White privilege once again makes the news. It's unfortunately it happened to be American swimmers participating in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Olympic swimmers who fabricated a robbery story.
The Brazilian Police report to the Associated Press that Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte made up a story about being jacked by a group of thugs who were actually masquerading as cops.
They said they were in a taxi riding when they were pulled over by men with police badges as they were returning to Olympic Village.
Lochte claimed he at the burner on his head.
It didn't turn out that way. It was a bunch of White drunk men who destroyed property at a gas station. They got into an argument with a security guard. The manager asked for them to pay for the damages and they agreed.
The officials involved with the U.S. Consulate said that Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were detained by the Brazilian authorities before the plane was to take off. Lochte managed to duck the law. He's back in the United States.
The judge involved in the case ordered for the swimmers passports to be confiscated.
The Deer in The Headlights Moment.
The three men who are still in Brazil however are subject to that country's laws, and could be looking at up to six months in prison if they are charged with giving false statements to police.
It is unknown if the men have lawyers but, just like in the United States, they do have the right to remain silent under questioning.
Should it be determined that the entire story was made up, Lochte and the other men could be charged with false communication of a crime, which carries a maximum sentence of three years in jail in Brazil.
These men are innocent until proven guilty.
This is an example of White people blaming the fictional Black or Brown man for their misfortunes.
If this was true, we would expect conservatives getting outraged over this and blaming President Barack Obama, #BlackLivesMatter and Hillary Clinton for this. After all, conservatives and Donald Trump would say that Obama and Clinton support the criminals.
Trump's hiring of a junk food media agitator has attracted controversy.
The civil war within the Republican Party has gone nuclear with Donald Trump's hiring of Stephen K. Bannon, the CEO of Breitbart News.
As you may know, Breitbart News is in the tank for Trump. They have been actively pushing conspiracy theories about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's health.
Breitbart News is responsible for getting Shirley Sherrod fired from her job at the Department of Agriculture after they published a deceptive video of her saying comments that were perceived as racist.
This addition of Bannon also gives Trump more freedom to be himself.
Trump demoted Paul Manafort after weeks of turmoil within his campaign. He made Kellyanne Conway, a pollster and conservative agitator his campaign manager and pollster.
Many conservatives are totally pissed about this. They believe that Breitbart, The Drudge Report, Laura Inghram, and Sean "Softball" Hannity are selling this load of bullshit.
He hired disgraced ex-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to help him in debate prep.
Ailes is facing a sexual harassment lawsuit from from Gretchen Carlson. She and numerous women including Megyn Kelly accused Ailes of sexual harassment and retaliation.
Also Manafort is facing allegations of lobbying for a pro-Russian group with ties to Ukraine.
Champagne Papi confirms that his collaboration album with Guwop is a go. The album is coming out in September.
Fresh out the feds, Radric Davis known as the Gucci Mane is hungry for music. He released Everybody's Looking on Atlantic and it was a success.
The Gucci Mane and Drake project will be titled The 6'ers. It will be released through APPLE Music and it will feature production from Mike Will Made It, Zaytoven, and Noah "40" Shebib.
It's sort of a sequel to the platinum album What A Time To Be Alive. That was Drake first collaboration album with Atlanta's codeine obsessed rapper Future.
Drake is riding high as the king of hip-hop. He dethroned Eminem. His album Views surpassed The Marshall Mathers LP in weeks on the Billboard top selling albums.
Drake is engaged in a feud now with Slaughterhouse rapper Joe Budden. He will address Budden on this album.
This will come as no surprise that Drake said it best, "Gucci gets out, you know it's a problem".
Donald Trump talks to the Blacks with a teleprompter speech written by Roger Ailes, Rudy Giuliani, David Clarke, Jr., Bill O'Reilly and Sean "Softball" Hannity.
It was revealed that Paul Manafort was fired out the cannon yesterday. Trump hired Stephen K. Bannon, the CEO of Breitbart News and Kellyanne Conaway as his campaign managers. Two divisive agitators running his campaign sounds about right.
In the city of West Bend, Wisconsin, Trump tells his nearly White audience about his concerns about Milwaukee in the aftermath of a fatal police shooting of a Black male by the law. It lead to a night of unrest.
Mind you that Trump spoke in a city roughly 45 miles from Milwaukee and he had the nerve to mention that city specifically in his speech.
