New Filings Allege Racist Suspect GA Prosecutor Withheld Critical Evidence of Plea Deal with Co-Defendant To Convict and Sentence Warren King to Death. Same DA Improperly Removed All Black Jurors
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From [HERE] Attorneys for Warren King (pictured), who was convicted and sentenced to death in Georgia in 1998 for the murder of a convenience store clerk, have uncovered evidence that shows the prosecutor, John B. Johnson, withheld critical evidence from Mr. King’s defense team at the time of trial. A new court filing indicates that ADA Johnson failed to disclose a plea deal reached with Mr. King’s co-defendant, Walter Smith, the only eyewitness to the crime. Both Mr. King and Mr. Smith were charged with the murder of Karen Crosby, but Mr. Smith avoided the death penalty and pled guilty to life in prison with the possibility for parole three years after Mr. King’s trial and conviction. During closing statements at Mr. King’s trial, ADA Johnson told jurors there were “no deals” in place for Mr. Smith, who also testified on cross-examination that there was no deal in place. In a new sworn statement from John Brewer III, one of Mr. Smith’s trial lawyers, he said that ADA Johnson agreed to recommend a life sentence with the possibility of parole, in exchange for Mr. Smith’s testimony against Mr. King. According to Mr. Brewer, ADA Johnson approached his client with a possible deal “several months before Mr. King’s trial.” Mr. Brewer added that he “would have never recommended Mr. Smith testify against Mr. King unless [he] knew for certain that he had a deal and would avoid the death penalty.”
Counsel for Mr. King should have been provided this information under longstanding legal precent established by the United States Supreme Court in Brady v. Maryland (1963), which requires prosecutors to turn over all favorable evidence to the defense team. There is also an ethical obligation for prosecutors to do so. With proof of a deal in place for Mr. Smith, attorneys for Mr. King could have used this information to impeach Mr. Smith’s credibility as a witness. The filings say that the prosecution’s failure to disclose this deal “deprived Mr. King of a fair trial and produced the ultimate miscarriage of justice: an unreliable conviction and death sentence.”
At Mr. King’s trial, Mr. Smith testified that Mr. King was responsible for shooting Ms. Crosby and that Mr. King, after the shooting, said, “I hope I killed the b*tch.” Mr. King did not take the stand during the guilt-phase of his trial but testified during the sentencing phase. Mr. King told the jury that Mr. Smith had given him the gun and told him to shoot Ms. Crosby, but instead, he gave the gun back to Mr. Smith who then fired the fatal shots. Mr. King’s filings explain that Mr. Smith’s testimony is the only evidence pointing to Mr. King being the triggerman. Had Mr. Johnson disclosed the deal with Mr. King’s trial attorneys, they “would have been able to powerfully challenge Mr. Smith’s testimony by highlighting his motive to paint Mr. King, rather than himself, as the shooter, in order to save his life,” said the motion.
On July 2, 2024, the Supreme Court refused to hear claims that ADA Johnson improperly excluded Black jurors from Mr. King’s trial. Lower courts have upheld Mr. King’s conviction despite evidence showing that ADA Johnson struck 87.5% of eligible Black jurors, while striking just 8.8% of white jurors, who were all women. Consequently, a Black juror was ten times more likely to be excused than a white juror, and women were four times more likely to be excluded than men, according to the motion. The Supreme Court’s decision in Batson v. Kentucky (1986) prohibits attorneys from excluding potential jurors from service based on their race. At Mr. King’s trial, ADA Johnson provided race-neutral reasonings for his exclusion of Black jurors. Attorneys for Mr. King have uncovered handwritten notes from ADA Johnson which indicate he closely tracked which potential jurors were Black and which were women. Mr. King’s lawyers claim that these handwritten notes are “concrete proof that [ADA] Johnson was indeed considering race and gender” of potential jurors.
Affirmative Auction Demockery: Elites Void Primary [s]Election and Impose Kamala Onto Dumbocratic Voters, as The Golden Retriever Replaces Corpse Biden in Last Minute SNigger Rebate, Bait and Switch
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DID CORPSE JOE GET THE NIGGARMAROLE OR WAS IT ALL BY DESIGN TO AVOID A CONTESTED PRIMARY? AT ANY RATE PROMOTION OF THE ONGOING SMILING FACE CONTINUES TO PAY OFF for SNIGGERING TOKEN KAMALA!
“Democratic primary voters cast millions of votes for Joe Biden as their choice. Getting rid of CORPSE JOE effectively nullifies the will of those voters—an outcome that no one can seriously regard as democratic.
There is also something unworthy of democracy in the argument that is being put forward for pushing President Biden out of the race. The Democrats who want him to leave have all said something like this: Biden has been a great president and had a very successful administration, but he needs to get out now because he is about to be beaten in a landslide. This claim is so ridiculous as to amount to a fraud on the public. The American voters who turn the outcomes of national elections are pragmatists. If they thought the present administration were a success, Biden would be cruising to victory now. Such voters would think: “He may be a bit diminished, but he must know how to manage his team, because the country is doing so well.”
The truth is, Biden was doing poorly even before the June debate precisely because many Americans are not satisfied with the results of his administration. What the Democrats are now attempting, then, is a last-minute switch to evade responsibility for the administration that they elected and supported for the last three and a half years. They are trying to hang on to power by a desperate trickery that insults the voters’ intelligence and tries to deprive them of their right to hold this administration to account electorally. “[MORE]
According to FUNKTIONARY:
golden retrievers – a dysphemism describing a variation of the old “Step-N-Fetchit” racist caricature to be revived (in the very near future) in a labor context vis-à-vis Afrikan-Americans and other majorities (so-called minorities).
