Decay In Law Enforcement 14

Liberty In Peril

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The Llano Ledger

6-30-17

Think prisoners won't save the life of a deputy? CBS News reports:

"Officer down. It's one of the scariest calls a sheriff can receive. But when Polk County Sheriff Johnny Moats got that call on June 12, it didn't turn into the nightmare scenario he might have expected. On the contrary, that hair-raising call was the start of something heartwarming. On that Monday, an especially humid day in Georgia, six inmates were out doing maintenance work on the grounds of a local cemetery when the deputy sheriff assigned to guard them suddenly collapsed from the heat."

These men did the right thing:

"Thinking quickly, one of the inmates used the deputy's cellphone to dial 911. Others removed his bulletproof vest in an attempt to cool the officer off and render it easier for emergency personnel to perform CPR once they arrived. "When that happened, in my opinion, it wasn't about who is in jail and who wasn't," Greg Williams, one of the inmates, told WXIA in Atlanta. "It was about a man going down, and we had to help him."

Certainly did. Did the right thing.

"Help him, they did. The deputy, who reportedly lost consciousness due to complications from a brain surgery he had 10 years ago, has fully recovered. And now, as a way of saying thanks, the Polk County Sheriff's Office is helping them right back. Sheriff Moats is recommending that the six inmates, who are all nonviolent offenders, receive reduced sentences for their good deed. Some may even be released with time served. In the meantime, the department threw the six men a pizza party in the park, complete with homemade desserts from the family of the officer they saved."

When these men are released, the business community needs to step up. Immediately employ them.

6-30-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Sixty-two weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Sixty-two weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Sixty-two weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

Readers, this is but one of about four other highly questionable killings by law enforcement in Llano County in the last decade or so. There was one within the City of Llano, another in a field near Fuzzy's Corner, Buchanan Dam, yet another in Point Tella, Buchanan Dam, still another in Tow. If there are any others I may have neglected to mention, kindly email.

It's time the public be fully informed. -- Know what we're dealing with here and how 'law' 'enforcement' operates in this hell hole County. If these jackbooted bastards are not reined in, the life lost could be yours courtesy of a law enforcement system that is no longer accountable to anyone. ... Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

The Sheriff seems to have no clue the people who pay him and his goons are entitled to know whom is killing whom and why. This shit always seems to be swept under the carpet. Ignored. The attitude of these jackbooted sons of bitches is trust us. They can't be. They've lied too many times. Refuse to be accountable to anyone. We live in a goddamned fascist police-state where law enforcement does as it pleases. Usually, with impunity. That has to change.

The Texas Rangers have become rubber stamp to atrocities committed by law enforcement. This also has to change. No one is holding law enforcement accountable any longer. No one. No one in state or federal government. This is precisely why Ferguson triggered such an uproar. There was no justice there. None here. None anywhere. Officers are abusive, corrupt, inept.

Falsely ticket and arrest the innocent to line County coffers. Court fees charged continue to be horrendous. -- Aren't taxpayers already looted to pay these costs? Aren't you boys not only double f--king those falsely accused, but taxpayers also hellaciously looted to pay the very same costs? Yet, the criminal bastards in power in Llano continue to pile on the fees. This is nothing more than goddamned bullshit. This money finds its way into the pockets of the corrupt, abusive bastards who falsely believe they run and own this hell hole.

Would you believe the last time the Sheriff's Office happened to be 'audited' during the Garrett regime, reportedly, auditors couldn't figure out what went where and why? Yet, surprise, surprise. Nothing was done. There has to be transparency. There is none. Why would these thieving bastards want any? ... Right, Sheriff? TL? How else could they so easily steal and loot with virtual impunity? Worse, this reinforces jackbooted power in this goddamned, godforsaken hell hole County.

The public has a right to know the histories of the Sheriff's goons. Clearly, the Sheriff doesn't think so. That is, where they came from. Why they left where they were. What is happening here is the Sheriff is using 'personnel matters' as a convenient excuse to deny the public access to the history of outrageously corrupt, abusive, inept officers who are no more than criminals themselves.

He's protecting his outrageously corrupt, abusive, inept jackbooted bastards. Worse, the standards imposed by sheriff's offices statewide with the exception of metropolitan counties are well below those of DPS and city police departments. Why? So the corruption, abuse, ineptness, and outright stealing can continue unabated? This has to change. ... Can't have that, can we? Sheriff? TL?

The public should understand Llano County authorities have it all sewn up. Did you know the Texas Attorney General does not have the authority to investigate and prosecute County authorities on his own? The District Attorney has to call for an investigation by the Texas Rangers. Then, the State can prosecute if it so chooses.

Consequently? Guess what? Nothing will happen. Nothing ever does. The goddamned corruption continues unabated until you, the public, pressure authorities. Precisely, why we all enjoy the 'best' government money can buy. Literally. Without question, the corrupt, abusive, inept sons of bitches are all bought and paid for. Firmly clamped to the taxpayer tit. Dependent on money looted from innocent citizens caught in their web. Phony fines and court costs cleverly designed to f--k the innocent and enrich the pieces of shit who falsely believe they run and own Llano County. Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

Interestingly, the former Sheriff and District Attorney were reportedly forced to retire after an outrageous scandal involving a drunk driving police officer from out of town. Including special treatment of the drunken son of a bitch that no other citizen caught doing the same would have been afforded. An honest, honorable Llano County Deputy suffered the consequences. Forget? Great officers do not last in this hell hole County. ... Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

With all ongoing abuse in this goddamned County, one thing remains for damned sure. We're just getting started, Sheriff. You will continue to be exposed for whom and what you and your corrupt, abusive, inept jackbooted bastards have become, truly are, not what you phonies purport to be, that is, how you continue to f--k over a public you've falsely sworn to protect and defend. -- Exposure, the only way short of an unwanted dreaded revolution to force desperately needed change in a goddamned fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich.

Have your jackbooted thugs been tested for steroids, Sheriff? If you've nothing to hide, Bill, release the results of all drug testing. 'Personnel matters?' Bullshit. Looted taxpayers have the right to know. They're footing the bill for all this goddamned corruption, abuse, ineptness. When will you and the boys end the shakedowns? Looting of the innocent to line County coffers? No honor at all?

Where are your swastika armbands, you fascist son of a bitch? You and your thugs remain out of uniform. Once again, Sheriff, and ad nauseum, did you and/or your goons pressure Schilling to exit the race? Did you steal the election? If so, an aggressively stupid, achingly gutless public gets what it truly deserves. One of the most corrupt, abusive, inept 'law' 'enforcement' agencies in our formerly great country.

6-30-17

Have any information, knowledge of, experience with a purportedly non-profit volunteer clean-up group called Looking Forward In Llano County affiliated with the Llano County Attorney's Office? Email this publication at libertyinperil@openmailbox.org to provide information and/or arrange a meeting to discuss this matter. If requested, your identity will be protected. The question is quite simple. Is this group what it claims to be and on the level?

6-30-17

In follow up to the last edition, imagine yourself to be Diamond Reynolds. You've just watched your innocent, law-abiding boyfriend, Philando Castile, gunned down by Officer Jeronimo Yanez. Your daughter, in the back seat, just witnessed this jackbooted piece of shit pumping round after round into an innocent man. Imagine the terror of both this woman and her daughter. Additional evidence has been released from the trial. NBC News reports:

"The terrified four-year-old witness to the killing of Philando Castile by a Minnesota cop pleaded with her mother to cooperate with police moments after his death telling her “I don’t want you to get shooted," a newly released police video shows. The video, which came out with a bundle of evidence from the Castile trial, captures the interaction between Diamond Reynolds, Castile’s girlfriend, and her daughter as they were held in the back of a squad car shortly after the shooting."

Castile was innocent. Law-abiding. Did what the jackbooted bastard ordered him to do. Yet, got executed by this out of control, gutless piece of human excrement.

"In the heart-wrenching video, a handcuffed Reynolds yells "F---!" — and immediately her young daughter begins to cry begging her mother to “please stop cussing and screaming because I don’t want you to get shooted.” The weeping girl then embraces her mother, who tells her to give her a kiss. “I can keep you safe,” says the girl, while wiping away tears from her face."

No one's safe when police murder on the job and routinely get exonerated by a jury.

“I can’t believe they just did that,” Reynolds whispers to herself — to which the girl begins to cry uncontrollably."

This jackbooted piece of shit did indeed murder an innocent, law-abiding man, licensed to carry. Imagine the post traumatic stress this woman and her kid will endure the rest of their lives.

"Reynolds then attempts to get out of her handcuffs, and the girl again desperately yells for her to be calm, out of fear for her mother's safety. “No! Please no! I don’t want you to get shooted!” she said. "They're not going to shoot me, I'm already in handcuffs," Reynolds responds in an attempt to pacify the frazzled girl."

Why was this woman in handcuffs? Why? What threat did she pose to the gutless piece of shit who just murdered her boyfriend? Thankfully, she was able to live stream the aftermath of the murder. Otherwise, the piece of shit would likely have never been charged. The public would have been unaware a gutless cop had indeed murdered an innocent man on the job.

While a jury refused to convict the bastard, the public knows the truth. So does the gutless piece of shit who pulled the trigger. So do his handlers in the department. So does the rest of the world. Laid bare by the live stream. The world also knows there is no justice in our formerly great country. The jackbooted bastards in blue are not held accountable for their crimes.

"The emotional video shines new light on the tragic aftermath of Castile’s tragic shooting by Officer Jeronimo Yanez who fired seven bullets into him after he told the officer he had a firearm. Yanez told investigators and a jury that he believed Castile was reaching for the weapon. But Reynolds, who live streamed the immediate moments after her boyfriend was shot on Facebook, told authorities that he was only reaching for his wallet."

Doesn't matter in Nazi America. Police remain free to do as they please. Usually, with impunity.

Coup de grace?

"She is also heard saying "he’s not pulling it out!" in the police dashcam video seconds before the gunfire. Yanez was acquitted by a jury on charges of manslaughter and dangerous discharge of a firearm — sparking outrage in the community as well as with civil rights organizations across the nation."

There is no justice. None. We live in a fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Law enforcement cannot be trusted. Nor can prosecutors, or the courts:

"Reynolds testified during the trial that she recorded the encounter out of fear for her own life. "Because I know that the people are not protected by police,” Reynolds said, according to NBC Minneapolis affiliate KARE. "I wanted to make sure if I was to die in front of my daughter, someone would know the truth."

Nazi America.

The Washington Post reports:

"The family of Philando Castile, the Minnesota man fatally shot by a police officer during a July 2016 traffic stop, reached a settlement of nearly $3 million with the city that employed the officer at the time, officials said Monday. The announcement comes a week and a half after the officer, Jeronimo Yanez, was acquitted in the fatal shooting, the aftermath of which was broadcast on Facebook Live video and seen worldwide. Valerie Castile, the driver’s mother, will receive $2.995 million as part of the settlement, the city of St. Anthony, Minn., said in a statement Monday morning."

Nowhere near enough to discourage the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue from murdering yet another innocent law-abiding citizen in the future. Protest must remain ferocious, but non-violent. Otherwise, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are granted carte blanche to murder on the job. Don't give them the satisfaction.

6-30-17

In follow up to the last edition, LAPD has continuing problems. Major problems. ABC News reports:

"Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck says he personally arrested one of his own officers on Thursday. Beck arrested 10-year veteran LAPD officer Robert Cain in what has become the latest scandal involving the department’s youth cadet program. The 31-year-old officer is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female cadet. The chief, who usually does not make arrests, said “I told him you’re under arrest for unlawful sex with a minor.”

Ongoing decay in law enforcement:

"The officer is from the same police station, the LAPD’s 77th Street Division, that has been roiled in a scandal involving teen cadets who allegedly stole LAPD patrol SUV’s, crashing two of them in chases last week after they were spotted by on duty officers. The teens are also accused of stealing equipment like police radios and bullet proof vests. Beck says the teens pulled over drivers and impersonated officers with the stolen equipment but that they did not handcuff anyone."

F--king unbelievable that officers failed to supervise these cadets, keep track of inventory, better vet these kids. Worse, an officer has sex with one of them? Again, f--king unbelievable:

"The 15-year-old girl allegedly involved in the sexual relationship is one of seven cadets who have been arrested for stealing the patrol vehicles. Cain worked in the equipment room where police gear is checked out. Beck says he is not sure yet if Cain helped the teens obtain the stolen items."

Sounds like you've been caught flatfooted, Chief. Didn't do your job, you jackbooted son of a bitch.

"When Beck learned of the alleged criminal conduct involving Cain, he said he made the decision to make the arrest himself. “I think it’s important to send a message,” Beck said during a news conference."

How about sending the message someone is indeed in charge of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, Chief? Instead, of determinedly out to lunch.

“I find the actions of Cain, if they are proven, to be despicable. I find them to be absolutely inconsistent with the ethics and standards of the Los Angeles Police Department and they are criminal. I’m a police officer and I felt it was my duty to make the arrest.”

This is what happens when there is no oversight. No adequate vetting of personnel.

"Beck said the sexual conduct did not happen at the police station and that the relationship was consensual."

So what? The girl is underage. The accused is a jackbooted bastard in blue.

The following? Too little, much too late. Worse? Self-serving:

"The Los Angeles Police union representing LAPD officers is applauding Beck for taking quick action after the department learned about the relationship while investigating the stolen equipment and SUVs."

Is that right? How did it happen in the first place? Why did these kids have unsupervised access?

"Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti said in a statement, "There is no higher priority than protecting and guiding our young people -— and when they become LAPD Cadets, every parent should feel confident that they will be treated with the utmost care every step of the way."

Politically correct bullshit. A desperate attempt to draw attention away from the fact the City exercises insufficient oversight over law enforcement. Gets worse, however:

"The charges against this officer are deeply disturbing, and I have been assured he will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. These allegations represent a total breach of the trust we place in everyone who wears the uniform and a violation of the oath all officers take to protect and serve. There is an exhaustive review of the Cadet Program already underway, and I have faith that our program will emerge stronger and justice will be served.”

Hollow, empty, rhetoric. Abject unadulterated bullshit.

6-30-17

Consider the following. The Austin American-Statesman reports:

"The office of Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson said Thursday it had concluded some Mesquite police officers, who in August 2013 shocked 18-year-old Graham Dyer with a Taser on his testicles while he was handcuffed and allowed him to fatally injure himself in the back of their cruiser, had committed a crime."

You think? ... Or, don't you Republican fascists here in Nazi Llano County think so? Kicker?

"But due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, the officers involved couldn't be charged."

Nazi justice in a goddamned fascist police-state. Why is there any statute of limitations when it comes to criminal behavior perpetrated by the jackbooted bastards in blue? Why are these criminal pieces of human excrement protected and coddled? Why?

"According to state law, however, such charges cannot be brought more than three years after the incident, which came to the district attorney's attention as the result of an American-Statesman investigation two months ago. And while there is no such limitation on the higher charge of manslaughter, Snipes said the officers' behavior that contributed to Dyer's death didn't reach the level of a knowing disregard for his life."

Believe that? Consider it credible? Wake up:

"Yet police videos later obtained by his parents--with great difficulty and despite the city's refusal to turn them over--appeared to show that Mesquite police had failed to properly restrain Dyer in the back of the car."

No problem with that? Think this kid got what he deserved? That how you GOP fascists here in Nazi Llano County think? Believe a bad LSD trip justifies such behavior by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue?

"They also revealed the officers had pulled over and shocked the teenager with a Taser, including several times in his groin. One officer threatened to kill him."

'Protect and Serve?' Think so?

"The videos also seemed to contradict official police reports of the incident, which stated that Dyer had needed to be placed in a special restraint chair in the jail because he was so out of control. Yet, the videos of him being unloaded from the police car before being taken to a cell show Dyer lying limp on the sally-port floor. It was more than two hours later, when officers found him unresponsive, that medics were summoned to treat him."

Police don't lie, do they? Lie to a cop, guess what? Get charged with making a false report. Tell the bastard the truth, but not what the criminal son of a bitch wants to hear? Get charged with making a false report. Kicker?

"The case was never presented to a grand jury, and a city spokesman has said none of the police officers involved was disciplined."

Nazi justice in a goddamned fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Makes one goddamned proud to be an American, doesn't it?

"The Statesman described in April the Dyer family's long and frustrating battle to obtain the damning police records. Mesquite was able to withhold them because of a Texas law that says law enforcement agencies don't have to turn over their records if a defendant isn't convicted of a crime."

Convenient, isn't it? Forget? Dyer died before being tried. This goddamned state statute allows the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue to obstruct justice. Protect themselves. Cover their jackbooted, criminal nazi asses.

"After being repeatedly rebuffed in their request for the Mesquite Police Department's records from the night Graham died, Kathy and Robert Dyer asked the FBI to investigate. Although the federal agency said it was unable to bring a civil rights case, the Dyers realized they could circumvent Mesquite officials by asking the bureau for the records it had reviewed."

No justice. Police are not held accountable for their crimes. Are protected by state statutes.

"The family used the videos the FBI eventually turned over as the basis for a federal civil lawsuit against Mesquite. That case is pending and still in the early stages of litigation."

Law enforcement is out of control. Cannot be trusted. As repeatedly stated in this publication, the greatest threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties is no foreign power. No terrorist organization, foreign or domestic. Not even the criminal element. It remains all levels and branches of government. Ultimately, run and owned by its corporate masters.

A fascist police-state. Nazi America. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon. As the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight. Protest must remain ferocious, but non-violent. Otherwise, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are granted carte blanche to murder on the job. Don't give them the satisfaction.

6-30-17

Don't quite know what to make of the following. You decide. CBS News reports:

"Authorities say sheriff's deputies killed a 17-year-old boy while shooting at a dog outside a home early Thursday morning, reports CBS Los Angeles. The station reports that according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the teen, who was identified by family as Armando Garcia, was likely struck by a bullet that ricocheted off the driveway."

Police don't know?

"Deputies were checking on a house party at about 3:47 a.m. when they were reportedly confronted by a pit bull. At some point, Garcia came outside to check on the dog, which had bitten a deputy on the leg, LASD said. Deputies opened fire on the dog, and one of the bullets struck the boy."

A shot in the dark?

"We believe that when the individual came out from behind the building, which was approximately 40 feet away from where the shooting occurred, he may have been struck by one of the skip rounds. And it is what we're calling an extremely, extremely unfortunate incident," LASD Capt. Chris Bergner said at a Thursday morning news conference. Garcia was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead."

Here's where it gets tricky:

"My nephew was trying to save the dog because the cops started shooting at the dog," the victim's aunt, Amber Alcantar, told CBS Los Angeles. "He put his life on the line for an animal that wasn't even his."

More inexplicable?

"The deputy who was bitten by the dog was also struck by a ricocheting bullet and was taken to a hospital for treatment, Bergner said."

Sounds like a hell of a gun fight, doesn't it? Are we getting the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

"The dog was shot three or four times, L.A. County animal control confirmed. It was taken to a veterinary hospital to undergo surgery, but had to be euthanized."

... How many high-powered rounds striking the animal does it take to bring a dog down? Did the officer simply empty the magazine?

6-30-17

The price of liberty is indeed quite high in so many ways most of us never ever think about. The following is another example. CBS News reports:

"The confession of a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was improperly obtained and he should be released from prison, a three-judge federal appeals panel ruled Thursday."

Police and prosecutors are not stupid people. Despite their high level of perniciousness. Know full well coercion of confessions has no happy ending, especially when exposed to the light of day. Especially, why coercion should have been avoided at all costs, particularly in the following case:

"Brendan Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in photographer Teresa Halbach's death on Halloween two years earlier. Dassey told detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Halbach in the Avery family's Manitowoc County salvage yard. Avery was sentenced to life in a separate trial."

Certainly, no altar boy. No question, a piece of human excrement.

"A federal magistrate judge ruled in August that investigators coerced Dassey, who was 16 years old at the time and suffered from cognitive problems, into confessing and overturned his conviction. The state Justice Department appealed the ruling to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a move that kept Dassey, now 27, behind bars pending the outcome."

Prosecutors and police did not play by the rules. Rules, guarantied by the Bill of Rights. To protect not only the rights of the guilty, but the innocent as well.

"A three-judge panel from the Chicago-based 7th Circuit upheld the magistrate's decision to overturn his conviction. State attorneys' only recourse now is the U.S. Supreme Court. They could also elect to re-try Dassey."

Quite a conundrum, no? Precisely, why there needs to be no statute of limitations on corrupt and abusive police and prosecutors. If this man is in fact guilty of what he is accused of, needs to be re-tried. Let a jury decide if prosecutors indeed have a bona fide case. They may not. Consider the following:

"Avery and Dassey contend they were framed by police angry with Avery for suing Manitowoc County over his wrongful conviction for sexual assault. Avery spent 18 years in prison in that case before DNA tests showed he didn't commit the crime. He's pursuing his own appeal in state court."

What webs we weave. Must not be forgotten somebody raped and murdered the victim. Could it be both men are innocent? If so, there remains a murderer on the loose.

6-30-17

Here is further evidence the war on drugs has miserably failed. ABC News reports:

"A New Hampshire woman in labor who demanded that a friend inject her with heroin and methamphetamine has pleaded guilty to reckless conduct and has been sentenced to a year in jail. Police in Concord arrested 29-year-old Felicia Farruggia, of Concord, about six months after her son was born in September. He is in state custody. WMUR-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2srr54C) Farruggia told the court Wednesday that drug addiction made her lose sight of everything that was important, but she said she's committed to being a better person. Farruggia can get out earlier if she completes a drug treatment program."

Why is she in jail? If willing to accept treatment, why jail someone addicted but willing to accept help? Makes no sense. Reckless conduct? It's HER uterus, not that of the state. The child had not yet been born. Despicable conduct? Indeed. Yet, it's HER uterus. HER body. Yet, nazi government, courtesy of the 'religious' Fascist Right forces women to bring an unwanted pregnancy to term earlier and earlier prior to viability. When they don't, for whatever the reason, usually get robustly prosecuted.
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"The case against the woman accused of giving Farruggia the injection is ongoing."

6-30-17

The following is yet another example of appalling criminal violence perpetrated by police. CBS News reports:

"The Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is demanding an investigation into what it called a brutal attack by a police officer, CBS Minnesota reports. Dashcam footage of the 2016 arrest shows a Buffalo Ridge Drug Task Force agent opening the door of an SUV before kneeing and punching the driver, Anthony Promvongsa."

Videos don't lie. Record what happened at exactly the time they're turned on and from that point forward:

"This is an example, a textbook example of excessive force by police. It was really a vicious attack on this young man, it was not just an arrest but it was really an attack, a beating, an assault," said John Gordon, interim legal director for the ACLU of Minnesota."

Of course, police argue the video doesn't show what happened during the entire encounter:

"But authorities say the video only captured a small part of what led to charges against the driver."

So what? How does anything that proceeded a savage beating by a criminal jackbooted bastard in blue justify that beating? How?

"According to the criminal complaint, Promvongsa caught the attention of an off-duty officer by following closely, speeding past him and later saying he "was going to get his boys and come back to get them." The officer said he believed Promvongsa was attempting to harm him and another off-duty officer. They called dispatch."

Sounds concocted. Even if true, doesn't justify a savage beating.

"The officer and Agent Joe Joswiak then attempted to pull Promvongsa over, but said he wouldn't stop his vehicle at first. The video picks up what happened next."

Doesn't justify a savage beating. Even if what the jackbooted bastards are claiming is true.

"The ACLU is now demanding an investigation into Joswiak's actions and calling for his termination and prosecution. "Police have a very important job to do and valuable job to do, to enforce the law and to protect people. It is not their job to take punishment into their own hands and whoop on people," Gordon said."

Police don't get to be judge, jury, and executioner. Not in a democratic republic. Ubiquitously in a fascist police-state, clearly.

"In a statement, Promvongsa said he is scared of future interactions with police. "I did not even have the opportunity to take off my seat belt before I was literally blindsided with this unnecessary attack," he said. Promvognsa was driving with a revoked license. He's charged with using his car as a weapon and fleeing an officer. A trial date has not been set. The law enforcement agencies involved has asked people to be "patient as the criminal case progresses."

The fact he has not been prosecuted for a motor vehicle offense that allegedly occurred last year raises questions regarding veracity of allegations made by police:

"Promvognsa's defense attorney, Virginia Barron, said that his client has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges and maintains his innocence. He told the station that he's seen an "increasing systemic problem of excessive force from law enforcement" in the area that should "never be allowed or tolerated in a civilized society."

Somebody's lying. Guess who?

6-30-17

In follow up to the last edition, The Washington Times reports:

"The insurance company for the city of Ferguson, Missouri, paid $1.5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Brown’s parents, the city attorney said Friday. Attorney Apollo Carey disclosed the amount in an email in response to an open records request. The settlement of the federal lawsuit was announced Tuesday, but financial details were not initially released."

Piss-hole in the snow. Nowhere near enough to get police to think twice before murdering an unarmed victim.

6-30-17

No justice. NBC News reports:

"An Ohio judge declared a mistrial for the second time in the case against Ray Tensing, a former University of Cincinnati police officer charged with the 2015 shooting of an unarmed black driver during a traffic stop."

What does it take to successfully prosecute criminal officers in a fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich?

"This is the second time Tensing has been brought before a jury on criminal charges. The first round also ended in a mistrial last year with a jury unable to come to a unanimous verdict after deliberating for more than 20 hours."

Nazi justice.

"DuBose's family said in a statement released shortly after the mistrial that they were "outraged" that a second jury failed to convict Tensing "for the murder of our beloved Sam DuBose." "We demand another retrial. We call on the community to join us in peaceful protest of this unjust result," the family said."

Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. No justice.

6-30-17

Don't quite know what to make of the following. You decide. CBS News reports:

"A black off-duty St. Louis police officer was shot by a white on-duty police officer from the same department who apparently mistook him for a fleeing suspect, according to a statement from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. At about 10 p.m. Wednesday evening, St. Louis police received a report that a stolen vehicle had been spotted. Officers laid down spike strips and turned on their lights, but the occupants of the vehicle allegedly opened fire on police. Officers followed the car until it crashed. According to the police statement, the armed suspects then fled on foot. Meanwhile, an off-duty officer who lived near where the crash occurred came outside with his department issued firearm after hearing the commotion."

Certainly, did his duty.

"Two officers "challenged the off-duty officer and ordered him to the ground," the department said. The officer complied and once they recognized him the on-duty officers told him "to stand up and walk toward them."

Sounds reasonable, doesn't it? Here's where it gets achingly stupid:

"At about the same time, another officer who had just arrived on the scene saw what was happening and "fearing for his safety and apparently not recognizing the off-duty officer, discharged a shot, striking the off-duty officer in the arm."

Be awhile before this gets resolved:

"Two of the three suspects in the stolen car chase were taken into custody and booked on $500,000 cash bond. One suspect is still at large. Seven officers have been placed on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated."

Keystone Kops?

6-30-17

In follow up to an earlier edition of this publication about a year ago, CBS News reports:

"Relatives of a black man who was gunned down by a white police officer in Louisiana's capital sued the city on Tuesday, claiming the shooting fit a pattern of racist behavior and excessive force by its police force. Attorneys for Alton Sterling's five children filed the wrongful death lawsuit in state court against the city of Baton Rouge, its police department and police chief and the two officers involved in last summer's deadly encounter. Officer Blane Salamoni shot Sterling six times during a struggle outside a convenience store where the 37-year-old black man was selling homemade CDs."

This is a particularly appalling case. No justice, as usual.

"The Justice Department investigated Sterling's shooting and announced last month that it will not file charges against Salamoni or Officer Howie Lake II, who also wrestled Sterling to the ground but didn't fire his gun. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry's office has opened its own review of the case to determine if any state criminal charges are warranted."

Imagine that. A man gets murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, approximately a year passes, and guess what? Incredibly, no decision yet at the highest level, the attorney general, whether or not to criminally prosecute. No justice in a goddamned fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. The public remains achingly delusional. Psychotically believe police do no wrong. Edition after edition of this publication prove otherwise.

"Two cellphone videos of the July 5 shooting quickly spread on social media, setting off nightly protests. The officers' body cameras and a store surveillance camera also recorded the encounter, but those videos have not been publicly released."

Why haven't all videos been released? Why are the criminal murderous jackbooted bastards in blue nearly always protected and coddled? Given a free pass when they murder, assault, abuse, shake down innocent citizens on the job?

"Federal investigators found that Salamoni shot Sterling three times after saying that Sterling was reaching for a gun in his pocket, and fired three more shots into Sterling's back when he began to sit up and move. The officers recovered a loaded revolver from Sterling's pocket."

Was the weapon a 'throwaway' planted by the vicious jackbooted bastards in blue? Happens all over the country, particularly in the cities. Are reports the victim was armed outside the store legitimate, bona fide calls? Or, a ruse manufactured by the department to protect the officers? With all the lies and deception perpetrated by police all over the country, these questions must indeed be asked.

