KAEPERNICK'S FREEDOM FIHTERS CONTROL CHOP ZONE

Teen driver, 16, is killed and 14-year-old passenger is wounded after armed Seattle's CHOP zone protesters fired into their Jeep as they approached the barricades at 3am - as those inside the cop-free area claim they acted in self-defense 

 

Daily Mail 

June 29, 2020

 

Police say a 16-year-old boy was killed and a 14-year-old boy was wounded following a shooting at Seattle's CHOP zone. Homicide detectives said they are investigating after witnesses reported seeing a white Jeep SUV near a makeshift barrier around the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone at about 3am on Monday just before the shooting. 

 

Witnesses told 911 dispatchers that they saw several unidentified people firing shots into the vehicle, police say. 

 

Both teenagers, who have not been publicly identified, were taken away from the CHOP zone in a private vehicle after the shooting and were met by Seattle Fire Department medics. 

 

The 16-year-old died in hospital several hours later and the 14-year-old remains in a critical condition. Detectives searched the vehicle for evidence on Monday morning but said in a statement that it was clear the crime scene had been 'disturbed'.  

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Fox News reporter Dan Springer gets trapped inside his car by dozens of BLM protesters who accuse him of 'shoving' woman in Seattle's CHOP zone - as one climbs onto hood to demand apology

 

Daily Mail 

June 29, 2020

 

Fox News Correspondent Dan Springer was trapped in his car in Seattle after he allegedly shoved a protester, DailyMail.com can disclose. 

 

The incident occurred just hours and feet from where two black men were shot when they tried to plow through barricades of the area on Monday. 

Springer allegedly pushed a woman at the event, telling her to get back, prompting the woman to throw her coffee at him. He then retreated into an SUV with private armed security guards protecting the car, as a group of 50 barricaded the vehicle and demanded for him to apologize. 

 

After 20 minutes the angry crowd died down and another vehicle pulled up, with Springer jumping inside and speeding away, according to onlookers.  

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LIFE.....AND DEATH......IN THE ZONE

 

by Bob Walsh

Yesterday two more people were shot, one died, in THE ZONE in Seattle's Capital Hill area.  The cops, the fire department and EMS are STILL not "allowed" to enter THE ZONE.  

I wonder what the court is going to say when the application for a writ to compel the city to do their fucking job comes up for a hearing.  As they phrase goes, the evidence is becoming compelling.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA OFFICIALLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE EXISTENCE OF THE MONEY FAIRY

by Bob Walsh

The Governor of the formerly great state of California signed the $202 billion dollar budget yesterday.  The budget is unusual in that it acknowledges the existence of magical creatures, specifically the Money Fairy.

The budget is resumed to have a $54 billion structural deficit.  Among the things to plug this deficit is the state will withhold $2.5 billion from local governments if they do not enforce the Governor's rules on mandatory wearing of masks while in public.  Strange, but he screams like a mashed cat if the feds threaten to withhold federal money when the state refuses to obey federal law regarding immigration matters.  

The state is also deferring kick-downs to various agencies, mostly school districts and state colleges and universities.  

The state will also impose a 2 day per month furlough on state employees to don't "volunteer" to take it up the ass by way of a 10% pay cut.  

The really fun part is the planned visit from the Money Fairy.  The governor sort-of presumes-hopes-prays that the Money Fairy will come by from D.C. and drop about $50 billion in his lap just because.  You never know.  It could happen.   

SCOTUS APPROVES EXECUTIONS USING SINGLE DOSE OF PENTOBARBITAL

Supreme Court turns away challenge to federal executions by lethal injection

 

By Ariane de Vogue and Jamie Ehrlich

 

CNN

June 29, 2020

 

The Supreme Court turned away a major challenge to the federal government's lethal injection protocol on Monday, a win for the Trump administration that has set execution dates to begin mid-July after a nearly two-decade lapse.

In 2019 Attorney General William Barr's moved to reinstate the federal death penalty, underscoring the stark law-and-order philosophy of the Trump administration. At the time, he directed the head of the Bureau of Prisons to execute five inmates he said represented the "worst criminals."
 

The Bureau of Prisons adopted a new lethal injection protocol consisting of a single drug, pentobarbital.

The federal inmates involved in the appeal were Daniel Lewis Lee, who killed a family of three, including an 8-year-old girl; Wesley Ira Purkey, who raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl; Alfred Bourgeois, who tortured and killed his own 2-year-old daughter; and Dustin Lee Honken, who shot and killed five people, including two young girls.

Although the order was unsigned, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor said they would have heard the challenge.

"The prisoners in these cases have other challenges that have not been fully decided yet, but this was perhaps the central legal objection to Barr's reinstitution of the federal death penalty," said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law. "Today's ruling removes a major obstacle to the resumption of federal executions, but not the only one."

A district judge blocked the executions from going forward, holding that the protocol conflicts with the Federal Death Penalty Act, which requires adherence to a state's method of execution. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan of the District of Columbia Circuit put the executions on hold, ruling that a delay would not hurt the government, particularly because it has waited several years to announce a new protocol.

Chutkan said the public interest is not served by "executing individuals before they have had the opportunity to avail themselves of legitimate procedures to challenge the legality of their executions."

Lawyers for the inmates argued that the government is trying to push the issue forward even though it took eight years to create a new execution protocol.

"From the moment it announced the protocol on July 25, 2019, the government has rushed the process in order to carry out executions without meaningful judicial review of the legality and constitutionality of the new execution procedures," said Cate Stetson, a lawyer for the inmates.

A federal appeals court reversed the district court. 

COULD THIS BE ANOTHER TAWANA BRAWLEY HOAX?

Hate crime probe underway after black woman says she was burned by lighter fluid and flame thrown by white man

 

CBS News 

June 26, 2020

 

An assault on a black woman in Madison, Wisconsin was being investigated Thursday as a hate crime after the woman told police she was burned by lighter fluid thrown at her and ignited by a white man. The incident occurred just a few blocks from violent protests at the state Capitol.

Althea Bernstein told police she was driving near the Capitol about 1 a.m. Wednesday and had stopped at a red light with her driver's side window down. Bernstein, 18, told police she heard someone yell out a racial epithet, looked around and saw four white men.

