27 Killed in 2024; Mounting Deaths in LA Jails (85% Non-White) Driven by Severe Overcrowding and Inhumane Conditions, such as 8 to 16 in a 4 Man Cell w/1 Toilet- in City Controlled by White Liberals

From [HERE] Another person has died in Los Angeles County jails, marking the 27th in-custody death so far this year and the 72nd since the start of 2023.

These tragedies underscore the urgency for Los Angeles County to stop the cycle of death plaguing its jails. That demands honoring the commitment the board of supervisors made in 2021 to close Men's Central Jail.

The staggering number of deaths far exceeds that of New York City Department of Correction facilities, where the rising number of deaths at the Rikers Island jail complex has led to a mounting crisis that has received nationwide attention.

The death toll in LA jails—the nation’s largest jail system—is driven by severe overcrowding, pervasive neglect and mistreatment, inadequate care inside jails, and a failure to offer robust alternatives to incarceration. A horrifying video smuggled out of Men’s Central Jail in June 2023, which shows jail staff neglecting to intervene in a violent assault that stretched for more than 10 minutes, underscores the urgent need to reduce the jail population and expand community-based alternatives to incarceration.

“Our jails are killing people—disproportionately Black and Latino men who are held pretrial—because of a culture of impunity and neglect within the LA County Sheriff’s Department, which runs the jails,” said Michelle Parris, program director of Vera California. “Jail has become the county’s default response to poverty, houselessness, and other unmet needs, and the people held in them are subjected to foul conditions and cruel treatment. Our communities would be safer if we address the root causes of instability by investing in community-based alternatives to incarceration that are proven to work, and that do not result in a new death every week.”

What’s killing people in LA County jails?

Overcrowded facilities are the most significant single factor driving jail deaths in Los Angeles. The jail system has operated as high as 16.7 percent over capacity since the start of last year. This means that not only are the facilities physically crowded, but resources are also being stretched beyond their breaking point.

The issues begin in intake, where newly incarcerated people are processed. People who have passed through the intake facilities have described them as “a living hell,” where people are left to sleep without bedding or blankets on floors covered in garbage and waste.

Beyond the squalid and cramped conditions, overcrowded jails also limit access to resources, especially medical care. Incarcerated people requesting medical care say they have faced cruel or indifferent treatment from jail staff. In particular, Los Angeles County jails provide horrendous standards of mental health care—despite being the largest provider of mental health care in the United States, with 45 percentof people currently detained there diagnosed with mental health conditions. People are chained to tables by jail staff, endure filthy living conditions, and sometimes do not even receive clothing. The county has also failed to adequately staff its jails with mental health care providers; in February 2023, 44 percent of jail mental health staff positions were vacant.

Severe conditions in the county’s jails provoked a visit from a panel appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in April 2023 and, in May, triggered protests by health care workers in the jails, who say that staffing shortages have left them unable to provide care to patients in these dangerously overcrowded facilities. [MORE]

Remotely Controlled Black Rolebot Alvin Bragg To Resume His Focus on Prosecuting Black People and Will Postpone Trump Lawfare Indefinitely, Since It Can’t Stop Him From Becoming President

MR. BRAGG CAME INTO OFFICE VOWING NOT TO CHARGE NUMEROUS NON-VIOLENT CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER. BUT HE MUST’VE MEANT TO PROMISE ‘NOT TO CHARGE WHITE FOLKS’ BECAUSE SOMEBODY IN HIS OFFICE IS FILLING UP MANHATTAN COURTROOMS AND RIKERS ISLAND JAIL WITH BLACK PEOPLE. BOB GANGI, DIRECTOR OF THE POLICE REFORM ORGANIZING PROJECT AND LONGTIME COURT WATCHER, SAYS HE’S SEEN LITTLE CHANGE FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE IN THE BACK ROW OF MANHATTAN ARRAIGNMENTS.

“THEY WERE STILL PROSECUTING LOW-LEVEL BROKEN-WINDOWS TYPE CASES, IT SEEMED TO US, AS OFTEN AS VANCE’S OFFICE WOULD DO,” GANGI SAID, REFERRING TO BRAGG’S IMMEDIATE PREDECESSOR AS MANHATTAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, CY VANCE JR. [MORE].

