Monday, August 31, 2020
LAWYER CLAIMS FENTANYL, NOT EX-COP KILLED GEORGE FLOYD
Chauvin lawyer: Restraint didn't kill George Floyd, ill health and drug abuse did
By Rochelle Olson
Star Tribune
August 29, 2020
By Rochelle Olson
Star Tribune
August 29, 2020
The defense attorney for
former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is arguing that George
Floyd died from chronic health problems exacerbated by drug abuse, not
because of the restraint the officer used on him.
Eric
Nelson filed motions late Friday in Hennepin County District Court on
behalf of Chauvin, one of four officers charged in the May 25 death of
the 46-year-old Floyd. Nelson also is seeking to change the location of
the trial.
Throughout
his interaction with Floyd, “Chauvin exuded a calm and professional
demeanor” as well as a concern for the potential risks of the restraint
he used on him, Nelson wrote.
Chauvin,
the officer seen kneeling on Floyd’s neck, faces one count each of
second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and
second-degree manslaughter. Three other former officers, J. Alexander
Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao, are charged with aiding and abetting
manslaughter and murder.
In
his 27-page motion, Nelson noted there was no bruising or tissue damage
to Floyd’s neck or back. “Chauvin was clearly being cautious about the
amount of pressure he used to restrain Mr. Floyd — cautious enough to
prevent bruising,” Nelson wrote, adding that a bystander video showed
Floyd raising his head several times while he was on the ground,
something Nelson said he would not have been able to do if Chauvin had
his neck fully pinned.
Images
from the police training manual as well as the scene of Floyd’s death
were included with the court filing. Motions to dismiss are standard
practice in criminal cases, but this one also provides a detailed
preview of arguments Nelson is likely to make at trial — if one is held.
Judge Peter Cahill will hear arguments on the motions Sept. 11.
The
state also has filed several motions, including one signaling that it
will seek an extended sentence for the officers if they are convicted at
trial scheduled for March 2021.
Chauvin
and Thao were the third and fourth officers on the scene. Kueng and
Lane were the first to confront Floyd outside Cup Foods in south
Minneapolis. The two responded to a 911 call from a store clerk alleging
that Floyd had paid with a counterfeit $20 bill, a felony.
What
Chauvin saw when he arrived on the scene with his partner Thao was a
“strong man struggling mightily with police officers, which seemed
contradictory to Mr. Floyd’s claims about not being able to breathe,”
Nelson wrote, adding that Floyd was “handcuffed and acting erratically.
Continued struggle posed a risk of injury to Mr. Floyd and, potentially,
to officers.”
Nelson
noted that the officers discussed but did not use a hobble restraint on
Floyd because doing so would have made it harder to move him into the
ambulance. “Chauvin demonstrated a concern for Mr. Floyd’s well-being —
not an intent to inflict harm,” Nelson wrote.
Recordings
from the body-worn cameras of Kueng and Lane as well as toxicology
results from Floyd’s autopsy indicate he had ingested fentanyl just
before his arrest — something that would have been problematic given his
underlying health, Nelson wrote.
“He
was a daily smoker of cigarettes. His heart was at the ‘upper limit of
size’ due to untreated hypertension. Mr. Floyd suffered from
arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease,” Nelson wrote.
Floyd
also told officers he had recently recovered from COVID-19 and was
still positive for the virus at the time of his death, the memo said.
Floyd also had been addicted to opiates for years and was under the
influence of narcotics when he died, according to the memo.
Nelson
wrote that he wasn’t attacking Floyd’s character by mentioning drug use
but that “the most likely cause” of his death was “fentanyl or a
combination of fentanyl and methamphetamine in concert with his
underlying health conditions.”
When
Hennepin County Medical Examiner Andrew Baker briefed prosecutors on
the results of Floyd’s autopsy, he said, “If [Floyd] were found dead at
home alone” with no evidence of other causes, it would have been
“acceptable” to label his death a drug overdose.
Fentanyl overdoses have been certified at levels significantly lower than the amount Floyd had in his body, Nelson wrote.
MICHAEL PREDICTED A HILLARY LOSS AND NOW HE IS PREDICTING A TRUMP WIN
Daily Mail
August 29, 2020
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is warning that Democrats seem to be
engaging in the same election-losing mistakes they did in 2016, after
new polls show President Trump's popularity amongst swing state
voters is on the rise
Back in 2016, Moore was one of a handful
of political activists who had predicted that Trump would defeat
Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton at the polls.
In his Friday Facebook
post, Moore indicated that it was starting to look like Trump could pull
off another win and urged people to register to vote.
'Sorry to have to
provide the reality check again, but when CNN polled registered voters
in August in just the swing states, Biden and Trump were in a virtual
tie.'
GEORGIA MOTHERFIGHTS GUNMAN TRYING TO KIDNAP HER BABY BOY
Back in his mother's arms: Harrowing account of moments police say1-year-old was kidnapped
WSBTV
August 30, 2020
Police say the child, Mateo Alejandro Montufar-Barrera, was found
unharmed with the suspects in Carroll County around 5 p.m. after state
troopers pulled them over.
Police said the boy was reunited with his mother at the Chamblee Police Department Saturday evening around 6 p.m.
The incident unfolded Saturday around 12:30 p.m. at the Balfour Chamblee Apartments on Clairview Drive. The boy’s mother, Leslie Bamaca, told police she was walking Mateo in his stroller near their apartment when a man got out of an Acura SUV and pointed a gun at her.
WSBTV
August 30, 2020
CHAMBLEE, Ga. —
Chamblee police have confirmed that a 1-year-old boy who was kidnapped
at gunpoint on Saturday as his mother walked him in a stroller has been
found safe.
Two suspects are in custody.
Police said the boy was reunited with his mother at the Chamblee Police Department Saturday evening around 6 p.m.
The incident unfolded Saturday around 12:30 p.m. at the Balfour Chamblee Apartments on Clairview Drive. The boy’s mother, Leslie Bamaca, told police she was walking Mateo in his stroller near their apartment when a man got out of an Acura SUV and pointed a gun at her.
Chamblee police said Leslie Bamaca was able to grab the gun from the
man and tried to shoot him, but the gun didn’t go off. She ripped his
pants and took one of his shoes.
A second suspect then got out of the SUV’s passenger seat and grabbed
the child. The two suspects took off in an Acura SUV toward I-85.
Police arrested and charged Maynor Dario Valera Zuniga and Kristin
Nicole Valera Zuniga. The couple faces charges of kidnapping, aggravated
assault and battery, according to DeKalb County jail records.
Jessica Bamaca lives with her sister, her nephew and baby Mateo’s
father, Erick Montufar. Jessica Bamaca said the family is beyond
grateful to have her nephew home.
“I thank God for the opportunity to see him again,” Bamaca said. “We’re
just so grateful toward him and toward all the people who helped us out
as well. It feels comforting that he’s finally home.”
Jessica Bamaca said she heard her sister scream her name around 12:30 p.m and she ran outside.
Jessica Bamaca said her sister was bleeding and crying and said someone had kidnapped her son.
“From there on, it was just a nightmare for five hours until finally,
we got the news that they had found him, and that they were taking him
back to the police station to be reunited with my sister and his
father,” Jessica Bamaca said.
Jessica Bamaca said she thinks her sister was throwing away the trash
and was just going for an afternoon walk, when all of a sudden, a car
pulled up. Jessica Bamaca said a man got out of the car and immediately
started trying to take the baby out of the stroller.
As Leslie Bamaca fought with one suspect, the other took the baby.
Jessica Bamaca said the suspects were complete strangers.
“We have no idea who they are. It’s the first time we’ve seen them,”
Jessica Bamaca said. “We don’t know where they came from. We don’t know
what their intentions were.”
Jessica Bamaca said her sister fought back as any mother would.
“She fought back with all her strength. She fought back until the last
second,” Jessica Bamaca said. “She put herself in front of that car. She
ran behind that car. She did all she could.”
Jessica Bamaca said her family is thankful to God that Mateo is safe.
“What I took away personally from this was that God has total, complete
control of our lives,” Jessica Bamaca said. “This is something that was
out of our control so we gave it 100% to him, and we give him honor and
glory for letting us have him back in our arms.”
Jessica Bamaca said that when police found Mateo with the suspects in
Carroll County, they had dressed him up like a girl to disguise him.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has taken over the case.
TRUMP-HATING LIBERAL JEWS TAKE OUT FULL-PAGE NEW YORK TIMES AD IN SUPPORT OF ANTI-SEMITIC GROUP
Hundreds of Jewish groups sign NYT ad backing Black Lives Matter
JNS
August 30, 2020
More than 600 Jewish groups have signed a full-page New York Times ad in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"We are Jewish organizations and synagogues from across the racial and political spectrum; from different streams of Judaism; whose members trace their lineage from countries around the world," states the group in the ad.
