DOJ says Phoenix Police Target Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans: Cops Subject Non-Whites to Unlawful Detention, Excessive or Deadly Force and Purposefully Delay Medical Aid to People They Harm

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From [HERE] Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, including unjustified deadly force, according to a sweeping federal civil rights investigation of law enforcement in the nation's fifth-largest city.

The U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday says investigators found stark racial disparities in how officers in the Phoenix Police Department enforce certain laws, including low-level drug and traffic offenses. Investigators found that Phoenix officers shoot at people who do not pose an imminent threat, fire their weapons after any threat has been eliminated, and routinely delay medical care for people injured in encounters with officers.

The report does not mention whether the federal government is pursuing a court-enforced reform plan known as a consent decree — an often costly and lengthy process — but a Justice Department official told reporters that in similar cases that method has been used to carry out reforms.

Interim Phoenix Police Chief Michael Sullivan said in a statement that they need time to thoroughly review the findings before considering any next steps. A top police union official, meanwhile, called the Justice Department investigation a “farce,” and warned that a consent decree would hurt officer morale.

“The Department of Justice is not interested in making local police departments and the communities they serve better,” said Darrell Kriplean, president of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, which represents about 2,200 officers. “This action demonstrates that they are only interested in removing control of local police from the communities that they serve through consent decrees.”

Attorney General Merrick Garland called the report “an important step toward accountability and transparency.” He said in an email that it underscores the department’s commitment to “meaningful reform that protects the civil rights and safety of Phoenix residents and strengthens police-community trust.”

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said in a statement that city officials would meet June 25 to get legal advice and discuss next steps.

“I will carefully and thoroughly review the findings before making further comment,” Gallego said.

The Justice Department said Phoenix officers enforce certain laws — such as low-level drug and traffic offenses, loitering and trespassing — more harshly against Black, Hispanic and Native American people than against white people who engage in the same conduct.

Black people in the city are over 3.5 times more likely than white people, for example, to be cited or arrested for not signaling before turning, the report says. Hispanic drivers are more than 50% more likely than white drivers to be cited or arrested for speeding near school zone cameras. And Native American people are more than 44 times more likely than white people — on a per capita basis — to be cited or arrested for possessing and consuming alcohol.

Officers investigating drug-related offenses also were 27% more likely to release white people in 30 minutes or less, but Native Americans accused of the same offense were detained longer, the department said. And Native Americans were 14% more likely to be booked for trespass, while officers cited or released white people accused of the same offense.

There is “overwhelming statistical evidence” that the disparities are due to discrimination, the Justice Department said.

Phoenix has a population of 1.6 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Race and ethnicity figures show 2% of the population is Native American, 7% is Black, nearly 43% is Hispanic and 41% is non-Hispanic white.

Of the more than 2,500 officers who work for the Phoenix Police Department, 68% are white, 21% are Hispanic and 4% are Black.

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who leads the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, criticized Phoenix for “over-policing” homeless people, including arrests without reasonable suspicion of a crime. More than a third of the Phoenix Police Department’s misdemeanor arrests and citations were of homeless people, the report says. The DOJ investigation began in August 2021.

Litigation is an option if the Justice Departments' efforts to secure a consent decree are unsuccessful.

“We remain very hopeful that we can build on the track record of success that we have had in other jurisdictions across our country and put in place a consent decree that contains the strong medicine necessary to address the severe violations identified,” Clarke said.

Similar DOJ investigations in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Baltimore and elsewhere have found systemic problems related to excessive force and civil rights violations, some resulting in costly consent decrees that have lasted for years.

NYPD Much Better at Surveilling and Stopping Law Abiding Black People than Protecting Them from Crime: 92% of All Jaywalking Summons’ are Issued to Blacks in City Controlled by Elite White Liberals

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The NYPD must be forced to stop ticketing pedestrians who cross against traffic signals because cops are currently "unfairly targeting Black and Hispanic individuals," says a Brooklyn Council member who wants to end enforcement of so-called "jaywalking."

Council Member Mercedes Narcisse, whose bill to decriminalize the practice will get its first hearing on Tuesday before the transportation committee, said the city's own statistics show that the NYPD is unjustly and selectively enforcing the "crime."

In 2023, of the 463 summonses written for crossing a street against a signal, 92 percent, were written to Blacks or Latinos. In the first three months of 2024, according to new numbers crunched by Streetsblog, 96.5 percent of the 227 of the tickets where the race of the perpetrator was known were handed to Blacks or Latinos.

"The recent statistics for jaywalking tickets from January to March 2024 paint a troubling picture of racial disparities," Narcisse told Streetsblog in a statement. "This makes it abundantly clear that the current enforcement of jaywalking laws disproportionately affects communities of color. Jaywalking should not be a criminal matter that disproportionately impacts certain groups based on race or ethnicity. [MORE]

Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Household Wealth Persist [the Operating System of Racism White Supremacy Continually Refines Itself while most Black sheople are Oblivious to its Existence]

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the operating system of racism white supremacy is thriving - as it goes on continually updating and refining itself while most Black sheople are oblivious to its existence, continue to live in a reactionary state and have become politically powerless, “complicit in their own political emasculation,” and kept in a continuous state of checkmate.