"I'm asking for the vote of every African-American citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future," Trump said.
"It's time for our society to address some honest and very, very difficult truths," Trump said. "The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African-American community. Democratic crime policies, education policies and economic policies have produced only more crime, more broken homes and more poverty."
Two divisive figures: Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke, Jr. and Republican nominee Donald J. Trump.
He ticked off statistics on crime, poverty and education that have plagued Milwaukee, which he said was a city run by Democrats "decade after decade."
"To every voter in Milwaukee, to every voter living in the inner city or every forgotten stretch of our society, I'm running to offer you a much better future, a much better job," Trump said.
Conservatives lick their chops when the riot happened. They have once again try to play on the fears of a Black uprising.
Sylville Smith was an armed suspect who fled after a traffic stop. He was killed after refusing an order. Now what is missing is the body camera, the name of the officer and the reason why he used deadly force. This incident sparked the night of unrest. Wisconsin is an open carry state. Sylville had run-ins with the law but no time served in the iron college. The officer is in the freezer.
Trump places the blame of economic woes on the Democrats. His appeals to Blacks hasn't really moved the needle on support. Only 1% of Blacks support Trump for president.
"The problem in our poorest communities is not that there are too many police, it's there are not enough police," Trump said. He added that Clinton gave a supportive nod to "those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society." He said they "share directly in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee and many other places within our country."
Keep this going. Benghazi and Hillary Clinton's emails continue to be used by Republicans.
Desperation
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) are calling for another investigation into Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her email server.
The FBI released a report about the emails. Some of the information is currently classified.
The State Department wants a chance to review notes of the FBI's probe of her email usage. House Republicans continue to waste taxpayer money on the email server and Benghazi .
Now there's talk that the Republicans are pressing for perjury charges against Clinton. Of course, Democrats are calling this latest obsession with the email server another distraction.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has slammed the Republicans for putting forth this. He said, Republicans are wasting more time chasing an already closed case. They plot would plot less than 90 days from the presidential election.
A reminder to you. Rep. Bob Goodlatte is one of the reasons for why the 9/11 First Responders Bill being delayed. He is a piece of shit lawmaker.
By the way, Donald Trump will get classified information from the U.S. Intelligence Agencies.
It's funny that he would get this stuff given that he's not fit to be president.
Trump hires Roger Ailes to his help turn around his struggling campaign. Ailes is currently facing a lawsuit over allegations of sexual harassment by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson.
The disgraced ex-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes is reportedly helping Donald Trump with debate preparations.
In this latest controversy surrounding Ailes, multiple sources say that he will help motivate Trump and get him back on course.
Ailes has gotten a bit of problems going on. One being former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson. She filed a federal lawsuit against Ailes for sexual harassment and may have damaging audio of their conversation.
Trump's inner circle denies this but given how things are this election, I would not be surprised if Ailes does influence the struggling campaign.
The New York Times report that Ailes was forced to resign as the CEO of the conservative agitation news channel. The news broke over 20 women have came forward to accused Ailes of running his mouth more than his job.
He was handed a severance package and sent on his way. The Fox News folks are relatively quiet on the situation.
Although I haven't watched the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, I want to give big ups to the two young woman who became a part of American history. Two young African American women achieved a goal that others strived for.
I want to personally congratulate them on their success and their Olympic Gold.
Simone Biles
Simone Manuel
Gabby Douglas
World News Today congratulates these young woman on the Gold Medals in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
In a surprising move, Comedy Central has put the breaks on Larry Wilmore's The Nightly Show.
Sources reporting for Variety have said that the two year run for the satirically Black comedy show is ending at 100 episodes. The sources cite the weak lead in from the departure of Jon Stewart as a contributing factor to the show being cancelled.
It also makes it troubling for Trevor Noah who took over for Stewart a year back.
He was the hand picked successor of Jon. The South African comedian and writer has been somewhat struggling with ratings as well. Noah and Wilmore weren't nominated for any Emmys this year.
Wilmore is unapologetically Black and brutality honest. He is very passionate about issues with Black America. He often is annoyed by the showboating antics of conservatives like "Softball" Hannity and Wisconsin sheriff David Clarke, Jr.
He was the host of President Barack last White House Correspondent Dinner this year.
This is some devastating news.