"We speak with one voice when we say, unequivocally: Black Lives Matter."
The groups also state, "We support the black-led movement in this country that is calling for accountability and transparency from the government and law enforcement. We know that freedom and safety for any of us depends on the freedom and safety of all of us."
"There are politicians and political movements in this country who
build power by deliberately manufacturing fear to divide us against each
other. All too often, anti-Semitism is at the center of these
manufactured divisions."
The groups make a connection between anti-black and anti-Jewish hatred.
"As Jews, we know how dangerous this is: when politicians target Jewish people and blame us for problems, it leads directly to violence against us," they state. "When black movements are undermined, it leads to more violence against black people, including black Jews."
"Anti-Semitism is part of the same machinery those politicians use to blame black and brown people, people who are immigrants, people who are Muslim and more," they continue. "But whether they generate division and fear based on our religion, our skin color, or how long we've been here, their goal is to keep us from working together to win the things we all need to survive and thrive."
Groups that signed the ad include the Anti-Defamation League, J Street, IfNotNow, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, HIAS, Hebrew College, Jewish Voice for Peace, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Zioness Movement, Young Democrats of America Jewish Caucus and NCSY (New York).
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is absolutely disgusting. George Soros must have composed and paid for this suicidal ad.
JNS
August 30, 2020
More than 600 Jewish groups have signed a full-page New York Times ad in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"We are Jewish organizations and synagogues from across the racial and political spectrum; from different streams of Judaism; whose members trace their lineage from countries around the world," states the group in the ad.
"We speak with one voice when we say, unequivocally: Black Lives Matter."
The groups also state, "We support the black-led movement in this country that is calling for accountability and transparency from the government and law enforcement. We know that freedom and safety for any of us depends on the freedom and safety of all of us."
The groups make a connection between anti-black and anti-Jewish hatred.
"As Jews, we know how dangerous this is: when politicians target Jewish people and blame us for problems, it leads directly to violence against us," they state. "When black movements are undermined, it leads to more violence against black people, including black Jews."
"Anti-Semitism is part of the same machinery those politicians use to blame black and brown people, people who are immigrants, people who are Muslim and more," they continue. "But whether they generate division and fear based on our religion, our skin color, or how long we've been here, their goal is to keep us from working together to win the things we all need to survive and thrive."
Groups that signed the ad include the Anti-Defamation League, J Street, IfNotNow, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, HIAS, Hebrew College, Jewish Voice for Peace, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Zioness Movement, Young Democrats of America Jewish Caucus and NCSY (New York).
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is absolutely disgusting. George Soros must have composed and paid for this suicidal ad.
THIS WHAT NYC HAS COME TO
Woman waiting for subway in Manhattan knocked off feet by stranger who tries to rape her in front of bystanders
By Wes Parnell
New York Daily News
August 30, 2020
By Wes Parnell
New York Daily News
August 30, 2020
A young woman waiting for a subway train on the Upper East Side was
knocked off her feet by a stranger who then climbed on top of her and
tried to rape her as a crowd formed, shocking video released Sunday by
police shows.
The sicko shoved the 25-year-old victim to the platform floor inside
the Lexington Ave. and E. 63rd St. station around 11 p.m. Saturday, then
threw himself on top of her and thrust his body back and forth while a
crowd watched in horror, the video shows.
The assailant eventually gave up after enough bystanders gathered but
not before mouthing off a few inaudible words and grabbing his sunglass
off the floor, the video shows.
The victim was left with minor injuries and refused medical attention, police said.
Cops are asking the public’s help identifying and tracking down the assailant.
The attacker has an afro and facial hair and was wearing sunglasses, a
black long-sleeve shirt, dark cargo pants and brown shoes.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Apparently it is not politically correct to describe the attacker as a black man.
SOCIAL MEDIA CAN CAUSE MURDER
Georgia teen who stabbed Auto Zone staffer seven times wanted to kill a White man after watching hours of cop firing videos
COLUMBUS, Georgia: 19-year-old Jayvon Hatchett was arrested this week after Columbus police released surveillance images of him assaulting a 51-year-old White male in what police call was a "premeditated, brutal assault".
According to reports, Hatchett was seen walking into an AutoZone on Tuesday, August 25, 2020, asking for a thermostat and after he was informed the store didn't have it, he stabbed a White employee in the neck and torso seven times. Witnesses said Hatchett fled the scene immediately after committing the assault. The surveillance footage also shows him fleeing the scene.
According to courtroom testimony, Police say Hatchett told them he had been watching videos on Facebook for hours of police shootings around the country. Police say he told them he decided during those videos he wanted to stab a White male. He was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime. As it turns out, the 19-year-old had been charged for criminal damage to property just three days prior. Six months before that, he was reportedly booked for two felonies, including aggravated assault.
The police said that the victim had no apparent connection with the assailant. He was transported to the hospital in a critical condition but is now expected to recover — apparently lucky enough to survive the injuries. According to reports, Sgt Ray Mills told Judge Julius Hunter that Hatchett met him with a smile at his home when authorities went to capture him. He even readily confessed to the stabbing, adding that he "felt the need to find a White man to kill" after watching videos of police brutality across the country. His home was a short distance away from the AutoZone.
"Mr Hatchett told me that he had been watching Facebook videos of police shootings in other parts of the country and that he felt compelled to go stab a White male," SGT Mills testified. The presiding judge has ordered Hatchett to have mental health evaluation, declined to issue a bond, and is held at the Muscogee County Jail until the case is passed over to Superior Court.
If he is charged under the new hate crime law signed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp in June 2020, there might be tougher sentencing. While there is no hate crime charge that can be added at the law enforcement level, if this is proved in court, the judge can prolong the sentencing. Under the law, a person found guilty of committing a hate crime against someone because of their actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, mental disability, or physical disability as it relates to these protected classes would face additional punishment from six months to a year in prison and a fine of up to $5,000 for one of five misdemeanour offences and at least two years in prison for a felony offence.
COLUMBUS, Georgia: 19-year-old Jayvon Hatchett was arrested this week after Columbus police released surveillance images of him assaulting a 51-year-old White male in what police call was a "premeditated, brutal assault".
According to reports, Hatchett was seen walking into an AutoZone on Tuesday, August 25, 2020, asking for a thermostat and after he was informed the store didn't have it, he stabbed a White employee in the neck and torso seven times. Witnesses said Hatchett fled the scene immediately after committing the assault. The surveillance footage also shows him fleeing the scene.
According to courtroom testimony, Police say Hatchett told them he had been watching videos on Facebook for hours of police shootings around the country. Police say he told them he decided during those videos he wanted to stab a White male. He was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime. As it turns out, the 19-year-old had been charged for criminal damage to property just three days prior. Six months before that, he was reportedly booked for two felonies, including aggravated assault.
The police said that the victim had no apparent connection with the assailant. He was transported to the hospital in a critical condition but is now expected to recover — apparently lucky enough to survive the injuries. According to reports, Sgt Ray Mills told Judge Julius Hunter that Hatchett met him with a smile at his home when authorities went to capture him. He even readily confessed to the stabbing, adding that he "felt the need to find a White man to kill" after watching videos of police brutality across the country. His home was a short distance away from the AutoZone.
"Mr Hatchett told me that he had been watching Facebook videos of police shootings in other parts of the country and that he felt compelled to go stab a White male," SGT Mills testified. The presiding judge has ordered Hatchett to have mental health evaluation, declined to issue a bond, and is held at the Muscogee County Jail until the case is passed over to Superior Court.
If he is charged under the new hate crime law signed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp in June 2020, there might be tougher sentencing. While there is no hate crime charge that can be added at the law enforcement level, if this is proved in court, the judge can prolong the sentencing. Under the law, a person found guilty of committing a hate crime against someone because of their actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, mental disability, or physical disability as it relates to these protected classes would face additional punishment from six months to a year in prison and a fine of up to $5,000 for one of five misdemeanour offences and at least two years in prison for a felony offence.
HOLY SHIT, THERE'S A MAN'S DICK IN MY BEANS
A Woman Called the Cops Because She Thought Store-Bought Meat Was a Penis
Sunday, August 30, 2020
AL SHARPTON, WITH SHEILA JACKSON LEE AT HIS SIDE, HELD A RALLY OF 200,000 TRUMP-HATERS
Friday's March on Washington, that was organized and led by Al Sharpton in protest of police violence against Blacks, attracted an estimated crowd of 200,000.
By Howie Katz
Big Jolly Times
August 29, 2020
To commemorate Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech 57 years ago, 200,000 Trump-haters showed up for a March on Washington Friday in protest of police violence against Blacks.
The rally was organized and held by race-baiter Al Sharpton. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial along side of Sharpton. was none other than Houston's embarrassing contribution to Congress, Sheila Jackson Lee.
