of MRDCC’s issues for years and routinely opted to implement temporary fixes to the facility instead of substantial improvements.

“While many of these prior repairs addressed symptoms, they did not resolve the root causes,” said a spokesperson for DPSCS. “As a result, deferred maintenance compounded over the decades.”

Aside from the general safety issues posed by the facility’s neglect, MRDCC also faced serious security concerns as a result of the building continuing to fall further into disrepair.

For one, investigators wrote that incarcerated individuals had breached the facility’s walls, digging through its structure to the exterior and between cells, enabling them to bring in contraband from the street below.

Agency officials said facility management was aware of this issue and maintained an increased presence of guards and CCTV surveillance of the impacted areas, as well as in areas in which the doors and windows of cells were broken.

Investigators also found that incarcerated individuals were spending more and more time in their cells, without other places to go for recreation, visitation and meals. [MORE]

New Report Examines the Unprecedented Execution Pace in Florida- which accounted for 40% of All Executions in the US in 2025 (35% of those Murdered by FLA Authorities were Black)

From [HERE] and [HERE] The United States car­ried out 47 exe­cu­tions in 2025, and Florida car­ried out 19 — the high­est num­ber in state his­to­ry and more than dou­ble its pre­vi­ous mod­ern record, accord­ing to a year-end report from Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP). Executions in Florida — which aver­aged one exe­cu­tion every 16 days from February 2025 through December 2025 — account­ed for 40% of the 47 exe­cu­tions nation­wide, mak­ing Florida a clear out­lier in the use of the death penal­ty in the United States. Setting Florida’s record-break­ing num­bers aside, 28 peo­ple were exe­cut­ed in 10 states in 2025, sim­i­lar to 2024’s total of 25 exe­cu­tions in nine states.

Prior to 2025, the only state that had ever exceed­ed 18 exe­cu­tions in a sin­gle year was Texas, which last did so in 2009. States exe­cut­ed pris­on­ers at high­er rates in the late 1990s and ear­ly 2000s, when pub­lic sup­port for the prac­tice was much high­er than it is today. Unlike most states, where courts and pros­e­cu­tors set exe­cu­tion dates, Florida’s gov­er­nor holds sole author­i­ty to sign death warrants.

“Despite [the governor’s] pre­vi­ous mid­dling inter­est in cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, Gov. [Ron] DeSantis elect­ed to use his pow­er exten­sive­ly in 2025.”

WE, THE PEOPLE: A RECORD OF FLORIDA’S DEATH PENALTY IN 2025, FLORIDIANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY.

The Florida leg­is­la­ture enact­ed sev­er­al bills relat­ed to death penal­ty expan­sion in 2025, includ­ing a manda­to­ry death penal­ty pro­vi­sion for unau­tho­rized immi­grants con­vict­ed of cer­tain cap­i­tal crimes; addi­tion­al aggra­vat­ing fac­tors for crimes at schools, gov­ern­ment, or reli­gious gath­er­ings, and for the delib­er­ate tar­get­ing of politi­cians includ­ing gov­er­nors and oth­er high-rank­ing offi­cials; and expan­sion of pos­si­ble exe­cu­tion meth­ods to include any method ​“not deemed uncon­sti­tu­tion­al.” FADP’s report notes the U.S. Supreme Court has nev­er found a method of exe­cu­tion uncon­sti­tu­tion­al and ​“that Florida’s pris­on­ers could pre­sum­ably be exe­cut­ed by fir­ing squad, nitro­gen suf­fo­ca­tion, hang­ing, behead­ing, or any oth­er method imag­in­able.” The state also des­ig­nat­ed sex­u­al traf­fick­ing of a vul­ner­a­ble per­son as a cap­i­tal felony, despite Supreme Court prece­dent estab­lished in Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008) pro­hibit­ing death sen­tences for non-homicide crimes.

