Decay In Law Enforcement 21

Liberty In Peril

formerly,

The Llano Ledger

6-8-18

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

"When a Cleveland, Tennessee, police officer was seen buying groceries for a family at Walmart, a fellow shopper used the power of social media to help identify and thank him. "Just witnessed another extraordinary act by our men and women in uniform," the unnamed bystander wrote in a post that was later highlighted on the department's Facebook page. "A police officer paid for the groceries of a customer here at Walmart. The best part, the customer told the police officer 'God bless you' and the police officer responded 'I am already blessed.' I love you," the fellow shopper wrote on Facebook.

"After the post was shared numerous times, police department got wind of their employee's generous act. "Scrolling through random Facebook posts and then see this one that makes us ALL proud to be Cleveland police officers," the department wrote. They got a description of the officer and said after hearing he was "6'5 and buff" they were able to narrow down the search. "[We] deducted it was School Resource Officer Mike Kelly," the department said."

Hat's off, Officer Kelly.

6-8-18

Second example of an exceptional cop going well beyond the call of duty. Fox News reports:

"A Dallas police officer is being praised for comforting a 3-month-old baby in the moments after it was pulled out alive from an overturned vehicle. Officer Donald Boice was captured cradling the infant in images taken over the weekend by a Fox 4 News photographer, which have since been shared amongst cops in the area."That could be my child, too,” Boice said. “And I'd want someone treating my child the same way."

Indeed. Hat's off, Officer Boice.

"Dallas police say a Chevy Trailblazer driven by a family from Michigan was traveling at a high speed early Sunday when it hit an object in a Downtown Dallas construction zone, causing the vehicle to flip. Inside were three children, ages 5, 2 and 3-months old, and their parents. The father suffered a fractured arm and a head injury, but everyone else in the car, including the 3-month-old child, Jackson, appeared to be OK, according to Fox 4 News. "The best I can do is just kind of keep him, bounce him, sing to him the same songs that I sang to my kids when they were that age,” Boice said. Police say the images show a compassionate side of law enforcement that the public does not often see."

Indeed. A good day for the infant, rest of the family, as well as law enforcement. Certainly, proof positive not all officers are criminal jackbooted bastards. This guy certainly isn't. Hat's off.

6-8-18

Third example of exceptional officers going well beyond the call of duty. ABC News reports:

"Newly released dashcam footage shows Texas police officers snatching an apparently distraught woman from the edge of a 180-foot bridge as she sat precariously with her legs dangling over the Houston Ship Channel. “Ma’am. Come talk to me, ma’am,” one of the La Porte, Texas, officers said to the woman as the three officers gingerly approached her Monday night on the Fred Hartman Bridge. “You’re not in trouble, OK.” That seemed to be enough of a distraction for the two other officers to pull her to safety."

Uncommon valor. Best in policing.

“The officers made the right call pulling her off the bridge in case she was still contemplating because even a vehicle driving by can accidentally knock someone off,” La Porte Police Department Sgt. Bennie Boles said."

Indeed.

"The woman was taken to a hospital for psychological evaluation and treatment, according to the La Porte Police Department. As for the officers, Sgt. Boles said, “We’re proud of them for making that quick decision and excited for the young lady to have another day to move on with her life.”

Indeed. Uncommon valor. Hat's off.

6-8-18

Here's what not to do if you're an officer, armed, and dancing at a bar while off duty. LOL. -- Luckily no one got killed or seriously injured. CBS News reports:

"An off-duty FBI agent dancing at a Denver nightclub accidentally discharged a firearm, wounding another patron in the leg, police said Saturday. The victim, an adult male, was rushed to a local hospital in good condition, said Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson. Police have refused to identify the hospital. Jackson said the agent, whose identity wasn't released, was dancing at the downtown club around 12:45 a.m. Saturday when the firearm fell from the agent's waistband holster onto the floor. It discharged when the agent picked it up."

Imagine having to explain the mishap to your supervisors:

"Police investigators interviewed the agent before releasing the agent to an FBI supervisor. The police investigation was continuing, and any charges would be determined by the Denver District Attorney's Office, said Officer Marika Putnam."

Here's the clincher:

"Video posted on social media shows the FBI agent dancing and doing a back flip at which point the firearm hits the ground and the agent picking it up and a gunshot goes off."

Think there won't be hell to pay? Despite the fact no one was killed or seriously injured? Forget? This isn't the Llano County Sheriff's Office. ... Right, Bill? Where anything goes. Including denial of property rights to a Kingsland property owner by a criminal jackbooted thug, consequent damage done to a motor home parked on that property, failure to discipline the officer involved, Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764, to say nothing of any resolution by the County and District Attorneys.

"In a statement, an FBI spokesperson said "the investigation is active, ongoing, and a personnel matter so we cannot provide comment at this time." The spokesperson did not provide answers to a request for information on what firearms protocol may be in place for off-duty agents. It's unclear if the FBI agent was drinking and authorities are awaiting blood tests to determine if alcohol was a factor in the incident, CBS Denver reports. Surveillance footage is also being reviewed."

How would you like to be this woman and others in the vicinity?

"Tamara Oswald, who just moved in to the apartments nearby, told CBS Denver the shooting was not the warm welcome she was hoping for. "It's kind of crazy because it's almost like I'm back in (Philadelphia) again. And I thought I was getting away from it," Oswald said. Witnesses at the bar said they heard the victim shout for help. Paramedics rushed the victim to a hospital."

All in a day in the life of a G-man.

6-8-18

The following is an example of good policing. -- Certainly, didn't happen here in Texas. LOL. CBS News reports:

"Law enforcement in Broward County, Fla. says a hoax call drew deputies and a SWAT team Tuesday morning to the home of David Hogg, a student gun control activist and survivor of the February mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, reports CBS affiliate WPEC."

After the recent catastrophe, last thing Broward County needed was this. Fortunately, was well handled by law enforcement. Hat's off.

"CBS Miami reports the call reported a stabbed and barricaded person at the Parkland home owned by Kevin Hogg, David Hogg's father. Sheriff's spokeswoman Gina Carter said deputies investigated and determined the call to be a hoax. The scene was cleared around 10 a.m. The station reports David Hogg is in Washington, D.C. and wasn't at the home."

Ended well.

"The sheriff's office hasn't called the hoax call a "SWATting" incident, the station reports, but it fits the description of a prank that's intended to draw a large law enforcement response to a particular address. The hoax call also led to the lockdowns of two nearby elementary schools, CBS Miami reports.

Needless waste of resources. Worse, could have led to needless death and carnage. Well-handled by law enforcement. Again, hat's off.

6-8-18

Who says an NFL tight end has no heart? CBS News reports:

"Delilah Cassidy found herself in a pickle while trying to check into her American Airlines flight last week. She had just gotten back from Europe and her credit cards weren't working because her bank did not know she was back in the States. She had no cash, but American Airlines was asking her to pay $50 for oversized carry-on luggage. She says at first she was distraught over the extra charge because she had no way to pay it. Then, something incredible happened and she chronicled the story on Twitter. "WOW okay so the most amazing thing just happened to me and I can't help but share it with the world," Cassidy tweeted. "American Airlines instituted a new policy where you have to pay to take a carry-on onto the plane. Which is ridiculous but off topic.

"I consolidate my bags into one and they measure it and say it’s just a little too big. They proceed to charge me $50, except they only take credit card, no cash. Since I just got back from Europe all my cards are being declined as Chase doesn’t know I’m back.
— Delilah Cassidy (@Delilah_Cassidy) May 30, 2018"

Certainly, don't make it easy or desirable to fly, do they? LOL.

"She says was devastated by the airline's only solution for her. "They tell me that I'm going to have to miss the flight and head back to the ticket counter to pay down there." "I'm pleading, devastated after a long day of travel," Cassidy wrote. "Then, this man walks up and says, 'How much is it?' They tell him $50 and he says 'I got it.'" The Arizona State University law student said she was "astonished" by the man's kind act. She tried to tell him it was fine, and he didn't have to pay, but "he hands the lady his card as the American Airlines employees stand in silence shocked by this man's generosity. They swipe the card and he tells me to have a great flight and hop on board." Cassidy was shocked and the kind gesture warmed her heart. "I'm crying as I write this and as I board the flight. This man was an angel."

Didn't end there:

"She then realized the "angel" was on the same flight as her. "I stop him as he's sitting in first class and try to give him my money but he just shook me off and told me to pay it forward," she wrote."

No question, what goes around comes around. Karma. Good? Bad? Your choice.

"Her final tweet about the act of kindness -- or so she thought -- described the new outlook the stranger gave her. "My heart is so happy. There are good people in this world. Be that person for someone because I know after this I sure will be." But the heartwarming story doesn't stop there. Cassidy tweeted a selfie with the "angel" after realizing his true identity.

"Update: It was Jermaine Gresham. pic.twitter.com/aJ0bXoNm8Q
— Delilah Cassidy (@Delilah_Cassidy) May 30, 2018

"Gresham, tight end for the Arizona Cardinals, was Cassidy's "angel" all along."

6-8-18

Need a little comic relief? KPTV - FOX 12 reports:

"A chicken who may have flew its coop was found and scooped up by a police officer in southeast Portland Monday. Portland Police shared on social media that Officer Trummer saw a free-roaming chicken at Southeast 13th Avenue and Southeast Stark Street, but did not see an owner. Thanks to the help of a community member, police said Trummer was able to get the chicken into his patrol car. With no owner located in the area, Trummer and the chicken took a ride to Troutdale, where the chicken was turned over to Animal Control. On Tuesday morning, Portland police tweeted that the chicken, whose named was revealed to be "Edie," was picked up by her owner. Police said her owner heard of Edie's escape on social media."

All's well that ends well. LOL.

5-25-18

... Hey, Sheriff? Is it true Llano County Attorney Becky Lange has advised you to stay out of the "Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764" fiasco? That right, Bill? Isn't that obstruction of justice? Also true your deputies have advised the Bolens to accept the status quo and not force the no-trespassing issue with Greene? If so, isn't that also obstruction and official oppression? When will you do your job, Bill? As an elected official, you answer to the public, forget? -- No honor? ... No honor at all? If the foregoing allegations are indeed true, didn't you swear an oath to uphold the law and Constitution? Why aren't you doing so? No guts?

Your deputy has been accused of abusing authority. What action have you taken other than ignore the complaint? Why aren't both Rodriguez and the County Attorney under criminal investigation? The County Attorney appears to be obstructing justice, accepting the word of Greene in lieu of two surveyor companies who strongly assert otherwise. Both the County Attorney and District Attorney have ignored complaints. Par for the course in Llano County, isn't it? Failed to do their jobs. No surprise there, right, Bill? Both receiving 'special consideration' up to and/or including a bribe from Greene? Regardless, clearly, no justice in Nazi Llano County. Bottom line? Desperate need for an outside criminal investigation. Conveniently, forget? This County is ruled by men, certainly not rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Precisely, why there is desperate need for a new federal agency whose sole function would be to investigate, arrest, charge, and prosecute criminal law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges in a special court whose only mandate would be to adjudicate such cases. Total independence. Until that happens, the criminal bastards who falsely believe they run and own this hell hole County will continue to do as they please.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril

Some salient quotes occurring before or later on in this edition vis a vis unfinished business County officials continue to ignore:

..."Imagine having to explain the mishap to your supervisors:

"Here's the clincher:

"Video posted on social media shows the FBI agent dancing and doing a back flip at which point the firearm hits the ground and the agent picking it up and a gunshot goes off."

"Think there won't be hell to pay? Despite the fact no one was killed or seriously injured? Forget? This isn't the Llano County Sheriff's Office. ... Right, Bill? Where anything goes. Including denial of property rights to a Kingsland property owner by a criminal jackbooted thug, consequent damage done to a motor home parked on that property, failure to discipline the officer involved, Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764, to say nothing of any resolution by the County and District Attorneys."

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"... Don't like the tone? Migrate to North Korea. Seek asylum with the insane Kim dictator. You fools may wish to live in a goddamned fascist police-state. The rest of us don't.

"Weinman said she stands by her actions Memorial Day weekend after Wildwood New Jersey police officers attempted to cite the 20-year-old for possessing alcohol at the beach. She said she wasn't drinking and the alcohol containers around her were sealed. Weinman willingly took two breathalyzer tests. Both came back negative."

"How about that? Couldn't be, could it? Why were these criminal jackbooted bastards harassing her in the first place? Why?

"I ask them, 'Do you guys have anything better to do?' There's so much stuff going on and you're trying to stop people for underage drinking and you see I didn't drink," Weinman said. "He was like, 'That's it. I was going to let you go, but now I'm going to write you up.'" She admits she had "a little attitude."

"You think? Why shouldn't she? People are tired of this constant goddamned bullshit perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. This crap never ends. Goes on all over this country. It's how these pieces of shit get their cookies off. Abusing power. ... Right, Sheriff? -- That why you continue to protect and coddle Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764, Bill?"

... Small sampling of what's to come in this edition. Read on.

The following email was sent to the District Attorney:

Wiley B. "Sonny" McAfee
District Attorney
33rd and 424th Judicial Districts
Llano, TX 78643

March 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

The enclosed emails were sent to the Llano County Attorney and Sheriff, respectively, vis a vis the above matter. Remain unanswered. The County Attorney appears to be protecting and defending the deputy at behest of Kingsland property owner Johnny Greene. May have received some consideration from Greene up to and including a bribe. Are the County Attorney, Greene, and the Deputy under criminal investigation? If not, why not?

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

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Rebecca Lange, Llano County Attorney
Llano County Attorney's Office
Llano, Texas 78643

February 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

As you're well aware, we have an outrageously corrupt, abusive, achingly inept Llano County Sheriff's Office here in Nazi Llano County. Worse, you and your office aid and abet these SS jackbooted bastards in black. The issue at the moment is the same it's been the last six months.

How is it two surveyor companies, the Appraisal District, the Tax Office, the Precinct 3 Commissioner, even the goddamned Sheriff himself now states Kingsland resident James Berardi owns the lots in contention all these months?

Yet, you ludicrously assert that's not the County's legal position. It's not? Why not? You claim you're not a real estate expert. Rather than accept the advice of two surveyor companies, the Precinct 3 Commissioner, the Appraisal District, the Tax Office, and even the Sheriff himself, you've inexplicably chosen to follow the advice of property owner Johnny Greene, -- who conveniently happens to be reportedly in the oil industry.

Question to be asked. Could you have received any 'consideration' in return, -- up to and including a bribe? Only way to know for sure is for the District Attorney to conduct a criminal investigation. Apparently, there has been none. If not, why not?

Equally pointedly, why hasn't Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764 been held criminally accountable for egregious abuse of power involving denial of property rights to this Kingsland property owner? To say nothing of consequent resultant physical damage done to a motor home on that property.

Our achingly useless, worthless, gutless Sheriff has ignored an email vis a vis the damage this jackbooted thug is responsible for. Interestingly, his fellow officers believe him to be an idiot. Yet, the Sheriff continued to defend this piece of human excrement until he realized this entire fiasco would not be swept under the carpet.

Rodriguez is indeed an idiot. Would you believe this piece of crap ordered the motor home to be moved on to an unmarked unused Llano County road? That motor home has indeed been moved back to where it was parked before Rodriguez forced it to be moved. Why hasn't the County paid for the cost of moving it back? To say nothing of the damage.

Equally pointedly, why is it the County has allowed Theresa Ahrens to park and live in her tiny cottage on that very same road? Why hasn't she been evicted by the County? Why was she assessed taxes on an adjacent improvement she doesn't own?

Why is it, Counselor, Johnny Greene is paying for the attorney retained by Ms. Ahrens? Is Greene attempting to make this all go away by bribery? Greene has also informed Berardi he is going to sue. For what? Has Greene lost his mind?

What about Wells who installed a $4500 septic system on a lot turns out he does not own as a result of Greene, an outrageously inept County, to say nothing of the Llano County Attorney who remains equally determinedly clueless?

How about Bolen who hasn't a pot to piss in, but was nonetheless f--ked over by Greene to say nothing of an egregiously inept County, to say nothing of you and your goddamned equally incompetent office?

None of this is going away, Counselor, -- any time soon. Will not be swept under the carpet as all the other crap going on in this hell hole County. Not a chance. Expect a full expose in this publication whether or not this outrageous fiasco finally gets resolved. Including full public exposure of both the Sheriff and his jackbooted thug.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

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Bill Blackburn, Sheriff
Llano County Sheriff's Office
2001 N. State Hwy. 16 Suite A
Llano, Texas 78643

August 23, 2017

Re: Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Sheriff:

Archive and retain all reports vis a vis damage to the Pace Arrow resulting from egregious abuse of authority perpetrated by Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764, on the Berardi property in Kingsland on 8-16-17.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

6-8-18

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? One hundred eleven 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? One hundred eleven 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. One hundred eleven 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.

6-8-18

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?

6-8-18

Highly reminiscent of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors, Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following. It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly great country once stood for. No longer.

Law enforcement remains blatantly out of control. ABC News reports:

"Officers are shown tackling and punching a man on newly released video of an altercation that led to assault charges against two North Carolina state troopers and a sheriff's deputy. Dashboard camera video released Wednesday from one of the first troopers to arrive shows Kyron Hinton standing alone late on April 3, moaning and gesturing on a Raleigh street. More than a half-dozen officers from multiple agencies surround him as cars pass. Eventually a canine handler approaches, with the dog barking. The handler yells: "Get on the ground; you're gonna get bit!" When Hinton doesn't comply, the officer releases the dog, which lunges and gets a mouthful of Hinton's clothing. The canine handler then grabs Hinton's upper torso and pulls him down, the video shows. While Hinton is on the ground, at least one other officer can be seen punching him. Others hold onto his legs to try to subdue him."

What was his crime? Being black? Mental issues?

"The videos from three law enforcement agencies were released Wednesday to news outlets including The Associated Press after they went to court to request they be made public. North Carolina law generally requires a judge's order for the release of police dashboard or body camera footage. Wake County Master Deputy Cameron Broadwell, a canine handler, was charged earlier this month with two counts of felony assault in an indictment alleging that he hit Hinton with his hands and attacked him with the dog."

Again, for what? What crime did this guy commit warranting such treatment?

"Troopers Michael G. Blake and Tabithia L. Davis were charged with one count each of felony assault; the Wake County indictment alleges they hit Hinton with their flashlights. All three are also charged with willfully failing to discharge duties, a misdemeanor. Each has been placed on administrative duty."

What we have here are two systems of justice. One for the public. Another for the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. ... Right, Sheriff?

"Broadwell's attorneys write in court documents that Hinton was acting in a threatening manner, appeared intoxicated and refused to comply with commands from officers. The attorneys noted that five people had called 911 to report Hinton standing in the middle of the busy street "screaming, yelling, and acting in a threatening manner." Broadwell's attorney Rick Gammon declined further comment Wednesday. Attorneys for Blake and Davis didn't immediately respond to messages seeking comment on the videos."

Here's the clincher:

"Initially, Hinton was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting officers and attacking a law enforcement dog, according to arrest records. The charges were later dropped."

Imagine that. Charges dropped. Who'd 'a 'thunk' it? Again, what did this guy do to deserve such treatment at the hands of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue? ... Right, Sheriff?

"Hinton has said that he suffered an eye injury during the arrest that required surgery. He also told reporters earlier this month that he still has scars from being bitten by the law enforcement dog. "When you see the actual video footage, it's worse than a horror movie," he said earlier this month."

Sue the living shit out of the jackbooted bastards, their clueless handlers, and both state and county government.

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

6-8-18

An accident is no longer an accident in Nazi Texas. Certainly, not when an officer gets killed. Of course, not the case when it is an innocent unarmed civilian killed by a jackbooted bastard in blue. ... Right, Sheriff? The Daily Trib reports:

"A Bell County grand jury indicted a Sunrise Beach Village man in the November 2017 death of Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Thomas Nipper."

The loss of any officer as a result of a traffic accident is horrendous. Does not mean, however, a crime was committed. An accident is no longer an accident in Nazi America. It's now a crime.

"Nipper, 63, was conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 35 on Nov. 4, 2017, in Temple at about 3 p.m. when, according to reports, a white Chevrolet pickup truck driven by 44-year-old Scott Douglas Taylor struck the rear of the trooper’s marked patrol car. The trooper was transported to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Temple, where he later died."

The Trib reports the driver was charged with criminal negligent homicide. -- State jail felony where the 'offender' can be imprisoned for up to two years. For what? An accident? Apparently, no drugs or alcohol involved. No reckless driving citation. Again, for what? An accident?

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

6-8-18

In follow up to the last edition, CBS News reports:

"Newly-released body camera footage shows the moments leading up to a violent arrest on a New Jersey beach. Wildwood police released video of their officers confronting 20-year-old Emily Weinman, who was suspected of underage drinking, over Memorial Day weekend. Police said she refused to cooperate, then assaulted an officer. Weinman's lawyer says the video shows officers overreacted. The officers involved have been reassigned but are reportedly fully trained, part-time officers used during the busy beach season, reports CBS News' Jericka Duncan. Weinman said on Facebook she was at the beach with her daughter and some friends Saturday and that she had not been drinking when her confrontation with police began. Bodycam video shows officers asking Weinman to take a breathalyzer test after she was seen with alcoholic drinks. Later, police attempt to cite her for possession of alcohol on the beach, but Weinman refuses to cooperate. "I didn't disrespect you," Weinman said. "And you don't need to write my name down either." The officers begin to approach her during the attempted arrest and Weinman appears to reach out and push the officer before the camera cuts out."

Where's the rest of the footage? Conveniently, edited out?

"When the video comes back, the officer is on top of Weinman with his arm on her neck. He then appears to swing his arm and hit her repeatedly – a moment apparently captured in a now widely-shared cellphone video showing an officer punching Weinman in the head. As she's being handcuffed, Weinman appears to spit at one of the officers. Later, the officers can be heard explaining their version of the events. "She kicked him. And then I just, I hit her a couple of times," one officer said. Weinman now faces several charges, including two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer. Her attorney released a statement saying in part, "These videos coupled with the bystander video show the officers involved overreacted to a situation which had no elements of violence or the need for anyone to be taken into custody."

What was the result of the Breathalyzer she wound up taking? Why wasn't the result released? More to come as this story develops.

In another article, CBS News reports:

"A New Jersey police officer will not face charges for punching a woman in the head during a controversial arrest caught on video. Widely-shared cellphone footage shows one officer pinning down 20-year-old Emily Weinman of Philadelphia, as another hits her several times. "They think that because they are cops they can get away with it. And that's not the case. That's not right at all," Weinman told CBS News correspondent David Begnaud, speaking publicly for the first time on TV about the incident."

To date, they did get away with it. Called legalized assault:

"The Cape May County prosecutor's office said there is not enough evidence to warrant criminal charges against the officer. But Weinman faces several charges including assault. Weinman does have a prior criminal history. She's currently on probation for misdemeanors in another jurisdiction. She admitted she's not perfect, but said her reaction in this case was only human."

Called self-defense. Ferociously pointedly, the fact she has a criminal history is irrelevant to what happened on that goddamned beach. Their use of force was unwarranted, excessive, could have killed the woman by striking her repeatedly in the head. Attempted murder. Unquestionably, the criminal jackbooted sons of bitches in blue are protected and coddled ubiquitously across our formerly great country.

Had it been the other way around, think she wouldn't have been quickly charged with attempted capital murder? These abusive, criminal pieces of shit are not held to the same standard as the public they repeatedly abuse, shake down, assault, maim, and murder. Precisely why an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Hear the rumble?

... Don't like the tone? Migrate to North Korea. Seek asylum with the insane Kim dictator. You fools may wish to live in a goddamned fascist police-state. The rest of us don't.

How about that? Couldn't be, could it? Why were these criminal jackbooted bastards harassing her in the first place? Why?

You think? Why shouldn't she? People are tired of this constant goddamned bullshit perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. This crap never ends. Goes on all over this country. It's how these pieces of shit get their cookies off. Abusing power. ... Right, Sheriff? -- That why you continue to protect and coddle Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764, Bill?

"He hadn't told her that she had committed any crime. He hadn't told her 'I'm going to issue you a summons.' He hadn't told her any of those things. And then he says, 'Oh, you're about to get dropped,'" said Weinman's attorney, Stephen Dicht. In the police bodycam video, Weinman told the officer, "Don't touch me." "Alright, you're about to get dropped," the officer responded."

F--k this jackbooted asshole. Sue the living shit out of the bastard. Short of an unwanted dreaded revolution, it's the only way this shit will end.

"Moments later, the officer's body camera showed him on top of Weinman. He then appeared to hit her repeatedly. A bystander also caught the moment on their cell phone. The officer explained his use of force later on the bodycam. "She tried kicking at us, so we slammed her on the ground," the officer said. "She kicked him. And then I just, I hit her a couple of times." "The police are saying you resisted," Begnaud said. "So why not just stop and argue with them in court later?" "It's impossible to answer that question, really," Dicht said. "Why is it impossible?" "Because it's all happening in the moment," Dicht said."

This woman was desperately trying to defend herself against assault by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Self-defense. Striking her in the head repeatedly? They were trying to kill her. Had it been the other way around, think these jackbooted pieces of shit wouldn't have argued the same? Immediately arrested and charged her with attempted capital murder. Give me a break. Goddamned crock of shit. Precisely, why our formerly great country is coming apart at the seams. None of this is sustainable. None of it.

"Weinman is also charged with spitting on the officer. "I got sand in my mouth. So when they smashed my head into the ground, I had all this sand in my mouth… when they got me on my stomach, I turned around to go spit it out," Weinman said. "Do you feel like you owe the officers an apology?" Begnaud asked. "Honestly, no I don't," Weinman said, adding, "I'm very sorry that the situation happened, but I don't owe them an apology at all."

What you owe them is a lawsuit. Sue the living shit out of them. What they owe you is an apology for their criminal behavior. Ferociously pointedly, why are these pieces of shit still employed as officers? Present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Serve only themselves. Give law enforcement a black eye it certainly does not need at a time our formerly great country continues to deteriorate, falls apart at the seams.

Insult to injury, get this:

"The Cape May prosecutor's office said their decision not to prosecute the officer is based on the "proper laws" and not "emotion." Following our interview with Weinman and her attorney, we reached out to the Wildwood police chief and the city's mayor for comment. We have not heard back."

Horse shit. The decision is the same as it usually is all across this formerly great nation: Protect and coddle the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue no matter what they do.

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6-8-18

Nazi justice in Nazi America. -- What amounts to legalized murder in a fascist police-state, quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. CBS News reports:

"A federal jury has cleared a deputy of using excessive force in the 2014 shooting death of Gregory Hill Jr. and awarded $5 to Hill's family, CBS West Palm affiliate WPEC reports. The jury, which was weighing a lawsuit filed by Hill's family, ruled last week that St. Lucie County Deputy Christopher Newman did not violate Hill's civil rights. And it placed the bulk of the blame -- 99 percent -- on Hill. It found Sheriff Ken Mascara one percent liable for the killing."

Ferociously begs the question did the judge allow the jury to be stacked?

"WPEC reports that Newman shot and killed Hill, a 30-year-old father of three children, in January 2014 after two officers responded to a complaint that Hill was playing loud music at the family's home, court documents show. The sheriff's office said Hill, a Coca-Cola warehouse employee, was carrying a gun and was drunk when deputies got to the home. Newman testified that he fired his handgun four times through the home's garage door after seeing Hill with a gun, and after the garage door closed. A single bullet fatally struck his head. An unloaded gun was later found in Hill's back pocket."

Jesus Christ. Anything goes in a fascist police-state. The jackbooted bastard fires blindly through a garage door at a target he cannot see and the goddamned jury has no problem with that? Give me a break. Nazi justice.

"The sheriff's office said in a statement that Newman was "placed in a very difficult situation" and "made the best decision he could for the safety of his partner, himself, and the public given the circumstances he faced."

Horse shit. Your goddamned jackbooted bastard became judge, jury, and executioner in what is now a fascist police-state.

"We appreciate the jury's time and understanding and wish everyone involved in this case the best as they move forward," the statement said."

The Sheriff remains achingly delusional. Out to lunch. Clearly, there is no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element that present a more exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than law enforcement.

"Attorney John Phillips, who represents Hill's family, said his clients will likely appeal, WPEC reported."

Nazi justice. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

Here's another take, -- in the very same case. By the very same news network. In much greater detail, however. LOL. Get this. CBS News reports:

"The attorney who represented the family of a man fatally shot by police in his own garage in 2014 calls the $4 verdict in their civil case "punitive." "Some jurors were determined to punish the family for being in court," said John Phillips, who represented Gregory Hill Jr.'s three children in a civil rights case against the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office. According to Phillips, the jury in the federal case deliberated for a total of about 10 hours over two days last week before deciding that Hill, who was intoxicated when police shot him, was 99 percent responsible for his own death. Phillips said that in Florida, if someone is intoxicated and determined to be more than 50 percent at fault, their damages are reduced to zero."

That called justice?

"Help us tell his story. Help us help his kids who the jury awarded $1 to. His daughter saw everything from across the street. Police have repeatedly changed their story. https://t.co/lC51NZiJFF
— John M. Phillips (@JohnPhillips) May 31, 2018

"So, Phillips explained to CBS News, no matter what number the jury returned with, the family would not have been awarded financial compensation. Still, they awarded Hill's mother $1 for funeral expenses, and each of Hill's children $1 for the loss of their father and their future pain and suffering."

