Revised North Carolina Law Enables Mostly White Prosecutors to Disproportionately Charge Black Children as Adults In order to Address the Public's Perception of Rising Crime

North Carolina’s most recent study, Disproportionate Minority Contact in North Carolina: An Assessment Study (hereinafter “Assessment Study”), funded by the Governor’s Crime Commission and authored by Stan Orchowsky, Ph.D. of Cambiare Consulting and Michael Leiber, Ph.D., and Chae Jaynes, Ph.D., of the University of South Florida FINDS THAT youth of color are represented throughout the juvenile justice system in far greater numbers than they are represented in the general population. [MORE]

Youth Justice by the Numbers

From [HERE] A newly revised North Carolina juvenile justice law will take effect Sunday, aiming to address gaps in handling serious offenses by minors. Amidst increased reports of teenage crime in the Piedmont Triad, including armed robberies and shootings into occupied homes, local law enforcement officials were prompted to reconsider the state’s accountability mechanisms for crimes perpetrated by juveniles; according to a video posted to X by the Greensboro Police Department, “These are not childish acts.”

The updated legislation allows 16- and 17-year-olds charged with Class A through E felonies to now be tried as adults. This represents a significant change from the 2019 Raise the Age law, which allowed most 16- and 17-year-olds to remain under juvenile court jurisdiction regardless of the severity of the charges.

The new law also includes provisions for flexibility. Cases involving Class F through I felony offenses and non-motor vehicle misdemeanors for 16- and 17-year-olds will remain in juvenile delinquency court. Additionally, cases previously transferred to adult court may be reconsidered for juvenile jurisdiction, depending on the charges and circumstances. For youth ages 13 to 15, serious felony cases may also be moved from adult criminal court back to the juvenile system.

The statute also requires school principals to be informed when students face charges for offenses that would constitute Class A through E felonies if committed by adults. However, the law prohibits automatic suspension policies, requiring schools to make individualized decisions about students’ educational status during ongoing legal proceedings.

The right for 16- and 17-year-olds to have a parent, guardian, custodian, or caretaker present during a custodial interrogation in North Carolina remains intact. This safeguard applies to all youth in this age group, regardless of whether their charges fall under criminal or juvenile jurisdiction. This principle is rooted in the 1983 North Carolina Supreme Court decision State v. Fincher, which emphasizes that the key factor is the age of the individual being questioned, not the court system handling their case.

Black Lawmaker Proposes California Bill that Would Allow Public University Admission Priority for Slaves’ Descendants

From [HERE] A Black lawmaker introduced a bill Monday to allow admission priority to the descendants of slaves at the University of California and California State University, two of the largest public university systems in the nation.

Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, a Democrat who represents parts of Los Angeles and authored the legislation, said it would help rectify past and current discrimination at universities.

“For decades universities gave preferential admission treatment to donors, and their family members, while others tied to legacies of harm were ignored and at times outright excluded,” Bryan told The Associated Press. “We have a moral responsibility to do all we can to right those wrongs.”

Lawmakers also convened a special session Monday to consider ways to protect the state’s progressive policies ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.

In California, voters approved a ballot measure in 1996 that banned the state from giving preferential treatment based on race, sex, ethnicity, color or national origin in public employment, education or contracting. The proposition, which outlawed affirmative action in public university admissions in the state, was upheld by voters in 2020. Bryant's legislation would permit, but not mandate, preferential admissions treatment for the descendants of slaves. [MORE]

California is a state controlled by elite white liberals.

Tax Invasion and Theft: White Liberal Denver Mayor Spent $350M on Migrants, Mostly on Education -Meanwhile DPS Data Shows that 95% of Black and Latino 3rd Graders Cannot Read at Grade Level

From [HERE] Far-left Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has overseen $356 million of taxpayers’ hard-earned money being spent on migrants. The total amounts to $7,900 per foreign national in the Mile High City.

The sum was revealed by the Common Sense Institute (CSI), a non-partisan research organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the U.S. economy, Fox News reports.

The group says it used city data to arrive at the sum which equates to eight percent of the city’s 2025 budget of $4.4 billion. The figures combine the Colorado city’s budget as well as regional education and healthcare organizations.

Johnston has already slashed city services to house and feed those migrants.

Cuts included reducing services at recreation centers and stopping the planting of spring flower beds, while the city tapped into a contingency fund to pay for the spiraling costs, Fox News notes. It adds:

The CSI claims that the bulk of the $356 million spent on migrants was through education, with the city also splashing out on healthcare, hotels, transportation and childcare. Denver is a sanctuary city, meaning it does not enforce immigration law, nor does the city cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The group says that about 45,000 migrants have arrived in the Denver metro area since December 2022, with 16,197 migrant students enrolling in Denver metro schools.

“The total cost to Denver metro schools related to new migrant students is $228 million annually, which would equate to 1-2% of the total state K-12 education budget for the 2024-25 academic year,” the group writes.

“Previous CSI reporting estimated the per-student cost of instruction and support in the Denver metro to be $14,100 per year. Assuming this cost across all recent migrant students totals $228 million.

Meanwhile, according to Denver Public School (DPS) records Thirty percent of white students are on track while just 5% of African American and Latinx students are. Nicholas Martinez with Transform Education Now says 95% of black and brown kids in DPS have trouble reading, the district should be sounding an alarm. Instead, he says it buried the data and he had to file an open records request to get access.

The DPS spring statewide assessment found that 95% of Black and Brown third graders at DPS could not read at grade level. The test also found only 18% of fourth-graders were proficient in math. [MORE]

Martinez says it's a wake-up call, especially in a school district that says equality matters, "We know when students are behind it's very, very difficult for them to catch up and so if we don't act swiftly, if we don't act decisively, these students learning progress for the rest of their academic career will be drastically impacted."

As Breitbart News reported, Johnston is known for his generous support for President Joe Biden’s illegal migrants and promised to use the city’s police department to physically oppose the efforts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to fulfill President-elect Donald Trump’s repatriation mandate.

Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar” designate, has responded by saying he would jail Johnston if he broke the law in shielding illegal migrants.

“All he has to do is look at Arizona v. U.S., and he would see he’s breaking the law. But, look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing. He’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail.” [MORE]

Public Turning Off Channel Zero: Probot Rachel Maddow's Ratings Drop Significantly. Her Disinfotainment Drama Show Being Outdrawn by "Family Guy" and "Ancient Aliens"

From [HERE] The ratings woes continue for MSNBC post-election, as the liberal cable news channel saw nearly half of its viewers flee following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. Perhaps even more stark, though, is that the network’s biggest (and highest-paid) star just saw her viewership sink to the point where she was recently beaten by a rerun of Ancient Aliens.

