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A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the overdose death of a 15-year-old girl at a Los Angeles high school earlier this week, police said.
The boy was taken into custody on suspicion of manslaughter Thursday morning, two days after two 15-year-old girls had apparent overdoses at Helen Bernstein High School in the 1300 block of North Wilton Place in Hollywood Tuesday evening.
A student found in the bathroom died. The coroner’s office identified her as Melanie Ramos, NBC Los Angeles reported. The other girl survived and remains hospitalized.
Police said the girls purchased what they believed to be Percocet. Authorities suspect it was laced with fentanyl — a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin.
The 15-year-old suspect is a student at Apex Academy, a public charter school that is independent from the Los Angeles Unified School District and shares a campus with Bernstein, police said.
He had additional pills believed to be the same narcotic when he was taken into custody at his grandmother's home, LAPD Chief Michael Moore said in a news conference Thursday. Authorities suspect those pills are laced with fentanyl, too.
The teen had minor contacts with police in the past regarding curfew and tobacco possession but “no other criminal contact,” according to the chief.
During the news conference, Moore shared a breakdown of the school overdose tragedy.
He said the girls are believed to have purchased the pill on the school’s campus, went to the bathroom to crush the pill and snort it. Both teens appeared to pass out.
When the teen who survived awoke, she found her friend unresponsive. She walked outside the school and found her stepfather who was looking for her, alerted him about her friend, and he tried to administer aid to her.
When Los Angeles fire officials arrived to the scene, they pronounced the friend dead.
A wider investigation into the source of the pills is ongoing.
After responding to the girls' overdoses, fire officials reported they went to two additional calls of overdoses in the area of Lexington Park, about a half-mile south of the school, also believed to involve high school students.
Moore announced Thursday that a second teen was taken into custody in connection with the park drug sale: a 16-year-old student who also attended Apex Academy and will be charged with sale of narcotics. He was described as a close associate of the 15-year-old suspect.
Their names were not released due to their ages.
Police have spoken to one of the overdose victims from the park drug sale, but are asking for the other victim to come forward.
"Our work does not stop because these two individuals — 15 and 16 years of age — are simply transferring and soldiering, if you will, this distribution," Moore said. "There a drug organization behind this."
He said an investigation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Task Force will work to identify who is supplying the drugs to the two teens. Moore vowed to pursue an "aggressive prosecution."
Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho spoke at the news conference, saying he visited Ramos' family Wednesday morning before noting the overdose death causes “irreparable” harm to the community.
“These are not overdoses," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said at the news conference. "These are people who have been poisoned. These are murders."
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
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News Roundup 6/29/2023 | The Libertarian Institute
Here is your daily roundup of today's news:
News Roundup 6/29/2023
by Kyle Anzalone
Russia
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new $500 million military aid package for Ukraine that includes new Bradley and Stryker armored vehicles and munitions for various weapons systems. AWC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told BBC last week that there will be no Ukrainian presidential election in 2024 if martial law is still in effect, The New Voice of Ukraine reported. AWC
The Kremlin’s top diplomat said Moscow can no longer trust Washington and the potential for nuclear war has escalated. The Russian foreign minister suggested talks with American officials were possible, but Washington has not made an effort to engage. The Institute
The State Department announced it authorized selling $15 billion in advanced air defense systems to Poland. The deal comes as Washington wants to increase NATO’s military presence in Eastern Europe. The Institute
In a move which will surely garner censures from Bern’s European allies, Switzerland has vetoed a plan to send roughly 100 mothballed German-made Leopard 1 battle tanks to Kiev, citing its neutrality laws. This decision comes as Ukraine’s long awaited counteroffensive has netted substantial losses in armored vehicles. The Institute
US officials speaking to The New York Times said Wednesday that a senior Russian general knew Yevgeny Prigozhin was planning an uprising, a claim dismissed by the Kremlin. AWC
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the alliance is prepared to defend itself from any threat posed by Wagner fighters who go to Belarus. AWC
The Swedish government permitted a Quran-burning protest that took place in Sweden on Wednesday, a move that angered Turkey and made it less likely that Ankara will approve Stockholm’s NATO membership before the Vilnius summit in July. AWC
China
The Taiwanese military has reaffirmed that it will fire on Chinese warplanes and naval vessels if they come within 12 nautical miles of Taiwan’s coast, which marks the beginning of the island’s territorial waters and airspace. AWC
US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that Washington and New Delhi can jointly deploy warships and warplanes in the Indian and Pacific Oceans as the two nations are increasing military ties. AWC
Iran
Axios reported on Wednesday that White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan expressed concern to his Israeli counterpart about Israel leaking information to the press about the US and Iran holding indirect talks to reach an interim agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program. AWC
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A former top Obama fundraiser pled guilty to embezzling thousands of dollars from a non-profit. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-17/slingerland-guilty-embezzlement-los-angeles-antipoverty-nonprofit "Dixon Slingerland, once one of the Democratic Party’s top fundraisers in Los Angeles, has agreed to plead guilty to two felonies, admitting that he embezzled more than $71,000 from the defunct Hollywood antipoverty group that he led for 23 years. Slingerland, 53, was a frequent visitor to the White House under President Obama and close to Eric Garcetti during his tenure as L.A. mayor. He served as president and chief executive of Youth Policy Institute from 1996 until he was fired in 2019, shortly before the nonprofit collapsed." *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt Unbossed with Nina Turner https://www.youtube.com/unbossedtyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 230119__TA02_LA_Grifter_Pleads_v2 by The Young Turks
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With Hollywood in turmoil and many industries in upheaval with strikes- TS was bound to get drawn in…
twitter.com/jaleelshaw/status/1681250884477501441?s=20
Um, interesting thread. There are other music peers that were larger than TS who had stronger ties & influence at the time. She tries to lead by example. But at the same time, she has to balance her ties in the industry in order to be effective- play the long game.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_(service)
TIDAL is a Norwegian-American music streaming service, launched in 2014 by Swedish public company Aspiro. Tidal is now majority-owned by Block, Inc., an American payment processing company
TIDAL Artist ownership
"During the press conference, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Daft Punk, Jack White, Madonna, Arcade Fire, Alicia Keys, Usher, Chris Martin, Calvin Harris, deadmau5, Jason Aldean and J. Cole were introduced to the stage as "the owners of TIDAL". Eric Harvey of Pitchfork stated of the artists who co-own the service, "These are the 1 percent of pop music in the world right now, these are artists who do not answer to record labels, do not answer to corporations." Lil Wayne joined in 2017, KW left in 2017.
