Leadership as Performance: Unlike Popeye's Annie, [Zombie] Black Baltimore Mayor is Not Louisiana Fast

[Not real- just playing a role on TV] Baltimore Android Mayor and Racist Suspect Maryland Governor Walk Off Interview with CNN’s Don Lemon. More on leadership as performance [HERE] and [HERE] 

As you know, Governor Jay Nixon (D) Could Care Less about whether "Black Lives Matter" to an All White Jury: Missouri Murders Another Black Man

The Death Penalty Not Punishment but Revenge. Civilization is Still Just an Idea. The death penalty is a form of violence committed through America's criminal justice system against mostly poor, non-whites. [MORE] "If murder is wrong, then whether it is committed by the man or by the society and its court, makes no difference. Killing certainly is a crime. The death penalty is a crime committed by the society against a single individual, who is helpless." [MORE]

More than half of the 3095 people on death row nationwide are people of color; 42% are African American. Prominent researchers have demonstrated that a defendant is more likely to get the death penalty if the victim is white than if the victim is black. The key decision makers in death penalty cases across the country are almost exclusively white. Despite decades of evidence showing that the administration of the death penalty is permeated with racial bias, white judges, prosecutors and lawmakers choose to ignore "race." The only purpose of race is to practice racism.  

From [HERE] A Black man was executed Tuesday night for killing a white man in a fit of rage over child support payments 16 years ago. Andre Cole, 52, became the third convicted killer put to death this year in Missouri. His fate was sealed after the U.S. Supreme Court turned down several appeals, including one claiming Cole was mentally ill and unfit for execution.

Also Tuesday, racist suspect, Gov. Jay Nixon (Democrat) refused a clemency petition that raised concerns about the fact that Cole, who was black, was convicted and sentenced by an all-white jury. In six years as Missouri's Nixon has received 13 petitions for clemency from inmates facing the death penalty. He's turned down all but one, and he never explained that decision. Cole was the fourth black man executed in Missouri since September sentenced to death by an all-white jury for murdering a white victim. At least five other black men have similarly been convicted by all-white juries in Missouri and executed since 1989. [MORE] Racist suspect media have characterized Cole's all white jury as merely a coincidence [MORE] & definitely not apart of any white collective power system of racism. 

A federal judge had agreed to halt the lethal injection of a Missouri death-row inmate, but the decision was quickly appealed by white prosecutors just hours ahead of the execution scheduled for Tuesday evening. US district judge Catherine Perry ruled late Monday that Cole was incompetent to be executed because of mental illness.

“He hears voices over the TV, over the prison intercom. Everywhere,” Cole’s attorney, Joseph Luby, told the Associated Press. He said Cole believes that Missouri governor Jay Nixon, prosecutors and others “are giving him messages about his case”.

Several outside groups, including the NAACP civil rights group and the American Civil Liberties Union, asked Nixon to stop the execution and appoint a board to examine concerns about racial bias in Missouri’s jury selection process. Cole, who is black, was convicted and sentenced by an all-white jury.

Prosecutors removed three black potential jurors from the pool of candidates, according to Cole’s supporters. Mittman said one black man was removed because he was divorced, but a white juror was not removed even though he was paying child support.

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Who are the real criminals? 152 Innocents, Marked for State Approved Murder [disproportionately non-white.]

Ny Times

However much Americans may disagree about the morality of capital punishment, no one wants to see an innocent person executed.

And yet, far too often, people end up on death row after being convicted of horrific crimes they did not commit. The lucky ones are exonerated while they are still alive — a macabre club that has grown to include 152 members since 1973.

The rest remain locked up for life in closet-size cells. Some die there of natural causes; in at least two documented cases, inmates who were almost certainly innocent were put to death.

How many more innocent people have met the same fate, or are awaiting it? That may never be known. But over the past 42 years, someone on death row has been exonerated, on average, every three months. According to one study, at least 4 percent of all death-row inmates in the United States have been wrongfully convicted. That is far more than often enough to conclude that the death penalty — besides being cruel, immoral, and ineffective at reducing crime — is so riddled with error that no civilized nation should tolerate its use.

