Video Catches Seattle Police Bang On Black Man Like a Drum w/Metal Batons in Secluded Area. White Cops Grab Hair, Put a Knee on His Neck to Force Obedience to Authority During Arrest for Unknown Crime

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Deeanthony Marcell, who recorded the video, also uploaded it to his Instagram, where it had been viewed nearly 15,000 times as of Thursday afternoon. Marcell, a musician, said he was on a bus headed to a rehearsal when he came upon the incident in South Seattle.

He said that he did not know what preceded the beating but that he believed he was witnessing an injustice. The officers were likely unaware they were being recorded, he said, because the area was inaccessible by foot. Marcell said the man was screaming for help as he was beaten. [MORE]

A White Bluffton Cop Pulled a Handcuffed Black Man's legs out from Under him Causing Him to Fall Face First Into the Pavement. Govt Settles Case for $750k [the power to Use Force Offensively is Evil]

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From [HERE] Almost seven years have passed since Bluffton Police Officer Cody Kirkman flipped Ted Ellis face first onto the May River Road pavement, kneeling on the handcuffed man's back while blood leaked from his chin.

Since that humid August afternoon in 2017, Ellis pursued a lawsuit that slowly wound its way through the courts. Attorneys, allegations and defendants came and went as he pressed his claim, challenging the officer's actions during the traffic stop that day. But in March, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals dispatched Kirkman's final challenge. Ellis accepted a $750,000 settlement offer after his excessive force claim prevailed. The money was paid out by the agency overseeing the state insurance reserve fund, according to his attorney.

Kirkman fought wrongdoing appearances and allegations from the arrest to the appellate court, but evidence in the case challenges the officer's narrative. 

Kirkman's attorneys argued that Ellis could pose a danger without a thorough search. A magistrate who reviewed the case found that argument unconvincing. 

Kirkman leaned down, grabbed the handcuffed Ellis below the knee, and pulled his legs out from under him. Nothing broke Ellis' fall. His face hit the pavement. Kirkman said in the incident report he reached around Ellis' waist to control his center of gravity, a claim refuted by video, reports from both of the other officers at the scene, and, eventually, his own deposition.

Kirkman knelt on Ellis' back. Ellis was shocked, "Oh, no," he repeated before the shock resided. He threatened that he would "find" Kirkman.

On top of the man prone on the pavement, Kirkman yelled at Ellis to "stop moving." In the reflection of the car's sheen, Kirkman's hand appeared on top of his leg, pressed onto Ellis' back, his black wedding ring stark against Ellis' white tank top and the officer's pale skin. Ellis' blood dribbled from his chin under the car toward the side of the road. Gibson held Ellis' feet.

Kirkman knelt on Ellis' back for almost nine minutes, a detail omitted in his incident report description.

At one point, Kirkman dismounted and Ellis requested he return. During other moments, Ellis asked to be helped off the ground, with Kirkman remaining on top.

Eventually, officers helped Ellis sit up.

"Officer, you had no business doing that," Ellis said.

Kirkman stammered. What ensued was a brief argument that mirrored litigation each side's attorneys would make in the simplest terms.

Ellis repeated his position: Kirkman was in the wrong.

Ellis' attorneys said he had a fractured jaw, was diagnosed with post-concussive syndrome and lost a number of teeth, which they argued stemmed from the incident.

In the waning moments of the video, a firefighter hosed Ellis' blood off the street.

Bluffton's excessive use of force report found that Kirkman used a "reasonable amount of force necessary to conduct a proper search of Ellis." It also said that the three officers at the scene "did not prevent Ted Ellis from hurting himself."

Kenney said the case was about "the proposition that a police officer cannot use potentially deadly force against a handcuffed suspect who is not attempting to fight or flee."

Kirkman was promoted in 2018. He ultimately resigned from the department in 2021. His LinkedIn page shows he works for a Beaufort-based tree care organization and owns a personal training company. Gibson resigned in October 2017. Swinehamer quit in March 2019.