DATA FROM THE COURT MONITORING PROJECT DEMONSTRATE THAT THE NYPD TARGETS BLACKS AND LATINOS: AS BLACKS/LATINOS MAKE UP 90% OF ALL NYPD ARRESTS, MOSTLY FOR VICTIMLESS CRIMES. WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH THE NYPD, MR. BRAGG’S DA OFFICE IN MANHATTAN — ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST AND LEAST EQUAL PLACES IN THE COUNTRY — HAS CONVICTED BLACK PEOPLE OF FELONIES AND MISDEMEANORS AT A RATE 21 TIMES GREATER THAN THAT OF WHITE PEOPLE OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES. THIS DISPARITY IS THE LARGEST OF ANY COUNTY IN THE STATE. [MORE]

Trump is Not a “Convicted Felon” Until he is Sentenced From [HERE] For months, the left pounded the drum that the lawfare waged against then-former President Donald Trump was all about “upholding the law” and had nothing to do with the impending election. They insisted Trump was some kind of criminal mastermind and claimed that this narrative was confirmed when a jury of “peers” convicted him in May in a Manhattan show trial.

But now that Trump won the election, the Manhattan case brought against him is falling apart at the seams. On Tuesday, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed to indefinitely delay Donald Trump’s sentencing — previously set for next week — after the former president was re-elected in a landslide victory.

But certainly there should be no hesitation about sentencing a 34-time “felon” like Trump — unless the case was never about “justice” or the “law.”

Bragg claimed Trump made payments to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, who then allegedly paid pornographer Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about an alleged affair — but Bragg failed to clarify exactly how such alleged actions were illegal. It’s a case that the Federal Elections Commission, Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to bring.

Bragg, in his zeal to destroy Trump, enlisted the help of Colangelo (who was formerly No. 3 in President Joe Biden’s DOJ and was hired to reportedly “jump-start” the investigation) and argued that Trump should have classified the alleged payments as a campaign expense rather than a legal fee. He claimed the payments were made to influence the 2016 election. Cohen, however, blew up Bragg’s argument while on the stand, confirming to the court that when the allegations first surfaced in 2011, Trump was concernedabout how the story would affect his family.

Trump’s sentencing was scheduled for Nov. 26. Just over a week ago, Colangelo asked Judge Juan Merchan to delay proceedings until his team could figure out its course of action following Trump’s victory. Merchan gave prosecutors until Nov. 19 to make a decision.

In his Tuesday letter to the court, Bragg acknowledged the possibility of delaying the sentencing until after Trump’s upcoming term.

“[C]onsideration must be given to various non-dismissal options … such as deferral of all remaining criminal proceedings until after the end of Defendant’s upcoming presidential term,” Bragg said.

Tuesday’s letter from Bragg and his team agreeing to delay proceedings means one thing — this case wasn’t about “justice” or “the law.” It was about interfering in the 2024 election and trying to toss Trump in jail so that he couldn’t land in the White House.

"A toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation:" Puff Daddy's Attorneys Request Video After Liberal Fed Prosecutors Raid His Cell to Unlawfully Seize Notepads, Protected Attorney Communications

From [HERE] Attorneys for hip-hop impresario Sean “Diddy” Combs told a federal judge in lower Manhattan on Tuesday they had collected enough evidence to allege a violation of their client’s constitutional rights.

The dustup that led to the court calling an emergency hearing was an October sweep of the defendant’s jail cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Several different law enforcement agencies took part in the raid. And, to hear the defense tell it, investigators repeatedly crossed the line by photographing several pages of Combs’ notebooks. This snooping has allegedly led to the prosecution becoming “privy to defendant’s and defense counsel’s trial strategy, including areas of expert testimony, witness strategy, and other confidential matters” in violation of the attorney-client privilege.

The judge overseeing the case appeared aghast at the incident.

“What happened here?” U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian asked the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, according to a courtroom report by Inner City Press. “Why were they taking photos of Mr. Combs’ notebooks?”

The government’s attorney said the investigator in question was not a member of the prosecution team, but rather, a Bureau of Prisons official focused on dealing with violations of jail rules and would not have been there otherwise. The prosecutor went on to allege that Combs, in fact, had been violating said rules and had been caught by the BOP investigator monitoring his communications.

