Photo Shows Racists Trying to Beat Black Man to Death Next Door to Charlottesville Police Station

Gang of Racists in Charlottesville Feloniously Assault Local School Teacher w/ Deadly Weapon Over Skin Color Difference. 

From [Greg Palast] Don’t look away.  Four white neo-Nazis are beating a Black man, crawling on the ground, with their metal poles and a yellow hunk of lumber. The beating continues – there’s blood on the pavement.

Our photographer, Zach D. Roberts, continues to shoot – even as a white militant raises a 9mm pistol to his face.

Zach got a shot of the gun and gunman, too. Luckily, the gunman didn’t shoot back.

One photo has gone viral internationally.  These others we bring you here because they must be seen.  Including, for the first time, the gunman.

Welcome to Charlottesville, USA.  Trump’s America, month eight.

The young victim is De’Andre Harris, a special education teacher in Charlottesville. 

According to the President, the violence was perpetrated on “many sides.”  The only sides I see are the beaters and the beaten; Deandre on the ground with the alt-Right storm troopers with weapons.

Zach D. Roberts is an investigative photojournalist who has been with the Palast investigations team for eleven years.

Here is Zach’s report.  De’Andre Harris, the school teacher, was walking down the street with friends, trading taunts with the white supremacist demonstrators. 

Harris’ jibes were hardly fighting words.  “Go home!  Leave town!”  Locals like Harris resented the jack-ass invasion.

That’s when fists flew and Harris was slammed by one of the white guys straight into a parking lot barrier so hard the yellow wooden arm broke.

Now De’Andre fell to the ground, “alone, surrounded by all these white guys—and they started beating him with the poles that almost all the white supremacists were carrying.”

In the photos, you can see one white guy picking up the yellow barrier arm and raising the three foot hunk of lumber high over his head before he brings it down on Deandre—who is being kicked by another white man’s boots while two others bring down metal rods on the prone man.

And no, that’s not a cop on the left in the photo—that’s a neo-Nazi in full riot gear.  (Where were the cops?  Good question:  this parking garage is next to the Charlottesville Police Station.)

De’Andre was saved when some gutsy young Black men—with no weapons—ran into the underground garage– and the white posse scattered. 

Except for one.  The gunman.

He pulled out what looks to be a 9mm pistol, maybe a Glock semi-automatic, and positioned himself to fire on the rescue squad. But then he heard the click of Zach’s camera, just three feet away, and realized he was getting photographed.

Simultaneously, Zach realized he’d left his bullet-proof vest in his car.  (I’ll have that discussion with him later.)

In this strange stand-off, the camera proved mightier than the bullet. In his tiny little brain, the would-be shooter figured it would be wiser to quickly conceal the weapon and flee.

De’Andre “ran into the garage’s staircase and collapsed bleeding profusely from the face.” Zach waited with him and his protectors for half an hour but no ambulance arrived for him or the other people who were injured. 

So, that’s the news from Trump’s USA.  Nazis marching in the street, nuclear war with Korea, the “military option” for Venezuela.  And it’s only Monday.

I was going to write about Korea, then Venezuela, but then the Armed Alt-Righteous exposed themselves to Zach’s lens.

The Virginia story is not over.  We will be going back to Virginia on September 9 to the capital, Richmond, to fight for the right for Black folk to arm themselves with the one weapon these white punks fear most:  the vote.

Between snapping photos of America gone mad, Zach has been working these past four years with me on a story of how Trump’s henchman, one Kris Kobach, now head of Trump’s so-called, “Election Integrity Commission,” conceived of a secretive program to remove hundreds of thousands of Black Americans from the voter rolls.

Virginia removed an astonishing 41,637 voters based on Kobach’s accusation they could have voted twice.  Not one of the accused was arrested—but, you won’t be surprised to hear, the list of the “scrubbed” was filled with African-American names.

And Virginia is removing tens of thousands more with this Jim Crow tactic—despite a nominally Democratic Governor, Terry McAuliffe. 

Virginia refused us their “scrub” lists.  But Zach Roberts, by stellar investigative work, obtained a copy—half a million names in all--much to the state’s dismay.  And those lists are every bit as obscenely racist and, in the long run, far more wounding, than the iron rods of the neo-Nazis.

