The White Supremacy Empire Strikes Back: ESPN Suspends Jemele Hill for Boycott Instruction against the Cowboys

Racist Suspect Jerry Jones is Sponsored by Ford Motor Co. among others in Racist System. From [ThinkProgress] ESPN has suspended SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill for a series of tweets about racist suspect Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. On Sunday, Jones said that any Cowboys player who did not stand for the national anthem would not be allowed to play.

Hill was responding to angry fans who were encouraging the Cowboys’ star players to test Jones’ resolve. Hill countered that this was an unfair burden to put on the players and if fans objected, they should act.

[Elite white media who protect & serve the same system that Mr. Kaepernick protested [the system of racism/white supremacy] such as the Washington Post have characterized her tweets as "urging a boycott" or "encouraging a boycott" as described by CNBC. lol. Only a racist would analyze and dissect her tweets with such a hyper-alert expectation in search of confirmation of their projected suspicions and find advocacy or a boycott instruction here, from the above. What is identity politics? What is white collective power? ' Unless Hill becomes obedient, she will soon be filtered out - like Kaepernick. Any act or attitude on the part of Blacks which appears to whites to defy white American authority, control or dominance is a problem to white folks.' [MORE]]

Hill later clarified that she was not advocating a boycott of Cowboy’s advertisers, but making the point that fans should not place the burden on the players alone.

ESPN, nevertheless, has suspended Hill for two weeks, saying the tweets violated their social media policy.

The White House has previously called for Hill’s firing after she tweeted that President Trump was a “white supremacist.”

ThinkProgress reported exclusively in September that ESPN attempted to remove Hill from the air after her tweeted about Trump but was thwarted after her co-host Michael Smith and others refused to go on the air without her.

As stated by belief system killer, Dr. Blynd, "racism/white supremacy it is a power group dynamic, i.e., a defined group cooperatively via legacy institutions exerting structured, systematic injustice and power over another group. Racism is not individualistic, but institutional, cultural, economic, political, linguistic, self perpetuating and systematic. Racism is economic discrimination by a group against another for the purpose of subjugation and/or maintaining the imbalance of power through cooperative control and oppression." [MORE] 

This "power group dynamic" concerns a relationship between whites and Blacks. We need to re-examine our role within this relationship. No one can play master without servants - it is a two way relationship.  As stated by Amos Wilson, ‘Black people's uncritical acceptance of the rules, moral beliefs, perspectives, and their customary traditional participation in the American (White) political-economic process and system is tantamount to the legitimization of their own oppression and to the consensual ensurance of their own powerlessness.’ [MORE]  

A boycott is a method to alter this relationship. It is “the great power of withdrawal” of our consent or participation in this system. African Americans' collective purchasing power is an estimated 1.3 trillion dollars. [MORE]. Black dollars matter. Rather than begging or trying to persuade racists to change a particular course of conduct a successful boycott can force change.  

However, boycotts cannot be random or individual. Personal boycotts or symbolic boycotts are not boycotts. They are simply an individual consumer choice and have only a minimal, symbolic effect. This is more "protest" actually in cooperation with and submission to white supremacy/racism.  

Rather, a boycott is a collective, group effort to inflict some economic loss to compel the target to change its conduct. A boycott must be an actual organized campaign that directly communicates to Black consumers to mobilize their participation via social media & grassroots organizing in Black & Brown communities/organizations and then targets specific businesses. Recently for example, Bill O'Reilly was fired [not over racism] for his foul treatment of women after corporate sponsors began to pullout from FoxNews when advocates began to apply pressure to them [MORE] and [MORE]. After O'Reilly was fired, the financial markets responded positively to the decision by Fox News, and its parent company 21st Century Fox rose over two percent in the stock market the next day.[MORE] Other examples include the gay and lesbian boycott of advertisers of the "Dr. Laura" talk show, gun owners' similar boycott of advertisers of Rosie O'Donnell's talk show and (later) magazine, and gun owners' boycott of Smith & Wesson following that company's March 2000 settlement with the Clinton administration. They may be initiated very easily using either Web sites (the Dr. Laura boycott), newsgroups (the Rosie O'Donnell boycotts), or mailing lists, twitter etc. Internet-initiated boycotts can "snowball" very quickly compared to other forms of organization [MORE] -by individuals who are serious about changing something.  

