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Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:09 pm
youthathletics wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 4:20 pm Yea....democrats have never been in charge, or in a majority to accomplish such things that they sling mud. Their words are just as meaningless, well except to polarize and community organize. Rise up, fight-fight-fight....and bring a shotgun as Joe Biden suggested. Maybe we should put some lobbyist on the ticket next cycle.....clearly the democrats understand they run the country as they line their pockets just as nicely.
We need to do away with political parties. Folk need to go to church.
Lotta truff in the latter...but then again, sarcasm works as well.
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youthathletics wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:25 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:09 pm
youthathletics wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 4:20 pm Yea....democrats have never been in charge, or in a majority to accomplish such things that they sling mud. Their words are just as meaningless, well except to polarize and community organize. Rise up, fight-fight-fight....and bring a shotgun as Joe Biden suggested. Maybe we should put some lobbyist on the ticket next cycle.....clearly the democrats understand they run the country as they line their pockets just as nicely.
We need to do away with political parties. Folk need to go to church.
Lotta truff in the latter...but then again, sarcasm works as well.
Agree. Sense of belonging and a larger purpose can be a big help for many of these lost souls. If that’s church ? Cool.
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youthathletics wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 4:20 pm Yea....democrats have never been in charge, or in a majority to accomplish such things that they sling mud. THeir words are just as meaningless, well except to polarize and community organize. Rise up, fight-fight-fight....and bring a shotgun as Joe Biden suggested. Maybe we should put some lobbyist on the ticket next cycle.....clearly the democrats understand they run the country as line their pockets just as nicely.



They have the White House, the senate, and the house, but by the sounds of their incessant and piercing whining, you’d think they’re the minority party in America.

Soon, they will be the minority party, with historic losses this Fall, and no one deserves it more.
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a fan wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:58 pm
youthathletics wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:25 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:09 pm
youthathletics wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 4:20 pm Yea....democrats have never been in charge, or in a majority to accomplish such things that they sling mud. Their words are just as meaningless, well except to polarize and community organize. Rise up, fight-fight-fight....and bring a shotgun as Joe Biden suggested. Maybe we should put some lobbyist on the ticket next cycle.....clearly the democrats understand they run the country as they line their pockets just as nicely.
We need to do away with political parties. Folk need to go to church.
Lotta truff in the latter...but then again, sarcasm works as well.
Agree. Sense of belonging and a larger purpose can be a big help for many of these lost souls. If that’s church ? Cool.
... help for lost souls :lol: :lol: American churches are where people go to lose their souls and their humanity and become fascists
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Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 3:17 pm
youthathletics wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:31 am BHO doing what he does best:

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Former President Barack Obama said the US is "paralyzed" by the Republican party and gun lobby after Tuesday's mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two adults dead.

"Nearly ten years after Sandy Hook — and ten days after Buffalo — our country is paralyzed, not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that have shown no willingness to act in any way that might help prevent these tragedies," Obama said in a late-night Twitter thread on Monday.

His remarks referenced the two mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, and a Buffalo, New York, grocery store earlier this month.

"It's long past time for action, any kind of action," Obama added. "And it's another tragedy — a quieter but no less tragic one — for families to wait another day."

Tuesday's shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was the deadliest at an elementary school since Sandy Hook, which Obama previously said was one of the worst days of his presidency.

After learning about the tragedy on December 14, 2012, Obama gave an emotional statement in the White House press briefing room. Former White House photographer Pete Souza told Insider in 2017 that it was "probably when he cried for the first time."

Obama's reference to the Republican party in his Monday night comments came as many GOP figures responded to the attack by arguing for more guns and security in schools.

President Joe Biden, who was Obama's vice president during Sandy Hook, gave an emotional address to the nation late Monday night where he slammed lawmakers for not standing up to the gun lobby.

"The gun lobby has spent two decades aggressively marketing assault weapons," Biden said, calling for renewed restrictions on assault weapons.
Had the chance to act with the 111th congress. What gun legislation was passed then?
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Carroll81 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 7:58 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 3:17 pm
youthathletics wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:31 am BHO doing what he does best:

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Former President Barack Obama said the US is "paralyzed" by the Republican party and gun lobby after Tuesday's mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two adults dead.

"Nearly ten years after Sandy Hook — and ten days after Buffalo — our country is paralyzed, not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that have shown no willingness to act in any way that might help prevent these tragedies," Obama said in a late-night Twitter thread on Monday.