Further Analysis of Data from Berkeley Earth Clearly Indicate that Climate Change During the Period 1860 to 2020 is Driven by the Sun

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From [HERE] In a recent analysis of global temperature data from Berkeley Earth (1), I found that the main factor driving the temperature increase from 1860 to 2020 is the earth's orientation to the sun. Despite criticism from those who believe in anthropogenic climate change, accusing me of being sponsored by the oil industry and lacking “climate science” qualifications, I responded politely. I also made a mental note that industry sponsorship could supplement my pension. Critics did not engage with the data or provide a compelling argument. I questioned what qualifications are needed to conduct basic data analysis in Excel. A more relevant question is why this type of analysis hasn't been published already. Critics argued that Milankovitch cycles operate on longer timescales and cannot explain current climate change. While true, the specific timing within the solar cycles could be crucial, and the existence of unidentified shorter cycles is possible. I also overlooked the 11-year solar cycles that influence short-term changes in the sun's activity. If these cycles influence climate change, they could help identify a solar signal within temperature records.

Further reading revealed that there is strong evidence that the 11-year solar cycles do impact our climate (2). To maximise the ability to detect this solar signal in temperature data, we require a climate change-sensitive region, high-resolution monthly data, a specific time of year, and a relevant cycle period that aligns with the phase. Previous analysis showed that the northern hemisphere warms faster than southern latitudes, with winter having a more significant impact than summer. For example, the warming rate in January in Greenland from 1860 to 2020 is 6.5 times greater than in July. On this basis I conducted a specific analysis on the January temperature anomaly record in Greenland to identify any potential solar signature. [MORE]

Puppetician Tedros: "It's Time to Be More Assertive in Countering Anti-Vaxxers"

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From [HERE] It appears that WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is feeling his oats, after key amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) *WERE PASSED* last week, despite his cherished Pandemic Treaty being tabled for the meantime.

As James Roguski reports, "The 77th World Health Assembly HAS adopted a substantial package of amendments to the International Health Regulations. We the People have suffered a stunning defeat...The recently adopted amendments will facilitate an enormous global build up of the Pharmaceutical Hospital Emergency Industrial Complex which seeks to trigger ongoing "pandemic emergencies" that will be made even worse by "relevant health products."

These amendments passed despite massive protests in Japan and two nations opting out of the IHR, altogether, Costa Rica and Slovakia.

Slovakia’s President Robert Fico has survived several gunshot wounds from an assassination attempt against him two weeks ago, due to his rejection of destructive Cabal policies, including the forced injections and war with Russia. 

Denmark has adopted the amendments and 192 member states now have 18 months to decide to opt out. If they do nothing, the amendments will automatically take effect.

Tedros is seen in this video saying, "I believe it's time to be more assertive in countering anti-vaxxers. They have used COVID as an opportunity, and we see the chaos they're causing..."

One wonders what Tedros has in mind, in terms of being "More assertive in countering anti-vaxxers", being that he is a former official of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, a left-wing ethnic nationalist paramilitary group, which was classified as a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian government in May 2021.

'Comply, Go to Jail or Die Theater' [Your Consent is a Placebo]: Clown Cincinnati Cops Use Escalating Levels of Violence to Force a Black Man Into Obedience and Attack a Black Man Filming the Assault

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The Cincinnati Police Department is conducting an internal investigation after video of an officer attacking a Black man sitting at a bus stop, and another officer pointing a gun at the Black man recording, sparked backlash online, disrupting manufactured relations between masters and slaves in The Spectacle. [MORE] Check out the Black jackOfficer creeping around like a ‘Space Invaders’ monster.

Alabama Authoritarians Murder White Man (Jamie Mills) Despite Clear Evidence that Prosecutors Falsified Case Against Him - Supreme Court Denied Review, Allowing his Execution

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From [HERE] In 2005, Jamie Mills and two other suspects—his wife, JoAnn Mills, and a known local drug dealer, Benjie Howe—were arrested and charged with capital murder in the deaths of Floyd and Vera Hill. Benjie Howe was in possession of one victim’s medicine and a large amount of cash when he was arrested. Jamie and JoAnn Mills were arrested after physical evidence from the crime, including the murder weapons, was found in the trunk of their car.

JoAnn Mills told police in two different statements that she suspected Benjie Howe had planted the weapons in their car and that Mr. Howe had brought stolen items to their home in the past. Her statements were corroborated by police accounts that, in the weeks preceding the murder, officers saw Mr. Howe frequenting the Mills’s home where the murder weapons were found and evidence that the trunk of the Mills’s car had no lock and could easily be opened.

It was only after police threatened JoAnn Mills’s children and falsely claimed that DNA evidence on the murder weapons matched Jamie Mills that she gave a third statement implicating Jamie. Other than the evidence found in the unlocked trunk, JoAnn’s third statement was the only evidence connecting Mr. Mills to the crime.