When Jackson Lee addressed the crowd she said:
"We must answer the call of institutional racism ... now, today, this attack on us as people of color, who died on the battles of warfare, who have died on the streets for civil rights, it will stop today. We will heal the nation, but we will not stop until the nation knows Black lives matter and reparations are passed as the most significant civil rights legislation of the 21st century."
Ah, another call for reparations .
Jackson Lee Lee has no problem standing alongside a charlatan with a very sordid past. Sharpton was an unofficial adviser to President Obama with an open invitation to the White House during the Obama presidency.
Sharpton also gave the eulogy at George Floyd's funeral in Houston. His eulogy was mostly an attack on President Trump whom he accused of showing indifference over Floyd's death, and sending police a signal of impunity.
Sharpton is held in high esteem, but most people are not aware of his sordid past.
Here is the real Al Shrpton:
Sharpton rose to fame in 1987 by stoking racial tensions over a rape hoax. A New York teen, Tawana Brawley, falsely accused four white men of raping her in the woods of Wappingers Falls, New York. She claimed, after the assault, the men wrapped her in a feces-covered bag covered with racial slurs. Sharpton and two attorneys charged that officials all the way up to the state government were trying to cover up defendants in the case because they were white. After a lengthy investigation, a grand jury found that the allegations were a hoax.
Then there was the 1991 Crown Heights riot in New York that was led by Sharpton. The riot started after a Jewish driver accidentally struck a young black child. The rioters terrorized that Jewish community for nearly four days, during which 183 people were injured and an innocent visiting Jewish-Australian university student was murdered in cold blood amid cries of ‘Kill the Jew! Kill the Jew!”
The Crown Heights riot caused former Houston police chief Lee Brown to be fired from his New York Police Commissioner's job.
In 1995, Sharpton turned a non-racial economic dispute into a racial conflict.
The United House of Prayer, a large African-American church, was also a major landlord in Harlem. They raised the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned clothing store which had operated from the same Harlem location for over 40 years. In turn, Freddy's had to raise the rent on its sub-tenant, a black-owned record store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensued.
Sharpton showed up and incited a crowd with anti-Semitic outbursts that led to the fire-bombing of Freddy's which caused the deaths of seven store employees and customers.
And in 2006, there was the case in which three members of the Duke lacrosse team were falsely accused of raping a black woman. Without any facts, Al Sharpton showed up in Durham to declare that these "rich white boys” had attacked a ”black girl,” and he warned that, if arrests were not made immediately, there would be no peace. And just like with Tawana Brawley, it was later proven that the woman had totally invented the story and all charges against the defendants were dropped.
Sharpton should have been imprisoned for inciting the Crown Heights riot and the fire bombing of Freddy's Fashion Mart.. Instead, this dangerous rabble rouser became the host of a political talk show on MSNBC and an Obama adviser.
So, now a thoroughly discredited race-baiter holds a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial which turns out be an attack on President Trump and the police. Those 200,000 attendees were probably Trump-haters to begin with. You can bet they, along with their families and friends, are a cinch to vote for Biden-Harris. That's a sizable chunk of the electorate.
By Howie Katz
Big Jolly Times
August 29, 2020
To commemorate Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech 57 years ago, 200,000 Trump-haters showed up for a March on Washington Friday in protest of police violence against Blacks.
The rally was organized and held by race-baiter Al Sharpton. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial along side of Sharpton. was none other than Houston's embarrassing contribution to Congress, Sheila Jackson Lee.
When Jackson Lee addressed the crowd she said:
"We must answer the call of institutional racism ... now, today, this attack on us as people of color, who died on the battles of warfare, who have died on the streets for civil rights, it will stop today. We will heal the nation, but we will not stop until the nation knows Black lives matter and reparations are passed as the most significant civil rights legislation of the 21st century."
Ah, another call for reparations .
Jackson Lee Lee has no problem standing alongside a charlatan with a very sordid past. Sharpton was an unofficial adviser to President Obama with an open invitation to the White House during the Obama presidency.
Sharpton also gave the eulogy at George Floyd's funeral in Houston. His eulogy was mostly an attack on President Trump whom he accused of showing indifference over Floyd's death, and sending police a signal of impunity.
Sharpton is held in high esteem, but most people are not aware of his sordid past.
Here is the real Al Shrpton:
Sharpton rose to fame in 1987 by stoking racial tensions over a rape hoax. A New York teen, Tawana Brawley, falsely accused four white men of raping her in the woods of Wappingers Falls, New York. She claimed, after the assault, the men wrapped her in a feces-covered bag covered with racial slurs. Sharpton and two attorneys charged that officials all the way up to the state government were trying to cover up defendants in the case because they were white. After a lengthy investigation, a grand jury found that the allegations were a hoax.
Then there was the 1991 Crown Heights riot in New York that was led by Sharpton. The riot started after a Jewish driver accidentally struck a young black child. The rioters terrorized that Jewish community for nearly four days, during which 183 people were injured and an innocent visiting Jewish-Australian university student was murdered in cold blood amid cries of ‘Kill the Jew! Kill the Jew!”
The Crown Heights riot caused former Houston police chief Lee Brown to be fired from his New York Police Commissioner's job.
In 1995, Sharpton turned a non-racial economic dispute into a racial conflict.
The United House of Prayer, a large African-American church, was also a major landlord in Harlem. They raised the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned clothing store which had operated from the same Harlem location for over 40 years. In turn, Freddy's had to raise the rent on its sub-tenant, a black-owned record store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensued.
Sharpton showed up and incited a crowd with anti-Semitic outbursts that led to the fire-bombing of Freddy's which caused the deaths of seven store employees and customers.
And in 2006, there was the case in which three members of the Duke lacrosse team were falsely accused of raping a black woman. Without any facts, Al Sharpton showed up in Durham to declare that these "rich white boys” had attacked a ”black girl,” and he warned that, if arrests were not made immediately, there would be no peace. And just like with Tawana Brawley, it was later proven that the woman had totally invented the story and all charges against the defendants were dropped.
Sharpton should have been imprisoned for inciting the Crown Heights riot and the fire bombing of Freddy's Fashion Mart.. Instead, this dangerous rabble rouser became the host of a political talk show on MSNBC and an Obama adviser.
So, now a thoroughly discredited race-baiter holds a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial which turns out be an attack on President Trump and the police. Those 200,000 attendees were probably Trump-haters to begin with. You can bet they, along with their families and friends, are a cinch to vote for Biden-Harris. That's a sizable chunk of the electorate.
DEFENDING KYLE RITTENHOUSE RESULTS IN SOCIAL MEDIA SHITSTORM
Ann Coulter, Tucker Carlson and Aubrey Huff slammed for defending the teen suspected of killing two Kenosha protestors
THE ERA OF NAZI WAR CRIME TRIALS IS OVER
Since 1945, the effort to bring Holocaust perpetrators to justice has redefined our understanding of state-sponsored evil
By
On
July 23, a German court convicted Bruno Dey as an accessory to the
murder of 5,230 people. Mr. Dey had served in the SS during World War II
as a guard at Stutthof, a lesser-known Nazi concentration camp located
outside of Gdansk, Poland. Bizarrely, because the 93-year-old defendant
had begun his guard duties when he was just 17 years old, he was tried
in juvenile court. Partly for this reason, he received a lenient
sentence of two years, suspended.
Mr.
Dey may be the last person to be convicted for taking part in the
Nazis’ annihilation of six million European Jews. The philosopher Hannah
Arendt once described the Holocaust as a crime that “oversteps and
shatters all legal systems,” but that didn’t stop prosecutors in dozens
of nations from laboring long and energetically to bring its
perpetrators to justice. Some of the most important trials of the last
75 years include the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals,
the first international criminal proceeding in history, in 1945-46; the
1961 Jerusalem trial of Adolf Eichmann, the logistical mastermind behind
the deportation of Jews to SS killing centers; the 1987 French trial of
former Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie, the so-called “butcher of Lyon”;
and the multiple trials of John Demjanjuk, a former guard at the Sobibór
extermination camp who was convicted by a Munich court in 2011, in the
last Holocaust trial to garner international attention.
These
famous cases represent only a few of the many criminal trials that
touched on the crimes of the Holocaust. Poland alone conducted some
40,000 trials and convicted over 5,000 German and Austrian nationals.
Trials took place in every European country that had fallen under Nazi
rule, from Norway to Albania—though it’s impossible to say exactly how
many of these cases directly addressed Nazi extermination.
Whatever
the exact number, the effort to do justice to the crimes of the
Holocaust demanded great legal creativity. Western legal thought had
long viewed the state as the ultimate guarantor of safety and order; the
idea that a developed state might itself turn criminal seemed
unimaginable. Yet under Hitler, the German state did just that, becoming
the agent of criminality and the principal perpetrator of crimes.
