I must admit that White people are nosy ass people. Their curiosity is what brings them trouble.
They can't stay out of other people's business. When White folks are involved in personal matters, they always want to know. White folks like nosing into a person's home, a person's car and person's private life.
They seem invested in trying to destroy other people's lives for the sake of proving points. Even if there are some White folks aiming to do good for the world, other White folks call them traitors because they support Blacks and Hispanics over their own race.
The racist right are making accusations against an activist who they claim is faking the funk.
Shaun King is being tossed into the Rachel Dolezal blender. The Black Lives Matter activist is being accused of being a White man. Matter of fact, the conservative agitators have "proof".
The folks over a Breitbart and GotNews have the evidence and they're trying to shame the activist.
Shaun claims to be biracial to a Black father and White mother. He said that he was bullied in them days as a youth in Versailles, Kentucky.
Shaun was a featured player in the junk food media. He made concerns about police brutality and the junk food media's negative portrayal of unarmed Black suspects.
Breitbart got tipped off by an investigative blogger who unearthed his past. Breitbart claims to have unearthed King’s birth certificate from Sept. 17, 1979 and he's White according to the birth certificate.
The woman known as Vicki Pate is going all out in exposing Shaun King as "white guy".
Her website Re-Newsit is devoted to exposing Shaun as an opportunist. She wrote that Shaun would lie his way to a prestigious Black college. He lied about his race to obtain an Oprah Winfrey scholarship.
The now deleted tweet from his social media. He admits that he lied about his past.
As usual the racist right is devoted to "trolling" King and DeRay McKesson. They have been most active in the movement and they've been extremely outspoken about it.
Some of Shaun's supporters are coming to his aid. They dismiss the criticism as an attempt to discredit the Black Lives Matter group.
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Of course, Shaun isn't concerned about the matter He is not concerned about agitator's and the noise they made. He left comments to his press secretary.
He stands by his story about being born to a Black father and White mother. He doesn't know of Jeffery, the father who the conservatives claim is the father of Shaun. Jeffery is a White guy, by the way.
The racist right believes that Black Lives Matter is a front group. They already label the group as a bunch of thugs and misguided Black folks. The concern trolls would often bring up the scourge of Black-on-Whatever crime.
It doesn't matter if Shaun is Black, biracial, White or whatever. The point is that he's involved in trying to bring the narrative of police brutality and the slandering of victims to light.
I will discuss the controversial sheriff for Milwaukee County, David Clarke, Jr. He is the Black guy that conservatives fawn over. He's one of the examples of coon buffoonery. He already zeroed on the Black Lives Movement and taken the stance of believing that this movement is equivalent to "the Klan".
The famed Julian Bond passed away over the weekend. World News Today send our condolences to the family of a great icon in civil rights.
Julian was a social activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor, and writer. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped to establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Bond was elected to four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later to six terms in the Georgia Senate, having served a combined twenty years in both legislative chambers. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Bond died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, after a brief illness, according to The Associated Press.
“Julian Bond was a hero and, I’m privileged to say, a friend. Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life,” President Barack Obama said in a statement Sunday. “Julian Bond helped change this country for the better. And what better way to be remembered than that.”
I'm privileged to say, Julian was a friend for justice and equality.
Bond was a Nashville, Tennessee, native who attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. While in school, he co-founded the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee -- an organization that fought for and encouraged youth members to be vocal in the civil rights revolution. He led SNCC as the communications director, stood on the front lines of protests alongside several other civil rights pioneers like Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, and became a leader in the 1960s protest movement.
Bond later served as board chairman of the 500,000-member NAACP for 10 years, but declined to run for another one-year term in 2010, the AP reported.
Bond would often appear as a commentator on news shows and became a leading voice in the media, featured on NBC's "Today" show, and in The Nation and The New York Times.
He was also a professor of history at the University of Virginia and an adjunct professor at American University, the AP reported.
Many other celebrated civil and human rights activists mourned Bond's death Sunday.
"Very few throughout human history have embodied the ideals of honor, dignity, courage and friendship like Dr. Julian Bond," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "Quite simply, this nation and this world are far better because of his life and commitment to justice and equality for all people. Future generations will look back on the life and legacy of Julian Bond and see a warrior of good who helped conquer hate in the name of love. I will greatly miss my friend and my hero, Dr. Julian Bond."
Bond is survived by his wife, Pamela Horowitz, and five children.
The memorable scene of Boyz In The Hood. A group of gang bangers fired off a double barrel at Rickey.
In cities with populations over 100,000, there's often a rise in the gun violence. I mean over 2,300 shootings happened in a day! Some of these shootings were deadly.
The law often worries about March through September. This is when the rise in gun violence occurs.
My hometown of Dayton, Ohio experienced a rise in gun violence. And it's troubling. Just in the past three weeks, eight people have lost their lives to gun violence. Six lost their lives to violence by a knife or dangerous instrument.
Dayton with a population of 137,000 is the sixth largest city in the state of Ohio. It's vicinity includes Xenia, Troy, Eaton and Miamisburg. The metro area is 578,000 residents.
Dayton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo have seen a huge spike in gun violence.
These names don't get national recognition.
I can't be a concern troll. There's just too many events in America where someone lost their life to gun violence. Those often affected by gun violence are youth and "at risk" populations.
I often hate when those annoying conservatives act like they care about gun violence in America.
How often do you read in the comment section describing an event in an area they've never visited?
Conservatives often bring up Democrats, Chicago, Baltimore, New York and Cleveland as examples to the rise of gun violence.
This ridiculous concern trolling is an example of why most Blacks often look at conservatives as racist. Black America is aware of gun violence.
Many in the Black community have slight distrust towards law enforcement. Given the recent officer involved incidents in which unarmed Black suspects die in police custody, it's often harder to get witnesses who may have seen a criminal act.
I hate to say this, but Republicans deserve most of the blame for the rise in gun violence. Their solution for gun violence is more guns. In the wake of mass shootings, the junk food media often turns to Congress and President Barack Obama to do something about it. The president has called for reasonable gun control measures. It's often met with opposition from Republicans and some Democrats. They fear the NRA and their money machine.
They don't seem to understand that gun trafficking doesn't often happen at gun shows. You can actually purchase firearms through social media.
Black leaders are often pressuring for more gun control measures.
President Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, NAACP and every other Black leader have expressed concern about the rise in gun violence in urban areas. It often is ignored by the concern trolls.
Random musings to what goes on in my community.
With the recent mass shooting in Louisiana, I want to make it clear that is a systematic issue. Gun crime is more dangerous than al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
This ugly man is a politician from Washington. He went to the social media to call President Barack Obama and his family a bunch of gorillas. Now his time in office may be shorter than his fucked up hairline.
The ugly comparisons to monkeys is something that extremists use to describe Black people.
The Tumblr blog Racist Get Fired does a great deal of putting these social media twats in the spotlight.
A mayor from Airway Heights is already facing calls for his cannon firing. He was on the social media calling President Barack Obama a "monkey man" and First Lady Michelle Obama, an ugly gorilla.
Okay, this Frankenstein looking creature is Patrick Rushing, the mayor of Airway Heights a small town that's a few miles from Spokane, Washington.
This is the area where Rachel Dolezal was then NAACP president was bounced after her family exposed her as a White woman. Dolezal was pretending to be Black and was force to resign after pressure came from her supporters.
Infamous LAPD cop Mark Furhman lives near Airway Heights.
No surprise it was Facebook where this politician posted his remarks.
"Gorilla face Michelle, can't disagree with that," Rushing, reportedly wrote in a Facebook post. "The woman is not attractive except to monkey man Barack. Check out them ears. LOL."
The posting went viral and the town is none to happy with him, And as defiant as he is, he just basically told the junk food media that he's joking. He's not resigning.
This is how I see Rushing responding to this controversy. "If you can't laugh at my postings, that's your problem. I'm sorry I got caught. It's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!"
Cue the definition of irony.
The local junk food media looked down his now deleted Facebook page and saw a dozen of postings about the president and First Lady Michelle Obama.
Some are calling for a good ol' fashion hanging for treason. That right there may earn him a visit from the Seattle bureau of the U.S. Secret Service.
He also made some offensive remarks about perennial candidate Hillary Clinton, Rev. Perm, Oprah Winfrey, gays, immigrants and Black people.
Yeah, Airway Heights is a population of 6,500 with an 80% White population with a 20% non-White population. Out of that 20% of non-White population, 7% of the residents are Black.
The mayor also faced some heat over his driving record. He was responsible for a hit-skip while operating a school bus. I wonder what he was listening to while he was driving that bus?
Again, what you do in the comfort of your home could come back to haunt you! Once you post something racist or offensive online, its there forever. You best believe that the social media agitators can turn a simple complaint into an all out viral sensation. Expect the person who posted to social media to immediately apologize. They claim that "they're never _________" or they have a few friends who could be Black, Muslim, gay or an immigrant.
Mayor concern troll.
With this polarizing junk food media and it's ongoing obsession to chase a shiny coin, you get people who are extremely passionate about issues.
Race, gender sexuality, religion, nationality, political, social and economic standings are often landmines for the concern trolls. The concern troll will use the "well you know" nonsense.
Say if a Black person was killed by law enforcement and he was unarmed. These events are becoming often talked about in the junk food media. The concern troll will find some other tangent.
Say if there was a local story about a White man being beaten by a Black man. Automatically a racial issue. The criminal targeted a White man despite not even knowing him. Even if it was a random act of violence, the concern trolls will bring race into it.
Give 'em a rope!
They used the Charleston incident to bring up the death of Kate Steinle being shot and killed by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. They used the death of Sandra Bland to bring up the incident where Chris McKnight was beaten brutally by a Black man. They used the incident where Esmeralda Rossi being arrested in her own home to bring up the incident where Mohammad Youseff Abdulazzez killing four Marines.
No one is perfect. We're all human.
Those involved criminal acts are innocent until proven guilty in the court of law, not public opinion. I know that Abdulazzez, Bland and Steinle have passed on. They can't explain to their families what happened.
Kate Steinle died in a gunshot. She can't tell the world what happened.
This is what he thinks of Black America.
Sandra Bland died in police custody. She can't tell the world what happened.
Mohammod Youseff Abdulazzez decided to murder innocent lives before the law put him down. He can't tell the world what happened.
But since we are motivated by the latest events in the world, we engaged in this!
That's why the junk food media relies on you, me, and everyone with a digital camera and a sense of urgency. That's why this gotcha media stuff that drives politicians, agitators in the junk food media and the world to react without knowing the facts.
Now as I conclude this. I want to know how you feel about this guy?
Real shit! A woman gets cuffed by the law in her own home. The law cuffs her in her natural.
The rules of the law. The law can't enter your home without a search warrant. You don't have to answer a door to the law without a warrant.
A "no knock" is the 6 AM scare you shitless warrant. This is an extremely controversial tactic. The judge can issue this type of warrant if the judge considers a suspect is a danger. This prevents the suspect from destroying evidence such as flushing drugs or hiding incriminating acts. This also works when the suspect is considered an escape risk.
At times, the law may announce their presence or they can bust through your home without notice.
The risk is great for those in the "no knock". The danger works both ways. The law could expect a detention device or a hail of lead through the door. The suspect could be home or he could be somewhere else. The no-knock doesn't determine who's there. It just determines that someone is expected to get a trip to lockup.
The innocent could be at home and "no knock" could happen. What if the innocent is a firearm owner. They have a right to shot a threat. That could even be the law if they don't announce themselves as the law.
What if the suspect or innocent has a medical issue? What if the member of the family has nothing to do with the suspect?
The risk is too great. Too many innocent people die because of a reckless call by the law.
The "no knock" is often criticized by the suspect, the ACLU, the CATO institute and libertarians.
Federal judges are often issuing these type of warrants. This allows the U.S. Marshals to arrest a suspect. The local law often have to get approval from a federal attorney or judge.
The state judges don't often allow "no knocks". But I wouldn't be surprised if they're used.
If the innocent fire their piece off at the law, they WILL return fire. The law doesn't care who pulled the trigger. If a threat is detected, they'll respond.
This is also controversial in the case of swatting calls or wrong address identification. That means if the criminal leaves the property and someone else moves in, what is the right call?
The law goes by the last place of residence if the suspect is on the run.
Probable cause for the law to enter your home is the sense of detection. They can enter a home if the law detects a home alarm, a criminal act in progress, a smell of methamphetamine or marijuana, use of fireworks, or you're a convicted felon.
