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+Redblactivist You sound like a typical useless uncle tom with that weak bullshit...Black people don't have to "play the victim"..We have the racist white cops that
are kiiling unarmed Black people to victimize us...we have the GOP voter
suppression drive to victimize us...we have the bias court system which gives
Black defendants more jail time then white defendants for the same crime to
victimize us...we have Black professionals with a higher rate of unemployment
then less qualified white professionals to victimize us..We have a growing number of white supremacist groups that have pokitical power to vixtimize us...Black people have had it harder then any group in this country with the exception of Native Americans ..Has any other group gone through slavery , reconstruction , peonage , Jim Crow , being the last hired and first fired , and of course our heritage , religion , language , culture etc were all taken away....We have "manufactored knee-grow" like you worshipping to a white Jesus and thinkiing there is no longer a need to fight racism because in your shallow brain racism doesn't exist...That's interesting since Black unemployment is always much higher than white unemployment...AND... Black professionals and Black college graduates have a much higher unemployment rate than uneducated white workers...The answer of course is to have own businesses and hire our own people ...And don't think that has not been tried before or done before ...Remember Black Wall St and places like Rosewood...???..But we must try again and we cannot be afraid to expose racism ...By the way , must Black people are not on welfare , are not in jail , are not on drugs and are not waiting for some white person to give them anything..You and the rest of the "step-n-fetch-it" knee-grows believe the images that you see on television...However there is much work to be done and we cannot ignore problems that we caused ourselves but to ignore the racism that we have faced and will continue to face is stupid at best...Maybe you need to study a history and ask yourself who gets must of the "government money"...Oil companies get subsides , defense contractors get tax breaks , Russian and Italian mafia gets police and court protection , when wlefare was started in the early 1900s Black people got nothing , the healthcare system also practices racism ..There is a book by Dorothy Robeerts titled..."Killing The Black Body"....I suuggest you read it....And the most unanswered question is ....Where does all this hatred for Black people come from...???...can you answer that..??...By the way , Carson is a nutcase....
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+Ken Freeman You dumb ass nazis...Not everybody can avoid the racist court system and what happens when a white person assaults a Black person ..??..In most cases nothing ...You need to wake up and get your head out of your ass and stop making excuses for racism...The National Registry of Exonerations, a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan law school at Ann Arbor and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the School of Law at Northwestern University in Chicago. An updated registry of features stories of the wrongfully convicted and was recently released.According to the report, Blacks account for nearly half (47 percent) of all known exonerees in 1989, and Whites made up nearly 39 percent of all known exonerees. When the updated exoneration report was released in April, 57 percent of the known cases that occurred in 2012 involved Blacks.Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the editor of The National Registry of Exonerations said the 10 percent increase for Blacks was striking, but it’s too early to draw any firm conclusions. Gross said that he continues to learn about new cases that occurred in 2012. In last year’s report released in June 2012, the registry found that 50 percent of the all known exonerees were Black.“It’s striking and if it stands up and it repeats in another year or two it will be an important trend,” said Gross.According to the registry report, 52 percent of the wrongful conviction cases involved perjury or false accusation, 43 percent involved official misconduct and 41 percent involved mistaken eyewitness identification.The majority (57 percent) of all known exonerations were in homicide cases and 47 percent of those cases involved Black defendants and 37 percent involved Whites. Blacks accounted for 63 percent and Whites 18 percent of those wrongfully convicted of committed robberies.“Homicide and robbery, sadly to say, are crimes that African Americans are heavily overrepresented in the prison population,” said Gross.The report found that “African Americans constitute 25% of prisoners incarcerated for rape, but 62% of those exonerated for such crimes.”Faulty eyewitness identification continues to drive the high rate of Blacks involved in adult sexual assault exoneration cases. Gross said that this is likely because of problems associated with cross-racial identification.“White people don’t have the type of experience living with and distinguishing members of other races as minorities do,” said Gross. “There is also a long terrible history of racial discrimination in the prosecution of African Americans for rape when they are accused of raping White women and that may be a factor here, too.”According to the National Registry of Exonerations, a majority of the cases (52 percent) involve witness making a false accusation or committing perjury. Forty-one percent of the cases involve faulty eyewitness identification.“As a group, the defendants had spent nearly 11,000 years in prison for crimes for which they should not have been convicted – an average of more than 10 years each,” stated a report by The National Registry of Exonerations released in April.These are often the most productive years of a person’s life and the reason why many criminal justice advocates say that seeking compensation for wrongful convictions is the only chance that exonerees have in regaining a foothold in a world that is often much different than how they left it.“Unfortunately, many of our clients have been in jail for decades and often these were the best years of their life; the years where you can go to school and get an education, years where you can build a career and learn how to do a job,” said Paul Cates, communications director for the Innocence Project. “When they get out after 15 or 20 or 25 years, it’s very difficult to enter the job market without an education and without any marginal skills.”Cates said that, when the government confines someone for those lengths of time, they definitely deserve to be compensated. Cates added: “It’s particularly true when you consider that they have no way of making a living once they’ve been released.”Despite the proliferation of crime shows depicting the use of DNA in solving murders and proving innocence or guilt of a suspect, DNA testing is becoming less of a factor in wrongful conviction cases, because it is often initiated before cases go to trial.“DNA evidence can be very persuasive to courts and to judges and to prosecutors, because it’s a very definitive proof of innocence,” said Cates. “But in all these other cases where this evidence is not available, it’s really hard to prove when someone has been wrongfully convicted and the court system doesn’t make that easy.”..Like a typical little dick punk ass nazi you want Black people to remain silent about racism and think they are the fault of all this unexplainable hatred..By the way Adolf...Jesus had dreadlocks....These innocent people in jail did not act like fools...Tanir Rice was playing with a toy gun and was shot WITHOUT WARNING...did he act like a fool...???//..Did the Black cops that complainedt racist white cops act like fools...The fools are the ones like you that condone racism and then try to make excuses for it and then blame Black people for being targets of racism...Tell me Adolf......where does all this hatred for Black people come from...???
