From [HERE] The family of Joseph Perez will receive more than $10 million from the Fresno Police Department, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office and American Ambulance to settle a wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit stemming from Perez's 2017 death after nearly nine years of litigation.

The settlement resolves claims brought by Perez's family following an incident captured on police body camera video.

"It's been a long time coming for this family," family attorney Niel Gehlawat said.

Perez's mother, Cecilia, expressed her grief over the loss of her son.

"They killed my son, our only son," she said.

According to body camera footage released by police, the 16-minute, 33-second video shows Perez, 44, struggling with seven law enforcement officers while handcuffed and lying face down on the ground.

When paramedics arrived, a gurney backboard was placed on Perez's back as responders worked to secure him to the board. At one point, an officer sat on top of Perez for more than a minute. The video also captured Perez saying, "I can't breathe" before he went silent.

The coroner's office ultimately ruled Perez's death a homicide caused by compressive asphyxia during restraint.

Attorneys for the family said they fought for years to make the video public and argued it played a critical role in the legal process.

"As we all know, a homicide is a killing of one person by another, and here Mr. Perez was killed by the deputies and officers and paramedics on scene because they continued to exert pressure on his back as he yelled. I can't breathe for over 15 minutes," Gehlawat said.

At the time of Perez's death, then-Fresno Police Chief Andy Hall described Perez as "uncooperative" and "physically combative."

An internal review cleared the officers of wrongdoing, and the Office of Independent Review found their actions were within policy. Gehlawat said those policies should be changed.

"When you are apprehending somebody on the ground, you can't do that with them face down. You have to turn them onto the side into a recovery position as soon as you can," he said.

The settlement follows years of legal challenges. At one point, a federal judge dismissed the case under the doctrine of 'qualified immunity'.

The family said the agreement provides a measure of closure after years of court proceedings.

"We were up and down in the court of appeals, federal courts, state courts, but ultimately at the end of the day I'm grateful that the defendant in this case did the right thing by the family by agreeing to settle this case so they can have the closure they needed," Gehlawat said.

A white North Carolina police officer who was seen in a viral doorbell camera video repeatedly punching a woman during an arrest has been charged with assault, authorities said.

Former Shelby Police Officer Karson Hyder, 22, turned himself in on Monday, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, which said it has charged him with one count of assault inflicting serious injury in connection with Friday's incident.

He was processed at the Cleveland County Detention Center and released on a $10,000 secured bond, the bureau said.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said it initiated an investigation that "examined an allegation of excessive use of force" at the request of the Shelby police chief and the Cleveland County district attorney.

Hyder was fired Saturday after the Shelby Police Department completed an administrative investigation into the incident, according to Shelby Police Chief Brad Fraser.

Moore has mental health issues and is homeless, her uncle said.

She was initially charged with misdemeanor breaking or entering, resisting arrest and assault on a government official. Her family had said the charges were dropped. [MORE]

Florida sheriff’s deputy has been found not guilty of manslaughter with a firearm in the killing of a Black U.S. Air Force airman from DeKalb County, who was fatally shot at his apartment during a domestic disturbance call.

An Okaloosa County jury acquitted Eddie Duran, 38, on Thursday. Duran had faced up to 30 years in prison. The jury was all white. The jury selection pool consisted of over 120 Okaloosa County residents with mixed races, but the final panel chosen to decide the case contained no non-white people. Local advocate Nick Smith noted that the final jury composition failed to reflect the diversity of the pool. Smith also believed jurors ruled based on false evidence. [MORE] and [MORE]

Duran worked for the Okaloosa County sheriff’s department in May 2024 when he responded to Roger Fortson’s Fort Walton Beach apartment near Hurlburt Field, where the airman was stationed.

Fortson retrieved his legally owned handgun and brought with him to the door of his apartment after hearing banging noises that ended up being a sheriff’s deputy. Then that was that. [The so-called 2nd Amendment protects the individual’s right to possess firearms in their home. In reality said “right” is imaginary and mostly for whites only. When Black people exercise said “right” to bear arms inside or outside the home they do so at their own risk. The quality of Black citizenship is so low that; no matter what the law says, Blacks are prohibited from possessing guns, Blacks are subject to omnipresent interference by cops with their freedom of movement and their right to be left the fuck alone, Black people are 3 times more likely than whites to be murdered by cops and the police have no legal duty to protect any particular citizen from harm unless they are in custody (“the public duty doctrine”). Said factors exist in a legal context in which law enforcement is uncontrollable by citizens, generally unaccountable to them, can’t be hired or fired by citizens and has irresponsible, limitless power over people to take life on the street as they see fit while providing a compulsory “service” that citizens have no “right” to decline.

Didn’t Airman Fortson have the right to stand his ground? The great Neely Fuller would describe the so-called state statutory right to “Stand Your Ground” as another non-law with regard to Black People. Non-law is the application or misapplication of policy or laws by racist police, citizens, prosecutors, lawmakers, jurors and judges that creates injustice for non-whites. "Stand your ground" is a self-defense, criminal defense raised at trial that allows for the use of deadly force when it is reasonable for a non-aggressor/victim to do so. In states which have variations of this law a person does not have a legal duty to retreat before using self defense to defend themselves under life threatening conditions that are reasonably apparent to the victim. Stand your ground laws are not racist - self defense is not racism. In this matter, the all white jurors obviously treated stand your ground as non-law because Fortson was Black.

Fortson, 23, was in his home in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, when he was shot by Duran, who was responding to a call reporting a domestic disturbance, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.

In body camera footage released by the sheriff's office, Fortson is seen holding a gun in his right hand with a gun down at his side as he opens the door, who can be heard announcing twice that he's with the sheriff's office. The footage also shows Fortson had his left hand up, palm showing, gesturing that he meant no harm towards the deputy when he opened the door.

Duran shot Fortson within mini-seconds of the door opening. Fortson died of his injuries

Duran said he saw Fortson armed with a gun and that Fortson took a step toward the deputy and had a look of aggression in his eyes, according to an interview Duran conducted with the sheriff’s office during their subsequent investigation.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Fortson family, said at Monday's press conference that the deputy went to the wrong apartment.

He [Roger Fortson] was in the apartment by himself with his dog, Chloe, video-chatting with his girlfriend,” Crump said. “There was no domestic dispute. ...”

