We recently discussed how the plea agreement with a BLM protester (who tried to cut the brake lines on a police vehicle) may indicate a significant shift from the Trump Administration in prosecuting violent protesters. New figures out of Portland would indicate that there is such a major shift occurring. The Justice Department are dropping 58 of the 97 criminal charges brought after the Portland riots, including assaults on officers.
So among those who are not being charges is someone who admits to putting a police officer in a choke hold as well as someone who assaulted three police officers. Meanwhile they continue to fly around the country arresting anyone and everyone associated with the capital riot back in January. Heck, even if you were just a peaceful attendant of the rally and did not enter the building, you are still in danger of having your door kicked in by the FBI, held in your own home for three hours, and having your electronic devises seized.
Meanwhile the local officials are having a tough time explaining why the Portland violence continues, since they insisted that everything that had happened was all the fault of Donald Trump.
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Bill Melugin
https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1382902709741756419
EXCLUSIVE: A 67 y/o man convicted in 1982 of raping & murdering a woman in L.A. was granted parole after 30+ yrs in prison. He spent only 3 yrs on parole before the state terminated his supervision. Now, he's charged with committing a new murder weeks after that decision.
@FOXLA
California democrats consider their policies a success.
There's a flood more of these coming.
Plus a surge from down south.
What could possibly go wrong.
Where is Biden/Harris during all this ???
Who's in charge ???
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden implored Congress Wednesday to pass a police reform bill by the end of May, which will mark one year since the death of George Floyd at the hands of a former Minneapolis police officer.
In his first address to a joint session of Congress, Biden emphasized the need for accountability for law enforcement officials who abuse authority when engaging with the public. He specifically pointed to the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
"We have to come together to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the people they serve, herd out systemic racism in our criminal justice system and enact police reform in George Floyd's name," Biden said. "Let's get it done next month on the first anniversary of George Floyd's death."
The bill named after Floyd was introduced last year by Reps. Karen Bass, D-Calif., and Rep Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and then-Sen. Kamala Harris.
Using the Federalist philosophy to stop police reform is not going to happen again.
The federal government should impose specific conditions on the police department across the country.
The Department of Justice and again Sleepy Joe's administration is getting enough support to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
The President will get the infrastructure bill passed and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed by the reconciliation act, if the Republican won't refuse to negotiate.
A new poll suggests the public is looking to Congress to act on police reform.
A majority of American voters think the need for police reform is even more urgent in the wake of former police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd, according to a new Vox/Data For Progress poll.
In a survey fielded in the week after his conviction, 55 percent of likely voters said they felt this way, compared to 30 percent who said they believe there was no change in urgency, and 9 percent who said there was less urgency following the trial. The results differed significantly along partisan lines, with 77 percent of Democrats saying police reform was more urgent, and 50 percent of independents and 34 percent of Republicans saying the same.
Previously, Axios has reported that congressional aides felt the verdict helped alleviate pressure on lawmakers to take more action in the near term, because it was the result that many activists and voters supported. “An acquittal or mistrial involving the former police officer would have unleashed violence and days more of protests — and added bipartisan pressure to act on criminal and police reform,” Axios’s Alayna Treene and Kadia Goba reported. Large-scale demonstrations along those lines might have ramped up the public outcry even more. But as this poll indicates, even absent that, most people still view police reform as a vital issue that lawmakers need to address.
The poll was conducted as lawmakers in Congress continue negotiations on police reform, and was fielded in two parts, between April 21 and 23, with 1,438 likely voters, and April 23 and 25, with 1,189 likely voters. Both surveys have a 3 percentage point margin of error.
As Gabby Birenbaum wrote for Vox, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the lead Republican negotiator on police reform, signaled renewed optimism about a potential deal on the issue this Sunday. The main question now if a deal is reached, is how ambitious — or not — it actually is.
Police reform has floundered in Congress for a year
Congress has been here before. Just last year, Senate Democrats had rejected Republicans’ proposal for being too narrow, while GOP leaders argued that House Democrats’ legislation would unnecessarily curb police officers’ legal protections.
This year, Scott, along with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), are spearheading efforts to find a bipartisan agreement. President Joe Biden has urged Congress to “find a consensus” on police reform by May 25, the anniversary of Floyd’s death, a date Bass has cited as a loose deadline as well.
Although the existing Democratic and Republican proposals have a lot of differences, Scott has said that he hopes a potential compromise on qualified immunity, a legal shield that makes it tougher to sue police officers for wrongdoing, could lead to a deal. In his proposal, police departments, rather than individual officers, would bear the legal liability in incidents of wrongdoing, an attempt to deter such behavior that wouldn’t put all the risk on the individual.
Every person of conscience draws a line beyond which they will not go: Liz Cheney refuses to lie. As one of my Republican Senate colleagues said to me following my impeachment vote: “I wouldn’t want to be a member of a group that punished someone for following their conscience.”