 

One sprayed liquid on her face and neck and threw a flaming lighter at her, she told police. Bernstein said she pulled forward, put out the flames and drove home where her mother encouraged her to go to the hospital. She was treated for burns. Hospital staff believe the liquid was lighter fluid, police said. 

A call by The Associated Press to Bernstein's home was referred to Michael Johnson, president of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dane County. Johnson released a statement from Bernstein's family that they were "saddened at what happened to Althea and the unprovoked attack on her body. At this time, our family is asking everyone to respect our privacy as Althea is recovering from the burns on her face and neck."

Madison mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway called the crime "horrifying and absolutely unacceptable," reports CBS affiliate WISC-TV.

"While we are still learning more about the details, current information suggests this may have been a premeditated crime targeted toward people of color, which makes the incident even more disturbing," Rhodes-Conway said.

WISC-TV reports the Madison Police Department is reviewing surveillance video in an attempt to locate the suspects. If found, they would face charges of attempted murder and recklessly endangering safety enhanced as hate crimes, which would make them eligible for more stringent sentencing. Madison Police Chief Victor Wahl told the station the investigation is a "high priority" for the department.

In an interview with the station, Johnson called the crime unacceptable and asked, "Where's the respect for humanity?"

"I hope the police apprehend these individuals," Johnson said. "We live in a time in America that we should be showing empathy and love."

The assault came amid a night of violence Tuesday that included the toppling of two statues outside the Capitol and an attack on a state senator. A group of 200 to 300 people protested the arrest of a Black man after he shouted at restaurant customers through a megaphone while carrying a baseball bat.

Someone also threw a Molotov cocktail into a government building and attempted to break into the Capitol, only to be repelled by pepper spray from police stationed inside. The violence prompted Gov. Tony Evers to activate the National Guard to protect state properties.

On Wednesday night, about 40 people gathered peacefully outside the county jail where the man was being held, calling for his release. A crowd of about 100 people congregated outside the Capitol.

JORDANIAN THINK TANK CLAIMS ARABS FOUNDED AND BUILT JERUSALEM

Arabs founded Jerusalem, says Jordan-based institute

 

By Daoud Kuttab 

 

Arab News

June 28, 2020

 

AMMAN: Arabs were the first inhabitants of Jerusalem and have lived there for at least 5,000 years, according to a white paper published by an Amman-based think tank.

“They founded and built it in the first place — and have been there ever since,” the paper says.

Using unpublished documents, the paper, from the Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, seeks to correct the misperception “that Arabs are newcomers to Jerusalem.”

The institute, an Islamic non-governmental entity, is headed by Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, personal envoy and special adviser to King Abdullah II of Jordan, since 2000.

Among the many references the document uses to make its point is the Amarna Correspondence, a series of diplomatic letters between Canaanite city-state kings and their Egyptian overlords during the 14th century B.C., which mention Jerusalem. The paper presents pictures of the cuneiform tablets uncovered in Egypt in the late 19th century to validate its argument.

Along with archaeological discoveries, the Biblical record is also used as a source to establish original Arab presence in Jerusalem. The Bible, the paper says, shows that “the Arabs, Hamites, Canaanites, and Jebusites were the original inhabitants of the land of Palestine, including the area of Jerusalem.” Canaanites and Jebusites were there long before the Jews, even before Judaism was revealed.

The 108-page document quotes passages from the Old Testament to establish that “Jerusalem was always an Arab city” and notes that, “the Palestinian Arabs of today are largely the direct descendants of the indigenous Canaanite Arabs who were there over 5,000 years ago. Modern-day Arab Muslim and Christian Palestinian families (such as the “Kanaan” tribe, direct descendants of the Canaanites) are the oldest inhabitants of the land.”

The paper mentions Salah Eddine Ayyoubi — the Muslim historical figure who fought the Crusaders and reclaimed Jerusalem in the 12th century, allowing the Christians to remain and inviting Jews expelled from Jerusalem by the Crusaders to resettle in the city — to validate its point.

According to Prof. Sari Nusseibeh, former president of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, the white paper is a “well-referenced and clearly argued document.”

Nusseibeh’s family has been, since the seventh century, entrusted with the keys to the historic Church of the Holy Sepulcher (situated in the Christian quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem). The paper, he says, “debunks the Israeli and extremist Jewish narrative in more than one way, replacing it with a clear historic overview of continued Arab presence in the city and benevolent Islamic rule.”

On the Hashemite custodianship of Jerusalem’s holy sites, which is a pivotal theme of the white paper, Nusseibeh, one of the leaders of the first Palestinian intifada, says the document “recognizes the Palestinian role in the Hashemite custodianship, thereby emphasizing the special political relationship between the Palestinian people and the Hashemite Kingdom. In more than one way, it shows that a Hashemite custodianship of the holy sites, especially in the context of peace, promises a more secure place for all three religions than does the present policy of the Israelization of Jerusalem.”

The white paper also reiterates that “whenever Muslims controlled Jerusalem (in 638, 1187 and 1948), they did not expel Christians and Jews.”

Rather, it says, they guaranteed their rights and religious rights and even welcomed Jews into the city. This, it points out, is in contrast to the Christian expulsion of Jews in 630 and their slaughter of Jews and Muslims (and even Orthodox Christians) in 1099, and unlike “the Jewish slaughter of Jerusalem’s original inhabitants in 1,000 B.C.; the Sasanian-Jewish expulsion of Christians in 614, and even the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948.”

In other words, contrary to the misperception that Islam has no moral right to Jerusalem, Islam has historically been more peaceful and tolerant of other religions than either Judaism or Christianity, it notes.

Vera Baboun, a member of the Palestinian National Council and former mayor of Bethlehem, said that the Jerusalem white paper articulates the “diverse historical realities away from the exclusive narrative that Israel is adopting to deny the cultural, human, historical and religious rights of the Arab Palestinians whether we’re Christians or Muslims.”

It “puts the readers face to face with their own misconceptions and lack of knowledge, thus debunking the exclusive Israeli political or Biblical narrative which is used to negate the right and the existence of the Palestinian rights in Jerusalem or the Palestinian land at large,” she said.

The paper notes that Islam has been dominant in Jerusalem for 1,210 out of the last 1,388 years. “This is more than the period of Jewish domination over the last 3,020 years (953 years) or Christian domination over the last 2,000 years (417 years).”