It is not practical to ask Black NFL fans to stop watching the NFL. Besides, NFL television ratings are based on Nielsen ratings. So unless you are a Nielsen viewer, whatever you decide to watch or not watch on Sundays will not be measured in any way to actually threaten the NFL. Clearly, the NFL makes its money from its sponsorship and merchandising. It makes no practical sense to turn off the games but then go out and spend your money on all the corporations that the NFL profits from.

However, activist minded Black fans might be willing to boycott many of the NFL’s sponsors such as Papa-Johns, Anheuser-Busch, Ford, McDonald’s, Nationwide, Verizon, Visa, etc. and many others that are white owned & controlled. All these sponsors have competitors and their services or products could be easily substituted by other brands by Black consumers. For example, Mecca Cola and Qibla Cola have been purchased and marketed as substitutes for Coca-Cola among Muslim populations. Such corporations who adverstise and enable the NFL to reap billions could be targeted in a 'for real' boycott.  

In theory, a successful boycott can empower Blacks & Latinos and simultaneously disempower elite whites and change the relations and structure of social power." However, it must be executed to be more than a media stunt or another beggar politics episode. [MORE]

Hundreds of "LinkNYC" Kiosks in NYC Marketed as Free Wifi are Actually Mass Surveillance by Govt & Corporations

From [HERE] and [HERE] Hundreds of LinkNYC kiosks are going up every month. Each kiosk is equipped with microphones, bluetooth beacons, and outward-facing cameras. These technologies have the ability to collect personal information about every New Yorker. Law enforcement agencies can easily access this information, corporations sell it for profit, and the government now has the tools to practice mass surveillance.  

LinkNYC is not community WiFi. It is an opportunity for surveillance, data collection and corporate profit boxed and marketed as free WiFi. We believe that the basic building blocks of the LinkNYC program need to be re-thought. Free WiFi should really be free, and citizens - not corporations - must have the freedom to decide if and when their personal information is used.  

True community WiFi unites and connects people. It affirms freedom, openness and trust. 

Say no to LinkNYC. Another way is possible. Rethink Link. 

Before & After like Our "Mind Shampoo"- New Dove Bodywash Ad Shows Black Woman Transforming Into a White Woman

Before & After - Similar to Our Mind Shampoo or relentless psy-ops programmed into us to falsify our Afrikan Consciousness.  From [HERE] Beauty brand Dove deleted a "three-second video clip" from its Facebook page and admitted Saturday that it had "missed the mark in thoughtfully representing women of color" in an ad for body wash. Consumers had reacted angrily to images of a black woman removing a brown shirt and appearing to transform into a white woman removing a similar shirt. 

And as Keith Boykin, pointed out, this is not the first time Dove has found itself in hot water for the way it has advertised body wash.

In 2011, Dove released a body wash ad showing three women with a range of skin tones standing in a row, the word "before" above the head of the woman with darker skin and "after" above the head of the woman with lighter skin.

"Okay, Dove ... One racist ad makes you suspect. Two racist ads makes you kinda guilty," Boykin tweeted.

Gawker wrote at the time, "Dove VisibleCare body wash: 'Visibly more beautiful skin.' Bye-bye black skin, hello white skin! (Scrub hard!)" [MORE]

Trump Golfing, Refuses to Help Brown People in Puerto Rico b/c They're Brown: Crisis Worse - 88% without Power

Racist Trump is spending the weekend at the Trump National Golf Court in Bedminster, which is the 67th day of his presidency spent at a golf course and the 87th at one of his Trump properties. [MORE] The neuropeon has spent more than 25 percent of his presidency on a golf course.

From [HERE] San Juan’s Mayor Carmen Cruz said she sees “no hope [on] the horizon” for Puerto Rico — despite President Trump celebrate the recovery effort and engaging on a victory tour.

By official estimates, just under 12 percent of power is restored on the island. Even drinking water in many areas remains limited: just over half of customers reliant on Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) have potable water.

Mayor Cruz said the federal government’s response has been slow, inadequate, or downright nonexistent. She said FEMA had offered “no response” after a hospital requested aid.

Mayor Cruz repeatedly tweeted “WE NEED WATER!” throughout the early hours of the Sunday. She shared photos of volunteers and continue to plea for help, saying authorities in the federal government  “do not want to help.”