+Ken Freeman Typical useless nazi response...Tell you me you stupid ass...As an american citizen paying taxes and taking care of my family why shouldn't I expect to be treated fairly...??..And when I'm not treated fairly why should I be silent about it...???...Why are white defendant treated better then Black defendant...?? why is there a racist court system..??..,By the way , 90% of white people are killed by white people and most if not all serial killers are white nutcases that people like you keep making excuses for..You also keep making excuses for racism like it's some long lost novel tucked away in a small town library...Racism in this country is real and when unarmed Black people are killed for no reason then being Black that problem has to be addressed...Now I knoiw that you think white people are so damn wonderful and do very little wrong but the truth says otherwise...Therefore a movement like "Black Lives Matter" is needed just as the Civil Rights Movement was needed , just like the Panthers were needed , just like the Urban league was needed , just like the CBC is needed , just like the NAACP is needed...etc..etc.....Tell me ...where does all this hatred for Black people come from...???
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+freein2339 Marco Rubio on Black Lives Matter.... "This is a legitimate issue," Rubio said. "It is a fact that in the African-American community around this country there has been, for a number of years now, a growing resentment toward the way law enforcement and the criminal justice system interacts with the community. It is particularly endemic among young African-American males — that in some communities in this country have a much higher chance of interacting with criminal justice than higher education. We do need to face this. It is a serious problem in this country."Rubio also gave a personal anecdote: "I have one friend in particular who's been stopped in the last 18 months eight to nine different times. Never got a ticket for being stopped — just stopped. If that happened to me, after eight or nine times, I'd be wondering what's going on here. I'd be upset about it. So would anybody else." If you're arrested, if you're a 19-year-old, young minority male — African American or Hispanic — you're arrested, if you don't have any money, you're going to get public defenders. And they're going to push you toward a plea deal, because they're handling a thousand cases. You now have a record, which means you are now stigmatized — in the eyes of your employer, in the eyes of your future, etc. …And once you incarcerate someone, their chances of repeating offenses in the future begin to climb, because you're now basically housing them with criminals that they're learning the tools of the trade [with].We do need to address that. And it is particularly troubling among young African-American males."
Part of the problem is also cultural. One reason police are more likely to use force on and arrest black Americans is because they're more likely to perceive black people as threats due to what's known as “implicit bias“ Studies show, for example, that officers are quicker to shoot
black suspects in video game simulations .Part of this can be addressed through better training for cops, but some of it is simply rooted in how a person is raised, the kind of media he's exposed to, and other cultural influences.So Rubio is right in acknowledging not just that racial disparities in the criminal justice system
are a big problem, but how the problem presents itself. That's a big contrast
to a Republican field that has ranged from ignorant to hostile toward Black
Lives Matter....That includes Ben Carson....
