State Department Colluded With Social Media to Censor Content, Twitter Files Show

From [HERE] The latest release of the “Twitter Files” includes evidence that the U.S. Department of State worked closely with social media platforms, despite denials by government officials.

Independent journalist Paul D. Thacker published the documents today in The Disinformation Chronicle. Thacker’s previous “Twitter Files” installments revealed evidence of collusion between the federal government, social media platforms and private actors to censor content.

According to Thacker, the newly released documents add to existing evidence that the Biden administration worked closely with platforms like Twitter to censor content and influence social media content moderation policies.

“These emails [call] into sharp question claims by Democrats and their allies in the media that Twitter did not collude with federal agencies and was free from Biden administration pressure to make its own censorship decisions,” Thacker wrote.

According to the new “Twitter Files,” the Indian government pressured Twitter to censor accounts in 2021, including accounts critical of India’s COVID-19 policies.

This led Twitter to hire Albright Stonebridge, a lobbying firm “closely aligned with the Biden administration” — and previously funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — to pressure the State Department for assistance.

“Around this same timeframe, emails show that the State Department was pressuring Twitter to censor accounts they didn’t like,” Thacker wrote.

Thacker told The Defender the Indian government “was going after Twitter for not suspending accounts critical of the government, and there were threats that Twitter employees in the country would be arrested.”

The State Department then began “working closely with Twitter to deal with the company’s problems in India,” Twitter’s third-largest market, at the same time that it “was leaning on Twitter to censor certain accounts and topics,” Thacker said.

The new “Twitter Files” release is the latest in a series of installments, based on internal company records, that suggest “close coordination between U.S. government officials and social media companies to censor viewpoints and accounts — often those that opposed Biden administration policies,” Thacker wrote. [MORE]

"Vaxxed 3: Authorized To Kill" (complete movie)

“Vaxxed 3” Recalls the SpokesPuppets who Tricked the Public Into Getting COVID Shots [Consent Obtained by Lies, Non-Disclosures or Coercion is Not Informed Consent; It's Battery, Negligence or Fraud]

Dr Yeardon and Dr Blynd: Authorities Own the Minds of Those who Believe “The COVID Lies." The False Narratives are Enemy Outposts in the Believer's Mind, Giving Rise to More Coercive Political Systems

Consent obtained by lies, halfTruths, non-disclosures, fraud, coercion is not lawful consent - it is induced consent, which is unlawful.

A plaintiff cannot ordinarily be regarded as actually consenting to the defendant's conduct if the plaintiff assented to the conduct while mistaken about the nature and quality of the invasion intended by the defendant. Likewise, an overt manifestation of assent or willingness would not be effective apparent consent if the defendant knew, or probably if he ought to have known in the exercise of reasonable care, that the plaintiff was mistaken as to the nature and quality of the invasion intended.... The decisions in this area have involved assent induced by fraud, in the sense that the defendant was either aware of the plaintiff's mistake or ignorance and failed to disclose the truth, or the defendant induced the mistake with representation which he knew was false. Prosser and Keeton on Torts § 18, at 119-20 (5th ed. 1984).

The failure to provide informed consent is a basis of medical malpractice. But it also may be the basis of a lawsuit for an intentional battery (murder), negligence or fraud.

Battery is an intentional, unwanted or offensive touching by another. A lawsuit for battery increases the likelihood of punitive damages and unlike a claim for negligence, no proof of injury or harm is necessary. A lawsuit for battery generally has a shorter statute of limitations than a claim for negligence.

Destroying Black Life Over Trivialities: A TX Cop Endangered Himself by Jumping Onto a Moving Rental Car. Then He Fatally Shot the Driver, Ashtian Barnes. Stopped for Toll Violations by Another Driver

SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASE From [HERE] On a Thursday afternoon in April 2016, a 24-year-old Black man named Ashtian Barnes was driving his girlfriend's rental car on the Sam Houston Tollway in Harris County, Texas, when he was pulled over by a traffic enforcement officer. The officer, Roberto Felix Jr., stopped Barnes because the license plate of the rental car had been linked to toll violations by another driver. About three minutes into the stop, Barnes began to drive away. Felix reacted by jumping onto the door sill of the car with his gun drawn. Within two seconds, perceiving a threat to himself as the car accelerated, Felix fatally shot Barnes.

The offenses that led to the traffic stop, which had not even been committed by Barnes, were trivial, and Felix himself created the danger to which he responded by killing Barnes. That use of deadly force was plainly unreasonable, Barnes' mother, Janice Hughes Barnes, argued in a federal civil rights lawsuit against Felix.

Although that conclusion might seem like a no-brainer, a federal judge dismissed the case, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld that decision last January. Both courts were bound by 5th Circuit precedent to focus on "the moment of the threat" that Felix confronted, ignoring both the nature of the stop and the officer's recklessness in jumping onto the car. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether that approach, which has been embraced by four circuits and rejected by eight, is consistent with the Fourth Amendment.

In the 1985 case Tennessee v. Garner, which involved a suspected burglar, Edward Garner, who was shot while fleeing police, the Supreme Court held that the use of deadly force is unconstitutional in such circumstances "unless it is necessary to prevent the escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others." To assess whether a use of force is "objectively reasonable" under the Fourth Amendment, the Court explained four years later in Graham v. Connor, judges should consider "the totality of the circumstances," paying "careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case." The Court said relevant factors include "the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and whether he is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight."*

Like Garner, Barnes was unarmed and did not plausibly pose "a significant threat of death or serious physical injury" to the general public. And unlike Garner, Barnes was not suspected of a felony or even an arrestable offense. Under the 5th Circuit's "moment of threat" standard, however, those circumstances were irrelevant. So was everything that happened before the two seconds in which Felix decided to shoot Barnes.

When Felix turned on his emergency lights, Barnes pulled over to the median on the left side of the tollway. Felix parked behind Barnes and approached the driver's side window. When Felix asked for Barnes' driver's license and proof of insurance, the 5th Circuit noted, "Barnes replied that he did not have the documentation and that the car had been rented a week earlier in his girlfriend's name." Seeing Barnes "digging around" in the car, Felix told him to stop. Claiming to smell marijuana (which a subsequent search did not find), Felix asked if Barnes had anything illegal in the car, at which point Barnes "turned off the vehicle, placing his keys near the gear shift." Barnes "told Officer Felix that he 'might' have the requested documentation in the trunk of the car."

Dash camera video showed what happened next. Felix ordered Barnes to pop the trunk, which he did. Felix asked Barnes to get out of the car, and Barnes opened the driver's side door. But then Barnes restarted the car, prompting Felix to draw his gun, point it at Barnes and say "don't fucking move." As the car began moving, Felix "stepped onto the car with his weapon drawn and pointed at Barnes," "'shoved' his gun into Barnes's head, pushing his head hard to the right," and fired two shots. When the car stopped, Felix "held Barnes at gunpoint until backup arrived [about two minutes later] while Barnes sat bleeding in the driver's seat."

One question raised by Barnes v. Felix, U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett noted in 2021, is "whether the Court can consider the officer's conduct precipitating the shooting—which included jumping onto a moving vehicle and blindly firing his weapon inside—in determining whether the officer used excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment." Under 5th Circuit precedent, he concluded, "the answer is no."

Bennett was not happy with that answer. "By limiting the focus of the judicial inquiry so narrowly as to only examine the precise moment the officer decided to use deadly force," he wrote, "the Fifth Circuit has effectively stifled a more robust examination of the Fourth Amendment's protections when it comes to encounters between the public and the police." He urged the appeals court to "consider the approach applied by its sister courts," which makes it possible to "hold officers accountable when their conduct has directly resulted in the need for deadly force and infringed upon the rights secured by the Fourth Amendment."

In a 2022 ruling, Bennett considered only Felix's decision to draw his gun and point it at Barnes, which he deemed reasonable given that Barnes had restarted his car rather than exiting it as instructed. "The only issue before the Court today was Felix's decision to brandish his gun, not his decision to shoot it," Bennett wrote. But he again urged the 5th Circuit to "review its very narrow approach to deadly force claims."

Judge Patrick Higginbotham, who wrote the 5th Circuit panel opinion upholding the dismissal of Barnes v. Felix, took the extraordinary step of writing a separate concurrence to elaborate on the problems with that "very narrow approach." Bennett "rightfully found that [his] reasonableness analysis under the Fourth Amendment was circumscribed to the 'precise moment' at which Officer Felix decided to use deadly force against Barnes," he wrote. But he argued that "this Circuit's moment of threat doctrine" flouts "the Supreme Court's instruction to look to the totality of the circumstances when assessing the reasonableness of an officer's use of deadly force."

Expressing dismay that "a routine traffic stop has again ended in the death of an unarmed black man," Higginbotham warned that ignoring "an officer's role in bringing about the 'threat' precipitating the use of deadly force lessens the Fourth Amendment's protection of the American public, devalues human life, and 'frustrates the interest of the individual, and of society, in judicial determination of guilt and punishment.'" He noted that Garner's restrictions on the use of deadly force are especially important in light of subsequent Supreme Court rulings that approved pretextual traffic stops and allowed officers to order drivers out of their cars during any legally justified stop. Those decisions, he said, "brought fuel to a surge of deadly encounters between the police and civilians." Given that reality, he argued, it is reckless to undermine Garner by "refusing to look to the totality of the circumstances when a stop leads to the taking of a life."

The 5th Circuit and three other appeals courts "have narrowed the totality of circumstances inquiry by circumscribing the reasonableness analysis of the Fourth Amendment to the precise millisecond at which an officer deploys deadly force," Higginbotham wrote. "The moment of threat doctrine trims Garner with predictable results…eliding the reality of the role [an officer] played in bringing about the conditions said to necessitate deadly force."

