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Source Article from Hits: 43 Web Inventor Urges Users To Seek ‘Complete Control’ Of Data March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Web Inventor Urges Users To Seek ‘Complete Control’ Of Data Above Photo: AFP / PHILIPPE DESMAZES World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Monday slammed the increasing commodification of personal information and appealed for internet users to strive to maintain “complete control” of their data Berners-Lee credited with creating the web in 1989 is on a mission to save his invention from a range of problems increasingly dominating online life including misinformation and a lack of data protection “You should have complete control of your data It’s not oil It’s not a commodity” he told a small group of journalists gathered at Europe’s physics lab CERN where he first came up with the idea for the web 30 years ago When it comes to personal data “you should not be able to sell it for money” he said “because it’s a right” Berners-Lee who last year launched a development platform called “Solid” aimed at giving users control of their data described a frightening future if we do not rise to the challenge of privacy protection “There is a possible future you can imagine in which your browser keeps track of everything that you buy” he said In this scenario “your browser actually has more information then Amazon does” he said warning against complacency in expecting no harm will come from this loss of control over one’s own data “We shouldn’t assume that the world is going to stay like it is” he said People needed to do more to protect themselves and their data and not to simply expect that governments will look out for their best interests he argued Berners-Lee told a Washington Post event last week that he launched the Solid projet in response to concerns about personal data being bought and sold without the consent of users – ‘Don’t fail the web – The platform aimed “to separate the apps from the data storage” so users could decide where and how they would share their personal information he said He acknowledged Monday that enforcible laws would be needed to protect the most sensitive personal data “Sometimes it has to be legislation which says personal data you know genetic data should never be used” he said In addition to his work advocating for data protection Berners-Lee has launched a “Contract for the Web” aimed at ensuring the integrity of online information In a letter published Monday he hailed the opportunities the web had created giving marginalised groups a voice and making daily life easier But he warned “it has also created opportunity for scammers given a voice to those who spread hatred and made all kinds of crimes easier to commit” He was nevertheless optimistic that the problems could be fixed “Given how much the web has changed in the past 30 years it would be defeatist and unimaginative to assume that the web as we know it can’t be changed for the better in the next 30” he wrote “If we give up on building a better web now then the web will not have failed us We will have failed the web” Source Article from Hits: 38 Privatization Is Fundamentally An Attack On Democracy The Teachers Strikes Show Why March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Privatization Is Fundamentally An Attack On Democracy The Teachers Strikes Show Why Above Photo: Charter schools are anti-democratic by nature Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images One key feature of the Trump era is a renewed public focus on the issue of democracy Last year’s congressional elections had the highest midterm voter turnout since 1966 Americans across the country have poured into the streets and packed the halls of Congress to protest President Trump’s power grabs Over one million people convicted of felonies have regained the right to vote in Florida thanks to a successful statewide ballot measure New York City residents pushed their elected officials to all but force the world’s richest person Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to walk away from 3 billion in tax breaks But leave it to public school teachers to educate us about a direct attack on democracy that’s been hiding right under our noses since long before the Trump presidency: Privatization A wave of teacher strikes is highlighting the country’s deepening education funding crisis while also raising concerns over the expansion of charter schools Last month West Virginia teachers walked off the job to protest legislation that would have opened up the state to charter schools and private school vouchers Also in February teachers in Oakland walked off on strike in the midst of their district’s funding crisis which is being fueled by out-of-date state laws that allow a virtually unlimited number of charter schools to open And in January Los Angeles teachers walked out forcing their district to demand that state legislators reevaluate California’s charter school laws which they’ve agreed to do in the coming months West Virginia teacher Katie Endicott from Mingo County—which Trump won in 2016 with more than three-quarters of the vote—didn’t pull any punches “It’s infuriating that people would try to profit off us: Privatization would give millions of dollars to elites and it would create even more haves and have not” she told Eric Blanc for Jacobin There should be no doubt that charter schools are a form of privatization Despite being funded with public dollars they’re often less transparent about how they spend money than traditional neighborhood schools They also often rent buildings that weren’t designed as schools and they pay teachers who are less likely to be unionized much less Most significantly they’re managed by private