“Is this a Fourth Amendment violation?” the judge asked the government.

The prosecutor replied that the government had no prior knowledge the BOP investigator would be part of the sweep and insisted they only learned about the photos of the notebooks after the sweep.

Combs attorneys say this is a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation.

“According to the Government, these nineteen pages were given to, and are in the possession of, the trial team, which has already started using these privileged materials to its advantage, including its opposition to bail,” the defense’s Tuesday filing reads.

The defense letter motion catalogs the extent of the breach:

Based on the materials provided as Exhibit A, it appears a government investigator (“Investigator 1”) took photographs of several different items. These include (i) intact pages from two different legal pads, (ii) pages of an address book, (iii) a ripped- out, folded-over page of a third legal pad, (iv) a ripped-out page of another legal pad and (v) a ripped-out page of yet a different legal pad, as will be described below…

And, in a footnote, the defense objects to the notion that one mere “notebook” was rifled through — describing the documents as having been collected from “a number of legal pads.”

The government conceded that at least some of those materials were legal in nature — but argued that they were not stored in a way that immediately identified them as legal, Inner City News reports.

During the hearing, lead defense attorney Marc Agnifilo said he and his client were not even sure about the extent of the breach.

The government pushed back — saying they had provided the defense with even more than the 19 pages of legal-related information.

The judge did not seem convinced.

“Is it standard procedure to photograph notebooks, rather than take them so it could be known they were taken?” Subramanian asked.

To which Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik replied: “I don’t know.”

The court was also concerned about how the government learned about the existence of the privileged materials.

The prosecutor argued that a filter team had provided them after collecting them as part of a “covert” investigation. When asked to explain why the government still needed a filter team to deal with discovery since charges had already been brought, the prosecutor said the grand jury investigation was ongoing — holding out the possibility of additional charges in the case.

During the hearing, the court seemed amenable to at least some of the materials being made unavailable for government use.

Combs’ attorneys argued the sweep itself was a pretext — and asked the judge to grant them surveillance footage of the raid itself.

The defense told the court they would likely consider filing a motion to dismiss the indictment or a motion to have the present prosecution team removed from the case.

Embry Kidd to Join Thin Ranks of Black Male Circuit Judges - only the 2nd Black Man appointed to a Federal Appeals Court in the Past Decade

From [HERE] President Joe Biden’s nominee to be only the second Black man appointed to a federal appeals court in the past decade was confirmed by the Senate, sending Embry Kidd, a US magistrate judge in Orlando, Florida, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (article available here(link is external)).

The White House has prioritized demographic diversity in its judicial nominations and has almost doubled the number of Black women on the circuit courts.

Biden has appointed more women and people of color and others with non-traditional backgrounds not common to the federal bench, including public defenders and civil rights attorneys.

Kidd would be Biden’s second Black male appellate appointee after Andre Mathis was confirmed to the Sixth Circuit in 2022.

Kidd would replace Judge Charles Wilson, the second Black judge to serve on the Eleventh Circuit, which covers Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. Wilson was appointed by Bill Clinton to the seat vacated by the first Black man on the court, Joseph Hatchett.

GOP Senators Demand FEMA Records After Black Orderly Admits Staff Skipped Homes with Trump Signs

From [HERE] Republican senators led by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) are demanding that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) hand over records regarding its survivor assistance teams reportedly skipping over homes displaying pro-Trump signs or flags, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

A former FEMA supervisor last week admitted to instructing her team — who were visiting homes in Lake Placid, Florida, after Hurricanes Helene and Milton — to skip homes with Trump signage, but claimed it was not an “isolated” event. She said it was happening in North and South Carolina and that senior FEMA leadership were aware of it.

Tillis, along with 18 other Republican senators, sent FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell a letter Tuesday demanding she hand over all relevant communications between the former supervisor, Marn’i Washington, and her team, the number of homes that were skipped, and the reason they were skipped.

The senators also asked what FEMA did after it was made aware of Washington instructing her team to skip those homes, what the agency will do to look into her claim it was not an isolated incident, and if it is against the law for FEMA leadership to direct staff to skip homes based on political beliefs. Lastly, they asked what FEMA will do to contact skipped homes.