"In March 2015, Aspiro was acquired by Project Panther Bidco Ltd., [Jay-Z helmed company bought streaming service for $56.2 million] which relaunched the service with a mass-marketing campaign, promoting it as the first artist-owned streaming service. In January 2017, SprintCorporation bought 33% of Tidal for a reported $200 million. In March 2021, Block*, then known as Square, agreed to pay $297 million for majority ownership of Tidal. In June, 2022, through the disclosure of the Annual Stockholder Meeting 2022, Block reported that the stake acquired in the Tidal music service was 86.8%.
Block is helmed by Jack Dorsey- former founder of Twitter. Around TIDAL transaction he also donated $10 million to Beyonce non-profit foundation. Also some other issues arose.
peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/did-jay-z-finesse-jack-dorsey-into-buying-tidal/
capitalxtra.com/features/lists/richest-hip-hop-deals/jay-z-los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-and-president-and-chief-executive-officer-of-live-nation-entertainment-michael-rapino/
Jay-Z in 2008 signed a 360 partnership w/ Live Nation [Ticketmaster & Roc Nation (2008) is owned by Live Nation] Deal helped him globally. Other 360 deals- Madonna (LN) & Drake (UMG) twitter.com/RuncieDan/status/1509936617733038084?s=20
variety.com/2017/music/news/jay-z-and-live-nation-200-million-deal-1202423886/
TS Warning:
Billboard Woman of the Decade 2019 youtu.be/ZVpkFb9-fts
genius. com/Taylor-swift-the-future-of-music-is-a-love-story-lyrics
The Future of Music Is a Love Story [Jul. 7, 2014 Wall Street Journal]
Where will the music industry be in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years?
Before I tell you my thoughts on the matter, you should know that you're reading the opinion of an enthusiastic optimist: one of the few living souls in the music industry who still believes that the music industry is not dying…it's just coming alive
There are many (many) people who predict the downfall of music sales and the irrelevancy of the album as an economic entity. I am not one of them. In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace. Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently
In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is. I hope they don't underestimate themselves or undervalue their art."
Reputation Poem
taylorswiftswitzerland.ch/index.php/wiki/poems/why-she-disappeared-2/
When she looked around, her skin was spattered with ink
forming the words of a thousand voices
Echoes she heard even in her sleep:
“Whatever you say, it is not right.”
“Whatever you do, it is not enough.”
“Your kindness is fake.”
“Your pain is manipulative.”
Sweet Nothing
Industry disruptors and soul deconstructors
And smooth-talking hucksters out glad-handing each other
And the voices that implore, "You should be doing more"
To you, I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it
They said the end is coming
Everyone's up to something
Lots of scrutiny- but I wonder if streaming was a topic of business (Dec 2014)? She had removed her catalog from Spotify in 2014 - but came back June 9, 2017
billboard.com/music/pop/jay-z-justin-timberlake-taylor-swift-apartment-why-6406542/
JT was part of group that bought MySpace in 2011 & sold it to Time in 2016
Interestingly she started seeing CH in 2015. (Part owner of TIDAL). So probably had to be a bit careful on streaming stance.
Another factor: SB influence/agenda
businessinsider.com/why-taylor-swift-got-off-spotify-2014-11
usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/11/07/taylor-swifts-spotify-decision-drives-debate/18634219/
I feel that’s why vinyl is making a comeback. CDs now are kinda outdated which is crazy to me cause I remember when they started. But people use their phone now for everything. But people like to collect vinyls and they cost more than a cd. It’s a shame how little artists make streaming.
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Dirtbag of the day: Mayor Eric Garcetti #ericgarcetti #ericgarcettiisamonster #ericgarcettiisatyrant #ericgarcettiisanidiot #ericgarcettiisracist #ericgarcettiispowerhungry #ericgarcettiiscorrupt #ericgarcettiisacriminal #removeericgarcetti #ericgarcettiresign #ericgarcettiisaliar #losangeles #california #losangelescalifornia #LA
#eric garcetti is power hungry#eric garcetti is a criminal#eric garcetti is a tyrant#eric garcetti is a monster#eric garcetti#eric garcetti is corrupt#eric garcetti is racist#eric garcetti is a liar#fire eric garcetti#remove eric garcetti#eric garcetti resign#los angeles#California#los angeles california#LA
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This November, the Los Angeles Zoo had to evacuate its animals over a fire in yet another homeless encampment. That fire not only endangered lives, but diverted resources from fighting the much more serious fires in Ventura County.