According to Nielsen Media Research, MSNBC has lost 47 percent of its overall audience since Election Night compared to the rest of the year, averaging just 497,000 total-day viewers and 49,000 in the advertising demographic of adults aged 25-54. CNN has also seen double-digit losses, dipping 33 percent and pulling in just 357,000 total-day viewers and 65,000 in the key demo.

In primetime, the post-election drop is even more severe. While right-wing juggernaut Fox News has unsurprisingly seen its ratings soar with Trump’s win, surging 24 percent year-to-date and drawing 3 million viewers, MSNBC has sunk 52 percent. In the 8-11 p.m. time slot, the network’s total audience has collapsed to 644,000 viewers and 63,000 in the 25-54 demographic. CNN is also significantly down, shedding 39 percent of its total primetime viewership and drawing just 453,000 viewers.

The decisive loss by Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, which included Trump sweeping all seven battleground states, has obviously prompted disenchanted progressives and Democrats to flip the channel or just withdraw from cable news altogether. Since the election, for instance, Fox News now holds 62 percent of the cable news audience in total day and 73 percent in primetime.

Making matters worse for MSNBC, the network’s star has also seen viewers flee in droves. Rachel Maddow, who recently extended her contract to the tune of $25 million annually (still a pay cut of $5 million per year), now only broadcasts her primetime show on Monday evenings. Since moving to a once-a-week schedule, her show has typically been seen as something of a special attraction for MSNBC’s audience and is generally one of the top-rated programs on cable.

However, this past Monday, The Rachel Maddow Show attracted just 1.3 million total viewers and a paltry 84,000 in the key 25-54 demographic. (It still more than tripled its CNN 9 p.m. competition.) The telecast represented Maddow’s lowest overall viewership of the year and the worst performance in the demo since 2015. Week to week, Maddow is down 13 percent in total viewers and 34 percent in the demographic.

Even more startling, though, is just how far she was behind the rest of the cable TV competition in the demographic audience. In her 9 p.m. time slot, for instance, FXX’s broadcasts of Family Guy and Adult Swim’s airings of Bob’s Burgers both outdrew The Rachel Maddow Show in the advertising metric. Expanding out to later time slots, an 11 p.m. repeat of History’s Ancient Aliens pulled in 5,000 more demo viewers than Maddow. [MORE]

Like a Fan Cheering at the Wrong Time During a Game, Loyal Negro Whoopi Goldberg Dogmatically Barks, Claps and Pardons Massa Biden- as If he Delivered Something Tangible to Black Communities

NOT GOING BACK? BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN A STATE OF DEVOLUTION, FROM GOLD TO BRONZE OR FROM THE TAP DANCE TO THE LAP DANCE. ACCORDING TO THE State of Black America,”, BLACK PEOPLE HAVEN’T PROGRESSED SINCE 1965. “the Black-White disparity persists across virtually every line or indicator of life and quality of life in the US. Blacks are about three-fifths along the way to experiencing equal status with White Americans. VOTING FOR WHITE LIBERALS AND THEIR “AGENDA” for the past 50 years has been a disaster for blacks - who remain in a state of delusion about their present circumstances. OTHER THAN WHAT ELITE LIBERALS TELL THEM, BLACKS have no idea what has happened to them or how. Today’s Black VOTERS (SLEEPING TOMS) are probably similar to the jews during Nazi Germany- prior to their destruction, jews imagined themselves to be fully assimilated and thoroughly integrated into German society as German citizens. KEEPING JEWS IN THAT DELUDED STATE OF MIND WAS PROBABLY A POLITICAL NECESSITY FOR NAZI AUTHORITIES. LIKE A SALMON TO A BEAR, BLACKS GO ON BELIEVING THE WHITE LIBERAL IS HIS GREAT ALLY DESPITE EVER PRESENT EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY IN THE URBAN CITIES THEY LIVE IN. 

“What Happens when Tokens Go Solo.” From [HERE] The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg won’t hear a bad word against Joe Biden.

On Tuesday’s edition of the ABC show, Goldberg got in a spat with fellow co-host and the show’s token “conservative,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, when discussing Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter on a variety of criminal charges.

The pardon absolves Hunter of any and all federal crimes committed between 2014 and 2024, including those that he may still be charged with.

The start date is the same year that Hunter joined the board of the Ukraine energy firm Burisma in an influence-peddling scheme allegedly involving his father.

All the rah-rah for corpse Biden and puppet Kamala by Whoopi and other Black spokespuppets is a sign of their delusion or separation from reality.

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Negro – a nonexistent person. The word “Negro” is an adjective—and has only within the last century become used as a Noun. Since becoming used as a noun, it is a word to describe a man or woman of Afrikan descent living in pathological mental state of cultural abstinence and historical amnesia—one who wants to impress his or her oppressor while ignoring the effects and plight that his or her accommodationist posture inures. 2) a Hanky-head. 3) an indigenous-to-the-land (American) Afrikan who does everything in his or her power to suppress or pretend that he or she is other than someone of recent Afrikan descent. 4) ethnicitydenying, assimilated and confused formerly enslaved natives (largely indigenous to America) as well as the smaller percentage Afrikan captives kidnapped and brought to America in ships and chains. 5) one who truly believes he or she is white American— masquerading in black face. In the preface to “The Nigger Bible,” written by Robert H. decoy, the late social activist Dick Gregory, defines Negro as, “A state of a Nigger’s mind which describes how Caucasian and Christian he hopes to be.” ~The Nigger Bible. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s a Negro after all? (See: Nigger, Rentellectual, McNegro, $nigger, Coin-Operated, Double Consciousness, Sambo & Negropolitan)

dogmatic – habituated to a way of seeing without looking, or while looking the other way—unable to see or entertain uncomfortable realites and unchallenged truths in any other way but in a definitive, exclusive, conclusive and absolutist manner. “Dogmas and obscurant revelations mesmerize the fearful. They are badges for the meek.” ~The Holey Psyble.

dogmatized – hypnotized and entrained by religious dogma to the extent where reality becomes an orphan to truth. 2) hypnotized by and through the worship of one’s beliefs (religious, ideological, or political).

Non-Profit Organization Gets Kenya Court to Temporarily Suspend Diplomatic Immunity for Bill Gates

From [HERE] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation no longer has diplomatic immunity and privileges in Kenya, at least for now. Kenya’s High Court suspended the immunity after the Law Society of Kenya filed a legal challenge against the government.

The Kenyan government in October recognized the Gates Foundation and its employees as a charitable trust with special rights in Kenya, under the Privileges and Immunities Act. The new status exempted the foundation and its employees in Kenya from legal action for acts performed in Kenya as part of official duties.

However, the Nov. 25 ruling by Justice Bahati Mwamuye suspends the immunity until at least Feb. 5, 2025, when a court will “review progress and set a hearing date for oral submissions on the petition.”

