At this stage, how do we know that anything the ma$$ media claims is real?
And I can here you out there now asking "But why?"
"Any gains made in the protest movement.... lost."
Cui bono, and the tone from authority and ma$$ media has certainly shifted when they are the ones being assassinated instead of doing the assassinating.
"Before shooting two officers, N.Y. gunman bragged about his plans" by J. David Goodman and Al Baker, New York Times December 22, 2014
Already stinks, and as I got into reading I realized the article is a complete rewrite.
Officers, who in recent weeks had felt besieged by political attacks, found themselves contemplating the specter of far greater peril.
From Brooklyn to Memphis, at least a dozen violent threats against police on social media stoked fear and prompted rapid investigations. Most, so far, were found to pose no credible risk to officers.
Related: Police nationwide were on heightened alert because of protests and threats over excessive use of force
Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a Brooklyn native with a troubled past and a history of arrests mostly in Georgia and Ohio, had made a series of similar online threats before the killings, which officials called an “assassination.”
Here we go!
He had drifted in and out of jail and the lives of his relatives, who told the police of undiagnosed mental problems. And hours before he killed the officers, he tried to kill an ex-girlfriend in Maryland, police said.
For weeks before the shooting, Brinsley frequently posted to his Instagram account antigovernment and antipolice messages. He also shared thoughts of personal despair, Chief Robert K. Boyce, the head of detectives, said Sunday.
This is stinking like a staged and scripted set-up if not outright fiction.
Brinsley’s family told the police of his troubled childhood marked by episodes of violence. But any mental health issues went ‘‘undiagnosed,’’ his mother told investigators.
Despite a history of 20 arrests and a prison sentence for a loaded firearm, when Brinsley shot his former girlfriend, Shaneka Thompson, early Saturday in Owings Mills, Md., it was “the only real act of violence that we could find in his career,” Boyce said.
Less than 20 minutes after shooting her, Brinsley called her mother with Thompson’s iPhone to apologize, and several times he later called to check on her condition.
As Brinsley rode north on Interstate 95 in a Bolt bus, officers in Baltimore County were tracking the phone.
Isn't that interesting? Police were not waiting at the bus station?
Once he arrived in New York City just before 11 a.m., Brinsley promised even greater violence, this time directed at police, in his Instagram posts....
In case you haven't noticed, I'm not for the killing of anyone; however, I'm not going to stand in front of the mob to protect elite liars and looters, either.
The killing of the two police officers, which Police Commissioner William J. Bratton has called an "assassination," comes at a moment of heightened tension between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Police Department. In a show of disapproval and disrespect, police officers, led by union officials, turned their backs to him on Saturday night when the mayor went to the hospital.
Isn't that insubordination in our civilian-ruled democracy?
Flags across the city flew at half-staff on Sunday as officials from President Barack Obama to Attorney General Eric Holder condemned the murder of the officers and offered their condolences.
Boyce said the early investigation into Brinsley has not revealed gang affiliations or links to extremist groups.
Another lone nutty, huh?
Brinsley had been arrested at least 19 times, Boyce said, most of those occurring in Georgia. The charges included disorderly conduct and shoplifting. He spent about two years in jails in Georgia related to a weapons possession charge, Boyce said.
The police would not speculate on any mental health issues Brinsley might have had, saying only that his family said that he was on medication at some point for behavioral issues.
During an August 2011 plea hearing in Cobb County, Ga., he was asked: "Have you ever been a patient in a mental institution or under the care of a psychiatrist or psychologist?"
According to a court record, he responded yes. The record did not provide any other details.
Last year, Boyce said, Brinsley tried to hang himself. As his family had grown increasingly worried about his behavior, Brinsley seems to have bounced among different residences.
Obama joined the ranks of public officials who expressed outrage and sorrow. "I ask people to reject violence and words that harm, and turn to words that heal - prayer, patient dialogue, and sympathy for the friends and family of the fallen," Obama said in a statement.
When will you reject violence, you mass-murdering war criminal?
The tension between City Hall and the Police Department is worse than it has been in years.
Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, laid the blame for the deaths of the officers squarely at the feet of the mayor. "That blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor," he said.
