Documentary on Predictive Programming and Thought Control: ‘The Occupation of the American Mind - Israel's Public Relations War in the US’

From [HERE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

SARC – Self-Appointed Ruling Class—the noblesse oblige. 2) the overruling class elite. SARC controls the Corporate federal and state levels of stationary bandits and territorial gangsters better known as or doing business as “government,” university systems, political machines (as evidenced by Presidential [s]elections), mainline dependent media, the gangbanking system and most major multi-national corporations. Through its political and financial prowess, it is able to create (and impose) a collective virtual bozone layer reality conjured up and sustained by ritual white magic. (See: Statutory Oppression, Stationary Bandits, Corporate State, Involuntary Servitude, Bozone Layer & Territorial Gangsters)

mind control – a misnomer for thought control, e.g., a dollar is a dollar is a dollar. 2) corporate religion and T.V. 3) Media. 4) belief in granfalloons. Mind control comprises three sequential steps—Unfreezing, Changing and Refreezing. The essence of mind control is that it encourages dependence and conformity, and discourages autonomy and individuality. (See: MEDIA, Indoctrination, Pixilated People, Thought, Brainwashing, Unfreezing, Refreezing, Unsucking, Hypnotism, Isolation, Data Smog, Predictive Programming, Cultural Conditioning, Indoctrination, Programming & Granfalloons)

Monkey-Vision – imitation station—we begin to imitate what we see on network, Internet videos and cable TV—monkey see, monkey do. Monkey-minded people will watch any program on television rather than to watch no television at all. Before you get used to it, you will get used by it. While we’re monkeying around, we’re being monkeyed-down to the point where most people will stare at the screen rather than be alone with their thoughts causing them to scream. With Monkey-Vision, we never have to be told to do anything, just simply shown, repeatedly, with calculated precision. (See: Schooling, Conditioning, The Federal Hollyork Complex, Predictive Programming, Recall Button, Indoctrination & MEDIA)

predictive programming – an ancient technique of downloading (marketing) an idea into the subconscious of the conditioned mass-mind (step-by-step) guiding (bringing) the duped victims into a desired or predetermined conclusion that they actually believe was consciously derived on their own. Predictive programming works down through the centuries like a charm. Everyone is standardized with the same indoctrination—conditioned under the same mis-education and disinformation. Since we all watch the same TV and download the same standardized education, it never occurs that we are getting conned, uploaded, downgraded, brainchipped and ultimately faded from any memory of being an individual self. “Most folk’s beliefs and what they think is induced beliefs, is propagated into them through repetition as Bertrand Russell said. Just repetitive advertising and people start parroting it in their daily lives and it’s actually changing the structure of their mind into acceptance of something they don’t even perceive yet.” ~Alan Watt. With predictive programming you are entrained to accept something that has not yet happened (but will) and respond to it just like the characters in the movie—performing and dream-weaving what you’ve subliminally consumed. (See: THC, Borg, Pathocracy, MEDIA, T.V., Money, Deaf-Effect, Schooling, Education, Indoctrination, Cultural Conditioning, Dollar, “Government,” Authority, DOOR, Zombie, Android, Belief, Cognitive Dissonance, Clocksuckers, Chemtrails & Democracy)

Dolly Want a Cracker? Are Your Thoughts Your Own? - Behavioral Manipulation Expert David Charalambous Discusses False Reality Programming

The UN is Manipulating the Gaza Death Toll to Support Israeli Terrorcrats and Conceal Ongoing Holocaust

From [HERE] Controlling narratives is critical in the context of international war and the media. The UN’s reported death toll from Gaza has recently come under fire; allegations suggest that the UN dramatically reduced its numbers downward. The UN has denied this accusation, but it seems to be a part of a larger disinformation operation meant to support Israeli state propaganda and hide the truth about Palestinian suffering.

The UN promptly refuted the initial accusation that it had significantly altered the death toll from Gaza. In spite of this, the idea was not written off as a straightforward error in the media but rather as a conscious attempt at misinformation. The number of civilian deaths recorded by the Gaza Health Ministry—figures that are also cited by significant NGOs and the UN—has long been contested by pro-Israeli pundits and government representatives. These officials, frequently without supporting documentation, have written off these figures as Hamas propaganda for years.

Unwanted Cop Acquitted in Manny Ellis Case Sues Tacoma and DA for “False Allegations.” Was 1 of 6 White Cops who Held Black Man Down in a Hobble Restraint and Smothered Him to Death w/Spit Mask

From [HERE] Swift reaction to a $47 million claim filed by one of the three Tacoma police officers acquitted in the beating death of an unarmed black man.

Former Tacoma Police officer Timothy Rankine filed the claim, four months after a jury found him and two other officers not guilty in the death of Manuel Ellis.

Now Rankine and his wife are suing the state and city of Tacoma.

All three officers settled with the city for half a million dollars earlier this year and then resigned.

Now Timothy Rankine and his wife say the damage to their lives was so great they want more.

This, after a jury determined he and his fellow officers were not guilty of murder in the death of Manny Ellis.

“You think you got away with something but everybody’s going to be judged in the end,” said Brad Williams, a barber.

Emotions still run high inside the Goodfellas Barbershop when the subject of Manny Ellis comes up. The 33-year-old black man was repeatedly punched, tased, a spit hood placed over his head, in a deadly encounter with three Tacoma police officers four years ago.

“And I know of that man,” Williams said. “He used to go to this church over here.”

So, news that one of the acquitted officers, Timothy Rankine, and his wife, are now seeking $47 million in damages from the city and the state, well, it rankles.

“I don’t think anyone should be compensated for doing wrong,” Williams said.

A jury deliberated for three days before finding Rankine, Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins not guilty in Ellis’s death last December.

In January, the three officers each agreed to a half-million-dollar settlement with the city of Tacoma in exchange for turning in their badges.

Now, in the $47-million claim filing, Rankine is accusing the city and the state attorney general of “politically motivated, false allegations of biased policing and criminal misconduct, creating a hostile work environment, inciting hatred, threats, and violence toward me and my family.”

That does not sit well here.

“Because he already had his $500,000 depart,” said Leonard Olsen, barber. “And that’s it. Enough is enough. That’s just putting salt on the wound of disrespect.”

KIRO 7 spoke to Timothy Rankine’s attorney by telephone. She said she was too busy today to have a statement.

But she says she wants his voice heard. So, stay tuned.

