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What To Do When You're Stopped By Police - The ACLU & Elon James White

What To Do When You're Stopped By Police - The ACLU & Elon James White

Know Anyone Who Thinks Racial Profiling Is Exaggerated? Watch This, And Tell Me When Your Jaw Drops.


This video clearly demonstrates how racist America is as a country and how far we have to go to become a country that is civilized and actually values equal justice. We must not rest until this goal is achieved. I do not want my great grandchildren to live in a country like we have today. I wish for them to live in a country where differences of race and culture are not ignored but valued as a part of what makes America great.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

NYTimes: With Diversity Comes Intensity in Amherst Free Speech Debate. Wealthy alumni do not get that naming athletes after someone who promoted genocide is wrong.

NYTimes: With Diversity Comes Intensity in Amherst Free Speech Debate

"They wanted the college to stop calling its athletes the Lord Jeffs, after Lord Jeffery Amherst, the pre-Revolutionary War British commander who advocated germ warfare against Native Americans and for whom this college town was named. They wanted students who had posted “Free Speech” and “All Lives Matter” posters to go through “extensive training for racial and cultural competency” and possibly discipline. They wanted the administration to apologize for “our institutional legacy of white supremacy,” among many other forms of discrimination, like “heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma and classism.”

Saturday, November 28, 2015

THE LATE JUDGE SAYS POLICE HAVE A VIRTUAL 'LICENSE TO SHOOT AND KILL BLACKS' IN 1985, NOTHING HAS CHANGED, RACISM IS Permanent.- NYTimes.com

A State Supreme Court justice said yesterday that ''white police have been virtually given a license to shoot and kill blacks with impunity'' and he warned black listeners to ''beware.''
''You are an endangered species,'' the judge, Bruce Wright, who is black, said in a speech at a conference on ''Issues Facing Minorities in the Law'' at New York Law School. ''Thus,'' he said, ''a legitimate issue and concern of minority students is survival.''
A police spokesman, Sgt. Edward Burns, said last night that the department would have no comment on Justice Wright's charges until it had read a text of the speech.
Similar Remarks Before
Justice Wright, 66 years old, has made similar comments before. In a 1979 address at Princeton University, he said jury acquittals virtually gave white police officers ''a license to hunt and kill blacks.''
A New York City Bar Association Committee called his comments ''unseemly'' and the judge allowed that his language might have been ''excessive.''
As a criminal court judge in the 1970's, Justice Wright was criticized by the police and Mayors Koch and John V. Lindsay for setting low bail for defendants. He was elected to Supreme Court in Manhattan in 1982 and has been assigned to the civil branch.
To back up his assertions, Justice Wright cited two 1970's cases in which white police officers fatally shot blacks and were acquitted of wrongdoing.
The first took place on April 28, 1973, on New York Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens. Thomas J. Shea, a 13-year veteran of the police force, was searching for two black men in their 20's who were accused of stealing a taxicab when he shot Clifford Glover, a 10-year- old black youth. The officer said the youth had ''made a reaching motion.''
A jury acquitted the officer of murder on June 12, 1974, but he was dismissed from the police force at a departmental trial that summer for ''wrongfully and without just cause'' firing the shots that caused the death.
Justice Wright said Mr. Shea had said ''the byword of American apartheid'' when he told the judge in the trial that he had ''paid no particular attention'' to height, weight or faces except ''just the color of the skin.''
The second incident Justice Wright cited was the slaying of Randolph Evans, a 15-year-old black youth, outside a Brooklyn housing project on Thanksgiving Day 1976 by a white police officer, Robert Torsney.
Officer Torsney, who was answering a call near the project, fired a single shot into the victim's head, killing him. The officer contended that he had fired after seeing the youth draw a gun, but witnesses and other police officers disputed this.
Rare Form of Epilepsy
The officer was acquitted after his attorney contended that he suffered from a rare form of psychomotor epilepsy. He was placed in a mental institution and released in 1979 after a court found he was not ''presently'' dangerous either to himself or to others.
''There are others you should not forget,'' Justice Wright said yesterday.
After he was appointed to the criminal court bench by Mayor Lindsay in 1970, the judge launched several attacks on what he perceived as racism in government, in the judiciary and among police officers and jail guards.
He has also been an outspoken proponent of using bail not as a means of detaining a defendant but of assuring his appearance at trial. Police officials criticized him for this policy when he freed without bail a man accused of slashing the throat of a police officer.