His remarks referenced the two mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, and a Buffalo, New York, grocery store earlier this month.

"It's long past time for action, any kind of action," Obama added. "And it's another tragedy — a quieter but no less tragic one — for families to wait another day."

Tuesday's shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was the deadliest at an elementary school since Sandy Hook, which Obama previously said was one of the worst days of his presidency.

After learning about the tragedy on December 14, 2012, Obama gave an emotional statement in the White House press briefing room. Former White House photographer Pete Souza told Insider in 2017 that it was "probably when he cried for the first time."

Obama's reference to the Republican party in his Monday night comments came as many GOP figures responded to the attack by arguing for more guns and security in schools.

President Joe Biden, who was Obama's vice president during Sandy Hook, gave an emotional address to the nation late Monday night where he slammed lawmakers for not standing up to the gun lobby.

"The gun lobby has spent two decades aggressively marketing assault weapons," Biden said, calling for renewed restrictions on assault weapons.
Had the chance to act with the 111th congress. What gun legislation was passed then?
My guess is none. Last time I looked, Barry was a politician and race baiter….I get that right?

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Carroll81 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 7:58 pm Had the chance to act with the 111th congress. What gun legislation was passed then?
None.
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a fan wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 10:15 pm
Carroll81 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 7:58 pm Had the chance to act with the 111th congress. What gun legislation was passed then?
None.
72 days without the filibuster. They got ACA (Republican plan) and a few dozen other laws passed to clean up the financial crisis mess, expanded military spending and some other stuff.

Trump did more to restrict gun rights in 4 years than Obama did in 8.

Center-right Democrats in action...
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NattyBohChamps04 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:28 pm
a fan wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 10:15 pm
Carroll81 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 7:58 pm Had the chance to act with the 111th congress. What gun legislation was passed then?
None.
72 days without the filibuster. They got ACA (Republican plan) and a few dozen other laws passed to clean up the financial crisis mess, expanded military spending and some other stuff.

Trump did more to restrict gun rights in 4 years than Obama did in 8.

Center-right Democrats in action...
Yes. Just pointing at the ol' scoreboard.
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NattyBohChamps04 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:28 pm
a fan wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 10:15 pm
Carroll81 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 7:58 pm Had the chance to act with the 111th congress. What gun legislation was passed then?
None.
72 days without the filibuster. They got ACA (Republican plan) and a few dozen other laws passed to clean up the financial crisis mess, expanded military spending and some other stuff.

Trump did more to restrict gun rights in 4 years than Obama did in 8.

Center-right Democrats in action...
... Obama is a black man (and was then for those wondering how that works). He did not want to rock that boat (guns). He was trying to not piss off the deplorables, understanding their sensitivity on the gun issue. Which was then and still is a mistake. There is nothing a democrat can do that will not piss off a deplorable. Bidden is making the same mistake that Obama did. He has tried to be if not liked, at least recognized for what he is, not a threat. It is now clear that is never going to happen. I think that his olive branch is very quickly wilting.

Your acknowledgement of the fact that Trump restricted gun rights to a greater degree than Obama or to this point Biden proves my point, the deplorables are incapable of recognizing reality.
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youthathletics wrote: Sun May 29, 2022 7:55 am Fun little quiz: https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-r ... e-the-quiz



:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

(I have a feeling this quiz isn’t funny to most FLP, in fact it makes them angry, which of course is what makes it even funnier)
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jhu72 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 7:54 pm
... help for lost souls :lol: :lol: American churches are where people go to lose their souls and their humanity and become fascists

More people have been killed in the name of the Bible than for any other reason in history. Right wing hero Hitler committed his evils in the name of the Bible and that's no secret.
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Minneapolis City Council to review findings of state’s investigation into city’s police department


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Tuesday, the Minneapolis City Council’s Committee of the Whole will hear a presentation of an investigation by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) into the city’s police department.

The findings of the department’s investigation were released earlier this year; the department reported finding probable cause the city and the department have a pattern or practice of racial discrimination.

RELATED: State investigation: City, Minneapolis Police Department engage in ‘practice of race discrimination’

The council is expected to meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to go over what was found in the 72-page long report, which details a decade of alleged discrimination by the Minneapolis Police Department.

MDHR first launched the investigation days after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

RELATED: Minnesota Department of Human Rights files civil rights charge against Minneapolis Police Department

Investigators reviewed more than 700 hours of body camera footage, more than half a million city and department documents and went on ride-alongs in every police precinct.

