State Department Colluded With Social Media to Censor Content, Twitter Files Show
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From [HERE] The latest release of the “Twitter Files” includes evidence that the U.S. Department of State worked closely with social media platforms, despite denials by government officials.
Independent journalist Paul D. Thacker published the documents today in The Disinformation Chronicle. Thacker’s previous “Twitter Files” installments revealed evidence of collusion between the federal government, social media platforms and private actors to censor content.
According to Thacker, the newly released documents add to existing evidence that the Biden administration worked closely with platforms like Twitter to censor content and influence social media content moderation policies.
“These emails [call] into sharp question claims by Democrats and their allies in the media that Twitter did not collude with federal agencies and was free from Biden administration pressure to make its own censorship decisions,” Thacker wrote.
According to the new “Twitter Files,” the Indian government pressured Twitter to censor accounts in 2021, including accounts critical of India’s COVID-19 policies.
This led Twitter to hire Albright Stonebridge, a lobbying firm “closely aligned with the Biden administration” — and previously funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — to pressure the State Department for assistance.
“Around this same timeframe, emails show that the State Department was pressuring Twitter to censor accounts they didn’t like,” Thacker wrote.
Thacker told The Defender the Indian government “was going after Twitter for not suspending accounts critical of the government, and there were threats that Twitter employees in the country would be arrested.”
The State Department then began “working closely with Twitter to deal with the company’s problems in India,” Twitter’s third-largest market, at the same time that it “was leaning on Twitter to censor certain accounts and topics,” Thacker said.
The new “Twitter Files” release is the latest in a series of installments, based on internal company records, that suggest “close coordination between U.S. government officials and social media companies to censor viewpoints and accounts — often those that opposed Biden administration policies,” Thacker wrote. [MORE]
Destroying Black Life Over Trivialities: A TX Cop Endangered Himself by Jumping Onto a Moving Rental Car. Then He Fatally Shot the Driver, Ashtian Barnes. Stopped for Toll Violations by Another Driver
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SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASE From [HERE] On a Thursday afternoon in April 2016, a 24-year-old Black man named Ashtian Barnes was driving his girlfriend's rental car on the Sam Houston Tollway in Harris County, Texas, when he was pulled over by a traffic enforcement officer. The officer, Roberto Felix Jr., stopped Barnes because the license plate of the rental car had been linked to toll violations by another driver. About three minutes into the stop, Barnes began to drive away. Felix reacted by jumping onto the door sill of the car with his gun drawn. Within two seconds, perceiving a threat to himself as the car accelerated, Felix fatally shot Barnes.
The offenses that led to the traffic stop, which had not even been committed by Barnes, were trivial, and Felix himself created the danger to which he responded by killing Barnes. That use of deadly force was plainly unreasonable, Barnes' mother, Janice Hughes Barnes, argued in a federal civil rights lawsuit against Felix.
Although that conclusion might seem like a no-brainer, a federal judge dismissed the case, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld that decision last January. Both courts were bound by 5th Circuit precedent to focus on "the moment of the threat" that Felix confronted, ignoring both the nature of the stop and the officer's recklessness in jumping onto the car. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether that approach, which has been embraced by four circuits and rejected by eight, is consistent with the Fourth Amendment.
In the 1985 case Tennessee v. Garner, which involved a suspected burglar, Edward Garner, who was shot while fleeing police, the Supreme Court held that the use of deadly force is unconstitutional in such circumstances "unless it is necessary to prevent the escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others." To assess whether a use of force is "objectively reasonable" under the Fourth Amendment, the Court explained four years later in Graham v. Connor, judges should consider "the totality of the circumstances," paying "careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case." The Court said relevant factors include "the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and whether he is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight."*
Like Garner, Barnes was unarmed and did not plausibly pose "a significant threat of death or serious physical injury" to the general public. And unlike Garner, Barnes was not suspected of a felony or even an arrestable offense. Under the 5th Circuit's "moment of threat" standard, however, those circumstances were irrelevant. So was everything that happened before the two seconds in which Felix decided to shoot Barnes.
When Felix turned on his emergency lights, Barnes pulled over to the median on the left side of the tollway. Felix parked behind Barnes and approached the driver's side window. When Felix asked for Barnes' driver's license and proof of insurance, the 5th Circuit noted, "Barnes replied that he did not have the documentation and that the car had been rented a week earlier in his girlfriend's name." Seeing Barnes "digging around" in the car, Felix told him to stop. Claiming to smell marijuana (which a subsequent search did not find), Felix asked if Barnes had anything illegal in the car, at which point Barnes "turned off the vehicle, placing his keys near the gear shift." Barnes "told Officer Felix that he 'might' have the requested documentation in the trunk of the car."
Dash camera video showed what happened next. Felix ordered Barnes to pop the trunk, which he did. Felix asked Barnes to get out of the car, and Barnes opened the driver's side door. But then Barnes restarted the car, prompting Felix to draw his gun, point it at Barnes and say "don't fucking move." As the car began moving, Felix "stepped onto the car with his weapon drawn and pointed at Barnes," "'shoved' his gun into Barnes's head, pushing his head hard to the right," and fired two shots. When the car stopped, Felix "held Barnes at gunpoint until backup arrived [about two minutes later] while Barnes sat bleeding in the driver's seat."
One question raised by Barnes v. Felix, U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett noted in 2021, is "whether the Court can consider the officer's conduct precipitating the shooting—which included jumping onto a moving vehicle and blindly firing his weapon inside—in determining whether the officer used excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment." Under 5th Circuit precedent, he concluded, "the answer is no."
Bennett was not happy with that answer. "By limiting the focus of the judicial inquiry so narrowly as to only examine the precise moment the officer decided to use deadly force," he wrote, "the Fifth Circuit has effectively stifled a more robust examination of the Fourth Amendment's protections when it comes to encounters between the public and the police." He urged the appeals court to "consider the approach applied by its sister courts," which makes it possible to "hold officers accountable when their conduct has directly resulted in the need for deadly force and infringed upon the rights secured by the Fourth Amendment."