“This tragic incident should have never occurred,” Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden said in a statement when he announced that Duran had been fired. “The objective facts do not support the use of deadly force as an appropriate response to Mr. Fortson’s actions. Mr. Fortson did not commit any crime. By all accounts, he was an exceptional airman and individual.”

From [HERE] and [HERE] The family of a man who was shot to death by Memphis Police officers last June has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Memphis and the Memphis Police Department.

The family of Timothy Cook filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Shelby County Circuit Court on June 9, 2026, nearly a year after he was shot to death by Memphis Police officers. The case was moved to federal court on September 23. In video above the attorney says that the city continues to enforce its policy of shooting into moving cars. [more below]

A Memphis Police officer shot Cook on Park Avenue in Orange Mound on June 13, 2025. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation claimed that an officer shot Cook after Cook hit another officer with his Nissan Armada. Cook died three days later. He had not committed any crime and was not under arrest. Police claimed to be responding to a loitering complaint in the city controlled by elite, white liberals.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation initially stated that Cook drove his vehicle aggressively into an officer, but Cook’s attorneys argue surveillance video shows he was driving away at a slow speed when officers fired shots at his vehicle.

The lawsuit claims that surveillance video from a nearby liquor store shows Cook driving at a "very slow speed" when officers fired shots at him. The lawsuit argues that the shooting was an act of "excessive and deadly force" that violated Cook's Fourth Amendment rights.

Cook's family is seeking $15 million in compensatory damages and $20 million in punitive damages. Memphis federal judge Sheryl Lipman is presiding over the case.

In 2024 the US Justice Department found that the Memphis Police Department routinely and pervasively deprives Black people of their Constitutional rights and follows policies that grossly discriminate against black people in its highly segregated city. One of the specific findings was that “MPD Officers Unreasonably Shoot at People and Cars After Placing Themselves in Dangerous Situations.”

5. MPD Officers Unreasonably Shoot at People and Cars After Placing Themselves in Dangerous Situations. We reviewed all 18 Memphis police shootings from 2018 through 2022. A significant number of them involved officers firing into cars or at moving vehicles, without justification. Shooting at a moving car is deadly force and therefore permissible only when an officer has probable cause to believe a suspect poses an immediate threat of serious physical harm to the officer or another person. It is also highly dangerous because it presents risks of an uncontrolled vehicle. MPD officers have fired at moving cars without justification. An officer may be justified to use deadly force against “a driver who objectively appears ready to drive into an officer or bystander with his car.” But that justification ends “once the car moves away, leaving the officer and bystanders in a position of safety.” 13 MPD officers have disregarded tactical basics and placed themselves in dangerous and avoidable situations when approaching cars. “Where a police officer unreasonably places himself in harm’s way, his use of deadly force may be deemed excessive.” 14

In one shooting, an officer fired at a car at least eight times at a fast-food drive-thru in the middle of the day, jeopardizing other officers and bystanders. The officers had been alerted to a stolen car, and two police cars approached from different directions, trying to box the car in. One officer got out of his car and ran towards the suspect’s car but tripped and fell to the ground as the suspect’s car moved slowly in his direction. As he regained his footing and jumped out of the car’s path, another officer fired twice at the car. The officer fired another six shots after his partner had retreated to safety, including the final two as the suspect’s car slowly came to rest against a brick wall. When he continued to fire after the car no longer presented a threat, the officer used unreasonable force and unnecessarily placed bystanders and officers in harm’s way. MPD’s investigation improperly found that this use of deadly force was justified. [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Turdistan – any ghetto, ‘hood or “community” that’s a crime-ravaged shit-hole, hell-hole and economically disenfranchised, inner city war zone. In Turdistan shit goes down every minute but only lives go down the toilet while the same old shit stays afloat as social and economic programs s(t)ink due to budget cuts and widespread fratricide. “…for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit.” Turdistan is a state of mind, and then the condition and position of your ass. Free your kind and the mass will follow. Free your ass, and no one will mind (or question) what you follow.

transplantation – Black folk’s travel from the cotton fields of the plantation to the killing fields of the ghetto.

blightmare – the day-to-day obscenery within the waking dream of those entrapped knee-deep within the heart of the ghetto. A blightmare isn’t something you wake up from—but constantly wake up to. (See: Capital Punishment)

Fishbowl – a metaphor for the attrition of daily life, the ubiquity of oppression, violence, police brutality and the daily instances of repression and information suppression, especially in urban centers with a high percentage African-American population. 2) the combined inimical forces endlessly conspiring to cloud your bowl and make your life shitty in a million different ways each and every day for the majority of the world’s population, especially for those living in urban centers within developed nations and those relegated to squalor in underdeveloped nations. The fishbowl is a metaphor describing the accumulative effects of cultural imperialism on those subject to and victimized by its power and sway. While back up in Baltimore, I swam through the backup in Baltimore—swirling around, cloudy grey and brown, settling down on the rocky bottom of the fishbowl. Just because you’re in the dark, doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. If you take the stance, to just sit and wait it out, you also become the bait without a shadow of a doubt. The Fishbowl is equipped with a DPS device—deep political shit—domination duty. You just can’t seem to get away, and the market has made you the catch of the day! “We don’t know who discovered the ocean, but it certainly wasn’t the fish, because an all-pervasive environment is all but undetectable and beyond perception.” ~Marshall McLuhan. There for all the world to know—what we do, where we go, and with who. It’s all-out control, tell me do you feel exposed? Welcome one and all to the fishbowl! The fishbowl symbolizes an environment and existential condition that you can see your way out of, but the very seeing becomes the impediment for actually getting out because just the thought of leaving the place wherein you live and have your being is a scary revolutionary and seemingly-suicidal means to freedom—yet it is the only way to be free. While some must jump bail, others must have the courage and dignity to ‘jump free.’ “Living in a fishbowl. Life seems so small and cold—in a fishbowl. Now everywhere I seem to go, they already know in a fishbowl.” ~Jahiti & Brother Ooh (of BrownF.I.S.H.) “How could the fish not jump immediately from dry land into water when the sound of water from the ocean of fresh waves springs to his ear?” ~Rumi. Now, you see me and I see you too. Can’t hide nothing, you see, because it’s all see-through. (See: MEDIA, Surveillance, Culture, Propaganda, Hollow City, Colonization, Public Relations, Politics, Propaganda, Impropaganda, Orderlies, Police, Prison Industrial Complex, Oppression, Imperialism, Overlords & Rat Race)

The same research found a stark racial disparity: Black children were about seven times more likely than White children to have a parent in prison.

