Slain Dallas Cop Might’ve Been A White Supremacist:

[anansi]

Slain Dallas Cop Might’ve Been A White Supremacist: Still A Hero?

Last week five Dallas cops were killed by Micah Xavier Johnson, a Black man who was allegedly motivated to take such drastic action after continually watching the US legal system refuse to hold killer cops to account. Naturally, bootlickers across the globe are unquestioningly celebrating the slain officers as heroes, innocents, and protectors. But what if one of those dead cops was a white supremacist—is he still a hero? And I don’t mean a white supremacist in the sense that all cops are enforcers of a classist white supremacist order, which they are. No, I mean the more common use of the term. The one we associate with Klansmen, neo-Nazis, Skinheads, and your average Brownshirt wannabe.



Meet Lorne Ahrens.



Ahrens was one of the five Dallas cops killed last week. While mainstream media presented him as a family man, gushed over his imposing size, his sense of humor, and otherwise went to great lengths to humanize and memorialize him as a hero, a band of international Internet sleuths came together to research something the press failed to notice: Ahrens’ affinity for imagery associated with white supremacists. Right in one of the main pictures journalists and editors were sharing with stories about Ahrens, is an Iron Cross tattooed on his finger. With this tipping them off, the Internet sleuths jumped into action and quickly turned up more evidence of Ahrens’ white supremacist leanings.






Evidence in hand, they put together a meme cataloguing it and blogged about what they’d found.



A few friends and acquaintances of mine did the legwork and discovered that slain Dallas police officer Lorne Ahrens was a proud, open white supremacist. His ring finger bore an Iron Cross tattoo, his Facebook cover photo was a massive Thor’s Hammer symbol, and his left arm was emblazoned with a “crusaders’ shield,” common to those right-wing Christians who believe that Christianity is engaged in a centuries-long war with Islam. His Facebook likes included pages which bore similar iconography—more Iron Crosses and a Confederate flag or two.

Taken in isolation, each of Ahrens’ choices of imagery and his Facebook “likes” might be explainable. Taken in context, the band of Internet sleuths’ conclusion that “Ahrens was a proud, open white supremacist,” is hard to deny. Let’s look it over.

First, the Iron Cross. In spite of its use by the Third Reich, it isn’t an inherently a racist image. It’s popular amongst bikers, skaters, and a host of other groups in the United States. On the other hand, it remains in the Anti-Defamation League’s Hate Symbols Database and prevalent amongst white supremacists. So far there are no indications Ahrens was a biker or skateboarder.



Thor’s Hammer (Mjölnir) is in a similar boat as the Iron Cross as far as it not being an inherently racist symbol and existing in the ADL’s Hate Symbols Database. Unlike the Iron Cross, Mjölnir imagery is also used by Asatrúers—a Neopagan religious group. Regrettably, Asatrú beliefs also appeal to white supremacists, especially in prisons, as they see it as more purely white than Christianity. The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates as many as 15 percent of its adherents “follow an overtly racist version of the theology.” Indeed, shortly after tweeting the meme about Ahrens I received a message from a proud white supremacist Asatrúer on Facebook. His profile includes the introduction, “14/88 soldier for life,” a common pairing of two white supremacist numerical symbols, and a few pictures down his wall he’s holding a hammer with the post, “My god carries a hammer,your God was nailed to a cross.any question? Hail odin,balder,frey,and thor”. His message to me read, “Your a whigger and your kid is going to have n***er babies.hang yourself”. (That’s his punctuation/spacing/capitalization/spelling, and of course he didn’t edit the n-word.) So, while by no means am I suggesting Asatrúers are all, or even mostly racist, let’s not pretend there’s no connection. It took me one tweet to find them. Or for them to find me, as it were.


Given his work in law enforcement and the ties between Asatrú and prisoners, it’s hard to believe Ahrens’ embrace of the Mjölnir was an innocent one. Beyond that, it appears he took the image from a t-shirt for sale that’s advertised with the not-so-subtle dog whistle to white supremacists: “‘Nordic Pride’ Shirt! Real Vikings will know what this means!” I’m no Viking, but I’m pretty sure I know what they mean.

www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-benn/slain-dallas-cop-mightve_b_10953276.html

[anansi]

Now we do know that KKK and other White supremacist types have been infiltrating Law enforcement for some time now, so it should come as no shock to us that much of these unnecessary killings are done by organized racist wearing two uniforms, I beleive it you scratch a lil deeper into the back ground of some of these killer cops you will uncover who they really are and the bed sheets they wear.
FBI Says Racist Organizations Have Been Infiltrating Police Departments For Years
countercurrentnews.com/2015/05/fbi-says-groups-have-been-infiltrating-police-departments-for-years/


LATEST POST LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL DOTHAN POLICE DEPARTMENT PLANTED DRUGS ON YOUNG BLACK MEN FOR YEARS

[ PICTURED IN THE IMAGE ABOVE, CARLTON OTT, CLARK RICE, STEVE HAMM, STEVE PARRISH, DAVID JAY, DEWAYNE HERRING, ANDY HUGHES, GARY COLEMAN, AND SCOTT SMITH ]