boards of unelected members who get to decide how to spend public money with little to no accountability to parents teachers and voters Charter schools are in a word undemocratic Debates about privatization often shy away from questions of democracy and focus on costs—will outsourcing a public good say bussing save the government money Or on efficiency—if a charter school produces high test scores who cares how it does so Evidence that privatization saves money is mixed at best and charter schools generally perform about the same as neighborhood schools on standardized testing but that’s beside the point The more important question is: Will outsourcing take decision making power away from the public Charter schools certainly do For example Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy a prominent Washington DC charter school chain recently announced that it was closing one of its campuses with no warning Teachers found out in the middle of the school day when a journalist reached out for comment Some parents learned from seeing the closure reported on the news Because Chavez’s board meetings are closed to the public and even to employees no one knew the chain had been in financial trouble No one could weigh in on the decision outside of the board which includes a private equity investor and a retired ExxonMobil executive among other corporate leaders The board eventually explained that they decided to close the school to lease out its building or as they put it “monetize the asset” There are certainly great charter schools just like there are great neighborhood schools And it’s understandable that some parents want to send their kid to a different school particularly in poor and working-class communities where neighborhood schools are frequently starved of funding But when charter schools are allowed to replace neighborhood schools they threaten the democracy that makes public education truly public In that way charter schools are one tactic in a decades-long push by corporate-backed politicians wealthy funders and conservative think tanks to privatize public goods and services They fit right in with other forms of privatization like private prisons which turn our already out-of-control and inhumane criminal justice system into a gold rush for a handful of corporate executives and Wall Street banks and “public-private partnerships” which shield decisions about infrastructure spending from public view in complicated private financing contracts The through line is an attack on democracy Yes privatization is a corporate cash grab as well as a convenient way for politicians to dodge accountability and distract us from demanding higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy But most of all it takes decision-making power from the public and puts it into the hands of corporations It’s time to see privatization for what it is: An all-out attack on democratic decision making Thankfully by withholding their labor teachers across the country are showing us the most effective way to fight back Source Article from Hits: 38 Nuclear Powers Need To Disarm Before It’s Too Late March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Nuclear Powers Need To Disarm Before It’s Too Late Above Photo: Indian and Pakistani border guards shake hands at a village border crossing Photo: Koshy Koshy / Flickr The world’s major nuclear powers are treaty-bound to move towards disarmament The India-Pakistan clash underscores the need to get moving The recent military clash between India and Pakistan underscores the need for the major nuclear powers — the US Russia China Britain and France — finally to move toward fulfilling their obligations under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty NPT The Treaty’s purpose was not simply to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons but to serve as a temporary measure until Article VI could take effect: the “cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control” The 191 countries that signed the NPT — the most widely subscribed nuclear treaty on the planet — did so with the understanding that the major powers would de-nuclearize But in the 50 years since the Treaty was negotiated the nuclear powers have yet to seriously address eliminating weapons of mass destruction While over the years the Americans and the Russians have reduced the number of warheads in their arsenals they — along with China — are currently in the midst of a major modernization of their weapon systems Instead of a world without nuclear weapons it is a world of nuclear apartheid with the great powers making no move to downsize their conventional forces For non-nuclear armed countries this is the worst of all worlds There Are No “Local” Nuclear Wars The folly of this approach was all too clear in the recent India and Pakistan dustup While both sides appear to be keeping the crisis under control for the first time in a very long time two nuclear powers that border one another exchanged air and artillery attacks While so far things have not gotten out of hand both countries recently introduced military policies that make the possibility of a serious escalation very real On the New Delhi side is a doctrine called “Cold Start” that permits the Indian military to penetrate up to 30 kilometers deep into Pakistan if it locates or is in pursuit of “terrorists” On the Islamabad side is a policy that gives front-line Pakistani commanders the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons The possibility of a nuclear exchange is enhanced by the disparity between India and Pakistan’s military forces One does not have to be Carl von Clausewitz to predict the likely outcome of a conventional war between a country of 200 million people and a country of 13 billion people Pakistan