But instead of shutting down the encampments, Mayor Garcetti, who has done more to legalize and subsidize homelessness in Los Angeles than any of his predecessors, sent "outreach workers" from the expanding behemoth of the LA Homeless Services Agency to ask them to please move.
That worked about as well as expected.
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What have the protests accomplished?
5/26 4 officers fired for murdering George Floyd
5/27 Charges dropped for Kenneth Walker (Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, who police accused of killing her)
5/28 University of Minnesota cancels contract with police
5/28 3rd precinct police station neutralized by protesters
5/28 Minneapolis transit union refuses to bring police officers to protests or transport arrested protesters
5/29 Activists commandeer Minneapolis hotel to provide shelter to homeless
5/29 Former officer Chauvin arrested and charged with murder
5/29 Louisville Mayor suspends “no-knock” warrants
5/30 US Embassies across Africa condemn police murder of George Floyd
5/30 Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison takes over prosecution of the murdering officer
5/30 Transport Workers Union refuses to help NYPD transport arrests protesters
5/30 Maryland lawmakers forming work group on police reform, accountability
5/31 2 abusive officers fired for pulling a couple out of their car and tasing them - Atlanta, GA
6/1 Minneapolis public schools end contract with police
6/1 Confederate monument removed after being toppled by protesters - Birmingham, AL
6/1 CA prosecutors launch campaign to stop DAs from accepting police union money
6/1 Tulsa Mayor agrees to not renew Live PD contract
6/1 Louisville police chief fired after shooting of David Mcatee
6/1 Congress begins bipartisan push to cut off police access to military gear
6/1 Atlanta announces plans to create a task force and public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta area
6/2 Minneapolis AFL-CIO calls for resignation of police union president Bob Kroll, a vocal white supremest
6/2 Pittsburgh transit union announces refusal to transport police officers or arrest protesters
6/2 Racist ex-mayor Frank Rizzo statue removed in Philadelphia
6/2 6 abusive officers charged for violence against residents and protesters - Atlanta, GA
6/2 Civil rights investigation of Minneapolis Police Dept launched
6/2 San Francisco resolution to prevent law enforcement from hiring officers with history of misconduct
6/2 Survey indicates that 64% of those polled are sympathetic to protesters, 47% disapprove of police handling of the protests, and 54% think the burning down of the Minneapolis police precinct was fully or partially justified
6/2 Trenton NJ announces policing reforms
6/2 Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police
6/2 Confederate statue removed from Alexandria, VA
6/3 Officer fired for tweets promoting violence against protesters - Denver, CO
6/3 Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art cut ties with the MPD
6/3 Chauvin charges upgraded to second degree murder, remaining 3 officers also charged and taken into custody
6/3 Richmond VA Mayor Stoney announces RPD reform measures: establish "Marcus" alert for folks experiencing mental health crises, establish independent Citizen Review Board, an ordinance to remove Confederate monuments, and implement racial equity study
6/3 County commissioners deny proposal for $23 million expansion of Fulton County jail
6/3 Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board unanimously votes to sever ties with MPD
6/3 Seattle withdraws request to end federal oversight/consent decree of police department
6/3 Breonna Taylor’s case reopened
6/3 Louisville police department (Breonna Taylor’s murderers) will now be under review from an outside agency, which will include review on training, bias-free policing and accountability
6/3 Colorado lawmakers introduce a police reform bill that includes body cam laws, repealing the “fleeing felon” statute, and banning chokeholds
6/3 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announces plans to reduce funding to police department by $150M and instead invest in minority communities
6/4 Virginia governor announces plans to remove Robert E. Lee statue from Richmond
6/4 Portland schools superintendent discontinues presence of armed police officers in schools
6/4 MBTA (Metro Boston) board orders that buses wont transport police to protests, or protesters to police
6/4 King County Labor Federation issues ultimatum to police unions: admit to and address racism in Seattle PD, or be removed
6/5 City of Minneapolis bans all chokeholds by police
6/5 Racist ex-mayor Hubbard statue removed - Dearborn, MI
6/5 NFL condemns racism and admits it should have listened to players’ protests
6/5 California Governor Gavin Newsom calls for statewide use-of-force standard made along with community leaders and ban on carotid holds
6/5 2 Buffalo officers suspended within a day of pushing 75 year old protester to the ground, and lying about it
6/5 2 NYPD officers suspended after videos of violence to protesters
6/5 The US Marines bans display of the Confederate flag
6/5 Dallas adopts a "duty to intervene" rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in excessive use of force
6/5 Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax releases an 11-point action plan for immediate police reforms
6/6 Statue of Confederate general Williams Carter Wickham torn down - Richmond, VA
6/6 2 Buffalo officers charged with second-degree assault for shoving elderly man
6/6 San Francisco Mayor London Breed announces effort to defund police and redirect funds to Black community
6/7 Frank Rizzo mural removed, to be replaced with new artwork - Philadelphia, PA
6/7 Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband the police department, invest in proven community-led public safety
6/7 Protesters in Bristol topple statue of slave trader Edward Colston, throw it in the river
6/7 NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio vows for the first time to cut funding for NYPD, redirect to social services
6/7 A Virginia police officer faces charges after using a stun gun on a black man
6/8 NY State Assembly passes the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act
6/8 Democrats in Congress unveil a bill to rein in bias and excessive force in policing
6/8 Black lawmakers block a legislative session in Pennsylvania to demand action on police reform
6/8 France bans police use of chokeholds
6/8 Seattle council members join calls to defund police department
6/8 Boston reevaluates how it funds police department
6/8 Honolulu Police Commission nominees voice support for more transparency, reforms
6/8 Rights groups and Floyd’s family call for a UN inquiry into American policing and help with systemic police reform
No, it’s not enough, but this is only the beginning. Keep fighting!!!