Affirmative auction – $N1gg3rs on the block doing the moneywalk—Negroes up for sale—totally Souled-Out of their minds. Your brain must be clean because it has been truly whitewashed. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ~Martin L. King, Jr. (See: Black Conservative, Coin-Operated & Sambo)
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)
Elections – the tricks of the Elect; the advanced auction of stolen goods. 2) rituals where periodically citizen-subjects are called upon to “participate” in the staged-hoax ratification of one group of state managers or another, which provides the comforting illusion of “democracy” where none exists. 3) Dumbocracy in action; stage prop to enable the puppeteer and his puppeticians to pull the strings of you and me. 4) show and shell games. 5) the orchestration and preservation of the illusion of choice and open competition. Elections merely determine how you will get screwed, i.e., either with a Democratic Phillips or with a Republican Flathead. Stop repeat offenders—don’t re-elect them! . . .You are electing those who have been selected for you far in advance and without your input. You choose but they cannot lose when you have no say in who is chosen to come out to play their prime-time gameshow called electoral politics where you “get in” to win, not win to get in (office). Elections are always an attempt to stymie cognitive dissidents’ (the unlearner and the natural man) and the working poor’s struggles, to silence legitimate outrage at psychological, social, judicial, and economic oppression and demands of self-determination. Those that “get in” long before they are chosen by the Elect (the ruling elite) are groomed and tested for their loyalty to the dominant minority ruling class over the interests of the individual or the commoners as we are referred to when in a more jovial mood. Money only makes you eligible, power determines if you’re suited to do their bidding and act as a distraction (sideshow) away from the shadow or parallel government where the Agenda of the Pathocracy gets executed while the Punch and Judy show of sham participatory democracy (three-ring media circus) plays out as a daily dose of entertainment for the clueless, conditioned and apathetic masses (the voting public, i.e. citizens of the United States). [MORE]
IncogNegro Van Jones Cries About Burying Corpse Biden- as If Dumbocrats Stand For Something in Regard to the Black Votary, Besides Using It to Win Elections while Delivering Nothing of Tangible Value
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Icognegro VAN JONES IS A COIN-OPERATED $Pinfidel. ALTHOUGH HIS MESSAge APPEARS TO BE HIS OWN HE IS ACTUALLY SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF HIS ELITE WHITE LIBERAL MASTERS - PARROTING THEIR MESSAGE TO THE “ELECTORANT” IN HIS OWN WAY.
According to FUNKTIONARY:
$pinfidels – those well-paid profligates in the print and visual Hypnomedia who twist issues, facts, events, statements, contexts, and predicaments of outspoken people from all walks of life into ready-made labels that demonize and/or marginalize anyone who questions the actions, policies, jurisdiction, positions, legitimacy, accuracy, enforcement, or authority of the Twin-Towering $tatus Quo—Corporate State and Corporate Religion. $pinfidels are those who believe in the doctrine of Original Spin. “Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.” ~Mark Twain (Samuel Clements). (See: Richcraft, Hypnomedia, Whore Nation, MEDIA, NEWS, Coin-Operated & Corporate Religion)
incognegro – a Black individual so camouflaged in double-consciousness to the extent that he or she cannot be trusted by Blacks (who think) to think and act in the best interests of the greater collective of native Black Americans—especially those who hold elected or appointed positions of political power. (See: Negro, Coin-Operated, SNigger & Niggermarole)
Recognegro – spotting a sell-out who has either crossed over or passed over into a reality that continuously crosses his or her kind out or passes them over to the “authorities” (racist economic and criminal injustice system). Everybody your color ain’t your kind or deeper still—all your skinfolks ain’t your kinfolks. (see: afro-sin-trick, sambo & criss-crossover)
Eviction Filings are Up, Most Eviction Defendants are Black (vast majority of landlords are white). [Sleeping Toms Believe Bigotry is Racism and Misperceive Racism as a Natural Outcome or Coincidence]
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Where’s ALL the hate AT? FOR DECADES NEELY FULLER HAS BEEN correctly SAYING THAT RACISM IS PRIMARILY BASED ON DECEPTION. IF SO, Perhaps the greatest accomplishment by elite racists has been to trick Black people into believing THE OPPOSITE - that racism is PRIMARILY ABOUT bigotry or mean words, slurs, disrespect and OVERT DISPLAYS OF hatred. With such a misperception GUILIBLE Black people TRY TO SOLVE THE WRONG PROBLEMS AND miss the omnipresent system of racism white supremacy– a white over Black OPERATING system of vast unequal power and domination GOING RIGHT IN THEIR FACES. IN the photo above which shows a Black woman being evicted as WHITE law enforcement officers put her stuff outside on the curb, There is a high probability that the landlord and attorney who filed for the eviction and the judge who ORDERED THE EVICTION were also all white. It is also VERY LIKELY that on her COURT day a large number of other Black DEFENDANTS were ALSO evicted and their landlordS and attorneys were also white. FURTHERMORE, IT IS MOST LIKELY THAT ANY PROSPECTIVE LANDLORDS , REAL ESTATE AGENTS OR BANK OFFICIALS SHE UNSUCCESSFULLY DEALT WITH TO FIND A NEW HOME PRIOR TO HER EVICTION WERE ALSO ALL WHITE. Yet under the prevailing Clogic THE EVICTIONS GOING ON THROUGHOUT THE US AREN’T AN EXAMPLE OF RACISM. THAT IS, SO LONG AS noBODY IS mean or disrespectful or makes a racial slur during the process, NO RACISM OCCURRED. The fact that similar situations happen everyday in nearly every place (FOR DECADES) where Black people reside is considered a coincidence or a natural occurrence to gullible blacks who have been deceived about what racism is and how it works. Indeed, the prevailing “clogic” is intended to make white dominance and control over everything seem natural.' Under such A DELUSION, ‘Blackness’ HAS BEEN one the leading causes of coincidences in US history. Such a misunderstanding of reality has had a profound negative consequences for Black people while it has SimultaneousLY empowered white people. For instance it has caused power-napping Blacks to try to solve the wrong problems and align themselves politically with the wrong persons, etc or to engage in an array of other conduct and speech that only strengthens cooperative, consensual master-servant relations between racists and blacks, the gravamen of the racism white supremacy dynamic. [MORE]
From [HERE] According to the findings of a recent study by Eviction Lab
Landlords filed nearly 1,115,000 eviction cases in 2023. That’s over 100,000 more cases than were filed in 2022 and over 500,000 more than in 2021.
Eviction caseloads increased between 2022 and 2023 in three-quarters of the cities we track.
In most cities, eviction filings in 2023 were above levels that were normal prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
60% of eviction case defendants in 2023 were women.
Despite making up less than one-third of renters, nearly half of eviction case defendants in 2023 were Black.
In many places, a large share of eviction filings were repeated cases brought against the same tenants at the same addresses.
Landlords filed 10.5% more eviction cases in 2023 than in 2022. In total, 1,114,340 eviction cases were filed across the jurisdictions where we collect data.1 Overall, that represents 2.9% fewer cases than we would have seen in these places prior to the pandemic, but still a large increase from what we observed early in the pandemic, when less than 600,000 cases were filed in 2020 and 2021 (see Figure 1).
In line with previous trends, we find that women and Black renters faced a disproportionate share of eviction filings in 2023. In most of the ETS locations, we are able to estimate the likely race/ethnicity and gender of tenants facing eviction (for an explanation of how we do this, see our methods page)2. Fully 60% of those filed against for eviction last year were women. In Figure 3 we plot the share of defendants listed on eviction filings in 2023 who were Black, Latinx, or White. We compare those numbers to Census Bureau figures on the share of renters in each racial/ethnic group in the same set of places.
