Editor's Statement - #BlackLivesMatter Local Prosecutors have Conflict of Interest Prosecuting Police Special Prosecutor Needed when Police kills African American No Secret Grand Jury #BlackLivesMatter The Grand Jury The grand jury, a secret, anti-democratic and coercive tool, has been used repeatedly by prosecutors in the US to indict people whom they want to indict. If you're called before a grand jury, you have no rights, can't take a lawyer with you, and you're compelled to testify or face possible jail time. This process has been used and abused by prosecutors to produce indictments when that is the outcome that the prosecutor wants. It is this history that calls into serious question the prosecutorial conduct in both the Ferguson, Missouri, murder of Michael Brown and the Staten Island, New York, murder…
Police Brutality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSwITK4jjQ Police brutality and outright murder against Black people in the US is a persistent problem that will not go away. One Black Man Is Killed Every 28 Hours by Police or Vigilantes. It has been said, and demonstrated in practice, that police in America have a license to kill Blacks with impunity. The killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is only one of numerous cases of police violence and murder against African Americans. And, in every case that I can think of or recall, going as far back as Arthur Miller in Brooklyn, the police got away with murder. From Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo (pictured below ) to Sean Bell (pictured left) and Oscar Grant, Black men in the United States of America are murdered,…
The Assassination of Fred Hampton How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther References: http://www.amazon.com/The-Assassination-Fred-Hampton-Murdered/dp/1569767092 Fred Hampton http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-rutberg/nothing-but-a-northern-ly_b_355670.html December 4 ,2009 , marked the fortieth anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4th, 1969, Chicago police raided Fred Hampton's apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just twenty-one y"The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago ... Dec 4, 2009 ... Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4, 1969, Chicago police raided Fred ... ears old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid. While authorities claimed the Panthers had opened fire on the police who were there to serve a search warrant…
References: Police kill two members of the Black Panther Party — History.com ... Four other Black Panthers were wounded in the raid, as well as two police officers. ... by FBI informant William O'Neal, who was third in command of the Chicago ... Black Panther Party - Marxists Internet Archive A history of the Black Panther Party, with original documents, described from a ... the party, the FBI begins with a program of surgical assassinations — killing ... police raid the Panthers' Chicago apartment, murdering Fred Hampton while he ... Fred Hampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While Hampton was out of town, two Chicago police officers, John ... and another Panther, Lawrence S. Bell, was charged with murder. ... The FBI, determined to prevent any enhancement of the BPP ...…
Rights group says security forces arrest the mother of a teenager in a coma after an alleged confrontation with police. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/5/iran-authorities-deny-arresting-mother-of-armita-geravand?traffic_source=rss
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris was frustrated. The text of a speech she had been given to deliver in Chicago to the nation’s biggest teachers’ union was just another dreary, scripted talk that said little of any consequence.As Air Force Two made its way to the Midwest over the summer, the vice president told her staff she wanted to say something more significant, more direct. She brandished a Rolling Stone magazine article about the backlash against Florida school officials after new legislation barring the discussion of gender identity in the classroom.The teachers she was about to address were on the front lines of the nation’s culture wars, Ms. Harris told her staff. They were the same ones on the front lines of school shootings. Just blandly ticking through federal funding for…
[caption id="attachment_63344" align="alignnone" width="182"] Who is Malcolm X[/caption] Malcolm X May 19, 1925 to February 21, 1965 Who is Malcolm X Who is Malcolm X and why did the Malcolm X assassination take place are legitimate questions examined in this article. These questions are asked by many young people curious about the history of the African American freedom struggle. February 21st, 2015, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Malcolm X assassination. Had he lived, Malcolm X would have turned 90 years old on May 19 2015. To focus on this occasion, Black Politics featured this first-hand account of who is Malcolm X, his significance, and the events leading up to the Malcolm X assassination from a man whom the notorious former head of the FBI, J Edgar Hoover, in…
What lessons should the Democrats learn from the loss of the Governor's race and state House of Delegates in the Virginia 2021 elections and the election night scare in New Jersey? As expected, numerous pundits, news reporters, Democratic and Republican Party operatives, and elected officials have blanketed cable news shows on MSNBC and CNN offering their analyses. Most of that analysis to date has centered on the movement of white so-called swing voters from the Democrats column back to the Republican column. Suburban Swing Voters & White Women. One such group that has been the focus of much pontification is white suburban women. Virginia returns and exit polls suggest that some independents and white women in the suburbs moved to Republicans. Many pundits have talked about swing voters and white…