The letter was signed by Tillis, Ted Budd (R-NC), Mike Braun (R-IN), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), John Cornyn (R-TX), Joni K. Ernst (R-IA), John Kennedy (R-LA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), James E. Risch (R-ID), James Lankford (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Tim Scott (R-SC), Rick Scott (R-FL), John Boozman (R-AR), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), and John Hoeven (R-ND). [MORE]

Black Student Journalist Confronts CNN Probot Abby Phillip Over The Dependent Media's Effort to Conceal the Feds Failure to Provide Hurricane Relief to Victims - Just to Get Kamala Elected

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

Probot – a propagandizing programmed robot. A representative from an organization, agency or institution, especially the Internal Revenue Service, Pentagon, State Department, or Blight House, whose assignment is to make prepared statements and answer “cooked” (prepared) questions at news conferences, briefings and the like. A probot is a proxymoron who conveys programmed disinformation in computerized language and bureaucratese jargon. A probot is one who disseminates lies, distortions and convenient mass truths composed by a superior overruling elite. (See: Proxymoron)

From [HERE] Student journalist Andrew Kingsbury called out CNN’s Abby Phillip and the legacy media for failing to accurately cover the neglect that the victims of Hurricane Helene continue to face.

Kingsbury asked why, given the government’s failure to address the devastating conditions facing Americans, the national media seems uninterested in the story.

Phillip’s response was to essentially acknowledge that FEMA failed in its response but that coverage was also likely muted because of the political implications.

Andrew Kingsbury: Hi, I’m Andrew Kingsbury. I’m an extension school alum. I was recently in Western North Carolina in the Asheville area, responding to the hurricane. I was there for about two weeks, and the sense that I got was that those people were abandoned by their government, but also by, not so much the local media and press, but the national press.

The operation that I was part of is the first time in American history that there’s been an FAA-registered, civilian-run disaster relief helicopter operation because there was such a vacuum that a Green Beret Master Sergeant, he essentially… He lost his wife and daughter for a couple of days. He couldn’t find them. After finding them, he realized, “Where are the helicopters? I’m going to find out why. I’m just going to call my friends and I’m going to ask them to bring their helicopters.”That’s what happened, 35 helicopters at the peak rescuing people.

I stopped at the National Press Club in DC on my way back. I’ve spoken to multiple members of the press here, Washington Post reporters, Katie Couric even, and nobody seems to know anything about this level of abandonment. I’d like to end with this question, which is not my own question.I guess it is my question, and the people that are there.

This is Matt Van Swol if that’s how his name is pronounced, on X, saying, “It’s been 45 days since Helene hit Western North Carolina. There’s still no clean drinking water in the city of Asheville. Trash is swinging from the trees 20 feet high. Kids in Yancey County won’t go back to school until late November. Where are the reporters? We still need help.”

That’s how I also feel, based on my, I believe at this point, objective experience of going to the National Press Club, speaking to various national-level reporters here and around the country, and them not really having any clue as to what’s going on, what happened, and it’s still going on.

So that Matt Van Swol’s question, please.

Abby Phillip: Yeah, I totally take the question and also the critique. I think it’s correct, actually. I wonder the same thing. I think that…

Andrew Kingsbury:Can we get some reporters there? Yeah.

Abby Phillip:No, I mean, look, I’m sitting here thinking, I will take this back, right? Because I can give you a lot of reasons, perhaps, why maybe there has not been a persistent remaining interest in what’s happened there. I think in general, journalists have not been very good about sticking with communities long after they’ve been affected by something. That’s just in general, right? [MORE]

Post Election Massa' Media Continues to Deceive, Divide People: NYT’s ‘Heartbroken’ Black Women Edition

From [HERE] Even after a decisive election in which President-elect Donald Trump increased his support among nearly every demographic group, The New York Times is as busy as ever dividing Americans over race and sex. I’m convinced if it weren’t allowed to do that for a single day, the paper would shut down.

The Times this week ran the absurd headline, “Disillusioned by the Election, Some Black Women Are Deciding to Rest,” bolstering that thesis with serious investigative work into the mood of black Americans across the nation.

Just kidding. The Times simply interviewed a handful of DEI scammers and looked at TikTok, where the most psychotic Democrat women go to record and publicly share their mental breakdowns.