The report found Minneapolis police officers not only used force against Black people at high rates, but that the force was more severe, and even deadly.

RELATED: State report finds Minneapolis Police Department surveilled Black leaders, organizations like Minneapolis NAACP

MDHR Commissioner Rebecca Lucero says this isn’t about one person within the department, but a pattern of discrimination as a whole.

“It took a lot of people to get to this place over a long period of time,” Lucero said. “It’s going to take a lot of work by a lot of people to get out of this. So, it’s not about one person that we’re going to need to get out of this.”

RELATED: Report: ‘substantial changes’ needed at city attorney’s office to track problematic MPD officers

The report was released in April, and in May, the city attorney’s office sent a letter to MDHR asking to see the evidence used in the report.

So far, the state has not turned that over.

RELATED: City of Minneapolis asks the Minnesota Dept. of Human Rights to hand over evidence to support its findings

City council members will start going over the entire report during Tuesday’s meeting, but aren’t expected to take any kind of action.

However, they will get a chance to ask questions about the report.





I'm betting this will all turn out to be nothing more than political window dressing. Same old, same old.
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Derek Chauvin treated with kid gloves- given light sentence for violating civil rights when murdering George Floyd:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d_AEd1 ... nnel=9NEWS



The 21 year sentence will run concurrent with the sentence imposed during the state trial. Hitler must be celebrating from his perch in Hell.
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Hennepin County's bigoted corrupt sheriff's criminal activities:





Knowing the political scene here, he will get away with his criminal corruption. They always get away with that s#it.
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Ex-officer Thomas Lane sentenced to 2½ years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights
Lane and two other former Minneapolis officers were convicted by a federal jury in February.



https://www.startribune.com/ex-officer- ... 600191916/


Lucky POS got off easy - concurrent sentence. Kid gloves treatment for premeditated murder.


By contrast, a black guy who shot a white guy got convicted of first and second degree murder even though the act was spontaneous road rage. Not to excuse any wrongdoing. But to show the disparity in the way the Twin Cities once again shows how it devalues black lives.
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'Blanket immunity': Sex trafficking charges dropped, lives ruined, but St. Paul officer still on force
Federal courts make it all but impossible to win suits against police officers who are working as part of federal operations.



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Hawo Ahmed called home in tears.

She had just given birth in a Nashville jail, and her mother flew from Minneapolis to take the baby. Ahmed couldn't hold him. She couldn't breastfeed him. She asked her mom about the newborn day after day: "Is he okay? How is he doing?"

The boy would be fine; Ahmed, less so. She spent two years locked up for a crime she did not commit, and even after she returned home, depression and anguish darkened her life until she was found dead just shy of her 29th birthday.

Now a lengthy legal battle against the St. Paul police officer whose word helped put her in jail is nearing the end after a recent appeals court ruling in a related case. Ahmed was among 23 Somali Americans who sued officer Heather Weyker for allegationsthat led them to spend a collective 44 years behind bars for crimes of which they were never convicted. None has prevailed so far, and Ahmed's story illustrates how the courts have made it increasingly difficult to win redress against a cop who is federally deputized.

"If you violate somebody's rights within the Constitution, you should [face] the full effect of the law," Ahmed's sister Luula Ahmed said. "I don't care if you're part of the law. I don't care if you're a police officer. I don't care if you work for the government."

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The FBI scored big headlines in 2010 when it announced that 29 people — all but one Somali — were indicted for participating in a gang-related juvenile sex trafficking ring transporting Black girls from Minneapolis to Nashville.

The case was also a major one for Weyker, a St. Paul officer who served on the FBI sex trafficking task force and helped lead the investigation. She spent years interviewing a troubled teen who was an alleged victim and key to the prosecution. And Weyker cultivated witness Muna Abdulkadir, who told her how the teen was prostituted. Hundreds of pages of court documents lay out how the case unfolded.

Ahmed had been friendly with Abdulkadir, but would later insist in court that she didn't know Abdulkadir had testified before a grand jury in a high-profile federal prosecution. All she knew, by her account, was that Abdulkadir was increasingly becoming an antagonist.

Ahmed claimed she had taken the fall for Abdulkadir on a marijuana possession misdemeanor, and that Abdulkadir made a bogus call to Burnsville police that got Ahmed evicted. Each 18-year-old accused the other of gossiping about them.

