Elite Liberals Beg Blacks to Vote in Detroit but Voting for Dems Over the Past 50 Yrs has been a Disaster: 30% Below Poverty, 38% in Poor Jobs, Child Illiteracy High, Jail 90% Black in Unsafe City

The Packard Motors plant looks as if a wrecking ball has swung through the top floors, but the building has just been left to collapse. Whatever happened or did not happen in Detroit ain regard to black people is the result of white supremacists/racists; as they control everything in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war) in DETROIT AND IN OTHER METRO AREAS WHERE MOST BLACKS LIVE.

ELITE WHITES vs DETROIT. Harris tells Black congregants in Detroit church to 'turn the page on hate.' Is it hatred or domination by elite white liberals that has caused and is causing 2nd class citizenship for Black people in Detroit? The lathered up white liberal media goes on selling its puppetician Kamala in spite of her obvious failures of advancing the interests of Black communities and vacant history of even attempting to do so. According to their “clogic” and campaign presentation of Kamala, her chromosomes and her grimacing presence alone are an achievement to be vicariously celebrated and “felt” by sleeping toms and the Black community as a whole. Who needs results or a”black ideology” or “black politics?”

D-Town is a city controlled by elite, white liberals. [MORE] In all liberal jurisdictions where blacks reside, regardless of the number of Black elected officials, elite whites control and own all major resources (such as banks, local mainstream media, major real estate, ports, utilities, large corporations and businesses, all major industry, major non-profits, unions, hospitals, etc) and own most major real estate, City bonds and anything else of substantial material value and they substantially fund most political campaigns.

Neely Fuller explains, ‘in a socio-material system dominated by wealthy, powerful racists, all major decisions involving non-white people are made by elite racists. In such places elite white liberals function as the major decision makers in regards to what happens or does not happen to non-white people, particularly Blacks and Latinos.’ Elite whites are their employers, landlords, creditors, land owners, supervisors, bosses and major decision-makers. Fuller states, ‘Whatever a Black person gets, and/or is allowed to keep, is the result of decisions made by elite racist suspects. This is the functional meaning of White Supremacy (Racism) that many Black people prefer not to acknowledge.’ [MORE] Thus, in their direct or indirect relations with elite white liberals, most black people function as their employees, workers, consumers, helpers, servants, tenants, patients, clients, customers, etc.

At this point in history, no one can make a rational argument that Black people have tangibly or materially benefited from voting or paying taxes in most of the metro areas and urban cities where the majority of the Black population resides in the US. This includes Detroit. The following is part of mounting evidence that voting for elite liberals, their grimacing remote controlled Black rolebots and supporting their causes has been a complete disaster for Blacks. Elite liberals and their Black probots loudly and dogmatically claim that voting for them 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 (in Detroit) by the black votary for many, many years.

WHAT’S LEFT OF The Packard Motors plant ON 5555 Concord Ave IN DETROIT - PHOTO FROM GOOGLE MAPS 2022

EDUCATION - “SCHOOLS IN NAME ONLY”

The overwhelming majority of children in the Detroit public school system are Black. A 136-page class action lawsuit provided details about the public education imposed onto Black children in Detroit;

“the schools are schools in name only, characterized by slum-like conditions and lacking the most basic educational opportunities that children elsewhere in Michigan and throughout the nation take for granted. Plaintiffs sit in classrooms where not even the pretense of education takes place, in schools that are functionally incapable of delivering access to literacy. This abject failure makes it nearly impossible for young people to attain the level of literacy necessary to function—much less thrive—in higher education, the workforce, and the activities of democratic citizenship. The abysmal conditions and appalling outcomes in Plaintiffs’ schools are unprecedented. And they would be unthinkable in schools serving predominantly white, affluent student populations. In short, the schooling afforded to Plaintiffs is both separate and unequal.” [MORE]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that authorities had been so negligent toward the educational needs of Detroit students that children had been “deprived of access to literacy.” [MORE]

The complaint states, “Achievement data reveal that in Plaintiffs’ schools, illiteracy is the norm. Many students in Plaintiffs’ schools cannot read, write, or comprehend at a grade-appropriate level. These students struggle to write proper paragraphs or even complete sentences, let alone essays or narratives. And because the rest of the curriculum assumes a level of literacy that the students do not attain, they are also unable to learn State-mandated content in all other subject areas.”

It states, “Plaintiffs’ schools have failed them at every stage of the educational system. In the primary grades, Plaintiffs’ elementary schools—Hamilton and Experiencia—have failed to deliver access to the foundational literacy skills of letter- and word-recognition and phonetics. For example, in the third grade at Hamilton, only 4.2% of students scored proficient or above on the State of Michigan’s 2015-16 English assessment test, compared with 46.0% of third-grade students statewide. In practice, this means that many students have a vocabulary of only a couple hundred words. Some students cannot even sound out letters.” [MORE]

*In 2022, Asian adults in the Detroit Region were most likely to hold a bachelor’s degree or higher among all racial and ethnic groups at 66.2% and outperformed the national average.

*The share of Black or African American adults reflected the lowest educational attainment (19.1%)—far below the Detroit Region’s rate of 34.5%. [MORE]

*17%: percentage of Detroit residents aged 25-34 who hold a bachelor’s degree, compared to 35% nationally

* 68%: percentage of students considered chronically absent - missing at least 10% of classes - in the Detroit Public Schools Community District during the 2022-2023 school year [MORE]

HOUSING

Detroit remains one of the most segregated cities in the country. Additionally, significant racial disparities remain in owning homes, residing in owner-occupied homes, and furthermore with living in middle class neighborhoods.

• Detroit is the most segregated city in the country, with more than half the Black population living in neighborhoods that are 80% Black.

• As of 2016, 77% of White families in Michigan owned their own homes, compared to 40% of Black families, 55% of Hispanic/Latino families, 56% of Native American families, and 55% of Asian American families.

• Only 47 percent of Black households, 58 percent of Other/mixed race households, 60 percent of Latino households, and 64 percent of Asian households are owner occupied compared to 80 percent of White households. [MORE]

INCOME & WEALTH

Income and wealth shows some of the most significant racial and ethnic disparities in Detroit, with gaps showing in income, rates of working poverty, and net worth. A disproportionate amount of income disparities are attributed to employment gaps, compared to the national average.

• Detroit has the highest percentage of lower-income residents (with incomes under $25,000) and the lowest percentage of high-income residents (income greater than $150,000).

• Latinos have the highest rate of working poverty, at 9.9 percent, and Arab Americans and Blacks also have working poverty rates that are well above average (8.6 percent and 6.4 percent, respectively). Whites have the lowest rate of working poverty at about 2 percent.

• The median net worth of White households in Michigan was $91,000, compared to only $4,000 for households of color, a gap of $87,000.

• COVID-19: The median net worth of African American families is $17,600, compared with $171,000 for White families, and a White family is likely to have $10 for every $1 an African American family has. Approximately 73% of African Americans and 70% of Hispanics/Latinos, compared with 47% of Whites, report that they do not have emergency funds to cover three months of expenses, leaving them especially vulnerable to economic downturns, such as the current COVID-19 crisis. [MORE]

31.5% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Detroit, MI (197k out of 626k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 12.5%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 25 - 34, followed by Females 35 - 44 and then Females 55 - 64.

