Racism back in fashion, did it ever fade?

[pipistrelle]

Where was that?

[northland10]

West Virginia, I think.

[John Thomas8]

[neonzx]

https://youtu.be/jsETTn7DehI

[sugar magnolia]

Long, but worth the read. TN is overtaking AL as the greasy fuckwits of the South.

https://tennesseelookout.com/2023/03/16 ... -services/

A Black family from Georgia is fighting for the return of their five young children from the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services after a traffic stop in Manchester, Tenn. last month.

Bianca Clayborne and Deonte Williams were on Interstate 24 heading to a family funeral in Chicago — kids asleep in the back of the car — when a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer pulled them over for “dark tint and traveling in the left lane while not actively passing,” according to Feb. 17 citations issued to the couple.

The trooper searched the family’s Dodge Durango then arrested Williams for possession of five grams of marijuana, a misdemeanor in Tennessee. Clayborne was cited but not arrested.

Clayborne said she was told she was free to leave with the children, but could follow a THP car to find her way to the Coffee County Justice Center in order to bond Williams out.

Six hours after the traffic stop, as Clayborne sat on a bench in the criminal justice center waiting for Williams’ release, the five children — a breast-feeding baby now four months old along with 2-, 3-, 5- and 7-year-olds — were forcibly removed from her side while an officer restrained her from reaching for her crying baby, she said.

[AndyinPA]

[RTH10260]

full account by the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ldren-away

The state’s children’s services department ultimately alleged that Clayborne and Williams’s children were being abused to obtain an emergency order to take them away. The removal went through though court records showed a state case worker brought in after the stop “discovered only the father had been arrested”, the Lookout reported. Still, that same day, the agency received a court order to take the children away from Clayborne and Williams.

Nearly a week later, during their first juvenile court hearing, the couple was asked to take drug tests, which showed mixed results.

Urine drug tests came back positive for Williams but negative for Clayborne. Follow-up, rapid hair follicle tests were then ordered, coming back positive for fentanyl and oxycodone for both. Both deny taking those substances, and a local treatment court administrator told the Lookout that such tests are generally inadmissible as evidence.

Teasley said it is “egregious” for someone’s children to be taken on the basis of an inadmissible test. “How many people have had this happen to them?” she said.

[p0rtia]

[neonzx]

https://twitter.com/AttorneyCrump/statu ... 29406723?s
Ralph Yarl was picking up his younger brothers when he mistakenly rang the doorbell at the wrong house. A man shot Ralph twice and now he’s in critical condition. His family needs support during this tragedy. Donate to Ralph’s GoFundMe and let’s pray for a full recovery!

Ugh. Ringing a doorbell in Missouri while black.

More than $1.1 million in less than a day. Good.

[RTH10260]

Police charge white man for shooting Black teen boy who had wrong address
Ralph Yarl, 16, is in stable condition as outrage spread over the police’s initial decision to release the homeowner without charges

Richard Luscombe , Sam Levin and agencies
Tue 18 Apr 2023 00.55 BST

A white homeowner in Kansas City, Missouri, has been charged with armed assault after he shot a Black teenager who rang his doorbell by mistake, authorities announced on Monday.

Andrew Lester, 85, is also facing a charge of armed criminal action after shooting Ralph Yarl, 16, twice on Thursday. The teenager, a high school junior, was going to pick up his younger twin brothers from a play date when he went to the wrong address. Zachary Thompson, the prosecuting attorney, announced the charges late on Monday after intense local protests and widespread outrage over the police’s decision to briefly detain Lester before releasing him without charges.

Lester was not in custody early Monday evening, but there was a warrant out for his arrest, Thompson said. Charging documents said that Lester came to the door when the doorbell rang and then shot the boy in the head, before shooting him again, and that no words were exchanged before he opened fire.

Yarl was recovering at home after being released from a Kansas City hospital on Sunday, where he was being treated for gunshot wounds to his head and chest, his family said. Lee Merritt, an attorney for the family, told the Guardian that Yarl suffered a fractured skull, a traumatic brain injury involving swelling, post-concussive syndrome and injuries to his arm. “The family is elated that Ralph didn’t succumb to his injuries, but now they’re angry about the failure of the justice system to show any value or appreciation of his life,” Merritt said in an interview on Monday morning before the charges were announced.