To
puncture the shield of immunity that traditionally protected state
actions from legal scrutiny, jurists forged new categories of
wrongdoing. Although Nuremberg wasn’t primarily a Holocaust trial—the
main charge against the 21 defendants was planning and waging a war of
aggression—it was the first trial to involve “crimes against humanity,”
the charge Allied prosecutors used to bring much of the evidence of the
Holocaust before the international tribunal.
A
second great legal innovation was the concept of genocide, coined in
1943 by the Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin to describe the Nazis’
treatment of Jews in occupied Europe. Wedding genos, an ancient Greek word for group, to cide,
from the Latin word for killing, Lemkin named something graver than
even mass murder—the “destruction of essential foundations of the life
of…groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.” In 1948,
with the framing of the U.N. Genocide Convention, genocide became a
crime in international law.
These
new incriminations gave prosecutors powerful tools to pursue the
perpetrators of Nazi atrocities. More recently, they have enabled the
prosecution of mass crimes in Cambodia, the Balkans and Rwanda. The one
nation in which these legal innovations proved less than useful was
Germany itself. Germany enjoys the reputation of having confronted its
Nazi past with impressive thoroughness, but when it came to bringing
Nazi perpetrators and collaborators to justice, the Federal Republic’s
legal system long struggled to get things right.
Germany
reclaimed its partial sovereignty in 1949. Almost immediately, its
courts concluded that because genocide and crimes against humanity
weren’t formally recognized as crimes until after the war, charging
former Nazis with them would be mean applying ex post facto law. This
position, shared by no other European nation, meant that the very
devices designed to facilitate the prosecution of Nazi exterminators
were off the table. As a result, German prosecutors were forced to rely
on charges of ordinary statutory murder to try former Nazis. In cases
where prosecutors couldn’t prove an act of individual, hands-on killing,
successful prosecution was basically impossible.
For
decades, this case law essentially shielded all guards at SS killing
centers from prosecution. Although German courts long indulged the myth
that SS members participated in genocide because they had been forced to
do so, historians have never found a single instance of an SS man being
executed or even severely punished for opting out of genocide.
The
trial of John Demjanjuk marked a historic break with this
jurisprudence. Demjanjuk, known during World War II as Ivan, was a
Ukrainian-born SS collaborator who worked as a guard at Sobibór, the
Nazi extermination camp where some 250,000 Jews were killed by gassing.
Demjanjuk immigrated to the U.S. after the war, became a naturalized
citizen and lived for decades in suburban Cleveland—even after American
investigators learned of his camp service. But while American
prosecutors couldn’t try Demjanjuk for crimes committed overseas, they
could charge him with lying about his wartime activities on his visa and
citizenship applications and revoke his naturalization.
After
decades of legal haggling, Demjanjuk was deported to Germany, where in
2011 a court convicted him as an accessory to the murder of 28,000 Jews.
The court’s decision followed a simple logic that earlier German judges
had rejected: At Sobibór, all the guards acted as accessories to murder
because murder had been the camp’s very purpose. Once it was
established that Demjanjuk served there as a guard, his guilt followed,
regardless of whether the prosecution could prove that he killed anyone
by his own hand.
Armed
with this belated precedent, German prosecutors promptly began
investigating dozens of guards whom the old model had shielded. This
resulted in the conviction of three former SS guards—Oskar Gröning, the
so-called “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” in 2015; Reinhold Hanning, who also
served at Auschwitz, in 2016; and now Bruno Dey.
Some
may doubt the wisdom of trying people for crimes committed
three-quarters of a century ago. The idea that the last Holocaust trial
would end with the suspended sentence of a nonagenarian tried as a
juvenile is certainly a strange denouement.
Yet
in a sense Mr. Dey’s conviction stands as a fitting conclusion to the
era of Holocaust trials, since it reminds us of an essential truth.
While state-sponsored atrocities may be ordered by a few leaders, it is
always largely the work of lowly foot soldiers. In such cases, guilt
can’t simply be measured in terms of hands-on acts of cruelty;
participating in a murderous system is a crime in itself.
FREEZE YOU LITTLE BASTARDS
Durham police officers accused of pulling guns on boys 15, 9 and 11 playing tag
By Sarah Krueger and Rosalia Fodera
WRAL
August 27, 2020
Durham, N.C. — The Durham Police Department is investigating an incident last week in which several officers are accused of drawing their guns on three boys playing outside an east Durham apartment complex and handcuffing one of the boys.
Fifteen-year-old Jaylin Harris and 9-year-old Zakarryya Cornelius said they were playing tag with an 11-year-old friend last Friday at the Rochelle Manor Apartments complex when the officers confronted them.
"As soon as we come around the corner, we walk into five cops pointing guns at us saying, 'Freeze!' and 'Get on the ground!'" Jaylin said. "So, we were just thinking, like, what did we do? We didn’t even do anything wrong."
"I was just terrified," Zakarryya said.
Jaylin said the officers patted him down and handcuffed him, all while guns remained pointed at him and his young friends.
"I asked them, 'Why am I getting arrested? What’s going on?'" he said. "They didn’t say anything. They didn’t tell me anything. They didn’t say, 'Sorry for the inconvenience.' They just kept going about their day.
"I’m like, 'I hope I don’t die today,'" he added. "I didn’t make any wrong movements at that time or anything like that – Just outside playing tag and walked into guns pointed at me."
Zakarryya's mother, Makeba Hoffler, said she saw the incident unfold and ran over with a 3-year-old in her arms to stop the officers.
"Even as I proceeded to run toward the officer screaming, 'They are kids,' their guns were still drawn," Hoffler said. "'I’m going to die tonight.' That’s what I was thinking because, like I said, I was not going to bury my son, and I was not going to bury none of these kids."
None of the boys was charged with a crime, and police later told the families that they had received a report of someone who matched Jaylin's description who had a gun and was selling drugs at the apartment complex.
"Durham officers responded to this location several times earlier in the day for weapons related calls," Police Chief C.J. Davis said in a statement Thursday. "The Durham Police Department remains fully committed to working with the residents of Rochelle Manor Apartments, as well as our entire community, in maintaining safety."
Hoffler said that explanation doesn't justify the way the boys were treated.
"These are good kids. They’re babies," she said. "There’s no justification. There’s nothing that they can say or do to make this all right. ... What if these kids would have kept running because they were so scared? The officers would’ve shot. Our babies would’ve been at Duke Hospital."
The families met with department officials Wednesday night hoping for an apology and an assurance that such an incident wouldn't happen again, but they left disappointed.
"It was a waste of time because the same way they had the guns on the kids' heads and didn’t care, that’s the same way they was looking at that table and didn’t care," Hoffler said.
"I was hoping for like something like a big outcome or anything, but they way they looked, you could tell they didn’t really care," Jaylin said.
Mayor Steve Schewel said he doesn't know the specifics of the incident, but he trusts that Davis will resolve any problems.
"All of our communities need to be safe from violence, and that includes any violence that might occur or fear of violence that might occur when police are involved," Schewel said.
"We are equally sensitive of the need to promote trust and positive interactions between our officers and children," Davis said in her statement. "We remain steadfast in our desire to continue to have these important conversations so that we can ensure all members of our community receive the service they expect and deserve.”
Hoffler said that she hoped Durham would be better than other cities where police have shot Black men.
"I told my kids not to hate cops. Now, how can I explain to them not to hate the same people that put a gun to them?" she said. "I’m still upset. I’ve never had a gun pointed at my head, but my 8-year-old did."
The boys said they now fear police.
"Every time I see them, I feel like I got to get on the ground," Zakarryya said.
Jaylin and his mother, Ashley Harris, said they plan to seek therapy because they are struggling with post-traumatic stress.
"Every time I go outside or something, I got to turn around or look over my shoulder," Jaylin said. "Is there police over there, or am I going to have to do the same thing over again?"
By Sarah Krueger and Rosalia Fodera
WRAL
August 27, 2020
Durham, N.C. — The Durham Police Department is investigating an incident last week in which several officers are accused of drawing their guns on three boys playing outside an east Durham apartment complex and handcuffing one of the boys.
Fifteen-year-old Jaylin Harris and 9-year-old Zakarryya Cornelius said they were playing tag with an 11-year-old friend last Friday at the Rochelle Manor Apartments complex when the officers confronted them.
"As soon as we come around the corner, we walk into five cops pointing guns at us saying, 'Freeze!' and 'Get on the ground!'" Jaylin said. "So, we were just thinking, like, what did we do? We didn’t even do anything wrong."
"I was just terrified," Zakarryya said.
Jaylin said the officers patted him down and handcuffed him, all while guns remained pointed at him and his young friends.
"I asked them, 'Why am I getting arrested? What’s going on?'" he said. "They didn’t say anything. They didn’t tell me anything. They didn’t say, 'Sorry for the inconvenience.' They just kept going about their day.
"I’m like, 'I hope I don’t die today,'" he added. "I didn’t make any wrong movements at that time or anything like that – Just outside playing tag and walked into guns pointed at me."