JUDGE SAYS POLICE HAVE A VIRTUAL 'LICENSE TO SHOOT AND KILL BLACKS' - NYTimes.com

Controversial Memorial for 'Turn 'Em Loose Bruce' : NPR

To the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, he was Turn 'Em Loose Bruce, the judge who let poor and black defendants out on little or no bail, sometimes after being charged with violent crimes against cops. But to New York's African-American community, he was nothing less than a folk hero, a fearless black man willing to stand up to what many see as a racist, criminal justice system.

Judge BRUCE WRIGHT: I believe with almost religious zeal that I must honor the admonition of the last will and testament of Frederick Douglass, which was to all black people of this country: Agitate, agitate, agitate. And I don't think that my right to agitate stops at the courthouse door.




Chicago police release shooting video, charge officer with murder | MSNBC

Analyzing the McDonald shooting tape | MSNBC



Analyzing the McDonald shooting tape | MSNBC

All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC



All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC

Chicago releases dashcam video of Laquan McDonald's fatal shooting | MSNBC

Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and his police chief has a hell of a lot of nerve trying to lecturing Black people how to act after they obstructed justice by violating Illinois law by for 13 months refusing to release a video tape of another police murder. They need to be punished for their actions. To many white Americans are able to sleep at night inn the face of this type of oppression. We need to find ways of making it less comfortable for this. Massive civil disobedience is necessary. Hit them in the pocket book and in the ballot box. Block highways and streets. Keep the average white person from getting to their job. Demand justice and shut the economy down if otherwise. Rahm Emanuel with your sewer mouth, no home training crude self I will speak to you in the only language you understand. Go to hell.




Chicago releases dashcam video of Laquan McDonald's fatal shooting | MSNBC

Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke charged in shooting death of Laquan McDonald - Chicago Tribune

Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke charged in shooting death of Laquan McDonald - Chicago Tribune

Mayor Emmanuel needs to be opposed in the next election.  He has shown that he does not value "Black lives".  His blatant blocking of the release of the video of this murder was an obstruction of Justice. He needs to be prosecuted.  People  who behave like him are the enemy.  They must be not allowed to handle a government office.  President Obama should publicly distance himself from his former chief of staff.  We know however that President Obama tends to have a weak spine.   I hope he proves me wrong.

Jamar Clark protests: 5 shot near Black Lives Matter encampment - Minneapolis’ local Black Lives Matter group were among dozens claiming on Twitter that the shooters were “white supremacists.” | MSNBC

Most of the protesters broke off but around four of them kept on up the street to ensure the three men would not come back. Wronski-Riley said that at this point the men “turned around and without warning and started shooting at us … everything was super chaotic.”

Minneapolis’ local Black Lives Matter group were among dozens claiming on Twitter that the shooters were “white supremacists.”

Jamar Clark protests: 5 shot near Black Lives Matter encampment | MSNBC

Sunday, November 22, 2015

NYTimes: Chicago Set for Protests Over Shooting by the Police

NYTimes: Chicago Set for Protests Over Shooting by the Police

"But Chicago now finds itself grappling with the prospect of having its own moment. The city has been ordered to release, within days, a police video of the fatal shooting of a black 17-year-old by a white police officer. Even the officer’s lawyer has described the video, which the city sought for months to block from public view, as “graphic” and “violent” and “difficult to watch at some points.”