A woman in Arizona is taking the Chandler Police and the state to court. An officer was in her house on a domestic call and he decided that he had to put a woman in her towel in the cuffs.
Esmeralda Rossi was coming out the shower when the daughter answered the door.
This asshole Doug Rose and his partner told Esmeralda that he got a call about some issues going on at the residence. So they tried to interrogate her while she's in her towel.
Of course, Esmeralda was pissed, wondering what the fuck these cops are up in her home!
She told them that she doesn't have to speak to them about anything. She got out the shower and she felt that this is an invasion of privacy.
Ex-cop Doug Rose got a lawyer.
Her daughter whipped out the camera phone and that's when Rose got pissed at the daughter and warned her that she's going to lockup if she didn't stop recording.
Of course Esmeralda told her daughter to not listen to the cop. That's when the cop got out the cuffs.
As Esmeralda heads to grab her camera phone, Rose decided to act out. He tells her to stop or he'll cuff her.
Of course, she said "I live here, you can't arrest me in my own home!" She grabs her phone and starts recording. I guess Rose decided that he had enough. So he decides to grab her and put the cuffs on her. And as he cuffs her, Esmeralda's breast were exposed and the towel comes down. She's naked and the arms turned back.
Rose puts her face into the carpet and Esmeralda's crying. The daughter's still recording her sobbing mom begging the officer to not arrest her. Esmeralda's phone gets broken after he lands her on the carpet.
Later in the video, you can here Rose give her the "I don't give a fuck who you are! I'm a fucking cop" lecture.
"Don’t take the attitude with cops, because we don’t play," Rose said. "When a cop shows up, you’re not the one in charge. I don’t care if this is your house."
Esmeralda wasn't arrested for any criminal act.
Under the whim of her attorney, they release the video to the junk food media and it went viral.
This shit was fucked up! I think the cop was totally out of line. I felt that he violated me!
Now the city of Chandler and state of Arizona have a lawsuit on them.
The police chief for Chandler was pissed. He calling for an investigation into the matter.
Rose on the other hand decided to take an early retirement. He knew that he could face an investigation into his actions towards residents. Investigators determined that he was out of line.
I am guessing ex-cop Doug Rose may be one of them asshole cops who share them racist emails about President Barack Obama, immigrants and Black people.
Rossi is a victim of molestation when she was young. So this brought back memories she tried to repress.
"I felt helpless. I felt violated. And honestly, I felt molested," Rossi told the junk food media.
Your thoughts on the matter!
World News Today wishes Esmeralda Rossi well! This is unbecoming of an officer! He knew he was fucked when he was caught on camera saying "I don't care.......who the fuck you are!"
Entertainer sparks controversy over his embracing of the Confederate flag.
Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock) once again brings controversy. Before he became this total asshole, he actually is a pretty nice guy. He actually came to Dayton to perform at the Nutter Center. He actually filmed his encounters with fans and random strangers.
The former rapper now rebel country rocker is a proud Republican who wears the stars and bars with pride. The Confederate flag being lowered from the South Carolina capitol was met with cheers and conservative outrage.
At the Kentucky Speedway, the flags flew.
At the Summer Country Concert in Minister, Ohio, the flags flew.
And when that flag when down from the state capitol grounds in South Carolina, you seen a bunch of protesters with the flag swinging.
The Michigan born entertainer moved to Alabama and found himself embracing Southern hospitality.
He's not going down without a fight.
Hanging around with beer guzzling Hank Williams, Jr. and high kicking Chuck Norris turned him into a wackadoodle.
The entertainer told his fans at a concert that if anyone hates the Confederate flag, they can suck.....Well you know!
Yeah, he told the protesters and the political correctness crowd to kiss his ass....
He aimed at Rev. Perm who recently complained about him waving that flag around.
Of course the network that may have inspired that White terrorist to kill nine innocent church goers in Charleston was happy to have a discussion on it.
Kid Rock has a son who is a performer as well. His own son, Robert Ritchie, Jr. is half black.
Idiotic.
The NAACP once again in hot water. The NAACP turns a blind eye to issues. This would be the latest controversy facing the oldest civil rights organization.
Kid Rock and his son were honorees at the NAACP Convention.
The NAACP recently face controversy after they got upset over Rachel Dolezal. The former president of the Western chapter was outed as a White woman. Dolezal hid her race because of her family's hatred of her dating Black men. They fired her out the cannon despite her work.
They also looked the other way during the Donald Sterling controversy. The former NBA owner told his mistress that he didn't want Black people at the Los Angeles Clippers games.
Kid Rock has the right to be "Confederate Yankee". He can take that flag and wrap it around his ass, his neck and his privates. No one is stopping him. If it can help push Rebel Soul and attract a base of white extremists, more power to him.
But as soon as another mass murder happens in America, I hope they don't find his music in their possession.
The city of Baltimore is dealing with a rise in violence. The top cop failed. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake had to load him in the cannon and fire him out. Anthony Batts is out.
Baltimore police commissioner Anthony Batts is fired out the cannon.
The city of Baltimore seen a huge spike in gun violence and the junk food media is bothering Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Marilyn Mosby.
For you see, the concern trolls aren't concerned about the illegal guns on the street. They're just trying to finger the rise in violence on Blake and Mosby, because they supported the decision to charge six officers who let Freddie Gray die in custody with involuntary homicide.
Batts was loaded in the cannon and fired out of it.
The AP confirms that this decision comes straight out of the mayor's office. Blake said that homicides in the cities are not acceptable and his performance is poor. This is a distraction. She stuffed him in and fired him out!
Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, who has only been with the department since January, will serve as interim commissioner, Rawlings-Blake said.
"We need a change," the mayor told a news conference, which was attended by Davis. "This was not an easy decision but it is one that is in the best interest of Baltimore. The people of Baltimore deserve better and we're going to get better."
The firing comes 2 1/2 months after the city broke out in riots following the death of Freddie Gray, who died in April of injuries he received in police custody. Six police officers have been criminally charged in Gray's death.
After the unrest, arrests in the city plummeted and homicides spiked. Baltimore's homicide total this year is 156, according to police. That's a 48 percent increase compared with the same time last year. Shootings have increased 86 percent. In one of the latest examples, gunmen jumped out of two vans and fired at a group of people a few blocks from an urban university campus Tuesday night, killing three people.