Kansas City police had insisted earlier that they could not take further action until they spoke to the seriously injured boy.




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ng-address

[RVInit]

It just infuriates me that there has to be a huge uproar in order for the police to bother to do anything in these kind of cases.

[raison de arizona]

Kansas City police had insisted earlier that they could not take further action until they spoke to the seriously injured boy.

Good thing he didn't die then I guess, they wouldn't have been able to do anything about it.

[Volkonski]

NY Board Of Regents Bans Native American Mascots At Schools: Reports

https://patch.com/new-york/northfork/s/ ... 27b23925a1

The state Board of Regents reportedly voted unanimously to ban schools from using Native American mascots, team names and logos on Tuesday.

As Patch previously reported, the New York Board of Regents had been expected to adopt a regulation fortifying the state Education Department's 22-year-old rule about school mascots, nicknames and imagery based on indigenous people. In 2001, then-Commissioner of Education Richard Mills said the use of Native American symbols or depictions as mascots could become a barrier to building a safe and nurturing school community and improving academic achievement for all students — and recommended districts change as soon as possible.

School districts now have to formally commit to abiding by the new rule by the end of this school year, according to Newsday. Schools have until the end of the 2024-25 school year to remove Native American references from uniforms, scoreboards, fields and buildings on school property.

[Volkonski]

New York Times

Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old man charged in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager, in Kansas City, Missouri, turned himself in to the authorities on Tuesday.

[Volkonski]

Indiana woman charged with hate crime for attack on Asian student

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/21/indian ... me-student

A federal grand jury has indicted an Indiana woman on a hate crime charge after she allegedly stabbed a college student of Chinese descent in January, the Department of Justice announced.

Driving the news: Billie R. Davis, 56 of Bloomington, is accused of carrying out the "racially motivated" attack “because of the victim’s race and national origin,” per the DOJ.

Catch up quick: Davis allegedly stabbed an 18-year-old Indiana University student multiple times in the head while the student was waiting for bus doors to open.

Footage that captured the attack showed that Davis and the victim had no interaction prior to the stabbing, police said at the time.

Davis then told police she had targeted the student because of their ethnicity, according to court documents filed after her arrest.

In addition to the federal hate crime charge, Davis was charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery, and battery by means of a deadly weapon shortly after the incident.

[AndyinPA]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... ing-trial/

PITTSBURGH — The federal court trial of the Pennsylvania man charged with fatally shooting 11 people and wounding two at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, began Monday.

Robert D. Bowers, 50, of Baldwin, Pa., faces 63 counts in the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018. The charges include alleged hate crimes and gun-related offenses that could make him eligible for the death penalty if he is found guilty.

Jury selection for the trial could take weeks considering that the attack in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, a longtime Jewish enclave, drew widespread media attention, legal analysts say.

A number of the families want the death penalty.

[Frater I*I]

A number of the families want the death penalty.

And one of the rare times I would support it....

[chancery]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ean-theory

Compelling evidence supports the claims of two New Orleans high school seniors who say they have found a new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry, a respected mathematics professor said, even if the students’ “really important and fantastic” achievement is not the first time trigonometry has been used to prove the theory, as their school apparently touted.

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1 ... 6951964672

Noah Smith
@Noahpinion
If you're gonna spend decades saying Black people suck because they can't do math, and then get mad when it turns out they *can* do math, you have to wonder what was the purpose of your whole career...
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Charles Murray
@charlesmurray

What's the over/under on when it will be discovered the proof is invalid?
What's the over/under on when Popular Mechanics will prominently publish that the proof is invalid?
What's the over/under on the release date of the movie, Hidden Trigonometricians? twitter.com/erasmuse/statu

[Volkonski]

CnexNews
@cnexnews
Axios

Nearly three out of four Chinese Americans say they have experienced racial discrimination in the past 12 months, and two in three feel a need to stay vigilant about hate crimes or harassment, a new study says.

https://trib.al/JMfAEHW

[Dave from down under]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-03/ ... /102298326

Greens Deputy Leader Mehreen Faruqi has launched court action against One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson over an "insulting and humiliating" tweet, which she alleges breached racial discrimination laws.