But for that doctrine, Higginbotham said, it would be clear that Felix violated the Fourth Amendment. "Given the rapid sequence of events and Officer Felix's role in drawing his weapon and jumping on the running board, the totality of the circumstances merits finding that Officer Felix violated Barnes's Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force," he wrote. "This officer stepped on the running board of the car and shot Barnes within two seconds, lest he get away with driving his girlfriend's rental car with an outstanding toll fee. It is plain that the use of lethal force against this unarmed man preceded any real threat to Officer Felix's safety—that Barnes's decision to flee was made before Officer Felix stepped on the running board. His flight prompted Officer Felix to jump on the running board and fire within two seconds."

The "moment of threat" doctrine "is an impermissible gloss on Garner that stifles a robust examination of the Fourth Amendment's protections for the American public," Higginbotham concluded. "It is time for this Court to revisit this doctrine, [or] failing that, for the Supreme Court to resolve the circuit divide over the application of a doctrine deployed daily across this country."

That is what Janice Hughes Barnes is asking the Supreme Court to do. In two previous cases, her petition notes, the Court dodged the issue of how Garner and Graham apply when an officer uses deadly force after endangering himself. But during oral argument in one of those cases, Justice Sonia Sotomayor explained that a court should "look at everything the officer and the victim did that led up to the moment of confrontation." Justice Samuel Alito likewise assumed that "if an officer jumps in front of—or in this case onto—a moving vehicle, 'you look at the entire seizure, the jumping in front of the car plus the ultimate shooting, to determine whether it's reasonable.'"

Barnes "was no threat," his mother's lawyers note. "The threat that Officer Felix faced from the moving vehicle was the immediate consequence of his unreasonable act of
jumping onto the car. Officer Felix should bear responsibility for the foreseeable result of his own actions."

[Stop and Degrade Blacks EVERY DAY in Liberal Cities] NFL DT Christian Barmore was Just Another NGHR to Providence Cops who Subjected Black Man to Search, Fuckery; Freedom Destroyed Over Expired Tag

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT? Patriots DT Christian Barmore accused Providence police of acting "unprofessional" and racist during a traffic stop on Wednesday. However, body camera footage released by PPD seems to tell a different story.

"I just experienced for the first time 5 Providence cops being very unprofessional racism at it's finest," the 25-year-old former 2nd round draft pick wrote on X at 1:22 AM in a since-deleted tweet, describing the incident as he saw it. [more at TMZ]

The media, which is an enterprise owned and controlled by elite whites, functions to partner with police departments in their daily domination of Black people. Media probots generally parrot whatever authorities say and ignore the so-called 4th Amendment rights of Black people. Here, in this episode involving Barmore, witness all the rationalizations made by authority and media to justify the destruction of his; freedom of movement, freedom to be free from searches and seizures (car was impounded b/c tag expired 10 days ago) and his right to be left the fuck alone. According to FUNKTIONARY.

rationalization – a lame-ass attempt at self-justification. A vast majority of what man refers to as reason is simply rationalization—an egocentric (ego-sin-trick) process employed or deployed for self-serving ends. (See: Reason)

Legal truths however must give way to reality. Brazen cops so frequently abuse their power that no black shopper, pedestrian, motorist, juvenile, adult or black professional of any kind—could make a rational argument that so-called constitutional rights provide black people any meaningful protection from cops or the government in general. 4th Amendment rights exist in law books and courtrooms but such “rights” are a myth on the street for Black people. The stronger an individual’s belief is in the 4th Amendment, the further separated he is from reality and the more his expectations will be frustrated [MORE] and [more]. A more adequate description of “4th Amendment rights” are Master’s Favors which can be taken away and granted to a worthy citizen-servant by a governmental master or privileges turned on and off like a light switch in a system of free range slavery.

CANT WALK OR DRIVE OR BE ANYWHERE IN RACIST SYSTEM. In EVERY City Controlled by Elite White Liberals w/a Large Black Population, Cops Stop and Degrade Blacks in Grossly Disproportionate Numbers]

Most black people live in metro areas. The U.S. metropolitan areas with the 30 largest African-American populations are [HERE] Everywhere one finds a large population of black people living in metro areas controlled by elite, white liberals, the police stop, use force, detain, prosecute and kill blacks in grossly disproportionate numbers. Yet Blacks rarely question this extraordinary phenomenon and inexplicably and strongly believe that elite, white liberals are their political allies who help to ‘protect their rights.’

To trick the gullible black votary elite white liberals often pay lip service about police brutality and decarceration at election time, claiming that police unaccountability is somehow part of Democrats agenda, despite all evidence to the contrary and contravention of the reality that authorities in cities controlled by elite, white liberals are the main perpetrators of it;

DC

• Although Black people comprise just over 44% of the District’s population they account for 71.4% of the people stopped

NYC

• 90% of Drivers Searched or Arrested by the Police in 2022 were Black or Latino in NYC

• Court Monitoring Project says Blacks/Latinos Make Up 90% of All NYPD Arrests, Mostly for Victimless Crimes

• 92% of All Jaywalking Summons’ are Issued to Blacks in NYC

• New Report Chronicles the NYPD’s Reprehensible History of Murdering Black People in NYC, a City Historically Run and Controlled by White Liberals

CHICAGO

• ACLU says Pervasive Mass Traffic Stops are "Urgent Problem" in Chicago as Cops Arbitrarily Interfere w/Black Peoples Freedom of Movement. An Increase of 90,000 to 500,000 Stops a Year from 2016-2023

• Report Finds Black Drivers in Chicago are 6X More Likely to be Stopped than Whites

• Quality of Black Citizenship Low in Liberal Chicago: Data Shows Cops Target Black Drivers, Search Their Cars and Conceal Data About It.

BALTIMORE

• An Uncontrollable Group of Baltimore Cops Don’t Answer Calls or Investigate Crimes. Instead They Roam Black Neighborhoods Surveilling People They Deem Suspicious and Unlawfully Stop and Search Them

BOSTON

• Black People Made Up 70 Percent Of Boston Police Stops, Department Data Show

NEWARK

• Black residents make up about 50% of the population, but they account for 71% of stops and 79% of arrests by Newark Police

PROVIDENCE

• Racism and Policing in Rhode Island

RICHMOND

• Black people are 5X more likely to be pulled over by Richmond Police

• Richmond officers were "far more likely" to search Black drivers and their cars than white drivers. Black drivers were 12.67 times more likely to be arrested as a result of the stop

MEMPHIS

• Although Memphis has 2.5 times as many Black residents as white residents, Black people receive nearly 4 times as many traffic tickets.

• In Memphis, Black drivers are 2.5 times as likely as white drivers to receive multiple citations on one ticket.

COLUMBUS

• Media Analysis Shows Columbus Police are Disproportionately Shooting and Killing Black Males. Although the Liberal, White City is Only 29% Black, 63% of the People Killed by Cops were Black

• Excessive force has been systematically used against residents of Columbus, especially Black residents.

CLEVELAND

• Black drivers are much more likely to be pulled over than whites [MORE]

• Cleveland Police Stop and Search Black Drivers at Higher Rates Despite DOJ Oversight

CINCINNATI

• Police stop blacks at a 30% higher rate than whites and once stopped, police in Cincinnati arrested more than three times the number of blacks pulled over as whites. In Cincinnati, police made 79% more total stops per resident in predominantly black areas.

CHARLOTTE

• Black and Latino people accounted for 90% of the traffic stops made by the CMPD, 90% of the searches and 92% of those arrested.

• Suspect Citizens (analyzing millions of stops in NC)

RALEIGH

• More than 80% of Raleigh police officer’s traffic stops involved Black drivers. 

• Raleigh police officers were 2.3 times more likely to search Black drivers following a traffic stop than white drivers. 

ATLANTA

• Black people were 14.6 times more likely to be arrested for a low-level office than a white person. In Atlanta, a black person is 12 times more likely to be killed by police.

INDIANAPOLIS

• Indianapolis Police Department’s nearly all-white K-9 unit is sending dogs to bite Black residents at a disproportionately high rate.

• Indianapolis Police mostly used force on Black residents, although most residents that reside with- in the IMPD patrol area are White

NEW ORLEANS

• 90% of stop-and-frisk firearm searches by New Orleans Police targeted Black people

• Black people were exposed to an annual average of 43.7 proactive stops per 100 000 population occurring in their neighborhood of residence, compared with 30.7 stops, on average, in neighborhoods where White people lived. [MORE]

ST. LOUIS

• Black drivers accounted for 66.4% of the vehicle stops by St. Louis Police, despite only making up 45.7% of the city’s population.

• Missouri police continue to disproportionately pull over Black motorists

MINNESOTA

•  Minnesota Police stopped Black people at 7.8 times the rate of white people, and Indigenous people at 10 times the rate; the rate for searches was even worse.

• Although Blacks make up only 6% of the MIN population they are 27% of all arrests. [MORE]

LOS ANGELES

• Report says 70% of Traffic Stops by LA County Cops on the 5 Freeway were of Latino Drivers

• ACLU & Catalyst California Report Finds L.A. and Riverside Sheriff’s Departments Waste Millions on Traffic Stops [MORE]

• In Liberal CA Black residents were stopped the most, making up 5.4% of the state’s population, but 12.5% of all traffic stops.

OAKLAND

• Black men are 8 times more likely to be stopped by Oakland police than White men, data shows

BERKELEY CA

• Nearly 35% of Police Stops in Berkeley (a Mecca for White Liberals) in the last year Were of Black People, Despite the Fact that Only 8% of the City is Black, According to the Census

SAN FRANCISCO

• SFPD stops Black people at least 6 times the rate of white people, searches Black people at least 10 times the rate of white people, and are at least 12 times more likely to use force on Black people than white people

• SF Public Defender: Prosecutors are Filing Excessive Charges Against Black People, Racial Disparities Pervasive

RIVERSIDE/SAN BERNADINO

• Sherifs target and stop Black people at nearly 2X the rate of whites

HOUSTON

• Black drivers were pulled over and searched at higher rates last year in the Houston area, new data shows

DALLAS

• Black suspects disproportionately arrested in Dallas

• Dallas Police Stop Blacks at Disproportionately High Rates, Traffic Stop Data Show

MIAMI

• White Miami residents face less chance of being arrested in most cities than Black, Latino or Hispanic residents, who also are stopped and searched more frequently. 

