Latino Man Asks Supreme Court To Declare Arizona's Death Penalty [murder by government] Unconstitutional

From [DPIC] An Arizona death-row prisoner has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the state's capital punishment statute, arguing that Arizona's sentencing scheme "utterly fails" the constitutionally required task of limiting the death penalty to the worst crimes and worst offenders. On August 15, lawyers for Abel Daniel Hidalgo wrote that a study of more than a decade's worth of murder cases from Maricopa County, where Hidalgo was tried, showed that aggravating factors that could make a defendant eligible for the death penalty were present in 99% of all the cases. This, they say, violates the Eighth Amendment requirement established by the Court that a capital-sentencing statute must “genuinely narrow the class of persons eligible for the death penalty.”

They wrote that evidence presented to the Arizona state courts showed that "every first degree murder case filed in Maricopa County in 2010 and 2011 had at least one aggravating factor" that made a defendant eligible for the death penalty, and that over the course of eleven years, 856 of 866 first-degree murder cases filed in the county had one or more aggravating circumstances present. In a press statement, Hidalgo's defense team says that, as a result, "geography and county resources—rather than the characteristics of the offender or the crime—play an outsized role in Arizona’s arbitrary application of the death penalty."

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US Court Finds System for Electing Judges in Louisiana Discriminates Against Blacks

From [HERE] The system for electing state judges in a coastal Louisiana court district discriminates against black voters, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S. District Judge James Brady in Baton Rouge ruled Thursday in a 2014 lawsuit over voting practices in Terrebonne Parish, southwest of New Orleans.

Brady's ruling noted testimony from Terrebonne citizens about racial discrimination in the parish. And it included a recounting of the case of former Judge Timothy Ellender, a white judge re-elected in 2008 even after he was suspended for six months by the state Supreme Court in 2004 for attending a Halloween party in a prison garb and in blackface. He attended as a prisoner with his wife who was dressed as a policewoman. The party's host, Ellender's brother-in-law, was dressed as Buckwheat. [MORE]

Black voters and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund said the practice of electing five judges in parish-wide "at large" elections dilutes the African-American vote.

Brady agreed, and said there was evidence of discriminatory intent in the Legislature's refusal to carve out a majority black judicial district within the parish, which encompasses the state's 32nd Judicial District Court.

Brady acknowledged that after the suit was filed, a black candidate was elected, without opposition by a white candidate, to a judgeship in Terrebonne. But he went on to outline the history of legislative efforts to create a black district within Terrebonne, saying the effort was rejected at least six times between 1997 and 2011.

"Taken as a whole, this timeline shows discriminatory intent," Brady said. "Local white officials, including the judges on the 32nd JDC, originally wanted an additional judgeship, but when black advocates requested that the new judgeship be elected from a sub-district, this request was withdrawn."

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With Genocidal Goal of Locking Up as Many Non-Whites as Possible, Private Prison Industry sees boon under Trump

From [HERE] The private prison industry -- one of the most controversial pieces of the US carceral state -- has essentially recovered a year after the Obama administration sent a chill down its spine.

Last August, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates issued a memo calling on the Department of Justice to begin curtailing its use of private prisons -- incarceration run by for-profit companies.

Stocks for one of the two major publicly traded prison companies nosedived, and with a presidential victory for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton widely expected, the Yates memo seemed to indicate the heyday for the private prison industry had passed.

But the impact of the decision was not lasting.

On November 8, Trump won the presidency, and just days into the job, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded Yates' guidance.

The private prison industry saw stock prices soar for months after the election even relative to the already robust stock market.

And one year ago Friday, from that now-rescinded memo, the situation for these prisons looks largely like what it was before the Obama-era Justice Department sought to change the status quo.

Critics of private prisons contend they are inefficient and inhumane.

When she issued her memo, Yates cited a government watchdog report that said private prisons were generally more expensive and offered worse results. Groups such as the ACLU lauded the report and Yates' decision while the private prison industry reeled. It called the report imbalanced and challenged its comparison of private and public facilities.

Following years of relatively low crime rates and the more recent dip in the prison population, Sessions has pushed for a crackdown on drug and gun offenses and offered a wholesale endorsement of Trump's "law-and-order" campaign.