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+Chris Kavanagh Here's what some republicans say about Obamacare...To be clear, the comments in this article are my opinion and mine alone and should not be construed as representative of the site in general.I’m also quite sure some of you have your fingers hovering over the R-I-N-O keys so let me start by giving you my Republican credentials and political views.I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life other than maybe when I was 18, didn’t know what I was doing and voted for people based on how patriotic their names sounded.I’m worried our entitlement programs have turned into a handout and not a hand up. Without better accountability measures, I think our current system traps families in a cycle of poverty.I would love to be able to invest my own Social Security money because with the government in charge, I don’t think my money is going to be waiting for me at retirement time.I’m concerned with our punitive tax system. We say it’s the American dream for everyone to make it big, but if you succeed, by golly, we’re going to take your money away and give it to someone else.I think less government is better government, except in cases of life and death (which is where I think health insurance falls).So that said, this is why I love the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as it is so affectionately called by some.I love that it will help ensure everyone has access to careI’ve been reporting on health reform since before the law passed, and in the early days, there was a lot of concern about government death panels deciding who would get care and who would be left to die.Well, we already have our own version of death panels: It’s called health insurance. If you have coverage, you get treatment. If not, well, tough for you.True story: When my husband was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, the parting words of the doctor who did the endoscopy were, no joke, “I hope you have health insurance. Because you’re going to need it.”Boy, was he right. When I called the cancer center for general information, they asked for our insurance information. When I made the consultation appointment, they asked for our insurance information. When we showed up, they checked our insurance information. In the middle of the consultation, we met with a finance guy who, that’s right, checked our insurance information.And then get this. We show up for the first chemo visit, my husband is hooked to the IV and the nurse says she needs to wait a minute before getting started. When my husband asked why, she said it was because they needed to reconfirm our insurance coverage. My husband asked what happens if the insurance company says they won’t pay, and the nurse told him they would probably pull us back to meet with a financial adviser and they might need to change the treatment plan.In other words, if you don’t have health insurance, you get sub-par treatment.That brings me to the next reason I love Obamacare.I love that it gives new options for those with pre-existing conditionsIf you have only ever had insurance through your workplace, you probably think the health insurance system is great. I know I did when I had group coverage. One huge difference is how pre-existing conditions have been treated under the law. . However, no such protection was extended to those buying individual plans. If you had a pre-existing condition and needed to buy your own health insurance, you were up the proverbial creek and without an oar.Here’s my real-world example – one that helped change my view on health insurance. In the summer of 2010, in anticipation of leaving my office job, which provided our family insurance, I received a quote for individual coverage that was $800 a month with a $7,000 deductible. And that was the good plan out of multiple choices.My husband was diagnosed with cancer a few months later and then our options dwindled down to exactly zero. Fortunately, a 1986 federal law – – gave me the right to continue to buy my former workplace policy for 18 months. It cost $1,300 a month but, hey, what else are you going to do if you need coverage?Then after 18 months, thanks to that same federal law, our insurance provider was required to offer us an individual insurance plan. This mercifully dropped our premiums to $800 a month but gave us a $5,000 deductible. However, we were grateful to just have insurance since my husband’s pre-existing condition meant no one else would cover us.You may be thinking there were high-risk pools for those with pre-existing conditions, right? Well, in our state, you needed to be uninsured for six months to be eligible. That’s not much help to people who have immediate medical needs.It may also be crossing your mind that people could just get a job or they should have gotten health insurance earlier or it’s such a small percentage of people affected that we shouldn’t bother changing the system. Maybe or maybe not, but again, we’re talking about people’s lives here. I find the attitude of “too bad for you” to be disturbing, particularly when it comes from my fellow Christian Republicans.I love that it focuses on preventive care and essential servicesOn a different note, I love that Obamacare is requiring insurance companies to provide free preventive services and cover essential services.I know mandates go against the pro-business party line, but as a Republican, I appreciate the fiscal soundness behind this strategy. It makes more sense to pay 60,000 a year to help someome manage thier diabetis than it does to have them develop end-stage renal disease, which can cost upward of 70,000 per patientSame thing goes for mental health services which, prior to the passage of Obamacare, were not covered by 1 in 5 heslth plans.Under the law, mental health and substance abuse services are essential health benefits and must be covered by all new health insurance plans.Does mandating mental illness coverage increase our health insurance premiums? Perhaps, but I can’t believe our costs will go up more than the estimated 4 billion we are already paying annually as a result of untreated mental illness. And that doesn’t include the emotional price we pay when someone’s untreated mental illness leads to tradegyIn the short run, paying for preventive services and essential health benefits might cost us a little more. However, after crunching the numbers, I like to think my fiscally conservative friends would agree, in the long run, paying for preventive care simply makes sense.I love that it gives premium assistance to working familiesSo many government assistance programs are geared toward people living at or just above the poverty limit, and I love that Obamacare is extending some financial love to the working middle class.Many people work long hours to make ends meet and stay off the welfare rolls. If the government is going to be doling out money – and we all know it is – I’m glad these families are finally getting a piece of the pie.Plus, as with preventive care, I would rather give working families a couple hundred dollars a month to supplement their premium payments and keep them covered rather than have us pay for their emergency room visitsI love that it’s a start … but I’m not convinced it’s the answerFinally, I love that Obamacare is getting the conversation started. It’s not perfect by any means, but it has moved what is, quite frankly, a life and death issue to the forefront.That said, I am not convinced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the answer to our health care problems. These are my concerns:Constitutionality. Despite the fact I was secretly rooting for the bill, I was shocked when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. While I understand the reason for requiring everyone to get health insurance, the mandate seems like overreach of government authority. My hope would be that if affordable health insurance becomes widely available, everyone would be smart enough to take advantage of it without a government requirement.Government incompetence. My second concern is that the government may simply not be up for the challenge. Despite having three years’ advance notice, the online marketplace was and is a mess. It took at least 10 hours of my time to get my application in and, in the end, a technical difficulty preventing me from even being able to view my plan choices. Instead, I had to rely on a phone operator who had a questionable level of knowledge to explain the available plans. Couple that with all the people having trouble accessing their benefits, and I’m starting to wonder if the government is causing more harm than good.So the law isn’t perfect in my mind, but at least it’s moving our health care system in the right direction — a direction that ensures we don’t leave marginalized people to die.There you have it: That’s why I’m Republican and love Obamacare. Feel free to tell me why I’m wrong Maryalene Laponsie....