Also it seems like CBS is hoping to pick up steam with James Corden. The Late Late Show is on the rise. Its fueling rumors that Stephen Colbert isn't pleased about his follow up getting all the glory.
Wilmore was then the senior Black Correspondent for The Daily Show before he was promoted to host his own show.
Wilmore is co-executive producer of the Kenya Burris and Anthony Anderson comedy black-ish on ABC.
So he had a gun. In Wisconsin, Sylville Smith was legally allowed to have a firearm. But the perception by the "All Lives Matter" crowd is that he was a no good "thug" and his death by the law was justified.
All is calm right now in Milwaukee. Governor Scott Walker has given the city the national guard in case another night of unrest occurs. The riots in Milwaukee were sparked by a police shooting of an armed Black male. The residents have long complained about police brutality and the Milwaukee sheriff appearing on television ignoring a pattern of problems within the city.
This reached a boiling point overnight. Five businesses were destroyed. An officer was injured and three agitators were arrested.
You got to start thinking that the distrust between the law and the Black Community is now at a record low. You got to understand that these aren't isolated incidents. These are public assassinations.
Black people regardless of being lawful or unlawful are being killed while in police custody.
The law isn't doing enough to catch suspects in the murder of Black people.
The Blue Wall of Silence is no different than the No Snitchin' credeo.
You got to thank the ones who point out the discrepancies in open carry laws. When that showboat David Clarke called for residents to arm themselves, I guess he meant for White folks to strap up.
Trust me, if a White person was carrying his firearm in public, he's given his respect.
If you're fleeing the law, it doesn't merit your death. It merits your arrest.
Tariq Nasheed is the man right here. I guess open carry is solely for White folks. He gets frustrated like many of us when the trolls start peeking into the social media of the victims of police shootings. He gets tired of this narrative because "he had a gun". He said that many White suspects were brought in alive without a shot being fired. Hence the Charleston terrorist.
If a White person is posing with a firearm, its his right to bare arms.
If a Black person is posing with a firearm, its because he is a thug or a criminal.
According to conservatives online and in the junk food media, the victim, Sylville Smith deserved to die. Seeing him pose with a firearm in a selfie is automatic guilt. They don't care about his life and family. They just see a Black "thug".
The 23 year old man and another man were being pulled over in Milwaukee's north side. They would flee the vehicle and the officer gave chase. According to Tom Barrett, the image shows that Sylville had a firearm on him.
Police said the semiautomatic handgun recovered at the scene was stolen in a burglary from a home in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in March 2016. The burglary victim said 500 rounds of ammunition were also taken.
Barrett told reporters the gun was loaded, according to The Associated Press.
Two polarizing figures in Milwaukee. Mayor Tom Barrett and county sheriff David Clarke, Jr.
“This stop took place because two officers … saw suspicious activity,” Barrett said. “There were 23 rounds in that gun that that officer was staring at. I want to make sure we don’t lose any police officers in this community, either.”
Sylville was a victim of a gun shooting. He survived a shooting where he took six to the body. Maybe he had a reason to have a firearm on him.
The law said in a press release that the 23-year-old man who was fatally shot had a “lengthy arrest record.”
A search of Wisconsin court records revealed several arrests, but only one misdemeanor conviction for Sylville Smith. His record also included traffic offenses. No felony convictions were found.
The misdemeanor conviction, for carrying a concealed weapon, came in July 2014. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined $443 and ordered to serve one day in jail.
Unrest eased up today. National Guard on standby.
His record also included guilty findings on traffic offenses for speeding, operating a motor vehicle without insurance, possession of open intoxicants in a motor vehicle and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license.
Smith was arrested in 2015 on a charge of intimidating a witness by a person charged with a felony, which is itself a felony offense. The case was dropped later that year by the prosecutor.
He was also charged with first-degree recklessly endangering safety, a felony, and misdemeanor possession of THC earlier in 2015. Those charges were dismissed by a judge based on a motion by the defense.
According to the Milwuakee Journal Sentinel, both cases stemmed from a February 2015 shooting in which he was a suspect.
Smith was accused of calling his girlfriend from jail to tell her to call the victim in the shooting case to get him to fill out a sworn affidavit saying Smith didn’t commit the crime, according to court documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel.
The victim recanted his identification of Smith and the case was dropped after the victim did not show up to court and was uncooperative, the newspaper reports.
In 2013, Smith was charged with retail theft, but that case as also dropped by the prosecutor.