The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Detroit, MI is Black, followed by White and Hispanic. [MORE]

EMPLOYMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Differences in employment are seen in wages, income gaps, and unemployment rates. Entrepreneurship rates are believed to be similar, though the success of businesses owned by people of color differ significantly on size, profitability, and early survival rates.

• African Americans consistently have higher unemployment and lower wages compared with their White counterparts. For African Americans without a high school diploma, their unemployment rate is 41 percent compared to 23 percent for Whites.

• Nationally, 34 percent of the racial income gap is due to differences in employment. In the Detroit region, the share of the gap attributable to employment is even higher, at 58 percent. [MORE]

Liberal prosecutors and their police keep the crowded Jail population in Detroit at 90% Black [MORE] Detroit Police Department is considered one of the deadliest police forces in the United States, with officers disproportionately murdering unarmed, Black civilians. [MORE]

The Racist Delusion Defense: Columbus Cop Told Mostly White Jury He Presumed that a Black Man Holding a Phone Had a Gun in His Pocket so He Shot Him. Judge Rules His 90 Police Complaints Inadmissible

SYSTEM OF WHITE PRESUMACY: EXPECT INJUSTICE IN A SYSTEM WHERE BLACKS ARE CONSIDERED AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO RACISTS. From [HERE] The jury in the trial of a former Columbus police officer charged with murder in the December 2020 shooting of an unarmed Black man will resume deliberations Monday.

The panel deciding whether Adam Coy is guilty of murder, felonious assault and reckless homicide deliberated for about four hours on Thursday and another five hours on Friday without reaching a unanimous decision.

Jurors will resume deliberating Monday morning. The jury consists of 16 jurors. The jury includes nine women and seven men, 13 of them are white and three are Black. [MORE]

During the selection process, the attorneys on both sides had several heated moments between each other because of conflicting opinions of who was impartial. Topics of race, past experiences and feelings toward the police were all discussed as they dwindled down potential jurors. 

The judge presiding over the case, Stephen McIntosh, ruled that Coy’s “prior use or non-use of force” could not be discussed during the trial. Judge McIntosh is black. The judge ruled that the jury could not hear about Coy’s history, including prior citizen complaints made about his use of force. Coy’s Columbus Division of Police personnel file showed he received 90 citizen complaints during his time with the department, including an incident where he pulled over a suspected drunk driver and slammed the person’s head on the hood of his police cruiser four times. [MORE]

During their deliberations, the jury has asked Judge Stephen McIntosh several questions, however, the content of those questions and the answers have not been revealed.

Coy fatally shot 47-year-old Andre Hill around 2 a.m. on Dec. 22, 2020, as Hill was leaving a garage on Oberlin Drive. Coy had been called to the neighborhood in response to a non-emergency call from a neighbor who reportedly witnessed someone sit in an SUV and turn the car on and off.

Hill was leaving a friend's house when Coy shot him. Hill was unarmed and was carrying just his mobile phone when he was shot on 22 December while leaving the garage of a friend, was wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt when he was killed.

The body camera footage shows the fatal shooting of Hill, who was a guest at the residence police responded to. Around 1:30 a.m, the video shows Hill inside a garage, walking toward Coy with a cellphone in his hand, the screen lit up and visible. Within seconds, Coy fires his weapons and Hill falls as Coy continues to ask Hill to show his hands.

Coy points his flashlight into the dark garage with his gun drawn and suddenly shoots Hill several times. An autopsy found bullets struck Hill in the chest, twice in the right thigh and an additional time in the right leg.

Coy did not have his body camera on when he got out of his vehicle and approached Hill, a clear violation of police policy. After the shooting, he turned it on, which activated a 60-second "look back" feature and recorded the shooting without audio.

Five minutes after he was shot by Officer Adam Coy, who is white, another officer can be heard in the footage saying: "Let's cuff him up. He's still moving."Mr Hill is then rolled over on to his stomach before being handcuffed and put on his back as the officers wait for an ambulance.

After Hill was shot, several officers handcuffed him while he lay unresponsive on the ground.Video recordings from Coy and others show that none of the multiple officers on the scene made an attempt to render first aid to Hill until ten minutes after he was shot

Minutes later, a more senior officer arrives and asks "anybody doing anything for him?" He then orders an officer to start CPR. Mr Hill was later pronounced dead.

Coy said he thought Hill seemed dismissive at first and then suspicious after walking to a house and knocking on the door before entering the garage.

Prosecutors questioned Coy on why he didn't ask Hill his name or call for backup if he was so concerned, CBS affiliate WBNS-TV reported. Coy said that Hill only partially obeyed his commands and was hiding his right hand.

"I thought he was going to draw. I drew my gun and fired four shots," Coy said.

Coy yelled, “Gun, gun, he has a gun!” before drawing his firearm and firing at Hill four times. Coy testified he saw silver metal in Hill’s right hand while Hill had his left hand up with a cellphone in it. 

The metal was Hill’s key ring. He was unarmed.  

"Andre Hill should be alive today," said Police Chief Thomas Quinlan in a video statement Thursday. "A Columbus police officer is responsible for his death. I can't defend it, I can't make it right, but I will do what is in my power."

His daughter Karissa Hill said "It is just disgusting how they did my dad. These pictures that I got to look at, I got to memorise my dad on the floor for the rest of my life and how nobody helped him.

"How there's 22 officers on the scene with body footage and not one of them helped my dad. It's unbearable. All because of this state, and who they hire.

"I mean, he is lying on the ground dying. I mean, what is Andre Hill's crime? Is it because he's a black man, and for whatever reason, police in America shoot first and ask questions later?"

The T-shirt Mr Hill was wearing on the night he died called for justice for Mr Floyd.

Ben Crump, the Hill family's lawyer, said officers' actions were unforgivable."Where is the humanity for Andre Hill? Where is the humanity for this Columbus citizen who had committed no crime, had no weapon, was unarmed, only holding a cell phone? Where is the humanity for this citizen?

"He offered no verbal commands before he started shooting Andre Hill. He didn't say stop. He didn't say freeze. He didn't say, put your hands up. He didn't give Andre Hill a chance. He didn't give him a chance."

The bodycam video shows Coy telling an officer leading him away from the home: "I gotta figure out what I missed".

"We'll take care of that I promise you," officer Jared Barsotti responded.

The footage also captures a woman inside the house where Mr Hill was shot telling officers that he had been bringing her Christmas money.

She shouted: "He was bringing me Christmas money. He didn't do anything."

Karen Kingston Finds Evidence Feds and WHO are Openly Planning a Global Flu Plandemic at the End of the Year. Vaccines are Already Created, Intended to Kill and Will be Mandated

According to Karen Kingston On October 10, 2024, members of the WHO, FDA, CDC, NIH, as well as U.S. infectious disease pediatricians, held a 6.5 hour meeting to discuss the current status and further development of vaccines for an emerging 2024-2025 H5N1 global flu pandemic. According to the WHO, the H5N1 flu has a case fatality rate of 52%.