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Wayne Bertsch, a veteran GOP consultant told the Tampa Bay Times that
targeting Democrats was always the goal in curbing early voting. "In the
races I was involved in in 2008, when we started seeing the increase of
turnout and the turnout operations that the Democrats were doing in
early voting, it certainly sent a chill down our spines."
Another
tactic, favored in Texas and Florida, is to target nonprofit groups that
conduct voter-registration drives (the League of Women Voters, the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). This is
achieved by imposing onerous new training, registration and/or liability
burdens on the groups' volunteers. The proportion of African-American
and Latino voters who register through third-party drives is about twice
what it is for whites.
Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter
"A lot of us are campaign officials -- or campaign professionals -- and
we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think
that's voter ID, sometimes we think that's longer lines -- whatever it
may be," Tranter said with a laugh.
Franklin County (Columbus) GOP
Chair Doug Preisse.. "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't
contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read
African-American—voter-turnout machine." Preisse is not some rogue
operative but the chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio's
second-largest county and a close adviser to Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Pa House majority leader Mike Turzai, said his state's voter ID law "is
gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,"
U.S.
District Judge Stephen J. Murphy ordered Michigan election officials to
immediately halt and attempt to rectify one of the two practices --
canceling voter registrations for those whose voter identification card
is returned as undeliverable. Murphy ordered the state to remove the
"rejected" marking in the qualified voter file for all persons whose
original voter ID cards have been returned to the state as undeliverable
since Jan. 1, 2006. About 1,500 people have been removed from the voter
list in that manner this year, according to evidence presented in the
case.
Voter hours were extended in white distrcits of Ohio while voting hours were cut in the Black districts....
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In September 2014, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp expressed concern
that too many minority voters were registering to vote for the November
midterms and so he found it necessary to subpoena the records of at
least one group working to register more Black and Latino voters.
Now he has gone and "lost" 40,000 voter registration forms handed in by one group.
The Root:
According
to an Al-Jazeera report, it’s a sentiment that the staffers at Third
Sector Development are expressing. The nonprofit organization was on a
mission to register as many black and Hispanic people in the state of
Georgia as possible so that voter turnout for the upcoming midterm
elections in November would be high. And they were successful at it,
until they received word that about half of the applications they
submitted for processing have gone missing in action.
“Over the
last few months, the group submitted some 80,000 voter-registration
forms to the Georgia secretary of state’s office—but as of last week,
about half those new registrants, more than 40,000 Georgians, were still
not listed on preliminary voter rolls. And there is no public record of
those 40,000-plus applications, according to state Rep. Stacey Adams, a
Democrat,” Al-Jazeera explained.
But Secretary Kemp says, hey, we're not doing anything differently. Sure they're not.
Georgia
Secretary of State Brain Kemp explained that his office is not doing
anything differently from how it usually processes applications. But
some people aren’t buying his story, seeing as how he’s a Republican,
and black and Hispanic people tend to vote for Democrats.
Georgia
Republicans have been raising eyebrows for some time now with regard to
early voting and voter-ID issues. One state Republican didn’t like how
black and Hispanic voters had easy access to early-voting opportunities.
They
cut early voting, they've got horrible Voter ID laws, and now the
Secretary of State has 40,000 less voter registration forms than were
submitted. Jim Crow is alive and well in Georgia and surrounds, isn't
it?
Of course there are many other incidents of GOP voter suppression....that's why the GOP will not get support from Black voters....too much racism...
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+Supersmashist Why would Liberals be afriad of Black conservatives....Black conservative can't even get mire themn 2-3 Blacks in the GOP congress...The only thing Black conservatives are good for is being anti-Black...At least that's what mosr Black conservatives do....not "Brotheres' like Colin Powell..or this brother....
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"The environment inside the Republican
Party today is a treacherous moral swamp for African-Americans. No black
conservative figure has yet managed to remain in a position of influence inside
the GOP while speaking honestly about racial questions.
When an NAACP chairman derided
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott recently as a “ventriloquist’s dummy”
he touched a deep nerve. Going all the way back to Reconstruction, black
conservatives have fought to justify their emphasis on economic progress against
those who sought more direct resistance to injustice.
That is a fine line to walk and it
has never been easy. When black leaders allow themselves be used as tokens,
they will deserve the suspicion they retain in the black community no matter
what other sincere goals or opinions they may hold. This is an unfair dilemma
that white political figures seldom face, but history has made it unavoidable.
Black leaders cannot expect to be
taken seriously so long as they quietly acquiesce to rhetoric and policies openly
hostile to minority communities. For black conservatives, the price of
credibility is courage.
Standing in front of a white audience
and validating their racist assumptions is a fast track to popularity and
political opportunity. Few things thrill a white nationalist more than a black
man who agrees with him. Every racist has ‘lots of black friends’ and being one
of those black friends offers benefits.
With the GOP in thrall to an ugly
Neo-Confederate resurgence, the 2012 Republican Convention featured its lowest
percentage of black delegates in modern history. Interestingly, while there
were only 46 black delegates, the convention featured eight minority speakers
on the main stage alone. Being a black Republican willing to toe the line
without question is an outstanding way to gain access to a platform.