At the very start of the article is a quote from Cheri Hall, a “diversity, equity and inclusion consultant,” who told the paper she was “heartbroken” by Trump’s victory. The Times then described a narcissistic TikTok video Hall recently posted in which she hysterically declares her intent to socially withdraw and encourages other black women to do the same.

“She won’t allow herself to feel consumed by national politics, she said, and she instead plans to focus on her mental and physical health by exercising and no longer molding herself to please others,” is how the Times generously explained it. The video would be more accurately described as a self-important monologue about how a Democrat voter didn’t see the election results she’d hoped for — surely a victim of the media’s nonstop liesthat Kamala Harris was popular — so she plans to alienate her neighbors.

Can Fauci or Others be Held Accountable for Deaths, Illness and Injuries from COVID Shots? MTG Tells Congress Matt Gaetz Will Prosecute Those Responsible For Crimes Against Humanity During Plandemic

Peer Reviewed Study Finds that COVID Injections Pose 112,000% Greater Risk of Brain Clots, Strokes Than Flu Shots

From [HERE] COVID-19 vaccines pose a 112,000% greater risk of brain clots and strokes than flu vaccines and a 20,700% greater risk of those symptoms than all other vaccines combined, according to a peer-reviewed study that calls for a global moratorium on the vaccines.

The study, published last week in the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science, found reports of 5,137 cases of cerebral thromboembolism after COVID-19 shots over 36 months. This compares to 52 reported cases following flu vaccination and 282 cases for all vaccines over the past 34 years.

According to the study, this represents an “alarming breach in the safety signal threshold concerning cerebral thrombosis adverse events” following COVID-19 vaccination.

The study’s authors — independent researcher Claire Rogers, obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. James A. Thorp, independent researcher Kirstin Cosgrove and cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough — used data from the U.S. government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), for their analysis.

The data also indicated 9,821 reports of atrial fibrillation — an irregular heart rhythm that is “the most common identifiable cause of cerebral arterial thromboembolism” — following COVID-19 vaccination in 41 months, compared to 797 cases reported in 34 years for all other vaccines combined.

Rogers told The Defender the findings confirm anecdotal evidence of an increased incidence of stroke seen during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. [MORE]

Documentary - "Propaganda Exposed! Episode 3. Weaponizing Fear - Mandating Compliance"

If a Citizen Came to the Rescue of an Aggressor During a Fight He Could be Charged w/a Crime. But What About Cops? LVPD Cop Fatally Shot a Black Man Repeatedly After He Called 911 to Report a Break-in

IN GENERAL, The right of self-defense is not available to an original aggressor, that is a person who has sought a quarrel with the design to force a deadly issue and thus through his fraud, contrivance or fault, to create a real or apparent necessity for making a felonious assault.

WHERE AN INDIVIDUAL COMES TO THE AID OF THE WRONG PERSON DURING A FIGHT IN MANY STATES HE ASSUMES THE RISK. FOR INSTANCE, THE DC COURT OF APPEALS EXPLAINED, ‘the right to use force in defense of a third person is predicated upon that other person's right of self defense. Id. at 390; see also Taylor v. U.S., 380 A.2d 989, 994-95 (D.C. 1977) (finding that one who commits an armed robbery is not entitled to claim right of self-defense; bystander is therefore not entitled to interfere on robber's behalf in security officer's lawful discharge of his duties). "But when it comes to determining whether--and to what degree--force is reasonably necessary to defend a third person under attack, the focus ultimately must be on the intervenor's, not the victim's, reasonable perceptions of the situation."

AT ANY RATE, police are exempt from the above about self-defense. COPS have the extra or added “power” to act offensively as aggressors; to use force offensively on people or initiate unprovoked acts of violence against people whenever they deem it necessary. IF SUCH POWER DIDN’T COME FROM THE PEOPLE THEN WHERE DID THEY GET IT? What DO YOU THINK THE WHITE LIBERAL PROSECUTORS IN LAS VEGAS WILL DO HERE?

From [HERE] A 43-year-old father was shot and killed in his home by a Las Vegas police officer last week, authorities said, after he called 911 for help and struggled with a woman he knew over a knife.