So, thank you, Zach, for the photos that bear witness and inside documents that reveal their secret schemes.

For the rest of us, our job is simpler:  not to look away.

In Service of his Racist Base, Trump's DOJ Opens Very "Narrow Probe" into Alleged Charlottesville Murder

From [HERE] On Saturday, the Justice Department opened its most high profile new investigation into a possible hate crime since the Senate confirmed an attorney general who was once deemed too racist to be a federal judge. The DOJ announced that “the Richmond FBI field office, the Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western district of Virginia have opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances” of a deadly crash where a driver appeared to intentionally plow into surrounding crowds during Saturday’s protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Although Donald Trump refused to condemn white nationalists who descended on Charlottesville this weekend — preferring instead to blame violence on “many sides” — Attorney General Jeff Sessions struck a more pointed tone in a statement reacting to the events in Charlottesville. “The violence and deaths in Charlottesville strike at the heart of American law and justice,” Sessions said. “When such actions arise from racial bigotry and hatred, they betray our core values and cannot be tolerated.”

Nevertheless, as Vanita Gupta, who led the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for part of the Obama administration, noted on Twitter, DOJ’s probe is currently very limited in scope.

At least according to the Justice Department statement referenced by Gupta, DOJ’s involvement is limited to the alleged homicide caused by a single driver. It is not a broader investigation into the white supremacist groups that triggered a weekend of chaos in Charlottesville.

It also remains to be seen whether the Justice Department will treat the fatal crash as a hate crime. Although the First Amendment does place considerable limits on the government’s ability to proscribe hate speech, current law permits someone convicted of a crime to receive a higher sentence if that crime was motivated by racial hatred. Many conservatives, however, view such enhanced sentences as a violation of the First Amendment, and it remains to be seen whether a Sessions-led Justice Department will be willing to seek such an enhancement.

Multiple reports connect James Fields, the man police say was at the wheel during the fatal crash, to a Facebook page loaded with white nationalist imagery. If the Facebook page proves to be authentic, that suggests that Fields’ alleged actions may have been a hate crime.

Complicit Cops Watched Passively as Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville & “Nazis” Assaulted Anti-Racism Protesters

From [ProPublica] There was nothing haphazard about the violence that erupted today in this bucolic town in Virginia's heartland. At about 10 a.m. on Saturday, at one of countless such confrontations, an angry mob of white supremacists formed a battle line across from a group of counter-protesters, many of them older and gray-haired, who had gathered near a church parking lot. On command from their leader, the young men charged and pummeled their ideological foes with abandon. One woman was hurled to the pavement, and the blood from her bruised head was instantly visible.

Standing nearby, an assortment of Virginia State Police troopers and Charlottesville police wearing protective gear watched silently from behind an array of metal barricades — and did nothing.

It was a scene that played out over and over in Charlottesville as law enforcement confronted the largest public gathering of white supremacists in decades. We walked the streets beginning in the early morning hours and repeatedly witnessed instances in which authorities took a largely laissez faire approach, allowing white supremacists and counter-protesters to physically battle.

Officials in Charlottesville had publicly promised to maintain control of the "Unite the Right" rally, which is the latest in a series of chaotic and bloody racist rallies that have roiled this college town, a place deeply proud of its links to Thomas Jefferson and the origins of American Democracy.

But the white supremacists who flooded into the city's Emancipation Park — a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee sits in the center of the park — had spent months openly planning for war. The Daily Stormer, a popular neo-Nazi website, encouraged rally attendees to bring shields, pepper spray, and fascist flags and flagpoles. A prominent racist podcast told its listeners to come carrying guns. "Bring whatever you need, that you feel you need for your self defense. Do what you need to do for security of your own person," said Mike "Enoch" Peinovich on The Right Stuff podcast.

And the white supremacists who showed up in Charlottesville did indeed come prepared for violence. Many wore helmets and carried clubs, medieval-looking round wooden shields, and rectangular plexiglass shields, similar to those used by riot police.