On June 16, 2011, Ahmed spotted Abdulkadir near the Karmel Mall and decided to fight her. Ahmed's friends Ifrah Yassin and Hamdi Mohamud followed.

Ahmed took off her earrings.

In the elevator of Abdulkadir's apartment building, she and Ahmed exchanged blows. Yassin joined in. Mohamud stood there. "It was honestly girl fighting, like pulling hair and pushing each other and scratching and stuff like that," Yassin testified.

The fight lasted less than 30 seconds. Then Abdulkadir came outside with a knife and used it to strike the windshield of Ahmed's car and slap Yassin on each cheek.

Ahmed's group called the police. Then Abdulkadir phoned Weyker in a panic, recalling in court, "I had a knife, and I just turned 18 not that long ago, so I was scared that it might mess up my record."

Weyker was in Nashville when she got the call. She would later say Abdulkadir was crying and breathing heavily.

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Ahmed and her friends believed the Minneapolis officer who came to the scene treated them as victims — at first.

Then the officer received a message: Heather Weyker, 710 out of St. Paul, would like officers to call her ASAP.

Weyker told Minneapolis police that Abdulkadir was a witness in a sex trafficking case and that she had information that Ahmed and her friends had targeted Abdulkadir. Abdulkadir had told Weyker that Yassin accused her of using her testimony to put young men in their community behind bars.

Two FBI agents showed up. Abdulkadir was let go. The other three women were arrested and indicted on charges of conspiring to intimidate and retaliate against a federal witness and trying to obstruct enforcement of child sex trafficking laws. The Minneapolis officer alleged in his police report that Ahmed told him everyone knew that Abdulkadir had helped put all those Somali men in prison, though it would later emerge in court that the interview was unrecorded and he had mixed up her and Yassin when taking statements.

Prosecutors argued Ahmed should be detained until trial because she had been recently charged with assault — later reduced to a misdemeanor — in a separate case.

"I'm not trying to be away from my kids for a long time," Ahmed told the judge. "And I'm pregnant. I'm not trying to be in jail. You can put me on house arrest. I'll stay somewhere that I won't get outside. Please just don't take me to Tennessee."

She was shipped 800 miles away to a jail in Nashville, where the sex trafficking case was being prosecuted. There she shared a cell with Mohamud, her best friend.

Ahmed gave birth to a son named Sakaria in December, weeks after her 19th birthday.

"Having a child in prison [brought] a lot of trauma on her," her mother, Isha Ahmed, recalled during a phone interview from Kenya, with a daughter translating from Somali. "And as a mom, I had to fly out and … strip her away from her child, when that wasn't a rightful position that anybody should have been in."

Charges against Mohamud were dropped following confusion about her age. Her mother didn't know Mohamud's actual birthdate in Somalia and DNA testing indicated she was likely a juvenile; her lawyers said she was just 16 when detained.

Ahmed was incarcerated for two years.

Facing a jury was risky. Fewer than 1% of federal defendants went to trial and won acquittals, according to the Pew Research Center. Prosecutors offered Ahmed a plea deal allowing her to go home rather than face up to a decade in prison if convicted.

Ahmed refused. She insisted she was innocent.

So in July 2013, she and Yassin went on trial together. Ahmed acknowledged on the stand that she often used fights to settle beefs, but insisted that her confrontation with Abdulkadir was personal, not over a federal case. Ahmed and Mohamud said they hadn't even known the trafficking defendants; Yassin had gone to middle school with some.

Defense attorney Ben Perry asked Weyker why she had taken Abdulkadir at her word, given that the witness had a record of not telling the full truth to law enforcement.

"That's all I had at the time," Weyker testified.

The jury found Ahmed and Yassin not guilty on all counts. The women jumped up and down, crying and laughing and running around the defense table.

The main sex trafficking prosecution was starting to fall apart, too.

Six defendants were acquitted at jury trials. Three more had their convictions reversed by judges.

Then came an explosive ruling.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals concluded in 2016 that the government's two alleged victims, who had served as the primary witnesses, were unworthy of belief. It called the claims of sex trafficking and prostitution "likely a fictitious story."

The appeals court noted the district court's opinion that Weyker likely exaggerated or fabricated key aspects of the story in her interviews with one of the troubled teens claiming to be victims, and that it had caught Weyker lying to a grand jury and during a detention hearing. Prosecutors dropped charges against the remaining defendants.

The St. Paul Police Department put Weyker on leave and launched an internal probe. She returned after five days, moving to non-investigative work.