HUNDREDS OF CASES PROSECUTED WITH PLANTED EVIDENCE, MANY WRONGLY CONVICTED MAY STILL BE IN PRISON

The Alabama Justice Project has obtained documents that reveal a Dothan Police Department’s Internal Affairs investigation was covered up by the district attorney. A group of up to a dozen police officers on a specialized narcotics team are believed to have planted drugs and weapons on young black men for years. They were supervised at the time by Lt. Steve Parrish, current Dothan Police Chief, and Sgt. Andy Hughes, current Asst. Director of Homeland Security for the State of Alabama. All of the officers reportedly were members of a Neoconfederate organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center labels “racial extremists.” The group has advocated for blacks to “return” to Africa, published that the civil rights movement is really a Jewish conspiracy, and that blacks have lower IQ’s . Both Parrish and Hughes held leadership positions in the group and are pictured above holding a confederate battle flag at one of the club’s secret meetings.

The documents shared reveal that the internal affairs investigation was covered up to protect the aforementioned officers’ law enforcement careers and keep them from being criminally prosecuted.

Several long term Dothan law enforcement officers, all part of an original group that initiated the investigation, believe the public has a right to know that the Dothan Police Department, and District Attorney Doug Valeska, targeted young black men by planting drugs and weapons on them over a decade. Most of the young men were prosecuted, many sentenced to prison, and some are still in prison. Many of the officers involved were subsequently promoted and are in leadership positions in law enforcement. They hope the mood of the country is one that demands action and that the US Department of Justice will intervene.

The group of officers requested they be granted anonymity, and shared hundreds of files from the Internal Affairs Division. They reveal a pattern of criminal behavior from within the highest levels of the Dothan Police Department and the district attorney’s office in the 20th Judicial District of Alabama. Multiple current and former officers have agreed to testify if United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch appoints a special prosecutor from outside the state of Alabama, or before a Congressional hearing. The officers believe that there are currently nearly a thousand wrongful convictions resulting in felonies from the 20th Judicial District that are tied to planted drugs and weapons and question whether a system that allows this can be allowed to continue to operate.

Members of the Henry County Report have spent weeks analyzing the documents. The originals, secured at an N.G.O. in Canada, are being shared directly with attorneys in the U.S. Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division, and are being made available to the lawyers of those falsely convicted that seek to clear their names. The initial effort is to identify the 50 potential victims identified in the case folders of the officer investigated that were outstanding before the court at the time of his investigation. Then further identify the drug arrests made by the other members of the team that had written complaints filed against by fellow officers, that alleged targeting of minorities as is evidenced in the letter presented to the city commision in the leaked documents.

There are two federal lawsuits currently pending by former police officers Keith Gray and Raemonica Carney against the Dothan Police Department. They will be given access as well as they potentially substantiate their claims of racial discrimination and city’s violation of a federal court decree.

The documents appear to serve as irrefutable evidence of criminal activity at the highest levels of the Dothan Police Department.

Beginning in early 1996, the Dothan Police Department received complaints from black victims that drugs and weapons were being planted. Specifically young black men who had clean records were targeted. Police Chief, John White, allegedly instructed senior officers to ignore the complaints and they willingly complied.
henryreport.com/blog/2015/12/01/leaked-documents-reveal-dothan-police-department-planted-drugs-on-young-black-men-for-years-district-attorney-doug-valeska-complicit/

[nebsen]

This is not hard to believe, this is Texas . There has been a long history between the KKK & law enforcement in the South & even in the East & Midwest in the 20thCentury. Being from Chicago which has a along history of white racism, in fact Chicago was given the title as" the most segregated large city in America" & behind that was a racist white police force, that many believe had ties with white hate groups of the era. Just saw a documentary in which Richard D. Daley the famous " Machine Boss" Mayor of Chicago, for many years,( in my youth growing up in Chicago,) had ties in his early career to a well known White supremacist group of the day.

[zarahan]

Regardless of the info above, I am sure all express their condolences to families of slain
officers. So let it not be said that simply posting such info shows any "lack" of sympathy.
No credible regular here "endorses" any shootings of police or of any other person, in any illegal, immoral or unethical
shape or form. Just want to make that crystal clear so assorted propagandists and trolls cannot build any bogus strawmen.

The regrettable Dallas incident should not have happened, and it seems some right wingers are
exploiting it to the hilt with incendiary statements.


THE RIGHT WING DOUBLE STANDARD:



^^*This black madman kills officers..



^^Black president to blame..

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DALLAS (AP) — A man planted pipe bombs outside Dallas police headquarters and sprayed the building with bullets during a wild street battle early Saturday that authorities said miraculously left no one dead or injured except the suspect, who was later shot and killed in his van by a police sniper.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown said the suspect identified himself to authorities as James Boulware, and he blamed police for having lost custody of his son and for "accusing him of being a terrorist." But authorities declined to officially identify the suspect until a medical examiner verified it. Police arrived at the home of Boulware's father as an Associated Press reporter was there later on Saturday and began questioning the elder Boulware, also named James.