Jerry Weir, PhD, of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation Research (CBER) clearly stated multiple times that the FDA will provide full FDA approval for H5N1 (or other H5 strands) flu vaccines if a public health emergency is declared without receiving safety or efficacy data from clinical trials. 

“The scenario assumes that any strain changes recommenced by VRBPAC would be implemented during a declared pandemic, but would not require clinical data prior to the approval… In any case during the pandemic we would use the strain change and the safety, immunogenicity and even effectiveness data will come post-approval.” 

Full FDA Vaccine License Approval Allows for Mass Mandates

Full FDA approval (vs emergency use authorization) of US BioPharma biological license applications (BLA) will allow federal and state governments, as well as employers, to mandate the H5N1 vaccines for adults and children alike.

The plandemic is apparently scheduled to begin in early 2025; Kingston states, “The WHO’s planned 2024-25 flu pandemic and release of highly dangerous, disease-causing H5N1 virus vaccines are fully locked and loaded by the FDA and other departments of Health Human Services (HHS). [MORE]

Karen Kingston says Feds and the WHO are Openly Planning for a Global Flu H5NI Plandemic from the Food Supply Set for the End of the Year, Vaccines Already Created, Designed to Kill and Will be Mandated

‘Big Red Flag:’ Kenya Grants Diplomatic Immunity to Racist Suspect Billionaire Bill Gates, Exempting Him from Liability and Taxes for All Activities ("Vaccines," Digital ID and GMO Mosquitoes)

From [HERE] Kenya last week granted diplomatic immunity to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its employees, or “servants,” Tim Schwab reported on Substack.

Under the new status, the foundation and its employees are exempt from legal action for acts performed as part of their official foundation duties. They also are exempt from paying taxes on their salaries, and they now have the right to own property in Kenya.

“While nations around the world have long treated Bill Gates as a head of state, it’s now been practically codified into law in Kenya,” wrote Schwab, author of “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire.”

Schwab said the decision has raised “alarm bells” within the country and across the world. One public advocate, through a Freedom of Information Act request, has already petitioned the government for documents related to the decision

Others worry the decision to grant immunity may set a precedent for other billionaire philanthropists.

Concerns also have arisen that other nations will be pressured to follow Kenya’s lead and offer immunity to the Gates Foundation in exchange for continued access to the massive resources the foundation pours into other African countries.

The Government of Kenya’s announcement, Schwab wrote, comes just a week after farmer organizations and religious leaders across the continent called for reparations for the damage the foundation has inflicted on African agriculture through its so-called “green revolution” program.

They say the foundation promotes corporate, industrial agriculture at the expense of local practices and African ecosystems.

Much of the Gates Foundation’s investment in African agriculture happens through the Nairobi-based AGRA, previously known as the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. The foundation is AGRA’s co-founder and biggest donor. It has given at least $872 million to the organization, Schwab reported.

AGRA says it “exists to fulfil a vision where Africa can feed itself,” yet it directs its funding to support input-intensive and resource-intensive agriculture.

The alliance promotes the use of synthetic fertilizers and commercial seeds controlled by Big Ag, the restructuring of seed laws to criminalize trading of seeds not certified by Big Ag, and supports seed dealers who promote corporate products.

The foundation has past financial ties to companies like Monsanto (now Bayer), whose seeds it pushed on African farmers.

Gates/AGRA’s practices have long been criticized by human rights and environmental groups in Africa and globally. And independent research shows that AGRA-supported initiatives have failed, sometimes leading to increased hunger.

Daniel Maingi, coordinator for the Kenya Food Rights Alliance, told Schwab that with Gates’ diplomatic immunity, “Kenya becomes the testing ground … That is a big, big concern. It’s a big red flag.”

“In terms of food sovereignty, as we give Gates these privileges and immunities, Africa is going to be — not food sovereign, not seed sovereign — we’re going to be slaves and masters of the big corporations,” he added.

In response to criticism about its new diplomatic immunity in Kenya, the foundation issued a statement affirming its commitment to partnering with the Kenyan government.

“Our agreement to operate in Kenya was made in alignment with the Kenyan government’s Privileges and Immunities Act. We operate according to the typical agreements Kenya makes with other foundations and nonprofits,” Buhle Makamanzi, deputy director of Global Communications for the Gates Foundation in Africa, said in the statement.

Schwab said the move by the Kenyan government and the concerns raised by critics, “get to the heart of Gates’s anti-democratic influence and power, which, at least in Kenya, appears to be reaching new levels.”

“No one ever elected or appointed Gates to lead the world — on any topic,” Schwab said. “Yet through his great wealth and his money-in-politics brand of philanthropy, he is able to buy a seat at the democratic decision-making table — and, apparently, also buy diplomatic immunity.”

Not just Big Ag — Gates investments include vaccines, digital IDs, GMO mosquitoes

Gates’ massive investment in Africa extends beyond agriculture into public health, and more recently, digital IDs in Kenya.

It also includes the “Target Malaria” project, which proposed to end malaria by introducing genetically modified or GMO mosquitoes. Critics say the program is based on “flawed ecological thinking” and “backed by the same agri-business interests that have devastated agroecological farming systems.”

Schwab also pointed to widespread criticism of Gates’ program to implement mass circumcision in Swaziland and Zambia to curb the transmission of HIV.

However, some of Gates’ most wide-reaching investments in Africa, and the global south more broadly, have been in the development and distribution of vaccines.

For example, the Gates Foundation is the topmost funder of polio initiatives worldwide. In April 2013, Gates said that eradicating polio was his “top priority,” — even though there had only been 19 cases worldwide that entire year.

Since then, there has been a global explosion in polio cases, which in 2017 the World Health Organization (WHO) admitted were caused predominantly by a strain that comes from the vaccineitself.

Critics, including many scientists working in low-income settings, have noted that as money is lavished on polio, millions of children are left vulnerable to a slew of often deadly, preventable diseases.

Gates also promoted the use of a dangerous version of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, or DPT, vaccine in Africa after it was banned in the U.S. In a video shared widely on X, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explained Gates’ work in Africa on the DPT vaccines, other vaccines and in agriculture. [MORE]

Liberal Prosecutors in Miami-Dade Continue to Prosecute Black People at Higher Rates for Marijuana Possession

From [HERE] Despite efforts to decriminalize marijuana in the state of Florida, people in Miami-Dade County continue to experience racial disparities when it comes to arrests for possession of the plant.

In December 2018, the Agriculture Improvement Act also known as "Farm Bill" was signed into law making hemp, a substance that looks and smells like marijuana, legal across the state of Florida. And although the Sunshine State has laxed its stance over the use of marijuana, arrests across Miami-Dade county have gone up.

But as an investigation from the Miami Herald reveals, Black people are being prosecuted at higher rates despite making up just a relatively small fraction of Miami-Dade's total population. The Herald recounts the story of Fred Johnson, who was arrested in June of last year while smoking a joint outside the Clevelander hotel.

Miami Beach officers charged him with a misdemeanor for having less than 20 grams of cannabis, but charges were dropped six days later. Johnson was also hit with a criminal city ordinance violation for smoking marijuana in public.

Johnson's story is one of the more than 4,200 people who have been hit with misdemeanor marijuana charges over the last five years. According to the report, nearly 60% of those cases were brought against Black defendants, despite Black people making up 18% of the county's population.