WHEN YOU SAY RACISM DO YOU MEAN BAD WORDS, DISRESPECT AND BIGOTRY OR RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY

From [HERE] Disparities in wealth are pronounced across racial and ethnic groups in the United States. As part of an ongoing series on inequality and equitable growth, we have been documenting the evolution of these gaps between Black, Hispanic, and white households, in this case from the first quarter of 2019 to the fourth quarter of 2023 for a variety of assets and liabilities for a pandemic-era picture. We find that real wealth grew and that the pace of growth for Black, Hispanic, and white households was very similar across this timeframe—yet gaps across groups persist. 

Data Sources 

For this analysis, we rely on the quarterly demographic wealth distributions published in the Federal Reserve Board’s Distributional Financial Accounts (DFA), which are estimated using microdata from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), and aggregate financial data from the Fed’s Financial Accounts series. Due to sample size concerns, we have omitted Asian and Pacific Islander households and households from smaller groups. Hereafter, references to the “study population” refer to Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic white households. We define wealth as net worth (assets minus liabilities). 

We had previously written on racial and ethnic differences in wealth in a February 2024 blog post (as well as differences by age) and found a decline in the aggregate real wealth of Black households after 2019. However, some questions about the data, related to the sample of Black households, came to our attention after that post and we decided to revisit the analysis at the household level rather than the aggregate level.

At the beginning of 2019, Hispanic and Black households constituted 11 percent and 16 percent of households in the study population, respectively, yet they held just 2.7 percent and 4.9 percent of total wealth of that population. Meanwhile, 73 percent of households in our sample were white and held 92.4 percent of the wealth. In 2019 dollars, the average Black household held $253,000 in wealth, the average Hispanic household held $205,000, and the average white household held $1.06 million. The data allow us to calculate wealth estimates for average households by group but not for median households, so we report only averages. [MORE]

[racism is about Domination not mean words or hate] 'Racists Didn't Steal Slaves. They Stole Scientists, Doctors, Architects, Entrepreneurs, Astronomers, etc and Made Them Slaves'- Kyrie Irving

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Kyrie Irving took to Instagram to set the record straight on the Black community and their subject to slavery.

The Dallas Mavericks guard posted a story about how the modern system took the skilled Black people and is using them as slaves as opposed to noticing them for their skillset that could make a difference to the world.

Irving has been an advocate for social change and a strong supporter of the community for years now and is now spending his offseason educating the masses about the trials the Black community goes through even during a period where discrimination is prevalent. [MORE]

Study Finds Racial Disparities in Dementia are Determined by Social Factors Not Genetic Ancestry ["race" is a political classification, a political system. The purpose of race is to practice racism]

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From [HERE] Racial disparities in dementia are due to social determinants of health, with genetic ancestry playing no role, according to a new study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The study, which was based on a long-running population-based survey in four Latin American countries, helps explain why people of predominantly Native American or African ancestry have a higher prevalence of dementia: Study participants were more likely to experience social contexts and health conditions that raised their risk of cognitive decline, such as lower education levels, rural residency and high blood pressure. Once such factors were accounted for, ancestry added no additional risk.

"Marginalized racial and ethnic groups have higher rates of dementia in many countries, and disentangling the biological from the social contributors has been challenging," said corresponding author Jorge Llibre-Guerra, MD, an assistant professor of neurology.

"Latin America provides a unique framework to separate the two. It is the region with the largest mixture of genetic ancestries, plus it has profound social inequalities. This study clearly shows that poor cognitive health is part of the legacy of the racial caste system. It's not family ancestry that is putting people at risk. In a way, the findings are reassuring, because social determinants of health are modifiable."

The study is published in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia. [MORE]

Study Finds Racial Disparities in Youth Psychiatric Inpatient Admissions - Black Children get Boarded in Emergency Rooms Indefinitely w/No Meaningful Treatment

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From [HERE] According to new research published in JAMA, there are concerning disparities in the boarding rates of both children and adolescents who are in emergency departments for severe mental health symptoms. These findings illustrate a significant need for targeted resources that will reduce boarding while promoting an equitable access to care.1,2

For this cross-sectional analysis, data from May 2020 to June 2022 that included youths aged 5 to 17 years who boarded in a Massachusetts emergency departments for 3 or more midnights while awaiting inpatient psychiatric care. The purpose of this study, according to the investigators, is to summarize characteristics of youth—including age, gender, race or ethnicity, insurance, diagnosis, and barriers to placement—who boarded the emergency departments to test for any disparities in boarding lengths and inpatient admission rates following boarding. Additionally, the investigators also evaluated whether statewide demand for inpatient psychiatric care had any associations with individual outcomes.2

A total of 4942 boarding episodes from this dataset were identified. Of these events, 2648 were for cisgender females (54%), 1958 (40%) for cisgender males, and 336 (7%) for transgender or nonbinary youth. Additionally, the investigators observed that 1337 youth (27%) were younger than 13 years of age, with depression being the most common diagnosis (n = 2138, 43%).2