• ACLU: Black Motorists in Florida Cited for Seatbelt Violations Nearly Twice as Often as White Motorists

BIRMINGHAM

• White residents face less chance of being arrested than Black, Latino or Hispanic residents, who also are stopped and searched more frequently

MILWAUKEE

• Report says Police Stop-and-Frisk Blacks 18X More than Whites in Liberal Milwaukee

• Black residents were 4.5 times as likely to get pulled over, 10.1 times as likely to be subjected to a field interview, and 2.6 times as likely to be frisked as white residents

• City Approves $3.4 Million Stop & Frisk Settlement: Suit Says Milwaukee Cops Made More Than 350,000 Unlawful Stops of Black & Latino Men

PHOENIX

• 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

A FREE RANGE PRISON. Authorities and their media often mischaracterize police stops of Black drivers and Black citizens as ‘minor intrusions’ or temporary interferences with their freedom. For example, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg attacked a NYC court decision which ruled stop and frisk unconstitutional, by claiming, “stop and frisk is not racial profiling.” In reality, the pervasive use of authority to arbitrarily stop law abiding Black people against their volition terrorizes and degrades their humanity and “citizenship” and chills their inherent human right to freedom of movement.

Black scholars Naa Kwate and Shatema Threadcraft explain that unlawful stops of Black people lead to “Embodied stress, fear and trauma” because “the subject knows that any encounter may well end in death—and moreover, that the death may go unpunished.” The frequency of such “routine” stops ‘produces bodies that are harassed, stressed and resource deprived, if not altogether dead.’ Kwate and Threadcraft state, “Even those who are not stopped fear being stopped, fear death, and thus also find themselves in the grip of this form of necropower.” The omnipresent threat of being stopped for no reason by police is a form of “torture-lite” according to scholar Paul Butler. Here, the difference between adherent rights and inherent rights should be understood. FUNKTIONARY explains,

adherent rights – privileges disguised as so-called “rights” created by men via deceptive word-manipulation in written form called “symbolaeography,” and legal documents. 2) privileges granted by an apparent or putative authority at the expense of one's inherent or unalienable ‘rights.’ Also, “rights deriving from the corporate government (against itself) that can be liened against or taken away at any time by the creator or grantor of the bestowed right or benefit.”

inherent rights – unalienable and unassailable rights. Also, “All individual’s have unalienable rights. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. [MORE]

“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. [MORE]

unalienable rights –You can't surrender, sell or transfer unalienable rights, they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can't under any circumstances be surrendered or taken. [MORE]

Hans Buchheim explains, ‘The humanity of each person is the interior reference point of every natural or inherent right. We are all naturally endowed with rights - rights that we possess because we are human beings (regardless of whether we have earned them or are deemed worthy of them by a government authority) – these rights are not given or taken away. Said rights are necessary to human dignity and autonomy - among other things, these natural rights include the right of freedom of movement, the right to be free from detentions, seizures, searches and the right to be left the fuck alone.’

Pervasive, arbitrary stops function to “niggerize,” degrade humanity and humiliate Blacks in public, rendering them “unsafe, unprotected, subjected and subjugated to random violence” by government authority. The undeceiver Jeremy Locke points out that “slavery is not a concept of totality . . . The ultimate slavery is murder . . . Slavery is found both in the partial and complete destruction of freedom.” Prolific stops by cops everywhere a large number of Black people reside, inhibit their freedom of movement and function as a tool to keep Blacks confined to a physical, social and symbolic space. Thus, elites use arbitrary stops to help dominate Black people and control their movements by force. Such stops are a form of slavery. The result is a 2nd class citizenship for Blacks. Legal scholar Charles Epps observes, “police stops convey powerful messages about citizenship and equality. Across millions of stops, these experiences are translated into common stories about who is an equal member of a rule-governed society and who is subjected to arbitrary surveillance and inquiry.” FUNKTIONARY makes it plain, “People who are awake see cops as mercenary security guards that remind us daily, through acts of force, that we are simultaneously both enemies and slaves of the Corporate State”

The above is part of mounting evidence that voting for liberals and supporting their causes has been a complete disaster for Blacks. In metro areas controlled by elite white liberals Black people’s so-called “rights” are turned on and off like light switches as cops routinely surveil, stop, detain and search their clothing, possessions, cars and generally interfere with their freedom of movement as they attempt to go about their daily lives. Additionally, in the same places, police have mauled, injured and put thousands of Black people into greater confinement and murdered hundreds with impunity.[MORE]

Elite liberals and their Black probots loudly and dogmatically claim that voting will solve most of their problems. However, the quality of Black citizenship stays low where the majority of Blacks live and it does so despite high turnout by the black votary. Dr. Frances Cress Welsing explained Black people are currently in a “losing streak that is centuries long.” According to the Urban League’s report, “State of Black America,” “Black people haven’t progressed since 1965” and “the Black-White disparity persists across virtually every line or indicator of life and quality of life in the US. That is, Black people occupy the bottom of nearly every statistical category of life. [MORE]. To racist suspect elite white liberals, Black people and their welfare are not the end of the electoral process but merely the means for winning. “It’s high time to cut the leash.”

Black Houston Cop Sentenced to 60 Years in Prison for Killing White Couple He Falsely Accused of Selling Heroin [question; if a white cop killed a Black . . never mind]

From [HERE] Gerald Goines, the mendacious former Houston narcotics officer who had a habit of framing drug suspects, received two concurrent 60-year prison sentences on Tuesday for causing the deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, who were killed during a 2019 raid that Goines instigated by falsely accusing them of selling heroin. Since Goines is 60 years old and won't be eligible for parole until he serves half of his prison term, the penalty probably amounts to a life sentence.

"This is historic because we believe this is the first-ever murder conviction of a Houston-area law enforcement officer [for a crime] committed while in uniform," said Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg. The reason such verdicts have been so hard to obtain, she explained, is that "people want to believe in the police—that's who we're trained to trust from the time we're little."

In this case, that trust was sorely misplaced. Goines targeted Tuttle and Nicholas, a middle-aged couple who had lived at 7815 Harding Street for two decades, based on 911 calls from a neighbor, Patricia Garcia, who described them as armed and dangerous drug dealers who had sold her daughter heroin. Garcia, who did not even have a daughter, later admitted she had made the whole thing up, pleading guilty to federal charges related to her false reports.

After an officer visited the Harding Street house and saw no evidence of criminal activity, a supervisor asked Goines, a 34-year veteran assigned to Squad 15 of the Houston Police Department's Narcotics Division, to investigate Garcia's tip. Two weeks later, after an investigation that was cursory if not nonexistent, Goines obtained a no-knock search warrant, claiming a confidential informant had bought heroin at the house from "a white male, whose name is unknown." Goines reported that the informant had seen "a large quantity of baggies" containing heroin, along with "a semi-auto hand gun of a 9mm caliber"—a claim he used to bolster the justification for allowing him and his colleagues to enter the home without knocking and announcing themselves.

Police ultimately found personal-use quantities of marijuana and cocaine at the house. But there was no heroin, no other evidence of drug dealing, and no 9mm pistol. Goines later confessed he had invented the heroin purchase. [MORE]

Settlement Reached for Akron Police Massacre of Jayland Walker. White Cops Shot Black Man 47X as He Ran for His Life, Handcuffed His Corpse after Stop for Unknown Traffic Violation. No Cops Charged

GUNNED DOWN WHILE RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE. From [HERE] and [HERE] The settlement agreement between Walker's family and the city of Akron, Ohio was confirmed in a joint court filing on Tuesday, though specific details remain undisclosed. Family attorneys announced plans for a press conference "at the appropriate time" to discuss the agreement. Akron officials, meanwhile, have refrained from commenting until the legal process is complete.

The lawsuit, filed in June 2023, followed an incident where officers fired 94 bullets at Walker during a high-speed chase two years ago and sought a minimum of $45 million in damages from the officers, the city and its officials.

The lawsuit accused the police of excessive force and claimed a "culture of violence and racism" within the Akron Police Department. The complaint came months after a grand jury decided not to indict the officers involved. Authorities have yet to release the names of those officers.

Mr. Walker was murdered on June 27, 2022 Eight officers fired dozens of rounds at Walker following a car and foot chase. Autopsy records show that eight officers fired more than 90 rounds at Walker, with more than 60 striking his body. Seven of the cops were white. Police said it began when they tried to pull him over for unknown, minor equipment violations and he failed to stop, cops then claim he fired a shot from his car 40 seconds into the pursuit.

Police body camera video showed Walker eventually bailed from his slowly moving car while wearing a ski mask and ran into a parking lot, where pursuing officers opened fire. On video police chased Walker for about 10 seconds before officers fired from multiple directions in a burst of shots that lasted 6 or 7 seconds. A county medical examiner said Walker was shot at least 40 times. A handgun, loaded magazine and wedding ring were found on the driver’s seat of the car.

Unnamed Officer(s) claim that they thought Mr. Walker had fired a weapon from his car during the high speed chase and that they feared he would fire again, prompting them to shoot him. How police could hear one gun shot during such a high speed chase is a white supremacy mystery. Nevertheless, whether a gun was fired is simply police misdirection and distraction from the only material issue which is whether the black man posed a threat when he fled on foot from police. He had no object in his hand and the cops never saw a gun, because it was on the car seat.