This racial gap reflects broader disparities in the US prison system, where incarceration rates vary sharply across communities, leaving some groups disproportionately exposed to the disruption and hardship caused by imprisonment.

The problem has persisted for decades. The latest detailed national federal data come from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) Survey of Prison Inmates, based on interviews conducted in 2016 and published on March 30, 2021.

The survey estimated that 684,500 state and federal prisoners were parents of at least one minor child, representing 47 percent of state prisoners and 58 percent of federal prisoners. Collectively, these prisoners reported an estimated 1.47 million minor children.

The figures cover people held in state and federal prisons, rather than the entire jail population. The BJS says the 2016 Survey of Prison Inmates remains the latest available national survey of its kind.

That gap in federal data is troubling. Millions of children may be affected by the inhumane policies and practices of the US criminal justice system, yet the federal government lacks a newer nationwide survey providing the same level of detail about the children and families affected by incarceration.

The BJS also found that many of these children were very young. About 19 percent of minor children of state prisoners were under age five, while 48 percent were age 10 or older. Among parents held in federal prison, the average age of a minor child was 10 years.

Behind these statistics are children growing up with an absent parent, families separated by incarceration, and communities bearing consequences that can extend well beyond the prison sentence itself.

What does parental incarceration do to a child?

The damage can begin before a child is even old enough to understand what prison means.

Research has linked parental incarceration during pregnancy and childhood to educational disadvantages, including lower educational attainment, grade retention and truancy.

Mental health is another major concern. Research on children of incarcerated parents has described parental imprisonment as an adverse childhood experience that can affect the entire household, contributing to family disruption, instability and other forms of hardship.

For a child, the consequences can therefore extend far beyond the moment a parent is taken away. The loss of a parent can bring a sudden change in household income, living arrangements, caregiving and emotional support. That disruption can persist long after the parent enters prison, potentially shaping a child's development and prospects for years. [MORE]

From [HERE] . . . The grand-jury report briefly mentions “an extensive investigation by both Federal and State law enforcement agencies,” yet there hasn’t been a public accounting of what steps, if any, the Justice Department, the F.B.I., the U.S. Coast Guard, or the National Park Service, which oversees the barrier islands that include Horn Island, have taken to assist local authorities. Kristen Clarke, the former chief of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under President Joe Biden, now general counsel to the N.A.A.C.P. and part of the family’s legal team, joined Wells’s family on Tuesday and boosted an earlier call by the Congressional Black Caucus to urge an independent probe by the department that she once helped lead. “This is a taxpayer-funded agency that serves us,” she said. Turning her attention to McIlrath, she said, “We have a message for the District Attorney. Your job is not done.”

The grand-jury report, which is eight pages long, largely appears designed to knock down whatever theories the public may have conjured up about the Fourth of July trip. After a page of formalities, references to the law of grand juries, and a demographic breakdown of the twenty-three grand jurors—twelve of whom self-identified as white, five as Black, one as Asian American, two as Hispanic, two as Native American, and one who marked “other”—the report establishes that its purpose is also exonerative: “The Grand Jury was expressly charged by the impaneling Circuit Judge with not only being the means of bringing to trial those people who are accused of a crime, but ‘also to protect persons from unfounded accusations whether presented by legal officers or by others who may be motivated by public clamor or private malice.’ ”

The report lists what evidence the grand jurors considered, without saying much about the evidence itself: a hundred and thirty-two subpoenas were issued, and forty-three people testified. The report singles out seven people whom the grand jury “invited” to testify—presumably Wells’s friends, though these names were redacted from the report. Five of the seven accepted the invitation; another one wished to but couldn’t make it “due to circumstances outside of [REDACTED] control,” and so the grand jury considered that person’s statement to law enforcement. Notably, one person, without explanation, rejected the invitation to testify, though their statement to law enforcement was also considered. The report also notes more or less what’s contained in the full investigative file, which includes physical and digital evidence, G.P.S., location, and cellphone data, maps, images, and other information that largely remains in the state’s possession.

Wells and his friends took three boats to Horn Island. The report establishes who was on the Triton, the boat that Wells rode to Horn Island, and who was on the other two boats, the Palm Beach and the Tideline, and explains how several in the group may have switched boats on the way back, with the friends leaving Wells behind “to socialize,” as the report puts it. Then, the report absolves these individuals of “any criminal conduct” related to Wells’s death, adding, “The Grand Jury finds that the public attacks on the occupants of the Triton, the Palm Beach, and the Tideline, as well as their family and friends, are malicious, false, and have no truth in fact or evidence.” The report notes that it’s common for people to ride to the island on one boat and return on another, and that Wells’s cellphone “was not the only phone to travel back to the mainland without its owner.” It also puts to rest the idea—circulated widely online—that Wells was the only Black person on the island, and the theory that the chaotic phone call to the boat-towing company was revealing of anything other than a typical boat malfunction. “The Grand Jury finds that the Triton was towed for a short distance by the Tideline allowing the water to drain from the boat interior while a passenger manually held the motor trim button down,” the report reads.

That leaves us with the question of how Wells, a college football player who was reportedly a good swimmer, and who may or may not have had alcohol in his system—there have been two autopsies, which are in conflict as to his blood-alcohol concentration—was found dead two days later. One thing the grand-jury report doesn’t do is establish conclusively that drowning was the cause of death. Among the items that Mississippi officials held off on releasing, for months, was the state autopsy, leading the family to conduct an independent autopsy, the final results of which were released earlier this week, by the family’s legal team; on Thursday, the family released the state autopsy as well. The state’s chief medical examiner and the doctor who conducted the independent autopsy agree on a crucial point, noted by the grand-jury report: both medical professionals “opined that the cause and manner of Mr. Wells’ death is undetermined and that drowning is a diagnosis of exclusion.” In forensic parlance, a diagnosis of exclusion is one reached by ruling out other plausible causes; drowning can be challenging to prove, because often there’s no telltale sign that one occurred. And here, the state’s own autopsy noted that there was no liquid in Wells’s stomach and airways. Roger A. Mitchell, Jr., the doctor who conducted the independent autopsy—he was allowed to visit Horn Island and had access to the state autopsy and retained sample tissues—explained in his findings that, since Wells’s manner and cause of death were listed as undetermined, the drowning theory contained holes that his autopsy alone couldn’t fill. “The available record,” he wrote, “does not definitively establish the decedent’s condition immediately before entering the water, whether he entered voluntarily or was forced, whether he was conscious or impaired, or why he would have been unable to extricate himself despite reportedly being able to swim and while in the presence of other persons.”