Clad in a black, Nazi-style helmet, Matthew Heimbach told ProPublica, "We're defending our heritage." Heimbach, who heads the Traditionalist Workers Party, a self-declared fascist group, said he was willing to die for his cause and would do whatever it took to defend himself. He was surrounded by a brigade of white supremacists, including members of the League of the South and the National Socialist Movement.

By the time Heimbach and his contingent arrived in downtown Charlottesville shortly before 11 a.m., what had started hours earlier with some shoving and a few punches had evolved into a series of wild melees as people attacked one another with fists, feet, and the improvised weapons they'd brought with them to the park. White supremacists and anti-racists began blasting each other with thick orange streams of pepper spray.

The police did little to stop the bloodshed. Several times, a group of assault-rifle-toting militia members from New York State, wearing body armor and desert camo, played a more active role in breaking up fights.

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Trump [the Master of Silence] tells His Believers Exactly What They Want to Hear by Saying Nothing About Racism

Complicit President. Racism/white supremacy is carried out by deception and/or violence. In above photos, Trump has silently approved of violence against non-whites and whites against racism by, for instance, failing to condemn the bombing a of Mosque in Minnesota last Saturday, which in turn has emboldened his Neuropean & Neuropeon votary to do things such as have meaningless violent marches about statues in Charlottesville or desecrate the Willow Gove Baptist church in McLennan County. Last Tuesday, graffiti bearing Nazi symbolism, the word “Satan” and Trump was found at the predominantly Black church scribbled in ketchup and mustard. [MORE]

The following Zen koan may provide better understanding. By Osho Rajineesh From [HERE]

There was a monk who called himself “The Master of Silence.”

Actually he was a fraud and had no genuine understanding.

To sell his humbug Zen he had two eloquent attendant monks

to answer questions for him,
but, as if to show his inscrutable silent Zen,
he himself never uttered a word.

One day, during the absence of his two attendants,

a pilgrim came to him and asked:
Master, what is the Buddha?

Not knowing what to do, or how to answer,

he looked desperately around in all directions

for his missing mouthpieces.

The pilgrim, apparently pleased and satisfied,

thanked the master, and set out again on his journey.

On the road the pilgrim met the two attendant monks

on their way home.
He began telling them enthusiastically
what an enlightened being this Master of Silence is.

He said: I asked him what Buddha is
and he immediately turned his face to the east and to the west

implying that human beings are always looking for Buddha
here and there, but actually,
Buddha is not to be found in any such directions.
Oh what an enlightened master he is,

and how profound his teachings!

When the attendant monks returned,

the Master of Silence scolded them thus:

Where have you been all this time?

A while ago I was embarrassed to death and almost ruined

by an inquisitive pilgrim. [MORE]

Dr. Blynd: The Definitions of Neuropeans & Neuropeons

From "FUNKTIONARY, THE KEY HOLDERS ENPSYCHLOPEDIA" Copyright 2016 Chocolate City Press. Resonated & Orchestrated by Dr. Blynd, Ph.F.

Neuropeans - (Neurotic Europeans) - neurotic, ignorant, narcissistic and self-deluded white supremacist Caucasians operating at the mythic and rational levels of consciousness only. 2) Fascists. (See Weitko Disease, White Supremacy and Yurungu.)

Neuropeons - neurotic, stupid and self deluded poor white trash. 2) skin heads 3) Nazis, neo-Nazis and Theo-nazis (See KKK, WOTAN, Weitko Disease, Fasxism, Racism White Supremacy, Stupidity, Ku Klux Klan & Yurungu).  

Can Idiotic President Start a War Based Only On a Newspaper Article "He Read" in Washington Post?

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Besides Unconfirmed, Uncorroborated DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency]report cited in Washington Post article there is no proof North Korea has Missile-Ready Nuclear Weapons.

From [HERE] Chief distracter, President Donald Trump’s threats against North Korea and tweets about the United States’ powerful nuclear arsenal have raised the specter of nuclear war. 

But some members of Congress argue that the current process by which the president can order a nuclear strike is illegal.

"Our view is the current nuclear launch approval process is unconstitutional," U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif, said on CNN on Aug. 8, 2017. Lieu has filed a proposal to require congressional approval before the president could launch a first nuclear strike.