Police said Wednesday that the shooting wasn't random, but no arrests have been made.
"As we have seen in recent weeks, too many continue to die on our streets," Rawlings-Blake said. Referring to Batts, she said "recent events proved that his being here was a distraction."
"We cannot continue to debate the leadership of the department," the mayor said. "We cannot continue to have the level of violence we've seen in recent weeks in this city."
Batts and Rawlings-Blake are African-American, as is the city's top prosecutor, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Davis is white. Sixty percent of the city's population is black, while the police department is 48 percent African-American.
Mosby said her office has already met with Davis and she looks forward to working with him.
The Rev. Alvin Gwynn Sr., president of the city's Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, said the firing was long overdue. Gwynn, who began calling for Batts' resignation within days of Gray's death, blamed the bloody spike in violence on the mayor's previous reluctance to fire the commissioner.
"We have people who died because they delayed," he said Wednesday.
Keonna Stokes, 22, a resident of the housing development in front of which Gray was arrested, said she was glad to see Batts removed from his position, and hopes a new commissioner will have a lower tolerance for police misconduct.
"The police wouldn't do the things they do if the commissioner didn't allow it," she said. "He should have been fired. We call the police when we really need them, when people hurt us. But now we don't call them, because they hurt us. If they didn't Freddie would still be here."
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil rights review of the department, and on Tuesday, Batts announced that an outside organization will review the police response to the civil unrest that followed Gray's death. Most of the unrest took place on April 27, prompted by Gray's death on April 19.
The Baltimore police union released its own scathing post-mortem report Wednesday accusing Batts and other top brass of instructing officers not to engage with rioters and to allow looting and destruction to occur.
"The officers repeatedly expressed concern that the passive response of the Baltimore police commanders to the civil unrest allowed the disorder to grow into full-scale rioting," Gene Ryan, president of the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, wrote in the report.
Following Batts' firing Wednesday, the union issued a statement reiterating the report's concerns but also said it would work with Davis to improve the situation.
Davis was previously chief of police in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and assistant chief in Prince George's County, Maryland. The mayor said that in addition to reducing crime, Davis would "bring accountability to police, hold officers who act out of line accountable for their actions."
Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. Attorney for Maryland, praised Davis, saying he helped reform the Prince George's County Police Department, "raising morale and professionalism while dramatically reducing crime."
In his own remarks to the news conference, Davis said his goals would include improving the relationship with the officers who work for him. "I will walk with them and serve with them and be with them every step of the way," he said.
But Davis also has indicated a willingness in the past to speak out against police abuses.
As Anne Arundel chief, he issued a news release disagreeing with a decision by the county Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 70 to donate $1,070 to a defense fund for Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Wilson, who is white, fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, on Aug. 9.
Rawlings-Blake appointed Batts as police commissioner in September 2012.
His contract with the city paid him $190,000 and was to run through June 2020. It includes a provision for a severance payment equal to his annual salary if he is terminated without cause.
Hours after he was fired, Batts sent a short statement to the Baltimore Sun.
"I've been honored to serve the citizens and residents of Baltimore," he said. "I've been proud to be a police officer for this city."
It just got worse. Now entertainer Bill Cosby officially loses his cash cow. The Cosby Show, A Diff'rent World, Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids and his movies are pulled from the roster.
The damage has now effected everything with his name on it suffers.
The law is searching for recent victims now that entertainer Bill Cosby admitted to spiking the punch.
He's facing an onslaught of lawsuits from women who claimed that he rape them. Some are telling the junk food media that he slips knock out drugs in the drinks. On occasions he inappropriately touch them. He was forced to pay up a couple of women in disclosed cases.
The AP got a hold of the disclosed cases. Cosby's attorneys were trying to keep them sealed. The judge ordered them unsealed and the AP broke the story last night.
Soon after the release, Cosby saw his world collapse before his eyes.
I Spy, The Bill Cosby Show, The New Bill Cosby Show, Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids, The Electric Company, The Cosby Show, A Diff'rent World, Kids Say The Darnedest Things, Little Bill, Fatherhood, Cosby and movies featuring entertainer Bill Cosby are off the air.
Every historically Black college dropped Cosby's name from the roster. His comedy tour is suspended indefinitely. Bookstores and music stores are pulling his comedy albums, his television shows on DVD, and his books.
Bounce TV pull everything Cosby. Bounce TV ends A Diff'rent World and Fat Albert. They will avoid playing movies featuring Cosby.
Viacom's Centric on BET, TV Land, Nick At Nite and MTV 2 dropped The Cosby Show and Cosby.
This could be the end for America's favorite TV dad!
Richard Matt is caught. Matt was one of the two suspects who escaped the iron college. These two dangerous individuals broke out of the iron college in Northern New York.
Matt ate a lead sandwich after ignoring federal authorities. He was spotted in Malone, NY. Matt was the ringleader and player in the iron college.
He wooed a woman into smuggling the contraband for him and his buddy David Sweat to escape.
Matt's life on the run was 21 days. His life ended on June 26, 2015.
David Sweat is still at large and he's still somewhere between where they've escaped and the Canadian border.
Briefly, Matt decapitated his old boss. He was served up 25 to life in the iron college.
Sweat and a friend put a cop in the wooden box. He was served up LIFE in the iron college.
Matt and Sweat managed to get out on through the "honor" block. They managed to work the system for a clean break. That break has American lawmakers reconsider privileges at our nation's iron colleges. Again, interns to the iron college do have some rights. They do have a right to no cruel and unusual punishment. But all the goodies that are given for "good behavior" are no longer available at the Clinton Correctional.
Joyce Mitchell and Gene Palmer were caught in this escape. Mitchell the co-leader got indicted on aiding in the escape by contraband. She was fired from the iron college. She's being held up on a $$$$$$$$ get out of jail free card. She will face up to a decade in the iron college.
Gene Palmer was also charged to. He looked the other way when Mitchell handed off some goodies to the escape interns. He is being charged with negligence and smuggling contraband.
He faces the judge on Monday.
This has been an active week in the media. We will keep you updated on the latest events over in New York.
World News Today send our prayers to those who are involved in the search and capture of David Sweat. He is a dangerous individual. If he was a smart man, he would give up. But sometimes, that ego may end up getting him killed.