Innocent people get convicted for many reasons, including bad lawyering, mistaken identifications and false confessions made under duress. But as advances in DNA analysis have accelerated the pace of exonerations, it has also become clear that prosecutorial misconduct is at the heart of an alarming number of these cases.

In the past year alone, nine people who had been sentenced to death were released — and in all but one case, prosecutors’ wrongdoing played a key role.

The latest was Anthony Ray Hinton, who on Apr. 3 walked out of the Alabama prison where he had spent almost 30 years, half his life, on death row. Mr. Hinton was convicted of two murders largely on faulty evidence that the bullets had come from his gun. His prosecutor at the time said he knew Mr. Hinton was guilty and “evil” just by looking at him. And later prosecutors continued to insist on his guilt even when expert testimony clearly refuted the case against him.

Why does this keep happening? In a remarkable letter to the editor published last month in The Shreveport Times, A.M. Stroud III, a former prosecutor in Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, offered a chillingly frank answer: “Winning became everything.” [code for white supremacy/racism became everything]. [MORE]

If they [white folks] are OK with executing you in broad daylight in front of numerous cameras and witnesses, why would they care about your march? Protesters Will Walk in Circle [NYC to D.C.] against Police Brutality

From [HERE]  A march from New York City to Washington, D.C., to protest police brutality started Monday morning in Staten Island -- the borough where Eric Garner was murdered last summer by NYPD. [MORE] If you are still attempting moral suasory on racists then you have missed the point. [MORE] Its time for some other shit. But enjoy the fellowship and workout. 

"Stop expecting racist white people to solve our problems". Singing songs, holding hands, making great speeches, talking on TV and taking long, long walks and many other behaviors, have absolutely nothing to do with addressing the challenges and conditions of the open warfare continuously being waged against the Black & Brown collective. [MORE]

Now, lets clear the air on a few things about the white media Eric Garner coverage:

It was Never About One Cop. It was a Gang of White Cops. "Have you ever see one lone white man lynch one lone Black man? Have you ever seen it done without a gun?" [MORE] Eric Garner was killed by a gang of white cops who smothered and pounced on him as a white cop placed him in a choke hold. But only one white cop was charged by white prosecutors. If a Black man put a white man in chokehold in front of white witnesses and a group of like 7 other Blacks pounced on him then.... [they would all be on death row]. 

Grand Jury was All White in the Blackest City in the Country. No cops were indicted by an all white grand jury.[MORE] Yes an all-white grand jury in NYC, a city with the largest number of Blacks in the country. NYC is also the mecca for democrats and liberals. What are they doing for you? The white jurors were presented with 28 eyewitnesses and had every camera angle - jurors saw the Youtube video, NYPD video, store video and City street camera video. If you believe that racist suspects are concerned with whether 'Black lives matter' then you want to be deceived. 

Despite Overturned Guilty Verdict, Black Man Still Locked Up on 80 Year Sentence: White N.C. Prosecutors Appeal & Continue to Ignore DNA Evidence, Coerced Confession

From [HERE] and [HERE] Nearly a year has passed since Darryl Anthony Howard heard a Durham County judge overturn guilty verdicts for two homicides Howard maintains he did not commit. [In photo, N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper]. 

But the 53-year-old Black man was still in prison as attorneys argued for and against the decision in front of a three-judge Court of Appeals panel last Wednesday.

Last May, Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson ruled that Howard’s conviction should be overturned due to a lack of physical evidence tying him to the double-murder for which he is serving an 80-year sentence. Judge Hudson also issued an order setting bail so that Howard could be released pending retrial. However, state prosecutors immediately appealed both rulings.

Assistant Attorney General Mary Carla Babb told the appeals court judges – Ann Marie Calabria, Donna Stroud and John Tyson – that state prosecutors believed Judge Orlando Hudson erred in May when he ordered a new trial for Howard.

Howard was convicted in 1995 of two counts of second-degree murder for the homicides of Doris Washington, 29, and her 13-year-old daughter, Nishonda, at a Durham public housing complex.

The killings occurred in 1991 in what investigators described as drug-related crimes.