Galling, isn't it? Should have rightfully told the goddamned bastards to go f--k themselves.

"According to Phillips, after about six hours of deliberation, the jury came into the courtroom and said they couldn't reach a verdict, but the judge sent them back. About two hours later, according to Phillips, they came back with the verdict. "Something had changed," Phillips recalled. "They looked angry. Like they wanted a way out....The jury said they couldn't reach a verdict after 8 hours and then reached one which valued a child's pain and suffering at $1. Either that is punitive or this family's lives were virtually worthless. $0 would have been better."

Nazi justice in a fascist police-state quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"The family had been asking for anywhere from $500,000 to $10 million, including just over $11,000 for funeral expenses. "They are heartbroken," Phillips said of the family. According to the New York Times, jurors did not remain at the courthouse after the verdict was read to speak with attorneys and Phillips said he has not heard from any of them since."

Could they have been bribed to reach the decision? Threatened?

"According to CBS affiliate WPEC, police came to Hill's home on the afternoon of Jan. 14, 2014 after receiving a complaint that he was playing loud music at his home. WPEC reports that Deputy Sheriff Christopher Newman and Deputy Edward Lopez pounded on Hill's front door at 3 p.m., according to court documents. After repeated banging, Hill manually pushed up the garage door where he was listening to music, then immediately put it back down. Whether Hill was holding a gun at this point is in dispute. The deputies said he was, other witnesses, including Hill's 9-year-old daughter who was sitting on a bench across the street, said he was not."

Somebody's lying. Guess who.

"As the garage door closed, Newman fired four shots, hitting Hill three times, including a shot to the head that killed him instantly. Investigators reportedly found an unloaded gun in Hill's back pocket. The attorney for the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office declined CBS News' request for comment on the verdict."

Nazi justice.

NBC reports:

"Newman and his partner, Deputy Edward Lopez, responded to Hill's Fort Pierce home on Jan. 14, 2014 after someone from a school across the street called to complain of loud music, police have said. The deputies knocked, and Hill, 30, on disability leave from a Coca-Cola warehouse, pulled open the garage door. Seeing the officers, he started to close the door — and pulled out a gun, police said. Newman opened fire, his bullets piercing the door. Hill was found dead inside with an unloaded gun in his back pocket. Phillips disputed that Hill raised the gun toward the officers, questioning how the weapon ended up in his back pocket before he died. Phillips is preparing file a motion for a new trial, based on what he says were inconsistencies in the way Hill's gun was used as evidence during the trial, and prosecutors' revealing that Hill had been on probation at the time of the shooting for a drug charge."

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6-8-18

Be careful what you wish for. Might just get it. LOL. The following is a sad story. Both for the victim and police. Fox News reports:

"Andrea Morris goes on Facebook Live to discuss arrest as Sauk Village police chief denies allegations of brutality and vows to make an example of people spreading the claims on social media. An Illinois police department says it’s exploring ways to pursue legal action against online commentators who falsely accused it of beating up a woman after she broadcast a Facebook Live video showing her swollen face following an arrest. Andrea Morris, while in custody at the Sauk Village police department, sparked outrage on social media as she talked about a recent incident in which their officers had “tased” her. “The police tased me, I don't even know what happened after that, my whole face is f----d up, she said, while fighting back tears. “I look like a different person.”

Gets worse. Get this:

"One commenter then responded to the video claiming that “Sauk Village police beat her in her sleep!" – an accusation that was shared numerous times – and one the department is denying, according to Fox 32 Chicago. Authorities say Morris was actually trespassing on the property of her ex-girlfriend, who had became fearful that she would break the windows on her home. Morris resisted arrest twice and while trying to run away, was tasered by an officer and fell face-first on a sidewalk, they added."

Not clear what the truth is here. That is, how things truly went down. Someone's lying. Either the police or the victim. One thing for sure, however, the police did not beat this woman in her sleep. LOL. Simply, not credible.

"The department’s chief, Robert Kowalski, told Fox 32 Chicago that they may make an example of those who were spreading the “beat her in her sleep” claims on social media. “We will definitely discuss this matter with my detective and run it past the states attorney’s office to see if there’s anything we can do legally against any individuals who are promoting these allegations against the police department,” he said."

Careful, Chief. Might wind up getting more than you bargained for. Could finally be a wake up call for media to finally get up off its ass. Put more resources into exposing outrageously corrupt, abusive, inept, murderous officers to the light of day. At the same time, can certainly understand the Chief's chagrin vis a vis obviously bogus claims made against officers.

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6-8-18

Same old, same old. Never ends. The Washington Post reports:

"Sitting in his car outside a boarded-up house on a recent Saturday morning, Michael Hayes went through the mental checklist of things he does to make sure suspicious people know he is an enterprising young real estate investor, not a burglar or a drug addict."

Think whites have to put up with this shit on a continuous basis?

"He readied his business cards. He grabbed a sign with his business website and phone number to plant in the front yard of the brick house on Douglass Avenue. He cued up the contract that the homeowner signed allowing Hayes to go inside and take pictures for potential investors. He even had the owner on the phone as he worked one of the boards loose. And, as always, he exhibited a polite and respectful demeanor to anyone he met. None of it was enough. Before that afternoon was over, Hayes — a 31-year-old father, former teacher and an entrepreneur with a growing portfolio of rehabbed homes for sale — would have to justify his presence to a screaming neighbor and the police officers summoned to the scene. He had committed no crime, and the police did not arrest him. But many of the millions of people who saw the video he recorded of the conflict say his transgression wasn’t what he did, but who he is: He was real estate investing while black."

Why is it someone makes a false report to police and does not get arrested if the caller is white and the victim black?

"Phillip Goff, president of the Center for Policing Equity, a nonprofit that promotes police transparency and accountability, said that many people see the police as more than just instruments for enforcing the law. They use them as enforcers of unwritten social rules, which can be steeped in discriminatory thinking. “The issue is that, for many folks, law enforcement has been seen as their own racism valet,” Goff said. “We talk about not just crime, we talk about disorder — anything that makes folks feel uncomfortable or says that the social norms that we’ve all agreed to are being violated,” he said. “And the problem is that black skin frequently violates the social order.”

Police are ultimately at fault. Yes, they need to respond to every call. When they find, however, that the call was false, why aren't they arresting the caller for making a false report?

Consider the following:

"Hayes knew he had done nothing wrong — a conviction that was confirmed when two officers arrived, one white and one black. They checked his paperwork and found that he had a legal right to be there. That didn’t sit well with Albert. In the video, she glowers from the porch, then yells that she is a friend of the sheriff. “I don’t care if you’re friends with the president,” the white officer says. “If you try to do anything to stop him, you’re going to jail.” Albert then turned her attention to Hayes: “Hurry up and do it and get out!” “No. No. He can take all day,” the officer responded. “He’s in control. He’s got a contract.” The officers then waited outside the abandoned house while Hayes took pictures. “I feel like I got two of the best police officers in all of Memphis,” Hayes said later."

While the officers, indeed, did a good job handling the issue, the only way this shit will finally end is through immediate arrest of anyone found to have made a false report.

"Memphis Police declined to make the officers involved in the call available for an interview."

Why not? Why not grab the bull by the horns, so to speak? That is, confront the issue head on?

"In a statement, the department said: “The Memphis police officers who were captured on video while on the scene of a complaint call that has now gone viral are examples of the vast majority of all MPD officers. Our officers ... are trained and expected to respond in a professional manner.” The statement thanked Hayes for recording and sharing the interaction."

Here's the problem:

"But Memphis police have not always come off so well in interactions with black residents. In April, Hayes had an unsettling encounter with an officer who berated him aggressively after accusing him of running a stop sign. The officer did not give him a ticket, but Hayes drove away shaken. Over the years, the department has been accused of brutality in several high-profile cases, charges that rarely result in punishment. Between 2011 and 2017, police officials determined that evidence supported only 33 of the 359 allegations of brutality, according to Memphis NBC-affiliate WMCA. “Here, police can do what they want. You can file a complaint, but nothing is going to happen, because you’re black,” said Brad Watkins, executive director of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, a grass-roots social justice organization."

Precisely, why an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Hear the rumble?

"Goff, the researcher, said he was struck by an exchange near the end of Hayes’s video, when Hayes tells the officers he believes the call was racially motivated. The white officer concurs. “The white officer knows that this is racial,” Goff said. “He’s got a sense of how racism functions in Memphis.” While training would help, Goff said, “there’s no chief that’s going to last very long that trains officers to respond to complaints by saying: ‘Mrs. Smith, you’re probably just racist.’?”

Just arrest her sorry ass for making a false report.

The above quotes are courtesy of a most gifted insightful writer, Cleve Wootson.

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6-8-18

Consider the following. Should serve as a wake up call. The Washington Post reports:

"In 2006, the Supreme Court ruled in Hudson v. Michigan that evidence seized during raids in which police violate the “knock and announce” requirement is not subject to the exclusionary rule. That rule says that evidence seized during a search that violates the Fourth Amendment can’t be used against a suspect at trial. It’s meant to deter illegal searches. Writing for a 5-to-4 majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said that although the knock-and-announce rule is indeed part of the Fourth Amendment, excluding evidence from raids in which police failed to abide by it was too extreme of a remedy for such a minor violation. Instead, Scalia argued that the “new professionalism” in police departments around the country as well as a trend toward more internal discipline at police agencies were sufficient to deter police from violating the requirement."

Scalia's head was securely lodged up his ass. What nazi wouldn't support and defend highly militarized jackbooted tactics highly reminiscent of Hitler's Third Reich? Scalia's profound naiveté would have indeed been laughable if not so goddamned dangerous, having resulted in the murder of so many innocent unarmed civilians by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

"That was 12 years ago. I’d submit that there’s growing pile of evidence (and a growing pile of bodies) showing that Scalia was wrong. And there’s no better example than South Carolina’s 15th Circuit Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU). Here at The Watch, we’ve been following the case of Julian Betton, whose Myrtle Beach, S.C., residence was raided by the DEU in 2015. The evidence for the raid on Betton came from a confidential informant, who claimed to have bought pot from him on two occasions for a total of $100. On April 16, 2015, the task force battered Betton’s door open with a ram, then almost immediately opened fire, releasing at least 29 bullets, nine of which hit Betton. One bullet pierced a back wall in the building, sped across a nearby basketball court and landed in the wall of another house. (This was a multi-family building.)"

This has become a country where militarized law enforcement intentionally terrorizes its citizenry.

"An expert hired by Betton’s legal team estimates that over the course of his lifetime, his medical bills will run between $6 million and $17 million. Here’s a summary of Betton’s injuries from a previous post: He ended up losing his gallbladder and parts of his bowel, colon and rectum. The bullets also damaged his liver, small intestine and pancreas. His lung partially collapsed. His left leg was broken. One of his vertebrae was partially destroyed; two others were fractured. He’ll never walk again or be able to have kids of his own. He’ll also need to use a colostomy bag for the rest of his life."

Think this guy was guilty of anything?

"Several members of the task force at first insisted that Betton fired a handgun at them. When ballistics testing revealed that Betton’s gun hadn’t been fired recently, they next claimed that he had merely pointed his handgun at them. Without video, that accusation is harder to prove one way or the other and, conveniently, the task force members who were wearing body cameras failed to activate them until after the shooting had stopped. But the criminal charge against Betton associated with that accusation has since been dropped."

Think these bastards aren't liars? Self-serving pieces of shit?

"Every member of the task force but one also said that the officers knocked and announced before entering Betton’s home. Some said they even waited after announcing. They also claimed to be wearing clothing that clearly identified them as police officers. As it turns out, Betton had a security camera on his front porch. These 11 seconds of footage from that camera show that no member of the task force knocked on Betton’s door."

Goddamned liars. Out of control jackbooted bastards. Then, law enforcement whines no one trusts their bullshit, questions their jackbooted tactics?

"The video lacks audio, but both the Myrtle Beach police chief and a federal magistrate have since concluded that the video also strongly suggests there was no announcement. None of the officers’ lips appear to be moving, and it all happens very quickly. At best, they announced themselves simultaneously or nearly simultaneously, with the battering ram hitting the door."

Imagine that. Precisely, why trust is a growing problem as the fascist police-state we already live in transitions to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"That’s consistent with testimony from a neighbor who said she did hear someone yell “police,” but at about the same time she heard the ram hit the door. Another neighbor who was on the sidewalk outside Betton’s home was knocked down and temporarily detained by the task force as the raid commenced. He has said that he heard no announcement, and that he at first had no idea that armed men who knocked him down were police officers."

Jackbooted thugs. Here's the bottom line. Get this:

"The task force did not have a no-knock warrant for Betton’s home. They had only a knock-and-announce warrant. Under federal law, they were required to knock, announce themselves and wait a reasonable time for someone to answer the door. By any interpretation of the video, they violated that rule."

Forget? Anything goes in a fascist police-state.

"Betton has sued the members of the task force, along with the jurisdictions that the task force serves. In March, all of the cities and counties associated with the DEU except for the city of Myrtle Beach settled with Betton for a total of $2.75 million. His lawsuit against Myrtle Beach — and Myrtle Beach police officer Dave Belue, who served on the task force — continues."

The expose goes on and on. The quotes are from a most gifted, insightful writer, Radley Balko.

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6-8-18

Not all judges are bought and paid for. CBS News reports:

"A judge ruled that a Florida police officer must stand trial for the fatal shooting of a stranded black motorist, saying his retelling of what happened was "unreliable and not credible." Circuit Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer wrote that fired Palm Beach Gardens officer Nouman Raja's statements after the 2015 shooting of 31-year-old Corey Jones are not supported by an audiotape of the shooting and other physical evidence, such as the location of the bullet casings, and therefore he isn't protected by the state's "stand your ground" law. She said Raja's trial on manslaughter and attempted murder charges should proceed. She said she found Raja's use of deadly force, "was not objectively reasonable and not justified under the law."

Of course, that didn't go over well with the jackbooted thug and his shyster.

"Raja's attorney, Richard Lubin, said he plans to file an appeal next week, which will likely delay the trial's scheduled July start. Without going into specifics, he said he disagreed with Judge Feuer's conclusions and how she applied the law. The Palm Beach County State Attorney's office declined comment."

Can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit.

Here is the problem:

"Raja shot Jones alongside a darkened highway ramp where Jones' SUV broke down. Raja was dressed in plainclothes and driving an unmarked van. Prosecutors say he never identified himself as an officer, causing Jones to mistake him for a robber and pull a handgun. Jones had a concealed weapons permit."

Here is the issue, perverse bastardization of the law attempted by Raja and his attorney:

"Raja, 40, is of South Asian descent and his lawyers claimed he should be protected under Florida's "stand your ground" law, which gained national prominence in 2012 after neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman fatally shot black teenager Trayvon Martin. It says people have no obligation to retreat if threatened and can use deadly force if they believe it necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm. However, it does not allow an altercation's instigator to use deadly force. "

Imagine that.

"Feuer agreed with prosecutors, who said at a two-day hearing last month that Raja's actions made him the instigator."

You think?

"Jones, a housing inspector and part-time drummer, parked his broken-down SUV on an Interstate 95 off-ramp as he returned home from his reggae band's performance. Raja, working undercover to catch car burglars, spotted the SUV and drove the wrong way up the off-ramp just before 3:15 a.m."

The cop is in an unmarked van, has just driven up the off-ramp the wrong way. No problem with that?

"Raja got out of his unmarked white van and walked toward Jones, who was on the phone with a tow truck dispatch center, which recorded the call. Jones' family says he had just bought the gun because he feared someone would steal his musical equipment valued at $10,000. Raja was not wearing his tactical vest with police markings as ordered and he is never heard on the dispatch recording identifying himself as a police officer. Raja, who says he identified himself, was wearing jeans, a T-shirt, sneakers and a baseball cap with the logo of a heavy equipment manufacturer."

Imagine that. No uniform. No identification as a police officer. Worse, the achingly clueless jackbooted bastard lied.

"In the tow dispatch recording, Raja, a seven-year police officer who had joined Palm Beach Gardens six months earlier, yells "You good?" as he approaches. Jones says he is. Raja twice replies, "Really?" with Jones replying "yeah" each time. Suddenly, Raja shouts for Jones to put his hands up, using an expletive. Jones replies "Hold on!" and Raja repeats his demand. Raja then fires three shots in less than two seconds. Ten seconds pass before three more shots are heard a second apart, apparently Raja firing at Jones as he ran down an embankment. Raja told investigators Jones kept pointing his gun at him; prosecutors say Raja saw him throw it down but kept firing, which is why he is charged with attempted murder. Investigators have been unable to determine when the fatal shot was fired."

Now, standard police procedure across our formerly great nation, Sheriff?

"Raja then used his personal cellphone to call 911 with the operator picking up 33 seconds after the last shot was fired. Raja is recorded yelling orders to drop the gun; prosecutors say he was trying to mislead investigators into believing he hadn't seen the gun thrown. Jones' body was found 200 feet from the SUV and 125 feet from his gun, which was unfired."

Murder.

"Palm Beach Gardens quickly fired Raja, who was still in his employee probation period. He was charged eight months later."

Why wasn't he immediately arrested and charged with murder?

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6-8-18

Here is another atrocity perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. ABC News reports:

"Two police officers in South Florida have been placed on administrative leave while their department investigates a video that purportedly shows them beating a suspect on the ground with batons."

These criminal jackbooted sons of bitches should have been immediately arrested, hauled to jail.

"Officers Jaime Cerna and Richard Allen of the Hallandale Beach Police Department arrested Daniel James Dunkelberger, 27, on Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly stole a cellphone and the charging cable from someone's parked vehicle. According to the probable cause affidavit, Dunkelberger "tensed his body to impede" the officers from arresting him. The officers pushed him to the ground where he continued to resist. Cerna deployed his Taser stun-gun, "which was ineffective." Dunkelberger stood up and attempted to flee from the officers, so Cerna deployed his Taser again. But Dunkelberger still "refused to comply with commands," according to the affidavit."

Think so? Wake up.

"Cerna had already used both Taser cartridges, so he took out his "expandable baton" and struck Dunkelberger "several" times on his legs. Dunkelberger then went down to the ground and officers were able to restrain him with handcuffs, according to the affidavit. Dunkelberger was taken into custody on charges of burglary and resisting an officer without violence. A day later, a video emerged on social media from someone who claimed to have witnessed the encounter between Dunkelberger and police in Hallendale Beach, some 13 miles south of Fort Lauderdale. The footage appears to differ from the officers' account."

Imagine that. Couldn't be, could it? Officers don't lie, right, Sheriff?

"The minute-long video shows two officers with batons repeatedly beating a man standing next to their marked squad car as they order him to "get on the ground." One officer is holding what appears to be a deployed stun-gun in his left hand, with its metal strings attached to the suspect. The other officer pulls the man to the ground, who seems to be wailing in agony. "Now you're going to get on the ground," one of the officers says. "Doesn't that hurt?"

Jackbooted piece of shit. Unfit to be dog catcher.

"The officer holding the stun-gun strikes the man while he's lying on the ground screaming. The witness recording the video yells, "Stop hitting him!" The officers repeatedly yell at the man on the ground to "turn around" before pulling his leg to flip him over onto his back and cuffing his hands."

Why haven't these two pieces of jackbooted human excrement been arrested and charged? Why no equal justice?

"The Hallandale Beach Police Department subsequently released a statement Thursday, saying it was "aware of the video" and it is conducting a "thorough and objective internal affairs investigation."

Horse shit. Unadulterated. Gets worse:

"Hallandale Beach city manager Roger Carlton called the video concerning during a press conference Thursday. "There is video of two of our officers in an altercation with someone," Carlton told reporters. "It is of serious concern to the police department, to me as city manager and certainly to our elected officials." "Any video of an altercation between a citizen and a police is always a concern. As you know, at a national level, there is more and more consciousness of this, more and more concern about it," he continued. "Hallandale Beach is a good place, we're a family place. But like any city, we have crime and want our people to be protected. But we also want everybody treated fairly, so I think it would be grossly inappropriate for any member of the leadership of this community not to be concerned."

Meaningless, unadulterated horse shit. Rings achingly hollow. No equal justice. These two jackbooted pieces of shit have been protected and coddled:

"The two officers have been placed on administrative leave amid the ongoing investigation into the incident. One of the officers is on paid leave, while the other is not because he recently returned from retirement and is paid hourly, according to Carlton."

No equal justice.

More unadulterated horse shit, continued obfuscation:

"Carlton cautioned that the the witness video only shows "a point in time," which is why they're hoping surveillance footage and other video can fill in the gaps. He urged members of the community who have any information about what happened or additional video to come forward. Carlton said he doesn't believe the video is evidence to "any pattern" within the city's police force, and that law enforcement officers maintain certain rights and privileges under Florida law. "We are concerned, I want to be very candid about that," he added. "Whatever's necessary not only to resolve this case in a fair and appropriate manner but to ensure that all of our officers are well-trained in how to decompress situations will be done."

Why haven't these two pieces of shit been arrested and charged? No justice. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

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6-8-18

In follow up to the last edition, CBS News reports:

"Newly released videos of an NBA player's arrest in Milwaukee appear to show the officers involved were worried about a possible backlash. Police fired a stun gun at Sterling Brown, then arrested him in January over a late-night parking violation. Newly revealed photos show injuries to Brown's face and body. Last month, the Milwaukee Police Department released body-cam and squad-car videos that showed Brown's January arrest, reports CBSN's Vladimir Duthiers. Now, new video shows that shortly afterwards, officers discussed potential accusations of racism. A new body camera video obtained by Milwaukee station WISN shows officers expressing concern over the perception of Brown's arrest. "If he makes a [expletive] complaint, it's going to be a [expletive] media firestorm," an officer says. "And then any little [expletive] thing that goes wrong is going to be, 'Ohhhh, the Milwaukee Police Department is all racist, blah, blah, blah.'" Another is heard saying, "We're trying to protect ourselves."

Sue the living shit out of these jackbooted bastards, police department, and the city.

"In a new body-cam video, an officer is seen stepping on Brown's ankle after he is on the ground. Brown: "You're stepping on my ankle, for what?"
Officer: "So you don't kick us." An officer then begins to question if Brown is a Milwaukee Bucks player. "What you think? I look familiar, don't I?" he responded. In another new video, an officer appears to call a supervisor to request overtime pay. "I need to go on the overtime board if I'm not already," he said. He is heard singing, "Money, money, money, money, money!"

Jackbooted son of a bitch. An exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. In a goddamned de facto fascist police-state, quickly transforming to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. ... Right, Sheriff?

"New photos, also obtained by WISN, show the injuries to Brown's face and body after the arrest. Brown was briefly jailed, but never charged with a crime. Hours after the incident, he played in an NBA game with bruises on his face."

Imagine that. Not charged. Ferociously pointed question. Why weren't the outrageously criminal jackbooted bastards in blue immediately arrested and charged? Why no equal justice? Why are these pieces of human excrement protected and coddled?

"Last month, when the initial videos were released, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said he was outraged by the officers' actions. "This type of behavior, whether it's toward a professional athlete or any other citizen, has no place in our city," Barrett said."

Then why didn't you immediately call for the arrest of these jackbooted pieces of shit, Mr. Mayor?

"Two sergeants and an officer were put on temporary leave for the incident, and the Milwaukee police chief apologized."

Jesus Christ. Give me a f--king break. Kangaroo justice. Nazi justice in Trump's Fourth Reich. A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Sieg Heil!, Chief?

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6-8-18

Here is how the jackbooted bastards operate with impunity in the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. The Washington Post reports:

"As the sun set Sunday night, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) went to a shuttered Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that has been converted into a detention center for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents. He asked for a tour. Instead, the government contractor that runs the converted store called the cops. An officer filled out a police report, and the senator was asked to leave."

Imagine that. A United States Senator denied access to what amounts to a Trump gulag for kids.

"The half-hour incident at a strip mall near the southern border with Mexico underscores the lack of transparency from President Trump’s administration about its intensifying efforts to break up undocumented families caught crossing the border, the centerpiece of a “zero tolerance” policy announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month to deter illegal immigration. “The administration calls this ‘zero tolerance.' ... It is really a ‘zero humanity’ policy," Merkley said in a telephone interview on Monday. “It does damage to the children, to the parents and to the soul of America.”

Goddamned right. Achingly reminiscent of Nazi Germany circa 1933 at the beginning of the Hitler era.

"The senator said he tried to go through proper channels to arrange a site visit but was rebuffed. Merkley said he’s also sought to figure out just how many kids are being held at the old Walmart, where the parking lot is packed with employee cars, but he still cannot get a straight answer. He sees the new policy as a moral stain on America, and he’s determined not to let it slip from public consciousness. That's why he staged a public confrontation. A staffer live-streamed the whole thing on Facebook."

Jesus Christ. This is no longer a democratic republic. In name only. What we have in the Oval Office is a nazi dictator unbeholden to anyone or anything other than personal whim. Time for Mueller to get a move on.

“I think it’s unacceptable that a member of Congress is not being admitted to see what’s happening to children whose families are applying for asylum,” Merkley said. “Can you imagine? You come to this strange land. … You’re seeking asylum, and the first thing that happens when you get here is you’re torn away from your parents? … America has never done this before! … The intention is to hurt the children, cause the children trauma and discourage people from seeking asylum in the United States of America.”

Raw nazism. Wake up. History is repeating itself.

"Trump’s policy may split up an untold number of families. Minors are not allowed in criminal jails, where adults are held when they’re charged with crimes related to crossing the border. Children are sent to separate facilities, which are overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. This happens even if their folks present themselves at official ports of entry and declare that they are seeking asylum."

Trump and his henchmen have become a law unto themselves, worse, breaking the law, ignoring the United States Constitution. Doing so with impunity.

"Southwest Key Programs, a nonprofit, administers this facility and 26 other shelters for unaccompanied immigrant children across Texas, Arizona and California. Its website refers all questions to HHS. The press office for the children and families division at HHS, which the resettlement office is part of, did not respond to a call and email seeking comment overnight. “If you don’t want your child separated, then don’t bring them across the border illegally,” Sessions said last month. “It’s not our fault that somebody does that.”

German Nazi war criminals made the same claim during their Nuremberg trials.

Courage within the United States Senate is nearly non-existent, with rare exception. U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley displayed uncommon valor:

"Merkley’s visit to the site was Kabuki theater tailor-made to go viral on social media and feed progressive activists the sort of red meat they are so hungry for in this tumultuous era. Wearing blue jeans and a dress shirt that was half-tucked in with rolled up sleeves, Merkley called a phone number that was posted at the entrance. He put the woman who answered on speaker and asked for a supervisor to come out. He told her his personal cellphone number. He called back a few minutes later when no one had come. Only after two police officers arrived on the scene did the supervisor emerge from a blacked-out sliding door. He gave the senator the phone number for the HHS press office. “So you guys can just call that number,” the supervisor said. “That’s the number we were told to give to you guys.”

Gutlessly passed the buck.

"One of the cops approached Merkley. “I haven’t been asked to leave the property, but I’m guessing that’s about what’s to happen,” the senator said.

“Yes, sir, I think that’s what they’re going towards,” the officer replied. “What was your name again?”

“Senator Jeff Merkley. U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley,” he said.

“How do you spell that? I don’t want to misspell that,” the cop asked.

“M-e-r-k-l-e-y,” the senator said.

"The cop asked for his date of birth.

“It’s October 24, 1956,” Merkley replied. “I’m a U.S. senator.”

"Wearing a lapel microphone, Merkley narrated what was happening. The sound quality is poor because of the wind, and the video quality is poor because of the bright sun. But that made the stunt seem more raw and authentic. As the camera rolled, Merkley spoke about how a picture is worth a thousand words, which is why they don’t want visuals from inside. “I think this is part of a strategy to prevent the public and our decision-makers from seeing what’s really going on,” he said. “These doors are closed right now, which I think is symbolic of what the administration is doing.”

Gratifying to see at least one United States Senator willing to stand up to this horse shit. Hat's off, Senator.

"Earlier in the day, Merkley stopped by the Border Patrol’s processing station in McAllen, Tex., where children are taken away from their parents, and visited with asylum seekers at the Sacred Heart Church Respite Center in McAllen, Tex. He was accompanied by local officials from the American Civil Liberties Union. “For months, stories have abounded of families separated by immigration authorities at the border: Three children were separated from their mother as they fled a gang in El Salvador; a 7-year-old was taken from her Congolese mother who was seeking asylum; and so on, in reportedly hundreds of cases. In almost every case, the families have described heart-wrenching goodbyes and agonizing uncertainty about whether they would be reunited,” Amy B Wang noted last week. Finally, the supervisor at the former Walmart asked Merkley to leave and he complied. As he left, the senator said the contractor should really rethink the work it is doing for the government “with these children being ripped out of their parents’ arms.”

Ferociously pointed question. How is it constitutional for a United States Senator and/or Representative to be denied entrance to a federal detention facility? The Founders clearly intended all three branches of government to be a check and balance on one another.

Incredibly sad only one Senator showed up at the facility. Had it been a delegation think they would have been denied access by the Trump nazi and his henchmen?