The state’s cur­rent exe­cu­tion method also received scruti­ny in FADP’s report. Florida remains the only state using a three-drug pro­to­col con­sist­ing of eto­mi­date, rocuro­ni­um bro­mide, and potas­si­um acetate. Court fil­ings from December 2025 pre­sent­ed evi­dence of sig­nif­i­cant pro­ce­dur­al fail­ures, includ­ing four exe­cu­tions using expired eto­mi­date, under­dos­ing of required drugs in two exe­cu­tions, unlogged eto­mi­date appear­ing in autop­sy results, and using lido­caine, which is not list­ed in the state’s exe­cu­tion pro­to­col. In response to these fail­ures, for­mer Florida State Prison Warden Ron McAndrew, who over­saw three exe­cu­tions, warned in the Tampa Bay Times that the cur­rent pace of exe­cu­tions is ​“test­ing the lim­its of the law.” FADP’s report notes the lack of trans­paren­cy sur­round­ing Florida’s exe­cu­tion pro­to­col makes it ​“increas­ing­ly like­ly that addi­tion­al details about the pro­ce­dur­al fail­ures and moral injuries inflict­ed upon state employ­ees dur­ing this exe­cu­tion spree will reveal themselves.”

The report also doc­u­ments sev­er­al trou­bling pat­terns among those exe­cut­ed in Florida in 2025. Four indi­vid­u­als—James Ford, David Pittman, Victor Jones, and Frank Walls—had thor­ough­ly doc­u­ment­ed intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ties, though the report states all four indi­vid­u­als’ claims were dis­missed ​“not due to a lack of mer­it, but because they were deemed raised too late or incor­rect­ly.” Florida exe­cut­ed these four men despite cat­e­gor­i­cal legal pro­tec­tions for indi­vid­u­als with intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ty under both Florida and fed­er­al law. Eight peo­ple exe­cut­ed were sen­tenced to death under schemes allow­ing non-unan­i­mous jury rec­om­men­da­tions, and Florida’s cur­rent statute per­mits death sen­tences with just 8 of 12 jurors in agree­ment, the low­est thresh­old in the coun­try. FADP high­lights that almost all, 97%, of Florida’s 30 death row exonerees were sen­tenced to death by non-unan­i­mous juries. Seven1 of the 19 exe­cut­ed indi­vid­u­als had served in the U.S. mil­i­tary, con­sti­tut­ing 70% of vet­er­ans exe­cut­ed nation­wide in 2025. Four indi­vid­u­als faced exe­cu­tion with­out ade­quate legal rep­re­sen­ta­tion, with Bryan Jennings and Norman Grim hav­ing death war­rants signed while they did not have state-appoint­ed coun­sel, and Anthony Wainwright​’s attor­ney had not vis­it­ed him in more than a decade. Two exe­cut­ed indi­vid­u­als — Victor Jones and Michael Bell—were sur­vivors of abuse at state-run reform schools that the Florida Legislature offi­cial­ly acknowl­edged the trau­ma endured at these state facil­i­ties and compensated victims. [MORE]

The Imprisonment Rate for Black Women is 1.7 times the rate of imprisonment for white women - but has Declined as the Overall Rate for Women has Substantially Increased

From [HERE] Research on female incarceration is critical to understanding the full consequences of mass incarceration and to unraveling the policies and practices that lead to their criminalization. The female incarcerated population stands over seven times as high than in 1980.

Over the past quarter century, there has been a profound change in the involvement of women within the criminal legal system. This is the result of more expansive law enforcement efforts, stiffer drug sentencing laws, and post-conviction barriers to reentry that uniquely affect women. The female incarcerated population is over seven times as high than in 1980. Over sixty percent (62%) of imprisoned women in state prisons have a child under the age of 18.1

Between 1980 and 2023, the number of incarcerated women increased by over 600%, rising from a total of 26,326 in 1980 to 186,244 in 2023. While 2020 saw a substantial downsizing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this trend reversed with a 22% increase in 2023.

Though many more men are in prison than women, the rate of growth for female imprisonment has been twice as high as that of men since 1980. As of 2023, over 1 million women are under the supervision of the criminal legal system.

Race and Ethnicity in State and Federal Prisons

• In 2023, the imprisonment rate for Black women (68 per 100,000) was 1.7 times the rate of imprisonment for white women (41 per 100,000).

• Latina women were imprisoned at 1.2 times the rate of white women (51 vs. 41 per 100,000).

• Between 2000 and 2023, the rate of imprisonment declined by 69% for Black women, while the rate of imprisonment for white women rose by 18%. For Latina women, the rate of imprisonment has declined 15% between 2000 and 2023. [MORE]

Contrary to Propaganda, in 2025 Police Officer Deaths Hit An 80-Year Low, Declined by 25%; More Cops Committed Suicide (184) Last Year than Were Killed On Duty (111); new law enforcement fund report

From [HERE] Deaths of on-duty law enforcement officers in the U.S. decreased by nearly 25% in 2025, according to an annual report. Said report says that “law enforcement deaths have hit an 80 year low.” [MORE]

The report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund shows a drop in all categories of fatalities, from 148 total deaths in 2024 to 111 last year.

