almost three minutes with a black man speaking his mind about blm;
Monday, April 12, 2021
Sunday, April 11, 2021
this brave action by the thin blue line may have saved you from an untimely death, or maybe not, but i'm sure when you read thru this you'll have an opportunity to come away with a new view of cops;
River Rouge, MI — What should have been a warning to a new teen driver who just made her first poor decision behind the wheel morphed into an assault with nearly deadly results after cops treated a group of small kids like hardened criminals.
In February, 17-year-old Maliyah Clary had permission to be driving her mother’s car and had the permit to do so. However, she allegedly made a few driving errors a couple of blocks away from her house so officers with the River Rouge Police Department targeted her for a traffic stop.
Body camera footage released this week shows what happens when a cop’s only tool is a hammer — everything, even 105-pound children — begin to look like a nail.
It was a routine traffic stop that morphed into a use of force incident after the officers became unreasonably fearful of three teenage girls in their mother’s car. Instead of simply allowing the girl to go get her mother, who was just two blocks away, the officers decided to drag the small child from the car, grabbing her by her hair in the process.
“They snatched her out by her hair,” Michael Fortner, the family’s attorney said. “This girl weighs 105 pounds, if that, soaking wet. You’ve got 250-pound officers beating up on a 17-year-old weighing 105 pounds.”
“I wasn’t understanding why they were asking me to get out of the car,” Clary said. “So I was trying to ask them, why, what’s wrong? But they just grabbed me out of the car.”
After the two 250-pound cops assaulted the small child, one of them decided to pull his gun on the other two children still inside the vehicle, Maliyah’s 14- and 15-year-old cousins.
“I thought he was going to shoot us because we tried to get out the car,” Clary’s cousin Nevaeh Anderson said............read and watch more.......
its a curious thing to watch and listen to those who tell us that government will protect us when you consider the following exposure, which isn't at all limited as we hear these things frequently, and then are told we need to spend more on police, who then deal with the destruction these things case cause i'm sure the survivors don't come out as well adjusted citizens;
Concord, NH — According to a recent investigation by the state of New Hampshire’s attorney general’s office, a state-run youth detention center has been ground zero for an utterly horrifying child torture and sex abuse ring spanning the course of decades. According to officials and a recent lawsuit, hundreds of victims have come forward alleging the abuse by over 100 government employees, and multiple arrests have been made.
The abuse took place at the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly known as the Youth Development Center. In 2019, the taxpayer funded center became the subject of an investigation after two staffers were arrested. The two former staffers were charged with 82 counts of child rape.
According to investigators, however, those charges were all temporarily dropped in order to expand the investigation. Now, two years later, the original two staffers have been re-arrested as well as six others for their roles in the child rape and torture ring which spanned decades
Though, according to the AP, the attorney general’s office didn’t comment on the possibility of further arrests, they did announce that this was “merely a step forward” and that the investigation will continue — implying that there are many more abusers to go after.
“Today’s arrests make clear that this administration is committed to holding these perpetrators accountable for their detestable actions,” said Gov. Chris Sununu — the facility’s namesake. “This is not over, and we will continue to investigate these horrific allegations.”.........read more........
Saturday, April 10, 2021
caitlin presents some information herein on the funding for the war department;
Last year Senator Bernie Sanders led a public push to reduce the insanely bloated US military budget by a paltry ten percent. His push splatted headfirst against a bipartisan solid steel wall which shut him down definitively.
Sanders’ bill was killed in the Senate by a vote of 23 to 77, with half of Senate Democrats stepping up to help Republicans stomp it dead. It’s companion bill in the House of Representatives was killed by a margin of 93 to 324, with a majority of House Democrats (92 to 139) voting nay.
Contrast those numbers with those who voted to approve Trump’s $741 billion military budget this past December. The House voted to approve the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) budget by a margin of 335 to 78, 195 of those yes votes coming from the Democratic side of the aisle. The Senate passed that same budget by 84 to 13. This was a substantial increase from the previous year’s budget, a trend which has remained unbroken for years.
From Macrotrends:
- U.S. military spending/defense budget for 2019 was $731.75B, a 7.22% increase from 2018.
- U.S. military spending/defense budget for 2018 was $682.49B, a 5.53% increase from 2017.
- U.S. military spending/defense budget for 2017 was $646.75B, a 1.08% increase from 2016.
- U.S. military spending/defense budget for 2016 was $639.86B, a 0.95% increase from 2015.
And those are just the official numbers going directly to the official “defense” budget. As a Nation article titled “America’s Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think” explained in 2019, once you add up the full costs of US wars, preparations for wars, and the impact of those wars, the annual budget is actually already well in excess of a trillion dollars.
And now, under the “harm reduction” candidate Joe Biden, it’s about to get even bigger...........read more......
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