The findings demonstrated that from the total number of events, approximately 56% (n = 2748) resulted in inpatient admission, of which 171 transgender and nonbinary youths (51%) and 1558 cisgender females (59%) received inpatient care (−9.1%; 95% CI, −14.7% to −3.6%). Transgender or nonbinary youths were also boarded for a mean (SD) of 10.4 (8.3) midnights compared with cisgender females, who were boarded for 8.6 (6.9) midnights (adjusted difference: 2.2 midnights; 95% CI, 1.2-3.2 midnights). Further, there were fewer Black youths who were admitted into inpatient care compared with their White counterparts (n = 382, 51% and n = 1231, 56%, respectively; adjusted difference: −4.3%; 95% CI, −8.4% to −0.2%). The authors also observed that for every additional 100 youth boarding statewide on the day of assessment, the percentage of youth was approximately 19.4% lower (95% CI, −23.6% to −15.2%) and boarding times were 3.0 midnights longer (95% CI, 2.4-3.7 midnights).2

“The experience of boarding—of being stuck in 1 emergency department room, under 24-hour, 1-on-1 supervision, for days or weeks at a time, with little definitive mental health treatment and not knowing how long you’ll be stuck there—is detrimental to children’s wellbeing,” said Lindsay Overhage, MD/PhD student and researcher, department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, in a news release. “In fields other than psychiatry, the sickest person in the emergency department gets admitted first for inpatient care. But many inpatient units don’t feel equipped to deal with kids who have the most severe psychiatric symptoms, so by default these kids end up languishing in emergency departments.”1 [MORE]

On July 4th NYPD Race Soldiers Politely Warned WF's About Using Fireworks but Tackled a Black Woman Holding a Sparkler. Video Shows Cops Punch a Black Man who Dared to Question Their "Public Service"

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LET FREEDUMB RING WITH LEFTS & RIGHTS FROM LIBERAL AUTHORITIES. From [HERE] A viral video showing several NYPD officers beating a Black man on the Fourth of July began when the cops first approached a white man shooting off fireworks and spoke to him in a cordial manner about the legalities of fireworks under New York state law, according to Hawk Newsome, who co-founded Black Lives Matter of Greater New York.

But the same cops became much more aggressive when they spotted an 18-year-old Black woman wearing a hoodie holding a sparkler in her hand – which happens to be illegal in New York City.

“They tackled the girl because they saw a Black person in a hoodie and thought it was a gangster,” said Newsome, who is helping the victim’s family pursue legal action against the NYPD.

However, a relative of the young woman, Shaquan Davis, demanded to know why they had assaulted her, which resulted in the cops attacking him.

Now Davis, 27, who had never been arrested in his life, is facing several charges, including felony assault on a police officer as well as resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, disorderly conduct, harassment and assault with the intent to cause physical injury, according to a spokesperson from the New York City Police Department.

The incident took place around 9:30 p.m. in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn as people throughout the country were celebrating Independence Day.

New York City has some of the toughest laws against fireworks in the country, where “all consumer fireworks, including sparklers, are illegal to use, buy, sell, or transport,” according to a city-run websitethat encourages residents to report their neighbors.

That night, the NYPD was making its rounds to prevent people from using fireworks when they pulled up on the block where several residents of all ethnicities and colors were celebrating Independence Day.

They first approached a white man shooting fireworks and began talking to him in what Newsome describes as a “cordial way.”

And the video was posted on Instagram by Newsome and his sister, Chivona Newsome, who co-founded Black Lives Matter of Greater New York with her brother.

But they then turned their attention to the young woman wearing the hoodie while holding a sparkler and ran up and tackled her.

“No command to put down the firework, nothing of that sort. They just ran and tackled her,” Newsome said.

Newsome said the cop apologized after realizing that she was a girl and decided not to arrest her but then was approached by Shaquan, who demanded to know why they had tackled her in the first place.

That was when they pounced on him and began punching him in the face repeatedly, which is when the video starts, according to Newsome.

The video shows two police officers holding Davis as they take turns punching him while another male civilian tries to intervene and block the blows from landing. However, the situation escalates when a third officer grabs Davis, allowing one of the others to pull out a Taser on the other civilian and third man who tries to plead with officers to let Davis go.

“Get the f–k back!” one of the officers warns.

After the men back off, the officers push Davis to the opposite of a van, where the violent interaction started, and continue to rough him up before apparently arresting him.

Several bystanders could be here off camera screaming and expressing outrage over what they were witnessing. The video was reposted by other activists and influencers online, leading to widespread outrage.

Newsome said they transported Davis to the 61st Precinct and kept him locked up for 24 hours, and he believes racial profiling is at the root of it all.

“This whole thing was over fireworks, but when the family got to the precinct to find out what was going on, there were white people across the street from the precinct shooting off fireworks,” he said.

Chicago Police are Better at Surveilling Law Abiding People than Protecting Them: 109 shot, 19 Fatally Last Weekend as Cops Set Records for Unlawful Stops and Searches of Black People in Liberal City

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From [HERE] One hundred and nine people were shot, 19 fatally, in gun violence across Chicago from midnight Wednesday to midnight Monday during the extended Fourth of July holiday weekend, police said.