The State’s Key Witness

The State’s case against Jamie depended on the jury believing that JoAnn—who had been charged with capital murder and was facing the death penalty or life without parole if convicted at her own trial—was credible when she testified against Jamie consistent with her third statement.

Accordingly, at the outset of JoAnn’s testimony, the district attorney affirmatively elicited that she had not been offered a plea deal in exchange for her testimony:

District Attorney: And are you doing this of your own free will?

JoAnn Mills: Yes, sir.

District Attorney: Have there been any deals or offers or anything like that made to you?

JoAnn Mills: No, sir.

On cross, JoAnn insisted that she was “up here admitting to capital murder without any hope of help from the district attorney’s office.”

Mr. Mills’s defense counsel also questioned the district attorney “on the record” about the existence of a plea offer or any inducement. The district attorney responded:

Prosecutor: There is not.

Defense: Not a promise, not a maybe, not a nudge, not a wink, because we think it stretches the bounds of credibility that her lawyer would let her testify as she did without such an Inducement.

Prosecutor: There is none.

Defense: None?

Prosecutor: Have not made her any promises, nothing.

Defense: Have you suggested that a promise might be made after she testifies truthfully?

Prosecutor: No.

Defense: No inducement whatsoever?

Prosecutor: No.

In closing argument, the prosecutor told the jury the case came down to Jamie’s word against JoAnn’s, and urged the jury to believe JoAnn because she was not promised anything in exchange for her testimony.

The jury convicted Mr. Mills of capital murder and he was sentenced to death. Ten days later, the State dismissed the capital murder charges against JoAnn Mills. She pleaded to a lesser offense and was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.

New Evidence of Prosecutorial Misconduct

Mr. Mills’s counsel filed a motion for a new trial after learning that the State dismissed capital murder charges against JoAnn Mills, arguing this evidence established that JoAnn did have a deal in exchange for her testimony. The motion was denied without a hearing.

Over the course of the last 17 years, Mr. Mills has asked the State to reveal evidence of its deal with JoAnn Mills on 15 separate occasions, and each time, the State has denied the existence of any such deal.

But newly discovered evidence establishes that the State’s representations at trial and throughout the appeal and postconviction proceedings were false.

JoAnn Mills’s lawyer, Tony Glenn, submitted a sworn affidavit and supporting evidence showing that he met with the district attorney and the victims’ family to obtain a deal that would spare her the death penalty in exchange for her testimony against Jamie Mills. “According to Glenn,” Eleventh Circuit Judge Nancy G. Abudu wrote, “before Mills’ trial, the victims’ daughter agreed not to oppose the State offering JoAnn a plea deal, and the district attorney agreed to not pursue the death penalty against JoAnn—so long as she ‘testified truthfully’ at Mills’ trial.”

This new evidence from JoAnn Mills’s attorney establishes that the State falsely told the jury, trial judge, defense counsel, and every state and federal court that JoAnn Mills had nothing to gain from testifying against Mr. Mills.

Based on this new evidence, Mr. Mills filed a motion in federal court on April 5, 2024, requesting that the court reopen his appeal.

The State continues to deny the existence of a deal and urged the federal court to dismiss Mr. Mills’s motion and allow the State to move forward with his execution without reviewing this critical issue, and with no consequences for the State’s misconduct.

The federal district court denied relief, and Mr. Mills asked the federal appeals court to stay his execution and review his claims. On May 28, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his appeal and denied Mr. Mills a stay of execution, ruling that the evidence he presented was not sufficient to reopen his case for further review.

Judge Abudu disagreed with the other two judges. In a separate opinion stressing the importance of reliability in death penalty cases and underscoring that prosecutors are forbidden from suppressing favorable evidence and are obligated to correct false testimony, she wrote that Mr. Mills met the threshold requirement to obtain review of his claims. The factual issues raised by the new evidence “should be resolved by the district court after an evidentiary hearing,” she wrote.

Mr. Mills appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which denied review on Thursday afternoon.

Serious Questions Remain

When new evidence raises serious questions about whether a person has been wrongly convicted and illegally sentenced to death, courts have a responsibility to evaluate the evidence and give the legal arguments full consideration. Failing to do so undermines our system of justice.

More than half of wrongful convictions can be traced to witnesses who lied in court or made false accusations. False testimony by jailhouse informants is especially common in death penalty cases.

