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Pennsylvania Attorney General shuts down investigation because everyone they caught on tape taking money and gifts was black.
A summary of the Inquirer story:
The Attorney General of Pennsylvania shut down an investigation of corrupt elected officials because everyone they caught — on tape — taking cash and gifts was black.
The Philadelphia Inquirer broke the story on Sunday. The sting operation began with a deal: If a black lobbyist accused of fraud would offer elected officials — black and white, Democrat and Republican — cash and gifts in exchange for votes, the prosecutors would drop charges against him.
So that is what he did over a three-year period.
“Sources with knowledge of the sting said the investigation made financial pitches to both Republicans and Democrats, but only Democrats accepted the payments,” said the Inquirer.
And all the Democrats were black, members of the Philadelphia delegation to the state legislature.
“Four state lawmakers took money, the sources said. State Rep. Ronald G. Waters accepted multiple payments totaling $7,650; State Rep. Vanessa Brown took $4,000; State Rep. Michelle Brownlee received $3,500; and State Rep. Louise Bishop took $1,500, said people with knowledge of the investigation.”
State Attorney General Kathleen Kane told the Inquirer she stopped the investigation because it was “poorly conceived, badly managed, and tainted by racism, saying it had targeted African Americans.”
In one exchange, the lobbyist — wired for sound — went to State. Rep. Vanessa Brown’s office and “handed her an envelope with $2,000, according to people who have reviewed a transcript of a tape (the lobbyist) made on that day. As Brown accepted the money, they said, she put it in her purse and said: “Yo, good looking and Ooowee. . . . Thank you twice.” After he gave Brown the money, (the lobbyist) urged her to vote against a bill that would require voters to show identification at the polls, the sources said.”
Black leaders claim voter ID laws are thinly veiled Republican attempts to suppress black voters because black people vote Democrat in overwhelming numbers.
In another recorded meeting in April 2011, to mark State Rep. Waters’ 61st birthday, the lobbyist gave him $1,000, and the transaction was recorded on tape, according to people who read a transcript of the conversation.
As the lobbyist handed Waters an envelope, the sources said, Ali told him: “Hey, there’s $1,000 in there, bro.” Waters replied: “My man, happy birthday to Ron Waters.”
All involved denied accepting illegal cash and gifts or said they could not remember.
The Inquirer described how the investigation had gathered 400 hours of audio and video recordings of the lobbyist meeting with public officials. But soon after Kane’s inauguration in 2013 as the first female and Democrat Attorney General in the state’s history, she began shutting the investigation down.
Then people connected to the investigation who saw the transcripts and read the recordings started talking to the Inquirer. Many of these people left the Attorney General’s office soon after Kane took office.
She told the Inquirer the allegations are a political and sexist and racist attack from her Republican enemies: “Nothing more than the Good Ol’ Boys club playing political games to discredit me in order to fulfill their own selfish and improper agenda.”
The story is rocketing through Philadelphia business and political circles. Some say the results of the investigation are just “business as usual.” Other criticize the past three Attorney Generals for working with the lobbyist who was under investigation for $430,000 in fraud as well as other cases of violations of election law.
Said one friend of Kane to the Inquirer: “Is this a John Grisham novel?”
Check out the whole thing here. Philly Inquirer Story.
White Girl Bleed a Lot — Knockout Game edition
Often the “argument” is about whether the victim should allow himself to get beat.
Meanwhile, check out this post about the shooting from the Fox affiliate:
Gary D. Hamilton
March 13, 2014 at 12:44 am
The more wastes of humanity like these two gone the better. I was the victim of a physical assault while driving for our cities transit system. It happened in 2006. I have PTSD and sustained head injuries from this. I am forty nine years old and in the early stages of dimentia because of the head injuries.I started working at twelve years old with paper routes, shoveling snow, mowing lawns, and other part time jobs. After high school I served in the United States Air Force. After the military I always worked a full time job and a part time job at the same time to provide for my family. These four thugs took away my lively hood. A day doesn’t go by that I wish they were dead.