A White Woman is the Latest Derek Chauvin Accuser Claiming the Killer Cop Performed the Same 'Signature Pose' on her that he Used to Murder George Floyd in Liberal, Minneapolis

GEORGE FLOYD’S Murder Wasn't Caused by 'Funding/Defunding polICE DEPARTMENTS' but by "Authority," the UNCONTROLLABLE POWER to Forcibly Control/Rule Over Citizens

From [HERE] Disgraced policeman Derek Chauvin is accused of using the same deadly restraint against a woman just a few months before he murdered George Floyd.

Patty Day is suing him and the City of Minneapolis for $9 million in damages for injuries and psychological trauma she suffered during a January 2020 arrest.

The lawsuit filed by Robins Kaplan LLP in federal Minnesota court alleged that five months before George Floyd's death Day was 'violently jerked from her car' and thrown to the ground by Chauvin and his partner Ellen Jensen.

Chauvin then allegedly applied his knee to Day's back while she lay handcuffed - the same stance he would fatally take for nine minutes during his arrest of Floyd.

Day claimed that due to the excessive force, she suffered 'significant' arm and shoulder injuries, as well as a fractured tooth.

All the while, Jensen did nothing to intervene, according to the suit.

She argued the City of Minneapolis was aware officers within its police department had a history of 'gratuitous use of excessive force'.

'Sadly, my experience with Derek Chauvin is not unique,' Day said.

'George Floyd died at the hands of this individual, and had the City intervened on his behavior after my interaction, he could still be alive today... It was a traumatic part of my life that I hope no one else will have to endure.'

Day, who was at the time communications director for the Minneapolis Department of Public Works, got behind the wheel after drinking on January 17, 2020.

Chauvin and Jensen showed up after someone called 911 to report a driver who appeared to be intoxicated stuck in a snowbank.

Ex CIA Kevin Shipp: The Shadow Government and the Deep State Are 2 Separate Enemies

Will Federal Ct Uphold the Law of the Jungle or Hold Police Accountable for Murdering a Black College Student? White Cops 'Shot Jamarion Robinson to Bits' @ Close Range–Shot @ 76X, Engaged in Cover-up

From [HERE] The mother of a 26-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by police officers nearly eight years ago asked a federal appeals court Friday to reverse the dismissal of her civil rights suit. The three-judge circuit panel did not signal when they intend to issue a ruling.

Monteria Robinson's excessive force claims were dismissed by a lower court because the officers were acting as part of a federal task force law with the U.S. Marshal Service. 

On appeal, she argued that should be able to sue because the officers on the task force were acting under state law and abiding by state agencies' policies and procedures. 

Her attorney, Mario Williams, argued before the 11th Circuit panel on Friday that all members of U.S. Marshal Service enforcement operations are required to comply with state agency guidelines, including those concerning the use of firearms and deadly force. 

If the officers were not employed by local law enforcement agencies, which empower them with Georgia general arrest powers, they wouldn't have had the authority to execute the arrest warrant against Jamarion Robinson to begin with, Williams argued. 

But U.S. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch noted differences between this case and the Supreme Court Bivens case, which found that an implied cause of action existed for an people whose Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure had been violated by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

Unlike in Bivens where federal narcotic officers executed a warrantless arrest, the task force officers in this case were acting in execution of valid arrest warrants. They also engaged in a gunfight with Jamarion Robinson who was armed, where as the suspect in Bivens was unarmed. 

"This is a very hard hill for you to climb up," said Branch. "How is having an arrest warrant for him not meaningful?"

Williams said the fact that the arrestee was armed does not mean the officers did not engage in excessive use of force. 

U.S. Circuit Judge Jill Pryor asked whether a Bivens remedy applies against officers working as fugitive task force agents of the Marshal Service. The Supreme Court's recent decision in Egbert held that any claim that isn't highly similar to the facts in Bivens provides a "new context" in which a damages claim can't proceed if there is any reason to think Congress might be better equipped to create a damages remedy.

Assistant U.S. attorney Gabriel Mendel, representing task force officers Eric Heinze and Daniel Doyle, argued the circumstances of this case present a new context requiring consideration of special factors.

Mendel defended the lower court's finding that alternative remedial structures exist, including an administrative scheme under the Federal Tort Claims Act that permits plaintiffs to sue those acting on behalf of the United States. Monteria Robinson had already done so, and the 11th Circuit previously affirmed the judge's dismissal of those claims on summary judgment. 

U.S. Circuit Judge Frank Hull, expressed concern that Monteria Robinson may be barred from raising her claims because she did not raise the question, during her first appeal, of whether the court correctly held the defendants were acting as federal officers.

That was in 2022, when she appealed a judge's previous dismissal of the case finding that the officers' "use of force was objectively reasonable” and granting them qualified immunity.

An 11th Circuit panel found that evidence from a bystander's video created a "genuine dispute of material fact" and remanded the case for further proceedings on claims that officers Heinze and Doyle used excessive force after a flashbang exploded. [MORE]

According to the complaint in the civil case the facts are as follows:

On August 5, 2016, at approximately 12:30, seven or more members of the Task Force, including the Defendant-Officers, met at a church near Washington Road and Interstate 285 in Atlanta for the purpose of receiving information about serving an arrest warrant on decedent Jamarion Robinson at 3129 Candlewood Drive in Atlanta. Among other things, Steve O'Hare “relayed…ROBINSON’S mental health history” to the defendant officers in attendance. Approximately an hour after the meeting in the church the Defendant-Officers moved from the church near Washington Road and Interstate 285 to positions around and in front of 3129 Candlewood Drive. One or more of the Defendant-Officers pounded loudly on the front door of 3129 Candlewood Drive multiple times. Then one or more Defendant-Officers broke down the front door and, without cause or provocation by Jamarion Robinson, began “spraying” bullets around the interior of 3129 Candlewood Drive with one or more H&K 9 mm submachine guns, one or more H&K .40 mm submachine guns, and one or more Glock .40 pistols.

When one or more of the Defendant-Officers began “spraying” bullets around the interior of 3129 Candlewood Drive, they did not know how many people were in the building. Fifty-nine bullets or more from the sub-machine guns and Glocks of the Defendant Officers entered the body of Jamarion Robinson, killing him. After killing Jamarion Robinson, one or more of the defendants ascended a single flight of stairs to a second-floor landing, where the bullet-riddled corpse of Jamarion Robinson was lying.