CPD Supt. Larry Snelling and Mayor Brandon Johnson both called for accountability for those responsible for the shootings during a press conference on Monday.

"This is a choice. The choice to kill. The choice to kill women, the choice to kill children, the choice to kill the elderly. These are choices that the offenders made and they calculated," Johnson said. "We are holding every single individual accountable for the pain and from the torment that they have caused in this city."

Snelling said adjustments were made after the Fourth of July heading into the weekend, including canceling officers' days off, but ultimately, he said, they need communities to come forward. [MORE]

Miami Garden Police Fail to Articulate Any Specific Facts to Justify Their Murder of Daniel Lewis- Black Man Shot w/o Warning in His Backyard by Undercover Cops from a Unmarked Black Car, 30 Days Ago

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From [HERE] and [HERE] Daniel Lewis, a 27-year-old Black father of two with a clean criminal record and a concealed weapons permit, was shot and killed by police in South Florida in a case that is raising more questions than providing answers.

The son of a retired New York City police officer was killed on May 31 after being shot five times in the backyard of his home in Miami Gardens, a municipality in northern Miami-Dade County with a majority Black population.

Police have refused to provide details to explain the circumstances of the fatal shooting. Police have not stated he presented a threat to officers or that he shot at police - no shell casings matching his gun were found at the scene. 

That night, Miami Gardens police officers were working with agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives in a joint task force to combat gun violence, according to NBC Miami.

Law enforcement officials told CBS Miami they were “looking for somebody” but have yet to release the name of that person or the reason why they were looking for that alleged person.

Attorneys representing Lewis’ family say it all started when law enforcement agents in an unmarked black car with no emergency lights or sirens began following his cousins and sister, who were driving through the neighborhood in their car at night.

Believing gang members were following them, they panicked and drove into the backyard of their family’s home. His sister then ran out of the car and into the home through the back door.

Lewis, who was inside the home, stepped out the back door with his gun to see what was going on and was shot and killed within seconds.

“I watched my son take his last breath, and that’s the hardest thing a mother could ever do, from the first to the last,” said his mother, Angela Lewis, during a press conference in front of the Miami Gardens Police Department on July 2, according to NBC Miami.

Lewis also told the Miami Herald, “My son went outside to see what was going on, and they shot him five times. They didn’t say anything to me. They didn’t tell me why,” Angela Lewis said. “No one tried to administer CPR. No one tried to help him. They just stood over him.” 

Christopher Robinson, the special agent in charge of the ATF’s office in Miami, issued a statement to NBC Miami, declaring that some people shot at both his agents and members of the Miami Gardens Police Department, and fire was returned, resulting in the death of Lewis. “Unfortunately, some individuals discharged firearms at some Miami Gardens detectives as well as some of my agents, gunfire was returned, one individual struck, and he’s unfortunately deceased.”  If, so where are the gun shell casings?

“What was the rush? What was the urgency to fire upon Mr. Lewis this night?” asked attorney Chris Lomax during the press conference, during which attorneys said they plan to file a lawsuit, according to NBC Miami.

“There was none; this was a bad shoot; it shouldn’t have happened.”

Still No Answers

It’s been more than a month since the shooting, and neither Miami Gardens police nor the ATF have released much information about the shooting, including details about the person they were supposedly looking for or confirmation on whether Lewis even fired his gun.

“Miami Gardens Police Sgt. Emmanuel Jeanty told the Miami Herald the night of the shooting that the two agencies were conducting surveillance in the neighborhood because there had been several shootings involving high-powered weapons in the previous weeks.

But they did not say whether any of those shootings were connected to Lewis and his family.

“We have a police car with bullet holes in it,” Jeanty told the Herald, adding that several weapons were recovered outside the Lewis home.

Angela Lewis told the Herald that her 25-year-old nephew, who had hopped out of the car, was taken into custody after being ordered to lie on the ground, but he was released within hours.

Attorneys representing Lewis’ family still have not determined whether he even knew they were cops.

“Not once did anyone yell police, stop, police, freeze,” attorney Ariel Lett said during the press conference.

“Instead, what they did was they gunned down a law-abiding citizen in his backyard, on his back doorstep, without a warning.”

Under the known circumstances, Lett believes Lewis had every right to defend his home from people with guns who never identified themselves as cops, according to Local 10.

“The castle doctrine would seem to apply that you have a man who committed no crimes, who was known that the family committed no crimes and who his sister just ran into the house screaming for her life as the car she was in was being shot at by unknown assailant.”

Black Woman who Believed She Had “Rights” and Power to Command Her Public Servants is Forced Out of Her Car, Punched, Piled On and Hair Dragged by [her Public Masters] New Castle Cops (DE) on Video

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NO RIGHT TO BE LEFT THE FUCK ALONE IN THE FREE RANGE PRISON. From [HERE] Authorities in a Delaware town released body camera footage that showed multiple cops punch a Black woman several times in the head during her arrest and use her locs to force her to the ground.

The arrest happened on June 29 in Bear, Delaware. 