And to make this even more interesting, they say that the cop who shot Sylville is Black. They specifically point this out for the reasons to make this not a "White and Black" issue.
So they now want to justify the shooting by saying the Black cop shot the Black thug.
Once again, we're seeing this happen time and time again. A police shooting of a lawful, unlawful or unarmed Black person. The name of the victim is released. The conservative agitators and trolls hop online to complain about how this person's life doesn't matter.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE IN THE UNITED STATES.
While this was going on, a Muslim imam and his friend was gunned down.
A Georgia cop was killed. A New Mexico cop was killed by two suspects from Ohio who may have ties to the Ohio mass shooting.
Unrest in Milwaukee sparked by a deadly shooting of an armed suspect.
There was a fatal police shooting in Milwaukee and it touched off a series of unrest in the city.
There were businesses torched, an officer was injured by a projectile. Three agitators were arrested.
Conservative agitators are ready to blame #BlackLivesMatter, President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the aftermath of the riots.
100 protesters at first protested the shooting but the agitators decided to set the north side ablaze.
What we know was the police were chasing after a man who fled in a vehicle after a traffic stop. The law claims that man was armed. They didn't clarify if the man was pointing at the officers or shot at them. They claim that the man had a lengthy rap sheet.
According to the law, the man was acting suspiciously and it prompted an investigation into the man.
The man was shot in the arm and chest. He died at the scene.
The boiling point started when a group of protesters and agitators clashed.
The Wisconsin justice authority will handle the case. The officer's name wasn't released. His training was six years on the force with three on the beat. His name will likely make it through social media. He was wearing a body camera. The officer is in the freezer pending the outcome.
The man who was killed wasn't released yet.
Assured conservatives will troll social media to find something they deem incriminating on the deceased. They will try to justify the police shooting.
Republican Governor Scott Walker, President Barack Obama, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) were notified about it. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will address the controversy.
Mayor Tom Barrett will issue a mandatory curfew for areas affected by violence.
This is the area where conservative agitator Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee County resides. He will not make the situation any better. He could inflame more tension by showing his face on camera calling residents and protesters a bunch of "thugs."
What makes this tragedy horrible, five victims of gun violence and the community believes the law is inept in stopping this.
Tensions are rising and the irrational could strike. Something gotta be done about gun violence. Its time to act on this before another mass shooting.
The police need to be held accountable for using deadly force on unarmed suspects. We can't allow the blue wall of silence to continue.
Just in: An active shooter at a Raleigh, North Carolina mall. No word on casualties but a large police and emergency presence is there in the area.
What could be the motivations of this terrorist?
Could the terrorist been inspired by the Islamic State?
Could the terrorist's motives been inspired by the death of Kouren Thomas?
Could the terrorist been inspired by a loss of job, relationship, or spurn by service?
Could the terrorist been a person with mental illness?
What could motivate a mass shooter?
Well I have an easy answer. Easy access to firearms. Congress continues to avoid passing comprehensive gun control laws that could prevent many of these tragedies to happen.
Sure you can't prevent ever mass shooting in the world. If we have the laws to stop these military style firearms from reaching the hands of domestic terrorists, then it could change the dynamic of mass shootings.
Anyway, what I know so far is that the Crabtree Valley Mall is on lockdown after were reports of an active shooter in the facility. Officials at the mall have gave no reason to the why the building was ordered a lockdown.
If the mass shooting involved more than five people, the junk food media will talk about it non-stop for the next two or three weeks. The agitators will come to Raleigh, North Carolina and post outside the mall or a designated area for the junk food media. They will hear from residents, victims and survivors of the tragedy.
You will hear comments about how this incident carries forth since the last incident. You will hear about other mass shootings that didn't make the news but finally got recognition.
Republican governor Pat McCrory and President Barack Obama will be notified of this. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) will respond. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will issue statements.
The blame game will once again begin.
If the shooter was a Muslim, you've hear cries of "Radical Islam" and President Barack Obama not doing anything to stop it. They will say that refugees from Syria and Iraq are the reasons to why this happened. They will blame the entire Muslim community for this. They will say that Muslims won't condemn terrorism. Conservative agitators and Donald Trump will lick their chops about this being a Muslim. They don't care if the terrorist is American born. As long as it's a Muslim, they will have their "I told you so moment".