With the intention of covering-up their actions by manipulating the evidence on the scene and with the intention making it more difficult if not impossible to accurately reconstruct the shooting-event, the defendant officers:

• Set off a flash bang grenade after lethally shooting Jamarion Robinson;

• Stood over Jamarion Robinson corpse and mutilated it by firing into it two 9 millimeter bullets;

• Handcuffed the corpse knowing that it was lifeless and without the power of animation to react to them;

• Put an oxygen rebreathing mask over the corpse knowing that it was lifeless and without the power of respiration;

• Dragged the corpse from the second floor landing down a flight of stairs to the first floor, with the purpose of attempting to destroy the evidentiary connection:

• between the bullet entry-and-exit wounds on the corpse and the surrounding walls, floor and ceiling;

• between the corpse and the blood- and flesh-spatter patterns on the surrounding walls, floor and ceiling; and

• between the corpse and its actual position when found by the defendant officers; and f. Otherwise tampered with the evidence on the scene with the intention of destroying the evidentiary value

Heinze and Hutchens are accused of using unnecessary force by continuing to shoot at Robinson even after he fell to the ground and was unresponsive. 

Daniel Doyle, another task force member who opened fire that day, died of cancer in March 2020 and was never charged.

According to a medical examiner’s report, Robinson was shot 59 times, with 75 bullet wounds that either entered or exited his body.  The family said that a pathologist found that Robinson had been shot several times through the palms of both hands.[3] Attorney for the state Natalie Adams said Thursday that the report showed that Robinson’s “hands and arms were shot to bits.”

None of the officers were injured in the incident.[4] None of the police officers involved in the shooting wore body cameras.[13] [MORE]

Ambulance was 1 Hour Too Late Causing a Miscarriage. 'So What?' says Federal Court, 'There's No Constitutional Right to Receive Emergency Services and Govt Has No Duty to Provide Rescue Services'

PURSUANT TO THE SO-CALLED “SOCIAL CONTRACT,” Citizens are contractually obliged to obey all laws and GOVERNMENT commands and IF they fail to do so the government CAN punish the citizen, usually with fines or imprisonment. IN CONTRAST, authorities HAVE NO SUCH OBLIGATION TO THE CITIZEN - AS AUTHORITIES are bound ONLY to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it and to whom they choose, but no one in particular. AS STATED BY THE COURT IN THE MATTER DISCUSSED BELOW, ‘THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO obligation To provide competent rescue services - if it chooses to provide SUCH SERVICES. HERE, “OBLIGATION” means a legally enforceable and vested right to receive services the citizen is entitled to RECEIVE. WE ARE OBLIGED TO OBEY THE GOVERNMENT BUT GOVERNMENT CAN PROVIDE SERVICES IF IT SO DESIRES. Dr. Blynd asks “Makes you feel like a fool, doesn’t it? ” [MORE]

If there is no social contract then there is no rational basis for the belief in political authority.

From [HERE] A federal court in Pennsylvania dismissed the wrongful death and negligence claims brought against a county by a married couple whose unborn daughter died after an ambulance took over an hour to arrive during the wife’s medical emergency. Their claims do not sustain a constitutional violation, and without this, their state law questions are not appropriate for the federal court to consider. The court ruled:

Plaintiffs’ Section 1983 claims against the other Defendants fail because Plaintiffs have not alleged a violation of Stephanie or Paisley Reiner’s constitutional rights. The Bill of Rights is a charter of negative liberties, prohibiting government action rather than requiring it. The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is no different. It prohibits any state from “depriv[ing] any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”66

The Third Circuit has long-standing precedent that there is no constitutional right to receive emergency ambulance services, nor is there “an affirmative obligation on the State to provide competent rescue services if it chooses to provide them.” 67 So any injuries resulting from flawed or incompetent emergency rescue services are not constitutional injuries, and hence not actionable under Section 1983.68 Plaintiffs’ argument that they only waited an hour for the ambulance because they did not know it would take so long requires a closer analysis of this Circuit’s “state-created danger” theory of liability.

According to the court’s decision:

The complaint in this case revolves around the negligent training and response of a 911 Center and dispatcher, whose response to a call requesting emergency medical assistance exacerbated Stephanie Reiner’s injuries and resulted in the death of her unborn daughter, Paisley.

On September 23, 2022, Stephanie Reiner was approximately 32 weeks pregnant with Paisley.8 Stephanie Reiner began experiencing stomach discomfort that same afternoon, which worsened and became constant.9 Reiner contacted a triage nurse in the labor and delivery department at Geisinger Medical Center at approximately 3:00 p.m.10 While on the phone with the nurse, Reiner felt a sensation similar to her water breaking and believed she was going into labor.11 After Reiner described her condition, the nurse advised her to contact 911 so that she could be admitted to the hospital.12 After the call, however, Reiner discovered that her water had not broken, and that she was bleeding profusely.13 She immediately called 911 and spoke to a dispatcher at the 911 Center, informing the dispatcher that this was a medical emergency and that she was in need of an ambulance.14 The dispatcher advised Reiner that an ambulance would be dispatched immediately.15

Reiner’s mother-in-law Luann Snyder came to the residence minutes after Reiner called 911.16 Snyder observed a pool of blood beneath Reiner and throughout the kitchen.17 After waiting for the ambulance for ten minutes, Snyder called 911 to find out when it would arrive.18 The dispatcher stated that an ambulance had been dispatched and was on the way.19 After waiting another ten to fifteen minutes, Snyder called 911 again, asking where the ambulance was coming from and how far away it was.20 But the dispatcher refused to tell Snyder where the ambulance had been dispatched from.21 Instead, the dispatcher reiterated that an ambulance had been dispatched and would be there soon, and that Snyder should be patient.22 Snyder waited another ten to fifteen minutes, and then again called 911.23 She advised the dispatcher that if they could not get Reiner to an ambulance, they needed to get her to a helicopter because she was bleeding out.24 After an additional fifteen minutes of waiting, the ambulance finally arrived.25 Throughout the time Reiner waited for the ambulance to arrive, she experienced severe pain and constant gushes of blood from her vaginal area.26

Two ambulance companies are located within approximately ten miles of Reiner’s residence, while a third is located approximately 24 miles from her residence.27 Yet unbeknownst to Reiner and Snyder, the 911 Center never contacted these companies, which were in service and available on the date of Reiner’s incident.28 Instead, the ambulance which actually arrived was in fact coming from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which was over an hour away from Reiner’s residence.29 If Reiner and Snyder had known that the ambulance was coming from Harrisburg, they would have driven to the nearest hospital immediately.30