St. Louis Black mob violence worse than they thought.
There’s a whole lot of this going on in St. Louis. And a whole lot of people trying to pretend it is not.
Too much video out there though.
Black on white crime on the Bart in the SF Bay area.
Seven minutes of harassment and sexual assault.
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Another.
Ok, one from 2012 that totally got past me.
And one from March 2014 that did not.
Tallahassee protests white violence on black people: The real story.
A preview of a story at WND.com with links at the bottom.
Activists from around the country marched on Tallahassee Monday to protest what one writer for Salon is calling “open season on black teenagers: The onslaught of white murder.”
The most famous example of this onslaught came two years ago, when George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin. A jury ruled it was self defense. The next example was last year, when Michael Dunn shot Jordan Davis after feeling threatened by Davis and his friends.
Earlier this month, a jury found Dunn guilty of three charges of second degree murder for firing several bullets into a car. The jury could not reach a verdict for the killing of Jordan Davis. This prompted howls of protest from black writers and activists who say these two killings form a trend.
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USA Today spoke with the parents of Jordan Davis about the protest rally: “We know that the image of young black men having guns and being thugs is pervasive across the country,” Lucia McBath, Davis’ mother. “It’s an established mindset that young black males in this country are dangerous. That young black males in this country are something to be reckoned with. That young black males in this country are people to be feared.”
They tried to prepare their son for living in a world where white people can visit violence on black people at any time without any consequence: “Jordan felt really bad about what happened to Trayvon,” McBath said. “He said, ‘This could have been me. Trayvon was just like me.’”
A common theme at the rally and in media coverage of it was that black people are victims of white violence, not the other way around. No one talked about how white on black crime is a rarity compared to black mob violence and black on white crime.
None of the media outlets reported that either. Many of these crimes are documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore it. If all that the speakers and protesters and reporters at the Tallahassee rally knew came from the daily newspapers, they could be forgiven for not being aware of the disproportionate nature of the racial violence.
So let’s fill in a few blanks with some recent examples of black on white crime and black mob violence. Along with the names of the people responsible:
In Annapolis, Maryland, two black men, Devery Kelley and Cornell Robinson were arrested earlier this month for robbing a pregnant woman while she was in labor on her way to the hospital delivery room. In Madison, Wisconsin, about the same time as the protest, police arrested six black people for the home invasion and beating of a young couple. They were also charged with sexual assault on the woman, who was six months pregnant.
Under arrest are L. Efemia Neumaier, DeAndre Mayweathers, Demarco Mallit, Kristopher Hughes, Michon Thomas, Eric Bass.
In Seattle last week, police responded to a 911 call of 100 black people fighting in the street. Some were shooting guns. Some wore black ski masks. No one was arrested.
Ski masks seem to be a popular accessory this year with the black violence set: In Washington, D.C. over the weekend, black people wearing ski masks fired guns in the air and threatened a homeowner who came out to object to a crowd of 100 black people fighting and stomping on the hood of her car. The Washington Post reported that “someone wearing a ski mask used a racial slur, told her to shut up and threatened to kill her, she said.”
The woman pointed out the offenders to the police, they “made no effort to detain any of them,” she told the Post.
When the woman’s husband went to the police station the next day to complain about the lack of police action toward violence in her recently gentrified neighborhood, “he was told that officers are instructed not to engage large crowds if it might put them in danger.”
Large scale examples of racial violence are rarely reported in The Post. But they happen frequently on the city’s mass transit, bike trails, high schools, shopping centers, night clubs and in the gentrified neighborhoods.
In Dayton, Ohio over the weekend, a large group of black people were fighting downtown. When police arrived to break it up, James White attacked the officers. They arrested him.
Over the weekend near Rochester, a large group of black people were fighting in a bowling alley when one man was hit in the head with a bowling ball. Four were arrested.