Cell phone video that circulated on social media captured part of the arrest when the cops were seen aggressively restraining the woman and punching her after she was wrestled to the ground.

The video spurred controversy online, prompting New Castle County authorities to release footage from the body cameras of all the officers involved in the arrest in an effort to shed more light on the incident. [MORE]

The gullible Black woman in the video probably really believed she could have an arms length conversation with the white cop, who she apparently regarded as her public servant. Clearly, she spoke to him like she believed she had a meaningful opportunity to secure a different outcome other than going to jail. She also believed she had Constitutional rights and that such rights are enforceable by her on the street.

Yet said legal truths had no actual existence in reality. If another person such as a police officer, is uncontrollable by you, unaccountable to you, can’t be hired or fired by you, has irresponsible power over you and provides a compulsory “service,” then he is actually your Master. ‘We are not the government. And the government does not serve us.’ The rebel Larken Rose explained, “To imagine that a ruler could ever be the servant of those over whom he rules is patently absurd.” Lysander Spooner explained,

“It is of no importance that I appointed him, and put all power in his hands. If I made him uncontrollable by me, and irresponsible to me, he is no longer my servant, agent, attorney, or representative. If I gave him absolute, irresponsible power over my property, I gave him the property. If I gave him absolute, irresponsible power over myself, I made him my master, and gave myself to him as a slave. And it is of no importance whether I called him master or servant, agent or owner.”

In reality, the Black woman’s only options were to comply with authority or go to jail or die.

Additionally, in regard to her so-called 4th Amendment rights - where were they? Apparently, they only exist when a higher authority such as a police chief, judge or prosecutor says so. Brazen cops so frequently abuse their power that no Black shopper, pedestrian, motorist, juvenile, adult or Black professional of any kind—could make a compelling argument that so-called constitutional rights afford any real protection from cops. The back and forth between the cop and the Black woman is merely a pretense of civility by a barbarian. The cop preferred consensual compliance to forced compliance. Such a preference is to maintain the illusion of freedom where there is none. If the Black woman goes along with it (obeys), it may be better for her mind but she never had a choice in the matter. She probably disagrees, but that’s mind control (the purpose of government). Government does not rest on our voluntary consent, it is a system anchored in violence. As explained by FUNKTIONARY, “Government” is simply, unequivocally, and always initiation of force or coercion and nothing else. Citizens can either obey authority or go to jail. ‘The lie of tyranny is that you will maintain your freedom by obeying authority. The choices it offers you are a lifetime of obedience or death.’ [MORE] Government and it’s “services” are not voluntary but mandatory and individuals cannot opt out or reject government services or choose to live without government – rather, we are born into this involuntary arrangement. [MORE]

FUNKTIONARY explains,

“rights” – useful fictions declared in order to make agents of another type of fiction (“government”) have to play along in their deadly theatrical (tragicomedy) game. 2) mere fictions, the contemplation of which leads only to a progressive social, personal, racial and jurisprudential separation from reality. Discussion and debates about “rights” merely evades the FAQ, i.e., the frequently avoided question of who is to enforce any “right” and who will benefit from the pretense. “Rights” are separated into two categories—those flowing from “negative liberties” and those flowing from “positive liberties.” In law, rights are remedies and if a person is without a remedy (as is with citizens of the United States) he is without a right, and only a ‘thing’ is without rights. (See: Negative Liberties, Positive Liberties, Bill of Rights, Liberty, Freedom, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Ma’at & Justice)

rights – fantasmatic or fictitious objects having no reality in actuality by those imagining as an identity being in possession of them. Rights are cultural gratuities perceived through various fantasy frames, recognized, and sometimes even created, by man’s system of law to provide a modicum or pretense of civility under a system whereby their very undermining and violation is vouchsafed. Rights are merely rites unless you know how to assert and defend them in order to enjoy them. 2) things people are free to do whether they are able to or not. 3) conditions of existence required by hue-man’s nature for their potential survival (primarily against the cartoon that kills, i.e., the wholly unconscionable entity called the “State”). It is a mistaken notion that rights are enjoyed by one at the expense of the many—that is the realm of privilege. Enjoyment of rights in a neo-imperialistic world controlled by Yurugu through the Greater System (Symbolic Order), paradoxically, entails not only a recognition of their inevitability but, equally, their impossibility. How can we be endowed with rights, or even know what rights are when they are based on binary considerations? Rights, as ontological ephemera, cannot be universally observed, recognized, realized or enforced—and paradoxically, act also as its own eternal source for its assertion and vessel for its fulfillment in our imaginary enjoyment of them. [MORE]

Instead of Blaming Milwaukee Cops for Failing to Protect Residents, Strawboss Mayor says Rising Crime Will be Reduced if More Law Abiding People are Prohibited from Getting Guns to Protect Themselves

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From [HERE] Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson is at it again, calling for more restrictions on Wisconsin gun owners because violent crime was out of control last week, so instead of demanding enforcement of existing laws to take the perpetrators off the streets, he is blaming guns.

It is hardly the first time the Democrat mayor has called on state lawmakers to toughen gun laws. Last year about this time, he was making the same plea, as reported at the time by TheGunMag.com.