To counter the prevailing notion that Jerusalem finds no mention in the Holy Qur’an, the paper states that for over 1,300 years, it was customary for Muslim pilgrims to visit Jerusalem after they had completed the Hajj to Makkah and Madinah.

The Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem is one of Islam’s three holy sites.  According to the classical commentaries on the Qur’an, “the city,” “the land,” “the Holy Land,” “the Mount,” “the Temple” and “the Olive” all refer to Jerusalem or places in Jerusalem.

BLN'S ROOTS IN MARXISM AND DOMESTIC TERRORISM

Black Lives Matter Founder Mentored by Ex-Domestic Terrorist Who Worked with Bill Ayers 

 

By Joshua Klein 

 

Breitbart

June 24, 2020

The co-founder of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Patrisse Cullors, was the protégé of a communist-supporting domestic terrorist for over a decade, spending years training in political organizing and absorbing the radical Marxist-Leninist ideology which shaped her worldview.

Eric Mann, who mentored Cullors for over a decade in community organizing, was a member of radical-left militant groups: Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground, which bombed government buildings and police stations in the 1960s and 1970s.

In a newly resurfaced video from 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors reveals that she and her fellow BLM founders are “trained Marxists.”

In the video, Cullors is interviewed by Jared Ball of the Real News Network and discusses the direction of the BLM movement.

“The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers,” she said. “We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk.”

In previous interviews in 2018, while promoting her then-new book titled, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,” Cullors describes her introduction to and affinity for Marxist ideology.

In an interview with Democracy Now!, Cullors describes how she became a trained organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center, calling it her “first political home” and the center’s director, Eric Mann, her personal mentor.

She told The Politic that it was there that she was trained from her youth and grew as a leader.

The Labor/Community Strategy Center describes it’s philosophy as “an urban experiment,” utilizing grassroots organizing to “focus on Black and Latino communities with deep historical ties to the long history of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-communist resistance to the U.S. empire.”

The center teaches and studies the history of the “Indigenous rebellions against the initial European genocidal invasions,” the “Great Slave Haitian Revolution of the 1790s,” and the “Great Slave Rebellions that won the U.S. civil war for the racist north.”

The center also expresses its appreciation for the work of the U.S. Communist Party, “especially Black communists,” as well as its support for “the great work of the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the great revolutionary rainbow experiments of the 1970s,” while flaunting its roots in the new communist movement.

Speaking with ACLU’s At Liberty weekly podcast, Cullors described the center as her “foundation,” claiming it was there that she developed the skills which helped her found the Black Lives Matter movement, after having been recruited by its director, Eric Mann.

Mann, an avowed communist revolutionary, was the New England coordinator for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1968. The following year, a more radical wing splintered from the SDS, led by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, calling for violent “direct action” over civil disobedience.

The splintered faction became known as the Weather Underground, with the stated goal of overthrowing the U.S. government. As a result, the FBI classified the organization as a domestic terrorist group in 1969.

Mann led a group of fellow Weathermen who launched their own violent direct action at the Harvard University Center for International Affairs.

In an article titled: “Band Invades, Violently Disrupts Center for International Affairs,” the Harvard Crimson reported that a band of 20 to 30 activists invaded the Center for International Affairs, “roughing up” several staff members and employees before fleeing.

Several slogans, including “Pig,” “Fuck U.S. Imperialism,” and “Imperialists Screw All Women,” were sprayed on the building’s walls. Rocks thrown by the group broke several windows and a telephone was damaged to prevent police from being notified.

Undergraduates who saw the group leaving the building and chanting “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh; NLF is going to win,” said they recognized some of them as members of Weathermen, a militant spin-off of the older New Left Caucus of SDS.

Mann was later charged with five counts of assault and battery, disturbing the peace, damaging property, defacing a building, and disturbing a public assembly, for which he spent 18 months in prison.

At the 2010 United States Social Forum in Detroit, under the slogan “Another World Is Possible. Another U.S. Is Necessary,” the Labor/Community Strategy Center sponsored a session titled: “Transformative Organizing Theory: Conscious Organizers Seek to Build Anti-racist, Anti-imperialist Politics Rooted in Working Class Communities of Color.” In it, Cullors––rising to prominence––was chosen by Mann to be a panelist along with him.

There, Cullors spoke about growing up as a working class, queer, Black woman, in a single-parent household, with a father who was in and out of prison.

Cullors stated that “positionality in this country is supposed to devastate us” and had done so somewhat successfully, while stressing the need to “fight this thing.”

Both Cullors and Mann strongly endorsed Bernie Sanders. Cullors was a primary speaker at a Sanders campaign event the day before Super Tuesday, which Mann attended.

Cullors, viewing Biden as far too moderate, pushed for the latter to end his campaign, accusing him of having an “old guard mentality” and coming from an “old establishment.”

Now with Biden leading as the Democratic presidential nominee, Cullors and Mann are finding a sympathetic ear for their radical agenda.

As Breitbart news reported, a group of 50 leading national progressive groups representing millions of active members across the country, are pressuring Biden to adopt the radical platform of the Movement for Black Lives which was co-written by BLM.

The group is calling for Biden to immediately incorporate their radical policies, including putting forward a transformative and comprehensive policing and criminal justice reform laid out by the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL).

Citing his “moral responsibility in this moment” to make amends for past harms he had caused, the groups demanded that Biden make commitments such as advance reparations and defund police, prisons, and weaponry in order to fully fund healthcare, housing, education, and environmental justice.

“We ask that you revise your platform to ensure that the federal government permanently ends and ceases any further appropriation of funding to local law enforcement in any form and redirect those and additional resources towards much needed community-led and community-controlled public safety efforts,” the letter reads.

EDITOR'S NOTE: So, Cullors founded BLM to overthrow the government rather than to care about black lives.  That explains why BLM does not concern itself with the daily black on black killings in our urban centers. 

CITY-STATE OF CHOP STILL ALIVE AND WELL

by Bob Walsh

The "Occupied Zone" in the Capital Hill district of Seattle is still alive and semi-well and semi-functional despite the Mayor's assertion several days ago that it would be disassembled.

The city did attempt to move in some heavy equipment a couple of days back to remove the barricades.  Denizens of The Zone merely laid down on the ground in front of the equipment to keep them from moving in.  The cops were nowhere to be seen.