Wow! Those are words of war! I'd watch my back, Bill!
For weeks, ever since a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of Garner, many police officers have talked about feeling as if they are under siege.
Yeah, the poor, murderous police who will now exact vengeance upon the people.
Former Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, speaking on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, said that the antipathy stretched back to the campaign, after de Blasio ran on what Kelly called an "anti-cop" platform.
As protesters took to the streets in largely peaceful demonstrations, their rhetoric was often vitriolic and personal. And two police officers were assaulted last weekend by a small group of protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Yeah, never mind a war-mongering media when it comes to rhetoric that is vitriolic and personal.
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Related: Two NYPD officers were working during an anti-terrorism drill when they were shot
So who really killed them?
"Civil rights leaders fear backlash from killings of officers" by Rik Stevens, Associated Press December 22, 2014
NEW YORK — Civil rights leaders Sunday condemned the ambush killings of two New York police officers and expressed fear that the backlash over the bloodshed could derail the protest movement that has grown out of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
What this psyop was intended to do even if the protests were controlled opposition. Actually played their role quite well.
In the hours after the killing of the officers, police union officials and politicians accused those who have protested the deaths of Garner and Brown of fanning antipolice fervor.
The Garner and Brown families issued statements denouncing the officers’ killings, while civil rights leaders took to the airwaves to try to put distance between the movement and the crime.
I've got plenty of distance.
‘‘To link the criminal insanity of a lone gunman to the peaceful protests and aspirations of many people across the country, including the attorney general, the mayor, and even the president, is simply not fair,’’ NAACP president Cornell William Brooks said on CBS’s ‘‘Face the Nation.’’
It's the same old script time and again.
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Following Saturday’s ambush, former mayor Rudy Giuliani lashed out at Mayor Bill de Blasio, President Obama, and Attorney General Eric Holder. Speaking on Fox News, Giuliani said, ‘‘We’ve had four months of propaganda starting with the president that everybody should hate the police.’’
I've lived my whole life under propaganda.
‘‘They have created an atmosphere of severe, strong, antipolice hatred in certain communities, and for that, they should be ashamed of themselves,’’ he said.
In a tweet, George Pataki, the former governor, called the killings the ‘‘predictable outcome of divisive, anticop rhetoric’’ of Holder and de Blasio.
The accusations stoked fears that any gains made in the protest movement would be lost.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has called for peaceful protests, condemned ‘‘eye-for-an-eye’’ violence and called it absurd to blame protesters or politicians for the officers’ deaths....
President Obama condemned the attack in a statement released Saturday night: ‘‘The officers who serve and protect our communities risk their own safety for ours every single day — and they deserve our respect and gratitude every single day. Tonight, I ask people to reject violence and words that harm and turn to words that heal — prayer, patient dialogue, and sympathy for the friends and family of the fallen.’’
De Blasio said, ‘‘We depend on our police to protect us against forces of criminality and evil. They are a foundation of our society, and when they are attacked, it is an attack on the very concept of decency.’’
I haven't been the only one to say it: the criminality and evil is in the authorities themselves these days.
‘‘Our nation must always honor the valor — and the sacrifices — of all law enforcement officers with a steadfast commitment to keeping them safe,’’ Holder said. “This means forging closer bonds between officers and the communities they serve.’’
This is such a fascist nation now. Worship authority, or else.
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Did you SEE WHO is leading the CHARGE?
Speaking of racial incitement, the Globe did a great job of that on Sunday morning:
"The killing drew some local notice — and crowds to the courtroom — but soon the story of Madison Harris was nearly lost in time. Now 70 years later, a civil-rights team at Northeastern University has dug it up again, a fragment from what seemed a distant time in the long, brutal history of race in America.
Now, after the fury over the deaths last summer of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York, it doesn’t seem so distant at all.
A mission to document deaths
Since 2007, Northeastern law students have documented about 350 racially motivated killings, often by piecing together obscure clues buried in government archives and newspaper clippings.
It is painstaking work, aided by Northeastern journalism students, in pursuit of a simply stated but staggeringly ambitious goal: to identify every racially linked murder in the South between 1930 and 1970....