Anthony Kennedy joined the liberal justices Steven Breyer, Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor in an extremely historical decision. The gay marriage bans in states like Ohio, Kentucky, Florida and Texas are gone. The United States Supreme Court ruled, gay marriage the law of the land.
A HUGE DAY IN AMERICA FOR OUR FRIENDS IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY! THE SUPREME COURT RULED THAT THE STATE BANS ON GAY MARRIAGE ARE ILLEGAL.
GAY MARRIAGE AND GAY ADOPTION ARE NOW LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES.
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE IN THE COUNTRY.
THE ROBERTS COURT FINALLY WENT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!
A big day in the Supreme Court. The legality of marriage is now equal for all.
In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that all state mandated gay marriage bans are discriminatory.
Win for the LGBT community.
The decision is a historic victory for gay rights activists who have fought for years in the lower courts. Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia already recognize marriage equality. The remaining 13 states ban these unions, even as public support has reached record levels nationwide.
The justices found that under the 14th Amendment, states must issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples and recognize same-sex unions that were legally performed in other states.
The lead plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges is Ohio resident Jim Obergefell, who wanted to be listed as the surviving spouse on his husband's death certificate. In 2013, Obergefell married his partner of two decades, John Arthur, who suffered from ALS. Arthur passed away in October of that year, three months after the couple filed their lawsuit.
Obergefell was joined by several dozen other gay plaintiffs from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee who were fighting both to be able to marry and to have their marriage recognized in every state in the country.
Family matters. The Supreme Court made a historical decision on gay marriage.
The country's views of same-sex marriage have transformed since 2004, when Massachusetts became the first state to allow gay couples to wed. In 2013, the Supreme Court began chipping away at the country's legacy of discrimination against same-sex couples when it struck down part of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which prevented same-sex couples whose marriages were recognized by their home state from receiving the hundreds of benefits available to other married couples under federal law.
President Barack Obama became the first sitting president to support marriage equality when he came out in favor of it in 2012, the same year that the Democratic Party made it part of its platform for the first time. The Republican Party and its slate of 2016 presidential aspirants, however, remain opposed to same-sex marriage. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) support a constitutional amendment protecting states that want to ban marriage equality.
Some conservatives have advocated for a civil disobedience effort against a Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage. However, officials in red states told The Huffington Post recently that they are prepared to implement the decision, going so far as to ready gender-neutral marriage licenses and set later office hours. Gerard Rickhoff, who oversees marriage licenses in Bexar County, Texas, said that if same-sex couples are discriminated against elsewhere in the state, "Just get in your car and come on down the highway. You'll be embraced here."
Republican governor Nikki Haley holds a press conference in Columbia. She is under pressure to have the Confederate flag removed from the state capitol grounds. Joining her in the conference includes Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC).
South Carolina Republican lawmakers Trey Gowdy, Joe Wilson, Jeff Duncan, Tom Rice and Mick Mulvaney are ignorant lawmakers. They act like it's business as usual. They would not join in solidarity with their fellow Republicans in denouncing the Confederate Flag.
Republican governor Nikki Haley, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC), Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) call for the removal of the Confederate flag around the state capitol grounds.
Haley, Scott and Graham bowed to pressure. They were harshly criticized for embracing it. Haley in a press conference with Scott, Sanford, Clyburn and Graham called for state lawmakers to take down that flag.
Graham is one of the many clowns in the race for the red nose.
“The events of the past week call on us to look at this in a different way,” Haley said, adding that now is the time “to remove the flag from the capitol grounds.”
The Confederate flag sways in the wind.
Former GOP presidential nominee and perennial loser Mitt Romney recently endorsed removing the flag. Haley endorsed Romney in the 2012 election.
Haley, the first female governor. She is an Indian-American who grew up on diversity. She is the youngest governor in the United States. Some want her to become a veep nominee.
Of course, many lawmakers in the state house are probably cold feet on this. However the pressure is mounting and South Carolinians are calling for change.
President Barack Obama informed Haley that he will be there for the eulogy of Clementa Pickney, the pastor of Mother Emmanuel AME Church. Pickney is a Democratic state lawmaker. He along with eight others were gunned down by a White terrorist.
Black activists light up the Confederate flag. This will rile up extremists.
The South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is a prominent Republican lawmaker. She is one of the youngest and most attractive women to hold office. A woman of great prominence is dealing with a controversy.
In the wake of a mass shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, Haley must decide on taking measures to ensure her residents that she's got everything under control.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) are the only two Black lawmakers representing South Carolina.
For a woman of color, it should be a no brainer. She should acknowledge that a portion of her state's residents have some extremists views.
As you know many White southerners fly the Confederate flag as a homage to those who fought in the Civil War. They may think of it as heritage, I look at the flag as a disgrace to America. Why on earth would anyone fly the flag of the losing team?
In downtown Charleston, protesters deface statues dedicated to the Confederate soldiers.
The Charleston Post and Courier reports police dispatchers were tipped off to the vandalism around late this afternoon.
Another message, “This is the problem #racist,” also was spray-painted on “To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston — Fort Sumter.”
The damage was reported to police dispatchers just after 12:30 p.m. The statue was covered up by residents who wrapped a large tarp around it about 1:30 p.m.
Two signs were placed on the tarp after the graffiti was covered up. One said, “All lives matter #charlestonunited,” and the other said, “Take down racist statues.”
The incident occurred in the wake of the fatal shooting Wednesday of nine black people inside Emanuel AME Church in what police say was an attack by a white supremacist. The church held its first service since the shootings on Sunday.
The attack has led to a nationwide call for South Carolina to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds. At least 1,000 people gathered Saturday in Columbia to call for the flag to be taken down. Numerous petitions also call for the flag’s removal.
The statue caused a stir downtown Sunday as several individuals began arguing about the battle flag. Zachary Gaither of Charleston helped cover the graffiti on the statue and said he did not associate the flag with racism.
South Carolina is facing heat over its embracing of the Confederacy.
“I was covering up something that was demoting our city,” he said of the graffiti, adding, “the Confederate flag is a Southern heritage of pride to me.”
Tighe Berry, who is from out of town but wouldn’t say where, argued for the graffiti to be left up.
“That was a disgusting war that was to separate this country to keep an institution of hatred, racism and violence and slavery,” he said.
Madea Benjamin of Washington, D.C., put up the sign encouraging the statue to be taken down.