The consequences of prosecutors’ failure to disclose prosecutorial misconduct like the misconduct that took place in Mr. Mills’s case are striking. Since 1988, data from the National Registry of Exonerations shows that 987 people were wrongly convicted because of official misconduct by prosecutors, including perjury or false reports by police and other witnesses. The exonerees in these cases spent an average of 12 years each in prison.

The consequences of misconduct in death penalty cases can be irrevocable. Alabama sentences more people to die than any other state and has one of the highest execution rates per capita in the country. With 73 executions and nine exonerations since 1976, Alabama has a shocking rate of error: for every eight people executed, one has been exonerated.

In this case, new evidence raised significant questions about the reliability of Jamie Mills’s conviction and death sentence, including as Judge Abudu wrote, “why JoAnn’s attorney would sign an affidavit against his client’s interests that could jeopardize his own legal career” if it were not true?

The State never denied that there was a pretrial meeting with the victim’s family, which begs the question—how could it be true that JoAnn had absolutely no reason to hope for a deal from the district attorney if she provided the critical testimony the State needed? Why would she get on the stand and confess to capital murder without a deal? And if there was no prior agreement, how can the fact that the capital charges against her were dropped—and she not only avoided the death penalty but received a parole-eligible sentence—a mere 10 days after Jamie Mills was sentenced to death be explained?

As Judge Abudu found, the failure to provide process in a death penalty case where Jamie Mills has maintained his innocence—despite a affidavit from an officer of the court attesting under oath that a plea deal did exist—creates a “risk of injustice” and “risk of undermining the public’s confidence in the judicial process.”

Risk of Unnecessary Torture

Mr. Mills filed a separate lawsuit alleging that the State of Alabama has subjected condemned prisoners to unnecessarily prolonged torture on the execution gurney without access to counsel or the courts in violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

In the last two years, Alabama prison officials have kept condemned men strapped down to a gurney for hours, even while a stay of execution is in place, without access to legal help to challenge or even document the State’s actions, done in secret behind closed doors.

The district court denied Mr. Mills’s challenge on May 21 and, on May 28, the Eleventh Circuit refused to review his claims, even though as Judge Abudu wrote in a separate opinion, Alabama’s “troubling” pattern of delay during executions means that:

Mills has a valid fear that he will be unnecessarily placed on the execution gurney if a stay is in place, while the IV team is not attempting to establish IV access, or while officials transport witnesses to the viewing area, without being given any updates from officials on the status of his cases or the ongoing execution protocol.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Mr. Mills’s petition for review Thursday afternoon.

4th Circuit Gives Partial Victory to Army Lieutenant Niggerized by Cops @ Gas Station: 'Its Unconstitutional to Detain a Compliant Person @ Prolonged Gunpoint when he's no danger to the public or cops

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‘PPRECIATE’ YOUR SERVICE NGHR [military uniforms don’t necessarily protect against abuse of authority by law enforcement.]. From [HERE] The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit court delivered a ruling on Friday that provided a partial judgment in favor of the Black and Latino Army lieutenant, Caron Nazario, who had been pepper-sprayed and handcuffed during a traffic stop by two Virginia police officers.

Nazario claimed the two police officers violated his Constitutional rights when they pepper-sprayed, handcuffed him on the ground, and threatened him. A trial court rejected Nazario’s arguments relating to excessive force, unreasonable seizure, and rights deprivation finding that the officers had probable cause because Nazario failed to comply with law enforcement. The majority predominately supported the lower court’s decision. However, it overturned the court’s granting of qualified immunity to police officer Joe Gutierrez regarding a Fourth Amendment claim for an unreasonable seizure.

“The Fourth Amendment, which is grounded in reasonableness, can be transgressed by an unwarranted threat of deadly force,” U.S. Circuit Judge Robert King wrote. “Although we may not have heretofore adopted the principle — we are satisfied that it can be unconstitutional to hold a person at prolonged gunpoint when he is compliant and presents no danger to the public or law enforcement officers”

Video footage from a December 2020 interaction showcasing an encounter between Lt. Caron Nazario and police officers that attracted attention. The officers stated that Nazario’s vehicle had been missing a rear license plate. In the lawsuit, Nazario states that the car had been purchased recently and held a temporary tag. In the video, two officers were seen pointing handguns at the uniformed lieutenant. An officer then attempts to open the car door while Nazario uses his elbow to secure it closed. The Fourth Circuit majority considered Nazario’s refusal to exit the car a disobedient act toward law enforcement.