However, this year, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s homicide database, homicides have declined dramatically from the same time in 2023. So far this year, the database is reporting, the city has suffered 65 slayings, which is “45 fewer than last year at this date.” Also, non-fatal shootings are down from the same period last year, according to Milwaukee Police data.

The question arises: Is Johnson doing this in the interest of public safety or to make a political statement as the Republican National Convention looms in his city in two weeks? As reported by WPR, last week there were at least 15 people shot in the city over the course of two days (Wednesday and Thursday). According to this report, “Johnson said the violence from a ‘small segment’ of the city’s population has a lasting impact on the entire community.”

If that is the case, why should the violence in Milwaukee be used as an excuse to ratchet down on the rights of law-abiding Badger State residents living across the rest of the state?

Consent Decrees Have No Effect on “Authority,” the Uncontrollable Power to Use Force Offensively on Citizens. So Aurora Cops Continue Murdering People like Kily Lewis (Shot Holding Phone w/Hands Up)

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From [HERE] About 70 demonstrators rallied at the Aurora City Council meeting last week to protest the police shooting of another unarmed Black man, 37-year-old Kilyn Lewis— who police shot and killed last month in Aurora. Lewis’s death comes two years after Colorado Attorney Phil Weiser imposed a consent decree on the city of Aurora mandating the city fix “patterns of racially biased policing and excessive use of force in the Aurora Police Department.”

The Consent Decree came in the aftermath of the 2019 murder of Elijah McClain, and a report showing Black people were more than 250 percent more likely to be arrested in the city of Aurora than white people.

Despite the decree, in 2022, only about five months later, Aurora’s City Council fired Vanessa Wilson, the interim Chief of Police who had begun to reform the APD by creating DEI trainings and removing many of the so-called “bad apples” involved in Elijah McClain’s death. In Wilson’s place, the Council appointed a new interim chief who rehired the officers and ended many of Wilson’s programs for reform.

Meanwhile, police violence in Aurora has continued. So far this year, out of the 348 reported uses of force by Aurora PD, about 40 percent of those were against Black residents – that’s despite Black residents only making up about 16 percent of the population.

Lewis was the second unarmed Black man Aurora Police officers killed since June of last year. The incident happened at around midday, on a Tuesday in May. Footage shows Aurora PD confronting Lewis and Officer Michael Dieck shooting and killing Lewis within eight seconds of arrival.

Lewis, who had a 16-year-old son, can be heard shouting that he is unarmed. As he begins to fall to his knees with his hands in the air, Dieck fires. Dieck, who is on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation, reported that he thought the cellphone in Lewis’ right hand was a weapon. KGNU’s Alexis Kenyon reports. [MORE]

Nothing can ever change with regard to police brutality so long as police have the power to use force offensively on “citizens.” In fact, despite the falling violent crime rates since 1993, police killings have increased. According to Mapping Police Violence, “Police killed more people in 2023 than any year in more than a decade. Police have continued to kill at a similar rate in 2024.“ Police killed at least 1,247 people in 2023. Black people were 27% of those killed by police in 2023 despite being only 13% of the population. Thus far, there have been only 9 days in 2024 where police did not kill someone. Black people are most likely to be killed by police and are three times more likely than whites to be killed by police. 33% of Black people killed by police were running away, driving away or otherwise trying to flee. Regardless of race, there is no accountability: 98.1% of killings by police from 2013-2023 did not result with officers even being charged with a crime. [MORE]

Petitioning puppeticians for reforms, or begging them to enforce the status quo by punishing police for conduct that is already illegal or begging them to defund or lower police department budgets can have no effect on the extraordinary police power to use force offensively on citizens. Said non-reformable and uncontrollable power to initiate the use of unprovoked violence on people is called “authority.”

As you will see, if you indulge BW here, due to the fact that "authority" is immoral and unjust and there is no legitimate or rational way to account for belief in its existence, the legal system is entirely based on physical coercion or violence. In other words, we are not free.

Political “authority” can be summed up as the implied right to rule over people. It is the idea that some people have the moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have the moral and legal obligation to obey.’ [MORE] Authority is the basis and operating system for all governments throughout the world, regardless of type, function or characterization. As so-called representatives of authority, police officers (among other authorities) are empowered to use force offensively against citizens who are legally and morally obliged to obey authority. [MORE]

White Liberal Media Deceives: The Supreme Ct Didn’t “Allow” Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments. It Just said Laws that Do So Don’t Violate the 8th Amendment - but Can Still be Challenged Other Ways

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Photo Above "Georgetown Blues" taken by Vincent R Brown. 

although African Americans make up just 12.5% of the general population, Some 40.4% of the national homeless population is black, according to the University of Maryland School of Public Health, [MORE] FUNKTIONARY EXPLAINS

HOMELESS – THE INFORMATIONALLY DISENFRANCHISED AND IN MANY CASES ALSO THE PSYCHOLOGICALLY DISENGAGED. THE STREETS MAY BELONG TO THE PEOPLE, BUT THEY MAKE LESS THAN IDEAL PLACES TO LIVE. IN THE COLD, THE HOMELESS LOOK FOR THE “GRATE” OUTDOORS.