Reiner’s misfortune did not end with the arrival of the ambulance. The ambulance that was dispatched was from CLT, located approximately 60 miles from Reiner’s residence.31 After arriving at Reiner’s residence, the Emergency Medical Technicians (“EMTs”) forced Reiner to walk approximately 100 feet to the ambulance outside, even though Reiner advised them that she believed she was hemorrhaging.32 The EMTs then asked Reiner to get on the stretcher by herself, despite her profuse bleeding and difficulty walking.33 They then downgraded the call from a Code 3 response to a Code 1 response,34 and did not leave for approximately an additional seven minutes after Reiner was secured in the ambulance.35 The ambulance did not use lights and sirens and stopped at every red light on the way to Geisinger Medical Center (“Geisinger”).36 And the EMTs never took Reiner’s blood pressure or administered intravenous (“IV”) therapy.37 During the ambulance ride, Reiner vomited four times.38

The EMTs never contacted anyone at Geisinger on the way to the hospital, and Geisinger personnel were unaware of Reiner’s condition when she arrived.39 After the ambulance arrived at Geisinger, the Geisinger nurses asked why Reiner did not have an IV and sent the EMTs away.40 Upon Reiner’s arrival at Geisinger, Paisley Reiner, her unborn daughter, still had a heartbeat.41 Reiner was rushed to the operating room for an emergency Caesarean section.42 Geisiner medical personnel informed Reiner that she had a full placental abruption and hemorrhage.43 Reiner’s surgery continued for five hours because doctors could not stop her bleeding, and doctors were forced to give Reiner large doses of medications to promote blood clotting to attempt to stop the bleeding.44

Ultimately, Paisley Reiner was delivered stillborn that same day.45 Reiner’s treating physician advised her that if she had arrived at the hospital sooner, Paisley Reiner would have survived the trauma.46 The physician stated that Reiner’s condition started as a partial placental abruption and developed into a complete abruption by the time she arrived at Geisinger. As a result of this incident, Reiner suffers from blood clots and has had three miscarriages.47 On September 26, 2022—three days after Reiner’s incident—Russell Fellman, the 911 Coordinator in charge of the Northumberland County 911 Center, modified the Computer Aided Dispatch (“CAD”) station order relating to Reiner’s call at the 911 Center.48 Fellman changed the 13 EMS district station order to reflect the correct station order that should have been used when Reiner originally contacted the 911 Center.49 Although Area Services was not recommended for dispatch on September 23, 2022 because it was listed deep in the station order, Fellman also modified the CAD system station order to move Area Services higher on the list of emergency services dispatched to a particular location.50

The Northumberland County District Attorney’s Office investigated the incident.51 In October 2022, the Northumberland County Fire Chiefs Association’s vice president claimed that mismanagement of the 911 Center had placed the public in danger; another fire chief expressed concern that mismanagement of the 911 Center would result in civilian death.52 At this same meeting, fire officials aired grievances concerning prolonged dispatch times and significant dispatcher turnover, and called for Fellman’s termination.53 Fellman resigned as 911 Coordinator in December 2022.54 According to Plaintiffs, dispatchers at the 911 Center were not properly trained to dispatch ambulances.55

Chad Reiner, Stephanie Reiner, and the estate of Paisley Reiner now bring a five-count complaint against Defendants.56 Counts I and II seek damages against all defendants for alleged violations of Paisley Reiner and Stephanie Reiner’s federal constitutional rights under Title 18 U.S.C. § 1983.57 The remaining counts are brought exclusively against Defendant CLT under Pennsylvania state law. Count III states a claim for Gross Negligence, Count IV seeks damages under Pennsylvania’s Wrongful Death Act, and Count V seeks damages under Pennsylvania’s Survival Action statute.58 [MORE]

Tennessee Authorities Claim They Can Murder People Convicted for Child Sexual Assault in Direct Challenge to Supreme Court Death Penalty Precedent

From [HERE] On May 9, Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee signed a bill authorizing the death penalty for aggravated rape of a child, following Florida’s passage of a similar law last year. Both laws contradict longstanding Supreme Court precedent holding the death penalty unconstitutional for non-homicide crimes. Tennessee’s law takes effect on July 1. The state has had a death penalty moratorium in place since May 2022 after Governor Lee learned that state officials had failed to test execution drugs for bacterial contamination; he ordered a subsequent independent investigation which found that the state had systematically failed to follow lethal injection protocols. Governor Lee did not release a statement upon signing the bill and has issued no recent updates on the status of the moratorium.  

The Supreme Court held in Coker v. Georgia (1977) that the use of the death penalty is disproportionate to the crime of rape, violating the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The Court extended that ruling to child rape in Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008). While the Court emphasized the “hurt and horror inflicted” by perpetrators of child rape and the “years of long anguish” endured by the victim, the Court noted that only a handful of states authorized the death penalty for child rape and only two men in the entire country were on death row as a result, making the punishment unconstitutionally “unusual” for the crime. The Court further noted the disproportionate nature of the punishment of death on a person who had not caused death, raising concerns about the “incongruity” between child sexual abuse and the “harshness” of the death penalty. “When the law punishes by death, it risks its own sudden descent into brutality, transgressing the constitutional commitment to decency and restraint,” the justices wrote.   

Critics have argued that such laws could further traumatize victims. Maria DeLiberato, Executive Director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, pointed out that 30% of child sex abuse victims are abused by family members and 90% of victims know their abuser. “You’ve got this whole dynamic where a child is going to bear the weight of a possible death sentence to a neighbor, an uncle, a grandfather,” she said. Similarly, the Court noted in Kennedy that it “is not at all evident that the child rape victim’s hurt is lessened when the law permits the death of the perpetrator,” as death penalty cases “require a long-term commitment by those who testify for the prosecution” and victims would have to relive their trauma through law enforcement interviews and testimony for decades. The practice “forces a moral choice on the child, who is not of mature age to make that choice,” the Court wrote.  

There is also evidence that such laws increase the risk of wrongful execution. The Kennedy Court discussed research showing children have a heightened susceptibility to suggestion or fabrication in law enforcement interviews. The National Registry of Exonerations has identified over 300 wrongful convictions involving child sex abuse.  

Governor DeSantis and Florida legislators designed their bill as an opportunity for the Supreme Court to overturn Kennedy. “This bill sets up a procedure to be able to challenge that precedent,” DeSantis said. Florida prosecutors announced their first case under the law in December. Some Tennessee legislators made the same argument; state Senator Janice Bowling suggested that “the atmosphere is different on the Supreme Court” and the bill’s sponsors were “simply challenging a ruling.” (Governor Lee denied signing the bill to “test” it in court.) These efforts come amidst challenges at the Supreme Court to the “evolving standards of decency” test used in Kennedy and numerous landmark capital punishment cases. A pending death penalty case from Alabama challenging the test, Hamm v. Smith, has been relisted by the Court fourteen times without a certiorari decision, and advocates recently appeared to sidestep a nearly-identical challenge to the test in a case argued before the Court in April.  