The above quotes are courtesy of a most gifted insightful writer, James Hohmann.

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6-8-18

The de facto fascist police-state we already live in quickly transitions to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. CBS News reports:

"Six counties in Georgia have joined a federal program known as 287(g) that deputizes local law enforcement to effectively act as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. CBS News went to the Gwinnett County Jail to see how the program is working. "Under the Trump administration, right now we're going by all law, immigration laws," one deputy said. "So you come in for jaywalking, we find out that you're illegal, we hand you over to ICE. We work for ICE. We do not deport anybody."

Disingenuous bullshit. Blatant lie. End result? The same.

Just the beginning. Think the Trump nazi and his henchmen won't find other creative ways to deputize state, county, and local law enforcement to do their bidding? Nazi America.

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6-8-18

The racist AG Sessions nazi continues to defend the indefensible. The Washington Post reports:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a vigorous defense of the hard-line Trump administration policy that has resulted in immigrant children being separated from their parents after crossing the border illegally during a lengthy interview on Tuesday. Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, who admitted he was “disturbed” by the separations, pressed Sessions repeatedly about the morality and necessity of the familial separations. But the attorney general stood his ground. “If people don’t want to be separated from their children, they should not bring them with them,” Sessions said, echoing some of the remarks he made in May when the Justice Department announced that it would begin to prosecuting every person who crossed the border unlawfully, including many seeking asylum. “We’ve got to get this message out. You’re not given immunity.”

This racist nazi bastard has falsely sworn to protect and defend the United States Constitution and rule of law. Needs to resign in disgrace. Presents an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. A traitor. Our formerly great country remains a democratic republic in name only. We've lost ourselves.

“This is the worst thing I’ve seen in 25-plus years of doing this civil rights work,” Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s immigrants’ rights project, said on MSNBC recently. “I am talking to these mothers and they are describing their kids screaming, ‘Mommy, Mommy, don’t let them take me away!’ … The medical evidence is overwhelming that we may be doing permanent trauma to these kids, and yet the government is finding every way they can to try and justify it.” The ACLU is suing the government on claims that the Trump administration has been illegally locking up asylum seekers."

Adolf and Benito? Grinning ear-to-ear, high-fiving on their fiery perches. ... Again, who really won the Second World War European Theater? Ferociously pointedly, you Republican nazis still consider the GOP the party of the family?

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6-8-18

Sad things have come down to this. NPR reports:

"But the now infamous Starbucks incident is far from isolated and experts say it echoes a tragic past that excluded black people from public spaces. Since that incident there have been over a dozen more, detailed below, of people calling 911 on people of color who were seemingly just living their everyday lives. Of course, not every call to 911 involving different races is about race, but this list of incidents points to an unsettling pattern. Those affected by it call it "living while black," and it spurred a hashtag that went viral. Now, some of the people who had 911 called on them for doing innocuous things like moving or napping are calling on Congress to hold a hearing so they can share their stories and find solutions. In an open letter they say "a racially-biased 911 call is a costly one, from the financial and time resources pulled from 911 operators to the protocol police officers must then follow. By assuming an excessive response, which risks arrest, incarceration, and death, generations of black lives pay the ultimate cost." The letter says the hearing should focus on holding false accusers accountable and examining "protocol practices." A petition in support of the hearing has received over 300 signatures."

Yet, despite all the murders of unarmed innocent civilians perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue all across this formerly great country, law enforcement is failing to investigate, arrest, and prosecute other homicides. The Washington Post reports:

"The Post has mapped more than 52,000 homicides in major American cities over the past decade and found that across the country, there are areas where murder is common but arrests are rare."

How can that be? Are police too busy getting their cookies off shaking down, abusing, assaulting, and murdering the innocent?

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6-8-18

Never ends. CBS News reports:

"Four Mesa police officers are on administrative leave following an incident captured on video last month in which a suspect was punched several times. Police Chief Ramon Batista tells Phoenix TV station ABC15 he wasn't notified of the May 23 incident until a week after it occurred and he then began an investigation. Officers responded to a domestic violence call at a Mesa apartment after a woman claimed her 20-year-old ex-boyfriend tried to break in. Responding officers say they encountered two men leaving the area and told both to sit down, but only one complied. Apartment surveillance video shows officers first surrounding, then repeatedly punching the other man, 33-year-old Robert Johnson, who had remained leaning against a wall. Johnson can be seen slumping to the ground as the officers continue to punch him. He doesn't appear to resist, though police said he had refused to comply with their demands."

So beat the shit out of him, right, Sheriff? Got what he deserved, didn't he, Bill?

"He was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct and hindering prosecution. The other man is accused of disorderly conduct-domestic violence.

"Mesa Police Chief Ramon Batista told CBS affiliate KPHO that Johnson was at the apartment complex with a friend. The friend was allegedly trying to enter his ex-girlfriend's apartment, which prompted her to call 911. "It is disappointing because this isn't the way I see the people that I work with and the community that we serve," Batista said. Benjamin Taylor, an attorney representing Johnson, said in a statement to KPHO Johnson was cooperating and following police instructions. "Mr. Johnson was sitting peacefully against a wall when the assault began.He did not resist," the statement said. "The misconduct of these officers would have gone unnoticed if it had not been captured by surveillance videos at the apartment complex where the assault occurred." He called on the Mesa Police Department to discipline, re-train or dismiss the officers."

More on this as the story develops.

There is more. CBS News reports:

"Newly released bodycam videos show the moments leading up to a violent altercation involving Mesa, Arizona, police officers and an unarmed black man. Officers, who are part of a police department that has been under scrutiny before for excessive force, are seen punching Robert Johnson repeatedly before wrestling him to the ground.

"Three are seen punching Johnson, including several blows to the head. Surveillance video also shows an officer kneeing him in the stomach. After being handcuffed, Johnson can be heard swearing at police. Johnson's attorney, Benjamin Taylor, said it's a clear case of excessive force. "He wasn't doing anything wrong. They searched him, they patted him down and they went over to the wall and they beat him up," Taylor said. Police say they acted only after Johnson refused to cooperate. In their incident report, one officer wrote Johnson's "body language" looked like he "was preparing for a physical altercation."

Jesus Christ. Give me a break.

"Still, Mesa's police chief is opening a formal investigation and changing police policy. "There's going to be a special directive that says that we will not strike somebody in the face or in the head, unless they are showing us active aggression," said Ramon Batista, Mesa police chief."

Horse shit. Hitting someone in the face or head can result in death. This policy needs to change.

These pieces of shit have quite a ferociously violent history as covered earlier in this publication and elsewhere:

"The Mesa Police Department made national headlines in the past over excessive use of force. Officer Philip Brailsford was acquitted last year of second degree murder charges in the shooting of Daniel Shaver. Bodycam video showed unarmed Shaver crawling and begging for his life, then reaching toward his pocket before Brailsford shot him multiple times."

Jackbooted bastard. Murderous piece of shit. Gutless pile of 'human' excrement.

"Batista took the job as Mesa's police chief just last year. He moved quickly to release the videos after a local pastor told him about the incident last week. Three officers and one sergeant involved have been placed on paid administrative leave."

Not good enough. Nowhere near.

Needless to say, this case will be closely followed.

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6-1-18

Texas State Trooper Daniel Hubbard has been falsely accused of a heinous crime he did not commit. CBS News reports:

"Video footage from a Texas state trooper's body camera refuted sexual-assault claims a woman made against the trooper after she was pulled over for allegedly driving while intoxicated, CBS Dallas station KTVT reports. Sherita Dixon-Cole, 37, accused the trooper of raping her during the traffic stop south of Dallas over the weekend. The Texas Department of Public Safety released nearly two hours of footage from the accused trooper's body camera Tuesday night. Dixon-Cole's lawyer said that the officer "should be cleared of any wrongdoing" and apologized for the false accusations. "It is deeply troubling when innocent parties are falsely accused and I am truly sorry for any trouble these claims may have caused," attorney S. Lee Merritt Sr. said in a statement. Merritt had accused the officer of offering to let Dixon-Cole go on Sunday in exchange for sexual favors."

Why would a lawyer make such an accusation without having first viewed all video? An innocent officer suffered the consequences. The lawyer made himself look like an incompetent jackass.

"Prosecutors told KTVT they were looking into whether additional charges could be filed against Dixon-Cole."

Should be.

"This is tragic because society is rightfully demanding that police officers conduct themselves beyond reproach," Ellis County District Attorney Patrick Wilson told the station. "The world now knows the trooper in this case conducted himself beyond reproach, and yet he still was subject to this horrible abuse across the country. There are very real and very tragic consequences to this kind of behavior."

We have a continuing problem with murderous officers killing unarmed innocent civilians all across this country. Here we have an officer who properly did his job, removed a drunk off the road, then gets falsely accused of rape? An intolerable injustice. Desperately need good officers. This guy is certainly one of them.

Here's some more. ABC News reports:

"A Texas woman could face charges for falsely accusing a state trooper of sexual assault who had arrested her for drunk driving, authorities said. Sherita Dixon-Cole, 37, of Grapevine, Texas, was stopped in her white Chevrolet Malibu early Sunday morning by Texas Department of Public Safety officer Daniel Hubbard, who said in an affidavit that her driving was "erratic and unsafe for the roadway" and it took "several miles" to pull over the vehicle. Hubbard said he administered multiple field sobriety tests and found what he believes was vodka in two open containers in the backseat and a cup in the driver's seat of Dixon-Cole's car. Hubbard then arrested Dixon-Cole for driving while intoxicated and transported her to Ellis County Jail in Waxahachie, Texas, according to the affidavit obtained by ABC News. The following day, Dallas-based civil rights attorney Lee Merritt released a statement revealing Dixon-Cole's startling allegations. She claimed Hubbard repeatedly told her she could be released in exchange for sexual favors. When she told him no, she claimed the highway patrol trooper sexually assaulted her outside and inside of his police cruiser during a prolonged arrest, Merritt said in the statement Monday. Dixon-Cole was released from jail Sunday night after her family posted the required bond, according to Merritt."

Clearly, the Trooper did his job.

5-25-18

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril

Some salient quotes occurring later on in this edition vis a vis unfinished business County officials continue to ignore:

..."The following? Pathetic. Never ends. NPR reports:

"The shooting death of an undocumented woman at the hands of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Rio Bravo, Texas, near Laredo, Wednesday is ratcheting up tensions along the U.S.-Mexico border."

"The victim was shot in the head. That, now, standard law enforcement procedure in Nazi America, Sheriff?"

..."Where's video of the encounter? Why wasn't it released? ... Not to worry, right, Sheriff? Cops don't lie, do they, Bill?

"Three other migrants were subsequently apprehended. Neither the agent nor the deceased woman, who was shot in the head, have been identified."

"Why not? The identity of the officer is certainly known. Why isn't the public entitled to know his or her identity? The public has a right to know who the hell is killing whom, -- and why. ... Right, Sheriff? -- Don't think so, Bill? That why your office has not released the identity of the officers involved in the Jeffrey Gray Wise killing one hundred ten weeks ago, Sheriff?"

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In a different case:

..."Precisely, why she should not have settled. Gone to trial. The City got off on the cheap. So did the police department. Precisely, why this shit continues to go on and on. ... Right, Sheriff?

"The statement added that King loves the city of Austin, “knows our community can do better” and will continue to teach elementary school and advocate for social justice."

"Go along to get along. Gutless. Precisely, why nothing ever truly changes. ... Right, Sheriff? Just like you and the boys like it, right, Bill?"

... Small sampling of what's to come in this edition. Read on.

The following email was sent to the District Attorney:

Wiley B. "Sonny" McAfee
District Attorney
33rd and 424th Judicial Districts
Llano, TX 78643

March 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
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www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

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Rebecca Lange, Llano County Attorney
Llano County Attorney's Office
Llano, Texas 78643

February 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

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Bill Blackburn, Sheriff
Llano County Sheriff's Office
2001 N. State Hwy. 16 Suite A
Llano, Texas 78643

August 23, 2017

Re: Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Sheriff:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

6-1-18

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? One hundred ten 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? One hundred ten 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. One hundred ten 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.

6-1-18

The following? Pathetic. Never ends. NPR reports:

"The shooting death of an undocumented woman at the hands of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Rio Bravo, Texas, near Laredo, Wednesday is ratcheting up tensions along the U.S.-Mexico border."

The victim was shot in the head. That, now, standard law enforcement procedure in Nazi America, Sheriff?

"According to a statement released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a lone agent was responding "to a report of illegal activity by Centeno Lane...where he discovered a group of illegal aliens" just after noon. The statement adds: "Initial reports indicate that as the agent attempted to apprehend the group, he came under attack by multiple subjects using blunt objects. The agent fired at least one round from his service issued firearm, fatally wounding one of the assailants. The rest of the group fled the scene. Border Patrol Agents called for EMS and administered first aid until the Rio Bravo Fire Department arrived."

Where's video of the encounter? Why wasn't it released? ... Not to worry, right, Sheriff? Cops don't lie, do they, Bill?

"Three other migrants were subsequently apprehended. Neither the agent nor the deceased woman, who was shot in the head, have been identified."

Why not? The identity of the officer is certainly known. Why isn't the public entitled to know his or her identity? The public has a right to know who the hell is killing whom, -- and why. ... Right, Sheriff? -- Don't think so, Bill? That why your office has not released the identity of the officers involved in the Jeffrey Gray Wise killing one hundred ten weeks ago, Sheriff?

Think there'll be any justice in this latest killing by the Border Patrol?

"The incident is being investigated by the FBI and the Texas Rangers."

Means shit squat. Neither agency is worth a crap. Not for quite some time. ... Right, Sheriff?

"A female witness who lives next door to the site of the shooting, Marta Martinez, recorded the aftermath of the killing and posted it on Facebook. In the video, Martinez follows from a distance as an agent takes two detained men across a vacant lot and towards a Border Patrol vehicle. "Why do you mistreat them?" Martinez shouts in Spanish. "Why did you shoot the girl? You killed her! They killed the girl! She's dead!" An unidentified Texas Highway Patrol officer approaches and tells Martinez that "you interfere, you're going to be arrested. I'm just telling you."

Can't say anything in protest to a criminal jackbooted bastard on duty and abusing authority? Not in a fascist police-state. First Amendment? Freedom of speech? Under constant threat in a de facto fascist police-state quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"Martinez told The New York Times that she heard no sounds before the shooting, despite the fact that the incident occurred several feet away from her house. The victim appeared to be about 20 years old and the left side of her face was covered in blood, she added."

The officer may have gutlessly 'choked' in fear. Over reacted. Where's all video?

"Local immigrant advocates are questioning the need for further militarization of the border. "We don't need any more protection. We're safe," said the founder of Laredo Immigrant Alliance, Karina Alvarez. She said her community is upset and angry over the shooting, and people worry whether the investigation will resolve anything. "Our community really is in fear, we really think there should be accountability over Border Patrol agents," she said."

There is little to no accountability throughout all law enforcement. The problem worsens as we transition from the de facto fascist police-state we already live in to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"In 2016, the Homeland Security Advisory Council looked into reports that border agents were not being held accountable for a rash of deadly shootings. The panel concluded, the "disciplinary process takes far too long to be an effective deterrent."

Officers do as they please with virtual impunity. A problem across all law enforcement. ... Right, Sheriff?

"Since then, Customs and Border Protection — the parent agency — has stressed training on agents' use of non-lethal force and de-escalation techniques. Figures on the agency website show that "use of force involving firearms" dropped nearly 70 percent from 2012 to 2017. But it's coming back. Agents used their guns nine times from October to March of this year, more than twice as much as the previous year."

Been emboldened by the racist AG Sessions nazi and his fuhrer, the Trump nazi.

"Administration officials say that's because assaults on border agents have spiked. Yet critics say the agency is playing with the numbers. In one incident in the Rio Grande Valley last year, first reported by the Intercept, six people threw rocks, bottles and branches at seven Border Patrol agents. By the Border Patrol's tally, that added up to 126 separate assaults."

Think so? Wake up. Called bullshit.

"When asked if the agency's math exaggerates the dangers out there, Cary Huffman, CBP's chief of strategic planning, put it this way: "If you had to dodge 126 different projectiles at you, you might think differently, would you not?"

Adolf Hitler. Joseph Goebbels. Nazi distortion of reality, circa 1933. This time, 2018.

The Border Patrol can't apparently get its story straight. abc7news.com reports:

"Border Patrol's initial statement said the agent "attempted to apprehend the group," but "came under attack by multiple subjects using blunt objects." It's unclear why in a subsequent release by Border Patrol, the mention of "blunt objects" used as weapons was omitted. A spokesman for Customs and Border Protection acknowledged both statements, but "outside of that we don't have anything additional to offer as the FBI is in charge if the investigation," he wrote. The FBI, Texas Rangers and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Professional Responsibility are all investigating what led to Gomez's death."

Comforting, isn't it? Think it'll be any more than a whitewash? ... Right, Sheriff?

CBS News reports:

"The U.S. Border Patrol has revised its description of an agent-involved shooting in Texas that killed a woman who was part of a group that illegally entered the country. The agency initially said Wednesday that the lone agent fired his gun after being attacked "by multiple subjects using blunt objects." But Border Patrol said Friday that the group ignored the agent's demands to get on the ground and "rushed him." The first statement describes the woman killed as "one of the assailants," while the second calls her "one member of the group." Agency spokeswoman Sara Melendez says she can't address specific questions about the releases but notes they usually do a follow-up statement after the initial one."

The bastards struggle to get their stories straight. In line with one another.

"Guatemala's foreign ministry identifies the woman killed as Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez."

Why the hell haven't the jackbooted bastards identified the officer responsible for killing her?

ABC News reports:

"The agency initially said Wednesday that the lone agent fired his gun after being attacked "by multiple subjects using blunt objects." But Border Patrol said Friday that the group ignored the agent's demands to get on the ground and "rushed him." The first statement describes the woman killed as "one of the assailants," while the second calls her "one member of the group."

Jesus Christ. How long does it take these bastards to finally get their story straight?

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6-1-18

In follow up to a case covered extensively here and elsewhere, The Statesman reports:

"Austin will pay $425,000 to an African-American schoolteacher whose violent arrest in 2015 sparked nationwide outrage."

Piss hole in the snow. Nowhere near enough to prevent this shit from happening again. ... Right, Sheriff? Paltry sum considering the fact the criminal jackbooted bastard was given a slap on the wrist, then went on to reoffend. ... More on that in a moment.

"City Council members Thursday unanimously approved an agreement with Breaion King to settle a lawsuit she filed against the city. Video that surfaced in 2016 as a result of an American-Statesman investigation showed an Austin police officer throwing King to the ground twice during a traffic stop for speeding. In the video, a second officer tells King police are wary of blacks because of their “violent tendencies.”

A goddamned racist cop. Who'd 'a 'thunk' it?

“This was not our city at its best,” Mayor Steve Adler said."

You think? City got off on the cheap. Will certainly happen again. Not the last of it.

"Adler added that he was deeply disturbed by a recent hearing to discuss the King incident and other similar use-of-force issues that may indicate deeper institutional problems. He said he wants to see continued efforts by police to stress fair treatment of all Austinites. “This was more than just an isolated incident in our city,” the mayor said."

You think? Jesus Christ. Anyone who has lived in Austin knows this crap has been going on for decades. Nothing new. Just more of the same.

"Police leadership didn’t learn of the incident involving King until after a state-mandated deadline had passed to discipline Bryan Richter, the officer who pulled King from her car and shoved her to the ground."

Imagine that.

"His immediate supervisors at the time gave him a reprimand. The department changed its use-of-force oversight policies after the incident."

Didn't prevent the criminal jackbooted son of a bitch from reoffending:

"Richter was accused again of excessive force for stepping on a suspect’s head during an arrest and was fired early this year. He is appealing his termination."

Imagine that. Couldn't be, could it? Think he won't be reinstated? ... Right, Sheriff?

"A statement from King’s attorney, Erica Grigg, said King is “grateful to be able to put her legal battle behind her, but she knows there is still work to do.”

Empty rhetoric. Rings hollow. Sounds like your client went along to get along. Capitulation vis a vis a low settlement ensures this shit, or worse, will be repeated. ... Right, Sheriff?

“She came forward because she did not want anyone else to have to endure what she experienced,” the statement said. “She is glad Officer Richter is off the streets, but she is disappointed that it took someone else getting hurt by him for his termination to transpire. She remains concerned that Officer Spradlin’s videotaped, racist remarks that black people have ‘violent tendencies’ is a representation of a department-wide attitude.”

Precisely, why she should not have settled. Gone to trial. The City got off on the cheap. So did the police department. Precisely, why this shit continues to go on and on. ... Right, Sheriff?

"The statement added that King loves the city of Austin, “knows our community can do better” and will continue to teach elementary school and advocate for social justice."

Go along to get along. Gutless. Precisely, why nothing ever truly changes. ... Right, Sheriff? Just like you and the boys like it, right, Bill?

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6-1-18

The president does not believe in the First Amendment. Free speech. Certainly, not when it involves criticism of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. CBS News reports:

"After a tumultuous season, NFL owners wrapped up their spring meeting in Atlanta by announcing Wednesday that players would be required to stand for the national anthem if they're on the field before a game, but gave them the option of staying in the locker room if they wanted to carry on the Colin Kaepernick-inspired campaign against police brutality and social injustice."

Police brutality and social injustice run rampant in our formerly great country, right, Sheriff?

"Commissioner Roger Goodell called it a compromise that respected the wishes of everyone, from those who consider "The Star-Spangled Banner" a sacred part of the American experience to those who believe the right to protest during the anthem is also in the best tradition of a free but imperfect society."

Trump nazi doesn't think so.

"Yet, it was clear to everyone that the owners wanted to quell a firestorm by moving any further protests away from the public eye - especially if it lured back disgruntled fans while appeasing President Donald Trump and his vocal base of support."

Doesn't matter to the racist AG Sessions nazi and his equally fascist fuhrer, the Trump nazi, to say nothing of his clueless sick sycophants, that the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are murdering innocent unarmed civilians. Matters not. Certainly, not in a de facto fascist police-state quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. To the NFL, bottom line trumps principle.

"This is a fear of the diminished bottom line," said defensive end Chris Long of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles . "It's also fear of a president turning his base against a corporation. This is not patriotism. Don't get it confused. These owners don't love America more than the players demonstrating and taking real action to improve it."

It's the players who kneel in protest that are true patriots. Certainly, not their corporate masters, or the Trump nazi.

"Trump stoked the issue during a political campaign, saying the NFL should fire any players who kneel during the anthem. During an interview that aired Thursday morning on "Fox & Friends," he praised the league for doing "the right thing." "You have to stand proudly for the national anthem," Trump said. Or "you shouldn't be playing, you shouldn't be there. Maybe they shouldn't be in the country."

Speaking about yourself, Mr. 'President?' Forget? You've repeatedly abrogated your falsely sworn oath of office to protect and defend, uphold the United States Constitution. Have no respect, no regard for the Bill of Rights. Why not do the right thing? Resign in disgrace. Leave the country. Forfeit billions looted from your contractors, Trump Foundation, Trump University, those egregiously f--ked by all the bankruptcies, etc.. Take Pence with you. After all and unlike you, sir, the Vice President is not insane, poses a far greater exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties:

"Vice President Mike Pence called it "a win for the fans, a win for (the president), and a win for America."

You're a clueless idiot, Mr. Vice President, albeit a sane one.

"In an attempt to quell a potential challenge from the NFL Players Association, the league said any violations of the new rules would result in fines against teams - not individual players. But the league also gave teams the option of developing their own workplace rules, which many players interpreted as a backhanded way of subjecting them to fines - or worse - should they carry on with the protests. "If the team says 'this is what we're doing,' and ownership (does too), you either deal with it or you're probably going to get cut," Pittsburgh Steelers guard Ramon Foster said. The head of the NFLPA, DeMaurice Smith , angrily denounced the NFL's decision and called it a blow against America's most basic rights - freedom of speech."

Forget? You're bought and paid for by your corporate masters. At least, stars and superstars get rich, -- unlike workers elsewhere who no longer get paid a livable wage. Still does not justify anyone being denied the constitutional right to kneel during the National Anthem.

"Since the new policy is a change in the terms and conditions of employment that was not collectively bargained, any attempts to fine individual players would surely be opposed by the union. "History has taught us that both patriotism and protest are like water; if the force is strong enough it cannot be suppressed," Smith wrote on Twitter. "The CEOs of the NFL created a rule that people who hate autocracies should reject."

Why would you expect anything better from a plutocrat, Mr. Smith? Why?

Not all players and owners support this change:

"A handful of outspoken players vowed to carry on the cause, including Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins. "I will not let it silence me or stop me from fighting," he said. "This has never been about taking a knee, raising a fist or anyone's patriotism, but doing what we can to effect real change for real people." While Goodell said the new policy was unanimously approved by the owners, CEO Jed York of the 49ers - Kaepernick's former team - contradicted the commissioner by saying he abstained. York said he didn't feel comfortable making a decision without directly involving the players' union. New York Jets owner Christopher Johnson took a similar approach. He said his team will pay any fines doled out by the league, without passing on punishment to the players. "I will support our players wherever we land as a team," Johnson said. "Our focus is not on imposing any club rules, fines or restrictions."

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6-1-18

The following is more of the same. Nothing ever seems to change. ABC News reports:

"Milwaukee police have released video of officers tasering NBA rookie Sterling Brown and confirmed that the officers involved have been disciplined. The police department released body camera footage Wednesday evening that shows officers tasering Brown in an incident stemming from a January parking violation in a Walgreens drugstore parking lot. Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales said at a news conference held Wednesday that the officers involved "acted inappropriately" and were "recently disciplined." Morales did not detail what that discipline entailed and did not answer reporters' questions."

Why not? The public is owed an explanation. Why weren't these officers arrested?

"I am sorry this incident escalated to this level," Morales said."

You are? Why haven't you held these jackbooted bastards criminally accountable for use of excessive force?

"In the body camera video, an officer waits alongside Brown's car which is parked horizontally across two handicap parking spots in a Walgreens parking lot shortly after 2 a.m. on January 26. Brown is seen exiting the store as the officer begins to question him about why he had parked in such a manner. The officer repeatedly tells Brown to "back up," before telling him "I will do what I want, alright? I own this right here." He accuses Brown of "being all badass with me" to which Brown replies "I ain't got no problem." Other officers arrive on the scene and can be seen talking to Brown near his vehicle when one of the officers shouts for Brown to take his hands out of his pockets. A scuffle breaks out and an officer yells "Taser, taser, taser!" Brown can be heard moaning on the ground. Brown's demeanor in the video appears to contradict the narrative in the police report which says Brown was "very aggressive" and "physically resisted" the officers' attempts to handcuff him. "A taser had to be employed to get Brown in control with handcuffs," the police report states, though the video shows Brown calmly talking with officers in the moments before he was tasered."

The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are liars. Why weren't they arrested? Why no equal justice? Why are these sons of bitches protected and coddled?

"Brown was arrested on possible misdemeanor charge of resisting or obstructing an officer, but after police reviewed the incident - including the body cam footage - they declined to refer the case to prosecutors for charges. Ultimately, the NBA player was cited for a parking violation."

Imagine that. Couldn't be, could it?

"Brown played in a game later that day with bruises on his face, but would say only that it was a "personal issue" when asked by reporters how he had been injured. Brown, the son of a retired Illinois police officer, posted a statement on Twitter immediately after the video was released, pledging to take legal action against the Milwaukee Police Department. "Black men shouldn't have to have their guard up and instantly be on the defensive when seeing a police officer, but it is our reality and a real problem," Brown said in the statement. His representatives have said Brown plans to file a civil lawsuit against Milwaukee PD next week."

Precisely, what he should do. Ferociously pointedly, when will criminal officers be prosecuted for their crimes? When? Instead of protected and coddled. ... Right, Sheriff?

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6-1-18

Despicable repeat of history. CBS News reports:

"Two Mississippi police officers have been fired after a man said they repeatedly kicked him in the face when they arrested him."

Why weren't the jackbooted bastards immediately arrested?

"WDAM-TV reported Monday that Laurel police Capt. Tommy Cox says it became apparent to supervisors on duty that there was a problem with the way the arrest occurred, and the officers were fired. Police say the department has been in contact with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation to look into the possibility of criminal charges against the officers."

Anyone else would have been quickly arrested. Why are these bastards granted special treatment?

"Thirty-six-year-old James Barnett tells WDAM-TV the officers pursued and arrested him after he turned around from a police checkpoint May 16. Barnett says he exited the vehicle, lay down on the ground and was continuously kicked. He was charged with resisting arrest. It's unclear if he has a lawyer."

Should have seen what his face looked like.

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6-1-18

Sadly, police are murdering their own. ABC News reports:

"A police officer in Texas is dead and his brother, a fellow cop, allegedly was the one who shot him multiple times, according to authorities. Rocky Lee, 57, was identified by the Harris County Sheriff's Office as the deputy who was shot and killed Friday. His brother, who works for the Stagecoach Police Department and was the alleged shooter, has yet to be identified. Police initially believed the incident was a burglary, but said at a press conference late Friday -- once it was learned the two were brothers -- that it was instead "a domestic issue." "This isn't a burglary, this is some kind of a domestic issue that occurred," said Lt. Scott Spencer, from the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. "So all of our detectives are investigating all avenues at this time."