“It’s important for this state to say we don’t support white supremacy, we don’t promote pro-hatred groups or symbols,” she said.
The Confederate flag is sort of like the Swastika flag. It's symbolically a historical failure.
Already the agitators are outraged at DeRay McKesson.
McKesson has been effective in his protests and they hate him like they hate Rev. Perm. He promise more protests in the wake of the shooting.
Ever since McKesson appeared on that network that may have inspired that racist shooter to kill those nine innocent lives, he's been a target of conservative ire. McKesson plans on making an appearance in Charleston.
The pot called the kettle black. Here's a concern troll on the social media who claims that President Barack Obama and Rev. Perm should stay away.
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) are two elected members of Congress. One is a Black Democrat and the other is a Black Republican.
They have both express sadness over this. But however, they both have a different view of the Confederate flag being flown at the state house in Columbia.
There's an active movement to have the flag formally removed from the state house.
Allegedly activists defaced the Confederate soldiers monument.
Do you believe that the Confederate flag is sign of heritage or a symbol of racism?
Officer Daryle Holloway was gunned down by a coward who managed to get the drop on him. The FBI and U.S. Marshals are aiding in the search of this creep. New Orleans is in mourning of an officer who devoted his life to service.
What was a routine transport to the parish lockup turned into active in manhunt. New Orleans police aided by the state officers are in search of a murderous creep. This creep took the life of an officer who let his guard down. The suspect maneuvered like a worm and reached for the service weapon.
Officer Daryle Holloway was transporting Travis Boys to the parish lockup for aggravated assault when somehow this creep managed to get the drop on him.
The suspect grabbed the service weapon and hit Holloway in the head.
The police cruiser would crash in at an intersection. Boys broke the window and high tailed it out of the area.
Louisiana state patrol, the FBI and the U.S. Marshals are assisting in the apprehension of this dangerous suspect.
Travis Boys is a wanted man.
Holloway leaves behind a wife and three children. What makes it so sad is the fact that he was a motivate speaker. Many fellow officers describe him as a "friendly", "easy going" and "devoted" worker.
The AP reports that New Orleans Crimestoppers organization announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to Boys' arrest.
Rifle-toting police in bullet-proof vests, some with trained canines, searched whole blocks of one neighborhood about a mile from the city's French Quarter Sunday afternoon. Residents clustered on street corners to watch as officers checked backyards and squinted under modest homes elevated on flood-protection piers.
"He will be caught and he will be brought to justice for the murder of Officer Holloway and for this assault on our entire community," Harrison said in a police department statement.
The shooting happened Saturday morning as Boys was handcuffed in the back seat of the vehicle. Boys managed to get his hands from behind his back to the front and obtain a weapon as well, Harrison told reporters at the scene in a video interview posted on the department's Facebook page.
Boys got to the front seat through an opening in the cage that separates front and back seats and shot Holloway, Harrison said.
"Officer Holloway put up a fight to try to get the subject to not exit the vehicle but succumbed to his injuries," Harrison said.
Department spokesman Tyler Gamble said police were trying to determine what weapon Boys used and how he obtained it, but do not believe Boys used the officer's gun.
John Polk, who lives around the corner from where the police SUV came to rest, said he was just awakening when he heard a loud noise and his power went out. The noise, he figured, was an electrical transformer blowing.
"I look out the door — I'd heard the boom — I see the fire truck here on the corner," he said. It was only later 45 minutes later, after police had swarmed into the area that he learned what happened.
A helicopter circled overhead as marked and unmarked units from state police and other law enforcement agencies cruised the side streets. Utility workers worked to replace the downed power pole.
State police, St. Tammany Parish deputies, Housing Authority of New Orleans police and the U.S. Marshals Service were among those searching for Boys.
Police seeking Boys halted traffic Saturday into an area of several city blocks of the St. Roch neighborhood not far from where the shooting occurred. Officers kept people from entering the area, and others from leaving.
Gun crimes on the rise in America.
Vincent Alexander, a prep cook at Margaritaville restaurant in the French Quarter, said he was walking home from work when police detoured him a short distance from his house. "I just called my roommate. They're not letting him get out the house."
Holloway had been a member of the New Orleans Police Department since 1992. He was the father of three children.
Harrison said Holloway was not the arresting officer but was transporting Boys to the lock up when the shooting occurred.
New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu also said some harsh words for Boys.
"Killing an officer in the line of duty is an attack on our community and it will not stand", says Landrieu. The heart and soul of New Orleans is heavy today as we mourn one of our city's finest".
Okay, where are the concern trolls? Are they going to find some reason to blame the president instead of the shooter for this senseless tragedy?
I mean seriously, the shooter should get the blame. But to the agitators, the finger President Barack Obama, civil rights leaders, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former Eric Holder for this.
After all, cries for better policing is code for anti-cop says the conservative concern trolls.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Daryle Holloway.
Sonny Kim was an officer for the Cincinnati Police. He was gunned down by a suspect. He and the suspect were killed.
Again when the chips are down, the good ones die. And today, Cincinnati Police announced the death of 48 year old Sonny Kim, a 27 year veteran of the department.
He and others were responding to an erratic man in Madionsville. I am guessing the man decided to go out with a bang. In the firefight, Kim was injured gravely. He would die at the hospital. The chief Jeffery Blackwell express shock and sadness. He commended Kim as a great officer who done what was right for his community and the people he swore to protect.
World News Today send our condolences to family of Sonny Kim.
Kim immigrated from South Korea to settle in the city of Cincinnati. He would join the force in the 1990s and continue his work in public service.
The suspect 21 year old Tre Hummons would later die of his injuries and the city is sharing their thoughts on it. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that details are emerging on what happened today.
Cincinnati police respond to a man with a firearm. One of their own took a bullet.
Much of what happened near the intersection of Roe Street and Whetsel Avenue is unclear, but Blackwell did provide a basic timeline:
Police got a call at 9:03 a.m. about a man with a gun. At 9:10 a.m., a second call came in to dispatchers. Nine minutes later, Kim responded. And seven minutes after that, at 9:26 a.m., frantic officers were hurrying to the scene to provide backup.
Both Kim and the suspect were taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Blackwell praised officers' "valiant" attempts to save their fallen colleague's life. He asked the community to pray not only for Kim's family, but also for the department as a whole.