reserves the right to use nuclear weapons first India has a “no first use” policy but with so many caveats that it is essentially meaningless In brief it wouldn’t take much to ignite a nuclear war between them If that happens its effects will not be just regional According to a study by the University of Colorado Rutgers University and UCLA if Pakistan and India exchanged 100 Hiroshima-sized nuclear warheads 15 kilotons they would not only kill or injure 45 million people but also generate enough smoke to plunge the world into a 25-year long nuclear winter Both countries have between 130 and 150 warheads apiece Temperatures would drop to Ice Age levels and worldwide rainfall would decline by 6 percent triggering major droughts The Asian Monsoon could be reduced by between 20 and 80 percent causing widespread regional starvation Between the cold and the drought global grain production could fall by 20 percent in the first half decade and by 10 to 15 percent over the following half decade Besides cold and drought the ozone loss would be between 20 and 50 percent which would not only further damage crops but harm sea life in particular plankton The reduction of the ozone layer would also increase the rate of skin cancers The study estimates that “two billion people who are now only marginally fed might die from starvation and disease in the aftermath of a nuclear conflict between Pakistan and India” In short there is no such thing as a “local” nuclear war The Ultimate Equalizer Article VI is the heart of the NPT because it not only requires abolishing nuclear weapons but also addresses the fears that non-nuclear armed nations have about the major powers’ conventional forces A number of countries — China in particular — were stunned by the conventional firepower unleashed by the US in its 2003 invasion of Iraq Though the US occupation of Iraq took a disastrous turn the ease with which US forces initially dispatched the Iraqi army was a sobering lesson for a lot of countries In part it is the conventional power of countries like the US that fuels the drive by smaller nations to acquire nuclear weapons Libya is a case in point That country voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons program in 2003 Less than seven years later Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown by the US and NATO At the time the North Koreans essentially said “we told you so” The NPT has done a generally good job of halting proliferation While Israel Pakistan India and North Korea have obtained nuclear weapons — the first three never signed the Treaty and North Korea withdrew in 2003 — South Africa abandoned its program Other nuclear-capable nations like Japan Brazil Argentina Iran South Korea and Saudi Arabia also haven’t joined the nuclear club — yet But it is hard to make a case for non-proliferation when the major nuclear powers insist on keeping their nuclear arsenals And one can hardly blame smaller countries for considering nuclear weapons as a counterbalance to the conventional forces of more powerful nations like the US and China If there is anything that might make Iran abandon its pledge not to build nuclear weapons it’s all the talk in Israel the US and Saudi Arabia about regime change in Tehran Regional Tinderboxes There are specific regional problems the solutions to which would reduce the dangers of a nuclear clash The US has taken some steps in that direction on the Korean Peninsula by downsizing its yearly war games with South Korea and Japan Declaring an end to the almost 70-year-old Korean war and withdrawing some US troops from South Korea would also reduce tensions Halting the eastward expansion of NATO and ending military exercises on the Russian border would reduce the chances of a nuclear war in Europe In South Asia the international community must become involved in a solution to the Kashmir problem Kashmir has already led to three wars between India and Pakistan and the 1999 Kargil incident came distressingly close to going nuclear This latest crisis started over a February 14 suicide bombing in Indian-occupied Kashmir that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries While a horrendous act the current government of India’s brutal crackdown in Kashmir has stirred enormous anger among the locals Kashmir is now one of the most militarized regions in the world and India dominates it through a combination of force and extra-judicial colonial laws — the Public Safety Act and the Special Powers Act — that allows it to jail people without charge and bestows immunity on the actions of the Indian army the paramilitaries and the police Since 1989 the conflict has claimed more than 70000 lives and seen tens of thousands of others “disappeared” injured or imprisoned India blames the suicide attack on Pakistan which has a past track record of so doing But that might not be the case here Even though a Pakistani-based terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammad JeM claims credit both sides need to investigate the incident It is not unlikely that the attack was homegrown — the bomber was Kashmiri — although possibly aided by JeM It is also true that Pakistan does not have total control over the myriad of militant groups that operate within its borders The Pakistani Army for instance is at war with its homegrown Taliban The Kashmir question is a complex one but solutions are out there The United Nations originally pledged to sponsor a plebiscite in Kashmir to let the local people decide if they want to be part of India Pakistan or independent Such a plebiscite should go forward What cannot continue is the ongoing military occupation of 10 million people most of whom don’t want India there Kashmir is no longer a regional matter Nuclear weapons threaten not only Pakistanis