“The orders to Nazario to step out of the vehicle were lawful because the Policemen had probable cause to stop Nazario’s vehicle for failure to clearly display a license plate,” the opinion wrote.

A jury awarded a settlement last year, resulting in a $2,685 award to Nazario in compensatory damages. The situation highlights concerns among Black drivers about police mistreatment during traffic stops.

Barbaric IsrAlien Authorities are Systematically Targeting Hospitals and Disappearing, Detaining and Torturing Palestinain Doctors

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FROM [HERE]

From [HERE] AS EARLY AS November, reports emerged of doctors being detained and going missing in north Gaza. According to the World Health Organization, at least 214 medical staff from Gaza have been detained by the Israeli military. In early May, the detention and alleged torture of medical staff from Gaza made headlines when Israeli authorities announced the death of Adnan Al-Bursh, a well-known surgeon and the head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital. After being taken into custody in December, officials said Al-Bursh died in April while in Ofer Prison, an Israeli detention facility in the occupied West Bank.

“Dr. Adnan’s case raises serious concerns that he died following torture at the hands of Israeli authorities. His death demands an independent international investigation,” Tlaleng Mofokeng, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, said in a statement last week. “The killing and detention of healthcare workers is not a legitimate method of warfare. They have a legitimate and essential role to care for sick and wounded persons during times of conflict.”

Al-Bursh is one of at least 493 Palestinian medical workers who have been killed in Gaza since October 7, according to the Ministry of Health. The Israel Defense Forces has systematically targeted hospitals from the north to the south of the strip, claiming that Hamas operates in the facilities. Medical staff in Gaza’s hospitals have repeatedly denied this claim. This week, Israeli forces have launched new attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital in the north, with reports on Wednesday and Thursdayof medical staff being detained from Al Awda. [MORE]

The International Court of Justice Orders Israel to stop Genocide in Rafah

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From [HERE] The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nation's top court, has ordered Israel to "immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah," as it is not convinced that the Israeli military is doing enough to protect civilians.

The court acted in support of last week's application of South Africa, which brought genocide charges against Israel at the ICJ in December. The appeal sought several measures against Israel, accusing it of stepping up what it says is a genocide. "Those who have survived so far are facing imminent death now and an order from the court is needed to ensure their survival," Pretoria's filing read. (Related: South Africa calls for immediate halt to Israel’s military offensive in Rafah.)

ICJ head Nawaf Salam read the new ruling and said that its justices were doubtful that the evacuation efforts and the related measures that Israel affirms to have undertaken are not sufficient to "alleviate the immense risk" to civilians in Rafah. Salam said the humanitarian situation has deteriorated further since the court's last order in March and is now classified as "disastrous." The Palestinian city of Rafah hosted around 1.4 million refugees displaced from the enclave when Israel ordered around half that number to evacuate the city as it sent tanks and troops into its eastern neighborhoods.

"Israel must immediately hold its military offensive of [sic] any other action in the Rafah governorate," Salam continued, warning that failure to do so could bring about the wholesale destruction of life in the city.

A Mental Health Distress Call Turned into a Military Operation: Suit Claims Pittsburgh Cops Shot a Black Man in the Back while His Hands Were Raised to Force Him to Get Public Services

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From [HERE] A new federal lawsuit accuses a former Pittsburg cop of shooting a Black man whose hands were raised during a call over a “mental health crisis,” and although the same officer has already been part of a suit that settled for $7.3 million, this case may be the least of his legal concerns.

The lead defendant, Ernesto Mejia-Orozco, is set to plead guilty or no contest in two unrelated criminal cases two weeks from now. On June 10, he is scheduled for a change of plea hearing in a case involving allegations he was part of a scheme to quash traffic tickets for bribes. The following day, he’s scheduled to plead guilty in a felonious scheme to defraud the city of Pittsburg by fraudulently obtaining a college degree for educational incentive pay, court records show.

Now, Mejia-Orozco is also a defendant in a federal suit accusing him of shooting a man named Ashton Porter on Feb. 24, 2022. The lawsuit says that while Porter was barricaded inside a hotel room, officers used pepper spray on him and shot him with rubber bullets, before Mejia-Orozco fired a pistol at Porter, striking him twice. He survived.

Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Porter said he feels lucky to be alive and was shocked by the police “lies and cover up.”