In at least 97% of the cases, prosecutors ultimately ended up dropping the charges, data from the Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts revealed.

Feds Charge Simpson County (MS) Deputy with Hitting, Kicking a Black Man Handcuffed to a Bench and Shackled w/Leg Irons

From [HERE] A Simpson County Sheriff’s Deputy appeared for an arraignment Thursday after he was indicted for using excessive force against an arrestee who was handcuffed.

The U.S. Attorney's Office issued a statement Thursday identifying the deputy as Adrian Durr, 43, of Magee. Durr allegedly used excessive force against an arrestee in the custody of the Simpson County Sheriff’s Office.

Simpson County is less than 40 miles southeast of Jackson.

Court records show the alleged abuse happened Feb. 18 and identified the man Durr arrested only by the initials D.J.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said Durr struck the arrestee in the head with the handgrip of his taser, while the arrestee was "handcuffed to a bench that was bolted to the floor and shackled with leg irons on his ankles." Durr then allegedly kicked the arrestee in the head "rendering him unconscious."

The office said court records show the arrestee was "handcuffed and hobbled" with leg irons on his ankles at all times.

According to the indictment, security camera video of the booking area shows the altercation.

Durr has been charged with Deprivation of Civil Rights Under Color of Law. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Durr's trial is set for Dec. 2.

Durr's attorney Michael Cory told the Associated Press both Durr and the man accused of being abused are Black.

"Our citizens deserve credible law enforcement to safeguard the community from crime," FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Eikhoff said in a statement. "The actions of Mr. Durr significantly deprived the citizens of that protection and eroded the trust earned each day by honest law enforcement officers throughout the nation. The FBI is committed to aggressively investigating those who misuse their authority and violate individual's rights in the execution of their sworn duties."

Simpson County neighbors Rankin County, which was the location of an unrelated 2023 police brutality case. Five former Rankin County deputies and a former Richland police officer pleaded guilty to federal and state charges in torture of two Black men, and all six men were sentenced by April 2024.

In September, the Justice Department announced it was investigating whether the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department has “engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the constitution or federal law,” including excessive force, unlawful stops, arrests and seizures and racial discriminatory policing practices.

The Justice Department issued another report last month that the Lexington Police Department violated the civil rights of its residents following an investigation that began in November 2023. Lexington is about 60 miles north of Jackson.

On a 114 Degree Day Phoenix Cops Intentionally Burned a White Man's Face and Body by Holding Him Down on Scorching Pavement During a False Arrest. Committed No Crime in City Controlled by Liberals

From [HERE] On 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city’s police department stopped him.

They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived.

Surveillance footage from across the parking lot, which was viewed by the Guardian, shows the 30-year-old on the pavement soon after, with several officers on top of him and holding him down. Once they lift Kenyon off the ground after roughly four minutes, he appears limp.

Kenyon had been burned – severely burned – on the hot city pavement. Medical records indicate he suffered third-degree burns, and hospital photos show deep burn scars and skin peeled off across his body. Kenyon has not been charged with a crime and a police spokesperson confirmed he was not the suspect that officers were seeking as part of a theft investigation.

“It felt like acid burning my skin,” Kenyon told the Guardian. “I thought of George Floyd, and I didn’t understand why people wouldn’t help me as I was screaming in pain … like I was dying.”

It’s not the first time residents in the city have accused police of burning them on the pavement. In 2019, Phoenix police department officers held Roniah Trotter, then 18, on hot pavement on a 113F day, leaving her with second-degree burns. Earlier that year, a 28-year-old man died in police custody after officers held him down on hot asphalt for several minutes.

Michael Kenyon suffered third-degree burns after an encounter with Phoenix police officers. ‘[Now] every time I see cops, I think, is he after me?’ Photograph: Courtesy of Steve Benedetto

To Steve Benedetto, a civil rights lawyer representing Kenyon, the case illustrates that the Phoenix police department has systemic problems requiring outside intervention.

In June, the US Department of Justice accused the police department of routinely discriminating against people of color and killing civilians without justification, proposing that the force be subjected to independent monitoring. The department has pushed back, asserting that it is a “self-correcting agency” that doesn’t need oversight. Earlier this month, however, the department again faced scrutiny after footage showed two white officers repeatedly punching and deploying a stun gun on Tyron McAlpin, a 34-year-old deaf Black man with cerebral palsy.

On the day of Kenyon’s arrest, Phoenix was under an excessive heat warning, an increasingly frequent occurrence in the US south. Kenyon was wearing shorts and a tank top and talking on the phone when police approached, the footage shot from across the parking lot shows.

There’s no audio, but the video shows two officers initially holding Kenyon’s arms and having him sit on the back of a parked truck.

The footage shows two additional officers arriving, and Kenyon landing on the pavement with several officers holding him down.

Grainy cellphone footage taken by a witness from above appears to capture him screaming and pleading for help, at one point appearing to say: “Please … I didn’t do anything.”

Once the officers get Kenyon off the ground, footage shows him limping and stumbling as they bring him to a police vehicle. Kenyon said one officer eventually poured water on his burns as they waited for paramedics to arrive. He said he couldn’t remember being transported to the hospital and may have lost consciousness, but recalled waking up in the hospital handcuffed to a bed.

Graphic photos from the hospital, where he stayed for weeks, show layers of skin burned off his arms, legs, chest and side of his face.

Police haven’t released body-camera footage.

“Officers made contact with Kenyon, telling him he was being detained so they could understand what may have occurred. The man struggled with police, which [resulted] with him being taken to the ground on the hot asphalt. The man sustained burns to different parts of his body from the time he was on the ground,” Scherer said. “Kenyon was determined not to be the suspect of the theft.”

He said the incident was subject to an “ongoing criminal investigation” and an investigation by the “professional standards bureau”, which investigates misconduct.

Kenyon said he believes one of his roommates may have called the police on another roommate over a potential theft.

Michael Kenyon recalls waking up in the hospital, handcuffed to a bad, after his arrest in July 2024.Photograph: Courtesy of Michael Kenyon’s lawyers

Cellphone video of one of Kenyon’s roommates in the aftermath of the incident captures her frantically calling 911 to report what had happened. “They just unlawfully detained [him] … the boy you guys just burned,” she appears to tell an operator.

After she got off the call, the video captures her explaining to police on the scene that she had been on the phone with Kenyon during the arrest and heard him scream. She sobbed and begged officers to help him: “Treat him now! Treat him, treat him!” And she told one officer: “His whole body has third-degree burns on it. [They] wouldn’t let him up … I watched him get burned … If someone did this to your son, how would that feel?”

Dr Cecilia Sorensen, director of Columbia’s global consortium on climate and health education, said when air temperatures climb above 100F, the pavement can sometimes be 40 to 60 degrees hotter: “If you have direct contact with that surface, you’re going to start getting damage to your skin.”

Pavement burns can happen within seconds, added Dr Rabia Nizamani, surgeon at the University medical center’s Lions Burn Care Center in Las Vegas: “It takes a few minutes … to get a third-degree burn that keeps you in the hospital for weeks.” Bony body parts, such as knees, are particularly vulnerable, and wounds can take months to heal, with scars that can affect a patient’s functioning for years and require additional procedures, she said.