According to police, the suspect opened fire on the building from his parked van. Bullets pierced the glass at the entrance and caused damage inside, including at the front desk, where the worker on duty had just gone to get a soft drink.

He also fired on officers who drove up to confront him, riddling at least one squad car with bullets...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_attack_on_Dallas_police



^^This white madman tries to kill Dallas officers one year earlier..
Oh well, he is just a crazy guy..

[zarahan]

Rabid right wing racist Congressman Joe Walsh said "this is war"
and seemed to blame the President of the US, when
a black sniper killed some Dallas police officers-
my condolences to the families of the slain police.
Apparently since the president is black, and the sniper is black,
there must be "some" connection..

Strangely, Walsh had comparatively little to say when a white assailant
attacked the Dallas Police Headquarters with an armored truck
in 2015, intent on killing officers. No "wars" were
declared. Apparently its only "war" if a black man is involved.



DALLAS (AP) — A man planted pipe bombs outside Dallas police headquarters and sprayed the building with bullets during a wild street battle early Saturday that authorities said miraculously left no one dead or injured except the suspect, who was later shot and killed in his van by a police sniper.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown said the suspect identified himself to authorities as James Boulware, and he blamed police for having lost custody of his son and for "accusing him of being a terrorist." But authorities declined to officially identify the suspect until a medical examiner verified it. Police arrived at the home of Boulware's father as an Associated Press reporter was there later on Saturday and began questioning the elder Boulware, also named James.

According to police, the suspect opened fire on the building from his parked van. Bullets pierced the glass at the entrance and caused damage inside, including at the front desk, where the worker on duty had just gone to get a soft drink.

He also fired on officers who drove up to confront him, riddling at least one squad car with bullets...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_attack_on_Dallas_police



^^and it seems that people who did NOT launch any
attacks are black "punks" to declare "war" on, but
a mysterious silence about "war" occurs when white
people are actually attacking police..

[zarahan]

Another fallen officer in another regrettable ambush case..




MILFORD, Pa —A lawyer for the man charged in a deadly ambush outside a Pennsylvania State Police barracks wants statements he made during interrogation suppressed. Attorney William Ruzzo is also challenging a prosecutor's decision to seek the death penalty against Eric Frein.
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Frein was captured near an abandoned airplane hangar after a 48-day manhunt following the September 2014 shooting that left Cpl. Bryon Dickson dead and Trooper Alex Douglass wounded.

www.wtae.com/news/lawyer-wants-statements-suppressed-in-pa-state-trooper-ambush-case/38059336

[zarahan]

Another officer who died from ambush- sparked Britain's
largest manhunt.. even involving fighter jet patrols..


Nearly 22 hours later, the shooting of traffic police officer Rathband, parked in East Denton, was linked to Moat. Moat was believed to have a grudge against the police after Stobbart had lied to Moat about being in a relationship with a police officer. Shortly after his release from prison, Moat posted threats to police and others on his Facebook profile. Moat apparently targeted Rathband randomly, simply for being a police officer, although on an earlier occasion Rathband had confiscated Moat's van on the suspicion that it was not insured. Moat also made threats, in two letters and several phone calls, that he would kill any officer who attempted to stop him.

The manhunt lasted almost seven days, and was the largest in modern British history, involving 160 armed officers and armed response vehicles, many seconded for the operation from other police forces. Police also used sniper teams, helicopters, dogs, armoured anti-terrorist police vehicles from Northern Ireland, tracker Ray Mears, and even a Royal Air Force jet for reconnaissance. In the course of the hunt there were several raids and false alarms across the region.


^^Perp Raoul Moat hated police ..

The fatal shooting, in which 22-year-old Miss Stobbart received critical injuries, sparked a huge manhunt as Moat declared “war” on police.

Pc David Rathband, 42, was shot early on Sunday in an “unprovoked attack” while sitting in a patrol car in East Denton, Newcastle.

In letters left for officers he claimed to be a “killer and a maniac” and pledged to keep shooting police until he died.

Initially it was believed Moat posed a serious risk only to his former girlfriend and police officers. He holds a series of grudges against the police and was only released from a short spell in prison on July 1.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7882867/Raoul-Moat-dies-from-gun-shot-wound-after-six-hour-stand-off-ends.html

[anansi]

I agree Zarahan, I did not wished to sound insensitive, but now as we speak there is a concerted effort to criminalize the dead and in the case of the young man from Minnesota the girl friend, as they couldn't find anything much on him but traffic tickets, 1/2 which has been thrown out of court, so that tells you he and other minorities were being hounded, matter of fact in an area that is 75% white, blacks and other minorities get pulled over 84% of the time, this maybe yet another one of those cases that finally got him killed, back to the criminalizing of the dead, this has been constant from Trayyvon martin to Sandra Bland, and others after, the first thing they goes after is any kind of record to smear then dismissed them , the offending officer then get the benefit of the doubt from a sympathetic jury, if it ever even reach that far, and killer cop get to go home and have a sandwich, a few dollar shelled out to the families of the dead and all is well.

