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Privilege: N.Y. DA Cursed At Officer And Refused To Comply During Traffic Stop
An upstate New York district attorney is under investigation after police bodycam video showed her getting into a heated confrontation with an officer who had stopped her for speeding, calling him an “a—hole” and demanding “leave me alone.”
Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley apologized on Monday, a day after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul referred the April 22 incident to the State Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct.
She admitted she was going 55 mph in a 35 mph zone. Later in the 26-minute video, she said she didn’t think he was trying to pull her over, claiming there were other people on the road. “I was right behind you,” the officer replied.
Throughout the video, Doorley did not cooperate with demands to stay in front of the garage. Instead she walked around her garage, at one point trying to go inside her home.
Doorley appeared agitated and boasted multiple times, “I am the DA of Monroe County,” and repeatedly said “leave me alone.” When told she had violated speeding laws, she said, “I don’t really care.”
A supervisor ultimately came to the home and spoke with Doorley, and Crisafulli ended up writing her a ticket for speeding. -(source: nbc news)
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Viral Footage Shows Georgia Police Breaking A Black Man’s Leg...Over What?! A Pen.
Black men being beaten by police over minuscule things is not a new thing: In January, a Florida Black man was beaten by police over a Banana after he was wrongly accused of stealing it. In July 2023, a New York Black man was fatally shot by police after he was accused of eating fruit from a supermarket without paying for it.
So it would come as no surprise that Corriyon Bray, a 30-year-Black man, was allegedly beaten by police after he didn’t return a pen to a Georgia police officer during a traffic stop, according to WSB-TV.
Though the incident occurred in December 2023, the footage was just released over the weekend and it shows Bray’s entire encounter with authorities that led to him being tased and having one of his legs broken.
The officers followed Bray to his home where they asked for the pen again. One of the officers says, “Give it to me, or I’m going to tase you.”
Bray claimed that he did not have the pen. This resulted in one of the officers tasing Bray while the other attempted to take him into custody, allegedly breaking his leg in the process.
In response to the footage, Greenville Police Chief Wayne Frazier claims that his officers handled the incident perfectly, telling WSB-TV, “If he had complied, none of this would have happened. Our SOP [standard operating procedures] says verbal, hands-on, less lethal, and lethal, and he followed protocol.”
Bray has plans to file a lawsuit against the officers and says that a normal traffic stop should not have ended in his leg being broken over a pen. -(source: the root)
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It’s Hard Being Black In France, Says Omar Sy After Aya Nakamura Racism Row
The French actor Omar Sy, the star of the hit Netflix series Lupin, has said France must move away from the individualism that is fragmenting society and rebuild a sense of the collective if it is to hold back the far right.
In an interview in Sunday’s Le Parisien, Sy, one of France’s most popular celebrities, was questioned by readers. One asked him if it was difficult to be black in France, even for him. He said it was a dangerous question that required nuance but replied: “Of course there are instances when it’s difficult to be black in France. That doesn’t date from today and unfortunately it’s ongoing. It can happen at any time in one’s life.”
He cited the example of the racist row over the French pop star Aya Nakamura, the most listened to French artist in the world, who recently faced a backlash from the far right and the right after it was rumoured she might sing at the Olympics opening ceremony. “She has succeeded in her life, she has transcended her social background and she finds herself in a position where she’s victim of racism,” Sy said.
Sy told Le Quotidien TV show that the notions of justice, equality and fraternity were lacking in France today. Asked about the rise of the far right in French politics, he warned against people “spewing hatred” and peddling an image today of a “France of the past”. Sy said those ideas historically had “led France to dark places”.
He said: “We must all ask ourselves how do we want to be together, to interact, to be part of a group. Because today everyone in the public space is talking about the individual, about themselves and has forgotten the group.” He said it was crucial in France to rebuild a sense of the collective. -(source: the guardian)
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Prosecution Harassment 101: Prosecutors Want Reversal After Crystal Mason’s Voter Fraud Conviction Was Overturned
Prosecutors in Texas asked the state’s highest criminal appeals court on Thursday to reverse a ruling that overturned a Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot.
Last month, Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction was overturned by the Second Court of Appeals. Now the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office is asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reverse that ruling.