Zakarryya's mother, Makeba Hoffler, said she saw the incident unfold and ran over with a 3-year-old in her arms to stop the officers.
"Even as I proceeded to run toward the officer screaming, 'They are kids,' their guns were still drawn," Hoffler said. "'I’m going to die tonight.' That’s what I was thinking because, like I said, I was not going to bury my son, and I was not going to bury none of these kids."
None of the boys was charged with a crime, and police later told the families that they had received a report of someone who matched Jaylin's description who had a gun and was selling drugs at the apartment complex.
"Durham officers responded to this location several times earlier in the day for weapons related calls," Police Chief C.J. Davis said in a statement Thursday. "The Durham Police Department remains fully committed to working with the residents of Rochelle Manor Apartments, as well as our entire community, in maintaining safety."
Hoffler said that explanation doesn't justify the way the boys were treated.
"These are good kids. They’re babies," she said. "There’s no justification. There’s nothing that they can say or do to make this all right. ... What if these kids would have kept running because they were so scared? The officers would’ve shot. Our babies would’ve been at Duke Hospital."
The families met with department officials Wednesday night hoping for an apology and an assurance that such an incident wouldn't happen again, but they left disappointed.
"It was a waste of time because the same way they had the guns on the kids' heads and didn’t care, that’s the same way they was looking at that table and didn’t care," Hoffler said.
"I was hoping for like something like a big outcome or anything, but they way they looked, you could tell they didn’t really care," Jaylin said.
Mayor Steve Schewel said he doesn't know the specifics of the incident, but he trusts that Davis will resolve any problems.
"All of our communities need to be safe from violence, and that includes any violence that might occur or fear of violence that might occur when police are involved," Schewel said.
"We are equally sensitive of the need to promote trust and positive interactions between our officers and children," Davis said in her statement. "We remain steadfast in our desire to continue to have these important conversations so that we can ensure all members of our community receive the service they expect and deserve.”
Hoffler said that she hoped Durham would be better than other cities where police have shot Black men.
"I told my kids not to hate cops. Now, how can I explain to them not to hate the same people that put a gun to them?" she said. "I’m still upset. I’ve never had a gun pointed at my head, but my 8-year-old did."
The boys said they now fear police.
"Every time I see them, I feel like I got to get on the ground," Zakarryya said.
Jaylin and his mother, Ashley Harris, said they plan to seek therapy because they are struggling with post-traumatic stress.
"Every time I go outside or something, I got to turn around or look over my shoulder," Jaylin said. "Is there police over there, or am I going to have to do the same thing over again?"
STEVEN CARILLO WILL LIKELY HEAD TO THE EXECUTION CHAMBER
Day after RNC mention, Boogaloo-linked ex-Air Force Sgt accused of killing cops stands in court wearing mask with BLM written on it
By Nate Gartrell, Angela Ruggiero and Doug Duran
The Mercury News
August 27, 2020
DUBLIN, Calif. — The day after being condemned by Vice President Mike Pence at the Republican National Convention, the ex-Air Force Sergeant associated with the extremist anti-government Boogaloo movement stood in court Thursday and pleaded not guilty to murdering a Santa Cruz Sheriff’s sergeant.
Steven Carrillo, 32, appeared in Dublin before a Santa Cruz County judge Thursday afternoon, wearing a large red jumpsuit indicating his placement in the Santa Rita Jail. His face was covered by a mask that had been written on with a marker: “We the people,” was at the top, and “BLM,” in large letters at the middle. At the bottom was written: “Portland, Kenosha, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.”
Carrillo is facing charges in federal and state court of first gunning down Federal Protective Services Officer Dave Patrick Underwood in Oakland, and then, a week later, murdering Santa Cruz Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller during an ambush in Ben Lomond. Underwood’s partner was injured, as were two other police officers in the attack that killed Gutzwiller.
“Angela, we say to you: We grieve with your family. And America will never forget or fail to honor officer Dave Patrick Underwood,” Pence said Wednesday evening. “The American people know we do not have to choose between supporting law enforcement and standing with our African-American neighbors to improve the quality of their lives, education, jobs and safety.”
The FBI has repeatedly said that Carrillo and his co-defendant, Robert Justus, traveled to Oakland to assassinate law enforcement officers but were not part of a protest that night that came in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. Underwood’s alleged killers picked the night of May 29 for the attack because they knew local police would be distracted by the protests, according to federal authorities.
The Boogaloo movement was started online, and based upon a meme making light of a second civil war that supporters believe is on the horizon. It is based on a reference to the movie “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo,” implying that a sequel to the Civil War is looming.
According to experts on extremism who have studied the movement, it is composed of two loosely organized ideologies — one that is decidedly white supremacist, and another that has aligned itself with other groups that have been critical of cops, including the Black Lives Matter movement.
“The ‘non-racists’ view Black Lives Matter and anti-fascist protests as like, really good anti-government energy but directed in the wrong way, because Black Lives Matter is going for policy changes and things a Boogaloo Boy doesn’t care about,” said Alex Newhouse, a researcher with the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism who focuses on far-right extremist groups. “The Boogaloo movement is radically anti-authoritarian. A lot of supporters view the police as the most obvious representation of government violence.”
When Carrillo was arrested in Ben Lomond, authorities discovered he’d written phrases in his own blood onto his white van, including “Boog,” and “I became unreasonable,” a reference to a man who became an icon in anti-government groups because of the 2004 rampage in which he bulldozed 13 buildings in a Colorado town over a land dispute.
Carrillo and his co-defendant in the federal case, Robert Justus, allegedly met through a Boogaloo-associated Facebook group. The criminal complaint against them references posts allegedly made by Carrillo, where he talks about wanting to manipulate protests of police violence.
“Go to the riots and support our own cause. Show them the real targets,” Carrillo allegedly wrote in one post. “Use their anger to fuel our fire. Think outside the box. We have mobs of angry people to use to our advantage.”
The night Underwood was killed, Carrillo and Justus allegedly drove to downtown Oakland in Carrillo’s white van. Justus got out, did “reconnaissance” on foot, then returned to Carrillo. Justus drove the fan as Carrillo opened fire at Underwood and his partner, who were stationed at the Ronald Dellums Federal Building on Clay Street.
Carrillo, a Ben Lomond resident, was the leader of a U.S. Air Force anti-terrorism squad, and was stationed at Travis Air Force Base at the time of his arrest. Police say a week after killing Underwood, he ambushed Gutzwiller and other Santa Cruz deputies with an AR-15-style homemade rifle, and by lobbing pipe bombs at them. He allegedly attempted several carjackings after killing Gutzwiller in the gunfight with police.
The charges against Carrillo make him eligible for a death sentence in both federal and state court, though federal prosecutors said at Carrillo’s court hearing earlier this month they won’t make a formal recommendation on whether to pursue death until at least mid-September. Carrillo’s federal defense attorney predicted it would be several weeks longer than that, saying there are thousands of pages of discovery in the case.
During Thursday afternoon’s hearing — held at Alameda County’s East County Hall of Justice due to the fires threatening Santa Cruz County — Carrillo could be heard telling Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge Paul Burdick “yes, your honor,” agreeing to waive his right to be personally present for non-essential hearings.
As Carrillo’s hearing was heard in Dublin, the town of Ben Lomond — where Gutzwiller was killed and Carrillo lived — was being threatened by forest fires.
Although an absence of significant wind and a break from hot, dry weather is helping firefighters control the fire above Ben Lomond. Crews have cut, scraped and burned a firebreak that runs across the mountainside above the town, but the fire up beyond it is still burning and as of Thursday afternoon it was not clear when evacuated Ben Lomond residents might be able to return, said Cal Fire spokesman Dan Olson.
Carrillo is currently being held without bail. His next hearing was set for Dec. 11 in Santa Cruz County, to set a preliminary hearing date, likely to be held after Jan. 1.
KEITH NELSON WAS EXECUTED FOR WHAT HE DID IN 1999, NOT FOR WHAT HE IS LIKE TODAY
US government executes man for the 1999 rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl
The Justice Department reinstated federal executions in mid-July after a 17-year hiatus.
Nelson,
45, had been sentenced to death for the 1999 kidnapping, sexual abuse
and subsequent killing of a 10-year-old girl, Pamela Butler, he abducted
while she was rollerblading in front of her Kansas home. Nelson
confessed to raping Butler and strangling her with a wire.
Nelson's
attorneys had filed a flurry of last-minute legal challenges to his
execution, including arguments that the use of the drug pentobarbital,
used in every federal lethal injection this summer, violated the Food,
Drug and Cosmetics Act. The appeals court in Washington, DC, ultimately
ordered his execution must move forward despite his claim. They did not
appeal to the Supreme Court.
His attorneys, Dale Baich and Jen
Moreno, said that "the execution of Keith Nelson did not make the world a
safer place. Over the years, we have come to know Keith as someone who
was different than the person who committed the horrible crime to which
he admitted and pled guilty to in 2001. We saw his humanity, his
compassion, and his sense of humor."