Mitchell’s main contribution, however, was his observation that Wells sustained “unexplained blunt-force injuries to the back of the head and additional areas of his back” that cast doubt on the drowning theory, and called into question the state’s thoroughness. The state autopsy and the grand-jury report had noted the injuries to the head but dismissed them as nonfatal; one witness had testified that they had seen Wells “slip awkwardly off the side of one boat” at one point, but couldn’t confirm if he had injured his head. Mitchell wrote that the state “failed to take close-up pictures of the contusions, dissect the area at the back of the head, or take histological sections of the area of bruising.” (The grand-jury report did acknowledge that if evidence emerges in the future “that suggests Mr. Wells’ death was non-accidental,” the case could once again be presented to the grand jury.)

Wells’s family, along with commissioning their own autopsy, hired their own forensic experts. This past Thursday, the family’s legal team convened another news conference to discuss the findings from Wells’s cell phone. Grand jurors did consider “mobile device examination findings” and a “Snapchat Conversation Report,” according to the report, but Andrew Garrett, one of the family’s forensic experts, explained how his team gathered “over one million artifacts of data” from the phone to create “a perfect timeline” of how the device moved that day. On Thursday, for the first time, based on Wells’s cell location data, the public was presented a visual “reconstruction,” similar to an Uber driving to its destination, of every point the phone travelled on July 4th—including a McDonald’s stop in the morning, the nearly hourlong trip to Horn Island, and its return to the mainland without its owner. According to the presentation, Wells last locked his phone at 2:18 P.M.; his parents recovered it around 3 A.M., according to Garrett, who added that “things were deleted on the phone” in that same time period. Asked to clarify what he meant, he said that someone “took user action” to delete Snapchat data. In a statement late Thursday, McIlrath disputed Garrett’s account and noted the “user action” was from other Snapchat users who were in the same group chat with Wells—not someone physically accessing Wells’s phone. “If the Crump team has evidence to the contrary, they have not provided it to us,” she said, blaming the family’s legal team for feeding public misperceptions.

In the end, these back-and-forths between the state and the family’s lawyers are distractions from the grief of two parents who feel like they’ve been failed by the system. “Elmore and I do not believe that Nolan simply and accidentally drowned,” Christine Wells-Wonsley said. “And nobody saw anything? And no one knows anything.” The handling of the grand-jury report “was a reminder,” she said, “that our son’s life does not matter to those who hold positions that are supposed to serve and protect the public.”

The lawsuit names Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission, Prince George’s County and Montgomery County. The department contends the laws unconstitutionally interfere with the federal government’s authority over its law enforcement officers.

The mask provision was part of legislation that passed the General Assembly during the 2026 legislative session. The measure generally bars law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings while on duty, with exceptions for undercover work and health or religious reasons. Brown’s office warned in February that applying the law to federal agents, including ICE officers, could raise constitutional concerns.

The state law took effect Thursday. Prince George’s County passed emergency legislation in April. Montgomery County’s ban took effect in May.

The Justice Department argues that the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution prevents states and local governments from regulating the federal government. The department also argues that the requirements put federal officers at risk amid what the department describes as an increase in harassment, doxing and violence against federal law enforcement personnel. [MORE]

From [HERE] A non-white man shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Austin was moved into federal criminal detention on Wednesday, following a hearing in the criminal case against him.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Dustin Howell found there was probable cause Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old DoorDash delivery driver from Venezuela, assaulted, resisted or impeded a federal officer during a Sept. 20 confrontation that ended with him being shot in the back.

In its criminal complaint, the government accuses Garces Perez of striking a federal officer, identified by his initials as L.G., with his driver-side mirror while fleeing from law enforcement. After hearing witness testimony from Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Rick Bazan, the Department of Homeland Security’s lead investigator looking into the incident, and viewing footage of the confrontation, Howell granted the government’s motion to hold Garces Perez in federal criminal detention.

“I agree with the government that the charged crime is a crime of violence and that there is a risk that the defendant will flee,” Howell said at the end of the hearing.

Ten days after the shooting, Garces Perez has been held in immigration detention with a bullet still in his back. He entered the courtroom in Austin in a wheelchair with his arm in a sling.

During the hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Britni Verdeja reviewed the events that led prosecutors to criminally charge Garces Perez. Verdeja told the judge, “The reason he is in this predicament is because he decided to flee and strike an immigration officer.”

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez has no criminal history. Multiple sources, including his attorney and congressional representatives, confirm he has no criminal record.

In an affidavit supporting the criminal charges, Bazan stated two federal agents, who are identified in the document by their initials, stopped Garces Perez and confronted him. During the interaction, one of the agents asked him to exit the vehicle, but Garces Perez ignored the command and asked to move his car into a parking lot, the affidavit claims.

“Approximately one minute later, Garces abruptly closed the window and drove off,” Bazan said. “L.G. tried to avoid contact with the car, but Garces’ driver’s side-view mirror struck L.G. in his torso as it drove off.”

Deja showed body camera footage of the interaction from one of the agents, identified as D.F. in court documents. The footage showed Garces Perez’s car driving close to officer L.G., then officer D.F. retreating to his vehicle to begin a chase. The court also saw security camera footage from a Bingo hall that showed the agents pursuing Garces Perez.

Federal Public Defender Shane McMahon, representing Garces Perez, asked Bazan if L.G. said he was assaulted when the car drove away. Bazan said he had not spoken to L.G. and only interviewed D.F. and Garces Perez following the incident.

In his closing argument, McMahon sought to cast doubt on whether the assault the government claims occurred ever happened.

“I saw the car drive away quickly, but I did not see the officer get struck,” McMahon said, referring to the video. “I think it is telling that even the officer has not claimed to have been struck.”

