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Orlando cops dragged by car in botched search for drugs - senseless violence created by the war on drugs

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:08 UTC
war on drugs fail
Viral video uploaded to Instagram on Saturday shows an arrest gone awry, which — though both the suspect and two officers were lucky to escape with their lives — proves the absolute folly of the State's war on drugs.

Two Orlando bicycle officers were patrolling downtown when they passed by Antwan James Jordan and a friend sitting on the trunk of Jordan's car. Using the alleged odor of marijuana as a reason for the stop, the two cops approached the pair and frisked them for substances the State deems illegal.

According to an arrest report cited by the Orlando Sentinel, one of the officers discovered a baggie containing about nine grams of cocaine in Jordan's front pocket. When the cop tried to remove the stash from the man's pocket, he bolted for the driver's side door — but the two officers then pulled him to the ground.

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Che Guevara

#BlackLivesMatter organization calls for slavery reparations, free education & justice reforms


RT
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:20 UTC
Black lives matter
© Bria Webb / Reuters
A coalition of over 50 organizations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement has issued a list of demands, calling for reparations for slavery and key criminal justice reforms amid "increasingly visible violence against black communities in the US."

"We demand that the government repair the harms that have been done to black communities in the form of reparations and targeted long-term investments. We also demand a defunding of the systems and institutions that criminalize and cage us," the Movement for Black Lives said in a statement released on Monday, highlighting six demands and 40 policy recommendations.

"The government, responsible corporations and other institutions that have profited off of the harm they have inflicted on black people — from colonialism to slavery through food and housing redlining, mass incarceration, and surveillance — must repair the harm done," the group said, calling for the passage of a bill designed to create a commission to study reparations for descendants of slaves.

The platform demands, among other things, reparations for the "wealth extracted from our communities through environmental racism, slavery, food apartheid, housing discrimination and racialized capitalism" as well as reparations for the "systemic denial of access to high quality educational opportunities in the form of full and free access for all black people (including undocumented and currently and formerly incarcerated people) to lifetime education."
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NJ state police go to wrong address, shoot 76yo man armed with shotgun


RT
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:00 UTC
cops
© Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
A mistaken address on a 911 emergency call sent New Jersey state troopers to an isolated home, where an armed elderly man ended up critically hurt from gunshot wounds. A friend of the man said the trooper shot first.

Gerald Sykes saw someone approaching his back door and thought it was an intruder, so the 76-year-old retrieved his shotgun and waited inside. Upon entering the home, a state trooper fired at Sykes several times, according to a friend of the homeowner, Fox News reported.

The friend, Richard Kaser, said that after Sykes was fired upon, he shot his shotgun once before falling down.

Comment: Even if you don't call 911, you still can't be sure the cops won't shoot you. On the subject of 911 and mistaken addresses, the state the technology involved is deplorable:



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Baltimore police serving arrest warrants kill black mother Korryn Gaines, 5yo also shot


RT
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:53 UTC
Korryn Gaines
© Shaun King / Facebook
Baltimore police fatally shot 23-year-old mother Korryn Gaines in her home after a standoff that lasted hours. A five-year-old was also shot in the incident.

Three officers arrived at an apartment in Randallstown on Monday morning to serve both Gaines and a man who lived at the residence with arrest warrants.

Gaines was wanted for failing to appear in court over a March incident where she was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and numerous other traffic charges, police chief Jim Johnson said.

According to police, they acquired a key from the landlord after the two failed to open the door. Upon entering, they saw Gaines sitting on the floor with the child in her arms. She had a gun which she pointed at one of the officers.
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Past two years hundreds of soldiers resign from German army


Sputnik
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:48 UTC
German army
© AFP 2016/ CHRISTOF STACHE
Over 400 German soldiers have filed applications for resignation from the country's armed forces, Rheinische Post reported.

Most applications have been approved. Though, the exiting soldiers have to pay back their education expenses to the state.

From the middle of 2014 to present, 469 soldiers, including 62 women, have filed applications to suspend their military service.

According to the newspaper, 67% of the applications were accepted, 25% were disapproved. The remaining applications were considered unlawful or withdrawn by the applicants themselves.

"When the risk in the profession of a soldier — to kill or be killed in specific combat situations — is perceived as a fundamental experience for the first time...only then it leads to such consequences," German political expert Katrin Kunert said, cited by DW.
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Incidents of Texan teachers' sexual misconduct with students continue to increase

Merrill Hope
Breitbart
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:27 UTC
student school
© AMELIE-BENOIST / BSIP/AFP
Incidents of Texas educators accused of sexual misconduct with students and other related inappropriate behaviors continue to trickle in over these final weeks of summer vacation.

