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While the sentiment stands and we live in a world where no one has skin in the game and derisks while using everyone else around them, the way I read it the direct incremental costs are $38mm/annum. Still important, noteworthy and a bad joke for citizens of the Phoenix MSA right at a period where tax revenues are about to crater. But what’s the other $235mm/yr being spent on?Brooklyn wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 10:22 am People in Arizona to pay for Arpaio's racist stupidity:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/taxpa ... r-AA1bxIsh
Taxpayers in metro Phoenix are approaching a milestone in their financial pain from a 2013 racial profiling verdict over former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns: In roughly a year, those ongoing costs will exceed a quarter of a billion dollars.
The bill is projected to reach $273 million by the summer of 2024, officials were told Monday before they approved a tentative budget that included $38 million in legal and compliance spending for the racial profiling lawsuit during the coming fiscal year.
A decade ago, a federal judge concluded the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office had profiled Latinos in Arpaio’s signature traffic patrols that targeted immigrants, leading to massive court-ordered overhauls of both the agency’s traffic operations and its internal affairs department.
Under Arpaio, who was voted out as sheriff in 2016, the internal affairs operation was heavily criticized for biased decision-making. It now suffers from a crushing backlog of more than 1,900 internal affairs investigations under Arpaio’s successor, Sheriff Paul Penzone.
The overwhelming majority of the spending goes toward hiring employees to help meet the court’s requirements and a separate staff who work on behalf of the court to monitor compliance by the sheriff's office with both overhauls.
Arpaio’s immigration patrols, known as “sweeps,” involved large numbers of sheriff’s deputies converging on an area of metro Phoenix — including some Latino neighborhoods — over the course of several days to stop traffic violators and arrest other offenders.
How can anyone be so stupid as to elect someone like him into office? Well, on consideration, it's no surprise given that his electorate was Republican.
The person speaking has an interesting accent….what part of Jamaica is the person speaking from? Do you know the reputation of Jamaicans amongst the island folk?youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 11:56 am Jamaican woman say no more black people to her place....she explains in the thread: https://twitter.com/amuse/status/166241 ... 10498?s=20
Red meat for racists who want to include more people around them to make it more tolerable.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 12:09 pmThe person speaking has an interesting accent….what part of Jamaica is the person speaking from? Do you know the reputation of Jamaicans amongst the island folk?youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 11:56 am Jamaican woman say no more black people to her place....she explains in the thread: https://twitter.com/amuse/status/166241 ... 10498?s=20
It’s hilarious. YA is good for a few posts in the spirit of being a good Christian…..Jesus would post that link.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 12:10 pmRed meat for racists who want to include more people around them to make it more tolerable.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 12:09 pmThe person speaking has an interesting accent….what part of Jamaica is the person speaking from? Do you know the reputation of Jamaicans amongst the island folk?youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 11:56 am Jamaican woman say no more black people to her place....she explains in the thread: https://twitter.com/amuse/status/166241 ... 10498?s=20
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Ask her those questions.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 12:09 pmThe person speaking has an interesting accent….what part of Jamaica is the person speaking from? Do you know the reputation of Jamaicans amongst the island folk?youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 11:56 am Jamaican woman say no more black people to her place....she explains in the thread: https://twitter.com/amuse/status/166241 ... 10498?s=20
Why don’t you? I don’t recognize the accent.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 12:19 pmAsk her those questions.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 12:09 pmThe person speaking has an interesting accent….what part of Jamaica is the person speaking from? Do you know the reputation of Jamaicans amongst the island folk?youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 11:56 am Jamaican woman say no more black people to her place....she explains in the thread: https://twitter.com/amuse/status/166241 ... 10498?s=20
Totally ok to field goal kick heads in that circumstance!Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 9:37 am “This was a white working class town,” said John Burris, a lawyer representing Carpenter and others in the civil suit. “I think the police department was kind of taken aback by having all these African-Americans out there and they just started treating them poorly.”
The nerve of these people moving out here!!
Quite the target this fool has painted on his back, or head. I hope no woman was stupid enough to breed with him. Be a shame for her and her children to pay for his inhumanity.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 7:06 am Wait until some folks look at a map and equate Antioch with San Francisco.
In a Small California City, Nearly Half the Police Included in Racist Text Threads
Officers in Antioch, Calif., used slurs and boasted of beating Black suspects, prompting calls for an overhaul
By Zusha Elinson | Photographs by Amy Osborne for The Wall Street Journal
May 28, 2023 12:01 am ET
ANTIOCH, Calif.—For at least four years, officers in this small Bay Area city called Black residents racial slurs, bragged about beating suspects and joked about violating people’s civil rights in text messages.