Verdeja, in support of her request to hold Garces Perez in detention, told the court: “There is no greater risk of flight than fleeing from officers, putting everyone else in our community in danger.”

As a result of Howell’s decision, Garces Perez will be held without bond while the investigation continues. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in a federal prison.

Outside the courthouse, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, Garces Perez’s immigration attorney, told reporters her client’s immigration matters will continue while he remains in federal custody. Lincoln-Goldfinch also accused the government of using Section 111 of Title 18 of the United States Code, the law Garces Perez is accused of violating, to target anyone who protests, observes or opposes immigration agents.

“In 2025, the Department of Homeland Security sent federal prosecutors a record 274 referrals with Section 111 as the lead charge,” Lincoln-Goldfnich said. “It increasingly looks like a tool of retaliation against anyone who scrutinizes federal immigration enforcement.”

The lingering question that Garces Perez’s attorneys seemingly have no answer to is when or if he will receive medical attention to remove the bullet from his back. Lincoln-Goldfinch did not know when such a procedure might occur but said if the bullet was not removed soon, her client risks loss of mobility and sepsis.

From [HERE] A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment was granted parole Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole, which is appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, rejected Amber Guyger's initial parole request in 2024, but approved her case over the objections of victim Botham Jean's family the first time she was eligible to ask again.

Guyger, 38, was convicted of murder in the 2018 killing of 26-year-old Jean, an Black man from the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, who was eating when Guyger entered his home and shot him. Guyger was arrested three days after the shooting and was fired before her murder trial.

She had faced up to life in prison or as little as two years. Prosecutors initially asked the jury for a sentence of 28 years.

Guyger's sentencing hearing also included a stunning courtroom scene when Jean's brother and the Black judge presiding over the case embraced the sobbing Guyger.

At trial, Guyger said that after a long shift at work and still in uniform, she walked up to Jean's apartment — which was on the fourth floor, directly above hers on the third — and found the door unlocked. She said she thought the apartment was her own and that Jean was an intruder when she drew her service weapon and entered.

Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt said Thursday that Jean's family "strongly opposed this parole."

"They stood up again and again to ask that the full sentence be served. A 10-year sentence was already a fraction of what was lost. Releasing Ms. Guyger after seven years makes that loss feel even smaller in the eyes of the system. It is not smaller," Merritt said.

In 2024, a jury ordered Guyger to pay Jean's family nearly $100 million in a federal civil trial. Massa media likes to mention said $100M judgement but don’t also mention that it is unenforceable. The government (City of Dallas) was not a party to the family’s lawsuit. The family had originally filed the civil suit against Ms. Guyger and the city of Dallas. A judge dismissed the latter from the case in December 2019, leaving Ms. Guyger as the sole defendant. Obviously, the officer is judgment proof and doesn’t have $100 million or anything substantially close to it - so it might as well have been a $10 Billion judgment or $0 judgment because that is what the fam will get here. [MORE]

In granting her release, the board said it reviewed a "plethora" of information in her case.

The board said Guyger's record did not include a documented pattern of violent or assaultive arrests or convictions, and showed she completed programs in her prison treatment plan to get and keep a job when she is released.

The board said the state prison system will determine when she is released. Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday. [MORE]

Her attorneys, who have not been informed about her condition, said in a statement early this morning that “the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy.”

Ms. Pike, 50, was scheduled to be executed at 10 am yesterday for a murder in 1995, when she was 18 years old.

That morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ordered the execution stayed until further order of the court. The State appealed directly to the Supreme Court, which vacated the stay shortly before 6 pm local time.

Three hours later, a lawyer for Ms. Pike reported that she was still alive and breathing after members of the execution team administered two syringes of pentobarbital. Shortly after 9 pm, media witnesses were required to leave the prison and saw an ambulance and other first responders pull up outside.

At a news conference, media witnesses described hearing Ms. Pike complaining about pain and snoring, and saw her kicking her feet so often that she knocked off the sheets that covered her, according to NBC News.

Journalists said that they entered the witness room at 6:41 pm and the blinds opened at 7:26 pm. They reported hearing Ms. Pike speak multiple full sentences throughout the process.

“My arm feels like it’s about to bust. One spot is really throbbing,” WKRN reporter Tori Gessner heard Ms. Pike say. Ms. Gessner, who has witnessed several executions, said, “Nothing about today was normal, typical, at all.”

The blinds closed at 7:46 pm, but witnesses could still hear Ms. Pike breathing. When the blinds reopened three minutes later, she was still breathing and began snoring, according to witnesses.

The blinds closed again at 8:05 pm and prison officials removed witnesses from the room at 8:53 pm. Even after the microphone was cut off, they could still hear Ms. Pike breathing.

No officials with the Tennessee Department of Correction appeared at the press conference or spoke to the media. The department did not provide a statement for more than two hours, saying in an email that it stood by its protocol and that Ms. Pike had been taken to an off-site medical facility.

Ms. Pike’s attorneys filed an emergency motion to stay the execution and provide medical care to Ms. Pike, writing that even after executioners injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals, she “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat.”

At 10:05 pm, the Tennessean reported that a federal judge ruled the request was moot because the State said that medical care was already being administered.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced shortly before midnight that the state is pausing all executions for the rest of the year. He called for a “comprehensive, third-party review” of what happened to Christa Pike.

A History of Botched Executions

This is the second botched execution attempt in Tennessee in fewer than five months.

On May 21, prison officials strapped Tony Carruthers to a gurney and subjected him to multiple painful and bloody punctures to access his veins while he writhed in agony for an extended period of time before Tennessee’s executioners declared they could not execute him.

This is also the second time that Gov. Lee has paused executions in the wake of a botched execution.

In 2022, a moratorium was declared to allow for a third-party investigation into “operational failures” in Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol after an undisclosed “technical oversight” led the governor to call off the execution of Oscar Smith on April 21, 2022.

Two top corrections officials were fired after that review found that lethal injection drugs were not tested as required by Tennessee’s protocol.

Indeed, the review found that corrections officials failed to tell the pharmacy that made and tested lethal injection drugs that it was required to test all injection chemicals for endotoxins. The State never even gave the pharmacy a copy of the lethal injection protocol, the report revealed.