When
a prison official standing over Nelson asked him if he had any last
words, he was met with silence. Nelson did not utter a word, grunt or
nod. The official waited for about 15 seconds, his eyes fixed on Nelson,
then turned away and began the execution procedures. Nelson was
pronounced dead about nine minutes after the injection began.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Of course, Nelson is now different from 20 years ago.
Good riddance! Good for the government.
Saturday, August 29, 2020
COLOMBIAN AUTHORITIES NAB $1.2 MILLION SUB HAULING $18 MILLION WORTH OF COCAINE
Submarine loaded with $18 million worth of cocaine purchased by Jalisco New Generation Cartel is intercepted by Colombian authorities
By Adry Torres
Daily Mail
August 28, 2020
Colombian authorities intercepted a narco-submarine transporting $18 million worth of cocaine for Mexico's fastest-growing cartel.
The
massive drug bust was made 52 miles off the Pacific coast city of
Tumaco on Sunday and netted the arrest of three individuals who were
manning the submarine.
According to the
National Defense Ministry, the submarine is valued at $1.2 million and
has sufficient space to transport up to three tons of cocaine.
The
vessel was also equipped with a special satellite navigation system
that programmed its arrival in Jalisco, Mexico, in the first week of
September.
Intelligence reports revealed the shipment
had been arranged by the Grupos Armados Organizados Residuales E-30
[Residual Organized Armed Groups], considered one of the most dangerous
criminal syndicates in Colombia with links to murders and kidnappings in
the provinces of Nariño and Cauca.
The
group had entered an agreement to sell 1,055 kilos of cocaine to the
Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the most powerful criminal
organizations in Mexico, and drop off the delivery in Costa Careyes, an
exclusive resort town off the Pacific Ocean.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel's
influence rivals that of JoaquÃn 'El Chapo' Guzmán old Sinaloa Cartel,
which is now operated by his sons, the organization's co-founder Ismael
'El Mayo' Zambada, and Rafael Caro Quintero.
The
Jalisco network is led by Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera, for whom the
Drug Enforcement Agency is offering a $10million reward for information
leading to his capture.
His cartel has a
presence in 24 of 32 states in Mexico and has shipped cocaine, heroin,
methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced heroin to the United States.
The
Colombian narco submarine seizure comes nine months after Spanish
authorities intercepted a vessel with $121million worth of cocaine
following a week-long, 4,800-mile voyage.
EDITOR'S NOTE: A significant victory in the war on drugs.
EDITOR'S NOTE: A significant victory in the war on drugs.
PAT LYNCH SPEAKS NOT ONLY FOR NY COPS, BUT FOR ALL OF THE NATION'S LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
'We have a real leader. We have President Donald J. Trump. You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America'
Here is a transcript of Patrick Lynch's speech to the RNC:
This is Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch, speaking to you on behalf of 50,000 active and retired New York City police officers.
We are the men and women who wear a shield on our chests and put ourselves in harm’s way to protect our city, every single day.
We are endorsing our president, Donald J. Trump, for re-election because the stakes have never been higher.
Like cops across this country, we are staring down the barrel of a public safety disaster.
More than one thousand people have been shot and three hundred killed in New York City so far this year.
These aren’t numbers. These are people.
A father gunned down while holding his seven-year-old daughter’s hand.
A beloved neighborhood peacemaker killed by a stray bullet.
A 17-year-old who made all the right choices, who worked hard to go to college and earn a sports scholarship, murdered before he could tell his mother the news.
A one-year old child shot dead in his stroller.
Every day, our communities are asking us:
Why is this happening?
The answer is simple: The Democrats have walked away from us.
Democratic politicians have surrendered our streets and institutions.
The loudest voices have taken control, and our so-called “leaders” are scrambling to catch up to them.
In city after city, they have slashed police budgets.
They have hijacked and dismantled the criminal justice system.
They have passed laws that made it impossible for police officers to do our job.
The violence and chaos we’re seeing now isn’t a side effect.
It’s actually the goal.
The radical left doesn’t really want better policing.
They don’t really care about making the justice system fairer.
What they want is no policing.
What they want is a justice system that stops working altogether.
Wherever Democrats are in power, the radical left is getting exactly what they want.
And our country is suffering for it.
I have been a New York City police officer for 36 years.
I’ve never seen our streets go this bad so quickly.
I’ve never heard from so many cops, from every corner of the country, who are saying the same thing: “Our hands are tied.”
Something has to change.
If we are going to turn the tide and restore law and order, we cannot fall into the left’s trap.
There is nobody who hates bad cops more than good cops, but that doesn’t matter to the radical left.
To them, we’re all bad, because we’re all blue.
Their anti-law enforcement campaign isn’t about a single incident.
It’s about a message:
The message is: police officers are the enemy.
The message is: criminals have the right to resist arrest.
The message is: if you victimize a vulnerable person, the justice system will not hold you accountable.
The criminals have heard that message, and they are taking full advantage.
We must stop that message.
We must expose the left’s lies about police officers and the job we do.
And we will do that, because we have something they don’t.
We have a real leader.
We have President Donald J. Trump.
Unlike the Democrats, who are running in fear of the mob in the street, President Trump has never apologized for standing up for law and order.
Unlike the Democrats, who froze in the face of rioting and looting, President Trump gives law enforcement the support and tools to put a stop to it – period, end of story.
It has never been harder to be a police officer in this country.
But there are two things that keep us going:
We look at the victims, the vulnerable, the regular working people who count on us.
We know we can’t let them down.
And we hear the words of our President, who says to cops everywhere “I will never let you down.”
We’ve been fortunate to have his powerful voice defending police officers.
We know that we absolutely cannot afford to lose it.
When it comes to your safety, your families’ safety and the safety of all Americans, there is no other choice.
You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.
You can have four more years of President Trump.
Or you can have no safety, no justice, no peace.
Here is a transcript of Patrick Lynch's speech to the RNC:
This is Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch, speaking to you on behalf of 50,000 active and retired New York City police officers.
We are the men and women who wear a shield on our chests and put ourselves in harm’s way to protect our city, every single day.
We are endorsing our president, Donald J. Trump, for re-election because the stakes have never been higher.
Like cops across this country, we are staring down the barrel of a public safety disaster.
More than one thousand people have been shot and three hundred killed in New York City so far this year.
These aren’t numbers. These are people.
A father gunned down while holding his seven-year-old daughter’s hand.
A beloved neighborhood peacemaker killed by a stray bullet.
A 17-year-old who made all the right choices, who worked hard to go to college and earn a sports scholarship, murdered before he could tell his mother the news.
A one-year old child shot dead in his stroller.
Every day, our communities are asking us:
Why is this happening?
The answer is simple: The Democrats have walked away from us.
Democratic politicians have surrendered our streets and institutions.
The loudest voices have taken control, and our so-called “leaders” are scrambling to catch up to them.
In city after city, they have slashed police budgets.
They have hijacked and dismantled the criminal justice system.
They have passed laws that made it impossible for police officers to do our job.
The violence and chaos we’re seeing now isn’t a side effect.
It’s actually the goal.
The radical left doesn’t really want better policing.
They don’t really care about making the justice system fairer.
What they want is no policing.
What they want is a justice system that stops working altogether.
Wherever Democrats are in power, the radical left is getting exactly what they want.
And our country is suffering for it.
I have been a New York City police officer for 36 years.
I’ve never seen our streets go this bad so quickly.
I’ve never heard from so many cops, from every corner of the country, who are saying the same thing: “Our hands are tied.”
Something has to change.
If we are going to turn the tide and restore law and order, we cannot fall into the left’s trap.
There is nobody who hates bad cops more than good cops, but that doesn’t matter to the radical left.
To them, we’re all bad, because we’re all blue.
Their anti-law enforcement campaign isn’t about a single incident.
It’s about a message:
The message is: police officers are the enemy.
The message is: criminals have the right to resist arrest.
The message is: if you victimize a vulnerable person, the justice system will not hold you accountable.
The criminals have heard that message, and they are taking full advantage.
We must stop that message.
We must expose the left’s lies about police officers and the job we do.
And we will do that, because we have something they don’t.
We have a real leader.
We have President Donald J. Trump.
Unlike the Democrats, who are running in fear of the mob in the street, President Trump has never apologized for standing up for law and order.
Unlike the Democrats, who froze in the face of rioting and looting, President Trump gives law enforcement the support and tools to put a stop to it – period, end of story.
It has never been harder to be a police officer in this country.
But there are two things that keep us going:
We look at the victims, the vulnerable, the regular working people who count on us.
We know we can’t let them down.
And we hear the words of our President, who says to cops everywhere “I will never let you down.”
We’ve been fortunate to have his powerful voice defending police officers.
We know that we absolutely cannot afford to lose it.