Officer firearm fatalities dropped to 44, a 15% decrease from 52 in 2024 and the lowest number in at least a decade, according to the Fund's previous annual officer fatality reports.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund's fatality report also showed no on-duty officer fatalities in 17 states and Washington, D.C., and none at the nation's federal and tribal law enforcement agencies last year.

It also showed a 37% drop in the “other” fatalities category that includes physical or medical issues from on-duty incidents and most other fatalities like stabbings, drownings or plane crashes. The number dropped from 52 in 2024 to 33 in 2025, and includes 14 officers who died last year from illnesses related to responding to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. [MORE] In contrast to the number of police killed (111) while on duty, police killed at least 1284 people in 2025 or more than 10 times the amount of cops who were killed.

More cops died off duty. Police officers are at a significantly higher risk of dying by suicide than in the line of duty, with an average rate of approximately 21.4 per 100,000 officers between 2016 and 2022. About 184 law enforcement officers die by suicide each year. In fact police work is not in OSHA’s Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs. [MORE]

'THE WAR ON COPS' IS PURE BULLSHIT: DATA DEMONSTRATES IT'S SAFER THAN EVER TO BE A COP, ON-DUTY DEATHS IN DECLINE THE PAST 5 DECADES

Projection as a Way of Life: 4X as Many Cops Killed Themselves than Were Killed in 2020 [Authority Falsely Attributes its Violence to Citizens to Transform its Evil Into Positive Images]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

propaganda – a psychological technique and means by which the lawless confound the lawful (dwellers upon the land). 2) any message intended to influence whether true or false. 3) disinformation used as programming that in its absence wouldn’t stand up itself nor stand up for itself by itself. 4) the over-preponderance of a certain message that is designed to impose certain forms and frames of reference and patterns of thought the objective of which being to subjugate a people. The Jesuits were the ones who invented the word and the first to systematize its practice. Propaganda is memes distributed with an external anchor and an embedded carrier; it is linguistic obfuscation, misdirection, and purposeful deception in public rhetoric to accomplish plutocratic ends of wealth centralization and power through mind-control of the masses. Propaganda is to be used as subversion, which is the undermining or detachment of the loyalties of significant social groups and their transference to the symbols and institutions of the aggressor-oppressor. “It is a political necessity to destroy the African consciousness of colonialized Africans or African people.” Dr. Amos N. Wilson. As for the minds of the general public, the most sinister part of The Matrix in which we now live is that you have been cajoled and convinced to suppress your own free will and surrender to the manipulators who control not just your mind, but your entire reality. Edward Bernays, the father of modern propaganda, explained: “If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of... In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons—who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” “Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government (all forms are) entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.” ~Michael Rivero.

(See: Public Relations, Memes, Mind Viruses, Dance of Truth, Absolute Truth, Human Language, Memetics, Good & Evil, Confusion, False Flag Operation, Nine-Eleven, MEDIA, Propagenda, The Truth, Subvertilizers, Evolution, Religion, State, ESP, Predictive Programming, Symbolaeography, Voting, Elections, Orderlies, Critical Thinking, Colonized Mind, Corporate State, “Government,” “Rolebot” & Reification)

While Wearing a Cowboy Hat Neuropeon Kristi Noem Claimed a Woman “Rammed” an ICE Cop w/Her Car. In Reality the Cop Protected Himself from Danger that He Created; Moving into the Path of a Fleeing Car

According to FUNKTIONARY

Cop Mantra – “Stop resisting arrest, stop resisting arrest, stop resisting arrest.” A pretense and precursor to murder. Everything cops say or do (including life-ending, life-wrecking abuses and/or rage-inducing bullying they routinely inflict on innocent people with impunity) needs to be looked at with extreme suspicion. Cops (patrolling predators) not only need to wear body-cameras, but they also need to be under surveillance 24/7. “If one million cobras were set loose on our city streets, wouldn’t you think it proper to know where each one was and what it was doing all the time?” ~Fred Woodworth

ICE Race Soldier Violates White Code by Murdering White Woman. DHS Probot Justifies w/Cop Mantra; ‘He Feared for His Safety,’ but Video Shows Cop Move Into the Path of Fleeing Car Before Firing Shots

According to legal scholar Cynthia Lee

Officer-Created Jeopardy. Situations in which the unwise decisions or actions of the police create or increase the risk of a deadly confrontation have been called “officer-created jeopardy.” As described by one legal scholar, “[o]fficer-created jeopardy is, in essence, a manner of describing unjustified risk-taking that can result in an officer using force to protect themselves from a threat that they were, in part, responsible for creating.”

