Deb Haaland stands by Sen. Elizabeth Warren amid DNA doubts
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Category: Race,
Alabama police kill black bystander with gun in Thanksgiving mall shooting.
Shortly before 10 p.m. last Thursday, gunshots were heard on the second floor of the Riverchase Galleria shopping mall. Officers from the Hoover Police Department rushed to the scene. It is not clear whether officers saw Bradford with a gun or whether they were just told that Bradford had a gun. Either way, thinking Bradford was the gunman, an officer shot and killed Bradford. Witnesses at the mall reported that the officer shot Bradford within seconds and did not give any verbal commands—no “Stop,” no “Drop your weapon,” no “Get on the ground”—to Bradford before shooting him.
…It turns out Bradford was not the shooter police were looking for. The police department issued a statement Friday night, acknowledging their mistake: “New evidence now suggests that while Mr. Bradford may have been involved in some aspect of the altercation, he likely did not fire the rounds that injured the 18-year-old victim.”
The investigation is ongoing, but at least at this point it appears that Bradford’s only involvement in the altercation was that of a concerned citizen, trying to help the police apprehend the actual shooter or trying to help shoppers seeking safety from the gunman.
Alabama police kill black bystander with gun in Thanksgiving mall shooting.
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US citizen: Sheriff detained me after ICE request – CNN
The federal complaint says authorities in Monroe County, Florida ignored Peter Brown’s repeated statements that he was a US citizen and continued to hold him in response to a detention request from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement even after a judge had ordered his release.
…”The Sheriff’s Office ignored all the indications that it was illegally detaining Mr. Brown. It did nothing to investigate his citizenship. It did not contact ICE to pass along this urgent information, or ask for a review of Mr. Brown’s files. It did not seek any further information from Mr. Brown or anyone else. It simply held Mr. Brown, in violation of his constitutional rights and after he was entitled to release under state law, so that he could be picked up by ICE and deported from the country.”
…”After confirming that Mr. Brown was a U.S. citizen, ICE hastily arranged for his release from Krome. Before he left, they confiscated all the documents they had given him regarding his impending deportation,” the lawsuit says.
US citizen: Sheriff detained me after ICE request – CNN
sigh…
How DNA Tests Make Native Americans Strangers In Their Own Land | HuffPost
In reality, such testing does not tell us much about our ancestors. That’s partly because of the way DNA is passed down through the generations and partly because there exists no database of ancestral DNA. Instead, the companies compare your DNA to that of other contemporary humans who have paid them to take the test. Then they compare your particular variations to patterns of geographical and ethnic distribution of such variations in today’s world ― and use secret algorithms to assign purportedly precise ancestral percentages to them.
…These three political developments downplay Native American identity, sovereignty, and rights, while denying, implicitly or explicitly, that history created today’s realities of racial inequality. The use of DNA tests to claim “Native American” genes or blood trivializes this same history.
How DNA Tests Make Native Americans Strangers In Their Own Land | HuffPost
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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?
Separated by travel ban, Iranian families reunite at border …
Estahbanati, like many Iranian students in the United States, has a single-entry visa and can’t leave the country without risking that she won’t be allowed back in. And her parents, as Iranian citizens, are blocked by U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban from visiting her in the United States.
She didn’t want to miss her destination: the Haskell Free Library and Opera House.
Estahbanati and her family had agreed to meet around 9 a.m. at the library, which through a historic anomaly straddles the U.S.-Canada border – and today has been thrust into an unlikely role as the site of emotional reunions between people separated by the administration’s immigration policies.
…”This is a neutral area, but the U.S. government doesn’t accept this situation, and they put a lot of pressure on us,” said Sina Dadsetan, an Iranian living in Canada who traveled to the library to see his sister the same day Estahbanati saw her family.
…As they approached each other at the border, demarcated outside the library by a line of flower pots, a U.S. Border Patrol agent quickly got out of a car parked close by.
“He said, ‘It’s been about a month that we’ve closed this; we don’t allow anyone to meet here,'” Izadmehr said. “I asked him, ‘Can you at least give me permission to hug my sister?'”
The agent allowed them to embrace but barred them from exchanging the gifts they had brought – dresses, Swiss chocolates and a watch – and kept a close eye on them as they talked from opposite sides of the flower pots.
The sisters finally entered the library when a staff member offered them a tour, but Border Patrol agents later chastised the staff member, said Izadmehr, who witnessed the exchange.
…The library is vulnerable to pressure from authorities because although the building sits on American and Canadian land, its entrance is on the U.S. side. U.S. officials allow staff and visitors from Canada to walk a few yards onto American soil without going through an official port of entry.
“Often there’s altercations with either RCMP or (U.S.) border security,” head librarian Joel Kerr said in a brief interview in early November, on a day in which two Iranian families reunited at the library. “They mostly harass us and threaten to shut us down.”
…The Iranians were mostly oblivious to signs stating in English and French that, by order of the library’s board of trustees, “family gatherings are not permitted.” Kerr said the signs had gone up just the week before.
Separated by travel ban, Iranian families reunite at border …
Jeezus…
A remote Indian island, its fiercely isolationist inhabitants, and the death of an American missionary
It’s not the nicest thing to speak ill of the dead but seriously… What a fucking asswipe douchebag this guy was!
‘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!!!!
Trump Administration Temporarily Blocked From Banning Asylum Seekers
A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Monday from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally.
…Trump issued a proclamation on Nov. 9 that said anyone who crossed the southern border would be ineligible for asylum.
…“Individuals are entitled to asylum if they cross between ports of entry,” said Baher Azmy, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights. “It couldn’t be clearer.”
Trump Administration Temporarily Blocked From Banning Asylum Seekers | HuffPost
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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:
White Kansas official tells black woman he belongs to ‘master race’
A white county commissioner in northeast Kansas who told a black city planner that he belongs to “the master race” as he rejected her proposed development plan is coming under pressure from fellow commissioners to resign.
…”I don’t want you to think I’m picking on you because we’re part of the master race,” Klemp told Penelton — claiming that the fact that both he and she had “gaps” in their teeth meant they were part of a master race. He then said he didn’t like any of the land use options that she had presented to the commission.
…Last December, while the commission was discussing holiday schedules, Klemp suggested Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army in the Civil War, should be honored.
White Kansas official tells black woman he belongs to ‘master race’
Mmmmmm, no.
Point of fact? Fucked up teeth are pretty far from being from a quality possessed by members of anything resembling a master race.
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.
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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…
Armed Militia Groups Head To The Border, Sparking Military Concerns
Armed Militia Groups Head To The Border, Sparking Military Concerns | HuffPost
Well, at least the US military troops that were sent dfown there will have something to do.
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