Twenty-three Somali Americans — including Ahmed, Yassin and Mohamud — individually sued Weyker for violating their constitutional rights. (A 24th plaintiff was of Asian descent.) They spent 44 years in detention and close to a half-century more on government monitoring, and described how false sex trafficking charges ravaged their lives.

Partners left them. One couple temporarily lost their children to foster care. Branded as child molesters, others faced violent retaliation in jail; a plaintiff said another inmate split his head open. The prosecutions derailed their schooling, their careers, their reputations. The ordeal, as one man put it, was "Kafkaesque" — he expected it in Somalia, not here.

A south metro teenager said federal agents stormed his bedroom at midnight and brought him to a detention center where Weyker threatened that he would face prison for a long time if he didn't cooperate. He and other defendants, he said, were chained together and driven to Nashville. While held at an Illinois jail on the way, he became afraid after a TV report of the charges aired and inmates banged on the walls and chanted "chomo," slang for child molester. His girlfriend dumped him. The man said he became a shell of himself after prison: sad, scared, untrusting. Hennepin County records show he was committed to a mental institution this year.

The lawsuits reveal a portrait of deep trauma that persisted for years — something Ahmed's family saw in her, too. Once cheerful, Ahmed deteriorated. She spent a lot of time in her room.

"Howa was depressed, she was stressed, she had these … moments where she would just cry," her sister Luula recalled. "She had really bad anxiety."

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What became of Weyker? The St. Paul Police Department's Internal Affairs investigation did not result in any discipline, and by 2017, she returned to investigative roles. She now works in the burglary unit making over $110,000, and a police spokesman said she declined to comment for this story.

The St. Paul police spokesman said the department cannot comment on personnel matters but that "we understand the questions being raised and wish there was more that we could say about those involved."

U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen dismissed nearly every suit against Weyker, often concluding the officer was entitled to qualified immunity because the complaints failed to plausibly allege a violation of constitutional rights.

Plaintiffs would have better odds if they could sue Weyker as a local officer acting under state law. But because Weyker had been simultaneously serving on an FBI task force as a deputy U.S. Marshal, the courts designated her as a federal employee, with a much narrower judicial standard under which to sue. It didn't matter that the form deputizing her said, "This appointment does not constitute employment by ... the United States government."

"Once they get that federal agency connection, it's the kiss of death," said Robert Bennett, an attorney for many of the plaintiffs.

Ahmed and her friend Mohamud had the best chance.

Ericksen denied Weyker's motions to dismiss the women's lawsuits in 2018, saying they plausibly alleged that Weyker violated their Fourth Amendment protections from unreasonable search and seizure by the government and that the officer was not entitled to qualified immunity. But the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Weyker in 2020.

The Supreme Court last month declined to hear Mohamud's case, in which Ahmed was named as an interested party. The top court's decision in June that a Border Patrol agent had immunity from an innkeeper's suit because he was a federal official — along with other judicial activity in recent years — also further constrains people's ability to hold federal law enforcement legally liable for constitutional violations.

A police officer's participation in a federal task force — an increasingly common arrangement nationwide — has "become blanket immunity for anything they do," said Ahmed's attorney Andrew Muller.

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Ahmed's case also rested on a looming decision by the Eighth Circuit on Yassin's suit. That appeal claimed Weyker acted only as a local officer when she intervened in the MPD's response to a fight, and that she had gone well beyond the scope of her federal authority and therefore could not be immune from liability.

Weyker insisted her involvement was tied to her duties with the FBI's trafficking probe. Her legal counsel from the U.S. Department of Justice noted in court filings that on the day of the fight, she and the Minneapolis officer had a conference call that included the federal prosecutor in the trafficking case, as well as another member of the FBI task force.

"The evidence from Yassin's criminal proceedings does not show any wrongdoing by the defendant, Heather Weyker ... [she] did not violate any clearly established constitutional right," her lawyers wrote.

Yassin's attorney Joshua Newville argued in his appeal that Weyker had manufactured the federal link. He wrote: "To give Weyker the benefit of her fabrications during a litigation aimed at holding her accountable for them would border on absurd."

The appeals court sided with Weyker on July 14, however, and attorneys now have the option of seeking a review of the decision by the full Eighth Circuit or appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Yassin was not available for an interview because of the ongoing litigation. Mohamud remains too traumatized to speak to the media, her attorney said, adding that the charges left a stain on her reputation and in background checks. Abdulkadir could not be reached for comment.