A critically important but understudied question that arises in cases involving officer-created jeopardy is whether the jury should fo- cus only on the facts and circumstances known to the officer at the moment when the officer used deadly force or whether it should be allowed to consider any facts or circumstances relevant to the reason- ableness of the officer’s use of force, including conduct of the officer that may have created or increased the risk of a deadly confrontation. In other words, is a narrow time framing approach appropriate in cases where an officer’s pre-shooting conduct may have created or in- creased the risk that the officer would need to use deadly force, or is a broad timing approach more appropriate?

Several scholars have addressed this question, primarily in the context of § 1983 litigation and how the federal courts have under- stood the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on “excessive force” under the Fourth Amendment.76 This Article builds upon the existing schol- arship and adds an examination of this question in the context of state criminal prosecutions of law enforcement officers whose use of force has killed or seriously injured a civilian. This Article challenges the conventional wisdom that the states must follow the Supreme Court and lower federal courts when deciding what constitutes excessive police force. Contrary to popular belief, states enjoy broad authority in rafting their use of force statutes and need not follow federal civil rights jurisprudence.

Seth Stoughton, a former police officer and now a law professor at the University of South Carolina, is one of the leading voices criti- quing the narrow time framing approach embraced by a number of federal courts in the § 1983 context. In his recently published book with Jeffrey Noble and Geoffrey Alpert, Evaluating Police Uses of Force, Stoughton and his coauthors note that “[a]n officer’s use-of- force decision . . . will almost always be affected by events that occur prior to use of force itself, and often prior to the subject’s noncompli- ance, resistance, or other physical actions upon which the use of force is immediately predicated.” They also assert that the argument that an officer’s conduct prior to the use of force—what [has been] referred to as “pre-seizure conduct”—is not properly part of the analysis . . . is not only self-defeating, it also runs counter to the Supreme Court’s acknowledgment that meaningful review “requires careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case.”

White Jury Selected for the White Cop who Murdered Ta’Kiya Young: Shot Pregnant Black Woman who Slowly Drove Toward Him, Posed No Imminent Danger of Death. Never Expect Justice in Racist System

In A Tactical Fourth Amendment, Brandon Garrett, another leading expert on police use of force, and Seth Stoughton observe that a narrow time framing approach, under which the possibility that the officer may have contributed to the creation of the dangerous situa- tion is not part of the Fourth Amendment analysis,82 unwisely ignores the fact that sound tactical police training focuses on giving the officer time to make decisions from a position of safety.83 Garrett and Stoughton point out that a decision made early in an encounter, when there is less time pressure, can avoid putting officers into a position in which they have to make a time-pressured decision.84 Sound police tactics, such as increasing the distance between the officers and a suspect or taking cover behind a physical object that protects an officer from a particular threat, can give officers more time to analyze the situation and thus reduce the risk to officers and the subject.85 In con- trast, “[a] poor tactical decision, such as stepping in front of a moving vehicle, can deprive the officer of time in which to safely make a deci- sion about how to act, forcing the officer to make a seat-of-the-pants decision about how to respond.”86 Garrett and Stoughton argue that the training that an officer has had and the training that a reasonable officer would have received should be considered relevant circum- stances in the Fourth Amendment totality of the circumstances analysis and that constitutional reasonableness should be grounded in sound police tactics. [MORE]

Make Iran Great Again: Drunk with Authority Trump Takes Off MAGA Costume to Showcase his New Neo-Con Hat with Freedumb and Piece Lover Lindsay Graham

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Neo-con – shortened for neo-Confederate not neo-conservative. Neo-cons often finagle into political office with sonorous realityconcealing rhetoric and take to the streets without their sheets and dunce hoodie-hats. 2) a cone-cloned racist-fascist political drone. (See: KKK, Popular Sovereignty & Racism White Supremacy)