Brandon Durham’s family has asked for the officer to be arrested, but an attorney for Officer Alexander Bookman said his client committed no crime.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police received multiple calls early November 12 about a shooting on Wine River Drive. Durham, who was home with his 15-year-old daughter, told 911 that people were shooting at his house and had broken in, Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren said at a news conference last week.

When Bookman and two others responded, they saw damaged cars and windows and heard screaming and banging from inside Durham’s home. Bookman kicked in Durham’s front door and, once inside, found Durham and Alejandra Boudreaux, 31, wrestling over a knife in a bedroom doorway, according to Koren.

Boudreaux, who was in a relationship with Durham, had broken into the home and she and Durham were in a heated confrontation, according to an arrest report, first obtained by CNN affiliate KVVU.

Bookman shouted, “Drop the knife! Drop the knife!” and fired one shot, hitting Durham and sending him and Boudreaux to the ground. Durham, on the floor, was then shot by Bookman five more times, body-worn camera footage released by police showed. It is not clear whether one or both were holding the knife at the moment of the shooting.

“After the shots, (Boudreaux) told the officer he shot the wrong person,” the arrest report states.

“An arrest warrant should be issued immediately for the arrest of officer Alexander Bookman,” Lee Merritt, an attorney for Durham’s family, said at a Monday news conference, reported by CNN affiliate KNTV.

Bookman’s attorney says the officer did nothing that violated the law.

Steven Wolfson, Clark County district attorney, said in a statement the investigation is “still in its infancy.”

“It will take weeks, if not months, for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to complete its investigation; therefore, it would be inappropriate for me to express an opinion regarding whether criminal charges are going to be filed,” Wolfson said. “I simply do not have all the information yet.”

Israel's Genocide in "Self Defense:" Palestinians Are Being "Slowly Exterminated" in Gaza

Barbaric Israelis Post a Photo of a Soldier in Gaza Urinating on the Quran

From [HERE] An Israeli soldier in Gaza has reportedly posed a photo of himself urinating on a copy of the Quran, the Muslim Holy Book, in the latest offensive gesture toward the local Palestinian population in the enclave.

According to local news sites, the photograph was taken in Jabalia, north Gaza, where Israel imposed a month-long siege on the city with residents trapped under heavy bombardment and faced a ground offensive.

The alleged image was published on a private Instagram account of a soldier from the Givati Brigade 435 Rotem Battalion and time-stamped with the date 22 October 2024 at 17:41.

The song 'Violent Crimes' by controversial US artist Kanye West played over the image.

Online, many slammed the Israeli army's actions as "depraved" and "disrespectful", which follow other videos of soldiers ransacking mosques or burning Qurans.

"If someone posted a photo urinating on a Torah scroll, there would rightfully be widespread condemnation.  But when Israeli soldiers post photos urinating on a Quran and desecrating mosques, there’s no condemnation, just more praise for them as the most moral army in the world," one social media user wrote.

"How has this not made any news headline, if this was a Muslim doing this to another holy book (which would never happen) it would be broadcast everywhere, but of course Zionists get their free pass," another wrote.

The New Arab reached out to the Israeli army and ministry of defence for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

Pro-Palestine activists documented multiple examples of Israeli soldiers throwing pages of the Quran onto fires or other offensive acts. [MORE]

Israeli Forces Murder 76 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours

From [HERE] Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli attacks killed at least 76 Palestinians and wounded 158 more in the previous 24-hour period as Israeli strikes continued to pound targets across the Strip.

Strikes on Monday included an attack on a house in Beit Lahia, a city in northern Gaza that’s been under a complete siege since early October as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign.

According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, the Israeli strike in Beit Lahia killed at least 17 civilians. The strike was near the Kamal Adwan hospital, which also came under attack. According to Al Jazeera, people inside the hospital were injured by shrapnel when Israeli forces shelled the entrance.

In Gaza City, an Israeli strike hit a house, killing at least five Palestinians and injuring others. Israeli forces also targeted a house in Jabalia, killing one woman and injuring her family members.

Israeli attacks were also reported in central and southern Gaza. Near the southern city of Rafah, an Israeli drone targeted a group of Palestinians, killing at least one. The Israeli military also bombed the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least four.