and Indians but indeed the whole world The major nuclear powers must begin to move toward fulfilling Article VI of the NPT or sooner or later our luck will run out Source Article from Hits: 41 Hiding Colombia’s Human Rights Nightmares In A Venezuelan Coup March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Hiding Colombia’s Human Rights Nightmares In A Venezuelan Coup Above Photo: Youtube Screenshot/ Occupycom It can – and should be said that our imperialist coups are never about democracy but more so about protecting our investments killing the threat of a good example and of spinning a media tale to veil the extreme failures of our own government – our own lack of democracy In this week’s special episode we sit down with two women from Colombia to hear about the violence and oppression that they face and the connection to US foreign policy and corporate malfeasance Meanwhile the Colombian president sets his sights on Venezuela leaving his own people and indeed the Venezuelan people in dire straits Source Article from Hits: 38 The Fight For Justice Takes Its Toll On Ferguson Activists March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Activists keep winding up dead under questionable circumstances but Black St Louis is a stressful and violent place “The suspicion in the activist community ‘speaks to the level of distrust for law enforcement in many communities in St Louis’” Ferguson activist Melissa Mckinnies sat on her couch her hair tied in a bun and spoke deliberately in a soft hushed tone The shades were drawn On October 17 Mckinnies had woken to a terrible event Early in the morning when her husband Derek came home from his nightshift he and Melissa noticed that her eldest son twenty-four-year-old Danye had left the light on in his basement bedroom When they went to check on him Danye was nowhere to be seen Panicked Mckinnies and her husband Derek searched the house and found a packed bag on the back porch as if he had been preparing to go somewhere Then she looked into the backyard and there she found her son hanging by a sheet from a tree mucus from his nose and mouth on his face The 911 operator said to take the body down from the tree Melissa recounted But before Derek and her brother Daniel who also lives with her untied the intricate knots on a sheet Daniel took pictures of the body using a flash because it was still dark she said The police came and ruled the death a suicide because there were no signs of trauma according to the medical investigator’s report St Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire clarified that the incident is classified as a suicide but the investigation is still open But Melissa was perturbed by details like Danye’s pants pulled down to his ankles and the fact that she believed Danye would not have killed himself She posted the pictures of Danye hanging on Facebook with the message “They lynched my baby” “Police came and ruled the death a suicide” Danye Jones’s death occurred against a background of severe distrust between local activists and law enforcement and the pictures went viral on social media Some users posted them as proof of a white supremacist plot to kill Ferguson protesters A GoFundMe was set up for Danye’s family to pay for their funeral expenses a private investigator and an independent autopsy and has received more than 49000 in donations The recently released medical examiner’s report however concluded that the cause of Danye’s death was suicide No autopsy was done on the body and a toxicology report showed nothing unusual According to the report family members told the medico-legal investigator Michael Tarticchio that Danye “had stated several times over the years that he felt depressed” he “recently started a real estate business which did not succeed and he was dealing with rumors of him being a homosexual” There was no trauma to Danye’s body other than the neck according to the report which also stated that the last time anyone heard from Danye was when he sent a text message to his sister Melisha at 9:30 PM the previous night saying “I’m sorry” to which she responded “I love you” Some activists distrust the medical examiner’s office because it failed to photograph Michael Brown’s body in August 2014 the examiner of that case told a grand jury “my battery in my camera died” Mckinnies dismissed the report’s account of her son’s death as lies saying that he had just started his business and was feeling confident about it that he was not depressed or worried about rumors of his sexuality and that there was a “knot on his face” and “indentations” on his wrists She did not dispute the text message however When asked about the message she said that Danye “was busy studying when she came over earlier on the sixteenth and didn’t speak to her when she came over and it made her upset with him” “At least five young men associated with the Ferguson protests who have died since 2014” Danye Jones is one of at least five young men associated with the Ferguson protests who have died since 2014 The night the grand jury acquitted Darren Wilson on November 24 2014 Deandre Joshua a childhood friend of a significant witness in the Mike Brown case was shot to death and found his body part-burned in his car That investigation is also still open according to the St Louis County Police Department In 2017 Edward Crawford who became famous after a picture of him throwing a tear gas canister went viral was found dead in a car Two women who were with him at the time said he shot himself and his death was classified as a “non-criminal incident” according to St Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Michelle Woodling Then in September 2016 one of the most outspoken activists of the Ferguson protests Darren Seals was found shot to death