"Right now one person can launch thousands of nuclear weapons, and that's the president. No one can stop him. Under the law, the secretary of defense has to follow his order. There's no judicial oversight, no congressional oversight," Lieu said.

The current nuclear launch approval process was enshrined after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to end World War II. President Harry Truman signed the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 to give the president full responsibility over the nation’s nuclear arsenal.

The U.S. Supreme Court has never weighed in on the question of whether the current nuclear launch approval process is legal.

The Constitution allows the president to use significant military force without congressional approval if it’s in self-defense. [MORE]

White on White Violence Erupts in Charlottesville as Mostly White Protestors Conflict Over "White Supremacy"

Elite white media is selling today's incident as a Black/White event but it appears to be White/White as most of the anti-racism protestors were white - as least in photos & video released so far. In this way the media is pushing facts in accord with the appetite of the listeners, not with the realities of life. The media also likes to push this narrarative to further polarize Blacks and whites and confuse about the terms "white supremacy" and "racism." 

Mostly White people running for cover. 

However, today's violence is different from the white intimidation on display last night as neaderthal racists carried torches onto the UVA campus. [MORE]

Last night

Racists love words - so they can create confusion and deceive. What exactly is "white supremacy," "racism" and "nationalism?" Always endeavoring to undeceive, Dr. Blynd offers the following in FUNKTIONARY, 

Racism -  White Degeneracy wrongly cast as Supremacy. Racism—a psycho-socio-economic reality based on a pseudo-scientific biological myth—is a power group dynamic, i.e., a defined group cooperatively via legacy institutions exerting structured and enforced institutionalized and systemic injustice, oppression and power over another group. Racism is not individualistic, but institutional, cultural, economic, political, linguistic, self-perpetuating and systematic. Racism is economic discrimination by one group over and against another for the purposes of subjugation and/or maintaining the imbalance of power through cooperative control, misinformation, indoctrination, genocide and oppression. Racism is the socioeconomic and cultural bequest of colonialism, neo-colonialism and the vestiges of the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Afrikans and their descendants. Racism has its bio-physiological origins in the immune response of primitive life-forms to foreign matter and has its geo-psychological roots in the response of primitive humans encountering more intelligent ones based on the meme of scarcity and the fear of genetic annihilation through genetic assimilation. "Racism destroys men—and women—as much by what it denies them as by what it metes out to them." -Isaiah Thomas. "It is pathological for Blacks to keep attempting moral suasion on a people who have no ethics or morality where race is a variable." -Bobby Wright.

"If you can't keep something but you can't give it up, you have to render it unrecognizable; racism has been defined out of existence and repackaged so that whites could retain its perks, especially the psychological ones. It has undergone existential plastic surgery. To keep it buried alive in its unholy grave, a host of Strangelovean anti-intellectualisms have been developed and honed." -Debra J. Dickerson. Racism White Supremacy is a virus in the mind, a malignant meme that has both the host of the virus and the whole society sick. White Supremacy (Degeneracy) is socially engineering Black Consciousness and/or also responsible for the falsification of Black consciousness. "If you don't understand racism white supremacy, everything else you think you know will only confuse you." -Neelly Fuller, Jr. (See: White Supremacy, Yurugu, Park Day, Declaration of Endependece, Ma'afa & Caucasion). 

Racism White Supremacy - 1)psychopathic degeneracy. 2) "The local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet earth—a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people." -Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, MD. Hate and oppression can never reign. Only love is supreme.

As stated by Dr. Welsing,

"People who classify themselves as White, who wish to be taken seriously, and who are righteous and responsible, will only talk about ending White Supremacy (Racism) and replacing it with Justice. For further understanding, read "The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)", 1970. Also, "The Isis Papers (The Keys to the Colors)", Frances C. Welsing, Third World Press, 1990. "