In a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the president of the Security Council, Iran’s Ambassador and Chargé d’Affaires to the United Nations, Gholamhossein Darzi, cited recent remarks by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte concerning the extensive use of European military facilities in support of US operations against Iran.

Darzi said Rutte’s remarks demonstrated the significant role of European territory and infrastructure in facilitating US military operations and warranted urgent consideration by the Security Council.

Rutte cites thousands of sorties from European bases 

Rutte said during a September 23 public discussion on NATO’s future that approximately 5,000 aircraft had taken off from European bases in support of the US-led Operation Epic Fury since February 28, 2026.

According to Rutte, the figure covered activity only through mid-April, meaning the total number of sorties was likely considerably higher afterward. In an official NATO transcript, Rutte described European NATO territory as a major platform for US power projection and said the operation would arguably have been impossible without the use of European bases. [MORE]

From [HERE] and [HERE] Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said that it had seized a U.S. REMUS 600 underwater drone in the Strait of Hormuz, raising fresh questions about undersea surveillance and mine warfare in a waterway central to global energy shipments.

The announcement follows Iran’s September 8 claim that it captured an Anduril Dive-LD near the strait’s entrance, making the REMUS incident potentially the second loss of an American underwater vehicle there within three weeks if its identity and circumstances are confirmed.

The IRGC Navy said the REMUS 600 was conducting surveillance and had been intercepted through an operation involving intelligence and electronic warfare, but the available account does not establish whether electronic interference caused its loss or merely accompanied its recovery.

Iranian specialists are examining the vehicle for mission logs, recorded routes, sonar readings and navigation settings, according to the IRGC, making the possible intelligence value dependent on what equipment was aboard, what data remained stored and whether its protections survived capture.

The IRGC released images and footage showing a white cylindrical vehicle with visible markings and sensors, although imagery of an object in Iranian custody cannot independently establish its mission, ownership, exact configuration or the sequence of events that brought it to the surface. [MORE]

From [HERE] Amnesty International called Thursday for the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in a report alleging widespread human rights violations in federal immigration enforcement operations.

In its 168-page report, Amnesty investigated ICE activity in Chicago, Minneapolis-St.Paul, New Orleans and Washington DC, concluding that in each city officers have relied on racial profiling; arbitrarily arrested individuals based on race, skin color, ethnicity or national origin; used excessive force; engaged in unlawful killings; conducted mass surveillance; held detainees in inhumane conditions; and failed to properly investigate reported violations.

The report attributed these issues to systemic, administration-wide conduct and attitudes, stating:

[T]he human rights violations documented in this report cannot be attributed solely to individual ICE agent misconduct. ICE agents operated within an institutional environment–openly supported and expanded by the Trump administration–in which violent and racially discriminatory immigration enforcement were encouraged by senior government officials, including President Trump.

Amnesty noted agency efforts to expand officers’ ability to detain migrants and asylum-seekers. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has lifted prohibitions on arrests in “sensitive locations,” such as schools, churches, hospitals and public protests and the Justice Department has increasingly criminally charged individuals for “illegal entry” under 8 U.S.C. § 1325–a law which had previously laid dormant for “generations.”

Moreover, in the first month of his second term President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law, which mandates DHS agents to detain anyone who is unlawfully present in the US and has been charged, arrested, or convicted of burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting. Critics of the law claim it does not protect the American public so much as it attempts to politically scapegoat immigrants.

Researchers also noted the increased use of mass surveillance, facial recognition technology, helicopters and drones at the studied locations. The group discussed how, when followed by rapid responders, federal agents will often utilize surveillance and ID-ing technology to “drive home” the responders. Officers will commonly locate the individual’s house through databases and lead the responder there as a form of intimidation.

The report additionally alleged inhumane conditions at detention centers, raising concerns about cruel and unusual punishment, and rushed deportation proceedings with minimal notice or hearing, raising concerns about lacking due process.

In examining the four locations studied in the report, researchers described different levels of “institutional safeguards” from increasingly intrusive government conduct. The report discussed the killings of Silverio Villegas González during Chicago’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” as well as Alex Pretti and Renee Good during Minneapolis’ “Operation Metro Surge.”

Amnesty argued that these killings reflect broader problems in current US immigration policy and enforcement. The group contended that immigration enforcement activity has spilled over to affect broader American society and civil rights, stating:

Taken together, the incidents…demonstrate that…federal agents repeatedly used…excessive force during arrests, unlawfully used lethal force in circumstances where individuals did not pose an imminent threat… [F]ederal agents repeatedly used force in violation of international human rights…contributing to a broader pattern of militarized immigration enforcement intended not only to facilitate arrests but also to intimidate communities and suppress peaceful protest.

The group argued the US government should abolish ICE and establish alternative immigration enforcement mechanisms that protect individual rights to privacy, speech, due process, movement, and association, as well as freedom from arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

DETROIT A recently settled lawsuit in Detroit claimed authorities “deliberately" denied black children “the right of access to literacy" and provided “education” in its ‘chaotic & under-resourced schools’ where “illiteracy is the norm." According to the complaint, ‘Black children sit in classrooms where not even the pretense of education takes place, in schools that are functionally incapable of delivering access to literacy. This abject failure makes it nearly impossible for young people to attain the level of literacy necessary to function—much less thrive—in higher education, the workforce, and the activities of democratic citizenship.’

BALTIMORE Baltimore City Public Schools has been ranked the second-worst school district in America in a national analysis from independent ranking platform Daily Rank Dept., which examined academics, graduation rates, student outcomes and other measures. Rankings vary in methodology, but Baltimore cannot dismiss this result as another unfair attack on the city when its profound struggles with education have been consistently corroborated. Federal testing also places the district near the bottom among large urban school systems.

On the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, Baltimore remained among the lowest-performing districts in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and mathematics. In eighth-grade mathematics, 71% of students scored below the basic level, while only 9% reached proficient or advanced.

Why? [MORE]

According to the Anne Casey Foundation 80% of African-American fourth-graders can barely read and understand mathematics and only 19% scored proficient in math. [MORE] According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) just 18% of Black eighth-graders reach reading “proficiency.” [MORE] And NAEP recently found that only 17% of Black 12th graders were proficient at reading. [MORE] Please read that again. It means a substantial amount of Black youth are functionally illiterate or unable to articulate their thoughts or speak or think in complete sentences.