The ruling also requires all defendants, including Kenya’s minister of foreign affairs and the State Law Office, “to collect, preserve, and compile all documentation regarding the privileges granted to the Gates Foundation, including details of the cooperation agreement,” under threat of legal consequences for non-compliance.

The Gates Foundation and the Kenyan government have until Dec. 10 to respond, Eastleigh Voice reported.

The diplomatic privileges allowed the Gates Foundation “to engage in contracts, legal actions, and property transactions within the country” and granted the foundation “tax exemptions and immunityfrom legal actions related to their official duties,” leaving many Kenyans “with raised eyebrows,” Kenyans.co.ke reported.

In its legal challenge, the Law Society of Kenya said the immunity “undermines public interest and constitutional principles” and argued that the government’s decision should be declared null and void.

Gates ‘holds governments ransom’

Dr. David Bell, a public health physician and senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, said the High Court’s suspension “shows the Kenyan system is functioning as it should.”

“From the point of view of the average Kenyan citizen, granting immunity to a large collection of foreigners working for a private foundation … with financial interests in the drugs they are being told to take should be really alarming,” Bell said.

Shabnam Palesa Mohamed, executive director of Children’s Health Defense Africa and founder of the health advocacy organization Transformative Health Justice, said Gates “operates from a position of immense financial wealth and thus political clout. Through using mechanisms of the carrot (funding) and the stick (withdrawal of funding), he holds governments ransom.”

Mohamed called the Kenyan government’s decision to offer the Gates Foundation immunity “horrifying” and said it shows “our governments are captured.”

She added:

“The negative consequences of this shocking decision are far-reaching. They include the erosion of accountability, unequal treatment in the law, damage to national sovereignty, the mockery of public transparency and participation.”

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Tim Hinchliffe, editor of The Sociable, said he believes Gates’ efforts to attain diplomatic immunity in countries like Kenya are connected to a profit motive.

“Wherever Gates goes, he stuffs his pockets under the guise of philanthropy while he sits back and collects his returns on investment, no matter the outcome,” Hinchliffe said.

“When you have that much wealth and power — when you have an organization that contributes more to the annual WHO [World Health Organization] budget than most nation-states — then you can buy your way into anything you want, including diplomatic immunity,” Hinchliffe said. “But, that immunity can only last so long.”

For other experts, Gates’ drive to attain diplomatic immunity is an effort to shield himself from legal consequences for his actions and those of the Gates Foundation.

Dr. Meryl Nass, founder of Door to Freedom, told The Defender, “It should be assumed that no one entity would seek such immunity unless they thought they might be at risk of legal penalties.”

Nass added:

“Gates has been charged with many crimes, including for monopolistic business practices, for conducting a clinical trial involving girls in India that was associated with child deaths and lack of informed consent. He has certainly been accused of false advertising of agricultural products in India and Africa.”

Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D., professor of international law at the University of Illinois, said, “It is pretty bizarre that they gave Gates privileges and immunities under their domestic legislation in the first place. Obviously, this was an attempt by Gates to shield himself and his accomplices from criminal prosecution and civil liability in Kenya.”

Gates is currently facing a lawsuit in The Netherlands filed by seven COVID-19 vaccine injury victims, and faces legal challenges in at least one other country, India, for damages connected to the vaccines.

If an Officer is Too Slow or Weak to Stop an Unarmed, Non-Dangerous Suspect Can he Use Deadly Force? Michigan Ct Rules Weak White Grand Rapids Cop Must Face Murder Charge for Shooting Patrick Lyoya

From [HERE] The Michigan Supreme Court turned down an appeal Monday, clearing the way for a police officer to face trial for second-degree murder in the death of a man who was shot in the head in 2022.

In a 5-2 order, the court let stand a Court of Appeals opinion in favor of the Kent County prosecutor.

Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, was killed at the end of a traffic stop in Grand Rapids. Initially, the circumstances that led to the traffic stop weren’t clear, but police said after further inspection the vehicle had a license plate not registered to the vehicle. Unregistered vehicle is a minor traffic misdemeanor. After stepping out of his car, videos released by the police show, Mr. Lyoya appears confused as the officer tells him to get back in the vehicle. Officer Schurr asks him whether he speaks English. Mr. Lyoya responds that he does speak English and asks, “What did I do wrong?” After a brief exchange about whether Mr. Lyoya has a driver’s license, Officer Schurr grabs Mr. Lyoya, who pulls away and starts to run, the footage shows.

Mr. Lyloa had not committed any felony (unregistered vehicle is a minor traffic misdemeanor) and the white cop was not authorized to use deadly force to apprehend him as a fleeing felon.

The officer tackles Mr. Lyoya in a nearby lawn, yelling “Stop!” as Mr. Lyoya appears to try to regain his footing.

Midway through the struggle, the officer’s body camera stops filming. Chief Eric Winstrom of the Grand Rapids police said pressure was applied to the camera to turn it off during the struggle. It was not clear who applied that pressure or whether it was intentional. But Cops lie about everything - statements about any malfunction from the person accused of murder are probably self-serving until proven at trial.

Other cameras — from the officer’s vehicle, a nearby doorbell security system and a bystander’s cellphone — capture different portions of the encounter. Shortly before the fatal shot is fired, Officer Schurr yells, “Let go of the Taser!” Mr. Lyoya is facing the ground and pushing up, with the officer on top of him, in the moments just before the shooting. Again, said statement from a cop-actor performing for the camera is self-serving - the video speaks for itself.

At any rate, Lyoya was under arrest for a traffic violation, which is a minor misdemeanor. As such, he was not a fleeing felon. The Supreme Court has explained the use of deadly force to prevent escape is unconstitutional, at least in regard to white citizens that is. The Court has explained,

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… Where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others, it is not constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force. Thus, if the suspect threatens the officer with a weapon or there is probable cause to believe that he has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm, deadly force may be used if necessary to prevent escape, and if, where feasible, some warning has been given. 

Tennessee v. Garner - 471 U.S. 1 at page 11 (1985).

Defense lawyers said Schurr, who is white, feared for his safety. Schurr claimed Lyoya had control of his Taser when he shot him.

A Grand Rapids judge said there was enough evidence to send the case to trial, a low threshold under state law. The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision earlier this year.

“We hope to move forward as quickly as possible to have a final resolution for Patrick’s family who has been patiently waiting for years for this to occur,” prosecutor Chris Becker said Monday.

Defense attorney Matthew Borgula said he was disappointed with the Supreme Court's refusal to hear an appeal over the use of deadly force. He said a plea deal seems unlikely.

“I don't think Officer Schurr committed a crime,” Borgula said.

Schurr, an officer for seven years, was fired by the Grand Rapids Police Department two months after the shooting.