"Sterling was in "agony" for minutes before he died "as a result of the vicious, negligent, and unreasonable fatal actions" of the officers, the family's lawsuit said."

Amazing how in case after case after case where these bastards are either not charged or convicted, they still get fired. Move on to other departments. Become someone else's deadly problem. Lawsuits routinely get filed and won, -- or settled before trial. Imagine that. Yet, the bastards are nearly never ever successfully criminally prosecuted. ... When was the last one executed for murdering an innocent citizen on the job?

There is no justice. Police cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Incident after incident after incident all across our formerly great country scream otherwise. Yet, authorities remain determinedly deaf. Cannot hear the rumble. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. As the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight.

This case is different than most. Has not yet been resolved:

"Acting U.S. Attorney Corey Amundson said during a news conference last month that there wasn't enough evidence to prove that Salamoni or Lake acted unreasonably and willfully after they responded to a report of a man with a gun outside the Triple S Food Mart."

Is it because you and your goons didn't try hard enough to find it, Counselor? Or, sir, do you have an agenda? That is, are you in the pocket of the murderous criminal jackbooted bastards in blue?

"The officers told Sterling to put his hands on the hood of a car and struggled with him when he didn't comply, according to Amundson. Lake shocked Sterling with a stun gun before the officers wrestled him to the ground, Amundson said. Lake also is white."

Imagine that. Couldn't be any racism involved, could there? -- Almost forgot. ... Police aren't racists, are they? Don't have a racist, bigoted bone in their body, right?

"Sterling had a history of "adverse breathing problems and could not lie on his back for any extended period of time," the lawsuit said. Both officers remain on administrative leave, a standard procedure."

Imagine that. A paid vacation. Going on a year now.

"Nearly 200 protesters were arrested in Baton Rouge last July after Sterling's death. Racial tensions were simmering in the city when a black military veteran from Missouri ambushed and killed three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers and wounded three others before being shot dead on July 17."

The killing must end. Both sides. Despite the fact the killing is indeed quite lopsided, continually perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Not the citizenry. Protest must remain ferocious, but peaceful. Otherwise, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are granted carte blanche to continue murdering on the job. Don't give them the satisfaction.

6-30-17

Think the prison system hasn't catastrophically failed? Consider the following. Seatbelts on. CBS News reports:

"One by one, Denver Simmons recalled, he and his partner lured inmates into his cell. William Scruggs was promised cookies in exchange for doing some laundry; Jimmy Ham thought he was coming to snort some crushed pills. Over the course of about a half-hour, four men accepted Simmons' hospitality. None of them made it out alive."

Gets worse:

"Calmly, matter-of-factly, the 35-year-old inmate told The Associated Press how he and Jacob Philip strangled and beat their blockmates to death and hid their bodies to avoid spooking the next victims. They had nothing against the men; one of them was even a friend, Simmons admitted. Why did they do it?"

Sickeningly:

"Convicted in the cold-blooded shootings of a mother and her teenage son, Simmons knew he would never leave prison alive. Tired of life behind bars, a failure at suicide, he hoped killing these criminals would land him on death row."

Where were the guards? Watching Netflix? Think again:

"Because of their relatively clean records in custody, Simmons said he and Philip, 26, were named "dormkeepers" for their unit. That meant their doors remained open when others were on lockdown. Just two officers were assigned to the dorm, which housed 139 inmates, Corrections Director Bryan Stirling told lawmakers in April. He said pay that starts at $33,600 and chronic low funding from the Legislature make it almost impossible to even approach the national standard of four officers for every 30 inmates."

Unsustainable. Should this continue, this country cannot, will not survive.

Alabama is apparently about to be forced to do something about outrageously inhumane prison conditions. The AP reports:

"A federal judge is ordering Alabama to improve the way it treats mentally ill prisoners after ruling that the state fails to provide constitutionally adequate mental health care in state lockups. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson of Montgomery says Alabama is putting prisoners' lives at risk with "horrendously inadequate" care and a lack of services for inmates with psychiatric problems."

A good start, but far more needs to be done.

"This ruling means that prisoners with mental illness may finally get the treatment they have been denied for so long," says Maria Morris, senior supervising attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, which represents some of prisoners who sued."

Treatment will certainly reduce the amount of violence.

"The suffering some of these men and women have endured is excruciating and inhumane," Morris says. "We are pleased Judge Thompson has demanded that the state of Alabama meet its constitutional obligation to provide adequate care."

No more than a start.

6-30-17

In follow up to an earlier edition of this publication, The Washington Times reports:

"Three current or former Chicago police officers were indicted Tuesday on felony charges related to a conspiracy to cover up the circumstances surrounding another officer’s fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. The special prosecutor assigned to pursue the investigation announced the charges of conspiracy, official misconduct and obstruction of justice against Detective David March and patrol officers Joseph Walsh and Thomas Gaffney. “The indictment makes clear that these defendants did more than merely obey an unofficial ‘code of silence,’ rather it alleges that they lied about what occurred to prevent independent criminal investigators from learning the truth,” said special prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes."

Be interesting to see where this all goes, -- if anywhere.

"According to the indictment, the officers conspired to “shield their fellow officer from criminal investigation and prosecution,” lied about the facts of the shooting, and mischaracterized what was captured on video recordings of the incident in a bid to prevent them from being released to the public or viewed by independent criminal investigators."

Goddamned disgrace. Criminal jackbooted bastards.

6-30-17

Who'd 'a 'thunk' it? Can we stand it? Hell, indeed, has frozen over. An FBI agent has had his sorry ass indicted. Couldn't be, could it? The Washington Times reports:

"An FBI agent has been indicted on accusations that he lied about firing at a rancher in 2016 when officers arrested leaders of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon."

G-men don't lie, do they? Must be a mistake, no?

"Sources familiar with the case say the agent will face allegations of making a false statement with intent to obstruct justice, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Tuesday."

FBI goons don't obstruct justice, do they? What would James Comey think?

"The indictment stems from more than a yearlong investigation by the U.S. Justice Department inspector general. The agent will be identified when summoned to appear Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland."

Why wasn't his identity already disclosed? The public has a right to know the identity of those oppressing them. Why sit on this information? This case is achingly convoluted:

"Authorities moved in on Ammon Bundy and other leaders as they were driving in two vehicles from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to a meeting on Jan. 26, 2016. The Deschutes County sheriff said that as Robert “LaVoy” Finicum left his truck, an FBI agent shot twice at Finicum, though none of the hostage team members said they discharged their firearms. The county sheriff’s office was tasked with investigating the Finicum shooting."

How about that? A man apparently gets murdered by law enforcement bastards and authorities drag their feet over a year.

"The FBI agent’s bullets didn’t hit Finicum, 54, an Arizona rancher who was the spokesman for the takeover near Burns in Harney County. State police troopers then shot Finicum three times after he emerged from his truck and reached for his inner jacket pocket, where police said he had a loaded 9mm handgun. One bullet pierced his heart, an autopsy found."

This killing reeks to high heaven. Claims made by law enforcement remain highly questionable. Exacerbated further by fresh indictment of an FBI agent for lying.

"The Oregon investigators determined that one agent fired at Finicum’s pickup, hitting it in the roof and missing on the second shot. Federal law forbids “knowingly and willfully” making any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation or concealing information. Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Gorder Jr. revealed in court papers last year that a grand jury was reviewing the FBI actions. Less than two months after the shooting, the FBI acknowledged that a federal agent was under investigation for firing shots, and four other members of his FBI team were under investigation for covering up the gunshots. The status of the investigation into the other FBI team members is unclear."

A man was killed under highly questionable circumstances. Police appear to be covering their asses. Precisely, why law enforcement cannot be trusted.

6-23-17

As always, when a cop does something heroic, and/or of exceptional benefit to the community, it leads. Always. The Daily Trib reports:

"A Burnet-based trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety has earned a Life Saving Award for his courage and successful effort in rescuing a motorist stranded in a low-water crossing during a torrential storm. On June 15, Trooper Franklin Randolph received the recognition from DPS Director Steven McCraw, who also presented three more Life Saving Awards, two Director’s Awards, and a Unit Citation to DPS and auxiliary employees across the state."

Quite heroic:

"On Nov. 7, 2016, Randolph and Burnet County Sheriff’s Deputy Eric Molina arrived at the scene of a vehicle stalled in the roadway partially submerged by swift-moving water. The driver was still inside. THE BCSO report logged the incident as happening at 10:38 p.m. that night on Fairland Road (FM 1855). “(It) had been raining heavily, and water crossings in the area had quickly become impassable. Upon his arrival, Trooper Randolph entered the water to assist a single occupant in the partially submerged vehicle,” according to DPS. “He was able to pull the driver through the window as Burnet County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Eric Molina threw his rescue rope to the trooper. As Trooper Randolph held onto the driver and rescue rope, the deputy pulled them both to safety.” DPS officials said the deputy is scheduled to be presented with a Director’s Award in the future. Randolph joined the DPS in 2004. He has served in Burnet County since 2006."

Hat's off to both officers. Job well-done.

6-23-17

As always when a cop does something heroic, and/or of exceptional benefit to the community, it leads. Always. -- Second example this edition. The following is uncommon valor. CBS News reports:

"A female police officer with less than 2 years' experience withstood a barrage of gunfire from a gunman who wounded a top House Republican and four other people on a Virginia baseball field last week, giving fellow officers an opportunity to return fire and kill the shooter, her police chief said Monday."

Indeed, she did. Readers are reminded this occurred at the recent Republican baseball practice in Virginia:

"Alexandria Police Chief Michael Brown lauded the heroic actions of Officer Nicole Battaglia and two other officers who were the first to arrive at a field where GOP congressmen were practicing for their annual charity baseball game against Democrats. Officers were first dispatched to the scene at 7:10 a.m. Wednesday, Brown said, and Officer Kevin Jobe, a 16-year Alexandria police veteran, arrived less than two minutes later. Battaglia and another officer, Alexander Jensen, arrived around the same time."

Uncommon valor:

"Battaglia "immediately started taking fire from the suspect, and she jumped out of the car, without cover, and moved towards the firefight. Not away from it, towards it, to the point where she was actually pinned down in the parking lot with a barrage of weapon fire from the shooter," Brown said. "That act alone, probably, in my opinion, diverted the attention of the shooter away from the other officers, allowing them to get in position to deal with the situation."

Hat's off, Officer Battaglia. Job well done.

6-23-17

Not only are cops heroic, so are their saviors. Fox News reports:

"A former linebacker and a motorcycle mechanic are being praised as heroes for coming to the rescue of a California Highway Patrol officer who was being attacked by an aggressive driver. At 8:30 Saturday morning, Joel Jones was driving down the highway with his wife, Annalisa, when he noticed a driver weaving in and out of traffic. The driver, later identified as Gary Coslovich, smashed into two cars at high speeds, causing them to spin out. As Jones watched, a highway patrol officer pulled over the driver -- who apparently snapped, Fox 2 reported. “[The suspect] punched her, hit her repeatedly, beat her to the ground and started stomping her,” Jones, a pastor, said. “I thought he was going to take her gun. He was at her waist midsection. I told my wife, I said stay here, and I said, ‘Lord be with me.’”

Wasn't alone. Got some help from another traveler:

"Motorcycle mechanic Greg Bunting, also happened to drive by at the same time. Bunting said, “it’s hard to see a woman hit by a man. To see that was – uh, there’s no words to describe it except for it was sick.” The pair held Coslovich down until law enforcement arrived. He faces charges including assault and battery, and a court date was set for Friday. It was not Coslovich’s first encounter with law enforcement. Coslovich was fired last month from his job as a painter and is accused of ramming his truck into a county building in May, according to Santa Clara County officials."

Hat's off to both men and the officer. The officer was not identified, but is being treated for her injuries.

6-23-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Sixty-one weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Sixty-one weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Sixty-one weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

6-23-17

LAPD has its problems. Ongoing problems. Serious problems. CNN reports:

"The Los Angeles Police Department arrested and charged three of its own juvenile cadets after they stole and crashed three police vehicles, authorities said. The three teens, two males ages 15 and 17, and a 16-year-old female, were all members of the LAPD cadet program, Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday. They were not identified because they are minors. In addition to the three vehicles, police also recovered two Tasers, two police radios and a bulletproof vest, he said. The theft went undetected until Wednesday, when a watch commander doing daily inventory noticed two black-and-white LAPD patrol vehicles missing from their fleet."

Gets worse:

"LAPD officers attempted to stop the teens driving the patrol cars, but both fled and at one point during the pursuit, went different directions, initiating two police chases throughout the streets of South Los Angeles. "One of the pursuits terminated when the pursuit vehicle was involved in a traffic collision ...The second pursuit ended when the pursuit vehicle collided with a non-involved motorist," Beck said. The teenagers, one of whom was wearing an LAPD bulletproof vest, were arrested and taken in for questioning. During the investigation, one confessed to having stolen a third patrol car, Beck said, and possibly having had that vehicle for over two weeks."

Appalling.

6-23-17

Clearly, no end to murders perpetrated by the gutless criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. This time in Seattle. The Washington Post reports:

"Seattle police officers shot and killed a 30-year-old mother of four at her apartment Sunday morning in front of “several children” when the woman “confronted” them with a knife, according to a statement from authorities. The Seattle Times said she had called police to report a possible burglary. At a vigil Sunday night, family identified the woman as Charleena Lyles, reported the Times, and said she had a history of mental health struggles. She was three months pregnant with her fifth child, her family said, and too “tiny” for officers to have felt threatened by her — even if she had a knife."

Never ends. Not just a problem of piss-poor training, however. Abject gutless cowardice.

“Why couldn’t they have Tased her?” Lyles’s sister, Monika Williams, told the Seattle Times. “They could have taken her down. I could have taken her down.”

Unarmed United States Marines are routinely taught how to safely disarm an attacker with a knife. Why aren't cops?

"Authorities offered few details Sunday of what led police to fire their weapons."

Why would they? How could they? How can the indefensible be defended? How?

"Two patrol officers dispatched just before 10 a.m. Sunday to investigate a reported burglary at Brettler Family Place, an apartment complex for people transitioning out of homelessness, Detective Mark Jamieson said. Usually, only one officer would respond to a standard burglary call like this one, Jamieson told reporters. But police were familiar with Lyles and her apartment, he said, and her call flagged “hazard information” affiliated with her apartment that “presented an increased risk to officers,” the detective said."

Gutless jackbooted pieces of shit. Disgrace to themselves, the department, to say nothing of the community they certainly don't serve.

"Officers walked to the fourth floor and “at some point, the 30-year-old female was armed with a knife,” Jamieson told reporters. Both officers, who have not been identified, fired their weapons. They performed CPR, according to authorities, but Lyles was later declared dead by fire department officials at the scene."

Why haven't they been identified? The public has the right to know the identity of jackbooted pieces of shit who prey on the community.

"Family members told the Seattle Times that they believe Lyles’s race — she is black — was a factor in her death. Seattle police told the newspaper that the officers who shot her are white."

So what else is knew? Same old goddamned bullshit.

"Around a hundred people gathered Sunday for a vigil honoring Lyles. The mourners taped photos of the woman and her children to the back of black plastic chairs and spelled her name out on the sidewalk with small votive candles. Friends and family wondered aloud how police could shoot and kill a mother in front of her children."

Good question. Likely, won't get answered.

"Lhora Murray, 42, lives in the apartment directly below Lyles and told the Stranger she often heard yelling from the woman’s unit and called security multiple times. When she heard gunshots Sunday morning, Murray said she called police — unaware it was officers who had fired their weapons. Murray told the Stranger that after the shooting, police handed her two of Lyles’s children, a 10-year-old and a toddler. “They shot my mom,” Murray said the 10-year-old told her as she took the kids outside."

No justice in a fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. As the murders perpetrated by the jackbooted bastards in blue continue unabated.

More bullshit:

"Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said in a statement that the shooting was “a tragedy for all involved.”

Bullshit. A tragedy for society, the family, friends, and children of the woman murdered by the jackbooted bastards in blue. Certainly, not for the officers perpetrating the murder. Not for the achingly failed department in charge of supervising the criminal bastards. Certainly, for the taxpayers who will be soundly fleeced when suit is filed and fully adjudicated.

"He promised a full and thorough investigation, citing “historic police reforms” that are “in place to address such crises.”

An empty, hollow promise.

"The Seattle Police Department has been operating under a federal consent decree since 2012, when a Department of Justice investigation found that officers used regular and widespread excessive force on the job, reported the Seattle Times."

Never ends. Will grow worse under the Trump nazi and his stooge in the Department of 'Justice,' the Sessions nazi. Forget? Sessions protects and defends the jackbooted bastards in blue no matter what they do. Doesn't think there's a systemic cancer pervasive in law enforcement, tearing all faith and trust in it asunder.

"A court-ordered federal monitor issued a report in April asserting that the department had made a positive turnaround and that use of force by officers was down, reported the Times."

Is that right? Surprise, surprise. A crock of shit. Laid bare for all to see.

6-23-17

In follow up to an earlier edition, The Washington Post reports:

"Authorities in the District said Thursday that they have criminally charged a dozen members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security team who authorities say attacked protesters outside the ambassador’s residence in May."

What took so long? Why wait until they left the country? Making it nearly certain there will be no justice since Turkey is already contesting the charges and what went down.

"The charges come nearly a month after the clashes at Sheridan Circle along Massachusetts Avenue’s Embassy Row, outside the residence of the Turkish ambassador. Police and other officials say various members of the visiting Erdogan’s security team, some of them armed, attacked a group protesting his regime as police struggled to restore order and bystanders recorded the scene with phones. In an affidavit to support an arrest warrant, D.C. police wrote that “during the course of the official Turkish visit, Turkish security personnel and others assaulted protesters and U.S. law enforcement officers in at least three separate incidents.”

Clearly, police did not do their job. Should have immediately hauled their asses to jail. Had it been Americans engaging in such criminal behavior, certainly would have happened. Forget? Police take great pleasure in beating the living shit out of protesters. Matters not whether they're guilty or innocent.

The fact they're protesting, police routinely take as carte blanche to get their cookies off inflicting their version of street justice. Yet, when confronted with a foreign goon squad, gutlessly, do squat shit. Sadly, now, the American Way.

"Authorities said they identified the suspects by comparing video of the melee with passport and visa images, using facial recognition techniques."

Again, why didn't police immediately arrest these foreign goons at the time of the violence? Why not? Did not do their sworn duty. Again, why not?

"People injured in the attack and federal lawmakers have criticized the initial response, which was complicated by issues over diplomatic immunity and relations with Turkey. Officials at the Turkish Embassy in Washington declined to comment Thursday."

No more than egregious failure of law enforcement. Readers are reminded these attacks were vicious. Unprovoked.

"Some critics were angry police did not make more arrests on the spot; the State Department ordered a federal police agency to release two presidential guards taken into custody, saying they had diplomatic immunity."

They viciously attack, do so unprovoked, then get excused through diplomatic immunity? Anything wrong with this picture? Anything at all? Readers are reminded this was not your usual run of the mill diplomatic motor vehicle scofflaw bullshit that goes on routinely at the UN in New York. This was a brutal savage attack on innocent people protesting the goddamned Turkish dictator.

Why was the son of a bitch allowed into the country by the Trump nazi in the first place? Trump knew what he was dealing with. Knew the sordid history of this jackbooted piece of shit. Yet allowed him into the country. Granted him legitimacy he did not deserve by meeting with the son of a bitch. Again, anything wrong with this picture? Anything at all?

"It is not immediately clear whether those issues had been sorted out. Police said they have been working closely over the past several weeks with the State Department and Secret Service, poring over video clips and trying to decide how to proceed."

Pitiful. Goddamned pitiful.

"Turkish officials have acknowledged that security officers participated in the fracas but said they were acting in self-defense, contending that protesters started the brawl and that D.C. police refused to arrest them. Turkey also alleged that terrorist sympathizers were among the demonstrators who had gathered on Embassy Row in Northwest Washington. Law enforcement and legal experts have said bringing the attackers to justice could be difficult because Turkey is unlikely to extradite people or make them available for interviews."

Precisely, why they should have been arrested at the time of the violence, hauled to jail. Then, let federal authorities sort out the legal ramifications vis a vis diplomatic immunity.

"American officials and members of Congress have condemned the incident as an attack on peaceful demonstrators exercising their Democratic rights. Some called for the ouster of Turkey’s ambassador and a ban on the guards returning to the United States. The State Department summoned the Turkish ambassador to file a protest."

Had the Trump nazi not agreed to allow this goddamned dictator into the country, none of this would have been an issue. Trump's judgment resides up his ass.

"At least 11 people were injured, including a police officer. Police finally separated the two sides and pushed the security personnel back toward the residence. Protesters complained that police were protecting Turkish officials and reacted to the violence with too light a hand. Turkey issued several statements, the first of which blamed D.C. police for allowing the protest and saying its security personnel felt compelled to shut it down absent any action from local authorities against people it called terrorists."

The Turkish dictator and his thugs don't get to make that call in the United States. The First Amendment right to protest guaranties otherwise. Police did not do their jobs. Where is the investigation of that dereliction of duty? Where?

6-23-17

No justice. NPR reports:

"After five days of deliberations, a jury has found a Minnesota police officer not guilty on all counts over his deadly shooting of a black man during a traffic stop last July in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, Minn."

Legalized murder. No equal treatment. Nazi justice in a fascist police-state.

"The system continues to fail black people, and it will continue to fail you all," Valerie Castile, Philando's mother, told reporters after the verdict. "My son loved this city and this city killed my son and the murderer gets away. ...I'm mad as hell right now." Castile's sister Allysza, weeping, said "he didn't deserve to die the way he did, and I will never have faith in this system." Castile family lawyer Glenda Hatchett vowed to continue fighting."

There can be no faith or trust in a kangaroo system of justice.

CBS News reports:

"A jury on Friday found a Minnesota police officer not guilty of manslaughter in the death of a black motorist. Defense attorneys contended the 29-year-old Latino officer was scared for his life and was justified in shooting 32-year-old Philando Castile. Jeronimo Yanez shot Castile five times last July during a traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb, just seconds after Castile informed him he was carrying a gun."

Had a license to carry. Was a law-abiding citizen.

"Prosecutors insisted Yanez never saw a gun and had plenty of options short of shooting Castile, an elementary school cafeteria worker they say was never a threat."

Nazi justice.

"Philando Castile's girlfriend livestreamed the gruesome aftermath of the shooting on Facebook. The video was shared widely, and included Diamond Reynolds' statements that Castile hadn't been reaching for his gun. Castile had a permit for the weapon."

Testimony and facts of this case dictated conviction. Two possibilities. Disingenuous prosecutors may have aided defense counsel loading the jury with 'law and order' nazis. More likely, jurors selected were hopelessly aggressively stupid. -- 'Can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.'

Despite exoneration of a murderous officer, protest MUST remain peaceful. Otherwise, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are granted carte blanche to murder on the job. Don't give them the satisfaction.

CNN reports:

"Thousands of protesters gathered Friday night after a jury found a police officer not guilty in last year's fatal shooting of motorist Philando Castile. Minnesota State Patrol said it arrested 18 protesters following demonstrations on Interstate 94 in St. Paul. They were arrested after they failed to comply with orders to disperse, the agency posted on Twitter. St. Paul police estimated that 2,000 people marched peacefully through the streets, including a crowd gathered outside the Minnesota state Capitol. Speakers led chants, sang hymns and urged the protesters not to lose hope."

There can be no hope when police are not held accountable for murdering innocent civilians. Sadly, this is precisely how revolutions spawn. Protesters MUST remain non-violent. Otherwise, police enjoy open season on those protesting. No more than legalized murder.

"Organizers of the Friday protest said on Facebook, "This verdict shows how the system is rigged against justice for victims of police terror."

Indeed, terror perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. As repeatedly stated in this publication, the greatest threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties is no foreign power. No terrorist organization. Not even the criminal element. Without question, the greatest threat now comes from government. All branches and levels. Enforced and perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Ultimately, on behalf of their corporate masters who now almost own it all.

"Numerous groups castigated the decision. Sherrilyn Ifill, the director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said the jury's decision shows how difficult it is to prosecute a police officer in a fatal shooting."

There is no justice. Police are granted carte blanche to murder innocent, unarmed civilians. Protected, coddled by clueless, carefully selected juries, -- and egregiously unjust laws. Worse? Nazi rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"This incident seemed so egregious and avoidable that we hoped that this time, it might be different -- that this time, justice might be served," Ifill said."

Not to be. To shamelessly borrow the sentiments of the Trump nazi, the system is indeed rigged. Against, however, the bottom of the food chain and middle class.

"Because if the government can take your life and no one is held responsible, you are a second-class citizen, if not fully dehumanized in the eyes of the law," she said. "That is the devastating message this verdict, along with all those similar acquittals before it, sends to communities of color across the nation."

Not only minorities, however. ... Right, TL? Sheriff? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

"The ACLU said in a statement: "Two Supreme Court decisions from the 1980s allow officers to use deadly force when a reasonable officer on the scene could reasonably fear for their safety. These two decisions create an atmosphere where police violence is sanctioned based on what we think a hypothetical officer could have felt, even if, in reality, the officer was acting recklessly, had ill motives or was acting based on implicit bias."

The classic bullshit Catch-22. Designed to protect the gutless, criminal jackbooted asses of America's not-so-finest. ... Right, TL? Sheriff? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

"Taking another person's life is the most extreme action a police officer can take, and consequently new standards are needed to better ensure that police killings happen rarely."

Not likely to occur any time soon. Forget? The system has grown too corrupt, abusive, inept, clueless. Precisely, why violent protest has increased. Why the rumble of an unwanted dreaded second American revolution grows louder and louder. As our formerly great country continues to deteriorate.

Interestingly, the Nazi Right seems to be running scared. Blaming the Left for the growing violence. NPR reports:

"Some conservatives have seized on Wednesday's shooting of Republican Rep. Steve Scalise and three others as the latest example of what they see as rising political violence from the left. Fox News' Sean Hannity accused Democrats of "dehumanizing" Republicans, and the right-leaning Washington Times ran an editorial by a Tea Party activist that called leftist protests "the first skirmishes of the second American civil war."

Think so?

"But those who track extremism say that while there are a few far-left groups that raise red flags, their numbers remain small."

Wouldn't want to confuse the Nazi Right with the truth, would we?

"The far left is very active in the United States, but it hasn't been particularly violent for some time," says Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. He says the numbers between the groups don't compare."

They don't.

"In the past 10 years when you look at murders committed by domestic extremists in the United States of all types, right-wing extremists are responsible for about 74 percent of those murders," Pitcavage says."

Yet, if you listen to a growing number on the Right, seem to be conveniently out of touch with this reality:

"You have to go back to the 1970s to find the last big cycle of far-left extremism in the U.S. Both Pitcavage and McNabb say we have been in a predominantly far-right extremist cycle since the 1990s — the abortion clinic bombings and Oklahoma City, for example. And, more recently, racially motivated attacks such as the one at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, the mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, S.C., and last month's stabbings on a commuter train in Portland."

Indeed. All true. Yet, the mass shooting earlier this week in Virginia perpetrated by an extremist on the Left remains outrageous, disturbing. Hopefully, not a portend of what's to come as our formerly great country continues to nazify. Transforms from the fascist police-state we already live in to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

6-23-17

The Border Patrol recently raided a non-profit life saving aid station in the Arizona desert. Fox News reports:

"U.S. Border Patrol agents served a search warrant at a non-profit aid camp in the southern Arizona desert Thursday and arrested four Mexican men suspected of being in the country illegally."

To the credit of the jackbooted bastards, they did have a warrant. Amazing, isn't it?

"The camp, about 11 miles north of the Mexican border, provides medical care for immigrants crossing into the U.S. across the miles-long Sonoran Desert. It has been in operation since 2004, run by the organization No Mas Muertes (No More Deaths)."

Doesn't matter to the jackbooted bastards this could indeed result in more needless deaths in the desert as word gets out BP thugs are conducting heavily-armed raids at the aid station.

"The raid on the medical aid camp is unacceptable and a break in our good faith agreements w/BP to respect the critical work of #NoMoreDeaths," the organization said in a tweet.

"Nogales #CBP #USBP agents serve warrant and arrest 4 at No More Deaths camp in Arivaca, Arizona #HonorFirst pic.twitter.com/uw5Eg6MXQB
— CBP Arizona (@CBPArizona) June 16, 2017"

Humanitarian concerns no longer matter to the jackbooted bastards in the Border Patrol. To say nothing of ICE.

"The NGO said in a statement that 30 armed agents entered the camp with 15 trucks and a helicopter searching for the migrants."