“I was looking for one or two good cops who would make sure nothing terrible happened to me,” he said. “Unfortunately for me there wasn’t any cops out there that stood up for me or tried to de-escalate the event.”

Mejia-Orozco would later claim that Porter came at him with a knife. Video shows Porter exiting the hotel room and standing a several feet away from officers. He appears to be standing still as the initial shots are fired and when his body comes into view of an officer’s body camera, his hands are raised. The suit says the video provided by Pittsburg police  “does not support this version of events” and the suit itself includes stills showing Porter with his hands up, “milliseconds” before Mejia-Orozco shot him.

“Nearly two years after the incident, Mr. Porter still suffers every day from the physical and psychological injuries that the Defendant Officers inflicted upon him,” the lawsuit says. Porter’s lawyer, Adante Pointer, said Porter and his family have “bore brunt of police aggression, of police escalation, of police lack of discipline” and that Porter was initially jailed but charges were later dropped.

The suit also alleges that Pittsburg police Lt. William Hatcher, who helped supervise the incident, has a “troubling” history of covering up excessive force, referencing years-old claims by a whistleblower that he instructed officers to remove references to them hitting suspects with flashlights from their incident reports.

Mejia-Orozco was one of 14 current and former Antioch and Pittsburg officers charged in a wide range of crimes last year. Many of them have since pleaded guilty, including the alleged ringleader of the college-degree fraud scam, Patrick Berhan, who is set to be sentenced later this summer.

A former Antioch community service officer, Samantha Peterson, recently received probation for her role in the scam, and a third former Pittsburg and Oakland Housing Authority officer — Brauli Rodriguez Jalapa– is set to plead guilty June 25, court records show. Rodriguez Jalapa was also charged earlier this year with drunk driving and threatening cops in Clayton.

In 2020, a wrongful death suit involving Mejia-Orozco and other officers settled for $7.3 million. The suit alleged that the officers killed a man named Humberto Martinez, by placing him in a carotid hold and pinning him to the ground. Martinez died from having the blood stream to his brain cut off, according to the coroner’s report.

Not Unalienable Gun Rights but Gun Favors Granted by Master based on Zip Code/Race: Rolebotic NYC Judge Told Black Man, ‘Dont bring the 2nd Amendment into court. It dont exist here' Sentenced to 10yrs

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According to the supreme court “the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. Under Heller, when the Second Amendment’s plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct, and to justify a firearm regulation the government must demonstrate that the regulation is consistent with the Nation’shistorical tradition of firearm regulation.”

BELIEVE IN THE ABOVE AT YOUR OWN RISK. SO-CALLED CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE IMAGINARY IN THE FREE RANGE PRISON - RIGHTS SUCH AS 4TH AMENDMENT AND 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS ARE PARTICULARLY MORE RESTRICTED FOR BLACK PEOPLE. AT ANY RATE THE RIGHT TO SELF DEFENSE IS SAID TO BE A NATURAL RIGHT OR UNALIENABLE RIGHT THAT EXISTS WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT. FUNKTIONARY EXPLAINS:

unalienable rights – the state of a thing or right which cannot be sold. Things which are not in commerce, as public roads, are in their nature unalienable. Some things are unalienable, in consequence of particular provisions in the law forbidding their sale or transfer, as pensions granted by the government. The natural rights of life and liberty are UNALIENABLE. Bouvier’s Law Dictionary 1856 Edition. “Unalienable: incapable of being alienated, that is, sold and transferred.” Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 1523: You can not surrender, sell or transfer unalienable rights, they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can not under any circumstances be surrendered or taken. All individual’s have unalienable rights. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” ~DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. [MORE]

From [HERE] The American tradition of home gunsmithing was not specifically codified in the Constitution. Perhaps it should have been.

I understand why the Founders left it out. They were practical men, of course, chock-full of common sense. They knew Americans couldn’t fully enjoy their newfound right to keep and bear arms without the ability to build and maintain firearms in their homes, so why add unnecessary verbiage to a document that was already running a bit long.

Unfortunately, the Founders had no idea how their brilliant composition would be misused, misquoted and misinterpreted a couple centuries later, by prosecutors, judges and politicians whom they would have tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail.

I had never built a firearm in my home or anywhere else until last year when 80% Arms offered to send me two GST-9 pistol kits. They were looking for someone with zero gunsmithing experience – I certainly qualified – to build the pistols and chronicle the experience.