Trial Begins for 2 White Indianapolis Officers Charged w/Murdering Herman Whitfeld. Cops Answered 911 Mental Health Call by Holding Black Man Face Down, Suffocating Him During Arrest for No Crime

From [HERE] Two Indianapolis police officers are set to stand trial Monday in the death of a Black man after police shocked him with a Taser and restrained him face down during a mental health crisis in his parents’ home.

Officers Adam Ahmad and Steven Sanchez were indicted by a grand jury in April 2023 in Herman Whitfield III’s 2022 death. The officers, who have been on administrative leave, are being tried together as co-defendants.

The men both face one felony count each of involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, battery resulting in serious bodily injury and battery resulting in moderate injury, and one misdemeanor battery charge.

Opening statements are set for Monday morning in the trial, which is expected to last five days.

Ahmad, 32, and Sanchez, 35, were indicted after Whitfield’s family had spent nearly a year demanding that police release full body camera videos of his encounter with officers and called for the firing of up to six officers. 

In addition to involuntary manslaughter, the officers, Adam Ahmad, 31, and Steven Sanchez, 34, also face felony charges of reckless homicide and battery and an additional misdemeanor count of battery. Officer Sanchez faces a second count of involuntary manslaughter for using a Taser, according to the indictment. The officers could face more than 20 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

The videos, which were released in January 2023, document Whitfield’s final moments alive during a chaotic encounter with police.

Whitfield’s parents called 911 on April 25, 2022, and reported that their 39-year-old son, a gifted pianist, was in the throes of a mental health crisis at the family’s Indianapolis home. His mother, Gladys Whitfield had requested urgent medical care, saying that he was having a mental health crisis.

When officers arrived at their home, police body camera footage showed, Mr. Whitfield’s parents met them at the door. For most of the 22 minutes captured on video, Mr. Whitfield did not engage with police officers as he walked around the home. The officers and his mother asked Mr. Whitfield, who was naked, to put some clothes on because an ambulance was coming for him.

At one point in the video, Mr. Whitfield is seen quietly sitting in a room. He does not respond to the police and his mother as they speak to him. A few minutes later, Mr. Whitfield is seen running, causing a commotion and calling for water.

“Keep that Taser out,” an officer is heard saying in the video.

Moments later, as Mr. Whitfield is seen running around a table, an officer draws a Taser and pulls the trigger, stunning Mr. Whitfield, who falls by the table and pulls a tablecloth over himself.

“Oh my God,” Mr. Whitfield is heard yelling. “I’m dying. I’m dying.”

The police then handcuff Mr. Whitfield, face down.

“Can’t breathe,” Mr. Whitfield is heard yelling, moving his body as officers try to restrain him.

“Tres, be calm,” Mr. Whitfield’s father is heard saying in the background, calling Mr. Whitfield by a nickname. “Calm down, Tres. It’s Daddy.”

After a few moments, Mr. Whitfield gradually stops moving, and his yells fade to whimpers.

“Those are going to be way too tight,” an officer is heard saying about the handcuffs on Mr. Whitfield. “We’ll deal with that in a minute.”

As the police continue to restrain Mr. Whitfield, face down in handcuffs, he eventually stops moving or speaking.

Within minutes, paramedics arrive at the home, and when it appears that Mr. Whitfield is not breathing, they begin doing CPR on him.

“Why are they doing that if he was OK?” Ms. Whitfield is heard asking.

Mr. Whitfield was pronounced dead at a hospital later that morning. The Marion County Coroner later ruled his death a homicide, caused by “cardiopulmonary arrest in the setting of law enforcement subdual, prone restraint, and conducted electrical weapon use.”

A civil lawsuit filed by Whitfield’s family against the city of Indianapolis and six police officers, including Ahmad and Sanchez, states that Whitfield “died because of the force used against him” and calls the force used against him “unreasonable and excessive.”

“Mr. Whitfield needed professional mental health care, not the use of excessive force,” the filing said. 

The family is seeking unspecified damages. That civil case is set for trial in July 2025 in federal court in Indianapolis.

Corpse Biden Pardons Son Hunter Biden in Gun and Tax Cases–and Any Federal Crimes From 2014 Through 2024

From [HERE] After many denials he would do so, Joe Biden granted his son Hunter Biden a blanket pardon in the federal gun and tax cases against him Sunday night. The pardon, which covers any federal crimes by Hunter from 2014 to 2024, ends a case that was blown open by IRS whistleblowers who spoke out after the Biden Justice Department slow-walked an investigation into Hunter, allowing the statute of limitations to pass on some charges and offering Hunter a sweetheart plea deal that was ultimately rejected by an incredulous federal judge in Delaware resulting in the appointment of a special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in the case. Incredibly, Garland appointed the same federal prosecutor who sabotaged the Hunter case, Robert Weiss, to be special counsel.

The pardon absolves Hunter of any possible drug involvement, sex trafficking, lobbying, bribery, foreign agent or other crimes involving Ukraine and several other foreign governments or companies including China. The start date of 2014 coincides with the year Hunter joined the board of the Ukraine energy firm Burisma in an influence peddling scheme alleged to have involved Joe Biden.

Hunter was later convicted on three felony charges related to the purchase of a gun in June of 2024. [MORE]

Forget DEI, White Presumacy is the Ultimate Form of Affirmative Action: Billionaire's Daughter w/No Cop Experience Named Head of NYPD. Goal is to Dominate Blacks in a City Controlled by Elite Liberals

DATA FROM THE COURT MONITORING PROJECT DEMONSTRATE THAT THE NYPD TARGETS BLACKS AND LATINOS: AS BLACKS/LATINOS MAKE UP 90% OF ALL NYPD ARRESTS, MOSTLY FOR VICTIMLESS CRIMES. NYC, a city controlled by elite white liberals is ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST AND LEAST EQUAL PLACES IN THE COUNTRY [MORE]

When Jessica Tisch was appointed as New York City's police commissioner last week, it was the first time many people had heard her name. But now that you know it, you may start seeing it everywhere. The industrious and philanthropic Tisch family is the 43rd richest in the United States according to Forbes, with members owning the Loews Corporation and the New York Giants.

The Tisch name graces university and hospital buildings across the city and country. Jessica Tisch's grandmother Wilma “Billie” Tisch was a longtime member of the WNYC Board of Trustees and was instrumental in the station transitioning out of city ownership and becoming an independent nonprofit. She is still an honorary board member to this day. (Gothamist and WNYC are part of New York Public Radio).

Jessica Tisch, however, has spent her career as a government insider. She got her start in the police department after graduating from Harvard in 2008 with a dual law and business degree. She later became commissioner of the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications and most recently headed the city sanitation department.

Black Power? Graphs on police killings are from Mapping Police Violence, graph on arrests above is from The Persistence of Racist NYPD Arrests [pdf]. The graph on NYPD stops and searches is from the NYCLU. Data on NYC’s overwhelming non-white jail population is here. In EVERY City Controlled by Elite White Liberals w/a Large Black Population, Cops Stop and Degrade Blacks in Grossly Disproportionate Numbers

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As Jessica Tisch begins the tough work of leading the country’s largest police force, here are some facts about her family's history in NYC.