Jackbooted storm troopers. Nazi America. A goddamned fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"Border Patrol said agents reached out to camp representatives before the raid but the talks were unsuccessful."

What did they expect? This is a life saving aid station. What's next? Jackbooted, heavily-armed raids of church sanctuaries by ICE goons?

"In a statement posted on Twitter, the agency said it felt “compelled to seek a search warrant” to question the men and said a similar raid last month resulted in the arrest of eight undocumented men, two of whom had a criminal record."

What criminal record? Spitting on the street? Public intoxication? You jackbooted bastards need to be specific. Again, what criminal record?

"Camp officials said that in the past few weeks, the heavy presence of law enforcement has deterred people from accessing critical humanitarian assistance.

"The choice to interdict people only after they entered the #NoMoreDeaths camp is evidence that this was a direct attack on humanitarian aid pic.twitter.com/WIKDGKkUig
— No More Deaths (@NoMoreDeaths) June 16, 2017"

That's the true aim of these goddamned jackbooted bastards. No sanctuary. Anywhere. Death in the desert of a migrant or refugee? No problem for the criminal jackbooted bastards. ... These, the very same hypocritical pieces of shit who get down on bended knee each Sunday in church. Thanking the Good Lord for their good fortune.

6-23-17

Amazing how politicians routinely rely on achingly simple explanations in search for over simplistic answers to resolve highly complex problems with no easy solutions. The latest is the savage shooting incident in Virginia and explanations for that shooting that hold no water. Politicians at both extremes ludicrously believe heated rhetoric of the other side leads to such violence. Nonsense.

Rhetoric isn't the root cause of violence. Never is, never has been. An unsustainable status quo always is. Doesn't justify violence, however, simply explains it. This country is profoundly divided. Papering over this fact won't change this reality. Will, sadly, exacerbate the problem. Resolve nothing. Consider the following. The Washington Times reports:

"Rep. Joe Crowley said Thursday that President Trump’s policies are in part to blame for the heated rhetoric that led to the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others this week in Alexandria, Virginia. “I think much of that tone is set by the president himself, and the actions that he’s taken,” Mr. Crowley said on CNN. “Not just the United States but the entire world is unsettled.” “My constituency does feel under duress right now by the president’s actions and so what I’m speaking of is his actions,” the New York Democrat said. But the congressman stipulated, “I’m not attacking the person of the president, but the policies or the actions that he’s taking.”

Readers are encouraged to carefully re-read the above quote. Crowley is quite correct. The actions of the president are at the root of the problem. That is, unacceptable determined nazification of our formerly great country. Precisely, why the only solution to this problem is carefully reasoned rhetoric based on facts that are persuasive, undeniable. To avoid the unthinkable. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

Yet, we see no evidence of this rhetoric in the body politic. Quite the opposite. We see the Extreme Right blaming the Extreme Left for the violence. The Extreme Left blaming the Right. Casting blame rather than addressing the problem at hand. What problem? Wake up. Extension of the fascist police-state we already live in to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Unless this is resolved, the chance for further unwanted violence remains high. Culminating in what's already catastrophically looming. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution. Police remain out of control. So do all levels and branches of government. So do their corporate masters who ultimately run and own it all. Unless this is resolved, the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight.

The following quote from The Washington Times is achingly ironic:

"President Trump said Thursday that he hoped the shock and horror over the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who remained in critical condition at a Washington hospital, would bring unity to the painfully divided country."

Ironic due to the fact Trump himself is directly responsible for this growing division.

The following is the take of Texas Rep. Mike Conaway from his most recent newsletter:

"The 2017 Congressional Baseball Game

"Wednesday morning, a gunman opened fire at the GOP's baseball practice. I was unharmed, but five others, including Majority Whip Scalise, were shot.

"I have played in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity every year since I came to Congress, and it has become one of my favorite traditions. The camaraderie we feel as players transcends party, as we live out our childhood dreams of playing on a major league field.

"Last night, the game went on. We played the game we love in honor of Congressman Steve Scalise, Matt Mika, Zach Barth, Special Agent Crystal Griner, and Special Agent David Bailey. We remain thankful for the heroic actions of Special Agents Griner and Bailey, as well as the other officers who arrived to our aid quickly, without whom the events of Wednesday might have turned drastically worse.

"We took to the field last night, united in our love for this country. The Republicans and Democrats came together at second base to start the evening with a prayer, and then we played ball."

Scalise has been upgraded to fair condition. Hopefully, will fully recover.

6-23-17

Once again, an achingly nazi U.S. Supreme Court disgraced itself and the public it supposedly serves. ABC News reports:

"The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Muslim men detained after the Sept. 11 attacks can't sue top U.S. law enforcement officials."

Why not? Why are top law enforcement officials ruled above both the law and the United States Constitution by the nazis on the Supreme Court? Smacks of the same bullshit suffered by Japanese-Americans removed from their homes and placed under detention in concentration camps after Pearl Harbor.

"The justices by a 4-2 vote ended a long-running lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller and other top Bush administration officials. The suit was filed by Muslim men who were detained for months in harsh conditions in a Brooklyn jail after the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon."

Now, we have a nazi U.S. Supreme Court rubber stamping this outrageously unconstitutional bullshit in a nod to political expediency. In a fascist police-state. The Court has once again disgraced itself. Shown its true colors. Rabid nazism.

"They were seeking damages against Ashcroft, Mueller, former immigration chief James Ziglar and the man who ran the federal jail. A lower court still may re-examine claims against the jailer."

Clearly, no justice in a fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"In his majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy noted that the case arose in the aftermath of the deadly attacks, when U.S. officials wanted to be sure that there were no other potential attackers in the country. The men who were arrested all were in the United States illegally, many having stayed past the expiration of a visa. He also acknowledged that the men were treated badly."

Indeed, no more than a goddamned repeat of history. Remarkably similar, remarkably similarly justified to what happened to Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor. Only difference? The Japanese Americans were American citizens. Nazis on the current Supreme Court clearly don't believe constitutional guaranties apply to ALL under U.S. jurisdiction, including, non-citizens.

Here is the non-credible, non-excuse offered by the Kennedy nazi for this appalling ruling:

"There is therefore a balance to be struck, in situations like this one, between deterring constitutional violations and freeing high officials to make the lawful decisions necessary to protect the Nation in times of great peril," Kennedy wrote. But Congress, not the courts, should set when top officials can be sued, Kennedy said."

Apparently, the Kennedy nazi has not read the Bill of Rights. Fails to understand this is supposedly a democratic republic, not a fascist police-state run by a nazi dictator.

Not all were onboard in this outrageously unconstitutional ruling:

"In a dissent joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen Breyer said the ability to hold officials accountable is especially important in a time of war or national security emergency. "History warns of the risk to liberty in times of national crisis," Breyer said in a dissent he summarized aloud from the bench Monday."

The doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. As the courts continue to raucously shit on the United States Constitution including the Bill of Rights. A raucous, boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Sieg Heil!, 'Justice' Kennedy, his fellow achingly clueless stooges.

6-23-17

2017 and sexual assault victims still have problems securing justice in the court system. Especially, if the perpetrator is a well-loved, highly-regarded celebrity. Hung jury in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial. Prosecutors vow to retry him shortly. Reportedly, within the next four months.

6-23-17

A legal settlement in the Ferguson fiasco. NPR reports:

"Nearly three years after their son's death sparked nationwide protests, the parents of Michael Brown have settled their wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, Mo. Brown, who was African-American, was shot and killed by a white police officer in August 2014. As we reported, Brown's parents filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, former police chief Thomas Jackson and former police officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed the unarmed 18-year-old. The lawsuit claimed Wilson "unjustifiably shot and killed" Brown, using "an unnecessary and unreasonable" amount of force."

Wilson skated. Was not prosecuted.

"The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber approved the settlement with Brown's parents, Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden — and ordered it sealed. That means the terms of the agreement will not be made public. It's not clear whether the individuals named in the lawsuit are parties to the settlement. The paper says a person familiar with the settlement negotiations said the agreement would be for less than $3 million because that is the maximum the city can pay under its insurance."

Nowhere near enough. Along with Wilson, the city skated. A paltry sum that will do little to nothing to prevent these atrocities from being committed by police in the future.

"Webber wrote that the amount Brown's parents will receive is "fair and reasonable compensation for this wrongful death claim and is in the best interests of each Plaintiff," the Post-Dispatch says."

The head of the 'judge' is securely lodged up a bodily orifice seldom seeing the light of day. Clouding vision, eviscerating judgment.

"But Webber said the details will remain secret because "disclosure of the terms of the settlement agreement could jeopardize the safety of individuals involved in this matter, whether as witnesses, parties, or investigators. The public policy to consider records open is outweighed by the adverse impact to Plaintiffs."

The 'judge' determinedly protects the pieces of human excrement responsible for the egregious failure to criminally prosecute Wilson. Further proof there is no justice. Criminal officers continue to be protected, coddled. All across our formerly great country. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. As the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight.

6-23-17

Yet, another murderous officer found not-guilty. In follow up to an earlier edition here and elsewhere, CBS News reports:

"A former Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot a black man after a foot chase last year has been found not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide. Jurors began deliberations Tuesday around midday after attorneys delivered closing arguments in a case that poses the question of whether the officer was acting in self-defense or shooting a man who was no longer armed. The verdict was announced Wednesday afternoon."

This case is interesting because both the former officer and his victim are black.

"The prosecutor who charged Dominique Heaggan-Brown with first-degree reckless homicide in the killing of 23-year-old Sylville Smith told jurors Smith was defenseless and "looked like a child" when he was on the ground the moment Heaggan-Brown shot him in the chest."

A shyster defense attorney excused the murder:

"But one of Heaggan-Brown's attorneys countered that the former officer was forced to make a split-second decision when confronted with an armed man during a foot chase that followed a traffic stop."

By bastardizing the truth of how and what went down:

"Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm told jurors Heaggan-Brown didn't need to use deadly force against Smith, who had thrown away the gun he was carrying. Heaggan-Brown shot Smith on his right bicep as he threw the gun away over a fence. He shot him again 1.69 seconds later, this time in the chest, when Smith fell on his back with his legs in the air."

Gutless jackbooted bastard. Nazi justice.

6-23-17

No question, the fascist police-state we already live in is expanding to the Fourth Reich. CNN reports:

"President Donald Trump's immigration enforcer doubled down Friday on recent comments that undocumented immigrants "should be afraid" under the Trump administration."

A raucous, boot clicking, goose stepping, traitorous, treacherous, treasonous Sieg Heil!, Mr. Homan. You and your jackbooted goons remain out of uniform. Where are your swastika armbands, you fascist son of a bitch?

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan said in an interview that he has "zero regrets" about his remarks before Congress this week, expanding on them. "It needed to be said," Homan told CNN on the sidelines of a Central American prosperity and security conference."

Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming as this nazi bastard cluelessly talks out his ass.

"Homan's similar words in Congress at a House appropriations subcommittee Tuesday sparked outrage from Democrats and immigration advocates, who have decried what they call fear-mongering in communities. Local law enforcement and officials have complained that the Trump administration's enforcement activities have harmed immigrant communities, making people afraid to go to school, seek medical attention and report crimes for fear of being deported."

What we have here is a growing humanitarian crisis in a fascist police-state. Adolf and Benito? Grinning ear to ear on their fiery perches.

"The constant story about us separating families ... when someone enters this country illegally, or someone overstays their visa, they know they're in this country illegally," Homan said. "If they take it upon themselves to have a child in this country and becomes a US citizen by birth, he put his family in that position, not ICE, not Border Patrol. And to vilify the men and women of ICE as separating families is unfair."

The hell it is. Called the goddamned truth. The above quote sounds remarkably similar to excuses disingenuously made by Hitler's Nazi henchmen at war crimes tribunals at the end of the Second World War. These jackbooted bastards in ICE and throughout all law enforcement in our formerly great country present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Egregiously, un-American. Traitors.

Coup de grace? Get this:

"Homan also passionately disputed the idea that his policies were heartless, growing visibly emotional as he recounted things he'd seen in the field that still give him nightmares, he said. His argument: The humane thing to do is to deter people from paying the human smugglers and cartels that are the only way to illegally cross the Southwest border. "Why am I so strong in what I'm trying to do?" Homan said. "Because people haven't seen what Tom Homan's seen ... They haven't seen the dead immigrants on a trail that were left stranded."

Outrageously, gallingly, haughtily, disingenuous. If immigration law was not as outrageously draconian as it is, enforced by Border Patrol jackbooted nazi storm troopers, none of this carnage would be occurring on the border. None of it. Homan's head remains securely lodged up his ass. Clouding his vision. Eviscerating his judgment.

6-23-17

Homan is not the only law enforcement nazi with his head lodged securely up a bodily orifice seldom seeing the light of day. In an editorial in The Washington Post, the Sessions nazi opines:

"As U.S. attorney general, I have a duty to protect all Americans and fulfill the president’s promise to make America safe again. Last month, after weeks of study and discussion with a host of criminal-justice participants, I issued a memorandum to all federal prosecutors regarding charging and sentencing policy that once again authorizes prosecutors to charge offenses as Congress intended. This two-page guidance instructs prosecutors to apply the laws on the books to the facts of the case in most cases, and allows them to exercise discretion where a strict application of the law would result in an injustice. Instead of barring prosecutors from faithfully enforcing the law, this policy empowers trusted professionals to apply the law fairly and exercise discretion when appropriate. That is the way good law enforcement has always worked."

Sessions is referring to drug offenders in the above. Yet, this nazi son of a bitch continues to ignore murders of unarmed innocent citizens committed by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue perpetrated all over our formerly great country. As the Trump nazi and his henchmen desperately transform the fascist police-state we already live in to the Fourth Reich.

Sessions has absolutely no interest in bringing these criminal officers to justice. In fact, quite the opposite. His policies are directly intended to protect and coddle them. His change in how drug crimes are prosecuted is not-so-cleverly designed to deliberately deflect attention from this growing cancer in 'law' 'enforcement.'

The prisons are already overloaded with minor drug offenders despite Sessions phony claims to the contrary. This outrageously misogynist, racist nazi continues to lie to impose Trump's agenda. Sessions remains hopelessly ignorant of the fact that just like alcohol prohibition was a massive failure, so is drug prohibition. While alcohol prohibition led to the rise of the Mafia, drug prohibition has corrupted every law enforcement agency in our formerly great country.

The carnage continues unabated despite draconian drug laws and their enforcement the last four decades. So do the deaths. Do drugs? Get what you deserve. Enforcement should be limited to negative ancillary effects of drug usage included but not limited to violence, theft, driving while intoxicated, etc.. To say nothing of selling these substances to minors. Other than that, let nature take its course. Darwinian natural selection. ... Unless users accept treatment.

The Sessions nazi and his fellow national socialists in the Republican Party will not be confused with the truth under any circumstances. Remain an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. As repeatedly stated in this publication, no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element present a greater threat to this country than our government itself. All branches and levels. All law enforcement. Doing the will of their corporate masters who nearly own and control it all.

6-16-17

Whenever a cop does something heroic, and/or of exceptional benefit to the community, it leads. Always. WNEM TV 5 reports:

"A Michigan Department of Natural Resources officer was honored for rescuing a boy who earlier this year was lost on dangerous Lake Michigan ice in the Upper Peninsula. Conservation Officer Patrick Hartsig was presented with the DNR’s Lifesaving Award on Thursday, June 9 in Houghton. Investigators said on Feb. 5 a 10-year-old boy with special needs ran away from his family in the Gladstone area. The boy was last seen crossing the ice on Little Bay de Noc."

Could have ended in tragedy. Fortunately, did not:

"Hartsig heard the dispatch call about the boy while completing a snowmobile patrol in a nearby county. Hartsig responded to the call and found the boy wandering about a mile from shore. The child had no shoes, hat or gloves on despite the temperatures being in the teens and 25-30 mph winds. Hartsig, a first aid instructor and former paramedic, took off the boy’s socks and warmed his feet. He then put his own boots, gloves and snowmobile helmet on the child before racing across the ice to the Michigan State Police post in Gladstone."

Cold quickly kills in that part of the country. Hat's off, Officer Hartsig.

6-16-17

Another example of uncommon valor displayed by a cop. ABC News reports:

"When panic ensued on the shores of Rockaway Beach in New York on Monday, a nearby police officer jumped into action to save the day. Sisters Jennifer and Jessica Padilla were caught by a strong rip current and swept away from the shore. They were struggling to stay afloat when NYPD Officer Billy Lauria said he heard their screams from the beach. The screams for help happened at Beach 94th Street, after the lifeguards went off duty at 7:45 p.m."

Truly uncommon valor:

"According to local ABC station WABC, Lauria, 23, a former beach lifeguard, stripped off his belt and gun and jumped into the water to help. When Lauria realized there were two swimmers, he enlisted the help of four nearby surfers as well. "It was all good timing," Lauria told WABC. "I'm down here for the summer assisting with the beach detail with the large crowds coming in this summer," he said. One of the surfers who helped get the girls onto his board before they were safely out of the water continually reassured the Padillas they would make it. "I said, 'Everything is going to be all right, hold onto the board, we got you, stay calm, everything is going to be fine," Danny Kent said."

Hat's off to the officer and surfers. Two lives saved that otherwise would have been lost.

"Jennifer Padilla said that she knew her only option was to try to stay calm while they awaited help. "If I panic, I'm going to drown. ... He didn't just save my life. He saved my kids' life," Padilla, a mother of three, said. As for Lauria's heroic efforts, he gave the surfers who helped him a lot of credit. "I definitely appreciate it, made my job a lot easier," he said."

Heroic young cop, indeed, bodes well for the future of law enforcement.

6-16-17

May finally be desperately needed change in policing as young officers enter the profession. One remarkably positive, anecdotal example occurred recently here in Llano County, -- well-known for its highly abusive, criminal jackbooted thugs. A young couple was arguing in Kingsland as a deputy slowly approached, stopped his vehicle to investigate.

The argument wasn't loud or particularly heated. Certainly, not violent. Nonetheless, the deputy did the right thing. Got out of his vehicle, leisurely walked around it like a big city cop with decades of experience. Calm, cool, collected. No swagger. No hand on weapon. Certainly, no hot head. His behavior was surprising since he appeared to be in his early twenties. Yet, displayed confidence, impeccable, professional behavior of a much older, far more experienced officer.

No question, a welcome change in a highly abusive County. The guy who was arguing with the woman started to back off, walk away, as the deputy took his time to talk to her. Apparently, nothing more to the incident, quickly resolved. Appears to be a case of exceptionally good policing displayed by a young cop who seems to understand how critical officer judgment happens to be.

6-16-17

Police can get it right only to have a 'judge' display abject aggressive stupidity, stand in the way of public safety. NBC News reports:

"An accused neo-Nazi facing federal explosives charges — and who authorities say threatened in online chatrooms to kill people and blow up infrastructure — was granted a request for bond after a judge said he was not a threat to the community. Brandon Russell, 22, allegedly stored bomb-making materials at his Florida apartment, where authorities said they also found white supremacist propaganda and a framed photograph of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh."

Gets worse:

"After talking with police, Russell went to a gun shop and purchased two hunting rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, prosecutors said. He was charged with possession of unregistered destructive devices and unlawful storage of explosive material. But U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas McCoun III ruled on Friday to grant bond for Russell. “I am unable to conclude there is clear and convincing evidence that Defendant represents a threat to any other person and the community should he be released,” McCoun, a federal judge for the Middle District of Florida, wrote in his ruling."

Despite the following:

"The Tampa Police Department found a cooler containing a “white cake-like substance” that technicians immediately realized was HMTD, an explosive material, in a garage area of the apartment, according to the complaint. Within a short distance were other materials used in explosives, as well as electric matches and empty ammunition casings with fuses that could be used to detonate explosive devices, wrote a special agent with the FBI in the complaint."

The 'judge' apparently thought the following to be insignificant:

"Russell admitted that he held neo-Nazi beliefs and that he had manufactured and owned the bomb-making materials, authorities said. He also said he was a member of the self-organized group known as “Atom Waffen,” German for “atomic weapon,” according to the complaint."

6-16-17

This country continues to rip apart at the seams. Sadly, the unthinkable came to fruition in Virginia. Unspeakable terror. NPR reports:

"A gunman opened fire during an early morning baseball practice for Republican members of Congress on Wednesday, reportedly firing dozens of shots at a field in Alexandria, Va. At least five people were wounded, including Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana."

Fortunately, no one was killed other than the gunman.

"The shooting suspect has been identified as James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Ill., two federal law enforcement sources confirm to NPR's Carrie Johnson. In an address from the White House, President Trump said, "the assailant has now died from his injuries."

Capitol Police brought him down. Scalise is in surgery, in critical condition.

In another article, NPR reports:

"The Belleville News-Democrat, a newspaper in his hometown, said Hodgkinson was politically vocal, particularly in opposition to the Republican Party and Trump, and had a minor criminal record:

"In 2012, Hodgkinson took part in a protest outside the downtown Belleville post office. He said he was part of a "99%" team drawing attention to the amount of money and political power the top 1 percent of Americans acquired.

"Hodgkinson has a varied arrest record in St. Clair County, for offenses such as failing to obtain electrical permits, damaging a motor vehicle, resisting a peace officer, eluding police, criminal damage to property, driving under the influence and assorted traffic offenses."

"A real estate agent who has worked with Hodgkinson told the Belleville News-Democrat that "from a business standpoint, he did not seem like he is a radical — opinionated but not a radical."

Readers are reminded what's known at the moment remains preliminary, -- a developing story. Not completely clear yet what is accurate, what is not. One thing for sure, this is not a good day for the country. Sadly, a portend of what's likely to come as an untenable, unsustainable, unstable status quo continues to ravage this nation. Violence, unquestionably, is unacceptable. No solution. Quite the opposite.

While ongoing nazification of our formerly great country under the Trump regime exponentially drives growing division, ferocious resistance must remain peaceful. Otherwise, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are granted carte blanche to murder on the job. An attack such as the above is either the product of a sick deluded mind, or that of a terrorist determined to spark a revolution. Either way, we all lose.

Lasting change occurs by winning the argument conceptually through carefully reasoned persuasive rhetoric. Not violence.

CBS News reports:

"Authorities say the congressman, two Capitol Police officers, Matt Mika -- a former congressional staffer who now works as a lobbyist for Tyson Foods -- and Zachary Barth, a staffer for Rep. Roger Williams, were among the victims wounded in the shooting. The police officers injured in the shooting were identified as David Bailey and Krystal Griner. Both officers are expected to survive their injuries.

"According to CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave, Mika was attending the practice as a volunteer coach and was being treated for multiple gunshot wounds. He arrived at George Washington University Hospital and underwent surgery. He is said to have sustained the most serious injuries. At this time, he remains in critical condition."

In another article, CBS News reports:

"A House Republican received a threatening email to her congressional office Wednesday following the shooting at the Republicans' practice for Thursday's congressional baseball game."

The following is outrageous:

"The lawmaker, Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-New York, received an email with the subject line: "One down, 216 to go…," according to a screenshot of the email provided by Tenney's office. The body of the email read: "Do you NOT expect this? When you take away ordinary peoples very lives in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit. Certainly, your souls and morality were lost long before. Good riddance."

The above quote clearly crosses the line vis a vis lawful dissent, protected speech. No more than terroristic threat. One thing to ferociously but peacefully criticize, another matter to physically threaten. Further evidence an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on the horizon courtesy of hot heads, both extremes.

6-16-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Sixty weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Sixty weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Sixty weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

6-16-17

In follow up to the last edition, finally some semblance of justice in what appears to be the senseless murder of a drunk. As reported in the last edition, this murder is particularly appalling. Exacerbated by the failure of police investigating the crime to do their job. CBS News reports:

"A Texas sheriff's deputy and her husband were indicted Thursday on murder charges in the death of a man they restrained during a late-night confrontation outside a restaurant while she was off duty."

Police initially covered up the crime.

"A Harris County grand jury in Houston returned the indictment against Chauna and Terry Thompson for the fatal altercation with 24-year-old John Hernandez. The Thompsons declined to testify before the grand jury, District Attorney Kim Ogg said. Both turned themselves in about 10 p.m. Thursday, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office Twitter page. Bond was set at $100,000 apiece. They posted bond and were released, reports CBS Houston affiliate KHOU-TV."

There were witnesses to this crime that initially were ignored.

"The grand jury heard from more than a dozen witnesses and viewed video of the May 28 incident that bystanders recorded, Ogg said. Hernandez died three days after the confrontation, which occurred outside a Denny's restaurant in Sheldon, 17 miles northeast of Houston."

This case did not receive the publicity and media coverage it deserved. Apparently, due to the fact police initially covered up the crime. Fortunately, the truth came out. This writer was not aware when the last edition was posted that indictments were about to be returned by the grand jury.

"Ogg said Chauna Thompson, a Harris County deputy, was indicted on a murder charge because Texas law holds a person equally criminally responsible if that individual aids or otherwise participates in the act. "We grieve with the Hernandez family and wish them Godspeed during this difficult time. Today we moved one step closer to justice for John Hernandez," Ogg told reporters in announcing the indictments."

Better late than never.

"Relatives of Hernandez said they are pleased the Thompsons were indicted, but they won't stop putting pressure on authorities to bring justice in the case. Melissa Hernandez, a cousin who was among more than 40 people who gathered at the Denny's for a news conference Thursday after the indictments, said the charges are "a great step in the right direction." She added: "It's not gonna stop here. We're gonna keep fighting. We are gonna keep pushing until we get the justice that John deserves."

What could this off duty deputy and her husband possibly been thinking?

"Attorney Scot Courtney, who is representing Terry Thompson, said there wasn't enough evidence to warrant a murder indictment against his client, and he criticized the district attorney's office for putting the case before a grand jury so quickly. Despite the indictments, the criminal investigation continues with the assistance of the Texas Rangers and the U.S. Justice Department, Ogg said."

This case dates back to May 28. Initially, police stonewalled. Pressure must have been intense, forcing authorities to quickly indict.

In a remarkable turnaround, get this:

"Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, who appeared at the Thursday announcement with the district attorney, said Chauna Thompson has cooperated with the internal investigation that the sheriff's office is conducting. She remains on administrative leave indefinitely and her employment status will not be decided until after the internal investigation, the sheriff said. "We've all worked very hard to try to do what was right and to make sure that at the end justice will prevail. We support the decision of the grand jury," Gonzalez said."

Pressure on the Sheriff had to have been enormous.

"Investigators said Terry Thompson saw an intoxicated Hernandez urinating outside the restaurant and that he restrained Hernandez while his wife helped. A medical examiner ruled that Hernandez died of lack of oxygen to the brain caused by strangulation and chest compression."

Murder.

"It's wrong, you know they shouldn't have killed the man. Nobody's life is worth taking for a mistake. We all make mistakes," Melissa Trammel told KHOU. "Me and my manager, we begged this man. He was turning purple we told him to stop but he did not stop."

As reported in the last edition, the victim presented no exigent threat to anyone.

"Cellphone video recorded by an unidentified bystander has been released by the bystander's attorney. The footage shows a man lying on top of Hernandez. Jack Carroll, the attorney for the person who recorded the video, has said the man restraining Hernandez used an illegal chokehold."

Here is the take of CNN:

"A 52-second video shows Thompson on top of Hernandez locking him in a chokehold while his wife, who was off duty, pins Hernandez's left arm to the ground. As Hernandez kicks and gasps for air, Thompson tells Hernandez, "Do you want me to hit you again? Do you want me to hit you again?" Then two unknown people try to block the bystander from recording more of the scene. At one point a woman screams, "It's illegal to record." Several seconds later the recording stops."

It is not illegal to record. Abject nonsense:

"Under Texas law, individuals are allowed to videotape others without their permission in public spaces with the exception of dressing rooms and bathrooms, but only if it's not for sexual purposes."

Also, must not be so close to police carrying out their duties that it interferes.

"Hernandez's wife, Maria Toral, and her daughter were inside the restaurant when the incident began and rushed outside, yelling at the Thompsons to release Hernandez. "The little daughter was screaming, 'Quit hitting my daddy,'" their attorney, Randall Kallinen, said."

Police initially covered up the fact the deputy was involved in the crime. Helped her husband perpetrate it.

"The autopsy report said Hernandez's death was a homicide and that he died from anoxic encephalopathy caused by strangulation by chest compression, reported CNN affiliate KPRC."

The following is appalling:

"The case has sparked outrage and allegations that Thompson received preferential treatment from his wife's law enforcement colleagues. Kallinen said Hernandez's wife was put in a police squad car for nearly four hours and had her cell phone taken away by deputies at the scene. The night of the altercation, deputies considered filing assault charges against Hernandez because the case had been reported as an assault, not a homicide, said Tom Berg, first assistant district attorney for Harris County. Officers at the scene did not tell prosecutors Hernandez was unconscious and being rushed to a hospital for treatment, according to the district attorney's office."