Another thing they like to do is when black ppl complained about police killing they throw out their favorite distraction Frisbee of "Chicago" and "Blk on Blk crime" colorfully etched on both sides of said Frisbee.

[zarahan]

Agreed and didn't think you were being insensitive. Just wanted to head off the usual bogus troll strawmen,
that are used to dismiss or downplay legitimate citizen concerns about police policy and practice.
These concerns are valid and right. Assorted racists and sympathizers want to de-legitimize them, and are
conducting a vigorous propaganda campaign of demonization and disinformation to do so- using these incidents.

It is part and parcel of the right wing propaganda strategy- the menacing black thug versus heroic white
police standing between "dark savagery" and "civilization." It is a propaganda drum being beat around the clock.
The smear tactics used against the dead are part of the propaganda campaign, and are a deliberate strategy
to deflect scrutiny and questions about those practices. If a propaganda fire can create enough smoke, then
a lot can be covered up. It is a deliberate strategy- like the "black n black" crime meme used to demonize
black folk. When white people victimize one another they seldom call it "White on white" crime- its just crime.
But the label is used as part of the demonization and disparagement mentality.

, the offending officer then get the benefit of the doubt from a sympathetic jury, if it ever even reach that far, and killer cop get to go home and have a sandwich, a few dollar shelled out to the families of the dead and all is well.

Indeed. The vicious cop who attacked a crippled black man below was one of the small number where a jury got to see all the evidence, and where they said enough is enough. But even then, the police dept, which means the taxpayers, may have paid his legal costs, and according to one Google result I have seen, he has been promoted within the department. Here again, the same culture of corruption and coverup. At the trial, 9 cops who saw him abusing the crippled black man, Allen Harris, claimed they "couldn't recall" what happened. Members of the jury were sickened by their mendacity and hypocrisy.


latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/jury-finds-lapd-officer-was-wrong-to-handcuff-disabled-man.html


The amount of traffic tickets thrown out in the Minnesota case demonstrates the practices citizens have a
legitimate beef about- that of "piling on" or inventing bogus charges. People still have to spend time and
money to defend against them- a tactic put in place to wear people down. And the whole "broken windows" approach
is also questionable. Crime in NYC for example was already going DOWN before Rudy Giullani showed up and more
policemen were already BEING HIRED BY HIS PREDECESSOr David Dinkins under his Safe Streets program. It was Dinkins
who hired Bratton to start cracking down on subway turnstile jumpers and other disruptors for example. That was
ALREADY underway and did not involve much flying squad "cowboys" or massive "stop and frisk" sweeps. So the whole
right wing propaganda campaign bout how "Rudy" did this and that has a great deal of mythology to it- as credible
studies such as "Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing" - Bernard E. Harcourt 2005 show.




Solutions- Well there are certain bureaucratic reforms- like mandatory dash and body cameras, independent
oversight boards when shootings happen and and so on, rather than rely on the sane prosecutors that are
part of the same system working hand in glove with police. The incentive is for the machinery to cover up-
protect and serve itself and its members. All such reforms will be fiercely resisted by the deeply entrenched
police unions. It is interesting that some right wingers who rail against "government oppression" and
"untrustworthy union bureaucrats" are willing to put their faith in the same union bureaucrats at the local level.

Another reform is for black folk, working with whatever coalition of the willing - to take political power to
reverse same of these abuses. The citizens of Ferguson finally got around to taking control of the town. The
same can be done at other local levels. Since the police are an inbred bureaucracy, abuses will not totally disappear,
but some of the WORSE abuses such as unreasonable "stop and frisk" practices, "cowboy" flying squads, deadly force
policies that may not be vigorously enforced or that are inadequate, or harassing "cash shakedowns" via petty fines
and charges. Again strong opposition can be expected to these reforms and political action will take time.
Note nothing here denies that there are honest, honorable and conscientious officers in every city. But they are
part of a system with certain imperatives to self-protection and concealment, even as it discharges its valid functions.

Well some may ask- what can be done right NOW? One thing right now is for black folk to start using a more active defensive
strategy- so as not to get into any unnecessary interaction with or draw unnecessary attention from the police. I ride
around with a radar detector in my car for example so I know where they are at all times, and try not to let them pull in
behind me. Obeying the traffic laws and so on of course is part of the package. But aside from that obvious matter, black
folk need to start thinking defensively. The young man in Minnesota, even if we throw out the traffic tickets still had things
like driving without a license and so on. They are not a "justification: for his death but he left himself open to these people.
I can't tell you the amount of times I have told young cats - stop acting up where these people get an excuse. Many whites
are using this as their basic "justification" for everything- a propaganda line that allows them to dismiss any legitimate
concerns, though they would never tolerate the same amount of harassment in white neighborhoods. There is a double standard
at play I tell young cats, but its like some don't get it. Why give these people a better shot at you? Yet time and time again,
dudes are making themselves easy targets,

Others I talk to seem to find this defensive strategy "unmanly." But the very "manly" Malcolm X and the Black Muslims were always very
careful about giving the police regime any excuse against them. Time and again you saw the Muslims scrupulously observing the laws.
Its only when very important core things were touched such as illegal invasions of mosques, that then the Muslims reacted violently.
And this careful approach did not prevent Malcolm X from fiercely protesting or hammering away at police brutality and corruption.
He did not give his enemies easy money targets. This defensive strategy can be implemented right NOW.