In a 2022 ruling, Bennett considered only Felix's decision to draw his gun and point it at Barnes, which he deemed reasonable given that Barnes had restarted his car rather than exiting it as instructed. "The only issue before the Court today was Felix's decision to brandish his gun, not his decision to shoot it," Bennett wrote. But he again urged the 5th Circuit to "review its very narrow approach to deadly force claims."
Judge Patrick Higginbotham, who wrote the 5th Circuit panel opinion upholding the dismissal of Barnes v. Felix, took the extraordinary step of writing a separate concurrence to elaborate on the problems with that "very narrow approach." Bennett "rightfully found that [his] reasonableness analysis under the Fourth Amendment was circumscribed to the 'precise moment' at which Officer Felix decided to use deadly force against Barnes," he wrote. But he argued that "this Circuit's moment of threat doctrine" flouts "the Supreme Court's instruction to look to the totality of the circumstances when assessing the reasonableness of an officer's use of deadly force."
Expressing dismay that "a routine traffic stop has again ended in the death of an unarmed black man," Higginbotham warned that ignoring "an officer's role in bringing about the 'threat' precipitating the use of deadly force lessens the Fourth Amendment's protection of the American public, devalues human life, and 'frustrates the interest of the individual, and of society, in judicial determination of guilt and punishment.'" He noted that Garner's restrictions on the use of deadly force are especially important in light of subsequent Supreme Court rulings that approved pretextual traffic stops and allowed officers to order drivers out of their cars during any legally justified stop. Those decisions, he said, "brought fuel to a surge of deadly encounters between the police and civilians." Given that reality, he argued, it is reckless to undermine Garner by "refusing to look to the totality of the circumstances when a stop leads to the taking of a life."
The 5th Circuit and three other appeals courts "have narrowed the totality of circumstances inquiry by circumscribing the reasonableness analysis of the Fourth Amendment to the precise millisecond at which an officer deploys deadly force," Higginbotham wrote. "The moment of threat doctrine trims Garner with predictable results…eliding the reality of the role [an officer] played in bringing about the conditions said to necessitate deadly force."
But for that doctrine, Higginbotham said, it would be clear that Felix violated the Fourth Amendment. "Given the rapid sequence of events and Officer Felix's role in drawing his weapon and jumping on the running board, the totality of the circumstances merits finding that Officer Felix violated Barnes's Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force," he wrote. "This officer stepped on the running board of the car and shot Barnes within two seconds, lest he get away with driving his girlfriend's rental car with an outstanding toll fee. It is plain that the use of lethal force against this unarmed man preceded any real threat to Officer Felix's safety—that Barnes's decision to flee was made before Officer Felix stepped on the running board. His flight prompted Officer Felix to jump on the running board and fire within two seconds."
The "moment of threat" doctrine "is an impermissible gloss on Garner that stifles a robust examination of the Fourth Amendment's protections for the American public," Higginbotham concluded. "It is time for this Court to revisit this doctrine, [or] failing that, for the Supreme Court to resolve the circuit divide over the application of a doctrine deployed daily across this country."
That is what Janice Hughes Barnes is asking the Supreme Court to do. In two previous cases, her petition notes, the Court dodged the issue of how Garner and Graham apply when an officer uses deadly force after endangering himself. But during oral argument in one of those cases, Justice Sonia Sotomayor explained that a court should "look at everything the officer and the victim did that led up to the moment of confrontation." Justice Samuel Alito likewise assumed that "if an officer jumps in front of—or in this case onto—a moving vehicle, 'you look at the entire seizure, the jumping in front of the car plus the ultimate shooting, to determine whether it's reasonable.'"
Barnes "was no threat," his mother's lawyers note. "The threat that Officer Felix faced from the moving vehicle was the immediate consequence of his unreasonable act of
jumping onto the car. Officer Felix should bear responsibility for the foreseeable result of his own actions."
Settlement Reached for Akron Police Massacre of Jayland Walker. White Cops Shot Black Man 47X as He Ran for His Life, Handcuffed His Corpse after Stop for Unknown Traffic Violation. No Cops Charged
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GUNNED DOWN WHILE RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE. From [HERE] and [HERE] The settlement agreement between Walker's family and the city of Akron, Ohio was confirmed in a joint court filing on Tuesday, though specific details remain undisclosed. Family attorneys announced plans for a press conference "at the appropriate time" to discuss the agreement. Akron officials, meanwhile, have refrained from commenting until the legal process is complete.
The lawsuit, filed in June 2023, followed an incident where officers fired 94 bullets at Walker during a high-speed chase two years ago and sought a minimum of $45 million in damages from the officers, the city and its officials.
The lawsuit accused the police of excessive force and claimed a "culture of violence and racism" within the Akron Police Department. The complaint came months after a grand jury decided not to indict the officers involved. Authorities have yet to release the names of those officers.
Mr. Walker was murdered on June 27, 2022 Eight officers fired dozens of rounds at Walker following a car and foot chase. Autopsy records show that eight officers fired more than 90 rounds at Walker, with more than 60 striking his body. Seven of the cops were white. Police said it began when they tried to pull him over for unknown, minor equipment violations and he failed to stop, cops then claim he fired a shot from his car 40 seconds into the pursuit.
Police body camera video showed Walker eventually bailed from his slowly moving car while wearing a ski mask and ran into a parking lot, where pursuing officers opened fire. On video police chased Walker for about 10 seconds before officers fired from multiple directions in a burst of shots that lasted 6 or 7 seconds. A county medical examiner said Walker was shot at least 40 times. A handgun, loaded magazine and wedding ring were found on the driver’s seat of the car.
Unnamed Officer(s) claim that they thought Mr. Walker had fired a weapon from his car during the high speed chase and that they feared he would fire again, prompting them to shoot him. How police could hear one gun shot during such a high speed chase is a white supremacy mystery. Nevertheless, whether a gun was fired is simply police misdirection and distraction from the only material issue which is whether the black man posed a threat when he fled on foot from police. He had no object in his hand and the cops never saw a gun, because it was on the car seat.