Clearly, a cover up.

"Prosecutors say homicide investigators were not called to the scene because Hernandez didn't die of his injuries until several days later. The prosecutor said homicide investigators are better trained to question witnesses and collect evidence from crime scenes."

Appalling excuse for the abjectly indefensible.

"It does raise questions for us," Berg said. "We are concerned that things happened later than they should have, but we have a complete picture now." "We will show no favoritism. We will let the chips fall as they may with the grand jury," Berg added."

Hopefully, that will be the case. If not, the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon.

CBS News reports:

"In court Tuesday, Judge Kelli Johnson read the couple their rights and the stipulations of their bond, reports KHOU. The couple will be given random urine tests and will not be allowed access to guns. The Thompsons were also ordered to have no contact with the victim's family."

Why weren't they held without bail? Had it been the other way around, they would have been jailed until trial.

"The couple was confronted by a crowd of reporters and protesters as they entered the courtroom. One man could be heard yelling, "Anyone else would be held without bail."

Goddamned right. No equal justice. Not in a fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"Randall Kallinen, a civil rights attorney representing the Hernandez family, was expected to announce later Tuesday that the family has filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit, reports Chron.com."

Sue the living shit out of everyone involved. Including not only the department but government entity overseeing it. When taxpayers get tired of the financial f--king, things will finally change.

"Authorities announced Friday the actions of Texas deputies who looked into Hernandez's death following his confrontation with the couple will be reviewed as part of an internal affairs probe following complaints by the victim's family that the investigation was mishandled."

Not good enough. Nowhere near. No more than the fox guarding the chicken coop.

6-16-17

Another incident of appalling police behavior. This time in New Jersey. CBS News reports:

"A wild police chase through the streets of Jersey City late Sunday ended in a fiery crash, a driver's clothes on fire, police caught on video kicking that man, prosecutors investigating the incident, city officials raising the possibility of firing officers involved, and the police union defending officers who were there, reports CBS New York."

So what else is new, right? More to come as information becomes available.

Here is the take of CNN:

"Police officers in Jersey City, New Jersey, are feeling the heat after being captured on video allegedly beating the victim of a fiery car crash. Miguel Feliz was driving home from work on Sunday evening when a vehicle being chased by police crashed into his car and a utility pole, igniting all three. Witness video captured Feliz exiting his vehicle and rolling on the ground while attempting to remove clothing engulfed in flames. Moments later, several police officers approach Feliz while pointing their guns. Some officers appear to kick him, then drag him into the street. The incident left Feliz in critical but stable condition, with severe burns to 30 percent of his body, his family told Univision."

Much more to come as the full extent of what went down becomes clear.

CBS News reports:

"A burning bystander seen on video being kicked by New Jersey police officers after a car chase involving a different man ended in a fiery explosion was in critical condition Thursday and the Jersey City mayor vowed to pursue charges against the officers. The video obtained by CBS News and other media outlets shows police kicking at a man and dragging him into the roadway in the moments after the crash at about 11 p.m. Sunday."

Readers are reminded this guy was on fire.

"Carmine Disbrow, the president of the city's police union, said the video "clearly shows" the officers acted quickly to extinguish the flames and pull the man to safety. But Mayor Steven Fulop called the images in the video "outrageous" and took issue with the union's statement, saying that while the dragging of Miguel Feliz, of West New York, New Jersey, could be explained as the officers' trying to get him away from the fire, what followed defied explanation. "The kicking and the abuse that happened after, there's really no credible explanation that makes any sense whatsoever," Fulop said."

To quote the late Rodney King, himself a victim of outrageous police brutality, "Can't we all just get along?" Gets worse:

"Erik Roberto, who shot the cellphone video, told CBS New York station WCBS-TV that the police made a big mistake. "When I see the cops approaching, and they start kicking and, you know, grabbing and pulling him out of the way, they made a huge mistake treating this guy that way, and he wasn't the one that they was chasing," Roberto told WCBS-TV."

Never ever confuse a criminal jackbooted bastard in blue with the truth. The son of a bitch is too damned stupid to understand. 'Can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.'

"Feliz's brother, Ramon Feliz, told Univision that he recognized his brother in the video by the way he got out of his car. He said he couldn't understand how the officers could have confused him with the suspect they were pursuing. "If you are on fire, if you are burning, do whatever you can to fix that first, and then you can solve the problem at hand," he told the TV station. "There was a confusion. Anyone can get confused, but how can you tell me that police were not able to identify who is who?" Ramon Feliz also said his brother suffered burns on 30 percent of his body and was "not doing well."

How is it ever proper police procedure to kick the living shit out of anyone? How?

"The mayor said Feliz was to undergo surgery Thursday morning, and said the investigation has been referred to the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office. A spokeswoman at the St. Barnabas Hospital burn unit said Thursday that Feliz was in critical condition."

Ever burned in a fire? Know what it's like?

"Fulop said multiple officers were involved in the chase, including supervisors as well as new officers, and numerous protocols may have been violated. "There are poor judgment decisions that came one after another through the entire process," he said. "The incident had a six-mile chase throughout Jersey City, and there's protocols on that. They fired their weapons from their car at another moving vehicle, and there are issues with that. There are issues with how they continued the chase after receiving additional information, and obviously there are issues around what you see on the video."

Police remain out of control. All over our formerly great county. The cancer spreading. Can't hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon. Yet, nothing changes. Ever.

Saddest of all? Coup de grace?

"County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced Wednesday afternoon that investigators from her office have reviewed the video and "believe with certainty" that Feliz wasn't involved in the chase."

Pitiful, isn't it?

"The driver who authorities say was being pursued, a 48-year-old Jersey City man, has been charged with eluding and aggravated assault."

Who the hell is he? Still not identified.

6-16-17

Why should it take years to prosecute a criminal cop? CBS/AP reports:

"Two current and two former Florida police officers have pleaded not guilty to charges filed in connection with the beating of a man captured after a high-speed car chase. Boynton Beach officer Michael Brown and former officers Justin Harris and Ronald Ryan are charged with the 2014 beating of Jeffrey Braswell. The trio and Sgt. Philip Antico are also charged with trying to cover it up. All appeared in court Friday and Magistrate Judge William Matthewman ordered each to be held on $250,000 bail."

Braswell is no altar boy. Doesn't, however, justify the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue inflicting street justice to get their cookies off.

"According to court documents, officers Harris, Brown and Ryan kicked and hit Braswell numerous times and shocked him with a Taser without cause. The three and Antico then lied in their reports when they omitted facts about the beating, prosecutors charge. They say Antico also lied to FBI agents investigating the case."

Pieces of achingly rancid, jackbooted shit. Others may still be charged.

6-16-17

In follow up to a case covered extensively in this publication and elsewhere, appears no end to cowardice of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. ABC News reports:

"A Minnesota police chief testifying at his officer's manslaughter trial in the death of a black motorist said Thursday that the shooting might have been justified even if the officer couldn't see the motorist's gun."

No end either to the bullshit offered by police brass to justify murder by their jackbooted thugs.

"St. Anthony Police Chief Jon Mangseth was among the first defense witnesses as attorneys for Officer Jeronimo Yanez began presenting their case. Yanez shot 32-year-old Philando Castile five times just seconds after the St. Paul school cafeteria worker informed the 29-year-old officer that he was carrying a handgun."

Readers will recall the victim had a permit to carry. Was a law abiding citizen.

"Castile's death in the traffic stop last July in a St. Paul suburb drew additional attention because his girlfriend streamed the aftermath on Facebook. A key issue at trial is whether Yanez ever saw Castile's gun."

He didn't. The victim never brandished it.

"Prosecutor Jeff Paulsen asked Mangseth whether his department teaches officers it's OK for an officer to fire if they can't see the gun. "We have to look at the totality of the circumstances," Mangseth said."

An indefensible, bullshit statement made by the Chief. He's shamelessly defending a jackbooted thug who gutlessly murdered an innocent man.

"Prosecutors have argued that Yanez's actions were unreasonable. They have portrayed Castile as being cooperative when he volunteered to Yanez early during the stop, "Sir, I have to tell you I do have a firearm on me."

The gutless jackbooted bastard in blue panicked. Fired multiple rounds into his victim.

"Yanez, in squad car video and audio, can be heard in the minutes after Castile's death saying variously that he didn't know where the gun was and that he told Castile to take his hand off it. His partner that night testified that Yanez later told him he had seen a gun on Castile, who had a permit for the weapon."

Inconsistent statements made by the jackbooted thug question his veracity. The Chief and defense attorney are doing all they can to defend the indefensible. A cop who panicked, then murdered an innocent man.

6-16-17

Here is precisely why an unwanted dreaded second American revolution remains catastrophically looming. ABC News reports:

"An arbitrator has ruled that the lone Cleveland police officer charged criminally for killing two unarmed black people in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire shouldn't get his job back. Cleveland.com reports ( http://bit.ly/2rgQ73h ) the arbitrator also ruled that five officers should be reinstated without back pay after being fired for shooting into a car following a high-speed chase in November 2012. Unpaid suspensions for six other officers were upheld."

Coup de grace? Not one of these jackbooted bastards was successfully prosecuted. Not one of them.

"The arbitrator said Michael Brelo shouldn't get his job back because of the "egregious" nature of his conduct. Brelo fired 49 rounds, including the last 15 from the hood of the car. A judge acquitted Brelo of manslaughter charges at trial. The city paid $3 million each to the families of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams to settle a lawsuit."

Nowhere near enough.

6-16-17

Police have once again killed a man with a history of mental illness. Training? What's that? ABC News reports:

"A 29-year-old man armed with knives was killed today after three law enforcement officers fired at him as he was entering a convenience store, police said."

Gutless, criminal, jackbooted bastards in blue.

"Police had earlier confronted Joshua Barre at his home, according to Leland Ashley, public information officer for the Tulsa Police Department. He was armed with two knives at the time he was shot."

Three gutless, cowardly officers, exceptionally poorly trained. Readers are reminded unarmed United States Marines are taught how to disarm someone with a knife. Do so in such a manner the life of the Marine is not threatened.

"The man's mother, Etta Jones Barre, told ABC affiliate KTUL in Tulsa that her son was probably "frightened for his life."

Etta Jones Barre says her 29 year old son had mental illness and did not deserve to die @KTULNews pic.twitter.com/Gwqlcsau4S
— Kim Jackson (@KimChannel8) June 9, 2017"

"He didn't have a violent bone in his body," she said, adding later that police "didn't have to kill him."

That's right. They didn't. Three on one. Goddamned cowards.

"A small crowd gathered at the scene of the shooting, KTUL reported. Neighbors described the man as troubled."

Pitiful.

Coup de grace? Police were in riot gear at the location. Apparently, expected a riot that never happened. Gutless jackbooted cowards in blue.

6-16-17

In follow up to an earlier edition here and elsewhere, CNN reports:

"Unapologetic and blunt, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has won legions of supporters on the right with his frequent commentary that slams Black Lives Matter and other liberal groups."

As repeatedly reported earlier, this man is delusional. An exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"Now the controversial lawman is back in the news, telling WISN radio he has accepted a position in the Trump administration as an assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security. The department, however, won't say if the sheriff was offered a job."

Has been an ongoing issue for at least the last several weeks. Why won't the nazis in Homeland Security confirm or deny Clarke's claim? Doesn't the public have the right to know who is or is not employed in this exceptionally abusive agency? Is this piece of jackbooted shit that much of an embarrassment to them, -- if he is indeed now employed there? If employed there, doesn't the public have the right to know the identity of those oppressing them?

"Clarke's appointment, real or imagined, has drawn criticism."

Bet it has. This guy is a dangerous, unstable wing nut. An exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"Sheriff David Clarke's unconscionable record makes him unfit to serve," Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat, tweeted. "This appointment is a disgrace."

You think? Get this:

"CNN contributor Margaret Hoover, a former adviser to the department, said: "I actually worked in the Department of Homeland Security with people who took the job and the post incredibly seriously, and this ... man also argued for suspending habeas corpus on his radio show, he is representative of a kind of government that believes in reality TV and in entertaining and not the responsibility of governing. This is concerning."

6-16-17

In follow up to an earlier edition, NPR reports:

"A congressman-elect is trying to put a story about body-slamming a newspaper reporter behind him. Greg Gianforte has apologized in a letter to The Guardian's Ben Jacobs, saying Jacobs was just "doing his job" in asking a legitimate question when Gianforte knocked him down. The apology is part of a deal that the future congressman struck with Jacobs."

Precisely the problem. No deals should be made in a case like this. Never, ever. This man is unfit to be a congressman. A thug, nevertheless, who will be warmly welcomed and embraced by Republican nazis in the House. Anything wrong with this picture? Anything at all?

"Jacobs agreed not to pursue a civil claim in exchange for Gianforte donating $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists," Montana Public Radio's Eric Whitney reports. "And Jacobs says he won't object to Gianforte entering a 'no contest' plea to his criminal misdemeanor assault charge. Gianforte requested and was granted an extension to his original court date. He now must appear by June 20."

The reporter gutlessly capitulated to a thug:

"I have accepted Mr. Gianforte's apology and his willingness to take responsibility for his actions and statements. I hope the constructive resolution of this incident reinforces for all the importance of respecting the freedom of the press and the First Amendment and encourages more civil and thoughtful discourse in our country."

Might the reporter also believe there's a bridge for sale in Brooklyn? Oceanfront available in Arizona?

The following is the letter from Gianforte to Jacobs courtesy of ABC News. Think it's enough? Forget? Jacobs could have been killed.

Dear Mr. Jacobs:

I write to express my sincere apology for my conduct on the evening of May 24. My physical response to your legitimate question was unprofessional, unacceptable, and unlawful. As both a candidate for office and a public official, I should be held to a high standard in my interactions with the press and the public. My treatment of you did not meet that standard.

Notwithstanding anyone’s statements to the contrary, you did not initiate any physical contact with me, and I had no right to assault you. I am sorry for what I did and the unwanted notoriety this has created for you. I take full responsibility.

I understand the critical role that journalists and the media play in our society. Protections afforded to the press through the Constitution are fundamental to who we are as a nation and the way government is accountable to the people. I acknowledge that the media have an obligation to seek information. I also know that civility in our public discourse is central to a productive dialogue on issues. I had no right to respond the way I did to your legitimate question about healthcare policy. You were doing your job.

In the hope that perhaps some good can come of these events, I am making a $50,000 contribution to the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent non-profit organization that promotes press freedom and that protects the rights of journalists worldwide.

I made a mistake and humbly ask for your forgiveness.

Sincerely,

Greg Gianforte

The son of a bitch didn't make a mistake. Committed a crime. Could have killed the reporter. Had it been the other way around, think an assailant of a congressman-elect would have received equal treatment? Wouldn't have been charged with attempted murder?

NBC News reports:

"Montana's next congressman, Greg Gianforte, avoided jail time Monday after pleading guilty to assaulting a reporter the day before he was elected. Gallatin County Justice of the Peace Rick West sentenced the Republican technology entrepreneur to 40 hours of community service, 20 hours of anger management counseling and ordered him to pay a $385 fine for the misdemeanor. If he remains law abiding for 180 days, he can petition for the conviction to be removed from his record."

Greater injustice than the above? This piece of shit, a thug, will not only be seated, but welcomed by his fellow GOP nazis in the House. Galling, isn't it?

6-16-17

In follow up to an earlier edition of this publication as well as elsewhere, Texas Standard reports:

"For more than a year, Harris County has been caught in a legal drama over how it jails inmates who cannot afford to pay bail. The U.S. Supreme Court dealt the most recent blow to Harris County’s controversial bail system on Wednesday, refusing to halt a federal appeals court ruling from earlier this week. The federal ruling greenlighted the release of misdemeanor inmates held in the Harris County Jail who couldn’t afford to post cash bonds. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez prepared for the release of as many as 177 people starting Wednesday morning."

6-16-17

Paying snitches to rig convictions is a cancer in this country. NPR reports:

"Nobody likes a snitch. But if you're in jail, informing on fellow inmates can pay. Legislators in at least four states are now trying to make sure that rewarding jailhouse informants — with cash, perks or deals for freedom — isn't leading to wrongful convictions."

Happens all the time. All over the country. Amazing, isn't it, a felon is considered reliable when it comes to implicating a fellow prisoner, but not a criminal jackbooted bastard in blue? The American Way. Nazi justice. In a fascist police-state.

"Bruce Lisker knows how convictions can go wrong. He was only 17 when he discovered his mother murdered in her suburban Los Angeles home."

The bastards framed him for a crime he did not commit.

"I lost my mom and nothing would ever be the same. And I had no idea how not the same it would ever be," Lisker says. It took investigators less than an hour to zero in on him as a suspect. It took 26 years for a court to determine that they were mistaken."

No question, The American Way. In Nazi America.

"A key piece of evidence used to convict Lisker was testimony from a savvy jailhouse informant, whom he met after being moved out of juvenile detention." "Somebody put it in for me to be transferred to LA County Jail and suddenly I was," Lisker says. "Under 18, I was placed in what later came to be known as the snitch tank."

Re-read the last quote. He was set up by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue and prosecutors. Framed. Forget? In a fascist police-state. No problem with that? None at all?

"A grand jury investigation found that the so-called "snitch tank" of 1980s LA was designed to give seasoned informants access to naive inmates."

A rigged system. To railroad the innocent.

"Lisker says there were holes in his cell's walls. The man in the next cell over suggested that they pray together. He said he could help with Lisker's case and asked for a copy of the police report. "I rolled it up and shoved it through that little hole in the wall and let him look at it over dinner," Lisker says. "And then we're going to talk later and he's going to tell me what he thinks, how to help me ... How to help himself." The man, it turns out, was working for law enforcement. For a reduction in his sentence, he said Lisker had confessed to him and his story matched the case file."

The snitch? A goddamned liar. Bribed by law enforcement. To lie. In a fascist police-state. Has to be a special place reserved in Hell for pieces of shit like this and their law enforcement handlers.

"Today, inmates still trade information for rewards -– sometimes big ones. Two Southern California tipsters pulled in more than $300,000 between 2011 and 2015 informing on fellow inmates."

The above is one of the reasons why there is remarkably little faith and trust in law enforcement. Precisely, why anything they claim must be ferociously questioned.

"California Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer has written a state bill to limit these kickbacks. He thinks they can distort the truth."

Incredible, isn't it? Why is this legal? How can this be constitutional? People are openly paid to lie to secure a conviction. No threat to due process? Wake up.

"I'm concerned about the veracity of the information. I might incriminate you at $100,000 dollars a year. That could be a sideline business in prison," Jones Sawyer says."

If truly concerned, why the hell haven't you done the right thing? Courageously stood up and tried to outlaw all such legalized bribery by law enforcement? To no more, in effect, secure a bogus conviction.

"The bill, AB 359, requires better tracking and pre-trial disclosure of who says what in jail. And Jones-Sawyer is proposing a maximum of a $100 in cash or perks paid per case."

Unbelievable. Legalized bribery. To secure a bogus conviction. This is nothing more than nazi justice in a goddamned fascist police-state.

"It's the taxpayers' money. And that's where I'm really concerned that we set an equitable number and that we don't exceed it," Jones-Sawyer says."

Goddamned incredible. Legalized bribery. Financed by taxpayers. In Trump's Fourth Reich. A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Sieg Heil!?

Coup de grace?

"But criminal informants are "inherently unreliable by definition," according to Loyola Law School Professor Alexandra Natapoff. "They're giving the government information in exchange for a benefit," she says. Natapoff is the author of Snitching, about how criminal informants erode justice. "As one court has said, it's hard to imagine a greater inducement to fabricate than the promise of one's own liberty," she says."

6-9-17

The following is a story of exceptional courage by a most extraordinary person who heroically rose to the occasion. CBS News reports:

"Authorities have hailed a northern Illinois man a hero after he jumped through the open window of a moving car to save the driver, who was having a seizure. According to police, Randy Tompkins, of Dixon, was driving his truck Friday afternoon when he spotted a car driving in the wrong lane heading right at him. He jumped from his truck and through the passenger window of the slowly moving car. Tompkins put two fingers into the convulsing driver's mouth to prevent him from swallowing his tongue. The incident was captured by a police dashcam."

How many people would have done something quite as daringly selfless as the above?

"CBS affiliate WFSB-TV reports Tompkins and other officers in the patrol car stood by the driver's side until paramedics arrived to the scene. Authorities haven't released the name of the driver, who was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Police praised the 39-year-old on Twitter as a hero for coming to the aid of a "complete stranger."

Indeed. Hat's off, Mr. Tompkins.

6-9-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Fifty-nine weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Fifty-nine weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Fifty-nine weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

6-9-17

The following is an exceptionally appalling homicide. Since it involves a Harris County Deputy and her husband, no way should the Harris County Sheriff's Office be investigating the following. CBS News reports:

"Police in Texas are investigating the death of a 24-year-old father who was allegedly beaten by the husband of a Harris County Sheriff's deputy. Sheriff Ed Gonzales told reporters Friday that his department will conduct the investigation but has asked the Department of Justice and the Texas Rangers for help to ensure "transparency" and "another set of independent eyes."

Not good enough. Nowhere near. Especially since egregious stonewalling seems to be involved in this 'investigation' so far. This is an unusually complicated case as will become clear.

"CBS affiliate KHOU station reports that Johnny Hernandez's wife said her husband was drunk when the family stopped at a Denny's late Sunday night after celebrating his beloved Chivas soccer team's victory. His wife said she insisted he have coffee, but surveillance cameras showed Hernandez walking outside with his wife trying to stop him. She said her husband urinated near their vehicle."

No question, the above is quite illustrative of an alcohol problem in public that seldom has a happy conclusion. Exacerbating this problem is the sober husband of an officer who certainly should have known better. Simply called law enforcement to deal with the matter rather than assaulting the drunk, inflicting his version of street 'justice.' Not to be:

"Another man, whose wife is a sheriff's deputy, was reportedly outside with his kids and confronted Hernandez about his behavior. Video showed the two men scuffling."

Again, it was not up to him to deal with this problem. Especially, since the drunk presented no exigent threat to anyone. Should have simply waited for law enforcement to arrive.

"People ran outside while Hernandez's wife and 3-year-old daughter watched and screamed. "She was crying and telling (the man beating Hernandez) stop and he didn't even stop," Hernandez's wife said. "I told him please stop. Don't do that to him. He's drunk. He wasn't in any position to fight. But, he didn't have any compassion. He was really angry."

An out of control husband of an officer whose husband certainly knew better than to become judge, jury, executioner. You wait for police to arrive. Police finally did, but apparently weren't worth a crap:

"Hernandez's wife claims deputies took her cell phone then led her away for interviews. She also said that the report given to the family called the man who beat Hernandez the victim. "They feel that they can get it covered up because they are cops," Hernandez's wife said."

Why did police take her cellphone? To prevent her from recording police malfeasance? Worse? Protected the husband of an officer rather than doing their duty to enforce the law. Here is the issue:

"An eyewitness who spoke with KHOU on Thursday on the condition of anonymity said Hernandez was drunk and defenseless as he was beaten by the off-duty deputy's husband."

If this is true, the man needs to be charged, not coddled. Prosecuted, not protected.

"Sheriff Gonzales told reporters that the off-duty deputy arrived separately from her husband and that she called for assistance, helped restrain Hernandez, then administered CPR until emergency help arrived."

Apparently, not so:

"But the eyewitness who spoke with KHOU reportedly disputed that version of the events."Even after I told him 'stop, stop' and other people were screaming he wouldn't do it," the eyewitness said. "Even after his wife came he didn't do it. His wife didn't do anything, because I went in to call the police she was already there on the side and I didn't see her do anything, I didn't hear [her] tell him stop. I didn't hear her tell him anything. She just was watching."

If this is so, this officer needs to be fired, then prosecuted for not doing her duty to end the beating. Failure to take action is no more than complicity. Especially, since the perpetrator was her husband, -- and she is a sworn officer. Coup de grace? Get this:

"The eyewitness tells KHOU that Hernandez was held in a chokehold by the deputy's husband for more than 10 minutes and was not breathing."

Murder. Quite a case of police malfeasance. Unwillingness to do their job. A cover up. Instead of arresting the deputy's husband, protected and coddled him. The Sheriff's move to call in the Department of 'Justice' and Texas Rangers rings hollow. The Sessions Nazi protects and coddles the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Texas Rangers? No better.

6-9-17

Another case of egregious police malfeasance. CBS News reports:

"Prosecutors dropped all charges Thursday against a Detroit man who accused police of pinning a murder on him by seizing his mother's gun and switching bullets in a case that kept him in prison for 25 years."

This shit continues to happen in case after case after case. Yet, nothing changes. No one in law enforcement is held accountable. Instead, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue continue to be protected, coddled.

"I hope you enjoy your newfound freedom," Judge Richard Skutt told Desmond Ricks at the close of a hearing that lasted just minutes."

Pathetic, isn't it? Rings achingly hollow.

"An analysis of two bullets from the victim shows they don't match the gun that was offered as the murder weapon at Ricks' trial in 1992. He was accused of shooting a friend outside a Detroit restaurant and sentenced to at least 32 years in prison."

Nazi justice in a fascist police-state. Think Adolf and Benito weren't grinning ear to ear on their fiery perches?

"Ricks was released from prison last Friday after his second-degree murder conviction was thrown out. On Thursday, the Wayne County prosecutor's office told Skutt that Ricks won't face a second trial."

Thoughtful of the son of a bitch, isn't it? Twenty-five years for nothing. Committed no crime. An innocent man.

"The 51-year-old let out a deep sigh and hugged and shook hands with his legal team, mostly lawyers and students from the Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan's law school. They asked the judge to reopen the case in 2016 after photos of two bullets taken from the victim, Gerry Bennett, did not resemble the bullets that were examined by a gun expert before trial 25 years ago. The bullets from Bennett were still in police storage. Tests in recent weeks show they do not match the .38-caliber gun that belonged to Ricks' mother in 1992."

Ballistics is not rocket science. These outrageously criminal jackbooted bastards in blue knew precisely what they were doing all those years ago, -- framing an innocent man for a crime he did not commit.

"I don't have time to be angry or mad," Ricks said outside court. "I just want to live." He likely will benefit from a new Michigan law that awards someone who is wrongly convicted $50,000 for each year spent in prison."

Not good enough. Nowhere near. Doesn't return the 25 years lost for absolutely no reason at all.

"David Moran, director of the Innocence Clinic, said police conduct was "criminal." But no retired officers can be pursued because too many years have passed."

Should be no statute of limitations on police malfeasance. Officers need to be subject to precisely the same penalties imposed on their innocent victims.

"Moran said state police should re-examine more cases that were handled by the Detroit police gun lab before it was shut down because of poor work in 2008. "If it happened once it would be very surprising if there's not a lot of other cases like it," he said."

You think?

6-9-17

Police continue to steal. ... Hard to believe this still happens, -- considering the current intense spotlight on law enforcement. ABC News reports:

"A Pennsylvania police officer has been fired over charges that he shoplifted about $10 worth of meat from a local Wal-Mart. Citations filed against 45-year-old Shayne Miller allege the Bradford patrolman stole packages of meat worth between $4.50 and $5 on April 21 and April 26. Online court records don't list an attorney for Miller who has been mailed the citations, but not yet scheduled a hearing on either. Police Chief Chris Lucco told The Bradford Era ( http://bit.ly/2rWkSij ) on Sunday that Miller is no longer employed after an internal investigation."

6-9-17

In follow up to a case recently covered in this publication and elsewhere, ABC News reports:

" A police officer was arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter for placing a neck hold on an unarmed man who died outside a Las Vegas Strip casino, authorities said. Kenneth Lopera, 31, posted $6,000 bail and was released from jail with an August court date in the May 14 choking death of 40-year-old Tashii S. Brown after a chase through back hallways of a Las Vegas Strip casino."

Why was he released on bail? Presents an exigent threat to the community.

"Lopera will plead not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and a second charge of oppression under color of office, Las Vegas Police Protective Association official Steve Grammas said. He could face up to up to eight years in state prison on the two charges."

Nowhere near enough. Should have been charged with murder.

6-9-17

In follow up to a case repeatedly covered here and elsewhere for quite some time now, CBS News reports:

"An autistic man's family is suing the city of north Miami and four police officers, claiming the disabled man's civil rights were violated when authorities shot his caretaker. CBS Miami reports the police interrogation of Arnaldo Soto was released Monday, nearly a year after he was transported in handcuffs to the North Miami Police Department. Surveillance video shows an officer trying to question Soto about the incident, but it's clear that he is unable to communicate. At one point, Soto indicates that he wants to have his shackles removed. But the request is denied."

Officer training clearly leaves much to be desired.