The eviction crisis weighs most heavily on Black renters. Despite making up only 31% of renters, nearly half of eviction filings are against Black individuals in these areas. By contrast, all other racial/ethnic groups see an underrepresentation when it comes to eviction filings. [MORE]
Strawboss SF Mayor Launches Plan to 'Get Rid of Homeless People' for Her Liberal Masters. Vows 'Very Aggressive' Sweep of Encampments. Black People are Only 5% of SF population but 38% of all Homeless
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From [HERE] Mayor London Breed said Thursday that San Francisco will launch a “very aggressive” crackdown on homeless encampments in the city next month.
The mayor’s comments — made during an election debate hosted by the firefighter’s union — come about three weeks after the Supreme Court granted cities broad power to evict unhoused people from encampments.
“We are going to be very aggressive and assertive in moving encampments which may even include criminal penalties,” Breed said at Thursday’s debate.
“The problem is not going to be solved by building more housing,” Breed added. “Thank goodness for the Supreme Court decision.”
Breed said the city has had to move from a compassionate approach to one focused on accountability. Long-term issues will not be solved by “just building housing and shelter,” she added. She said the city would start the sweeps in August because it needed time to retrain workers to follow the new legal guidance.
Since December 2022, a federal magistrate judge has prohibited San Francisco from enforcing certain laws to clear homeless tents. Although it did not ban the city from sweeping encampments, it prevented officials from citing or arresting people who refused to move in violation of six city laws. The city still increased sweeps during that time by enforcing other rules. [MORE]
Executed Black Man “Had No Money to Retain a Real Attorney.” Alabama Murders Keith Gavin Despite Court Finding that his Attorney was “Constitutionally Ineffective” in Violation of his Right to Counsel
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ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:
Kratos – (Greek)—the naked unlimited power of the majority. Anytime or anywhere unlimited power, as opposed to mere supreme power, is vested with the majority, it will hand out rule-less violence to individuals by legislating truth over reality and law over humanity. (See: Iron Rule, Truth & Law, Violence, Naked Truth, Individuality, Symbiocracy & Reality)
LEGAL SANDWICH – THE JUDGE WHO MAKES PLENTY OF BREAD, THE PROSECUTOR, WHO IS TYPICALLY A DOUGH-BOY, AND THE DEFENDANT, WHO IS THE LUNCHMEAT (CATCH) OF THE DAY—WAITING TO BE DEVOURED BY THE BLINDFOLDED LADY IN JURIDICAL DRAG—MISAMERICA.
From [HERE] and [MORE] The State of Alabama put Keith Gavin to death today—the state’s third execution so far this year—despite constitutional flaws that undermined the reliability of his sentence.
Mr. Gavin was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of a delivery driver and sentenced to death in 1999 after his appointed lawyers presented virtually nothing in mitigation at the penalty phase.
A federal court found in 2020 that Mr. Gavin’s lawyers were ineffective in violation of Mr. Gavin’s right to counsel and held that the constitution requires a new sentencing trial, but the decision was reversed on appeal.
Questions About the Reliability of Mr. Gavin’s Death Sentence Persist
The Constitution guarantees effective assistance of counsel, which means that defense lawyers representing a person facing the death penalty are expected to investigate and present evidence demonstrating why the jury should reject the death penalty and impose a life sentence.
There was compelling evidence about Mr. Gavin’s life that could have persuaded the jury to choose life imprisonment without parole in his case.
Keith was born into a family struggling with histories of drug abuse, alcoholism, and incarceration and, as the federal court found, “grew up in a gang-infested housing project in Chicago, living in overcrowded houses that were in poor condition, where he was surrounded by drug activity, crime, violence, and riots.”
Keith tried to shield his 11 brothers and sisters from their abusive father by taking the blame for them and was frequently beaten with extension cords, sticks, hoses, and his father’s fist.
In Chicago, Keith was the frequent target of gang violence and was brutally beaten at 17 and hospitalized. When he retaliated he was sent to prison, where he was frequently stabbed by gang members and continued to be victimized. Despite the constant threat of violence, Mr. Gavin earned his GED and took college courses in prison, and with only one major disciplinary write-up in 17 years, he became what the State’s expert called a model prisoner, which was a critical fact related to the jury’s decision to impose a sentence of life imprisonment without parole or death.
But Mr. Gavin’s jury never heard this evidence because, as the federal district court found, his lawyers failed to do the investigation and preparation that the constitution requires.
As Mr. Gavin’s mother lamented, “her son had no money to retain a ‘real attorney.’” Instead, he was appointed counsel who, the federal court found, “did not conduct an adequate background investigation, did not pursue all reasonably available mitigating evidence, and did not make a reasonable effort to present the mitigating evidence they had.” [MORE]
Fed Court Denies Clark County Government's Request to Dismiss Kevin Peterson's Suit. White Cops Shot Fleeing Black Man to Death who Didn't Point a Gun or Otherwise Threaten Them or the Public
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From [HERE] A wrongful death lawsuit against the Clark County Sheriff's Department and two deputies, filed by Kevin Peterson Jr.'s family, will go to a jury trial.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in favor of Peterson's family, whose attorneys announced the update on Wednesday.
In October 2020, Clark County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed Peterson, a 21-year-old Black man, during a failed drug sting. Peterson had expected to deliver Xanax pills and showed up to a parking lot in Hazel Dell, but ran away when he realized it was a setup, according to attorney Mark Lindquist. According to the lawsuit the police shot him to death while he was fleeing and posed no threat to the police.
At the time, former Clark County Sheriff Chuck Atkins said Peterson shot at deputies first. However, an independent investigation later found no evidence to suggest that Peterson shot at police. In other words, the police officers lied.
Peterson's family and the mother of his child filed a lawsuit in May 2022, accusing Clark County's then-sheriff Atkins and the deputies involved of wrongful death, negligence and excessive force.
In September 2023, a federal trial judge denied the defendant's motion to dismiss five causes of action in the lawsuit. The federal judge ruled the lawsuit could move ahead to trial and set a start date for Oct. 30, 2023. But Clark County appealed the trial judge's ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In an opinion filed on July 16, 2024, the three-judge panel unanimously held that "…the government’s interest in the use of deadly force was limited because Peterson was not suspected of committing a violent crime and a jury could reasonably conclude that he posed no immediate threat to the officers or others." The court stated
Although Peterson was armed and actively trying to evade police officers, the evidence, construed in his favor, suggests that he did not point the gun at anyone, say a word to the officers, make any harrowing gestures, or make any furtive or threatening movements towards the officers or the public. See Rice, 989 F.3d at 1121 (holding that the “most important” factor in deadly force cases is whether the suspect posed an immediate threat); Smith v. City of Hemet, 394 F.3d 689, 704 (9th Cir. 2005) (en banc) (noting that deadly force is generally not permissible “unless it is necessary to prevent 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” (quoting Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 3 (1985))).