Insofar as it applies to white citizens, the Supreme Court has explained, ‘a police officer can use deadly force to prevent the escape of a fleeing felon ONLY where he has probable cause to believe the suspect poses a threat of death or serious physical harm to the officer or to others.’ Tenn v Garner, 475 US 1 (1985). The Court stated,
The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect. A police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead. [MORE]
Walker was not a fleeing felon, he had no criminal record and police manically chased him over an unknown traffic violation. He posed no reasonable threat to police as no officers even claimed to have seen him brandish a weapon and he was running away from police when he was shot over 90 times. As such, it is not rational that police reasonably believe they faced an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.
Akron is a city run by elite, white liberals as Democrats control all branches of government.
Jayland was murdered for failing to comply with an order to pull over and an order to remain in his vehicle or to stop. In other words, he was murdered for failing to comply with authority. All laws or commands by authorities are threats backed by the ability and willingness to use violence/force against those who disobey. The reality is simply obey authority or go to jail or be murdered. Fool yourself if you want to, but there is nothing consensual or voluntary in our legal system. The legal system is entirely based on and anchored in physical coercion, violence.
However, authority is not real, it is simply a belief. Authority is the belief in the government’s implied right to rule over people in the first place. Authority is the belief that some people have the legal and moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have a legal and moral obligation to obey.’ Michael Huemer defines political authority as “the hypothesized moral property in virtue of which governments may coerce people in certain ways not permitted to anyone else and in virtue of which citizens must obey governments in situations in which they would not be obligated to obey anyone else.”
In real life authority is a granfalloon, an unreality. FUNKTIONARY explains Authority “has no meaning in reality,” it “is the means by which society uses to control its population.” Authority is a “cartoon” or an “image of law” because among other things the social contract is a lie told to you by your masters. Consequently, there is no rational justification for anyone or entity to rule over other human beings. Authority is rule through coercion.” Coercion here means physical force. “Laws” are threats backed by the ability and willingness to use violence/force against those who disobey. Huemer explains ‘the legal system is anchored by a non-voluntary intervention, a harm that the state can impose regardless of the individual’s choices.’ The only actual choice authority presents to citizens is to obey commands and laws or go to jail. Locke states, “The lie of tyranny is that you will maintain the freedom of life by obeying authority. The choices it offers you are a lifetime of obedience or death.”
Honolulu Cops Pose as Citizens at Meeting to Delay City Payment for Black Man They Killed. Cops Shot Lindani Myeni After Running Up on Him at Night w/o ID'ing Themselves, Initiated Unprovoked Assault
/GOVERNMENT ACTS ON BEHALF OF ITSELF - NOT THE PEOPLE. From [HERE] Dozens of Honolulu police officers appeared alongside other city officials Wednesday in a strong show of opposition to a proposed $1.5 million city settlement over a 2021 officer-involved shooting of an unarmed Black man.
City Council members ultimately postponed voting on whether to approve the settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of 29-year-old Lindani Myeni. Myeni was fatally shot on April 14, 2021, after a struggle with officers outside a Honolulu vacation rental he was accused of having entered without permission.
Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is condemning the Honolulu Police Department for the fatal shooting of a Black man as various versions of what led to the death continue to emerge.
“Lindani Myeni’s killing is yet another sensational racialization and criminalization of an innocent unarmed black man at the hands of police not following the law and proper police procedures,” Sharpton said in a statement.
The two officers who shot Myeni, Brent Sylvester and Garrick Orosco, who was seriously injured, were cleared of wrongdoing in June 2021 by Alm’s office, which declined to pursue charges against them.
The officers had responded to the scene of an alleged unlawful entry call in April after Lindani mistakenly entered a house which was an Airbnb where an Asian couple was staying. Lindani, who was a tourist on vacation with his wife and 2 children, believed it to be the temple next door.
When he entered he alarmed the couple. A doorbell video shows the 29-year-old arriving at the house, taking off his shoes before entering through an open door and then quickly leaving after his presence confused the Asian couple. In the video Myeni is heard repeatedly apologizing to them as he exited. The couple frantically overreacted and called 911 and during an emotional call reported him as dangerous and claimed to be terrified.
Due to the fact that the door was open and there was no signage indicating “no trespass” to the public, said entry most likely was not unlawful - despite being unwanted. in other words, Lindani did not commit a crime. Additionally, the couple gave inconsistent stories about what happened - and definitely did not appear to be “terrified” on the video. [MORE]
ON VIDEO ASIAN WOMAN IS STANDING OUTSIDE SAYING TO 911, "im SO AFRAID TO GO OUTSIDE." SHE ALSO CLAIMED TO BE TERRIFIED BUT ON THE VIDEO SHE DOESN'T LOOK OR SOUND SCARED . [MORE]
Police responding to the 911 call immediately approached and then shot and killed him a short time later outside the house.
The video reveals the fact that cops never announced themselves in a very dark area at night as they shined a bright light into the Black man’s face. As the cops quickly ran up on him and put their hands on him he defended himself.
A lawsuit filed on his behalf said he likely mistook the home for a temple next door that’s open to the public. Unarmed, the Black man from South Africa was wearing a traditional Zulu headband with a tuft of fur at the forehead.
Doorbell and police bodycam camera footage had shown Myeni ignoring commands to get on the ground. The camera then shows a stun gun fired by police either malfunctioning or having no effect on Myeni.
Most importantly the video also shows that an officer fired several gunshots at Myeni before identifying themselves as 'Police!'
In this matter the cops were the aggressors who initiated a violent assault in the dark on a Black man without announcing themselves. The Black Man was unarmed and apparently trying to get away from his unknown assailants. Thus, deadly force, which was already unavailable to them because they were the aggressors, could not have been applied because the cops were not facing an imminent, deadly attack from an unarmed Black man defending himself against their aggression and trying to flee. [MORE]
Council members said they wanted time to review evidence and ask more questions of the Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office in closed-door sessions of the Executive Matters and Legal Affairs Committee. The matter will be taken up again at the council’s next meeting in November. If the settlement is not approved, the case will go to civil trial next year, said James Bickerton, a lawyer for Myeni’s widow.
Lindsay Myeni, who filed the lawsuit in 2021, testified tearfully in support of the settlement and held up her husband’s bloodied shirt with bullet holes that he had been wearing that night.
Mayor Rick Blangiardi, Honolulu Prosecutor Steve Alm, Jonathan Frye, Honolulu chapter chair of the state’s police union and police Chief Joe Logan - all government authorities - encouraged council members to vote against the settlement and said they felt the police did nothing wrong.