Sleeping Toms and some racists may hallucinate that cities like Gary, Memphis, Baltimore, Atlanta and DC are not actually run by white liberals but are in fact run by Black elected officials. In reality however, Black people function as “the powerless class” and generally speaking are in charge of nothing substantial independent of elite white liberals. Neely Fuller observes that ‘in spite of all statements black people may make about themselves having economic and/or political independence and the like, in the final analysis, they are all victims of the white supremacy process.’

According to Neely Fuller in a White Supremacy System the most accurate way to describe what "class" people are in is to describe their power relationship to each other. In their relationship with whites, Blacks cannot be be "upper" or "middle" - but only under whites in a white over Black operating system of vast unequal power. Fuller accurately explains, "in a socio-material system dominated by elite whites, all major decisions involving non-white people are made by elite whites. In general, elite whites are their employers, landlords, creditors, land owners, supervisors, bosses and major decision-makers. Thus, in their direct or indirect relations with elite whites, most black people function as their employees, workers, consumers, leasees, helpers, servants, tenants, patients, clients and customers, etc. Whatever a Black person gets, and/or is allowed to keep, is the result of decisions made by elite whites. This is the functional meaning of White Supremacy (Racism) that many people — particularly Black people — prefer not to acknowledge. Dr. Bobby Wright explains, 'everywhere one finds Whites and Blacks living in close proximity to each other, whether it is Chicago or Zimbabwe, the whites are in control. Yet Blacks rarely question this extraordinary universal phenomenon which defies every known statistical law of probability.' In liberal jurisdictions, such as Gary Indiana, elite white liberals control and own all major resources (such as banks, local mainstream media, major real estate, ports, industry, utilities, factories, airports and large corporate resources etc), anything of material value and generally make all the meaningful decisions in regards to Black residents. As such, elite whites are the direct or indirect masters of Black people in all areas of people activity. This necessarily includes controlling and directing the power of local government authorities, funding its elected officials campaign coffers and controlling “choices” presented to the votary during an election.

There are no local governments in existence run by Black politicians on behalf of powerful Black elites, powerful Black corporations, powerful Black mainstream media or a powerful Black votary. It is fantasy for gullible blacks to imagine that a black puppetician such as Muriel Bowser, the mayor of DC, is controlling D.C. on behalf of powerful Black interests who pull the strings behind the scenes or that powerful Black voters have concentrated their power into the white Mayor of Memphis and are really the ones calling the shots– especially when it is undisputed that those who own or control major real estate, industry, corporate businesses, banks, wealth and material resources are overwhelmingly elite whites.

From [HERE] Donald Trump once dismissed the six-month-old war with Iran as “small potatoes.” But the potatoes keep getting bigger.

The Pentagon has quietly added another 37 US service members to its public tally of personnel wounded during the Iran war, without explaining when, where or how they were injured. The latest update brings the number of wounded listed in the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) to 861, adding 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines to the previously reported figure.

A Navy official confirmed that the 29 sailors had returned to duty but provided no details about their injuries. The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command did not publicly identify any recent attack or incident that would account for the additional casualties. The Washington Post reported that Pentagon officials did not respond to requests for an explanation.

The latest unexplained adjustment is only the newest episode in a growing series of discrepancies surrounding the administration’s accounting of the human and material cost of the conflict.

A casualty count that keeps changing

The Pentagon’s public casualty figures have repeatedly changed during the conflict.

On September 18, The Washington Post reported that six US officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal accounting said at least 22 American service members had died in the Middle East since the beginning of the Iran war on February 28 — four more than the 18 deaths then listed in the Pentagon’s public database. A sixth official put the number at 23.

The officials stressed that not all of the additional deaths could necessarily be attributed directly to combat with Iran, but said they involved U.S. personnel in the region amid the ongoing hostilities. Three U.S. contractors were also reported to have died since combat operations began. The circumstances of the additional military deaths had not been publicly disclosed.

The Pentagon subsequently added another death to its public database, bringing the disclosed total to 19. The Army identified the service member as Capt. Bianca C. Wilkerson, who died on September 18 following a medical emergency while traveling to the Middle East.

That still left a gap between the public database and the higher figures provided by officials.

Four dead — then removed from the tally

The most striking episode occurred in July.

Four U.S. troops killed during renewed fighting with Iran were temporarily removed from the Pentagon’s official Iran-war casualty count. Three soldiers had been killed when an American base in Jordan was struck by Iranian missiles and drones on July 17; another died in Iraq during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone.

The Pentagon’s public database initially showed 18 deaths. It then dropped to 14, while the number of wounded also fell sharply.
Pentagon officials attributed the sudden changes to “anomalies” and “temporary data disruptions.”

The four deaths and more than 200 wounded personnel later reappeared in a new DCAS category called “Overseas Operations,” rather than under “Operation Epic Fury,” the administration’s designation for the Iran campaign. The Pentagon subsequently said that Operation Epic Fury had ended and that casualties associated with renewed fighting were therefore being recorded separately.

Whatever the administrative explanation, the change created a basic problem for the public: a war casualty database was no longer presenting all casualties connected to the conflict under the same heading.

 Nearly 100 injured — but missing from the database

The discrepancy became even more difficult to explain in July.

On July 20, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that nearly 100 US service members had suffered some degree of injury since July 7 and that 96 percent had returned to duty.

Yet those injuries did not appear in the DCAS totals at the time. The database still showed 14 deaths and did not reflect the nearly 100 additional injuries acknowledged by the Pentagon.

Senate Armed Services Committee Democrats subsequently demanded an explanation, noting that the Pentagon’s own public statements and its casualty database were reporting different realities.

The senators asked the Defense Department to disclose how CENTCOM decides whether an injury is significant enough to be publicly reported, how many injuries had been omitted because personnel quickly returned to duty, and whether injuries from attacks in Jordan were included in DCAS.

Attacks and injuries that were not publicly announced

The questions were particularly significant because U.S. officials had acknowledged that American forces in Jordan had been attacked several times before the July 17 strike.

The Senate inquiry specifically asked the Pentagon how many service members had been injured in three Iranian attacks on US forces in Jordan during the week preceding the better-known July 17 attack, whether those injuries had been entered into DCAS and who authorized the decision not to publicly disclose the attacks or associated injuries.