Kenyon said he had worked in construction, door-to-door sales and other jobs that he fears he can’t do any more: “I probably will never go back to having an outside job where I have to work in the sun.”

For now, he’s been unable to work and said a roommate had been helping with bills.

“I’m speaking out because I don’t want this to happen to other people,” he added. “I want to be the last one.” He said he didn’t blame the individual officers. “Whoever trained these guys are really responsible. These guys all acted the same, so somebody drilled it into them.”

Benedetto, the lawyer, said: “A guy was walking to the store to get a soda and then minutes later he’s wondering if he’s going to die, and that’s really endemic of where this department is at. This is a department that presumably should be on its best behavior with the DoJ looming … This is the impact of their policies, procedures and training that we’ve seen over and over. There’s never any real accountability.”

Kenyon said he had struggled to process what happened.

“I don’t really want to look at my body any more,” he said, noting it was too painful to see photos from the hospital. “Every time I see myself, I have flashbacks. And every time I see cops, I think, is he after me? And I know in my head it’s not true, but it just comes up.” He said he questions whether he could’ve done something differently. “I have to keep telling myself … I didn’t deserve this.”

He added: “I just want the Department of Justice to take care of them and fix what they say they’re going to fix … I’m not trying to get attention, I just want my story to be heard because I hurt.”

Suit Filed After White Jacksonville Cops Try to Beat Black Man to Death to Enforce Their Seat Belt Law. Police claim Video Only Creates “the Illusion" of Excessive Force, Feds Fail to Charge Cops

From [HERE] and [HERE] Attorneys for a Black man brutally beaten by Jacksonville officers in a viral video last year announced Thursday a federal lawsuit against the officers involved in the incident.

Footage showed Le’Keian Woods bloodied and bruised as officers surrounded him after a traffic stop on Sept. 29, 2023. A mugshot showed Woods with two swollen, black eyes and lacerations on his face, sparking public outrage. 

More than a year later, Woods spoke briefly about the incident alongside his attorneys in a news conference outside the Bryan Simpson United States Courthouse in Jacksonville.

“I was stopped at a traffic stop and I ran. I got kind of scared; I knew they was going to shoot me. I panicked and I ran,” Woods told reporters, adding that he continues to endure “a lot of migraine pain, a lot of eyesight pain” as a result of the beating. 

An image from cellphone video shows Le’Keian Woods surrounded by officers as he's taken into custody.Ruby Anderson via AP

Woods’ attorney Harry Daniels announced the lawsuit against Detectives Beau Daigle, Trey McCullough and Hunter Sullivan and now-former Detective Josue Garriga, accusing them of excessive use of force. According to the lawsuit, the officers violated Woods’ Fourth Amendment right when they pulled him over for “an alleged seatbelt violation” and brutally beat Woods after he fled. The lawsuit states that Woods is still receiving medical care and suffers from myriad mental health symptoms, according to NBC affiliate WTLV of Jacksonville.

“You had three deputy sheriffs … who weighed over 200 pounds beating Le’Keian, who may have weighed 150 pounds soaking wet. He had already been tased, he was already disoriented,” Daniels said, adding that at least one of the officers kneed Woods in the head “multiple times.” 

Officers alleged that they saw Woods engaged in a drug transaction before pulling him over for a traffic stop. He ran as they handcuffed two other people in the traffic stop, according to the body camera video and an arrest report. At the time, the sheriff’s office also alleged that the video created “the illusion of an inappropriate use of force.” Sheriff T.K. Waters said last October that “just because force is ugly does not mean it is unlawful or contrary to policy.”

Daniels, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, on Thursday denied that Woods was part of any drug deal. 

Body camera video showed detectives chasing Woods through a yard, a parking lot and a grassy area before they used a stun gun on him. Woods was seen falling first onto a paved street with one arm beneath him. Then, detectives were seen hitting him in his face, bloodying his jaw and kneeing him in the head while they yelled for him to put his hands behind his back.

Woods was hospitalized for days after the incident with, his attorneys said, a ruptured kidney and head injuries. 

Woods later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor resisting police without violence, and all other charges against him — armed trafficking in cocaine, armed possession of a controlled substance, armed trafficking in amphetamine, and tampering with evidence — were dropped, some as part of a plea deal, according to the Florida Times-Union.

The U.S. Department of Justice reviewed the arrest and concluded last November in a letter to Waters: “Based on the known information, this incident does not give rise to a prosecutable violation of the federal civil rights laws. As a result, we are closing our review of this matter.”

"The Defendants' [officers'] actions and use of force, as described herein, were also malicious and/or involved reckless, callous, and deliberate indifference to Mr. Woods’ federally protected rights," the lawsuit states. "The force used by the Defendants shocks the conscience and violated the Fourth Amendment right of Mr. Woods."

According to the suit, Wood "continues to suffer ongoing emotional distress, with significant PTSD type symptoms, including sadness, anxiety, stress, anger, depression, frustration, sleeplessness, nightmares, and flashbacks from his assault."

"I wanna be very clear, we're not filing this lawsuit just for the appeasement of Le'Keian, on his mother, on his family, this lawsuit has been filed to try to seek a measure of justice," Woods' attorney, Harry Daniels, said in a statement. "A measure of justice that as a man, or a jury, or a judge can only give to one. I think that it's time that we acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office."

A Black DeSoto Parish Cop Pledged to be Different from Racist Cops but Instead he Repeatedly Punched a Defenseless, Detained Black Man w/o Justification. Sentenced to 3 Yrs in Prison in Fed Conviction

From [HERE] A black sergeant with the DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office has been sentenced for using excessive force against someone who was detained.

On Wednesday, Oct. 16, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Javarrea Pouncy, 31, has been sentenced to just over three years in prison (37 months), plus three years of supervised release, for assaulting a pretrial detainee.

Pouncy previously pleaded guilty to one count of using excessive force. When he pleaded guilty, the DOJ says Pouncy admitted that in September of 2019, he and another deputy performed a strip search on a man being detained at the DeSoto Parish Jail. Pouncy also reportedly admitted that during the search, the deputies punched the man in the head, face, and body, even though the man did not pose a threat to either of them. As a result of the beating, the man had to be hospitalized; he sustained a broken nose, broken eye socket, and other injuries, the DOJ says.

“The defendant pledged to protect and serve his community, but instead, he repeatedly punched a detainee without justification, leaving him bloodied and broken,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “People in detention have the right to be treated humanely and not to be brutalized by excessive force. This sentence sends a clear message that we will not tolerate such abuses behind bars. The Justice Department will hold accountable officials who violate detainees’ civil rights.”

“Pouncy took advantage of his position, the power that it yields and the prestige of the badge in committing this criminal act,” said U.S. Attorney Brandon B. Brown for the Western District of Louisiana. “Decency and order can coexist with the preservation of an offender’s civil rights. Prosecutions such as these are critical to ensure that the good work of law enforcement officers is not hampered by the heinous acts of bad law enforcement officers.”