Bickerton also objected to the presence of so many armed officers in the City Council chambers during testimony.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said later in a telephone interview. “It’s literally a show of force. It has no place in a democracy. If you want to come down and testify in a civil matter, leave your guns back in the station.”
‘How Could They Be Acting in Self Defense While My Hands Were Restrained?’ Riverdale (IL) Cops Sued for Attacking Black Man in Alley after Stopping Him for No Reason
/From [HERE] South suburban police officers are accused of using excessive force, hitting a man several times during an arrest.
Dashcam video captured the incident, and the man now suing Riverdale police is speaking out.
Abraham Carmichael said he needs several surgeries to recover from injuries after a run-in with two Riverdale police officers earlier this year.
The lawsuit filed against those officers and their department says Carmichael suffered from "emotional anxiety, fear, humiliation,"
Now, he's calling for justice.
"I felt like I was a punching bag, like a UFC punching bag," Carmichael said.
Police dashcam video from February of this year, obtained by Carmichael's legal team, appears to show a Riverdale police officer hitting Carmichael several times, while Carmichael's hands appear to stay behind his back.
"He just grabbed me, slammed me against that car," Carmichael said. "I felt something hit me on my nose, and I probably, he probably knocked me out for like, a couple of seconds."
Just moments beforehand, Carmichael said he was taking his girlfriend's car to get fixed by a friend. He ran into a man he said he doesn't know, and started a conversation. That's when he said two Riverdale police officers blocked the alley to arrest that man before quickly involving Carmichael.
"I kept asking him, what was going on. 'What did I do wrong?'" Carmichael said.
Carmichael's legal team showed ABC7 Chicago the police report from the incident. It said there was use of force by officers, defining it as defensive tactics.
"I don't know how you can defend yourself against a person whose hands are, who is on the car," Carmichael said.
Carmichael said police called an ambulance, and he was taken to the hospital.
The lawsuit against Riverdale police and the two officers says Carmichael was left with a fractured nose and ribs and several bruises.
Carmichael said the day plays on repeat in his mind.
"I've been scared; they bother my family. I got to take all these medicines now. It's unreal. It's unreal," Carmichael said. "I thought I was gonna get killed."
Carmichael said he thought, after being treated at the hospital, he'd get to go home, but instead he was charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of justice. His lawyer said Carmichael initially pleaded not guilty, but the state's attorney's office later dropped the charges.
"If they doing this to me, they did it to someone else. What are we waiting on? We have a ticking time bomb running the streets," Carmichael said.
Carmichael's legal team said Carmichael spoke with the Riverdale chief of police after the incident, and was told the department did not believe the officers' actions needed discipline.
According to Amended Lawsuit, a Witness Saw Mobile (AL) Police Officers Murder Jawan Dallas as Black Man Begged Barbaric Cops for His Life
/From [HERE] Lawyers for the family of a Theodore man who died during a confrontation with police last year have amended a wrongful-death lawsuit, naming the officers for the first time.
The family of Jawan “Jay” Dallas filed the federal lawsuit in December against the city of Mobile, alleging that police officers responding to a burglary call in July 2023 used excessive force. The civil complaint identified the two officers only as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2, and the Police Department has declined to name them.
At the time, attorneys for the Dallas family told reporters at a news conference that they had a good idea who the officers were but that the city had blacked out the names in material given to the lawyers.
“It’s inevitable that we’re gonna get the names, either tomorrow or next week,” attorney Harry Daniels said. “The names are coming. But this city has maintained their secrecy of not releasing the names of the officers. We know the names of the officers. But out of an abundance of caution, we want to make sure that they give it to us.”
The amended lawsuit seeks the same damages as the original one, $36 million – $1 million for each year of Dallas’ life. The new complaint names Officers Jarred Hutto and Christian Davilla as defendants. A grand jury last year cleared them of wrongdoing in the incident. But the lawsuit alleges that their actions caused his death.
“This amendment was made in keeping with our commitment to transparency and we firmly believe the lawsuit speaks for itself as we continue the fight for justice on behalf of Jawan Dallas’ family and his memory,” the lawyers said in a statement.
A Mobile police spokesman confirmed Hutto and Davilla remain on the force but added that the Police Department does not comment on pending litigation. However, the city has denied wrongdoing in court filings.
The lawsuit alleges that Hutto and Davilla questioned Dallas and a white man at Plantation Mobile Home Park about the burglary report despite the fact that they did not fit the description provided by a 911 caller.
The officers then unlawfully demanded to see Dallas’ identification, according to the allegations.
The civil complaint alleges that Davilla tackled Dallas after he began to run away. Both officers struck Dallas several times as he pleaded for them to stop, the suit alleges.
“Unbeknownst to Defendant Hutto and Defendant Davilla, their entire interaction with Jawan was observed by a female eyewitness who had a clear vantage point of the entire incident,” the suit states. “According to that eyewitness, Jawan Dallas was tased several times without any resistance to Defendant Hutto and Defendant Davilla.”
The lawsuit, quoting police body camera footage, contends that Dallas begged for help.
“I can’t breathe. … I don’t want to be George Floyd,” he said, according to the complaint.
According to the suit, no one from law enforcement or the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office ever spoke to the eyewitness.
The civil case is set for trial in April 2026. It was not immediately clear if the amended complaint would alter that schedule.
Judge Orders Louisiana State Police To Release Records Related Police Murder of Jabari Asante-Chioke. Black Man Shot 24X by Cops
/From [HERE] A state judge has ordered Louisiana State Police to release records related to a 2021 shooting of a man that has spurred wrongful death and excessive force lawsuits.
LSP has until early November to respond to nine public records requests submitted by Malikah Asante-Chioke, who was seeking information related to the shooting of her father, Jabari Asante-Chioke. According to news reports, a passerby saw him in distress, walking along a highway, carrying what was later determined to be a gun and a knife.
Jabari Asante-Chioke, 52, was reportedly experiencing a mental health crisis and was shot 36 times.