Ms. Tisch has never walked a beat or worn a police uniform. Ms. Tisch first decided to apply for a job at the Police Department in 2008, when she graduated from Harvard Law School, according to a 2019 interview with The Harvard Law Bulletin.

The financial crisis had hit the country and she was worried about finding a job. A friend suggested she go for a position in counterterrorism.

“I can’t even imagine what someone like me would do at the Police Department,” Ms. Tisch recalled thinking, according to the interview.

Raymond W. Kelly, the commissioner at the time, hired her as an analyst and Mr. Bratton later promoted her to deputy commissioner. [MORE]

Ms. Tisch’s family is deeply enmeshed in the city — two relatives sit on the board of trustees of the New York City Police Foundation and family members donated to Mr. Adams’s 2021 mayoral campaign.

Her family’s wealth nearly doubled between 2015 and 2024

Forbes ranked the Tisch family as the 43rd richest in the United States. It reported that the family's wealth grew from $6 billion in 2015 to more than $10 billion this year.

Larry and Bob Tisch purchased Loews Theatres in 1959 and turned it into a conglomerate with holdings in insurance, hotels, energy and packaging, according to news reports. Bob Tisch co-owned the New York Giants. His son Steve now co-owns the team.

The family’s business model is to buy failing companies and turn them around, netting the gain in the company’s stock price. Jessica’s grandfather Larry Tisch famously did this with CBS, first saving the broadcasting network from a hostile takeover, though he was later accused of selling off the company’s valuable music and publishing assets, according to his New York Times obituary. [MORE]

NYPD to Pay $6M to George Tillman's Family After a Jury Rejected 4 Cops Lies- Unarmed Black Man Shot to Death During a Stop Over an Open Container Outside a BBQ. Liberal DA Believed Cops, No Charges

From [HERE] The NYPD must pay $6.3 million to the family of George Homer Tillman III, who police fatally shot multiple times after he walked away from them during an incident in 2016, a jury decided this week. The jury found that he was unarmed at the time — despite the then-Queens DA declaring the cops only fired in self-defense.

In a wrongful death lawsuit, Tillman’s family says the Maryland man was out on a Saturday night at a family party in South Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens with his friends and wife when he was approached by officers for possessing an open liquor bottle. The lawsuit, citing eyewitness accounts, says he acquiesced to police and relinquished his alcohol container, but that the officers escalated the situation and pursued Tillman when he attempted to return to his car.

Court documents explained when Mr. Tillman turned and handed the bottle of vodka to another man the officers say they saw a silhouette of a gun in Mr. Tillman's waistband.

According to the police and DAKrzeminski and Arnold exited their vehicle and tried to verbally engage with Mr. Tillman, but Mr. Tillman fled. Mr. Tillman ran northbound on 135th Street; Krzeminski and Arnold pursued. Krzeminski and Arnold say that at some point during the chase, they witnessed Mr. Tillman remove his gun and hold it in his right hand, a fact which plaintiff disputes.  

Meanwhile, the car containing the other officers had pulled up to the scene just before Mr. Tillman took off running. Renna, Sorrentino, and Stallone exited their vehicle and began pursuing Mr. Tillman. Upon seeing the other officers, defendants say that Arnold and Krzeminski shouted that Mr. Tillman had a gun.

Once Mr. Tillman reached 116th Avenue, he turned and began running westbound. Defendants claim-but plaintiff disputes-that all five defendants saw Mr. Tillman running with a gun in his right hand.

At this point, the parties' accounts diverge further. Defendants claim that they yelled for Mr. Tillman to “drop the gun” and “get down.” They allege that Mr. Tillman refused and continued running. They allege that he then turned to his left-with his gun still in his right hand-and pointed the gun at Krzeminski. 

Plaintiff disputes that Mr. Tillman possessed a firearm. Plaintiff also denies that Mr. Tillman even turned towards officers, much less aimed a gun at them. Plaintiff relies upon audio-recorded statements of a third-party eyewitness, Leroy Burt. Ibid.; see Recording of Leroy Burt's Conversation with the Force Investigation Division. Mr. Burt said he was looking down from his apartment above the street and “saw everything.” Burt Interview 3:55-4:05. Mr. Burt says that he did not see Mr. Tillman turn towards the officers but instead saw Mr. Tillman begin to walk away from the officers. He also said, “I didn't see a gun.” 

Not a single, non-police witness claimed Mr. Tillman possessed a weapon that night and no one present at the scene heard officers scream at Mr. Tillman to drop any gun. [MORE]  Instead, the officers opened fire, hitting him with more than 10 shots – without a single shot fired by Mr. Tillman. Four of the five cops them discharged 64 rounds, 13 of which hit Tillman in the head and back.

Six months after the April 17, 2016 incident, the Queens district attorney at the time, Richard Brown, a racist suspect, found in a report that the officers acted in self defense. He wrote that the officers believed Tillman had a gun in his waistband when they first approached him about the open container, and that the evidence pointed to an “inescapable conclusion” that Tillman pointed a loaded .40-caliber pistol at the police after they gave chase. Brown also wrote that Tillman's DNA was found on a weapon at the scene.

But eyewitnesses testified that Tillman didn’t have a weapon, according to court documents. Liakas said a video played in court also didn’t show any clear evidence of a weapon.

The day before Thanksgiving, the jury decided that the NYPD acted negligently and violated Tillman’s constitutional rights. It deemed the police response in the case was misconduct and in violation of NYPD protocols. The court awarded Tillman’s widow $5.3 million in compensatory damages and another $1 million in punitive damages.

“Despite the officers receiving commendations following this incident, a jury determined that the officers’ actions violated NYPD protocols and reflected a reckless disregard for Mr. Tillman’s life,” Liakas said.

The NYPD referred comments to the city’s Law Department Saturday.

“We respectfully disagree with the jury’s verdict and are evaluating legal options,” law department spokesman Nicholas Paolucci wrote in a statement sent to Gothamist. “In the city’s view, officers were confronted with a deadly threat and their response was justified. That also was the finding of an investigation by the Queens County District Attorney's Office, which found all four officers were justified in discharging their firearms.”

Liakas said normally, the consequence of having an open container of alcohol is a warning or a ticket.

“An open container is like jumping a turnstile,” the attorney said.

Tillman’s widow filed the lawsuit in April 2018, seeking damages for police misconduct, loss of financial support, emotional and psychological damages. Tillman, a union electrician, had been the primary provider for his family — including his wife and their five children, ages of 4-14 — the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit alleged the officers violated NYPD protocols and failed to use alternative non-lethal means to restrain Tillman, such as the use of batons or Tasers. It said the police violated federal and state laws and disregarded Tillman’s constitutional rights by depriving him of due process and by using excessive force, resulting in his death.