Racist suspect FEMA Administrator Brock Long confirmed the agency was ignoring Cruz’s “noise.” He told This Week “[w]e filtered out the mayor a long time ago.”

Cruz’s comments follow President Donald Trump’s self-congratulatory assessment of his administration’s performance in Puerto Rico, and a renewed round of insults about Cruz’s work on the island. He sat down with Mike Huckabee for an interview, where the host lobbed questions softer than the paper towel rolls Trump tossed into crowds of people in Puerto Rico.

They had these beautiful, soft towels. Very good towels,” the president told Huckabee (whose daughter is the president’s press secretary). “And also when I walked in, the cheering was incredible,” he said.

He told Huckabee that Cruz “did a very poor job,” adding that “She’s not a capable person,” he said.

Trump said the media should have blamed Cruz rather than criticizing his efforts. 

The president feels the recovery is going well: In the same interview with Huckabee, he spoke favorably about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Puerto Rico and the hurricane recovery in Texas and Florida because they had given him a sense of purpose and made him personally feel good.

“In one sense, you hate to see it,” he told Huckabee. “In another sense, you feel you can do a good job. You’re really helping people. So it makes you feel good.”

The president has not yet responded to Mayor Cruz’ most recent assessment of Puerto Rico and the response from the U.S. government. The White House press pool said he was golfing at another of his properties on Saturday.

Radicalizing Common Sense: FBI says Blacks who Protest Against Unlawful Force by Cops are "Identity Extremists"

More Whitenology Public Relations: What on earth is radical about protesting against the use of excessive force and deprivation of Constitutional rights by police officers against Blacks & Latinos? What possibly could be radical about protesting against conduct that is already illegal? Having something to say about a public servant unlawfully stopping, detaining and murdering people based on skin color is not radical speech. It is normal. Put the black power fist down. This is whitenology. Such "protest" only seeks to uphold the status quo, uphold the equal application of laws. Elite racists have radicalized common sense! They are attempting to make Blacks & Latinos believe that what is actually conservative in nature and common sense is radical thought & conduct. Therefore, we reject common sense when we reject "the radical" or what is "radical" to do. So, conformist or obedient Blacks & Latinos will not pursue things that anyone else with common sense would pursue- because to do so would be revolutionary. lol

Racism involves the power of one "race" to impose its will upon another. White supremacy/racism is the ultimate affirmative action and the ultimate form of identity politics. [MORE] 

Nevermind Vegas, FBI is Hunting for "Black Identity Extremists." From [HERE] The mass shooting in Las Vegas by a white man reheated a long-fought public debate: what constitutes terrorism? And, specifically, when do we use that word to describe violence from white people? It's an important question to ask as far-right extremism rises in the US, but the FBI is busy looking for other monsters under its bed: "Black Identity Extremists."

In a memo obtained by Foreign Policy from early August, the FBI claims that the continued concern over "alleged" police abuse has fueled a rise in violence against police. And that rise in violence has produced a new kind of terrorist. It reads in part:

The FBI assesses it is very likely Black Identity Extremist (BIE) perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence.

Basically, the more people know about police brutality (we can safely throw out the "alleged"), the bigger the risk to cops.

The main evidence for this seems to be the shooting of police officers in Dallas in 2016. But that designation, "Black Identity Extremist," is entirely new. Foreign Policy couldn't even find Google references to it outside of five documents, including ones for law enforcement training, that were only two months old—which is after the FBI memo was written.

Despite these efforts to create a new class of terrorist, there's no evidence that any such movement really exists. Critics of the label say it's an attempt to make an official false equivalence between Black Lives Matter activists and white supremacists, who are responsible for the majority of domestic terror attacks and politically-motivated police murders.

A former senior counterterrorism and intelligence official from the Department of Homeland Security who reviewed the document at FP’s request expressed shock at the language. “This is a new umbrella designation that has no basis,” the former official said. “There are civil rights and privacy issues all over this.”

Specifically, this would give the FBI wide freedom to boost surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists. Hell, it's so vague it could cover anyone who attends a protest or takes a "police shouldn't kill unarmed black people" stance publicly.