From start to finish the entire build process was incredible, but truth be told, I was a bit nervous during the first one. However, both pistols turned out perfectly, function flawlessly and look great.

I walked away from the experience with more than a couple reliable shooters. Building a firearm in your home is a uniquely American experience, one which we all should be able to enjoy. For a brief period, I had something in common with gunsmiths of old – something more than a shared passion for liberty and good whiskey.

Dexter Taylor, a law-abiding 53-year-old data engineer and father from Brooklyn, will spend the next 10 years in a New York state prison for his home gunsmithing experience. His only crimes were living in a state that does not recognize his Second Amendment rights, and appearing before a fruitcake of a judge who feels the same way.

Taylor’s home gunsmithing hobby somehow came to the attention of both the New York City Police Department and the ATF. On April 6, 2022, these Redcoat-wannabes executed a search warrant of Taylor’s home in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

According to a press release from Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, officers recovered “four AR-15 style assault weapons, five handguns, four rifles and over 50 rounds of ammunition in addition to gun powder, shell casings, triggers, a 3D printer, and various upper and lower receivers used to build firearms.”

Fifty rounds? What an archcriminal.

Things went from bad to worse when Taylor went to court. Judge Abena Darkeh famously told Taylor’s defense attorney: “Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So, you can’t argue the Second Amendment. This is New York.”

Truer words have never been spoken. The Second Amendment does not exist in New York.

Last month, a New York City jury convicted Taylor of “two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon; three counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon; five counts of criminal possession of a firearm; unlawful possession of pistol ammunition; and prohibition on unfinished frames or receivers.”

On Monday, Taylor was sentenced to 10 years in a state prison.

After the sentencing, District Attorney Gonzalez said in a statement, “Ghost guns are a threat to New Yorkers everywhere, and my Office is working tirelessly with our partners in law enforcement to stop their proliferation. Today’s sentence should send a message to anyone who, like this defendant, would try to evade critically important background checks and registration requirements to manufacture and stockpile these dangerous weapons. Every ghost gun we take off the street is a win for public safety.”

Taylor never tried to evade anything. Gunsmithing was his hobby. He was never accused of misusing his homemade firearms. Mere possession was enough to revoke his liberty for the next decade.

Taylor’s case highlights the incredible dichotomy between free states like Florida, where I can build as many homemade firearms as my budget will allow, and tyrannical blue states like New York, where a single “ghost gun” coupled with a lunatic of a judge ends in imprisonment. Taylor got caught behind enemy lines trying to exercise a tiny bit of freedom, and the Statists stomped on his head as a result.

To be clear, Dexter Taylor is a prisoner of war – a prisoner of Joe Biden’s war on our guns.

  1. A GiveSendGo account was created to help Taylor’s legal defense. So far, it has raised more than $200,000.

  2. A Change.org petition was created to remove Judge Darkeh from the bench. So far, it has more than 2,600 signatures.

Dumbocrats Martyrize and Niggerize Donald Trump w/Guilty Verdict in Obviously Politicized Prosecution that Causes His Donation Page to Go Viral. Felony Conviction Won't Disqualify Him from Presidency

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From [HERE] WinRed, the Republican donation platform, crashed due to overwhelming traffic moments after Former President Donald Trump was found guilty on all charges in his New York ‘hush money’ trial:

Users were flocking to Trump’s donation page only to be greeted with an error message telling them “Engineers have been notified.”

Nothing in the U.S. Constitution bars a felon from running or becoming president. The conviction isn’t disqualifying. [MORE]

Tucker Carlson railed against a New York jury’s decision finding former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts of fraud, saying it ensures his victory in November, but signals the death of the American justice system.

“Import the Third World, become the Third World. That’s what we just saw,” Tucker wrote on X.

Similarly, Infowars’ Alex Jones declared the verdict signals the Biden admin and the corrupt Deep State have decided to go all-in on their police state lawfare tactics, arguing this is actually a win for the people, as it has forced the authoritarians to expose themselves. [MORE]

James Freeman observed, “The obscene spectacle in a Manhattan courtroom seemed to be an almost daily reminder that the protections for the accused that we all learned about in school do not exist for Donald Trump in the chambers of Juan Merchan, who allowed falsehoods to be repeated to a jury, allowed prejudicial irrelevant testimony to paint the defendant in the worst possible light, and allowed a prosecutor with an obvious bias against the defendant to bring the case in the first place. To top it off, as the defendant prepared for trial he was not even told precisely how he was supposed to have committed felonies.”