This raised a broader question: how many injuries can occur during a war without appearing in the public record if the personnel involved return to duty quickly?

The Lincoln’s hidden human cost

The latest revelations also extend beyond battlefield casualties.

On September 23, CBS News reported that the Navy had acknowledged eight suicide attempts among personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group during its months-long deployment.

The figure covered sailors assigned to the carrier, its air wing and accompanying destroyers. A defense official told CBS that two of the eight attempts occurred during active fighting with Iran.

The strike group had spent more than 250 consecutive days at sea during the year, while families had raised concerns about food shortages, supply problems, plumbing failures and deteriorating mental health among personnel.

The Navy has disputed suggestions that there was an increase in suicide attempts and said personnel had access to counselors, chaplains and other support services. Nevertheless, the disclosure added another dimension to the cost of a conflict that officials have repeatedly sought to portray as limited.

From “small potatoes” to a growing bill

Trump described the conflict as “small potatoes” on September 4 while defending Vice President JD Vance’s characterization that the fighting was no longer a war. At the time, Trump acknowledged 18 US deaths and said the conflict had cost taxpayers more than $37.5 billion.

Since then, the publicly disclosed casualty count has risen, officials have reported that the real death toll is higher, and dozens of previously unreported wounded personnel have appeared in the Pentagon database.

The administration’s accounting has also faced questions over the classification of casualties, the reporting of injuries and the disclosure of attacks on US forces.

The issue has therefore become larger than a dispute over numbers. It is about whether the American public and Congress can obtain a consistent account of the human cost of a war being financed by US taxpayers. [MORE]

Government Purposefully Undercounts Unemployment Rate. From [LUDWIG INSTITUTE] Using data compiled by the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the True Rate of Unemployment tracks (in 2025 dollars) annually before taxes.

Just as an accurate census is a prerequisite to funding American communities equitably, policymakers depend on economic indicators to shape economic policy. LISEP developed the True Rate of Unemployment to provide analysts and decision-makers with a more accurate measure of Americans’ financial well-being.

For a more in-depth explanation of the True Rate of Unemployment, please reference LISEP’s TRU white paper.

According to FUNKTIONARY:

McJob – a “low-pay,” low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future job in the feudal looks-like-it-could-be food chain service (servitude) sector of the New God Economy. (See: Economies, Cainsian Economics & Quantity Theory of Money)

From [HERE] Dozens of delegations have left the UN General Assembly hall shortly before Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, amid growing international isolation of the occupying regime.

Footage which went viral on social media showed most delegations leaving the UN hall as Netanyahu took the podium on Thursday, while the premier appeared visibly uncomfortable, amid protesters’ slogans.

Israeli media reports said representatives of 77 countries were absent during Netanyahu’s address to the UNGA, with several delegations leaving shortly before it began, while others had not been seated from the beginning.

The mass walkout drew significant attention in the Israeli media, with Channel 14 describing it as “a spit in Israel’s face”, while Yedioth Ahronoth called it “the dramatic protest”.

Haaretz, meanwhile, slammed Netanyahu’s speech as repetitive and dull, saying it was mainly aimed at his right-wing base and US President Donald Trump, amid what it described as growing international isolation for the Israeli premier.

Meanwhile, the American daily newspaper The Washington Post described the departure as part of a “fierce global backlash” against Israeli crimes, while Britain’s Independent noted that Netanyahu was speaking to a single audience anyway.

The Guardian noted that Netanyahu vowed to “finish the job” in Gaza while delegations left the hall in protest.

Netanyahu’s speech took place as protesters were gathered outside the UN headquarters in New York, calling for an end to Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 74,000 Palestinians and injured more than 175,000.

‘Netanyahu’s speech repetition of lies’

During his speech, Netanyahu denied that Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, taking aim at one of his most high-profile US critics, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has called for the execution of the arrest warrant issued for Netanyahu by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over genocidal war crimes.

“To all those spreading these lies about my country and about our brave soldiers, whether they sit in this hall or in the office of the antisemitic mayor of New York, I say this: Shame on you!” Netanyahu said.

“Mr. Mamdani, you try to stop me from coming here. You try to silence me. Well, you can’t silence me,” Netanyahu added.

In response, Mamdani said Netanyahu’s “lies” in his speech cannot erase the ICC arrest warrant issued for him.

“As he has done time and again, prime minister Netanyahu used his speech to repeat baseless lies meant to sanitize his genocide of Palestinians," Mamdani said in a statement on Thursday.

"Yet no lie can change the fact that he remains the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity,” the mayor stressed.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant over war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in November 2024. [MORE]

“The Nuclear Bombs are in Israel but the Inspectors are in Iran.”

According to FUNKTIONARY:

terrorist – a name or label for anyone that the over-rulers (ruling elite families) of these United (against us) States have declared war on. 2) anyone who challenges America’s hegemonic self-appointed right to rule the world. The distinction between a so-called freedom fighter and a terrorist is in the hands of those who have the power to define and propagandize their own subjective reality to make it an objective truth of others. A freedom-fighter typically is fighting an invader or occupier of his native land that has been stolen, whereas as terrorist is typically the one who has invaded or carried out acts of violence to take the land from an indigenous people. (See: War On Terrorism & Wargasm)

terrorists – people who have been left with no other means to resist global racism white supremacy except with bombs attached to bodies, but no Air Force or recognized Corporate State hierarchy to give their struggle perceived legitimacy. 2) sociopaths within a demockcracy who have bombs, agendas, and a potent well-financed Air Force with no conscience or sense of humanity. (See: Nine-Eleven, Pentagon Murders, Isrealiens, CIA, Mossad & Killer-Jet)

The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract covers initial production and future orders of Increment 2 of the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM, according to a Lockheed Martin announcement.

“This award marks an important step in delivering PrSM Increment 2 to the warfighter,” Dave Griser, Lockheed Martin vice president for precision fires, said in the announcement. “We’re ready to move from flight testing into production and provide the Army with an expanded long-range precision fires capability.”

PrSM is intended to replace the Army Tactical Missile System, first fielded in the early 1990s. It has a range of about 500 kilometers, versus about 300 kilometers for the ATACMS. PrSM can be launched from the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System and the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System. [MORE]