Another part of the right NOW is educating yourself on your rights, be able to document things, knowing when to refuse what looks like an illegal search, putting your cellphone on "Record" even if just letting it sit in your pocket to pick up audio, if anything happens, and so on.

A third part of right NOW, is working, yes working with the police and support agencies to get rid of or reform the one-percenters in the black community- the fools hat keep tearing up things and people. There are such people in EVERY community. Some people cringe at the thought of working with the police. But why? Black folks are not asking for any special favors as seems to be alleged in some propaganda. They are taxpayers whose dollars are paying the police. They deserve service just like everybody else. If you think that is a problem or that you are doing them some kind of special favor, then you are dead wrong. Churches have been doing good work on the reform part, but push come to shove, do not hesitate to drop a dime on wrongdoers. Its too late in the day for "brotherhood"." Note- this doesn't mean some kid riding a skateboard on the sidewalk (a minor irritant that doesn't call for any "broken windows" cowboying), but the percenters that may be creating a large part of the nonsense going on in some communities. Local people know who they are. They can work jointly with police to minimize their disruptions. That way the bottom line is still a peaceful community. That can be done right NOW without waiting for a black politician or city council to be elected. Some community groups have already been doing this- it needs to expand on a wide scale.

Police are not the enemy, and they are human beings who sometimes make mistakes, and the law itself deserves basic respect. There is a lot more to fear from the thugs and fools shooting things up in the community. In 2013 for example there were over 2000 murders of blacks. 90% of those were by other blacks. The math of the primary problem is not hard to figure out. Thus is not a "justification" for unfettered police shootings - just the blunt reality on the street and why black communities need the police. Another danger is right wing racist attacks- a scourge of the black community in the past. Dylan ROof's killings of black church members may only be the tip of an iceberg. There are well armed white racist groups waiting in the wings- on the increase since 2009. These incidents are like manna from heaven for them- recruitment, numbers, fund-raising propaganda- are all boosted. Given the heavy firepower and deep cross-country networks of some of these racist groups, the police are be the critical counter-force in place to suppress any wide-scale "race war" activity against black folk.

But some folk seem to think you have to wait for police bureaucracies to clean themselves up before anything can be done. Throw up hands and blame the system.. Nothing can be done, woe woe, doom gloom... But the inbred system will not change soon. I say don't wait for bureaucracies to change. Take matters into your own hands now, while working towards longer term reforms.

[zarahan]

There is a lot of rhetoric about "militant black groups"that are supposedly "plotting" this and
that, but those expanding such rhetoric across the web have little to say about armed white
anti-government militias and white "patriots."




www.guns.com/2015/03/19/government-watches-the-rise-of-well-armed-american-militias-video/

Government watches the rise of well-armed American militias (VIDEO)
3/19/15 | by Jared Morgan
Mike Morris wears camouflage, a load-bearing vest and magazines during a Three Percent United Patriots training day in February. (Photo: Mike Morris)

Mike Morris wears camouflage, a load-bearing vest and magazines during a Three Percent United Patriots training day in February. (Photo: Mike Morris)

HBO’s news documentary series “VICE” on Thursday released several promotional video clips highlighting the rise of America’s militias. The third episode of the season, airing Friday night, includes interviews with the Three Percent United Patriots, a well-armed, reportedly well-trained group with chapters across the United States.

“As faith in the government continues to erode, people are starting to want to go back … to the real intention of the constitution,” Three Percent co-founder Mike Morris told VICE during the October taping of the show. “The original intent of the Second Amendment was that the American citizen would be as armed and as prepared as the government itself.”

Militia groups are on the government’s radar and considered by officials to be breeding grounds for right-wing extremism and domestic terrorism.

But its not just the Obama Administration that has been keeping tabs on the groups. A report written by the Department of Homeland Security under the Bush Administration and not published until Obama’s first term when then Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano took office – and subsequently criticized the agency for the report – outlined concerns that right-wing militia groups were possibly recruiting veterans, CNN reported.

“There’s always been a lot of fear with the Obama Administration,” Morris told VICE. “He’s already proven that he’s willing to do whatever he has to do to go after the Second Amendment. But with a well-armed population – that makes being a tyrannical government dangerous.”

Independent of the VICE interview, Morris – a former U.S. Marine – has since been fired from his high-level communications job in Denver, Colorado, because of his affiliation with United Patriots, he said. He asked Guns.com to not reveal the name of the company because his attorney thought it might jeopardize the outcome of the employment dispute.