The law has no absolute character and always reflects the balance of social forces at the time it was written. It is a terrain of struggle, not a replacement for struggle. Three forms of oppressive authority, all intensely patriarchal, have met significant challenges in recent weeks. The judgment that the high court in Pietermaritzburg handed down on 11 June struck a major blow at the Ingonyama Trust, an oppressive relic of the dying days of apartheid, and its merciless exploitation of some of the most vulnerable people in our society. The police attacked pro-democracy protesters in Mbabane, eSwatini, on 25 June. It is said that a father rushing to the aid of his child, who had collapsed after breathing in tear gas, was shot in the back. This ignited an…
Fellow South Africans, Our former President Nelson Mandela once wrote: "I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. "But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb". As a country, we have faced two devastating waves of coronavirus infections. We have overcome these by responding swiftly and decisively, and by acting together to contain the spread of the virus and protect ourselves, our families and our communities. We now face another great challenge, another hill to climb. Twelve days ago, I addressed you to warn that a new and deadly third wave of infections had begun in a number of our provinces, and…
President Biden on Thursday signed legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, the day after the House voted overwhelmingly to enshrine June 19 as the national day to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.The Senate rushed the measure through with no debate earlier this week after clearing away a longstanding Republican objection, and the House approved it on Wednesday by a vote of 415 to 14, with 14 Republicans opposed. Mr. Biden said he counted signing the legislation into law as one of the greatest honors he will have as president. Ms. Harris also signed the legislation in her capacity as President of the Senate, an administration official said.“Throughout history, Juneteenth has been known by many names: Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, Liberation Day, Emancipation Day and, today,…
Harare — Hundreds of Zimbabweans protested Wednesday about a shortage of COVID-19 vaccines as the country awaits more doses from China. The government wants to inoculate at least 60% of Zimbabwe's more than 14 million people by the end of the year but has struggled to get the necessary supplies. Claudina Maneni brought her 60-year-old mother to get her second vaccine dose Wednesday at Wilkins Hospital, Zimbabwe's main COVID-19 vaccination center. She was among people who arrived at 4 a.m. but waited in vain for hours. The crowd demanded to see authorities and began to protest but dispersed upon hearing police were on their way. Maneni says she wonders why Zimbabwe's finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, has not imported more vaccines to avert shortages. "That's the problem with freebies. Shortages must…
A new report has illustrated the depth of the gold smuggling scourge in Zimbabwe, estimating that over 70% of the country's output has found its way into backstage international markets. Titled, 'Illicit Gold Markets in East and Southern Africa', the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime's report said the 10% to 30% of authorised buyers still selling bullion to the state-run Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) were only doing so to keep their licences. Global Initiative estimated that about 50% of Zimbabwe's estimated 1,5 million artisanal and small-scale gold miners (ASGM) have been spiriting away the yellow metal. The scale of the losses becomes apparent after considering that these miners produce about half of the gold traded in Zimbabwe annually, after a bloodbath in big gold mines since the turn…
Taxi drivers disrupted parts of Gqeberha on Tuesday, with several roadblocks and violent protests. The drivers are demanding answers about their Covid-19 Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) funds. Seven taxi drivers were arrested, two vehicles torched and a truck was hijacked and looted during the protest. Nelson Mandela Bay Regional Taxi Council has called a meeting to deal with the disgruntled workers in the hope of finding a resolution. Thousands of commuters in Gqeberha were left stranded on Tuesday morning when taxi drivers from the Uncedo Taxi Association and Port Elizabeth District Taxi Association (PEDTA) protested, bringing part of the City to a standstill. The drivers are demanding answers about their Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) funds. At least seven taxi drivers…
Africa will not be free until all its people are free and LGBTI persons are allowed to live their lives without fear, says South African-based advocacy organisation Iranti. “ Across the continent we see countries acting against law-abiding citizens because they do not conform to a heteronormative view of the world. Yet perpetrators of gender-based violence operate with impunity,” said Iranti executive director Jabu Pereira. “ Lesbian, gay, transgender persons, bisexual and intersex persons live in fear across the continent. The pandemic has been difficult for Africa but even more so for our communities who are struggling to survive in increasingly hostile environments.” Pereira noted that organisations expressed concern early last year that the pandemic would be used to further clamp down on LGBTIQ organisations. “ Organisations are struggling to survive at a time…
Asian Association of Maravi (AAM) have been greatly aggrieved by "extremely aggressive" invasion by Immigration Department made at Area 2 in Lilongwe on the night of May 9, which the officials had explained was a door-to-door sweep to capture illegal immigrants. A statement, addressed to no one in particular -- dated May 13 issued by AAM chairperson, Rafiq Hajat -- describes the Immigration officials conduct in the operation as unconstitutional and that they allegedly refused to show their identity papers. The statement explains that on the night of Sunday May 9, the residents of Area 2 "were peacefully asleep when they suddenly were awakened by furious banging at their front doors at approximately 1 am". "Thinking that there was something sorely amiss, they opened the doors to find out what…