This isn't some paranoid concern: the FBI has a notorious history for spying on and smearing black activists. This is the agency behind the COITELPRO efforts to undermine civil rights groups, and the infamous attempt to blackmail Martin Luther King into suicide. So it's not out of character that their response to police brutality is to invent a pretense to criminalize critics, rather than actually deal with police brutality.

VP Pence Exits NFL Game in PR Stunt w/Message to Blacks: Obedience & Conformity to a Patriotic Agenda Has No Cost

From [HERE] Vice President Mike Pence left the 49ers-Colts game after about a dozen San Francisco players took a knee during the national anthem Sunday.

The former Indiana governor flew in so he could watch Peyton Manning's jersey retirement ceremony. Pence didn't stick around long.

Right around kickoff, Pence wrote on Twitter: "I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem."

The White House also issued a statement from Pence, in which he said Americans should rally around the flag. Pence said: "I don't think it's too much to ask NFL players to respect the Flag and our National Anthem."

San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid said Pence's departure looked like "a PR stunt."

"He knew our team has had the most players protest, he knew that we were probably going to do it again," Reid said. "This is what systemic oppression looks like: man with power comes to the game, tweets a couple things out and leaves the game in an attempt to thwart our efforts." [MORE]

[the rewards of white supremacy] Samuel Jackson Singing, Dancing & SNiggering for His Masters in New Commercial

sniggering - 1) the modus vivendi of opportunist (sell-out) compromises. 2) the actions of SNiggers. (See Coin-Operated). [From Funktionary by Dr. Blynd]

Samuel Jackson has achieved critical and commercial acclaim, surpassing Frank Welker as the actor with the highest-grossing film total of all time in October 2011, and he has received numerous accolades and awards. As of December 2015, Jackson appeared in over one hundred films with a worldwide box office gross of approximately $16 billion to date. [MORE] He is a showcase Black, prominently showcased by racist/white supremacists as a means of thought control for Blacks. [MORE]

"Minority Report": Cops Are Using Computer Algorithms as a Proxy to Target "Threatening" Non-Whites

From [HERE] Can a computer predict violence? In Chicago, Illinois, an algorithmrates every person arrested with a numerical threat score from 1 to 500-plus. The process has been going on for four years, and almost 400,000 Chicago citizens now have an official police risk score. This algorithm — still secret and publicly unaccountable — shapes policing strategy, the use of force, and threatens to alter suspicion on the streets. It is also the future of big data policing in America — and depending on how you see it, either an innovative approach to violence reduction or a terrifying example of data-driven social control.

In practical effect, the personalized threat score automatically displays on police computer dashboardsso an officer can know the relative risk of the suspect being stopped. The predictive score also shapes who gets targeted for proactive police intervention. These interventions can range from a home visit by police officers, to additional police surveillance, to an invitation to a community meeting — all of which convey the same clear message: law enforcement is watching. And while Chicago is in the vanguard of predictive policing, it is not alone; other cities like New York and Los Angeles are considering how to use big data policing to target at-risk individuals.

Person-based predictive policing began in 2009 as an attempt to apply a public health approach to violence. Just as epidemiological patterns reveal environmental toxins that can increase health risks (like getting cancer), criminal patterns can increase life risks (like getting shot). The key is to identify the predictive risk factors and try to remedy the underlying environmental causes. Researchers at Chicago ITT developed an algorithm for the police to prioritize those most at risk by analyzing: past arrests for violent crime, weapons offenses or narcotics; age at the most recent arrest (the younger the age, the higher the score); incidents where the individual was a victim of a shooting or assault; and the trend line of criminal activity (whether the rate is increasing or decreasing). A computer then crunches the variables and spits out a relative threat score to determine a likelihood of either shooting someone or getting shot. This is the risk score that places someone on the Strategic Subjects List (colloquially known as “the heat list”).

Police claim the targeting mechanism works by pointing to a high percentage of shooting victims as being accurately predicted by the heat list. Critics have pointed out that the targeting is overbroad and ineffective, including tens of thousands of people with high scores but no history of prior arrest for violent crimes .

But, whether it works or not, three bigger unanswered questions exist about this use of a predictive risk score for everyone: Is it fair? Is it biased? And is it the future we want for policing?