Congressional Black Caucus Condemns "the Deadly Insurrection of January 6th" but Remains Silent about Israel's Ongoing Extermination of All Humans in Gaza [CBC= Coin-Operated Black Puppetican Cowards]

Today, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) and members of the Congressional Black Caucus issued the following statement:

“The deadly insurrection of January 6, 2021 was not merely an attack on a building, but a direct assault on members of Congress, law enforcement, staff, and the foundations of democracy itself. Today, we honor the extraordinary bravery of the U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers who protected our democracy and saw to it that the attempt to overturn the 2020 election results failed. We also remember those officers who tragically lost their lives and the more than 140 others who were seriously injured in the line of duty—many of whom continue to bear lasting physical and psychological wounds from that day. [MORE]

According to The Funktionary

coin-operated – the apt name for ravenous, puerile and greedy (“mine-controlled”) folk who only act if there is money, power or fame in the game (endeavor)—typically and consciously undertaken underhandedly at another’s expense. 2) anyone with a sell-out-slot that doubles as a mouth or who easily bends south—a south-bender repeat offender. 3) the subsumable drive for money, prestige, influence and power. 4) those that calculate and manipulate to get what they want— usually at the expense of others whom they claim to represent. 5) the description of (and name for) someone whose sole motivation is ‘paper-chasing.’ The living-larger supercilious sell-outs have to use the cracks of their arse as a discredit card swiper—since the stakes are higher and call for more drastic measures and high-volume transfers (the booty of sell-out treasures) can only be accessed in the form of plastic pleasures. They call them token Negroes because they are coinoperated. If you put money in them they will dispense (‘espew’—espouse and spew) the view, vision, wishes, ideas, thoughtforms, ideology, hopes and dreams of the customer. “The price of a dollar is a lot cheaper than the price we pay for violating our own inner integrity.” ~Rafael Catalá. You can easily spot coin-operated people because they always have one dry itchy hand out (waiting to be greased or bribed), the other groping for a handout, and their mouth-slots are always open. Some coin-operatives are equal orifice deployers, i.e., they will use both ends to satisfy others’ desires as a means to achieve or finance their own desired ends—these are better known as CO-HO’s. (See: Piece-Activists, Sniggers, Massa’bators, BOHICANs, Purcheat, Greedy, Ho-Reps, Selfishness, NSA Position, Politicians & Racism White Supremacy)

cowards – word-manipulated creatures who knowingly accept the parameters imposed on them by their enemies. 2) those who sleep soundly and live silently in the face of injustice, abuse, tyranny, racism and oppression. (See: Slave Revolts, Meritorious Manumission, Contract On America, Statists, Authority, Conservatives, Racists, KKK & Dummies)

“pork chops” – illicit “payoffs,” economic advantages and/or sexual favors someone receives, usually in the field of polytricks by puppeticians, typically in the field of “law and order” by pigs (“cops,”) and sometimes in the landmindfield of religion by pulpiteers. (See: Puppeticians, Pulpiteers, Politician & Altar Egos)

puppetician – a politician (Ho-Rep) with all strings (and G-strings) attached. We’re all puppets. I’m just one who can see the strings and play music with them while making others dance to it. (See: Politicians, VOTER & Ho-Reps)

Watchdog Demands to Know If Trump Admin Colluded with Big Oil in Lead-Up to Venezuela Attack

From [HERE] A legal watchdog group is demanding information about the extent to which the Trump administration planned its attack on Venezuela last weekend with American oil companies, which are expected to profit royally from the takeover of the South American nation’s oil reserves.

The group Democracy Forward filed a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on Monday seeking records and information about the role of US oil companies in the planning of the attack, which killed an estimated 75 people and led to the US military’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.

President Donald Trump did not inform Congress of the operation, which is required under the War Powers Act of 1973, but he told reporters on Sunday that he’d tipped off oil company executives both “before and after” the strike.

According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, he informed executives roughly a month before the strike to “get ready” because big changes were coming to the country, which had long held state control over the largest oil reserves in the world.

Democracy Forward has requested information about communications between senior officials at the US departments of Energy and the Interior and executives at top oil companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips, prior to the attack. This includes emails, attachments, and calendar invitations exchanged since December 2025.