(This list comes from Mara Ahmed’s blog post and was compiled by Fahd Ahmed; I added sources and new entries. Please reblog with further additions.)
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South Central Los Angeles: Families affected by LAPD explosion demand justice
Monday, August 16 - 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Los Angeles City Hall
Hosted by Union Del Barrio
The families that were affected by the LAPD fireworks explosion are organizing themselves and they need your support! It has been six weeks since the blast and the city of LA has STILL not fixed their homes or given them the names of the LAPD officers who made the decision to detonate the explosives. They are having this protest to demand the following:
1) Fix our homes NOW!
2) Give us the names of the LAPD officers who gave the order to detonate the explosives in our neighborhood!
3) Immediate financial assistance for everyone who was affected!
4) We want full access to all hotel facilities at the hotel in Downtown LA where we are being housed temporarily. We don't want to be treated like 2nd class citizens!
5) We want a written guarantee from the city of Los Angeles that the city will continue to pay for our housing until the city repairs our homes and it is safe for us to return.
The residents that were affected by the explosion will protest in front of City Hall and will then deliver a letter with these demands to Mayor Eric Garcetti. Union del Barrio and the Comites de Resistencia are assisting the community with this action.
BACKGROUND: On June 30th, the LAPD/Bomb Squad made the decision to endanger the lives of thousands of people when they detonated over 42 pounds of explosives on 27th Street in South Central LA. The explosion is linked to two deaths, dozens of injuries, psychological trauma and millions of dollars worth of damage to homes, cars and local businesses. Many residents have lost days of work and many were even fired due to missing days because of the explosion. Over 20 families had to be relocated because their homes were badly damaged. They are currently being housed by the city in a hotel in Downtown LA but they are being denied access to the swimming pool, gym and other facilities at the hotel.
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#blacklivesmatter
PLEASE SIGN PETITIONS, DONATE, CALL AND EMAIL TO DEMAND JUSTICE, AND SHARE
Reply to this tweet if I am missing anything
Re: the man who maced a young girl at the Seattle protest
Jared Campbell #8470
Office of police accountability: (206) 684-8797 [email protected]
Chief: Carmen Best
File an anonymous complaint
Re: the woman who drove over a pedestrian during a peaceful protest in Denver
Jennifer Watson
Owner of JP Watson Interiors
Denver sheriff: (720) 337-0194
Hate crime hotline: (720) 913-6458
Re: Trump supporters who ran over protesters
Jacob Robles (jacob_robles98) and Dylan Mota (@dylan_mota_)
8JUK695
Also in the car: Alyssa Mackovitch (@alyssa_mackovitch)
Re: cop responsible for telling others to turn off their body cameras
Tobias Raya
(310) 253-6318
*The White House has a history of giving vague, unhelpful responses or ignoring these petitions but I’d still suggest signing and making your voices as loud as possible. It can’t hurt to try.
@icatboy on Twitter: “you guys don’t sign those white house petitions sadly they don’t do shit, those were only effective under obama’s administration and mean nothing in 7rump’s term. they aren’t obligated to give us a statement after 100k signature sadly”
I still have them linked below in the petitions section for those who want to sign
WOMAN KIDNAPPED - LICENSE PLATE EEV701
Stop sharing videos of Black people being murdered. “Seeing all sides” doesn’t mean watching someone’s murder. Believe Black people. It’s gratuitous and exploitative. Imagine being his kin right now.
BLM carrd
BLM doc
If you live internationally and cannot sign petitions without an american postal code feel free to use any of these:
90015 - Los Angeles, California
10001 - New York City, New York
75001 - Dallas, Texas
More resources for international people
Petitions
*Do not donate to change.org
Text FLOYD to 55156 OR sign the petition here: Color of Change - #JusticeforFloyd: Demand the officers who killed George Floyd are charged with murder.
Color of Change - #JusticeforBre: Police officers who killed Breonna Taylor must be FIRED.
Color of Change - #JusticeforAhmaud
change.org - Justice for George Floyd
change.org - The Minneapolis Police Officers to be charged for murder after killing innocent black man
change.org - Justice for George Floyd
change.org - Justice for George Floyd
change.org - Justice for Breonna Taylor
change.org - Julius Jones is innocent. Don't let him be executed by the state of Oklahoma.