Nationalism - the natural collective commitment on the part of the members of a society and/or culture to its economic and political defense, its survival and its perpetuation, not limited by the concept of non-geographical or non-territorial "nation-state" (commercial religious monopolies erroneously known as "governments.") Michael Bakunin aptly and rightly claimed that "the "negative component' of nationalism is just as essential as the 'positive component' and inseparable from it." Class collaboration and cultural identity cannot be readily decoupled in reality—maybe as a goal—but not in reality. Racism/white supremacy must be addressed and dismantled before any class-unification or cross-collaboration can be successful in bringing about more economic equality or even liberation for the people (dwellers upon the land) in the absence of any politically institutionalized hierarchy of imperialist white male domination and dehumanizing subjugation of humans through the trickery of statutes and by-laws that enforce compelled performance to same. [MORE]

madmadmad - GWARN

Fueled by Trump Hate, Racist Degenerate Plows Car Into Anti-Racism Protesters in Charlottesville

Racism - White Degeneracy wrongly cast as Supremacy. From [HERE] A white driver in a silver Dodge Challenger on Saturday plowed through a group of counterprotesters who had rallied against white nationalist demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer and the University of Virginia Medical Center have confirmed that at least one person died and at least 19 are being treated for injuries as a result of the entire day’s events. Whether the act was intentional and, if so, what the driver’s motives were is not yet clear.

The crash happened in the midst of a tense day of protests as white nationalists, Ku Klux Klan members, neo-Nazis, and other white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville to protest plans to tear down Confederate monuments. Violent clashes broke out between protesters and counterprotesters on Friday night and Saturday morning.

Police ordered crowds to disperse before noon.

Witnesses said a crowd of counterdemonstrators, jubilant because the white nationalists had left, was moving up Fourth Street, near the mall, when a gray sports car came down the road and accelerated, mowing down several people and hurling at least two in the air. It had drived on a street that at least some demonstrators had believed was blocked off to traffic. It then sped into the crowd, striking multiple people before backing up. [MORE]

Donald Trump has been blamed for the violent clashes between white supremacists and anti-fascist groups in Charlottesville by the mayor of the Virginia town.

Michael Signer said he was disappointed the white nationalists had descended on his town and said responsibility lay with Mr Trump for inflaming racial prejudice during his presidential campaign last year.

Mr Signer said: "I'm not going to make any bones about it. I place the blame for a lot of what you're seeing in America today right at the doorstep of the White House and the people around the President."

He was speaking shortly before it emerged one person had been killed and several others injured when a car hit anti-fascist protesters.

The clashes broke out at a "Unite the Right" protest over the decision by the local government to remove a statue of the leading Confederate general, Robert E Lee, during the American Civil War. [MORE]

Donald Trump, addressing the situation from his private golf club in New Jersey, declined to condemn white nationalism and instead said the blame for the violence lies with “many sides.”

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, on many sides. It’s been going on for a long time in our country, not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama, it’s been going on for a long, long time,” Trump said at a previously scheduled event for veterans.

As the presser ended, a reporter asked Trump if he wanted the support of white nationalist groups, which he did not acknowledge.

Following Trump's lack of response, the NAACP tweeted the statement: "Guess it's hard to disavow bigots and hate when they are amongst your key strategists #Charlottesville." [MORE]

[Believers Create Their Own Deceivers] How Trump Emboldened Racists in Charlottesville

From [MediaMatters] White supremacists have been engaging in violent and racist protests this weekend in Charlottesville, VA. President Donald Trump responded to the violence by issuing generic condemnations of problems "on many sides" and declining to specifically call out white supremacists. Trump's response fits a pattern: He has repeatedly enabled and emboldened the white nationalist movement and its racist media figures throughout his political rise.

White supremacists and “alt right” figures have been gathering in Charlottesville for a “Unite the Right” rally “to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.” The rally features white nationalist media figures such as Richard Spencer and Mike Enoch and was organized by racist writer Jason Kessler, who has written for The Daily Caller.

Former KKK leader David Duke, who is attending the protest, said today that the Charlottesville protests are an indication that “we are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in, that’s why we voted for Donald Trump.”

Media Matters has documented how Trump has engaged in a disturbing courtship with the racist white nationalist movement and its media figures:

White nationalist leaders are supporting Trump and see him as their “last stand.”

White nationalists praised Trump and his actions throughout the presidential campaign.

Trump and his campaign had disturbing interactions with white nationalists.

White nationalists have said Trump has helped them grow their movement.

