15 Acts of Injustice That Could Lead America Into Another Civil War
The law enforcement, justice system, and penal system have become a modern day slaughterhouse and cesspool of corruption. It’s time to stop handling these tragic events and miscarriages of justice as isolated incidents. Let’s connect these bones to a body of evidence.
The citizens are sick of this biased media that sculpts the national narrative, selectively reports and exploits issues that plays into the agenda of character assassination of African Americans. The same media will dismiss, deny, ignore, and censor equal or worst atrocities and scenarios when done by White Americans, celebrities, coveted politicians, elite people of influence, and even our international allies.
- How long can we call this a system of justice a “right to due process” and a “right to a speedy trial”? These quotes are hypocritically incongruent, because over 400 citizens are locked up in Rikers Island, NY for over two years without being convicted of a crime? Source: http://www.npr.org/2015/04/14/399641445/new-york-mayor-announces-plan-to-reduce-rikers-island-jail-population
- Why are 2,500 cases pending review of people imprisoned by faulty forensic hair samples that span well over 20 years? The justice system has permanently confiscated the lives of individuals and destroyed potential families from faulty lab results. Incorrect specimens yield incorrect court testimonies from “forensic experts,” which resulted in wrongful convictions. Souce: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html
- How do we call this a system of justice, when we have “CASH for KIDS” judges? Judges Mark Ciavarella and Mike Conahan in Wilkes-Barre, PA purposefully sentenced youth to correctional facilities for pay from a private prison owner. They earned $2.6 million in illegal kickbacks from the private prison owner. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/23/pennsylvania.corrupt.judges/
- What kind of corrections are we expecting to see in correctional facilities? We have KKK members plotting to kill black inmates in Florida’s Department of Corrections. We have hate groups that have infiltrated and infested the entire legal system. This puts all people of color on American soil at risk right now. However, we’re spending billions to “try and find terrorists overseas.” Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/04/02/three-kkk-members-who-worked-in-a-florida-prison-accused-of-plot-to-kill-inmate/
- Do we have law enforcement officers or an extortion ring going on nationally? Civil asset forfeiture and highway interdiction have generated BILLIONS of dollars by confiscating personal property of citizens with claims of guilt on confiscated property. Citizens aren’t being charged or convicted of crimes, but must spend thousands of dollars to fight their case to retrieve their property. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/holder-ends-seized-asset-sharing-process-that-split-billions-with-local-state-police/2015/01/16/0e7ca058-99d4-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html
- Are we American citizens or detainees in Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib prison? The American citizenry can’t tell the difference because of Blacksites in Chicago like Homan Square. This is where citizens are arrested and taken to a secret site to be interrogated, harassed, and physically assaulted. They aren’t taken to central booking to be processed, finger printed, and held for court. Chicago must now pay over $5 Million in reparations to these victims. Is this America that we’re living in? Source: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site
- Again…… Are we American citizens or foreign enemy combatants? When cries and pleas against police brutality are ignored, and we’re only left to protest, we’re treated like foreign enemies. Tax-paying citizens are met with: Tear gas, tanks, assault rifles, grenade launchers, bayonets, and other sophisticated/tactical high-caliber weaponry. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/18/politics/bayonets-police-white-house/
- What type of policing is going on when a whole Police Department is disbanded? Jennings, MO had to disband a whole police department due to corruption charges. What does that say about the number of arrests made, and people sentenced while under their administration? Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/24/darren-wilson-jennings-police-department_n_5704133.html
- What kind of predatory policing and booby trapped laws are we under? Police will arrest people for feeding the poor, Texas has devised a system of debtors prison for pay day loan defaults, police are arresting elementary school kids for temper tantrums, and we’re throwing men in jail for child support (like they can make money in jail and pay for court fees). Source 1: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/29/texas-payday-lending_n_6355602.html Source 2: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/17/justice/georgia-student-handcuffed/ Source 3: http://6abc.com/news/man-may-be-jailed-for-not-paying-child-support-for-son-who-isnt-his/490355/
- Are we healing the sick or killing the sick? How many stories do we have to see about an officer that has shot and killed individuals that are mentally ill? The officers are informed of the mental status in the majority of the cases. Family, friends, or neighbors typically call 911, but when police arrive, the person is almost executed immediately. Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2999731/Chilling-moment-cops-shot-dead-mentally-disabled-man-wielding-screwdriver-caught-body-camera.html
- Are we meticulously scrutinizing and screening the moral integrity of the officers we employ? We had an officer selling crack to inmates in New York. We’ve seen the big case of Baltimore correctional officers supplying drugs to inmates in a prison drug ring. The same female officers in Baltimore wound up pregnant by prison inmates. Who are the criminals: Baltimore protestors or officers on the city payroll?Source 1: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/four-female-prison-guards-impregnated-by-same-inmate/ Source 2: http://nypost.com/2015/05/11/correction-officer-charged-with-dealing-crack-to-inmates/
- How do we swallow the phrase “protect and serve”? From 2012- April 2015, Maryland state records found that over 2,600 citizens arrested in Baltimore sustained injuries so severe that they required emergency medical attention before they could even be booked and processed. Maybe there’s a duplicitous definition of “protect.” Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/sun-investigates/bs-md-gray-jail-rejections-20150509-story.html#page=1
- What kind of fair, equitable, and non-biased policing can we expect from our officers? We can talk about Montgomery County, Ohio, San Francisco, California, or Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Nationwide, our officers are getting busted transmitting vitriolic, racist, and homophobic texts to fellow officers. How does America expect us to feel safe? Why do you think we’re paranoid and run at the sight of cops? We don’t know the intentions behind their badge, and in their heart. The trust is completely gone. Source 1: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/us/miami-prosecutor-reviews-cases-of-police-officers-who-sent-racist-emails.html?_r=0 Source 2: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2860975/I-hate-N-Police-officers-caught-exchanging-racist-texts-placed-administrative-leave-investigation-gets-carried-out.html Source 3: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/san-francisco-police-fire-racist-texts-31063267
- What kind of justice can we expect from the courts? Time and time again, police are exonerated in the killing of unarmed black men. We routinely witness the partnering and cozying of the District attorneys with the Police department. The Police unions double down on their positions. They pressure the city mayors and media into a position of sympathy and guilt. Evidence and jury activity is either completely sealed, or evidence is purposefully leaked to the media to compromise the case, sway public opinion, or taint potential jurors.
- Justice is truly blind right? How can we expect any form of justice, even with the use of body cameras? There are countless citizen videos that catch cops choking citizens to death and beating civilians. Cellphone, dashcam, and other surveillance footage routinely fail to find police guilty of anything. We even have policy makers pushing legislation that restricts the release of body camera footage. Individuals that record video end up harassed and incarcerated themselves, and the vilification of the deceased victim ensues. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/mayors-plan-to-shield-body-camera-footage-from-public-faces-objections/2015/05/06/94a891f6-f419-11e4-84a6-6d7c67c50db0_story.html
And again, not all police are bad, but the good ones need to speak up!
So what are we to do? What are your thoughts?
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