Howard was convicted based on conflicting witness testimony which claimed that Howard was seen arguing with one of the victims the day before the crime occurred. One witness later recanted, stating he was coerced into implicating Howard. Another was paid $10,000 from a state compensation fund for her testimony.

During the investigation, DNA testing of sperm found on one of the victims’ bodies excluded Howard as the source. But the prosecution proceeded with its case against Howard, convincing the jury instead that no sexual assaults took place.

The Innocence Project conducted more testing last year on the two victims’ rape kits. DNA from one of the kits matched to a career criminal with over 35 prior convictions, and excluded Howard. Testing on the other kit revealed a second male profile that also excluded Howard.

Charlotte attorney Jim Cooney, working in collaboration with the Innocence Project, a national organization dedicated to exonerating the wrongfully convicted through DNA testing, told the three appeals court judges on Wednesday that new DNA evidence and statements collected by post-conviction investigators implicated another man in the crime.

Cooney also argued that a police document uncovered by Innocence Project researchers in the past decade raised questions about the actions of Durham prosecutors, who pushed ahead with the case against Howard knowing that DNA pointed to other culprits.

Sperm was found on the teen and collected in an investigative rape kit. An autopsy showed that her mother had been sexually assaulted, according to court documents. Howard was charged in the homicides, but DNA tests excluded him as a match to the sexual assault evidence.

At trial, Durham police detective D.L. Dowdy testified that he never suspected that the murders involved sexual assaults and that he never investigated them as such.

Mike Nifong, the former Durham District Attorney disbarred for his misconduct in the Duke lacrosse case, was an assistant district attorney and the prosecutor at trial.

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[Yawn] Another Cranky Racist Suspect Puppetician [Hillary Clinton] Announces Run for President

An Oldie but Goody? From [HERE] The prolonged prologue to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s second run for the White House will reach its suspenseless conclusion on Sunday: The former secretary of state, senator and first lady is to announce that she will indeed seek the Democratic nomination for president. At any rate, all signs are that her campaign rollout to the votary will probably not include neutralizing white supremacy/racism. [MORE]

Will White Media, Prosecutors & Jurors Get Justice for White Man Beaten Senseless by San Bernardino Cops? [yes, of course. white lives matter]

What is collective white power? [MORE] A Southern California sheriff has placed 10 [white] deputies on paid administrative leave after news video recorded a violent arrest that he says appeared to be excessive force.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon [white] announced the action Friday in the aftermath of the arrest of 30-year-old Francis Pusok [white man], CBS Los Angeles reported. There will be no drama - no need for protest because the justice system works well for them - they run it.

Judge says Psychopathic White Man who Killed 3 Non-white [Muslim] College Students is "death penalty qualified"

From [HERE] and [MORE] The psychopathic white man charged with killing three Muslim college students will face a death penalty trial after prosecutors told a judge they had strong and incriminating evidence that includes the blood from one of the victims found on the accused shooter's pants.

After a brief hearing Monday, Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson Jr. ruled that Craig Stephen Hicks is "death penalty qualified."

Hicks, who remained handcuffed throughout the court proceedings, showed no visible emotion as the judge announced his decision. He is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the Feb. 10 killings of 23-year-old Deah Shaddy Barakat; his wife, 21-year-old Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha; and her sister, 19-year-old Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.

Durham County Assistant District Attorney Jim Dornfried said at the preliminary hearing that Hicks was taken into custody while in possession of a .357-caliber handgun that ballistics testing had matched to the eight shell casings recovered at the victims' apartment. There was also gunshot residue on Hicks' hands. Prosecutors often use the possibility of death to negotiate pleas that avoid the cost, time and emotional strain of a trial.

White Media & Cops Focus on "Parking Dispute" [nothing racial here] White police officers have said Hicks, 46, appeared to have been motivated by a long-running dispute over parking spaces at the condominium complex near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he lived in the same building as dental student Barakat and his wife. Dornfried said Monday that Hicks had revealed details about the killings while under questioning by investigators.

"There were certain issues he described involving parking," Dornfried told the judge. "He went and retrieved a firearm from his residence, then proceeded over to the residence of the victims. ... The door was answered by Deah Barakat. There was a brief interaction, at which time the defendant pulled out his concealed firearm." Parking? Right. Sounds like bullshit doesn't it? 