As far as anybody can tell the Mayor is waiting for all the "members" of CHOP to die of COVID, dysentery or VD so that The Zone will fall back into city control by default.  Seems to me like the Mayor is attempting to have her cake and eat it too.  

In the meantime many of the effected residents and property owners are pursing their lawsuit for damages against the city which was filed on Friday.  In addition these folks are seeking a writ to compel the city to restore control to The Zone.

NOW THE BASTARDS ARE GOING AFTER THE DUKE

California Democrats pass resolution calling for John Wayne Airport to be renamed

By Adam Shaw 

Fox News

June 27, 2020

California Democrats in Orange County are demanding that the county’s John Wayne Airport be renamed and all likenesses of Wayne be removed from the airport, over “racist and bigoted statements” made by the American icon decades ago.

“The Democratic Party of Orange County condemns John Wayne’s racist and bigoted statements, and calls for John Waynes’ name and likeness to be removed from the Orange County airport, and calls on the OC Board of Supervisors to restore its original name: Orange County Airport,” the resolution, passed Friday, says.

The resolution, first reported by the Los Angeles Times, calls on the Orange County Board of Supervisors to reverse the 1979 decision to rename it after Duke, and cites remarks he made in a 1971 interview with Playboy.

“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people,” he said in that interview nearly 50 years ago.

“I don’t feel guilty about the fact that five or 10 generations ago these people were slaves,” he said at another point in the interview.

There have been a number of pushes to rename the airport as a result of those comments after they resurfaced. Wayne’s defenders have said it is unfair to judge him based off remarks made nearly 50 years ago, and when he is no longer alive to defend or even retract them.

The latest push comes amid a movement across the country to tear down monuments and rename buildings and institutions that are named after people deemed to have held racist views or committed racist acts.

The Democratic resolution hails a “national movement to remove white supremacist symbols and names is reshaping American institutions, monuments, businesses, nonprofits, sports leagues and teams, as it is widely recognized that racist symbols produce lasting physical and psychological stress and trauma particularly to Black communities, people of color and other oppressed groups, and the removal of racist symbols provides a necessary process for communities to remember historic acts of violence and recognize victims of oppression."

According to the LA Times, Wayne lived a good portion of his life in Newport Beach in Orange County, was a political power broker in the county and was buried in the city after his death in 1979.

EDITOR'S NOTE: My dear departed wife must be turning over in her grave because she worshiped the Duke.  

CHUCK SCHUMER AND NANCY PELOSI WEARING WEST AFRICAN KENTE CLOTHS AND TAKING THE KNEE IS INSULTING TO BLACKS

NYC Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome on race, activism and gentrification 

 

By Dana Kennedy

 

New York Post

June 27, 2020

 

Nobody does intimidating like Hawk Newsome.

The most influential Black Lives Matter leader in New York, Newsome stands 6-foot-6 and has no problem getting inches from your face, staring down from behind dark shades and blowing smoke from a cigar.

On a recent late afternoon in the South Bronx, the 43-year-old activist agreed to meet a Post reporter just after giving a heated interview to Fox News that went viral. In it he said that if BLM protesters didn’t get what they wanted, “They will burn down the system.”

“We don’t want white people here,” Newsome told The Post, still fired up as he walked near Yankee Stadium, gesturing at the majestic pre-war apartments on the Grand Concourse and a brilliant sunset.

“We don’t want white people coming in and raising our rents. You can’t be a supporter of black people if you come gentrify their neighborhoods. Stay the fuck out of our communities.”

Newsome, whose real first name is Walter, is not as tough as he’d like people to think.

He’s well-known and well-liked in the neighborhood, where he grew up and still lives — in his childhood apartment, which he shares with his younger sister, Chivona, 35, and their mother, Doris. Newsome’s father, Walter Sr., died five years ago.

As he walks, he fist bumps old friends, hugs others with an almost teddy-bear embrace, joking and showing a softer side. They all call him Walt.

“My dad was the same way,” Newsome said. “He’d be out playing dominoes and knew everybody. He was like the mayor. He even knew what every kid was reading at school and when they started a new book.”

He talked candidly to The Post as he ducked into a Caribbean restaurant for a health shake. He revealed that his mother Doris was a Black Panther member who met his dad at a civil rights rally in 1969, but she rarely talked about her activism.

His vision for the Bronx is similarly militant — a black and brown sovereign nation with its own self-policing force.

“Black and brown guys that join the [NYPD]?” he said. “You can’t trust ‘em. They go blue as soon as they become cops and the blue line is ruled by white men. We don’t want them here telling our people what to do.”

He doesn’t apologize for opinions that President Trump called in a tweet “Treason, Sedition, Insurrection” after hearing him on Fox News Wednesday.

Newsome embraces the movement’s destructive side, saying it was hypocritical for his opponents to call him out for endorsing violence when the U.S. uses “blood and bullets” to get what it wants domestically and overseas.

“I was standing in front of Wells Fargo when it was burning in Minneapolis,” he said. “It was very liberating. F–k that. Burn man. They only listen when we destroy things. America doesn’t care about people; they care about property.”

Newsome isn’t affiliated with BLM Global Network, considered the official organization behind the Black Lives Matters movement. On Thursday, its managing director told the AP that he wasn’t part of the network, which has 16 chapters, including one in New York that does not appear to be operating.

What’s clear is that no one in the movement in this city has more influence than Newsome.

But his journey to activist leader was rocky.

He says he nearly succumbed to temptations of the hood as a teenager. He dropped out of high school before getting his GED, and has spoken publicly about his battle with alcoholism, anger issues and being guilty of domestic violence.

He said he’s been sober for four and half years.

Newsome eventually made it through Concordia College in Bronxville, then got a degree from Touro Law School on Long Island. He found work as a paralegal for the Bronx County DA’s office and later as a project manager for the Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker law firm in Manhattan.

He changed his name to “Hawk” in 2016, he said, because he’s had a lifelong fascination with the raptors. He said ancient Egyptians believed the birds of prey were protectors from above.

Newsome’s among a number of young black activists in New York and around the country who came of age watching the cases of Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin play out and have found their voices in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.

He’s close to his sister, who lost her bid for the 15th Congressional District seat in the recent primary.

The contrast between Hawk the national firebrand and Hawk the kid from the Bronx is most apparent when he speaks to his sister about their parents, calling them “Mommy and Daddy.”