Since Trump was elected in November, white nationalists have cheered the president’s rhetoric and the administration’s moves on appointing Stephen Bannon to a senior position; making Jeff Sessions the attorney general; attempting to ban people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States; and many others. They have also praised White House adviser Stephen Miller for his anti-immigrant rhetoric and former White House press secretary Sean Spicer for his April comments about the Holocaust.  

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Degenerate Racists [calling themselves a "tea party"] Mock Maxine Waters' Physical Appearance at Conference

At the Tea Party California Caucus meeting in Fresno this weekend an unflattering cartoon image of Maxine Waters, showing her with a messy, unkept weave, big lips, and deluded wide open eyes was flashed on a screen just after Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove) delivered the keynote address Friday evening.

Woody Woodrum of the conservative activist group California Screaming Eagles told the crowd that it was Waters' reaction when she heard McClintock was coming to speak to California tea party members, drawing a big laugh in the room.

“It was just a joke,” Woodrum said later.

Woodrum said it wasn’t meant to be mean-spirited. He said the photo has been floating around the Internet. [MORE]

Racists enjoy ridiculing Maxine Waters b/c they love demeaning Black people; pretending it is just about Maxine Waters is indirectly part of the inside joke. Recently, Bill O'Reilly claimed Rep. Maxine Waters’  (D-CA) was wearing a “James Brown wig. [MORE] That generic put down was aimed at all Black women who wear weaves or wigs. In 2014, posters featuring a black-and-white illustration of Waters bordered with the words “Poverty Pimp” were plastered by white racists on streets and near freeways and businesses throughout Los Angeles, Inglewood and the South Bay. The ad portrayed a wrinkled caricature of Waters depicted with red dollar signs in her eyes and the words “Niggas Betta Have My Money!” behind her. [MORE] 

Like Obama racism, this of course is directed @ YOU. White folks undercover think this shit is funny because most white people hate black people. If you don't know this about white people, virtually all else that you know about them will only confuse you.

The silly messaging has no strategic effect on Maxine Waters. Waters has been re-elected consistently with at least 70% of the popular vote since 1990. She is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress. Representing California's 43rd Congressional District, Waters is the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee and the Chief Deputy Whip. [MORE]

The messaging only serves to demean Black people - its true purpose. Just an excuse for a racist to engage in comparison, ridicule hair, lips, mouth & write the word "nigga" about 30 times and put it all over the city. White folks and Black jokes. Ha ha ha.  

Racists live in a state of comparison, which Dr. Blynd defines as follows: 

comparison - a disease of the mind due to the ignorance of uniqueness. Each individual is unique and beyond the scope of comparison. Those who fall victim to comparison will either become egoistic or bitter. You don't belong to any hierarchy - nobody is lower or higher than what "you" imagine yourself and "others" to be. Comparison creates differences or distinctions only when there is not uniformity. Comparison limits the possibility of living in the moment. (See: Judgment, Problems, Moment, Running Man, Surrender, Value, Exchange Value, Uniqueness, Awareness & Compassion). [MORE]

W/o Notice or a Hearing ICE is Disappearing Latino Teens Based on Unsubstantiated Gang Claims: ACLU Files Suit

All About Helping the ["the Animals" in the] Latino Community or Destroying It? From [HERE] and [HERE] With law enforcement officials aggressively pursuing gang members on Long Island after a recent spate of homicides by the transnational gang MS-13, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a class-action lawsuit on Friday that federal authorities had gone too far.

The A.C.L.U. filed suit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and several federal immigration agencies on behalf of three Long Island teenagers who, according to their lawyers, were being unlawfully detained on suspicion of being gang members without substantiation.

“If you’re Hispanic and in the Brentwood area here, and you’re a young kid who came here recently, you’re living in a police state,” said Bryan Johnson, a lawyer for one of the teenagers. “Anything you do, you go to school, you’re under investigation.”

The lead plaintiffs, who seek to represent a broader class, lived in Suffolk County, New York, where two weeks ago President Trump gave a speech endorsing police brutality against people suspected of gang violence.

The suit charges ORR with accepting ICE’s unsubstantiated gang allegations and placing children in severely restrictive conditions, even though the government had previously released the youth to the custody of their parents. The plaintiffs were transported to distant detention facilities without notice to their parents or lawyers and were not afforded a chance to challenge the charges against them.