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Need weed? now you can get pot delivered to your door - Buying weed? Now you can get pot delivered to your door - CNET

Need weed? now you can get pot delivered to your door - Buying weed? Now you can get pot delivered to your door - CNET

"More than 600,000 Californians have medical marijuana cards alllowing them to legally use the drug, according to cannabis investor network The ArcView Group. Some are confined to home, while others don’t have easy access to the estimated 1,500 dispensaries in the state. That's where people like Daniel, who delivers cannabis goodies for Flash Buds in Los Angeles, can help.

“If it wasn’t for delivery services, a lot of patients wouldn’t have access at all,” says Lauren Vazquez, deputy director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project, which works to change federal and state laws on pot use."

Thursday, November 19, 2015

O’Donnell: Don’t call terrorist a ‘mastermind’ MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains his objection to media calling the man believed to be the main planner of the Paris terror attack a ‘mastermind.’ - The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC



The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC

Chris Hayes compares the French discussion in the aftermath of the Paris attacks with the American discussion, which has focused on Syrian refugees: "Sometimes in the wake of a crisis or a tragedy, people say something must be done. And this is something, therefore it must be done. And it is that kind of reasoning frankly that has gotten us into some of the most destructive debacles in recent memory."- All In with Chris Hayes - All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC



All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC

My white neighbor thought I was breaking into my own apartment. Nineteen cops showed up. - The Washington Post
 

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My white neighbor thought I was breaking into my own apartment. Nineteen cops showed up.

The place I call home no longer feels safe.

On Sept. 6, I locked myself out of my apartment in Santa Monica, Calif. I was in a rush to get to my weekly soccer game, so I decided to go enjoy the game and deal with the lock afterward.

A few hours and a visit from a locksmith later, I was inside my apartment and slipping off my shoes when I heard a man’s voice and what sounded like a small dog whimpering outside, near my front window. I imagined a loiterer and opened the door to move him along. I was surprised to see a large dog halfway up the staircase to my door. I stepped back inside, closed the door and locked it. "

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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Tim Cook insists Apple is 'open' after black teens asked to leave store, report says

Tim Cook insists Apple is 'open' after black teens asked to leave store, report says

"When you've spoken out about the removal of racist symbols in the American south, how do you respond when a video shows apparent racism in one of your own stores?

This was the situation facing Apple CEO Tim Cook after video emerged of several black teens being asked to leave the Apple store at the Highpoint shopping center in Melbourne, Australia.

The reason, so an Apple employee says in the video, was that other workers were concerned the teens "might steal something."

The video, posted to Facebook on Tuesday by Melbourne resident Francis Ose, shows the teens' incredulous reaction when being told why they were being asked to leave.

In his posting, Ose wrote: "Simply Racism, made them apologise tho."

On Friday, BuzzFeed published an email it said was sent by Cook to his employees. In it Cook said Apple is an "open" company and called the incident "unacceptable."

"One of our store employees gave an answer which shocked many of us," Cook said, adding that the employee "immediately" expressed regret to the students.

Neither Apple nor Ose responded to my request for comment."

What Divides Us?: An Interview with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway - The New Yorker

What Divides Us?: An Interview with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway - The New Yorker

"It’s in Yale’s culture, specifically, that’s what I’m speaking to. You have a very privileged university, with a lot of students here of great privilege and a lot without. You’re dealing with a coming together of people from radically different perspectives, and you take, in this case, what we’ve been hearing mostly from women of color, that they’re feeling doubly marginalized, in this very pure-air environment, where their views are discounted because they’re female, or their views are discounted because they’re black or Latina, or their views are discounted because they’re both. People are telling stories of professors presuming they wouldn’t know how to answer a question, while the white students in the seminar got a very different set of reactions on the same issue, where people wouldn’t even engage them, that fellow students wouldn’t make eye contact, wouldn’t talk about them. They’re sick and tired of people saying, “Can I touch your hair? It’s so exotic.” They’re frustrated by the notions of beauty in which they aren’t represented at all."