in a burned car A few weeks before his death Seals said in a Facebook Live post that he had been pulled over by police officers who had warned him to be careful about making anti-Trump posts online No assailant has been found and when asked about the progress of the investigation Shawn McGuire a spokesman for the St Louis County police department told me: “No update as of right now but it’s still an active investigation” The Ferguson activist community doesn’t believe the police have carried out a thorough investigation Pictures posted on Twitter claimed to show that bullet casings were found at the crime scene after the police had visited suggesting that they had missed potentially important evidence Jamala Rogers is a long-time organizer and a founder of the Organization for Black Struggle where she serves as executive director She lived through the violent repression against activists of the COINTELPRO era “It seems like for a lot of young people the Darren Seals case put a chill in them” she said “The authorities were basically saying it’s an open investigation but there’s no real investigation going on from what we can see” “The Ferguson activist community doesn’t believe the police have carried out a thorough investigation of Seals’ death” Finally on November 27 last year Bassem Masri a Palestinian-American activist well known for livestreaming protests died on a city bus reportedly of a heart attack He was thirty-one years old and struggled with drug addiction problems and his passing prompted an outpouring of homages to him on social media There has been no police inquiry into foul play for his death and a fellow activist and friend of Masri’s Umar Lee said that although he and Masri had received “many death threats” for being prominent Muslim protesters the targeting did not escalate into physical threats Lee lost his job as a taxi driver because of his association with the protests and said that other taxi company owners “had been told not to hire me or there would be problems” He later moved to find work in Texas where he lives now Many people I spoke with in St Louis stressed that it’s important to look at these deaths in their broader setting The city has the highest murder rate in America and the vast majority of both the victims and suspects are black The police have an extremely poor record of solving such murders Out of 187 homicides in 2018 in St Louis 108 remain unsolved at time of writing Darren Seals one of the two activists who were shot and found in burning cars had said in a November 2014 Facebook post that he had been shot before Some activists in St Louis also often suffer from depression and isolation and have limited access to therapy and other resources St Louis is one of the most segregated cities in the US with Delmar Blvd dividing the more affluent white population from neighborhoods that are up to 98 percent black in North St Louis The Ferguson protests in 2014 were a flash-point but “there’s a long history of this kind of violent reaction to black folks in St Louis generally and certainly violent reaction to protesters” said Blake Strode the executive director of ArchCity Defenders a nonprofit civil rights law firm that has worked on dozens of cases of police brutality “St Louis has the highest murder rate in America” Besides the unexplained deaths Ferguson activists have experienced myriad threats to their physical and mental well-being In 2014 one young activist Josh Williams was arrested after lighting a garbage can on fire while protesting the police killing of another black man Antonio Martin according to activists He was convicted a year later after pleading guilty for arson burglary and theft and sentenced to prison for eight years He told Vice News that his harsh sentence was to make an example out of him and that prison guards verbally abuse him with racist slurs Mya Aaten-White an artist who had been at many of the protests was shot in the head during one night after a demonstration in 2014 but survived The police never interviewed her yet they confiscated the bullet from doctors while Aaten-White was in the operating room at the hospital where she was being treated she said “I was walking to my car at night somebody shot at me I got hit I ended up in the hospital the evidence went missing there was no police investigation my case keeps bouncing around from department to department” she said Her assailant is still unknown and she has had to move homes twice because of constant harassment Other activists say they have suffered harassment for standing up to police violence “We beat the local police department” explained Tory Russell one of the leading activists from the beginning of the protests Now a volunteer working with his former high school’s football team Russell said that the fact that the St Louis police had to call on the National Guard for help humiliated the local police officers As payback for this humiliation he said “they will hurt you in many different ways” “Activists say they have suffered harassment for standing up to police violence” Melissa Mckinnies had gotten involved in protests in nearby Ferguson after the death of Michael Brown and often brought her sons Danye and Javon with her In an interview she did with Colorlines in 2014 that she recalls with pain today she said “I have sons and they’re Mike Brown’s age It would kill me if it was one of mine” As a member of the Lost Voices a grassroots group that camped outside on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson she was considered one of “the radical ones” she said By 2017 when a former St Louis police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted of murder charges relating to the 2011 killing of a twenty-four-year-old black man named Anthony Lamar Smith Mckinnies