Every way a police officer is legally allowed to harm another person, ranked | NJ.com
sigh….
Category: American Injustice System,
Alabama mall shooting suspect is arrested after a week of shifting police narratives
Alabama mall shooting suspect is arrested after a week of shifting police narratives – CNN
How about arresting the officer who murdered a security guard who was protecting civilians?
Trump Child Rape Allegations Shine Light on Gatsby-Like Pedophile’s Ties to Both Campaigns
There’s also a Gatsby-like mystery surrounding his business dealings. Epstein has many times claimed that he helps manage wealth for an exclusive client list restricted to billionaires, yet no one knows who he represents, how much his company earns or what exactly he trades. There simply isn’t a footprint in the financial world or on the trading floors, which mystifies those in the industry.
Trump Child Rape Allegations Shine Light on Gatsby-Like Pedophile’s Ties to Both Campaigns
Lurid details, gossip, innuendo, and severe grossness aside, the money part is just weird.
TBT – Jeffrey Epstein scandal: women with new identities run firms from Epstein-linked property
Marcinkova, 29, is now a pilot and the chief executive of Aviloop, a website selling discounted flying lessons and other deals related to aviation. Kellen, 34, states that she is the owner of SLK Designs, a renovations firm.
However according to public records, both businesses have operated from addresses in a building on East 66th Street in Manhattan majority-owned by Epstein’s brother Mark, a wealthy property magnate.
…Marcinkova’s company is officially registered with New York authorities at the building. Import records show that Kellen’s company takes deliveries there.
hmmmm
Prosecutors worked to cut sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein a break | Miami Herald
Prosecutors worked to cut sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein a break | Miami Herald
Amongst all of this horror it seems crass to mention i,t as if it diminishes the depravity of what the man has done, but it’s just so weird:
Various news profiles over the years have speculated about how he made his vast fortune, calling him an “International Moneyman of Mystery’’ and “The Talented Mr. Epstein.’’
This much is known: He got his start on Wall Street after being offered a job by the father of one of his students. At Bear Stearns, he became a derivative specialist, applying complex math formulas and computer algorithms to evaluate financial data and trends.
He then struck out on his own.
…He has never been in the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, largely because the magazine has never been able to determine the source [emphasis: mine] or the size of his wealth.
…A former business partner, Steven Hoffenberg, sued him in 2016, claiming that Epstein was the mastermind behind a $500 million Ponzi scheme that Hoffenberg was imprisoned for in 1995.
Shady grossness.
Coast Guard orders massive 14-year oil spill to be cleaned up
The Coast Guard has ordered the company responsible for an oil spill that has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for 14 years to clean up the environmental catastrophe or face a $40,000 per day fine.
…Taylor allowed a broken oil platform off the coast of southeast Louisiana to leak an estimated 10,500 gallons to 29,000 gallons of oil per day, five to 13 times larger than the government’s initial estimates.
…Taylor’s oil spill has been a source of concern for some time. The site — Mississippi Canyon-20, which lies south of the Mississippi River delta — took a hit from Hurricane Ivan in 2004. The storm wrecked Taylor’s platform and triggered the massive spill, resulting in years of legal back-and-forth between the company and the Interior Department, which has contended that Taylor has an obligation to fix the oil wells at the site.
…Taylor no longer produces oil and a trust account was established in 2008, which the government required in order to allow the company to decommission its wells. Nine of the 28 wells at the Mississippi delta site have been plugged and Taylor says it can’t reach the others without risking more spillage. The company now wants the rest of the $666 million trust to be returned to it, arguing it has done everything it can, but the Interior Department says Taylor needs to finish plugging the remaining wells.
Coast Guard orders massive 14-year oil spill to be cleaned up – ThinkProgress
Disgusting this was allowed to go on for 14 years. George Bush may not have liked black people but (sadly) BHO didn’t give a flying fuck about the Gulf Coast either.
$40,000 a day is chump change com paired to the long-term costs of cleaning it up. There should be criminal charges filed by this point.
Pluggin nine of twenty-eight well is not even close to “everything it can” do and it sure as shit doesn’t even get close to resolving the problems the company created by themselves. Make a mess? Clean it up. All up. Completely. Or face much more dire consequences than a fine to a trust fund should be the rule of law.
‘Unwanted subject’: Kirkland yogurt shop employees called 911 because they and (unless Kirkland fires them and comes out against their actions) their employer are racist AF
Ragland, 31, is both a court-appointed special advocate and a visitation supervisor, so his job is to oversee meetings between kids and the parents who have lost custody of them.
That’s what he was doing at the store — he was supervising an outing between a mother and her 12-year-old son. The boy wanted ice cream, so the three drove to Menchie’s, arrived together and had been sitting there for about half an hour, visiting, when Ragland looked up to find two police officers standing at the table.
Speaking of….
Shame on you Seattle Times! That headline was apologist AF!!!!
The NRA doesn’t care about black heroes: Jemel Roberson was “the good guy with a gun”
Roberson, 26, was not the assailant — he was the armed security guard who had secured the alleged shooter and saved lives.