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As Confederate Monuments Fall, A Vinyl 'Trump Rat' Statue is Erected to Honor 1st Rat American President in NYC

The Rat Race. Much like the real rats of New York City, it appears the “Trump Rat” that sprang up near Trump Tower on Monday will be making Manhattan its home for the long haul.

The 15-foot-tall vinyl rat made to look like the president, with its coiffed blond hair and signature hand gestures, remained outside Trump Tower near 59th Street Tuesday. Although it will come down later in the evening, fans of the Trump Rat will likely see it again (and soon) in Chelsea, according to John Post Lee, who commissioned the inflatable. Lee co-owns the BravinLee art gallery in Chelsea. [MORE]

As explained by Doc Blynd in FUNKTIONARY  

Race - a totally artificial theologically-driven, biologically-based, and scientifically-invalid "European" ideology of human genetic evolution and classification coiniciding with the emergence of colonialism and the rise of the transatlantic slave trade. 2) hue-man's greatest and most manipulated myth—just a pigment of your imagination. Race is not real but the psycho-socio-economic effects of racism surely is. Race as a biological construct has been created to be wrongly confused with ethnic identity in order to establish the sense of "otherness" and de-humanization of melanated peoples around the globe. Europeans are racing to thwart genetic annihilation and genetic diversification (human biological variation) in the form of "government" created and sponsored microbiological genocide and cloning.

Races are not biologically real, nor can humans be divided into scientifically valid, biologically distinct groupings or races based on subjective, arbitrary and superficial observable criteria (genetic traits). If scientists were true to the scientific reality, we would have to map millions of genetic traits that would translate into millions of "races." Scientifically there is no such thing as "race" but as a social construct for divisiveness and exploitation, there are only three races, the rat-race, the ego-race and the hue-man race—i.e., Homo sapien sapien. (See: RAT RACE, Special Operation "X," Contemporary Insanity, Biosemiotics, Mentacide, WHO, AIDS, White Supremacy Racism, Melanin, Europe & Hue-man) RACE - Ruling Aristocratic Class Exploitation. 2) Repressive Anglo Covenants Enforced. (See: Manifest Density, White Supremacy, Opposition Imaging, Racism, Capital Punishment, URBAN, Commodity, Imperialism & Yurugu) racehorse - the only animal that can take several thousand suckers for a ride all at the same time. (See: Race Track) 

Republican State Lawmakers Propose Anti-Protest Bills to Protect Drivers That Run Over Protesters

From [HERE] A number of state legislatures have considered bills that shield drivers from liability if they run over protesters, who are “obstructing” traffic.

These anti-protest bills from Republican lawmakers reflect a political climate in which far-right activists increasingly find it permissible to mow down Black Lives Matter protesters and other anti-racist demonstrators.

James Fields, a 20-year-old neo-Nazi, drove a Dodge Charger at high speed into the back of a vehicle and through a crowd of people opposing white supremacists in Charlottesville. Fields very quickly threw the car into reverse and injured more people as he left the scene. Bodies flew into the air, and Heather Heyer, a bankruptcy attorney, was killed.

He was charged with second-degree murder in addition to “three counts of malicious wounding and failing to stop at an accident that resulted in a death.” He was denied bond.

Counter-protesters, who witnessed the act, call it terrorism. The video makes it clear Fields deliberately targeted demonstrators.

Proposed bills have not excused conduct intended to target protesters deliberately, however, lawmakers like Republican State Representative Keith Kempenich of North Dakota find the legislation to be a necessary response to protests that cross the line and become “terrorism.”

Kempenich specifically introduced the bill to curtail demonstrations by indigenous activists and opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline. He said when protesters are on roadways and challenge motorists, “that’s an intentional act of intimidation—the definition of terrorism.” [MORE]

FBI & DHS Warned Trump White Nationalists Posed A Terror Threat Months Before Charlottesville

From [HERE] According to an internal document obtained by Foreign Policy, domestic intelligence agencies warned President Trump of white supremacists' threat back in May. The document, which reviews white supremacist activities in 2016, said that the faction “likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year.”

