What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Chicago native and NBA star Jabari Parker dived into the firestorm over former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh’s [not so] veiled threat to President Obama .
Jabari Parker warns Joe Walsh: You won’t lay ‘a single finger’ on Obama – Chicago Tribune
sigh…
Cops in Alton Sterling shooting investigated five times in seven years
The fact they still had their badges is crime in itself.
Shortly after the first shots rang out, his brother, Cory Hughes, approached police to see if he could assist them. Upon receiving a phone call that he was a person of interest, Mark Hughes said, he handed his rifle over to the police, who questioned him and then released him. A Facebook video shows Mark Hughes unslinging his gun and giving it to officers, encouraged by his brother. Texas permits open carry of long guns like Hughes’s rifle.
…“They have received thousands of death threats already,” said attorney Corwyn Davis during the conference. “Unfortunately, there was a lot of negligence with that picture.” Davis said it was also unclear when or if the Hughes brothers were read their Miranda rights at the police station.
“But he was toting a rifle as he marched in protest.” (So fucking what!!! When is the last time a white person was accused of a crime because they exercised their right to open carry?!!)
There is no justice in the American court system but if there was the officers who sent out that tweet would arrested, tried, and convicted for the crimes of inciting a riot, endangering the welfare of the public, and interfering with an investigation.
I’ll settle for this man suing the entire city into the Dark Ages.
If anything happens to him or his brother because of the police being so careless with the facts, the officers who spread his picture around should be tried and convicted of Murder 1.
“I just got out of the interrogation room for about 30 minutes with police officers lying, saying they had video of me shooting, which is a lie,” Hughes told CBS 11 News live on the air. “That they have witnesses saying I shot a gun, which is a lie. I mean, at the end of the day, the system is trying to get me.”
Original Dallas Shooting Suspect Released From Custody « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
The citizens and the individual officers deserve better.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas on Friday called the protesters assembled in Dallas the night before “hypocrites” for expecting police protection from the sniper fire while they were protesting police violence.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Calls Protesters ‘Hypocrites’ – The New York Times
If by hypocrites he meant tax-paying citizens entitled to the protection of the individuals who are paid to do so….
Nah, don’t give this guy any credit.
He’s just a total fucking asshole, who is a complete bigot to boot.
Karma would have him getting lynched and burned alive the next time he steps outside.
Cops are not more important that the people it is their sworn duty to protect. Cops lives do not have more value than that of the average citizen. Anyone who believes otherwise is a fascist.
#PrayForTexit
Police said 24-year-old Melissa Ventura died at the hospital after being shot [an] unknown number of times. [emphasis: mine]
Yuma sheriff’s deputy fatally shoots woman who had a knife | 12NEWS.com
I won’t buy a word of the cops story until the police provide proof supporting their version of the story.
It is the police in this country who have elected themselves judge and jury and consider every citizen guilty until proven innocent, so that is how each and every single one of them should be treated.
Until proven otherwise, the officers in this case are cold-blooded murderers and lawless thugs who bring shame to their badge.
Melissa Ventura, a mother of three, was shot to death by two Yuma County Sheriff Deputies
Police Are Investigating the Fatal Shooting of a Woman in Arizona | TIME
sigh…
The shots were reported at the end of a protest in Dallas following police shootings of black men elsewhere.
10 Dallas Officers Shot, 3 Dead in Shooting as Protest Ended – NBC News
Whoa, shit is going down in this summer heat.
The homeless man said he asked Alton Sterling for cash several times — and the 37-year-old responded by flashing a gun.
…Which -for the record- is a legal response, especially if he felt threatened by the homeless man’s persistence or if he did not aim or fire the gun.
Alton Sterling killed by police after homeless man called 911 – NY Daily News
The word of a police officer whose body cam is not functioning should never be taken as anything other than a lie. Ever.
All testimony on that incident -and for that matter any other incident- from any officer whose body cam is not functioning at 100% should immediately be disregarded and declared inadmissible in court and the officer should lose his bade. Permanently.
…And serve real jail time for misuse of tax payer funds, interfering with an investigation, tampering with evidence, and obstruction of justice.
Any police officer who is not OK with being policed 100% of the time is unfit to wear the badge.
anything else is an un-American miscarriage of justice.
The dying black man, his empty hands flailing and blood pouring from his chest, held no weapon when fatally shot by Baton Rouge cops.
Alton Sterling’s hands were empty when Baton Rouge cops shot him – NY Daily News
Murderous pigs.
Louisiana ACLU says “questions abound” over shooting death of Alton Sterling by two Baton Rouge police officers whose body cams “fell off.” [empahsis – mine]
Alton Sterling shooting: ACLU questions lack of Baton Rouge police body camera footage – CBS News
A malfunctioning body cam should not only result in immediate and permenant suspension, charges should be filed. Every single time.
Yup.
….Except, I would put it this way: “Officer, you should be ashamed to go to work in that uniform every day knowing this is the kind of thing that police departments all over the country engage in and condone.”
A woman who began streaming video on Facebook immediately after her boyfriend was shot by police in suburban Minneapolis, Minn., says he had been stopped for a broken tail light — and that he was licensed to carry a gun. The killing of Philando Castile, 32, is the second fatal encounter between police and a black man to gain national attention this week.