The texts, made public by prosecutors last month as part of a criminal investigation into a group of Antioch officers, have sparked protests in the city of 115,000. Officials haven’t disclosed the reason for the investigation but said it involves “crimes of moral turpitude.”
Prosecutors in Contra Costa County say they will review hundreds of cases investigated by Antioch police to determine whether they should be dismissed because of how widespread racial animus was at the department.
Almost half of the sworn personnel in the department, 44 of 99, were on the text threads, according to a review by the Contra Costa County public defender’s office. A judge has released the names of 17 officers accused of sending the texts.
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“This community is in an uproar,” said Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford, who was hired last year to clean up the department. “It’s up to us to atone for it.”
Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford says he hopes to regain the city’s trust by holding more community meetings and hiring new officers he can train properly. Photo: Zusha Elinson/The Wall Street Journal
Ford said that about 20 officers and sergeants have been put on leave as a result of the racist texts. He said he is awaiting the findings of an outside investigation before deciding whether to fire them.
Similar revelations have occurred at several police departments around the country. A small Alabama city voted to dissolve its three-member police force last year over an officer’s text containing a joke about slavery that surfaced on social media.
Officers in other cities such as Wichita, Kan., and San Francisco have been punished for sending messages with slurs and derogatory memes to one another in recent years. Most of these text chains have been discovered on personal phones of officers during criminal investigations.
Police leaders say that it is just a fraction of officers across the nation who have been caught up in texting scandals. But following the nationwide protests over the 2020 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, the episodes have been used as evidence by some police critics that racist views held by some officers are driving mistreatment of Black Americans.
Antioch, Calif., is a small city on the eastern edge of the Bay Area.
A quiet district in downtown Antioch.
In Antioch, the messages were sent by police personnel up and down the chain of command. In April 2020, Sgt. Joshua Evans wrote, “I’ll bury that n—— in my fields” to Officer Morteza Amiri, who sent a laugh response. “And yes…it was a hard R on purpose,” Evans wrote. “Haha there’s no accidents with you on that,” Amiri replied.
Officer Eric Rombough sent graphic photos of injured suspects in their hospital beds, bragging about how he had hurt them. “I field goal kicked his head,” he said in one message from 2021.
In another text exchange from last year, Rombough wrote of his traffic stops that he was “only stopping them cuz they black. F—- them. Kill each other.”
Rombough and some others referred to Black residents as “gorillas” in their texts.
All three men have been put on leave, according to the chief.
A lawyer for Rombough declined to comment. Michael Rains, an attorney representing Evans and Amiri, declined to comment.
Community members rallied at Antioch police headquarters in April. Photo: Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group/Associated Press
Rains, who also represents the Antioch police officers’ union, told the local NBC news station that the text messages were generated by only a few officers and weren’t widespread.
Adam Carpenter, a 33-year-old house painter who is Black, said he wasn’t surprised by the text messages because Antioch officers often mistreated him. He said he has been pulled over so many times for no reason that he sold his car in hopes that they would stop bothering him.
“It’s just inhumane,” said Carpenter. “We shouldn’t have to endure this type of treatment.”
In recent years, Carpenter, now a plaintiff in a civil-rights lawsuit against the department, was arrested by officers implicated in the texting scandal on drug and gun charges.
But this week, prosecutors dropped the drug possession charges against Carpenter because the district attorney “no longer has confidence in the integrity of this case,” said a spokesman for the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office.
Last year, federal prosecutors dropped the gun charges against him. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The friction between Black residents and Antioch police has come amid demographic shifts for the city that lies on the eastern edge of the Bay Area. In 1990, 86% of the city’s residents were white and 2.7% were Black.
Adam Carpenter leaves court with his mother, sister and his son after charges against Carpenter were dropped this week in Antioch, Calif.
Adam Carpenter holds his copy of a form stating charges against him were dropped.
Over the past three decades, many Black families trying to escape high housing costs and crime in cities such as Oakland and San Francisco moved to Antioch. According to the most recent census data, 36% of the city is white and 20% is Black.
“This was a white working class town,” said John Burris, a lawyer representing Carpenter and others in the civil suit. “I think the police department was kind of taken aback by having all these African-Americans out there and they just started treating them poorly.”