Are Alabama Prisons for Confinement or Gender Annihilation? Gov Has Spent $10M Defending Claims that Overcrowded Inmates are Routinely Raped, Sexually Abused and Subjected to Horrific Sexual Violence

Findings issued by the United States Department of Justice documenting the extraordinary rise in violence and sexual assaults in Alabama's prisons over the last five years leave no doubt that there is a humanitarian crisis in our state's prisons. Photographs are now appearing in local and national media that provide a window into violence that state officials have long shielded from public view. [MORE]

FUNKTIONARY MAKES IT PLAIN:

prisons – U.S. Bureau of Gender Annihilation and Family Destruction. Prisons are indicative of society’s sickness, the political repression of the State and a corrupt—if not bankrupt—economic system of monopoly capitalism. There is a myth supported by Corporate media that prisons function to keep criminals away from society. This is patently false as most crimes are non-violent and actually go unreported. Most “criminals” operate and remain within agencies and boardrooms—though not in prison, making life for others a living hell. Prisons are but reflections of society’s infractions—refracted in the form of deformed grins and shadowed sins—missing the mark is the mark of the missing and exploited, the lost, oppressed, despised and compromised, left with only vices as their bootstrap devices in a misbegotten world gone astray. A place where the multitudes (have-nots) scrap amongst each other in order to taste the morsel of just another still-born day that brings the hope unborn aborted in the muffled moans of yesterday. The ghetto groans in the birth of a new dawn accompanied by the same old sirens serenading the pangs of hunger, souls murmur and pre-mumble the pre-amble to be free; free from the oppression of the OCTOCON and its emissaries. I’ve seen the whites of eyes, clear and teary—hold on my people, don’t get weary. We must all learn to discern and honor the sacredness of life—the life you deserve is the one you preserve, and the life you help save may help you save your own. (See: The OCTOCON, Penal Code, DL Brothers, Buck Rodgers Time, BOP, Capital Punishment, Monopoly Capitalism & Homo Tiempos) [MORE]

From [HERE] An incarcerated man sued Alabama, claiming state officials were deliberately indifferent to the risk of sexual violence in the state’s prisons. As the judge noted in 2023, Jacob Barefield’s complaint listed terrifying, credible examples. But something else caught the judge’s eye—the State’s response when asked why it spent over $10 million fighting such lawsuits.

We are “an easy target,” the State’s lawyers wrote in a court filing, and “baseless claims must still be defended.” Besides, the State said, Mr. Barefield’s complaint had not “plausibly” claimed a pattern of unchecked sexual violence.

U.S. District Court Judge W. Keith Watkins wrote:

Did they read the complaint? If they had then they would know that such a violent environment is exactly what [the plaintiff] alleges, and arguments to the contrary are disingenuous, if not bordering on outright dishonesty.

In Alabama, people incarcerated in overcrowded and understaffed prisons are routinely raped, sexually abused, and subjected to horrific sexual violence. Twenty years after Congress unanimously passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), sexual violence in Alabama’s prisons is at an all-time high. 

For years, officials have been notified about a pattern of sexual assaults, rapes, and brutal attacks. Last year, the Alabama Department of Corrections received almost daily reports of prison sexual assaults.

Mr. Barefield’s complaint, filed in federal court, details allegations of a harrowing episode at an Alabama prison. 

According to the complaint,  Mr. Barefield, 25, was standing in the canteen snack line at Ventress Correctional Facility, a sprawling medium security prison in southeastern Alabama, on Sunday morning, November 11, 2018, when an incarcerated man wearing a teal wristband approached him with a knife.

The wristband meant the man lived in F Dorm, the section of Ventress reserved for prisoners with recent serious infractions and needing the highest level of management. LL, the man flashing the knife at Mr. Barefield, had been transferred to Ventress from St. Clair, a maximum security prison where he had allegedly stabbed a man to death in a fight five years earlier.

LL’s wristband signaled that he had no business being in the canteen that morning with Mr. Barefield and the other men there. But no guard was there to stop him. LL encountered not a single guard as he walked Mr. Barefield out of the canteen at knifepoint, across the prison yard, past a number of buildings, and toward F Dorm.

The complaint alleges that Ventress officials knew Mr. Barefield might be a target. They had determined that he was especially vulnerable to sexual assault. He wore the yellow wristband of C Dorm, whose residents are not allowed in F Dorm. But the guard at the door to F Dorm did not check his wristband, and no correctional officer was on duty inside the dorm. 

The door should have been locked. It wasn’t. LL opened it and forced Mr. Barefield into the open-bay dorm, a big room that housed more than 100 men classified as high risk. 

Marching his captive past the rows of metal bunk beds, LL forced Mr. Barefield onto a lower bunk. A nearby television had its volume turned all the way up. Sheets and blankets hung from the upper bunk, creating a makeshift tent, or “hump” in Alabama prison slang, that concealed what went on inside.

LL told another prisoner he was going “to show him how to take control of another inmate.” Then he entered the tent.

What happened next, according to the complaint, is described by Judge Watkins in his August 22, 2023, memorandum opinion in Mr. Barefield’s lawsuit: 

There, in the middle of the morning, in a violent offender’s dorm that Barefield should never have been allowed to enter, in a crowded area that should have been supervised by a guard, in a makeshift tent that should have been immediately taken down, using a knife that should have been confiscated, [LL] raped Jacob Barefield…The T.V. drowned out any cries.

After the rape finally ended, LL and another incarcerated person held Mr. Barefield hostage inside the ”hump” for more than five hours. During that time, in violation of Ventress policy, no guards patrolled or even monitored surveillance cameras in that section of F Dorm.  

If Mr. Barefield told anyone what had happened, he’d be killed, LL warned. 

When a prison official arrived to do the daily count before dinner, LL released Mr. Barefield, who immediately sought aid. He told the shift commander in the yard he had been attacked and repeatedly asked for his help.

The commander did not take a statement or file a report, as required. He did not direct Mr. Barefield to the infirmary or ask who had raped him. He simply ordered him back to C Dorm. 

That night Mr. Barefield telephoned a friend and asked her to report the rape to the warden and other supervisors. She did, promptly. But Mr. Barefield’s suit said that for two days, in violation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, those officials took no action.

Weeks later, Warden Michael Strickland barged in on a meeting between Ventress’s PREA compliance officer and Mr. Barefield. As the ultimate authority at Ventress, the warden said to Mr. Barefield “something along the lines of ‘grow some hair on your chin,’” Judge Watkins wrote.  