Words were exchanged and, at some point, the male customer cursed at the woman, according to the report.“It quickly escalated,” Cordry told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The son and the father came out of the kitchen and just came after the guy at the table. They picked him up and kind of threw him against the door of the restaurant.”The customer told police he was initially attacked inside the restaurant, hit by a second employee while trying to leave and then punched by a third family member in the parking lot. He also said his nose was broken in the scuffle.Police spoke with several witnesses, including a Cherokee County firefighter and a Roswell police officer who were inside the restaurant at the time, according to the police reports. They said they…
Divers pulled the body of 23-year-old Anthony Saintil from the lake about 1 p.m. Sunday, according to Georgia Department of Natural Resources spokesman Mark McKinnon. Authorities said Saintil had jumped into the lake off of a pontoon boat about noon. He was last seen in the area of Flat Creek, according to McKinnon. n","_id":"https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1391185366586204164","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":1620567263567},"provider_name":"Twitter","height":null},"type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"3FM5LBKHLZCZXN3WXQWPVH7PEM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1620518131570},"type":"text","content":"Upper-level winds were not within the required limits for a safe launch Saturday night, NASA said."},{"_id":"WBRKMI7I2JA7FCBOETBZHRTCEA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1620566870222},"type":"text","content":"The next attempt to launch is 8:03 p.m. Sunday. There is a 40-minute launch window Sunday night."},{"_id":"UI6JWR3EQVGPJD7AN2M4AXB26I","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1620388918309},"type":"text","content":"The rocket might be visible from Maine to Central Florida and from the East Coast as far west as Illinois, according to a map provided by NASA."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"caption":"This map shows when the rocket might be visible after launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Two vapor clouds will…
Blantyre, Malawi — Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has announced plans to reform the country's mining sector to boost the economy and crack down on rampant, illegal mining and mineral smuggling. Chakwera said, if properly regulated, mining could play a major role in Malawi's economy, currently one of the poorest in Africa. Malawi's president, in a national television address late Sunday, said a well-regulated mining sector has the potential to develop the country's economy. Lazarus Chakwera noted that despite a lot of mineral resources in Malawi, the sector has faced exploitation not only by foreigners but also local miners. He gave an example of uranium mining activities in the Kayelekera area of northern Malawi, run by Australia-based company Paladin Africa, which he said did not yield the desired results. "Although the…
“This time of year, we should be winding down tornado season,” Channel 2 Action News chief meteorologist Glenn Burns said.Sherell Lewis used a blue tarp to stop water from entering his house after a tree caused damage to the master bathroom in his southwest Atlanta neighborhood Monday.Credit: Alyssa Pointer /
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[email protected], tornado-like weather is a hallmark of early spring, but Monday’s storms were an exception, Burns said. More storms and the risk for severe thunderstorms are expected Tuesday, he said.As much as 4 inches of rain fell across the area in just a few hours Monday. And since trees are already saturated, additional rain could be dangerous, Burns said.“It’s not going to take much wind to bring down trees and power lines,” he said.On Monday, the…
A big talking point for the current incarnation of the GOP is that racism doesn’t exist. During his recent address to America, Joe Biden talked about systemic racism and how the country might combat the issue. To Tim Scott, who gave the rebuttal to Biden’s speech, it isn’t all that big a deal. The South Carolina lawmaker said to viewers, “Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country. It’s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. And it’s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.” Scott gave a strange explanation for his comments during a Sunday appearance on Meet the Press. He told John Dickerson: “One of the reasons I have asked to lead this police reform conversation…
Atlanta police believe Ohiembor was the victim of road rage on I-75 near Edgewood Avenue in the early morning hours of April 25. She’s among the victims of at least 15 shootings so far this year on metro Atlanta interstates and roadways. Five people have been killed, others injured.Investigators believe many of the shootings, including several that have been deadly, may have been the result of driving disputes. In many cases, the shooters drive away before witnesses have enough information to help police track them down. No arrests have been made in a majority of the cases.ExploreShootings on metro Atlanta roadways this year have left four dead, others injuredMost recently, one Athens man was killed and another injured early Saturday in an apparent road-rage shooting on Ga. 316 in Barrow…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the efforts of workers amidst the ongoing fight against COVID-19. The President said workers have sacrificed a lot and have been severely affected by the pandemic in terms of the loss of income. "Frontline workers such as medical personnel, the police teachers and other staff members in the public service, workers in the retail sector have put their lives on the line during the height of the pandemic to keep the country going. We salute these heroes and heroines of our country that have sacrificed their own lives so that we can live," he said. The President was addressing the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), Workers' Day event on Saturday. In his address, the President warned South Africans of the risk…