Chief Ford said that he has made policy changes to address the problems at the department, including a cellphone monitoring program and an early intervention system designed to root out problem officers.
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Ford said he welcomes investigators from the California Department of Justice who recently launched a civil rights probe of the department. He said he hopes to regain the city’s trust by holding more community meetings and hiring new officers he can train properly.
Replacing officers in Antioch’s police department might not be easy. Departments across the country are struggling to fill positions amid a tight labor market and diminished interest in the profession, police officials say.
Lamar Thorpe, the mayor of Antioch, said he wants to see wholesale change at the police department.
“It’s hard to change a culture,” he said. “I hope we terminate these people.”
Write to Zusha Elinson at [email protected]
Flip the curb scene skin tone I n American history x…PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 10:08 amQuite the target this fool has painted on his back, or head. I hope no woman was stupid enough to breed with him. Be a shame for her and her children to pay for his inhumanity.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 7:06 am Wait until some folks look at a map and equate Antioch with San Francisco.
In a Small California City, Nearly Half the Police Included in Racist Text Threads
Officers in Antioch, Calif., used slurs and boasted of beating Black suspects, prompting calls for an overhaul
By Zusha Elinson | Photographs by Amy Osborne for The Wall Street Journal
May 28, 2023 12:01 am ET
ANTIOCH, Calif.—For at least four years, officers in this small Bay Area city called Black residents racial slurs, bragged about beating suspects and joked about violating people’s civil rights in text messages.
The texts, made public by prosecutors last month as part of a criminal investigation into a group of Antioch officers, have sparked protests in the city of 115,000. Officials haven’t disclosed the reason for the investigation but said it involves “crimes of moral turpitude.”
Prosecutors in Contra Costa County say they will review hundreds of cases investigated by Antioch police to determine whether they should be dismissed because of how widespread racial animus was at the department.
Almost half of the sworn personnel in the department, 44 of 99, were on the text threads, according to a review by the Contra Costa County public defender’s office. A judge has released the names of 17 officers accused of sending the texts.
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“This community is in an uproar,” said Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford, who was hired last year to clean up the department. “It’s up to us to atone for it.”
Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford says he hopes to regain the city’s trust by holding more community meetings and hiring new officers he can train properly. Photo: Zusha Elinson/The Wall Street Journal
Ford said that about 20 officers and sergeants have been put on leave as a result of the racist texts. He said he is awaiting the findings of an outside investigation before deciding whether to fire them.
Similar revelations have occurred at several police departments around the country. A small Alabama city voted to dissolve its three-member police force last year over an officer’s text containing a joke about slavery that surfaced on social media.
Officers in other cities such as Wichita, Kan., and San Francisco have been punished for sending messages with slurs and derogatory memes to one another in recent years. Most of these text chains have been discovered on personal phones of officers during criminal investigations.
Police leaders say that it is just a fraction of officers across the nation who have been caught up in texting scandals. But following the nationwide protests over the 2020 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, the episodes have been used as evidence by some police critics that racist views held by some officers are driving mistreatment of Black Americans.
Antioch, Calif., is a small city on the eastern edge of the Bay Area.
A quiet district in downtown Antioch.
In Antioch, the messages were sent by police personnel up and down the chain of command. In April 2020, Sgt. Joshua Evans wrote, “I’ll bury that n—— in my fields” to Officer Morteza Amiri, who sent a laugh response. “And yes…it was a hard R on purpose,” Evans wrote. “Haha there’s no accidents with you on that,” Amiri replied.
Officer Eric Rombough sent graphic photos of injured suspects in their hospital beds, bragging about how he had hurt them. “I field goal kicked his head,” he said in one message from 2021.
In another text exchange from last year, Rombough wrote of his traffic stops that he was “only stopping them cuz they black. F—- them. Kill each other.”
Rombough and some others referred to Black residents as “gorillas” in their texts.
All three men have been put on leave, according to the chief.
A lawyer for Rombough declined to comment. Michael Rains, an attorney representing Evans and Amiri, declined to comment.
Community members rallied at Antioch police headquarters in April. Photo: Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group/Associated Press
Rains, who also represents the Antioch police officers’ union, told the local NBC news station that the text messages were generated by only a few officers and weren’t widespread.
Adam Carpenter, a 33-year-old house painter who is Black, said he wasn’t surprised by the text messages because Antioch officers often mistreated him. He said he has been pulled over so many times for no reason that he sold his car in hopes that they would stop bothering him.
“It’s just inhumane,” said Carpenter. “We shouldn’t have to endure this type of treatment.”