It is entirely reasonable to expect
that Sen. Scott’s position as a Senator was paid for by his willingness to be
used. He has done nothing yet in his career that would be inconsistent with
that characterization. Recite the party’s talking points and he gets to be a
Senator. Acknowledge the existence of racism in any credible matter and he will
be escorted to the exit, where he will be greeted by Colin Powell and Michael
Steele.
One of the GOP’s other black friends,
former Rep. Allen West, learned that lesson the hard way when he accidentally
said something honest about the Trayvon Martin case. He quickly backed down,
explained that Martin had it coming because he wasn’t a “respectful young man.”
West recognized the value of being a “respectful young man” in the GOP and now
he has a nice gig with Fox News.
This dilemma complicates the appeal
of black conservatives, making it extremely difficult to communicate a
credible, persuasive message without losing access to the political process. To
speak honestly about race means being ostracized from the Republican Party. To
speak honestly about the role of values and culture in the plight of the black
community means being ostracized from the Democratic Party. Black conservatives
can accept a humiliatingly subservient role in a Republican Party that wants
them to perform like circus animals or sit outside the process, alienated and
disempowered.
Not everyone in the black community
sees this dilemma. In particular, many black religious fundamentalists do not
perceive this problem at all. It is from their ranks that figures like Tim
Scott and former Rep. Allen West have emerged. If you believe in a
6000-year-old universe it isn’t so hard to believe that Obama is a Socialist
Anti-Christ or that he cheered the attack on the American Consulate in
Benghazi.
Black religious fundamentalists feel
comfortable walking shoulder to shoulder with Tea Party activists bent on
destroying minority voting rights and ending “income redistribution” to black
urban moochers in hoodies. They are marching with the far-right far-white in
pursuit of higher, apocalyptic goals. If gay marriage is the single greatest
threat to civilization then perhaps an alignment with the GOP’s farthest
ideological fringe makes sense.
For non-white conservatives with
their feet planted firmly in the reality-based community the rhetoric being
spewed by Republicans in recent years is more than a little frightening. Some
hard-right black evangelicals may have made peace with the Tea Party, but their
numbers are very small. That’s why most if not all of the African-Americans at
your local Tea Party rally will be speaking onstage.
Whether he likes it or not, Sen.
Scott is becoming a national mascot for the efforts of Tea Party Republicans to
whitewash the movement’s glaring racism. The dilemma he faces may be unique to
black political figures, but as the Republican Party becomes more and more an
engine for white nationalism, that burden spreads more broadly to all conservatives,
regardless of race.
The same credibility problem faced by
black conservatives is becoming a dangerous threat to conservatism at large. If
Sen. Scott is a token set up to distract us all from the GOP’s racism, then
what is Karl Rove? At what point should all conservatives face the same duty to
speak about racism that we justly place on Sen. Scott’s shoulders?
If conservatism is going to survive,
conservatives should all take a close look at the dilemma faced by Sen. Scott.
The movement badly needs an update to avoid atrophying into a tool of racial
and political anachronisms. Conservatism will not survive if it fails to
represent something more compelling than the stubborn preservation of white
cultural supremacy. A handful of well-placed black friends may obscure the
party’s problems, but they are not going to save conservatism from
itself."
Chris Ladd - a Black republican
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+Whitney Pyant....Over 90% of white peope are killed by white people and they are not killed by racist Black cops....Now the question seem to not want to answer is do you have a problem with unarmed Black people killed by racist white cops.....By the way , I don't deny any problems but you seem to deny what white racist cops are doing....Here's a sample of what Black cops deal with...
New dashcam footage is backing up the claims of four African-American
parole officers who were violently detained by local upstate
New York police officers.
The police in the City of Ramapo , NY claim that they did nothing wrong in how they handled the incident.
But the parole officers say differently. Mario Alexandre, Sheila Penister,
Annette Thomas-Prince, and Samuel Washington just filed a lawsuit against the city. They say that they were terrified and feared for their lives after officer pulled them over and held them at gun point, with assault rifles
pointed at them.
The footage from the dashcam video, obtained by CNN, shows a police
cruiser swerve to the wrong side of the road to get to the
vehicle where the four African American officers were sitting.One officer pulls a gun on the four plaintiffs. Another blocks traffic, using his SUV.
One of the four emerges from the car with his hands up, even though he had done nothing wrong.Five police officers were present, including ones aiming assault rifles.
Mario Alexandre explains that he was “violently assaulted” when pulled from the
vehicle, and “slammed against the car.”
Police claim they were in the right, however, because of a 911 call on the
four officers, “concerned about four individuals observed in bulletproof vests in an unmarked vehicle.”
Those were in fact department-issued bulletproof vests. They also had gold badges around their neck: a common image of officer that is familiar to virtually everyone.
The officers even had an official sign placed on the dashboard that read:
“State of New York – Executive Department – Division of Parole.”That apparently wasn’t enough to identify them as police officers to the
racist cops who pulled them over.The racist officers involved in the incident were: Lt. Robert Lancia, Capt.,
Sgt. Margaret Sammarone, Thomas Cokely, and Suffern Sgt. Edward Dolan, according to The Journal News…Now I don't know what town you live in but am sure you can find some activists that are actually doing something in the community instead of whining about it....