Kim was known as a friendly, familiar face around the neighborhood as a longtime District 2 officer. He was passionate about martial arts, having served as an instructor with Japanese Karate-Do for nearly 20 years. Blackwell described him as an exemplary officer, well liked and physically fit.
Capt. Jeff Butler, who worked closely with Kim in District 2, fought back tears as he spoke to reporters.
"Sonny Kim was the consummate police officer," he said.
City Manager Harry Black said the city would honor Kim as a hero.
"This is a stark reminder that all jobs are not created equal," Black said, adding that police officers "have the courage and conviction to do what many of us might not be prepared to do -- that is to sacrifice their lives if necessary."
Cincinnati mayor John Cranley and police chief Jeffery Blackwell are shocked that an officer died in the line of duty.
Blackwell said earlier this morning that the officer had been wearing body armor, but that he was struck anyway in the chest.
In a March 2014 interview with the online karate magazine The Shotokan Way, he described how stressful his job as an officer was and how important he considered his training.
Alleged shooter Tre Hummons.
"In the USA, most of our police tactical training deals mainly with firearm encounters," Kim told the publication. "Having an assailant with a firearm will put you under some emotional and physiological duress."
He said police trainers have a saying: "You will perform how you train."
"One must train hard and under pressure in a realistic environment," he said.
Kim's Facebook cover photo an image of his three sons, posed together and smiling.
Kim is the 98th Cincinnati police officer to die in the line of duty -- the first since 2000.
"There's not much you can say," said CPD Chaplain Tyronne Patrick. "I let the officers talk to me. They have to do the talking. It's like losing a child."
Somber-faced officers embraced and consoled each other as it rained off and on at the shooting scene.
"My heart is just heavy for his family at this time," Sara Sheets, director of the Madisonville Community Urban Redevelopment Corp., said of Kim. Sheets has lived in Madisonville for 12 years.
South Carolina Democratic state senator Clementa Pickney is one of the victims of a horrible mass shooting.
South Carolina state senator is one of the many killed in a mass murder in Charleston.
This is a breaking update. Nine people were killed in this horrific tragedy.
The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest AME church in the South was rocked by a mass massacre. This act of terrorism was done by a man who had no care for the lives of those who wanted the right to congregate in a church.
Charleston city police are searching for a suspect in this horrific tragedy. World News Today send our condolences to those killed in this tragedy.
The incident happened around 9pm. The city police prompted a large response. At least six ambulances were at the church.
The governor of South Carolina, Republican Nikki Haley and the White House were informed about this tonight. Haley releases a press statement on this.
Mass shooting in South Carolina church.
“Michael, Rena, Nalin and I are praying for the victims and families touched by tonight's senseless tragedy at Emanuel AME Church. While we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we'll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another. Please join us in lifting up the victims and their families with our love and prayers.”
The suspect is a White male in his 20s. The man was clean shaven, slender build and wearing a grey sweatshirt, blue jeans and Timberland boots.
This historically black church attracts hundreds of worshippers. The church has one of the largest congregations south of Baltimore.
Clementa Pinckney is the lead pastor. He is an elected Democratic state senator from the Charleston area.
The church was doing Bible study and the alleged shooter starting firing on worshipers.
Early a young man was apprehended, but he was later released. People from the scene posted on the social media that the man apprehended isn't involved.
Tragedy in South Carolina.
The police confirmed that the shooter is at large. This will require the FBI and South Carolina's A.I.M. involvement.
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley confirmed in a statement there have been fatalities.
“We’re still gathering information so it’s not the time yet for details,” he said. “I will say that this is an unspeakable and heartbreaking tragedy in this most historic church, an evil and hateful person took the lives of citizens who had come to worship and pray together.”
Riley said city police were being assisted by sheriff’s deputies, the State Law Enforcement Division and the FBI.
A bomb threat reportedly called in to a nearby hotel prompted authorities to close Meeting Street to traffic.
Republican contenders Jeb Bush and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have issued statements on the tragedy. The White House will release a statement shortly.
And before we jump into the blame game. We first want to say that the shooter (or shooters) are responsible for this. The junk food media often wants to look into the partisan views of a criminal.
Say if the criminal is a White guy. Liberals want to assume that the guy is a die-hard conservative who relishes in guns. The shooter has hatred towards progressive views, race, gender, sexuality, religious beliefs and social beliefs.
Conservatives want to assume that the guy is a liberal. If it's a Black, Hispanic, Muslim or White guy, they will automatically blame President Barack Obama. Conservatives tell stories of what they could have done if they were armed, complain about the media jumping to conclusions, and say that the suspect is a liberal activist.
A.I.M. is active in manhunt.
We can't confirm if the suspect is a White extremist! But some are declaring this to be a hate crime.
The city of Fairfield, Ohio is located 14 miles from Cincinnati. The city is under fire for a major controversy.
The police are under fire for a brutal beat down of two teens. A 12-year old girl had her face and ribs broken by police.
The Dayton Daily News reports that two adults and two children were arrested that day on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after a large fight at the city-run pool on Augusta Boulevard. The individuals arrested refused to leave the premises after one youth was asked to leave because he was not wearing the proper swimming attire, according to police.
Fairfield police contend officers did nothing wrong.
Hilton disputed Fairfield officers account of the incident and showed a video of the family’s encounter captured by someone at the facility.
In the footage, where loud screams are heard throughout, an officer is seen pulling a young girl away from the crowd with his arm around her neck and arm as he puts her against a vehicle and pulls her arms behind her back. The girl screams throughout before finally saying, “Ok, Ok.” Another male officer is seen using pepper spray on a young girl who is clinging desperately to an iron gate as a female officer grabs her around the neck in an attempt to dislodge her. The officer can be heard shouting, “Just let go of the gate…Get off the gate.”
The incident is the latest of several across the nation that have called into question the conduct of officers towards African-Americans.
“I never want to be known as one that stands against police officers. I do my best to honor law enforcement as much as I possibly can. When I find there is a controversy between the truth and what individuals are saying, I must stand on the side of truth, no matter where that truth is,” Hilton said.
That day at the pool, Krystal Dixon, 33, took her children and some nieces and nephews to the pool, as they had done for many years. Dixon left and the kids, a total of eight, started swimming.