Mason was convicted in 2018 of illegal voting in district court. Prosecutors maintained that Mason read and signed an affidavit accompanying the provisional ballot affirming that she had “fully completed” her sentence if convicted of a felony.
But the Second Court of Appeals ruled that even if she read the words on the affidavit, she may not have known that being on probation for a previous felony conviction left her ineligible to vote in 2016.
“The court of appeals’ decision was well reasoned and correct. It is time to give Ms. Mason peace with her family,” said Tommy Buser-Clancy, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, which has been one of Mason’s representatives in the case. -(source: the grio)
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A $1 Million Wealth Gap Now Divides White Families From Black And Hispanic Ones, Research Shows
The average wealth gap between white families and Black and Hispanic ones reached a new high in 2022, topping $1 million in household wealth, according to a new report.
New research by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank focused on economic and social policy research, found that the average wealth of white families in 2022 reached a record high of over $1.3 million, compared to about $227,000 for Hispanic families and $211,000 for Black families. This report marks the first time the institute has recorded a seven-figure disparity in average wealth for both Black and Hispanic households.
The median wealth for white families was $284,000, compared to $62,000 for Hispanic families and $44,000 for Black families.
“Inequities measured at the median will give you a better sense of the comparisons across typical families, but inequities measured at the mean will give you a better sense of the macro-level disparities in wealth accumulation in this country — generally, and by race,” said Madeline Brown, a senior policy associate at the Urban Institute. She added that both numbers are important to consider because they are the result of structural racism.
“One million dollars in a gap indicates that we still have severe racial wealth inequity in this country,” Brown said. That lifetime difference in accruing wealth severely affects families’ ability to “buy a home, invest in their children’s college, invest in their children’s businesses, support their families,” she added. -(source: nbc news)
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Arizona Indicts 18 In Case Over 2020 Election in Arizona, Including Giuliani And Meadows
An Arizona grand jury has indicted former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani along with 16 others in an election interference case.
The indictment released Wednesday names 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election. It shows seven other defendants whose names were not immediately released because they had not yet been served with the charges.
The names of seven of the defendants, including Meadows, Giuliani and Epshteyn, are redacted, but the document makes clear who they are by describing their roles. Others include attorneys John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Christina Bobb, as well as Trump 2020 campaign operative Mike Roman.
Biden won Arizona by more than 10,000 votes. Of the eight lawsuits that unsuccessfully challenged Biden’s victory in the state, one was filed by the 11 Republicans who would later sign the certificate declaring Trump as the winner. -(source: politico/ap)
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It Began With Defiance At Columbia. Now Students Nationwide Are Upping Their Gaza War Protests
What began last week when Columbia University students refused to end their protest against Israel’s war with Hamas had turned into a much larger movement by Tuesday as students across the nation set up encampments, occupied buildings and ignored demands to leave.
Protests had been bubbling for months but kicked into a higher gear after more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia’s upper Manhattan campus were arrested Thursday. Dozens more protesters have been arrested at other campuses since, and many now face charges of trespassing or disorderly conduct.
With tensions at Columbia continuing to run high and some students afraid to set foot on the campus, officials said the Ivy League school will switch to hybrid learning for the rest of the semester, which will be finished by the end of next week.
Since the war in Gaza began, colleges and universities have struggled to balance safety with free speech rights. Many long tolerated protests but are now doling out more heavy-handed discipline. -(source: ap)
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Wow… What Did Stephen A. Smith Say About Donald Trump To Piss Off Black Folks?
Stephen A. Smith is no stranger to courting controversy on pretty much any topic. But Black social media is wondering what the hell he was thinking over his latest comments about former President Donald Trump.
Smith went on conservative firebrand Sean Hannity’s FOX News show on April 18 and stepped outside his sports commentary lane to discuss politics...trashing Democrats for allegedly politicizing the criminal hush money trial against Trump because they’re unable to beat him in the 2024 presidential elections.