In East Africa and Nigeria, avocado farmers want to enter the insatiable export market. Environmental concerns cast a shadow over the crop in other parts of the world. What will African farmers do differently? Baker Ssengendo's vision for the future of Uganda starts with an avocado seedling. "The avocado tree has a lifespan of about 50 years. The life expectancy of an average Ugandan is about 60 years. A tree can benefit them their entire life," he told DW. Ssengendo works on the 1,000 hectares of Musubi Farm in Nansana, central Uganda -- the largest Hass avocado farm in the country. "By working in avocado farming, I am fulfilling my life dream. We want to lift our communities out of poverty." Due to high global demand, avocado has become a…
Maputo — The trial began in Beira on Tuesday of three men accused of murdering Portuguese citizen Ines Bota on 28 December 2017, by drowning her in the Pungue river. Only two of the accused, Jonas Maita and Danilo Lampiao, are in the dock. The third, Isaias Joao, escaped from prison and will be tried in absentia. Maita and Lampiao both confessed to the crime, thus confirming statements they had given to the police shortly after the murder. Bota was the financial director of Ferpinta, a Beira company that makes steel tubes. One of the three men was her personal trainer, which may explain why she gave the three a lift, after a training session at the Beira Nautical Club. Lampiao told the court that, when the car reached the…
An important new picture of the inside of al Shabaab is provided by interviews with 23 women who had been captured and eventually escaped, in a study published yesterday by João Feijó, one of the most important investigators of the Cabo Delgado war. Feijo is technical coordinator of OMR, the Rural Environment Observatory, and the study (in Portuguese) is on https://omrmz.org/omrweb/publicacoes/or-109/ Most of the fighters are young, from Cabo Delgado, angry at the government and less interested in religion, while the leadership is foreign (mostly Tanzanian), educated, and religious. Al Shabaab “proved adept at capitalising on the local population's historical feelings of exclusion, compounded by resentment towards state violence, leading them to rebel against the state but also against their communities of origin,” Feijo notes. There is “great resentment towards…
Did you get my Venmo? Today in the news: After promoting false conspiracy theories in an attempt to overturn an American election, Republicans continue to whine that Joe Biden is being mean to them by proposing policies the American public strongly supports. Chicago officials release the video of police killing an unarmed 13-year-old child. And the federal government makes a new key conclusion about collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian intelligence. Here's some of what you may have missed: • Republicans whine about Biden's 'my way or the highway' infrastructure push. The highway, really? • Biden says the U.S. will withdraw from Afghanistan, 20 years after the War on Terror began • Chicago officials release video of police officer killing 13-year-old Adam Toledo • House Republican echoes white nationalist…
A human lower limb with a foot wearing a sneaker has been found floating in the waters along the Gweru River, police have said. Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko said the human remains were found this morning by a passer-by. "Police who attended the scene found that it was a male right lower limb which had an Adidas sneaker with red, black and white colours of approaximately size nine. The limb has been taken to Gweru Hospital mortuary," he said. Early this year, six people drowned while trying to cross a flooded Gweru River in their car and only two were found trapped in the car. A search party for the missing four was abandoned after a week. Source link
It's the beginning: 5G will bring radical changes in how we live, with far-reaching implications for privacy and surveillance. Although the tech is new, decades-old legislation* already paves the way for South African authorities to access citizens' information through their personal smart devices. Imagine a world where police no longer needed human witnesses. One where they could determine that, while inside your home, you walked exactly 453m between 9.18am and 10.05am? Or perhaps they could prove that you're lying, since they have medical records reflecting your cardiac rhythms during a specific timeframe? These are actual cases where police in the US traced minute details of people's lives through their smart devices. In the former, a woman's Fitbit proved her husband lied about her movements on the morning of her murder.…
Taryn Clemons was incredulous that her daughter survived the ordeal with only minor physical injuries.“For her to still be here,” she said, trailing off. “There were shots fired through the back door where she was sitting behind her father on the driver’s side ...“Why would someone do something like this to such a kind man?” Clemons asked.ExploreCobb driver fatally shot, crashes near gas station with child in back seatThat question does not appear easy to answer; Cobb police have not been able to identify any suspects or a motive for the shooting.The Clemons’ daughter said there was no altercation or other event that led to the shooting. Clemons said her daughter told her, “He just got shot.”Clemons and her community are already concerned about the trauma her 8-year-old experienced. Minister…