Fairness involves both how people get scored and how police treat those with threat scores. Relying on a black-box computer algorithm to rank threats in a society obviously creates its own risks. Society needs to be able to trust the data, to approve the inputs and to evaluate the outputs. Currently, there is no public oversight of the police data, inputs or outputs, so communities are left in the dark unable to audit or challenge any individual threat score.

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[Mostly White] Mass. Prosecutors slammed for withholding evidence from [disproportionately Black] Defendants in drug lab scandal

From [HERE] Twice in recent years, chemists used by the state of Massachusetts to test drugs in criminal cases committed massive misconduct in their testing, affecting tens of thousands of cases. And twice, prosecutors in Massachusetts failed to act promptly to notify most defendants of the problem.

Instead, the prosecutors have taken years to seek justice for the defendants affected by the bad drug testing in both episodes, causing some people to wrongly spend years in prison.

In the first case, after five years, the Massachusetts supreme court eventually forced state prosecutors to compile a list of affected defendants and ultimately dismiss 98.5 percent of the cases involved, with more than 21,000 drug convictions erased. In the second case, discovered in 2013 but still unfolding, a judge concluded recently that two prosecutors committed “intentional, repeated, prolonged and deceptive withholding of evidence from the defendants” and that “their misconduct evinces a depth of deceptiveness that constitutes a fraud upon the court.”

The two prosecutors, former assistant attorneys general Anne Kaczmarek and Kris Foster, have since moved on to higher-paying jobs elsewhere in the state government. But still no steps have been taken to fully identify the thousands of cases handled by Sonja Farak, a chemist who admitted that she was high nearly every day while analyzing drug samples submitted by police from 2005 to 2013, and who has already been convicted and served her time. In many cases, authorities can’t retest the drugs that Farak originally certified because, well, Farak used them.

So last month, the state public defender agency and the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Massachusetts attorney general and all 11 district attorneys, seeking a list — and dismissal — of all Farak-related cases, based not only on her misadventures but also the “egregious prosecutorial misconduct” by the state attorney general’s office. It has now been 4½ years since Farak’s arrest in January 2013.

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The Long Reach of Guantánamo Bay Military Commissions

From [HERE] Since the establishment of the Guantánamo Bay military commissions over 15 years ago, the dominant legal question has been whether they may try individuals charged with ordinary domestic criminal offenses that are not recognized as international war crimes. After years of conflicting decisions, that question has finally reached the Supreme Court, which will decide on Thursday whether to consider the issue in its current term.

The case involves a Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, who was convicted by a military commission in 2008 of conspiracy to commit war crimes. While this is a crime under domestic law, it is not recognized as a war crime by international law. Hence the constitutional question: Does a military commission’s assumption of federal court jurisdiction over domestic crimes violate the Constitution, which reserves the “trial of all crimes” to the judiciary?

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld Mr. Bahlul’s conviction last year. But Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in a concurring opinion, said the question in play should be decided because “other cases in the pipeline require a clear answer.” He’s absolutely right. Settling this question would go a long way toward settling the structural legitimacy of the Guantánamo tribunals. The justices should take heed and grant certiorari. 

Although the United States had occasionally used military commissions to try enemy soldiers before the Sept. 11 attacks, the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of such trials only in areas under military occupation or in cases in which the offenses were international war crimes. Because military occupation presupposes the absence of a functioning, civilian government, military tribunals are the only option. And as for international war crimes, the Supreme Court concluded during World War II that such offenses committed by enemy belligerents fell outside of the Constitution’s jury-trial protections — which otherwise require that all serious crimes be tried in civilian court.

The principal innovation (and one of the central controversies) of the post-Sept. 11 military trials at Guantánamo has been to extend the reach of military commissions to purely domestic criminal offenses, especially conspiracy and “providing material support to terrorism.” The government has been unable to tie almost any of the Guantánamo detainees — most of whom were, at most, low-level Qaeda fighters — to specific international war crimes. But rather than simply hold the detainees in military detention or try them in civilian court, the government has used the secrecy-laden criminal proceedings at Guantánamo to push the constitutional envelope.

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Although Unarmed & his ID, registration & insurance identified him as Leon, White Cops Believed "Lamont" had a Gun

From [HERE] Did police see a bulge in Leon Ford's pants that they thought was a gun or did they make up the story to justify shooting and paralyzing an unarmed man?