‘Political correctness’ doesn’t hinder free speech – it expands it | Lindy West | Comment is free | The Guardian

‘Political correctness’ doesn’t hinder free speech – it expands it | Lindy West | Comment is free | The Guardian

"Framing free speech and political correctness as opposing forces is a false dichotomy intended to derail uncomfortable but necessary conversations, a smokescreen ginned up by the ethically lazy. The fact is, political correctness doesn’t hinder free speech – it expands it. But for marginalised groups, rather than the status quo."

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

NYTimes: Gov. Christie Doesn’t Want Your Vote

NYTimes: Gov. Christie Doesn’t Want Your Vote

"New Jersey’s voter-turnout rate is among the lowest in the country. During the 2014 midterm elections, 30.4 percent of the state’s eligible voters went to the polls. Last week, only 21 percent of voters came out — the worst showing for a general election in state history."

NYTimes: Egypt’s Brazen Crackdown on Critics

NYTimes: Egypt’s Brazen Crackdown on Critics

"On Sunday, Hossam Bahgat, a soft-spoken human rights activist and journalist, was  summoned to an Egyptian military intelligence office in Cairo. These meetings have long terrified government critics in Egypt because they often lead to a descent into the country’s perverse justice system."

Racial Tension and Protests on Campuses Across the Country

Instances of racism and bigotry have ignited protests at colleges across
the United States, and social media has amplified students’ messages
far beyond campus. Here are some examples



Racial Tension and Protests on Campuses Across the Country

NYTimes: Appeals Court Deals Blow to Obama’s Immigration Plans

"A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, ruled 2 to 1 against an appeal by the Obama administration, saying a lawsuit brought by 26 states to block Mr. Obama’s actions was likely to succeed at trial."

Monday, November 09, 2015

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Prisoner Re-entry (HBO) - YouTube



Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Prisoner Re-entry (HBO) - YouTube

When states charge for public defenders, poor defendants are doomed | Chandra Bozelko | Comment is free | The Guardian

"But the creeping trend toward requiring indigent defendants in the US legal system to pay for public defenders proves that recidivism starts before any defendants even hit a correctional facility – and that it springs directly from the process that was designed to defend them. They receive substandard representation that essentially guarantees convictions and incarceration. They are saddled with the bills for this representation and incarceration and then it becomes a crime not to pay them."

Real Time with Bill Maher: Quentin Tarantino Interview (HBO)

Saturday, November 07, 2015

Recommended read from Salon.com: Slavery, the Nazis and the KKK: We can't face the past, and it's poisoning our future

Recommended read from Salon.com: Slavery, the Nazis and the KKK: We can't face the past, and it's poisoning our future

"Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House one spring day in 1865, bringing an end to the noble Southern cause that his great adversary, Ulysses S. Grant, described as "one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse." But despite appearances the Confederacy had not been defeated, and today's Republican Party represents its values almost perfectly. For reasons that are both obvious and deeply perverse, people in small Northeastern towns celebrate the Rebel flag their own ancestors shed blood to defeat. Eight hundred thousand died in that war and slavery came to an end, at least as a legal institution under that name. But with the defeat of Reconstruction it was transformed into a long-term system of white supremacy whose persistent effects, and whose very existence, must be repeatedly denied or minimized or greeted with a puzzled shrug."

Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC - The ripple effects of China's one-child policy In an effort to boost economic growth and confront and aging population lacking caretakers, China is now allowing couples to have two children for the first time in more than three decades. Author Mei Fong joins Melissa Harris-Perry.



Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC

Melissa Harris-Perry Why is drug addiction now a political issue? Heroin and painkillers account for 56% of all drug overdose deaths, with the number of people dying of heroin-related overdose nearly tripling since 2008. Nicole Porter, Juan Manuel Benitez, Amy Goodman and Carl Hart join to discuss.



Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC

Bold new drug policy pays off The DEA reports that drug overdoses are the leading cause of injury death in the US. Police Chief Leonard Campanello’s revolutionary drug policy is paying off and more departments are joining. Chiefs Fred Ryan and Leonard Campanello join Alex Wagner.