The news of the document came in the days following the deadly violence at a "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, VA., where white supremacist demonstrators clashed with counter-protestors. The violence came to a peak when a car slammed into a crowd of counter-protestors, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. The man suspected of driving that car into the crowd is 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., was reportedly a member of the white nationalist group demonstrating to prevent the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

President Trump's initial statement regarding the attack — that there was violence "on many sides" — has been fiercely criticized because some believed that Trump was unwilling to critique the white supremacists who claim they support him. Trump finally issued a pointed condemnation on Monday, a whole two days after Charlottesville. “Racism is evil,” Trump said. “And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”

The document from the FBI and DHS also stated that since 2000, white supremacists have killed more people than any other domestic terror group in the United States. They caused 49 deaths over the course of 26 attacks. Furthermore, according to the bulletin, "racial minorities have been the primary victims" of white supremacist violence.

The report also recounted several gruesome attacks carried out by white supremacists in 2016. In February of that year, a lone white supremacists allegedly attacked an 18-year-old Asian woman with a hatchet. She was taking photographs for a school project in Nashville, Indiana, and survived the attack, fortunately. The man who faces charges related to the attack said, according to court documents, that he is a white supremacist and "wanted to kill the student because of her race." The man is in custody and awaits trial. [MORE]

White Evangelist Russell Moore says 'White Supremacy Angers [the white] Jesus & his [white] father, God'

"Racism does not serve God" -Neely Fuller. Above Bruce Levell, a Sambo from the MoTeaSuh Tribe [mo' tea sir?] defends massa Trump from any criticisms from do-gooder, white evangelistic pastor who drops a few "revelation sandwiches." Segment is prior to Devil Trump's meltdown. Neely Fuller says that most white people have made racism/white supremacy their religion and have made themselves the God of that religion.

From [HERE] Leading US evangelical and Southern Baptist Russell Moore has offered blistering critique of white supremacy following the events at Charlottesville, calling the ideology 'terrorism, Satanism and devil worship.'

'White supremacy angers Jesus of Nazareth. The question is: Does it anger his church?' Moore asked yesterday, writing for the Washington Post, after incendiary white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia saw one person killed at the weekend. [MORE]

Interesting, but what does Moore mean when he says "white supremacy?"

Racists like to confuse with language. The terms "racist,""racists," nazi, nationalist, white supremacy and racism are used interchangeably or confusingly by racists or persons confused by racists -- with what is actually best described as bigotry or just name calling. 

In reality, to be a racist is to be an "upholder, supporter and perpetrator of the institution of the White Supremacy Dynamic in a system of oppression (structured and perpetuated injustice—racism.)" 

There is no system of Black supremacy. Nelly Fuller has observed that there is only one functioning form of racism in the known world- White supremacy. He challen­ges his readers to identify and then to demonstrate the superiority or functional supremacy of any of the world's "non-white" peoples over anyone. Concluding that since there is no operational supremacy of any "colored" people, Fuller reveals that the only valid operational definition of racism is white supremacy.

He observes that in spite of any and all statements the world's "non-white" peoples may make about themselves having economic and/or political independence and the like, in the final analysis, they are all victims of the white supremacy process. He places major emphasis on the present realities of the world that can be verified and tested, rather than on what one could imagine to be the case (such as a black or yellow supremacy). He further emphasizes that, instead of focusing on individual cases or on specific locations, a perspective that examines the patterns of relationships between whites and "non-whites" worldwide must be developed. [MORE]

Racism is white supremacy and white supremacy is racism. 'Everywhere one finds Whites and Blacks in close proximity to each other, whether it is Chicago or Zimbabwe, the Whites are in control. This extraordinary universal phenomenon which defies every known statistical law of probability is rarely questioned by African Americans (90% of the world is non-white)'. [MORE]

Anon explains: 

Q: Why is it called “Racism/White Supremacy?”

A: Because this describes exactly WHO is practicing racism. For one group to practice racism that group must have MORE POWER than another group. Since whites control ALL the major areas of human activity in America — housing, education, health, entertainment, economics, politics, law, and religion — it is accurate to define all “racism” as “white supremacy.” We must be accurate so the victims of racism do not become confused. 

Q: Isn’t all racism the same, regardless of who is practicing it?

A: There is only ONE kind of racism: white supremacy. White people are the only group in America with the POWER to discriminate (deprive or punish other ethnic groups), and the systems and institutions to maintain the imbalance of power.

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Fed Court Says TX Discriminated against Black & Latino voters when it Created State Congressional Districts

From [HERE] A federal court has ruled that the Texas Legislature intentionally discriminated against black and brown voters when creating state congressional districts in 2011 — and then failed to fix this racist line-drawing in 2013. 

