Cop Kneels On Black Man's Neck As He Screams, "I Can't Breathe!" Murderer and Inmate Derek Chauven Was Shanked
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Rioters, looters could lose unemployment benefits under new bill
Rioters and looters would lose federal unemployment benefits and be forced to pay for extra policing needed at protests under a new bill being introduced by a military-veteran congressman. “Antifa …
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What the hell is wrong with people.....
What the hell is wrong with people.....
Thankfully, it's been rescinded.
Mayor rescinds $2,500 police bill issued to teen over Black Lives Matter protest
The teen organizer of the peaceful BLM protest in New Jersey says something's still missing despite the mayor rescinding the overtime bill.
Thankfully, it's been rescinded.
Mayor rescinds $2,500 police bill issued to teen over Black Lives Matter protest
The teen organizer of the peaceful BLM protest in New Jersey says something's still missing despite the mayor rescinding the overtime bill.6abc.com
I don't understand,why the amount of stupidity just amazes me sometimes....
Protester, 75, shoved by Buffalo cops calls the attack a turning point
Martin Gugino broke his silence over the unprovoked attack in an interview with USA Today and insisted it will not stop him exercising his First Amendment right to protest.
75-year-old Buffalo man shoved by police speaks out on incident after month in hospital
Martin Gugino, 75, was shoved to the ground by Buffalo police in June, and the incident drew wide criticism. Now Gugino tells his side.
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Wisconsin’s Governor Called a Special Session on Police Reform. Republicans Stopped It After 30 Seconds
It’s the latest case of malfeasance from lawmakers who’ve rigged the system to make themselves immune from the will of the voters
Wisconsin’s Governor Called a Special Session on Police Reform. Republicans Stopped It After 30 Seconds
David Daley
September 1, 2020, 8:13 AM EDT·6 mins read
A Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer shot an unarmed black man seven times in the back. An armed teenage vigilante has been charged with five felonies for shooting three people, and killing two, at the ensuing protests. As marches continued, with armed white snipers observed on downtown Kenosha rooftops, the state’s governor called for a special session of the legislature on police violence and social justice.
When the Milwaukee Bucks sat out an NBA playoff game Wednesday, amid national protests after a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back, the basketball team joined the call for their state legislature to reconvene and take action.
On Monday, Wisconsin’s state Senate and Assembly met. But it was more of a skeletal session than a special session. Both chambers gaveled in and out almost immediately. A television camera panned a gallery of empty mahogany chairs. By NBA standards, neither chamber stayed in session even the length of the 24-second shot clock. “Senators do not need to be present,” the Senate president’s chief of staff told reporters, “and no bills are being taken up.”
Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature cannot be budged. Not by the governor. Not by the people. Not by vigilantes in the streets. Not by the Milwaukee Bucks. Wisconsin’s brutally gerrymandered state legislative maps — by almost every standard, the nation’s most biased — guarantee that they can’t even be budged at the ballot box. And so they remain an immovable and unaccountable force.
This is the very real damage to representative democracy done by gerrymandering. It’s hardly the first example here in Wisconsin, where citizens have so little control over their own representatives you can scarcely call it a democracy at all.
Tony Evers, the state’s Democratic governor, has twice before tried to call the legislature into special session. Twice before, the legislature sneered.
Last November, when Evers ordered a special session on background checks for guns — a measure supported by 80 percent of Wisconsin residents — both chambers convened, then immediately adjourned without debate. The assembly gaveled out after 15 seconds. The Senate remained in session twice that long: Approximately 30 seconds.
Then in April, as the pandemic raged across Wisconsin, Evers called another special session and asked to postpone a statewide election until mid-May and to do all voting by mail. The assembly took 17 seconds to adjourn without action. The Senate adjourned even faster and no Republicans even bothered to attend; they had the clerk call the session and then immediately ended it.
Ordinarily, elected representatives might think twice before stiff-arming legislation backed by 80 percent of the state, or fear the wrath of the people for forcing voters to cast ballots, in person, and risk catching Covid-19 simply by exercising their right to vote. Wisconsin’s legislature, however, has insulated themselves from any consequences — indeed, insulated themselves from the people and the ballot box — by the district lines they drew themselves during the 2011 decennial redistricting.