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+Whitney Pyant "We" are not in charge of the racist court system and "we" are not placed in grand Jurys that can convict racist cops..."We" do not move a trial to a "friendly lily white area"...And I;m not blaming whites for all our problems but when so many unarmed Black people are killed by racist white cops then yes it is a problem....This is what some Black cops say about your lovely and innocent racist cops....Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving. All but one said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime. The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.Desmond Blaize, who retired two years ago as a sergeant in the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, said he once got stopped while taking a jog through Brooklyn’s upmarket Prospect Park. "I had my ID on me so it didn’t escalate," said Blaize, who has sued the department alleging he was racially harassed on the job. "But what’s suspicious about a jogger? In jogging clothes?"Blacks made up 73 percent of the shooting perpetrators in New York in 2011 and were 23 percent of the population.A number of academics believe those statistics are potentially skewed because police over-focus on black communities, while ignoring crime in other areas. They also note that being stopped as a suspect does not automatically equate to criminality. Nearly 90 percent of blacks stopped by the NYPD, for example, are found not to be engaged in any crime. The black officers interviewed said they had been racially profiled by white officers exclusively, and about one third said they made some form of complaint to a supervisor. All but one said their supervisors either dismissed the complaints or retaliated against them by denying them overtime, choice assignments, or promotions. The remaining officers who made no complaints said they refrained from doing so either because they feared retribution or because they saw racial profiling as part of the system.Here's a question for you...Why don't we hear about Black cops running killing unarmed citizens...of any color...????
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+Shazbotacus What law did Tamir Rice break....what law did Oscar Grant break , what law did Micheal Brown break , what law did Trayvon Martin break , what law did Jonathan Ferrell break , what law did Runain Brisbon break , what law did Akai Gurley break , what law did Ezel Ford , what law did John Crawford break , what law did Eric Garner break , what law did Yvette Smith break , what law did Jorban Baker break , What law did Carlos Alcis break , what law did Kimani Gray break , what law did Reynaldo Cuevas break , what law did Amandu Diallo break , what law did Kendrec McDade break , what law did Rekia Boyd break...???...You stupid racist nazis always you are so fucking wonderful and do nothing wrong..It's useless assholes like you that keep hatred and racism alive..AND Black cops also complain about white racist cops...? "No snitching" has nothing to do with these racist cops killing unarmed innocent Black people...fucking nazi
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+Andrew Draxlar This also apploies to you...."What law did Tamir Rice break....what law did Oscar Grant break , what law did Micheal Brown break , what law did Trayvon Martin break , what law did Jonathan Ferrell break , what law did Runain Brisbon break , what law did Akai Gurley break , what law did Ezel Ford , what law did John Crawford break , what law did Eric Garner break , what law did Yvette Smith break , what law did Jorban Baker break , What law did Carlos Alcis break , what law did Kimani Gray break , what law did Reynaldo Cuevas break , what law did Amandu Diallo break , what law did Kendrec McDade break , what law did Rekia Boyd break...???...You stupid racist nazis always you are so fucking wonderful and do nothing wrong..It's useless assholes like you that keep hatred and racism alive..AND Black cops also complain about white racist cops...? "No snitching" has nothing to do with these racist cops killing unarmed innocent Black people...fucking nazi"Here's a thought....why don't you ever hear about Black cops harrassing off duty white cops...???
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+Andrew Draxlar Finally ....a republican that has ther courage to tell the truth....Marco Rubio on Black Lives Matter.... "This is a legitimate issue," Rubio said. "It is a fact that in the African-American community around this country there has been, for a number of years now, a growing resentment toward the way law enforcement and the criminal justice system interacts with the community. It is particularly endemic among young African-American males — that in some communities in this country have a much higher chance of interacting with criminal justice than higher education. We do need to face this. It is a serious problem in this country."Rubio also gave a personal anecdote: "I have one friend in particular who's been stopped in the last 18 months eight to nine different times. Never got a ticket for being stopped — just stopped. If that happened to me, after eight or nine times, I'd be wondering what's going on here. I'd be upset about it. So would anybody else." If you're arrested, if you're a 19-year-old, young minority male — African American or Hispanic — you're arrested, if you don't have any money, you're going to get public defenders. And they're going to push you toward a plea deal, because they're handling a thousand cases. You now have a record, which means you are now stigmatized — in the eyes of your employer, in the eyes of your future, etc. …And once you incarcerate someone, their chances of repeating offenses in the future begin to climb, because you're now basically housing them with criminals that they're learning the tools of the trade [with].We do need to address that. And it is particularly troubling among young African-American males."
Part of the problem is also cultural. One reason police are more likely to use force on and arrest black Americans is because they're more likely to perceive black people as threats due to what's known as “implicit bias“ Studies show, for example, that officers are quicker to shoot
black suspects in video game simulations .Part of this can be addressed through better training for cops, but some of it is simply rooted in how a person is raised, the kind of media he's exposed to, and other cultural influences.So Rubio is right in acknowledging not just that racial disparities in the criminal justice system
are a big problem, but how the problem presents itself. That's a big contrast
to a Republican field that has ranged from ignorant to hostile toward Black
Lives Matter....That includes Ben Carson....