In a long-awaited 107-page decision, the three judge panel ruled that the GOP-led Texas Legislature had drawn two congressional districts to favor the votes of white, conservative voters — and not reflecting the growing population of Latino and African-American (and predominately liberal) voters. The districts at fault are 27, represented by Corpus Christi Congressman Blake Farenthold, and 35, a district including parts of San Antonio represented by Congressman Lloyd Doggett.

The judges write that Doggett's district, which runs up I-35, touching parts of Austin and San Antonio was drawn using "race as a tool for partisan goals."

"What Republicans did was not just wrong, it was unconstitutional," Doggett wrote in a Tuesday press statement.

In Corpus Christi's District 27 district, the judges write, "Hispanic voters were intentionally deprived of their opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice." 

And even when the Legislature was given an option to fix the problem in 2013 — after voting rights groups sued the state for discriminatory redistricting — they purposefully decided not to, the court concluded.

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Supreme Court to Decide Whether Government Make Can Seize Your Cell Phone Location Records w/o A Warrant

From [HERE] The question to be answered by the Supreme Court regarding privacy is "Whether the warrantless seizure and search of historical cell phone records revealing the location and movements of a cell phone user over the course of 127 days is permitted by the Fourth Amendment." The petition was filed by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation on August 7, 2017. The case was filed is asking the court to reverse the judgement of the Sixth Circuit Court. You could review the full brief filed with the court here.

According to a new report posted today, a 44-page amicus brief was filed and signed by more than a dozen prominent tech companies such as Apple, Verizon, Facebook, Google and others.

The report further noted that "Cell phone location data has become increasingly important to investigations in recent years, as it can pinpoint a suspect's location by triangulating the signal among cell towers. Cell phone companies regularly get requests from police and other government agencies tied to investigations.

The issue is central to the appeal filed by Timothy Carpenter, who was convicted in 2011 of a series of armed robberies in Ohio and Michigan with the help of past cell phone location data. Officers dug through 127 days' worth of data provided by MetroPCS and Sprint. From that, they pulled together about 12,898 different locations for Carpenter during the time of the robberies.

Carpenter's conviction hinged on his cell phone location data, and he lost an appeal at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last April. In the appellate decision, the judges ruled that cell phone location data didn't merit Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and that the officers didn't need a warrant, as Carpenter's lawyers argued."

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Trump Hates Freedom of Speech: US Government Demands Details on All Visitors to anti-Trump Protest Website

From [HERE] One of the core principles enshrined in the Fourth Amendment is a prohibition on general searches — meaning, the government cannot simply go fishing for a wide range of information in the hope that some kind of useful evidence will turn up. But that’s exactly what the government appears to be doing with a newly revealed search warrant seeking reams of digital records about an Inauguration Day protest website that could implicate more than 1 million users.

We first learned yesterday that within days of President Trump’s inauguration, the web server hosting company DreamHost received a subpoena from the government seeking records about a website hosted on its servers. Now the government has followed up that initial demand with a search warrant seeking a huge array of records “related to” the website. Those records would include the IP addresses of over 1.3 million visitors to the site.

The demand would've been concerning no matter what, but the particular website being targeted rings serious alarm bells: an organizing website, called disruptj20.org, intended for individuals planning to stage protests at the inauguration of President Trump in January. After DreamHost raised objections to the warrant, which it sees as overbroad under the Fourth Amendment and potentially chilling under the First Amendment, the government went to court in July seeking to compel DreamHost’s compliance. A court hearing on the matter is scheduled for this Friday. 

This is not the only time the government has gone after Inauguration Day protesters with unusually aggressive means. The protests have also been at the focus of a major investigation by D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. So far, more than 200 protestors have been charged with crimes such as “property damage” and “felony riot,” and the D.C. Police seized and searched hundreds of protestors’ cell phones.

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Suit says Extreme Overcrowding in Uncivilized Nebraska Prison has Caused Needless Suffering & Inmate Deaths

Gender Annihilation and Family Destruction Center At 159% Capacity. From [HERE] After months of threats, the ACLU of Nebraska filed a lawsuit early Wednesday, alleging that “extreme” overcrowding in the state’s prison system has caused “needless suffering and death” of inmates, as well as unsafe conditions for staff.