As the cases made their way through the courts, Ahmed went to see her mother in Kenya. Ahmed didn't like family seeing her struggle, but her mother could tell she was down. Ahmed moved to Columbus, Ohio, for a new start last summer.

She still spoke of justice.

Then a family member found her dead at home on Sept. 15, 2021. Police ruled out suicide or foul play. The county coroner concluded that she died of fentanyl intoxication, though her sister disputed that. Relatives said Ahmed had a heart condition, and they believe the pain and stress of the past decade also contributed to her fate.

Luula Ahmed and other relatives recently reflected on the ordeal at Thompson County Park in West St. Paul, where Hawo Ahmed used to come. What would her life have become if she hadn't been jailed on federal charges at such a young age? Why had the system made it so hard to hold law enforcement accountable in court?

Her sister insists that the courts must give citizens a fair opportunity to sue police for constitutional violations. And by keeping Weyker on the police force, Luula said, the message to all the people incarcerated in the sex trafficking case is that "their pain doesn't matter. Their trauma doesn't matter."




More harm caused to society because of police corruption. Let's see the anti-government right wingers demand an end to this injustice and for public retribution against those corrupt criminal cops.
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Anti-Semitic hate letters being spread throughout the Twin Cities and other parts of the USA:


https://www.startribune.com/civil-right ... 600193221/


Civil rights group says fliers from 'virulently anti-Semitic group' showing up all around Twin Cities
Similar distributions have occurred elsewhere in the country including Maryland, California and Florida.

A leading civil rights organization says it has learned of the distribution of troubling fliers in many Twin Cities-area communities from supporters of a "virulently anti-Semitic group."

The fliers are headlined "Every single aspect of the media is Jewish." They include photos of the CEOs of major entertainment companies with a Star of David added on each of their foreheads.

American Jews running the news and entertainment media is an anti-Semitic trope that has been promulgated for a century or more.

In a statement Monday, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) for Minnesota and the Dakotas said it has documented the fliers since July 1 in Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Edina, North Oaks, New Brighton, Cottage Grove and Arden Hills.

The JCRC said the fliers have been distributed by supporters of the Goyim Defense League*, "a virulently anti-Semitic group, whose nefarious activities are well documented by the ADL [Anti-Defamation League]." The flier includes a web address where anti-Semitic videos are posted.

The ADL contends that the Goyim Defense League's mission is to "cast aspersions on Jews and spread antisemitic myths and conspiracy theories. This includes frequent references to Jews having undue power through their 'control' of major institutions such as media networks, the economy or the government."

Similar flier distributions have occurred elsewhere in the country including Maryland, California and Florida. As in those states, the fliers in the Twin Cities were in plastic bags weighed down with corn kernels so the bags could be tossed from vehicles without blowing away in the wind.

The Star Tribune left messages with Jon Minadeo, who among other duties runs the Goyim Defense League's video-sharing site, seeking to confirm whether anyone associated with his group is responsible for the fliers.

"We hesitate to offer any public attention to these hateful provocateurs, which is what they seek," the JCRC statement continued. "However, we wish to assure the community that there is no evidence of these fliers being associated with imminent violence and that we will continue tracking these distributions and are in close communication with our law enforcement partners."

The mayor of St. Louis Park, home to a significant Jewish population, said the fliers were distributed overnight from Sunday into Monday in his neighborhood and throughout the city.

"I, and those in my neighborhood, awoke to anti-Semitic fliers left at our homes which served as a disgusting and sad reminder that religious-based hate remains a pervasive problem," said Mayor Jake Spano, who found one of the fliers on his lawn Monday morning.

"I've been in contact with residents of multiple faiths," Spano continued, "and I can tell you that whatever the people spreading these hateful messages think they are accomplishing in dividing people, it's having the exact opposite effect."

St. Louis Park police are logging where the fliers were received as part of their investigation.

In neighboring Edina, a resident on Wooddale Avenue found one of the fliers hanging on her door, then picked up others in yards and in the streets of her country club neighborhood, a police report dated Monday said.

"The bags looked as if they were thrown from a vehicle," the report read. "The placement was random, and they were 15 to 20 feet into the yards [from the street]."

Last month, anti-Semitic fliers were found near a dozen homes in St. Paul's Highland Park neighborhood.






*https://www.google.com/search?q=goyim+d ... e&ie=UTF-8
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