While Defendants rely on officer testimony to the contrary, “in the deadly force context, we cannot ‘simply accept what may be a self-serving account by the police officer,’” because the victim—usually the best-positioned witness to rebut an officer’s testimony—is dead. Cruz v. City of Anaheim, 765 F.3d 1076, 1079 (9th Cir. 2014) (quoting Scott v. Henrich, 39 F.3d 912, 915 (9th Cir. 1994)). [MORE]
“This ruling sends a message to Clark County that they ought to look at their policies," said Lindquist. "Given Clark County’s resistance to accountability, the only way the family and the community is likely to see justice is through a trial.”
Less than a year later, a Pierce County prosecutor found the shooting "justified and lawful." The deputies who fired at Peterson were cleared of criminal wrongdoing.
All causes of action alleged in the lawsuit will go to the jury. The trial is scheduled for early 2025 and will be held in the federal courthouse in Seattle.
Another Case Closed w/o a Trial as Judge Declares Wichita Cops Immune. Instead of Taking Cedric Lofton to a Mental Evaluation Police Put Black Teen in a Straitjacket and Crushed Him To Death at Jail
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From [HERE] A federal judge in Kansas ruled Tuesday that seven Wichita police officers are entitled to qualified immunity in a civil lawsuit over the in-custody death of a 17-year-old Cedric Lofton, who was restrained for more than half an hour at a juvenile detention center.
In his order, Chief U.S. District Judge Eric F. Melgren said the plaintiff, Marquan Teetz — Lofton's brother — did not demonstrate the officers violated clearly established law. He granted the officer's motion for summary judgment.
Melgren dismissed without prejudice claims for negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress against the Wichita police officers. These state law claims could be filed again.
Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that protects officials from lawsuits, only allowing them when a clearly established constitutional right has been violated.
Andrew M. Stroth of the Chicago firm Action Injury Law Group, one of the plaintiff's attorneys said they would continue to seek justice for Lofton.
"An unarmed 17-year-old Black boy was unjustifiably killed and we will do everything we can to support this family," he said.
The complaint sets forth the following facts:
In the early morning hours of September 24, 2021, Cedric returned to his foster home after leaving without notice a day earlier. Cedric’s grandmother had recently passed away and upon Cedric’s return, his foster father was concerned about Cedric’s mental health.
Seeking guidance with concern, Cedric’s foster father called the Kansas Department of Children and Families (“DCF”). DCF told him to call the police and to not let Cedric in the home. The purpose of this instruction was to obtain a mental health evaluation and treatment for Cedric. This is why the Wichita police were called. Cedric had committed no crime; he was a child returning innocently home.
WPD officers arrived and encountered Cedric outside his foster home. Cedric was tired and afraid. He showed no signs of violence and presented no harm or danger. It was immediately clear that he was experiencing a mental health crisis, telling WPD officers that he was worried people were trying to “kill” him and that all he wanted to do was to go inside his home and go to sleep. Cedric asked the officers, “Y’all are here to protect me, right?”
This foster child needed help. But rather than provide it, WPD officers physically confronted him, unnecessarily escalated a benign scenario, arrested him, and entombed him in a WRAP restraint system — effectively a full-body straitjacket. The use of the WRAP predictably and inexcusably exacerbated Cedric’s fear and paranoia.
Worse, WPD did not then take Cedric to a hospital for mental health evaluation and treatment. Instead, they brought him to Sedgwick County’s Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center (“JIAC”)—a kind of juvenile detention—and locked him in a holding room still in the WRAP restraint. In other words, even though the entire point of WPD’s involvement was to get Cedric help and even though he had committed no crime, WPD refused to obtain help and treated Cedric like a violent criminal. This despite the fact that one officer admitted: “For me, I think we should have taken [Cedric] to [the hospital at] St. Joe [for treatment].”
Worse still, when confronted with JIAC’s intake questioning about whether Cedric required medical treatment, WPD intentionally falsified their response and swore that he needed no such treatment, knowing that was exactly what was needed and required. Indeed, a JIAC intake officer witnessed a WPD officer change his response to the intake form when he learned it would trigger WPD’s obligation to transport Cedric for treatment. As such, the officer prioritized his own convenience at the expense of this child’s welfare. And JIAC officials knowingly permitted it.
Within a few hours, Cedric was dead. Following a brief altercation, Cedric died after several JIAC officers forced him to the floor in the prone position and pinned him on his stomach for 39 uninterrupted minutes until he stopped breathing. The smiling child photographed above was condemned to die hooked to life-supporting tubes in a hospital bed, shown here:
Cedric posed no threat to anyone — not least of which the five able-bodied, adult officers who cycled-in and out of the room during Cedric’s slow death. These JIAC officers perpetrated a prolonged and abhorrent case of excessive force on a 135-pound, shoeless, shackled, and unarmed juvenile in the obvious throes of a mental health crisis.
Months later, the Sedgwick County medical examiner determined that Cedric was killed as a result of this incident and concluded that Cedric’s death was a “homicide.”
Teetz sued on June 13, 2022, filed an amended complaint in November and a second amended complaint in April 2023. He claimed the Wichita officers were indifferent to Cedric's mental health crisis in violation of his rights under the Constitution and said that the supervising officers, Tony Supancic, Amanda Darrow and John Esau participated in and did not stop violations of Lofton's rights. Teetz also claimed the officers intentionally and negligently inflicted emotional distress.
"Plaintiff fails to carry his burden of demonstrating that involuntary hospitalization and issuance of a mental evaluation were clearly established constitutional rights that the WPD Officers’ deprived Lofton of when they took him to JIAC. Consequently, the WPD Officers are entitled to qualified immunity, and the Court grants the WPD Officers’ motion for summary judgment," Melgren wrote in his order.
In early 2022, Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett, who is white, said he would not bring any charges against the officers due to Kansas' "stand-your-ground" law, the Associated Press reported at the time. (At least in regard to white citizens, “Stand your ground” law would be inapplicable here as “A person is justified in the use of deadly force under circumstances where a person reasonably believes that such use of deadly force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to such person or a third person.” [MORE] Here, no facts have been alleged that the black teen posed an imminent threat of death to jail authorities as he was crushed to death for 39 minutes while prone on the floor.)
Various defendants have been dropped during the course of the case, including Sedgwick County and the city of Wichita.
Sedgwick County Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center Officers Jason Stepien; Brenton Newby, Karen Conklin, William Buckner and Benito Mendoza remained defendants in the suit as of Tuesday night. They, too, have filed for summary judgment.
Instead of Protecting Sonya Massey, a White Cop Shot Her in the Face. Illinois Deputy Charged with Murder for Killing Black Woman who Called Police to Her Home to Investigate a Suspected Intruder
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From [HERE] An Illinois sheriff's deputy has been fired, arrested and charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 36-year-old Black mother that occurred after she called officers to her home for help, officials announced on Wednesday.