Chivona Newsome co-founded BLM NY with her brother, and the two have run a political consulting business for 10 years aimed at supporting the black and brown community in the Bronx. He has two children with a former partner.

Both Newsomes say they are not fans of either the Republicans or the Democrats and hope that Black Lives Matter’s passionate base will translate into the kind of political capital that will challenge both parties.

“Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi wearing West African kente cloths and taking the knee? It’s insulting,” Hawk Newsome said.

“And now the Republicans care about police reform? But what’s going to change? None of them are going to change but we are. We building our own community and we are going to grow strong. Just watch.”

KICK THE SORRY ASS BITCHES OFF THE FIELD ... AND KICK THE LEAGUE OUT OF THE US

Women's soccer league players kneel during the National Anthem wearing Black Lives Matter shirts in their first games since the pandemic began - and US national team defender Casey Short breaks down in tears

 

Daily Mail

June 28, 2020

 

Players with the National Women's Soccer League knelt during the national anthem Saturday when Challenge Cup tournament opened in Utah - marking the first US professional sporting event since the coronavirus pandemic. 

 

Players with Portland Thorns and the North Carolina Courage wore Black Lives Matter T-shirts in warmups before the game, which was nationally televised on CBS. 

 

They also knelt during a moment of silence before kickoff. Photos taken from the field show all players from both teams kneeling as a sign of protest against racial injustice, police brutality and racism. The league confirmed the day before that it would play the national anthem before the Challenge Cup games and that it would support the players in whatever they chose to do.   

OF COPS, BABIES AND BATHWATER

How to root out racist cops without hurting the morale of the many good officers

 

By Eli B. Silverman and John A. Eterno

 

New York Daily News

June 26, 2020

 

Law enforcement agencies are agents of the executive branch of government.  They work for mayors, governors and the president. As such, these organizations and their leadership are political, and political priorities frequently result in policing modifications.

Cities like New York, Seattle, Atlanta and Minneapolis elected mayors who campaigned on police reform and community partnerships. Minneapolis has decided to dismantle its police department. Seattle has abandoned a precinct within a six-block area. Atlanta has fired a police officer without any due process.

Here in New York City, the NYPD has decided to disband a very effective program at the precinct level in which plainclothes officers aggressively fight crime. These anti-crime units were instrumental in the city’s historic, huge 24-year decrease in crime.

While reforms are welcome by many who worry only about policing abuses and racism, little thought is being devoted to the impact on the local police who engage with the community. In order for the police to be effective, they cannot be browbeaten by elected officials who are primarily and often prematurely guided by the prevailing winds.

Yes, it is true that racist police practices must be addressed. We have been loud voices over the years in opposing NYPD quotas and overuse of stop-and-frisk. This is the conundrum of policing; officers must enforce the law while at the same time obeying it. This is not an easy task, nor is it meant to be. The dilemma is compounded in the current environment as many police will be afraid to do their jobs as they were taught for fear of being second-guessed. They will be over-cautious in doing their jobs.

How do we go forward? Most importantly, we need to support the vast number of righteous and hard-working officers — many of whom are black and Latino. Most of these officers have gone through a tedious hiring process. This includes psychological testing, physicals, medical examinations and character background checks. This varies by department, but most are handpicked. Are mistakes made? Of course. This is the nature of hiring human beings.

Many are calling for widespread defunding of police departments. This will have a deleterious effect on departments. It takes money to fund high-quality de-escalation training, to compensate professionals, to monitor and supervise problematic officers, and to purchase needed equipment.

 

At the same time, the cloak of policing needs to be removed. Police need to be transparent in their operations and records of problematic officers. This too will be expensive. For example, it means body cameras for all officers, footage from which should be accessible to the public. We also need to put more teeth into civilian complaint mechanisms throughout the country in order to ensure their effectiveness.

Local police departments all need to adhere to significant national standards regarding hiring, selection, use of force and other features. This can be achieved by extending the practice of national accreditation to professional organizations like the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. Individual officers, just like physicians or lawyers, should be licensed to practice. And, when necessary, licensing should be removed.

Beyond all this, we must focus on democratic values, not vigilantism. This means officers working with communities.

However, it must be understood in the end that policing is not an innocuous game. It inevitably involves the use of force. People and police will get hurt and die. Even when police actions are questionable and subsequently reviewable, the public must support due process of both the alleged criminal and, just as important, the police. We cannot abandon the thin blue line admirably supported by the bulk of the public especially after significant reforms are implemented.

Thus far, the executive branch, at many federal state and local levels has failed to calm the public, unite people and draw up viable practical solutions. We need to move on.

Eterno is a professor at Molloy College in Rockville Center and a retired NYPD captain. Silverman is professor emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. They are co-authors of “The Crime Numbers Game.”

EDITOR'S NOTE: Eli Silverman is a personal friend.

THE BRASS AT ONE POLICE PLAZA WAS INSTRUCTED BY MAYOR DE BLASIO TO KEEP HANDS-OFF THE BLM PROTESTERS

NYPD detective on quitting, kneeling and the ‘demise of the city’ 

 

By Tina Moore

 

New York Post

June 27, 2020

 

An NYPD detective set to retire soon with 20 years under his belt tells The Post’s Police Bureau Chief Tina Moore why he is leaving the job he once loved — and why he fears the worst is yet to come for the Big Apple.

I could have stayed a little longer.

I haven’t been happy with the job for the last two or three years, but now it’s gotten to the point where it’s just absolutely ridiculous.

I can only speak for the Bronx, because I’ve worked in the Bronx my whole career.

And what’s going on with the DA’s office, and the bail reforms…the absolute absence of backing the cops coming from, you know, from City Hall down.
It’s really bad.

It’s a lot more difficult for the cops who have a lot of time on when things were a lot different to see what it’s become. I think it’s a lot more difficult for them than it is for the younger cops, who are walking into this now, and are getting groomed from the academy, as to what the job is now.

Yes, New York is a protest kind of town.

But it’s the manner in which the [George Floyd] protests took place, and how the brass was instructed to pretty much have hands-off on the protesters. That should never have been done.

The cops were pretty much sitting ducks.

They couldn’t defend themselves, because there was so many cameras on them and the public was just waiting for them to react. And the frontline bosses, like the sergeants and the lieutenants, were in a really bad position because they were there as leadership and they were the more visible leadership where the brass from One Police Plaza was not visible. And they were actually giving the orders.