Republican operatives and savvy mapmakers barricaded themselves into a Madison law office, dubbed it the “map room,” claimed attorney-client privilege for their furtive work, required legislators to sign a non-disclosure agreement before even being shown their own new district, and designed fancy regression models that ensured Democrats would hold a minority of seats even they won up to 57 percent of the statewide vote.
The maps have exceeded their designers high expectations all decade long. In 2018, for example, Wisconsin voters re-elected a Democratic U.S. senator, backed Evers for governor over two-term Republican incumbent Scott Walker, placed Democrats in every elected statewide office, and preferred Democratic assembly candidates by a margin of 190,000 votes. Republicans held the chamber, 64-35. They won 64 percent of the seats, with 46 percent of the votes.
How rigged are Wisconsin’s maps? So rigged that the Harvard’s Electoral Integrity Project, which quantifies the health of electoral systems in America and worldwide, rated the state’s electoral boundaries as a three on a scale of one to 100. This is not only the worst rating in the nation, it’s lower than any nation graded by the EIP has ever scored on this measure. This is not a rating received by a functioning democracy. It is the rating of an authoritarian state.
How little democracy exists in Wisconsin? If gerrymandering is the art of packing as many of the other party’s seats into as few districts as possible, then cracking the rest by spreading them thinly amongst the remaining seats, Wisconsin Republicans are a combination of Picasso, Monet, and Michelangelo. They packed Democratic voters into their districts with such ruthless efficiency that Republicans didn’t even bother contesting 30 of the Democratic winners. This purple state, often considered the Electoral College tipping point, has almost no competitive assembly seats. Only five of the 99 assembly seats were decided by fewer than five percentage points.
It begins with gerrymandering. It leads to this tyranny of an unaccountable minority. And it ends with an entire decade in which the people’s representatives in Wisconsin have placed themselves beyond the reach of the people.
Legislators can brazenly ignore the will of the people because they have gerrymandered the maps to ensure their legislative majorities survive, knowing that the maps render them bulletproof from facing consequences at the polls. The gerrymandered legislature then enacted one of the most restrictive voter-ID laws in the nation, which one study found could have deterred as many as 23,000 voters in the state’s two largest counties alone in 2016 from casting a ballot — more than the total number of votes by which Donald Trump carried the state. They forced voters to the polls during a pandemic. They loosened the state’s gun laws, then ignored the governor’s efforts to enact broadly popular gun control. And now, even with citizens in the streets and the unprecedented sight of the Bucks walking away from a playoff game, MLB’s Milwaukee Brewers boycotting play, and the NFL’s Green Bay Packers refusing to practice, the legislature remains unreachable.
Wisconsin has become a laboratory for enduring minority rule. Every legislative seat in the nation will be redrawn next year after the census. Your state might be next.
David Daley is the author of the national bestseller “Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count” and “Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy.”
Black Woman of the Day: Regina King makes history at Venice Film Festival
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NBA Bubble Protest Over Shooting Death of Salaythis Melvin
The NBA bubble was the scene of a Black Lives Matter protest Saturday, as protesters were trying to get the attention of athletes who have led the charge in recent months for social justice.
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This is how MPD treats a thug that fired 40 rounds at them
A mfkr shoots 40 rounds at the police
After shooting his wife multiple times and killing his wife. he also shot 2 of his next door neighbors, 2 sisters who happen to be black
Interestingly enough he was arrested without a scratch on him after a brief stand off..
Also none of his charges were for the shots at the officers on the scene
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Jason Michael Mesich, 48, faces three 2nd-degree murder charges for the death of his wife, and for shooting two sisters who are his Bloomington neighbors — including a 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s office says officers were called to a home on the 8300 block of 15th Avenue Sunday at about 11 p.m. on several reports of gunshots being fired and possible victims. They arrived to the sound of more gunshots being fired inside the home.
Jason Michael Mesich (credit: Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office)
Officers went to the home’s detached garage and found the body of 47-year-old Angela Lynn Mesich. She had been shot several times in the neck and upper torso.
After a standoff, police entered the home and found Jason Mesich in the basement, where he continued firing a gun, screaming and throwing things. He eventually surrendered to officers. Mesich is estimated to have fired 40 rounds during his standoff with police.