“For over twenty years, Nebraska state prisons have been overcrowded, under-resourced, and understaffed. The result is a dangerous system in perpetual crisis,” stated the civil rights lawsuit, filed electronically just after midnight to the U.S. District Court.

The lawsuit names the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, its director, Scott Frakes, and the Nebraska Board of Parole among its defendants.

The 87-page suit alleges that inmates, especially those with disabilities and mental health problems, are denied adequate health care and that some inmates spend months and years in solitary confinement, sometimes shackled, particularly harming those with mental illnesses.

Those conditions, the ACLU claims, violate inmates’ constitutional rights to “a community standard” of health care and violate federal statutes governing care for inmates with disabilities.

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Racist Trump Blows Off Funeral of "Fantastic Woman" Assassinated by Terrorist

From [HERE] “RACISM IS EVIL,” declared Donald Trump on Monday, “and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”

OK, “declared” may be too strong a word for what we heard from the president. “Stated” is perhaps a better descriptor. “Read out” might be the most accurate of all. Trump made these “additional remarks” with great reluctance and only after two days of intense criticism from both the media and senior Republicans over his original remarks blaming “many sides” for the neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The words were not his own: they were scripted by aides and delivered with the assistance of a teleprompter. The president reserved his personal, off-the-cuff ire on Monday for the black CEO of Merck, not for the white fascists of Virginia.

Much of the frenzied media coverage of what CNN dubbed “48 hours of turmoil for the Trump White House” has overlooked one rather crucial point: Trump doesn’t like being forced to denounce racism for the very simple reason that he himself is, and always has been, a racist.

Consider the first time the president’s name appeared on the front page of the New York Times, more than 40 years ago. “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City,” read the headline of the A1 piece on Oct. 16, 1973, which pointed out how Richard Nixon’s Department of Justice had sued the Trump family’s real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act.

“The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color,’” the Times revealed. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.” (Trump later settled with the government without accepting responsibility).

Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot: he was accused of ordering “all the black [employees] off the floor” of his Atlantic City casinos during his visits; claimed “laziness is a trait in blacks” and “not anything they can control”; requested Jews “in yarmulkes” replace his black accountants; told Bryan Gumbel that “a well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market”; demanded the death penalty for a group of black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a jogger in Central Park (and, despite their later exoneration with the use of DNA evidence, has continued to insist they are guilty); suggested a Native American tribe “don’t look like Indians to me”; mocked Chinese and Japanese trade negotiators by doing an impression of them in broken English; described undocumented Mexican immigrants as “rapists”; compared Syrian refugees to “snakes”; defended two supporters who assaulted a homeless Latino man as “very passionate” people “who love this country”; pledged to ban a quarter of humanity from entering the United States; proposed a database to track American Muslims that he himself refused to distinguish from the Nazi registration of German Jews; implied Jewish donors “want to control” politicians and are all sly negotiators; heaped praise on the “amazing reputation” of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has blamed America’s problems on a “Jewish mafia”; referred to a black supporter at a campaign rally as “my African-American”; suggested the grieving Muslim mother of a slain U.S. army officer “maybe … wasn’t allowed” to speak in public about her son; accused an American-born Hispanic judge of being “a Mexican”; retweeted anti-Semitic and anti-black memes, white supremacists, and even a quote from Benito Mussolini; kept a book of Hitler’s collected speeches next to his bed; declined to condemn both David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan; and spent five years leading a “birther” movement that was bent on smearing and delegitimizing the first black president of the United States, who Trump also accused of being the founder of ISIS.

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Belk Store in North Carolina Arranged Mannequins to Resemble Nazi Salute

From [HERE] Racial and anti-Semitic symbolism appeared to rear its ugly head Sunday in North Carolina, when rows of mannequins at a Belk department store were rearranged with outstretched arms reminiscent of Nazi salutes.

Belk, Inc. is an American department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina with 300 locations in 16 states. Belk stores and Belk.com offer apparel, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings and wedding registry. [MORE] Fuck them too. Stop supporting white supremacy.

The incident happened at a Belk location in Cary Towne Center. A customer inside the store took the photo and posted it to social media, saying, in part, "How many people walked by this and didn't notice, oblivious, or saw it and did nothing? Awestruck, I watched about twenty before I couldn't take it. It's about action, and when it comes to racism and inequality, no act of defending love and equality is small."