The NYPD argued that any injuries were due to Tillman’s own negligence and not from the officers’ conduct, according to court filings. Police also argued Tillman provoked the incident, and that any use of force was reasonable, necessary and justified under the circumstances, Politico reported at the time.

The jury rejected said claims and did not find the officers testimony to be credible.

Last year, the City of New York paid out nearly $115 million for lawsuits alleging police misconduct, according to the Legal Aid Society.

"One Word, Audit." James Carville says ‘The Fundraisers are Burnt. The Democratic Brand is Facing Unfathomable Damage After Puppet Kamala's $2 Billion Losing Campaign’

From [HERE] Democratic strategist James Carville warned Wednesday that the Democratic Party’s reputation has been profoundly damaged by massive spending during the 2024 presidential campaign.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and the Democratic Party reportedly spent almost $1.5 billion during her brief presidential campaign, which began on July 21. Carville, on “Politics War Room,” predicted future fundraising struggles and urged the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to conduct an audit to restore credibility and account for the funds.

The resistance is going to have trouble raising money. These fundraisers are burnt,” Carville said. “They’re really pissed now, and the damage that the 2024 campaign has done — the damage that this decade has done to the Democratic brand — is almost unfathomable. Almost unfathomable.”

“So I have people that are contacting me to run for DNC chair. Promise you I’m not going to to get in the middle of that … But I would say the policy, number one, is we’re going to audit everything. We’re going to audit the campaign. We’re going to audit Future Forward. We’re going to audit the DNC so people can know,” he added. “But I’m telling you, without complete transparency, the campaign — we think — raised a billion and a half dollars. Okay, we know that Future Forward, the last we saw, was $900 million, so we can assume that they got to a billion before election. That’s two and a half freaking billion dollars.”

Future Forward was Harris’ primary aligned Super PAC and raised more than $900 million to back the vice president’s presidential campaign, which is a record for external political groups during an election cycle, The New York Times reported.

“Do you have any idea where that money went? Does anybody have any idea where that money went?” Carville asked. “I mean, I have some places I’d start looking … I promise you this: the amount of money and the amount of lobbyists that were involved in this campaign is staggering.”

DNC National Finance Committee member Lindy Li asserted Tuesday that she was shocked that Harris did not take “responsibility” for her campaign’s exorbitant spending following the vice president’s donor call the same day.

“I don’t recall anyone taking responsibility for the fact that we spent about $2 billion across the super PAC and the campaign and came up so significantly short,” Li said. “We lost seven swing states.” [MORE]

SafeRent Solutions Settles Class Action for $2M. Suit Claimed it Used AI-Related Discrimination to Exclude Black Renters. Black Woman Plaintiff Denied Tenancy Despite Paying Rent On Time for 16yrs

Mary Louis’ excitement to move into an apartment in Massachusetts in the spring of 2021 turned to dismay when Louis, a Black woman, received an email saying that a “third-party service” had denied her tenancy.

That third-party service included an algorithm designed to score rental applicants, which became the subject of a class action lawsuit, with Louis at the helm, alleging that the algorithm discriminated on the basis of race and income.

A federal judge approved a settlement in the lawsuit, one of the first of it’s kind, on Wednesday, with the company behind the algorithm agreeing to pay over $2.2 million and roll back certain parts of it’s screening products that the lawsuit alleged were discriminatory.

The settlement does not include any admissions of fault by the company SafeRent Solutions, which said in a statement that while it “continues to believe the SRS Scores comply with all applicable laws, litigation is time-consuming and expensive.”

While such lawsuits might be relatively new, the use of algorithms or artificial intelligence programs to screen or score Americans isn’t. For years, AI has been furtively helping make consequential decisions for U.S. residents.

When a person submits a job application, applies for a home loan or even seeks certain medical care, there’s a chance that an AI system or algorithm is scoring or assessing them like it did Louis. Those AI systems, however, are largely unregulated, even though some have been found to discriminate.

“Management companies and landlords need to know that they’re now on notice, that these systems that they are assuming are reliable and good are going to be challenged,” said Todd Kaplan, one of Louis’ attorneys.

The lawsuit alleged SafeRent’s algorithm didn’t take into account the benefits of housing vouchers, which they said was an important detail for a renter’s ability to pay the monthly bill, and it therefore discriminated against low-income applicants who qualified for the aid.

The suit also accused SafeRent’s algorithm of relying too much on credit information. They argued that it fails to give a full picture of an applicant’s ability to pay rent on time and unfairly dings applicants with housing vouchers who are Black and Hispanic partly because they have lower median credit scores, attributable to historical inequities.

Christine Webber, one of the plaintiff’s attorneys, said that just because an algorithm or AI is not programmed to discriminate, the data an algorithm uses or weights could have “the same effect as if you told it to discriminate intentionally.”

When Louis’ application was denied, she tried appealing the decision, sending two landlords’ references to show she’d paid rent early or on time for 16 years, even if she didn’t have a strong credit history.

Louis, who had a housing voucher, was scrambling, having already given notice to her previous landlord that she was moving out, and she was charged with taking care of her granddaughter.

The response from the management company, which used SafeRent’s screening service, read, “We do not accept appeals and cannot override the outcome of the Tenant Screening.”

Louis felt defeated; the algorithm didn’t know her, she said.

“Everything is based on numbers. You don’t get the individual empathy from them,” said Louis. “There is no beating the system. The system is always going to beat us.”

While state lawmakers have proposed aggressive regulations for these types of AI systems, the proposals have largely failed to get enough support. That means lawsuits like Louis’ are starting to lay the groundwork for AI accountability.

SafeRent’s defense attorneys argued in a motion to dismiss that the company shouldn’t be held liable for discrimination because SafeRent wasn’t making the final decision on whether to accept or deny a tenant. The service would screen applicants, score them and submit a report, but leave it to landlords or management companies to accept or deny a tenant.

Louis’ attorneys, along with the U.S. Department of Justice, which submitted a statement of interest in the case, argued that SafeRent’s algorithm could be held accountable because it still plays a role in access to housing. The judge denied SafeRent’s motion to dismiss on those counts.

The settlement stipulates that SafeRent can’t include its score feature on its tenant screening reports in certain cases, including if the applicant is using a housing voucher. It also requires that if SafeRent develops another screening score it plans to use, it must be validated by a third-party that the plaintiffs agree to.