Justice for Julius (more info with how to help and where to send emails)
change.org - Prosecute the murderers who killed George Floyd
change.org - Justice for Belly Mujinga
change.org - Justice For Tony McDade
change.org - Hands Up Act
change.org - Justice For Joāo Pedro
change.org - Willie Simmons has served 38 years for a $9 robbery
change.org - Disbarment of George E. Barnhill
change.org - Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet
change.org - Justice for Ahmaud Arbery- Pass Georgia Hate Crime Bill
change.org - Free Anthony Wint
change.org - After The Smoke Clears... Arrest Juan DelaCruz for the MURDER of Pamela Turner RIGHT NOW
change.org - #freejeffersonelie
change.org - Exoneration of Albert Wilson
change.org - Justice for Sean
change.org - Reopen Kendrick Johnson's Case #J4Kendrick
change.org - Justice For Tamir Rice
change.org - Justice for Tamir Rice 2
change.org - Censorship of Police Brutality in France
change.org - Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD
change.org - Mandatory Life Sentence for Police Brutality
change.org - Criminal Charges for Travis & Greg McMichael in the murder of Black Jogger Ahmaud Arbery
change.org - Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez
change.org - Make false 911 calls a criminal offense
change.org - RAISE THE DEGREE
change.org - Free Siyanda
change.org - Jennifer Jeffley
change.org - Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD
change.org - Justice for Darrius Stewart
change.org - Justice for Amiya Braxton
change.org - Justice for Dion Johnson
change.org - Justice for Emerald Black
change.org - Junk the Anti-Terrorism Bill and Uphold Human Rights
change.org - Skip to main content Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer
change.org - Justice for Crystal Mason
change.org - Stop hit and run drivers who kill Innocent people from receiving bond in North Carolina
change.org - Justice for Tete
change.org - Justice for Sean Reed
text “JUSTICE” to 668366
moveon - #JusticeforBre: Police officers who killed Breonna Taylor must be FIRED
moveon - We want justice for 19 year old Darrius Stewart gunned down by a white police officer on last Fri...
Organize For - Take the Pledge: We Are the Movement for Black Lives
Text “ENOUGH” to 55156 - demand justice for Breonna Taylor
Text “JUSTICE” to 55156 - demand DA George Barnhill and Jackie Johnson are removed from office
We the People - Justice for George Floyd Make sure you confirm you signature by checking your email immediately after
We the People - Raise the Degree
We the People - Arrest the Other Three
People's Budget LA Tell your Council Member to reject Mayor Eric Garcetti's proposal to spend 54% of the general fund on the LAPD
reclaim the block - Tell MPLS City Council to Defund the Police
Donate
*Do not donate to any fundraisers hosted by Shaun King - he has an extensive history of collecting funds for pro-Black movements which have disappeared - deleted all petitions by The Action Pac because he is affiliated with them
*Need a Venmo to donate to Minneapolis activists? Donate via Venmo to the Femme Empowerment Project. Be sure to set your donation to "private." You can even specify how you want your donation to be used-- medic training, medic gear, or jail support.
Spreadsheet with places to donate to
gofundme.com - Official George Floyd Memorial Fund (this is the only legitimate gofundme to donate directly to George Floyd’s family)
gofundme - Justice for Kenneth Walker (for his legal representation supporting Breonna Taylor)
gofundme - I Run With Maud
gofundme - Help Coach Steve Parker Get Back in the Game
gofundme - Support Roy Stoddart’s Family
gofundme - Help a front line nurse and baby get proper care
gofundme - COVID19 testing, advocacy & education
gofundme - Jessica Mahone
gofundme - Comfort and Support for the Moncrease Family
gofundme - The Heart of a Chef
gofundme - Marcus Jackson Medical Funds
gofundme - COVID-19 Survivor, Ron's Road to Recovery
gofundme - Greene Family Fire Relief
gofundme - Justice for Regis
This is the only donation page approved by Regis’ mother: gofundme - Justice for Regis
gofundme - RIP Belly Mujinga
gofundme - Homeless Black Trans Women Fund
gofundme - Nadarrius Lundy (Nada) Memorial Fund
gofundme - Destiny Harrison's Legacy (organized by her mother)
Twitter thread full of gofundme’s (most of them were just listed but continue checking in case the thread has been updated)
@theysbianism on Twitter: please retweet! help my girlfriend, a Black trans woman, support her family and get her brother out of prison. the family collectively has been able to get $485 and only $200 more is needed. please boost and donate if you can!
Venmo: @celestialmadonna
Cashapp: $celestialmaddona
the action network - Demand justice for Tony McDade
Donate to Black Lives Matter
Donate to the Northstar Health Fund (medical supplies)
Sybrina Fulton's Campaign (Trayvon Martin’s mother is running for office in FL)
Donate to Reclaim the Block MPLS organization that invests in their community’s safety and fights against the police union
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Know Your Rights Camp their Legal Defense Initiative will pay for legal assistance for people protesting in MPLS + Kaepernick’s charity is funding the project
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MN Bail Fund and Relief List
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Donate to the following groups
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Support protesters
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Support the woman pushed by the cop at Barclays $Dounyazayer
Thread of Homeland Security words being monitored on social media sites
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If you are arrested for protesting in Minneapolis, call (612) 444-2654 and they will bail you out
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Atlanta jail support: (404) 689-1519
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Epworth United Methodist Church, 3207 37th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406
MN Youth Collective Office, 2161 University Ave W. Suite 100
2161 University Ave is taking a pause on accepting donations - overflowing
CTUL- CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LA LUCHA - 3715 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55407
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JACOB PEDERSON of the St. Paul PD is widely believed to have been the undercover cop vandalizing stores and starting fires during protests.
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GEORGE FLOYD is the name of the man who was murdered by DEREK CHAUVIN (badge 1087), TOU THAO (badge 7162), Thomas Lane, and J Alexander Kueng. If you truly care about getting justice, make phone calls to these numbers and express your anger. We cannot let another killer cop walk free.