I think the kneeling was the white flag.

The kneeling eliminated what little hope the cops had.

I think the kneeling sacrificed the cops.

What little expectation of authority the cops felt they had they lost it right there.

Leadership? A police commissioner is a figurehead. All orders are being set out by the mayor. All policy is being set out by the mayor, and the mayor has absolutely no idea what policing is especially in the forgotten neighborhoods like the South Bronx.

I don’t think the mayor has a concept of what happens on South Bronx streets. I think the mayor should take six months of nights and suit up and go out with the guys, in the precincts like the 40, 41, the 42, the 44, the 46. He thinks policing is what goes on in Manhattan. That’s not policing.

Now, they’re getting rid of a lot of guys a lot of plainclothes positions.

That is going to be the demise of the city.

Anti-crime guys are the guys are the guys who the real bad guys are looking out for. Anti-crime guys are going to drive around in not just unmarked cars. They’ll come around in other cars, rentals that the city gets that you wouldn’t think are police cars.

When you’re a really bad guy, and I’m talking about really bad guys, who won’t think twice about taking another life. When they step out of the car, those were the cops who they are afraid of.

These guys have one job and one job only. That’s what they trained for and that’s what they do over and over and over and over — look for guns, spot guns. It’s a sixth sense.

And they’re responsible for taking guns off he streets.

All these shootings going on? It’s because people are out there carrying guns freely now — without fear.

ONCE AGAIN, FUCK THE UN AND THE EU

U.N. rights expert urges EU to punish any Israeli annexation in West Bank

 

By Robin Emmott

 

Reuters 

June 26, 2020

 

BRUSSELS -- A U.N. human rights investigator urged the European Union on Friday to consider measures to prevent or punish any Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, a few days after over 1,000 European lawmakers made a similar call.  

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres added his voice to the matter on Wednesday, calling on Israel to abandon annexations of settlements in the West Bank, warning this threatened any chance of negotiated peace with the Palestinians who seek statehood in the territory.

Friday’s statement by Michael Lynk, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said the EU should back up its warnings against Israeli plans with “a decisive menu of counter-measures.”

That was a reference to possible economic, trade or other sanctions. The EU has said annexation must not go unchallenged.

Six years after the last round of peace talks with Palestinians collapsed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set July 1 as the date for the start of cabinet discussions on moving forward on annexation.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the region envisages Israel incorporating most of its settlements in the West Bank into “contiguous Israel territory”, and Palestinian statehood elsewhere under strict conditions.

Trump has also offered U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the fertile Jordan Valley along the eastern flank of the West Bank, which was captured in the 1967 Middle East war and is claimed by Palestinians for a future state.
Palestinians see annexations as an illegal land grab.

On June 23, European lawmakers called for “commensurate consequences” if Israel, which has more than 400,000 settlers in the West Bank, went ahead with annexation.

“We have reached a point where resolutions without resolve can no longer contribute to reaching the just and durable peace and human security that Palestinians and Israelis deserve,” Lynk said.

However, internal documents and Reuters interviews with more than two dozen diplomats and officials show there is no clear EU strategy on how to stop Israel’s plan or how to respond in a meaningful way if annexation goes ahead.

The United Nations Security Council has said settlements violate international law. Israel disputes this, citing biblical, historical and political connections to the land.

ROGER GOODELL AND THE NFL OWNERS ARE TOO STUPID TO REALIZE WHAT THE NFL PLAERS ARE DOING WHEN THEY TAKE A KNEE DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

The NFL players are kneeling on the graves of all the American soldiers who throughout history gave their lives so that these ungrateful assholes can disrespect flag and country  

By Howie Katz

Big Jolly Times
June 27, 2020

In line with the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd, NFL commissioner Roger Gooell joined in by releasing a statement on June 5 which said:

“We, the National Football League, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest.  It has been a difficult time for our country. In particular, black people in our country. First, my condolences to the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and all the families who have endured police brutality.”

In other words, Colin Kaepernick and the other NFL players were right in taking a knee during the national anthem and will from now on be officially permitted too do so.  And Goodell's statement is a dog whistle for welcoming Kaepernick back into the NFL. 

“And all the families who have endured police brutality.”  What about all the families of police officers who are being shot on a daily basis?  The majority of cop killings have been perpetrated by black men.  Apparently black lives matter more to Goodell than blue lives.

“It has been a difficult time for our country. In particular, black people in our country.”  Oh yeah!  It's also been a difficult time for many store owners, both black and white, who have seen their businesses looted and burned to the ground.  It's also been bad time for the police who have been attacked with bottles, bricks and Molotov cocktails, and have been demonized daily in the media.

It' also been a particularly difficult time for historical statues which are being torn down all over the country, including statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

And what about that poor mistreated Kaepernick?  When the riots broke out in Minneapolis, he called for a revolution.  He tweeted "When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction.  The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance."  He called the looters, arsonists and police attackers "freedom fighters" and set up a fund to pay their legal expenses.

Instead of condemning Kaepernick for advocating a violent insurrection and providing lawyers to his freedom fighters who are arrested for looting, arson and attacking the police, Goodell has now joined the jerks who hail the police-hating asshole as a hero.

Then there is Black Lives Matter.  Columnist Caroline B. Glick reports that BLM's charter itself is structurally anti-Semitic and that on May 30, members of Black Lives Matter carried out a riot in Fairfax, the oldest Jewish community in Los Angeles, by vandalizing five synagogues and three Jewish schools.  While they were looting most of the Jewish businesses on Fairfax Avenue, the BLM mobs kept shouting, "Fuck the police and kill the Jews."  The media has deliberately refused to mention BLM's anti-Semitic charter and ignored the vandalism ot the synagogues in Fairfax.

"Kill the Jews": That's also what the Al Sharpton-led mobs kept shouting during the 1991 Crown Heights riot in Brooklyn.

Furthermore, BLM's roots are in Marxism and domestic terrorism.  BLM's co-founder Patrisse Cullors boasts about being a Marxist and credits Eric Mann as being her mentor  for over  a decade.  Mann was a member of the Weather Underground, the domestic terrorism group which bombed government buildings and police stations in the 1960s and 1970s.  Thus, Cullors founded BLM to overthrow the government rather than to care about black lives.  That explains why BLM does not concern itself with the daily black on black killings in our urban centers. 