“We’re talking about teens who were picked up for play-fighting with a friend, or for showing pride in their home country of El Salvador,” said Stephen Kang, attorney with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. “The Office of Refugee Resettlement is accepting wholesale that young immigrants should be kept behind bars because of what they look like or where they come from.”

The lawsuit charges that federal authorities — under the guise of a “crackdown” on transnational street gangs — are embarking on a concerted effort to detain and deport children based on unreliable claims of gang affiliation and flawed reports of criminal history.

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Locked up at 16 for Murder [of a white man] He Didn’t Commit, Frederick Clay is Released After 38 yrs in Prison

From [HERE] and [HERE] In 1981, Frederick Clay was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. He spent 38 years—70 percent of his life—in prison. But yesterday Clay was freed when Suffolk Superior Court Judge Christine Roach exonerated him based on new evidence that revealed that Clay had been misidentified and was wrongfully convicted nearly 40 years ago.

According to the Boston Globe, in 1979, 28-year-old cab driver Jeffrey S. Boyajian was robbed and murdered when he was shot in the head five times after he picked up three men in a Boston neighborhood. According to the police, Clay and another man, James Watson, were two of the men in the car; the alleged third man was never apprehended.

There were several eyewitnesses who identified Clay as being one of the three men who entered Boyajian’s cab. But Clay, who was 16 years old at the time, maintained his innocence. He testified that he’d been at his foster home at the time of the crime, which his foster mother confirmed. Despite his alibi, Clay was convicted of first-degree murder. Watson was also convicted.

Last year, attorneys representing Clay filed a motion for a new trial. They argued that new evidence revealed that the testimony of numerous eyewitnesses was unreliable and that Clay had been misidentified. One of the men who’d identified Clay as one of the men in cab in 1979 had done so only after he’d allegedly been hypnotized by investigators on the case.

Based on that motion, the Suffolk district attorney’s conviction integrity program reinvestigated the conviction.

Lisa Kavanaugh, director of the Committee for Public Counsel Services Innocence Program and Clay's attorney, said the witnesses confirmed her client's identity only after being hypnotized, an identification method that new research has largely debunked.

Kavanaugh said that much of the testimony used against Clay would not stand up today in court.

"There were ... profound problems with both the circumstances with which the witnesses were able to make their initial observations and also with the way that the police handled the identification procedures," Kavanaugh said.

And the prosecution agrees.

In yesterday’s hearing, Assistant District Attorney Donna Jalbert Patalano told the judge that based on the new evidence in the case, her office would not only not oppose Clay’s request for a new trial but it also would not retry him, vacating his conviction. Clay was freed.

“No amount of apology is going to bring back 38 years out of my life,” Clay said after the hearing, according to the Boston Globe. “About the challenges that’s ahead of me, I got goosebumps about that.”

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Nazi like Israel Is Arresting Palestinians At Highest Rate in Years

YouTube Removing Videos that Reveal Government War Crimes & Other "Extremist Material" [revealing truth about Gov]

From [MintPress] The removals began days after Google, which owns YouTube, trumpeted the arrival of an artificial intelligence program that it said could spot and flag “extremist” videos without human involvement.

YouTube is facing criticism after a new artificial intelligence program monitoring “extremist” content began flagging and removing masses of videos and blocking channels that document war crimes in the Middle East.

Middle East Eye, the monitoring organization Airwars, and the open-source investigations site Bellingcat are among a number of sites that have had videos removed for breaching YouTube’s Community Guidelines.

The removals began days after Google, which owns YouTube, trumpeted the arrival of an [pre-textual] artificial intelligence program that it said could spot and flag “extremist” videos without human involvement.

But since then vast tracts of footage, including evidence used in the Chelsea Manning court case and videos documenting the destruction of ancient artifacts by Islamic State, have been flagged as “extremist” and deleted from its archives.

Orient News, a Syrian opposition news site established in 2008, appears to have had its entire YouTube account removed.

Airwars raised the issue on Twitter after a number of its videos – largely showing footage of air strikes – were removed for violating YouTube guidelines.

Airwars later said its videos had been reviewed and restored but given 18+ age classifications.

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