UPDATE: As of May 29, Chauvin has been charged for third-degree murder. Continue pressuring officials for harsher charges because what he did was clearly not an accident. Also continue pushing for the other cops who were at the scene to be charged.
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I’m enjoying that show White Lotus but it also a pretty wild watch for me. The very first scene takes place in the “future” (where we all shall live) and tells you that something very bad has happened, at this fancy resort. And then the rest of the show is the flashback to the fancy resort.
But I catastrophize a little by nature so every scene, I’m looking at and thinking to myself, “Oh sure, I could see how they’re setting up how that character will fall back ass first onto a statue of Michael Jordan holding his finger in a ‘we’re #1′ position, and Michael Jordan’s carbonite finger will rip through that character’s asshole and the rest of their body all the way up to their brainstem.” I just sort of catastrophize generally, just in my daily life, about every second of the day, which is a real delight, real A+ way to be, two full minutes underwater, can’t recommend it enough.
There’s a bunch good about the show: how great this guy is, how fucking great Jennifer Coolidge is (the best!!!!), or just the return of Steve Zahn, plus of course Connie Britton, feels like it’d be deeply un-American at this point not to like Connie Britton. I really like the whole cast. But the show just sort of really, really ... plays to that part of me. Even though... after Pulp Fiction, there were a *million* things that were like “we’re doing a flashback you guys” -- but they were different. They were all just lousy crime shit, mostly, or just ... not character pieces the way this is, that I remember (or just not good-- those weren’t great movies), so I just don’t remember reacting as strongly in this way to them.
It’s every single scene for me. I find it a real anxiety show. I’m enjoying it a lot. I also hope I’m never brutally murdered because I get a flat tire outside of an exclusive spa for serial killers, and a rogue cop starts firing into the Ted Bundy Memorial Massage Clinic and just starts shooting me because during his rampage of justice I’m just coincidentally standing next to my flat tire, thinking about bosums. I live in LA; that happens to dozens of people every week here, probably; fucking Eric Garcetti.
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The Democratic mayor of New Orleans was photographed partying without a mask at Mardi Gras festivities last week - just seven days after reinstating mask mandates for the rest of the city.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell, 49, could be seen mugging unencumbered by a face covering on February 18 with publicists, politicians and just about anyone else while wearing a sparkly, beaded silver frock at the Mayor's Mardi Gras Ball at Gallier Hall in the city's Business District.
The mayor was unrepentant after becoming the most recent Democrat to flout their own mask mandate.
'While we did not see perfect adoption of the guidelines in every instance over the weekend, we were encouraged overall by the level of masking and vigilance we saw on the parade route and at ball events,' the mayor said in a statement, without acknowledging her behavior.
In one video, she dances on a 360-degree photo platform documenting her own violation of the Covid-19 protocol that she put into place on February 11.
The only time that masks can be off indoors in a public setting is if the person is eating or drinking, but none of the photos show her doing that.
The city's mask rules have been on and off for the last two years; the last time it was lifted was in October 2021.
Mardi Gras, the biggest yearly event on the city's calendar, is March 1, but parties, parades and celebrations lead up weeks prior to the bacchanal.
The infection rates in the Big Easy jumped with the Omicron wave and remains at nine percent.
'Rules for thee, not for me,' Twitter user Collin Palma wrote.
'ANOTHER HYPOCRITE. I still have to wear a mask in my downtown office and proof of vax for restaurants,' Lisa Schmidt, posted on the social media platform.
The mayor's office shrugged off Twitter outrage.
Researchers have found wearing a mask could lower the risk by up to 225 times, compared to solely relying on a six-foot rule.
Democratic politicians across the country are running afoul of strict Covid-19 protocols that they have put into place.
California Gov. Gavin Newsome, San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti were busted without masks at a San Francisco 49ers game against the L.A. Rams.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has come under fire after she shared a photo of herself, maskless, at what appears to be a bar for the.
Although mask mandates were lifted for indoor venues, they were still in place for schools and state-run facilities.
New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman dropped into New Rochelle High School on January 31, where he was snapped barefaced.
Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams took a hit around the same time after he showed up in an Italian restaurant in the Bronx without a mask.
Famously, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez came down with the bug after she was spotted partying in Miami without a mask.
Georgia gubernatorial hopeful Stacy Abrams pushed back hard when she was photographed without a covering at an Atlanta elementary school in early February.
'It is shameful that our opponents are using a Black History Month reading event for Georgia children as the impetus for a false political attack,' she said in a statement.
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I Now Better Understand the ‘Good German’
Apathy in the face of tyranny turns out not to be a German or Russian characteristic.
I Now Better Understand the ‘Good German’
As my listeners and readers can hopefully attest, I have been on a lifelong quest to understand human nature and human behavior. I am sad to report that I have learned more in the last few years, particularly in 2020, than in any equivalent period of time.
One of the biggest revelations concerns a question that has always plagued me: How does one explain the “good German,” the term used to describe the average, presumably decent German, who did nothing to hurt Jews but also did nothing to help them and did nothing to undermine the Nazi regime? The same question could be asked about the average Frenchman during the Vichy era, the average Russian under Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev and their successors, and the millions of others who did nothing to help their fellow citizens under oppressive dictatorships.
These past few years have taught me not to so quickly judge the quiet German, Russian, etc. Of course, I still judge Germans who helped the Nazis and Germans who in any way hurt Jews. But the Germans who did nothing? Not so fast.
What has changed my thinking has been watching what is happening in America (and Canada and Australia and elsewhere, for that matter).