The New York Times reported in February that photos taken the day after the shootings showed that none of the cars that Barakat, his wife or her sister used was parked in Hicks’ assigned space. 

Federal investigators are conducting an inquiry into whether case evidence supports federal hate-crime charges, which are very specific and difficult to prove. In such cases, where religious bias is alleged, the religion of the victims must be the predominant motivating factor for the crimes for a successful prosecution, legal scholars say. Religous? Do you think he would have done this to some white Muslim folks?  

Dornfried said Hicks shot Barakat multiple times, then entered the apartment and shot each of the screaming women in the head. He then pumped another slug into Barakat as he left the apartment, the prosecutor said.

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when you punish an innocent Black Man with death, who is the criminal? Racist Suspects Free Anthony Hinton after 3 Decades on Death Row in Wrongful Conviction for Murder of White Victims [evidence was not new - white prosecutors ignored it]

Racism is a worldwide system of control & oppression against non-white people. It is the dominant feature of the criminal justice in the United States and Alabama. The death penalty is a form of violence committed through the America's criminal justice system against mostly poor, non-whites. [MORE]

More than half of the 3095 people on death row nationwide are people of color; 42% are African American. Prominent researchers have demonstrated that a defendant is more likely to get the death penalty if the victim is white than if the victim is black. The key decision makers in death penalty cases across the country are almost exclusively white. Despite decades of evidence showing that the administration of the death penalty is permeated with racial bias, courts and legislatures’ refusal to address race in any comprehensive way reveals a fundamental flaw in America’s justice system.

Alabama has the highest death sentencing rate in the United States. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, each year in Alabama, nearly 65% of all murders involve black victims, yet 80% of the people currently awaiting execution in Alabama were convicted of crimes in which the victims were white. Only 6% of all murders in Alabama involve black defendants and white victims, but over 60% of black death row prisoners have been sentenced for killing someone white.

Although black people in Alabama constitute 27% of the total population, none of the 19 appellate court judges and only one of the 42 elected District Attorneys in Alabama is black. Nearly 63% of the Alabama prison population is black. The State of Alabama disenfranchises more of its citizens as a result of criminal convictions than any other state in the country. [MORE]

Mr. Hinton spent 30 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. From [HERE]  Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, spent half his life waiting to die on Alabama's death row, sentenced to die for two 1985 murders that for decades he insisted he did not commit. He was set free Friday after new ballistics tests contradicted the only evidence — an analysis of crime-scene bullets — that connected Hinton to the slayings. "They had every intention of executing me for something I didn't do," Hinton said outside the Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham.

Chief Deputy Jefferson County District Attorney John Bowers and Assistant District Attorney Mike Anderton filed a motion late last Wednesday afternoon to drop the prosecution of Hinton on the capital murder charges. The charges are being dropped after "three experts found that they could not conclusively determine that any of the six bullets" were fired from a gun found in Hinton's home, the motion states. No one saw him commit the crimes and nothing else linked him to them. There were reasons beyond the firearms evidence to doubt Mr. Hinton's guilt. He was at work, several people testified, when the third shooting happened. The car he was said to have driven on the night of the third shooting had been repossessed months before. The restaurant robberies continued after his arrest.

Bryan Stevenson, his lead attorney from the Equal Justice Initiative called Hinton's conviction a "case study" in what is wrong with the American justice system.

"We have a system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty then if you are poor and innocent and this case proves it. We have a system that is compromised by racial bias and this case proves it. We have a system that doesn't do the right thing when the right thing is apparent," Stevenson said.

"Prosecutors should have done this testing years ago." The Alabama attorney general's office declined to comment.

EJI attorneys engaged three of the nation’s top firearms examiners who testified in 2002 that the revolver could not be matched to crime evidence. State prosecutors never questioned the new findings but nontheless refused to re-examine the case or concede error. After another 12 years of litigation, the United States Supreme Court reversed lower court rulings in 2014, and Judge Petro granted him a new trial. She entered an Order of Nolle Prosequi last week after the State informed the court that forensic scientists with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences have tested the evidence and confirmed the prior testing which revealed the crime bullets cannot be matched to the Hinton weapon.