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6-1-18

Here's a follow up on a recent case. Fox News reports:

"The family of a young, black Virginia man who was fatally shot by police while naked and unarmed said the release of body-camera footage Friday answered some of their questions about what happened but raised even more. In the footage, Marcus-David Peters emerges naked from a car and dashes onto Interstate 95 in Richmond, where he flails before running toward the officer while shouting threats. The officer deploys a stun gun before shooting Peters twice. Peters' sister, Princess Blanding, said at a news conference that her brother was clearly distressed and in need of help. She asked why the officer engaged with her brother after he noted that Peters seemed "mentally unstable" and why the officer told others at the scene further lethal force might be necessary after Peters was already on the ground, fatally wounded. "Furthermore, this entire situation really has me wondering: Who are police trained to help? Who are they serving and protecting? Themselves?" said Blanding, who saw the footage along with other family members."

More on this as the case develops.

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6-1-18

Solution to racist bigots calling in false reports to police remains achingly simple. NPR reports:

"Since the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks in April, several more instances have been documented of mostly white people calling the police on people of color for various reasons, none involving breaking the law — like sleeping in a dorm's common room, shopping, leaving an Airbnb or golfing too slowly."

Prosecute the racist bastards for making a false report.

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6-1-18

Jackbooted bastards in blue go criminally insane on a New Jersey beach. CBS News reports:

"Police have launched an investigation after video posted online shows an officer punching a woman on a beach in southern New Jersey. Wildwood police said on its Facebook page that 20-year-old Emily Weinman of Philadelphia faces multiple charges, including assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest."

Ferociously pointedly, why wasn't the criminal jackbooted bastard immediately arrested for clubbing her twice in the head? Could have killed her.

"CBS New York reports video of Saturday's incident shows an officer clubbing the woman's head twice as she's down on the sand. Voices are heard yelling "stop resisting," though it's unclear who was talking. Lexy Hewitt was sitting nearby and recorded the take-down with her phone, the station reported. "She started screaming initially. It was almost like blood-curdling," Hewitt said. "The officers were on top of her on the ground and that's when I just decided — there's so much going on everywhere — why not, just in case [record the incident]." The video does not show what led to the confrontation. Wildwood Police Chief Robert Regalbuto says he finds the video "alarming" but doesn't want to "rush to any judgment" until the investigation is complete."

Think it won't be a whitewash?

"Wildwood Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. tells Philly.com the entire episode was a "shame."

The jackbooted bastards remain out of control. How is it proper police procedure to club someone in the head? How? No accident when he clubbed her twice in the head.

Subsequent to the above and too late for publication in depth this edition, police have finally released video. More on these out of control jackbooted bastards next week and as this story develops.

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5-25-18

As always, whenever a cop does something heroic, and/or of exceptional benefit to the community, it leads. Always. The following is appalling. Seemingly, a continued, unneeded, unwanted, deadly repeat of history. The officer who heroically stood up to this young killer exemplified the very best law enforcement has to offer. Uncommon valor. The Washington Post reports:

"A 17-year-old student armed with a shotgun and a pistol went on a rampage Friday morning at his school here outside Houston, killing 10 people — mostly students — before surrendering to the officers who confronted him, officials said. Ten others were wounded, including a school resource officer who was left in critical condition.

"The trenchcoat-clad gunman — who police identified as student Dimitrios Pagourtzis — came into the first art classroom and began shooting. He knew students were hiding in the supply closet, Isabelle said."

Where have we heard this before? Where?

“He said ‘Surprise,’ and then he started shooting, and he killed one or two people. And he shot a girl in the leg. In the closet. He shot through the window,” she said. “We blocked the doors with ceramic makers and he kept on trying to get in and he kept on shooting inside the closet.” She called police three times over the course of 30 terrifying minutes. A police dispatcher told her to be quiet and assured her that help was on the way, she said. The gunman kept shooting, swearing and yelling. He shot a police officer who approached, then engaged other officers in discussion, offering to surrender. “He kept saying ‘If I come out, don’t shoot me.’ They didn’t shoot him, they just put him in handcuffs,” she said."

There is no way this could have happened and no one knew beforehand this kid had serious issues. These things don't happen in a vacuum. When will we smarten up? What about his parents? The guns used were owned by his father. Why weren't they under lock and key? Why not?

"The affidavit, which identifies him as Dimitrios Pagourtzis Jr., states that the 17-year-old told police that “he did not shoot students he did like so he could have his story told.” The two guns used in the shooting belong to Pagourtzis’ father, according to Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who said it was unclear if the father knew his son had taken them. Unlike many other mass shootings carried out with high-powered rifles like the AR-15, this one, authorities said, included relatively common weapons. Police said they also found explosive devices inside the school and at locations off campus."

Where does a 17-year-old kid gain access to explosives? Where?

"Three officers responded to the attack, officials said. The first to confront the shooter was school safety officer John Barnes, a retired Houston police officer who, according to a former Houston colleague, Capt. Jim Dale, joined the Santa Fe Independent School District police force because he wanted a less stressful job. Barnes was shot in both arms, Dale said. A second Santa Fe ISD officer arrived, pulled Barnes to safety and applied a tourniquet. A third officer, a state trooper, also engaged the gunman, according to a state police official."

Uncommon valor. Took him alive, rather than blow him away, giving authorities the opportunity to determine motive. Hopefully, learn how to prevent the same in the future.

Hopefully, this exceptionally heroic officer will fully recover:

"Barnes was taken by helicopter to the trauma center at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was in danger of “bleeding out” when he arrived, chief medical officer Gulshan Sharmer told reporters. Dale, the Houston police captain, said many officers descended upon the hospital to show their support, and the family is in good spirits after hearing from doctors that Barnes’ injuries likely were not fatal."

The following should certainly have been taken as a warning that something was terribly amiss with this kid:

"On a Facebook page, Pagourtzis had posted a photograph of a T-shirt saying “Born to Kill,” Abbott said during an afternoon news conference. But Abbott said the suspect did not have a criminal record or show signs of being violent. He said that in this case there weren’t the kind of red flags seen in other mass shootings, such as the one last year at a church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., or the one in Parkland, Fla."

Think so? How does the Governor know this so soon after the attack?

"The suspect documented his thoughts on his computer and cellphone, and the writings revealed not only that he intended to commit the shooting but also that he planned to commit suicide, the governor said. He said the shooter didn’t have the “courage” to follow through on the suicide. Experts on mass shootings note that the killers study their predecessors, copy their moves and even their fashion choices. The shooter at Santa Fe High appeared to copy elements of the Columbine massacre: a black trench coat, a shotgun, explosives."

How could his parents have been in the dark? Out to lunch? Didn't they talk to their kid? Keep up with what was and wasn't going on?

"Abbott said he will convene a roundtable of experts to discuss ways to stave off another school shooting, including speeding up background checks on gun buyers, putting more money into mental health treatment, and adding security personnel. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said infrastructure is a problem: Schools have too many entrances and exits and need to be retrofitted. “We may need to harden our schools and make them safer,” Patrick said."

They've had nearly twenty years to make these improvements after school shootings became a national issue. Why hadn't this already been done? School taxes are extremely high. Where is all this money going? Down a rat hole?

Here is an update on the officer. CBS News reports:

"The Houston police chief said Friday a Santa Fe school resource officer who was shot in the arm is "hanging in there." School police officer John Barnes was shot in the arm when the confronted suspected gunman Dimitrios Pagourtzis, officials said. Doctors with the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston say the officer has been in the operating room for several hours, CBS Houston affiliate KHOU reports. He remains in critical condition after he suffered a gunshot wound to the elbow. "He was bleeding out and his blood pressure was very low, so the immediate issue was to resuscitate him and give him enough blood product to get his blood pressure up and take him straight to the OR," said a surgeon with UTMB. David Marshall, UTMB's chief nursing officer, said Friday afternoon that a bullet hit Barnes' arm, damaging the bone and a major blood vessel around his elbow."

There's more:

"Marshall says Barnes was the first person to engage a student armed with two guns who opened fire at Santa Fe High School Friday morning. The shooter killed at least 10 people and injured 10 more. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said he visited Barnes at the hospital, KHOU reports. Acevedo said Barnes became a HPD officer in May 1995 and retired from the department in January 2018. He started his career in southwest Houston and began working in investigations in 2005. At a press conference Friday afternoon, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott praised "heroes of law enforcement" who "rushed into harm's way." "Teachers, students we know we're going to hear the bravery that manifested in the face of evil," Abbott said. "Bravery that we know was done in some instances at great cost and sacrifice, including the sacrifice of people's own lives. And we celebrate that bravery, that courage, at the same time we grieve the horror of this mass murder."

We need more than rhetoric, Governor. Why haven't schools across Texas been hardened? Texans are looted by Big Oil. Why aren't these bastards returning more of this loot to the schools the corporate management suite so handsomely benefits from?

The Washington Post reports:

"He had no run-ins with police, was an honor roll student and had been praised for his defensive work on the junior varsity football team. Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, projected a nondescript demeanor, a quiet loner who regularly wore a trench coat to school, even on scorching hot days. He had been bullied by classmates and coaches, one acquaintance said. And recently, he betrayed a growing darkness. In the weeks before the shooting at Santa Fe High School outside Houston, he posted a picture of a black T-shirt on his Facebook page emblazoned in white with a simple message: “BORN TO KILL.”

What does this tell you? Anything at all? History repeats and nothing changes?

"The signs were so subtle that Pagourtzis’s alleged attack Friday came as a complete shock."

Non sequitur. Wear a trenchcoat even on a hot day and no one thinks this kid has issues? Give me a break.

“There were not those types of warning signs,” said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R). “Here the red-flag warnings were either nonexistent or imperceptible. ... As far as arrests, criminal history, he has none. His slate is pretty clean.”

Jesus Christ. Wake up, Governor. What are you talking about? While he might have had no criminal history, the warning signs were there. No one acted on them.

"On the same day he posted the T-shirt photo, Pagourtzis uploaded a picture of a jacket adorned with several pinned symbols. In captions, he explained the significance of each: the Communist Party’s hammer and sickle representing rebellion, Nazi Germany’s Iron Cross representing bravery, the Japanese rising sun for the tactics of kamikaze pilots, the Knights Templar’s Baphomet for evil and the Cthulhu from science fiction for power."

While the above may or may not have been significant, trenchcoats on a hot day, 'born to kill' t-shirts certainly are.

"The Facebook account was taken down following the shooting, but Abbott confirmed that it belonged to the alleged shooter and called it one of the few signs of any tendency to violence."

No one reported the contents prior to the shooting? Someone had to have seen it.

"Jeremy Severin, whose son was on the junior varsity football team with Pagourtzis, said his son Dustin passed Pagourtzis in the school halls five minutes before the shooting. Pagourtzis had been teased and bullied in the past not just by fellow classmates but by the football coaches, Severin said. “Coaches would say that he stunk, smelled like crap,” Severin said."

All the warning signs were there. What is the Governor talking about? When will we smarten up?

Here's not the way to solve the problem. CNN reports:

"Houston Police chief Art Acevedo has spent the past few months demanding action after a series of mass shootings. On Friday, he pleaded for gun reform again, this time after a shooting not far from his city. In a Facebook post Friday night, hours after a teenager allegedly shot 10 people at Santa Fe High School, Acevedo shared his frustrations. "Today I spent the day dealing with another mass shooting of children and a responding police officer who is clinging to life. I'm not ashamed to admit I've shed tears of sadness, pain and anger," Acevedo wrote."

The Chief doesn't seem to understand the Founders had the foresight to understand the last best defense against corrupt, abusive, out of control government is a well-armed public. Precisely, the reason for the Second Amendment.

"Retired Houston Police officer John Barnes, who was working as a school resource officer, was one of the people shot, a hospital official said. Acevedo tweeted that he visited Barnes at the hospital and he was "hanging in there." The police chief said he's tired of the common refrains after mass shootings that "guns aren't the problem" and "there's little we can do." "I know some have strong feelings about gun rights, but I want you to know I've hit rock bottom and I am not interested in your views as it pertains to this issue," he said."

Tough shit. Freedom is not free. You don't understand that, Chief? Conveniently, forget? There is a cost to everything. The last best defense against corrupt, abusive government is not something we can afford to forfeit in return for what turns out to be ersatz 'security.' Delusionally believe a determined psychopath won't find another way to commit mass killing with easily-attainable products such as fertilizer? Farmers and ranchers have been using it for generations to clear land. Forget? Just one example. The truly evil can and will sadly find others.

"Though Acevedo did not describe what kind of gun reform he'd want to see enacted, he said now is the time to do more than pray. "It's a time for prayers, action and the asking of God's forgiveness for our inaction (especially the elected officials that ran to the cameras today, acted in a solemn manner, called for prayers, and will once again do absolutely nothing)," he said."

Wake up, Chief. Forget? There are more firearms in this country than people. That will not change. Any time soon, if ever. Should this government ever foolishly try to confiscate them, would trigger a revolution.

"Shame to all given the task to enact common sense statutes & policies & continue to fail our families & especially our children. And shame to all that fail to speak out, including law-enforcement leaders. We are in these positions to mark a difference. https://t.co/ApDIp8Se0S
— Chief Art Acevedo (@ArtAcevedo) May 19, 2018"

Horse shit. Out of control, corrupt, abusive, murderous, inept law enforcement has become a far more pressing problem, far greater public threat.

"This isn't the first time Acevedo has called for gun control after a mass shooting. In the days following the deadly massacre in Las Vegas last year, he urged others to join him in demanding gun control. "When will we stand up & say enough?" he tweeted. "We've failed thousands of families of all ages, races and faith. Stand up and be heard."

More to the point, when will you demand law enforcement stop murdering innocent unarmed civilians, Chief? When?

"Acevedo has served as Houston police chief since November 2016, and is the first Hispanic to lead the department. Before that, he was chief for the Austin Police Department."

The Chief was originally California's problem, then became Austin's, now Houston's.

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5-25-18

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

"A school resource officer who was hailed a hero for shooting and arresting a gunman at a northern Illinois high school received a standing ovation as he led students into their graduation ceremony. Officer Mark Dallas' 18-year-old son, Josh, was among the Dixon High School students forced to run for their lives during the shooting Wednesday. On Sunday, Sauk Valley Media reports Josh said his father "took the whole school under his wing," calling him "everyone's father, savior and protector." No one besides the alleged gunman was injured. Nineteen-year-old Matthew A. Milby Jr. is being held on $2 million bail after being charged with firing shots as seniors met for graduation rehearsal. Police say Milby, who is a senior but had not been attending classes, suffered non-life-threatening injuries."

Great cop. Uncommon valor.

5-25-18

The following goes well beyond the call of duty. Certainly, policing at its very best. WPIX 11 New York.html reports:

"A New Jersey police officer saved a fawn by performing an emergency C-section on the baby deer's mother after she was hit by a car. Robert Lagonera, a Washington Township animal control officer, says he got a call early Friday morning that a deer had been struck and killed. The doe was pregnant with twins, and though one of the fawns died in the accident, another was still moving inside of the mother. "When I arrived on the scene, Officer Vernon has already performed the C-section," Lagonera told PIX11 News. "He's sitting there holding a kind of bloody but living fawn and I just said, 'Jimmy, have you ever done that before?' And he said, 'nope!'" Lagonera took the baby deer to his house where he dried off the animal and rubbed its chest to help with its breathing. Photos showing the fawn wrapped in a white blanket were posted to the department's page."

Lucky day for the fawn. Great day for policing.

"It wasn't the only animal emergency the pair responded to that night: about an hour after the C-section, they both got a call that a loose horse needed to be returned home. "I arrived on that scene [and] it was the same officer again," said Lagonera. "We both got out of our cars and I'm like, 'what's going on tonight man?'"

Yes, there are horses in New Jersey. LOL.

5-25-18

Think no bottom to human depravity? Sadly, you'd be right. CBS News reports:

"A 14-year-old boy who allegedly posed as a New York City police officer while snatching a legally blind man's wallet in a Manhattan subway station on pretense of helping him was arrested on Sunday. His mother turned the youth in to police nearly a week after authorities said he fled the subway station at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, near Macy's, leaving his victim behind. On May 14, police said he approached the 64-year-old man, identifying himself as an officer and offering to lead him through the station and past a turnstile to his train. Surveillance video shows the man standing quietly as the teenager unzips his backpack and takes the wallet. The boy then bolts out with the wallet, which police said contained $85 cash and several credit cards. One card was charged $500 at a nearby store, police determined during an investigation that is ongoing."

Saving grace? His mother turned him in.

"Authorities released the video with the victim's face blurred out and several still images that led to Sunday's arrest. In the video, he is wearing a dark blue shirt, black and white pants, boots and has his own backpack strapped on. The teenager's name was not released because of his age, nor was the victim's. The boy is charged as a juvenile with grand larceny and criminal impersonation of a police officer."

5-25-18

Need a little comic relief? NPR reports:

"Around 5 a.m. on Saturday morning, a police department in Ohio got an unusual call. A man was claiming that he was being followed home by a pig. The North Ridgeville Police Department was skeptical, and assumed the man had been drinking. "Night shift responded to the obviously drunk guy walking home from the bar at 5:26 in the morning," the police wrote in a Facebook post that has been shared nearly 15,000 times. "He was at least drunk enough to call the police on himself while hallucinating." But when the patrolmen arrived, they found "a very sober male" traveling on foot, and he had cloven hoofed company."

Here's the clincher:

"The pig was nudging the person and wanted to be petted," Operations Officer Capt. Marti Garrow told NPR. An officer had to chase the pig around a little to wrangle it into the cruiser, Garrow said. Then the animal was placed into a dog kennel until it was reunited with its owner some three hours later. The pig's name is Zoey, and the animal weighs about 50 pounds. "Also, we will mention the irony of the pig in a police car now so that anyone that thinks they're funny is actually unoriginal and trying too hard," the police said on social media."

-- Almost makes one forget just how good bacon, sausage, ham, pork roast, etc., ... taste, no? LOL. Joke aside, intelligence of these most sentient farm animals? Strikingly impressive.

Memorial Day 2018. This edition is dedicated to all who have served, fought, and died for this country.

5-25-18

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril

Some salient quotes occurring later on in this edition vis a vis unfinished business County officials continue to ignore:

..."The Fourth Reich. The Washington Post reports:

"A Montana woman said she plans to take legal action after a Border Patrol agent detained and questioned her and a friend — both U.S. citizens — when he overheard them speaking Spanish at a gas station. The incident occurred early Wednesday morning at a convenience store in Havre, Mont., a town in the northern part of the state, near the border with Canada. Ana Suda said she and her friend, Mimi Hernandez, were making a midnight run to the store to pick up eggs and milk. Both are Mexican American and speak fluent Spanish, and they had exchanged some words in Spanish while waiting in line to pay when a uniformed Border Patrol agent interrupted them, Suda said. “We were just talking, and then I was going to pay,” Suda told The Washington Post. “I looked up [and saw the agent], and then after that, he just requested my ID. I looked at him like, ‘Are you serious?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, very serious.’ ”

Even in what has become Nazi America, there is no requirement to carry an ID unless you're driving, that is, a drivers license must be in your possession while behind the wheel. Although there is no requirement to routinely carry identification, if a jackbooted bastard asks you to identify yourself, you must provide the son of a bitch your real name. -- Always ask him or hers for theirs. Better yet, a business card.

"Suda said she felt uncomfortable and began recording the encounter with her cellphone after they had moved into the parking lot. In the video Suda recorded, she asks the agent why he is detaining them, and he says it is specifically because he heard them speaking Spanish."

Speaking a foreign language is not probable cause a crime has been committed.

“Ma’am, the reason I asked you for your ID is because I came in here, and I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here,” the agent can be heard saying in the video. Suda asks whether they are being racially profiled; the agent says no. “It has nothing to do with that,” the agent tells her. “It’s the fact that it has to do with you guys speaking Spanish in the store, in a state where it’s predominantly English-speaking.”

Classical definition of racial profiling. LOL. Either the jackbooted bastard is an idiot, -- or lying. Both? LOL.

"Suda, 37, was born in El Paso and raised across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, but has spent much of her adult life moving around the United States with her husband and young daughter. Hernandez is originally from central California, Suda said. Despite explaining this to the agent and showing him their IDs, Suda said, he kept them in the parking lot for 35 to 40 minutes. Though no one raised their voices in the video, Suda said she and Hernandez were left shaken and upset by the encounter, which ended around 1 a.m.

The son of a bitch is a nazi storm trooper. ... Right, Sheriff?

“I was so embarrassed … being outside in the gas station, and everybody’s looking at you like you’re doing something wrong. I don’t think speaking Spanish is something criminal, you know?” Suda said. “My friend, she started crying. She didn’t stop crying in the truck. And I told her, we are not doing anything wrong.”

Called terrorism in a fascist police-state.

... Small sampling of what's to come in this edition. Read on.

The following email was sent to the District Attorney:

Wiley B. "Sonny" McAfee
District Attorney
33rd and 424th Judicial Districts
Llano, TX 78643

March 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

*********************************

Rebecca Lange, Llano County Attorney
Llano County Attorney's Office
Llano, Texas 78643

February 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

*******************

Bill Blackburn, Sheriff
Llano County Sheriff's Office
2001 N. State Hwy. 16 Suite A
Llano, Texas 78643

August 23, 2017

Re: Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Sheriff:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

5-25-18

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? One hundred 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? One hundred 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. One hundred 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.

5-25-18

More of the same. A disgrace. ABC News reports:

"A Los Angeles-area detective who once sued his department for allegedly discriminating against him because of his Armenian heritage was arrested this week for trying to conceal suspected ties to the notorious Armenian mob."

Couldn't be, could it? A cop wouldn't do anything like that, would he? Gets worse. Far worse.

"Federal officials say that John Balian, a 45-year-old veteran narcotics detective, repeatedly lied to several law enforcement agencies during interviews conducted last year. On Tuesday, he was charged with making false statements to investigators regarding his ties to both the Armenian organized crime and the Mexican Mafia. In a court document filed on Monday, three confidential informants told authorities that Balian was involved in a variety of criminal activities going as far back as 2015, including car theft, drug trafficking and fraud."

Jesus Christ. How can this go on and his fellow officers remain in the dark?

“The defendant swore to uphold an oath to enforce the law, but instead chose to break the law,” said Paul Delacourt, the assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, in a press release. “Mr. Balian moved in criminal circles and operated as though he was above the law by repeatedly lying to hide his criminal activity and that of others. His alleged actions impeded legitimate investigations into organized violent crime and consequently presented a threat to public safety.”

Are you investigating his fellow officers? What they knew and when they knew it?

"The informants said that Balian used “burner” phones, disposable cellphones that are more difficult to trace, to communicate with a number of gang members, including Jose Loza, a notorious member of the Mexican Mafia. He is also accused of accepting bribes to help criminals evade arrest by tipping off gangsters to impending federal raids."

This shit doesn't go on in a vacuum. Hard to believe his fellow officers weren't aware.

"The FBI's Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force listed Balian as a person of interest in 2016, and the court document filed Monday includes text message excerpts between Balian and one of the informants exchanged as early as last year. The text messages appear to show that Balian promised to help hunt down a guy who had allegedly burglarized the home of one of the informants, in exchange for a $10,000 payment. “I told you I'm working on things,” reads one of the text messages, dated March 5, 2017. “But I'm not a magician. You have to wait, you got yourself involved with these guys.” Informants also said that Balian offered one of them $100,000 to “scare” an individual and that he instructed one of them to go rob another Armenian man."

No honor among thieves.

Coup de grace? Get this:

"If convicted, Balian faces up to five years in federal prison."

Slap on the wrist.

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5-25-18

Wholesale injustice determinedly perpetrated by law enforcement, prosecutors, and the courts. 'Justice' system prime directive? Convict someone, anyone. Guilt, innocence? Matters not. CBS News reports:

"A Philadelphia man sentenced to life in prison in 2007 for killing his friend is now free. Dontia Patterson was exonerated and released Wednesday following an extraordinary court motion from Philadelphia's district attorney who asserted the conviction was "an egregious example of police and prosecutorial misconduct."

Never ends. Eleven years lost for nothing. Shit squat. An atrocity.

"The case is stirring up controversy between the city's new district attorney and the former prosecutor who secured Patterson's conviction. The 29-year-old, who had been on house arrest since March after his conviction was vacated, has always insisted on his innocence. One of the first things Patterson did was pick up his 11-year-old daughter at her bus stop. "You've seen her grow up without being with her. What kind of pain did that bring to you?" CBS News' Michelle Miller asked Patterson. "A lot. A lot of days I cried," he replied."

For a crime he did not commit.

"A judge dropped all charges against Patterson at the request of newly installed District Attorney Larry Krasner. "We were able to show the prosecutor, in this matter….There was a lot of evidence that they had not considered or seen," said Patterson's attorney Hayes Hunt."

Sovereign immunity statutes need immediate revamp. Equally important, there is desperate need for a new federal agency whose sole function would be to investigate, arrest, charge, and prosecute criminal police, prosecutors, and judges in courts whose sole function would be to adjudicate such matters. Total independence.

Some background:

"Patterson was arrested in 2007 for the murder of his friend, Antwine Jackson. His first trial in 2008 ended in a hung jury; he was convicted at a retrial in 2009. The DA claimed this week that "although Patterson was tried twice, neither jury heard the truth" adding "the prosecution and police did not turn over strong evidence in their possession that identified the likely perpetrator."

Happens all the time all across our formerly great country. Seldom, however, sees the light of day either due to prosecutorial malfeasance and/or incompetent defense counsel.

"The motion says another unnamed suspect was "murdered just a few months after Jackson's murder." Retired prosecutor Richard Sax handled Patterson's second trial. He maintains that Patterson is Jackson's killer. "I resent that they said I withheld evidence because I did not, and never have, and never been shown to or established by any court that I have. So that's nonsense," Sax said."

Think so? Then, why respectively did a new district attorney and judge claim and rule otherwise?

"Marissa Bluestein is the executive director of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, which has been working on Patterson's case for the last four years. "That prosecutor has always seen this case through the lens of Dontia Patterson is guilty. And he is caught up in that narrative and that narrative is very tight to him," Bluestein said."

At expense of an innocent man.

"This is the latest Philadelphia case where someone who spent years behind bars has been cleared. Rapper Meek Mill was freed last month. DA Larry Krasner campaigned as a reformer who described the city's district attorney's office as hell-bent on winning cases at any cost."

Precisely, why an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Hear the rumble?

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5-25-18

The Fourth Reich. The Washington Post reports:

Speaking a foreign language is not probable cause a crime has been committed.

Classical definition of racial profiling. LOL. Either the jackbooted bastard is an idiot, -- or lying. Both? LOL.

The son of a bitch is a nazi storm trooper. ... Right, Sheriff?

Called terrorism in a fascist police-state.

"When she got home, Suda posted on Facebook about what had taken place at the gas station. She said her shock began to give way to sadness in the following days, after some local news outlets reported the incident, and her 7-year-old daughter asked whether the video meant they should no longer speak Spanish in public."

Trump's Fourth Reich.

“She speaks Spanish, and she speaks English,” Suda said. “When she saw the video, she was like, ‘Mom, we can’t speak Spanish anymore?’ I said ‘No. You be proud. You are smart. You speak two languages.’ This is more for her.”

F--k the Fourth Reich.

"A representative from U.S. Customs and Border Protection told The Post the agency is reviewing the incident to ensure all appropriate policies were followed. Border Patrol agents are trained to decide to question individuals based on a variety of factors, the agency added. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and officers are committed to treating everyone with professionalism, dignity and respect while enforcing the laws of the United States,” the agency said. “Although most Border Patrol work is conducted in the immediate border area, agents have broad law enforcement authorities and are not limited to a specific geography within the United States. They have the authority to question individuals, make arrests, and take and consider evidence.”

Time to stand up to this shit. You have the right to remain silent. Right to legal counsel. When finally released, sue the living shit out of the bastards:

"Havre is a rural town with a population of about 10,000, about 35 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border. Border Patrol agents have broad authority to operate within 100 miles of any U.S. border, though they cannot initiate stops without reasonable suspicion of an immigration violation or crime."

Doesn't stop them from doing it, egregiously abusing authority.

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

5-25-18

In follow up to a recent edition, more of the same. The public needs to stand up. The Washington Post reports:

"Amazon has been essentially giving away facial recognition tools to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando, according to documents obtained by American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, paving the way for a rollout of technology that is causing concern among civil rights groups."

For damned good reason. Direct threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. A de facto fascist police-state quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. These bastards at Amazon are traitors. Willingly lining their pockets off forfeiture of civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"Amazon is providing the technology, known as Rekognition, as well as consulting services, according to the documents, which the ACLU obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. A coalition of civil rights groups, in a letter released Tuesday, called on Amazon to stop selling the program to law enforcement because it could lead to the expansion of surveillance of vulnerable communities."

Precisely, the intention. To be followed with ubiquitous surveillance of all communities. Orwell's 1984 comes to fruition.

“We demand that Amazon stop powering a government surveillance infrastructure that poses a grave threat to customers and communities across the country,” the groups wrote in the letter. Amazon spokeswoman Nina Lindsey did not directly address the concerns of civil rights groups. “Amazon requires that customers comply with the law and be responsible when they use AWS services,” she said, referring to Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud software division that houses the facial recognition program. “When we find that AWS services are being abused by a customer, we suspend that customer’s right to use our services.”