It was at that point that pool employees stopped one of Dixon’s nephews, saying he did not have proper attire on. Signs posted at the pool state that swimmers must wear proper swim attire. The nephew and Dixon’s daughter called Dixon and informed her they were told to leave. Krystal told the kids she was coming back and had the nephew’s swim trunks with her.
Hilton said it was only the nephew that did not have swimming attire; the other kids did.
When Dixon, who is pregnant, returned to the pool, the kids were “off the property” as had been demanded. Dixon went into the Aquatic Center to find out what was happening. She was told the nephew did not have proper attire, but got in the pool anyway.
What they done to that young girl was brutal. The press conference from
“Krystal looks at the young man, and there is not a drop of water on him,” Hilton said. It’s at this point that someone began recording video.
Dixon asked pool staff if she could have her money back and was told no. As she walked toward the pool area to get the kids, an officer attempted to grab Dixon and ask what she was doing. Fairfield police said one of the city’s park rangers was on site at the time. That ranger had handcuffs.
On the video, one of the kids asked, “What are you going to do with that?” The ranger responds, “I’m going to arrest you for not leaving.”
As Dixon was heading back out, a police officer asked her for an ID. Dixon said she didn’t have one, because she was wearing swimming attire. The officer grabbed Dixon by the arm, and that’s when the incident escalated, Hilton said. Multiple officers responded to the scene.
Hilton said a police officer grabbed the 12-year-old female “by the neck, slam her up against a police car, and this young lady, 12 years old, sustained multiple injuries,” Hilton said, though he would not specify what those injuries were.
Dixon told our news partner’s WCPO 9 On Your Side that her daughter sustained a broken jaw and three broken ribs.
Hilton said the video “clearly” shows the 12-year-old not assaulting an officer.
Hilton spoke at the Word Family Life Center, with Krystal and her sister Maya Dixon, of Columbus. Fairfield police arrested both of them, charging them with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Police also arrested two juveniles, charging a 15-year-old boy with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, and charging a 12-year-old girl with assault and resisting arrest.
The Dixons are expected to answer to the charges in Fairfield Municipal Court Wednesday. One of their attorneys is Clyde Bennett, who represented controversial Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter.
After investigating the case and looking a the video, Bennett said Tuesday it is “crystal clear Ms. Dixon did nothing wrong.”
“People will believe that if the officer tells you to do something, you automatically you must do it in the state of Ohio. The fact is that is not the law in the state of Ohio,” Bennett said. “Resisting arrest is when you resist a lawful arrest, so the police have to have a lawful reason for the arrest … In this case, there was no legal reason whatsoever to arrest Ms. Dixon.”
Some of the images that were captured by camera phone shows the police using forced restraint.
Bennett added: “If you don’t do anything illegal, and you don’t do anything wrong, then police do not have the right to arrest you. So if the police try to arrest you and that arrest is an unlawful arrest, you can resist actually.”
Bennett said he is not saying that is what happened in the Dixon case, but it is a part of law people do not understand.
Fairfield Police Chief Mike Dickey has watched the videos shown at the press conference Tuesday, and he said the videos support his contention that the officers did nothing wrong.
“I think those videos only reinforce the statements we made earlier. Our officers were in a difficult situation, and they handled it with restraint,” he said.
Hilton said the officers did not use restraint.
“Where did the officers show a lot of restraint? … This mother wasn’t out of control. She wasn’t over there cursing and refusing to make their kids leave .. she was prevented from leaving. Had that officer not grabbed her at that point, this incident would not have happened. Can police learned how to deescalate instead of escalate situations. This angers me,” he said, his voice rising.
Dickey countered that the videos show officers “being mobbed by individuals while trying to make an arrest after the folks they’re trying to deal with wouldn’t leave as directed … the accusations are not based based on what we’ve seen in the videos.”
The chief also pointed out the videos do not depict the entirety of the incident.
“We do know that some of the stuff that took place that prompted the entire incident was before the mother ever arrived,” he said. The video shown at the press conference begins with Krystal Dixon approaching Aquatic Center staff after she returned to the pool.
Court time for Krystal (left) and Maya Dixon. They claim that the law used unnecessary roughness towards them. They face a court date for disorderly conduct.
Hilton also decried public response to the incident, saying commentators were calling the family “lowdown names. We’re sick of it … now every black teenager is some scary bugaboo.”
Hilton said this incident doesn’t just affect this family.
“It affects kids all over this county, all over the state, and all over this nation, and it needs to stop,” he said. “That’s why we need community policing reform. That’s why we need criminal justice reform.”
Hilton challenged people to look at the video.
“Please tell me where the kids are acting so bad. Please tell me where this mother, who’s pregnant, is acting so horrible,” he said. “They feed into this narrative that causes this to yet be a divided nation, and we have no business being divided by race.”
Hilton said when officers go to court to testify, “their word has always been taken over and above a defendant’s.
“But we have too many officers lying. Those officers knew these things were being videotaped, and they’re still going to report to you such lies,” he said. “This bothers me. I’m saddened and I’m hurt.”
Dickey said his department will review the incident, as it reviews all incidents regarding use of force.
“Every police officer receives conflict resolution training at the police academy, and every year there is in-service training on various topics … I can’t say we’ve had any kind of specific training of our officers on how to de-escalate in the middle of a fight while you’re trying to settle things down, but if you look at the officers’ conduct objectively, there is every effort being made to get this situation under control,” he said.
Hilton said when the family went back later to the police to make a report, they were told they could not make a report and had to talk to Dickey. It was at that point the family approached Hilton, he said.
When one of the pool’s employees called 911, she said, “They’re videotaping, trying to make it look like a racist thing, and it’s not at all. They were breaking our policies. We told them they couldn’t be here anymore, and it’s really scary and I don’t feel safe.” The employee then begins to break down and cry during the call.
Hilton said he heard the call and “people will look at situations and walk away with their own conclusions. Would she have had the same conclusion if all of them were white? I doubt it.”
The civil rights leaders and public are demanding answers to what happened.
Cue, the annoying conservative agitator. The biggest concern troll to ever exist in the media gathers his deck of cards and decides to pull out either Jesse Lee Peterson, Kevin Jackson, David Webb or Deenan Boreli.
These dancing fools are fixated on blaming the victim. If you're Black and you're brutalized by the police, expect the conservative agitators to automatically blame the president, the civil rights leaders and Black America.