While the Texas Education Agency (TEA) inches closer to its annual deadline for releasing the number of reported cases in the 2015-16 school year, the reality of such improper relationships remains a violation of the public trust on its youth.

On Monday, an ongoing educator sexual misconduct case concluded when U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant sentenced former north Texas elementary school principal Oscar Figueroa to 10 years in federal prison and ordered him to pay $17,600 in fines and assessments, U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced. Breitbart Texas first reported on Figueroa, 47, last year after officials charged him with one count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.
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13 year old child arrested, thrown in jail for burping in class, court rules this police state madness justified

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:18 UTC
Child arrested
Albuquerque, New Mexico is home to some of the world's most dangerous cops. After a recent federal appeals court ruling this week, the world now knows why they are likely never held accountable. In typical police state fashion, the court upheld the arrest and charges of a 13-year-old child — for burping in class.

In what sounds like a piece from the Onion, the 10th circuit court of appeals ruled that the cop who arrested the child and the school staff were entitled to 'immunity' from any lawsuit filed against them on behalf of the child. The law the court cited in their ruling prohibits anyone from interfering with the educational process.

The original incident happened in May of 2011 at Albuquerque's Cleveland Middle School. After repeatedly burping in class, instead of simply disciplining the child, the school called the cops. The 13-year-old boy, who was in 7th grade at the time, was then searched, arrested, handcuffed, and brought to jail — for burping.

After being held in a juvenile detention center for over an hour, his mother was finally informed that her son had been arrested.
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Cult

Historic opening? Pope Francis appoints commission to study possibility of women becoming deacons


France24
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
Pope Francis
© Filippo Monteforte, AFPPope Francis sits with youth for a prayer vigil at Campus Misericordiae in Brzegi as part of the World Youth Days on July 30, 2016.
Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed a special commission to examine the role of female deacons in the Church, in a potentially historic opening on the possibility of women joining the clergy.

The 13-member commission, made up of seven men and six women, will study the question of female deacons with a particular focus on the history of women having played this role in the early years of the Church, the Vatican said in a statement.

The move follows a pledge made by Francis in May during a question-and-answer session with members of female religious orders.

Advocates of women serving as deacons have long argued that they are pitifully under-represented in the Church's hierarchy and decision-making processes.

Allowing women to enter the clergy at a rank just below a priest would represent a first step towards correcting this imbalance, they argue.
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Dollars

Citibank: No significant negative impact in wake of Brexit


RT
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 16:27 UTC
citibank
© Reinhard Krause / Reuters
Citigroup has not seen any "significant negative impact" on its results or client activity in the aftermath of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, the bank said on Monday.

According to Citi's regulatory filing, market activity has increased after the UK referendum, but it still expects the operating environment to continue to be challenging.

"The result of the referendum has raised numerous uncertainties, including as to when the UK may begin the official process of withdrawal and the commencement of negotiations with the EU regarding the terms of the withdrawal," the bank stated, adding it hadn't yet faced "any significant negative impact to its results" from the vote.
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Presidential influence: 465 drug dealers/addicts killed in Philippines in July after Duterte's call for extrajudicial killings


RT
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:09 UTC
Philippines
© Czar Dancel / ReutersFuneral workers carry the body of one of the five suspected drug pushers killed in a police operation in Quiapo city, metro Manila, Philippines July 3, 2016.
The Philippines president's appeal to eliminate all drug-related suspects has so far reaped a bloody harvest of hundreds of victims. The criminal world is ready to pay over $1 million for Rodrigo Duterte's head, but his popular support remains huge.

Statistics published twice a week in the national Philippine Daily Inquirer have counted 465 deaths of drug dealers, pushers and addicts, killed by vigilantes in July alone. This means that on average, 15 people have lost their lives extra-judicially every day for alleged links to drug trafficking.

Duterte, 71, launched his anti-drug campaign immediately after being sworn in on June 30.

"If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful," Duterte said on July 1, a day after entering office. At the same time the president pledged to remain within the boundaries of the law.

"As a lawyer and former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not. My adherence to due process and rule of law is uncompromising," Duterte said.

Comment: It's hard to see how Duterte squares his call for killings of this sort with the rule of law... The drug lords aren't the only ones who don't like him (to put it mildly). He's a thorn in the side of the Empire:

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