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+freein2339
On a
national radio show [on Aug. 27], Carson said that the country need to
re-examine how it cares for veterans but also how to cut back on government
bureaucracy.
The
retired neurosurgeon said, “We don’t need a Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans Affairs should be folded in under the Department of Defense.”
As
regular readers probably know, plenty of Republican presidential candidates
support incorporating a voucher sytstem into the VA, effectively privatizing
parts of veterans’ care, but Carson is the first national candidate, at least
in recent memory, to suggest eliminating the cabinet agency altogether.
John
Biedrzyck, head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, isn’t impressed. “To suggest
that disabled veterans could be sent out into the economy with a health savings
account card overlooks the fact that civilian health care has waiting lists of
their own … and presupposes that civilian doctors have the same skill sets as
VA doctors, who see veterans of every age and malady every day,” Biedrzyck said
in a statement.
As the Military
Times’ report added, Paralyzed Veterans of America Deputy Executive
Director Sherman Gillums Jr. called Carson’s recommendation “a misguided notion
born from ignorance of what each department does.”
“Those who
insist ‘we don’t need a Department of Veterans Affairs’ are likely people who
in fact do not need VA care because of good health or cannot access VA care due
to ineligibility, as is the case with Dr. Carson,” he wrote.
“However,
frustration in reaction to problems in VA combined with ignorance about what VA
does and how it works are not the ingredients for a recipe of success where
fixing the department is concerned.”
Former Gen. Paul Eaton
stating that the separate department was necessary and Carson’s idea was
misguided.
Rather than think of ways to nickel and dime our veterans Dr. Carson
should be thinking of other areas of fat in government – particularly in
defense contracts – that can be cut, so we can hire more doctors and
caregivers, to provide returning veterans with the kind of care they earned.”
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+Timothy O'B Actually it's spelled Cain and the "mark" was actually leprosy...Depending on who you ask that is why certain people fled to the Caucas mountains which are located in Europe....Some historians claim that the caucasian was created there...I only know that devils do what devils do , therefore when a group of people seem to always act like devils then I have to call it like I see it...Face it man and be honest....western culture has done a lot more harm to the world than any other culture...Thats a fact....So where does all the hatred from people of color come from....did the devil make you do it..??ps...Africans are an old race.while whites are really mutations of a mutation.sorry to burst your bubbles , science doesn’t lie....Scientists said that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation
that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of
thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most
enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.
The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races.
Leaders of the study, at Penn State University, warned against interpreting
the finding as a discovery of "the race gene." Race is a vaguely defined
biological, social and political concept, they noted, and skin color is only
part of what race is -- and is not. Like I said...it depends on who you ask....
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+Sam Sbogh You take a situation where you have a group of people - namely white people -
who have actually taken philosophy, religion, education, science, liberal arts,
everything that you can associate with the word "culture" from Black people.
They have taken it, distorted it, adopted it and used it against the very people
from whom they received it as a justification for slavery. So, it was convenient
to enslave Blacks in Africa under the guise of spreading Christianity when it
fact the religion as developed in Africa (there were 27 bishops and seven Popes
of the North African Church before the first one in Rome - this is documented in
the book Libers Pontificals, which, when translated into English, is Book of the
Popes). I should also point out here that few references are made to the fact
that three of the earliest fathers of the Christian church were Blacks. St.
Augustine (born at Tagaste, Numida, North Africa in 354 A.S.), who set the moral
doctrine of the Christian Church; Tutillian and Cyprian. How could white people
tell Blacks that they had no history or culture other than that which Europeans
gave them and at the same time tell them that Christianity was not only
developed by Blacks, but that its master, Jesus, was a Black man? This could not
be done.
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+freein2339 Marco Rubio on Black Lives Matter...."This is a legitimate issue," Rubio said. "It is a fact that in the African-American community around this country there has been, for a number of years now, a growing resentment toward the way law enforcement and the criminal justice system interacts with the community. It is particularly endemic among young African-American males — that in some communities in this country have a much higher chance of interacting with criminal justice than higher education. We do need to face this. It is a serious problem in this country."Rubio also gave a personal anecdote: "I have one friend in particular who's been stopped in the last 18 months eight to nine different times. Never got a ticket for being stopped — just stopped. If that happened to me, after eight or nine times, I'd be wondering what's going on here. I'd be upset about it. So would anybody else."If you're arrested, if you're a 19-year-old, young minority male — African American or Hispanic — you're arrested, if you don't have any money, you're going to get public defenders. And they're going to push you toward a plea deal, because they're handling a thousand cases. You now have a record, which means you are now stigmatized — in the eyes of your employer, in the eyes of your future, etc. …And once you incarcerate someone, their chances of repeating offenses in the future begin to climb, because you're now basically housing them with criminals that they're learning the tools of the trade [with].We do need to address that. And it is particularly troubling among young African-American males."