Insofar as it applies to white citizens, the Supreme Court has explained, ‘a police officer can use deadly force to prevent the escape of a fleeing felon ONLY where he has probable cause to believe the suspect poses a threat of death or serious physical harm to the officer or to others.’ Tenn v Garner, 475 US 1 (1985). The Court stated,

The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect. A police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead. [MORE]

Walker was not a fleeing felon, he had no criminal record and police manically chased him over an unknown traffic violation. He posed no reasonable threat to police as no officers even claimed to have seen him brandish a weapon and he was running away from police when he was shot over 90 times. As such, it is not rational that police reasonably believe they faced an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.

Akron is a city run by elite, white liberals as Democrats control all branches of government.

Bi-Partisan System of Racism [injustice]: Unarmed Black Man Fleeing on Foot Shot 47X by a Gang of Barbaric White Cops in a City Run by White Liberals. White Ohio Republican AG Says No Crime Occurred

MASSACRE OF JAYLAND WALKER SOUNDED LIKE FIREWORKS. ON VIDEO AN ARMY OF LATHERED-UP, WHITE AKRON COPS SHOT UNARMED BLACK MAN 60 TIMES AS HE FLED ON FOOT. COPS CLAIM HE DIDN'T STOP FOR AN UNKNOWN TRAFFIC VIOLATION. ABOVE IS APPARENTLY THE ONLY BODYCAM VIDEO RELEASED BY THE PUBLIC MASTERS -EVEN THOUGH AT LEAST 7 OTHER COPS WERE PRESENT

Jayland was murdered for failing to comply with an order to pull over and an order to remain in his vehicle or to stop. In other words, he was murdered for failing to comply with authority. All laws or commands by authorities are threats backed by the ability and willingness to use violence/force against those who disobey. The reality is simply obey authority or go to jail or be murdered. Fool yourself if you want to, but there is nothing consensual or voluntary in our legal system. The legal system is entirely based on and anchored in physical coercion, violence.

However, authority is not real, it is simply a belief. Authority is the belief in the government’s implied right to rule over people in the first place. Authority is the belief that some people have the legal and moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have a legal and moral obligation to obey.’ Michael Huemer defines political authority as “the hypothesized moral property in virtue of which governments may coerce people in certain ways not permitted to anyone else and in virtue of which citizens must obey governments in situations in which they would not be obligated to obey anyone else.”

In real life authority is a granfalloon, an unreality. FUNKTIONARY explains Authority “has no meaning in reality,” it “is the means by which society uses to control its population.” Authority is a “cartoon” or an “image of law” because among other things the social contract is a lie told to you by your masters. Consequently, there is no rational justification for anyone or entity to rule over other human beings. Authority is rule through coercion.” Coercion here means physical force. “Laws” are threats backed by the ability and willingness to use violence/force against those who disobey. Huemer explains ‘the legal system is anchored by a non-voluntary intervention, a harm that the state can impose regardless of the individual’s choices.’ The only actual choice authority presents to citizens is to obey commands and laws or go to jail. Locke states, “The lie of tyranny is that you will maintain the freedom of life by obeying authority. The choices it offers you are a lifetime of obedience or death.”

White Liberal DA Fails to Charge White Aurora Cop Who Murdered Kilyn Lewis; Shot Black Man While He was Holding a Phone w/Both Hands Up [white supremacy is not about hate, but Domination of Blacks]

AURORA (CO) IS A CITY CONTROLLED BY ELITE, WHITE LIBERALS. RACIST SUSPECT AURORA AUTHORITIES ARE STOPPING, ARRESTING, DEGRADING AND KILLING BLACK PEOPLE WITH IMPUNITY WHILE SEEKING TO PUT THEM IN GREATER CONFINEMENT. THE FOLLOWING are a few RECENT examples:

AURORA COP CONVICTED FOR FAILING TO INTERVENE AS A WHITE COP PISTOL WHIPPED, STRANGLED AND TRIED TO KILL A DEFENSELESS BLACK MAN WHO BEGGED FOR HIS LIFE DURING AN ALLEGED TRESPASS ARREST

'THEY DON’T SERVE US & WE CAN’T FIRE THEM:' WHITE COP FIRED FOR CALLING BLACK PEOPLE “PORCH MONKEYS” AT CRIME SCENE IS REHIRED BY AURORA CITY COMMISSION AFTER APPEAL

NO WAY TO CONTROL AUTHORITY. VIDEO SHOWS 2 AURORA COPS DEGRADE AND BRUTALIZE A BLACK MAN TO MAKE A TRESPASS ARREST; WHITE COP PISTOL WHIPS AND STRANGLES HIM AS HE BEGS FOR LIFE. BOTH CHARGED

"PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR FACE!" UNCONTROLLABLE PUBLIC MASTERS LOSE CONTROL IN AURORA, A LIBERAL CITY. ON VIDEO A GANG OF WHITE COPS TERRORIZE AND ATTACK A BLACK MAN WHO TRIED TO GIVE THEM HIS LICENSE

PUBLIC SERVICE FROM RACISTS IN A WHITE LIBERAL CITY: AURORA JUDGE SENTENCES PARAMEDIC WHO HELPED MURDER ELIJAH MCLAIN TO WORK RELEASE. COPS SMOTHERED 140 LBS BLACK MAN AS MEDIC INJECTED HIM W/KETAMINE

AURORA TO PAY $15M FOR WHITE COPS BRUTAL MURDER OF ELIJAH MCLAIN. 3 COPS UNLAWFULLY STOPPED AND ATTACKED 140LBS BLACK MAN WALKING HOME, PILED ON, CHOKED AND SEDATED HIM AS HE BEGGED AND VOMITED

From [HERE] Aurora Police Department SWAT Officer Michael Dieck will not face criminal charges in the death of 37-year-old Kilyn Lewis, who Dieck fatally shot outside an apartment complex in May while trying to arrest him on suspicion of attempted murder.

Arapahoe County District Attorney John Kellner found Dieck “reasonably believed there was an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury,” justifying the deadly use of force under Colorado law, Kellner wrote in a decision letter published Friday. Lewis was unarmed during the encounter.

Dieck was among a team of Aurora and Denver police officers who surveilled Lewis for two days before trying to arrest him as he exited a car outside an apartment complex on South Ironton Street on May 23.

Lewis was a suspect in a May 5 first-degree attempted murder in Denver.

Lewis reached behind his back after police surrounded him with guns drawn and ordered him to show his hands and get on the ground, according to the decision letter and body-worn camera footage released by Aurora police. 

He removed a phone and white tubes of fruit snacks from his pocket and was holding them in his hands as he raised them in the air when Dieck shot him once in the stomach, according to the decision letter. Lewis died from the gunshot wound on May 25.

Kellner’s review of the shooting found officers identified themselves and yelled repeated commands for Lewis to show his hands and get on the ground. Lewis walked several feet toward officers and the front driver-side door of the car, then put his hand into his rear pocket and removed it, according to the letter.

Dieck told investigators he thought Lewis had pulled out a gun and was preparing to shoot at him and other officers. Other officers at the scene also told investigators they thought Lewis was pulling out a gun.

COPS WERE LESS THAN 30 FEET AWAY AND THOUGHT A CELL PHONE WAS GUN? It is true that 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 one of the 3 videos. The media, which is controlled by elite white folks is doing its best to rationalize the decision not to charge the white cop. In order to do this, the media attempts to make it seem reasonable that a cell phone could like a gun from less than 25 feet away. At least it does to racist suspects in a Black person’s hand. Such a 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.

Kellner presented a half-hearted case to an Arapahoe County grand jury for consideration, which declined to accept the case for further investigation, according to the letter.

The Justice for Kilyn E. Lewis Action Team released a statement from the family expressing disappointment and outrage on how the family heard the decision.

“For nearly five months, our family has been left in the dark, waiting for answers. Without advance notice or any communication, we learned through the media that District Attorney John Kellner had released findings, a 20-page document made public without our knowledge or opportunity to review,” the statement said. “The lack of respect and regard for our family is staggering as we have been present and begging for answers and transparency since we lost Kilyn.”[MORE]

Lewis’ death has sparked protests at Aurora City Council meetings and other events. His family did not have advance notice that Kellner was releasing the decision letter on Friday, according to a statement from the Justice for Kilyn E. Lewis Action Team.

“This decision is not only a failure of justice but a message that the life of an unarmed Black man like Kilyn means nothing to the very system that is supposed to protect us,” organizers wrote in the statement.

The group is holding a community rally to “demand answers (and) demand accountability” at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Aurora Municipal Center, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway.

White DA (GOP) Finds Omaha Cop's Murder of Steven Phipps Justified: Claims a Fleeing Black Man Posed a Threat b/c He "Pointed" a Gun at Cops While Upside Down, in Mid-Air and Jumping Over a Fence

Above DID STEVEN PHIPPS POSE A THREAT WHILE UPSIDE DOWN IN MID-AIR? COPS FIRED BEFORE HE HIT THE GROUND. IN PHOTO WHITE authorities; 2 OMAHA COPS, COUNTY ATTORNEY, POLICE CHIEF AND MAYOR. WHITE MEDIA MISSING FROM PHOTO. WHAT IS COLLECTIVE WHITE POWER? WHEN WHITE COPS KILL A BLACK MAN who POSed NO IMMINENT THREAT TO THE COP AND HIS FELLOW WHITE OFFICERS, the white mayor, white prosecutor AND THE WHITE MEDIA SUPPORT AND DEFEND THAT WHITE POLICE OFFICER’S “RIGHT” TO DO SO.  MORE]

 From [HERE] The officer who fired his gun at Steven Phipps Jr. eight times in less than three seconds won’t face charges.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said in a release Monday that the actions of Omaha Police Officer Noah Zendejas during the Sept. 28 traffic stop and subsequent foot pursuit were justified.

“After careful review of the video evidence and statements made, the actions of Mr. Phipps in producing a firearm at a traffic stop, not complying with the officer’s commands and Mr. Phipp’s gun barrel being pointed toward the officer during the incident justified the officer’s decision to use deadly force.”