After 30 years in custody for crimes he did not commit, Mr. Hinton’s release is bittersweet. “We are thrilled that Mr. Hinton will finally be released because he has unnecessarily spent years on Alabama’s death row when evidence of his innocence was clearly presented,” said attorney Stevenson. “The refusal of state prosecutors to re-examine this case despite persuasive and reliable evidence of innocence is disappointing and troubling.”

When it comes to non-white defendants, due process, equal protection of the law, and reliability in criminal adjudications are not as important as finality. [MORE] In 2003 the state's lawyers did not attack the new findings and conclusions. They attacked the idea that such a hearing should be allowed at all.  In emergency appellate papers seeking to stop the hearing in 2003 white prosecutors stated, "if the State of Alabama has to spend even one additional day in Birmingham, Alabama, defending the state, the state will be unduly injured in the form of additional per diem expenses, transportation expenses and loss of two assistant attorney generals for a complete work day." At that time, the state attorney general, Bill Pryor, said in a statement that he was not convinced by the new evidence. "The experts did not prove Mr. Hinton's innocence," Mr. Pryor said, "and the state does not doubt his guilt." [MORE] Pryor, in photo, is now a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission. 

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[justice rarely exists in the present moment for non-whites] Latino Man cleared in '94 rape walks out of prison after 20 years in jail

Honored White Prosector Ignored DNA Evidence. In photo, racist suspect Michael Waller fought for years to prevent inmates from going free after DNA had suggested their innocence. On March 11, 2014 the Lake County Bar Association gave Waller, who spent 22 years as prosecutor before retiring in December 2012, an award recognizing his "outstanding characteristics, prosecution history, work with the public and contributions to the quality of prosecution and the image of prosecutors." The bar association's board includes, among others, Waller's former colleagues from the prosecutor's office. [MORE]

From [HERE] A Latino man walked out of prison last Tuesday evening, nearly 20 years after he was convicted of a rape and abduction that authorities now say he did not commit.

Angel Gonzalez, who spent about half of his life incarcerated for the Lake County conviction, hugged his attorneys at the Dixon Correctional Center gatehouse before emerging a free man. "I'm free," he said. "Thank God."

Lake County authorities cleared Gonzalez of the rape conviction on Monday after determining that new DNA testing of evidence eliminated him as the one of the two men who committed the crime. But he was not freed right away because he still had a property damage conviction on his record, stemming from an incident in which he broke a sink while in solitary confinement in prison, his lawyers said.

They went to court earlier Tuesday in downstate Livingston County, where a judge agreed to void that charge, paving the way for his release hours later.

Last Monday, a Lake County judge vacated Gonzalez's conviction for the abduction and rape of a woman in Waukegan in July 1994. State's Attorney Mike Nerheim agreed to ask for Gonzalez's freedom after recent DNA tests showed that bodily fluids collected as evidence had come from two men, neither of whom was Gonzalez. Nerheim, who took office long after Gonzalez was convicted, said it was clear that this indicated he wasn't guilty and that two other men, who have yet to be identified, committed the crime.

Nerheim apologized for the case outside court, striking a markedly different tone than his predecessor, Michael Waller, who generally remained unapologetic in public as DNA repeatedly indicated he had sent innocent men to prison. Five rape or murder cases have collapsed in Lake County since 2010; DNA cleared all the men, but they spent a combined 80 years behind bars. Prosecutors under Waller, who held the office for 22 years, were responsible for Gonzalez's prosecution and three of the other convictions.

In several cases, the prosecutor's office under Waller fought for years to prevent inmates from going free after DNA had suggested their innocence, and his office attracted unflattering national attention as prosecutors proposed alternate theories of the crimes that many found implausible.

Nerheim took office promising reform after Waller retired in 2012.