“If true,” Judge Watkins wrote, “the allegations in this case tell a horrific story about excessively dangerous conditions in another Alabama state prison—and the failures of authorities to fix them.”

The judge added this footnote: 

This case does not come to the court in isolation. In the past year, several courts have found viable allegations of unconstitutionally violent conditions of confinement throughout the Alabama prison system. The common themes in these cases are easily detected: understaffing, overcrowding, proliferation of contraband weapons, and abject failures to monitor and supervise inmates—all of which have allegedly led to the highest rates of inmate-on-inmate violence in the country. And those failures, especially concerning egregious understaffing, are not new. Over five years ago, the Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) was ordered to staff Alabama prisons at a constitutionally adequate level. He has not yet done so.  

Feds Keep the Poverty Line Artificially Low ($15,060 for 1 adult in 2024) to Conceal at Least 36 Million Households who Earn Too Much to Qualify for Welfare and Not Enough to Afford the Basics

From [HERE] Some of the country’s savviest economic trend predictors spend all day answering call-center phones. 

Operators at 211 emergency helplines raised alarm bells about a baby formula shortage ahead of the headlines about empty shelves. And they knew that families were defaulting on their mortgages before the subprime collapse in 2008.    

Now, even as the economy looks healthy by many measures, 211 workers say they are hearing something concerning: more people living very close to poverty than the federal poverty line might suggest. The disparity aligns with polls showing high levels of consumer malaise despite recent good news like cooling inflation, low unemployment and strong hiring in March.

United Way, the nonprofit that operates about half of the country’s 200-plus 211 centers, and other poverty researchers blame that disconnect partly on the federal poverty line, which they say hasn’t kept up with the real cost of living. 

The share of households below the census-designated federal poverty line has barely budged since 2010. Meanwhile, poverty researchers say a large and fast-growing group of people are earning too much to qualify for social services and not enough to afford the basics where they live.

“We wonder why there’s so much anger in public discourse today, and it’s in part because of the stress people feel to just keep themselves and their families afloat,” says Lisa Tepper Bates, president of United Way of Connecticut. “People feel like the system is not serving them.” 

United Way calls this population ALICE, or Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. The organization says about 36 million American households, or 29%, met the criteria in 2021, the most recent year for which data is available. That is up 18% from 2010. Preliminary data show the same trend continuing through 2022.

In nearby Hartford, where the cost of living outpaces the national average, 38% of households fit that description. Call centers operate locally, and Connecticut’s center hears from residents all over the state. 

Not many answers

During years of underemployment as a single parent, Theo Bonet got help from services—and later applied to work as a United Way contact specialist to help families who also needed assistance. The 42-year-old didn’t expect to tell so many callers that they earn too much for assistance. 

“It’s heart-wrenching to have to say to someone who’s struggling, ‘I’m sorry, you’re not eligible,’ ” says Bonet, adding that the frequency of these calls has risen sharply. 

Callers tell Bonet that they are embarrassed to ask for help and that they are often doing so for the first time after working throughout adulthood. “I always remind them it takes strength to make a call,” Bonet says. 

Trained to route callers to thousands of outside resources and service providers, United Way operators say those available to ALICE families struggling to pay their bills are often limited to food pantries and a smattering of religious and government programs without income restrictions. 

The federal poverty level for a family of four stands at $31,200. United Way of Connecticut estimates the bare-minimum survival budget for a family of four with two young children in the state to be as high as $126,000. United Way uses the local cost of housing, groceries, child care, healthcare, transportation, technology and taxes to come up with ALICE survival budgets for every U.S. county. 

Bonet recently spoke with a man who said he earned $10,000 a month and was looking for low-cost medical facilities because he couldn’t afford health insurance. 

“I just was kind of in disbelief to hear someone who makes that much struggling,” Bonet says. 

Defining poverty

United Way of Connecticut President Tepper Bates doesn’t mince words: “The federal poverty line is garbage.”

Although the Census Bureau raises the poverty line each year in step with the Labor Department’s consumer-price index, some poverty experts say the underlying math doesn’t reflect many financial realities. The core assumption that families spend a third of their total income on food, they say, is inconsistent with the fact that on average, housing consumes the largest share of household budgets. And the metric doesn’t adjust for differences in the cost of living across the U.S., which hurts residents of high-cost states such as Connecticut.  

The Census Bureau released its own supplemental poverty measure in 2011 that provides a more nuanced calculation. The official poverty line of $15,060 for one adult in 2024, however, remains the baseline for determining most public assistance. Among the benefits: Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the National School Lunch Program. 

A group of Democratic congressmen introduced a bill in December that would change the poverty line calculation more drastically than the supplemental measure and likely qualify more families for benefits. It hasn’t received a vote.   

Pandemic-era benefits cushioned families during the early period of rapid inflation, says Marianne Page, director of the Center for Poverty and Inequality Research and an economics professor at the University of California, Davis. Without those programs, more families are struggling, she says. 

“People are worse off now,” Page says. “There are a lot of other measures by which we might think the economy is doing OK. But at the end of the day, things like inflation and benefits being clawed back have an impact on a family’s ability to purchase the goods and services that it needs.” 

The Department of Health and Human Services and Commerce Department, which both play roles in federal poverty calculations and benefit allocation, directed the Journal to each other or to publicly available information. [MORE]

An Inside Job: 'The Oct 7th Attacks on Israel Were Organized and Enabled by Israel. The $2 Billion Fence at Gaza is Impenetrable to “Hamas” and is the Most Surveilled Border in the World’

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Israel – the name of the most successful and vicious terrorist groups that ultimately became a nation (Corporate State) on the heels of the British government controlled United Nations mandate. 2) Occupied Palestine—preoccupied by Palestinians prior to the time in history when there weren’t any Hebrews living on the dusty tiny strip of land on the western edge of the Asian continent erroneously referred to as the Middle East. 3) the name created by combining two Khemetic gods Isis, Ra with a Semitic one El. Israel or Is it Real? (See: Zionism, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Jews, Terrorism, Racism White Supremacy, Caucasian, Israeliens & Thugs)