Statement from Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine

OPD Chief Todd Schmaderer said during a news conference last week that Phipps, 22, died after he was shot by Officer Zendejas while scaling a fence after he fled from officers during a traffic stop at about 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, just south of 31st Street and Ames Avenue.

Police maintain that most of the 8 shots were fired while Phipps was in midair

Nevertheless, the video speaks for itself. Police claim that somehow while Phipps jumped head first over a high fence and was upside down and in mid air while falling to the ground, he managed to point a gun at police. Said narrative appears to be contradicted by the video.

First of all the incident happened in less than 2 seconds. That is, Phipps was running at a high speed when he jumped head first over the fence. He did not “point” or aim the gun at police while he was upside down in mid air. The jump happened so fast it would have been impracticable for Phipps to “aim” a gun and impossible for the cop to see a gun aimed at him. It is quite obvious that police 1) obtained the surveillance video 2) watch it super slow motion over and over again and 3) then created a false narrative to justify the murder. White media believed it.

Contrary to media myth-information that “video showed Phipps still had the gun in his hand as he jumped the fence and only dropped it after being shot,” stills from video show that the gun falls out of his hand before he hits the ground. Regardless, to justify the use of deadly force the threat must be an imminent one. As such, without more facts, mere possession of the gun does not constitute an imminent threat. The Black man was fleeing. There are no facts that tend to show he posed a threat.

His aunt, Angela Phipps, said after seeing the police footage, she heard Phipps repeatedly say "don't shoot me" after he hit the ground while holding his hands and one leg up in a defensive position.

Michigan AG Charges 2 Sterling Heights Officers for Felony Assault: White Cop Ordered Police Dog to Attack Black Man who had Surrendered and was on the Ground Surrounded by a Gang of White Cops

From [HERE] Two Sterling Heights police officers were charged for misconduct and felonious assault for K-9 deployment on Tuesday during an arrest of a suspect where questions of excessive force had been raised.

Officers James Sribniak, 31, and Jack Currie, 29 were criminally charged announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Each officer is charged with one count of Misconduct in Office, a 5-year felony, and Felonious Assault, a 4-year felony.

The case stems from a Feb. 25 case during the pursuit and arrest of Garry Young, of Roseville, accused of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, fleeing, domestic violence, operating with a suspended license. The two officers had been on paid leave amid the investigation.

While the suspect was on the ground, surrounded by officers, and after having received two Taser deployments, Officer Currie allegedly urged Officer Sribniak to deploy his K9 to bite the suspect.

Prosecutors say Officer Sribniak, controlling the K9, ordered the dog to bite the suspect, which he did, on the suspect's right hip.

The use of force lasted about a minute police say, and after it happened, Young was taken for medical attention for minor injuries.

"K9 assistance can be a valuable tool for law enforcement but must be deployed with good judgment," said Nessel. "K9 Officers are rigorously trained in the proper use of police dogs and should be held to the highest standards of conduct.

"We should be able to trust them to not deploy a dog as an unnecessary and unlawful punitive measure to brutally attack a human being. In this incident, deploying a K9 on a suspect already on the ground and well-surrounded by officers is not only horrific but illegal.

"My office remains committed to thoroughly investigating and prosecuting police misconduct."

Sribniak and Currie have not yet been arraigned, and future court dates have not yet been set.

Young is accused of beating his girlfriend, ripping her clothes off — and choking her 16-year-old daughter, who tried to stop him. Young then returned to the house while officers are there. They tried to get him to exit his vehicle.

Young fled in his vehicle — but stop sticks deployed by police blew out one of his tires. Police, knowing he was drunk and already allegedly hurt a child, pursued.

"We wanted to get him in custody and we wanted to make sure the people inside that house were safe," said Dwojakowski. "And we thought that was the most prudent thing to do."

According to police, the chase lasted 13 miles — going through six red lights, almost hitting a pedestrian — and with Young receiving two more flat tires.

After Family Called Mental Health Hotline Seeking Advertised Mobile Outreach from Trained Professionals, Jersey City SWAT Cops Arrived and Murdered Black Man. Liberal Mayor Defended Cops - Suit Filed

UNDER ARREST FOR ?? From [HERE] The family of a Jersey City man killed by city police last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, Hudson County, and a local hospital, claiming the defendants’ failure to follow standard law enforcement de-escalation techniques during the man’s mental health crisis led to his death and violated his civil rights.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday morning, comes one year after police shot and killed Andrew “Drew” Washington at his home, where they were dispatched when his family members say they called a hotline seeking mental health professionals to help him.

The plaintiff, Courtnie Washington, Andrew’s sister and the administrator of his estate, alleges that her brother’s death could have been avoided and is seeking unspecified damages. She claims that established state and federal law enforcement guidelines for dealing with individuals with mental health conditions were not followed by Jersey City police officers, and also alleges that medical health professionals failed to show adequate care with Washington.

“Everything the police did was wrong. My brother was not dangerous and they knew that,” Washington told the New Jersey Monitor. “If my brother had a heart attack or he had cancer, would you act this way as police officers? No.”

The suit cites a series of events that culminated in Washington’s death on August 27, 2023.

Family members called a mental health hotline asking for the advertised mobile outreach of trained mental health professionals to help Washington, 52, who suffered from multiple mental health disabilities, including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and bouts of psychosis that involved auditory hallucinations. However, the mental health team was never dispatched, according to the suit, which says officials instead sent paramedics untrained in mental health issues and a heavily armed “SWAT-like” force trained to respond to armed criminal suspects and terrorism suspects.

The complaint states,

“In direct contradiction to basic de-escalation principles…[officers] unnecessarily treated the situation like a dangerous standoff that could only be resolved through use of force.” Drew was alone in his apartment, not suspected of any crime, and not a threat to anyone. His family had sought assistance from a mental health professional. But instead, armed with tactical gear, guns, and shields, officers taped over the peephole of Drew’s door and tied a rope around the doorknob, ignoring his requests for them to leave. Losing patience, officers decided to blow the door open—an action that predictably terrified Drew, who officers found in his apartment holding a kitchen knife. Moments later, he was shot and tased by officers. Family members waiting outside were not told that Drew had been shot and were prohibited from talking to him or going with him to the hospital, where he later died alone.

Attorney Amelia Green said the entire incident that resulted in Washington’s death didn’t have to happen. Washington was alone in his home, not at risk of harm to anyone, and had asked police to leave, Green told the New Jersey Monitor.

“The violence ensued when the police broke down his door without justification,” said Green, who is lead counsel for the plaintiff. “What the Jersey City police did was unnecessarily escalate the situation in contravention of every basic principle of policing. The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has issued clear directives, aligned with the national standard, that when you’re dealing with individuals with mental health issues, you’re supposed to de-escalate, disengage, and ensure you’re not doing anything to create a situation where there might be the use of force. Here, the police did the exact opposite of those basic principles.”

After the shooting, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop defended the officers’ actions, telling reporters, “We do feel those police officers acted properly, we want the public to know that.” Fulop said anyone would be “hard-pressed” to say officers and medical personnel dispatched by Jersey City Medical Center “could have acted differently in this situation.”

Fulop also claimed Washington charged at officers with a knife. The complaint says Washington was holding a kitchen knife because “he was scared for his life.” Fulop is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in 2025.

Green categorically rejected the city’s official response, saying the actions of police officers last August were “a clear violation of New Jersey state directives that they’re required to follow.”

“The mayor should have taken accountability, because the Jersey City Police Department botched this entire incident, killing a man. Instead, he has made comments to try and cover up the misconduct in this case and justify what’s happened, even going as far as suggesting things that simply are not true,” Green said. “The city should be taking accountability for this and make sure this never happens again.”

Courtnie Washington knows she cannot get her brother back. But she believes his death doesn’t have to be in vain.

“This idea of villainizing people with mental health disabilities needs to stop,” Washington said. “Drew was pretty easy to love. He had a really beautiful heart, and he had unwavering faith. He made you feel hope after you talked to him. Drew was the reason why our family even began to talk about mental health, because we had to. I want people to know that. He was our light.”

Honolulu Cops Pose as Citizens at Meeting to Delay City Payment for Black Man They Killed. Cops Shot Lindani Myeni After Running Up on Him at Night w/o ID'ing Themselves, Initiated Unprovoked Assault

GOVERNMENT ACTS ON BEHALF OF ITSELF - NOT THE PEOPLE. From [HERE] Dozens of Honolulu police officers appeared alongside other city officials Wednesday in a strong show of opposition to a proposed $1.5 million city settlement over a 2021 officer-involved shooting of an unarmed Black man.

City Council members ultimately postponed voting on whether to approve the settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of 29-year-old Lindani Myeni. Myeni was fatally shot on April 14, 2021, after a struggle with officers outside a Honolulu vacation rental he was accused of having entered without permission.

Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is condemning the Honolulu Police Department for the fatal shooting of a Black man as various versions of what led to the death continue to emerge.

“Lindani Myeni’s killing is yet another sensational racialization and criminalization of an innocent unarmed black man at the hands of police not following the law and proper police procedures,” Sharpton said in a statement.

The two officers who shot Myeni, Brent Sylvester and Garrick Orosco, who was seriously injured, were cleared of wrongdoing in June 2021 by Alm’s office, which declined to pursue charges against them. 

The officers had responded to the scene of an alleged unlawful entry call in April after Lindani mistakenly entered a house which was an Airbnb where an Asian couple was staying. Lindani, who was a tourist on vacation with his wife and 2 children, believed it to be the temple next door.

When he entered he alarmed the couple. A doorbell video shows the 29-year-old arriving at the house, taking off his shoes before entering through an open door and then quickly leaving after his presence confused the Asian couple. In the video Myeni is heard repeatedly apologizing to them as he exited. The couple frantically overreacted and called 911 and during an emotional call reported him as dangerous and claimed to be terrified. 