The Louisiana ACLU, which is representing Malikah Asante-Chioke, said the killing amounted to a “firing squad” and was an unjustifiably excessive use of fatal force. The ACLU said many of the shots struck Jabari Asante-Chioke after he was disarmed and seriously wounded.
Malikah Asante-Chioke’s public records requests pertained to her father’s shooting, personnel files of the involved officers and training materials related to interacting with people experiencing mental health issues.
On November 21, 2021 Mr. Asante-Chioke, a 52-year-old Black man, was spotted by a concerned citizen at the intersection of Airline Drive and North Causeway Boulevard in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Mr. Asante-Chioke was visibly distressed and was traveling along the highway on foot carrying in his hands what was later identified as a gun and a knife. The passer-by who saw Mr. Asante-Chioke thought he might be experiencing a mental health crisis and subsequently flagged down a police officer directing traffic around a nearby construction site.
What happened next was a tragedy that ended in a firing squad when Louisiana State Police and East Jefferson Levee District Police officers shot Mr. Asante-Chioke over twenty-four times. The ill-trained, ill-disciplined, and ill-supervised officers failed to de-escalate the encounter and failed to use less-than-lethal methods in accordance with their training and with state and federal law to subdue Mr. Asante-Chioke. The shooting was an unjustifiably excessive application of deadly force, with many of the gunshots suffered by Mr. Asante-Chioke impacting him after he was disarmed, heavily wounded, and incapacitated. Mr. Asante-Chioke’s weapon was unloaded. He never fired a shot.
This is just one more example of how police encounters with people of color often end with fatal shootings, and quick police officers are to use deadly force when people of color are involved. LSP is currently under a “a pattern and practice” investigation by the United States Department of Justice for engaging in racially motivated and discriminatory policing and excessive force. The Complaint brings 42 USC Section 1983 excessive force, wrongful death, and negligence claims against the officers, as well as a negligent supervision and training claim against the Superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, Colonel Lamar A. Davis, the Chief of the East Jefferson Levee District Police, Robert Garner, and the State of Louisiana. The case is currently pending before the Eastern District Court of Louisiana.
The defendants in this case are:
Nicholas Dowdle, Louisiana State Police Officer.
Jonathon Downing, East Jefferson Levee District Police Officer.
Gerard Duplessis, East Jefferson Levee District Police Officer.
Col. Lamar A. Davis, Superintendent of the Louisiana State Police.
Chief Robert Garner, Chief of the East Jefferson Levee District Police Department.
The State of Louisiana through the Department of Public Safety & Corrections [MORE]
“This is a victory for Malikah, and for the rights of all Louisianans,” said Nora Ahmed, legal director for the ACLU of Louisiana. “The law is clear: members of the public have the right to access public records, a right that is guaranteed by our state constitution and by our Public Records Law. That right must be respected.”
Untapped Relief: FEMA Is Sitting on Billions of Unused Disaster Funds
/From [HERE] Although the Federal Emergency Management Agency told Congress last month that it had $4 billion in its Disaster Relief Fund, officials also warned that the Fund could have a shortfall of $6 billion by year’s end, a situation FEMA says could deteriorate in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
While FEMA is expected to ask Congress for new money, budget experts note a surprising fact: FEMA is currently sitting on untapped reserves appropriated for past disasters stretching back decades.
An August report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General noted that in 2022, FEMA “estimated that 847 disaster declarations with approximately $73 billion in unliquidated funds remained open.”
Drilling down on that data, the OIG found that $8.3 billion of that total was for disasters declared in 2012 or earlier.
Such developments are part of a larger pattern in which FEMA failed to close out specific grant programs “within a certain timeframe, known as the period of performance (POP),” according to the IG report. Those projects now represent billions in unliquidated appropriations that could potentially be returned to the DRF (Disaster Relief Fund).”
These “unliquidated obligations” reflect the complex federal budgeting processes. Safeguards are important so that FEMA funding doesn’t become a slush fund that the agency can spend however it chooses, budget experts said, but the inability to tap unspent appropriations from long-ago crises complicates the agency’s ability to respond to immediate disasters.
‘Age Old-Game’
“This is an age-old game that happens and it doesn’t matter what administration is in,” said Brian Cavanaugh, who served as an appropriations manager at FEMA in the Trump administration. “It’s unfortunate how complex disaster relief has become, but it’s skyrocketing costs.”
Cavanaugh said neither action from Congress nor an executive order from the White House would be required to tap those funds because FEMA is operating on the sort of continuing resolutions Congress routinely authorizes. If the money is part of “immediate needs funding,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas could draw from the billions in untapped money to help the victims of Helene and then inform lawmakers he was compelled to do so, leaving elected officials facing charges they sought to pinch pennies when Americans were desperate. [MORE]
Like Corpse Biden Said: ‘The Feral Guvment Would Never Use Techrology to Create Hurricanes or Manipulate Weather to Harm Mericans, bizakron Strites DooLoop enyaSHaw,’ Despite Evidence to the Contrary
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Never trust a mf liar. According to FUNKTIONARY:
liarbility – the ability and commensurate propensity to prevaricate. “The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” ~H. L. Mencken. A liar bears false witness against others, but a hypocrite bears false witness against himself. (See: Politicians, Internal Revenue Service, White Lie, Black Lie, Legislators, Hypocrite, True Believers, Legistraitors, Grey Lie & Affair)
LIAR – Learned In Adjusting Reality. 2) Language In Altering Reality. 3) Legacy In America Recognized. 4) Larger Issues And Responsibilities. “On the 4th Julied to me and my homies.” ~Hector DeJesus. 5) Living In American Reality. You’re not crazy, you’re just a LIAR now. 6) Locked Inside A Room. Are you a prisoner of your fears? The devil is a lie and a liar. 7) Love In Action Reversal. Liar spelled backwards is RAIL. A lie is something that runs on a rail in the opposite direction from subjective truth. A lie is always somehow connected with truth in order to remotely have lets to walk pass (be believed) by even the naïve. [MORE]
From [HERE] State representatives and senators in the Carolinas were briefed on weather modification technology and have come to the conclusion that Hurricane Helene was a weather weapon deployed against the American people, according to a geoengineering expert.