Not good enough. Nowhere near. The fact this woman would not directly answer concerns speaks volumes. Reinforces criticism by ACLU and others.

"She said that the technology has many useful purposes, and that customers have used it to find abducted people and amusement parks have used the program to find lost children. During the royal wedding this past weekend, clients used Rekognition to identify wedding attendees, she said. (Amazon founder Jeffrey P. Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post.)"

This woman cluelessly puts lipstick on a pig. Expects the public to buy the bullshit. Such surveillance is a prelude to loss of liberty.

"The details about Amazon’s program illustrate the proliferation of cutting-edge technologies deep into American society — often without public vetting or debate. Axon, the maker of Taser electroshock weapons and the wearable body cameras for police, has voiced interest in pursuing face recognition for its body-worn cameras, prompting a similar backlash from civil rights groups. Hundreds of Google employees protested last month to demand that the company stop providing artificial intelligence to the Pentagon to help analyze drone footage."

Anything for a buck. Up to and including forfeiture of privacy, then liberty.

"Amazon publicly introduced Rekognition in November 2016, with the promise that its clients could benefit from artificial intelligence technology developed by the company’s scientists to analyze billions of images and videos daily. Marketers could use the image recognition software to recognize celebrities in their videos, while owners of dating apps could use the program to identify unwanted suggestive or explicit content, according to the company’s website."

Time for Congress to get up off its useless, worthless collective ass. This is a direct threat to liberty, no more than imposition of a surveillance state:

“Once powerful surveillance systems like these are built and deployed, the harm can’t be undone. We’re talking about a technology that will supercharge surveillance in our communities,” said Nicole Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Director for the ACLU of Northern California. She said the technology could be used “to track protesters, target immigrants, and spy on entire neighborhoods.”

Nazi America. Orwell's 1984. Orwell's mistake all those decades ago? Falsely believing the surveillance state would be communist. It's not. It's national socialist, fascist, nazi. Ironic, isn't it?

"The documents provide a detailed look at how Amazon is marketing Rekognition. It can identify up to 100 people in a crowd, the documents said."

Think law enforcement isn't already egregiously out of control?

"The sheriff’s office of Washington County, Ore., built a database of 300,000 mug shots of suspected criminals that officers could have Rekognition scan against footage of potential suspects in real-time. The footage could come from police body cameras and public and private cameras. The county pays Amazon between $6 and $12 a month for the service, a county spokesman said."

Blood money. Loss of privacy. Think these jackbooted sons of bitches won't add drivers license photos and others to the database?

"According to the documents, Amazon asked the county to tout its experience with Rekognition to other public sector customers, including a manufacturer of body cameras."

All the more reason to boycott Amazon.

"Deputy Jeff Talbot, public information officer for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, said the program was not operating in the shadows and had been the subject of several news local stories. He pointed out that jail booking photos are already public and that the software simply allows officers to scan them instantaneously and in real-time, and compare them against footage of actual suspects, which is a valuable contribution to public safety. “Our goal is to inform the public about the work we’re doing to solve crimes. It is not mass surveillance or untargeted surveillance.”

Booking photos should not be made public until conviction. How many innocent people have been falsely accused by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue only to be exonerated at trial, or have charges dropped for lack of evidence? There is nothing to prevent these sons of bitches from adding drivers license photos and others to the database. Think that won't happen? It is mass surveillance by definition. For this jackbooted son of a bitch to claim otherwise is proof positive he is a congenital liar.

Raw nazism:

"He could not say how many crimes the program had helped solve and added that the software wasn’t always accurate. But he said officers were trained not to rely exclusively on the software to make decisions, and it was just an additional tool in the officer’s tool kit. For the cheap price Amazon was offering, he said it made sense to test out the service."

What it is remains out of control law enforcement egregiously abrogating its falsely sworn oath to uphold the United States Constitution. Amazon? Traitors. Anything for a buck. Think they won't eventually massively line corporate coffers as a result of this scourge?

"Zahra Billoo, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations San Francisco Bay area office, one of the groups that signed the letter, said many people who are booked into jail are not always charged with a crime or are proved innocent. She said that she worried that people’s civil rights are violated when law enforcement keeps their images in a database even after they are proved innocent or were never charged. She said Amazon was contributing to these violations by making it easier to scan people’s faces, repeatedly exposing them to surveillance. In addition to the ACLU, the coalition of about 40 groups included Color of Change, Human Rights Watch, Muslim Advocates and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Amazon is one of many companies selling artificial intelligence tools such as facial recognition and image-scanning to business clients. Microsoft offers a rival service, called Facial Recognition API. A crop of start-ups market the ability to scan the emotions on people’s faces as they walk in and out of stores. Such technology has been touted as a way to prevent shoplifting."

Raw nazism. Voodoo psycho babble. An exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

The above quotes are courtesy of a most gifted insightful writer, Elizabeth Dwoskin.

NPR reports:

"Tech companies are trying to sell police real-time facial recognition systems, which can track and identify people as they walk down the street. As NPR reported two weeks ago, American police have generally held off, but there's new evidence that one police department — Orlando, Fla. — has decided to try it out. What's more, Orlando ordered its facial recognition system from Amazon."

Time to boycott these goddamned traitors.

"This information was uncovered by the ACLU, which noticed that law enforcement customers were mentioned in the marketing of Amazon's "Rekognition" service. Until now, American police have used facial recognition primarily to compare still photos from crime scenes with mug shots. But now Amazon and Orlando are taking it further, by using facial recognition to spot people in real time."

Raw nazism.

"City of Orlando is a launch partner of ours," Amazon's Ranju Das recently told a developer conference in Seoul, South Korea. "They have cameras all over the city. The authorized cameras are then streaming the data ... we are a subscriber to the stream, we analyze the video in real time, search against the collection of faces they have." In this video presentation, Das is seen saying the system can be set up to notify the city if cameras see a "person of interest," and it could be used to reconstruct a person's past movements. He showed the conference a demo of real-time facial recognition using video from a "traffic cam that was provided by the city of Orlando."

How many innocent people will be harassed by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue as a result? Time to boycott Amazon and others engaging in this. If victimized, sue the living shit out of not only the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, but these corporations as well.

"In a written statement, the Orlando Police Department called the Amazon facial recognition system a "pilot program" and said it "will be used in accordance with current and applicable law."

They're liars. Do as they please. Ubiquitous problem throughout all law enforcement.

"The statement also says the department "is not using the technology in an investigative capacity or in any public spaces at this time."

Believe it? If not yet, when?

"It did not say whether the system has been used that way in the past, or will be in the future. NPR tried to follow up, but OPD said it wasn't doing interviews on the topic."

Disingenuous, lying jackbooted bastards.

"Amazon also wouldn't do an interview with NPR. In a written statement, it pointed out that its visual analytics tools have a wide range of applications beyond policing, and that "[o]ur quality of life would be much worse today if we outlawed new technology because some people could choose to abuse the technology. Imagine if customers couldn't buy a computer because it was possible to use that computer for illegal purposes?"

More disingenuous bullshit. Safeguards could have indeed been built into all software and hardware to prevent this abuse of privacy. Have not been. Instead, these bastards line their pockets off the abuse.

"Amazon's statement added, "[W]e require our customers to comply with the law and be responsible when using Amazon Rekognition."

Jesus Christ. Crock of shit. Give me a break. These sons of bitches have absolutely no regard, no respect for the intelligence of the public.

"There are no laws explicitly barring law enforcement from using real-time facial recognition, and the constitutionality has not been tested by higher courts. Matt Cagle of the ACLU of Northern California says he's disturbed by what he sees as a lack of transparency and public engagement, as police and tech companies work together to bring this new tool to American streets. "Amazon is handing governments a surveillance system primed for abuse," Cagle says. "And that's why we're blowing the whistle right now."

Not good enough. Sue their asses. Get them into court.

"The ACLU filed public records requests for Amazon's communications with Orlando and another Rekognition customer, the Washington County Sheriff's Office, near Portland, Ore. Cagle says the resulting documents show a company eager to push law enforcement customers toward real-time facial recognition and connect it to other devices, such as officer body cameras. This is typical of companies that sell facial recognition. Most try to encourage customers to expand the applications and powers of the technology. What makes Amazon's offering different is the price. "We pay literally a couple of dollars a month to do this service," says Washington County Sheriff's Office spokesman Deputy Jeff Talbot. His department uses Amazon's Rekognition to scan faces in photos of suspects taken by deputies in the field."

Again, time to boycott these sons of bitches and others who offer similar 'services.'

"The Washington County Sheriff's Office says it does not use Rekognition in real time and doesn't intend to. Cagle says that could easily change. The marketing of Rekognition to law enforcement is still in its infancy, but he's worried it could quickly become dominant, given Amazon's market clout as the world's leading cloud services company. "Activating a real-time facial recognition system, that can track people, if the technology is there, could be as simple as flipping a switch in some communities," Cagle says."

This is an exigent threat to liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. A threat to life as well. Forget? The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are already murdering innocent unarmed civilians. Wake up. Before too late.

The above quotes are courtesy of a most gifted insightful writer, Martin Kaste.

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5-25-18

How is it justice when the U.S. Attorney General controls the immigration court system? NPR reports:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the nation's immigration judges to end their practice of temporarily removing cases from their dockets without issuing decisions. Immigrant advocates say the move is part of a broader strategy to influence the immigration courts, which fall under the purview of the Department of Justice, in order to hasten the removal of some immigrants."

Nazi justice imposed by the racist AG Sessions nazi.

"The Attorney General's decision in one fell swoop is overturning decades of recognized authority and practice," said Judge Ashley Tabaddor, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, in an interview with NPR. That union had urged Sessions to preserve administrative closures. "There has been no example of situations in which the court has somehow abused its authority or somehow this has demonstrated to be an ineffective way of handling situations that come before the court," added Tabaddor. "To eliminate administrative closure from the judge's toolkit for docket management is problematic." "The decision is bad law, bad policy, and harmful to immigrants and their communities — consistent with Sessions' previous statements as both a senator and attorney general that demonstrated his anti-immigrant animus," said an attorney with the American Immigration Council, Trina Realmutto, in a statement."

Expect any better from a racist nazi?

The following is akin to Nazi Germany circa 1933 at the beginning of Hitler's Third Reich. NBC reports:

"Facing dozens of migrants shackled at their waist and ankles, public defender Miguel "Andy" Nogueras asked a question he had rarely asked before last week: Have you been separated from your children? Last Thursday, a Central American woman was among several in the courthouse here who said yes. Nogueras asked how old her child is so that he could refer her to one of his attorneys, and the answer haunted him for the rest of the day. "Five years old," Nogueras told NBC News. "What kind of scars are we creating? The child has to be asking, where's my mom? And that kid has to be scared. I can't even fathom."

Why is this goddamned nazi in the Oval Office authorizing his criminal jackbooted bastards at the border to shackle migrants at the waste and ankles? It's not a felony arrest. Why are they doing this? Because they can?

"Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a goal to criminally prosecute 100 percent of people crossing the border illegally — including families with children. Those who are charged with improper entry — a misdemeanor on the first infraction — are jailed and separated from their children."

Reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini. Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Unlike in Nazi Germany, those opposed will not remain gutlessly silent.

"Previously, most parents had been allowed to remain with their children in family shelters while awaiting asylum cases or deportation proceedings. The Trump administration's willingness to take children from their parents has raised concerns about how far authorities should go to stem unauthorized border crossings and what human cost is acceptable in the name of border security and immigration control."

False issue. This is no more than imposition of raw nazism. Convenient excuse for the Trump nazi and his equally deluded henchmen.

"There is something terrible happening here that Americans would not support if they understood it," said F. Scott McCown, director of the Children’s Rights Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law."

The public understands it. Trump's sick sycophants certainly do. Insanely, cheer it on. Yet, call themselves Christians. What they truly are is hopelessly psychotic. Like their fuhrer. Those opposed to this growing unspeakable insanity will not remain gutlessly silent. No matter the personal cost. Nazism must be stood up to. Certainly, wasn't eight decades ago at tremendous cost to the world community.

"From October 2017 to mid-April, before the new prosecution strategy officially went into effect, more than 700 children were reportedly separated from their parents at the border. The federal government has not released figures from May, but those who work on immigration cases have observed a large increase in the number of children affected. Nogueras said he previously saw only one or two such cases a week in the McAllen courtroom in the Southern District of Texas; last week, he saw about 33 cases. Nogueras repeatedly used a single word when he described how those parents have responded: "anguish." "Wouldn't you feel anguish if they took your kids? I'd be going crazy. It's inhumane," he said."

It's nazi. Jackbooted nazi. Repeat of history.

"Other attorneys and advocates have reported similar torment among immigrant parents. “One of my lawyers came back from meeting his new client at the jail — and this is a very experienced criminal defense lawyer — who was shaken by the experience of talking to a parent whose child was literally ripped from their arms,” said Maureen Franco, a federal public defender for the Western District of Texas. “The human cost of this will be great,” Franco said."

A repeat of history of the darkest days of the 20th Century. Nazi America.

"When parents are held for prosecution, their children are turned over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. The children are then designated as "unaccompanied minors," and the government tries to connect them to family members who are already in the U.S. Until then, children wait in shelters or are sent to federally contracted foster homes, often without parents being told exactly where they are, immigration advocates said."

Raw nazism. Courtesy of the racist Sessions nazi and his fuhrer, the Trump nazi.

"It may soon become even more difficult to place children with relatives. The Department of Homeland Security is proposing immigration checks be done on all people in a household who may take in these "unaccompanied" children, which means relatives who are undocumented may be less likely to come forward."

Papieren, Bitte! Papers Please! Nazi America.

"In the meantime, space in shelters and foster homes is limited; The Washington Post reported the administration plans to open facilities at military bases to house some of the separated children."

What's next? Concentration camps?

"Advocates and attorneys said the administration is forcing migrants fleeing perilous situations into a "Sophie's choice" over what's best for their children. “They are saying either you take your kid back and live in danger and don’t try to save your kid’s life by claiming your right to asylum, or insist on applying for asylum where we are going to separate you from your child and endanger your child,” said Michelle Brané, director of immigration policy at the Women’s Refugee Commission, a research and advocacy organization. Franco, the public defender in west Texas, said the policy could encourage parents to plead guilty to improper entry just to get their children back. “This has some constitutional ramifications. How voluntary could a plea be if someone feels they have to plead guilty to be reunited with their children?” Franco asked."

For all practical purposes, the Constitution no longer exists. Has been concertedly, determinedly, intentionally bastardized over the decades to consolidate Executive power, create a fascist police-state. Trump is apparently taking it to its pernicious conclusion.

"The American Civil Liberties Union has sued over the family separations and sought an injunction to stop them and is awaiting a ruling. The lawsuit doesn't challenge the prosecution of the parents, just the family separations."

That's the problem. Need to challenge prosecution of the parents. Many, if not most, of the parents are seeking asylum. Sadly, the ACLU is a small shell of what it used to be decades ago.

"Gelernt has seen cases in which parents are separated from their children even if they cross into the U.S. through an official port of entry, which authorities have said should protect families from being split up."

Certainly, proof positive of the true intentions of the Trump nazi and his henchmen.

"A man identified as Mr. U from Kyrgyzstan said in an affidavit he and his 13-year old son were separated when they sought asylum at the San Ysidro Port of entry. Mr. U was held in California; his son was sent to Chicago. “All I can remember is how much my son and I were both crying when they took him away,” Mr. U said. Several immigrant rights groups and asylum seekers sued DHS and Customs and Border Protection for turning away asylum seekers at ports of entry last year. The suit is pending."

Raw nazism.

NPR reports:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions is stirring panic in immigrant communities by moving to limit who can get asylum in the United States. Perhaps no one is more alarmed than one Salvadoran woman living in the Carolinas. She is known only by her initials in immigration court papers, so her lawyers call her Ms. A.B. She fled to the U.S. four years ago, after enduring more than a decade of domestic abuse in her home country, and requested asylum here. Now Sessions has personally intervened in her case, questioning whether she and other crime victims deserve protection and a path to American citizenship. The attorney general has been highly critical of the asylum system in recent months. "I have no doubt that many of those crossing our border illegally are leaving behind difficult situations," Sessions said at a news conference in San Diego earlier this month. "But we cannot take everyone on this planet who is in a difficult situation."

This disingenuous, lying racist is clearly demonstrating who and what he is, -- a nazi. As long as he and his get theirs, no problem. Everyone else, in his view, can go to hell. Yet, this fascist son of a bitch, and other nazis who think like him, consider themselves Christians.

"Immigration attorneys across the country are watching Ms. A.B.'s case closely. They worry that Sessions is trying to roll back years of case law that expanded who gets asylum in the U.S. — and that he's using her asylum petition to do it."

What bona fide nazi in the mold of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, wouldn't?

"Ms. A.B. is speaking out publicly for the first time, in an interview with NPR. She asked that we not use her full name or say exactly where she is living because she is still afraid her ex-husband might find her. "In El Salvador," she said in Spanish through an interpreter, "there's no protection for women. Anyone who's been there knows this."

Doesn't matter to an ignorant racist nazi. ... Right, Mr. Attorney General? Mr. 'President?'

"The violence started around 1999," Ms. A.B. said. He hit her with beer bottles, she said, and held a gun to her head. "I remember when I was pregnant with my second child, he beat me a lot," she said, fighting back tears. "He threatened to hang me from the roof. And I got down and covered my stomach, and he started kicking me in the back." When her children were older, Ms. A.B. moved to another part of El Salvador. But her husband found her, she says, and raped her. "El Salvador is a small place," she said. "I used to go to the police, but they didn't do anything." Finally, Ms. A.B. traveled north, crossing the border illegally into Texas. She has been allowed to stay in the U.S. while her asylum case is pending."

Think she'll remain much longer?

"Ms. A.B.'s case wound up before immigration Judge V. Stuart Couch in North Carolina, who has become well-known for rejecting the vast majority of asylum claims he hears. Couch wrote that the abuse Ms. A.B. described seemed "criminal" but decided that wasn't enough to give her asylum."

Nazi 'judge.'

"She appealed, and won. Still, the North Carolina judge hasn't granted her asylum. And now Sessions is intervening. It's not clear why Sessions picked Ms. A.B.'s case. The Justice Department declined to comment. But critics say it's clear Sessions wants to curtail asylum as part of the Trump administration's broader immigration crackdown."

Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini reincarnated.

"It's a blind spot about women, and women's human rights," said Karen Musalo, Ms. A.B.'s lawyer, who directs the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. "And kind of a fundamental misunderstanding about what human rights means."

A nazi has no clue. Couldn't care less. Remain silent? Won't stand up? You're gutless. Un-American.

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5-25-18

The following is beyond the pale. Law enforcement seems incapable of smartening up. CNN reports:

"When police in Winfield, Kansas, pulled Rudy Samuel over, the 31-year-old felt he had done nothing wrong. So he started recording the encounter on Facebook Live."

Best thing to do is record all encounters.

"Officer says I failed to put my signal light on within a hundred feet," he says to the camera. "And it wasn't a hundred feet, but whatever." The video, shot on May 13, begins after Samuel provides Winfield police officers with his license and registration. When the two policemen approach Samuel's car again, they offer a different reason for the traffic stop."

Can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit, right, Sheriff?

"Hey Mr. Samuel, what caught my attention was this vegetation stuff right here," one of them says, pulling something from the seal of the car's driver's-side window. Samuel responds that it must be from a tree and adds that he does not smoke. Later, he asks officers about the original reason he was pulled over. They tell him they already explained it and ask him to step out of the car so they can search it. Samuel refuses, telling them to test the "vegetation" first."

Jesus Christ. That the best these jackbooted thugs could come up with? LOL.

"I ain't got to test it right now," one officer says before pulling Samuel from the car. Samuel is African American. The two officers are white. A spokesman for Samuel told CNN they believe the incident was racially motivated."

Couldn't be, could it?

"He kept saying 'test it.' They snatched him out of the car, handcuffed him and banged him around a little bit," said Peter Wright of Freedom 1, a grassroots organization that seeks to find fair solutions to complaints against companies, police or other institutions. Winfield Police Chief Brett Stone told CNN that his officers gave Samuel two verbal warnings before they let him go. He said the incident is "under review" and declined to make any additional comment."

What could he say? LOL.

"The officers released Samuel after searching the vehicle, which did not turn up any suspicious substances, according to Wright."

Surprised they didn't plant any? LOL.

"Wright claims police did not test the "vegetation" and did not give Samuel any citations. In the video, Samuel repeatedly says he did not give his consent to be searched. He also tells officers he has a licensed firearm in his car."

... Hey, Sheriff? Think Samuel ought to be grateful the jackbooted bastards didn't shoot him?

"Freedom 1 plans to protest the police department's actions and hire an attorney to represent Samuel, Wright said."

Best thing to do is sue the living shit out of the bastards, the department, and the city.

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5-25-18

Amazing how the Trump nazi continues to talk out both sides his ass yet expects not to be challenged on his outrageous bullshit. NPR reports:

"President Trump, speaking on Wednesday to a gathering of officials from California who oppose the state's "sanctuary" law, compared some people who illegally cross the U.S. southern border to "animals."

-- Speaking of yourself, Mr. 'President,' and your nazi henchmen, sir?

"During a White House roundtable discussion with law enforcement officials and political leaders, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims expressed frustration that a California law signed last year by Gov. Jerry Brown forbids informing U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement of undocumented immigrants in the state's jails, even if police believe they are part of a gang."

The jackbooted bastards in blue believe a whole lot of things that turn out to be false. Forget? The 'police mentality.' Their credibility remains in the toilet, right, Sheriff?

"There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don't reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it," Mims said."

Jesus Christ. Crock of shit. Imagine that. Her imagination working well overtime. In overdrive. Think this piece of crap doesn't have an agenda? What the hell are you whining about, madam? How many innocent people have been falsely besmirched by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue? ... Right, Sheriff? Conveniently, forget?

"Trump's response: "We have people coming into the country — or trying to come in, we're stopping a lot of them — but we're taking people out of the country, you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals," the president said."

Raging rhetoric of a nazi dictator in the mold of his mentor, Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, circa 1933.

"As the remark drew criticism and sparked a debate over which people Trump meant to include within the scope of his remarks, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said people had "rushed to judgment." Conway added that both the president and people who have lost loved ones to gang violence are owed an apology."

Your Aryan arrogant unbridled haughtiness is quite remarkable. It's you and your nazi fuhrer, Ms. Conway, who owe the American people an apology for the raw nazism displayed by this regime and its henchmen.

"At Wednesday's event, the president thanked attendees at the roundtable who he said had "bravely resisted California's deadly and unconstitutional sanctuary state laws." "[The] release of illegal immigrant criminals, drug dealers, gang members and violent predators into your communities" and providing "safe harbor to some of the most vicious and violent offenders on earth," the president said. Gov. Brown tweeted out later that the president "is lying on immigration, lying about crime and lying about the laws of CA."

That's right. Trump remains a congenital liar. No such thing as a 'sanctuary law' or 'sanctuary city or state.' Federal goons are free to enter any state, any county, any city or town and arrest any undocumented immigrant. Not prevented from doing as they see fit, enforcing federal statutes. Federal authorities, however, do not have the authority to force state and/or local authorities to enforce federal statutes. Nor do non-federal authorities have the authority to enforce federal statutes. Both of which, precisely, what the Trump nazi is bellyaching about:

"As The Associated Press notes, "Brown insists the legislation, which took effect Jan. 1, doesn't prevent federal immigration officials from doing their jobs. But the Trump administration has sued to reverse it, calling the policies unconstitutional and dangerous. Some counties, including San Diego and Orange, have voted to support the lawsuit or passed their own anti-sanctuary resolutions." Despite evidence to the contrary, Trump has repeatedly insisted that illegal immigration to the U.S. is contributing to a wave of crime. During the 2016 campaign, he famously referred to immigrants from Mexico as "bad hombres" and said most were "drug dealers, criminals, rapists."

Trump is a liar. What he claims is simply not so. Most coming in this country are immigrants seeking a better life, or refugees seeking asylum.

"Citing one study conducted by four universities, The New York Times wrote in March that data show, "a large majority of the [metropolitan] areas have many more immigrants today than they did in 1980 and fewer violent crimes. The Marshall Project extended the study's data up to 2016, showing that crime fell more often than it rose even as immigrant populations grew almost across the board."

A nazi cannot, will not, be confused with the truth:

"According to the Times, "In 136 metro areas, almost 70 percent of those studied, the immigrant population increased between 1980 and 2016 while crime stayed stable or fell. The number of areas where crime and immigration both increased was much lower — 54 areas, slightly more than a quarter of the total. The 10 places with the largest increases in immigrants all had lower levels of crime in 2016 than in 1980."

As Adolf Hitler shamelessly did decades ago, circa 1933, the Trump nazi talks out his increasingly psychotic ass. Distorts reality, lies to impose his national socialist, fascist agenda in what is supposed to be a democratic republic. As Hitler, Trump is no more than a lunatic narcissist. Disgrace to himself and our formerly great country.

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5-18-18

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

"Dramatic dash camera footage shows the moment a motorist flagged down an off-duty sheriff's deputy in Florida, alerting him to her unresponsive 3-month-old son. The video begins as Marion County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremie Nix is waiting at a red light in the left lane of a roadway in Ocala. Once Nix sees a driver in a white Hyundai sedan turn onto the opposite side of the roadway and pull over, he makes a u-turn and pulls up behind her.

"The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon as Nix was on his way home from his shift, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. As Nix was waiting at intersection, the female driver flagged him down, telling him that the infant -- named Kingston -- was "completely unresponsive and that she needed help," according to the sheriff's office. That prompted Nix to turn his car around and pull over on the side of the road. After working on the child and seeing no improvement, Nix decided to rush the infant to the Ocala Regional Medical Center and deliver him to medical personnel himself, authorities said.

"It is unclear what kind of health emergency the baby was suffering from, but he is doing "very well" and is expected to make a full recovery, according to the sheriff's office. Doctors credited Nix's quick-thinking actions for saving the baby's life, authorities said."

Hat's off, Deputy Nix. Clearly, not all officers are criminal jackbooted bastards. This one certainly isn't. ... Incredible pleasure to be able to delay the usual fare about to be covered in this publication and report the above. -- While so many unarmed innocent blacks have been killed by white officers, must be noted K9 officer Deputy Nix is white, the infant black.

5-18-18

As always, when law enforcement stands tall, does something heroic, and/or of exceptional benefit to the community, it leads. Second example this week. Seatbelts on. CBS News reports:

"Keeping vigil by his dad's police car is comforting to 5-year-old Dakota Pitts. His father, Rob Pitts, was an officer in the Terre Haute police department in Indiana, and he was killed in a shootout earlier this month. When it was time for Dakota to return to school this week, he had a special request. He asked his mother if an officer could take him to school on his first day back. Police answered the call, turning out in force. They formed an honor guard for Dakota as he arrived, with his father's shield around his neck. There were about 70 officers in all. They even made him an honorary member of his father's special response team. Father and son were close, so close that he wrote a message to his dad, hoping he would see it from heaven."He wrote, 'Dear dad, I love you and miss you so much,'" said Dakota's mom. Dakota has been following in his father's footsteps, receiving "challenge coins" for his own acts of kindness, and hopes to don a uniform of his own one day. "I don't want to be a hero," Dakota said. "I want to be a police officer."

... No greater love.

5-18-18

Think a 10-year-old girl isn't capable of uncommon valor? ... To say nothing of her mother. Seatbelts on. FOX5 Vegas - KVVU reports:

"A mother and her 10-year-old daughter were recovering after police said two men opened fire in a "gun battle" on each other Tuesday afternoon. Stray bullets hit both the mom and daughter. Now they said they’re thankful to be alive. The family was packing up their car after a shopping trip at Walmart. The mother, Samantha Tygrit, said the kids were in the back of the car when the gunshots started. Tygrit was hit in the shoulder but ran to the back to protect her kids. She said her 10-year-old daughter, Aaliyah Inghram, had thrown herself on top of her 18-month-old brother and cousin to shield him from the bullets. In the process, Aaliyah was hit in the behind."

Imagine the terror:

"I pulled my 4-year-old out, threw her on the ground, and held her down, and before I had a chance to get my 10-year-old and my 18-month-old, my 10-year-old looked at me and said she’d already been shot," Samantha said. "I didn’t want the baby to get hurt so I like stepped in front of the babies. If I wouldn’t have stood in front of my brother, he would have been shot in the stomach," Aaliyah said. "I died inside. I just scooped her up in my arms. I’d been shot, but I just picked her up and grabbed her sister," Samantha explained.

"Thankfully, both mom and daughter were okay. Now, they’re just thankful to be alive. "She saved her brother’s life yesterday, and my nephews, cause they were both there, and her little body could only shield so much. but she threw herself in front of them," Samantha said. "Good thing that my brother’s okay because I would rather be shot than him be shot," Aaliyah said."

Uncommon Valor.

... Now, back to business.

5-18-18

Some salient quotes occurring later on in this edition vis a vis unfinished business County officials continue to ignore:

..."Beating the living shit out of this kid made their day, right, Sheriff?