Due to the fact that the door was open and there was no signage indicating “no trespass” to the public, said entry most likely was not unlawful - despite being unwanted. in other words, Lindani did not commit a crime. Additionally, the couple gave inconsistent stories about what happened - and definitely did not appear to be “terrified” on the video. [MORE]

ON VIDEO ASIAN WOMAN IS STANDING OUTSIDE SAYING TO 911, "im SO AFRAID TO GO OUTSIDE." SHE ALSO CLAIMED TO BE TERRIFIED BUT ON THE VIDEO SHE DOESN'T LOOK OR SOUND SCARED . [MORE]

Police responding to the 911 call immediately approached and then shot and killed him a short time later outside the house. 

The video reveals the fact that cops never announced themselves in a very dark area at night as they shined a bright light into the Black man’s face. As the cops quickly ran up on him and put their hands on him he defended himself.

A lawsuit filed on his behalf said he likely mistook the home for a temple next door that’s open to the public. Unarmed, the Black man from South Africa was wearing a traditional Zulu headband with a tuft of fur at the forehead.

Doorbell and police bodycam camera footage had shown Myeni ignoring commands to get on the ground. The camera then shows a stun gun fired by police either malfunctioning or having no effect on Myeni.  

Most importantly the video also shows that an officer fired several gunshots at Myeni before identifying themselves as 'Police!' 

In this matter the cops were the aggressors who initiated a violent assault in the dark on a Black man without announcing themselves. The Black Man was unarmed and apparently trying to get away from his unknown assailants. Thus, deadly force, which was already unavailable to them because they were the aggressors, could not have been applied because the cops were not facing an imminent, deadly attack from an unarmed Black man defending himself against their aggression and trying to flee. [MORE]

Council members said they wanted time to review evidence and ask more questions of the Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office in closed-door sessions of the Executive Matters and Legal Affairs Committee. The matter will be taken up again at the council’s next meeting in November. If the settlement is not approved, the case will go to civil trial next year, said James Bickerton, a lawyer for Myeni’s widow.

Lindsay Myeni, who filed the lawsuit in 2021, testified tearfully in support of the settlement and held up her husband’s bloodied shirt with bullet holes that he had been wearing that night. 

Mayor Rick Blangiardi, Honolulu Prosecutor Steve Alm, Jonathan Frye, Honolulu chapter chair of the state’s police union and police Chief Joe Logan - all government authorities - encouraged council members to vote against the settlement and said they felt the police did nothing wrong. 

Bickerton also objected to the presence of so many armed officers in the City Council chambers during testimony. 

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said later in a telephone interview. “It’s literally a show of force. It has no place in a democracy. If you want to come down and testify in a civil matter, leave your guns back in the station.”

‘How Could They Be Acting in Self Defense While My Hands Were Restrained?’ Riverdale (IL) Cops Sued for Attacking Black Man in Alley after Stopping Him for No Reason

From [HERE] South suburban police officers are accused of using excessive force, hitting a man several times during an arrest.

Dashcam video captured the incident, and the man now suing Riverdale police is speaking out.

Abraham Carmichael said he needs several surgeries to recover from injuries after a run-in with two Riverdale police officers earlier this year.

The lawsuit filed against those officers and their department says Carmichael suffered from "emotional anxiety, fear, humiliation,"

Now, he's calling for justice.

"I felt like I was a punching bag, like a UFC punching bag," Carmichael said.

Police dashcam video from February of this year, obtained by Carmichael's legal team, appears to show a Riverdale police officer hitting Carmichael several times, while Carmichael's hands appear to stay behind his back.

"He just grabbed me, slammed me against that car," Carmichael said. "I felt something hit me on my nose, and I probably, he probably knocked me out for like, a couple of seconds."

Just moments beforehand, Carmichael said he was taking his girlfriend's car to get fixed by a friend. He ran into a man he said he doesn't know, and started a conversation. That's when he said two Riverdale police officers blocked the alley to arrest that man before quickly involving Carmichael.

"I kept asking him, what was going on. 'What did I do wrong?'" Carmichael said.

Carmichael's legal team showed ABC7 Chicago the police report from the incident. It said there was use of force by officers, defining it as defensive tactics.

"I don't know how you can defend yourself against a person whose hands are, who is on the car," Carmichael said.

Carmichael said police called an ambulance, and he was taken to the hospital.

The lawsuit against Riverdale police and the two officers says Carmichael was left with a fractured nose and ribs and several bruises.

Carmichael said the day plays on repeat in his mind.

"I've been scared; they bother my family. I got to take all these medicines now. It's unreal. It's unreal," Carmichael said. "I thought I was gonna get killed."

Carmichael said he thought, after being treated at the hospital, he'd get to go home, but instead he was charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of justice. His lawyer said Carmichael initially pleaded not guilty, but the state's attorney's office later dropped the charges.

"If they doing this to me, they did it to someone else. What are we waiting on? We have a ticking time bomb running the streets," Carmichael said.

Carmichael's legal team said Carmichael spoke with the Riverdale chief of police after the incident, and was told the department did not believe the officers' actions needed discipline.

According to Amended Lawsuit, a Witness Saw Mobile (AL) Police Officers Murder Jawan Dallas as Black Man Begged Barbaric Cops for His Life

From [HERE] Lawyers for the family of a Theodore man who died during a confrontation with police last year have amended a wrongful-death lawsuit, naming the officers for the first time.

The family of Jawan “Jay” Dallas filed the federal lawsuit in December against the city of Mobile, alleging that police officers responding to a burglary call in July 2023 used excessive force. The civil complaint identified the two officers only as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2, and the Police Department has declined to name them.

At the time, attorneys for the Dallas family told reporters at a news conference that they had a good idea who the officers were but that the city had blacked out the names in material given to the lawyers.

“It’s inevitable that we’re gonna get the names, either tomorrow or next week,” attorney Harry Daniels said. “The names are coming. But this city has maintained their secrecy of not releasing the names of the officers. We know the names of the officers. But out of an abundance of caution, we want to make sure that they give it to us.”

The amended lawsuit seeks the same damages as the original one, $36 million – $1 million for each year of Dallas’ life. The new complaint names Officers Jarred Hutto and Christian Davilla as defendants. A grand jury last year cleared them of wrongdoing in the incident. But the lawsuit alleges that their actions caused his death.

“This amendment was made in keeping with our commitment to transparency and we firmly believe the lawsuit speaks for itself as we continue the fight for justice on behalf of Jawan Dallas’ family and his memory,” the lawyers said in a statement.

A Mobile police spokesman confirmed Hutto and Davilla remain on the force but added that the Police Department does not comment on pending litigation. However, the city has denied wrongdoing in court filings.

The lawsuit alleges that Hutto and Davilla questioned Dallas and a white man at Plantation Mobile Home Park about the burglary report despite the fact that they did not fit the description provided by a 911 caller.

The officers then unlawfully demanded to see Dallas’ identification, according to the allegations.

The civil complaint alleges that Davilla tackled Dallas after he began to run away. Both officers struck Dallas several times as he pleaded for them to stop, the suit alleges.

“Unbeknownst to Defendant Hutto and Defendant Davilla, their entire interaction with Jawan was observed by a female eyewitness who had a clear vantage point of the entire incident,” the suit states. “According to that eyewitness, Jawan Dallas was tased several times without any resistance to Defendant Hutto and Defendant Davilla.”

The lawsuit, quoting police body camera footage, contends that Dallas begged for help.

“I can’t breathe. … I don’t want to be George Floyd,” he said, according to the complaint.

According to the suit, no one from law enforcement or the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office ever spoke to the eyewitness.

The civil case is set for trial in April 2026. It was not immediately clear if the amended complaint would alter that schedule.

Judge Orders Louisiana State Police To Release Records Related Police Murder of Jabari Asante-Chioke. Black Man Shot 24X by Cops

From [HERE] A state judge has ordered Louisiana State Police to release records related to a 2021 shooting of a man that has spurred wrongful death and excessive force lawsuits. 

LSP has until early November to respond to nine public records requests submitted by Malikah Asante-Chioke, who was seeking information related to the shooting of her father, Jabari Asante-Chioke. According to news reports, a passerby saw him in distress, walking along a highway, carrying what was later determined to be a gun and a knife. 

Jabari Asante-Chioke, 52, was reportedly experiencing a mental health crisis and was shot 36 times. 

The Louisiana ACLU, which is representing Malikah Asante-Chioke, said the killing amounted to a “firing squad” and was an unjustifiably excessive use of fatal force. The ACLU said many of the shots struck Jabari Asante-Chioke after he was disarmed and seriously wounded.

Malikah Asante-Chioke’s public records requests pertained to her father’s shooting, personnel files of the involved officers and training materials related to interacting with people experiencing mental health issues. 

On November 21, 2021 Mr. Asante-Chioke, a 52-year-old Black man, was spotted by a concerned citizen at the intersection of Airline Drive and North Causeway Boulevard in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Mr. Asante-Chioke was visibly distressed and was traveling along the highway on foot carrying in his hands what was later identified as a gun and a knife. The passer-by who saw Mr. Asante-Chioke thought he might be experiencing a mental health crisis and subsequently flagged down a police officer directing traffic around a nearby construction site.

What happened next was a tragedy that ended in a firing squad when Louisiana State Police and East Jefferson Levee District Police officers shot Mr. Asante-Chioke over twenty-four times. The ill-trained, ill-disciplined, and ill-supervised officers failed to de-escalate the encounter and failed to use less-than-lethal methods in accordance with their training and with state and federal law to subdue Mr. Asante-Chioke. The shooting was an unjustifiably excessive application of deadly force, with many of the gunshots suffered by Mr. Asante-Chioke impacting him after he was disarmed, heavily wounded, and incapacitated. Mr. Asante-Chioke’s weapon was unloaded. He never fired a shot.