"I'm heartbroken," Miriam Rios, Soto's sister, told CBS Miami. "I feel so guilty I couldn't be there for him. I'm upset in this day and age they can't tell that he's autistic." "There is no constitutional right that wasn't trampled by North Miami police on that day," added attorney Matthew Dietz. "They should have known and understood this was a person with autism."

Readers are reminded this case is achingly pitiful:

"The incident unfolded on July 18, 2016, when Soto was in the street with his caregiver, Charles Kinsey. Police say Kinsey was trying to coax Soto, who had a silver tanker truck toy in his hand, back into his group home. Officers believed the toy was a weapon and fired three rounds, subsequently striking Kinsey in the leg while his hands were raised in the air. Soto was taken to the police department for interrogation following the shooting. Officer Jonathan Aledda was charged in April with attempted manslaughter for shooting Kinsey. Prosecutors later upgraded the charges to include additional attempted manslaughter and culpable negligence."

Saddest of all?

"Soto's family hopes their lawsuit will lead to lasting changes on how developmentally disabled people are viewed."

Jesus Christ. ... This is 2017 and we're still dealing with this bullshit??? A lawsuit filed by the caregiver remains pending.

6-9-17

In follow up to an earlier case in this publication and elsewhere, CBS News reports:

"A police sergeant has been arrested on a murder charge in the shooting of a 66-year-old mentally ill woman in New York City. Police said Wednesday that Sgt. Hugh Barry had been arrested in Deborah Danner's October 2016 death. Police were responding to a 911 call about an emotionally disturbed person when Barry encountered Danner in her Bronx apartment."

Training clearly leaves much to be desired.

"Authorities said at the time that Danner was threatening the sergeant with a bat when he shot her."

A cop who couldn't defend himself with a stun gun or baton against a mentally ill elderly woman?

"The police commissioner and mayor have condemned the shooting. They say Barry had a stun gun but didn't use it."

Why not? This was an elderly woman. Couldn't have grabbed the bat? Gotten out of the way?

"It should never have happened," Mayor Bill de Blasio said a day after the deadly shooting, according to CBS New York. "The NYPD's job is to protect life."

That's right. The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are often too gutless to do so. Have no business in law enforcement. Are not qualified.

6-9-17

In follow up to a recent edition here and elsewhere, CBS News reports:

"The city of Oakland, California, will pay a teenager nearly $1 million to settle claims that city police officers sexually abused her while she worked as an underage prostitute - a settlement that comes as she pursues similar cases against five other San Francisco Bay Area law enforcement agencies. Saying she was relieved with the settlement announced Wednesday, the woman said she appreciates the support she received from family and friends once she came forward last summer."

Nowhere near enough. Certainly, doesn't send enough of a message to the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Pedophiles in uniform.

"I thought I was alone," said the woman, who is now 19. CBS News is not identifying her because she is the alleged victim of sex crimes. She appeared nervous and gave short and terse answers during a news conference Wednesday in her lawyer's Oakland office. She said she was "very satisfied" with the settlement."

Why wouldn't she be nervous? Any idea of the post traumatic stress she must be suffering?

Kicker? Coup de grace? Get this:

"Her mother is a dispatcher with the Oakland Police Department. Neither of her parents, who are divorced, attended the news conference."

Worse?

"Officials with the department didn't respond to phone and email inquiries. Earlier this month, the teen threw up into a waste paper basket while testifying during a preliminary hearing for former Oakland police Officer Brian Bunton, who was ordered to stand trial on charges of solicitation and obstruction of justice. He pleaded not guilty after being accused of tipping off the teen to a prostitution sting."

Think less than a million bucks sufficient for what she's had to go through? Will continue to endure. Think so?

"The woman's lawyer, John Burris, said she has similar legal claims pending against police departments in San Francisco, Richmond and Livermore, and the sheriff's offices of Alameda and Contra Costa counties."

Take the bastards for all you can get. Expose them for whom and what they are.

6-9-17

Another indication law enforcement has a long, long, long way to go. The Washington Times reports:

"Police officers speak more respectfully to white motorists during routine traffic stops than black motorists, Stanford researchers wrote in a new, first-of-its-kind study published Monday. An analysis of nearly 1,000 traffic stops recorded by officer-worn body-cameras indicated cops are more inclined to use respectful terms such as “sir” and “ma’am” while dealing with white drivers than black ones, regardless of the race of the officers involved, according to the researchers."

Amazing, isn't it?

“Our findings highlight that, on the whole, police interactions with black community members are more fraught than their interactions with white community members,” said Jennifer Eberhardt, a professor of psychology at Stanford and a co-author of the report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal."

Yet, still no change. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon.

6-9-17

More trouble in Portland. ABC News reports:

"Police seized several weapons and arrested 14 protesters in Portland on Sunday as a day of demonstrations descended into chaos. The arrests were made throughout the course of the day at a "variety of locations” during multiple protests in the city’s downtown area, according to the Portland Police Department. The protests came just days after two Portland men were stabbed to death while trying to fend off a man who shouted anti-Muslim insults at two young girls on a light-rail train."

The protests were in response to a pro-Trump Alt-Right nazi rally. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter:

"At least three demonstrations occurred across the city on Sunday, including a controversial pro-Donald Trump free speech rally at near city hall, which spurred counter protests. The demonstrations drew thousands of participants, according to ABC affiliate KATU. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler had fought to have the federal permit for the Trump Free Speech Rally revoked, saying it could “exacerbate an already difficult situation” and threaten public safety."

The Mayor doesn't seem to understand the First Amendment guaranties the right to peacefully protest.

"At one point, authorities fired pepper balls and flash-bang grenades to clear crowds after protesters threw “a significant amount of projectiles” at police, the department said. Police also seized multiple weapons and other items, including hammers, bricks and chains."

The problem with the above is the fact police seemed to have taken sides. Supported and protected the Alt-Right nazis holding the rally. Did nothing to reign in the nazi bastards, leading these pieces of shit to cheer when the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue fired flash-bang grenades at protesters.

“We have to understand that it’s legitimate that Portland’s shaken up right now," rally organizer Joey Gibson told a crowd at Terry Schrunk Plaza, located across from the Portland City Hall. "They did everything they can to keep us out of here because they thought that we’re going to come in here and just ruin the city ... and spread out hate speech. … We’ve got to prove them wrong," he said, according to KATU."

Disingenuous bullshit. Gutless bullshit since these racist, fascist cowards were greatly outnumbered by protesters. The above quote no more than a re-write of reality. Aided and abetted by outrageously out of control law enforcement which designedly took sides. Both sides should have been treated equally by police. Were not.

6-9-17

The price of liberty is never cheap. More so in a fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. The fact the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue continue to invade privacy with or without a warrant, go on fishing expeditions, etc. make highly encrypted, highly secure electronic devices extremely difficult to crack into absolutely necessary.

No question, however, this, on occasion, frustrates legitimate police investigations. Indeed, sadly, the price of liberty Nazi Right Republican 'law and order' fascists cannot seem to understand. Fully grasp. Myopically, determinedly 'think' in terms of right or wrong, black or white, no shades of gray, no brilliant hues of color.

The following is a a most poignant example that usefully illustrates the exceptionally high price of liberty that most never consider, think about, or even envision as one of the true costs of liberty. The Washington Times reports:

"A Florida man was sentenced to nearly six months behind bars Tuesday for failing to give investigators the password needed to unlock his Android smartphone. Christopher Wheeler, 41, was ordered to spend 180 days in jail Tuesday for a contempt-of-court conviction handed down earlier this month for failing to open his phone to authorities probing a child abuse case involving his 8-year-old daughter."

Quite a gut wrenching case of abuse. There is, however, much more at stake than just successful prosecution of this criminal.

"Mr. Wheeler was arrested on March 6 for aggravated child abuse, domestic violence and child neglect after detectives say he repeatedly assaulted his daughter causing “severe bruising, swelling and scratches,” according to documents filed in Broward Circuit Court."

Medical reports, testimony from the kid, witnesses, etc. should be sufficient to convict. Especially, in today's climate where prosecutors routinely impanel 'law and order' jurors who routinely believe law enforcement no matter their lies, deception, distortion of reality, etc.. Prosecutors have clearly, repeatedly shown their penchant for convicting someone, anyone, regardless of guilt or innocence. Precisely, why it's extremely difficult to believe they cannot make a case against this defendant without access to his cellphone:

"Police seized an Android smartphone from Mr. Wheeler at the time of his arrest and argued it contains photographic evidence of his alleged crimes. The device is password-protected, however, and Mr. Wheeler has failed so far to cough up the credentials needed for authorities to gain access. Circuit Judge Michael Rothschild held Mr. Wheeler in contempt on May 12 and handed down the 180-day jail stint during a sentencing hearing Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, the Miami Herald first reported."

How do police know it contains evidence of his crimes? Forget? He didn't admit to these crimes. They haven't accessed the phone. What probable cause do they have to state it contains photographic evidence? Other than to justify a fishing expedition? If the cellphone is all law enforcement has to make the case, why wouldn't the defendant rot in jail six months if he is indeed guilty of these crimes?

Forget? Far, far less time than he would have received if convicted of the abuse. Must not be forgotten people who commit such egregious crimes have no conscience, no regard for morality, what's right or wrong, etc.. Yet, there must be constitutional rights and rule of law to protect the innocent in this country. That is, the falsely accused. Indeed, a most difficult conundrum for police, prosecutors, and the courts.

"Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, then-FBI Director James B. Comey said 46 percent of the more than 6,000 smartphones and tablets seized by federal investigators during a recent six-month span were protected by uncrackable passwords. “That means half of the devices that we encounter in terrorism cases, in counterintelligence cases, in gang cases, in child pornography cases, cannot be opened with any technique,” Mr. Comey said."

The above, clearly, is the price of freedom. The right of the innocent to be left the hell alone by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Precisely, why the Founders saw fit to include the Bill of Rights in the Constitution. Law enforcement and prosecutors will simply have to work harder. Cracking into a cellphone, lap top, desktop, tablet, etc. is not the only way to build a criminal case. Forget? Police conducted investigations, prosecutors prosecuted, juries convicted long before the day of the digital device. Will simply have to increase their effort.

“Compelling Mr. Wheeler to enter the password forces him to produce evidence that may be used to later incriminate him by the government,” his attorneys unsuccessfully argued earlier this year in an effort to quash the request. “It forces him to produce contents of his phone that Mr. Wheeler at no time admitted to authorities existed.”

Forcing the masses to self-incriminate happens all the time in our formerly great country. Forced blood draws, forced finger printing, forced hair samples, forced search warrants, etc., occur all the time. With or without a warrant signed by a judge. List can go on and on. Forget? Needs of the many trump individual rights. By design. All government, including a supposedly democratic republic, is based on this principle.

This principle works remarkably well in small tight-knit groups. Such as friends, family, associates, etc.. Usually, ultimately fails at the nation-state level as views, opinions, beliefs, etc. grow increasingly divergent as population levels skyrocket. A country comes apart at the seams as society becomes highly polarized.

As the fascist police-state we already live in is extended by the Trump nazi to the Fourth Reich, moreover, questions arise, are pointedly asked, remain achingly simple, but increasingly, poignantly profound. Including, but not limited to, how far do we take this aforementioned principle? No limits at all? To the point where there is no liberty? No more than 'freedom' to do what you're told? Group-think taken to its extreme at expense of all civil and constitutional rights and liberties?

... Forced to drop 'trou,' take the ungreased shaft hard up the ass without the Vaseline? Then, the galling, outrageously haughty requirement to praise the f--ker for the f--king? This, the country each of you wish to live in? This, the future the Trump nazi's sick sycophants demand? As the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight, can't hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon.

6-9-17

The following is further proof positive we live in a fascist police-state. The Washington Post reports:

"Students at Worth County High School in Sylvester, Ga., have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against their country sheriff after he ordered what the complaint describes as a schoolwide drug sweep involving pat-down searches of hundreds of teenagers."

No probable cause. No search warrant.

"On April 14, Sheriff Jeff Hobby and dozens of deputies came to Worth County High School searching for students in possession of illicit substances. According to the students' legal complaint, they proceeded to go to every classroom and physically search nearly every student present for drugs. The deputies, the lawsuit alleges, used “pat down” searches, with some deputies touching female students’ breasts and male students’ genitalia."

Did the criminal jackbooted bastards get their cookies off doing so?

"In the aftermath of the search, the sheriff told local media that the pat-down searches of students were legal because school administrators were present. He also said he believed drugs were present at the school, and that a separate drug search performed several weeks earlier by police from the city of Sylvester had not been thorough enough."

No probable cause. No search warrant. A goddamned fascist police-state. Nazi America. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Guess what?

"Neither search turned up any illicit drugs, according to Coleman." (Tommy Coleman, lawyer for the district)

Coleman confirmed the veracity of the students' account of the search.

"The district hasn't joined the lawsuit on behalf of the students because it lacks the standing to do so, Coleman said. The lawsuit contends that the students, not the school district, were harmed by the searches."

'Standing' clearly needs to be revisited in the courts.

"In the days after the search, the sheriff's office acknowledged in a news release that at least one deputy had touched students in an inappropriate manner."

Why wasn't the criminal jackbooted son of a bitch subsequently arrested for sexual assault?

“After the pat down was conducted it was discovered that one of the deputies had exceeded the instructions given by the Sheriff and conducted a pat down of some students that was more intrusive than instructed by the Sheriff,” the statement said. “Upon discovery of the deputy's actions, the Sheriff has taken corrective action to insure that this behavior will not occur again.”

A crock of shit. Why wasn't the Sheriff himself subsequently arrested by state authorities for ordering a warrantless search resulting in sexual assault?

The criminal son of a bitch continues to stonewall The Washington Post in its effort to obtain additional information.

"J.E., one of the plaintiffs who is being identified only by his initials because he is a minor, said in an interview with The Washington Post that when deputies arrived at his 10th-grade agriculture class, they marched the students out to the hall, lining them up, girls on one side of the hallway and boys on the other. J.E. says that during his search, the deputy put his hands in J.E.'s back pockets and then under his shirt. He then, J.E. says, rubbed down both of the student’s legs from his thighs to his ankles, and back up between them."

Apparently, the jackbooted bastard was getting his cookies off:

“He came up under my privates and then he grabbed my testicles twice,” J.E. said in an interview. “I wanted to turn around and tell him to stop touching me. I wanted it to be over and I just wanted to call my dad because I knew something wasn't right.”

It wasn't. Called pedophilia. A criminal jackbooted bastard in blue getting his cookies off sexually assaulting a kid.

"According to the students' complaint, some of the deputies — Hobby's office brought more than two dozen, the complaint says — stuck their hands in students' bras and underwear. The complaint includes allegations that some deputies cupped the genitals of the boys and exposed the breasts of some of the girls to their classmates. Sometimes the deputies wore gloves. Other times they didn't, according to the complaint."

No probable cause. No warrant. No legal justification. Raw nazism.

"Another student involved with the lawsuit was in a different class than J.E. at the time of the search but described a similar search procedure: Deputies ordered students out of his ninth-grade literature class and into the hallway, segregated them by gender, and then systematically physically searched each one. “Some people were crying,” the ninth-grader said in an interview. “Kids weren't allowed to go home; they weren't allowed to tell their parents” during the search."

By the criminal jackbooted pedophiles in blue.

"The suit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. In their complaint, the students contend the “unlawful and intrusive” searches violated their rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments. The sheriff had no warrant to perform the search, according to the complaint. Coleman, the lawyer for the school district, says the sheriff's office told school officials they suspected 13 students of possessing drugs in setting up the search. It's unclear what information formed the basis for this suspicion — lawyers for the students said in an interview they haven't seen it yet, and the sheriff's office declined to provide details to The Post."

As repeatedly opined in this publication, the greatest threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties is no foreign power. No terrorist organization. Not even the criminal element. It is government at all levels and branches.

"Coleman said the school district did not authorize the pat-downs of the students, adding that school officials lacked the legal authority to challenge the sheriff's actions. “Sheriffs in Georgia have pretty broad authority,” Coleman said. “That authority doesn't end at the schoolhouse door.”

Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon.

"Parents were not warned of the search, which lasted four hours, nor were they allowed to contact their children while it was going on. “When I found out about the search, I called the school. I wanted to know what was going on,” said Jonathan Luke, the stepfather of a student. “They flat out said we went on a lockdown and we can't give any other details.”

This lunatic who calls himself Sheriff, wears a uniform, sports a badge and a gun, needs to be immediately removed from office, prosecuted for the criminal jackbooted piece of shit he truly is. ... Not only a jackbooted thug, but a pedophile as well.

"The parents and students involved with the lawsuit vow to press their case until Hobby is removed from office. “We really want Sheriff Hobby gone,” J.E. said. The students' lawyers then hope to get their lawsuit classified as a class action, which would allow them to represent all students involved in the search at the school, not just the nine named in the lawsuit."

The above quotes are courtesy of a most gifted insightful writer, Christopher Ingraham.

6-9-17

The war on privacy by law enforcement nazis rages on. The Washington Post reports:

"The Supreme Court next term will decide whether law enforcement authorities need a warrant to track a suspect through his cellphone records, justices announced Monday."

The Fourth Amendment is quite clear. This issue should have long since been settled by the lower courts.

The Washington Times reports:

"The Supreme Court will take up a case looking at whether police can peruse someone’s cell phone location records without first getting a warrant, the justices announced Monday, adding another high-profile civil liberties case to the docket for their next session. The high court agreed to hear an appeal from a case in Detroit, where prosecutors used data detailing an armed robbery suspect’s locations from his cell phone data history to help convict him. The police had obtained those records by request, but didn’t go to court to get a warrant."

Another example of nazi judges legislating their outrageously pernicious religious and/or ideological views from the bench. The slippery slope.

Worse?

"An appeals court upheld the conviction, saying checking those records isn’t considered a search under the Fourth Amendment, so no warrant is needed."

Yet, another clear example of a court demonstrating far from impartial, unbridled support of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. No matter what they do.

"Civil liberties groups are begging for the court to overturn the ruling, saying cell location information can paint a most intimate picture of someone’s life — exactly the kind of information that the Fourth Amendment was intended to protect. “Because cell phone location records can reveal countless private details of our lives, police should only be able to access them by getting a warrant based on probable cause,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. “The time has come for the Supreme Court to make clear that the longstanding protections of the Fourth Amendment apply with undiminished force to these kinds of sensitive digital records.”

Indeed.

NBC News reports:

"Whether the Constitution protects data revealing a cellular telephone's location is "a hugely important question," said Orin Kerr, at professor at the George Washington University's law school. When a cell phone is used for calls or text messages, it signals a nearby antenna tower to connect with the telephone network. As the user travels, the call is handed off to successive cell towers, and the cell phone companies keep records of the phone numbers routed through each tower."

Why is this information retained? Should be destroyed after the call is complete. Don't think so? Consider the following:

"Police can use that information to develop a map of of a person's movements, nearly minute-by-minute. Maryland Public Defender James Wyda says the government "can turn back the clock to surveil a suspect's location and movements when the suspect was not even a suspect, and perhaps when no investigation was underway -- before a crime may have been contemplated, yet alone committed."

A fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"The lower courts have generally said police do not need a search warrant to get cell phone locator records, relying on a Supreme Court decision from 38 years ago. The court said then that no warrant is needed to get the numbers a telephone user calls, because people have no expectation that the phone numbers they dial will remain private. "All telephone users realize that they must 'convey' phone numbers to the telephone company, since it is through telephone company switching equipment that their calls are completed," the court said. And the phone company keeps the records anyway for billing purposes."

The slippery slope. What difference should it make whether or not there is an expectation of privacy? No more than egregious bastardization of the Fourth Amendment to unduly benefit police at cost of a most precious constitutional right. No longer, however, quite that simple or applicable to cellphones, either:

"But the ACLU, representing Carpenter, said the reasoning of that decades-old case shouldn't apply in the digital age, because the court's earlier decision involved telephones that were hard-wired into the wall and didn't move. Getting cell phone tower location, by contrast, allows the police to reconstruct a person's movements and should require a search warrant."

What webs we weave. The Founders? Spinning in their graves. Wouldn't recognize the goddamned fascist police-state they unwittingly spawned.

"Because cell phone location records can reveal countless private details of our lives, police should only be able to access them by getting a warrant based on probable cause," said the ACLU's Nathan Freed Wessler. The Supreme Court has been gradually expanding protections for digital privacy, declaring that it's a search when police attach a GPS tracker to a person's car and ruling that police need a search warrant to search a cell phone carried by a suspect."

6-2-17

Despite the current racist, misogynist insanity prevalent in our country, there are heroes willing to sacrifice their lives fighting this scourge. CBS News reports:

"Police say two people died and another was hurt in a stabbing on a Northeast Portland light-rail train after a man yelled racial slurs at two young women, one of whom was wearing a hijab. "

... No greater love. No greater courage:

"Witnesses told CBS affiliate KOIN the suspect was yelling about hating Muslims and other things for several minutes before people confronted him and that's when things became physical. Portland police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson says the man on MAX, the train system, was ranting on many topics, using "hate speech or biased language," and turned his focus on the women. According to KOIN, those two women left the scene. Simpson says passengers intervened and were "attacked viciously." Witnesses told KOIN one of the victims was stabbed in the neck and passengers rushed to help them. Simpson says one person died at the scene and another at a hospital. The third victim is being treated for non-life threatening injuries, police said."

The killer is in custody. Has not been identified. Not yet clear whether he has mental, drug, alcohol issues, etc..

In follow up to the above, The Washington Post reports:

"Portland police on Saturday identified the two slain victims as 53-year-old Ricky John Best and 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche. A third victim, 21-year-old Micah David-Cole Fletcher, is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said."

Uncommon valor.

"Police identified the suspect early Saturday morning as 35-year-old Jeremy Joseph Christian, of north Portland. Christian is being held without bail on two counts of aggravated murder, one count of attempted murder, two counts of intimidation in the second degree and one count of possession of a restricted weapon as a felon."

Here is the issue:

"The Portland Mercury, a local newspaper, reported that Christian was a “known right wing extremist and white supremacist” who had attempted to assault protesters at local demonstrations in the past. Video from April 29, shot by Mercury reporter Doug Brown, showed Christian arriving at a “March for Free Speech” draped in an American flag and carrying a baseball bat. While there, Christian yelled to the crowd that he was a “nihilist,” shouted the n-word at people and gave Nazi salutes, Brown reported."

Coup de grace? Took days for the Trump nazi to condemn the attack. The cancer grows as Trump extends the fascist police-state we already live in to the Fourth Reich.

In update, CBS News reports:

"One of the girls who was targeted in the tirade Friday, Destinee Mangum, 16, said that she and her 17-year-old friend were riding the train when Christian approached them yelling what is described as hate speech. She said her friend is Muslim, but she's not. "He told us to go back to Saudi Arabia, and he told us we shouldn't be here, to get out of his country," Mangum said. "He was just telling us that we basically weren't anything and that we should kill ourselves."

Then, the unspeakable:

"The girls were scared and moved to the back of the train while a stranger jumped in to help. "Then they just all started arguing," Mangum told KOIN. "He just started stabbing people, and it was just blood everywhere, and we just started running for our lives." Mangum thanked the men that came to her aid. "They lost their lives because of me and my friend, and the way we looked," Mangum said."

In another article, CBS News reports:

"Muslims in Portland, Oregon, thanked the community for its support and said they were raising money for the families of two men who were killed when they came to the defense of two young women -- one wearing a hijab -- who were targeted by an anti-Muslim rant. "I am very thankful as a Muslim, I am very thankful as a Portlander... that we stand together here as one," Muhammad A. Najieb, an imam at the Muslim Community Center, said Saturday. He said the two young women "could have been the victims, but three heroes jumped in and supported them." Najieb said a fundraising page launched by his group for the families of the dead men, a surviving victim and the two young women had raised $50,000 in its first hours."

Best way to fight racism, defeat bigotry of Trump and his henchmen? Come together as a community as Portland clearly has:

"Harris Zafar with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Portland said while the events Friday were shocking, he was inspired by the actions of these men, CBS affiliate KOIN reports.

"….knowing that innocent people who were complete strangers stood up to defend these terrified two teenage girls," Zafar said. "They had nothing to gain out of it but they stood up to help them and to do what was right. That level of honor and valor and courage, we don't see."

Called Uncommon Valor. No question, best defense against bigotry of Trump and his equally racist henchmen.

6-2-17

There is at least one sheriff in this country who's desperately trying to get it right. Chicago's Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is certainly one of them. CBS News 60 Minutes reports:

"Chicago -- with the largest number of murders last year of any major city in the country -- has one of the largest jails in the country. An average of 70,000 men and women pass thru Cook County Jail each year, many more than once and, as with other big city jails, most of the inmates who cycle through are either poor, mentally ill or members of a gang. One of the few things Republicans and Democrats, agree on is the need for corrections reform. And Cook County is leading the way -- almost by necessity -- with a new approach to help break the cycle."

This new approach needs to be carefully considered across the country.

"The county sheriff, Tom Dart, is getting a lot of the credit. A former prosecutor who's been elected and re-elected sheriff since 2006, Dart -- as you'll see -- is unconventional. ... He has redefined the role of sheriff. He sees the job as not just keeping people in jail but helping some of them get out. He says many behind bars shouldn't be there."

True all over the country.

Here is one of the biggest problems:

"Dart says the jail – with a population today of about 7,500 -- has become a dumping ground for the poor and mentally ill.

"Lesley Stahl: What percent do you think here really shouldn't be here?

"Tom Dart: I would suggest conservatively that half of the people here in the jail shouldn't be here. That they don't—

"Lesley Stahl: Half?

"Tom Dart: They don't pose a danger to anybody. The people in most jails-- in 95 percent of the people in this jail are waiting on a trial. So everybody here are people who haven't been convicted yet. So you say to yourself, "All right, they're presumed innocent. Who is so dangerous that we need to hold them here while we're waiting on a trial?"

Bond is set incredibly high on chicken shit crimes, leading to egregious jail overload.

"Cara Smith: So last year alone we had 1,024 people who spent their entire prison term here in the Cook County Jail, but the more incredible statistic is that same group of people spent an extra 222 years of custody here in the Cook County Jail. Lengths of stay run from a week or less to 8 or 9 years. Some of the people who spend years here are the mentally ill, who make up about a third of the population, and are the jail's biggest cost."

Jails across the country become dumping grounds for the mentally ill at horrendous taxpayer expense. Worse? An egregious humanitarian issue more befitting a banana republic, than a supposedly democratic republic. Forget? The mindless manifestation of an achingly ignorant GOP 'law and order' mentality embraced by Republican fascists.

The following recurring, failed scenario has to change:

"Every inmate is screened for mental illness when they first arrive.

"Inmate: I was diagnosed as schizophrenic when I was in group home.

"Elli Montgomery: In a group home? OK. We're gonna make sure that you get help today.

"Inmate: If I don't get the medication that I need, I know it's gonna go wrong.

"This man -- who also has a history of mental illness -- has been in and out of the jail 37 times.

"Elli Montgomery: I understand.

"Lesley Stahl: How does that happen? How does someone come back to a jail 37 times?

"Tom Dart: What in God's name do you expect to happen with that person? OK so this person has a serious mental illness, he's not being treated, his family and him have been disconnected for years, he obviously doesn't have a job. He has nowhere to live. What do you think is going to happen? I'll tell you what's going to happen. He will come in contact with law enforcement, either because he's trying to find a place to sleep or he's trying to find something to eat and he'll be back in here. It's not because he walked out of here saying, "Listen, I want to go and commit horrific crimes." It's like he's trying to survive."

Republican 'law and order' fascists fail to understand this. Consequently, nothing changes. Taxpayers continue to be looted. Jails have a revolving door. Worse, lives lay wasted. Many don't survive.

6-2-17

Yet another exoneration of a convicted murderer in Pennsylvania. ABC News reports:

"A convicted murderer was declared innocent and set free this week after spending more than two decades in a Pennsylvania prison. Shaurn Thomas, 43, was released from the State Correctional Institution in Frackville, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday afternoon after being jailed for 24 years for a murder he did not commit, his attorneys said. Thomas was sentenced to life in prison for the slaying of Domingo Martinez, a Philadelphia businessman who was shot in 1990 while trying to cash $25,000 check, according to news reports covering the killing. Thomas had maintained that he was at a correctional center for youth offenders in connection with an unrelated case on the day of the murder, but that did not sway the jury."

'Law and order' nazis are never ever confused with the truth. Precisely, why prosecutors do their damnedest to load the jury with these pieces of shit. Most prosecutors couldn't care less whether or not their targets are guilty or innocent. Only that someone, anyone, gets nailed. Nazi judges with an agenda go along with the ruse. In direct violation of their oaths of office.

"The law firm Dechert LLP, which represented Thomas on a pro bono basis, said in a statement that sign-in logs at the center had "vanished by the time of the trial."