Senator Mitt Romney
Your underlying racism is becoming more apparent every day.
Now roger is supporting Cheney and Halliburton !!!
and Bush
I don't think he remembers calling him Hitler and the village idiot
of course name calling is bad now
ROFLMFAO !!!
I saw this coming!
The 19th
Never being American enough:’ Asian women on living in a country that feels increasingly unsafe
Days before May 1, the beginning of AAPI Heritage Month, a study found that more than half of Asian American women had personally encountered racism during the pandemic.
By
Alexa Mikhail, Mariel Padilla
Published
Kristy Luk, a 30-year-old Asian American living in Los Angeles, gets nervous when her 65-year-old mother goes to the grocery store.
Both her parents stopped going at busy times, Luk said, and they’ve modified their time out in public. When thinking about the sacrifice her grandparents made to move their family to the U.S from Hong Kong and Taiwan, Luk gets emotional thinking about the fear her family now carries to do anything in public. The same thing happens to my African American friends. They think about what might happen, because they are not white people. I never worried about getting stopped for driving while white.
“My grandparents came here thinking that there was greater opportunity, thinking that there would be more access, and instead to be faced with hatred and violence,” Luk said. “That I think at its root is really about this message of you don’t belong, and you never belong.”
She now asks, “At what cost? Was it worth it? Am I worth it?”
More than 80 percent of Asian Americans — the fastest growing racial and ethnic group — say violence against them is increasing, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in April, just a few weeks after six Asian women were killed in a series of shootings in Atlanta. The findings were published days before May 1, the beginning of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month — a decades-old celebration that originally commemorated the immigration of the first Japanese in the 1840s and marked the anniversary of the Chinese immigrants’ completion of the transcontinental railroad.
Nearly half of the Asian American adults surveyed said that at least once since the pandemic started, they have feared someone would physically attack them, been subject to racial slurs, noticed people were uncomfortable around them, been told to go back to their home country or been blamed for the COVID-19 outbreak.
Scott is acting like the white supremacists in history, who condemned violence against property represented Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. in the late 60s. By drawing parallel comparisons is a political method to disregard the underlying systematic racism.
Days before May 1, the beginning of AAPI Heritage Month, a study found that more than half of Asian American women had personally encountered racism during the pandemic.
Well DUH.
BLACKS are attacking them every day like it's their fucking JOB.
Geezus alky, if there's any flies on you they're paying rent.
LOL.
More BLACKS assaulting Asians. Alky-approved.
Asian American Teen Suffers Concussion After Getting Punched, Called Racial Slur in Basketball Game
https://www.yahoo.com/news/asian-american-teen-suffers-concussion-204810892.html
Watching the Republican party exploding is awesomeπ
Pelosi's office steps into fight between Republican leaders Cheney and McCarthy
May 4, 2021, 10:15 AM PDT
By Allan Smith
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office boosted the ongoing quarrel between House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., as the ongoing divide could put a dent in Republican efforts to take back the House next fall.
"Word is out that House GOP Leaders are looking to push Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as House Republican Conference Chair — their most senior woman in GOP leadership — for a litany of very Republican reasons: she won’t lie, she isn’t humble enough, she’s like a girlfriend rooting for the wrong team, and more," Pelosi's office said in a blog posted to her website.
That comment comes as the divide between McCarthy and Cheney, the third-highest-ranking House Republican, appears to be reaching a boiling point following the Capitol riot.
Cheney has refused to back down from her criticisms of former President Donald Trump, despite growing pressure from other Republicans. She was the highest-ranking Republican to vote to impeach Trump for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 riot and has been at odds with other members of House GOP leadership over embracing Trump and entertaining his election claims since then. She has repeatedly and forcefully rejected Trump's stolen election lie.ππππππ
Among those harder to reach groups the administration is targeting are communities in largely rural states, like Mississippi, Utah and Alabama, which have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. To make it easier for Americans in rural communities to access the vaccine, the administration will be sending doses directly to thousands of health clinics in those areas.
The U.S. will also require all retail pharmacies receiving vaccine doses from the federal government to offer walk-up vaccinations that don’t require an appointment and is encouraging states to do the same at their sites. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be increasingly sending out mobile vaccination units and setting up small, temporary vaccination sites to get to harder to reach groups.
"I think the end of the day, most people will be convinced by the fact that their failure to get the vaccine may cause other people to get sick and possibly die,"
You want them to live so they can't vote in 2 years.
But if they were not white enough you want them to doubt and refuse, so they die and can't vote in 2 years.
Coooo Coolio
Kristi Noem
@KristiNoem
(1/2) Teaching our children & grandchildren to hate their own country & pitting them against one another on the basis of race or sex is shameful & must be stopped. I'm proud to be the 1st candidate in America to sign 'The 1776 Pledge to Save Our Schools.'
5:44 AM · May 3, 2021
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