Sean Grayson, who is white, is set to be arraigned in Illinois' Seventh Judicial Circuit Court on Thursday afternoon, one day after a grand jury indicted him on five criminal counts for the July 6 death of Sonya Massey, according to the Sangamon County States Attorney's Office. He faces three counts of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated battery and one count of official misconduct. Grayson was denied bail during Thursday’s arraignment.
Massey was unarmed and shot in the face after she called police regarding a suspected intruder in her Springfield home, said Ben Crump, the prominent U.S. civil rights lawyer representing the family.
Massey lived in the 2800 block of S. Hoover Ave. in unincorporated Springfield. She had called 9-1-1 to report suspicious activity near her home. Two officers were called to Massey's home for a suspected prowler at 12:50 a.m. July 6. About 30 minutes later, Massey was shot and later pronounced dead at St. John's Hospital, according to the sheriff's office. The deputies were not injured in the incident.
Court documents filed by prosecutors say Massey was allowed to remove a boiling pot from her stove. But then the deputy, in an adjacent room, threatened to shoot her – demanding she put the pot down. The account says he then shot at her three times, wounding her in the face.
Grayson, the documents said, had failed to turn his body camera on until after the shots were fired,. But the incident was captured on the other deputies’ camera.
"While nothing can undo the heinous actions of this officer, we hope the scales of justice will continue to hold him accountable and we will demand transparency at every step," Crump said in a statement.
Reuters could not immediately identify an attorney for Grayson.
The family has viewed body-camera footage, which officials plan to release on Monday with minimal redactions, according to State's Attorney John Milhiser.
The shooting was investigated by the Illinois State Police. Grayson was fired after it was found his actions did not follow proper training and standards, Sangamon County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Wednesday announcing the charges.
The killing comes roughly two months after a Florida deputy shot and killed Fortson, a 23-year-old Black airman with the U.S. Air Force, at Fortson's home in Fort Walton Beach. Eddie Duran, the deputy, was later fired amid an investigation into the shooting, though charges have not been filed.
Ohio Justices Enforce $30M Judgment after East Cleveland Authorities Refused to Pay. White Cops Unlawfully Stopped Black Man and Detained Him w/o Charges in a Jail Storage Room for 4 Days w/No Toilet
/From [HERE] The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the city of East Cleveland to pay upwards of $30 million to satisfy a judgment in favor of a Black man who won a jury verdict finding that police officers wrongfully detained him and caused serious injuries in the process.
In the opinion, the justices granted a writ of mandamus to Arnold Black, saying East Cleveland has a clear legal duty to pay out the judgment, and Black had no other legal recourse to enforce that judgment as he cannot commence a regular enforcement action against the city under state law.
According to the opinion, Black was arrested in April 2012 during a traffic stop by East Cleveland police officers, who beat and arrested him after Black told them that he did not know who sold drugs in the city. The court made a factual finding that Black was left in a storage room for four days, with no bed or toilet, and his former fiancée testified that his head was “swollen like a helmet” when he was released.
Black sued Police Chief Ralph Scotts, Detective Randy Hicks and the city, and in August 2019 a jury returned a verdict in his favor, awarding $20 million in compensatory damages, plus $5 million in prejudgment interest, plus $15 million in punitive damages from Scotts and Hicks. The following year, an appeals court affirmed the judgment, and both the state and U.S. Supreme Courts denied review of the verdict.
Black's attorney contacted the city in October 2021 seeking to satisfy the judgment, but the city did not acknowledge or respond to the letter, and Black commenced the action seeking the writ in February 2023 and asked for the $20 million judgment, plus nearly $10.5 million in interest.
According to Wednesday's opinion, Black's evidence clearly and convincingly established that he's entitled to the relief because as he prevailed at a jury trial, which gives him a clear legal right to the judgment, while the city has a clear legal duty to satisfy the amounts.
While the city argued that a motion it made at trial to enforce a damages cap meant there was a dispute about how much money it owed Black and that therefore he hasn't established a clear legal right, the justices disagreed.
According to the opinion, Black has submitted sufficient evidence to establish exactly how much the city owes him, including the jury's interrogatories and verdict, including the amount of compensatory damages, the trial court's judgment ordering the city to pay and an appeals court's judgment affirming the verdict and monetary awards.
As such, the justices ordered the city to satisfy the judgment, including prejudgment interest and postjudgment interest from the verdict to the date it is paid, and if the city does not have the funds, it is to appropriate funds to satisfy the judgment and interest.
According to the court:
On April 28, 2012, at approximately 10:00 p.m., Black was driving home from his mother’s house when he was pulled over by East Cleveland Patrolman Jonathan O’Leary. (Trial tr. 166-167; 218; 227.) Sergeant Randy Hicks had ordered O’Leary to stop Black’s green truck because it resembled a green truck belonging to a suspected drug dealer. Hicks was a narcotics detective in East Cleveland and was also a member of a joint narcotics task force with the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department. (O’Leary trial depo. tr. 54.)
O’Leary told Black to get out of his vehicle, handcuffed him, and escorted him to the back of his truck. (O’Leary trial depo. tr. 8.)
O’Leary’s patrol car was parked behind Black’s vehicle with the lights activated. Black was sitting on his back bumper in front of O’Leary’s patrol car when Hicks arrived on the scene.
Black testified that Hicks immediately began searching his car and removed the side panels from his truck. Hicks did not find any narcotics in the truck and, after brandishing his badge, began questioning Black about who sells drugs in East Cleveland. (Trial tr. 86.)
Black replied that he did not know who sold drugs in the city. Thereafter, Hicks became violent and repeatedly struck Black’s face and head without provocation or justification. (Trial tr. 93.) Hicks admitted at trial that he struck Black several times until O’Leary came between them and stopped him. (Trial tr. 93-94.) Hicks described Black as appearing “dazed” after the beating. (Trial tr. 94; 232-234.)
O’Leary testified that he believed his dash camera was operating throughout the duration of the incident and captured the incident on film. (O’Leary trial depo. 18.) Black and O’Leary both testified that Hicks may have been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident because he smelled of alcohol. (Trial tr. 291-292; O’Leary trial depo. 73-74.)
Hicks admitted that he called another officer to transport Black to the East Cleveland jail even though he did not have probable cause to arrest him. (Trial tr. 98.)
Upon arriving at the jail, Black was placed in a storage room that the police officers referred to as a “holding cell,” even though there was no bed and no toilet in the room. (Trial tr. 238-239.) The room contained a wooden bench, some storage lockers, and cleaning supplies and was infested with cock roaches. (Trial tr. 240- 241.)