When it comes to your safety, your families’ safety and the safety of all Americans, there is no other choice.
You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.
You can have four more years of President Trump.
Or you can have no safety, no justice, no peace.
JACOB BLAKE HAD AN OPEN WARRANT FOR FELONY SEXUAL ASSAULT
Kenosha police union gives its version of Blake shooting
By Todd Richmond
Associated Press
August 28, 2020
By Todd Richmond
Associated Press
August 28, 2020
MADISON, Wis. — The Kenosha police union on
Friday offered the most detailed accounting to date on officers'
perspective of the moments leading up to police shooting Jacob Blake
seven times in the back, saying he had a knife and fought with officers,
putting one of them in a headlock and shrugging off two attempts to
stun him.
The statement
from Brendan Matthews, attorney for the Kenosha Professional Police
Association, goes into more detail than anything that has been released
by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, which is investigating.
The Sunday
shooting of Blake, a Black man, put the nation’s spotlight on Wisconsin
and triggered a series of peaceful protests and violence, including the
killing of two people by an armed civilian on Tuesday. Blake is
paralyzed from the shooting, his family said, and recovering in a
Milwaukee hospital.
Wisconsin
Attorney General Josh Kaul, who leads the state Justice Department, said
in a statement Friday evening that the agency is trying to conduct an
impartial investigation and can neither confirm nor deny the union's
version of events.
Ben Crump, an
attorney for Blake’s family, did not immediately respond to emails
seeking comment. He said earlier this week that Blake was only trying to
break up a domestic dispute and did nothing to provoke police, adding
that witnesses didn't see him with a knife. Crump has called for the
arrest of the officer who shot Blake and for the two other officers
involved in the shooting to be fired.
Cellphone video
shows Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey and another officer
following Blake with their guns drawn as he walks around the front of a
parked SUV as they responded to a domestic dispute.
According to Matthews, the officers were
dispatched there because of a complaint that Blake was attempting to
steal the caller’s keys and vehicle. Matthews said officers were aware
that Blake had an open warrant for felony sexual assault before they
arrived.
Blake was armed with a knife, but officers did not initially see it, Matthews said.
“The officers first saw him holding the knife while they were on the passenger side of the vehicle,” he said.
The bystander
who recorded the shooting, 22-year-old Raysean White, said he saw Blake
scuffling with three officers and heard them yell, “Drop the knife! Drop
the knife!” before gunfire erupted. He said he didn’t see a knife in
Blake’s hands. State investigators have said only that officers saw a
knife on the floor of the car. They have not said whether Blake
threatened anyone with it.
Matthews said
officers made multiple requests to Blake to drop the knife, but he was
uncooperative. He said officers used a Taser on Blake, but it did not
incapacitate him.
“Blake
forcefully fought with the officers, including putting one of the
officers in a headlock,” Matthews said. A second stun from a Taser also
did not stop him, he said.
As Blake opened
the driver’s door of the SUV, Sheskey pulled on Blake’s shirt and then
opened fire. Blake’s three children were in the backseat.
“Based on the
inability to gain compliance and control after using verbal, physical
and less-lethal means, the officers drew their firearms,” Matthews said.
“Mr. Blake continued to ignore the officers’ commands, even with the
threat of lethal force now present.”
The state
Justice Department has released almost no information about Sheskey or
the other two officers, Vincent Arenas and Brittany Meronek.
An annual Kenosha Police Department report indicates Sheskey was hired as an officer in 2013.
In an August
2019 interview with the Kenosha News, Sheskey said he had always wanted
to go into law enforcement, noting that his grandfather served the city
as a police officer for 33 years.
“What I like
most is that you’re dealing with people on perhaps the worst day of
their lives and you can try and help them as much as you can and make
that day a little bit better,” Sheskey told the newspaper. “And that,
for the most part, people trust us to do that for them. And it’s a huge
responsibility, and I really like trying to help people. We may not be
able to make a situation right, or better, but we can maybe make it a
little easier for them to handle during that time.”
Sheskey, who
appears to be white based on photographs and video, was moved to the
bike patrol in 2017, according to the Kenosha News interview.
He was among a
group of officers named in a handwritten federal lawsuit filed last year
by a man in the Kenosha County jail, Lathan Steven Ward, who accused
the officers of damaging his door while they were breaking it down to
execute a no-knock warrant in August 2018. He also accused the officers
of racial profiling and causing him pain and shame. U.S. District Judge
J.P. Stadtmueller dismissed the case, ruling Ward’s allegations weren’t
sufficient to sustain the lawsuit.
Before Sheskey
joined the Kenosha Police Department he worked for the campus police
department at University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha from the fall
of 2009 to the spring of 2013. He served in various roles, including as a
dispatcher, enforcing parking regulations and as a police officer,
university records show.
Investigators
have not said how many complaints may have been filed against Sheskey,
whether his superiors ever disciplined him or whether he earned any
commendations.
Arenas has been
with the Kenosha Police Department since February 2019 and previously
served with the U.S. Capitol Police Department from June 2017 through
January 2019, authorities said. Arenas served in the Marines from 2012
to 2017 and did not do any combat deployments, the Marine Corps said.
Meronek joined
the Kenosha police force in January. She received a technical diploma
from the criminal justice law enforcement academy at Gateway Technical
College in May, according to school records.
The Associated
Press has filed a request under Wisconsin’s open records law with both
the state Department of Justice and the Kenosha Police Department for
the officers’ service records. Government agencies typically take weeks
or months to turn over documents in response to such requests.
Sheskey and
Meronek did not respond to emails sent to possible addresses for them
and Arenas did not return a phone message left at a possible phone
number for him. No one returned messages left at possible telephone
numbers for officers’ family members. No one answered the door Thursday
at Sheskey’s home.
EDITOR'S NOTE: According to the toxicology report, George Floyd had a "lethal" amount of fentanyl and meth in his system at the time of his death. I suspect that, if the police union version is correct, a blood test would show that Blake was also under the influence of drugs at the time of the shooting.
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This is why Jacob Blake had a warrant out for his arrest
The cops involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake — which touched off a fresh wave of angry, anti-police sentiment across the country — were attempting to arrest him for violating a restraining order stemming from an alleged sexual assault, The Post has learned.
Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday.
That police union statement also claimed that Blake was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting — and had put one cop in a headlock and shrugged off two Taser attempts while resisting arrest.
Blake, who was paralyzed in the shooting, had been handcuffed to his hospital bed due to the warrant, which was vacated Friday, according to a statement released by his lawyer, Benjamin Crump. His restraints were removed, but he is still facing the criminal charges, Crump said.
Blake is accused in the criminal complaint, which was obtained by The Post, of breaking into the home of a woman he knew and sexually assaulting her.
The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said “I want my sh-t,” the record states.
She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men,” the criminal complaint alleges.
The officer who took her statement said she “had a very difficult time telling him this and cried as she told how the defendant assaulted her.”
The alleged victim said Blake “penetrating her digitally caused her pain and humiliation and was done without her consent” and she was “very humiliated and upset by the sexual assault,” the record states.
She told police she “was upset but collected herself” and then allegedly ran out the front door after Blake, the complaint says. She then realized her car was missing, checked her purse and saw the keys were missing and then “immediately called 911,” the complaint alleges.
The alleged victim told cops she has known him for eight years and claims that he physically assaults her “around twice a year when he drinks heavily.”
Police filed charges against him for felony sexual assault, trespassing and domestic abuse in July when a warrant was issued for his arrest.
On Sunday, within three minutes of responding to the 911 call, Blake was shot 7 times in the back as he attempted to get into his car.
Calls to Blake’s fiance, Crump and the Kenosha Police Department have gone unreturned.
EDITOR'S NOTE: According to the toxicology report, George Floyd had a "lethal" amount of fentanyl and meth in his system at the time of his death. I suspect that, if the police union version is correct, a blood test would show that Blake was also under the influence of drugs at the time of the shooting.
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This is why Jacob Blake had a warrant out for his arrest
The cops involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake — which touched off a fresh wave of angry, anti-police sentiment across the country — were attempting to arrest him for violating a restraining order stemming from an alleged sexual assault, The Post has learned.
Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday.
That police union statement also claimed that Blake was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting — and had put one cop in a headlock and shrugged off two Taser attempts while resisting arrest.
Blake, who was paralyzed in the shooting, had been handcuffed to his hospital bed due to the warrant, which was vacated Friday, according to a statement released by his lawyer, Benjamin Crump. His restraints were removed, but he is still facing the criminal charges, Crump said.
Blake is accused in the criminal complaint, which was obtained by The Post, of breaking into the home of a woman he knew and sexually assaulting her.
The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said “I want my sh-t,” the record states.
She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men,” the criminal complaint alleges.
The officer who took her statement said she “had a very difficult time telling him this and cried as she told how the defendant assaulted her.”