The arms have since been reset to their normal positions.

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Full Transcript & Video: Devil Trump’s News Conference Meltdown in New York

President Trump gave an update on the administration’s efforts on infrastructure on Tuesday at Trump Tower, and then held a combative question-and-answer session that touched on the violence in Charlottesville, Va., his view on removing Confederate statues, Stephen K. Bannon’s role in the White House and more.

Following is a transcript of those remarks, as prepared by The New York Times. It has been lightly edited for clarity.

TRUMP: Great to be back in New York with all of our friends and some great friends outside the building, I must tell you.

I want to thank all of our distinguished guests who are with us today, including members of our cabinet: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, O.M.B. Director Mick Mulvaney, and of course our transportation secretary, who’s doing a fabulous job, Elaine Chao. Thank you all for doing a really incredible and creative job on what we are going to be discussing today, which is infrastructure. We’ve just had a great set of briefings upstairs on our infrastructure agenda.

My administration is working every day to deliver the world-class infrastructure that our people deserve, and that frankly our country deserves. That’s why I just signed a new executive order to dramatically reform the nation’s badly broken infrastructure permitting process.

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Calling a Racist a Patriot, Trump May Pardon Arizona Sheriff Arpaio Who Targeted & Mistreated Blacks & Latinos

Undeceiver Dr. Blynd defines patriotism  - the degree of voluntary servitude evinced. 2) the result of one successful treason- until the next one is necessary. 3) re-inforced mindless symbolic conformism. (see U.S. citizen, Treason, USA, Corporate State, nation, U.S. Senate, Country, Congress, Constitution & Human Resources). 

From [NYTimes] [Racist] President Trump is facing a crossroads in his presidency — a choice between adopting the better-angels tone of a traditional White House or doubling down on the slashing, go-it-alone approach that got him elected in 2016.

On Monday, he tried to walk both paths — and satisfied neither supporters or critics.

Mr. Trump, bowing to overwhelming pressure that he personally condemn white supremacists who incited bloody weekend demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., on Monday labeled their views as racist and “evil” after two days of issuing equivocal statements.

“Racism is evil,” said Mr. Trump, delivering a statement from the White House at a hastily arranged appearance meant to halt the growing political threat posed by the unrest. “And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the K.K.K., neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”

But before and after his conciliatory statement — which called for “love,” “joy” and “justice” — Mr. Trump issued classically caustic Twitter attacks on Kenneth C. Frazier, the head of Merck Pharmaceuticals and one of the country’s top African-American executives. Mr. Frazier announced on Monday morning that he was resigning from a presidential business panel to protest Mr. Trump’s initial equivocal statements on Charlottesville.

“Now that Ken Frazier of Merck has resigned from President’s Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!” the president wrote at 8:54 a.m., as he departed his golf resort in Bedminster, N.J., for a day trip back to Washington.

Shortly before leaving the capital, Mr. Trump attacked the news media for blowing the episode out of proportion.

“Made additional remarks on Charlottesville and realize once again that the #Fake News Media will never be satisfied... truly bad people!” he wrote on Monday evening.

“Trump faced a fork in the road today, and he took it,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California and the House minority leader. “He showed cowardice on Saturday by refusing to call out the racists and neo-Nazis, and on Monday he showed how uncomfortable he was in delivering another kind of message.”

Even Mr. Trump’s allies worried that his measured remarks, delivered two days after dozens of public figures issued more forceful denunciations of the violence in Virginia, came too late to reverse the self-inflicted damage on his moral standing as president.

On Saturday, Mr. Trump said the rioting was initiated by “many sides.” His comments prompted nearly universal criticism and spurred several of his top advisers, including his new chief of staff, John F. Kelly, to press the president to issue a more forceful rebuke.

Even after a wave of disapproval that included a majority of Senate Republicans — and stronger statements delivered by allies, including Vice President Mike Pence and the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump — Mr. Trump seemed reluctant to tackle the issue head-on when he appeared before the cameras on Monday.

He first offered a lengthy and seemingly out-of-place recitation of his accomplishments on the economy, trade and job creation. When he did address the violence in Charlottesville, he presented his stronger language as an update on the Justice Department’s civil rights investigation into the death of a woman who was hit by a car allegedly driven by an Ohio protester with ties to neo-Nazi groups.