Black remained in the storage room for four days. At some point, an unknown officer entered the room, gave Black a carton of milk, and allowed him to use his cell phone to make a call. (Trial tr. 244-245.) Black called his former fiancée, Eryka Bey and told her, in a whisper, that he had been arrested and beaten and was being held in the East Cleveland jail. (Trial tr. 190.)
Bey went immediately to the jail and asked to see Black. An officer told her she could not see him because he was “under investigation.” Black testified that on the fourth day following his arrest, a councilwoman came to the jail to inquire about him because she had heard he had been beaten while he was handcuffed and was being detained without probable cause in the city jail.
Chief Spotts accompanied the councilwoman during her visit with Black in the storage room. (Trial tr. 272.) In Black’s presence, the councilwoman told the chief that she wanted to know what happened to Black and how “at this time and age * * * he got beat up and put in a closet.” (Trial tr. 274.) Thereafter, Black was placed in a line of inmates, who were awaiting transport to the county jail. (Trial tr. 271-274.) Later that day, Bey picked Black up at the county jail and drove him home. (Trial tr. 196-197.)
According to Bey, Black’s head was swollen like a “helmet” and he was acting fearful. (Trial tr. 196-197.) In the weeks following the incident, Black complained of headaches and developed vision problems. His mother and Bey also observed changes in his personality. They described him as withdrawn and unwilling to leave the house due to fear of the police. (Trial tr. 199-200, 201, 209, 253-254.) [MORE]
To Make White Liberals Feel Safer, Grimacing Black Rolebot Governor Signs Law that Enables Mostly Black Children Age 10-12 to be Charged and Incarcerated for Adult Crimes. MD Juvy Jail is 77% Black
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THE MARIJUANA PARDONS WERE A PUBLIC RELATIONS STUNT: No one in Maryland is currently incarcerated for misdemeanor marijuana convictions. The pardons free no one from jail. BLACK AGENDA REPORT EXPLAINED, This all occurs in a state that leads the nation in racial disparities in arrest, charges, and incarceration. POWER NAPPING SLEEPING TOMS DON’T GET IT.
ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:
BOHICAN – Bend Over Here It Comes Again Negro. ☻Sniggers are the last of the buck-dancing Bohicans. “I am the last of the Bohicans,” he said, “…and I will never be broken. I am the last and worst of my breed—and the final token.” (See: Snigger, Coin-Operated, Samboism, Uncle Tom, Possumist, Turdistan, Piece-Activist, Niggeroe & GOP)
From [HERE] The Juvenile Justice Reform Act is now a Maryland law after it was signed Thursday by Gov. Wes Moore.
The new law makes it possible for children ages 10 to 12 to be charged with illegal gun possession, auto theft, harming animals and sex offenses.
"Today, we will sign bills that will make Maryland safer," Governor Wes Moore said. "This issue mattered too much to think that we could hope, or urge, or pray, or insist that the legislature do more without actually being willing to do the work ourselves."
Lawmakers introduced it earlier this year to address a spike in juvenile crime.
According to data from the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, juvenile crime complaints have increased nearly 75% in recent years, from 7,100 complaints in 2021 to more than 12,363 in 2023.
The ACLU stated, the Governor has decided to take Maryland back to being ranked as one of the worst human rights violators of children in the entire United States. The intentional rollback of the Juvenile Justice Reform Act comes after just one year, without any facts, data, or evidence to justify it, and without consulting all the experts who worked so hard and relied on best practices, science, and evidence-based approaches that would actually improve public safety for all of us.
Said Yanet Amanuel, director of public policy at the ACLU of Maryland: “Do we truly believe in seeing and supporting the humanity of all our children? If so, legislators need to pause, reflect on how wrong-headed it is to incarcerate children for minor offenses, how important it is that elementary school children are not subjected to the criminal legal system, and then amend this bill to reflect those values. It is a proven fact that incarceration usually harms children more than it helps them. And despite Black children only making up 30 percent of the state’s population, they make up 77.4 percent of the children detained in Maryland juvenile jails. Our elected leaders must change course to ensure we do not usher in a new generation of failed, racist, tough on crime policies — and a renewed era of super-predator propaganda.” [MORE]
Federal Appeals Court Denies Honolulu Cops Request for Immunity for Handcuffing a Calm, 10-Year-Old Black Girl at School During Unlawful Arrest Over a Drawing She Made
/From [HERE] A federal appeals court has held that three Honolulu police officers can be sued for using excessive force against a 10-year-old girl, finding that it is “beyond dispute that handcuffing a small, calm child who is surrounded by numerous adults, who complies with all of the officers’ instructions, and who is . . . unlikely to flee, was completely unnecessary and excessively intrusive.”
On January 10, 2020, N.B., a 10-year-old Black girl with a known disability, was handcuffed and arrested by three police officers at her public elementary school in Honolulu, allegedly for her participation in creating a cartoon-style drawing with other children, according to the federal district court.
A “simplistic cartoon-style picture” had been made by several elementary age students the day before in response to a bullying incident. N.B. used drawing as a coping mechanism, a lawsuit filed by N.B.’s mother explained, and another child took the drawing and gave it to one of the students it mentioned against N.B.’s wishes. School officials saw the drawing on January 9 and took no action.
But the next morning, a parent demanded that the school call the police on N.B. School officials complied, and three police officers arrived at Honowai Elementary School, where the complaint says they interrogated N.B. in a secluded room without knowledge or consent from her mother, who was not allowed to see her daughter.
Officers put 10-year-old N.B. in adult handcuffs and arrested her, according to the complaint. They then placed her in the back of a squad car and drove the crying child to Pearl City Police Station, where no charges were filed. When N.B. was finally allowed to go home with her mother, she allegedly had marks on her wrists from the tight handcuffs.
None of the other students—who were not Black—were investigated or disciplined for their involvement in creating and delivering the drawing, the complaint alleges.
N.B.’s mother filed a civil rights lawsuit for false imprisonment, racial discrimination, and excessive force, specifically alleging that the officers’ use of handcuffs was excessive given the age, size, and disability of her 10-year-old daughter, who was compliant and responsive to officers, posed no physical threat to anyone, was not resisting arrest, and had not attempted to flee.
The officers filed a motion to dismiss, asserting that qualified immunity shielded them from being sued. [MORE]
Government Study of the Public Fool System Found that the Arrest Rates of Black Students More Than Doubled if their School Had a Police Officer Stationed on Campus
/From [HERE] A new government analysis has found that the arrest rates of Black students more than doubled if their school had a police officer stationed on campus.
The General Accounting Office, a nonpartisan federal watchdog agency, also found that for Black boys with disabilities, including students with special-education plans, the difference in arrest rates widened even further.