The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC

Thursday, November 05, 2015

Suicide of a Dishonest Officer - The New York Times

Suicide of a Dishonest Officer - The New York Times

"But there are others for whom that claim cannot be made. They are the people who from the beginning went further than any evidence would support in trying to link Gliniewicz’s death to so-called anti-police rhetoric and presidential politics.

On “The Kelly File,” the host, Megyn Kelly, said that it was too early to know the exact circumstance of the “murder” of Gliniewicz, “but it clearly comes just days after Deputy Darren Goforth of the Sheriff’s Department was shot execution-style in an attack that his boss linked to the, quote, ‘dangerous environment created by the Black Lives Matter movement.’ ”

NYTimes: In Houston, Hate Trumped Fairness

NYTimes: In Houston, Hate Trumped Fairness

"Sometime in the near future, a transgender teenager in Texas will attempt suicide — and maybe succeed — because vilifying people for their gender identity remains politically acceptable in America."

NYTimes: Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General

NYTimes: Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General

"The investigation focuses on whether statements the company made to investors about climate risks as recently as this year were consistent with the company’s own long-running scientific research."

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

NYTimes: Opponents of Houston Rights Measure Focused on Bathrooms, and Won

NYTimes: Opponents of Houston Rights Measure Focused on Bathrooms, and Won

"HOUSTON — A coalition of social conservatives, Republican officials and pastors who fought for the repeal of a measure banning discrimination based on factors like age, race and sex wanted voters here to call it by another name — the Bathroom Ordinance. It worked."

NYTimes: Britain, Concerned About Russian Crash, Halts Flights From Egyptian Resort

NYTimes: Britain, Concerned About Russian Crash, Halts Flights From Egyptian Resort

"LONDON — The British government temporarily halted flights to Britain from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el Sheikh on Wednesday after Prime Minister David Cameron said that a Russian chartered jet that broke apart over the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday “may well have been brought down by an explosive device.”

NYTimes: Mexico’s Supreme Court Opens Door to Legalizing Marijuana Use

NYTimes: Mexico’s Supreme Court Opens Door to Legalizing Marijuana Use

"The Mexican Supreme Court opened the door to legalizing marijuana on Wednesday, delivering a pointed challenge to the nation’s strict substance abuse laws and adding its weight to the growing debate in Latin America over the costs and consequences of the war against drugs.

The vote by the court’s criminal chamber declared that individuals should have the right to grow and distribute marijuana for their personal use. The ruling is a first step — applying only to a single cannabis club that brought the suit — and does not strike down Mexico’s current drug laws. But it lays the groundwork for a wave of legal actions that could ultimately legalize marijuana."

Monday, November 02, 2015

The Truth about the Spring Valley "Officer Slam" Assault on a Teen Girl

The Truth about the Spring Valley "Officer Slam" Assault on a Teen Girl

"Not many news agencies have reported, or even wondered why she was asked to leave in the first place.  As it turns out she had momentarily looked at her phone during class, and apologized for it at the time.  Nor have they wondered why the phone issue, which she had already put away, escalated to an administrator and then the now fired school resource officer who had a reputation around the campus as "Officer Slam" for his tendency to throw students to the ground, assaulted her in the first place. They say she was "disruptive and disrespectful" but witnesses state that she was arguing that she'd done nothing wrong, which actually she hadn't. Before Slamster even approached the student he had another student move his desk and clear a path, then removed the Chromebook that was on her desk - so he planned from the moment he entered the room to assault her regardless of anything she did or didn't do.

And also it's not true, despite the claims of CNN's leading cop-apologist Harry Houck that this WWE move was "just fine" because she wasn't injured. She was injured."

Obama to visit Newark for criminal justice push | MSNBC



Obama to visit Newark for criminal justice push | MSNBC

Obama pushes back on the 'Ferguson effect' | MSNBC




Obama pushes back on the 'Ferguson effect' | MSNBC