Morris believes its the company’s affiliation with the Obama Administration that created a bias against him during the company’s investigation, which was launched shortly after Morris fired an employee he managed. Morris said the employee happened to be a member of the same militia and forwarded some of the group’s emails to another supervisor with the intention of harming Morris’ career. In the end, Morris said, the company claimed it fired him because he lied about using his company signature in militia group emails. Morris claims it was the employee he fired who pasted the company signature into the group emails.

The company declined to comment and would not confirm anything regarding the dispute, nor would it confirm that Morris had worked there.

Whether or not Morris was fired for his affiliation with the patriots group, like he claims, the fact remains that the company does have ties to the Obama Administration. One of its executives helped to raise a substantial amount of money for the president and was given a position in the White House, according to media reports. The company in question was also given a number of government contracts, which the executive claimed to have not known about.

Morris’ United Patriots is about 30,000 strong, he said, and part of a greater network of Three Percenters and Oath Keepers that number in the hundreds of thousands. The groups don camouflage and tactical gear and train like they’re preparing for battle. It’s sometimes hard to tell many of them from U.S. military personnel – likely because close to 50 percent of them are veterans, Morris said. The group is well-organized on social media. It has logos embroidered on tactical Velcro patches and hand-signals to signify allegiance. The pinky finger, ring finger and middle fingers are extended to show a three, or three percent (III%), a number associated with the percentage of colonists willing to fight against the British Crown during the American Revolution.

When asked by a VICE reporter what Morris was training for, he initially dodged the question. Outright claiming that you’re honing your weapons skills to fight the government in self defense is risky business.

“We train for the day we hope never comes,” Morris said diplomatically.
www.guns.com/2015/03/19/government-watches-the-rise-of-well-armed-american-militias-video/

[zarahan]

Cop-killers left note with swastika and "Don't Tread on Me" flag in the
pizza shop where police officers were ambushed and killed. They were heavily
armed, wearing adult diapers- in view of long siege, and declared "start of the
revolution." Police said previously the Millers shared an ideology with militia
and white supremacists that law enforcement officers were oppressors.

www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/las-vegas-killers-wore-adult-diapers-shooting-spree-cops-article-1.1841816

Jerad and Amanda Miller were a married couple who killed two cops in a pizza shop before walking into a Wal-Mart, firing a shot in the air, and declaring the start of a revolution.


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 12:20 PM

LAS VEGAS — A man and woman who killed two Las Vegas police officers in a pizza shop and a shopper in a Wal-Mart before they died in a store shootout earlier this month were heavily armed and carried ammunition including armor-piercing bullets, Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Monday.

Jerad and Amanda Miller wore adult diapers and carried four handguns, a shotgun, water and food, Gillespie said. The couple also smashed a Wal-Mart sporting-goods display case with a baseball bat to get more ammunition as they exchanged gunfire with SWAT officers, he said.

The husband and wife died June 8 after being cornered in the back of the store in the 15-minute shootout. In all, 52 shots were fired by the Millers and police inside the store. The husband and wife fired 36 shots, Gillespie said, and police fired 16.

"The two suspects involved in this horrible event were well-armed and ready to kill as many cops as they could," Gillespie said in the latest update of the investigation of the shooting that left officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck and Wal-Mart shopper Joseph Wilcox dead.

Wilcox was killed trying to draw his legal handgun to stop the Millers, who entered the store after shooting the officers eating lunch in the nearby restaurant.

The suspects "were prepared on that day to hunker down and stay in that Wal-Mart as long as they needed to," the sheriff said.
Las Vegas shooting victim Joseph Wilcox. The 31-year-old man has been hailed as a hero for dying while trying to stop the rampage.
Las Vegas shooting victim Joseph Wilcox. The 31-year-old man has been hailed as a hero for dying while trying to stop the rampage. (AP)

Gillespie wouldn't disclose more about a motive for the Millers' rampage and declined to say what was contained in a note left with a swastika symbol and a "Don't Tread on Me" flag in the pizza shop where the officers were ambushed.

He didn't say how many shots were fired in the CiCi's Pizza. That information was not immediately being made public, Sgt. John Sheahan said.

Gillespie said police still believe the Millers acted alone.

Police said previously the Millers shared an ideology with militia and white supremacists that law enforcement officers were oppressors. The couple was kicked out of an encampment of supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who engaged in an armed standoff in April with federal Bureau of Land Management agents trying to round up Bundy cattle in a public land trespassing dispute.

The Millers each had a handgun when they killed Soldo and Beck, and each took one of the officers' 9mm handguns and two spare clips of ammunition. The guns they brought with them were obtained by Amanda Miller in Indiana, where the couple lived before moving to Las Vegas in January.
Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill points to Wal-Mart store surveillance video of shooting suspects Jerad Miller, 31, and his wife, Amanda Miller, 22.
1 | 5 Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill points to Wal-Mart store surveillance video of shooting suspects Jerad Miller, 31, and his wife, Amanda Miller, 22. (STEVE MARCUS/REUTERS)

Jerad Miller, 31, could not legally own weapons as a felon. He was convicted of vehicle theft in Washington state and had a criminal record in Indiana.