This is just one more example of how police encounters with people of color often end with fatal shootings, and quick police officers are to use deadly force when people of color are involved. LSP is currently under a “a pattern and practice” investigation by the United States Department of Justice for engaging in racially motivated and discriminatory policing and excessive force. The Complaint brings 42 USC Section 1983 excessive force, wrongful death, and negligence claims against the officers, as well as a negligent supervision and training claim against the Superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, Colonel Lamar A. Davis, the Chief of the East Jefferson Levee District Police, Robert Garner, and the State of Louisiana. The case is currently pending before the Eastern District Court of Louisiana.

The defendants in this case are:

• Nicholas Dowdle, Louisiana State Police Officer.

• Jonathon Downing, East Jefferson Levee District Police Officer.

• Gerard Duplessis, East Jefferson Levee District Police Officer.

• Col. Lamar A. Davis, Superintendent of the Louisiana State Police.

• Chief Robert Garner, Chief of the East Jefferson Levee District Police Department.

• The State of Louisiana through the Department of Public Safety & Corrections [MORE]

“This is a victory for Malikah, and for the rights of all Louisianans,” said Nora Ahmed, legal director for the ACLU of Louisiana. “The law is clear: members of the public have the right to access public records, a right that is guaranteed by our state constitution and by our Public Records Law. That right must be respected.”

Phoenix Cops Repeatedly Punch, Taser Deaf Black Man w/Cerebral Palsy. Liberal Prosecutors Still Press Charges Though He Committed No Crime. DOJ Considers Oversight of Racist Police Department

From [HERE] A Black man, who is deaf and has cerebral palsy is facing felony aggravated assault and resisting arrest charges after he was repeatedly punched and tasered by a pair of Phoenix police officers.

The violent and rapid arrest of Tyron McAlpin raises serious questions and could serve as a test case for Phoenix and the Department of Justice as the two battle over whether the police department in America’s fifth-largest city needs federal oversight.

Acting on false claims from a white man under investigation, body camera video shows officers unexpectedly go after McAlpin, punch him in the head at least 10 times, Taser him four times, and wrap their arms around his neck.

“It’s hard for me to see how the city can come out and say with [a] straight face that it is meeting the DOJ report head-on when this man is being charged with assault on police officers for this incident,” said Jesse Showalter, one of McAlpin's attorneys.

But, Phoenix police and Maricopa County prosecutors continue to pursue a criminal case against McAlpin. During a recent preliminary hearing, Maricopa County Superior Court Commissioner Nick Saccone found there was probable cause for his August 19, 2024, arrest.

McAlpin was arrested by Officers Benjamin Harris and Kyle Sue.

In their police reports and court testimony, the two officers stated McAlpin was going to run, took a fighting stance, threw repeated punches, and wouldn’t comply with commands.

McAlpin's attorneys said body camera video and surveillance footage show the officers’ claims are false and said there’s an obvious explanation for why he couldn’t comply.

“The answer is easy. He’s deaf. He couldn’t understand what they were doing. And he had done nothing wrong,” Showalter said. “Everything I see in that video is Tyron just trying to avoid being harmed by these officers and that only makes them increase the escalation and the violence that they’re using.”

Among the problems cited by the DOJ, the following issues are also raised in McAlpin's arrest: Racial bias, excessive force, dangerous use of Tasers and chokeholds, and violating the rights of people with disabilities.

The violent arrest stems from a morning call from Circle K employees who reported that a White man was causing problems and wouldn’t leave the store, records show.

While being trespassed, the man claimed he was assaulted by a Black man and pointed across the street at McAlpin.

Officers Harris and Sue took the man’s claims at face value and left him to go after McAlpin. (The man’s assault claim was later refuted by store employees and surveillance video, records show.) 

After handcuffing McAlpin, his girlfriend arrived at the arrest and told the officers that he was deaf and had cerebral palsy, according to body camera footage. None of the officers at the scene included any information about McAplin’s disabilities in their reports.

Freedom of Movement for Blacks Restricted in Liberal City: Although Nassau (NY) Cops Knew They Stopped the Wrong Man They Threw 60 Yr Old Black Man's Stuff In the Street and Assaulted and Arrested Him

MAYBE THEY'RE NOT VOTING for ENOUGH LIBERALS IN CITY CONTROLLED BY ELITE, WHITE LIBERALS? 

From [HERE] It was three days before Christmas when Tyrone Phifer, a then-60-year-old Black man, was assaulted, abused and arrested by police in New York after they said he “fit the description” of another Black man named “Leroy” — who was 20 years his junior.

Last month, Phifer filed a lawsuit against the Nassau County Police Department and the officers involved in his arrest, including Sgt. Daniel Imondi, police officers Patrick McGrath, Quinn R. Knauer and Richard J. Fosbeck as well as Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick J. Ryder.

The lawsuit filed by Nassau County attorney Frederick K. Brewington in the Eastern District of New York accuses the police department of having a long history of racial profiling.

The Atlanta Black Star states,

According to available data in Nassau County … Black people are subject to traffic stops at 3.1 times the rate of white people; Black people are subject to Terry Stops at 4.7 times the rate of white people; and Black people are subject to being frisked at 6.8 times the rate of white people.

The lawsuit states that 3,656 Black people were arrested in Nassau in 2021, compared with 3,400 white people — even though Black people make up only 10.6 percent of the county’s population.

The Arrest

According to the complaint;

19. While leaving his podiatrist' s office, Plaintiff, TYRONE PHIFER was stopped by the NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT and Defendants IMONDI and FOSBECK allegedly being a person named "Leroy." Plaintiff immediately identified himself and told the officer that his name was not Leroy but was Tyrone. The officer did not state his purpose or authority.

20. While Defendant officers alleged the first name of the person they were looking for was "Leroy" they did not disclose the last name nor the age, height, weight, skin tone, hair length or any other distinguishing factors for the person they alleged to be Leroy

21. Defendant officers were actually not looking for a person named Leroy, but according to police records, the complaint lodged with police the name of the person they were allegedly looking for was named Wilfred Elwin, who was approximately 40 years old, 6 feet tall, with short hair, with a thin build, dressed all in black, who talks to himself. Further, the claim was that the person being sought was carrying a black bag.

22. Mr. Phifer is neither named Leroy or Wilfred Elwin. At the time of this initial interaction with police, Plaintiff was 60 years old, was not dressed all in black, was wearing a baseball style cap, did not maintain a thin build, did not talk to himself and was not carrying a black bag.

23. In fact, Mr. Phifer was dressed in a grey shirt, his hair was not exposed, had on a black coat and blue jeans, he was carrying two brown paper bags and an umbrella that was brand new.

24. Initially, Defendant DANIEL IMONDI and Defendant POLICE OFFICER RICHARD
J. FOSBECK detained Plaintiff and immediately disrespected Plaintiff and stated to Mr. Phifer "Let's stop the bull shit, Leroy. You know what you did." Mr. Phifer, while being taken aback, had no idea to what these officers were referring. Unsure what was going on, Mr. Phifer turned around, noticed no one else was there, and said, "who? Me?" To which the Defendants officer disrespectfully said, "yea you! You know you beat up the woman!"

25. Mr Phifer explained to Defendant Fosbeck that he had the wrong guy and was not Leroy. The Defendants continued questioning Plaintiff using the false name and referring to Mr. Phifer calling him by the name of Leroy.

26. Mr. Phifer repeatedly stated that he was not named Leroy and that he wanted to be left alone. His request to be left alone was ignored.

27. Mr. Phifer wanted no contact with the police and he was fearful of them based on their disrespectful actions, comments, tone and behavior. Mr. Phifer attempted to walk away, however his path and freedom to move were blocked.
28. SERGEANT DANIEL IMONDI, who was recording the events on his body camera, spoke to Mr. Phifer who was standing now with two officers around him~. Defendant Imondi, without permission, authority or legal basis advanced toward Plaintiff and reached toward him attempting to take Mr. Phifer's umbrella out of his hand, which also was holding two brown paper bags, which contained medical documentation and Christmas gifts given to him by his foot doctor's office.

29. As Mr. Phifer stepped away and pulled back his umbrella and he asked the officers, "what are you doing?" Defendant Imondi then snatched the umbrella out of Plaintiff's hand and threw it, along with his other belongings, on the ground as Defendant Fosbeck attacked Plaintiff from the rear using force to place him in a arm bar hold which restricted Plaintiff's use of his arms and his ability to be free to control his body movements.

30. Defendants made false statements and fabricated facts and claims in what they reported occurred. They Officers intentionally fabricated a story and informed prosecutors that:

"[t]hey asked him to put the umbrella down and refused to comply with Sergeant Imondi's verbal commands and still refusing to give identification and now became combative and more animated with his hands. For officer's safety, Sergeant Imondi attempted to remove the umbrella from arrestee's left hand, when arrestee pulled back the umbrella, Sergeant Imondi was able to remove the umbrella from defendant's left hand, the arrestee immediately went after Sergeant Imondi..."

31. Mr. Phifer did not give the officers permission to take his property, to physically touch him and most certainly did not agree to have his freedom and liberty restricted by these officers.

32. As Defendant IMONDI remained in arm's reach of Plaintiff, Defendant Fosbeck continued to escalate the situation by pulling Plaintiff, TYRONE PHIFER'S arms behind his back. SERGEANT DANIEL IMONDI failed to intervene in this seizure of Plaintiff, but instead grabbed Plaintiffs belongings out of his hand while TYRONE PHIFER'S arms were pulled forcefully backwards and his body was in multiple directions.

33. At the time of the filing of this Complaint the version of this interaction that has been revealed to Plaintiff was that which was captured on Defendant IMONDI's body camera. This recording, which starts off with no sound, demonstrates that officers instigated unlawful contact and escalated the situation using force and abusing Mr. Phifer.

34. Upon information and belief, the Defendants knew that Plaintiff was not the person they were looking for prior to him being attacked and seized by Defendants.