In Stamford, Conn. on Saturday, a store owner tried to stop a group of black people from stealing several bottles of liquor. The alleged thieves attacked the store owners and their family, breaking a bottle over the woman’s head. Three were arrested. Police said one of the suspects “kicked and spit on officers while she was being processed at the Stamford Police Department.”
In Dallas less than a month ago, career criminal Deyfon Pipkins, was shot and killed while breaking into the home of a senior citizen. This was just the latest of several burglaries at this house. The local Fox affiliate reports Pipkins had a criminal record that was “18 pages long.”
Soon after the killing, several relatives showed up at the scene of the crime to question the homeowner’s actions, said the Fox affiliate. “He could have used a warning,” said Lakesha Thompson, Pipkins’ sister-in-law. “He could have let him know that he did have a gun on his property and he would use it in self-defense.”
In Mobile, Alabama, the relatives of Adric White did not like it any better when he was shot in November while holding a gun to the employees of a discount store he was robbing. His relatives told the local Fox affiliate they did not much care for the armed customer who shot their relative: “If no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him – what gives him the right to think that it’s okay to just shoot someone?” a relative, who wished to remain anonymous, told FOX10. “You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.”
A focus of the Tallahassee rally was removing guns from the hands of people who say they need them for self defense.
In Milwaukee Friday afternoon, a large group of black people at a McDonald’s restaurant were fighting and destroying property. Nine black people were arrested.
In Ft. Lauderdale in February, video captured the images of two black people approaching a table of Girl Scouts selling cookies outside a Winn Dixie grocery store. They robbed them. “Local 10′s Christina Vazquez spoke exclusively with the victim of that robbery, 10-year-old girl whose cell phone was taken by the brazen thieves. “When it happened, I didn’t stop crying,” said Daley Eisenmann.
On Friday in Chicago Heights, 20 black students from Bloom Trail High School were fighting and attacking security guards in what local news is calling a “massive brawl.” Some of it caught in video. Nine were arrested. School was let out early.
Near Minneapolis a week ago, a group of 15 black people were fighting at an LA Fitness. They were throwing free weights and barbells at gym patrons and staff. When police arrived, they fought them too. Some of video. Charged with disorderly conduct and rioting were Ali Yusuf Barre, Abdirashid Yasin Duad, and Mohamed Awil Suleiman. Three juveniles were also taken into custody.
Last Thursday in Omaha, a black man shot Brandon Samuels dead. They were at a party following a Miley Cyrus’ ‘Bangerz Tour’ concert when Samuels tried to stop the man who was attacking a woman. The man left and returned with two friends and a gun. They shot Samuels in the neck and seriously wounded another. Police have charged Laron M. Jones with first degree murder. This is his second murder rap: Charges on the first were dismissed.
In St. Louis on Sunday, dozens of black people fought and created mayhem ending in at least four gun shots. The riot took place in the middle of a Sunday afternoon, in the middle of a street, in the middle of a popular business district called the Delmar Loop, in the middle of a crowd of people with cell phone cameras, in the middle of an area known for frequent and regular black mob violence often on video.
In Austin, Texas on Friday, the headline tells the story: “Another brutal beating in Downtown Austin has been caught on camera — this time the victims are two women.” This time the crowd was about a dozen black people. The women were beaten unconscious.
On Friday in Flint, again the headline tells the story: Brawl involving several teens in Flint sends two girls to hospital, police say. More than a dozen black people were involved. And yes, it happens quite often there.
In Cherry Hill, New Jersey on Saturday afternoon, two black women attacked another woman in a fight over a parking space at a local mall. One of the two almost bit the other’s finger off.
On Monday in the San Francisco Bay area, a black passenger on a BART train harassed and assaulted white passengers. On video.
Over the weekend in Manhattan, Kyle Rogers was found unconscious and bloody on the street after being attacked Sunday morning. On video. The attack left Rogers with several broken bones in his face and jaw. Rogers is one of hundreds of victims of the spontaneous racial violence that some call the Knockout Game.