“Yesterday, Pouncy faced the consequences of his unnecessary and violent actions toward someone he was supposed to protect,” said Assistant Director Chad Yarbrough of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division. “It’s a sad day when we have to investigate someone who took an oath to uphold the law. His actions undermine the integrity of the criminal justice system, and I want the public to know we will not tolerate it. The FBI is committed to investigating criminal misconduct, no matter who the subject is or what position they hold in their community.”

The other deputy involved in the beating, DeMarkes Grant, pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing justice. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison.

Wildly Shooting at People You Can't See is Not Self-Defense. Jury Rejects White Cop's Testimony, Found Guilty of Excessive Force During Police Murder of Breonna Taylor [cop who shot her not charged]

From [HERE] A federal jury has handed down a guilty verdict in the murder case surrounding the botched arrest of Breonna Taylor. 

Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was convicted as a result, after jurors found he used excessive force during the 2020 drug raid that left Taylor dead. Hankison fired 10 shots into Taylor’s glass door and windows during the raid, but didn’t hit anyone. Some shots flew into a next-door neighbor’s adjoining apartment. Meanwhile, neither of the officers who shot Taylor - Mattingly and former Detective Myles Cosgrove - were charged in the victim's death. 

The consensus paved the way for the first conviction in the high-profile case, putting away one of four officers involved.

A separate jury deadlocked on federal charges against Hankison last year, while in 2022, a jury acquitted Hankison on state charges of wanton endangerment.

The conviction against Hankison carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

All had been accused of violating Taylor's civil rights, with former Det. Kelly Goodlett this past August pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge for falsifying the warrant that led to the deadly chain of events.

The death of the 26-year-old black woman went on to spark protests nationwide, with activists alleging racial injustice played a part in police's actions that day.

The jury had initially indicated to the judge how they had been deadlocked on the charge of using excessive force.

The same charge had stumped a separate jury in 2022, who went on to acquit Hankison, 48, on state charges of wanton endangerment months before.

As the new jury remained deadlocked Thursday, members had sent correspondence to the judge asking whether they needed to know if Taylor was alive when Hankison fired shots into Taylor's Kentucky apartment. 

Hankison had argued he was firing to protect his fellow officers from Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who shot at him and other officers as they broke down the woman's door. The jury rejected the cop lies.

His attorney Don Malarcik told jurors it was on prosecutors to 'prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ms. Taylor was alive' when Hankison fired the shots - leading to a point of contention between jurors.

Following the inquiry, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings urged them to keep deliberating - granting them the opportunity to air the long-awaited decision on Friday.  

The six-man, six-woman jury went on to deliberate for several hours, before resurfacing Friday to give their decision.

As for Hankison, his conviction carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. He will be sentenced on March 12 by US District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings. Don’t expect a serious sentence - expect racism/white supremacy or more injustice.

In Its Latest Effort to Interfere with [s]Election ‘24, Massa’ Media Conceals Kamala’s OpporTomist Economy by Ignoring the New Jobs Report which Shows a Loss of Negative 100,000 Jobs

From [HERE] With only four days to go until Tuesday’s presidential election, the poor jobs figures could not have come at a worse time for Kamala Harris.

Even allowing for the hurricanes and the Boeing strike, the employment data was weak. The consensus among analysts – who knew in advance about the special factors – was for jobs growth to ease from September’s 254,000 to 113,000 in October.

Bradley Saunders, from the consultancy Capital Economics, said: “All things considered, we suspect the upper limit for the disruptions hit was around 90,000, which means stripping them out, payrolls would only have increased by an underwhelming 102,000.”

Jobs growth for August and September was revised down by a combined 112,000 across the two months. That suggests demand for labour has eased at a crucial time.

From the Establishment Survey, the BLS reported Non-Farm Payrolls, once seasoned and adjusted for the birth/death model, increased by 12,000. Interestingly, that number was derived through government net hires adding up to a net +40,000, less a print of -28,000 for private sector net hires. 

The BLS also reported downward revisions in total of 112,000 to the August and September data. This puts net "job creation" or calling it what it is according to the Establishment Survey of -100,000. More accurately, this would be referred to as "job destruction."

Flipping over to the Household Survey, the number of people that left the civilian labor force in October was 220,000, while the number of those outside of the labor force increased by 428,000. 

The number of unemployed persons increased by 150,000, while the number of employed persons decreased by 368,000. So according to the Household Survey, October job creation/job destruction was -368,000. 

The Participation Rate slowed from 62.7% to 62.6% as the Employment to Population Ratio dropped from 60.2% to an even 60%. 

Unemployment Rates

Due to the numbers of folks leaving the labor force, the Unemployment Rate, despite the reduction in employed persons held tight at 4.1%. Due to a drop of 281,000 in the number of part-time workers, the Underemployment Rate also held steady at 7.7%. 

Let's take a look at unemployment by race, gender and education. I think at least on the educational side, the direction of unemployment may surprise some folks. 

Adult Men: Unemployment increased from 3.7% to 3.9%.

Adult Women: Unemployment held firm at 3.6%.

Teenagers: Unemployment decreased from 14.3% to 13.8%.

White: Unemployment increased from 3.6% to 3.8%.

Black or African American: Unemployment held firm at 5.7%.

Asian: Unemployment decreased from 4.1% to 3.9%.

Hispanic or Latino: Unemployment held firm at 5.1%.

Sub High School: Unemployment decreased from 6.8% to 6.6% and from 7.1% over two months. 

High School Grads: Unemployment held firm at 4.0%.

Some College or Associate Degree: Unemployment held firm at 3.4%.

Bachelor's Degree & Beyond: Unemployment increased from 2.3% to 2.5%. [MORE]

Elite White Liberals “Believe All Women” when It Helps Their Cause and Especially if it Also Degrades Black Men: Feminist Celebrities Silent on Emhoff Accusations

From [HERE] Hollywood celebrities were instrumental in weaponizing the #MeToo movement against conservatives. Who can forget Alyssa Milano sitting in judgement of Brett Kavanaugh? Or The View hosts providing an endless platform for E. Jean Carroll to assail former President Donald Trump? But when it comes to fellow Democrats, the stars are fond of looking the other way — think: Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and Andrew Cuomo.

We can now add Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris’ husband, to that dishonorable list. Despite credible accusations that he physically assaulted an ex girlfriend, Hollywood celebrities are still lining up behind him, including most recently ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, actor Ben Stiller, and Bravo’s talk-show host Andy Cohen.

“Believe all women” died a long time ago. Doug Emhoff is now disposing the body in the woods.
Below are the celebrities feminists who’ve backed Harris but remain silent on the Emhoff abuse accusations. [MORE]

Pennsylvania News Station ‘Mistakenly’ Shows Election ‘Test Results’ of Kamala Harris Winning

From [HERE] During a Formula 1 race, a Pennsylvania news station showed election “test results” of Vice President Kamala Harris winning the state.

WNEP, a Scranton/Wilkes-Barre-based television news station, explained in a statement that “test results” showing Kamala Harris receiving 52 percent and former President Donald Trump receiving 47 percent had “mistakenly appeared on WNEP-TV” early Sunday night.

The news station explained that the numbers had been “randomly generated” and had been “sent out to help news organizations make sure their equipment is working properly.”