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No Real Reward for Selling Out: Chris Rock Takes A Selfie After Cops Pull Him Over For The 3rd Time In Less Than 7 Weeks

All Black men who drive on a regular basis are being pulled over because they are Black (not because of their so-called class [powerless class]. Ask Taraji Henderson's son). From [HERE] Chris Rock took a selfie after being pulled over by police while driving Tuesday, marking the third time in seven weeks he's posted while being stopped by a cop. Rock posted the photo to his social media accounts early Tuesday, writing: "Stopped by the cops again wish me luck." In the shot, the comedian can be seen behind the wheel of a car with blue police lights shining through his rear window.

In December Mr. Rock told Vulture.com that "White Americans are a lot less racist than they used to be." He was not joking.  Maybe these incidents will wake this brother wake up from his dream. There is no need to defend this system. If he is woke perhaps he will stop making appearances on the racist show SNL. Stop supporting white supremacy. [MORE] Yes, in a system of white supremacy/racism even so-called elite, wealthy, celebrity Blacks are also "niggers"- which means victim[s] of white supremacy. "Nigger is what is being done to you." [MORE]  

Former "Grey's Anatomy" star Isaiah Washington tweeted a sobering response to Rock's posts.[MORE]. 

Traffic Codes are Used by Cops to Target Black Drivers. Have you checked your local traffic code lately? It is deeper than Atlantis - covering things you would expect like changing lanes without signaling to prohibitions on having items like parking stickers or scent trees hanging from your rear view mirror or tiny burned out light bulbs in your rear tag. "Very few drivers can traverse any appreciable distance without violating some traffic regulation." As pointed out by the Supreme Court, "total compliance with traffic and safety rules is nearly impossible, a police officer will almost invariably be able to catch any given motorist in a technical violation. This creates the temptation to use traffic stops as a means of investigating other law violations, as to which no probable cause or even articulable suspicion exists." The "multitude of applicable traffic and equipment regulations is so large and so difficult to obey perfectly that virtually everyone is guilty of violation, permitting the police to single out almost whomever they wish for a stop." [MORE] 

Since the 1980's police departments have co-opted local traffic codes as a major weapon to be used in the alleged "war on drugs." Making stops whose sole legal justification is traffic regulation in order to seek out drugs when grounds are lacking to detain for a narcotics investigation. [MORE]

Many folks have finally come to understand that the so-called war on drugs was/is really a war against Black people. Now that crime has significantly declined and the drug trade is far removed from the open air market, violent, Rayful Edmond money-making days of the late 80's - 90's, you can really see what these traffic codes are really about – fucking with Black people. Thousands of mostly white cops from overbudgeted police departments, armed to the teeth, bored out of their minds with no real crime going on, target Blacks - pulling them over for any insubstantial thing. With the "war on drugs" policy justification losing credibility, the racist logic is plain to see; "there is no innocent Black male, just Black male criminals who have not yet been detected, apprehended or convicted." [MORE]

Law enforcement officers are granted official, discretionary authority to stop you or not. Does the cop enforce the traffic code the same way on white people? In a system of vast unequal power between whites and blacks, what happens when white cops abuse their authority and arbitrarily target Blacks?? Are they any repercussions? 

As recent episodes in Ferguson and NYC have taught us in a system ofwhite supremacy/racism you can be legally executed by a white cop anytime, anyplace in front of cameras and non-white witnesses. This same white cop also has the unconstrained and standardless discretion to pull you over and fuck with you too. Can he get away with it? What is white collective power? It is when a white cop pulls over a non-white person for some trivial bullshit, ignores all his rights (Constitutional, local and human) and his fellow white officers, white union reps, white media, white prosecutors, white judges & jurors and white politicians and voters support and finance that white officer's right to target you. Police brutality is just a symptom of the problem. How do we neutralize this vast unequal power that is racism/white supremacy? [MORE]

Punitive White People & their Black Servants: 11 More Blacks Locked Up for Non-Violent Offenses "in Atlanta school cheating scandal"

 

Massive Black Prison population is now plus 11. Not fired or fined, just jail and no bail. You would think they were cops who killed someone in broad daylight or something... In photo, White judge and black prosecutor (above) work together to add on to the high incarceration rate of non-whites in the U.S.,which is globally second to none. [MORE]. 

From [HERE] and [HERE] More than two years after dozens of people were indicted over a widespread cheating scandal in the Atlanta public school system, a jury found multiple former teachers and educators guilty Wednesday of conspiring to change test scores. Most of them appear to be Black. 