The overwhelming majority of perpetrators of this game are black and the victims are usually not. In St. Louis, a judge last year said one man alone was responsible for 300 Knockout Game attacks.
Police say they are looking for a black man in connection with the Manhattan assault — one of dozens of such assaults in New York over the last several months. Many are directed at Orthodox Jews. After one recent attack, city council member Laurie Cumbo explained it all: Black people don’t like Jewish people that much. “The accomplishments of the Jewish community triggers feelings of resentment, and a sense that Jewish success is not also their success.”
Are we clear?
Last week in Pittsburgh, Penn., police charged a black man, Allen Darell Wade, in the shooting death of two white sisters who lived next door. Wade said he is being set up.
This is a long list.
Some say racism causes more than just violence. Last week, the Slone Epidemiology Centre at Boston University, released a study that said: “Frequent experiences of racism are associated with a higher risk of obesity among African American women,” reported the Daily Mail.
Others say white racism also is found in the classroom, where it contributes to the achievement gap between white and black students. That is why a school board in Elgin, Illinois, is pushing a plan to hire more black teachers, reported the Courier News: “It is important that students have teachers who look like them,” said Vilma Sept, chairwoman of the African-American Advisory Council.
Elgin is just one of hundreds of school districts around the country that following this plan to overcome white racism.
Its all part of plan, a pattern, if you just know how to look, said Mychal Denzel Smith in The Nation magazine.
“There’s nothing new under America’s racist sun,” said Smith. “We scream ‘Murder! Lynching!’ We desperately reaffirm for ourselves and our children the value of black life in a country that declares us worthless. We cry and renew our hope. And then we move on to the next one.
“How many more bodies must we lay to rest before America gets tired, too?
“The cynic in me starts to believe this is exactly what white people want. It’s as though our cries of “Murder! Lynching!” only make it easier for white America to accept black death.”
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Some black leaders are not totally on board with the relentless cries of relentless racism. They say black black people are the problems, not the victims. In Memphis, Mayor A.C. Wharton said the dangerous conditions in his city are a “black boy problem.”
In Wilmington, Delaware one week ago, local minister Reverend Dr. Donald Morton was on TV talking about the Tallahassee rally, and how he was going to attend to protect “his people” from violence and racism. Sitting next to him was a six foot, 300-pound black man named Howard Powell, who could easily be mistaken for a professional football offensive lineman.
Powell was visibly uncomfortable at Dr. Morton’s blaming white people for violence. And he said so: What about black teenagers? asked Powell. “I’m afraid of them too.”
Before he could continue, Dr. Morton cut him off. “Don’t say that,” explained Dr. Morton. “Some people might use it the wrong way.”
New York Man suffers broken jaw in Kncokout Game Attack.
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.com
McDonald’s fight leads to arrest of nine teenagers | FOX6Now.com
1 hurt during brawl at bowling alley – New York News
D.C. residents who witnessed brawl fault police response – The Washington Post
Fight Disturbance With Shot Fired
Michael Dunn and open season on black teenagers: The onslaught of white murder – Salon.com
Madison Police: 6 arrested in violent home invasion investigation
3 teens arrested in liquor store brawl – StamfordAdvocate
Does racism make you FAT? | Mail Online
Mass brawl at LA Fitness gym in Roseville, Minnesota | Mail Online
Several injured in bowling alley fight – 13WHAM 13WHAM-TV – Top Stories
Activists and families march against stand your ground | MSNBC
Jordan Davis: What We’ve Come to Expect – COLORLINES
Jordan Davis’ parents talk about the future and gun laws
Jordan Davis and the Refrain of Black Death | The Nation
Fight Disturbance With Shot Fired
McDonald’s fight leads to arrest of nine teenagers | FOX6Now.com
D.C. residents who witnessed brawl fault police response – The Washington Post