Louis’ son found an affordable apartment for her on Facebook Marketplace that she has since moved into, though it was $200 more expensive and in a less desirable area. [MORE]

"Medicide:" Israel-US are Carrying Out a War on Hospitals as Part of Their Holocaust and Depopulation Plan in Gaza and Lebanon

From [HERE] In early October, Shoshan Hassan Mazraani, the head emergency department nurse at the Marjayoun hospital in southern Lebanon, was drinking coffee at work when she saw an Israeli strike hit without warning “directly on the ambulances” outside. The attack killed seven paramedics and wounded five others. The same day, Israeli strikes repeatedly hit Salah Ghandour Hospital in the nearby town of Bint Jbeil. In that assault, nine hospital workers were injured, several critically.

“The hospital was struck three times,” the facility’s director, a physician named Moanes Kalakish said later. “One shell struck the on-call room and two shells struck the paramedics’ waiting room, [both] inside the hospital.”

In the weeks since, Israeli attacks have struck medical systems across Lebanon, hitting hospitals, ambulances, and clinics as part of an aerial assault and invasion that has now killed more than 3,000 people, including over 150 health care and rescue workers, in the past twelve months.

Two reports issued recently, one from Human Rights Watch (HRW) and another from CNN, detail the pattern of attacks on the Lebanese health care system. HRW, in its report, concluded that the Israeli strikes on the Marjayoun and Salah Ghandour hospitals, along with another separate strike on a rescue center in Beirut, all constitute likely war crimes. In total, HRW reported that Israeli attacks across Lebanon have hit a total of 158 ambulances and fifty-five hospitals. In a separate analysis, CNN found that in just the first month of the escalating offensive in Lebanon, Israeli strikes hit thirty-four hospitals and 107 ambulances, killing 111 emergency medical technicians.

The Israeli assault on health care in Lebanon is increasingly widespread, affecting the delivery of care throughout the country. In one single twenty-four-hour period in October, Israeli forces killed more than twenty-eight on-duty medics nationwide, forcing thirty-seven health care facilities to shut down and three hospitals in Beirut to evacuate. Nearly half of the country’s primary care centers have now been forced to close, and, according to CNN’s investigation, around 20 percent of all the hospitals nationwide have been damaged by Israeli strikes in the course of just a single month.

In the words of Imran Riza, the United Nations (UN) deputy humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon, the devastation has left the health system “on the brink of collapsing.” The World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Lebanon, Abdinasir Abubakar, assessed that “it’s just a matter of time until the system actually reaches its limit.”

The specter of the American-backed genocide in Gaza looms large over this unfolding violence, as Israeli leaders have made clear that the devastation in occupied Palestine should be understood as a threat to civilians in Lebanon. At the outset of the invasion, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of “destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.” “What we are doing in Gaza, we can do in Beirut,” the Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant said last November. Israeli forces, in his words, could “copy and paste” their methods.

Those methods developed in Gaza include deliberate and systematic violence against the medical system and health more broadly. In Gaza, Israeli forces have killed around a thousand Palestinian health care workers and bombed nearly every single hospital. An independent UN commission concluded in October that Israel “has implemented a concerted policy to destroy the health-care system of Gaza” and “deliberately killed, wounded, arrested, detained, mistreated and tortured medical personnel and targeted medical vehicles,” constituting multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the crime of extermination. In July, a group of eleven independent UN special rapporteurs and experts found that Israel was engaged in an “intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people,” amounting to “a form of genocidal violence.” These efforts have been so total and so transparently deliberate that they have been described variously as a “War on Hospitals,” a “War on Health,” and an “Epidemiological War,” eventually demanding the invention of a new term to describe the carnage: medicide.

Haiti Earthquake Victims Suit Claims Red Cross Used Donation Money to Get Paid: 'Between 2010- 2024 They Prepared for Disasters Not to Provide Aid but to Exploit Suffering and Misfortune.' Seeks $1B

 From [HERE] A Haitian American organization accused the American Red Cross and its affiliates on Monday of deliberately misappropriating donations intended to aid victims of a 2010 earthquake and using the funds to cover the organization's own debts.

The Haitian Diaspora Political Action Committee says in a class action filed in the Southern District of Florida that the American Red Cross, the International Red Cross and Haitian Red Cross have collected nearly $1 billion from donors since the magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked the island nation.

But how that money has been spent is a mystery, according to the committee. Claims that the donations were used to build hospitals and repair homes are “demonstrably false,” the committee says, while other projects were severely delayed or never got off the ground.

Calling the Red Cross and its affiliates "poverty pimps," the plaintiffs — comprised of the committee, along with representatives for a donor class and an intended recipient class — say the Red Cross "view the poor as commodities. They exploit the plight of the poor to extract resources from society, claiming to act in their name while serving their own interests,"

"Fully aware that they had no intention of using the funds to directly aid Haiti, the defendants nevertheless misled the public through a series of public statements, using emotional images, poignant words, and videos depicting the suffering of Haitians to compel donations," the plaintiffs wrote.

The committee and its members claim $100 million in donations collected between 2010 and 2024 was used to cover the Red Cross’ $150 million financial deficit while another $400 million was spent on projects unrelated to Haiti or its people.

“Between 2010 and 2024, the defendants actively prepared for disasters in Haiti, not with the intention of providing genuine aid to victims, but to exploit their suffering and misfortune,” they said. “These preparations were focused on leveraging the devastation to manipulate donors into contributing more money.”

A financial report on the American Red Cross’ website details projects funded by the nonprofit, including tens of millions of dollars spent on emergency relief in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake. 

But the efficacy of that spending has been called into question.

A 2015 investigation by ProPublica and NPR found that the relief agency vastly overstated the number of homes it built in the quake's aftermath while making dubious claims about the number of people served by its programs. Internal documents showed that administrative fees ate up donations while staffing changes and other bureaucratic issues delayed projects.

The committee and its members seek damages totaling more than $1 billion for claims that include fraud, unjust enrichment, bad faith and embezzlement. [MORE]

MD Court Allows Consent Decree to Expire Despite Baltimore Public Fool System's Continuing Failure to Provide Adequate Education to Mostly Black Kids, who Have Near Lowest Math/Reading Levels in US

From [HERE] Maryland’s second-highest court has rejected arguments to bring back a decades-old consent decree stemming from a lawsuit over state funding for Baltimore City Public Schools.

In a 2-1 decision last week, the Maryland Appellate Court sent the long-running Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education case back to Baltimore Circuit Court with instructions to dismiss a 2019 petition that alleged the education provided by the school system remained “constitutionally inadequate.” The 1996 consent decree that mandated increased state funding, which the plaintiffs had sought to re-enforce, should also be dissolved, Senior Judge Deborah S. Eyler wrote in the majority opinion, finding it was no longer relevant.

The latest decision in the 30-year-long legal saga vacated a Baltimore Circuit Judge’s previous ruling regarding school funding, but still ultimately rejected the plaintiffs’ attempt to revive the litigation over claims of deficient education standards at city schools. The lawsuit, initially lodged against the Maryland State Board of Education in 1994 by parents of city school students, led to the consent decree, funding fixes at the state level and an overhaul of the city school system’s governance.