Dane Wigington joined Ret. Col. Douglas MacGregor’s podcast on Monday to reveal that he briefed numerous lawmakers about patented Defense Department-linked technology used to control major weather events like hurricanes, and the lawmakers were left stunned over what they heard.
“I have an hour conference call yesterday with the representatives and senators from the Carolinas, and we presented the data to them to answer their questions about how this manipulation occurs,” Wigington said.
“They realized this was not a natural event. They’re trying to digest the fact that their states were literally under assault from weather modification operations that are clearly connected to the DoD operations.”
They’re in shock. Because when you realize you’re literally at war with those who control the federal government, how does one digest that?”
“And we can speculate again about the agendas and objectives being carried out but the fact that the storm was manipulated is absolutely inarguable,” he added.
Wigington went on to explain how the technology to stop hurricanes from occurring “has existed for decades with the manipulation of atmospheric pressure zones.”
“HAARP in Alaska is one example many people are familiar with,” he said. “That’s an ionosphere heater. That’s a weapon of mass destruction, period. It can cause an electrical chain reaction in the ionosphere, which heats it to extraordinarily high temperatures, which causes the atmosphere to bulge up and down. The downward push creates a high-pressure dome that can steer the jet stream, and the same type of manipulation can create low-pressure zones.”
“When they have this type of power over the climate system, they can make or break these storms anytime they want. And again, what we see now is storms kept weaker as they’re over the ocean because they’re harder to steer until they reach the land-based network of transmitters, and then we have rapid intensification.”
Wigington then explained how Hurricane Helene was “directed” to the Southeastern states using this advanced technology.
“The bottom line is it was directed there as the transmission recordings clearly show. They kept the moisture corralled there to deluge in the same location. So again, these are patented technologies, and the fact that we have the entire so-called meteorological community denying that this is going on to protect their paychecks and pensions is absolutely criminal at this point,” he said. [MORE]
DeMockery: Dumbocrats Claim to Protect the Black Vote but Have Spent Substantial Time and Resources to Keep Cornel West Off the Ballot, Miring His Candidacy in Fuckery, Rendering It to Write-In Status
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From [HERE] Hmm: Democrats are fighting to get third-party candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West off the ballot in multiple states — while simultaneously battling to keep RFK Jr. on some states’ ballot even after he’s withdrawn.
“Defending democracy” sure is a tricky business.
Of course, the “principle” at stake here is nothing but “what’s best for Kamala Harris.”
West is running this cycle as an independent candidate. Only Democrats get to play games, including switching out Biden for Harris once they realized Joe was a sure loser.
They keep saying “democracy is on the ballot” this year, but (to quote Inigo Montoya) we don’t think that word means what they think it means. As a result of dumbocratic fuckery, The West/Abdullah ticket is on pace to be the largest presidential write-in campaign ever!
Arizona
In August 2024, the Arizona Secretary of State said that the West Campaign did not file sufficient paperwork to gain ballot access in the state before the set deadline.
Michigan
In August 2024, Cornel West and his running mate Melina Abdullah were both initially disqualified and denied entry onto the 2024 Michigan presidential election ballot, due to an incorrectly notarized form.
The group Clear Choice Action is backing the effort to block West from the ballot with help from lawyers with ties to the Democratic Party. Clear Choice founder Pete Kavanaugh said there’s ample evidence of “widespread and blatant fraud.”
“When you look through these petition pages, and there are thousands of them, again, it’s close to 30,000 individual signatures, what you see are clear patterns of fraud,” Kavanaugh said.
His campaign responded to a request for comment with a statement saying it “sees these accusations as part of a broader attempt to undermine the democratic process rather than legitimate legal objections."
"The allegations focus on procedural issues such as incomplete voter information and errors by petition circulators, disproportionately emphasizing technicalities over substantial compliance,” the statement continued. [MORE]
The Michigan Democratic Party has been fighting to keep West off the ballot, as has voter Rosa Holliday, who is represented by attorney Mark Brewer, a former Michigan Democratic Party chair. The Michigan Department of State appealed the Court of Claims ruling to the Michigan Court of Appeals, but did not follow through with an appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court, as Brewer did. [MORE]
The Michigan Secretary of State had given West's campaign a week to submit a response concerning the notarization issues and did not receive a response, after which the department disqualified West. On August 24, a Michigan judge overruled the decision, and required West to be given ballot access in Michigan.
Pennsylvania
In August of 2024, a judge ruled agreeing with the Secretary of State’s office that West’s candidacy paperwork was insufficient for ballot access in Pennsylvania.
West’s insurgent candidacy had been challenged in Pennsylvania by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration, with his secretary of state’s office arguing that the 71-year-old far-left candidate did not submit all the required paperwork on time.
The state’s Supreme Court ruling affirmed a lower court order from last month knocking West off the November ballots. [MORE]
West’s campaign has now sought relief from the federal court.
Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, an employee of the Democratic National Convention challenged to keep West off of the ballot. In August 2024, the Wisconsin Election Commission rejected the challenge, and voted 5-1 to keep West on the ballot.
VA
The Virginia Board of Elections also ruled earlier that West will be included on ballots despite previously disqualifying him over alleged faulty paperwork. [MORE]
According to FUNKTIONARY:
dumbocracy – unrepresentative democracy tolerated by a public schooled in public schools. (See: Democracy & Dummy)
demockery – a spectacle of the true nature of democracy. What each political party (the jackass and the elephant) wants is not justice but its own idea of what is just (for themselves and their special interests). “We the people have no say, our duty is to obey and pay for lavish lifestyle of our betters, politicos, bankers and men of letters who talk down to us as though to fools, the working stiff, taxable mules. With intent to confuse the dumbed-down herd, economics, science presented by some nerd, with confident arrogance, talk not plain, why attempt with animals to explain the higher thoughts of lofty mind to junk-gene people left behind. For government you’ll fight, be taxed, labour, next election you’re supplied (again) with another savior.” ~ Alan Watt. (See: Government, Justice, Predictive Programming, Equality, Elections, Voting, Politics, Holodeck Court, Ideology, Collective Delusions, Taxtortion, Slavery, Political Money, Freedom, Control & Violence)
democracy – a commercial form of “government” (exploitation and theft via force, deception and involuntary participation) of the mob, by the mob, and for the mob, i.e., Mob-Rule. 2) a guise rubber stamping of an alternative royalty into overruling power. 3) the worst possible form of government because the majority rules whether they be good, evil, or misled by a minority. 4) slavery of the people, by the people, for the people. 5) equality achieved through force. 6) a system where only the majority need to be fooled. 7) advertised equality. 8) a parody of a free society that only ethical anarchism or voluntaryism can usher into existence. [MORE]
Outspoken-Token Judge Ketanji Parrots Her White Liberal Masters: The 1st Amendment is "Hamstringing" the Government from Restricting Certain Viewpoints and Content it Wishes to Eliminate
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From [HERE] Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked Lousiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga during oral arguments for Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden) when the federal government should be allowed to "compel or encourage" social media platforms to censor speech that is "threatening... from the government's perspective."