The ease with which tens of millions of Americans have accepted irrational, unconstitutional and unprecedented police state-type restrictions on their freedoms, including even the freedom to make a living, has been, to understate the case, sobering.
The same holds true for the acceptance by most Americans of the rampant censorship on Twitter and all other major social media platforms. Even physicians and other scientists are deprived of freedom of speech if, for example, they offer scientific support for hydroxychloroquine along with zinc to treat COVID-19 in the early stages. Board-certified physician Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who has saved hundreds of COVID-19 patients from suffering and/or death, has been banned from Twitter for publicizing his lifesaving hydroxychloroquine and zinc protocol.
Half of America—the non-Left half—is afraid to speak their minds at virtually every university, movie studio and large corporation—indeed, at virtually every place of work. Professors who say anything that offends the Left fear being ostracized if they have tenure and being fired if they do not. People are socially ostracized, publicly shamed and/or fired for differing with Black Lives Matter, as America-hating and white-hating a group as has ever existed. And few Americans speak up. On the contrary, when BLM protestors demand that diners outside of restaurants raise their fists to show their support of BLM, nearly every diner does.
So, then, who are we to condemn the average German who faced the Gestapo if he didn’t salute Hitler or the average Russian who faced the NKVD (the secret police and intelligence agency that preceded the KGB) if he didn’t demonstrate sufficient enthusiasm for Stalin? Americans face the left’s cancel culture, but not left-wing secret police or reeducation camps. (At least not yet—I have little doubt the Left would send outspoken conservatives to reeducation camps if they could.)
I have come to understand the average German living under Nazism and the average Russian living under communism for another reason: the power of the media to brainwash.
As a student of totalitarianism since my graduate studies at the Russian Institute of Columbia University’s School of International Affairs (as it was then known), I have always believed that only in a dictatorship could a society be brainwashed. I was wrong. I now understand that mass brainwashing can take place in a nominally free society.
The incessant left-wing drumbeat of the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and almost every other major newspaper, plus The Atlantic, the New Yorker, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, all of Hollywood and almost every school from kindergarten through graduate school, has brainwashed at least half of America every bit as effectively as the German, Soviet, and Chinese Communist press did (and in the latter case, still does). That thousands of schools will teach the lie that is the New York Times‘ “1619 Project” is one of countless examples.
Prior to the lockdowns, I flew almost every week of the year, so I was approached by people who recognized me on a regular basis. Increasingly, I noticed that people would look around to see if anyone was within earshot and then tell me in almost a whisper: “I support Trump” or “I’m a conservative.” The last time people looked around and whispered things to me was when I used to visit the Soviet Union.
In Quebec this past weekend, as one can see on a viral video, a family was fined and members arrested because six—yes, six—people gathered to celebrate the new year. A neighbor snitched on them, and the celebrants were duly arrested. The Quebec government lauded the snitches and asked for more public “collaboration.”
Snitches are likewise lauded and encouraged in some Democrat-run states and cities in America (Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in March: “Snitches get rewards”) and by left-wing governments in Australia. Plenty of Americans, Canadians, and Australians are only too happy to snitch on people who refuse to lock down their lives.
All this is taking place without concentration camps, without a Gestapo, without a KGB and without Maoist reeducation camps.
That’s why I no longer judge the average German as easily as I used to. Apathy in the face of tyranny turns out not to be a German or Russian characteristic. I just never thought it could happen in America.
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MS13 Genocide & Torture - Computer Operation
The people holding onto the computer operation are Ken & Ronnie Frostad in Sacramento, California. They have been using this operation to cause people Corona Virus, Cancer, Heart attacks, Heart ailments, Fires, Accidents, Addiction, Depression, Obsessions, acts of violence, etc. It involves genocide (with utility servers), heavy mind & heart control and behavioral control. It also involves complete terror. People like Donald Trump, Mark Geragos and Eric Garcetti have Ken & Ronnie Frostad kill people for stimulus and profit. Ronnie & Ken Frostad own a bronzing foundry and a podiatrist business in Sacramento too. They are very bad people. I apologize for naming the wrong people in the past, but apparently Attorney Mark Geragos had Chief Justice John Roberts and/or US Attorney General William Barr block my case, so no one would communicate with me while I have endured the worst forms of torture, terror & poisoning for over 9.5 years now. We are waiting for Biden & Harris to win the elections, so they will stop this operation. PLEASE VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN & KAMALA HARRIS ASAP, SO WE CAN GET THIS FORM OF GENOCIDAL MURDER (and all the other horrible things they do) FOR DARK MONEY STOPPED! This has been going on behind the scene, since the late 50′s. Gloria Allred is an excellent attorney to turn to for support with any problems you may be experiencing.
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Do Epidemic-Based Business Closures by Government Trigger an Unconstitutional “Taking”?
Do Epidemic-Based Business Closures by Government Trigger an Unconstitutional “Taking”? https://legal-planet.org/2020/05/07/do-epidemic-based-business-closures-by-government-trigger-an-unconstitutional-taking/
Lately, an increasing number of public and private voices have been raised in opposition to business closures ordered by state and local governments in response to the COVID-19 epidemic.�� In many such cases, that opposition has taken the form of lawsuits filed by business owners, claiming a violation of their constitutional rights. Gun shops across …
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Lately, an increasing number of public and private voices have been raised in opposition to business closures ordered by state and local governments in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. In many such cases, that opposition has taken the form of lawsuits filed by business owners, claiming a violation of their constitutional rights. Gun shops across the country, for example, have sued to reopen their businesses, claiming that government closure orders contravene the Second Amendment-based right to bear arms.