That was the central question Tuesday in closing arguments to a federal jury in Mr. Ford's civil case against two Pittsburgh police detectives, David Derbish and Andrew Miller.

Detective Derbish shot Mr. Ford five times in the chest after a traffic stop in November 2012 in Highland Park.

He jumped into Mr. Ford's car just as it sped away. He said Mr. Ford put his hand on his chest as if to shove him out of the car, and he had to shoot because he feared for his life.

"He said, 'I thought I was going to die,'" Paul Krepps, a lawyer representing the officers, told the jury.

He said Detective Derbish, standing near the passenger side door, said he saw a bulge in Mr. Ford's pants. He said he thought it might be a gun. He motioned to Detective Miller, who was on the driver's side of the car, of his suspicions.

As a dashcam video shows, Detective Miller grabs Mr. Ford to pull him out of the car, Detective Derbish jumps in and seconds later five shots are heard as the vehicle speeds down the street and crashes.

It turned out Mr. Ford didn't have a gun, but Mr. Krepps said Detective Derbish and Detective Miller thought he did.

"Are they making this up now?" Mr. Krepps asked. "Or did they have a valid concern?"

Mr. Ford's lawyer, Fred Rabner, said they were making it up. He said they had mixed up Leon Ford with a gang member with a similar name and face and proceeded on that assumption until the shooting occurred.

"There was never a bulge," he said. "That's a story that was made up after the fact."

The defendants, both patrol officers at the time of the shooting and now undercover detectives, have been on trial for two weeks before U.S. Magistrate Judge Maureen Kelly.

Mr. Ford sued them in 2013.

The judge dismissed some of his claims. But she allowed the case to proceed on a claim of excessive force against Detective Derbish and assault and battery against Detective Miller.

The incident happened the night of Nov. 11, 2012.

Officer Michael Kosko and his partner, Detective Miller, pulled over Mr. Ford's Infiniti after they said they saw it speeding and running stop signs.

The officers thought that Mr. Ford might be Lamont Ford, a violent member of the Kelly Street gang in Homewood.

Detective Miller called his friend Detective Derbish, who had dealt with Lamont Ford before, to the scene to help them identify the driver.

Mr. Ford testified that the officers seemed stuck on the idea that he was Lamont, who was no relation and had no connection to him, even though he had produced a license, registration and insurance papers identifying him as Leon.

As the tension escalated, Kosko and Detective Miller demanded that Mr. Ford get out of his car. He refused because he said he was scared. Detective Miller then grabbed him. He said Mr. Ford reached for the gearshift to anchor himself to keep from being pulled from the car.

It was in that instant that Detective Derbish jumped into the car, leading to the shooting seconds later.

No Remedy for Non-White Victims Violated by Arpaio: White judge upholds Pardon & dismisses contempt case

From [HERE] Judge Susan Bolton of the US District Court for the District of Arizona [official website] upheld President Trump's pardon [JURIST report] of former Arizona Sherriff Joe Arpaio [JURIST news archive] and dismissed the contempt case against Arpaio during a hearing Wednesday.

In a brief [text] filed last month, the Department of Justice stated that there was no prior precedent addressing whether a court should vacate a criminal verdict after the defendant received a guilty verdict. John Wilenchick [professional profile], Arpaio's attorney, argued that the court should vacate the prior conviction in order to prevent parties from attempting to re-litigate the issues already decided in the contempt case. Judge Bolton agreed and vacated the contempt conviction.

The litigants had simply sought even-handed treatment at the hands of law enforcement. The victims of Mr. Arpaio’s conduct had a right – based on Article III of the Constitution – to have their claims heard and decided, that is, to have a remedy. Although the court has a judicial duty to redress governmental violations of rights - this really only pertains to white folks. [MORE]

Last month, 33 members of Congress filed an amicus brief [text] in the matter, asking the court to invalidate Trump's pardon as an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers. The Congressmen argued that the pardon, as it was handed down, was an infringement on the judiciary's powers by the executive branch. Bolton concluded that no such constitutional issues existed and that Trump acted within his powers when granting Arpaio his pardon.