"My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways," Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said. "Some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country, and you seem to be suggesting that that duty can not manifest itself in encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information."
"I'm really worried about that because you've got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances, from the government's perspective, and you're saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems," she said.
"Our position is not that the government can't interact with the platforms," Aguiñaga explained. "But the way they do that has to be in compliance with the First Amendment."
Journalist Glenn Greenwald pointed out on Twitter that "hamstringing the government" in its ability to censor speech is "quite literally the entire point of the First Amendment and Bill of Rights." [MORE]
Elite SpokesPuppet John Kerry Seeks “Obliterature" (annihilation of any critique of his Masters). Says, "1st Amendment Stands as a Major Block Against Hammering Disinformation Out Of Existence”
/From [HERE] Last week at a World Economic Forum panel on Green Energy investing and sustainable development the former U.S. Senator and Biden administration climate enjoy John Kerry correctly identified the First Amendment as a "major block" preventing the government from halting spread of "disinformation."
According to FUNKTIONARY:
obliterature – banned and burned books and literary works—applied censorship. 2) censorship—state-sponsored or self-censorship (silence or aborted self-expression). 3) the annihilation of dissenting, controversial and/or diverse opinions in print media in particular. Conglomeration and consolidation of media business holdings (especially the print media) is a concentrated form of obliterature. Now you read it—now you don’t. Freedom of the press are for those who own one! (See: Verspiration, Media, Funktionary, Censorship, Authoritarianism & Religion)
Freedumb Lover Hillary Clinton Loves Freedom of the Press [for The Dependent Media] but Abhors Freedom of Speech. Says 'We Lose Control If We Don't Moderate and Monitor Social Media Content
/Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday on CNN’s “Smerconish” that “we lose total control” if social media content is not more regulated.
According to FUNKTIONARY
freedumb – the state of unrecognized psychological captivity (brain hemispheric hostage) that sheeple remain in because they don’t speak the language of reality nor constantly edit truth from perfecting heart to perfecting power—and when truth is spoken around them, refrain from being open, or impervious to it thus being forever chained to its distortions and limitations. 2) the mindset that proposes “since we are liberated, we are also free.” 3) the mindset that operates upon the notion that you can have individuality without accountability or responsibility. 4) the pretense that reality is truth and viceversa. People cherish unwarranted assumptions and relish their freedumb because they have been socialized into selfcensorship along with misidentification with the ego-mind—the absence of knowledge of Self. (See: Phfreedom, Truth, Unfreedom, Dumbelievers, Self, Belief Systems, Objective Truth, Individuality, Objective Reality, True Self & Reality)
What happens when the police lie?
/From [HERE] Most Americans understand that the police are allowed to lie to suspects. Whether learned from watching procedurals, news reports or personal experience, it is generally recognized that deceit during suspect interrogations is a routine feature of American policing.
What is less understood are the consequences of accepting such practices, and the extent to which the U.S. stands as an outlier in sanctioning them.
To elicit confessions, police routinely employ a variety of manipulative practices, including lying about the existence of incriminating evidence or falsely implying leniency in exchange for cooperation. These techniques are not tools of a last resort, but core components of interrogation in the U.S. They are taught in some of the most influential police manuals, tolerated by judges and widely accepted as standard practice.
Defenders of these practices are quick to point out that police have tough cases on their hands and must use all methods at their disposal to find the truth. Undoubtedly, deception is an effective technique at times for eliciting confessions from criminals and solving crimes in some cases.
Yet these techniques also have costs. Despite potential investigative advantages, the prevalence of deception has had severe social consequences, not only for the innocent people subjected to such practices, but also for the integrity of the criminal justice system.
First, the use of deceptive interrogation techniques significantly increases the risk of false confessions. The psychological pressure and manipulation inherent in deceptive interrogation tactics can induce even an innocent suspect to admit to a crime. When faced with repeated assertions that incontrovertible evidence exists to secure a conviction — say a DNA test — some suspects begin to doubt their own recollections. Others make a calculated decision that the officers’ minds are made up and confessing is in their best interest.
One study of police detectives estimated that roughly 1 in 20 innocent suspects provides a false confession during interrogation — a staggering number, considering how many interrogations that occur daily.
Unfortunately, once elicited, false confessions are difficult to overcome in court, even in the face of contradictory evidence. As a result, false confessions routinely result in convictions, and indeed, are one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions in the United States. Of the hundreds of wrongful convictions overturned by the Innocence Project, 29 percent involved false confessions. For capital cases, that figure is 61 percent. [MORE]
Police ‘Drug Checkpoint’ Signs on the Road are Actually a Trap for Cops to Stop Drivers who Exit from Road
/From [HERE] There you are, driving along the highway when you see a “Drug Checkpoint, 1 Mile” road sign. You decide you don’t want to deal with waiting in line at a police stop and need gas anyway. So you take the next exit. Next thing you know, a police cruiser comes out of nowhere and pulls you over for not using your turn signal long enough. This move is especially tricky because there was never a drug checkpoint: the Supreme Court ruled it illegal to set up a roadblock to search cars for drugs.
A Redditor asked the Kansas-specific forum, “What’s up with the fake ‘drug checkpoints’ on I-35?” They were referring to signs that said “Highway Patrol Checkpoint” and specified “Drug Dogs in Use.” These signs popped up right before an exit, and the OP noted multiple Kansas Highway Patrol cars hiding on the exit road. “Seems pretty shady and sketchy to me, using a fake checkpoint as a ruse to look for people driving off the freeway and stopping them for a warrantless search.”