The lengthy trial focused on a scandal that had drawn widespread attention as teachers and principals from elementary and middle schools were charged with racketeering. Many of them later took plea deals to avoid the trial, with some pleading guilty and agreeing to probation, community service as well as vowing to apologize.

A jury found 11 of 12 former educators guilty of racketeering. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry W. Baxter (in top photo) read the jury’s decisions aloud in the courtroom Wednesday, spending nearly five minutes reciting a procession of guilty verdicts. Baxter is a white man. Then, Judge Baxter surprised everyone (non-whites) when he ordered all the defendants to go to jail.

“They have been convicted,” he said later, after reading the verdicts. “I have sat here for six months and listened to this whole thing. That’s the cold hard truth, it’s just the cold hard truth.” “We're going to have to take everyone into custody today.” [MORE]

The defendants, including former administrators, principals and teachers, were stone-faced as the verdicts were read. The judge ordered educators handcuffed and taken into custody immediately for processing. Several defense attorneys tried to seek bond for their clients, but the judge refused. The white media has posted all their mug shots. [MORE]

According to Paul L. Howard Jr., the Fulton County district attorney, the racketeering charge carries with it a penalty of up to 20 years, the district attorney’s office said. Howard is Black. Baxter set sentencing for the 11 for next Wednesday.

An investigation in 2011 found that widespread cheating had occurred on standardized tests in the Atlanta school system. According to a report released by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R), the cheating harmed thousands of children, was found in more than 40 schools and dated back several years.

The cheating was largely the result of pressure to meet specific testing targets in an environment that focused on these results, the report found. All told, the state concluded that 178 teachers and principals throughout the Atlanta school system cheated.

“Our entire effort in this case was simply to get our community to stop and take a look at our educational system,” Paul L. Howard Jr., the Fulton County district attorney, said during a news conference Wednesday. “We wanted people to look at the educational system that their children attended every day…to look to see what we had to do as a community to move forward.” Howard is Black. 

Yes. Now the Community is Safer. Thanks master. In 2nd photo Black Droids embrace: Fulton County Senior ADA Clint Rucker hugs Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard after their victory against the Black teachers. Now educating Black kids will be a top priority! 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had reported extensively on the suspicious test scores at Georgia schools, finding elementary schools that saw their results skyrocket over the course of a year.

In March 2013, after the Fulton County district attorney conducted a criminal investigation lasting for nearly two years, a grand jury indicted Beverly Hall, the former superintendent, and 34 other people for their roles in the scandal. Hall died earlier this month.

In photo, Former APS Dobbs Elementary teacher Dessa Curb stands with her defense attorney Sanford Wallack after verditc is read. Curb was the only defendant not found guilty. 

'Sorry for Participating in the System of Vast Unequal Power Based on Race': White Prosecutor Apologizes for Wrongful Conviction of Glenn Ford in Bullshit Trial with All White Jury & Judge - 30 Years waiting to die on Death Row for Murder of White Woman

"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." [MORE] 

From [HERE] and [HERE] It was a long journey of conscience for a former Louisiana prosecutor. He went from celebrating a death sentence with rounds of drinks three decades ago to writing an anguished, open letter of apology after the convicted man was recently declared innocent and set free.

"I apologize to Glenn Ford for all the misery I have caused him and his family," A.M. Stroud III, a white man [in photo], wrote in a letter published in The Times of Shreveport. "I apologize to the family of Mr. Rozeman for giving them the false hope of some closure."

Ford is the exonerated Black man released earlier this month from the Louisiana State Penitentiary after serving just shy of 30 years on death row. Isadore Rozeman was the elderly white victim who was killed in a 1983 robbery by somebody else.

Ford was convicted by an all-white jury following a trial riddled with unreliable and fabricated testimony. Witnesses included a coroner who did not actually examine the victim’s body testified about the time of death and a police officer who is not a fingerprint expert testified that a print matched to Ford. [MORE]

Stroud's letter also was a condemnation of the state's decision to oppose compensating the now cancer-stricken Ford for three decades lost. It was also a firm statement against capital punishment.