“GAO’s analysis of the Department of Education’s data collected from nearly every U.S. school district found that students’ race and ethnicity, gender, and disability status were all prominent with respect to rates of arrest and referrals to police, especially when the characteristics intersected,” according to the report.
Jackie Nowicki, director of GAO’s education team, said the report shines a light on a critical problem that schools have yet to fully address.
“It is really clear from our statistical modeling that race, and gender, and disability status all matter when it comes to things like arrests in schools–especially when students have more than one of those characteristics,” she said on “Watchdog Report,” the GAO’s podcast. “But they matter differently for different groups of kids.”
Titled “K-12 Education: Differences in Student Arrest Rates Widen When Race, Gender, and Disability Status Overlap,” the report found that arrest rates more than doubled in schools with police present compared to similar schools without police. The report also found that, of the 51% of schools with police present at least once a week, arrests were more common when the police were involved in student discipline.
Though procedures vary from one state to another, arrests typically are divided between paper arrests, in which the student receives a citation and is referred to police for investigation, and physical arrests, in which a police officer serving on campus handcuffs the student and takes them into custody. [MORE]
Despite Black People’s Heavy Involvement in the Democratic Party, Schools have Remained as Segregated as before Brown v Board of Education, which was Decided Over 70 Years Ago
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From [HERE] According to a new study from Available To All, an education nonprofit, equal access to a quality education has declined, and has resulted in the return of segregation to public schools in America. The study found that this occurs due to legally enshrined segregation and enrollment policies that have a discriminatory effect in practice.
As Axios reports, the practice of “educational redlining” combined with school districts that aggressively enforce their zoning rules has resulted in elite public schools being stratified along the lines of race. This has left parents like Kelley Williams-Bolar, who became the subject of a national debate in 2011 when she used her father’s address to get her children into a better school in Ohio, with few legal remedies—as a result of her attempt, Williams-Bolar, a Black woman, spent nine days in jail.
The report on the state of public school education in America was commissioned to mark the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling that officially ended segregating schools by race. However, the system of segregation by other means was never addressed, and as the study makes clear, it continues to plague the education system presently.
As the study states in its introduction, “How can a public school deny enrollment to a student in 2024? Usually because of their address. Most public schools still use exclusionary maps to determine who is or isnʼt eligible to enroll. These maps are reminiscent of the redlining era in the decades before Brown when the federal government drew maps that determined who was or wasnʼt eligible for housing assistance.”
The study goes on to illuminate that families need adequate legal protection as it relates to their children’s access to individual public schools. Admission discrimination is either allowed or flat-out required by law, and school administrators can exploit several loopholes to maintain a specific makeup of a school’s demographics. This, the study argues, is a violation of the social contract of the education system and is stopping children of color from being full participants in the American Dream.
Charter schools could be a model to base reforms of the public school system. Still, it also shows that the charter school system carries elements of the same geographic discrimination in public schools. In its conclusion, the report recommends that parents be given true school choice, that schools be transparent about why they deny a child access to their school in detail, and the practice of open enrollment should be made mandatory instead of optional.
In addition, the study recommends that public schools be required to collect and report their admissions and enrollment data to the Department of Education, whose state branches should make this data available to the public. They also recommend wholesale changes aimed at reducing the impact of geography on the public education system. One of these changes, decriminalizing address sharing, which the study points out is a policy that is selectively enforced, would keep parents like Williams-Bolar out of jail for simply wanting a better education for their children. As the study concludes, “Such laws could go a long way to restoring the publicʼs trust in the K-12 public schools and upholding Justice Warrenʼs promise that the public schools will be “available to all on equal terms.”
[you need 2 McJobs to pay Yurugu's Rent] Study Finds a Disproportionate Number of Black People Have Irregular Schedules and Work Long Hours which Affect their Physical and Mental Health
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ACCORDING TO THE POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN AT LEAST 112 million people, or one-third of the nation, ARE poor or low-income, including: 48% of Black people (19 million), 52% of Latino/Hispanic people (31 million), and 25% of white people (51 million) and 34% of people who identify as other.
To meet their basic needs, two adults living with two children must each earn over $25/hour. However, the federal minimum wage is only $7.25. At this wage, an individual must work 96 hours/week to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment. Nearly one-third of the workforce, or 52 million people, earn less than $15/hour. This includes 47% of Black workers, 46% of Hispanic workers, 20% of Asian American and Indigenous workers, 40% of working women and 50% of working women of color. [MORE]
ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:
RICHCRAFT – THE SORCERY OF GREED—THE USE OF VIOLENCE, LAWS, DECEPTION, THEFT, SECRET OATHS, AND OPPRESSION TO SNATCH AND HOARD RESOURCES FROM AND GAIN POWER OVER THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE’S LIVES THROUGH THE WIDESPREAD USE OF THIS VICIOUS CONCOCTION OF NEFARIOUS, LETHAL, LEGAL, AND DEMONSTRABLY DEVIOUS POWER. (SEE: COP, GANGBANKING, PRIVILEGE, ARISTOCRACY, CORPORATIONS, USURY, POWER, OPPRESSION, VIOLENCE, GREED, DECEPTION, GIMME!, POLITICAL MONEY, CULTURAL INDUCTION, GEO-DOLLARS, CONTROL, THE PATHOCRACY & POOR)
McJob – a “low-pay,” low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future job in the feudal looks-like-it-could-be food chain service (servitude) sector of the New God Economy. (See: Economies, Cainsian Economics & Quantity Theory of Money)
WAGE $LAVE - ON THE HOUR, BY THE HOUR. “SELL YOUR TIME TO BUY THE TIME THAT OTHER PEOPLE SOLD.” WAY DOWN INTO THE MARROW OF MY BONE, THIS MUCH I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN - I AM UNABLE TO OBEY (OR CONFORM TO) SOMEONE WHO VIEWS MY TIME AS THEIR OWN. [MORE]
From [HERE] A new study that analyzed work schedules, health patterns and sleep habits, found that people with “stable” employment patterns experienced better sleep and health.
Hectic work schedules have proven to be harmful to people’s long-term mental and physical health.
Wen-Jui Han, a professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work, examined “the critical role employment plays in our health by examining how employment patterns throughout our working lives, based on work schedules, may shape our health at age 50.” Findings were published in the scientific journal PLOS One, People magazine reported.
The study analyzed data from a long-running survey of Americans, ages 22-49 years old, regarding their work schedules, health patterns and sleep habits, concluding that people with “stable” employment patterns had better sleep and health.
“Our work now is making us sick and poor,” Han told NPR. “Work is supposed to allow us to accumulate resources. But, for a lot of people, their work doesn’t allow them to do so. They actually become more and more miserable over time.”
The study examined the impact of challenging work conditions on different groups’ health, considering factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, education, immigration status and geographic location.