"The Black Panthers say they're holding police and mall security accountable. The group is demanding the officer be fired and that the department go through diversity training."

"Good luck. ... Think it'll happen in a de facto fascist police-state quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich?

"It doesn't matter if that individual was causing a disturbance in the Mayfair Mall, he did not deserve to be brutally assaulted, and punched in his face and knocked down and then placed on his stomach and punched in his face again," Black Panthers Milwaukee leader, King Rick, said."

"This shit has been going on for decades. How these criminal jackbooted pieces of shit get their cookies off abusing power. ... Right, Sheriff?

"Listen. This happened yesterday. You need to give it time. You need to let our department do the investigation. It will be investigated," said shift commander Lt. Jeff Farina. Farina also says the officer involved is still working."

"Jesus Christ. Why the hell wasn't he immediately placed on leave? This son of a bitch remains an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Clearly, sadly, law enforcement is at war with the public it clearly does not serve. ... Right, Sheriff? How is it these bastards 'investigate' themselves? No more than a goddamned fox guarding the chicken coop. ... Right, Bill?

"On Friday the Wauwatosa police chief sent a statement saying they take situations that involve use of force seriously. Farina says the chief will be in Monday to respond to the Black Panthers' demands."

"Law enforcement is no longer responsive to the wants and needs of the public. Serves only itself. Murders unarmed innocent civilians on the job, with virtual impunity. Protects its own corrupt, abusive, inept, clueless, jackbooted bastards in blue. ... That why you continue to protect and coddle Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764, Sheriff?

"Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve."

... Small sampling of what's to come in this edition. Read on.

The following email was sent to the District Attorney:

Wiley B. "Sonny" McAfee
District Attorney
33rd and 424th Judicial Districts
Llano, TX 78643

March 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

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Rebecca Lange, Llano County Attorney
Llano County Attorney's Office
Llano, Texas 78643

February 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

*******************

Bill Blackburn, Sheriff
Llano County Sheriff's Office
2001 N. State Hwy. 16 Suite A
Llano, Texas 78643

August 23, 2017

Re: Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Sheriff:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

5-18-18

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? One hundred 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? One hundred 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. One hundred 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.

5-18-18

Abuse never ends. Apparently, it's how the jackbooted bastards in blue get their cookies off. CBS News reports:

"Disturbing cellphone video shows the moment police officers fighting with a 17-year-old in a Wisconsin mall parking lot punch the minor in the face. The dramatic video was captured by a fellow mall shopper, who later posted it on social media."

Uncommon valor displayed by the shopper. Courageously, exposed the bastards for whom and what they are. A public service.

"Security guards at Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, called police officers on Friday afternoon for people making a disturbance and refusing to leave, WDJT-TV reports. Officers from the Wauwatosa Police Department responded to the call, and witness video shows two of them in an altercation with the teen. Within the first few seconds of the video, one officer punches the teen, and the two work together to bring the teen to ground. They appear to cuff his hands behind his back as he lays on his stomach. As the officers pinned the teen to the ground, he could be heard pleading with the officers to call his mother. "Why'd they punch him like that -- and he's a minor," a witness is heard saying in the background of the cellphone video. The officers are heard yelling at other people to stay back."

Again, it's how these gutless jackbooted bastards get their cookies off, engaging in excessive force.

"The Wauwatosa Police Department said in a statement that the video showed "only a small segment of the interaction between the suspect and the officer" and that they are looking into the incident."

Translation? The assault by the jackbooted bastards will be rubber stamped. Nearly, always is. ... Right, Sheriff?

"The 17-year-old was arrested and cited for disorderly conduct, battery and resisting an officer, according to local media. He was cited and released, WDJT-TV reports."

Beating the living shit out of this kid made their day, right, Sheriff?

"The Black Panthers say they're holding police and mall security accountable. The group is demanding the officer be fired and that the department go through diversity training."

Good luck. ... Think it'll happen in a de facto fascist police-state quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich?

This shit has been going on for decades. How these criminal jackbooted pieces of shit get their cookies off abusing power. ... Right, Sheriff?

Jesus Christ. Why the hell wasn't he immediately placed on leave? This son of a bitch remains an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Clearly, sadly, law enforcement is at war with the public it clearly does not serve. ... Right, Sheriff? How is it these bastards 'investigate' themselves? No more than a goddamned fox guarding the chicken coop. ... Right, Bill?

Law enforcement is no longer responsive to the wants and needs of the public. Serves only itself. Murders unarmed innocent civilians on the job, with virtual impunity. Protects its own corrupt, abusive, inept, clueless, jackbooted bastards in blue. ... That why you continue to protect and coddle Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764, Sheriff?

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5-18-18

NPR reports:

"The video shows a white police officer choking a young tuxedo-clad man who is African-American, pushing him against a storefront and then slamming him to the ground outside a North Carolina Waffle House."

Never ends.

"The 27-second clip provides no context for the confrontation, but the image of the burly officer, dressed in tactical gear, subduing the skinny young man, who is pleading to be let go, is the latest such video to go viral, sparking outrage and accusations of police brutality."

It's how these jackbooted bastards get their cookies off abusing authority.

"Some of the audio is difficult to understand, but it does seem clear that Wall says loudly "Get your hands off me!" multiple times and "get your supervisor" while a woman's voice off camera can be heard saying "I'm glad I'm recording this. He's not supposed to be doing that." While the officer's name has not been made public, the Warsaw (N.C.) Police Department acknowledged Thursday that he comes from the department's ranks. Channel 11, a Raleigh, N.C., ABC affiliate and other local television stations also show a clip from a second video that shows Wall and his sister in what appears to be a heated argument with a Waffle House employee inside the restaurant — an event that seems to have precipitated the confrontation with the officer. Speaking with ABC 11 later, Wall said, "I was pretty much trying to scream for air and trying to breathe because he was holding my throat and that's when I got aggressive with him because you are choking me."

Grabbing someone by the throat and choking them is never acceptable police behavior. So is failure to identify the jackbooted bastard.

"ABC 11 reports:

"While he takes full responsibility for his interaction with Waffle House employees, he told ABC11 the cop's actions were not justified. 'Your hands should have never been around my neck like that if my hands were in the air,' said Wall.

"In a statement to the television station, Warsaw Police Chief Eric Sutherland said the department was 'investigating the whole incident, interviewing witnesses and gathering additional video.'

"We have also reached out to the District Attorney's Office to make him aware of the investigation," Sutherland said. "Once the investigation is complete and the District Attorney has had a chance to review the case we will provide the public with an update on the findings."

CNN reports:

"Anthony Wall's night started at the prom with his sister, followed by a stop at a Waffle House in Warsaw, North Carolina. While at the restaurant, he got into a heated argument with employees, who called police. It's unclear what happened moments before the confrontation Saturday, but cell phone video widely shared on Facebook showed an officer putting his hand around Wall's neck and shoving him up against a glass wall as he tries to arrest him. Wall screams, "Get your hands off me!" as the officer throws him to the ground and handcuffs him.

"Police and the State Bureau of Investigation are investigating the incident. Warsaw police Chief Eric Southerland declined to name the officer but said he responded to the restaurant for a fight in progress. Wall had just come from the prom as a date for his 16-year-old sister, CNN affiliate WTVD reported. He was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. A second video posted by the TV station shows Wall and his sister, still in her prom dress, yelling in the restaurant. "We are looking into the incident ... to gather all the facts," said Pat Warner, a spokesman for Waffle House. "Initial reports say the customer became agitated, and the police were called." Wall said he takes full responsibility for his interaction with Waffle House employees but added he felt the officer used excessive force. "I was pretty much trying to scream for air and trying to breathe because he was holding my throat. That's when I got aggressive with him because you are choking me," he told WTVD."

Two lessons here. First, don't start shit in a restaurant or anywhere else for that matter. If the victim of homophobic bigotry, walk away. Then inform media. Second, if you're an officer, never ever grab someone by the throat. ... More to come as details emerge.

There's more. NBC reports:

"Attorneys representing a black customer seen on video getting choked by a police officer outside of a North Carolina Waffle House announced a wider investigation Monday into whether the restaurant chain has a pattern of discrimination based on race and sexual orientation. Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said he wants surveillance footage from the store after a restaurant worker allegedly directed homophobic slurs at Anthony Wall, 22, on the night of May 4. Wall was later choked by a police officer responding to the disturbance. Wall was with his younger sister, whom he had earlier escorted to her high school prom, when they tried to sit down at an uncleared table at a Waffle House in Warsaw, east of Fayetteville.

"They sat down at the table, and note what the first statements were from the Waffle House employee," Crump said at a news conference. "It wasn't welcoming or inviting and almost so inappropriate I have problems even repeating [what] he told Anthony Wall, his little sister and others in his party." Wall told the waiter, who was white, that he cannot speak to him, his sister and her friends in that manner, Crump said. And then the situation escalated. "You will see from the video evidence as well as other objective evidence that indicates it was the Waffle House employees who were the initial aggressors," he added. "The Waffle House were unprofessional to their customers. Waffle House employees used homophobic slurs to Anthony Wall."

Sad, isn't it? Unprofessional, as well. Worse, stupid business-wise.

"Wall said the employee used the word "f-gg-t" and also threatened physical assault. Police were called to the scene. Wall's subsequent arrest was captured by bystanders and uploaded to Facebook, where it has been viewed more than 1.2 million times. During an altercation with a Warsaw police officer, Wall — still dressed in a black-and-tan tuxedo vest — put his hands up as he cried out, "Get your hands off of me!" and "Get your supervisor out here!" The unidentified officer, who was much larger in size than Wall's 150-pound frame, slammed him against a window and then threw him to the ground."

Think the cop wasn't getting his cookies off?

"I was trying to get his arm off my throat to stop him from choking me," Wall said Monday, adding, "I was not trying to fight him at all." He also objected to being left in the arresting officer's car with a police dog snapping at him from the back seat. Wall was charged with disorderly conduct in public as well as resisting, obstructing and delaying a law enforcement officer."

Nothing quite like a fascist police-state, is there? Soon to become the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

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5-18-18

The following is inexcusable. Worst in policing. A father who criminally assaulted his own daughter. Fox News reports:

"Security camera footage captures a Florida police officer physically assaulting his daughter as school employees look on. A Florida cop was caught on camera beating up his 14-year-old daughter inside her school’s main office as employees watched on, prosecutors said. In the video, released by prosecutors this week, Miami-Dade police officer Raymond Rosario is seen slapping the girl across the face, pulling her by the hair and whipping her with a belt on her leg. The Pinecrest Cove Preparatory Academy employees sitting a few feet away did not flinch, the Miami Herald reported."

Gutless pieces of shit.

"The arrest report noted that the March 19 incident was sparked after Rosario’s daughter allegedly “disrespected her teacher.” The teenager “stated she did not sustain any visible injuries and/or bruises.” Rosario surrendered to police and was booked on a felony child abuse charge. Miami-Dade police said he has been “relieved of duty with pay” pending an investigation."

Not fit to be an officer. ... Or, a father.

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5-18-18

Good news. The Washington Times reports:

"A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was acquitted of second-degree murder while jurors deadlocked on lesser counts will be retried in the cross-border shooting of a rock-throwing teen, prosecutors announced Friday in Arizona. Agent Lonnie Swartz will be retried on voluntary and involuntary manslaughter charges, said Cosme Lopez, a spokesman for the federal court. The prosecution did not plan to issue a statement on the decision, he said. Luis Parra, an attorney for the family of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, said he was with them in the courtroom in Tucson when the retrial decision was announced and they welcomed the news with joy. Elena Rodriguez was shot in 2012 on a street just south of the border in Nogales. “I’m relieved and very much appreciate the efforts” of the U.S. attorney’s office, the boy’s grandfather Jose Elena said."

Time for this jackbooted bastard to be held criminally accountable for the appalling gutless murder of this kid.

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5-18-18

The following is outrageously abusive. NPR reports:

"The Alpharetta, Ga., police department has suspended an officer and opened an internal investigation, after a traffic stop of a black woman devolved into the officer screaming an obscenity at the woman and pulling her roughly from her vehicle. "I just panicked. I just, it was like my heart exploded," motorist Rose Campbell, 65, later told local WSB TV. "I didn't expect that in America. I didn't expect that in Atlanta. I didn't expect that especially in Alpharetta." Captured on video, Officer James Legg's actions "simply do not represent who we are as an organization," Alpharetta Public Safety Chief John Robison said in a statement as the agency released dashcam footage of the encounter. Here's the video; we'll caution that it includes profanity."

This is an elderly woman. When will the jackbooted bastards in blue finally smarten up?

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5-18-18

Think air marshals improve safety? Wake up. CBS News reports:

"The director of the Federal Air Marshal Service is responding to a scathing New York Times report that claims the organization has issues with alcohol abuse, harassment, and low morale in its ranks. The service was created in 1961 and expanded after the September 11 attacks. It has about 3,000 officers and an annual budget of $800 million and critics say it needs to be reformed – or possibly shut down."

Can law enforcement do anything right? LOL.

"Their mission is to keep an airliner from being used as a weapon and doing that requires highly specialized training. But the agency has been faulted for not being able to show how effective a deterrent it is to terrorism, and lawmakers say this latest controversy begs the question: is this a layer of security worth paying for."

Good question.

"Last year an inspector general report found "limitations with…contributions to aviation security" and recommended shutting down some operations to better use resources. Congressman John Duncan, a Tennessee Republican, wants to shut down the program. "It's just money going down a rat hole and doing no good whatsoever," Duncan said. "If it was up to me we wouldn't still have them. Because I think it's the most needless, useless. wasteful organization in the federal government and that is saying a lot."

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5-18-18

At least some police are beginning to get the message. CBS News reports:

"Yale University police officers who responded to a call about a black graduate student who had fallen asleep in the common area of a campus residence admonished the white student who reported it, a university administrator said Thursday. The officers interviewed both students and then told the complaining student that the other woman had every right to be there, according to Yale Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews, who said she found the episode deeply troubling. "This incident and others recently reported to me underscore that we have work to do to make Yale not only excellent but also inclusive," Goff-Crews said in a statement. The black student, Lolade Siyonbola, posted two videos of the encounter Monday night on social media showing police interviewing her for more than 15 minutes. She told police she had fallen asleep while working on a paper."

Imagine that. What could this sick bigoted white asshole possibly been thinking?

"Siyonbola, who said in the videos that the same student had called police months earlier on a friend who had gotten lost in a stairwell of the building, said she saw the statement from Goff-Crews as "a move in the right direction." She said requests for action by the university are currently being drafted by black graduate students."

Jesus Christ. What will it take to end this bullshit?

ABC News reports:

"Yale University needs more work to become "truly inclusive," a dean at the Ivy League school said after a white student there called police on a black classmate who had fallen asleep in their dormitory’s common area. "Incidents like that of last night remind us of the continued work needed to make Yale a truly inclusive place," Lynn Cooley, the dean of Yale's graduate school of arts and sciences, said in an email to students Tuesday. The graduate student, Lolade Siyonbola, sparked outrage about racial profiling Monday after she posted a video of her extended interaction with campus police officers and the white student who called them."

Never ends, does it?

"I deserve to be here. I pay tuition like everybody else," Siyonbola, a 34-year-old graduate student in African studies, said after police asked her for identification. "I'm not going to justify my existence here. "I really don't know if there's a justification for you actually being in the building," she said to the officers, after confirming her enrollment. Siyonbola even unlocked her dorm-room door in front of the officers to show she lived there after they insisted on seeing her ID."

Jesus Christ. Why should anyone have to put up with this shit?

"Siyonbola, who was questioned for nearly 20 minutes, said she had fallen asleep while working on a paper in a common room of her dorm. She told police that the female student who reported her suffered from mental illness and had called police on another student in the past. Another black graduate student told ABC affiliate WTNH that the same woman called police on him about a month ago. Reneson Jean-Louis told police the woman said to him at the time, "'You're making me uncomfortable. I don't feel safe around you. You're an intruder. You need to leave, you need to get out.' "This is, again, a blatant case of racial profiling that needs to be addressed at Yale, university-wide," he added."

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5-18-18

The following is appalling. KMOV reports:

"The head of school security at the Normandy School District [Missouri] is facing charges after he allegedly used a stun gun on a 14-year-old student in April. The father of the student spoke to News 4 about the confrontation, which was captured on surveillance video. "The video, I mean, was disgusting to watch. You know these are people who are at the school for the safety of the kids, so you do not expect anything like this to happen," said Willie Robinson."

-- Expect anything, you won't be surprised.

"Frederick Abernathy, 63, is charged with fourth-degree assault, a class A misdemeanor. The crime is punishable by up to a year in prison. The incident happened around 11 a.m. on April 20. A half-day student was in the hallway getting ready to go home when Abernathy allegedly told him to get back to class. The student repeatedly tried to walk away but Abernathy kept engaging, police said. In the surveillance video, Abernathy can be seen holding a flashlight stun gun in his left hand. In front of two Normandy Police Department school resource officers and other witnesses, the security chief can be seen on the video walking up and putting his left hand to the student's side. Then the student can be seen walking away holding his side. Robinson said, "He had small burns right on his side, on the side he indicated he was tased."

Jesus Christ. What could this guy possibly been thinking?

"It is against the policy of Normandy Police to use tasers on children. Security officers working in St. Louis County are not authorized to carry or use a stun gun, according to county licensing rules. Abernathy is not a Normandy police officer but has been with the district since 2005. He has been put on paid administrative leave."

Need to sue.

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5-18-18

Another senseless death at the hands of the jackbooted bastards in blue. CBS News reports:

"More than 100 people marched in a New Orleans suburb in remembrance of Keeven Robinson -- a 22-year-old man whose death after a struggle with sheriff's deputies has been classified as a homicide. Four agents have been placed on desk duty as the investigation continues, reports CBS affiliate WWL-TV of New Orleans, Louisiana. Monday night's march happened after authorities in Jefferson Parish announced preliminary autopsy results indicating Robinson had signs of trauma from pressure on his neck and that he died of asphyxiation. Coroner Gerry Cvitanovich said the injuries were "consistent with compressional asphyxia." Complete results -- including toxicology reports and examination of microscopic evidence from Robinson's lungs -- will take weeks.

"Lopinto said Cvitanovich told him of the autopsy report Saturday. He said the four deputies involved in the arrest have been read their rights and are cooperating in an investigation that involves his office, state police and the FBI. "I understand that this investigation will be under a microscope," Lopinto said. Hester Hilliard, an attorney for Robinson's family, said the sheriff and coroner have acted with "professionalism and transparency." However, she also said the family would like to see an agency other than the sheriff's office lead the investigation."

This is precisely why a new federal agency is desperately needed. An agency whose sole function would be to investigate, arrest, charge, and prosecute corrupt, abusive, murderous, criminal officers, prosecutors, and judges in a special court that would adjudicate only these cases. Total independence.

"Lopinto declined to immediately identify the deputies. He confirmed they are white. Robinson was black. "There's no doubt they used force," Lopinto said. "It's whether the force was excessive."

The public has the right to know the identities of these officers. An immediate right to this information. Why are these officers receiving special treatment? Any ordinary civilian involved in such crimes is immediately arrested and identified by police. Why not these bastards? Why aren't they in jail?

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5-18-18

Another case of egregious injustice. ABC News reports:

"A jury in Mississippi has found no wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a teenage boy by a sheriff's deputy in 2017. News outlets report the Harrison County grand jury released its decision Monday in the shooting of 15-year-old Seth William Johnson at his home in November. A partial report from the jury says it regrets the "unfortunate incident" but finds no criminal conduct was involved by the county sheriff's department. Sheriff Troy Peterson had said Johnson was shot in the chest after deputies had been called out on a complaint that he had stolen a vehicle. Peterson said Johnson had a knife when deputies confronted him. Johnson died at a hospital. The deputy's name was not released. Peterson said no one else was injured."

Another goddamned cover up. The jackbooted bastard became judge, jury, and executioner. Why wasn't the identify of the killer released? The public has a right to this information. Apparently, the prosecutor loaded the grand jury. -- Just like what happens right here in Nazi Llano County, right, Sheriff?

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5-18-18

Another highly questionable case of excessive force. ABC News reports:

"Authorities in Virginia say a hit-and-run suspect who got out of his car naked on an interstate highway was hospitalized in critical condition after he was shot and wounded by a police officer."

This, now, standard police procedure and treatment of the mentally ill?

"Richmond police spokesman Gene Lepley tells local news media it happened Monday afternoon after an officer witnessed a hit-and-run accident. The officer pursued the suspect onto I-95, where the car hit two more vehicles and went off the road. The driver exited, naked, and ran onto the interstate. Lepley says the man approached the officer, who fired a stun gun. When that didn't stop the man, the officer fired his gun and wounded the man. The identities of the suspect and officer were not immediately released. The officer was put on leave while the incident is investigated."

Gutless piece of shit. Couldn't have used a baton?

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5-18-18

Think the following justice? Honorable? CBS News reports:

"A Florida sheriff's deputy who failed to confront a gunman during a Feb. 14 school massacre is receiving a monthly state pension of $8,702.35. The SunSentinel reports 55-year-old Scot Peterson, who resigned and retired after the shootings, began receiving payments in April. Surveillance video showed Peterson outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as the gunman killed 17 people inside with an AR-15 assault-style rifle. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said Peterson should have gone inside. President Donald Trump called Peterson a coward. "He could've really saved everyone on that third floor that day," said Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was shot to death inside the school on Valentine's Day."

No one knows the end result had he gone in to confront the gunman. Should, however, been willing to die trying.

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5-18-18

The following is appalling. Baltimore has more than its share of abusive policing. Now this. NPR reports:

"Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa resigned Tuesday, days after federal prosecutors charged him with failing to file three years of federal tax returns.

"Last week, federal prosecutors charged De Sousa with "willfully" failing to file returns for tax years 2013, 2014 and 2015. The Baltimore Sun reports that De Sousa faces possible prison time and fines of up to $75,000 for all charges. De Sousa, in a statement posted to Twitter last week, said he accepted full responsibility for not filing the returns, although he emphasized that he had paid taxes through withholdings from his salary. He called his failure to file returns "a source of embarrassment." "While there is no excuse for my failure to fulfill my obligations as a citizen and public official, my only explanation is that I failed to sufficiently prioritize my personal affairs," he added."

Here's the ongoing problem as covered extensively in this publication and elsewhere:

"This is the latest black eye for a police department already under intense scrutiny. In February, a federal jury convicted a pair of Baltimore detectives of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy and robbery for their role in the corruption scandal involving the city's Gun Trace Task Force. Last year, the city of Baltimore and the Justice Department entered into a court-enforceable consent decree to resolve findings by the DOJ report that said the Baltimore Police Department disproportionately targeted African-Americans for stops and arrests. In 2015, Baltimore erupted in riots after the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, who died from a spinal cord injury sustained while in police custody. Baltimore has also been plagued by a surge of homicides in recent years. The 343 murders in 2017 set a grim city record for killings per capita, according to The Associated Press. The city has surpassed 300 homicides for three years running. De Sousa, a 30-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, was supposed to help in that effort when he was named the city's top cop earlier this year. He replaced Kevin Davis who was fired in January."

No honor among thieves, is there?

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5-18-18

Racial profiling remains remarkably alive and well. The Washington Post reports:

"Three black teens shopping for prom at a Nordstrom Rack in Brentwood, Mo., near St. Louis, faced the police after store employees suspected they were shoplifting, calling further attention to incidents of racial profiling in commercial spaces over the past month."

'Suspected?' Either you saw them pocket something or you did not.

"Nordstrom has since apologized, and on Tuesday the young men met with Nordstrom executives to discuss the incident and work on ways to prevent them from happening again at company stores. Still, St. Louis NAACP President Adolphus Pruitt, who had met with the young men beforehand, told The Washington Post earlier on Tuesday that he and the young men knew an apology will not be a permanent solution. “These kids, they’re owed an apology, but at the end of the day, it goes down to what can we do to keep this from happening to folks,” said Pruitt, who has met with them. “After all of this was said and done, Nordstrom cannot fix society on its own as it relates to these stereotypes.”

Stores can certainly fire employees who racially profile. Police can certainly arrest store personnel who call in false reports. Police can certainly arrest shoppers who falsely accuse other shoppers of theft.

"In a statement provided to The Post, a Nordstrom spokesperson said the company has guidelines that direct employees to call the police only in emergency situations. “Unfortunately, those guidelines weren’t followed,” the statement said."

Clearly.

"Thomas thanked the men “for their poise in dealing with local law enforcement and the police themselves for handling the situation professionally.” He said the company is conducting an internal investigation of the incident and was “committed to ensuring our processes and guidelines are well understood by our employees, and identifying opportunities to enhance the training and resources we offer them.”

NBC reports:

"When Daniel Hahn became Sacramento’s police chief last August — the first African-American to hold the job — his top priority was to restore faith in a department that had come under fire for police shootings and use of excessive force against black men. The mayor welcomed Hahn — who grew up in a mostly black Sacramento neighborhood, and spent his career working to improve the black community’s trust in the police — as “a new beginning” for Sacramento."

Not to be:

"Less than eight months later, the city erupted, adding even more urgency to the challenges Hahn faced. On March 28, two officers - one black, one white - shot to death a young black man in his grandmother’s backyard in the mistaken belief that he was armed. The killing of Stephon Clark ignited weeks of protests, turning the city into the latest national symbol of police brutality. The demonstrations are ongoing, with protesters demanding that the officers who shot Clark be charged with murder."

Precisely, why the protests are ongoing. No justice.

“It was another piece of evidence that our relationship with the community was not where it needed to be,” Hahn said in a recent interview."

There was, and is, no justice. You and others continue to protect and coddle the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue among you.

"As high-profile police shootings continue to shake the country, Hahn, 49, is among a growing number of black police leaders who are grappling with a crisis in their officers’ treatment of young men of color. These police chiefs face high expectations, from their cities at large but particularly from minority residents within, as they work to attract a more diverse team of officers, curb deadly confrontations with the public they serve, and rebuild relationships with black, Hispanic and other minority neighborhoods."

This problem continues because you refuse to hold your officers accountable for their crimes. Instead, protect and coddle these jackbooted bastards. Pay lip service to the ongoing issue instead of prosecuting them.

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5-18-18

Think the following the best law enforcement has to offer? ABC News reports:

"A former police lieutenant in Louisiana has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery after being accused of inappropriate physical contact with women he commanded. Caddo Parish district attorney's spokesman John Andrew Prime says 48-year-old Stephen Wayne Plunkett of Bossier City pleaded guilty Monday. Plunkett got a suspended 18-month sentence. As part of 18 months of active probation, Plunkett must also complete a sexual offender counseling and treatment program and an anger management program. He also must stay out of law enforcement and away from both the department and the three women. Prime says the women agreed to the plea arrangement. Plunkett worked for Shreveport police from May 1991 to December 2017, when he was put on paid departmental leave. He was later allowed to retire."

Think this justice?

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5-18-18

The following is appalling. The Border Patrol couldn't care less. Not only do these bastards kick over water containers left for migrants in the desert, consistently fail to accurately report death counts. CNN reports:

"For 20 years, as part of its mission, the Border Patrol has been tasked with tracking and trying to prevent border-crossing deaths. But an investigation by CNN has found that the agency has been, at best, haphazard about tracking and recording deaths. Despite telling Congress and the General Accounting Office it would provide comprehensive accounting of migrant deaths, it has failed to do so. It has excluded fatalities reported by other law-enforcement agencies, while claiming to include them, and neglected even to count some deaths directly witnessed by Border Patrol agents."

Clearly, these jackbooted f--kers aren't worth a shit.

"Over the 16 fiscal years ended last September, CNN has identified at least 564 deaths of people crossing illegally in the border region, above and beyond the Border Patrol's tally of 5,984. Those uncounted deaths were identified through a review of federal, state and local records and databases, and interviews with medical examiners, pathologists, sheriffs and justices of the peace along the border. It is by no means a complete count, and there are strong indications that the actual toll could be thousands higher."

Competence? What's that? Professionalism? Non-existent.

"More than half of the uncounted deaths identified by CNN happened in the past four years. Those figures mirror a recent investigation by the Arizona Republic, one of a set of pieces on border conditions that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. That story documented a significant undercounting of migrant deaths from 2012 to 2016."

Why should they care? Why would they care? Forget? They're worthless, criminal jackbooted bastards in uniform. Not worth a crap.

Far worse than incompetence, there is great evil at work here:

"The effective erasure within federal statistics of Cabrera's death and so many others has helped minimize the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis associated with illegal crossings. Downplaying the death toll also makes it harder for the United States to assess the full impact of a border policy, in place since the mid-1990s, that uses barriers and other enforcement tools to push migrants to more remote, deadlier crossing points."

Taxpayers are looted to pay for this shit. These bastards are not doing their jobs. The people doing nearly all the dying are not gang members, drug traffickers, criminals ,etc.. Most are migrants looking to make a living, refugees seeking asylum. You've been bamboozled by the Trump nazi and his henchmen. Sold a bill of goods you've stupidly bought:

"That policy was designed to deter crossers, but, as officials realized nearly from the start, its primary impact has been to make the journey far more deadly. Today, experts who study the border fear that deportation and border enforcement strategies being pursued by the Trump admininstration may drive deaths even higher -- making it all the more important to accurately track fatalities."