Key points:
Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi alleges a tweet by the One Nation leader breached racial discrimination laws

Court documents say Pauline Hanson's tweet is unlawful under section 18 of the Racial Discrimination Act

Senator Faruqi wants the tweet removed, and Senator Hanson blocked from repeating similar comments in public

Senator Faruqi claims Senator Hanson violated section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act when she tweeted last year that she should "pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan".

[Dave from down under]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-03/ ... /102298868

A man accused of carrying out a terrorist act on New South Wales' south coast has told police his initial target was Wollongong.

Key points:

Simon Fleming is standing trial charged with carrying out a terrorist act in the Illawarra suburb of Windang during November 2021
The jury was shown body-worn footage from his arrest where Mr Fleming told officers his initial target was Wollongong
The court heard Mr Fleming held right-wing ideologies and disliked immigrants, homosexuals and feminists

Simon Fleming is standing trial in the NSW Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to committing a terrorist act in the suburb of Windang on November 28, 2021.

[AndyinPA]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... th-penalty

The man charged in the deadliest attack on Jewish people in US history has lost another bid to get the death penalty removed as a possible punishment.

Jury selection is under way in the federal trial of Robert Bowers, who is charged with 63 criminal counts in the killings of 11 people on 27 October 2018 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where three congregations gathered.

The charges include 11 counts of obstruction of free exercise of religion resulting in death and 11 counts of hate crimes resulting in death.

Prosecutors say Bowers made antisemitic comments at the scene and in online forums.

On Tuesday, the judge ruled against a defense motion challenging the government’s pursuit of the death penalty.

The US district judge, Robert Colville, said Bowers’ defense “fail[ed] entirely to establish a basis upon which the court could conclude that the government has arbitrarily sought the death penalty in this case”.

More than 100 potential jurors have been questioned in the first seven days of jury selection, with a heavy focus on their views on a potential death sentence. The process resumed on Wednesday.

Bowers’ attorneys offered a guilty plea in return for a life sentence without parole but prosecutors are seeking death, a move most victims’ families support.

[Volkonski]

Hertz apologizes for denying Puerto Rican man car because he didn't have his passport

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hertz-apol ... -marchand/

The man, Humberto Marchand, said he presented his Puerto Rican drivers license to an employee at a Hertz rental car counter at New Orleans' international airport last week and was told he would need to show his passport. The employee insinuated, according to Marchand, that he was a foreigner and couldn't rent a vehicle without showing his passport.

Puerto Ricans are United States citizens. Marchand has his Puerto Rican drivers license, which is as valid as any other drivers license issues in the United States. He was not carrying his U.S. passport.

Video recorded by Marchand shows a manager asking him to leave. When he didn't, she asked him if he wanted her to call the police and he replied, "yes, please call the police.

The Kenner police officer who responded also told Marchand to leave, according to Marchand, who served 25 years as a federal law enforcement officer before retiring.

Marchand decided to leave, and as he was walking away Marchand says he heard the officer say he would call "the border authorities" if he needed to. A police spokesman for the Kenner Police Department said body camera video from the encounter was reviewed and that comment is not heard. It's unclear, however, when the officer turned the body camera off after responding to the incident.

Kenner police invited Marchand to file a complaint and said the agency would investigate further if he did so. Marchand said he plans to file one.

Hertz initially responded to Marchan by saying the employee was right and he in fact did need to show a passport. After CBS News reached out to Hertz, the company said it "accepts Puerto Rican driver's licenses from our customers renting in the U.S. without requiring a valid passport."

"We sincerely regret that our policy was not followed and have apologized to Mr. Marchand and refunded his rental," the statement continued. "We are reinforcing our policies with employees to ensure that they are understood and followed consistently across our locations."

[bill_g]

Well, that's what you call keepin the Lose in Lose-ianna y'all.

[neonzx]

I wish I had been in line at the Hertz counter behind this fellow. I can be persuasive in a nonthreatening way. The counter clerk was probably one of these 20 year old millennials.