Black people with lower levels of education disproportionately reported working more night shifts, having irregular schedules, and getting less sleep than other groups, such as white people or those with higher levels of education.
Han’s research indicates that the impact of work schedules on an individual’s positive and negative well-being can accumulate over time.
Han also reported poor health and sleep outcomes in people who worked regular day shifts earlier in life and later transitioned to “volatile” schedules. The professor warned about the well-known long-term health impacts, such as depression, anxiety, obesity and a higher risk of having a stroke.
Kilyn Lewis Had Both Hands Up When an Aurora Race Soldier Murdered Him 40 Days Ago. But, Charging the Cop has Been a LOW Priority to the Liberal DA Office, which is ALWAYS Eager to Prosecute Blacks
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The crowds demanding justice for Kilyn Lewis have repeatedly called for the white Aurora police officer who pulled the trigger killing the unarmed Black man to be immediately held criminally accountable for the 37-year-old’s death.
Alice Hayes, said “We as taxpayers and as voters, we need to change that culture of the wheels turning slow.”
Body-worn camera video shows that Kilyn Lewis was holding a cellphone with both hands up when an Aurora Police officer wearing a military costume shot and killed him over 40 days ago on May 25, 2025. The race soldier cop who shot him stood about ten feet away from Lewis. Apparently, the cop has claimed that a cell phone looks just like a gun to him.
Three (3) camera angles show the 37-year-old Lewis behind a red Chevy Monte Carlo with both hands visible when SWAT teams attempted to arrest him in connection to an attempted homicide that occurred earlier that month. Three officers shout multiple commands and Lewis can be seen putting his left hand into his pocket and his right hand behind his back as he turns toward two of the officers.
He then puts both hands up and is holding a black cell phone in his right hand. He does not point the cell phone at the officers. Officer Michael Dieck, one of three surrounding Lewis, fired a single shot from his rifle.
“I would say to folks, this is something that's been going on for a long time in terms of trust in prosecutors and police and all of us trying to ensure that people who wear a badge are held accountable,” said Arapahoe County District Attorney John Kellner, (in photo above) whose critical incident response team is working on the Lewis investigation.
Kellner will ultimately decide whether to file charges against Aurora Police SWAT officer Michael Dieck, who fired the bullet that killed Lewis.
“My office has a long history of prosecuting individuals who wore a badge, who committed some kind of crime,” Kellner said. “You just don't want to rush to a decision. We're going to complete our process and I'm going to complete my review, and then I'm going to make a decision whether that is to file charges, not file charges, or present the case to a grand jury. I haven't made a decision yet.”
“We treat these as a top priority,” Dougherty said. “I recognize when people are frustrated that these are taking what they perceive to be too long, but I want to make sure that two, three or 15 years from now they look back and they know the right result was reached in terms of the thoroughness of the review, whether it took three weeks or eight weeks.”
Prosecutors promptly charge most defendants shortly after an incident occurs. The decision to charge or not charge will depend upon police reports and available evidence, such as witness statements, photographs, forensic evidence and video. Most evidence is circumstantial or indirect evidence - and does not include smoking gun evidence such as eyewitness testimony. Rarely are crimes captured entirely on video.
Not here though, a white aurora police officer shot the black man and it all was caught on video cameras with 3 separate angles. As such, the trained and experienced white lawyers who work for Aurora are full of shit. It is true that in the system of authority, cops have the power to use force offensively to kill when they face an imminent threat of deadly harm. Nevertheless, Mr. Lewis had his hands up - the universal way of obeying authority. There is obvious probable cause for murder; just hit play and watch. The media, which is controlled by elite white folks is doing its best to rationalize any delay in charging a white cop. In order to do this, the media attempts to make it seem reasonable that a cell phone could like a gun. At least it does in a Black person’s hand. Such misperception of reality has lead to perhaps thousands of Black murders in which phones look like guns, tasers look like guns, immobile cars are dragging cops, guns underneath shirts are still visible, hands up means an attack is imminent, etc. Such deluded thinking can only rationalize itself in a racist mind (or the enslaved mind of a non-white individual) when it encounters color.
Here, these rationalizations work as self-justifications in the minds of racist cops, “journalists,” jurors, prosecutors and readers. Such a mind is filled with fantasies centered around an imaginary human hierarchy of people in which whites are supreme. When some racists are in the presence of color or think of color, particularly Black men, they can no longer see things as they really are. Their eyes are filled with thoughts and all sorts of idiocy about non-whites [dangerous, inherently criminal doing this and that] crowds their mind and enables them to engage in various forms of self deception. Their delusions enable them to make believe white lawlessness is ‘public order.’ Remember, a mind that is filled with belief is a mind which can project anything according to the belief. When you see things always remember this." In general, racists are masterful liars and know how to tell their tales in accord with the appetite of the racist mind and such trickery enables authorities to get away with murdering Black people such as Kilyn Lewis.
Obviously if Kilyn Lewis were a young white man this probably would have never happened. But if it did happen to a young white person, the cop would be summarily fired as soon as practicable, criminal charges would be papered, an arraignment would be put on the court calendar and white journalists would condemn the rogue cop- no protests would be necessary.
Prediction here is that the racist suspect DA won’t file any charges against the racist suspect cop and the racist suspect dependent media will help to justify such psychopathic behavior as normal because Mr. Lewis was Black. Such is the nature of the system of racism white supremacy and the nature of the system of power supremacy.
Black Homelessness Increasing in Indianapolis, a City Controlled by Elite White Liberals. Although Black People Make Up Only 30% of the Population, They Account for More than Half of All Homeless
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PHOTO IS THE PROPERTY OF VINCENT BROWN
From [HERE] An annual census found 1,701 individuals experienced homelessness in Marion County on a single night in January, a five percent increase from last year. The number of unsheltered people dropped five percent, from 357 to 339 people.
That’s still about three quarters higher than the number of unsheltered counted in 2022 and triple those counted in 2019.
The census found historic inequities haven’t improved. Over half surveyed were Black individuals, while about 30 percent of Marion County’s overall population is Black. These numbers have been over 50 percent since at least 2019.
More than 100 people gathered on a rainy Wednesday for an event in the Basile Theater at the Historic Athenaeum to learn about the state of homelessness in Indianapolis.
Mayor Joe Hogsett opened the discussion with remarks about his administration’s efforts to reduce the numbers of residents without a home. Those efforts include more permanent supportive housing, legal assistance to thousands of tenants facing evictions and development projects to increase the number of available beds.
“But what the data tells me is that we must do more,” Hogsett said.
Individuals surveyed most commonly cited job loss and lack of income as the cause of their homelessness.
In April, the city and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development entered a cooperative agreement to take over the Indianapolis Housing Agency after years of problems. That agency is responsible for providing housing vouchers for low income residents.