“Test results for the upcoming November 5 general election mistakenly appeared on WNEP-TV early Sunday evening during a broadcast of the Formula 1 Mexico Grand Prix,” the news station said. “Those numbers should not have appeared on the screen, and it was an error by WNEP that they did.” [MORE]

Shenanigger AOC Up to More Shenanigans: Distributes Gibberish Campaign Material with Arabic Characters in Reverse Order that are Disconnected from Each other- a fundamental mistake in Arabic script

AOC’S ARABIC GIBBERISH ON THE LEFT AND ON THE RIGHT AOC IN 2019 FAKING outrage at an empty parking lot to protest Donald Trump POLICY “AT THE BORDER”

AOC Fakes It Again With Gibberish ‘Arabic’ Campaign Ad

According to FUNKTIONARY:

shenanigger – a Negro (neo-lawn-jockey) who carries out Step-n-Fetchit type activities/actions (shenanigans) for the dominant immoral minority (the psychopathic white power semi-organism), i.e., the Rhodes, Rothschild Anglo-Saxon Zionist power clique, unknowingly at the expense of him/herself and knowingly at the expense (sell-out/buy-out) of his/her people and culture. (See: McNegro, Coin-Operated, The Moteasuh Tribe, Sambo & $nigger)

Auto-Coons PopUp to Endorse Puppet Kamala Not to Help Blacks, but to Maintain Their Trinkets, Relevance and Prestige Gained from their Utility and Allegiance to the Elite White Liberal Establishment

“Avoid those that do not read; and never ever let them lead.”

‘You Should be Ashamed’: Fans Blast LeBron for ‘Stitched Together’ Endorsement of Kamala Harris

“Wet Ass Pussy” rapper Cardi B is facing ridicule after she endorsed Kamala Harris at a Wisconsin rally on Friday

Harris Hate Brigade: Smokey Robinson Disses Trump-Voting Women & Minorities in Kamala Endorsement

Black people are in a continuous state of checkmate. Dr. Amos Wilson explained, ‘People who are dominated by another people through ideas cannot possibly have any meaningful political philosophy, real leaders or any non-superficial culture. The only philosphy or theory such a dominated people could have would be one that enables the other group to dominate.’ [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

BOHICAN – Bend Over Here It Comes Again Negro. ☻Sniggers are the last of the buck-dancing Bohicans. “I am the last of the Bohicans,” he said, “…and I will never be broken. I am the last and worst of my breed—and the final token.” (See: Snigger, Coin-Operated, Samboism, Uncle Tom, Possumist, Turdistan, Piece-Activist, Niggeroe & GOP)

PropaGandhi - passive social non-resistance propaganda. 2) obedience-based servitude to the enforcers of granfalloons uncommonly known as Corporate States and any other group-entities. Mahatma Gandhi mostly walked barefoot which produced calluses on his feet. He also had a very weird diet sprinkled with bouts of fasting which made him rather frail and suffer intermittently from halitosis—this made him… “A super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.” (See: Poser, Class, Mass, Racism White Supremacy, Gun Control & Caste)

Propagenda – propaganda developed and directed to a particular audience as a means of predictive programming for accepting someone’s agenda as their very own. (See: $pinfidels, Predictive Programming & Coin-Operated)

auto-coon – (noun) a cookie-cutter rapper/entertainer that sells his/her community and dignity out to profit from ignorance. Auto-coons are typically produced in great numbers by major recording labels and corporate media. (Verb) –to fall back on the gimmicks, buffoonery, and swagger-jacking to sell records due to lack of intelligence, real talent, and creativity.

Freedom flighters – those whom when fighting against European Racism White Supremacy and sundry oppression and when the going gets tough, make a run for the hills of safer environs and kinder-gentler masters. 2) those who can muster only symbolic and token resistance to power-relation dynamics of economic domination and violence, and cultural oppression before they must retreat into the lush imagery of compensatory fantasies. Freedom flighters are only concerned with reform, not revolution or rebellion. Freedom flighters are assimilationists in revolutionary garb; Sambos in Uncle Tom’s finer raiment. (See: Reform, Revolution, Rebellion, Naptivity, Captivity, Ideology & Compensatory Fantasies)

Gun Rights Imaginary for Blacks: Detroit Prosecutors May Charge NFL Player Jameson Williams w/Having Concealed Gun in Dangerous City [Liberal DA's are Filling Jails w/Blacks Over Possession, Not Use]

‘You Want Me to Live in a Crime Ridden Area but I Can’t Protect Myself?’ Study Says Liberal Authorities Fail to to Make Arrests in Most Shootings but are Cramming Blacks Into Jails Over Gun Possession

Fighting Crime or Just Locking Up Blacks? Liberal Authorities in Chicago Make it Impossible for Blacks to Get Guns and Lock Up Thousands for Gun Possession While Making Few Arrests in Gun Shootings

From [HERE] The Wayne County Prosecutor's office is reviewing a warrant request for the arrest of Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams on a concealed weapon charge, WXYZ-TV in Detroit reported Tuesday.

The warrant request on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon in a motor vehicle was issued late last week by the Detroit Police Department, stemming from a traffic stop on Oct. 8.

In a statement released later Tuesday, the Detroit Police Department said the investigation "continues to evolve, and new information has come to light that we are actively addressing."

"We take every investigation seriously, especially when new allegations and facts emerge, and we are committed to acting in a swift and transparent manner," the department said in its statement. "Once new facts are confirmed, we make the necessary changes in our decision-making process.

"Let it be clear: no one in the City of Detroit is above the law. Anyone who commits a crime will be held accountable, regardless of their position or status."

The warrant request was made after an internal affairs investigation was opened after WXYZ-TV asked the police department about why Williams wasn't taken into custody.

"On October 8, my clients were pulled over for an alleged traffic violation. During the course of the stop, my clients were both cooperative and respectful with the police officers. With the two pistols that were found in the vehicle, they were both properly registered and the driver in the vehicle had the proper credentials to carry them. We have cooperated with law enforcement and will continue to do so," Williams' attorney, Todd Flood, said in a statement released to WXYZ-TV.

Ahead of practice on Wednesday, Lions head coach Dan Campbell addressed the incident, saying he knew about it before the reports surfaced this week and that Williams been truthful with him throughout the process.

"It certainly doesn't look good, I get that," said Campbell. "But at the same token, it kind of all came on here at the same time and it's really decision-making for him. And that's where he knows he can be better. Don't put yourself in those situations."

According to the report, Williams was riding as a passenger in a vehicle driven by his brother when they were stopped after midnight. Police asked Williams' brother if there were any weapons in the vehicle, and he said there were two guns -- one in the back seat and one under Jameson Williams' passenger seat.

The gun in the back seat was registered to Williams' brother, who had a concealed pistol license. The gun under the passenger seat was registered to Jameson Williams, who did not have a concealed pistol license, according to the report. Jameson Williams, who repeatedly identified himself as a player for the Lions during the stop according to body camera audio, was handcuffed and put in the back of a police car.

"I feel that there was probable cause to arrest, and he was under arrest by the patrol officer," Detroit Police Commander Michael McGinnis told WXYZ-TV. "And because of that, he should have been conveyed to the Detroit Detention Center and processed."