35. Once the sound on the body camera of Defendant Imondi comes on, Mr. Phifer, who was presently restrained by officers was heard saying "Give me my stuff]. Look at my ID! Look at my prescription!" in an attempt to further justify that he had done nothing wrong, and to show the Defendant police officers that they were in the process of actively physically assaulting and detaining the wrong man.

36. In fact, Defendant Imondi went into Plaintiff's pocket and removed his telephone and then picked Plaintiff' s prescription offofthe ground that were pulled from Plaintiff' s grasp and read
it. At that point Defendants knew Mr. Phifer's identity and admitted same. They knew that Plaintiff was not the person that they claim they were looking for, yet they continued to assault and use force to limit Plaintiff's ability to control his own movements.

37. When SERGEANT DANIEL IMONDI bent down and grabbed the prescription Mr. Phifer protested being abused and said "Get off of me! Get off of me! I didn't do anything! I just came out of the fucking doctor!" Defendant DANIEL IMONDI, who viewed Plaintiff' s prescription, confirmed in that moment that he was who he said he was which was "TYRONE PHIFER" and further established that Plaintiff's name was not "Leroy" or "Wilfred Elwin."

38. POLICE OFFICER FOSBECK proceeded to pull TYRONE PHIFER backwards towards Grand Avenue while this exchange was happening, ignoring that Sergeant DANIEL IMONDI had since confirmed that TYRONE PHIFER was not "Leroy"or "Wilfred Elwin."

39. As POLICE OFFICER FOSBECK pulled TYRONE PHIFER backwards, POLICE OFFICER FOSBECK caused TYRONE PHIFER to fall to move in a westerly direction whilst still

restraining TYRONE PHIFER's arms behind his back. As a result of the restraint and force applied to ~TYRONE PHIFER, he was made to fall backward directly on top of Defendant Fosbeck.

40. POLICE OFFICER RICHARD J. FOSBECK and SERGEANT DANIEL IMONDI proceed to then use force to turn Mr. Phifer on his stomach into the prone position while TYRONE PHIFER continued to scream "What is going on! I didn't do anything! I had hip surgery! Why are you on me! I just walked out the fucking doctor! You have the wrong person! You have the wrong person!" to which SERGEANT DANIEL IMONDI acknowledge this fact and responded, "I understand that!". Mr. Phifer also advised the Defendant Officers that he had hip surgery and that they were hurting him by them placing him on the ground and forcing his hands behind him, putting pressure on his hip, back, neck, face and arms.

41. Despite the admission that they had the wrong person, Defendant officers proceeded to handcuff Mr. Phifer and continue to physically restrain Mr. Phifer, forcing his body and his head

(face first) to the ground placing their knees and body weight on TYRONE PHIFER. Neither Defendant Imondi nor Defendant Fosbeck or any other officers attempted to intervene to stop the

other from their on going mental and physical abuse of Plaintiff.
42. Two more Nassau County Defendant officers arrived on the scene, OFFICER QUINN

R. KNAUER and OFFICER PATRICK MCGRATH.
43. Both Officer Knauer and Officer McGrath stood by and watched and listened to what

Defendants Imondi and Fosbeck were doing and failed to intervene. They failed to protect Mr. Phifer and allowed the abuse to which he was being subjected, and did so despite their obligation

to ensure that Mr. Phifer's person and rights were not being violated.
44. At the same time either or both Officer Knauer or McGrath joined in on using force in restraining the liberty of Mr. Phifer and arresting him.

45. Defendant POLICE OFFICER DANIEL IMONDI then untruthfully and contrary to the indisputable evidence, continued to fabricate and told TYRONE PHIFER "When I tried to talk
to you, you tried to swing" and TYRONE PHIFER immediately responded, stating "NO I DIDN'T!"

46. The officers then using disrespectful language and speaking to Mr. Phifer as though he were an animal, aggressively picked Plaintiff up and then sat TYRONE PHIFER on the bench located nearest to him while an officer was heard yelling "sit him up" and telling Mr. Phifer to "sit.".

47. The Defendant officers without cause or legal basis placed handcuffs on TYRONE PHIFER with no regard for the fact that the entire situation was wrongfully created by the carelessness, recklessness, complete disregard and incompetence of their own actions and escalation of the entire situation.

48. Mr. Phifer continued to tell the officers: "I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything." The officers while admitting that Mr. Phifer did not do anything wrong responded "I didn't say you
did Tyrone." Mr. Phifer responded to this admission by asking, "So why the fuck are you all attacking me?".

49. POLICE OFFICER PATRICK MCGRATH then handed TYRONE PHIFER's New York State Identification card to Defendant SERGEANT DANIEL IMONDI, which again confirmed that Mr. Phifer was not the person they claimed they were looking for.
50. Defendants FOSBECK, DANIEL IMONDI, KNAUER AND PATRICK MCGRATH had all positively confirmed that they had detained, tackled, assaulted, restrained, kneeled on, screamed at, handcuffed, falsely accused, intimidated, and harassed the wrong person.

51. And yet, despite this acknowledgment, once again, the Defendants did not stop their abuse of Plaintiff.

52. TYRONE PHIFER once again informed Defendants including Defendants McGrath, Imondi, Fosbeck ans Kanuer that he was not Leroy.

53. This information was met by no response from any of the officers, just a long period of silence.

54. Two women from the podiatrists' office (Baldwin Food Care), where TYRONE PHIFER had been for a doctor's appointment earlier that morning, came out of their office to see what was going on and' attempted to gather Mr. Phifer's scattered belongings which Defendant Officer had strewn on the ground.

55. Not only were. the women's efforts met with a level of callous disregard for Mr Phifer's belongs, which include Christmas gifts which the women had just provided to Plaintiff, but POLICE OFFICER FOSBECK wrongfully stated "He's [Mr. Phifer] out of control so just step back." This was an attempt to wrongfully justify the wrongful actions taken and to coverup Defendants treatment of TYRONE PHIFER. These statements and directives were made to place fear in the women and to mask the abuse of the police violence, force and mistreatment in which they had engaged. It was also an attempt to suggest that Mr. Phifer deserved to be treated this way by being tackled, restrained and detained on his way home from the doctor and that he was a danger
to them.

56. Mr. Phifer promptly told the officers that they jumped on him. To which Defendants wrongfully state that no one jumped on him.

57. POLICE OFFICER FOSBECK went on to tell TYRONE PHIFER "You fit a description" and SERGEANT DANIEL IMONDI chimed in to say "You fit the description!" to which TYRONE PHIFER responded "so every black man fits the fucking description?"

Phifer was charged with obstruction of governmental administration, and it took 10 months for the charges to be dropped. He was arrested a little after 10 a.m., then transported to a local hospital where he says he remained handcuffed to a gurney until 8 p.m.

Phifer, now 63, says he was left traumatized by the incident and can no longer go to medical appointments or shop for groceries without family members. 

“I thought I was really going to be hurt, or accused of something they knew I didn’t do,” Phifer told Newsday. “It really bothered me.”

The lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York, accuses the cops of fabricating evidence, false arrest, malicious prosecution, abuse of process and failure to intervene, the latter count referring to the cops who showed up as he was being abused and either stood by to watch or joined in the abuse.

“That morning was the worst day of my life,” Phifer said in a press conference last month. 

“I feared for my life,” further elaborated the National Guard veteran and grandfather of eight.

Advocates Request DOJ to Investigate Dallas Police. Present Data Showing that Most People Killed by Cops are Black but Blacks are Only 24% of the Population in City Controlled by Elite Liberals

From [HERE] A local activist group is calling on the federal Department of Justice to investigate the Dallas Police Department for what it calls unconstitutional policing. 

The CBS News Texas I-Team exclusively obtained a copy of the formal complaint sent to the DOJ by Mothers Against Police Brutality. In the letter submitted Thursday, the activist group asks for a federal investigation into what it describes as "a city that prioritizes hiding disturbing trends of police violence from public view."

The DOJ has investigated other departments in recent years, including in Minneapolis after George Floyd's murder in 2020. In some cases, these investigations have led to major reforms.  

The I-Team reached out to the Dallas Police Department for comment Thursday afternoon. A department spokesperson said the complaint filed with the DOJ has not been shared with Dallas police, but added the department takes the issues addressed in the complaint seriously and has "worked proactively for years to promote and uphold the highest standards of policing." 

The complaint cites what the group says is extensive data analysis of police records that reveal Dallas' use of deadly force disproportionately falls on Black and Latino populations. According to an analysis by the group, independently confirmed by CBS News, 49% of Dallas police shootings involved Black residents between 2003 and 2017. In cases when the victim was unarmed, 59% of people shot by police were Black. In Dallas, 24% of the population is Black.  

The 19-page complaint also accuses Dallas police of a "half-century of unaccountable police brutality." From 1990 to 2021, according to police data referenced in the letter, Dallas police conducted internal investigations on more than 3,000 cases of alleged excessive force. Internal investigators determined officer wrongdoing in less than 200, or 6%, of those cases.  

The complaint references the case history of former officer Christopher Hess as an example of how activists say Dallas police officials have allowed officers' use of force to go unchecked. 

Hess had 42 misconduct complaints and had been investigated 10 times for using excessive force during 10 years with DPD. He remained on patrol until January 2017, when he shot and killed 21-year-old Genevive Dawes while checking on a call for a suspicious vehicle. 

Police body camera video from the shooting shows officers were unable to see inside the parked SUV because it was dark and the windows were fogged. Police said a license plate check indicated that the vehicle was stolen. After failing to respond to commands from officers, the driver, later identified as Dawes, turned it on and slowly backed up. Hess fired his weapon into the SUV 12 times.

After an internal investigation, Hess was fired six months later. He was indicted by a grand jury for aggravated assault by a public servant but was found not guilty in 2020. The I-Team reached out to the attorney who represented Hess in his criminal case but did not hear back.

The founders of Mothers Against Police Brutality, Collette Flanagan and John Fullinwider, signed the letter to the DOJ, along with a civil rights attorney and a civil rights researcher. [MORE]