My jaw dropped when I saw this as the front-page feature. It's not to excuse past injustices or not recognize history, but the bias shown the Globe is astounding. Gonna pick on the South and distort the issue to push a racial angle when we are all subject to the tyranny of AmeriKan authority.
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They want it to echo across generations.....
Two N.Y. police officers shot to death in patrol car; suspect is a suicide by Benjamin Mueller and Al Baker, New York Times December 21, 2014
Same shell game as above so it must be the echo.
The double killing comes at a moment when protests about police tactics have roiled the city.
Yeah, how convenient for the cops.
The Massachusetts State Police issued a message of condolence for the New York officers shot Saturday.
“We are heartbroken over the shooting of the two #NYPD officers. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim’s families, friends, and coworkers,” the State Police tweeted Saturday afternoon.
Other police departments across the state also sent comments through social media, expressing horror and sorrow.
Somehow that made the cut.
What did not:
The shooting comes at a time when police in New York and nationwide are being heavily criticized for their tactics following the chokehold death of Eric Garner.
Btw, whatever happened with that stairway shooting?
Demonstrators around the country have stages die-ins and other protests since a grand jury decided Dec. 3 not to indict the officer involved in Garner's death, a decision that closely followed a Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a white officer in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old.
Several New York officers were assaulted during a demonstration that drew thousands to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Tony Herbert, a community activist who often speaks out on policing issues, went to the area near the shooting Saturday to express his outrage at it and support for police.
"We've been denouncing violence in our community," no matter whom it's directed at, he said. He's concerned that some "agitators" might seek to cast the shooting as an outcome of amid the anger over Garner's death.
"It sullies the opportunity for us to make inroads to build the relationships we need to build to get the trust back... This hurts," Herbert said, shaking his head.
The president of the police officers union, Patrick Lynch, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have been locked in a public battle over treatment of officers following the decision not to indict the officer in Garner's death.
Even after he endorsed them?
Just days ago, Lynch suggested police officers sign a petition that demanded the mayor not attend their funerals should they die on the job.
The last shooting death of an NYPD officer came in December 2011, when 22-year veteran Peter Figoski responded to a report of a break-in at a Brooklyn apartment. He was shot in the face and killed by one of the suspects hiding in a side room when officers arrived. The triggerman, Lamont Pride, was convicted of murder and sentenced in 2013 to 45 years to life in prison."
Where is he serving his time?
"US to sue N.Y. City over treatment of teen inmates at Rikers Island" by Benjamin Weiser, New York Times December 19, 2014
NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors plan to sue New York over widespread civil rights violations in the handling of adolescent inmates at Rikers Island, making clear their dissatisfaction with the city’s progress in reining in brutality by guards and improving conditions at the jail complex, a new court filing shows.
I'm not excusing the conduct of authority at all; however, there is something ironic about a federal government that tortures charging anyone with rights violations.
The decision to take the city to court comes more than four months after the office of Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, issued a blistering report that cited a pervasive and “deep-seated culture of violence” directed at teen inmates at Rikers. The report found rampant use of excessive force by correction officers, the overuse of solitary confinement, and an ineffectual system of investigating assaults by guards.
Just the forces protecting us from criminality and evil, that's all.
That report, which followed a 2½-year investigation by Bharara’s office, proposed more than 10 pages of remedial measures that prosecutors said the city’s Correction Department would have to put in place, and warned that if the city did not work toward that goal, the Justice Department could file a lawsuit and seek court-ordered reforms.
“While the United States had hoped to reach a speedy resolution with the city on these critical issues,” Bharara said in the filing Thursday, “thus far insufficient progress has been made.”
In September, Bharara issued a strongly worded statement after The New York Times reported that city officials had withheld key portions of a report on violence at Rikers from his office during its investigation and that officials involved in reporting distorted data had been promoted. Bharara said the revelations did “not instill confidence in us that the city will quickly meet its constitutional obligations.”
In its filing, Bharara’s office asked a federal judge in Manhattan for permission to join in an existing class-action lawsuit, Nunez v. City of New York, over brutality at Rikers that had been filed by the Legal Aid Society and two private law firms, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady and Ropes & Gray. In contrast to Bharara’s investigation of the treatment of adolescent inmates, the Nunez case focuses on all Rikers inmates, regardless of age.