If the shooter was a Black male, obviously Black Lives Matter and President Barack Obama will be blamed. Conservatives will say the terrorist had probably got riled up by cops killing unarmed Black people. They will play concern troll and bemoan about gun violence in the Black community or Black on whatever crime. Racial asshats Matt Drudge and Colin Flaherty will use this narrative to get unwanted attention to his blog or YouTube page. Softball Hannity will chant the repeated chants "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon" or play the endless loop from a protest rally.
If the shooter was a Hispanic, obviously the cries of illegal immigration and closing the U.S.-Mexican border will be brought up. Conservatives will rehash the old canard that President Barack Obama is "soft on the border" and he will allow immigrants and refugees into the country in massive numbers. It will be once again played on Fox News or AM agitator programs about how Obama is responsible for the mass shooting since the terrorist is an illegal immigrant. If he was American born but had parents who were immigrants, you're going to hear or read nonsense from bigots who believe that if you're family came here illegally, they need to go back to their own country and take you along with them.
If the shooter was a White guy. Conservatives will claim he's a liberal Democrat. Obviously, they don't want to be blamed for every mass shooting in the country. But whenever it's revealed that the terrorist had some form of connection to Republican causes, the conservatives will deflect from the subject to say that Democrats are likely the ones who harbor racial angst towards people. They will rehash narratives about how the shooter was a registered Democrat by looking up old records. Some of the stuff is not confirmed or verified but once it hits Gateway Pundit, Breitbart News, InfoWars and GotNews, conservatives take it as fact.
Now if the victims or survivors speak to the junk food media, some will call them crisis actors. I don't understand why people are so driven to making accusations about people they don't even know personally. You don't know what happened! If a mass shooting occurred in your area, you're going to panic. You're going to have a moment that will be forever etched in memory. You might see traumatic things like a person dying right in front of you. Calling a victim a "crisis actor" is ridiculous. But given the freedom of speech and the constant cynicism of fellow Americans, expect this come forth.
Another thing that annoys me, is the price of fame. Obviously some will whip out their camera phones to record the events. Is it worth your life to do such dangerous things for click bait?
Some of the early videos show a bunch of shoppers exiting the mall en masse.
But it's obvious if this is either a mass shooting or a domestic shooting, the facts are clear, the shooter is a terrorist. It's not because of his skin color, nationality, religion or political motivations.
It's the fact that he would ruin the lives of others because of rejection. I don't care what his life was, he sure as hell didn't value the lives of others.
Gabriel Sherman believes that Fox News big wigs Jack Abernathy and Bill Shine's role as co-president will be short lived. He believes that they were involved in high profile sexual harassment allegations as well as their former boss Roger Ailes.
Fox News is going through an internal conflict right now. Since the departure of Roger Ailes, the network will now have a change in leadership. Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-American billionaire media mogul and his sons James and Lachlan are doing major damage control after it was revealed that Ailes was accused of sexually harassing female anchors and interns.
Ailes continues to deny these allegations. Carlson blew the whistle on the corruption going on at Fox News and she singled out Ailes, Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Eric Bolling and new president Bill Shine as the culprits.
Shine and Jack Abernathy, both longtime Ailes body men will take over the role as co-presidents to the cable network.
News Corp appointed a law firm to investigate if any issues involving Ailes made it throughout his tenure as CEO of Fox News and 21st Century Fox.
Gabriel Sherman got the goods on how Fox News operates and warns of more damaging information to be leaked.
Some of the reporters, staffers and agitators are fearful of Ailes retaliating against those who spoke out against him.
You don't hear much of the chatter from the likes of Softball Hannity,Neil Cavuto, Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, Bill O'Reilly, Shepard Smith and Greta Van Susteren.
Bill Shine appears with talking heads Michael Steele, Lanny Davis and Fox News agitator Bill Hemmer.
Inside men included Fox contributor and assisting Ailes attorney Peter Johnson, Jr., Bo Dietl, and numerous others who assisted him throughout the 1970s.
Having Shine as the president of Fox News is a mistake. He was involved in this. He will continue the Ailes legacy.
Female workers were afraid that Ailes could blackball their careers if they complained about sexual harassment. He specifically wanted women to wear skirts and legs were to be shown at all times.
Shine was the executive producer for Hannity & Colmes and then Hannity. He moved up from that role to be vice president of programming and news content.