The Health Ministry said the latest violence brought its death toll up to 43,922 and the number of wounded to 103,898. The figures don’t account for Palestinians missing and presumed dead under the rubble, which has previously been estimated to be over 10,000.

A group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza estimated in an open letter to President Biden in October that the US-backed Israeli bombing campaign and siege have killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, including over 60,000 who have starved to death. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who led the letter, told Antiwar.com in a recent interview that the estimate was the bare minimum they came up with by looking at the available data.

5 Cops Plead Guilty in Murder of Quantez Burks in WVA Jail. Cops Brutally Beat Handcuffed Black Man Until He Collapsed, Then Dropped Him Face Down Onto the Concrete where they Continued to Beat Him

From [HERE] and [HERE] Five former Southern Regional Jail corrections officers have admitted to federal prosecutors that 37-year-old Quantez Burks died during a brutal beating by officers on March 1, 2022, while Burks was incarcerated at the jail, and they admit correctional officers conspired to keep the truth from the public and from the victim’s family.

As of Friday, November 15, 2024, eight officers have been charged in U.S. District Court in relation to Burks’ death.

Burks had been arrested Feb. 28, 2022, and charged with wanton endangerment and obstructing an officer, allegations related to discharging a firearm at his home during an argument. Burks had been at the jail less than 24 hours when he died after a series of alleged beatings, all while he was handcuffed.

Plea agreements state that correctional officers beat Burks until he collapsed and then carried him to another “blind spot,” or room without a camera, threw him face down on a concrete floor and continued the alleged beating. 

According to evidence presented in federal court, multiple officers responded to a call March 1, 2022, after Burks tried to push past officers in order to leave C-pod, a housing unit for inmates. They then took him to an interview room, a blind spot, because there were no surveillance cameras. Walters arrived at the room a minute after Burks and the other officers did. Attorneys said Burks was restrained, handcuffed and did not pose a threat to anyone.

After Burks was taken to A-pod, another blind spot, he went limp, and multiple officers had to carry him to the next interview room. Walters carried him with one arm and told Judge Goodwin that after arriving to A-pod, he swung Burks forward, hitting his head against the metal door frame and when the officers got him inside the room, they dropped him face down on the concrete floor, where they continued to beat him. He became unresponsive while in A-pod.

A number of inmates have died at SRJ since 2018, including Steven Robinson, Alvis Shrewsbury and Cameron Dunbrack, and their families have told 59News that West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials and West Virginia State Police investigators have failed to provide satisfactory answers regarding their deaths.

Latasha Williams, who was engaged to Quantez Burks, said in past interviews that she learned her fiancée had died when she called the office of a Raleigh County magistrate to inquire about setting bond for him and the clerk casually mentioned that he had died.

Kimberly Burks said neither officials from WVDCR, nor the agency which oversees it (West Virginia Department of Homeland Security) have yet informed the family of Quantez Burks’ death.

The family said they were not immediately provided an autopsy report by the State Medical Examiner’s Office, but the Burks family banded together to pay the $5,000 required for a private autopsy and to secure an attorney.

When the private autopsy showed Quantez Burks was beaten and likely died of a heart attack due to the beatings, Burks and Williams began a campaign to force officials to provide answers, they said.

The women showed up at public meetings and confronted elected officials, including Gov. Jim Justice, and asked for help.

Within days of Quantez Burks’ death, the West Virginia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had joined the family’s attorneys in calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation, and famed civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump showed an interest, working with Georgia attorney Matthew Harman and Beckley attorney Stephen New.

The attorneys filed civil lawsuits and called on state officials to release video.

If Liberals are Allies of Black People Then Why Are They Filling Jails w/Blacks? Illinois Authorities Lock Up Blacks 7.5X More than Whites; Prison is 53% Black- yet Blacks are 14% of State Population

From [HERE] Often referred to as the most segregated city in the U.S. by media outlets like WBEZ Chicago and 14East, Chicago, Illinois, is riddled with redlining and racial profiling. A May 2024 report by a team of United Nations experts outlined a history of racist police brutality in the Chicago area, while a New York University School of Medicine study found that Chicagoans in the predominantly white neighborhood of Streeterville live an average of 30 years longer than the residents of the largely Black neighborhood of Englewood. The Chicago Sun-Times and journalist Linda Villarosa have attributed this disparity to segregation, disinvestment, and exploitative government-sanctioned policies.

The Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) notes that "With an incarceration rate of 433 per 100,000 residents [as of July 2024], Illinois locks up a higher percentage of its people than almost any democratic country on earth." Most of the state's prisoners are Chicago residents. Meanwhile, Black Illinois residents "are incarcerated at a rate 7.5 times higher than white people." Although, Illinois is only 14.6% Black, Blacks make up the majority of all those locked up at 53%. According to PPI, 77% of people in Illinois jails have not been convicted of a crime, meaning they're legally innocent. Additionally, people on probation in Illinois are saddled with onerous rules and conditions they must follow every day or risk incarceration.“ [MORE]

“Racist” republicans aren’t responsible.

Illinois is a Democratic stronghold and one of the "Big Three" Democratic strongholds alongside California and New York. Politics and economic life in Illinois is dominated by elite liberals. That is, elite whites, particularly those in the Chicago metro area, control and own all major resources (such as banks, local mainstream media, major real estate, ports, utilities, large corporations and businesses, all major industry, major non-profits, unions, hospitals, etc) and own most major real estate and anything else of substantial material value. If elite white liberals really wanted to do something about decarceration and the unjust and vastly disproportionate numbers of Black people incarcerated during the past 30 years, wouldn’t they have done so by now? In fact, in every metro area where large Black populations live amongst elite white liberals, Black people are incarcerated in grossly disproportionately numbers. In such places Blacks are also stopped, searched, injured and killed by police in grossly disproportionately numbers. Yet, Blacks rarely question this phenomena and enthusiastically support elite white liberals as their great allies - supporting them and their causes automatically without critical examination in every election.

The Civic Federation reported a nearly $2 billion budget for the Chicago Police Department (CPD) for the 2024 fiscal year. It further noted that the CPD budget "has grown steadily over the years to keep up with increases in personnel costs. CPD appropriations within the Corporate Fund have increased by nearly 40 percent since 2018."

Report: Corporate America Would Rather Help Women Kill Their Babies Than Start a Family

From [HERE] Nearly half of the Fortune 100 companies offer paid out-of-state travel for abortions, and many encourage options like egg freezing and in vitro fertilization in order to financially optimize their female employees.

A report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) shows that while some pro-family policies have been adopted at top corporations, the balance weighs heavily in favor of delaying or destroying families.

“In addition to offering praiseworthy parental-leave policies and assistance with the costs of adoption or child care, a significant number of these corporations have simultaneously begun promoting and incentivizing options such as surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, egg freezing, and travel for abortions — options that encourage female employees in particular to postpone or even forego motherhood in order to advance in their careers,” Alexandra DeSanctis, co-author of the study, told The Federalist. “Real support for women in the workplace would prioritize reincorporating female employees who have left the workforce for a time to care for children, offering greater flexibility to working fathers so they can be more present to their families, and making as much room as possible for mothers to take on flexible part-time or remote work.”

According to the report, at least 42 Fortune 100 companies have publicly touted their offer to pay for out-of-state abortion travel; two others “strongly suggest” they have the coverage. The report noted that not all companies are transparent with their offerings, and that the total number is “probably an undercount as coverage for abortion travel expenses is likely to become standard in many health-care plans” under general provisions.

The report notes that while companies might offer full coverage for abortion and travel, it will only offer a percentage of the cost for things like adoption. [MORE]

Gallup Polls Shows Overall Support for the Death Penalty Remains at Five-Decade Low as Opposition to the Death Penalty Grows

From [HERE] According to October 2024 polling produced by Gallup, support for capital punishment remains at a five-decade low in the United States. Overall, Gallup found 53% of Americans in favor of the death penalty, but that number masks considerable differences between older and younger Americans. More than half of young adults aged 18 to 43 now oppose the death penalty. Among those expressing a political affiliation, support for the death penalty fell markedly in all groups and in all generations, with the exception of Republicans sixty and older, where support for the death penalty rose by 2%. Public support of the death penalty peaked in 1994, with 80% of Americans in favor of the death penalty for a person convicted of murder, which roughly correlates with the peak in the number of executions in the United States. [MORE]