Rather than a file separate lawsuit, Bharara’s office said in its filing Thursday that it would be most efficient to become part of the Nunez case and resolve all of the claims “with a single, comprehensive remedy,” since settlement discussions had been underway for months in that case. The prosecutors said the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio and the plaintiff’s lawyers in the Nunez lawsuit had agreed to the government’s joining that case, a legal maneuver that they said “will facilitate much needed reforms at Rikers in the fastest and most efficient manner.”
“Given the longstanding sad state of affairs at Rikers Island, our impatience is more than understandable,” Bharara said at a news conference Thursday. “As I’ve said before, one way or another, we will get enduring and enforceable reform at Rikers Island.”
The federal filing came the day after de Blasio visited Rikers and declared that “progress is being made quickly” at the jail complex. De Blasio cited changes his administration has made, including ending the use of solitary confinement for 16- and 17-year-old inmates.
Is there any public official in AmeriKa that isn't a liar?
Bharara’s office said in its filing that it had told city officials that any settlement must include an agreement for a judge to continue supervising the case. A judge could also appoint a monitor to oversee the city’s compliance.
The government’s filings included a 36-page lawsuit it is seeking to file in conjunction with the Nunez case. The complaint largely mirrors federal prosecutors’ conclusions in their detailed 79-page report of Aug. 4, but Bharara’s office also cited the revelations published in The Times in September about the sanitizing of a report on distorted violence data and the promotion of top officials who were involved in the episode.
What is this, VA?
The filing pointed to the episode as an example of the “failure to put in place qualified managers and supervisors who are committed to and capable of reducing the level of violence.”
The filings were signed by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who had to approve the decision to sue, and two assistant federal attorneys, Jeffrey K. Powell and Emily E. Daughtry, both of the Southern District’s civil rights unit.
Jonathan Chasan, a senior lawyer for Legal Aid’s Prisoners’ Rights Project, called the decision by Bharara’s office a “historic moment.”
“The department has failed to take meaningful measures to reduce or eliminate staff brutality,” he said.
Marti Adams, a spokeswoman for the de Blasio administration, said in a statement that city officials had already been implementing many of the reforms sought by US prosecutors and lawyers in the Nunez case.
“We are beginning to unwind the decades of neglect that have led to unacceptable levels of violence on Rikers Island,” she said.
That's because AmeriKan governments at all levels serve well-connected corporate interests and themselves first (in that order).
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Be careful driving away from the jail:
"Reformers target traffic courts after Ferguson" by Eli Yokley and Mitch Smith, New York Times December 19, 2014
ST. LOUIS — Missouri’s attorney general said Thursday the state would sue 13 of this city’s suburbs, accusing them of ignoring a law that sets limits on revenue derived from traffic fines. The move comes after widespread allegations of harassment and profiteering by small municipal governments against the poor and minorities.
Related: Modern Day Robin Hoods
You got a problem with that?
The attorney general, Chris Koster, a Democrat, spoke in downtown St. Louis and suggested that more sweeping changes could be needed to bring municipalities into line.
Amid racially charged protests over the death of Michael Brown at the hands of a police officer in nearby Ferguson in August, demonstrators have frequently complained about a perceived hypervigilance to minor traffic violations in St. Louis County’s patchwork of 90 municipalities. Many of those cities have their own courts and police departments, but some are only a few square blocks in size and have populations smaller than some high schools.
“When traffic ticketing is used to promote public safety, that’s appropriate,” Koster said. “When traffic tickets are used to promote revenue, that’s inappropriate.” Such practices, he said, are predatory.
Where you been? This has been going on for decades.
Ferguson, with roughly 20,000 residents, was not among the suburbs sued by Koster.
It is much larger than many nearby communities in the northern part of the county that were targeted by Koster’s legal action.
Though protests have continued on an almost daily basis, there are signs that the St. Louis area is returning to some level of normality.
Simply meaning the agenda-pushing pre$$ is going to start ignoring the controlled opposition fools.