One commenter said they narrowly avoided getting caught up in this old bait-and-switch. “My girlfriend was driving and we panicked for a second and I said ‘keep on going’ because it felt like a trap and sure enough it was exactly as you described.”
The kicker is that there was never a traffic stop to begin with. Another commenter revealed, “As others have said, the ‘checkpoints’ are a ruse; the police have vehicles posted at the next exit (usually leading to a remote road that regular travelers wouldn’t normally visit) and then pull people over if they see them ditching anything out the windows, failing to signal, etc.” [MORE]
Help is Still Not On the Way in North Carolina. Report says Feds are Turning Volunteers Away. 'They're Not Picking Up or Identifying the Bodies. They’re Just Leaving them to Rot in the Streets'
/Storm Dropped like a bomb in North Carolina. From [HERE] and [HERE] Dr. Peter and Ginger Breggin just published an in-depth report on the human devastation caused by hurricane Helene and it is heartbreaking. The government and FEMA have abandoned these families. The report states:
It is no less than mass murder. Reports of a complete absence of state or federal assistance in the devastated areas hit by Hurricane Helene are now crowding the social media airwaves. Bodies floating down the rivers. Bodies hanging in trees. Tangled in piles of debris. Utility company linemen are the first into most of the demolished areas. They report finding children as young as three wandering naked in the mud, crying for their parents, some with ropes dangling from where their parents lashed them in desperation to timber. The smell of death is everywhere. About 1 million souls lived in these Western North Carolina counties, with additional souls dying in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee.
Help is not coming
State and federal authorities have not been on site for the first week or so after the storm dropped like a bomb. There is no update on the number of dead, missing, and rescue of those who have survived other than local accounts. A report out of Asheville, the largest flooded out community in North Carolina, says some FEMA workers have just arrived with porta potties for the local inundated hospital which is still without any electricity or any water. Volunteers, community members, and now some aid workers beginning to trickle in are bringing the dead to the privately owned Mission hospital in Asheville, which is now designated the place to bring bodies in the region. FEMA is quoted as saying they are too tied up at the border and won’t be sending refrigerator trucks for body storage. FEMA also was overheard saying “add a couple zeros” to whatever the body count is right now…One local report on X cites reports of over 900 bodies already at the hospital that haven’t been identified.
A report out of Chimney Rock, NC said a ‘government official’ has told residents at a town meeting that the federal government is seizing land, and the entire area will be bulldozed--bodies, still-standing buildings, and all. One local pastor was going door to door with water, and found there were so many bodies that they changed their delivery request to body bags. “They are not picking up the bodies. They don’t wanna identify the bodies and they’re just leaving them to rot in the streets.” And “Something evil is going on in the NC mountains.”
The disaster region needs pilots with planes, helicopters, people with big equipment and trucks. The 82nd airborne is still not ordered to participate in the rescue, their Apache helicopters are on the ground waiting for Title 10--the emergency order that is required to activate the 82nd airborne.
FEMA is AWOL
The federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is AWOL. The few FEMA representatives trickling in a week after disaster struck are actively disrupting volunteer efforts. Emergency supplies are being taken from volunteers and locked up, FEMA directs survivors to use nonexistent internet or telephones, and some state and federal officials are threatening volunteers and survivors with arrest. Federal relief is reported to be loans—and the contracts required state if funds are not paid back on time all property may be seized.
Unverified reports state North Carolina police have now issued a statement that they will start arresting any federal employees trying to stop or hinder rescue operations, have been debunked.
Survivors of the hurricane and the floods are still without power more than a week after the storm and the rains--there is no date for restoration in sight. Food and water are running out or gone and small communities are still cut off.
Dehydrated and starving people have been abandoned
Dehydrated and starving people with no cell phones or other means of communication have been abandoned. A Brannon Howse media interview with the nonprofit Aerial Recovery organization confirmed the federal government absence and further confirmed that they were told not to conduct search, rescue, and recovery work in both Lake Lure and Chimney Rock when they arrived with former special forces volunteers, equipment, chain saws. The volunteer rescue crew were stopped and ordered to leave by the local police.
Elon Musk posted a video of the devastation filmed by some of his Space X engineers flying into North Carolina to deliver Starlink terminals and supplies. Musk said “my blood is boiling” because FEMA would not let the Musk company helicopter land to deliver the critical supplies. [MORE]
Massa' Media Concealing Blight House Failure to Respond to Unprecedented Storm Destruction in NC to Protect Its Wooden Puppet, Kamala. Any Criticism of Lethargic FEMA Effort Called “Misinformation”
/From [HERE] and [HERE] As the people of North Carolina, Georgia, and surrounding states are struggling to recover from the devastation left by Hurricane Helene, questions are being raised about the Biden-Harris administration’s allocation of critical disaster relief funding. While hundreds remain missing in flood-ravaged Appalachian towns, with families waiting for federal assistance, it became apparent that more than a billion dollars of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds have been diverted for services to illegal immigrants.
According to The Federalist, FEMA, the agency responsible for coordinating emergency responses to natural disasters, redirected nearly $364 million in 2023 and an additional $650 million in 2024 to the “Shelter and Services Program.” This program, as described on the government’s own website referenced by the outlet, provides humanitarian assistance to non-citizen migrants released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) short-term holding facilities. In collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), officials allocated these funds to support the “orderly and humane release” of migrants. This decision sparked sharp criticism, as prioritizing migrant assistance diverted resources from urgent domestic needs.
In a series of posts on X, AFL broke down the FEMA’s apparent shift in priorities under the Biden-Harris administration. For example, AFL argued that FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program has been reshaped to provide funding primarily to “families and individuals encountered by the Department of Homeland Security at the southern border,” also known as illegal migrants. According to AFL, $685 million in taxpayer dollars have been reallocated to fund services for these individuals. One of the posts read,
“Over the last 4 years the Biden-Harris admin has steadily transformed FEMA — the agency responsible for responding to natural disasters like Hurricane Helene — into an illegal alien resettlement agency that emphasizes DEI over public safety.” [MORE]