Officers then learned two of Mesich’s next-door neighbors, who are sisters, had been shot. WCCO spoke with the victims’ aunt Monday, who identified them as 12-year-old Makayla and 29-year-old Canisha. Makayla was shot in the head. She is in critical condition as of Tuesday, and her family says she’s heavily sedated. Canisha was shot several times in the legs and left hip, and is in serious condition. She’s unable to see her infant in the hospital due to COVID-related restrictions.
The mother of the sisters told investigators the family was packing up a moving truck at the time. She said Mesich came out of nowhere and opened fire on the family, hitting the sisters but missing others. The victims’ aunt also told WCCO that Makayla shielded her 1-year-old niece from Mesich. Most of the family was already in the moving truck and another vehicle, and they transported the sisters to a local hospital.
Canisha, 29, and Makayla,12 (credit: Rev. Marcia Westbrook)
Mesich told investigators that he doesn’t remember much about the shootings, but said it all started because he and his wife had an argument in the garage about the couple’s lack of sex. He said he “probably” went into the home and got a gun. When he returned to the garage, he said his wife tried to hit him, so he punched her in the collarbone with two fists. He then said she told him to shoot her, and that he assumed he did so, and assumed he “emptied” the gun to make sure she was dead.
When asked about shooting the sisters next door, Mesich said they were not “good neighbors,” and that “he hated all children.”
Investigators later found several guns and hundreds of rounds of ammo inside Mesich’s home.
He is currently in the Hennepin County Jail, and could face up to 80 years in prison if convicted.
A GoFundMe account has been set up to help the sisters’ family.
A mfkr shoots 40 rounds at the police
After shooting his wife multiple times and killing his wife. he also shot 2 of his next door neighbors, 2 sisters who happen to be black
Interestingly enough he was arrested without a scratch on him after a brief stand off..
Also none of his charges were for the shots at the officers on the scene
Charges: Jason Mesich Shot Wife To Death In Bloomington, Then Shot 2 Sisters Who Lived Next Door
Jason Michael Mesich, 48, faces three 2nd-degree murder charges for the death of his wife, and for shooting two sisters who are his Bloomington neighbors -- including a 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head.
minnesota.cbslocal.com
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Jason Michael Mesich, 48, faces three 2nd-degree murder charges for the death of his wife, and for shooting two sisters who are his Bloomington neighbors — including a 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s office says officers were called to a home on the 8300 block of 15th Avenue Sunday at about 11 p.m. on several reports of gunshots being fired and possible victims. They arrived to the sound of more gunshots being fired inside the home.
Jason Michael Mesich (credit: Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office)
Officers went to the home’s detached garage and found the body of 47-year-old Angela Lynn Mesich. She had been shot several times in the neck and upper torso.
After a standoff, police entered the home and found Jason Mesich in the basement, where he continued firing a gun, screaming and throwing things. He eventually surrendered to officers. Mesich is estimated to have fired 40 rounds during his standoff with police.
Officers then learned two of Mesich’s next-door neighbors, who are sisters, had been shot. WCCO spoke with the victims’ aunt Monday, who identified them as 12-year-old Makayla and 29-year-old Canisha. Makayla was shot in the head. She is in critical condition as of Tuesday, and her family says she’s heavily sedated. Canisha was shot several times in the legs and left hip, and is in serious condition. She’s unable to see her infant in the hospital due to COVID-related restrictions.
The mother of the sisters told investigators the family was packing up a moving truck at the time. She said Mesich came out of nowhere and opened fire on the family, hitting the sisters but missing others. The victims’ aunt also told WCCO that Makayla shielded her 1-year-old niece from Mesich. Most of the family was already in the moving truck and another vehicle, and they transported the sisters to a local hospital.
Canisha, 29, and Makayla,12 (credit: Rev. Marcia Westbrook)
Mesich told investigators that he doesn’t remember much about the shootings, but said it all started because he and his wife had an argument in the garage about the couple’s lack of sex. He said he “probably” went into the home and got a gun. When he returned to the garage, he said his wife tried to hit him, so he punched her in the collarbone with two fists. He then said she told him to shoot her, and that he assumed he did so, and assumed he “emptied” the gun to make sure she was dead.
When asked about shooting the sisters next door, Mesich said they were not “good neighbors,” and that “he hated all children.”
Investigators later found several guns and hundreds of rounds of ammo inside Mesich’s home.
He is currently in the Hennepin County Jail, and could face up to 80 years in prison if convicted.
A GoFundMe account has been set up to help the sisters’ family.
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