"Glenn Ford deserves every penny owed to him under the compensation statute," Stroud wrote. "This case is another example of the arbitrariness of the death penalty. I now realize, all too painfully, that as a young 33-year-old prosecutor, I was not capable of making a decision that could have led to the killing of another human being."

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No Need to "Hang the Niggers" when Whites Can Shoot them to Death [anything else would be uncivilized]: Utah Brings Back Firing Squads as a Fallback to legally Murder its Offenders

Death Penalty = Revenge/Murder. In Utah on July 30, 1992, African-American William Andrews was executed, becoming the first in Utah who did not actually kill anyone to receive the death penalty. He was executed despite the presence of a note found by a juror depicting a stick figure on a gallows with the inscription: "Hang the Nigger's (sic)." Even after seeing this evidence of racial prejudice within the all-white jury, the white trial judge never sought to determine who wrote the note or how many jurors saw it. See J. Yang, A Rallying Point for Blacks in Utah, Washington Post, Feb. 26, 1992, at A4-5. [MORE] Mr. Andrews was tried by a predominantly Mormon jury at a time when that religion preached that blacks were innately inferior to whites.

Mr. Andrews was not present when the murders took place. He did not administer Drano to the victims; he poured it into a cup at his accomplice's orders and fled the scene after pleading for his victims. The jury, never sequestered, was exposed to highly prejudicial news media. Mr. Andrews's lawyer had been out of law school less than a year. While African-Americans are less than one-half percent of Utah's population, at the time, they accounted for 25 percent of those on death row. [MORE]  [In the absence of white supremacy, niggers would not exist. MORE] Presently, Utah, a super white state, has 9 people on death row, 4 are non-white. [MORE]

From [HERE] Utah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions if lethal injection drugs are unavailable when racist suspect Gov. Gary Herbert [in photo] signed a law approving the method, even though he has called it "a little bit gruesome."

The Republican governor has said Utah is a capital punishment state and needs a backup execution method in case a shortage of the drugs persists.

"We regret anyone ever commits the heinous crime of aggravated murder to merit the death penalty, and we prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued," Herbert spokesman Marty Carpenter said. However, enforcing death sentences is "the obligation of the executive branch."

The governor's office noted other states allow execution methods other than lethal injection. In Washington state, inmates can request hanging. In New Hampshire, hangings are a fallback if lethal injections can't be given.

The firing squad also is on the books in Oklahoma — but as a third option to be used only if the courts someday find lethal injection and electrocution unconstitutional. The firing squad could be bumped down even further, to Oklahoma's fourth option, if lawmakers approve a bill that would authorize the use of nitrogen gas as another possible method.

Utah's use of firing squad carries no such legal caveat. Under the new law, inmates would be executed by firing squad if the state is unable to get lethal injection drugs a month in advance.

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Silly Racist Suspect Running for Mayor Apologizes for Donning Black Face, Dressing as a Black Woman & Mocking Blacks

What kind of public service can you provide if you have Contempt for the people you represent? From [HERE] A white mayoral candidate in Oklahoma is apologizing to voters after videos surfaced of him wearing black face and performing in drag as a black woman named “Pollyester Kotton.” His character can barely talk, talks slow with a southern drawl, is missing a front tooth and obviously cannot spell. 

Bill Helton, who is currently serving as Elk City’s commissioner and works as a hair dresser, claims that the character was inspired by one of his African American clients. [MORE] and [MORE] Sounds more like a racist SNL skit or Popeyes Annie in slow motion. F**k Popeyes too. 

"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." [more] According to Anon, there are different types of white people: 

There are whites who:

• are practicing racism against non-whites at a particular moment
• are not practicing racism at that moment but have practiced it at a previous time, or will practice it at a later time
• are not practicing racism at that moment, but say and do nothing to stop those who are
• are not practicing racism at that moment, but have no problem with other whites practicing racism (don’t care)
• are benefiting from the crime of racism even if they are not practicing racism at that moment
• refuse to tell WHO is practicing racism; HOW racism is being practiced; and refuse to help the victims with the information they have
• oppose racism by exposing and opposing whites who practice it [MORE]