was one of the protest leaders It is rare that police face any disciplinary action but when they do it can be revealing In late November four St Louis officers were indicted on felony charges for beating an undercover cop during the 2017 Jason Stockley protests and then lying about the incident to the FBI The officers thought that the man they were beating a twenty-two-year veteran of the force named Luther Hall was a protester Hall had problems eating afterward and lost twenty pounds because kicks to the face inflamed his jaw muscles Some of the text messages the officers sent to one another that night while on duty were released to the public illustrating their excitement at the prospect of using violence “It’s gonna get IGNORANT tonight!!” Officer Dustin Boone texted to his colleague “But it’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!” Boone also described a black police officer he was working alongside as “basically a thug that’s on our side!!” During one of these Jason Stockley protests a white man on a motorcycle buzzed Tory Russell and other protesters gathered in the street Later Russell received a message on Twitter reading “next time I’m not gonna get that close without doing something” “You like oh shit You just live with your head on swivel Ain’t nobody safe” Russell said “It’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads” Mckinnies said that in the month or so prior to Danye’s death she counted seven occasions on which a car outfitted with tinted windows and a single white man sitting in it was parked outside her house on a residential street She said that her husband Derek took a picture of the car one time before it sped off Russell said he has seen a gray Chevy Impala owner unknown on multiple occasions outside his house It’s impossible to say without further evidence whether the presence of strange cars is a sign of actual monitoring or mere coincidence But police the FBI and Homeland Security have monitored black activists throughout the country especially after Michael Brown’s killing The Intercept reported last year “at the height of 2014’s Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson Missouri FBI agents tracked the movements of an activist flying in from New York” An FBI document they obtained shows the agency’s email correspondences concerning the organization of a stakeout at a location connected with Black Lives Matter in 2014 Documents obtained by The Intercept and Vice News showed that the Department of Homeland Security regularly tracked activists’ social media accounts and protests in St Louis and Baltimore The FBI’s counterterrorism division has also classified some activists as “Black Identity Extremists” and in a 2017 intelligence assessment the agency argued that in the wake of Michael Brown’s shooting “it is very likely Black Identity Extremist BIE perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence” The Congressional Black Caucus and others have called the report’s integrity into question and California congresswoman Karen Bass has called for its retraction arguing that the term has no scientific basis “Police the FBI and Homeland Security have monitored black activists throughout the country especially after Michael Brown’s killing” The Rev Darryl Gray a well-known figure in Ferguson has been fighting for social and racial justice for decades and participated in the 2014 protests In 2017 after leaving a radio interview following a trip outside St Louis his wife called to tell him there was a suspicious package on the floor of the driver’s seat in his locked parked rental vehicle He called Heather Taylor president of the Ethical Society of Police who then called the chief of the division at the time John Hayden Hayden is now the chief of St Louis City police Hayden cordoned off the area called in the bomb squad and was able to have the package X-rayed “Chief Hayden came outside of the police tape and said ‘Reverend Gray I have good news and bad news’” Rev Gray recounted “And I’m sitting here thinking well first of all there can’t be any good news in any of this But I asked ‘What’s the good news’ He said ‘It’s not a bomb’ And I said ‘What’s the bad news’ He said ‘It’s a six-foot python it’s a snake a live snake’” Reverend Gray has “not heard one word from the police that came to that investigation” St Louis city police spokesman Sgt Keith Barrett confirmed that the Chief Hayden “was on the scene during this incident” and that “it still has not been determined how or by whom the snake was placed in the truck” Besides the snake Rev Gray has also received text messages from an unknown number with pictures of his wife on three occasions with one of the messages reading “Don’t underestimate our reach” “Someone was letting me know that they had access to us to our physical bodies” Gray said Aside from the pictures of his wife Gray also received an anonymous message saying “I see you’re at a meeting I’m going to visit your home” Shortly thereafter an unknown white man came to his house and asked Gray’s wife who was standing at the front door talking to a neighbor for Gray’s whereabouts “It’s not a bomb it’s a six-foot python” The suspicion in the activist community “speaks to the level of distrust for law enforcement in many communities in St Louis” said ArchCity Defenders director Blake Strode “It speaks to what many people have experienced themselves with law enforcement and what they believe law enforcement to be capable of” Another prominent activist who was recently elected as a state representative Bruce Franks Jr was violently beaten and maced in December 2014 even though he was obeying police orders Franks Jr filed a lawsuit for excessive force with the help of ArchCity Defenders and in November 2018 courts ordered the release of