Indeed, the epidemic has seemingly launched a whole new legal practice area: coronavirus lawsuits. In California, San Francisco attorney Harmeet Dhillon has emerged as the apparent queen of COVID-19 litigation, seemingly ready to bring any number of lawsuits against state and local governments on behalf of business interests based on a multitude of constitutional theories.
One of the most prevalent such claims is that government-mandated closures of private businesses violate the latter’s private property rights protected under the Fifth Amendment’s “Takings Clause”; business owners assert they’re therefore entitled to financial compensation from the state or local governments. Small business owners in Pennsylvania, for example, have relied on the Takings Clause to sue that state’s Governor, Tom Wolf, who in March ordered the closure of non-essential Pennsylvania businesses based on public health concerns arising from the epidemic. In California, the aforementioned Ms. Dhillon recently brought a lawsuit on behalf of retail business owners against Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and other government leaders, alleging that their shelter-in-place orders violate the owners’ constitutionally-protected property rights and trigger a compensable, “regulatory taking” of their businesses.
How likely are these takings lawsuits to prevail? The answer: not likely at all.
Recently, U.C. Berkeley School of Law Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky gave a presentation to a group of federal and state court judges regarding epidemic-related constitutional issues, and the likelihood that lawsuits raising such constitutional claims would be successful. Takings Clause-based claims were one category of constitutional challenges Dean Chemerinsky analyzed and ultimately dismissed. He cited a pair of Korean War-era U.S. Supreme Court decisions that had rejected Takings Clause-based challenges to the federal government’s seizure and redeployment of private factories to assist the war effort.
I agree with Dean Chemerinsky that Takings Clause-based lawsuits challenging business closures in the face of the current epidemic are quite likely without legal merit. And I offer some additional thoughts on the subject:
Another so-called “possessory takings” case that courts might well find relevant to their disposition of epidemic-based business closure cases is the California Supreme Court’s 1995 decision in Customer Company v. City of Sacramento. In that case, an armed robbery suspect took refuge in a convenience store when the local law enforcement arrived, and refused to surrender. Police fired tear gas into the store, which had the desired effect of disabling the robber and allowing his capture. But in the process substantial damage was done to the foodstuffs and other inventory of the store. The Supreme Court rejected the store owner’s lawsuit claiming that the law enforcement response triggered a requirement to pay the owner compensation under the Takings Clause for its economic losses. Said the court: “just compensation has…never been applied to require a public entity to compensate a property owner for property damaged resulting from the efforts of law enforcement officers to enforce criminal laws.” The analogy to a severe public health emergency seems persuasive, at least to this observer.
Even more instructive are past takings claims arising out of government efforts to prevent the spread of disease. Nearly a century ago, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in Miller v. Schoene that the Takings Clause did not require the State of Virginia to compensate the owner of cedar trees for the value of the trees that the state ordered destroyed to prevent a disease from spreading to nearby apple orchards that were vital to the regional economy.
However, I believe that even more apt–and dispositive–are property rights cases that don’t concern government possession or physical destruction of private property but, rather, involve government regulation of private property interests. In general, government defendants in such “regulatory takings” cases tend to prevail far more often than in the possessory takings disputes summarized above.
The logical starting point is the Supreme Court’s iconic 1978 decision in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York–the Court’s single most important regulatory takings case. In rejecting a developer’s challenge to New York City’s historic preservation law, the justices articulated the criteria it indicated courts should apply in deciding such regulatory takings claims. One key factor, according to the Court, is the “character of the governmental action.” Here, of course, state and local governments’ closure of non-essential businesses is designed to stem the rampant coronavirus epidemic–literally a matter of life and death. Courts are likely to–and should–afford government regulators substantial deference given the “character of the governmental action” they are taking to halt the epidemic.
But the single most apposite U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the present context is likely the Court’s 2002 decision in Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. There, private property owners challenged a 32-month moratorium that the bistate Tahoe Regional Planning Agency had imposed to allow it time to formulate a comprehensive regional plan for the Lake Tahoe Basin (as required by a bistate compact reached between California and Nevada). Even though the moratorium temporarily prevented the affected private owners from making economic use of their property, the Court rejected their “temporary takings” lawsuit, concluding that TRPA had acted reasonably under the circumstances and noting that the property owners were able to regain the economic use of their property after the moratorium ended.
If the Supreme Court was persuaded in Tahoe-Sierra that a temporary elimination of property owners’ ability to exploit their economic interests was justified in order to promote important natural resource concerns–albeit in the spectacular environmental setting provided by the Lake Tahoe Basin–I submit that the current COVID-19 public health emergency presents an even more compelling case for government intervention.
In sum, Takings Clause-based legal challenges to government-mandated business closures designed to combat the unprecedented public health threat posed by the coronavirus are likely to fail. As well they should.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal and other media outlets are reporting that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many of the same business interests that are mounting these Takings Clause-based lawsuits are lobbying for Congressional immunity from any third-party legal liability when they’re allowed to reopen their businesses. Stated differently, they claim a constitutional right to reopen regardless of the public health consequences of doing so, while at the same time seeking to insulate themselves from any legal responsibility to the public for those same consequences.
To quote author Kurt Vonnegut, one of the 20th century’s most incisive social observers: and so it goes…
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