In recent years, Carpenter, now a plaintiff in a civil-rights lawsuit against the department, was arrested by officers implicated in the texting scandal on drug and gun charges.
But this week, prosecutors dropped the drug possession charges against Carpenter because the district attorney “no longer has confidence in the integrity of this case,” said a spokesman for the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office.
Last year, federal prosecutors dropped the gun charges against him. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The friction between Black residents and Antioch police has come amid demographic shifts for the city that lies on the eastern edge of the Bay Area. In 1990, 86% of the city’s residents were white and 2.7% were Black.
Adam Carpenter leaves court with his mother, sister and his son after charges against Carpenter were dropped this week in Antioch, Calif.
Adam Carpenter holds his copy of a form stating charges against him were dropped.
Over the past three decades, many Black families trying to escape high housing costs and crime in cities such as Oakland and San Francisco moved to Antioch. According to the most recent census data, 36% of the city is white and 20% is Black.
“This was a white working class town,” said John Burris, a lawyer representing Carpenter and others in the civil suit. “I think the police department was kind of taken aback by having all these African-Americans out there and they just started treating them poorly.”
Chief Ford said that he has made policy changes to address the problems at the department, including a cellphone monitoring program and an early intervention system designed to root out problem officers.
SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS
How can police departments work to repair and strengthen community relationships? Join the conversation below.
Ford said he welcomes investigators from the California Department of Justice who recently launched a civil rights probe of the department. He said he hopes to regain the city’s trust by holding more community meetings and hiring new officers he can train properly.
Replacing officers in Antioch’s police department might not be easy. Departments across the country are struggling to fill positions amid a tight labor market and diminished interest in the profession, police officials say.
Lamar Thorpe, the mayor of Antioch, said he wants to see wholesale change at the police department.
“It’s hard to change a culture,” he said. “I hope we terminate these people.”
Write to Zusha Elinson at [email protected]
“Officer Eric Rombough sent graphic photos of injured suspects in their hospital beds, bragging about how he had hurt them. “I field goal kicked his head,” he said in one message from 2021.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sta ... black-men/
Starbucks to Pay $25 Million to White Manager Fired after Viral Arrest of Two Black Men
A federal jury has ordered Starbucks to pay $25.6 million to a former regional manager after determining the company had wrongfully fired her after the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia location in 2018 sparked online outrage and protests.
On Monday, the jury ruled that Starbucks had violated Shannon Phillips’s federal civil rights and a New Jersey law that prohibits discrimination based on race when the company fired her amid fallout from the incident, solely because she was white. The jury ordered Starbucks to pay the former manager $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages.
The firing happened amid outcry sparked by an April 2018 incident at a Rittenhouse Square Starbucks that began when two black men sat a table without ordering anything. The men were waiting for a third person to arrive when one of them asked to use a restroom. The employees refused and eventually asked the men to leave. When they refused to leave, the employees called police.
The incident caused widespread backlash and led Starbucks to temporarily close 8,000 stores while store managers underwent training to address “unconscious bias.”
Phillips’s lawsuit accused the company of punishing her and other white employees near Philadelphia after the incident, despite having not even been involved in the situation.
As Starbucks worked to quiet public outcry over the incident, Phillips said one of her bosses, a black woman, instructed her to suspend a white manager who was in charge of overseeing stores in Philadelphia. Phillips’s superior said the manager, who did not oversee the Rittenhouse Square location where the incident occurred, needed to be suspended because he had engaged in discriminatory conduct. Phillips disputed those allegations and questioned the need to suspend the manager.
Phillips said the manager who oversaw the Rittenhouse Square store, a black man, did not face any punishment, despite having promoted the employee who called the police.
Phillips said she was fired shortly after pushing back against the order to suspend the white manager.
She had been promoted to the regional manager role in 2011 after she exhibited “exemplary performance” as a district manager in Ohio for six years. As regional manager, she oversaw nearly 100 stores throughout Philadelphia, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
Starbucks argued in court filings that Phillips was fired not because of her race but because, “During this time of crisis” the company’s “Philadelphia market needed a leader who could perform,” and “Ms. Phillips failed in every aspect of that role.”
She said she had never been told she was doing a bad job.
Phillips’s lawyer, Laura Carlin Mattiacci, told the New York Times that she and her client are “very pleased” with the jury’s verdict. She said he “proved by ‘clear and convincing evidence’ that punitive damages were warranted” under New Jersey law.