More alarmingly, Smith also defended Trump’s asinine claim that Black people relate to his legal troubles. “As much as people may have been abhorred by Donald Trump’s statement weeks ago, talking about how he’s hearing that Black folks find him relatable because of what he is going through is similar to what black Americans have gone through, he wasn’t lying,” Smith said. “He was telling the truth.” -(source: the root)
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In hearing this, I wasn’t shocked by what Stephen A. Smith said. This is not the first time he’s defended someone’s racist views or actions in the past and present, most notably Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who as a teenager was apart of a violently protest, trying to block young African American teenagers intergrating into a Arkansas High School in 1957.
Steven A. Smith plays the skinfolk card, but trust when he consistently shows he’s not your kinfolk. He’s about that Hollywood Shuffle ya dig.
A quote from Public Enemy song, Can’t trust it: “From the base motherland, the place of the drum, Invaded by the wack diddie wack, Fooled the black, left us faded.”
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Israeli Strikes On Southern Gaza City Of Rafah Kill 22, Mostly Children, As US Advances Aid Package
Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday, as the United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to Israel, its close ally.
Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has sought refuge from fighting elsewhere. It has also vowed to expand its ground offensive against the Hamas militant group to the city on the border with Egypt despite calls for restraint, including from the U.S.
Israeli leaders on Sunday harshly criticized an expected decision by the U.S. to impose sanctions on a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers in the Israeli military.
The decision, expected as soon as Monday, would mark the first time the U.S. has imposed sanctions on a unit inside the Israeli military and would further strain relations between the two allies, which have grown increasingly tense during Israel’s war in Gaza.
While U.S. officials declined to identify the unit expected to be sanctioned, Israeli leaders and local media identified it as Netzah Yehuda — an infantry battalion founded roughly a quarter of a century ago to incorporate ultra-Orthodox men into the military. Many religious men receive exemptions from what is supposed to be compulsory service. -(source: ap)
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Governor Glenn Youngkin Halts Bill That Would Remove Tax Exemption Status For Non Profits With Confederate Ties
Governor Glenn Youngkin halted a bill that would stop tax exemptions for a series of organizations that have ties to the Confederacy.
Since the 1950’s organizations such as the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the General Organization of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Confederate Memorial Literary Society have been exempt from paying real estate and property taxes.
Two identical bills in both the Senate and House filed by Sen. Angelia Williams Graves (D-Norfolk) and Del. Alex Askew (D-Virginia Beach) sought to change that. The measure later passed both the House and Senate.
When the bill ended up on the Governor’s desk, he sent it back with several amendments. This includes a study by the Department of Taxation and a request that legislators wait until 2025 to implement any changes.
As it stands these organizations could lose a lot of money, if the original measure is adopted. According to online records, the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond has a total value of more than 4 million dollars.
Under tax law, the organization could pay well over $50,000 in property taxes alone.
Angelia Williams Graves called the Governor’s amendments ‘disappointing,” and said in a statement quote: “I will continue my mission to make Virginia a more inclusive Commonwealth and that includes not allowing tax exemptions for organizations rooted hatred.” -(source: 13newsnow)
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Alabama GOP Rejects Body Cam Transparency Bill
Republicans in Alabama are making it harder for families who have been the victims of police violence to get the transparency they deserve.
According to AP, on Wednesday, an Alabama Senate committee rejected a bill that would have required law enforcement to publicly release police body-worn camera video and vehicle dash camera footage.
The bill, which was rejected 8-4 by the Senate Judiciary, would have made police bodycam recordings public record and would require the video be released to the public within 30 days of a request. The bill would have also allowed civilians to petition a circuit judge in the county if law enforcement refused to release the video.
The bill was created after several Black men died during altercations with police in Alabama. -(source: newsone)
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The Tale Of America: (Picture 1.) The Supreme Court Effectively Abolishes The Right To Mass Protest In Three US States. (Picture 2.) January 6 Insurrectionists Had A Great Day In The Supreme Court Today
Picture 1.: The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act.
It is possible that this outcome will be temporary. The Court did not embrace the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision attacking the First Amendment right to protest, but it did not reverse it either. That means that, at least for now, the Fifth Circuit’s decision is the law in much of the American South.
Picture 2.: The Supreme Court spent about an hour and a half on Tuesday morning arguing over whether to make it much harder for the Justice Department to prosecute hundreds of people who joined the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
It appears, after Tuesday’s arguments, that a majority of the justices will side with the insurrectionists — though it is far from clear how those justices will justify such an outcome.