In City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, the plaintiffs filed a class action on behalf of the homeless population living in Grants Pass, alleging that the city’s ordinances against public camping violated the Eighth Amendment.

They claimed that the law punished the mere status of being homeless and compared it to a punishment that made it a crime to be a drug addict, or punishment for simply being a drug addict.

An injunction was originally entered, prohibiting the city from enforcing its laws against homeless individuals. The US Supreme Court overruled this injunction holding that enforcement of the city’s laws did not constitute “cruel and unusual” punishment prohibited by the Eight Amendment.

The Court explained that the 8th Amendment’s “The Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause focuses on the question what “method or kind of punishment” a government may impose after a criminal conviction, not on the question whether a government may criminalize particular behavior in the first place or how it may go about securing a conviction for that offense.” One rare exception to the court’s focus on the punishment after a defendant has been found guilty is that a State may not enact laws that criminalize the mere status of being a drug addict (Robinson case). The Court stated,

“Public camping ordinances like those before us are nothing like the law at issue in Robinson. Rather than criminalize mere status, Grants Pass forbids actions like “occupy[ing] a campsite” on public property “for the purpose of maintaining a temporary place to live.” Grants Pass Municipal Code §§5.61.030, 5.61.010; App. to Pet. for Cert. 221a–222a. Under the city’s laws, it makes no difference whether the charged defendant is homeless, a backpacker on vacation passing through town, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building. In that respect, the city’s laws parallel those found in countless jurisdictions across the country. And because laws like these do not criminalize mere status, Robinson is not implicated.”

In other words, the law at issue did not just punish the mere status of being homeless. Rather, it punished particular activity, such as sleeping or occupying prohibited places. It explained, although homelessness, like being a drug addict, might be an involuntary act, the 8th Amendment does not cover conduct that flows from any “condition [the defendant] is powerless to change.”

Contrary to the Dependent media coverage of this case, the court did not allow cities to enforce homeless encampment bans. States have broad authority to criminalize conduct. This decision did not allow cities to do anything - it simply says that laws prohibiting homeless encampments don’t violate the 8th Amendment. Persons charged with a crime can still raise other defenses such as a necessity defense or plaintiffs can raise other legal challenges to such laws.

ABOVE BALTIMORE MD Is it MAGA Republicans or Mostly White Liberal Landlords Evicting Mostly Black Tenants Into the Streets? Evictions Soar in CA, Elsewhere. Media Pretends Unknown Forces Cause Black/Latino Homelessness

LIBERALS LOVE TO DECEIVE BLACK PEOPLE INTO BELIEVING THEY LIVE IN RACIST FREE ENVIRONMENTS IN THEIR LIBERAL CITIES (SUCH AS SEATTLE, PORTLAND, SF, DC, NYC, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, ST. LOUIS, LA, ETC.). THEY ALSO PURPOSEFULLY CONFUSE RACISM WITH BIGOTRY AND OTHER FORMS OF BAD SPEECH/DISRESPECT. WHITE LIBERAL CITIES ARE PLACES OVERWHELMINGLY “RUN AND CONTROLLED BY ELITE WHITE LIBERALS” -WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NUMBER OF ELECTED BLACK PUPPETICIANS OR APPOINTED BLACK ROLEBOTS IN A GIVEN JURISDICTION. RATHER, IN ALL LIBERAL JURISDICTIONS WHERE BLACKS RESIDE, ELITE WHITES CONTROL AND OWN ALL MAJOR RESOURCES (SUCH AS BANKS, LOCAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA, MAJOR REAL ESTATE, UTILITIES, LARGE CORPORATIONS AND BUSINESSES, MAJOR INDUSTRY, MAJOR NON-PROFITS, UNIONS, HOSPITALS, ETC) AND ANYTHING ELSE OF SUBSTANTIAL MATERIAL VALUE. IN SUCH PLACES WEALTHY RACIST SUSPECTS FUNCTION AS THE MAJOR DECISION MAKERS IN REGARDS TO WHAT HAPPENS OR DOES NOT HAPPEN TO NON-WHITE PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY BLACKS AND LATINOS. [MORE]

[BET] Bad EnterStainment TV Calls it "Excellence:" Coin-Operated Black Whores Simulate Licking Balls and SNiggering NGHRS Bounce and Grin to Get More Coin from Their Elite White Masters @ BET Awards

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IS IT “EXCELLENCE “OR NIGGERISM ON DISPLAY AS Ice Spice let everyone know its time to lick some balls! A MAJOR Part of white supremacy is the annihilation of Black self respect.

Niggers, Bitches & Hoes showcased by elite racists through their Black dummy puppets at the 2024 BET Awards which was sponsored by Microsoft, McDonald's, Walmart, Coke and as many other white owned corporate sponsors as a race car in an auto race. Like the cars on the track, Black folks are going in circles.