Governor Jay Nixon allowed a monthlong state of emergency to expire Wednesday, resulting in the withdrawal of the Missouri National Guard.
Conversation continues about perceived racial inequities around St. Louis. On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit against the Ferguson-Florissant School District, contending that the district’s method of electing school board members dilutes the influence of African-American voters.
Only 1 of 7 board members is black, though African-Americans constitute a majority of the student body.
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Finally home:
"Boston police pledge vigilance after slayings in NYC" by Kathleen Conti and Jeremy Fox, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent December 21, 2014
Before shooting and killing the two officers in New York Saturday afternoon, the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, warned on social media he wanted to kill police in retaliation for Garner’s death, officials said.
That stinks.
Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said he is saddened by how quickly general sentiment toward police has shifted from that April evening in 2013 when people crowded the streets applauding police after the capture of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Watertown, to protesters shouting at them during recent demonstrations about the deaths of African-American men at the hands of white police.
“Walking out of Watertown, people were cheering us and I said that I’ve never had a greater feeling in the world that people were rallying around us,” he said.
“And it’s sad how things have changed . . . when, really, all we’ve been doing is working harder and making the city safer.”
Wow. Too bad we are not all a bunch of mindless morons cheering on tyrannical authority. Boo-hoo-hoo.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, who was also at the children’s Christmas party, called the killings a tragedy and denounced the use of violence against police as a means to get a message across.
Who knew Walsh was antiwar?
Governor Deval Patrick, also at the holiday party, said he hopes the relationships that State Police and local police have worked to forge in Massachusetts communities will help to prevent events like the one in New York City during the weekend....
I'm glad the elites are partying while most of us suffer.
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And who is watching over it all?
"News developments follow president on vacation" Associated Press December 22, 2014
KAILUA, Hawaii — President Obama and the first family spent the morning at their vacation home in the breezy seaside town of Kailua on Sunday before the president headed out to the golf course.
Obama was briefed on the shooting of two New York police officers, and White House officials were monitoring the situation closely, the White House Press Office said. He issued a statement condemning the slayings and calling on people to reject violence.
So how many more hitman assassinations of police are being planned across this country?
The aftermath of the North Korean security breach at Sony Entertainment also is looming over the vacation.
Nuclear war next year!
A handful of protesters stood outside the entrance of the vacation home Sunday, holding signs that read ‘‘Close Guantanamo now’’ and ‘‘No more drone killings.’’
Bicyclists and joggers passed by the property, taking little notice of the heavy security around the neighborhood. Obama’s Hawaii vacations have become part of the holiday experience on Oahu.
Obama left before noon to play golf at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Kaneohe Bay, an emerald-colored bay flanked by jagged mountains just north of Kailua.
Not worried about the volcano?
The president was joined for golf by friends Mike Brush, Joe Paulsen, and Bobby Titcomb.
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Isn't he now in reach of a North Korean nuke?
Related: New War With North Korea
I've been told Hitler planned wars while on vacation.
Well, time for lunch.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
Chicopee police seek man they say threatened officers
Now I know this a controlled propaganda campaign.
Mayor calls for suspension of protests in New York
Looks like I was RIGHT AGAIN!
Ex-officer not charged in fatal Milwaukee shooting
Christopher Manney shot 31-year-old Dontre Hamilton on April 30 after responding to a call for a check on a man sleeping in a downtown park. Manney said Hamilton resisted when he tried to frisk him. The two exchanged punches before Hamilton got hold of Manney’s baton and hit him on the neck, the former officer has said. Manney opened fire, hitting Hamilton 14 times.
But it was, always is, self defense for the cops.
Not a good enough excuse for a citizen, though.
Convict in 1964 civil-rights deaths won’t confess
It's the mass media and propaganda pre$$ that are inciting racial strife, and then they claim that "perceived injustice is an American issue, not a black or white issue."
That's what I've been saying!
Obama to nominate Ga. prosecutor for Justice post
Medford police deliver cheer to soldiers
City officer fires at man said to point gun at him
Appeals Court finds Boston officers were justified in ordering men to exit vehicle
Time for me to exit.