“To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend’s racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered,” said Mr. Trump, who had just concluded a meeting with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director.

Mr. Trump has had a career-long pattern of delaying and muting his criticism of white nationalism. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he refused to immediately denounce David Duke, a former Klansman who supported his candidacy.

Some human rights activists, skeptical that Mr. Trump’s latest remarks on the issue represented a change of heart, called on him to fire so-called nationalists — a group of hard-right populists led by Stephen K. Bannon, the White House chief strategist — working in the West Wing.

“The president should make sure that no one on his staff has ties to white supremacists,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a telephone briefing on Monday afternoon. He added, “Nor should they be on the payroll of the American people.”

He said that the Justice Department and the Office of Government Ethics should “do an investigation and make that determination” to see if anyone in the White House has had links to hate groups.

Mr. Trump and his staff have consistently denied any connection to such organizations, and the president called for racial harmony in his remarks on Monday.

“As I have said many times before, no matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws,” he said. “We all salute the same great flag, and we are all made by the same almighty God. We must love each other, show affection for each other and unite together in condemnation of hatred, bigotry and violence.”

Far-right leaders, including Richard B. Spencer, who attended the Charlottesville rally, said they did not take the president’s remarks seriously.

“The statement today was more ‘kumbaya’ nonsense,” Mr. Spencer told reporters on Monday. “He sounded like a Sunday school teacher.”

“I don’t think that Donald Trump is a dumb person, and only a dumb person would take those lines seriously,” Mr. Spencer said.

As Mr. Trump was delivering the kind of statement his critics had demanded over the weekend, Fox News reported that the president is considering pardoning Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., a political ally who has been accused of federal civil rights violations for allegedly mistreating prisoners, many of them black and Hispanic.

The timing of the interview was especially striking, given that it came at the height of the controversy over his tepid remarks about Charlottesville.

“I am seriously considering a pardon for Sheriff Arpaio,” the president said in the interview on Sunday, speaking from his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. “He has done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration. He’s a great American patriot and I hate to see what has happened to him.”

Two themes — uniting the country while defending himself — collided on Mr. Trump’s Twitter feed earlier on Monday.

It is not unusual for Mr. Trump to attack, via Twitter, any public figure who ridicules, criticizes or even mildly questions his actions. But his decision to take on Mr. Frazier, a self-made multimillionaire who rose from a modest childhood in Philadelphia to attend Harvard Law School, was extraordinary given the wide-ranging criticism the president faced from both parties for not forcefully denouncing the neo-Nazis and Klan sympathizers who rampaged in Charlottesville.

Mr. Frazier’s exit from the business council marks a mini-exodus of business leaders from presidential advisory counsels as a result of Mr. Trump’s stances on social issues and the environment. His recent decision to leave the Paris climate accord prompted Elon Musk of Tesla to resign, as did the chief executive of Disney, Bob Iger.

Additionally, the chief executive of the athletic clothing line Under Armour, Kevin Plank, said Monday night he too would step down from the American Manufacturing Council — the same panel from which Mr. Frazier also resigned.

In a statement on Twitter, Mr. Plank said Under Armour “engages in innovation and sports, not politics.” He did not mention the Charlottesville controversy directly, but said he would continue working toward inspiring “through the power of sport which promotes unity, diversity and inclusion.”

Mr. Trump’s shot at Mr. Frazier, one of the country’s best-known black executives, prompted an immediate outpouring of support for the Merck chief executive from major figures in business, media and politics.

“Thanks @Merck Ken Frazier for strong leadership to stand up for the moral values that made this country what it is,” Paul Polman, the chief executive of Unilever, wrote on Twitter.

Just last month, Mr. Frazier appeared next to Mr. Trump at the White House to announce an agreement among drug makers that would create 1,000 jobs.

He is only the second African-American executive to lead a major pharmaceutical firm, and rose to prominence as Merck’s general counsel, when he successfully defended the company against class-action lawsuits stemming from complications involving the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx.

“It took Trump 54 minutes to condemn Merck CEO Ken Frazier, but after several days he still has not condemned murdering white supremacists,” Keith Boykin, a former aide to President Bill Clinton who comments on politics and race for CNN, wrote in a tweet.