BET is allegedly a "Black" network - but by “Black” they just mean styles, fashion, accents, slang, and different combinations thereof replicated in corporate created rolebotic entertainers in The Spectacle. ["A role-bot merely plays the role of the mask -the personae- society issued and approved." Dr. Blynd] To the niggers put in charge of this shitty network “Black” also means servant like and inferior to white and inferior to others. It means ‘we accept our subordinate positions in life as part of the natural order of things in the imaginary human hierarchy.’

BET is wholly dependent on elite White financing and underwritten by elite White advertising revenues. Dr. Amos Wilson explained, “Apparently frightened of provoking the disapproval of their national and multinational advertisers and of raising the ire of the White ruling establishment on whose favor they depend for survival, these media assiduously concern themselves with reporting the activities of Black celebrities, of the Black bourgeoisie, and with selling the products of White-owned manufacturers to Black customers.” The safest programming is that which depicts Black people as unserious, childish, emotional servant like chimps who SNigger, grimace, fight, cry, gyrate, lick balls and bounce up and down on demand. Such enterstainment is reassuring to elite racists because it helps white dominance over nearly every aspect of Black people’s lives seem natural and legitimate. White supremacy then is no conspiracy, it is a natural outcome of reality and a “consensus reality” that racists and their niggers can agree to. The coin-operated niggers at BET are good with that.

Wilson explains, “the Black media literally "deliver" the Black market to White merchants, their raison d'etre.” On the whole, the Black media such as BET are “essentially a parochial establishment lacking vision and courage, craving White media acceptance and recognition. Specializing in racial ego massage, commiseration, complaints and victimization, they are of relatively low-educational value and provide little worthwhile leadership for the Afrikan American community. They are dark imitations of their white counterparts which set their reactionary agendas, news stories, editorials and features." [MORE] fuck BET.

According to FUNKTIONARY

Black America – an internal colony held and subsumed within the State apparatus of the United States—e.g., indigenous Native Blacks originating on Turtle Island, Chicanos, Native Americans—an exploited nation within a nation.

Black American – redundant. Black Americans (or Blacks in America) have been taught to view Africa the way White supremicist America has taught us to see. We have been ‘train-washed’ to see what we know rather than know what we see. (See: Ego-Based Truth, Cognitive Illusion, Motivated Illusion, Reality Boxes. Seeing)

enterstainment – dubious, dreadful, inappropriate or grossly offensive entertainment which leaves one feeling stained.

'Lakers are the Opposite of Celtics:' Will LeMedia Disappear James Worthy for Speaking Reality to Truths Presented on Behalf of Corporation LeBron about Their Puppet Coaches or Frivolous Roster Moves?

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Losing is not winning and it takes profound denial to believe otherwise. Black people, in particular should really give that some thought and be cognizant of it whenever they are listening to and watching coin-operated probots and rolebots talk about Lebron James in LeMedia. As explained by the rebel Dr. Welsing, Black people are in a state of continuous checkmate (white over Black system) and the annihilation of Black self-respect is worth billions of dollars to elite racists. For what reasons would elites want to promote Black mediocrity? For what reasons do elites promote mediocre Blacks into leadership positions in all areas of people activity (such as labor, politics and law)?

Another way of saying ‘losing is winning’ is, ‘Lebron James is great.’ If you are rationalizing losing as winning using statistics, opinions or other abstractions then you are a plaything in the hands of others. FUNKTIONARY explains ‘When we’re deluded, we don’t know we’re deluded. This is referred to as “Bignorance.”’ According to FUNKTIONARY:

truth laundering – the attempt to make truth reality by successive iterations or modifications along the truth continuum—passing off objective truths for more subjective ones and ultimately attempting to pass off truth as if it were reality or as if wasn’t asymptotic to reality. 2) getting rid of excess truth to avoid paying a reality tax on it. (See: Reality Laundering)

Reality Laundering – concealing immanent reality so it may remain in the realm of transcendental reality—thereby avoiding having to pay a subjective reality tax collected by reality tax collectors. (See: Truth Laundering & Spin Cycle)

Reality 101 – the disturbing and perhaps even astonishing fact that truth and reality are incompatible. For uncounted centuries we’ve wandered Truth’s deserts, wasting life along the way. The causes of our failures and their remedies will never be found where most people waste time arguing. That rules out religious opinion, the making of laws, politics, science, ideologies, science, economics, psychology, traditional education, solciology, or other superficial analyses of human behavior. Oh, they have their contributions (albeit limited), to be sure, but until and unless we go deeper to explore the ideas we have about reality and its attributes, which underlie all arguments, we stumble blindly along. Under all is infinity. The most important fact of existence the world knows nothing of is that reality is a state of infinity, which implies uncertainty, change and imperfection. The secrets of infinity bridge the gulf between what is and what could be. The implications of infinity hold the promises of infinity: Freedom, Creativity and Love. In the promises of infinity are the answers to everything! We must first judge civilization by its consciousness; judge consciousness by its truths; and judge truth by reality. Then, change civilization by changing its consciousness. Change consciousness by changing its truths; and change its truths by changing its understanding of reality. Reality 101 is the realization that reality is infinity and with it the vast implications for a new advanced civilization based in freedom, creativity and love. “There is no greater lie than the truth that refutes Reality.” [MORE]