Of absolutely no concern to the Republican nazi element in our formerly great country. These hopelessly clueless, greedy bastards are only concerned with lining their pockets. Where are the Democrats? Out to lunch. Absent without leave since November 22, 1963.

"But CNN found that the Border Patrol has made little effort to count deaths beyond the ones they encounter. Medical examiners and sheriffs agreed that the Border Patrol doesn't ask for their numbers. And 10 Border Patrol agents and supervisors across the southwestern border and in Washington told CNN that they account only for migrant deaths that Border Patrol agents are directly involved in handling. They don't include other deaths reported by landowners or others to local law enforcement."

No more than a concerted effort to perpetrate, perpetuate a ruse.

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5-18-18

At least one judge is willing to stand tall. NBC reports:

"A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the government's authority to search personal electronics like cellphones at the U.S. border without warrants, saying the policies "substantially burden travelers' First Amendment rights."The order, issued last week in U.S. District Court in Boston but not made public until Thursday, rejects the government's argument that personal electronics can be searched without warrants under the same authority that allows the Department of Homeland Security to search luggage and other physical containers."

About time. What took so long?

"Citing a 2014 Supreme Court ruling requiring police to get search warrants before they search criminal suspects' cellphones, Judge Denise Casper wrote in the 52-page order: "Electronic device searches are, categorically, more intrusive than searches of one's person or effects. The ability to review travelers' cellphones allows officers to view 'nearly every aspect of their lives — from the mundane to the intimate.'"

None of this goddamned government's business. These bastards go on fishing expeditions. Get a warrant.

"The lawsuit was brought in September on behalf of 10 U.S. citizens and a legal green-card holder by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital privacy advocacy group. It seeks to wipe out policies that give agents of two homeland security agencies — primarily Customs and Border Protection but also Immigration and Customs Enforcement — broad discretion to search cellphones, laptop computers and other personal devices of anyone entering the country without judicial approval."

No more than fishing expeditions by these goddamned jackbooted bastards.

"The department sought to have the suit dismissed because "the border is different," arguing that the government has "a paramount interest in protecting its territorial integrity" and that an individual's "expectation of privacy is less at the border than it is in the interior." But Casper wrote that while the department "may be correct that the border is different, the Supreme Court and First Circuit have acknowledged that digital searches are different too since they 'implicate privacy concerns far beyond those implicated' in a typical container search."

Give the jackbooted bastards an inch, the nazis indeed take a mile. Must be reined in. Present an exigent, ongoing threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"Casper, who was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama, wrote that electronics searches can amount to "psychological intrusion," agreeing with the plaintiffs that electronic documents are equivalent to personal papers, the privacy of which is strongly protected because "the searcher is invading not only the subject's house but his or her thoughts as well."

-- Nazi jackbooted government in what is supposed to be a democratic republic. Sadly, remains so in name only.

"Government documents introduced in the case reveal that Customs and Border Protection conducted more than 30,000 device searches at the border last year, about 50 percent more than in 2016 and more than three times the number in 2015. The agency declined to comment."

Bet it did. What could it say? How do you credibly justify the unjustifiable?

"Sophia Cope, a staff lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, called the ruling, which allows the suit to go forward, "a big win for the digital rights of all international travelers." "As we've long argued, the border is not a Constitution-free zone," Cope said in a statement. Esha Bhandari, the ACLU lawyer who argued the case, said in a statement that the plaintiffs "look forward to arguing this case on the merits and showing that these searches are unconstitutional."

No foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element present a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than all levels and branches of nazi government.

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5-18-18

There are idiots, -- and then there are idiots. ABC News reports:

"A Michigan engineering company employee has been fired after police determined she baked laxatives into brownies intended for a departing colleague's send-off. Saline police Chief Jerrod Hart says officers confiscated the tainted confections May 3 after another employee tipped off management. No one ate the brownies. The Ann Arbor News reports that Hart says the 47-year-old woman initially denied putting laxatives in the brownies, but after learning investigators would test them she admitted she had. Her name hasn't been released. Other employees told police there may have been tension between the woman and the departing employee, but specifics haven't been released. Hart says the woman faces no charges, but if anyone had eaten the brownies it could have been considered a criminal act."

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5-11-18

Some salient quotes occurring later on in this edition vis a vis unfinished business County officials continue to ignore:

..."Enjoy getting kicked in the head by an out of control jackbooted bastard in blue? CBS News reports:

"A Miami police officer who was seen on video kicking the head of a man in handcuffs has been arrested and charged with assault, reports CBS Miami. Officer Mario Figueroa took part in the May 3 arrest of car theft suspect David Vladim Suazo. The 51-second video posted Thursday morning by a witness, Lisa Harrell, shows the 31-year-old suspect lying face down on the ground with an officer standing over him. That officer gets on his back and handcuffs him. Suazo doesn't appear to be struggling. Just after the second handcuff is secured, an officer identified as Figueroa runs in and kicks Suazo in the head. That officer then turns around and dives on Suazo's head. Figueroa has been charged with one count of assault, a second-degree misdemeanor, the station reports. An arraignment date has not yet been set."

"Since when does a jackbooted storm trooper get to be judge, jury, and executioner in a democratic republic? At least, police are held accountable in Miami, unlike here in Nazi Llano County, right, Sheriff?

"Thank God for ubiquitous cameras on cellphones. Certainly, useful for discrediting corrupt, abusive, criminal officers. ... Right, Bill?"

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..."Never ends. Think the following isn't racial profiling? NPR reports:

"The brothers' Facebook pages are littered with jokes and jabs with their friends. They also post photos of their dog and their mom. They're described as quiet and thoughtful — except when they're rocking in their metal band, Snot Goblin. In other words, they're American teenagers. But Thomas Kanewakeron Gray, 19, and Skanahwati Lloyd Gray, 17, are also Native American — and their mother says their appearance was the reason police were called to question the pair as they tried to tour the campus of Colorado State University this week."

"That, now, probable cause to harass someone? Certainly, not a problem here in Nazi Llano County, where anything goes, right, Sheriff?

"The encounter rattled the brothers, ruined their attempt at a campus visit, and sparked responses from a roster of officials, from the CSU tour guide who sent a personal apology to their mother to Colorado's lieutenant governor and some of the university's leaders."

"Jesus Christ. It's law enforcement that needs to finally wake up, right, Sheriff?

..."Trump's sick sycophants and the rest of the yellow bellied Nazi Right are caustically, ferociously reminded our UNDOCUMENTED forebears came to this land centuries ago, STOLE it from its native inhabitants, then BROKE every goddamned treaty signed.

"On Kahneratokwas Gray's Facebook page, a Colorado resident and spiritual teacher named Jeannie Zandi also offered an apology. "I live nearby CSU in Loveland and I just wanted to reach out and say that I am so sorry for the treatment of your sons and I am embarrassed for this community," Zandi wrote. Many of the people commenting on Kahneratokwas Gray's posts about the incident called on the woman who initially called police to step forward so she can deliver her own apology to the young men. Another commenter, Mike Adams, suggested a day of "mandatory national training" to prevent such encounters. Here's how he described the lesson: "Do NOT call 911 just because you notice there are brown people in your vicinity. That doesn't constitute an emergency!"

"As important as it is for the public to finally wake up, smell the coffee, police need to end this shit, smarten up, show some judgment.

"What is so interesting about the above is the fact the article includes no reaction from campus police themselves. Apparently, the clueless bastards continue to protect their own. Just like right here in Nazi Llano County, right, Sheriff? That why you continue to protect and coddle Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge # 764, Bill?"

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..."Think law enforcement is smartening up? Truly believe so? CBS News reports:

"A simple convenience store purchase escalated into a potentially deadly dispute when an off-duty police officer pulled his weapon on a man over a $1.19 pack of candy, and the victim of the harassment says he doesn't want this incident to get swept under the rug. CBS Los Angeles reports security video clearly shows Jose Arreola paying for a roll of Mentos at a Buena Park convenience store."

"None of this shit should ever be swept under the carpet. Never. These jackbooted bastards need to be held fully accountable. Every goddamned time this shit happens. ... Right, Sheriff?

"A man later identified as a city police officer out of uniform walks in after Arreola puts the candy in his pocket, prompting the officer to tell him, "Hey, give that back. I'm a police officer." At that point, the officer pulls out a handgun from his sweater pocket, stunning Arreola, who quickly puts the candy back on the counter. "Oh, I paid for it!" exclaims Arreola."

"Matters not in fascist police-state, right, Sheriff?

"The officer then tells Arreola, "Get your cash and leave," before Arreola again protests, "I paid for it." The officer asks the clerk if he did, in fact, pay for the candy. After he asks the clerk the same question multiple times, the officer says, "My apologies. My apologies." "You know who I am, right?" the officer asks the clerk. "Yeah, I know," he responds."

"This piece of jackbooted shit is not fit to wear the badge. ... Right, Sheriff?

"They were tense moments Arreola feels were fueled by the officer's lack of respect for him. "The hardest thing for me was, believe it or not, it wasn't really the gun," said Arreola, pausing as he seems almost overcome by emotion. "It was his arrogance, his way of talking to me. […] He treated me like a piece of trash."

"That's all 'peasants' are to law enforcement. ... Right, Sheriff?

"The March 16 incident occurred while Arreola's wife waited in their car. The couple filed a complaint against the City of Buena Park the following day, which led to the discovery of the video. We're not lying about what happened, 'cause that's how they've made us feel," Jackie Arreola told CBS2 News as she began to weep. The Buena Park Police Dept. declined to comment on the case, saying the pending litigation prevented them from saying much, but they issued a statement from Chief Corey S. Sianez on Facebook, which read in part, "I want you to know that after I watched the video I found it to be disturbing, as I'm sure it was to you. However, because there is an ongoing personnel investigation and potential litigation pending against the city, I am unable to discuss the details of our investigation." The Arreolas told CBS Los Angeles they don't want the officer fired, but that they do want him to get better training."

"This is not a training issue. This piece of jackbooted shit lacks judgment. Is not fit to be an officer. Doesn't have the temperament or mentality required to properly do the job. Judgment and/or mentality is not something that can be taught. You either have it or you don't. ... Right, Sheriff?

... Small sampling of what's to come in this edition. Read on.

The following email was sent to the District Attorney:

Wiley B. "Sonny" McAfee
District Attorney
33rd and 424th Judicial Districts
Llano, TX 78643

March 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

*********************************

Rebecca Lange, Llano County Attorney
Llano County Attorney's Office
Llano, Texas 78643

February 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

*******************

Bill Blackburn, Sheriff
Llano County Sheriff's Office
2001 N. State Hwy. 16 Suite A
Llano, Texas 78643

August 23, 2017

Re: Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Sheriff:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

5-11-18

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? One hundred 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? One hundred 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. One hundred 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.

5-11-18

Enjoy getting kicked in the head by an out of control jackbooted bastard in blue? CBS News reports:

Since when does a jackbooted storm trooper get to be judge, jury, and executioner in a democratic republic? At least, police are held accountable in Miami, unlike here in Nazi Llano County, right, Sheriff?

Thank God for ubiquitous cameras on cellphones. Certainly, useful for discrediting corrupt, abusive, criminal officers. ... Right, Bill?

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5-11-18

Never ends. Think the following isn't racial profiling? NPR reports:

That, now, probable cause to harass someone? Certainly, not a problem here in Nazi Llano County, where anything goes, right, Sheriff?

Jesus Christ. It's law enforcement that needs to finally wake up, right, Sheriff?

Here's what's sad:

"The brothers live in Santa Cruz, N.M. They had saved up their own money to make the trip to the school in Fort Collins, Colo., and they borrowed their mother's car for the seven-hour drive. But they were late joining the tour, and after campus police took them aside, the group moved on without them."

Racial profiling.

"Their right to be on campus was finally confirmed, but by then it was too late to join the tour. Eventually, the brothers simply drove back home."

How long does it take to confirm why they were on campus? This story has to be far more complicated than at first blush what it appears to be:

"The university has apologized — and on Friday, it said it had offered to repay the family's expenses for the trip and would like to give them "an all expense paid VIP tour," a school official said via email. "We'd like the opportunity to speak with Ms. Gray and her sons but we have not heard back from the family," CSU said. "We ask them to please get in touch with us at their convenience." The school added, "We deeply regret the unwelcoming and concerning experience they had while guests on our campus."

First and foremost? Need to rein in your jackbooted bastards.

"It all started, as CSU said in an earlier statement, when "a parent participating in the tour called campus police because she was nervous about the presence of two young men who joined the tour while it was in progress." Police approached her sons, Lorraine Kahneratokwas Gray said, and began questioning them. From Kahneratokwas Gray's recent description of the event on her Facebook page: "My two teenagers were 'patted down,' and my 17-year-old ordered to 'empty his pockets,' then immediately ordered to 'keep his hands out of his pockets,' until he was forced to ask 'which one do you want me to do?' "All this treatment because some 'nervous mother' didn't like how my boys looked and was unsettled by their quiet presence?"

It's not only a jackass 'nervous mother' that's the issue, but a severe lack of judgment on the part of the jackbooted bastards in blue. ... Right, Sheriff?

"To Kahneratokwas Gray, the police officers' actions sparked concerns about racial profiling. She tells member station KUNC that the police intervention left her sons frantic and unsure of what they should do."

As well they should be. Gutless police remain out of control. Have a 'shoot first ask questions later' mentality. Remain an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. ... Right, Sheriff?

"I was concerned for my sons' safety and advised them to return home immediately," she told KUNC. "Our family is shocked and saddened over this incident of racial profiling, and disappointed that the school didn't take a proactive stand in protecting my boys from being shamed in this hostile way."

Apparently, school authorities failed to properly inform campus police of school policy vis a vis racial profiling. ... Or, the jackbooted bastards chose to do as they please. Either way, this is racial profiling. ... Right, Sheriff?

"In the university's statement that was signed by three vice presidents — from the departments of enrollment, diversity and student affairs — the school said, "This incident is sad and frustrating from nearly every angle, particularly the experience of two students who were here to see if this was a good fit for them as an institution." On Thursday, Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, who also chairs Colorado's Commission on Indian Affairs, issued a statement voicing concern over the young men's treatment. She said that the school is showing the proper seriousness in its response — and is introducing new protocols around campus tours. Lynne wrote that she and her colleagues "hope that the young men will not be deterred in their pursuit of attending college in Colorado, a traditional homeland to many tribal nations."

Trump's sick sycophants and the rest of the yellow bellied Nazi Right are caustically, ferociously reminded our UNDOCUMENTED forebears came to this land centuries ago, STOLE it from its native inhabitants, then BROKE every goddamned treaty signed.

As important as it is for the public to finally wake up, smell the coffee, police need to end this shit, smarten up, show some judgment.

What is so interesting about the above is the fact the article includes no reaction from campus police themselves. Apparently, the clueless bastards continue to protect their own. Just like right here in Nazi Llano County, right, Sheriff? That why you continue to protect and coddle Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge # 764, Bill?

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5-11-18

When considering statistics, one has to be very, very careful. The Washington Post reports:

"The number of deadly police shootings of unarmed people has generally declined since 2015 even as the tally of fatal shootings by law enforcement is on pace to hit nearly 1,000 for the fourth year in a row, according to data gathered by The Washington Post."

Despite the decline, police continue to embrace the 'shoot first, ask questions later' mentality. While any decline in these killings is indeed quite welcome, the decline is not statistically significant, at least, not yet.

"Fatal shootings of unarmed black men — such as the high-profile case in March of Stephon Clark in Sacramento — are among the kinds of killings that have fallen. Criminologists said the downturn in the number of cases and their own analysis of the data indicate that evidence of racial bias by police who shoot and kill unarmed blacks has also declined but not disappeared."

That's right. Not only that and as repeatedly stated in this publication, more unarmed innocent whites are killed than blacks. Of course, that's no comfort to anyone losing a loved one, -- for absolutely nothing.

“These trends mark significant changes,” said Geoff Alpert, a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina who has been reviewing and studying the data at The Post’s request. “What we don’t understand yet is what’s causing these numbers to move downward.”

Doesn't meant they're statistically significant, however. Just means they're declining. Important, also, not to confuse causality with correlation. Not one and the same. Point of all this? -- Statistics can be easily 'massaged' to support whatever someone is trying to claim. LOL.

"In 2015, police shot and killed 94 unarmed individuals, a number that fell to 51 in 2016 before rising to 68 in 2017. This year, police have shot and killed 18, eight fewer than at the same time last year."

Certainly, a step in the right direction, -- if the numbers are indeed accurate. The problem is these numbers are no better than estimates due to the fact there are no ubiquitous reporting requirements.

"Academics warn against over-interpreting the data relating to a decline of evidence of bias. The numbers are so small, they said, that even a few cases recorded in error could produce a different result."

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5-11-18

Think law enforcement is smartening up? Truly believe so? CBS News reports:

None of this shit should ever be swept under the carpet. Never. These jackbooted bastards need to be held fully accountable. Every goddamned time this shit happens. ... Right, Sheriff?

Matters not in fascist police-state, right, Sheriff?

This piece of jackbooted shit is not fit to wear the badge. ... Right, Sheriff?

That's all 'peasants' are to law enforcement. ... Right, Sheriff?

This is not a training issue. This piece of jackbooted shit lacks judgment. Is not fit to be an officer. Doesn't have the temperament or mentality required to properly do the job. Judgment and/or mentality is not something that can be taught. You either have it or you don't. ... Right, Sheriff?

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5-11-18

More of the same. NBC reports:

"Three black people plan to sue a Southern California police department over what they say was an excessive response to a racially motivated 911 call, but police say their officers' response was polite, brief and nothing out of the ordinary. The Rialto Police Department said Monday it had received notice of legal action by the three, who were leaving an Airbnb rental with their luggage when a neighbor called police on April 30 to report a burglary in progress. Rialto is in San Bernardino County about 50 miles east of Los Angeles."

Think this isn't a continuing issue all across our country? Get this:

"Georgetown University law professor and former prosecutor Paul Butler, who wrote the book "Chokehold: Policing Black Men," says African-Americans bear the brunt of proving their innocence no matter how mundane the activity. "The standard for an extreme law enforcement response to black people is very low," he said. "All you have to do is be waiting in a Starbucks or playing golf in Pennsylvania, or now, moving your luggage out of an Airbnb rental. That's literally all you have to do."

Imagine that. Couldn't be, could it?

"One of the Airbnb renters, Kells Fyffe-Marshall, wrote on social media that they were "surrounded" by seven police cars and told to put up their hands. Police said a helicopter was tracking them and an officer accused them of lying, she said. "You want to laugh about this but it's not funny," said Fyffe-Marshall in her post, adding that police told her the woman called 911 when they "didn't wave to her as she looked at us" packing up."

Jesus Christ. That, probable cause? LOL.

"But police pushed back, saying in a news release that officers were polite during the 22-minute interaction. The caller did not recognize the vehicle or the people, police said."

Jesus Christ. Give me a break. Any excuse at all. LOL.

"Rialto police Lt. Dean Hardin said it is standard for a helicopter to monitor the scene in a residential burglary in progress, in case someone leaves the house before ground police can get there."

Convenient, isn't it? ... No problem, either, -- since taxpayers are looted to pay for this shit.

"We didn't detain anybody, we didn't put anyone in handcuffs, we didn't point any weapons at anybody," he said. "We actually allowed them pretty free movement about the scene, so it's a pretty mild response to a situation."

Think so? Twenty two minutes of this bullshit? Took that long to resolve the issue? Give me a break. What were your boys doing? Smiling sweetly as they harassed the living shit out of these people? LOL.

"Fyffe-Marshall declined comment, citing legal advice."

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5-11-18

More of the same.

"Police killings are cutting short the lives of more people of color, researchers reported Monday. While just over half of people killed by police are white, Hispanics and African-Americans are on average younger, the researchers found. And people of black, Hispanic and Native American background are disproportionately killed by police, they reported. “Police violence disproportionately impacts young people, and the young people affected are disproportionately people of color,” Anthony Bui of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles and colleagues wrote."

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5-11-18

The following is appalling. Certainly, not justice. NPR reports:

"The two black men arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks last month have reached a settlement with the coffee chain and the city. Business partners Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson, both 23, were arrested on April 12 as they sat at the Starbucks waiting for an associate, without ordering anything. The video of their arrest by Philadelphia police went viral, sparking protests and becoming a major embarrassment for Starbucks and the city. In the wake of the incident, Starbucks says it is closing 8,000 of its stores on May 29 for racial-bias training."

Here's the problem:

"Robinson and Nelson agreed to a settlement with Starbucks for an undisclosed sum and an offer of free college tuition to complete bachelor's degrees through an online program with Arizona State University that was created four years ago for Starbucks employees. In a separate deal, they got a symbolic $1 each from the City of Philadelphia as well as promise from officials to establish a $200,000 public high school program for young entrepreneurs. "We thought long and hard about it, and we feel like this is the best way to see that change that we want to see," Robinson told The Associated Press."

Think so? ... Or, is it the fact these guys are businessmen seeking to do business in the area? Not make waves? Do nothing to interfere with future business prospects? Go along to get along?

"The AP adds, "Robinson and Nelson, who grew up in an economically depressed section of the city, said the settlements are a good start, aimed at transforming their community and creating the types of opportunities that did not exist when they were younger."

Think so? ... Or, is it enlightened self-interest?

"In a statement, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson thanked Robinson and Nelson "for their willingness to reconcile."

Why not? Conveniently, let Starbucks off the hook. LOL. Jesus Christ. No more than condescending patronizing bullshit. ... Right, Sheriff?

"Starbucks will continue to take actions that stem from this incident to repair and reaffirm our values and vision for the kind of company we want to be," Johnson said."

Think so? ... Or, is it welcome relief from the current crisis? Time will certainly tell.

"City spokesman Mike Dunn said the settlement with Philadelphia released the city and its employees from "any and all claims." Mayor Jim Kenney also lauded the settlement."

Convenient, isn't it? The jackbooted bastards criminally responsible for the false arrest of these two guys are off the hook. Goddamned kangaroo justice, right, Sheriff?

"Rather than spending time, money, and resources to engage in a potentially adversarial process, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson approached the city and invited us to partner with them in an attempt to make something positive come of this," Kenney said in a statement quoted by The Philadelphia Inquirer. "This agreement is the result of those conversations, and I look forward to seeing the fruits of this effort in the coming months and years."

Jesus Christ. Condescending, patronizing bullshit. Think it benefits the rest of the community that will certainly continue to be victimized by the goddamned criminal jackbooted bastards in blue? ... Right, Sheriff?

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5-11-18

The racist AG Sessions nazi again shows his true colors. CBS News reports:

"A "zero-tolerance" policy toward people who enter the United States illegally may cause families to be separated while parents are prosecuted, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it would refer all arrests for illegal entry to federal prosecutors, throwing its weight behind Sessions' policy announced last month to vastly expand criminal prosecutions of people with few or no previous offenses. A conviction for illegal entry carries a maximum penalty of six months in custody for first-time crossers, though they usually do far less time, and two years for repeat offenses.

"If you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. It's that simple," Sessions told reporters on a mesa overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where a border barrier separating San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico juts out into the ocean. Nearly one of every four Border Patrol arrests on the Mexican border from October through April was someone who came in a family, meaning any large increase in prosecutions is likely to cause parents to be separated from their children while they face charges and do time in jail."

Called 'Christian' 'charity,' Jeff? Consider yourself a 'Christian,' you racist, fascist, achingly clueless son of a bitch? You're out of uniform, Jeff. No swastika armband.

"US Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he's placed a "zero tolerance policy" for anyone who enters the country illegally on the Mexican border. Children who are separated from their parents would be put under supervision of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, Sessions said. "We don't want to separate families, but we don't want families to come to the border illegally and attempt to enter into this country improperly," Sessions said. "The parents are subject to prosecution while children may not be. So, if we do our duty and prosecute those cases, then children inevitably for a period of time might be in different conditions."

Spoken as the racist nazi you truly are, Counselor. Disgrace to yourself and the country you certainly don't serve.

NPR reports:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security will partner to prosecute anyone illegally crossing the southwest border and separate children from parents. In two speeches before law enforcement officials in Arizona and California, Sessions expanded on the "zero tolerance" policy against illegal immigration he first announced last month. "If you cross this border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. It's that simple," said Sessions. "If you smuggle illegal aliens across our border, then we will prosecute you. If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don't like that, then don't smuggle children over our border."

Adolf and Benito? Grinning ear-to-ear, 'high-fiving' on their fiery perches.

This racist nazi is truly evil.

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5-11-18

Think the following helps? Enlightens the hopelessly ignorant? CBS News reports:

"Law enforcement officials across the country now acknowledge the link between black history and the current divide between police and community. A recent survey found 83 percent of people subjected to "stop and frisk" in Washington, D.C. are black, though African-Americans make up 47 percent of the population in the nation's capital."

Called racial profiling.

"And that is why D.C.'s police now mandate new training to address racial bias. It includes a tour of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. The tour compels officers to explore black history in America in order to help reduce the tension between police and the community. Bernard Demczuk has led hundreds of police officers on tours through historically black neighborhoods in the center of D.C., known as Shaw and U Street. "What I want to do is introduce why Washington, D.C., is known as the 'black Mecca of America,'" he said. "Murals tell our history – we don't want to hide our history behind closed doors."

Hard to believe this isn't a colossal waste of time. Police learned nothing the last sixty years? Nothing from ongoing public reaction to this bullshit, -- not only from the black community all these decades, but also from enlightened whites? To say nothing of other minorities? Hard to believe. Worse? Black officers oppress their own. Think touring a neighborhood will make a substantive difference in the police mentality?

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5-4-18

Some salient quotes occurring later on in this edition vis a vis unfinished business County officials continue to ignore:

..."That the mantra of you and your outrageously incompetent jackbooted bastards, Sheriff?

..."Jonathan Murray says instructors repeatedly degraded homeless people and prostitutes, referring to them as “cockroaches” and encouraging cadets to “find a transient” if they were bored and wanted an easy felony arrest."

"That, the approach of you and the Boys in the Llano County Sheriff's Office, Sheriff?

"Spisak, Gibbons and Murray are among 10 former cadets with a broad range of life and professional experiences who did not complete the academy training course — two were kicked out — and spoke in recent months to the American-Statesman. They say what they were being taught at the academy is out of step with reforms being promoted by the Austin Police Department publicly and in law enforcement agencies across the country."

"If only that were true. Nearly ubiquitously, law enforcement remains trapped in the 1950s, 60s mentality it's embraced for decades. Precisely, why nothing has truly changed. ... Other than reporting of all this corruption, abuse, and murders of innocent unarmed civilians by these outrageously criminal jackbooted bastards. Ubiquitous cell phone videos have certainly contributed to exposure of these pieces of human excrement in uniform for whom and what they are. ... Right, Sheriff?

***********************************

..."Think so?

"Authorities now suspect during his time with this Exeter Police Department from 1973-1975, DeAngelo was also operating as the "Visalia Ransacker," committing a spree of burglaries. "Sometimes it's just the person next door and apparently, that's what Joe was," Willick said."

"Vetting continues to be a problem. Departments sit on information, call it 'personnel matters.' Won't disclose work history, results of drug testing. Some agencies don't conduct ongoing drug tests of officers, as reportedly the case here in Nazi Llano County. Criminal officers are allowed to move on to other departments, become someone else's problem.

"... Or, remain. --That why you've taken no action against Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764, Sheriff?

... Small sampling of what's to come in this edition. Read on.

The following email was sent to the District Attorney:

Wiley B. "Sonny" McAfee
District Attorney
33rd and 424th Judicial Districts
Llano, TX 78643

March 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

*********************************

Rebecca Lange, Llano County Attorney
Llano County Attorney's Office
Llano, Texas 78643

February 9, 2018

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Counselor:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

*******************

Bill Blackburn, Sheriff
Llano County Sheriff's Office
2001 N. State Hwy. 16 Suite A
Llano, Texas 78643

August 23, 2017

Re: Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

Sheriff:

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

c. Liberty In Peril

5-4-18

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? One hundred 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? One hundred 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. One hundred 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.

5-4-18

Epitome of hypocrisy? Unbridled aggressive stupidity at its very worst? Profound cluelessness second to none? Need a good laugh? Get this. Carefully consider the following:

Despite outrageous property tax appraisals from Tow to Horseshoe Bay along the Highland Lakes chain, Llano County apparently remains cash strapped. Imagine that. Couldn't be, could it? Wake up. You're being fleeced. Unbridled greed. Precisely, why this abominable ongoing deliberate concerted tax f--king has been accompanied for years with concomitant pressure placed on law enforcement to increase revenue.

A former Llano County Judge was ultimately forced to retire due to his outrageously unconstitutional, unlawful attempt to, in effect, impose a quota. Moreover, bogus tickets have been a problem for decades, -- well before the former County Judge got the boot. So have outrageous court costs assessed 'defendants' already paid for by looted taxpayers.

Bluntly put, corruption and abuse remain systemic. Never end. Deeply rooted. Determinedly swept under the carpet. Ignored. Concertedly, desperately, falsely discredited when challenged. Consequently, people innocent and impoverished who couldn't pay moved or left the County with no forwarding address, etc..