City schools received more than $2 billion in increased state funding due to the consent decree and a related education funding formula was adopted by the state in 2002, according to the ACLU, which represented the plaintiffs alongside the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

“If parents of children currently enrolled in the BCPSS are so inclined, they may file a new lawsuit upon allegations of a present violation of the children’s constitutional right to a thorough and efficient public education, based on circumstances as they now exist,” the appellate court said in a summary of the majority’s opinion. [MORE]

According to the dissent:

The voluminous record and the briefs present staggering evidence in support of the Bradford Plaintiffs’ contention that children who attend many Baltimore City public schools do not receive an education that is adequate by contemporary standards. The studies and expert reports link the conditions in which children learn to their educational outcomes, and the overall conditions in Baltimore City public schools are exceptionally poor. Out of approximately 160 school buildings, only fourteen have working water fountains. Ninety-seven schools have inadequate electrical systems. Student accounts describe vermin infestations—including mice, rats, and cockroaches—in their classrooms. Eighty-nine school facilities require a complete overhaul to meet minimally acceptable standards.

As described in an expert report, well-maintained school facilities lead to improved school attendance and better academic outcomes, while substandard buildings impair student engagement and learning. In 2019, the State reported that 17.9% of BCPSS elementary students were proficient in Math, and 18.6% were proficient in English Language Arts (“ELA”); 13.5% of middle school students were proficient in Math, and 22.7% were proficient in ELA; and 21.8% of high school students were proficient in Algebra I, and 32.9% were proficient in ELA 10. BCPSS students scored lower in math and reading than students in all but a handful of other large school districts nationwide. Proficiency rates are even lower for students with disabilities: according to BCPSS data, only 5% of students with disabilities met or exceeded expectations in math or language arts. In sum, although I recognize that the State has directed enormous resources to BCPSS over the years, and that there are many reasons for the deplorable conditions in which Baltimore City school children must learn, it is still the case—as it was in 1996—that the conditions are intolerable and must be addressed by all parties, including the State, as mandated under Article VIII. [MORE]

During the Year of “Safe and Effective,” US Authorities Knew COVID Shots Were Deadly: Mounting Evidence Suggests CDC Hid Data on COVID Injections and Myocarditis

From [HERE] Documents shared last week with Children’s Health Defense include emails between top officials at U.S. public health agencies showing that Israel’s Ministry of Health contacted U.S. public health officials as early as Feb. 28, 2021, about data showing a strong link between COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis.

Israel’s Ministry of Health by March 2021 identified a nearly 1,000% increase in the risk of myocarditis associated with the second dose of the COVID-19 mRNA shot, according to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

The documents, which were shared with Children’s Health Defense (CHD) last week, also include emails between top officials at U.S. public health agencies showing that Israel’s Ministry of Health contacted them about myocarditis related to the shots as early as Feb. 28, 2021.

Ministry of Health Deputy Director Roee Singer informed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the health ministry had concerns about “a large number of myocarditis and pericarditis cases in young individuals” following the Pfizer shot and sought to discuss those concerns with the CDC.

A source who obtained documents from the U.S. Department of State shared Israel’s data on myocarditis rates and U.S. public health agencies’ correspondence with CHD. The documents include a slide presentation by Israel’s Ministry of Health Division of Epidemiology dated March 31, 2021.

The slides showed that by the end of March 2021, 5.2 million Israelis received the first dose of the vaccine and 4.8 million received the second dose. The incidence of myocarditis following dose 1 was 1.1 per million, and 11.7 per million following dose 2 — a 964% increase in incidence between the two.

The CDC didn’t publicly admit the link between the COVID-19 shots and myocarditis until May 27, 2021, even though Israel’s Ministry of Health had reached out in February 2021, and the agency had the slide presentation soon after that.

The slide presentation was included in an April 5, 2021, email that Dr. Lauri Markowitz, co-lead of the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group, sent to her staff.

CHD Senior Scientist Karl Jablonowski, who along with CHD Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker was among the first to detail the deception around myocarditis, told The Defender that the Israeli document amounts to a safety surveillance study of 5 million people — and it flags myocarditis as an “undeniably strong signal.”

Jablonowski added:

“It is unconscionable that the CDC, NIH [National Institutes of Health], and FDA-CBER [U.S. Food and Drug Administration-Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research] had possession of this study at a time when over a million U.S. citizens were being vaccinated every day, and yet those agencies took no observable action.

“The year 2021 was the year of ‘safe and effective,’ yet the safety studies were left undone. Had the gene therapy products repurposed as vaccines actually been safe, it would have been serendipitous.

“The U.S. citizens were among the last to know of vaccine-induced myocarditis, while the U.S. government was among the first to know.”

CHD received the documents just days after Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) demanded public health agencies provide complete and unredacted documents about the development and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines, after learning of extensive redactions in documents released in response to multiple FOIA requests.

In a letter sent Nov. 19 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the FDA and the CDC, Johnson said the redactions make the documents nearly impossible to comprehend. He also said they obscure the public’s understanding of issues like myocarditis and pericarditis linked to vaccines.

CDC’s ’embarrassing’ response [MORE]

Illinois Appellate Court Orders Pretrial Release of White Officer Who Murdered Sonya Massey - says Prosecutors Failed to Provide Sufficient Basis to Detain Cop Who Shot Black Woman in the Face

From [HERE] An Illinois appellate court ruled Wednesday that a former deputy sheriff charged with the death of Sonya Massey , a 36-year-old Black woman shot in her home after she called police for help, should be released from jail pending his first-degree murder trial.

The 4th District Appellate Court’s unanimous decision found that a circuit court ruling in July that Sean Grayson should be detained was improper. It said prosecutors failed to supply sufficient evidence that there were no conditions the court could set that would lessen the danger Grayson posed to the community.

The case has drawn national attention as another example of police shooting Black people in their homes. Such are the tensions over the case that it was little surprise when Circuit Judge Ryan Cadagin ordered Grayson held, finding his actions were a “departure from the expectations of civil society.”

The case forced the premature retirement of Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell, who hired Grayson, and prompted a Justice Department investigation .

In his opinion for the court, Justice Eugene Doherty found fault with prosecutors for basing their arguments against release on Grayson’s failures to meet expectations during the shooting.

“When the question before the court is whether defendant can be safely released prior to trial on appropriate conditions, it is inappropriate to dwell on whether he fell short of the high expectations society rightly has for its law enforcement officers,” Doherty wrote. “A defendant’s conduct may be reprehensible and deserving of punishment, but that is an inappropriate basis for imposing pretrial detention.”

The opinion ordered a court hearing for Grayson at which suitable conditions for his release be set.

Grayson’s next court hearing is scheduled for Monday. [MORE]