Imagine that. Couldn't happen, could it? Not in the land of the free, home of the brave.

Pressed to the wall, prosecutors temporarily backed off:

"The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office said it agreed to vacate the conviction. "We will continue to review this case and make a decision regarding retrial in the very near future," the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office said in a statement Tuesday."

How do records conveniently disappear, vanish in thin air? No one held accountable.

6-2-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Fifty-eight weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Fifty-eight weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Fifty-eight weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

6-2-17

Another video. This time of a San Antonio officer punching a 14-year-old girl in the face. CBS News reports:

"The mother of a 14-year-old girl seen on video apparently being punched by a San Antonio police officer is speaking out, reports the CBS affiliate there, KENS-TV. April Johnson, the mother of a 14-year-old girl seen being punched by a San Antonio police officer in an online video, is speaking out."

Indeed, she is:

"As a mother, to sit there and be helpless and you can't help your child, that's the worst feeling in the world," Johnson told reporters Wednesday. "I don't want this to happen to anybody else's child, [for] anybody else to feel what I'm feeling right now. Nobody should have to go through that."

Proper police procedure to punch someone, especially a kid, in the face during an arrest?

"According to a police report obtained by KENS, when officers arrived, several party attendees, including juveniles, had been involved in fights and were still being aggressive with one another. It's not clear exactly what led up to the events in the video, but the police report says Johnson's daughter assaulted an officer and she was arrested at the scene."

Whether the arrest was warranted is one issue. The other is the fact the officer punched the kid in the face.

"She says her daughter was simply trying to be a peacemaker during the incident. The police report says the teen wasn't hurt during the scuffle, but Johnson says her daughter is still in pain."

The girl gets punched in the face and the report claims she wasn't hurt?

"If you can't handle your job, don't do it. If you have that much aggression, maybe you should have called in that day because there's no point, the way you hit a 14-year-old child," Johnson said. "You hit this child in front of everyone and you exposed this child in front of everyone. You need to be taken off the streets."

Likely, won't happen. Brutally abusive jackbooted bastards in blue are celebrated in our formerly great country. Forget?

"An attorney for the family is insisting the officer be terminated. "What I do know and what we see on the video is that this officer made physical and violent contact with the face of this 14-year-old," said Tess House. "We want the SAPD Officer's Association to be honest and critical of when their officers should not serve in that capacity anymore."

Likely, won't happen. Not in the fascist police-state we currently live in. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Sue the living shit out of the bastard, department, and the city. That, they understand.

Here is the response of the Chief and Mayor:

"SAPD Chief William McManus released the following statement: Per SAPD policy, the events leading up to the arrest of the juvenile for assaulting a public official is being investigated to ensure compliance with Department policies.

"Mayor Ivy Taylor also commented on the video: The video made public showing a scuffle between police officers and a girl is hard to watch and to listen to. SAPD is now reviewing body cam video to determine ...exactly what happened and Chief McManus is keeping me updated on the ongoing investigation. When I supported funding for body cameras it was for instances like this so that we can see exactly what happened and protect officers and citizens."

This officer suffers from aggressive stupidity. Knows full well police are under intense scrutiny. Yet, engages in horrendous conduct knowing full well it's being recorded? Why hasn't the officer been identified?

6-2-17

Here are the consequences of mindless jackbooted policing. CBS News reports:

"Corey Walgren was 16 when he jumped to his death from the top of a Chicago-area parking deck in January. His family says he did it about an hour after Naperville North High School officials and a police liaison questioned him about possible images of a sexual encounter with a 16-year-old girl on his phone. They told him "he could be charged with child pornography and he could be a registered sex offender," family attorney Terry Ekl told CBS Chicago station WBBM-TV."

Here is the problem:

"Ekl said they continued the harsh questioning even after realizing no pornographic images were on the teen's phone. While waiting for his mom, Corey walked out of school and killed himself."

This is a sixteen-year-old kid. Bad enough when the jackbooted bastards deliberately bamboozle, deceive an adult. This time, these achingly evil jackasses did it to a kid who did not have the wherewithal to stand up to them.

"If you look at the whole scenario of what they did and how they handled it and the outcome, they did a lot wrong," Ekl told WBBM-TV. That is why, he says, Corey's parents have filed a lawsuit against Naperville School District 203 and the city. Ekl said Corey wasn't read his Miranda rights and was questioned by police without a parent present and left unsupervised."

Happens all the time. All across our formerly great country. No Miranda? No parent present? Equally pointedly, it's a crime to lie to police. Why the hell isn't it a crime for police to lie to a target? Precisely, why law enforcement cannot be trusted. They don't tell the truth. Lie like hell. Do so with impunity. No legal ramifications, consequences. Ends don't justify the means. Never have. Never will. Lying by the goddamned criminal jackbooted bastards in blue eviscerates all trust in law enforcement. ... Too aggressively stupid to understand this?

6-2-17

Think you've heard it all? You haven't. ABC News reports:

"A Georgia sheriff recently arrested by an officer who accused him of exposing himself in a park has suspended himself for one week."

Yes, you read that right. Incredible, isn't it? This man is a sheriff. A law enforcement officer. Supposed to set an example for the community.

"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports ( http://on-ajc.com/2qRqB76 ) DeKalb County Sheriff Jeff Mann emailed sheriff's office employees Tuesday, saying he imposed the maximum penalty for conduct that "has a tendency to destroy public respect." His suspension begins Saturday."

Day is night, night is day, and shit smells perversely sweet in the world of law enforcement. All, ass backwards. Laughably, this piece of shit gets to suspend himself. Fox guarding the hen house.

"Mann was arrested May 6 after an Atlanta police officer said Mann exposed himself in a park and led the officer on a chase. Mann faces charges of ordinance violations of indecency and obstruction. Mann said the suspension is not an admission of guilt."

It's not? What the hell is it? Bullshit?

Insult to injury? Get this:

"A panel appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal is investigating Mann. Mann's attorney is asking a judge to stop that probe, saying he's not accused of official misconduct."

Take of Fox News? Get this:

"DeKalb County Sheriff Jeff Mann said he will take a self-imposed suspension starting this weekend. In a memo to the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, Mann said he is disciplining himself for one week due to "conduct unbecoming."

You think?

Coup de grace? Get this:

"Mann said he will donate one week of pay to charity. His suspension starts this Sunday."

6-2-17

In follow up to the last edition, ever notice all the medals on Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke's uniform? The Washington Post tried to get to the bottom of it. Here is the response of the Sheriff:

"I am the subject of a lot of ridiculous narratives. This, I must say is the height of that ridiculousness. This smear is beneath me to say any more about, especially with a media outlet (Washington Post) that has proven time and time again with their biased coverage that they are always at the ready to be that propaganda machine for those pushing fake narratives — especially those that smear black conservatives.

"A better story would be to ask the accusers what evidence they have that I wear military medals on my law enforcement uniform. There is none. Then you should ask why they accused me of this after you tell them what the pins attached represent and ask if they want to apologize for slandering me. You can use my radio interview you are referring to for an explanation.

"Problem is, that is not the direction you are going in here regardless what you say your intentions are, nor what you are looking for, which should be the truth and then outing the slanderers. You’re looking for political theater to keep the subject line alive.

"If I thought you were an objective observer in all this and simply looking to separate fact from fiction, I would talk to you about it. That would be naive on my part however.

"I choose live radio and TV for interviews because it can’t be edited on the first run. That is not the case with print media that can contort, take out of context or cherry-pick my responses to fit the writer’s narrative."

This sound like a law enforcement officer with all his marbles? ... Or, an out of control lunatic?

6-2-17

The Texas Legislature run and owned by GOP nazis again disgraced itself. Texas Public Radio reports:

"A heated exchange on the Texas House floor led one state lawmaker to threaten to shoot another in the head, on the last day of 85th legislative session. The scuffle began with a protest by groups unhappy about the legislature’s passage of Senate Bill 4, the sanctuary cities law, which led DPS Troopers to escort the protesters out."

Deteriorated from that point on.

"But on the floor, a different type of fight was happening between Republican members of the Freedom Caucus and Hispanic lawmakers."

Comes as no surprise, does it? Resistance to Republican national socialists exponentially grows as our formerly great country continues to nazify under Trump and his henchmen.

"Rep. Justin Rodriguez, a San Antonio Democrat, was one of the lawmakers involved in the scuffle. “There is a Republican lawmaker who made a disparaging comment about the folks in gallery who are predominantly Hispanic, by the way, that he was going to be calling ICE on them,” Rodriguez said."

No surprise coming from an outrageously fascist GOP bigot, is it?

"That comment was made by Rep. Matt Rinaldi, a Dallas-area Republican. “They said some things to me, I said some things back to them. Both of it was designed to incite each other, obviously, as sometimes happens in these passionate issues,” Rinaldi said."

Here is the problem:

"Rinaldi confirmed that he threatened to shoot Eagle Pass Democrat Pancho Nevarez related to the fight on the House floor."

If this is indeed true, why hasn't this legislator been arrested for making a terroristic threat? Instead, he's reportedly under protection from DPS troopers.

The Washington Post reports:

“There was a threat made from Representative Rinaldi to put a bullet in one of my colleagues’ heads,” state Rep. Justin Rodriguez said during the news conference. “That kind of threatening language, he needs to be called out and held accountable for.”

Why haven't any of these legislators been arrested? Joe Blow on the street gets his ass hauled to jail. These pieces of shit in the Legislature are coddled, protected.

CBS News reports:

"Hundreds of protesters opposing Texas' tough new anti-"sanctuary cities" law launched a raucous demonstration from the public gallery in the Texas House on Monday, briefly halting work and prompting lawmakers on the floor below to scuffle - and even threaten gun violence - as tense divides over hardline immigration policies boiled over."

Resistance to the Trump nazi and his fellow fascists in the GOP is ferocious, but must remain peaceful. Otherwise, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are granted carte blanche to murder on the job.

"Activists wearing red T-shirts reading "Lucha," or "Fight," quietly filled hundreds of gallery seats as proceedings began. After about 40 minutes, they began to cheer, drowning out the lawmakers below. Protesters also blew whistles and chanted: "Here to stay!" and "Hey, hey, ho, ho, SB4 has got to go," referring to the bill that Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law this month."

This outrageously unconstitutional bill signed into law by the Abbott nazi will certainly be vigorously challenged in court.

"State House leadership stopped the session and asked state troopers to clear the gallery. The demonstration continued for about 20 minutes as officers led people out of the chamber peacefully in small groups. There were no reports of arrests."

Troopers wisely displayed restraint. So did protesters. Not so, legislators on the floor.

"But even after the protest ended, tensions remained high. Rep. Ramon Romero, a Democrat from Fort Worth, said he was standing with fellow Democratic Rep. Cesar Blanco of El Paso when Republican colleague Matt Rinaldi came over and said: "This is BS. That's why I called ICE."

What else would be expected from an asshole Republican nazi? This apparently set off the ruckus on the floor:

"Rinaldi, of Irving in suburban Dallas, and Blanco then began shouting at each other. A scuffle nearly ensued before other lawmakers separated the two. Later, a group of Democratic lawmakers held a press conference to accuse Rinaldi of threatening to "put a bullet in the head" of someone on the House floor during a second near scuffle. They said the comment was made in the direction of Democratic Rep. Poncho Nevarez, from the border town of Eagle Pass. In a subsequent Facebook statement, Rinaldi admitted saying he'd called federal authorities and threatened to shoot Nevarez - but said his life was in danger, not the other way around."

Rinaldi seems to have instigated the melee. NPR reports:

"GOP state Rep. Matt Rinaldi says he called Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the protesters, several of whom carried signs proclaiming "I am illegal and here to stay." Later, he told the Texas Tribune he did it "to incentivize them to leave the House." He added: "They were disrupting. They were breaking the law." After he placed the call, he says he simply told his Democratic colleagues he did so."

Informative of the Republican nazi, isn't it? Indeed, a man for all seasons.

"Those Democratic colleagues, however, remember that conversation very differently. "He came up to us and said, 'I'm glad I just called ICE to have all these people deported,'" state Rep. César Blanco said at a news conference after the incident, according to the Tribune. State Rep. Ramon Romero recalls blunter language: "He said, 'I called ICE — f*** them.' " At this point, Rinaldi says that Romero "physically assaulted" him, and that another Democratic lawmaker, Poncho Nevarez, threatened to "get" Rinaldi on his way to his car. "I made it clear," Rinaldi said in a statement posted on Twitter, "that if he attempted to, in his words, 'get me,' I would shoot him in self defense." In the midst of the scuffle, which was recorded on video by several bystanders, Democratic Rep. Justin Rodriguez says he heard Rinaldi say something rather different to his colleague: "I'll put a bullet in his head."

Needs to be a criminal investigation. Let the chips fall where they may. No matter the political party. Appalling behavior by all involved.

ABC News reports:

"A Texas lawmaker said his office received racist phone calls on Monday evening, just hours after a fight broke out on the floor of the state's House of Representatives. Democratic Texas Rep. Cesar Blanco said the scuffle between lawmakers -- which reportedly occurred after state Rep. Matt Rinaldi, a Republican, told House Democrats that he had called immigration services on a group of Hispanic protesters -- had incited “hate and racism.” Blanco shared audio on Twitter of what appeared to phone call from a Rinaldi supporter. In the audio, a male caller says "I stand with Matt Rinaldi" before going on to make racist comments towards “illegal alien[s]” in the state."

Clearly, racism, bigotry, nazism remain alive and well in Texas.

6-2-17

Good reason why attorneys remain so despised. Here is one of the most despicable examples of shyster lawyering. NBC News reports:

"A Baltimore defense attorney was caught on tape telling a rape victim that she could be deported under President Donald Trump's immigration policies if she showed up in court to testify against his client, according to court documents filed Wednesday. "You know how things are with Trump's laws now. Someone goes to court and, boom, they get taken away," Christos Vasiliades allegedly told the victim and her husband during a May 18 hearing."

Gets worse. Far worse. Get this:

"Instead of courtroom justice, he offered the couple $3,000, a second-hand apology and advice that they find the defendant and assault him, the indictment alleged. The charges come amid a climate of fear in immigrant communities. Law enforcement and advocates across the country have expressed concern that the undocumented are not reporting crimes because they fear being deported under new policies. Vasiliades — who boasts of a "stellar reputation" on his website — could not be reached for immediate comment on the allegation he used those policies to threaten a crime victim. He was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday afternoon."

No honor among thieves.

6-2-17

The Trump nazi's immigration policies are indeed causing problems for police. NPR reports:

"Jason Cisneroz, a community service officer in Houston, is troubled. His job in the nation's fourth largest city is to forge good relations between the police and Hispanic immigrants, a population typically wary of blue uniforms. "A couple of days ago there was a witness to a burglary of a motor vehicle," he said. "She saw the suspects run to a certain place and with items they stole from a car, but she was afraid to come to police, she was in fear they would ask for her papers."

Just the beginning.

"Police officials have been warning about the unintended consequences of Trump's immigration dragnet. They caution it will further isolate immigrants who are in the country illegally and are victims of crimes like sexual assault. In Houston and in other U.S. cities, police and immigrant advocates say: it's already happening."

Here's the problem:

"Cisneroz's partner, Officer Jesus Robles, has a unique perspective. Robles came to Texas from Mexico as a child without papers, and later got citizenship. He also notices the chill. "People are afraid to talk to the police, and how does that help us as police do our job?" Robles asked."

Makes the job impossible. Needlessly, so.

"Their boss, Chief Art Acevedo, citing Houston Police Department data, says Hispanics reporting sexual assault have dropped nearly 43 percent in the first three months of this year, compared to last year. And the number of Hispanic-reported robberies and aggravated assaults are each down 12 percent. "What we've created is a chilling effect that we're already starting to see the beginning of," Acevedo said. "They're afraid that we're more interested as a society in deporting them than we are in bringing justice to the victims of crime."

Wouldn't want to confuse goddamned Republican 'law and order' nazis with the truth, would we?

6-2-17

Another glaring example of the effects of Trump's nazism on law enforcement. CBS News reports:

"A man whose interaction with Metro Transit Police went viral after an officer asked him about his immigration status is being deported, reports CBS Minneapolis."

Raw nazism in a fascist police-state.

"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say Ariel Vences-Lopez was detained for immigration violations on May 15. The day before, Vences-Lopez was captured on cellphone video being questioned by a transit officer aboard a light rail train. The officer asks Vences-Lopez if he is in the country illegally. The man who shot the video, Minneapolis artist Ricardo Levins Morales, interrupts the officer and questions his authority in terms of immigration matters."

None of the goddamned officer's business.

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers took Vences-Lopez into custody on May 16."

Jackbooted bastards in blue.

"Metro Transit Police Chief John Harrington said in a statement posted on the department's Facebook page that the officer who questioned Vences-Lopez had been terminated."

Belated, achingly insufficient justice.

6-2-17

The Abbott nazi and his fellow Republican fascists in the Texas Legislature continue to protect and coddle the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue no matter what they do. Including murdering innocent unarmed people on the job. Insult to injury? Outrageously galling? Hopelessly, Aryan arrogant? Intend to give the criminal jackbooted bastards protected class status.

The Washington Times reports:

"Police will become a protected class in Texas after legislators agreed to broaden the state’s hate crime law following an ambush in Dallas last year that left five officers dead. The state House and Senate both approved House Bill 2908 Tuesday, sending the legislation to the desk of Gov. Greg Abbott for his final stamp of approval. Mr. Abbott, a first-term Republican and the state’s former attorney general, highly touted the bill in the past and is expected to lend his signature imminently, setting the stage for the legislation to take effect Sept. 1."

Our achingly fascist Governor has once again shown his true national socialist bona fides.

"Known as the Police Protection Act, the bill enhances penalties for crimes committed against on-duty law enforcement officers and judges. It makes restraining, assaulting or threatening either a second degree felony punishable by up to 20 years behind bars, and makes causing serious bodily harm to an officer or judge a first degree felony carrying a maximum sentence of 99 years."

Our nazi Governor and his Republican henchmen in the Legislature have once again delivered a swift boot to the ass to all the families who have had innocent, unarmed family members murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. A raucous, boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Sieg Heil!, Governor. You're out of uniform, you fascist son of a bitch. Where is your swastika armband?

“At a time when law enforcement officers increasingly come under assault simply because of the job they hold, Texas must send a resolute message that the state will stand by the men and women who serve and protect our communities,” Mr. Abbott said when the bill was introduced in July."

A crock of shit. Abject distortion of reality. Re-write of history. Nearly, a thousand people each year are killed in this country by the jackbooted bastards in blue. How many of them are innocent and unarmed? Who cries for them? Murdered simply because officers supposedly believed they were in danger. In reality, these gutless murderous pieces of shit opened fire for no legitimate reason at all due to abject cowardice.

Then, falsely claimed they believed they were in danger to cover their achingly gutless asses. This new bill, soon to be law, reinforces legalized murder by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. These pieces of shit are not being killed simply because they're officers as falsely implied by the Governor. They're being killed in retaliation because they're murdering innocent unarmed citizens. The Governor knows this, yet fails to rein in his criminal jackbooted bastards.

No excuse, however, for either side to be murdering anyone. No justification. None at all. Officers or their innocent unarmed victims. This new law will further enrage the community every time an officer murders on the job. Will drastically worsen police-community relations. Sadly, lead to more violence by both sides. No one wants this. Continues to tear our formerly great country apart.

“The men and women in uniform risk their lives every day to protect the public, and it is time we show them the State of Texas has their back,” the governor said."

Abject bullshit. Galling distortion of reality. Appalling showboating. By a Governor who gallingly placed his hand on a Bible falsely swearing to protect and defend a Constitution the achingly fascist bastard clearly has no intention of upholding. Has egregiously abrogated not only as Governor, but as former Texas Attorney General.

Once again, showing his true colors, the Abbott nazi disgraced himself. CBS News reports:

"Two days after a GOP House candidate from Montana was charged with assaulting a journalist, Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, joked about shooting reporters, according to the Texas Tribune. The comment followed Abbott's Friday signing of a bill that reduces the licensing fee to carry a handgun in the state of Texas from $70 to $40. The governor then made his way upstairs to the shooting range for some target practice, and once he was finished, he held up his target sheet to show off his marksmanship, joking to the reporters and photographers present that, "I'm gonna carry this around in case I see any reporters."

Had it been the other way around, truly think this fascist piece of shit wouldn't have sicked his dogs in law enforcement on a reporter who cracked a similar joke against a public official? The Governor's judgment remains in question. His fitness for office? You decide.

Think this remains limited only to the Governor? Get this:

"Jokes about threatening the press have become more common recently. At the United States Coast Guard commencement ceremony on May 17th, 2017, DHS Secretary John Kelly joked with President Trump after he'd been presented with a ceremonial sword, saying, "Use that on the press, sir." President Trump chuckled, responding, "Yeah, that's right."

Again, had it been the other way around, the jokester would have promptly received a visit from the Secret Service. Once again, further proof positive one level of justice for the elite, another for the rest of the unwashed masses. Then again, to be expected in a goddamned fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

5-26-17

Two of Boston's Finest stepped up to make an unexpected, most special delivery shortly before a Mother's Day they'll never ever forget. CBS News reports:

"Officers Sean O'Connor and Kevin Rowley, who cover the midnight shift, were out patrolling the Jamaica Plain neighborhood around 2 a.m. last Thursday when they spotted a man trying to flag them over to his parked SUV, CBS Boston reports. Officer O'Connor, who had years of EMT training, immediately began to assist with the childbirth while Rowley ran to the nearby emergency room at Brigham and Women's Hospital to alert the medical staff and grab supplies. The baby arrived quickly but was quiet and appeared slightly blue, so O'Connor cleared her nose and mouth, helping the newborn begin to take breaths. She let out a strong cry and they swaddled her in blankets."

Hat's off, Officers. Good day for the little one, her parents, two fine officers, law enforcement, as well as the community. Clear win for all.

5-26-17

The following is no simple story, -- quite nuanced on a number of levels. Worse, not clear just what went down, how it went down, and precisely what was stolen and why. The safety net is nowhere near what it used to be. Will certainly get worse. No excuse to steal, however. Under any circumstances. While no excuse, occasionally there are mitigating factors.

Not clear from the following whether the young mother shoplifted more than food from Walmart. -- Stealing food because you or your kid are hungry is one thing. Stealing jewelry, a firearm, electronic device, etc. is quite another. Not clear precisely what she stole or how much it was worth from the article. The generosity of a police officer not involved in the arrest certainly is.

CBS News reports:

"Sheena Davenport walked out of an Alabama courtroom last week with her head down. The 19-year-old mother pleaded guilty to shoplifting and had to pay $700 in fines and restitution. She stole food from a Walmart nearly a year ago, when she and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Logan McPherson, had fallen on tough times. "I only had $5 to last until who knows when," Davenport, the mother of an 18-month-old named Skylar, told CBS News. "I had been looking for jobs. We applied for food stamps."

While the economy is exceptionally bad for many in this area, particularly the young and elderly, there is help available from at least some of the churches and food banks. One thing for sure. ... If you steal, you will get caught. Just a matter of time.

Here is where the story gets interesting:

"As the teen mom left court last Monday, a police officer tapped her on the shoulder and told her to wait outside. Confused, Davenport did as the officer asked. Dothan Police Officer Katrina Culbreath then told Davenport to follow her police cruiser. Again, Davenport followed her instruction."

... Think you know where this is going? Bet you don't. :)

"After a short drive, the pair pulled into a Winn-Dixie grocery store parking lot in Dothan, Alabama. "Grab a buggy — let's go shopping," Culbreath said with a grin after they exited their vehicles. Davenport said she couldn't accept the officer's generous offer, but Culbreath insisted, and they headed into the store."

What happened during the encounter was far more than just a shopping trip. Mentoring:

"We talked about her past struggles and how to make it through them," Culbreath said. Davenport recalls spotting Culbreath in court before, but the pair had never actually met until that day. "As we were walking through the store I wanted to cry the whole time that someone would actually do something like this for me in my struggling times," Davenport said. When Davenport was finished picking out her groceries for the week, Culbreath took the cart and footed the $139 bill."

Hat's off, Officer Culbreath. Readers should know the officer is black, Ms. Davenport, white.

Again, the article is not clear on what was shoplifted. Had it been simply food necessary for survival that was stolen, why was this case fully prosecuted? This young mother needed a job, not a fine. Then again, who the hell is going to hire a thief? Restitution? No question.

Could certainly have repaid what was stolen cleaning Walmart restrooms. We need to find a better way of dealing with this problem. ... And it certainly remains a problem all over the country. An expense businesses can't afford. Worse, we all ultimately pay for it in terms of prices inflated to cover such loss.

5-26-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Fifty-seven weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Fifty-seven weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Fifty-seven weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

5-26-17

In follow up to the last edition, a murderous officer in Oklahoma was exonerated. NBC News reports:

"A jury on Wednesday acquitted a white Oklahoma police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black man in Tulsa last year. Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby, 43, had been charged with manslaughter in the September 2016 shooting death of Terence Crutcher, 40, during an encounter that began with the report of a stalled vehicle."

Why hadn't she been charged with murder? Her victim had his hands up when she opened fire. Murdered the bastard with impunity. The American Way. In the goddamned fascist police-state we now live in. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Equally pointedly, why was this officer allowed to taint the jury pool prior to trial? Permitted to give a 60 Minutes nationwide televised interview shortly before jury selection? Kangaroo justice in a fascist police-state.

"Crutcher's family called the verdict a disappointment, and called the police department "corrupt" after being led out of the courtroom filled with emotion. Crutcher's twin sister, Tiffany Crutcher, said her brother's hands were up, that he was not an imminent threat or attack her and didn't deserve to be shot. "Terence was not the aggressor; Betty Shelby was the aggressor," she said. "Betty Shelby had the gun. Betty Shelby was following him with his hands up."

No longer matters in Nazi America. Shoot first, ask questions later remains the police-mentality used to justify the murder of innocent unarmed citizens.

"She fired her weapon, she told a Tulsa County courthouse on Monday, because "I feared for my life." "I did everything I could to stop this," she added. "Crutcher's death is his fault."

This cowardly, convoluted piece of jackbooted shit in blue gutlessly blamed the victim for his murder. Achingly psychotic convoluted bullshit. Since she had deliberately tainted the jury pool prior to trial, come as any surprise the jury bought her bullshit? Had it been the other way around, that is, black officer, white victim think the result would have been the same?

"Prosecuting attorney Kevin Gray told the court that Crutcher was never aggressive toward police or actually produced a gun, and that Shelby was merely "guessing" that he had one."

If he had one, where is it? What happened to it? Forget? Police had control of the murder scene from the time the officer pulled the trigger. The officer saw no weapon because there was none. Why fire your weapon when no gun was seen?

"Her defense attorney, Shannon McMurray, argued that it was unfair for the prosecution to repeatedly say Crutcher was unarmed. No weapon was found inside the SUV."

Non-sequitur. If no weapon was found, it is appropriate to say the officer's murdered victim was unarmed.

"An attorney for the Crutcher family, Benjamin Crump, raised the deaths of other black men in encounters with police, like Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, in expressing his disappointment with the verdict. "The list just goes on and on, of unarmed African American men being killed by white police officers, and they get away with it," Crump said."

They do. Called legalized murder. By the gutless, criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Sue the living shit out of the exonerated officer, her department, and the city. This outrageous exoneration of a murderous officer will lead to further unrest, public distrust, worsening police-community relations. Doomsday clock striking ever closer to midnight. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon.

Despite all the above, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue still don't get it:

"Jerad Lindsey, chairman of Tulsa Fraternal Order of Police, said that the jury's verdict was the right one, but said the shooting was a tragedy. "There's no winners in this," he said. "There's still a family that has dealt with a tragedy here, the Crutchers, and we still extend our deepest sympathies to them."

Take your head out of your ass, Mr. Lindsey. No winners? Wake up. What do you call the criminal jackbooted piece of shit who just got away with murdering an innocent unarmed citizen? Your 'sympathies' to your victims mean squat shit. Ring achingly hollow.

"And now that we've reached a verdict, Tulsa's gonna have to figure out how to get its arms around this and be able to move forward in a positive way," Lindsey said."

Delusional enough to believe that will happen? Really think so? This verdict is proof positive no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element is more dangerous to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than the murderous criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. This outrageous exoneration of a law enforcement murderer is a threat to the entire community.

"Shelby was placed on paid administrative leave amid the investigation, then on unpaid leave. Shelby did not speak to the media after Wednesday's verdict. McMurray said Shelby is "elated and very proud of her jury."

Bet she is. After all, she successfully tainted the jury pool. Obviously, with the blessing of the kangaroo judge who did nothing to stop it. Imposed no gag order. Apparently, this judicial piece of shit, as well, is bought and paid for.