Israeliens – impostor (pale interloper alien) Hebrews—Eastern European stock Caucasians who adopted the philosophy, myths, fables, and traditions of the so-called “Jews” while living in Russia—masquerading as if they had any genetic or historical ancestry and cultural heritage to the Afrikan Hebrews, the Afrim people, who occupied Canaan (Palestine) from ancient times. 2) those who currently are occupying Palestine (the land of Canaan), colonizing and killing its rightful descendants, historic owners and dwellers), and are undeniably alien (foreign—not aboriginal) to that land. 3) impostor Hebrews originating from the Pale of Settlement in Kazzarian Russia currently an occupying force (militarily holed-up and propped-up by US financial support and British skullduggery) in occupied Palestine. 4) alien Jews—Pinchbeck Hebrews. Israeliens are East Europeans with no genetic or actual historic ties whatsoever to the land now called Palestine. Israeliens have brainwashed (and fooled) themselves and many others into believing this historical lie and propaganda that they are the descendents of “Jews” (a misnomer for African Hebrews, itself a misnomer for the Afrim people). Anyone with a modicum of research skills, knowledge of basic geography, philology, and an unbiased-by-religious-myth mind can easily confirm or validate this fact for his or herself. Both so-called Sephardim and Ashkenazim “Jews” are not historically tied to the Afrim. It’s not that Caucasians who have adopted the “Jewish” religion shouldn’t have a place to live—but how about suggesting relocating where they came from—the hills of Russia, and not on another peoples’ land. You don’t invade (break into) someone’s house (property) and expect them to just go away and not fight to get it back (despite how much force, murdering, deception, and propaganda that is brought to bear to justify such wrongful invasion and genocide). Psychological repression is both invisible and reflexive. (See: Zionism, USS Liberty, Gulf of Tonkin, Genocide, Immigrant Human, Jew, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Evolution, Caucasian, Pilgarlick, El & Judaism)

"Gaza isn't starving. Gaza is being starved by Israel." Videos Show Genocidal, Crazy IsrAlien "Settlers" Attack and Destroy Food on Aid Trucks Headed for Gaza

From [HERE] and [MORE]. US GOVERNMENT IS LYING TO YOU - IT KNOWS BARBARIC ISRALIENS ARE STOPPING AID. From targeting humanitarian vehicles to standing by as mobs attack trucks, Israel is blocking aid from reaching Gaza.

ON MONDAY, A mob of Israeli settlers attacked aid trucks carrying food supplies to Gaza. The extremists pillaged the cargo, destroying and smashing supplies desperately needed more than half a year into Israel’s assault on the besieged enclave. Israel’s police and military traded blame, each saying the other should have prevented it, but a senior security official told Haaretz that the rioters received “inside information about the trucks’ movement” from officers.

The incident is emblematic of a pattern that has played out repeatedly for months. Israelis, either vigilante extremists or state officials, block or outright attack humanitarian aid; the United States offers a milquetoast response or extends further favor to Israel; the violence continues and even ramps up. There is ample evidence of the Israeli government looking the other way as these attacks and obstructions on aid delivery play out. None of it is secret — much of it has been documented on camera and spread through social media. [MORE]

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Study by a Coalition of Academic Institutions says Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza

From [HERE] A ground-breaking study by a coalition of prestigious academic institutions has concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, constitute genocide against the Palestinian people. The study, conducted by the University Network for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School, presents a thorough legal analysis of Israel’s conduct in the context of the Genocide Convention of 1948.

The study found that Israel has committed genocidal acts of killing, causing serious harm to, and inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza, a protected group that forms a substantial part of the Palestinian people. Between 7 October last year and 1 May, 2024, Israel has killed at least 34,568 Palestinians and wounded 77,765 others in Gaza, comprising more than five per cent of Gaza’s population. Shockingly, over two per cent of Gaza’s children have been killed or injured, with approximately 14,500 Palestinian children killed in total.

The coalition’s report of the study also highlights the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including homes, hospitals, schools, UN facilities and cultural and religious heritage sites. As a result of Israel’s military offensive, 1.7 million civilians — over 75 per cent of Gaza’s population — have been forcibly displaced, and civilians face catastrophic levels of hunger and deprivation due to Israel’s restriction on access to basic essentials.

The report concludes that Israel’s genocidal acts in Gaza have been motivated by the requisite genocidal intent, as evidenced by statements from Israeli leaders expressing dehumanisation and cruelty towards Palestinians, as well as intentions to destroy and exterminate them. The patterns of conduct by Israeli military forces in Gaza further reinforce the finding of Israel’s genocidal intent, the report said.

The academic institutions call for an immediate cessation of Israel’s violations of the international legal prohibition of genocide and emphasise the obligations of all other states to refrain from recognising Israel’s breaches as legal, avoid complicity, and take positive steps to suppress, prevent, and punish further genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

PLM [Puppetican Lives Matter]: Man who Attacked Nancy Pelosi's Husband Sentenced to 30 years in Prison

From [HERE] The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday sentenced the man who attacked former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband to thirty years imprisonment for assault and attempted kidnapping.

On October 31, 2022, David DePape was charged with the attempted kidnapping of Nancy Pelosi and the assault of her husband Paul Pelosi. The indictment alleged that DePape broke into Pelosi’s home and assaulted 82-year-old Paul with a hammer. It also stated that DePape admitted to the police that “[h]e planned to hold Speaker Pelosi hostage” to get the “truth” out of her and “would break ‘her kneecaps'” if she “lied” because Pelosi was the “‘leader of the pack’ of lies told by the Democratic Party.” On November 17, 2023, a jury convicted DePape on his charges.

The court gave concurrent sentences of 20 years of imprisonment for the attempted kidnapping and 30 years of imprisonment for the assault of Paul. The court also mandated five years of supervised release and a $200 fine.

In response to DePape’s sentencing, Pelosi’s spokesperson released a statement on X saying:

The Pelosi family couldn’t be prouder of their Pop and his tremendous courage in saving his own life on the night of the attack and in testifying in this case. Speaker Pelosi and her family are immensely grateful to all who have sent love and prayers over the last eighteen months, as Mr. Pelosi continues his recovery.

US Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey said in a press release after DePaul’s conviction: “Our public servants and their families deserve to work and live without threats and violence. Defendant’s violent plan to kidnap then-Speaker Pelosi was rooted in his virulent disagreement with her as a result of her official position … violence has no place in politics.“

The [imaginary] "Right" to Film Police from a Distance Can't Be Found in Reality or in Liberal Richmond (CA): Race Soldier Cop Abandons Suspect to Threaten and Assault Black Man who was Filming Arrest

From [HERE] A disturbing video has been released showing police dismissing a high-speed chase to attack a Black bystander filming the scene on a public street in California.

On May 5, Richmond police followed a speeding driver who parked outside of a store so he and the car’s passenger could step out of the vehicle and surrender to authorities, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Kwesi Guss had filmed police-related incidents before as a bystander and was nearby when he heard sirens. So, he pulled out his phone and planned to record what was happening, but ended up in the throes of the mess himself. The Richmond police redirected their focus from the high-speed chase.