During the shootout in the Wal-Mart, a split-second exchange of gunfire changed the outcome of the fast-developing situation, Gillespie said.

Officer Brett Brosnahan came face to face with a surprised Amanda Miller rounding the corner of an aisle, and he wounded the 22-year-old assailant in the upper right shoulder.

Brosnahan wasn't hurt. He retreated before Jerad Miller, who had pulled a pistol-grip .12-gauge shotgun from his gym bag and donned a cloth vest and belt of shotgun shells, was mortally wounded in the chest by another police officer firing a military-style .223-caliber rifle.

Gillespie quoted Jerad Miller as declaring the start of a revolution and firing one shot into the ceiling after entering the Wal-Mart. He said the assailant shouted, "Stand down. You have failed. I am in charge now," as Sgt. Kurt McKenzie tried to get him to surrender near the back of the store.

Jerad Miller died lying prone on the floor. His wife lay nearby on her back, pointing a handgun at him before putting it to her own head and pulling the trigger. She was pronounced dead later at a hospital.

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FBI issues warning on Sovereign Citizen extremists

leb.fbi.gov/2011/september/sovereign-citizens-a-growing-domestic-threat-to-law-enforcement




Since 2000, lone-offender sovereign-citizen extremists
have killed six law enforcement officers. In 2010,
two Arkansas police officers stopped sovereign-citizen
extremists Jerry Kane and his 16-year-old son Joseph
during a routine traffic stop on Interstate 40. Joseph
Kane jumped out of the vehicle and opened fire with an
AK-47 assault rifle, killing both officers.





September 4, 2012 Self-styled Sovereign Citizen
Christopher Lacy obscured his license plate and
then shot and killed the first California Highway
Patrol officer who pulled him over.
pibillwarner.wordpress.com/tag/sovereign-citizen-cop-killers/




DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY'S THREAT ASSESSMENT
Rightwing Extremism: Current
Economic and Political Climate Fueling
Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment

www.wnd.com/images/dhs-rightwing-extremism.pdf

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www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/black-policemen-praised-after-protecting-8440295

Black policemen praised after protecting 'racist' crowds at 'White Lives Matter' rally in Texas


23:18, 17 Jul 2016
Updated 23:22, 17 Jul 2016
By Jessica Haworth

The powerful image was shared on social media after the rally gathered in Dallas today, and showed officers stood in front of the Confederate flag

Twitter users have praised black policemen for protected and serving citizens - even at a rally of 'racist' white protestors.

The cops were seen standing guard at a 'White Lives Matter' rally in Dallas, Texas, where supporters waved Confederate flags and held hateful signs that included phrases such as 'Black Lives Kill'.

Crowds at the rally argued with passersby after the Black Lives Matter marches across the world last week.

The policemen were praised online for carrying out their duties and protecting them from harm, with one Twitter user posting that they should be knighted for their service.

Another wrote: "Anyone but me notice the Black officer risking his life to protect these numb nuts?"
Twitter/@djinisinabottle Black police officers have been praised after protecting protestors at a 'White Lives Matter' rally
The two police officers were praised online for carrying out their duties

Video of the incident was posted on social media by Elizabeth Djinis, a reporter at Dallas News.


The police were there to form a wall between the pro-white crowd and an angry turnout who had gathered.

Men and women from the Confederate waving side shouted insults and chanted "Blue lives matter", seemingly after Micah Johnson killed five policemen in the town last week.

Black police officers have been praised after protecting protestors at a 'White Lives Matter' rally
The crowd waved Confederate flags during the rally in Dallas

Many of the opposers were defiant, as one black man told the crowd: "Just because y'all white and y'all got your own opinions, doesn't mean I don't love y'all."

Others, both black and white men and women, danced to Michael Jackson in the street in front of the protest.

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Prison sentences of black men were nearly 20% longer than those of white men for similar crimes in recent years, an analysis by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found.

Racial Gap in Men's Sentencing

By Joe Palazzolo

Feb. 14, 2013 5:36 p.m. ET

Prison sentences of black men were nearly 20% longer than those of white men for similar crimes in recent years, an analysis by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found.

That racial gap has widened since the Supreme Court restored judicial discretion in sentencing in 2005, according to the Sentencing Commission's findings, which were submitted to Congress last month and released publicly this week.

In its report, the commission recommended that federal judges give sentencing guidelines more weight, and that appeals courts more closely scrutinize sentences that fall beyond them.

The commission, which is part of the judicial branch, was careful to avoid the implication of racism among federal judges, acknowledging that they "make sentencing decisions based on many legitimate considerations that are not or cannot be measured."

Still, the findings drew criticism from advocacy groups and researchers, who said the commission's focus on the very end of the criminal-justice process ignored possible bias at earlier stages, such as when a person is arrested and charged, or enters into a plea deal with prosecutors.

"They've only got data on this final slice of the process, but they are still missing crucial parts of the criminal-justice process," said Sonja Starr, a law professor at the University of Michigan, who has analyzed sentencing and arrest data and found no marked increase in racial disparity since 2005.

Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at the Ohio State University who studies sentencing, said, "It's not surprising that the commission that's in charge of both monitoring and amending the guidelines has a general affinity for the guidelines."

The Sentencing Commission didn't return requests for comment.

The Supreme Court, in the 2005 case U.S. v. Booker, struck down a 1984 law that required federal district judges to impose a sentence within the range of the federal sentencing guidelines, which are set by the commission.

The law was meant to alleviate the disparity in federal sentences, but critics say placing restrictions on judges can exacerbate the problem by rendering them powerless to deviate from guidelines and laws that are inherently biased. An often-cited example is a federal law that created steeper penalties for crack-cocaine offenses, which are committed by blacks more frequently than whites, than for powder-cocaine offenses. Congress reduced the disparity in 2010.

In the two years after the Booker ruling, sentences of blacks were on average 15.2% longer than the sentences of similarly situated whites, according to the Sentencing Commission report. Between December 2007 and September 2011, the most recent period covered in the report, sentences of black males were 19.5% longer than those for whites. The analysis also found that black males were 25% less likely than whites in the same period to receive a sentence below the guidelines' range.

The Sentencing Commission released a similar report in 2010. Researchers criticized its analysis for including sentences of probation, which they argued amplified the demographic differences.

In the new study, the Sentencing Commission conducted a separate analysis that excluded sentences of probation. It yielded the same pattern, but the racial disparity was less pronounced. Sentences of black males were 14.5% longer than whites, rather than nearly 20%.

Jeff Ulmer, a sociology professor at Pennsylvania State University, described the commission's latest report as an improvement but said it was "a long way from proving that [judicial discretion] has caused greater black-white federal sentencing disparity."

www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324432004578304463789858002

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FROM ES:
Originally posted by Ish Gebor:

Councilman Says FWPD Racial Profiling Report Shows Bias- Police searched vehicles of black drivers more

"The report is a collection of information from all Fort Worth police traffic stops with an arrest or where a ticket was issued in 2010.

While police made the most motor vehicle-related contacts with Caucasian drivers, officers searched the vehicles of African American drivers the most.

Reports show that Blacks are also arrested nearly twice as often as Whites or Hispanics. “There needs to be some kind of explanation of why such a disproportionate number of African-Americans were arrested as relates to stops under the racial profiling report,” said Moss."

dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/05/24/councilman-says-fwpd-racial-profiling-report-shows-bias/

'Most drug offenders are white, male, young adults"

www.jrsa.org/ibrrc/using-data/data_quality/data_elements/drug/drug_examples.html

"White People Stopped By New York Police Are More Likely To Have Guns Or Drugs Than Minorities"


During the just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the city argued that officers’ disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers was not due to racial profiling but because each stopped individual was doing something suspicious at the time. The data, however, tells a different story: weapons and drugs were more often found on white New Yorkers during stops than on minorities, according to the Public Advocate’s analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 statistics.

White New Yorkers make up a small minority of stop-and-frisks, which were 84 percent black and Latino residents. Despite this much higher number of minorities deemed suspicious by police, the likelihood that stopping an African American would find a weapon was half the likelihood of finding one on a white person.

thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/22/2046451/white-people-stopped-by-new-york-police-are-more-likely-to-have-guns-or-drugs-than-minorities/

"Police are searching black drivers more often, but finding more illegal stuff with white drivers"

[...]

For years, police records have shown that black drivers tend to be less likely than white drivers to turn up with guns or drugs when searched at traffic stops. At the same time, black drivers are three times more likely than white drivers to be subjected to these searches, according to a 2013 federal survey.

You might object (or not) to the idea of racial profiling — officers taking race into account when determining whether to stop and scrutinize someone. But few would endorse racial profiling that clearly doesn't work. It's apparent, though, that ineffectual, biased policing continues in many places — more black people are stopped and searched for contraband, while more white people are found with it.

www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/police-are-searching-black-drivers-more-often-but-finding-more-illegal-stuff-with-white-drivers-2/

"City Police Stop Whites Equally but Frisk Them Less, a Study Finds"

[...]

Whites and members of minorities have a roughly equal chance of being stopped by police officers and questioned on the street in New York City. But officers are more likely to frisk, search or arrest black and Hispanic people -- or to use force against them -- according to a study released yesterday.

[...]

Rand analysts left it to police officials to come up with an explanation for why blacks and Hispanics were more likely to be frisked, searched, arrested or to have force used against them — such as officers wielding a baton, spraying pepper spray or pointing a gun — on Staten Island compared with other boroughs.

Mr. Browne said the department would have to study why the disparities are most pronounced on Staten Island. "We don’t know,” he said. “It is something we will have to examine.” Greg Ridgeway, the associate director at Rand, who wrote the report, said there were plausible reasons for the 508,540 stops in 2006, despite projections — based on data from national surveys on police and citizen contacts — that suggested 250,000 to 330,000 stops could be expected. This does not include traffic stops.


www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/nyregion/21rand.html?_r=0