CBS News reports:

"The NAACP Legal Defense Fund issued a statement saying in part, "We are deeply disappointed that yet another police officer has eluded conviction for killing an unarmed African American. Officer Shelby continually altered her account of the incident, apparently changing the details based on the influence of counsel and discoveries by her fellow officers instead of her own recollection."

Indeed. A sham 'investigation,' followed by a sham 'trial.' Under a sham 'judge' who failed to impose a gag order. Allowed the murderous officer to successfully taint the jury pool prior to trial. Protected, coddled a murderous police officer.

"Tulsa has a long history of troubled race relations dating back to a 1921 race riot that left about 300 black residents dead. In 2015, a poorly-trained white voluntary deputy, Robert Bates, shot and killed a black man after Bates said he mistakenly reached for his gun rather than a Taser. The shooting led to the departure of the sheriff."

This case had also been covered in this publication and elsewhere. Certainly, an ongoing crisis in law enforcement all over the country.

"I'm feeling that his intent is to do me harm and I keep thinking, 'Don't do this. Please don't do this. Don't make this happen,"' Shelby told "60 Minutes." She said she felt Crutcher's death was his own fault. "I have sorrow that this happened that this man lost his life but he caused the situation to occur," Shelby said. "So in the end, he caused his own."

A tainted jury bought her bullshit. The Murderous Ice Princess. No justice. A fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

In another article, CBS News reports:

"Somehow the police training doesn't allow for them to take gambles with their lives, but it's okay for them to take gambles with our lives," said Terence Crutcher's twin, Tiffany Crutcher, speaking at a press conference. "Terence didn't have a gun, he didn't attack her, he didn't say anything to her, he had his hands up and she still got away with murder."

Indeed, she did.

"Thursday, Tiffany Crutcher called on city leaders to block Shelby, who was placed on unpaid leave after the shooting, from returning to her job. Tiffany Crutcher says Shelby is violent, lacks training and should not return to patrolling the streets, saying her "temperament is unfit to serve and protect our community."

That's right. This officer presents an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. An ongoing, exigent threat to the community.

"Speaking earlier Thursday, Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said Shelby's status is under review and a decision would be announced shortly."

Comforting, isn't it? Worse? This government no longer serves the best interests of the people. Only itself. It's corporate masters. All levels, all branches. All bought and paid for. All corrupt, abusive, inept.

"Tiffany Crutcher also called on Jordan and Mayor G.T. Bynum to terminate Sgt. Dave Walker, the detective who testified at trial that he allowed Shelby to first watch the video of the deadly encounter before taking her statement. Family attorneys also called for financial compensation for Crutcher's children."

Where was the judge? Out to lunch? Bought and paid for?

Clearly, law enforcement cannot be trusted. Nor can the courts. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon. Equally to the point? What is law enforcement desperately, stupidly trying to do? Provoke a revolution?

ABC News reports:

"The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a civil and human rights law organization, said it was "deeply disappointed" by the verdict. The organization said it is now awaiting the result of a separate Department of Justice probe. "We are deeply disappointed that yet another police officer has eluded conviction for killing an unarmed African American," NAACP LDEF President Sherrilyn Ifill said in a statement Wednesday. "We eagerly await the findings of the Department of Justice's investigation, and hope that federal charges will be filed given the egregious misconduct."

Snowball's chance with the racist Sessions nazi as U.S. Attorney General.

"Terrence Crutcher's sister, Tiffany Crutcher, told reporters after the verdict came in that her brother never attacked or threatened Shelby, who said she feared for her life during the roadside encounter. "Betty Shelby murdered my brother and after she murdered my brother the Tulsa police department covered up for her," she said. Terence Crutcher's father, Rev. Joey Crutcher echoed her remarks in a statement after the announcement. "Let it be known that I believe in my heart that Betty Shelby got away with murder," he said."

The fix was in. No chance the criminal jackbooted piece of shit would receive justice. Going on all over the country.

Insult to injury? This acquitted criminal will indeed be returning to duty shortly. CBS reports:

"-- A white Oklahoma police officer acquitted in the killing of an unarmed black man last year will be allowed to return to the force - although she won't be allowed on patrol, Tulsa's police chief said Friday. Police Chief Chuck Jordan announced in a one-sentence email that officer Betty Jo Shelby will return to active duty. Shelby has been on unpaid leave since being charged Sept. 22 with first-degree manslaughter in the shooting of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher. A jury found Shelby not guilty Wednesday, although the foreman said in a memo filed with the court Friday that jurors weren't comfortable with the idea that she was "blameless" in Crutcher's death. Shelby plans to return to work on Monday, her attorney, Shannon McMurray, said. Shelby is still the subject of an internal affairs investigation, which is standard procedure for officers involved in similar shootings. McMurray had previously said she wasn't sure Shelby would even want to go back to police work, fearing it would be too dangerous."

Kicker?

"Crutcher's family had called Thursday for city leaders to block Shelby from returning to her job."

Shelby remains an exigent threat to herself and the rest of the community. No more than a jackbooted predator in blue. An unconvicted murderer. The Murderous Ice Princess.

5-26-17

Despite the above and thousands of other cases like it, once in awhile officers are successfully prosecuted for their crimes. The Washington Post reports:

"A Prince George’s County police officer was convicted of second-degree assault in a case that featured dash cam video of him striking a suspect with his cruiser, prosecutors said Wednesday. Officer Juan Hernandez, 42, was acquitted of misconduct in office. The case stems from a June 13, 2016, incident in which Hernandez was responding to what initially was reported as an armed robbery call. The suspect was on foot and ran into a field, prosecutors said. Hernandez, in his cruiser, chased the suspect into the field and struck him, prosecutors said."

Why would an officer do something like this? To become judge, jury, and executioner?

"The police department conducted an internal investigation into the incident and sent the case to the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s office to review for criminal charges. A grand jury issued an indictment against Hernandez in the case in December."

Interesting, isn't it?

"Hernandez’s actions “were unwarranted given the circumstances of the incident,” Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks said in a statement. “While it’s never a good day when we have to prosecute one of our own, it is important that those we serve understand that we will hold people accountable when their actions go above and beyond what is necessary,” Alsobrooks said."

Needs to happen all over the country. Go a long way to raising near non-existent confidence in policing. Treat criminal officers just like the criminals they arrest. Equal treatment under the law as required by the Constitution.

"Hernandez faces up to 10 years in prison and will undergo an internal administrative review, with penalties that could include dismissal from the department."

Make sure there's follow through. Not just a dog and pony show.

5-26-17

Las Vegas Police are dragging their feet on yet another killing perpetrated by police in our formerly great country. ABC News reports:

"Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Officer Kenneth Lopera, 31, said he believed Tashii Farmer, 40, was trying to break into to a vehicle when he discharged his Taser and placed him in an unapproved rear neck hold for more than a minute, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said at a press conference Wednesday evening. Lopera has been placed on paid leave as the department investigates the matter."

Why wasn't the jackbooted bastard in blue immediately arrested for murder? Had it been the other way around, would certainly have been. No equal treatment under the law. Instead, this piece of shit gets what amounts to a paid vacation? While his victim lies dead in a morgue.

"Bodycam video and security footage provided by the department appears to show Lopera chasing Farmer early Sunday as he ran through an employee-only area of a coffee shop in the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. The video, which was shown at the press conference Wednesday, also appears to show the officer, who is white, firing his stun gun several times before putting Farmer, who is black, in a neck restraint until other officers arrived to find Farmer unconscious. Department officials said previously that the officer used an approved restraint technique, which is banned in many other cities, but a subsequent investigation revealed that he used a "rear naked choke," a martial arts chokehold that is not approved."

Again, in light of all the above, why wasn't this son of a bitch immediately arrested?

Coup de grace? Kicker? Get this:

"Farmer would not have faced charges had he survived the incident, according to the department."

Had committed no crime. Yet, his murderer isn't immediately arrested, charged like any other criminal would be under the circumstances?

"The Associated Press reported that Lopera is being represented by the Las Vegas Police Protective Union. Its executive director, Steve Grammas, declined AP's request for comment, saying he had not reviewed video from the episode. Lopera has not provided a statement to investigators, according to AP."

Why hasn't this piece of shit been questioned? As anyone else would have been under the circumstances. Why are they giving him a chance to get his story straight, in line before questioning begins?

CBS News reports:

"Andre Lagomarsino, an attorney representing Brown's family, told CBS affiliate KLAS-TV that Brown "didn't do anything wrong at all." "He was very fearful. He didn't run away at his fastest pace. He looked confused," Lagomarsino said. Brown's cause of death has not been determined and an investigation is ongoing."

Comforting, isn't it?

"McMahill said Lopera was heard saying he used a "rear naked choke," a prominent mixed martial arts chokehold that differs from a department-approved technique that some departments call a "lateral vascular neck restraint" and others refer to as a carotid artery hold. Department officials said previously that the officer had used the approved technique, which is banned in many other cities."

For damned good reason. It kills.

Kicker? Coup de grace? Get this:

"McMahill said Lopera held Brown's neck for more than a minute -- far longer than the seven to 10 seconds it might take for an approved carotid restraint to render a person unconscious."

If true, called murder.

"The police official said also that the driver of the pickup didn't think Brown was trying to carjack his vehicle, and that Brown was not believed to have committed any crime."

Police are out of control.

"Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said there will be a public use-of-force review to air the findings of investigations into Brown's death. The sheriff said the reviews could take several months and asked for patience from the public. "We'll be fully transparent and we will look at this event with a very critical eye," Lombardo said."

Where have we heard this before? Where?

5-26-17

Another example of egregious, murderous behavior by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. ABC News reports:

"Documents show that an Atlanta police officer who shot a tourist who was in town to attend a motocross event at the Georgia Dome has been fired. WSB-TV reports ( http://2wsb.tv/2qAxtpH ) that it obtained documents that Sgt. Mathieu Cadeau was notified of the firing May 8. Authorities said Cadeau was working an off-duty job directing traffic near the dome in February."

Here is the problem:

"Cadeau told investigators that he shot Noel Hall of Morganton, North Carolina, because he feared for his safety. Officials said at the time that Hall disregarded the officer's commands and drove in his direction."

This is the excuse murderous officers ubiquitously invoke to literally get away with murder. Statutes need to be changed to protect innocent unarmed people from being murdered by these goddamned gutless pieces of shit.

Here is the kicker. The officer lied:

"But Hall told WSB that he and his family drove around the officer, not at him, and the officer responded by shooting him and missing his heart by a couple of inches."

Yet, the officer has not been arrested. Not held accountable:

"No charges have been filed."

The son of a bitch commits an offense serious enough to be fired, but not arrested? Not held legally accountable for wantonly shooting a tourist? Worse? Lying like hell about the incident. Yet, no legal action? Two standards of justice. One for the elite. The other for the rest of us. ... Only to worsen as the Trump nazi and his henchmen transform the fascist police-state we already live in to the Fourth Reich.

5-26-17

Another egregious example of an innocent man on death row who wound up 'exonerated' decades later. NBC News reports:

"On Saturday morning, James Dennis slipped off his prison uniform, put on a dark suit and walked out of a penitentiary in western Pennsylvania where he'd sat on death row for a quarter century. His fiancee was waiting for him, along with a team of lawyers who'd been fighting for his release nearly as long as he'd been locked up. Smiling and laughing, they got into a van and began driving more than 300 miles to Philadelphia, the city where Dennis had been condemned to die for the 1991 killing of a 17-year-old schoolgirl — a crime he says he didn't commit."

Here is the issue:

"Dennis was convicted primarily on the testimony of three eyewitnesses to the murder. He appealed, arguing that authorities withheld exculpatory evidence. The case landed before U.S. District Judge Anita Brody, who in 2013 threw out Dennis' conviction, saying the state had "committed a grave miscarriage of justice" and that Dennis was "in all probability" innocent."

How is it this system remains so hopelessly convoluted, inept, incompetent, unjust, this kind of shit continues unabated? Decades after the fact. No question, a human rights issue in a supposed democratic republic.

"She ordered the state to either retry him or drop the charges. The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office fought the ruling and lost."

The bastards clearly couldn't care less whether or not their target is innocent or guilty. Only that they nail someone, anyone:

"Still unwilling to say Dennis was innocent, prosecutors began negotiating an unusual agreement that led Dennis to pleading "no contest" to the killing. The plea, not uncommon in claims of wrongful convictions, allowed Dennis to maintain his innocence. But he also had to acknowledge that there might be enough evidence for another guilty verdict. And prosecutors were able to keep his conviction on the books."

An innocent prisoner made a pact with the devil for the sake of expediency:

"In exchange, the state agreed to set Dennis free. "I just want the nightmare to end," Dennis told a judge as he made the plea in late December."

The judge had her head up her ass. Agreed to a 'settlement' she knew was unjust. Had she no legal choice but to accept the 'settlement,' she could have resigned her seat on the bench in protest. Then again, principle means shit squat in a fascist police-state. ... Right, TL? Sheriff? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

5-26-17

In follow up to an earlier edition, CBS News reports:

"The daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher described in court Thursday a series of encounters with a former police officer who a judge later said behaved "like a pimp" to the girl, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The woman, now 19, testified that she began having sexual encounters with police officers when she was just 12 years old. "I was a prostitute," she said. "I accepted money, I accepted clothes, I accepted drugs."

Sad, isn't it? Why should any kid have to put up with this? This, the 'best' law enforcement has to offer?

"Brian Bunton, a 41-year-old former Oakland police officer, is accused of felony obstruction of justice and misdemeanor prostitution in the case that roiled the department, reports CBS San Francisco. Another Oakland police officer, Brendan O'Brien, committed suicide in September 2015, leaving behind a note implicating other officers in the scandal, but it wasn't until May 2016 when the case became public. Ultimately, the case embroiled at least 30 Bay Area officers, and the woman has alleged police misconduct and sexual exploitation in lawsuits against the cities of Oakland, Richmond and other nearby towns, according to the East Bay Times."

No systemic problems in law enforcement? None at all?

5-26-17

Another egregious example of police misconduct. CBS News reports:

"A veteran Texas cop is the subject of criminal and internal police investigations for allegedly offering to convert an 18-year-old's two traffic tickets to warnings in exchange for naked pictures of the woman, reports CBS affiliate KHOU. Officer Michael Coppock ticketed the driver for speeding and having an expired registration, according to affidavits obtained by the station. Investigators say Coppock then contacted the teen through social media and text messages. In laying out their case for a search warrant for Coppock's cellphone, police say they viewed screenshots of the conversations and characterized the messages as "clearly coercive in nature," and "putting pressure" on the teen."

Couldn't be, could it? A cop wouldn't do anything like that, would he?

"The officer has not been criminally charged in the case."

Why not? What are they waiting for? Worse? He's still employed with the department:

"A spokesman for the police department said the case is still an active investigation. He confirmed that Coppock remains employed with the department, though the SWAT team member has been pulled off patrol."

This man is a predator. Why is he still an officer?

5-26-17

Amazing how the jackbooted bastards in blue have no problem beating the hell out of American protesters. Yet, seemed achingly incapable of recently handling an outrageously violent security detail of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Fox News reports:

"Authorities in Washington, D.C., said that at least nine people were injured in the attack with two seriously injured and requiring an ambulance to take them to the hospital. A Voice of America video showed police officers struggling to protect the protesters and ordering the men in suits to retreat. Instead, several of the men dodged the officers and ran into the park to continue the attacks."

Why the hell didn't police do their duty? Haul the rampaging members of the dictator's 'security' detail to jail?

"The video also shows the attackers kicking one woman as she lay curled on a sidewalk, wrenching another woman's neck and throwing her to the ground and kicking the face of a man carrying a bullhorn. “I am an American citizen. I didn’t expect something like this to happen here,” Abbas Aziz, a 62-year-old Kurdish teacher, told Fox News."

Why wouldn't you expect this? Forget? We live in a fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. The police did not do their job.

"Four of the attackers ganged up on Aziz – knocking him to the ground with punches to the head and repeatedly kicking him in the chest and head before police drove them away."

Why didn't they arrest these sons of bitches? Haul their asses to jail. Diplomatic immunity allows foreign thugs to do as they please in our formerly great country? The Trump nazi and his henchmen have remained gutlessly silent.

Gets worse. Insult to injury. The Washington Post reports:

"Turkey’s Foreign Ministry lodged a formal protest Monday with the U.S. ambassador to Ankara over what it said were “lapses of security” during a violent confrontation between protesters and Turkish bodyguards during President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Washington earlier this month."

The security detail went on a rampage. Were not arrested. Worse? Allowed to leave the country.

"The summoning of the ambassador, John Bass, sharply escalated a diplomatic rift between Turkey and the United States after the brawl, which prompted outrage in the United States, as well as calls for the prosecution of the Turkish guards and even the expulsion of Turkey’s ambassador to Washington."

Exactly, what should have happened. Did not. Why not?

"American and Turkish officials have provided directly contrasting versions of how the violence unfolded. Local police said the Turkish guards savagely attacked a peaceful protest outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence as Erdogan was visiting. The melee, which was recorded by video journalists, showed what appeared to be Turkish security guards kicking and choking protesters as D.C. police struggled to contain the unrest. The footage also showed that Erdogan was watching, from a distance, as the fighting raged."

Should have hauled his ass to jail along with the guards. Forget? The son of a bitch was in charge of the rioting, rampaging bastards. Did not call off the dogs.

"Turkish diplomats have criticized the local police for failing to quell an “unpermitted” and “provocative” demonstration."

Foreign visitors now dictate in this country what is or is not permitted or provocative? Is that right?

"The Turkish Foreign Ministry’s statement on Monday went even further, criticizing “the inability of U.S. authorities to take sufficient precautions at every stage of the official program.” And it demanded that the United States conduct a “full investigation of this diplomatic incident and provide the necessary explanation.”

F--k 'em.

"The spiraling argument appeared to undermine what by all accounts had been a friendly meeting between Erdogan and President Trump before the violence at the protest. In a joint press appearance at the White House, the two leaders were full of mutual praise and spoke of hopes for a closer and more productive relationship."

There's the problem. Two goddamned nazi strongmen with their noses up each other's ass. In this country, the First Amendment guaranties the right of peaceful protest. Protesters were peaceful. Erdogan's security detail were not. Should have had their asses hauled to jail, then permanently expelled from this country.

5-26-17

Same jackbooted tactics now used in our formerly great country. Two egregious examples. CBS News reports:

"Security guards at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., manhandled a reporter and forced him to leave for trying to ask FCC commissioners questions Thursday, according to the reporter. CQ Roll Call senior defense reporter John Donnelly said he was confronted by security guards who weren't in uniform when he tried to ask commissioners questions away from the podium at a press conference, according to the National Press Club. Donnelly, the chairman of the National Press Club's Press Freedom Team, said he displayed his congressional press pass, tape recorder and notepad throughout the event, but security guards shadowed him like he was a threat -- even waiting for him outside the restroom. When Donnelly approached FCC Commissioner Michael O'Reilly, two guards pinned him against the wall until the commissioner passed, according to Donnelly. Frederick Bucher, one of the guards, asked Donnelly why he didn't ask his question during the news conference before forcing him to leave the building."

Forget? We now live in a goddamned fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Second example:

"The FCC incident marks the second time this month law enforcement used force against a reporter asking federal officials questions. A reporter was arrested in West Virginia last week after attempting to ask Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price about an Obamacare replacement bill, an arrest strongly condemned by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union."

A goddamned fascist police-state.

5-26-17

In follow up to an earlier edition here and elsewhere, ABC News reports:

"Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke -- who last week claimed that he was appointed to be an assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security -- is denying allegations that he plagiarized content in his 2013 master's thesis, while calling the reporter who broke the story a "sleaze bag." CNN reported on Saturday night that Clarke, a controversial figure who has spoken out against the activist group Black Lives Matter and has been accused of human rights abuses by civil rights groups, lifted language from several sources in building his thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School."

Couldn't be, could it? A nazi sheriff wouldn't do anything like that, would he?

"The CNN report claims that Clarke footnoted his sources in the thesis, titled "Making U.S. security and privacy rights compatible," but failed to use quotation marks in places where he had used passages verbatim, which breaks with school guidelines."

I'm shocked. LOL.

"The Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where Clarke earned a master's degree in security studies in 2013, confirmed on Sunday to the Associated Press that the allegations published on CNN are being reviewed. The school removed his thesis from its online archive on Friday, a school spokesman told the AP."

Be interesting to see where this all goes, if anywhere. If the plagiarism allegations are true, certainly goes to character. What is far, far worse, however, is the following:

"Clarke's office has come under scrutiny over four deaths that have occurred in his jail since 2016, including an incident in which an inmate gave birth to a stillborn baby. Among the most high profile incidents to take place in Clarke’s custody was the death of Terrill Thomas, a 38-year-old man who died of thirst in Milwaukee County Jail in April 2016. Thomas was found dead in his jail cell nine days after he was arrested in connection with a shooting. The death was ruled a homicide, with dehydration the primary cause, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel."

The Sheriff has not stepped up:

"Clarke has not commented on the details surrounding Thomas' death, and issued a press release in September of 2016 citing an internal investigation of the case as the reason for his silence."

A bullshit excuse. Gutless.

"This month, a Milwaukee jury recommended criminal charges against seven Milwaukee County jail staffers in the death of Thomas, but ignored Clarke."

Why? How could he possibly have not known what was going on. Forget? It's his jail. Insult to injury? This gutless piece of shit blames his support of the Trump nazi for his ongoing problems in the jail.

5-19-17

Any time a cop does something heroic, and/or of exceptional benefit to the community, it leads. Always. The following is in update to an earlier edition. This is a heartrending, heartbreaking example of egregious injustice dealt a fine officer. NBC News reports:

"There isn't a day that goes by that former police officer Stephen Mader doesn't play back the killing of Ronald J. Williams in his head."

This exceptional officer did the right thing. Heroically, refused to kill a man in cold blood. Paid for it with his job.

"He can still hear Williams pleading for Mader to kill him, to end his life with a bullet. He can still see the pain in his face, his sunken body language and the empty gun dangling at his side. But for all the replaying of that day last year, when Williams finally got his wish to die by cop, it's what Mader didn't do that has caused the most second-guessing."

Another officer killed the man. In cold blood:

"I loved being a police officer. And for them to say because of this incident you're not going to continue here was heartbreaking," said Mader, who was fired from the Weirton, West Virginia police department last June. "It had me questioning myself, should I be an officer."

This is an officer who heroically exercised good judgment, -- only to get the boot off the force:

"Mader says he was let go by the Weirton Police Department for not shooting the emotionally disturbed Williams during a domestic disturbance call on May 6, 2016."

Hopefully, another department will appreciate his gallantry. Hire this fine officer. We need more like him. Instead of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue ubiquitous across our formerly great country.

"On Wednesday, Mader filed a lawsuit against the city of Weirton claiming that he was wrongfully terminated, that his constitutional rights were violated and that the city thereafter "engaged in a pattern of retaliation designed to destroy Mr. Mader's reputation."

Good for him. Good for the community. Good for policing:

"The City of Weirton's decision to fire officer Mader because he chose not to shoot and kill a fellow citizen, when he believed that he should not use such force, not only violates the Constitution, common sense and public policy, but incredibly punishes restraint," O'Brien said. "When given the tragic, and, far too frequent unnecessary use of deadly force, such restraint should be praised not penalized. To tell a police officer, when in doubt either shoot to kill, or get fired, is a choice that no police officer should ever have to make and is a message that is wrong and should never be sent."

Indeed. A shoot first, ask questions later mentality currently embraced by outrageously corrupt, abusive, inept law enforcement is precisely why so many innocent unarmed people are murdered by police each year. Hat's off, Officer Mader. Uncommon valor.

5-19-17

A refugee has become a cop. CBS News reports:

"Jacob Mach finally has his dream job, a 37-year-old rookie cop working the overnight shift in downtown Atlanta. "It was really hard for me. But I put a lot of effort to realize that dream," Mach said."

Indeed, he did.

"Mach grew up in Sudan during a civil war that killed two million people, including his father. When he was 7 years old, he hiked hundreds of miles barefoot to safety in Ethiopia, eating leaves to survive. Roughly 20,000 children like him -- most of them orphans -- became known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. He lived in refugee camps for 14 years."

Think the Trump nazi and his henchmen would have let him into the country had they been in power at the time?

"It was horrible," Mach said. "There was a lot of killing, a lot of suffering." He was often scared and hungry."

Never gave up.

"Mach found a new life in America when he was 21. He learned English, graduated college and dreamed of becoming a cop. But in training, he struggled with target practice and driving. On his third try through the police academy, he graduated last month. "Everybody wanted Jacob to succeed," said Atlanta Deputy Police Chief Jeff Glazier. "You can see in his eyes he has the fight in him," Glazier said. "And he never turned his back. And he always kept swinging. And that's what we're looking for."

Indeed.

5-19-17

Fox News reports:

"A Medal of Honor recipient and World War II veteran, who was hailed a hero for almost single-handedly holding off counter attacks by elite German troops, died on Tuesday in Washington State. Wilburn K. Ross, who was originally from Kentucky, was 94. Ross was awarded the Medal of Honor on April 23, 1945 for his actions that went “beyond the call of duty” near St. Jacques, France six months earlier, according to his Medal of Honor citation."

A story of uncommon valor. This man, as well as all those who served, should never ever be forgotten. The following is from his Medal of Honor Citation:

"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty near St. Jacques, France. At 11:30 a.m. on 30 October 1944, after his company had lost 55 out of 88 men in an attack on an entrenched full-strength German company of elite mountain troops, Pvt. Ross placed his light machinegun 10 yards in advance of the foremost supporting riflemen in order to absorb the initial impact of an enemy counterattack. With machinegun and small-arms fire striking the earth near him, he fired with deadly effect on the assaulting force and repelled it. Despite the hail of automatic fire and the explosion of rifle grenades within a stone's throw of his position, he continued to man his machinegun alone, holding off 6 more German attacks. When the eighth assault was launched, most of his supporting riflemen were out of ammunition. They took positions in echelon behind Pvt. Ross and crawled up, during the attack, to extract a few rounds of ammunition from his machinegun ammunition belt. Pvt. Ross fought on virtually without assistance and, despite the fact that enemy grenadiers crawled to within 4 yards of his position in an effort to kill him with handgrenades, he again directed accurate and deadly fire on the hostile force and hurled it back. After expending his last rounds, Pvt. Ross was advised to withdraw to the company command post, together with 8 surviving riflemen, but, as more ammunition was expected, he declined to do so. The Germans launched their last all-out attack, converging their fire on Pvt. Ross in a desperate attempt to destroy the machinegun which stood between them and a decisive breakthrough. As his supporting riflemen fixed bayonets for a last-ditch stand, fresh ammunition arrived and was brought to Pvt. Ross just as the advance assault elements were about to swarm over his position. He opened murderous fire on the oncoming enemy; killed 40 and wounded 10 of the attacking force; broke the assault single-handedly, and forced the Germans to withdraw. Having killed or wounded at least 58 Germans in more than 5 hours of continuous combat and saved the remnants of his company from destruction, Pvt. Ross remained at his post that night and the following day for a total of 36 hours. His actions throughout this engagement were an inspiration to his comrades and maintained the high traditions of the military service."

Doesn't end there. Fox News reports:

"Ross returned to Kentucky after the war was over and became a highway patrolman with the state. He eventually returned to the Army and became a Master Sergeant. During a stint in Korea, his last combat duty, he was badly wounded. The injury was the fourth time he was wounded in the line of duty, UPI reported. He eventually retired and settled in DuPont, Washington, where he became a bus driver for a Veterans Administration hospital. He was twice honored with a commemorative stamp, in 1983 and 2013. Ross, a widower, is survived by his six children."

5-19-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Fifty-six weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Fifty-six weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Fifty-six weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

5-19-17

Another example of exceptionally piss poor justice. Horrendous case. ABC News reports:

"The effort by former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca and his underlings to derail an FBI investigation into beatings in the jails he ran was dubbed Operation Pandora's Box. Like the Greek myth the name was based on, it contained troubles the conspirators never anticipated when federal investigators uncovered the scheme and went after Baca and his associates for obstructing justice."

This criminal jackbooted son of a bitch received nowhere near any semblance of justice for his egregious crimes.

"Baca was the final casualty when he was sentenced Friday to three years in federal prison by a judge who rebuked the longtime lawman for failing to live up to the lofty values he preached, bringing shame to his department and forever tarnishing his legacy."

Think so? Truly believe the sentence justice? Get this:

"U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson, who exceeded a two-year term recommended by prosecutors, said Baca would have received five years behind bars if not for nearly a half-century of public service and because he's in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease."

Crock of shit. This criminal wound up protected, coddled. His victims? F--ked. Hard in the ass without the Vaseline.