The so-called Constitutional protections that we were indoctrinated to believe also don’t exist in reality for most Black people charged with crimes; as racism is the dominant feature of the criminal justice system and “race” is a political category. In other words, overzealous liberal dumbocrats have now niggerized Trump. Their obvious political prosecution of Trump was the exact opposite of Robert Mueller’s painstaking efforts to present an unbiased, non-political prosecution of an elected puppetician. Without the appearance of justice, the outcome is often rendered meaningless; once it looks political, it’s over - the verdict in this matter can’t be taken any more serious that one rendered from a Taliban court in Afghanistan or from children playing ‘court on the playground’

THE DISTRACTED ATTORNEY ALVIN BRAGG IS More Busy Defending a Porno Ho for his White Liberal Masters than He is Protecting Blacks from NYPD who Surveil/Stop Them w/Impunity? So Far, He Hasn't Prosecuted Any Cops: 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] and [MORE]

ACLU: D.C. Has a Police Abuse Problem

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From [HERE] M.B. Cottingham has lived in Southeast D.C. his entire life. For the last decade, he has worked as an ice-cream vendor, selling frozen treats out of a truck. He has three children.

Late on a September afternoon in 2017, Mr. Cottingham gave Officer Sean Lojacono permission to frisk him. Instead of a limited pat-down for weapons, Officer Lojacono aggressively probed Mr. Cottingham’s sensitive body parts. Mr. Cottingham physically flinched and verbally protested, making clear that this highly intrusive search was not the frisk to which he had consented. Officer Lojacono responded by handcuffing Mr. Cottingham and violating his body two more times.

Mr. Cottingham partnered with the ACLU-D.C. to sue over this abuse. The police department eventually paid Mr. Cottingham a substantial sum to settle his case. They also fired Lojacono, but he recently got his job back with back pay because of a system that values the interests of officers over the safety and well-being of those they harm. Mr. Cottingham should never have experienced this abuse. It should not have taken a lawsuit to get some semblance of accountability. And Mr. Cottingham is not alone.

Police abuse in the District causes significant harm, costs millions of dollars, and undermines the whole justice system. It’s clearly time for District leaders to invest in police accountability solutions.

D.C. has spent $91 million over the last decade to settle cases involving police misconduct, including ones by repeat-offending officers. A recent D.C. Auditor report revealed that D.C. taxpayers footed a $14.3 million bill to re-hire police officers who have been found guilty of serious offenses, including drunk driving and sexual abuse. The Auditor classified three of these rehired officers as a “Threat to Safety.” Six of the officers who are back on the force have had misconduct reports filed against them since being rehired.

In addition to putting people at risk of serious harm and costing the District tens of millions of dollars, police misconduct erodes community trust in law enforcement and damages public safety efforts. When police officers are allowed to abuse their power without facing consequences, the public can understandably grow reluctant to interact with the criminal justice system at all. Last year, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson emphasized that one of the biggest issues with fighting crime in D.C. is the police department’s low closure rates. The Chairman also noted that one of the barriers to closing cases has been community members not coming forward to speak with the police.

A lack of accountability has also contributed to a hostile work environment for officers who are trying to follow laws and policies. Since 2020, more than 20 former police officers have filed lawsuits that allege a toxic work culture at the Metropolitan Police Department. In 2020, a sergeant sued over retaliation for reporting improper arrest tactics. One year later, 10 Black women officers sued over racial discrimination, sexual harassment, bullying, and retaliation for expressing concerns. Without accountability, it’s no wonder that the department has struggled to hire and retain officers.

Because the police department has shown time and again that they are unable or unwilling to hold themselves accountable, the D.C. Council and the mayor have to act. Strict limitations and real accountability can start to fix the police abuse problem, but our leaders need to find the will to invest in these solutions.

The D.C. Council recently passed a comprehensive police accountability bill that takes popular and effective steps to address abuse. For example, the law established a public police misconduct database, a solution that an overwhelming 90% of Americans polled in 2020 by the Pew Research Center support. But the D.C. Council and the mayor have yet to fully fund this database and to make sure it includes the total number of allegations against officers. This database is just one example of a great solution that is sitting on the shelf instead of being implemented right away.

Each one of us has a role to play in fixing the police abuse problem in D.C. — from contacting legislators, to asserting our rights, keeping each other safe, and supporting ongoing work. Together, we can move the District closer to ensuring public safety for all.