However, a supervisor and later a sergeant arrived at the scene and Williams was released after the sergeant made several phone calls to higher-ranking officers to find out if Williams should be arrested or if the concealed pistol license belonging to his brother covered both guns. Finally, he made a call to a lieutenant, whose comments cannot be heard in the body camera audio, and Williams was taken out of handcuffs and let go. No report was written by police on the traffic stop, according to the report.

When first questioned by WXYZ-TV, a deputy chief in the department said there was only one gun in the car; however, when Chief James White learned about the second gun in the vehicle, he shared parts of the body camera footage with the station and ordered the investigation.

"Jameson made us aware immediately that he was a passenger in a routine traffic stop on October 8th. We discussed the incident with him and have kept the league informed of what we know," the Lions said in a statement to WXYZ-TV. "We understand he was released without incident or citation. It is now our understanding that the Detroit Police Department is revisiting the matter. Jameson has hired an attorney, and we will not be commenting further out of respect for the legal process."

Supreme Ct Made it Plain, 'People Have a Right To Carry Guns in Public For Self Defense,' But Liberals Make It Impossible To Do So in the Virgin Islands (76% Black) which Has Highest Murder Rate in US

Accessories to Crime. From [HERE] The United States Virgin Islands exists as a United States territory. As an entity that is not a state, it has higher rates of homicide than any state. The homicide rates for the US Virgin Islands are about 7.8 times as high as the average homicide rate for the United States.  It has one of the highest illegal homicide rates in the world.

Extreme restrictions on the ownership and use of firearms in the US Virgin Islands are more restrictive than in any state since the implementation of the Bruen decision by the Supreme Court. The Bruen decision was published on June 22, 2022. Some states have resisted and passed very restrictive firearms laws. However, those states have a defined process.  From southerndefense.com:

The US Virgin Islands has extremely strict gun laws. A permit and waiting periods accompany all firearm transactions. Once in a person’s possession, it is almost always illegal to carry that firearm in public either openly or concealed, and as of this writing, there are no good, governmental sources for even begging a firearms permit application. Calling a local attorney for guidance will be a must given the long sentences the territorial laws have for violating its opaque firearms laws.

The territory is about 12.9% of the size of Rhode Island, with about 7.9% of the population of Rhode Island. It is 76% Black.

The United States Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark in 1917 during the First World War. An act of Congress gave U.S. citizenship to the inhabitants in 1927. 

The number of homicides in the Virgin Islands in a given year was found in several sources, primarily stcroixsource.com and sthomasssource.com.  Population for the Virgin Islands was from the US census and worldometers.info.

The average homicide rate for the United States Virgin Islands from 1999 to 2023 is 40.6.

The average homicide rate for the United States from 1999 to 2023 is 5.21. The U.S. Virgin Islands rate is 7.79 times higher than the United States rate over the last 25 years, for which records could be found.

Hawaii has fairly similar firearms laws to those of the United States Virgin Islands. Homicide rates in Hawaii are considerably lower than the average in the United States. Hawaii homicide numbers were not found for 2022 and 2023. The average homicide rate from 1999 – 2021 was 2.16.  Puerto Rico is another island jurisdiction with strong firearms restrictions. Puerto Rico homicide rates are less than half of those in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

US Virgin Island Homicide rates are among the highest in the world. Firearms restrictions have no correlation to overall homicide rates.

If someone tells you firearm restrictions reduce murder rates in Hawaii, tell them about the US Virgin Islands. Similar firearms laws exist in both sets of Islands.  Homicide rates in the Virgin Islands are 19 times larger. 

After Using COVID Lockdowns to Destroy Jobs and Businesses Based on Nonsense, Liberals Resume Evictions in Phoenix at a Record Setting Pace as Mostly White Landlords Evict Latino/Black Tenants

From [HERE] The constable has been busy this year. Court filings to evict tenants across Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, hit a single-month record of more than 8,000 in January. They have remained at higher than typical levels for much of the year. 

Phoenix has emerged from the pandemic as one of America’s eviction capitals. Among U.S. cities, counties or metro areas for which regular data is available, Maricopa County holds one of the highest eviction rates, at 16 filings per 100 renter households during the past year, according to Eviction Lab, a research group at Princeton University that tracks evictions in 35 U.S. cities and 10 states. Some households receive multiple filings, and not all filings result in evictions.

That ranks Phoenix ahead of other big Sunbelt cities that in recent years have also seen an elevated number of eviction notices, including Houston and Las Vegas. 

Evictions are one outgrowth of the U.S. housing shortage and lack of affordability. Filings went down across the country during the national pandemic eviction moratorium. They have risen everywhere since then, remaining below historical averages in some cities while surging far above those averages in others.

The elevated eviction filings also follow a sharp acceleration in rents, when pent-up demand during the pandemic flooded supply-short housing markets with people looking to rent. Those rent increases have pushed some lower-income tenants to the brink of what they can afford. 

“We are known as a landlord friendly state, and that attracts a lot of capital,” Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said in an interview. In Phoenix, she added, “we don’t control evictions.” Those rules are set by the state. Right. But she controlled the city’s COVID lockdowns, which destroyed jobs and businesses, thereby by preventing working class people from being able to pay rent.

The mayor—whose oft-used motto itself was a false choice: “Lives over livelihoods”—bragged about the virtue of excessive shutdowns and argued that imposing COVID restrictions that were “too drastic” was “a sign of success.” Her spokeswoman threatened those whose actions presented a risk: “…I will track you down, torture and end you. Will hunt you—you will suffer more than you could ever imagine.” Gallego joined an informal coalition colloquially known as the “Lockdown Lobby”—comprised of Democratic politicians, liberal activist groups, and their subservient allies in the local media—which waged a relentless public relations campaign in the months that ensued with the singular goal of pressuring Republican officials to clamp down on Arizonans’ livelihoods, no matter the cost. Their coalition embraced the concept of overwhelming intimidation. [MORE]

Apartment rents in Phoenix rose about 35% from 2019 to 2023, and home sale prices went up more. Both have cooled somewhat recently, but not enough to make a difference for Maricopa County’s population of 4.6 million, which has grown by more than 20% since 2010. Rising rents are one reason Phoenix had the country’s highest increase in overall inflation two years ago. [MORE]

COVID-19 protections for renters did not help thousands in metro Phoenix who were eligible to remain in their homes during the pandemic.

Some Phoenix-area landlords, particularly those who own apartment complexes in lower-income neighborhoods, continued to file for evictions.

Landlords used aggressive fast-track methods to get renters out, even as tenants were protected by federal and state moratoriums for nonpayment.

Some landlords challenged tenants’ eviction-ban protections in court in the later months of the pandemic as 1-year leases expired.

And a few landlords filed to evict the same tenants multiple times, according to an Arizona Republic investigation.

Eviction filings were down about 55% between the end of March 2020, when the first eviction moratorium took effect, and the end of February 2021, compared with the same months one year prior.

But landlords in Maricopa County still filed for almost 30,000 evictions during those 11 months. Most filings cited nonpayment of rent, but some cited breaches of lease or the end of a lease, not lack of payment, as the cause of the eviction.

Tenants who were kicked out of their homes during the pandemic have struggled to find new places to live. Their evictions are public record, and with metro Phoenix’s rental market booming, landlords can choose from many other potential tenants. [MORE]