"Fuck the police."  Th media keeps cherry picking stories about the mistreatment and killings of blacks by white cops.  Some of those killings have been clearly unjustified.  But let's put those unjustified tragedies in their proper perspective.  There are some 800,000 law enforcement officers in the U.S.  Each and every day these officers have thousands of encounters with people.  And almost all of those encounters by white cops with black people are uneventful.

Nevertheless, the media keeps demonizing the police by broad brushing cops as racists and murderers of black men.  And Goodell's statement shows that the NFL commissioner is joining right in with the demonizing.   

It sure looks like Roger Goodell supports Kaepernick's freedom fighters, BLM's anti-Semitism and the tearing down of the Washington and Jefferson statues, while disregarding the killing of police officers.

When it comes to taking the knee, Roger Goodell and the NFL owners are too stupid to realize what the NFL players are doing when they take a knee during the national anthem.  The NFL players are kneeling on the graves of all the American soldiers who throughout history gave their lives so that these ungrateful assholes can disrespect flag and country.     

Fuck the police? Hell no! Fuck the NFL instead!

THE BOY ON THE BEACH ... OMAHA BEACH 2014

38-YEAR OLD COLD CASE SOLVED BY DNA

Ohio police say cold case murder of 8-year-old girl solved with DNA, genetic genealogy

 

By Robert Gearty  

 

Fox News

June 26, 2020

An 8-year-old Ohio girl was raped and killed nearly 38 years ago by a convicted pedophile who has been dead for more than two decades, police said Friday.

The cold case murder of Kelly Ann Prosser was solved using DNA and genetic genealogy, Columbus police said.

She was beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled after being abducted in 1982 on her way home from school.

Police announced at a news conference that her abducter was Harold Warren Jarrell. He died in 1996 in Las Vegas when he was 67.

 

Jarrell was convicted in 1977 of a sex crime involving a child in Columbus and served about five years in prison, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

His name never came up as serious suspect or person of interest in Kelly Ann's murder, according to the paper.

At the time of the homicide, a detective was curious as to whether Jarrell could have been involved, but there was no evidence at the time indicating his possible involvement, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Bodker told the paper.

“All of these years of this case being open and numerous detectives working on it, it is satisfying to let the family know what happened to their little girl though it doesn’t bring her back, Cold Case Unit Detective Dana Croom said, according to Fox 28 Columbus.

“There are cases that stick with detectives forever and this is one of those for all of us,” the detective said.

The station reported obtaining a statement from Kelly Ann’s family: “Gentlemen, thank you for never giving up, thank you for never forgetting about this innocent child, and thank you for never forgetting that you were working for Kelly Ann.”

DNA and genetic genealogy have cracked dozens of other cold case rapes and murders around the country over the past two years.
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Washington state murder victim, 17, ID'd after nearly 43 years, police say

 

By David Aaro

 

Fox News

June 26, 2020

 

Precious Jane Doe, a woman murdered in Washington state in 1977, has been identified with the help of DNA and genetic genealogy, authorities said.

The victim is now known to have been 17-year-old Elizabeth "Lisa" Ann Roberts, Q13 FOX of Seattle reported.

The determination was made nearly 43 years after her death, by the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit, Cold Case Team, and the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office.

"The DNA used for the identification was obtained from Lisa’s hair using a new scientific technique developed by Dr. Ed Green, a scientist of ancient DNA and paleogenomics," the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said in statement. "This new technique, previously thought to be impossible, enables DNA-based forensics from rootless hair and other difficult sources."

Authorities said Roberts was born Elizabeth Ann Elder in Hood River, Ore., in 1959 and adopted at age 2. On July 25, 1977, her father reported Roberts as a runaway, and she was murdered 15 days later.

During the murder investigation in 1977, police said Roberts was picked up by David Roth, then 20, who asked her for sex. When she declined, Roth strangled her and shot her seven times in the head, leaving her body unrecognizable. She carried no purse and no driver’s license, according to The Everett Herald. Her body was left to decompose in the summer heat for five days before it was found by residents picking blackberries.

A composite sketch was drawn at the time, but no one could identify her. For an unknown reason, Roberts was also no longer listed as missing in the National Crime Information Center, police said. Roth later confessed to the murder and was sentenced to 26 years in prison. He reportedly failed to ask what her name was.

“You pick up a stranger, a hitchhiker, she’s not going to tell you her name. You’re not trying to get personal,” Roth told The Daily Herald in 2008 after he was released from prison. “She didn’t ask me my name.”

Efforts to uncover her identity began again in 2008, with investigators exhuming her remains from a local cemetery. A medical examiner determined she was a teenage girl, which differed from previous assumptions she was 25-35, police said.

Snohomish County Detective Jim Scharf -- who worked on the case for 12 years -- nicknamed her Precious Jane Doe.

“This young girl was precious to me because her moral decision from her proper upbringing cost her, her life,” Scharf said. “I knew she had to be precious to her family too, so I had to find them. We needed to give her name back to her and return her remains to her family.”

Through genetic genealogy, investigators were also able to build a family tree to identify the biological parent, and they found a biological half-brother to match his DNA with her maternal DNA profile, the department added. Adoption records were then acquired from the Oregon Health Authority.

The health authority called Sharf on June 16 to say they had made a positive identification, Q13 FOX reported.

“It was kind of hard to believe,” said Scharf, who also pioneered the new field of forensic genealogy from the law enforcement side, according to the paper. “I always have that feeling, it’s like, ‘This is like magic, how do you come up with this information?’ And it’s always correct. It’s the best tool in the world. If you can get DNA on a case, it’s always solvable now.”

Scharf reportedly contacted her family after learning of her identity and that she went by the name “Lisa."

“I looked up to Lisa as my big sister, who would spend time with me and play with me downstairs," said her younger sister Tonya. "We had a really good bond because we were both adopted.”

Police said a memorial service for Roberts was being arranged and she's set to be buried at a family plot in Oregon.

“I am so proud and so thankful for the incredible work and dedication by Detective Jim Scharf and all of our partners and investigators who made this possible,” said Snohomish County Sheriff Adam Fortney, according to the statement.

“For years Detective Scharf has had Precious Jane Doe’s story linked in his email signature trying to identify her. Although it wasn’t the answer anyone wished for, Precious Jane Doe finally has her name back, and she can now be returned to her family and loved ones.”