Part of the problem is also cultural. One reason police are more likely to use force on and arrest black Americans is because they're more likely to perceive black people as threats due to what's known as “implicit bias“ Studies show, for example, that officers are quicker to shoot
black suspects in video game simulations .Part of this can be addressed through better training for cops, but some of it is simply rooted in how a person is raised, the kind of media he's exposed to, and other cultural influences.So Rubio is right in acknowledging not just that racial disparities in the criminal justice system
are a big problem, but how the problem presents itself. That's a big contrast
to a Republican field that has ranged from ignorant to hostile toward Black
Lives Matter....That includes Ben Carson....
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@smacdonald5142 Trump was given far more leeway than most Americans, experts told us, and could have avoided the search with full cooperation.
"There's no legal requirement for the FBI to proceed via subpoena or to ask nicely. It's well within their rights to go to a judge and get a search warrant," said Neama Rahmani, a former prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers in California, who described Trump as "partially cooperative at best" with the government.
"Trump and his associates have not been cooperative," said Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, who said the argument made by Trump and Crenshaw "makes no legal sense" because items the government was seeking were ultimately found in Trump’s possession.
A federal judge on Aug. 26 released a heavily redacted affidavit that explained the Justice Department’s request for the search warrant.
But the National Archives, or NARA, has been seeking documents that Trump removed from the White House and took to his Florida home after he left office in January 2021.
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@Bydun4prison Ukrainian officials on Saturday said they were offered $5 million (4 million pounds) in bribes to end a probe into energy company Burisma’s founder, but said there was no connection to former board member Hunter Biden whose father is running for the U.S. presidency.
The Ukrainian company was thrust into the global spotlight last year in the impeachment inquiry into whether U.S. President Donald Trump improperly pressured Kiev into opening a case against his rival for the November election race.
Trump wants an investigation into the Democrats’ 2020 candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son.
Artem Sytnyk, head of Ukraine’s national anti-corruption bureau (NABU), said three people had been detained, including one current and former tax official, over the bribe offer.
The money was the largest cash bribe ever seized in the country, NABU said. It was put on display during a press briefing, brought by masked men in see-through plastic bags.
Burisma said in a statement it had nothing to do with the matter. It did not respond to a request for comment from the company’s founder Mykola Zlochevsky, a former ecology minister now living abroad.
“Let’s put an end to this once and for all. Biden Jr. and Biden Sr. do not appear in this particular proceeding,” Nazar Kholodnytsky, head of anti-corruption investigations at the prosecution service, told Saturday’s briefing.
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Some cities in the US even get it....
Rock Port, Missouri is a tiny town the north-west of the U.S with a population of just 1,300. The town is located just in the right place to receive some of the nation’s best wind resources. With Rock Port making the most of its location, it runs entirely off of wind power. The wind farm is a private-public partnership, with the well-known company John Deere joining forces with local entrepreneurs and town leaders to create the Wind Capital Group. They have 4 wind turbines which are connected to the grid and they provide about 125% of the towns energy needs, meaning that they can sell any unused power. “We’re farming the wind, which is something that we have a lot of up here. The payback on a per-acre basis is generally quite good when compared to a lot of other crops, and it’s as simple as getting a cup of coffee and watching the blades spin”, said Jim Crawford, a natural resource engineer at the University of Missouri Extension in Columbia. “Anybody who is currently using Rock Port utilities can expect no increase in rates for the next 15 to 20 years,” Crawford said. Jerry Baker, an MU Extension community development specialist, added that the turbines could also increase tourist attraction to the area. For a town which is quite a drive from any major cities, the potential of bringing a bit of tourism to the area would be a good little boost for their local economy, without them needed to do much more than just have a cup of coffee, according to Jim Crawford, and with the town located on the road down to Kansas City, it makes it accessible for the tourists to stop off at. Rock Ports wind farm is a good example to small towns that it is easy to generate a lot of their power from a renewable source that works for them.
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Wake up....grow up...then shut up.
Twice-impeached former President Donald Trump on Sunday praised his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a violent attempt to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
“These were peaceful people, these were great people,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
Recalling the events of Jan. 6, Trump claimed “there was love in the air” at his rally earlier that day at the White House, and falsely said there was a “lovefest between the Capitol Police and the people that walked down to the Capitol.”
“They are military people, and police officers and construction workers,” he added. “They are tremendous. In many cases, tremendous people.”
The Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol was a shocking and horrifying event, as captured by countless testimonials from lawmakers who fled the scene and Capitol Police officers who faced off with the insurrectionists in hand-to-hand combat. Trump supporters assaulted Capitol Police officers and hurled racist insults at them as they forced their way into the building.
Approximately 140 police officers were injured during the attack. Dozens of people have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.
“Is this America? They beat police officers with Blue Lives Matter flags. They fought us, they had Confederate flags in the U.S. Capitol,” Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn later recalled in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
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@robbiegunkel2356 From the FBI....In our system, the prosecutors make the decisions about whether charges are appropriate based on evidence the FBI has helped collect. Although we don’t normally make public our recommendations to the prosecutors, we frequently make recommendations and engage in productive conversations with prosecutors about what resolution may be appropriate, given the evidence. In this case, given the importance of the matter, I think unusual transparency is in order.
Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.
To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.
As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.
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