The group has said it will seek to determine whether these companies were given “privileged access or influence” over the administration’s policy toward Venezuela. [MORE]

Maduro says he’s a ‘prisoner of war’: Why that matters

From [HERE] Two days after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, 63, was abducted by special forces of the United States during an operation in the Latin American country, he appeared in a court in New York.

On Monday, Maduro pleaded not guilty to federal charges, including narcoterrorism and conspiring to import cocaine. In a blue and orange prison uniform, he listened to the indictment filed by prosecutors against him and his codefendants, including his wife and son.

The Trump administration has framed Maduro’s abduction as a law enforcement operation, arguing that congressional approval was not needed.

But in court, Maduro insisted he was a “prisoner of war” (POW).

What did Maduro say?

“I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man. I am still president of my country,” he said through an interpreter, before he was cut off by US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in a Manhattan federal court.

Maduro called himself a POW, a person captured and held by an enemy during an armed conflict.

Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, who appeared in court on Monday as a codefendant, also pleaded not guilty.

Other Venezuelan leaders have echoed Maduro’s position. On Saturday, his then-deputy, Delcy Rodriguez, appeared on state television alongside her brother, National Assembly chief Jorge Rodriguez, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello and Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, declaring that Maduro was still Venezuela’s sole legitimate president.

However, on Monday, the day when Rodriguez took over as Venezuela’s interim president, she posted a statement on social media offering to cooperate with Trump. In the statement, she invited Trump to “collaborate” and sought “respectful relations”.

“President Donald Trump, our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war,” she wrote.

The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, said, “We cannot ignore a central element of this US aggression.

“Venezuela is the victim of these attacks because of its natural resources,” Moncada said, according to the UN website.

“Maduro is a prisoner of war as he said,” Vijay Prashad, the director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research based in Argentina, Brazil, India, and South Africa, told Al Jazeera.

“The US declared war on Venezuela when Barack Obama signed his Executive Order 13692 in 2015 to say that the country was a threat to US national security.”

In March 2015, former US president, Democrat Barack Obama, signed an executive order declaring a national emergency over the “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security posed by the situation in Venezuela.

“Since then, the US has committed itself to a hybrid war against Venezuela. The kidnapping of its president in this state of war, during an illegal bombardment of the country by 150 military aircraft, is certainly, therefore, an act that can make Maduro a prisoner of war,” Prashad said. [MORE]

At 7AM Knox County Cops Broke Into a Black Family’s Home Unannounced, Threw a Flash Bang Grenade and Then Fatally Shot Teen 9 Times; Ben Crump Files Suit for Daevon Saint-Germain

From [HERE] The parents of an 18-year-old shot and killed during a SWAT raid in Knox County have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

Daevon Montez Saint-Germain was shot on the morning of January 3, 2025, at a Sevierville Pike house, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. This lawsuit argues his death was caused by the unconstitutional actions of the officers involved in the raid, the Knox County government, Sheriff Tom Spangler and the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.

The lawsuit claims the defendants violated Saint-Germain’s Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unlawful seizure and excessive force, stating that the SWAT Team officers used excessive force by shooting him nine times when he did not pose a threat. KCSO has said that Saint-Germain pointed a weapon at officers, which has been repeatedly denied by his family and their attorneys. The suit also claims Saint-Germain was denied critical medical care, and none of the officers were wearing body cameras.

The lawsuit also claims the search warrant was based on a cursory review of Saint-Germain’s social media, adding that it was “void of probable cause” and obtained “through reckless and/or intentional misrepresentations.” The suit added that officers “did not identify themselves or provide a copy of the search warrant before wrongfully seizing and detaining the 18-year-old.” However, the office of the Sixth Judicial District Attorney General previously said officers repeatedly announced, “sheriff’s office search warrant” during the raid.

The lawsuit also claims that the defendants “fabricated post-incident reports to justify deadly force” as part of a conspiracy to deprive Saint-Germain and his family of their constitutional rights. It alleged Knox County and Spangler maintained a culture that encouraged excessive force, failed to train officers properly, and ratified unconstitutional conduct.

Racist Who Shot 5 Black People Protesting the Police Murder of Jamal Clark in Minneapolis Released from Prison after Serving Light Sentence Due to Charges Filed by White Liberal Prosecutor

From [HERE] A white man who was convicted of shooting five Black Lives Matter protesters in November 2015 has been released from prison.

