Immigration family separations: May take 2 years to identify children
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Category: Race,
Father and son separated at the border reunite after 326 days
An officer approached him, gave him five pages and was told to sign the paperwork. But he said he didn’t know what it was since he couldn’t speak or read English.
It was his own deportation order, sending him back to Guatemala, while keeping his son in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
Father and son separated at the border reunite after 326 days – CBS News
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Video shows CPD officers dragging, punching, using stun gun on Marshall HS student | abc7chicago.com
Video shows Chicago police officers dragging a 16-year-old Marshall High School student down a flight of stairs, punching her, and using a stun gun on her.
What the video shows does not [show is] the story the officers …told when the incident happened in January.
…Police said they were told to escort Howard out of the school after she was removed from class for having her phone out.
…As the person in the yellow shirt walks away, video shows one of the officers immediately grab Howard and throw her to the ground.
…Video from another angle shows the officers dragging Howard down the stairs, and at the bottom one officer is holding her arm while the other is holding her leg.
“In the video you can see they pull her by the leg down the stairs, the whole flight of stairs.”
…One officer …kick[s] and punch[es] Howard as he’s holding her on the ground. Video shows her thrashing on the floor …before the officer ultimately deploys his stun gun.
Video shows CPD officers dragging, punching, using stun gun on Marshall HS student | abc7chicago.com
the fact that the officers involved still have their badges shows the contempt the Chicago Police Department has for the citizens they are charged to protect. If the police and court were at all interested in law and order or justice the officers would be in jail.
This thuggish abuse of power and unrepentant bullying and violence is what people are inviting into the lives of children and young people when police officers are in schools.
Farm bankruptcies shed new light on perils of Big Agriculture – Axios
Across industries, the U.S. has become a country of monopolies.
- Three companies control about 80% of mobile telecoms. Three have 95% of credit cards. Four have 70% of airline flights within the U.S. Google handles 60% of search. The list goes on. (h/t The Economist)
- In agriculture, four companies control 66% of U.S. hogs slaughtered in 2015, 85% of the steer, and half the chickens, according to the Department of Agriculture. (h/t Open Markets Institute)
- Similarly, just four companies control 85% of U.S. corn seed sales, up from 60% in 2000, and 75% of soy bean seed, a jump from about half, the Agriculture Department says. Far larger than anyone — the American companies DowDuPont and Monsanto.
…Some economists say this concentration of market power is gumming up the economy and is largely to blame for decades of flat wages and weak productivity growth.
Farm bankruptcies shed new light on perils of Big Agriculture – Axios
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‘Traumatic’ MCAS Question Removed From Exam After Students Complain | Edify
Teachers’ unions and advocacy groups on Wednesday demanded that state education officials invalidate an MCAS exam after the test contained a now-removed question asking students to write from the perspective of an “openly racist” character in the novel “The Underground Railroad.”
…According to the groups, the exam asked students to “write a journal entry from the perspective of the character Ethel, who is openly racist and betrays slaves trying to escape.”
…The press release from the unions and advocates, however, included a statement from the book’s author slamming the exam.
“Whoever came up with the question has done a great disservice to these kids, and everyone who signed off on it should be ashamed,” Whitehead said in the release.
‘Traumatic’ MCAS Question Removed From Exam After Students Complain | Edify
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FBI director says white supremacy is a ‘persistent, pervasive threat’ to the US
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that white supremacy presents a “persistent” and “pervasive” threat to the United States, breaking from President Donald Trump, who has sidestepped questions of whether white nationalists present a growing problem.
FBI director says white supremacy is a ‘persistent, pervasive threat’ to the US – CNNPolitics
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Police release body-cam video of Willie McCoy killing, showing him asleep in car
Vallejo police have released footage of the killing of Willie McCoy at a Taco Bell, showing six officers shooting the 20-year-old who was sleeping in his car.
…The officers did not try to wake McCoy up or talk to him after they spotted a gun in his lap, and instead pointed their firearms at his head directly outside the car as he slept for several minutes.
…The officers then realized the firearm did not have a magazine in it, noting to each other that if it was loaded, it would have a single bullet in it: “He’s only got one shot if he shoots.”
…The young rapper had moved his hand to scratch his shoulder before [all six] officers opened fire.
…Police hit Willie with an estimated 25 shots, including in his face, throat, chest, ear and arms.
…After the officers stopped shooting, they all kept their guns pointed at the car, shouting: “Let me see your hands! Put your hands up!” One said: “Officers are OK.”
…Marc McCoy, Willie’s older brother, told the Guardian on Friday that he was glad the public would finally see the video, but was not confident it would lead to justice.
…His family has said police should have treated this like a medical emergency.
…“They were never trying to be peaceful or de-escalate the situation. It’s about being rough and tough,” said Marc, adding that the police’s plan seemed to be “‘If he moves, I’m gonna kill him’”.
…“We all have to come together in some way and put pressure on the politicians to hold police accountable,” added Marc. “It’s crazy that police still have these jobs. It’s crazy that as a country we are not outraged by this conduct.”
WTF?!
Mom recants story about pulling gun to stop abduction at West Virginia mall
Mom recants story about pulling gun to stop abduction at West Virginia mall | WTVR.com
Racist bitch. Clearly she’s the one who should have been arrested.