bodycam footage taken the night of his assault The video showed officers kicking him and beating him with a baton while he was on the ground and repeatedly yelling “I’m not fighting!” White officers were then seen complaining about an eyewitness who filmed the encounter “one of the fucking white bitches caught me spraying everybody” and how the gas station where events were happening was a “terrible place to fight because of the fucking lights” Another officer bragged about “kicking him like there was no fucking tomorrow” while the one with the body cam spoke proudly about macing and kicking people until another cop suggested he turn his camera off In a twist of fate that illustrates the level of familiarity between police and protesters Anderer was one of the responding detectives at the Mckinnies residence when Danye Jones was found hanging according to the police incident report St Louis police have by far the highest rate of shootings in the country with more than five per 100000 people and most of the victims of police shootings are black Even black St Louis police officers believe the St Louis police are racist There are essentially segregated police unions in St Louis the Fraternal Order of Police white and the Ethical Society of Police black “Even black St Louis police officers believe the St Louis police are racist” “We understand that they see us as the enemy They see us as the direct problem” Ohun Ashe said According to activists the police know the protesters by name and often know where they live what cars they drive and who their family members are Ashe remembers a time she was pulled over and told “you’re the protester” On another occasion she related: I was already parked on the side and the officer came up and once he ran my name he took me to jail I was hit in jail by correctional officers I was pushed I literally thought I was going to die in jail that night On top of that I was cuffed with my hands behind my back to a metal bar for hours I had to use the bathroom they would not let me use the bathroom They didn’t even tell me why I was in there when I kept asking them when would I be released ArchCity Defenders director Blake Strode said that many activists experience this kind of profiling “A lot of the protest leaders and people who are seasoned at this point in engaging in protest know the officers the officers know them and so they’re always on some level of alert in moments where law enforcement’s present because they become targets” he said The groundswell that the Ferguson protest movement created has led to significant electoral victories Former county prosecutor Bob McCulloch who had held the office since 1991 and enjoyed strong support from police unions in part for refusing to indict officers who had shot black people was voted out this past September in favor of a more progressive candidate Wesley Bell Bell’s underdog win created hope that the first black county prosecutor could bring positive change for a community that has long faced discriminatory law enforcement In his first days in office Bell fired the assistant prosecutor whose failures in presenting evidence were seen as partly responsible for the grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson at the Michael Brown hearing Bell also announced that he would eliminate cash bail for misdemeanors no longer prosecute minor marijuana possession and carry out a number of other reforms aimed at dismantling the most racially abusive effects of the St Louis County criminal justice system’s policies “I literally thought I was going to die in jail that night” Although he is the son of a police officer Bell has already run into resistance: his assistant prosecutors voted to join the St Louis County police union ahead of his January term start A St Louis Post-Dispatch columnist called the timing “odd if not outrageous” in part because the assistant prosecutors are voting to join the police union not an association of lawyers The county police union is represented in public by its business manager Jeff Roorda who was fired from a previous post for lying on a police report and whom the sitting mayor has said in 2017 when she was an alderwoman should be fired from his current post for racist comments Bell also faces skepticism from some activists “You’re a prosecutor so unfortunately your job is gonna be locking up black dudes” commented Tory Russell “No matter how you cut it you’re gonna lock up more black people than you’re gonna let go” Although less an object of national attention Kim Gardner was elected circuit attorney in 2016 and has made waves by carrying out ambitious reforms She has made a list of twenty-nine police officers whose testimonies can no longer be considered credible in future prosecutions because they have lied during previous cases used intimidation to obtain charges or were under investigation This move unprecedented in recent St Louis history has already made her some enemies in the law enforcement community Despite these developments political change is slow and a sense of dread about the immediate future weighs on many people’s minds One of the most pressing issues for activists is a lack of resources for physical and mental health to treat the anxiety and effects of hostility “that wears on your mind and your body” Russell said “Some days I just wanna lay in that corner just lay in a dark place” The threat of violence facing the very community that is fighting for the wellbeing of black lives requires an urgent response Ohun Ashe said: “We cannot wait until somebody loses their life before we start taking into account the mental stresses of activism and the things that happen in the community” Source Article from Hits: 43 « Older Entries |
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