The criminal conviction for contempt that was addressed by the pardon stems from a 2012 lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice [JURIST report] alleging that Arpaio and his department engaged in a pattern or practice of discriminatory and unlawful law enforcement actions against Latinos through frequent stops, detentions and arrests "on the basis of race, color, or national origin, and Latino prisoners with limited English language skills are denied important constitutional protections." Friday's pardon is the first in Trump's short tenure as president.

[Many Cops are Masterful Liars] After Bicycle Stop, White Cops Murder Black Man in Utah & Talk About their "fear"

From [HERE] Patrick Harmon, a 50-year-old black man, was shot and killed in August by Salt Lake City police officer Clinton Fox as he fled on foot from an arrest.

In the days following the killing, as Harmon’s family and community raised an outcry that the man had effectively been executed just for running away by officers who had numerous other options to detain him, District Attorney Sim Gill announced that Fox’s snap decision to fire three point-blank shots was justified. Gill told the public that Harmon had wheeled on pursuing officers with a switchblade and shouted “I’ll cut you.” Fox and colleagues had been within just a few steps of the running man in that moment, and his verbal and physical threat justified Fox’s choice.

But recently released body camera videos — which Gill’s office reviewed before furnishing their public decision — dispute part of the prosecutor’s narrative.

One of the videos, from Fox’s own camera, is shaky enough that it’s difficult to discern the exact body positions of the four men at the time of the killing. The other is steadier. Neither shows Harmon clearly turning around, nor is a knife visible in his hand. And neither captures the verbal threat Gill attributed to the slain man.

Officers around the country are often taught — informally by colleagues, if not in official policy and academy training drills — about the so-called “21-foot rule,” a truism of the law enforcement world which states that someone with a knife closer to you than 21 feet can kill you before you can draw your own weapon.

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[Never call 911 on your people] White Austin Cops Murder Suicidal Latino Man with bb gun

From [HERE] A family of a 20-year-old Latino man shot and killed by a white Austin Police Officer back in May filed a lawsuit against the City of Austin and the police department. The family said the officer wrongfully shot the young man who was suffering from mental illness. The attorney said the young man was clearly suicidal when he was shot and surveillance captured from nearby homes proves it.

"Shoot me" Jason Roque is heard yelling and walking toward Austin Police Officers just after 11 in the morning of May 2nd in a Northeast Austin neighborhood. The situation escalated quickly when three fatal shots were fired from what APD said was the patrol rifle of Officer James Harvel, a 17-year veteran of the force.

“That is unacceptable, it is unconstitutional and it warrants criminal prosecution.” Jeff Edwards is representing the family and said it was one of the worst cases of police brutality he has seen and it was clear Roque was suffering from mental health issues.

“Instead of getting help, he was met with a flurry of bullets, no instantaneously, the product of deliberation, by a virtual sniper, 30 yards away, behind a fence with a rifle,” he said.

APD said they were told Roque was upset after an argument with his girlfriend and according to his mother was suicidal and armed. Interim Chief Brian Manley spoke shortly after the incident back in May, “They were giving him verbal commands he did not comply with those verbal commands the mother at this point was reportedly out in the driveway while all this was taking place and at one point the subject turned around towards the direction of the mother and began heading in that direction according to the accounts we have so far at this point or officer feared he was about to force their hand by taking an aggressive action against the mother so he fired and defense the mother that was in the driveway at that point."

Edwards said Roque who has no criminal history didn't pose a threat to anyone, but maybe himself.

“What makes this case so disturbing is that Jason had the gun to his head, was turned away and then you hear a shot and then you plainly see on this video the gun which was a bb gun, a fake gun, as the police were told, drop to the ground out of his way. Whether this is the result of the militarization of the Austin Police Department, whether it's the result of treating Hispanics differently than others, or treating minorities differently, ultimately that's going to be for a jury to judge,” Edwards said.

“Instead of getting help, he was met with a flurry of bullets, no instantaneously, the product of deliberation, by a virtual sniper, 30 yards away, behind a fence with a rifle,” he said.

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Case Closed. Elite Media Insists: 'Only 1 Shooter in Vegas. Believe Whatever Cops Say Because Cops Never Lie.'

A Marketplace of Ideas? NY Times Headline on 10/4/17: "No, There Was Not More Than One Gunman in the Las Vegas Shooting." Who needs forensics, DNA, witnesses, video footage, when then Cops said so? Why even independently investigate when the Government can supply all the facts?