"Baca, 74, was the most prominent defendant in the case that expanded from a civil rights investigation of beatings by guards in the nation's largest jail system into a broader corruption scandal that led to the top of the department. In addition to Baca and his top lieutenant, 19 others were convicted of crimes ranging from assaults to obstructing justice. The sentence was a blow to Baca, who had been seeking probation and home confinement."

Was it? Truly think so? Statutes need to be changed to mandate execution for such crimes committed by law enforcement. This piece of shit routinely violated his oath of office. Stood by. Did shit squat. As prisoners were abused by his goddamned jackbooted goons. No justice. No shred of it. Just more of the same. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon. As the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight. Nazi America. A fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Think the above bullshit? Wake up:

"Baca and others launched Operation Pandora's Box after discovering a jail inmate with a contraband flip phone was acting as an FBI informant. The group conspired to hide the inmate by changing his name in computers, moving him among different facilities and threatening to arrest his FBI handler. Furious about the investigation, Baca confronted the local FBI head and top federal prosecutor saying he was ready to "gun up" for battle with them. "Rather than stop the abuses in the jails, he entered into a conspiracy with his subordinates to obstruct a federal civil rights investigation to protect his legacy," acting U.S. Attorney Sandra Brown said. "He made a decision to protect what he called his empire, his jails and then simply to protect himself." Baca, who served 15 years as sheriff and nearly half a century in the department, abruptly resigned in 2014 under a cloud."

This, the best law enforcement has to offer?

5-19-17

Another example of piss poor justice. ABC News reports:

"The sister of Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail following a confrontational traffic stop with a white state trooper, says it is "gut-wrenching" that lawmakers stripped police reforms from a bill named after her sibling and are now pushing a weakened compromise that "painfully misses the mark."

Courtesy of Republican nazis in the Texas Legislature.

"Bland's death in 2015 was a national flashpoint in the Black Lives Matter movement — the 28-year-old Chicago woman was stopped near Houston for not signaling a lane change, forcibly pulled from her car and found dead in jail days later."

No justice. In a goddamned fascist police-state. Nazi Texas.

"A leaner "Sandra Bland Act" enters the home stretch of the Texas Legislature far from the sweeping package of police accountability and anti-racial profiling measures originally filed in March. In the face of opposition from law enforcement groups and Republicans, the bill was drastically slimmed down and now mostly focuses on better jail trailing and mental health care access."

Without question, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue rein supreme in the Nazi State of Texas. Enjoy carte blanche to do as they please. With impunity.

"What the bill does in its current state renders Sandy invisible," said Sharon Cooper, Bland's older sister, in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday night. "It's frustrating and gut-wrenching."

What did you expect in a fascist police-state? Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"Saying she was speaking on behalf of the Bland family, Cooper said the legislation as it now stands "isolates the very person it seeks to honor" and makes compromises at the expense of the family. "It painfully misses the mark for us," she said. Cooper stopped short of saying Bland's name should be removed from the bill — a move some frustrated black community organizers in Texas say they would welcome given the changes."

Her name should have been removed. The bill was bastardized by GOP nazis who clearly support the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue no matter what they do. Outrageously, gutlessly embrace the fascist police-state we already in. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"Democrats who carried the measure say they did the best they could while up against the political realities of the Republican-controlled Legislature. The bill unanimously cleared the Senate this week and must now clear the House before the legislature adjourns on May 29."

Since the bill was bastardized, Democrats should have withdrawn support. Walked out the Legislature when it came up for a vote. Exposed Republican nazis for exactly whom and what these sons of bitches truly are. Instead, gutlessly went along to get along. Crock of shit.

"By any measure, the original bill would have changed policing in Texas by requiring a higher burden of proof for stopping and searching vehicles, counseling and training for officers who racially profile drivers. It also would've banned arrests over offenses that are punishable by a fine."

Can't have that, can we? Goddamned gutless jackasses.

"But the pared-down version is what Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire called "a mental health and awareness piece of legislation." Remaining are provisions that mandate more mental health training for jailers, heightened supervision of inmates and improved mental health care access. It would also require more de-escalation training for officers."

Too little. Much too late. Symbolism over substance. Neither party, worth a shit. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon. A goddamned fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. As the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight.

5-19-17

Once again, the Trump nazi disgraced himself. The Washington Times reports:

"President Trump took aim at the Black Lives Matter movement and former President Obama Monday, saying ambush-style killings of police last year during tensions in minority communities were “a stain on the very fabric of our society” and that too many Americans “obstruct” law enforcement."

What obstruction? Where? Obstruct police in performance of their duties? Guess what? You go to jail. What the hell is our nazi president talking about? Right to peacefully protest? Rhetorically criticize the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue? What does the Trump nazi want? Silence in the face of criminal activity perpetrated by police? Including shakedowns? Police brutality? False arrests? Tickets falsely given to line government coffers? Murders of innocent, unarmed citizens by police on the job? Silence? Not a chance.

“We are living through an era in which our police are subjected to unfair vilification and defamation — even worse, hostility and violence,” Mr. Trump said at a memorial ceremony at the Capitol for fallen officers. “More officers were slain last year in ambushes than in any year in more than two decades.”

Our nazi fuhrer remains achingly delusional. Police reap the benefits of what they sow. The public can't, won't remain silent when police wantonly commit crimes on the job. The number of police killed on duty remains minuscule. Not so the number of people they kill yearly. Many of whom are innocent, unarmed citizens.

"Of fallen officers, Mr. Trump said, “We owe it to their memory to put truth before politics, justice before agendas, and to put the safety and security of the American people above everything else.”

Achingly empty, meaningless rhetoric from a nazi. If this fascist son of a bitch truly believed in truth, he wouldn't lie like hell on a daily basis. Would hold the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue accountable for their crimes. Does not. Grants them carte blanche to do as they please. With virtual impunity. Precisely, why this country remains deeply divided. While an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on the horizon. Hear the rumble?

"While the president didn’t mention Black Lives Matter by name, Mr. Trump said, “The attacks on our police must end, and they must end right now.” He specifically addressed ambushes of police last year in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Dallas."

Indeed, so too must near continuous murder of innocent, unarmed citizens by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Gutless pieces of shit.

"The president also called for Americans to “end the reckless words of incitement that give rise to danger and give rise to violence” against police."

What are you talking about, Mr. 'President?' Suppressing the truth? That is, the fact no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element pose a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than government itself. All levels and branches. All law enforcement.

“It is time to work with our cops, not against them, but to support them in making our streets safe, not to obstruct, which we’re doing,” Mr. Trump said. “True social justice means a future where every child in every neighborhood can play outside without fear, can walk home safely from school, and can live out the beautiful dreams that fill their hearts.”

Law enforcement remains egregiously out of control, you fascist son of a bitch. Think a kid can safely play out in the street? Think he couldn't get killed holding a toy gun by a gutless jackbooted piece of shit in blue? You're achingly, embarrassingly delusional, Mr. 'President.'

"According to the NLEOMF, law enforcement fatalities nationwide rose to their highest level in five years in 2016, with 135 officers killed in the line of duty."

Compare that to approximately 1,000 people killed by law enforcement each year. How many of them were innocent, unarmed? Anything wrong with this picture? Anything at all? Who cries for them?

5-19-17

Yet, another example of achingly f--ked up law enforcement. Fox News reports:

"Federal investigators are reviewing allegations that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in New Jersey have been subjected to sexually abusive hazing."

No problem with this? Let boys be boys?

"Three customs officers say the abuse has been going on for years at Newark's Liberty International Airport, including a hazing ritual in which officers are duct-taped to what they describe as a "rape table" in a secure room where other officers grind on their genital areas, NBC New York reported."

Say what?

"Once the lights go out, they grab you up like a gang, and they forcibly throw you on the table and one officer ended up mounting me and pretty much riding me like a horse," said CBP officer Vito Degironimo, who said the staff members who hazed him and others were never punished."

This, the best in law enforcement?

"The officers who spoke to NBC New York described an environment where they were helpless in a culture where the hazing was a norm. They said they were initially too intimidated to formally complain. Officer Diana Cifuentes said the harassment continued to the point where one officer pulled a gun on her in the office. "I took a deep breath and kept on typing like nothing was happening. I know that if I reacted either he was going to pull the trigger or I was going to draw the weapon myself and shoot him," Cifuentes said."

No systemic problems in law enforcement?

5-19-17

No justice in a fascist police-state. CBS News reports:

"A jury late Wednesday acquitted a white Oklahoma police officer who says she fired out of fear last year when she killed an unarmed black man who had his hands above his head. The verdict led almost immediately to protests. Terence Crutcher's family burst into tears and expressed outrage after jurors found Tulsa officer Betty Jo Shelby not guilty of first-degree manslaughter in the Sept. 16 shooting. "Let it be known that I believe in my heart that Betty Shelby got away with murder," Crutcher's father, Rev. Joey Crutcher, said after the verdict was announced."

Readers will recall this case was covered earlier in this publication and elsewhere. This exonerated jackbooted piece of shit in blue successfully was able to influence the jury pool courtesy of a media interview she gave shortly before 'trial.'

The kangaroo verdict broke too close to posting time for this edition. More in the next. ... All protest must remain ferocious but peaceful. Otherwise, you grant this piece of human excrement and others like her carte blanche to murder on the job.

Clearly this 'officer' remains not only an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties, but life itself. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon.

5-12-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Fifty-five weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Fifty-five weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Fifty-five weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

5-12-17

In follow up to the last edition, developments in the Jordan Edwards murder. ABC News reports:

"Records show that a white Texas police officer who was fired for fatally shooting a black teenager was briefly suspended in 2013 following a complaint about his conduct while serving as a witness in a drunken-driving case. Personnel records from the Balch Springs, Texas, Police Department obtained Thursday by The Associated Press show former officer Roy Oliver was suspended for 16 hours in December 2013 after the Dallas County District Attorney's Office filed the complaint. Oliver also was ordered to take training courses in anger management and courtroom demeanor and testimony."

They knew they had a problem with this officer. Yet, didn't fire him at the time. Why not?

CNN reports:

"Oliver was fired on Tuesday and booked Friday with murder. He was released after he posted bail on a $300,000 bond, jail records show."

This criminal son of a bitch remains an exigent threat to the community. Why was he allowed to post bail? Why only $300,000?

5-12-17

Consider the folly of the following. Think criminal officers aren't protected and coddled? CBS News reports:

"Cherie Hendricks, a veteran Chicago Police Department detective, was arrested at a Louisiana Walmart on Christmas Eve for stealing $113.50 worth of reading glasses and coffee mugs."

Have no problem with this? Want this patrolling the streets, investigating crimes, setting the example for your children? Worse? Get this:

"CBS Chicago reports that she was placed into a court-ordered diversion program, typically reserved for first-time offenders."

This is a cop. More than that? A detective. Insult to injury?

"This wasn't Hendricks' first incident."

Don't think she should have been fired on the first offense?

"Hendricks was arrested for shoplifting more than $200 worth of vitamins in 2013 at a Lakeview Whole Foods, but has not faced any discipline. The Chicago Police Department opened an internal investigation after Hendricks was caught. Four years later, CBS Chicago was told that probe is still "open and active."

To think the Sessions nazi wants to do away with consent decrees? Should that happen, who holds corrupt, abusive, inept, criminal officers accountable? No one?

"The U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into the Chicago Police Department, completed last January, found "officers are too rarely held accountable for misconduct" and "when investigations do occur they are glacially slow."

Remains a problem all across our formerly great country. Yet, the Sessions nazi and his fuhrer, the Trump nazi want no accountability. There is a cancer within law enforcement no one seems willing to acknowledge. Worse? Do anything about.

"David Bradford, a former police chief and executive director of Northwestern University's Center for Public Safety, said the lack of discipline is detrimental because "it produces bad morale within the good officers of the department and puts the credibility of the whole agency in question with the community."

That's right. Yet, the Sessions nazi and his fuhrer, the Trump nazi remain determinedly indifferent. So do achingly fascist GOP 'law and order' nazis. ... Right, TL? Too deaf to hear the rumble. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon.

"Only recently, after CBS Chicago started asking questions, did Chicago police finally close the internal investigation and recommend Hendricks be terminated. The matter now goes before the Police Board."

Leaving one to pointedly question the effectiveness of the Department of 'Justice' vis a vis its investigation of this outrageously corrupt, abusive, inept police department. ... Took an in inquiry by local media to finally get the ball rolling on this outrageously corrupt, thieving 'detective?'

Kicker? Coup de grace? Get this:

"Hendricks was placed on desk duty in 2013, but has continued to collect an annual salary of more than $90,000. Additionally, taxpayers have picked up nearly $25,000 worth of educational expenses for her since May 2016, according to city records. It's unknown if she was convicted of theft in the 2013 case. Her case doesn't appear in Cook County court records and a Chicago Police spokesperson said her case had been expunged."

Hear the rumble?

5-12-17

Insult to injury? Egregious distortion of reality? The Washington Times reports:

"An unclassified FBI study on last year’s cop-killing spree found officers are “de-policing” amid concerns that anti-police defiance fueled in part by movements like Black Lives Matter has become the “new norm.” “Departments — and individual officers — have increasingly made the decision to stop engaging in proactive policing,” said the report by the FBI Office of Partner Engagement obtained by The Washington Times."

Proactive policing is abusive policing. Harassment of the innocent to abuse power, get their cookies off. Stopping people without probable cause to assert authority. Keep the peasants in line. If law enforcement is truly backing off, it is a good thing. Not a bad thing. If they're in fact going only after serious offenses, about time. Laying off chicken shit? Again, a good thing.

Proactive policing, worse, 'broken windows' policing? Only amounts to harassment, public resentment, hatred towards officers who abuse their authority. Not a good thing for either the public or law enforcement. Counter productive. Engenders resentment neither the public or law enforcement needs. Forget? Can't live without law enforcement. Good law enforcement. Essential to civilization.

"The report, “Assailant Study — Mindsets and Behaviors,” said that the social-justice movement sparked by the 2014 death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of an officer in Ferguson, Missouri, “made it socially acceptable to challenge and discredit the actions of law enforcement.”

When the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue harass, shake down, assault, murder innocent unarmed citizens, it is most appropriate "to challenge and discredit the actions of law enforcement.” Remain gutlessly silent? Get what you richly deserve. More of the same. The FBI study perpetuates the unsustainable. The myth police do no wrong.

“Nearly every police official interviewed agreed that for the first time, law enforcement not only felt that their national political leaders [publicly] stood against them, but also that the politicians’ words and actions signified that disrespect to law enforcement was acceptable in the aftermath of the Brown shooting,” the study said."

No more than meaningless, delusional whining by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Sounds like a kid who gets pissed off, picks up his marbles, goes home because he didn't get his way.

"As a result, “Law enforcement officials believe that defiance and hostility displayed by assailants toward law enforcement appears to be the new norm.”

Say what? Mixing apples and oranges? Who are they talking about? Do these jackbooted thugs consider all who challenge these bastards to be "assailants?" For questioning their bullshit and criminal activity? Apparently, these pieces of shit don't live on the same planet as the rest of us.

"Last year was particularly deadly for police: Sixty-four were shot and killed in the line of duty, a 56 percent increase from 2015. Of those, 21 were killed in ambush-style attacks, “the highest total in more than two decades,” according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund."

What are they complaining about? The statistics remain outrageously lopsided. Approximately, 1,000 people are killed each year by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. How many of these killings are outright murder of innocent unarmed individuals? Who cries for them? Seldom are the murderous bastards in blue held criminally accountable.

This doesn't change? Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon. -- Considering the report was from the FBI during the reign of the Sessions nazi at DOJ, has little to no credibility. Remains self-serving. Offers further proof the federal government remains egregiously unwilling to rein in the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

5-12-17

Traffic fines remain cash cow. Reign supreme. Enable government to viciously loot the bottom of the food chain. Penalties, interest, jail time. NPR reports:

"Lots of people pay traffic fines, but not everyone is affected the same way. According to a new report from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCR), traffic fines in California have an outsized effect on low-income drivers and people of color. And those consequences are not just monetary. Unpaid tickets can result in additional fines. Failure to pay those fines can lead to suspension and loss of license, and even jail time for some."

The same is true right here in Nazi Llano County. ... Right, TL? Sheriff? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney? Cash cow. Precisely, why bogus tickets and arrests are made to line County coffers. Get in their clutches? Can't afford to pay? Overload the jail. Stick it to the taxpayers. When they get tired of being looted, this shit will end.

Texas Standard reports:

"A major court ruling last week found that the Harris County cash bail system is unconstitutional. The Houston Chronicle called the federal judge’s ruling “a scathing denouncement.” Chief U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal of the Southern District of Texas said the bail system is fundamentally unfair to the poor. The order says that no person should be stuck in jail for a low-level offense, just because he or she can’t come up with the money to get out."

Hear the rumble?

5-12-17

CBS reports:

"Law enforcement officials' "blunt discussions" with President Obama following the 2014 police shooting of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Mo., led to the former president's change in tone when he spoke about police issues, CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues reports."

If true, the former President is a gutless coward. Turned his back on the people f--ked over by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Abject cowardice. One reason why the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight.

5-12-17

Think asset forfeiture isn't legalized theft? Fox News reports:

"In the early morning hours of April 1, 2013, a police officer in Cleveland, Texas, pulled over James Leonard for speeding along a known drug corridor. After obtaining a search warrant for the vehicle, the officer discovered in the trunk a safe containing more than $200,000 and a bill of sale for a home in Pennsylvania."

Here comes the f--king:

"Texas initiated civil forfeiture proceedings against the money in the safe on the grounds that there was a “preponderance of evidence” that the cash was connected to criminal activity. Leonard’s mother Lisa – who is the alleged owner of the safe and its contents – appealed a trial court’s forfeiture order and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court."

There was no evidence. Nazi government doesn't need any. Does as it pleases. Forget?

"While the justices ruled this March that the case, Leonard v. Texas, had procedural problems that made it ineligible for Supreme Court review, Justice Clarence Thomas penned a scathing opinion that argued that in future cases the country’s highest court should rethink the leeway granted to law enforcement to seize property under a centuries-old statute meant to curb piracy on the high seas and not punish speeding motorists in small town America."

For once, this normally outrageously fascist justice did the right thing:

“This system — where police can seize property with limited judicial oversight and retain it for their own use — has led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses,” Thomas wrote. “Whether this Court’s treatment of the broad modern forfeiture practice can be justified by the narrow historical one is certainly worthy of consideration in greater detail.”

Called legalized theft.

"Civil forfeiture — the legal process by which law enforcement officers are able to take assets from persons suspected of involvement in a crime without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing — has its roots in the colonial-era Navigation Acts. Those laws, which in the 1700s allowed British troops to seize any ship or cargo found in violation of its Navigation Acts and give that property to the British crown, whether or not its owner was actually guilty. The move was justified at the time because in many cases the ship’s owner was overseas and out of British jurisdiction."

Egregious subsequent bastardization of the Bill of Rights:

"Despite the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of forfeiture laws in the early 1800s, they remained largely dormant until the 1980s, when the practice saw a tremendous expansion that has lasted to this day. While the Obama administration took some measures to curb the practice, the Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture Fund in 2014 took in $4.5 billion and last year the Drug Enforcement Administration hauled in more than $4 billion."

The mark of a fascist police-state. No rule of law. Deliberate abrogation of the United States Constitution. By the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Thieving, worthless sons of bitches.

"A recent Cato Institute/YouGov survey found that 84 percent of Americans oppose civil asset forfeiture. The controversial practice has now pitted local, state and federal lawmen – who argue that forfeitures swiftly cut off proceeds to criminals like drug traffickers while injecting much-needed money into underfunded law enforcement agencies -- against a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress who see the practice as an abuse of Fifth Amendment rights and public trust."

Again, no more than the mark of a fascist police-state. No rule of law. Deliberate abrogation of the United States Constitution. By the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

“There are over 200 editorials arguing to do away with civil forfeitures. It was part of both the Democratic and Republican platforms at last summer’s conventions,” Darpana Sheth, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, told Fox News. “I can’t think of any other issue that enjoys such cross-aisle support.”

Only a nazi would support legalized theft:

"For its part, the Trump administration has so far taken the side of police officers in the debate over civil forfeitures – the president joked at a meeting with county sheriffs in February about destroying the political career of a Texas state senator who wants to pass legislation requiring a conviction before forfeiture can be implemented and, during his time in the Senate, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that 95 percent of the individuals affected by the practice “have done nothing in their lives but sell dope.”

The achingly clueless Sessions nazi talks out his ass. Lies. Has deliberately abrogated his oath of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution. No more than a goddamned traitor, as is his fuhrer, the Trump nazi.

5-12-17

Leave a dog in a hot car to die? Guess what rightfully happens to an ordinary citizen? Do the same as a K-9 officer and the victim is your partner? Shit squat. An outrageous case in Florida. WKMG reports:

"A Sebastian Police Department K-9 named Diesel was found dead Friday in a patrol officer’s car after he returned from a hearing in the Brevard County courthouse in Melbourne, officials said."

How can an officer allow this to happen? An officer. His partner allowed to die in a hot car.

"The officer was not identified and it was not immediately known how long the police dog was in the car, but Melbourne police told News 6 Tuesday it was likely hours. Temperatures hovered at about 88 degrees for much of the afternoon, National Weather Service officials said."

Why wasn't this criminal son of a bitch immediately identified? Had it been anyone else, they would have been quickly identified, sorry ass hauled to jail. Not so when the criminal is an officer. Protected and coddled.

"John Blackledge, the commander of operations for the Sebastian Police Department, also called the incident a tragedy. “Unfortunately and tragically, a Sebastian police K-9 was found expired Friday evening. This was unexpected,” Blackledge said in a statement."

What a crock of shit. What the hell do you expect to happen when you lock a dog up in a car on a hot day? Give me a f--king break. Why the hell wasn't the officer's sorry ass arrested, hauled to jail?

"In that short time, police said Diesel was loved by his handler."

Is that right? Think so? Then why the hell was the dog left in a hot car? No excuse.

"Melbourne Police said Tuesday it's unlikely any possible animal cruelty charges would be enhanced because of the dog being considered an officer, too."

Say what? Clearly, have no intention of holding the officer legally accountable for the crime. Likely, the son of a bitch will skate.

"K-9 handlers have the utmost love and respect for the animals they are entrusted to care for. Sometimes these mistakes do happen. It's a very difficult investigation for everybody to go through," Trainer said."

A "mistake?" A "mistake?" It's called a crime. Any other citizen would have had his ass hauled to jail. Once again, a goddamned double standard. In a fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. No equal justice. None.

5-12-17

Think the innocent on death row aren't murdered by the State of Texas? Wake up. The Washington Post reports:

"John Jackson is the Texas prosecutor who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham of murdering his family by setting his own house on fire. Jackson then persuaded a jury to send Willingham to his death. We now know that Willingham was likely innocent, convicted on forensic evidence now known to be junk science and snitch testimony now known to be false."

Not all capital convictions are bogus. This one, however, certainly appears to be.

"We also now know that Jackson is accused of hiding exculpatory evidence from Willingham’s attorneys. In a highly unusual move, the Texas bar is trying to bring sanctions against Jackson. More unusual still, the procedure is being done in public, in front of a lay jury. The Intercept’s Jordan Smith is at the trial."

Disbarring a lying, criminal prosecutor is nowhere near enough in such circumstances. If this prosecutor is indeed guilty of what he's accused of doing, the penalty needs to be a criminal one. The same penalty he inflicted on his victim. Statutes need to be changed to facilitate equal justice. When a prosecutor knowingly, determinedly, concertedly, intentionally sends an innocent man to his death, it's murder:

"Specifically, the state’s lawyers contend that Jackson made a deal with a jailhouse snitch who agreed to testify against Willingham and then hid that deal from Willingham’s defense attorneys — a clear violation of both law and ethics. They say that Jackson took extraordinary measures over the next two decades to conceal his deceitful actions."

Yet, the criminal son of a bitch shyster is protected by sovereign immunity statutes. No equal justice. Yet, guess what? If you're the getaway driver for a bank robbery gone horribly wrong where someone in the bank gets killed, you, the driver, get executed.

5-12-17

Child Protective Services often doesn't think straight, egregiously misses the mark, has its head up its ass. The following example is horrendous. Achingly, heartrending. Happened in Illinois. CBS News reports:

"A 16-month-old girl was not removed from a filthy house during an investigator's visit the day before she was found dead because Illinois' child protection department does not take children into custody based on sanitary conditions alone, the department's director told state lawmakers Wednesday."

A kid living in a pig sty is not considered abuse? Of no imminent danger to the child?

"Senators questioned Department of Children and Family Services Director George Sheldon closely Wednesday at an appropriations committee hearing where he testified about his agency's proposed budget. Lawmakers wanted to know how his department is responding to the death of Semaj Crosby, who was found dead under a couch April 26 in Joliet Township, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago."

A needless death. A girl sixteen months old.

"There is no greater exercise of police power by government than to take somebody's child away, so I think we've got to be very cautious about how we do that," Sheldon told news reporters after the hearing."

Indeed. This, however, goes beyond the pale:

"The family reported Semaj missing on April 25. The (Joliet) Herald-News reported that a Children and Family Services investigator answered an abuse and neglect call at the family's home about an hour before but found no hazards or concerns. A Will County inspection two days later declared the home unfit for occupancy. It was filled with trash, and its walls and carpeting were soiled."

We have to do better. Status quo? Unsustainable. An egregious human rights issue. A country that no longer cares for its own cannot, will not survive.

Gets worse:

"During the Senate panel's hearing, Sheldon questioned the circumstances of Semaj's body being found beneath a couch that had no legs. "Obviously something was going on and apparently an individual or individuals attempted to hide that fact," he said. It's not clear who was in the home when the girl disappeared, authorities have said. The Will County Sheriff's Office said last week that numerous squatters frequented the property."

5-12-17

Think bounty hunters aren't out of control? CBS News reports:

"Seven bounty hunters who descended on the wrong car outside a Wal-Mart have been indicted on first-degree felony murder charges in the killing of an unarmed man and the wounding of another, Tennessee police announced Wednesday."

What could these guys have possibly been thinking?

"The charges come after a chaotic scene in Clarksville on April 23, where police said the bounty hunters shot at the four people in the sedan and chased them for seven miles."

Imagine the terror of the victims. Chased by raving lunatics hell bent on killing them.

A truly horrendous crime:

"Not one of the men in the sedan was wanted on outstanding charges. In fact, the Clarksville bounty hunters were looking for someone else, and there is no indication that any of the victims fired at the defendants or were even armed, police spokesman Jim Knoll said in an email. Bail bondsmen are empowered to hire or act as bounty hunters to bring in people who violate the terms of jail bonds, but they can't use deadly force unless it's self-defense."

What the hell is this? Old West reincarnated?

"Killed was 24-year-old Jalen Johnson, a father of three from Clarksville. His family called him an innocent man who died in an act of terrorizing violence."

Needs to be some serious soul searching not only in Tennessee, but across the country. Clearly, we've lost ourselves:

"Johnson's uncle, Toni Jenkins, told The Associated Press that his nephew and the three men in the car with him had no idea why people would suddenly block their car in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Fearing an attack by gang members, they tried to flee. The bounty hunters, Jenkins said, started shooting in the parking lot and continued to fire on them during the chase, even ramming the Nissan along the way."

Lunatics. Crazed lunatics.

5-12-17

While the Abbott nazi refuses to acknowledge ubiquitous racial profiling throughout the country, here is yet another example. CBS News reports:

"A federal lawsuit says law enforcement officers in one majority-white Mississippi county are unfairly targeting black people for traffic stops and searches of homes and property without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Monday sued the sheriff's department in the Jackson suburb of Madison County. The suit seeks a court order against policies it says create unequal treatment of black and white people. It also seeks a civilian board to review complaints against the department. Ten black residents -- men and women ages 27 to 62 -- are plaintiffs in the case. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs say they were illegally searched, detained, or arrested by county sheriff's officials while commuting to work, driving in their neighborhoods, or spending time at home."

Wake up, Governor.

"ACLU Mississippi executive director Jennifer Riley-Collins says problems have existed for generations. The lawsuit says Tucker has continued longstanding policies, including warrantless searches of black residents' homes and seizure of their property, vehicle roadblocks that target black people and "jump out" patrols by plainclothes deputies that target black people for searches."

This shit goes on all over the country. Despite the fact there are laws on the books prohibiting it. ... Right, Governor?

"For Black residents, Madison County is a Constitution-free zone where their right to equal protection under the law and against unreasonable searches and seizures is nonexistent," Collins said in a statement. "These practices force thousands of people to live in fear and under constant threat of being subject to suspicionless searches and arrests simply because of the color of their skin."

Wouldn't want to confuse our clueless nazi Governor with the truth, would we? Insurmountable, unarguable truth? 'Can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.' ... Right, Governor?

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