'IT'S AN ALL-OUT WAR ON COPS AND WE HAVE NO SUPPORT'

272 uniformed NYPD cops file for retirement after George Floyd death

 

By Dean Balsamini 

 

New York Post

June 27, 2020

 

Cops are hanging up their handcuffs in huge numbers.

The flurry of Finest farewells began after the police-involved killing of George Floyd on May 25, with 272 uniformed cops putting in retirement papers from then through June 24, the NYPD says.

That’s a 49 percent spike from the 183 officers who filed during the same period last year, according to the department.

An NYPD source suggested the recent departures could signal a coming crisis for the 36,000-member department, which also faces a $1 billion budget reduction amid the “defund the police”  furor.

“We are worried about a surge in attrition reducing our headcount beyond what we can sustain without new recruits, and are afraid the City Council has not taken the surge into account,” he said.

Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch said cops are “at their breaking point, whether they have 20 years on the job or only two. We are all asking the same question: ‘How can we keep doing our job in this environment?’ And that is exactly what the anti-cop crowd wants. If we have no cops because no one wants to be a cop, they will have achieved their ultimate goal.”

 

Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said an “exodus” from the NYPD has begun. He said nearly 80 of his members have recently filed for retirement, and that morale is “at the lowest levels I’ve seen in 38 years.”

The fiery union leader added, “People have had enough and no longer feel it’s worth risking their personal well-being for a thankless position.”

“There is no leadership, no direction, no training for new policies,” he said. “Department brass is paralyzed (and) too afraid to uphold their sworn oath in fear of losing their jobs. Sadly, the people of this city will soon experience what New York City was like in the 1980s.”

Outrage over Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests, and some NYPD officers see themselves as collateral damage.

“It’s an all-out war on cops and we have no support,” said one veteran Brooklyn cop, who is retiring next month. “I wanted to wait for my 30th anniversary in October, but the handwriting is on the wall.”

Many men and women in blue are fed up, feeling targeted and frustrated that they are expected to fight crime with fewer tools than ever, while getting no backing from politicians, injured in protests, and constantly scrutinized, according to agitated officers and angry police unions.

The weary rank and file also wonder if one bad decision on the job could get them arrested and charged with a crime.

“If you have your time in and have an opportunity to do something else, get out while you can,” advised Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan.

Giacalone said he’d received three emails in “the past week or so” from students asking for advice about changing their career choice. Giacalone said he has not gotten “these kinds” of emails since the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.

He said he “never discourages anyone” about the job, he just “lays out the pros and cons” and also reminds students there are federal law enforcement jobs.

On Thursday, The Post exclusively reported that Bronx NYPD precinct commander Richard Brea is quitting to protest the department’s handling of police reform and anti-brutality protests. The Deputy Inspector, who led the Bronx’s 46th Precinct, will retire after nearly three decades on the force.

NYPD Sgt. Joseph Imperatrice, founder of Blue Lives Matter, which formed after NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were assassinated in 2014 , claims close to a dozen cops per day are putting in their papers. Imperatrice believes the number is “noticeably higher” than usual and due to the “anti-police and anti-criminal accountability” climate.

Imperatrice contends the number of cops leaving the job since the end of March is “approaching the 700 to 1,000 range between COVID and the anti-police narrative.”

“I feel sorry for the cops who just began their career and have 20 years to go,” Imperatrice said. “Morale across the nation for anybody who puts on that uniform is at an all-time low … Officers are showing up to work putting on their uniform and within a few days thereafter being put into handcuffs.”

He said one “fed-up” Manhattan detective, a 22-year-veteran with a wife and kids, is just waiting to hear back about a new job and then he’s putting in his papers and moving to Arizona. He believes the city is “going down the tubes quick and it’s not going to turn around anytime soon.”

Imperatrice said the heartbroken mom of an anti-crime unit cop killed in the line of duty recently contacted him, “beside herself” because the NYPD disbanded the unit and thus “disbanded the legacy of her son.”

“The politicians are spitting in the faces of families of cops killed in the line of duty and now they’re handing over the keys to the city to these criminals. This is insane,” Imperatrice fumed.

“Of course, if a police officer is acting criminal or abusing their authority, they should be held accountable. But the majority of incidents we are seeing do not warrant officers losing their job and being locked up.”

Said John Jay professor Giacalone: “We are living in the Twilight Zone — where the good guys are the bad guys and the bad guys are the good guys. No bail, no jail, selective prosecution — unless you’re a cop, then game on.

“People have lost their collective minds.”

BRONX PRECINCT COMMANDER IS CHEERED BY HIS COPS IN A FAREWLL CELEBRATION

NYPD commander leaves Bronx precinct for last time after retiring in protest 

 

By Matthew McDermott and Ben Feuerherd

 

New York Post

June 26, 2020

 

The NYPD precinct boss who retired in protest this week blasted politicians for wanting to “vilify” cops during a raucous final walk-out celebration at his Bronx stationhouse Friday.

Deputy Inspector Richard Brea rode off in a restored classic police car at about 3 p.m. after the celebration outside the 46th Precinct, which featured an NYPD helicopter fly by and NYPD bagpipers.

In a speech at the ceremony, Brea slammed politicians for not backing police officers amid nationwide protests against police brutality.

“Their blood is in the concrete of every street corner, but these politicians don’t want to remember that. They want to blame and vilify everyone here. I won’t have that. No sir.”

“We have a duty and a responsibility to respect and guide other cops,” he added.
He also showered praise on his fellow officers at his precinct.

“My 46 family, the Alamo, I love you man,” he added, using a nickname for the precinct that covers neighborhoods in the Western Bronx.

After his remarks, he shook hands with his officers and posed for photos as the crowd cheered and clapped for him. He then climbed into the vintage police car rode around and rode shotgun as the driver made a ceremonious trip around the block.

Brea handed in his retirement papers after nearly three decades on the force because department brass were not giving him proper instruction on how to rid the precinct’s Fordham neighborhood of guns and drugs, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa previously told The Post.

Brea had griped that with his anti-crime officers reassigned, he’d been put in the situation of explaining to department brass why arrests in his precinct were down at a CompStat meeting this week.

“I’ll be more than happy to come to CompStat and get a beatdown, but I’m not getting guidance,” Brea allegedly told Sliwa.