In security footage from the store of the incident the Chronicle uploaded to YouTube, a police cruiser pulls up to the sidewalk next to a man—identified as Guss—holding a phone. An officer who was driving the cruiser, rather than running forward to the parked car from the chase, runs around the back of the cruiser and into Guss while approaching the other officers on the scene.

“Get out of the fucking way,” the officer directed to Guss, according to the Chronicle.

“Shut your bitch ass up,” Guss reportedly replied.

The officer circles back around towards Guss, tells him to repeat what he said, and shoves him five times, causing Guss to stumble, before a woman runs over to intervene.

An officer who was already at the location, runs from one of the other police cruisers towards the scuffle, but the original officer continues to push Guss. The assisting cop pulls Guss’ left arm back to aid the first officer in handcuffing him and kicks Guss in the ankle to make him kneel on the ground.

The video does not have audio.

“I felt the asphalt just cutting in my face,” Guss said, according to the Chronicle.

The news outlet reported that Guss endured cheek abrasion and bruised ribs and that the handcuffs were so tight that they were digging into his wrists. Guss said officers “manhandl[ed]” him because they claimed he was resisting. However, he said he “wasn’t moving.”

The Richmond Police Department did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment Thursday.

White MI Trooper Murders Fleeing Black Man by Intentionally Crushing Him w/Minivan: Cop Drove Onto Sidewalk and Violently Struck Samuel Sterling. Cops Stymied Aid by Handcuffing Him in Torturous Death

From [HERE] and [HERE] The family of a Black man who was killed after he was struck by an unmarked police mini-van in Michigan spoke out on Saturday after body camera footage of the incident was released by investigators. All the cops involved were white.

Michigan State Police said it handed over its investigative report and all evidence to the state attorney general's office concerning the April 17 death of Samuel Sterling, who was being pursued by officers in Kentwood for outstanding warrants.

Sterling, 25, allegedly fled when officers approached him at a gas station and was hit by an unmarked Michigan State Police car after officers converged on him at a parking lot of a nearby Burger King, police claim. He died later in the day at the hospital.

The body camera footage released Friday showed officers rushing to Sterling on the ground after he was hit moaning in pain and said he did not have a gun. The unmarked police vehicle is seen up on a curb next to the restaurant in front of Sterling.

Attorney Ven Johnson, an attorney representing Sterling's family, said in a statement to ABC News that they were "stunned and appalled to see the MSP trooper deliberately drive over a curb - onto a sidewalk - and violently take Samuel’s life by striking him with an unmarked police car."

"No one person should be able to appoint themselves as judge, jury and executioner, yet deaths from police brutality and excessive force continue to occur too often," Johnson added.

Officers are seen putting handcuffs on Sterling and telling firefighters who responded to the scene to keep the cuffs on.

The footage released Friday came from three agencies who were part of the fugitive task force -- Michigan State Police, Grand Rapids Police Department and Wyoming Police Department -- and included footage from four sources, three officers' body camera footage and one dash camera from a police vehicle, Michigan State Police said.

"I assure the Sterling and Cage families and the communities we serve that we will continue to be transparent in this investigation and will fully cooperate with the Michigan Department of Attorney General as they begin their review," MSP director Col. James F. Grady II, who met with the family Friday, said in a statement.

The state police trooper who was driving the vehicle that hit Sterling was not wearing a body camera and his vehicle did not have a dash camera "due to his assignment on a federal task force," Michigan State Police said in a statement.

The state police launched an investigation into the incident and suspended the trooper -- whose identity has not been revealed because of the probe -- without pay.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel will review the police report and evidence and decide if any charges are warranted.

"My public integrity unit has investigated dozens of police-involved incidents and is dedicated to providing a thorough and just review and resolution in each one," Nessel said in a statement last month.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement Friday that Sterling's death was "unacceptable" and called for the termination of the officer if charges are issued.

"I have full faith that her office will work quickly to arrive at a fair and just decision as to whether criminal charges are appropriate," the governor said of Nessel.

'Outrageously escalatory' behavior from Provocative Chicago Cops After Bullshit “Seatbelt Stop” left Dexter Reed Dead, family says in Lawsuit

From [HERE] The family of a Black man killed in a barrage of bullets by Chicago police filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging the officers involved were “outrageously escalatory” in the traffic stop that left motorist Dexter Reed dead and an officer wounded.

The lawsuit against the City of Chicago and the five officers involved in pulling Reed, 26, over on March 21 outlines 17 counts, including three counts of excessive force, wrongful death, and two violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act that hints at a key part of Reed’s past.

The 81-page filing obtained and reviewed by USA TODAY is the latest development in the case that has sparked controversy in the city ever since Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability released footage of the traffic stop.

"Officers who initially approached Dexter’s vehicle were outrageously escalatory," the lawsuit says, adding they used "wildly disproportionate force against Dexter — repeatedly shooting at him even when he clearly presented no threat."

The city has said Reed had a gun and fired first. Chicago’s Law Department said Wednesday that the "city has not been served with the complaint and does not comment on pending litigation."

Seat belt check [4th Amendment is Imaginary]

The story of Reed’s death begins with five Chicago Police officers pulling over the 26-year-old for a seatbelt violation, according to officials. Reed didn’t comply with officers and the situation escalated, according to bodycam footage reviewed by USA TODAY.

Reed fired first and officers responded with as many as 96 shots in 41 seconds, the police accountability office said. Reed was awaiting trial in a gun case, Cook County court records show, and he had a gun, his lawyers said.

A bullet grazed one of the officers in the shooting, according to the lawsuit. But it does not clearly say Reed fired the bullet, saying the officer was hit "at some point either before or after" the other officers began shooting.

Regardless, how the traffic stop unfolded has caused an uproar. The head of the city’s accountability board questioned the truthfulness of the officers involved; the officers have a history of complaints, according to records USA TODAY obtained via FOIA request; and bodycam footage of the shooting shows officers firing on an apparently unarmed and down Reed.

2 counts of 'willful and wanton conduct'

The lawsuit, brought by Reed’s mother Nicole Banks, lists 17 counts; 8 are against the city and the rest are against the officers.

The counts against the officers are making an unconstitutional traffic stop; three counts of excessive force; denial of medical care after Reed was shot; two counts of "willful and wanton conduct" for escalatory behavior and wrongful death; assault; battery; and two counts against the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The ADA charges are based on Reed experiencing PTSD, according to the lawsuit.

The counts against the city include one for a pattern of “unconstitutional traffic stops,” for a pattern of “excessive and escalatory force” and a violation against the Civil Rights Act for targeting Reed, who was Black. [MORE]