…And the officer’s involved should be on desk duty while their not-at-all due diligence response to the call they received is investigated for malfeasance and ineptitude.
Darryl Bynes: Atlanta teen Omarian Banks fatally shot after knocking on the wrong door in Atlanta apartment complex
Omarian Banks, 19, was dropped off by a Lyft near the wrong breezeway in the complex, police said, according to WSB-TV. Banks and his girlfriend had just moved to the complex and Banks wasn’t familiar with the area, police said. Banks was using FaceTime to talk with his girlfriend when he knocked on the door he thought was his. Shortly after, he walked away.
…”I just hear faint voices and a gunshot, and then I hear him yell,” Mathis told WSB-TV. “And I heard all the fear in his voice and he was just, ‘I’m sorry! I’m at the wrong door!’ The man was like, ‘No, you’re not at the wrong door!’ And he shot two more times and then it was silent.”
If the shooter in this incident does not end up in jail for his violent and unproved murder the city of Atlanta cannot claim to be interested in law, order or justice.
As for the cousin of the shooter’s comments? No, unfair is being shot in cold blood because you knocked on the wrong door. Sit down and STFU.
ICE Spokesman Quits, Citing Trump Administration’s Use Of ‘Misleading Facts’ To Discuss California Arrests
James Schwab has resigned from his job as a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, saying he didn’t agree with Trump administration officials’ use of “misleading facts” to attack Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf after the mayor issued a warning about an immigration sweep in late February.
“I quit because I didn’t want to perpetuate misleading facts,” Schwab told the San Francisco Chronicle. “I asked them to change the information. I told them that the information was wrong, they asked me to deflect, and I didn’t agree with that. Then I took some time and I quit.”
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Romanian immigrant who drove Trump family has been in ICE custody for eight months
Zoltan Tamas, a Romanian immigrant who came to the United States legally in 2011 and worked for Trump’s golf club in Jupiter, Florida, was arrested in June 2018 by ICE after the agency called him to their office “to discuss his ‘inadmissibility'” to the United States following a 2013 trip he took to Romania, according to the Times.
According to the paper, Tamas, a green-card holder, was arrested by the agency after a background check connected to his 2016 application for citizenship “revealed that he had been convicted in absentia of committing insurance fraud in Romania.”
…”Usually, these types of convictions aren’t given full faith in the United States. So that was essentially the argument I wanted — that should’ve been brought up and tackled there. You hardly see these kinds of cases, they’re very rare,” he said.
“I think this is probably something that ICE took a little too far. Tamas was here for many years. He was here legally, paying taxes — he has no criminal record in the United States,” Urizar added.
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9-year-old U.S. citizen detained by Border Patrol for 32 hours at Mexico border while walking to school
She did not explain why Julia was held for about 32 hours.
…Galaxia, Julia’s mother, also said that they forced her son, Oscar, to sign a document insisting that Julia was his cousin, not his sister.
“He was told that he would be taken to jail and they were going to charge him for human trafficking and sex trafficking,” she told NBC 7.
Julia was eventually released after the Mexican consulate got involved.
Detaining in the first place is ridiculous. If they can’t exercise better judgement than this, why are these individuals still employed by Border Patrol?
But bullying a child into lying about his family is unconscionable, the officers involed should be in jail.
Trump administration to stop detaining some migrant families at border
Under current policy, families who cross the border are detained while they await court proceedings.
…The Journal noted that conditions at detention facilities has come under scrutiny in recent years. Multiple children have died in recent months in the custody of Border Patrol.
…The influx of migrants has come as thousands of migrants have fled violence in Central America and sought asylum [emphasis: peanut gallery] in the United States.
Trump administration to stop detaining some migrant families at border: report | TheHill
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Court upholds ex-Chicago officer Jason Van Dyke’s sentence for Laquan McDonald shooting
The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a prison sentence of less than seven years for a white Chicago police officer convicted of killing black teenager Laquan McDonald that many criticized as far too lenient.
…The 40-year-old Jason Van Dyke, the first Chicago police officer sentenced for an on-duty shooting in a half century, could go free in as little as three years with credit for good behavior behind bars.
McDonald was carrying a small knife in 2014 when Van Dyke exited his squad car and almost immediately opened fire. Police video released in 2015 showed Van Dyke firing 16 bullets into McDonald, many after the 17-year-old had crumpled to the ground.
…Asked whether Van Dyke’s comparatively light sentence was an illustration of racial disparities in sentencing, Raoul paused before saying: “Suffice to say that I believe the sentence was inconsistent with the law.”
…In his seven-page explanation, Neville added that allowing a sentence that’s not grounded in proper law undermines the public’s sense of justice.
Court upholds ex-Chicago officer Jason Van Dyke’s sentence for Laquan McDonald shooting
If an officer armed with a gun fears for his safety when confronted with a teenager with a knife, that officer has no business wearing a badge.
Antwon Rose was no thug, his mom says, and the late teen shouldn’t be on trial. The cop who killed him is.
Following a drive-by shooting in June in nearby North Braddock, Pennsylvania, the 30-year-old policeman pulled over a car that matched a description from the drive-by.
Antwon was in the car. Unarmed, he ran. Rosfeld opened fire, hitting the teen in the face, right arm and back, court record show. Evidence suggested Antwon was not the gunman in the previous shooting, and Rosfeld made inconsistent statements about whether he believed Antwon had a gun, records show.
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