Allen Scarsella of Bloomington, 33, was found guilty of a dozen felony counts of assault and riot. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and after his release, will remain under court supervision until 2031. Records from the state's Department of Corrections show that he is not in Minnesota.

Scarsella shot the five Black men at a protest after Minneapolis police shot and killed Jamar Clark. Scarsella and three other men, all wearing face masks, went into an encampment outside a north Minneapolis police station to livestream the Black Lives Matter protests. Scarsella, who is White, brought a .45-caliber handgun and fired at demonstrators.

During the trial, jurors saw numerous text messages Scarsella sent friends, including one saying "Cool — the gun I'm getting is proven to kill black guys in a single shot." He was identified in a video taken the night of the shootings waving a handgun and making racially-charged statements about the Black Lives Matter protesters.

One of the five victims was Jamar Clark's cousin, Cameron Clark. Injuries to the victims ranged from leg, arm and foot to stomach and back wounds. 

At Scarsella's sentencing, Cameron Clark said he believed the initial charges brought forth against Scarsella should have been more severe. But Mike Freeman, who was the Hennepin County attorney at the time, said that first-degree assault was the highest charge his office could bring, given the evidence they had.

Jamar Clark was killed in November 2015 during a confrontation with two White Minneapolis officers on the city's north side. The 24-year-old's death set off weeks of protests, including an 18-day tent encampment around the area's police precinct. 

Freeman's office chose not to charge the officers. In 2019, the Minneapolis City Council approved a $200,000 settlement with Jamar Clark's family.

ICE Race Soldier Violates White Code by Murdering White Woman. DHS Probot Justifies w/Cop Mantra; ‘He Feared for His Safety,’ but Video Shows Cop Move Into the Path of Fleeing Car Before Firing Shots

From [HERE] Videos circulating on social media and verified by The New York Times show the shooting of a woman by a federal agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, as well as the moments immediately before and after.

A maroon Honda Pilot is stopped on Portland Avenue, apparently blocking one lane of the snowy residential street. The driver rolls forward slightly, then stops and waves at approaching vehicles, signaling that they should drive past.

The videos show the driver wave one vehicle by. When a truck with flashing lights approaches, she waves again, but the truck stops and federal agents emerge.

Two step out and move toward the driver’s side. The agents tell the driver to get out.

One of the agents tries to open the driver’s side door and reaches through the window. A third agent crosses in front of the Honda, as the driver begins to flee by putting the car in reverse, turning to drive away from the agents.

Immediately after the Honda shifts from reverse into drive and begins to move ahead turning to the right, that agent moves into the pathway of the vehicle, pulls out a gun and aims at the driver.

The Honda moves forward, turning to the right. The agent aiming the gun fires, and continues to shoot as the vehicle moves past him.

The Honda accelerates, colliding with two parked vehicles and a light post. The agent who fired approaches the vehicle, then walks away and tells other agents to call 911. [MORE]

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Massa Media [also] had Prior Knowledge of Trump’s Venezuela Assault but Withheld Coverage [The Dependent Media and Trump Serve the Same Masters. Who Benefits from 2 Party Politics Theater?]

From [HERE] The two largest US newspapers learned in advance of the secret US raid to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but chose not to publish what they knew to avoid endangering US troops, Semafor reported on 4 January, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Despite so-called hostility toward US President Donald Trump regarding domestic issues, the New York Times (NYT) and Washington Post cooperated with his administration ahead of the operation to attack Venezuela.

US forces deployed more than 150 aircraft to eliminate air defenses, clearing the way for helicopters to insert troops who then moved on to President Maduro’s location.

After Maduro and his wife were abducted, President Trump and top administration officials praised the operation, citing both the lack of US casualties and the total secrecy surrounding it, including from the media.

“The coordination, the stealth, the precision, the very long arm of American justice - all on display in the middle of the night,” Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said.

Trump approved the assault at 10:46 pm Friday. Though aware of the decision, the NYT and Washington Post waited several hours before reporting it because the White House had warned that doing so would expose US troops performing the operation to danger.

However, the decision showed disregard for the lives of Venezuelans.

US airstrikes accompanying the commando operation killed 40 people, including civilians and military personnel, a senior Venezuelan official told the NYT on Saturday.

One strike targeted a three-story civilian apartment complex in Catia La Mar, a poor coastal area just west of the Caracas airport, killing an 80-year-old woman, Rosa González, and seriously wounding a second person. [MORE]