Now, Llano County Attorney Becky Lange intends to post names and particulars of these individuals on her Llano County Facebook page. ... What's next, Counselor? -- Public shaming of 'offenders' in stocks outside the Courthouse. Tar and feathering? Any other creative solutions to this 'problem' planned, Madam County Attorney?

This official is far from blameless: Readers are reminded Ms. Lange herself may have received 'special consideration' up to and including a bribe from Johnny Greene, a well-to-do Kingsland property owner reportedly in the oil industry. She continues to protect and coddle Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764 responsible for criminally abusing his authority by denying Kingsland property owner James Berardi property rights, resulting in damage to a motor home parked on that property. Clearly, the County Attorney refuses to be confused with the truth. Insists on ignoring reality. Remains egregiously unfit for office. Refuses to do her job.

In addition, the County Attorney has not evicted Theresa Ahrens who has her tiny cottage squatting on an unmarked Llano County road and determinedly continues to encroach on property owned by Berardi. Apparently, has been emboldened by Greene who is reportedly paying her attorney. Two surveyor companies unequivocally state Berardi owns the property. Fascinating, isn't it? Both the County Attorney and aforementioned Deputy need to be criminally investigated on the entire above highly interrelated, outrageously and perversely convoluted matter.

The District Attorney has ignored an email dated March 9, 2018 which can be found by clicking here. Readers are advised nothing in this hell hole County is as it appears to be. Desperate need for a criminal investigation by an outside agency. Likely won't happen since the District Attorney would have to demand one. Forget? Local officials are most conveniently, figuratively in bed with each other. Same old, same old. One hand washes the other.

Precisely, why there is need for a new federal agency whose sole function would be to investigate, arrest, charge, and prosecute criminal officers, prosecutors, and judges in a special court which adjudicates only these cases. Total independence. Until that happens, this shit continues unabated. ... Right, Sheriff? Deputy Rodriguez? Madam County Attorney? "Sonny Boy?"

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril

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5-4-18

Here's one of the most critical issues at the root of criminal outrageously violent police behavior. The Statesman reports:

"Summer Spisak walked into the Austin police training academy in May for her first day, knowing the next eight months would push her to the brink. The 38-year-old former tech employee was ready for a career change — a job that would test her physical and mental stamina. What happened during the next two months left her defeated and disappointed in how Austin police are taught the basics of the job. She says instructors told the cadets they would “punch you in the face” if you said you wanted to be an officer to help people. Spisak says academy staffers also told students that a suspect who resists arrest or who fights with an officer “just earned a legal ass-whooping.”

That the mantra of you and your outrageously incompetent jackbooted bastards, Sheriff?

"Michael Gibbons was ready for paramilitary training. He had gone through boot camp as a U.S. Navy recruit and served four years. But at the Austin police academy, he says, he was stunned when an instructor told the cadets about sitting in a patrol car and watching two women fight instead of intervening “to get a laugh out of it.”

Jesus Christ. That, becoming of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, Sheriff? Mentality sought and prized in law enforcement, Bill?

"Jonathan Murray says instructors repeatedly degraded homeless people and prostitutes, referring to them as “cockroaches” and encouraging cadets to “find a transient” if they were bored and wanted an easy felony arrest."

That, the approach of you and the Boys in the Llano County Sheriff's Office, Sheriff?

If only that were true. Nearly ubiquitously, law enforcement remains trapped in the 1950s, 60s mentality it's embraced for decades. Precisely, why nothing has truly changed. ... Other than reporting of all this corruption, abuse, and murders of innocent unarmed civilians by these outrageously criminal jackbooted bastards. Ubiquitous cell phone videos have certainly contributed to exposure of these pieces of human excrement in uniform for whom and what they are. ... Right, Sheriff?

"Interim Police Chief Brian Manley says he stands behind the training and that the recollections of the cadets are not accurate."

... Hey, Chief? You mean these cadets are all congenital liars like the Trump nazi, and his racist AG sidekick, the Sessions nazi?

"Yes, he says, instructors are sometimes confrontational and may curse. Yes, he says, they may at times create an atmosphere more like boot camp than college. But he said they still promote some of the most important values of being a police officer."

Jesus Christ. Give me a break. That patronizing, condescending, ignorant, achingly clueless to insult the intelligence of the long-suffering public in Austin that has egregiously suffered at the hands of your jackbooted bastards? No different here, however, in Nazi Llano County, right, Sheriff?

These militarized jackbooted bastards behave like nazi storm troopers, rather than police officers. Are not held legally accountable for their crimes. One of the reasons why an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Hear the rumble?

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5-4-18

Clearly, nothing has changed in vetting people egregiously unfit to be officers. The following is indicative of the deadly consequences. CBS News reports:

"Before police named him as the man they suspect of murdering 12 people and raping scores of women, Joseph DeAngelo was a police officer for the Auburn police department. "There was nothing really while he was working at the Auburn Police Department that would say he was a mass murderer, serial rapist, burglar," former Auburn Police Chief Nick Willick told CBS Sacramento. Willick was DeAngelo's boss at the Auburn Police Department from 1976 to 1979, first as his sergeant, then as the chief. He remembers DeAngelo as an average cop. A picture of DeAngelo printed in a 1979 Auburn Journal newspaper shows him promoting a Babe Ruth baseball fundraiser with the police department. The photo was taken in the same era DeAngelo is alleged to have killed and raped dozens of victims."

Chilling, isn't it? Think anything has truly changed in the vetting process all these years?

"Soon after the photo was taken, Willick fired DeAngelo for shoplifting."

Imagine that. Couldn't be, could it?

"According to Willick, DeAngelo was caught stealing a can of dog repellent and a hammer from a convenience store. "If I remember correctly he didn't even have a hearing," Willick said. "I think he waived his hearing. He was prosecuted and we conducted our own investigation. And we terminated him based on the facts of the case." Willick says the shoplifting case did not appear to change DeAngelo's alleged East Area Rapist crime spree. "Looking at the history of the crimes, nothing slowed down; if anything it seemed to accelerate," Willick said."

There's more:

"Auburn wasn't DeAngelo's first stop as a cop. Another photo shows DeAngelo from a 1973 Exeter Sun newspaper. The headline reads "Navy veteran serves Exeter as policeman." The story includes the line, "law enforcement is his career he says, and his job is serving the community."

Think so?

Vetting continues to be a problem. Departments sit on information, call it 'personnel matters.' Won't disclose work history, results of drug testing. Some agencies don't conduct ongoing drug tests of officers, as reportedly the case here in Nazi Llano County. Criminal officers are allowed to move on to other departments, become someone else's problem.

... Or, remain. --That why you've taken no action against Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764, Sheriff?

NPR reports:

"Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Grippi said that the DNA used to zero in on DeAngelo had been uploaded by a relative, according to NBC affiliate KCRA. Investigators then used the results to explore different family trees and find men who fit the profile of the Golden State Killer – roughly the right age and height, and who had been living in California when the crimes took place."

Here's the problem:

"The number of people who have had their DNA analyzed has increased dramatically in recent years: the two leading companies alone have reportedly tested 10 million people. But all those people shipping off a tube of saliva for testing don't necessarily think of all the ways their data could be used. "People who submit DNA for ancestors testing are unwittingly becoming genetic informants on their innocent family," Steve Mercer, the chief attorney for the forensic division of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, told the AP. He added that they "have fewer privacy protections than convicted offenders whose DNA is contained in regulated databanks."

Amazing, isn't it? Not surprising, however. Give the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue an inch, the bastards take a mile. Ends don't justify the means.

"Two of the leading consumer DNA analysis services, Ancestry and 23andMe, told NPR they were not involved in the DeAngelo case."

Fair warned is fair armed. Stupidly give up privacy? Could cost others close to you dearly.

"A spokesman for 23andMe said the company has never given customer information to law enforcement officials. "Broadly speaking, it's our policy to resist all law enforcement inquiries to protect customer privacy," the company said in a statement. "Our platform is private, and does not support the comparison of genetic data processed by any third party to genetic profiles within our database. Further, we do not share customer data with any public databases, or with entities that may increase the risk of law enforcement access."

Not good enough. Nowhere near. All the jackbooted bastards have to do is get a warrant. An innocent family member could pay the price. There are no safeguards to prevent this egregious abuse of authority by law enforcement. Nothing to prevent these bastards from going on fishing expeditions.

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5-4-18

Dangerous future as the de facto fascist police-state we already live in transforms to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. NBC reports:

"America's largest maker of police body cameras said Thursday it had formed an ethics board to guide its work on artificial intelligence, prompting a rebuke from civil rights organizations who urged the company not to develop devices that are able to identify people by their faces. The announcement by Axon - formerly known as Taser, for its line of stun guns - marks a new development in an ongoing battle over the uses, and feared abuses, of body cameras. The devices have exploded in popularity in recent years, as high-profile officer killings of black men ignited calls for greater police transparency. The cameras have also raised privacy concerns, as they allow police to capture what people do in public and behind closed doors."

Sadly, law enforcement presents an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. ... Moreover, an ongoing threat to what is supposed to be a democratic republic, under the United States Constitution and rule of law. Clearly, no longer.

"Some big American police departments use facial recognition software to scan video footage of crimes and identify suspects. Most Americans' driver's license photos, passport photos and mugshots are converted by the government into a format that allows them to be scanned by facial recognition systems, researchers say."

Law enforcement clearly, sadly, presents an ongoing threat to liberty. Has for quite some time.

"But the leap to real-time facial recognition in body cameras is still in its infancy. China says it has equipped police with body-worn cameras with facial recognition capabilities. Such technology has not been deployed in the United States, although researchers say the possibility of that happening isn't too far off. That has triggered a furious debate about how such cameras would be used, and the risks of using them to expand public surveillance."

This is especially dangerous as the de facto fascist police-state we already live in transitions to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"The company's AI director, Moji Solgi, promised Axon would be "transparent with our customers and the general public" about its commitment to individual rights and privacy, starting with the release of annual reports outlining the ethics board's work. But a number of civil rights organizations are not satisfied. Forty-two groups - including the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Urban League and the Electronic Frontier Foundation - joined in an open letter to the ethics board saying the company should reject as "categorically unethical" any products that allow "real-time face recognition analysis of live video captured by body-worn cameras."

A jackbooted nazi surveillance state, right, Sheriff?

"Such devices, the civil rights groups said, could be used to chill freedom of speech at political protests, and could misidentify innocent people as criminal suspects."

Precisely, the intention of jackbooted nazi law enforcement, right, Bill?

"Researchers have said that facial recognition algorithms often fail to identify, or misidentify, people of certain racial or ethnic groups. The civil rights organizations cited a recent MIT study that found algorithms created by Microsoft, IBM and China-based Face++ had high rates of misclassifications of dark-skinned women."

Not to worry. Nazi software engineers employed by these corporate bastards will eventually correct the problem, right, Sheriff?

"Harlan Yu, executive director of Upturn, which monitors police agencies' body camera policies and is one of the letter's signatories, said the groups felt it important to "draw a bright ethical line" around real-time facial recognition body cameras. He also said the groups were troubled by the lack of representation on the ethics board of communities, particularly those made up of racial minorities, that are subject to intense police scrutiny. "Just because real-time face recognition might be technologically feasible to do doesn’t mean they should," Yu said. Yu said he declined an invitation to join the Axon ethics board in part because it required signing a non-disclosure agreement. Wagers said the non-disclosure agreements covered the company's intellectual property but did not prevent board members from talking publicly about the issues they discuss."

Think so? If so, think it will remain so? Wake up. Raw nazism.

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5-4-18

A fascist police-state. CBS News reports:

"Investigators have revealed they used a public genealogical DNA database to find the ex-policeman they believe is a shadowy serial killer and rapist who terrified California decades ago, calling the technique groundbreaking. But the site's co-founder said he has privacy concerns after learning that law enforcement used the site and insists that his company does not "hand out data."

Where are privacy safeguards for those who are not criminals, yet have their privacy constantly invaded by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue on fishing expeditions? Ends don't justify the means.

Here is the problem:

"Law enforcement in several states are authorized to search criminal DNA databases for relative matches on unknown suspect DNA profiles. Some jurisdictions use "familial searching" on federal databases like the FBI's CODIS, which contains DNA of criminals. Familial DNA searching has made inroads in some U.S. states and other countries in the last decade, leading to high-profile arrests, but has also caused controversy amid civil-liberties qualms. Critics view the technique as a DNA dragnet that can single out otherwise law-abiding people for scrutiny because of family ties."

Fascist police-state. ... Right, Sheriff?

Here's the problem:

"In 2017, "48 Hours" investigated a case in which a public DNA database pointed police in Idaho to a New Orleans filmmaker in the 1996 murder of Angie Dodge. Idaho Falls Police obtained a court order to obtain the identity of the person who submitted a profile -- which was a "partial" match to their suspect DNA profile -- from Ancestry.com, which had acquired the database. Police honed in on the filmmaker -- the son of the man they identified -- as a possible suspect, but when they obtained a DNA sample from him, he was cleared."

Imagine that.

"The story raised serious questions about what happens when police use publicly available DNA databases to solve cases – and what happens when an innocent man is tagged as a suspect."

Called an egregious ass f--king, right, Sheriff?

"There are not strong privacy laws to keep police from trolling ancestry databases, said Steve Mercer, the chief attorney for the forensic division of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. It's not clear whether people who use public DNA databases like GEDMatch fully understand that it's possible their DNA could later be used to incriminate a relative."

Wake up. The outrageously criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are out of control. ... Right, Sheriff?

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5-4-18

Think the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue aren't predators? ABC News reports:

"Authorities say a Pennsylvania police officer sent sexually explicit pictures to a woman he had charged with drunken driving, leading to his suspension and the woman's case being withdrawn. Allegheny County prosecutors say Ohio Township police Officer Dominic DeJulio was also required to undergo a series of psychological evaluations. But he wasn't prosecuted because the 40-year-old woman said she did not want to pursue criminal charges against him."

Jesus Christ. Convenient, isn't it? Any quid pro quo involved? Why was it up to the woman to press charges? If prosecutors have evidence an officer committed a crime, why isn't it beholden on them to prosecute?

"DeJulio was suspended for five days without pay and has returned to his job. He has worked for the department full-time since February 2015."

Think this f--ked up piece of shit won't re-offend?

"The drunken driving charges against the woman were withdrawn Thursday. A prosecutor's office spokesman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the withdrawal was done to protect the woman from having to be re-victimized by the officer at her trial."

'Considerate' of them, isn't it? Most convenient, as well. Still think there was no quid pro quo? Believe this sick piece of shit wasn't effectively protected and coddled?

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5-4-18

Shit never ends. Police remain clueless. Protected and coddled by local prosecutors. ... Right, Sheriff? ABC News reports:

"The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office said it will not press charges against two police officers who used their stun guns as many as 18 times in the death of a naked man in the shower last May. District Attorney John Chisholm made the announcement on Friday, saying there was "no basis to conclusively link Mr. [Adam] Trammell's death to actions taken by police officers." The 22-year-old Trammell, from West Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died in police custody after authorities were called to report a "suspicious male" in an apartment complex at 5 a.m., according to Milwaukee ABC affiliate WISN. The report by Chisholm notes the caller believed the man, later identified as Trammell, was having a "psychotic break."

Training needs to drastically improve.

"Trammell, who was naked at the time, was allegedly speaking incoherently and flooding an apartment with a shower when police arrived, WISN reported. West Milwaukee and West Allis police said in a press release last year that a stun gun was used on the suspect because he "was uncooperative and combative with officers."

Didn't work. Yet, the clueless bastards continued to shock him.

"He stopped breathing and died at a local hospital, police said."

Surprised? Why?

"The Milwaukee County medical examiner ruled Trammell's cause of death as excited delirium and the manner "undetermined."

Jesus Christ. Give me a break. Protected and coddled the jackbooted bastards. Gave them a free ride.

"West Milwaukee Police Chief Dennis Nasci told WISN the two officers involved were placed on administrative duty for two months before returning to active duty."

Only to possibly do it again? Forget? 'Stupid is as stupid does.'

"Graphic bodycam footage of the officers using a stun gun on Trammell multiple times was released and reviewed by the district attorney. The bodycam footage shows a calm and confused Trammell confronted by police officers while he is in the shower. An officer twice says, "Brandon, I'm going to need you to come on out," referring to Trammell by the incorrect name, before saying, "You're going to get tased." Trammell doesn't respond before being shocked and falling to the shower floor screaming. The district attorney's report states the officers repeatedly used their stun guns on Trammell as he struggled to prevent removal from the shower. The report indicates the officers used a Taser 15 times."

'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again?'

"Trammell's family claims he suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. "The family first saw the video at the DA's office. So yes they've seen the video and they weep every time they see it," the Trammell family's attorney Mark Thomsen told WISN. "We had a young man in a bath tub naked, OK? Why they engaged in tasing for 15 to 18 times is beyond my imagination."

These officers are not only achingly ignorant, but hopelessly stupid.

"For no good reason -- and essentially tortured to death," Thomsen added. "That should not happen to the mentally ill in our community."

Happens all the time. All across the country. Usually, with impunity. Law enforcement determinedly refuses to smarten up. -- How the bastards perversely get their cookies off.

"Thomsen said the family will be pursuing a civil case. West Milwaukee police said they would not comment due to that pending civil litigation."

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5-4-18

Things are apparently changing in Baton Rouge. For the good? You decide. ABC News reports:

"A former Baton Rouge police officer who fatally shot a black man nearly two years ago, setting off widespread protests and clashes with police, now faces a misdemeanor charge for an unrelated incident in which he allegedly slapped a suspect. An attorney for Blane Salamoni told The Advocate the ex-officer received a court summons Friday for a simple battery charge. The lawyer, Brant Mayer, said Baton Rouge police issued the summons even though the alleged victim said he didn't want to pursue charges. The newspaper reported the 2016 incident was captured on body camera and occurred weeks before Salamoni shot and killed Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, during a struggle outside a convenience store."

Long-term readers will recall this case was covered extensively in this publication and elsewhere.

"Sgt. Don Coppola, a spokesman for the police department, confirmed Monday that a summons for a simple battery charge was issued to Salamoni. Coppola said he couldn't immediately release any additional details. State and federal authorities ruled out criminal charges in Sterling's July 5, 2016, shooting death. Last month, Police Chief Murphy Paul fired Salamoni and suspended a second white officer who also struggled with Sterling but didn't fire his weapon that night. Salamoni and the other officer, Howie Lake II, both appealed their discipline earlier this month. Salamoni is asking a civil service board to reinstate him."

Never ends, does it? Here's what's interesting:

"Mayer, who didn't immediately respond to an email and telephone message Monday, questioned whether the battery case is designed to influence Salamoni's appeal. "Our client files his appeal, and then this charge just miraculously appears. They've had this footage for almost two years," Mayer told The Advocate. Paul fired Salamoni on March 30, less than a week after Louisiana's attorney general ruled out state criminal charges. The U.S. Justice Department announced last May that it wouldn't pursue federal criminal charges against either officer."

No question, an atrocity in view of the following:

"Salamoni shot Sterling six times after he and Lake wrestled Sterling to the ground. The officers recovered a loaded revolver from Sterling's pocket. As a convicted felon, Sterling could not legally carry a gun. Paul said he fired Salamoni for violating department policies on use of force and "command of temper." He suspended Lake three days for violating only the latter policy. Two cellphone videos of the incident quickly spread on social media after the shooting, fueling protests at which police arrested nearly 200 people. Body camera footage captured an officer, said to be Salamoni, screaming profanities and insults at Sterling. Salamoni also pointed a gun at Sterling's head and threatened to shoot him before he and Lake wrestled him to the ground in the parking lot outside the Triple S Food Mart."

The above just scratches the surface.

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5-4-18

Voodoo 'science.' Perpetrated to protect and coddle murderous law enforcement. CBS News reports:

"The Sacramento District Attorney released Stephon Clark's official autopsy results and it shows Clark was shot seven times by officers, not eight as stated in a private autopsy report, CBS Sacramento reports. The official autopsy was conducted by Dr. Keng-Chin Su and reviewed by four other pathologists.

"The report states Clark was shot seven times- once in the left thigh, three times in the side and three times in the back. The private autopsy, performed by Dr. Bennet Omalu, done at the request of the Clark family said Clark was shot eight times- with seven of those shots hitting him from behind."

Someone's lying. Guess who.

Gets worse. Get this:

"Dr. Gregory Reiber, who did an independent review of the Sacramento County Coroner's autopsy, wrote: It is clear from review of the written report and photographic documentation that Stephon Clark was struck by seven bullets, not by eight as claimed by Dr. Omalu in his press conference statements and as shown on his autopsy diagram. It is obvious that the exit of gunshot wound #5 (Dr. Su's report) was mistaken for an entrance wound on the left side of the chest (Dr. Omalu's diagram). This is a significant error, as it leads to incorrect conclusions regarding the relative positions of the victim and shooters during the event."

Question to be asked. How much was Reiber paid?

"Clark was shot and killed by Sacramento police officers March 18. A cellphone was found nearby, but not a weapon. A day after the shooting, police distributed a press release that said the officers who shot Clark "saw the suspect facing them, advance forward with his arms extended, and holding an object in his hands." Police video of the shooting doesn't clearly capture all that happened after Clark ran into his grandmother's backyard. He initially moved toward the officers, who are peeking out from behind a corner of the house, but it's not clear he's facing them or that he knows they are there when they open fire after shouting "gun, gun, gun." After 20 shots, officers call to him, apparently believing he might still be alive and armed. They eventually approach and find no gun, just a cellphone."

The story is far more complicated than the above, -- as earlier reported extensively in this publication and elsewhere. This man was murdered by the police. May not have even been guilty of what they're accusing him of. Contradiction of the privately-conducted autopsy is but the first step in exonerating police of the horrendous, achingly unjustified murder of this guy by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

"The Sacramento District Attorney said she has yet to receive the Sacramento police department's final report on the shooting and she can not make a decision yet on whether or not to file charges. The California Attorney General will also conduct an independent review of the case."

Likely both end in a whitewash, protection of the jackbooted murderers. ... As an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Hear the rumble?

Clearly, there is no justice in the de facto fascist police-state we now live in, -- quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Sadly, the worst is yet to come.

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5-4-18

In follow up to another case covered extensively here in this publication and elsewhere, NPR reports:

"An Arkansas man has been convicted of malicious wounding for beating a black man during a white nationalist rally last year in Charlottesville, Va. Jacob Scott Goodwin, 23, will be sentenced in August. The jury is recommending 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine, local TV station NBC 29 reports. On Aug. 12, 2017, the day of the Unite the Right rally, Goodwin was one of several white men who attacked DeAndre Harris, 20, surrounding him, kicking him and hitting him with poles as he lay curled on the ground in a parking garage. Harris was left with multiple injuries."

Was savagely beaten by this goddamned nazi.

"Goodwin was wearing a helmet and goggles and carrying a shield. Photos and videos from that day show he was also wearing white nationalist and white supremacist symbols: the logo of a neo-Nazi group, as well as a numerical code for Heil Hitler."

Readers are reminded this is the very same rally the Trump nazi falsely opined both sides were to blame.

"The attack was captured on video, and in the weeks that followed, New York Daily News columnist Shaun King organized a crowd-sourced investigation to identify the attackers. Goodwin was one of the men identified through that effort. Three other men are currently facing charges."

While King and the Internet community are to be commended for their effort, isn't such investigation something the police are commissioned to do?

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5-4-18

Never ends. Aggressive stupidity reigns supreme. This time, not only police, but a former NFL athlete as well behave stupidly. CBS News reports:

"A former NFL player says that he was injured when Georgia police arrested him after he allegedly made threats against a person he said threw a cup of coffee at his car, reports CBS affiliate WMAZ. An on-looker captured about one minute of the arrest on video. The video shows Desmond Marrow being slammed to the ground before being pinned into a position with one officer's hand on his throat. A by-stander can be heard saying "this is unbelievable." The video was posted to Facebook Thursday and apparently shows a December 2017 arrest."

First, if the account of the following story told by Marrow is indeed true vis a vis what triggered the resulting police fiasco, what could this achingly clueless guy possibly been thinking? Walk away from confrontation. Why place yourself in a position where the purported vandal you're stupidly chasing, as a civilian, could have pulled a gun and blown your sorry ass to kingdom come?

Second, if you chase down this alleged perpetrator, then threaten him, truly think things are going to turn out well? Ferociously pointedly, aren't you yourself emulating the worst in law enforcement? Becoming no better than the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue you're now excoriating? Marrow's head appears to be figuratively, securely lodged up his clueless ass.

On top of that, this guy appears to have some serious personal issues. None of that excuses police excessive force, however. It does, moreover, make it far more difficult to expose this shit and argue against excessive force when individuals like Marrow determinedly, cluelessly make idiots of themselves. Consider the following:

"In the video, which doesn't have a date stamp, Marrow appears to be handcuffed. "I'm not even fighting back," shouts Marrow before one officer lifts his right leg and they throw him to the ground. Soon after, one officer can be seen kneeling near Marrow's head and grabbing him by the throat. At one point, Marrow can be heard saying "I can't breathe."

***ATTENTION*** to anyone who views this post , #Share #Like ...PLEASE HELP ME GET MY VOICE HEARD!!! I Was Falsely Arrested & taken into custody in #Atlanta #Georgia #HenryCounty by the Henry County Police . I Only Had My Cell Phone in my possession & they claimed to be scared for their lives . I had No type of weapon in my possession , I was arrested for having a Gun that turned out to be my Cell Phone . During the arrest the police knocked my teeth out, slammed me on my head and choked me out until I was unconscious. In addition I suffered a shoulder strain and a concussion along with the heartache of my Wife leaving me during this Very Hard time for my short comings and careless actions. This has affected me mentally and impacted my life in a way I can’t even humanly describe . This isn’t a cry for sympathy, I just need it to be known . . . My cry is for JUSTICE. They threw me into isolation and labeled me a gang member because of my tattoos. I was fully cooperating with the officers with ZERO resistance. I thought I was going to die. I was sure I was passing out or dying when Officer #D.Rose was choking me as my breath kept slipping away. Henry county police dept was trying to keep me quiet, but once they found out I was a former #NFLplayer & there was a video of the incident did they then try to drop my charges. They were basically trying to get me to sell my soul in exchange for the video not being posted and they would drop all the felonies and clear my record. They said I was resisting arrest, being out of control, spitting and assaulting the Officers by head butting them. But GOD recorded it and I have PROOF! You know the truth take a lil longer to make it around lies travel faster. They locked me up & gave me No bond which gave me NO voice YOU guys are my voice I NEED your help . I been sleepin on the floor I can’t get a job with these #Felonies I lost my gym all my clients & training kids is my passion that’s ALL I wana do I can’t pay my child support I would love to see my son I’d take any type of love Bruh it’s real right now #Repost #Share #Like #Repost @theshaderoom @troubleman31 @fox5ny @sharonlfox5 @drtiffanycrutcher @damariosolomonsimmons @real_sharpton #BlackLivesMatter
Posted by Desmond Marrow on Thursday, April 26, 2018"

There is certainly a desperate need for complete video of such encounters with police. Especially, in this encounter. Both police and bystander video. At this point, there is no explanation as to why that was not the case here.

"Marrow then appears to go limp, but there is no confirmation if he's in or out consciousness. On his Facebook page, Marrow says officers claimed he had a gun in his pocket, but he says it was only a cellphone. He also wrote that police "knocked my teeth out, slammed me on my head and choked me out until I was unconscious. In addition I suffered a shoulder strain and a concussion." "This has affected me mentally and impacted my life in a way I can't even humanly describe ," Marrow wrote in the post. "This isn't a cry for sympathy, I just need it to be known . . . My cry is for JUSTICE." WMAZ reached out to him to get further comment, but he declined to speak Thursday night. However, he did write in the post that "I was fully cooperating with the officers with ZERO resistance. I thought I was going to die. I was sure I was passing out or dying."

Hyperbolic bullshit? Not clear since complete video of the entire encounter is lacking:

"There is no video that shows what led up to the arrests and no video that shows what happened afterwards. But according to a redacted police report dated Dec. 2, 2017, prior to the arrest Marrow was driving on Jonesboro Road over I-75 when someone in another car threw a cup of coffee at his car. That's when Marrow reportedly started chasing after the car to a nearby shopping center."

Why was the police report redacted? Were police attempting to cover their ass? Incredibly stupid, however, for Marrow to give chase. Here's why:

"An officer happened to witness Marrow driving aggressively and followed the car. According to the police report, when the officer got there, Marrow and "several others" were in the parking lot. The officer asked if anyone had thrown any punches, and was told no. Police say Marrow was agitated and using profanity. And according to the report "a witness came to the area and said that he had heard Marrow say to another party in the dispute that he would shoot them." Officers asked Marrow if he had a gun, and he told them no. They patted him down and found no weapon, but because of the alleged threats against others' lives, officers told Marrow they were going to arrest him. At that point, officers said Marrow refused to cooperate, and the struggle between he and the officers began. Officers were eventually able to take Marrow into custody where they charged him with making terroristic threats, reckless driving and aggressive driving."

This is a deeply troubling case for a number of different reasons. Where is all the video? Why was the report redacted? What is going on here?

"The Henry County Police Department did not immediately return CBS News Crimesider's call for comment on the case. They were expected to release more information Friday afternoon."

Additional time required to get their stories straight?

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