…”I told him not to reach for it!” the officer yells, as he seems to take deep breaths. “I told him to get his hands up.”
“You told him to get his ID, sir — his driver’s license,” a remarkably composed Reynolds answers.
She then looks at her boyfriend and says, “Oh, my God, please don’t tell me he’s dead. Please don’t tell me my boyfriend just went like that.”
The officer, who works for the St. Anthony, Minn., police department, then tells her to keep her hands where he can see them.
“Please don’t tell me this, Lord, please Jesus don’t tell me that he’s gone,” Reynolds says. She later adds, “Please officer, don’t tell me that you just did this to him. You shot four bullets into him, sir.”
More than a minute into the video, other police officers order Reynolds out of the car. She complies — asking about her daughter as she does so (the video shows that the girl is being held in the arms of an officer).
A police officer then orders Reynolds to get on her knees, where we hear the sound of handcuffs being placed on her. Her phone is tossed onto the ground, but continues to record. The recording then captures the sound of an officer — seemingly the one who shot Castile — periodically yelling an obscenity.
If this continues there will be no good apples in the bunch. If any cop allows or looks the other way while other cops commit cold blooded they are culpable in each of these murders. Until police officers in this country face consequences for their crimes ALL COPS ARE PIGS, ALL COPS ARE MURDERERS.
Sterling, a 37-year-old man, was shot by a Baton Rouge Police Department officer several times after he was pinned down to the ground by two officers, who arrived in response to a report that Sterling threatened a person with a gun, while selling CDs outside a convenience store. A firearm, reportedly possessed by Sterling at the time of the incident, was recovered from the scene of the shooting. This led to protests in Baton Rouge. The brief cellphone video commences at the point of confrontation between Stetling and police. It does not show what led up to the confrontation. He was tackled, and allegedly shot at point-blank range.
sigh…
“The goal isn’t to win elections, the goal is to transform America,” Sanders said at one point, according to multiple lawmakers and aides in the room.
“It was frustrating because he’s squandering the movement he built with a self-obsession that was totally on display,” said a senior Democrat, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Sanders booed by House Democrats
What a fucking tool. The goal IS to win elections. No positive change happens when you lose.
Being obsessed with changing a political party that you are not a member of so that the rules favor you instead of others isn’t transforming anything. It’s being a sore loser who is willing to sabotage progress in the service of ones own ego.
What. A. Fucking. Tool.
A CNN reporter says the WikiLeaks whistleblower may have attempted suicide. Manning is serving 35 years in prison
hmmmm
In states that legalized medical uses of marijuana, painkiller prescriptions dropped — on average, the study found, by about 1,800 daily doses filled each year per doctor. That tracks with other research on the subject.
…Medical marijuana saved Medicare about $165 million in 2013, the researchers concluded. They estimated that, if medical marijuana were available nationwide, Medicare Part D spending would have declined in the same year by about $470 million. That’s about half a percent of the program’s total expenditures.
…The researchers found that in states with medical marijuana laws on the books, the number of prescriptions dropped for drugs to treat anxiety, depression, nausea, pain, psychosis, seizures, sleep disorders and spasticity. Those are all conditions for which marijuana is sometimes recommended.
…In states that legalized medical uses of marijuana, painkiller prescriptions dropped — on average, the study found, by about 1,800 daily doses filled each year per doctor. That tracks with other research on the subject.
hmmm
The Guardian has been counting the people killed by US law enforcement agencies since 2015.
The Counted: people killed by police in the United States – interactive
sigh…
The city’s claim comes two months after a grand jury failed to indict the officers who shot 12-year-old Rice as he played with a toy gun in a park.
Cleveland Just Demanded Tamir Rice’s Family Pay $500 for His Ambulance Bills | VICE News
Cleveland = Corruption
A video surfaced showing two white La. police officers in a deadly physical altercation with a black man. One of the officers appears to shoot Alton Sterling several times at point-blank range.
Murder, tampering with evidence, and lying in the course of an investigation.
Hohum.
Nothing to see here, move along.
AG Bill Schuette said Tuesday he won’t supply …attorneys to continue court fight.
…Gov. Rick Snyder will appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court the ordered return of more than $550 million collected from school employees to fund retiree health care, despite Attorney General Bill Schuette’s refusal to provide state attorneys to fight the case, a Snyder spokeswoman said Tuesday.
…Snyder’s appeal is at odds with several court rulings — including two from the Michigan Court of Appeals — that say the 2010 law used to collect the money from school employees was unconstitutional.
Gov. Rick Snyder to appeal return of $550M to Michigan school workers
What a douchebag piece of shit.
The Kentucky attorney general’s office says an eastern Kentucky county clerk who made news when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples last year has violated the state’s Open Records Act.
In an opinion released Tuesday, the attorney general’s office said Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis violated the Open Records Act by refusing to produce documents related to the marriage battle.
AG’s office says Kim Davis violated state’s Open Records Act – WDRB 41 Louisville News
hmmm
At a time when anti-immigration sentiment is running high, as evidenced by the success of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in Great Britain, New Hampshire is in the middle of a three-year project, costing nearly $1.4 million dollars, to welcome and integrate immigrants in the Granite State.
NH has a plan for new arrivals | New Hampshire
hmmm
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