,,,That night, Roberson, who was employed by Manny’s Blue Room, had escorted a group of drunk men out of the bar. …Witnesses say one came back with a gun and opened fire. Roberson apprehended a person involved in the shooting in an effort to protect the other patrons as they exited the club. Midlothian police officers arrived on the scene with little to no details, and it appears that they saw a black man with a gun, ignored his uniform and hat labeled SECURITY, and shot him. He died in the hospital.
…”Everybody was screaming out, ‘Security!’ He was a security guard!”
…I’m waiting for the National Rifle Association to honor Roberson as a hero on their website’s front page. Isn’t he the perfect example of why they advocate for more armed citizens and guns in public places? A guy opens fire at a bar, putting many in danger, and another armed man swoops in and saves the day?
…Like Philando Castile before him, a licensed gun owner who was killed by a racist cop in Minnesota, Roberson was black. And to the NRA, it’s clear that black gun owners don’t matter.
The NRA doesn’t care about black heroes: Jemel Roberson was “the good guy with a gun” | Salon.com
Made me think of this classic:
Migrants won’t see armed US soldiers on border
As thousands of migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers converge on the doorstep of the United States, what they won’t find are armed American soldiers standing guard.
…That’s because U.S. military troops are prohibited from carrying out law enforcement duties. [emphasis: mine]
…That means there will be no visible show of armed troops, said Army Maj. Scott McCullough, adding that the mission is to provide support to Customs and Border Protection.
Migrants won’t see armed US soldiers on border – ABC News
Not a huge compliment to the Customs and border Patrol folks that the Cheeto doesn’t think they are capable of defending themselves from exhausted and perhaps starving and dehydrated migrants.
Meek Mill Announces Album Release & Wants to Free 1 Million People With Criminal Justice Reform
Meek Mill’s case picked up mainstream attention when he was sent back to jail in November 2017 by Judge Genece E. Brinkley, who has presided over his fate since first sentencing him in 2008.
…It was big news when Brinkley sentenced Meek Mill to a shocking two to four years for parole violations, both of which stemmed from incidents in which charges were eventually dropped or dismissed—in one, the rapper had popped a wheelie on a motorcycle while filming a music video in New York City.
…And it’s why Meek Mill might be suited more than any other public figure to accomplish what he has planned next: a criminal justice reform organization tasked with liberating “1 million people unjustly caught in the criminal justice system.” Meek Mill and Philadelphia 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin are cochairmen; Jay-Z and Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, make up the executive board.
hmmmm
Police Fatally Shoot Black Security Guard Who Detained Shooting Suspect
When police arrived after reports of a shooting over the weekend at a bar outside Chicago, witnesses say Jemel Roberson, a 26-year-old security guard who worked there, had already subdued the alleged assailant in the parking lot, pinning him to the ground.
…Midlothian Police Chief Daniel Delaney said that’s when one of his officers …shot him, according to a statement given to the media.
…Roberson was holding a firearm he was licensed to carry. Other witnesses, and a lawsuit filed by Roberson’s family, reportedly said he was wearing a hat emblazoned with the word “security.”
“Everybody was screaming out ‘Security!’ ” Harris told WGN. “They …saw a black man with a gun, and basically killed him.”
…Woods said that the Midlothian officer came out of the club’s back door — weapon drawn — and ordered Roberson to “get on the ground.”
“Before he says ‘ground’ he fires the first shot,” she said, adding that she has not been interviewed by investigators.
Police Fatally Shoot Black Security Guard Who Detained Shooting Suspect : NPR
If these officers are not dismissed and formally charged it is clear their su[erior do not care about law enforcement.
If an officer cannot properly assess information before they act, they should not have been given a badge in the first place. Perhaps the person who hired them should be fired and charged with public endangerment…
NH sued over involuntary psychiatric boarding
American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of psychiatric patients being involuntarily held in hospital emergency departments.
State law requires involuntary psychiatric patients to get probable cause hearings within three days of admission. Under the state’s interpretation, the clock starts when someone is admitted to an inpatient facility, but the lawsuit points to a Merrimack County court ruling that said the clock starts with emergency room admission.
The lead plaintiff is a 26-year-old man who was held involuntarily at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center for nearly a week without a hearing.
NH sued over involuntary psychiatric boarding
hmmmmmm
Neuroscientists Make a Case against Solitary Confinement – Scientific American
They are confined to windowless cells roughly the size of a king bed for 23 hours a day, with virtually no human contact except for brief interactions with prison guards. According to scientists speaking at the conference session, this type of social isolation and sensory deprivation can have traumatic effects on the brain, many of which may be irreversible.
…For good or bad, the brain is shaped by its environment—and the social isolation and sensory deprivation King experienced likely changed his. Chronic stress damages the hippocampus, a brain area important for memory, spatial orientation and emotion regulation. As a result, socially isolated people experience memory loss, cognitive decline and depression. Studies show depression results in additional cell death in the hippocampus as well as the loss of a growth factor that has antidepressant-like properties, creating a vicious cycle. When sensory deprivation and an absence of natural light are thrown into the mix, people can experience psychosis and disruptions in the genes that control the body’s natural circadian rhythms.
…King has experienced lasting cognitive changes from his time in solitary confinement. His memory is impaired and he has lost his ability to navigate, both of which are signs of damage to the hippocampus. At one point he was unable to recognize faces, but that problem has passed.
Neuroscientists Make a Case against Solitary Confinement – Scientific American
hmmmm
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