The case, known as Fischer v. United States, involved a federal law which provides that anyone who “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so” commits a very serious federal felony and can be imprisoned for up to 20 years — although, as Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar pointed out during Tuesday’s argument, actual sentences against January 6 defendants convicted under this statute have been much shorter, normally ranging from a little less than one year to slightly over two years. -(source: vox)
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Ohio Man, 81, Fatally Shoots Uber Driver, 61, After Scammers Target Both Of Them, Officials Say
An 81-year-old Ohio man has been charged in the fatal shooting of an Uber driver he believed was working with a scammer, according to officials who said the victim was sent to the home by the same scammer.
William Brock told investigators he shot Loletha Hall, 61, outside his home March 25 because he thought she was working with a man who called him pretending to be an officer at the local court, Lt. Kristopher Shultz of the Clark County Sheriff’s Office said.
The Uber spokesperson said the account of the person who ordered a car to Brock’s house has been banned. Officials have not identified the person who requested the Uber and have not said whether they have made any additional arrests in connection with the case.
In a grand jury presentation Monday, Brock was indicted on three counts of murder, one count of felonious assault and one count of kidnapping, Shultz said. He will be arraigned on those charges later this week. -(source: nbc news)
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Growing Up, He Struggled To Read. Then A Young Teacher Saw His Potential
Juleus Ghunta is a published children’s author and award-winning poet. But growing up, he could barely read.
Ghunta and his three siblings lived in a rural part of Western Jamaica. They were raised by a single mother, and she often had to make tough choices about how to use their limited resources — including a decision to send his oldest sister to school, and to keep Ghunta at home.
“Life was very difficult for us,” he recalled.
When Ghunta finally went to school, he couldn’t catch up on his reading skills. Not only had he been kept home from school as a child, he had not been exposed to books.
When Ghunta was about 12, a young teacher-in-training decided to start a special reading program for struggling students. Ghunta was the first student to sign up. That teacher, whose name he does not recall, would become Ghunta’s unsung hero — the person who changed his life.
Under her guidance, Ghunta’s reading skills finally started to improve. And his sense of inadequacy began to lift.
After Ghunta’s experience with the teacher, his life took a new direction. He graduated from elementary school with a number of academic awards, he went on to college, and later, graduate school. Today, he is the author of two children’s books, including Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows: A Story about ACEs and Hope, about overcoming difficult experiences in childhood. He’s now working on his first full-length collection of poetry.
In 2010, Ghunta went back to his old school, to ask the principal and teachers if they knew his old teacher’s name. But no one did. He still hopes to find her one day, so that he can tell her thank you for seeing his potential. -(source: npr)
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The Biden administration has narrowed its aid by targeting specific groups of borrowers. It hopes that move will help the new plan survive legal challenges.
Here’s President Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
The plan would forgive the debt of borrowers who:
• Are already eligible for debt cancellation under an existing government program but haven’t yet applied
• Have been in repayment for 20 years or longer on their undergraduate loans, or more than 25 years on their graduate loans
• Attended schools of questionable value
• Are experiencing financial hardship
It’s not entirely clear yet how financial hardship will be defined, but it could include those burdened by medical debt or high child-care expenses, the Biden administration said.
The new plan also calls for borrowers to get up to $20,000 of unpaid interest on their federal student debt forgiven, regardless of their income.
Once the Biden administration formally releases its new student loan forgiveness plan, more legal challenges are inevitable, said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.
“Lawsuits will likely follow within days,” Kantrowitz added. -(source: cnbc)
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Contributions Of Black Players In Baseball Being Celebrated
Monday marks the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut in Major League Baseball. When he took first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Robinson ended 80 years of segregation in baseball. Decades earlier, a team of Black players were making a name for themselves in the independent leagues of the Midwest. Now, nearly 100 years later, those players and their contributions to baseball are getting their just due and inspiring a new generation of players. -(source: cbs news)
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Missouri Teen Ralph Yarl Copes With Life After Wrong-Door Shooting: ‘It Is A Constant Uphill Battle’
Shot in the head after ringing the wrong doorbell nearly a year ago, Yarl is coping with the lingering effects on his mental health while fighting to chart a path forward. -(source: nbc news)
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