The alleged victim said Blake “penetrating her digitally caused her pain and humiliation and was done without her consent” and she was “very humiliated and upset by the sexual assault,” the record states.
She told police she “was upset but collected herself” and then allegedly ran out the front door after Blake, the complaint says. She then realized her car was missing, checked her purse and saw the keys were missing and then “immediately called 911,” the complaint alleges.
The alleged victim told cops she has known him for eight years and claims that he physically assaults her “around twice a year when he drinks heavily.”
Police filed charges against him for felony sexual assault, trespassing and domestic abuse in July when a warrant was issued for his arrest.
On Sunday, within three minutes of responding to the 911 call, Blake was shot 7 times in the back as he attempted to get into his car.
Calls to Blake’s fiance, Crump and the Kenosha Police Department have gone unreturned.
BLACK PBS REPORTER SLAMMED FOR SHAMING POLICE BRUTALITY PROTESTERS
Madison Cawthorn's standup moment at RNC a 'rebuke' of protests, PBS reporter says
By Aaron Feis
New York Post
August 27, 2020
PBS political reporter Yamiche Alcindor caught flak on Twitter for describing Madison Cawthorn’s rising from his wheelchair at the 2020 Republican National Convention as a “direct rebuke” of protests against police brutality.
Cawthorn — a 25-year-old North Carolinian on track to become the youngest person elected to Congress in modern history — capped a stirring RNC address Wednesday night by getting up from his wheelchair with the help of two aides while reciting the closing words of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Live-tweeting the event, Alcindor described the move as a counterpoint to demonstrations against police brutality and prejudice, on a day that saw the NBA and other sports leagues cancel games in protest of the Kenosha, Wis., shooting that left Jacob Blake like Cawthorn, paralyzed from the waist down.
“Madison Cawthorn made it a point to stand, suggesting that all Americans to (sic) should stand during the pledge of allegiance & national anthem,” she wrote. “It was a direct rebuke of actions by ppl — including black athletes who are currently sitting out games — protesting police brutality.”
Shortly before standing, Cawthorn did suggest a contrast between the gesture and athletes’ protest of kneeling during the National Anthem.
“In this new town square, you don’t have to apologize for your beliefs or cower to a mob,” he said. “You can kneel before God, but stand for our flag.”
Still, Twitter users believed Alcindor went too far in connecting the two, accusing her of politicizing a moving moment during the RNC and picking on the handicapped Cawthorn.
“Or perhaps, and I’m just spitballing here, he just did what he felt like doing because he wanted to show his love for his country,” wrote one user in a reply to Alcindor’s tweet. “You know, freedom of expression and all.”
Wrote another, “I’m glad my mind isn’t wired like yours to hate every thing I see. You may feel warm and fuzzy when a millionaire kneels down but I felt tremendous pride when I saw that man stand last night for our country and flag. I’m genuinely sorry you couldn’t and won’t ever experience that.”
“Going after a guy paralyzed in a wheelchair? He’s got more stamina than you,” added Jon Nicosia, the president of News Cycle Media and a former editor at Mediaite and The Washington Examiner. “Probably why your (sic) so mad.”
EDITOR'S NOTE: Where do these idiots get the idea that Alcindor was picking on Cawthorn? Quite to the contrary, she was holding him up as a shining example of a patriotic citizen as opposed to Colin Kaepernick and the other unpatriotic athletes who protest against police brutality by taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem.
By Aaron Feis
New York Post
August 27, 2020
PBS political reporter Yamiche Alcindor caught flak on Twitter for describing Madison Cawthorn’s rising from his wheelchair at the 2020 Republican National Convention as a “direct rebuke” of protests against police brutality.
Cawthorn — a 25-year-old North Carolinian on track to become the youngest person elected to Congress in modern history — capped a stirring RNC address Wednesday night by getting up from his wheelchair with the help of two aides while reciting the closing words of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Live-tweeting the event, Alcindor described the move as a counterpoint to demonstrations against police brutality and prejudice, on a day that saw the NBA and other sports leagues cancel games in protest of the Kenosha, Wis., shooting that left Jacob Blake like Cawthorn, paralyzed from the waist down.
“Madison Cawthorn made it a point to stand, suggesting that all Americans to (sic) should stand during the pledge of allegiance & national anthem,” she wrote. “It was a direct rebuke of actions by ppl — including black athletes who are currently sitting out games — protesting police brutality.”
Shortly before standing, Cawthorn did suggest a contrast between the gesture and athletes’ protest of kneeling during the National Anthem.
“In this new town square, you don’t have to apologize for your beliefs or cower to a mob,” he said. “You can kneel before God, but stand for our flag.”
Still, Twitter users believed Alcindor went too far in connecting the two, accusing her of politicizing a moving moment during the RNC and picking on the handicapped Cawthorn.
“Or perhaps, and I’m just spitballing here, he just did what he felt like doing because he wanted to show his love for his country,” wrote one user in a reply to Alcindor’s tweet. “You know, freedom of expression and all.”
Wrote another, “I’m glad my mind isn’t wired like yours to hate every thing I see. You may feel warm and fuzzy when a millionaire kneels down but I felt tremendous pride when I saw that man stand last night for our country and flag. I’m genuinely sorry you couldn’t and won’t ever experience that.”
“Going after a guy paralyzed in a wheelchair? He’s got more stamina than you,” added Jon Nicosia, the president of News Cycle Media and a former editor at Mediaite and The Washington Examiner. “Probably why your (sic) so mad.”
EDITOR'S NOTE: Where do these idiots get the idea that Alcindor was picking on Cawthorn? Quite to the contrary, she was holding him up as a shining example of a patriotic citizen as opposed to Colin Kaepernick and the other unpatriotic athletes who protest against police brutality by taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem.
VIOLENT PEACEFUL PROTESTERS ATTACK RNC ATTENDEES
Senator Rand Paul and his wife are attacked by BLM mob as they leave the White House following RNC and he thanks cops for 'saving our lives' after protesters tried to silence Trump's speech with air horns
Daily Mail
August 28, 2020
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and his wife were attacked by a mob of protesters as they left the White House Thursday.
Raucous protesters accosted Republican National Convention guests leaving the White House, after they tried to drown out Trump's speech with bullhorns and drums.
Protesters were heard chanting 'No justice, no peace' and 'Black Lives Matter'.
Video shows Paul and wife Kelley being surrounded by dozens of activists and aggressively accosted as they leave the Republican National Convention, where Trump had just accepted the party's nomination, as police officers try to hold the crowd back.
At one point an officer holding a bicycle to shield the couple from the demonstrators was shoved backwards, stumbling into Paul and almost knocking the Kentucky senator to the ground.
After being escorted safely to his hotel, Paul tweeted thanking police, saying there were 'over 100 activists' and that officers had 'literally saved our lives' from the 'crazed mob'.
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RNC attendees are attacked by BLM mob after being left with NO police protection: Elderly man is punched in the back of the head and knocked to the ground while balaclava-clad protester threatens to 'fuck up' RNC committeeman and his wife
Daily Nail
August 28, 2020
Attendees at the last night of the RNC in Washington DC were assaulted and accosted by groups of protesters after the event, with one white-haired man punched in the head and knocked to the ground.
RNC committeeman Chris Ager and his wife were also pursued by a balaclava-wearing woman who threatened to 'fuck you up' as he tried to get through the doors of his hotel.
Yet more footage showed a bus full of RNC attendees being stopped in the street by protesters who opened the back door and climbed aboard, while nearby police who were holding back a much larger crowd failed to intervene.
Hundreds of demonstrators were in DC for the last night of the convention, holding a street party in an attempt to drown out Trump's speech that grew progressively ugly as the night wore on.
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Trump calls BLM mob who attacked Rand Paul 'thugs' who yell with 'unhinged manic rage' and says DC Mayor should be 'ashamed' - then reveals he will give MEDALS to the four cops who shielded senator outside White House
Daily Mail
August 28, 2020
President Trump kicked off his New Hampshire rally on Friday with a rant against the BLM protesters who accosted guests departing his RNC speech at the White House on Thursday night, branding the group 'thugs' and 'agitators'.
Speaking to a crowd of several hundred people at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, Trump lashed out at demonstrators who had swarmed Senator Rand Paul, while praising the police officers who brought him to safety.
'They walked out to a bunch of thugs,' Trump said as he criticized D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for not doing more to protect his supporters.
'Unhinged, manic rage. You ought to see it last night in Washington, it was a disgrace.'
Senator Paul on Friday said he was attacked by an 'angry mob' of more than 100 people near the White House and had to be rescued by the police.
Trump suggested the four cops involved 'should be brought over to the White House and be given a medal of some kind.' 'We're gonna do it,' he said. 'We're gonna do it. I told that to Rand today.'
He also accused Mayor Muriel Bowser of giving police 'bad instructions' and said she should 'be ashamed of herself for that kind of display of incompetence.'
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