POLICE ARREST BLACK MAN LOOKING FOR HIS CHILD

A father has lost his job after a video went viral showing police arresting him after he reported his ex-girlfriend had kidnapped his 4-year-old daughter.

After police officers appeared on the morning of 6 August, things took a dark turn for Darnay Cockrell. As seen in this viral video making rounds online, police apprehended Cockrell by forcing him to lie on the ground, despite saying he had just had shoulder surgery. He reportedly also has bad knees. In the video, he said, ‘How y’all going to sit here and put me in the cage ‘cause my baby got kidnapped. I’m suing the sh*t out y’all.’

Speaking on 15 August, he explained what happened that day. ‘I was on the phone with the dispatcher, and I was like ‘she left.’ He was like, ‘Go locate and see which way she went.’

Continued….. So, I went down the stairs and the officer was walking up, and I was like, ‘My baby is gone,’ and he ran on the side of me and was like, ‘Get on the ground,’ and I’m like, ‘No, I’m not getting on the ground. My baby is gone.’ Cockrell said that’s when a second officer came, and both officers pulled him to the ground and detained him.

Cockrell filed a complaint with the Mesa Police Department. The department’s district commander responded that the officers’ actions did not violate their policy and that the officers would receive additional training.

His daughter was returned to Cockrell, and police booked his ex-girlfriend into jail for disorderly conduct under a domestic violence law.

Unfortunately, since the video went viral, Cockrell has lost his job and has been trying to make ends meet by selling snacks. A GoFundMe has been set up to help him cover the cost of food and rent. Cockrell told the media he’ll never call the police again.

Can you blame him?

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The Clinton Desegregation Crisis of 1956 unfolded on this day in Clinton, Tennessee, following the US Supreme Court's ruling mandating the desegregation of public schools. In response to this ruling, US District Court Judge Robert Taylor ordered Clinton High School to desegregate in the 1956-57 school year. As a result, 12 Black students, later known as the 'Clinton Twelve,' enrolled at the previously all-white school, making history as the first Black people to integrate a public school in Tennessee. Their enrollment, however, sparked white-segregationist opposition and violent protests a few days later.

Continued….. Tennessee Governor Frank Clement intervened by deploying the National Guard (military reservists) and the Highway Patrol (traffic-law enforcers) to restore order. Despite the violence, including cross burnings, gunfire, and dynamite attacks aimed at Black residents and supporters of desegregation, some of the Clinton Twelve continued to attend the school.

Although racial tensions persisted, Clinton High School symbolised progress in the fight for school desegregation. Bobby Cain, one of the Clinton Twelve, became the first Black student to graduate from a desegregated Southern school in 1957. Despite a bombing destroying much of the school in 1958, a national fundraising campaign helped rebuild it.

This gem of wisdom comes from Kenya. When two people fight, it’s those around them that suffer. In particular, when the mighty clash, they don’t value how they trample over the less fortunate.

ISRAELI COVERT OPERATION OVERTURNS ELECTIONS?

In 2023, a Paris-based NGO tracked down and unmasked a covert Israeli operation that privately boasted of influencing more than 30 elections worldwide. So far, ‘Team Jorge’ claims to have influenced the 2015 Nigerian election and says its fee was too high to disrupt a Kenyan election. It also ran a social media campaign in Senegal, according to the Guardian newspaper, which published NGO Forbidden Stories’ findings.

According to the journalists, Team Jorge had worked on the Nigeria project alongside Cambridge Analytica. News reports in 2018 revealed that the British consulting firm had acquired the personal data of 87 million Facebook users to allegedly influence people on how to vote in the 2016 Brexit referendum (whether the UK should exit the European Union) and the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.

Continued….. According to NGO Forbidden Stories, the Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed the existence of mysterious hackers who used an alias for the boss of this secret entity: ‘Jorge.’

Forbidden Stories journalists tracked down ‘Jorge’ by posing as representatives of an African leader who wanted to postpone or cancel an election.

‘Jorge’ turned out to be Tal Hanan, a 50-year-old former Israeli special forces operative. He boasted that his team included ‘graduates of government agencies,’ with expertise in finance, social media and campaigns, and ‘psychological warfare.’ They reportedly operate from six offices worldwide, providing services to intelligence agencies, political campaigns and private companies that want to manipulate public opinion.

Video credit: @fbdnstories @guardian

BLACK COMMUNITIES ‘REVENUE GENERATORS’ FOR POLICE

After taxes were slashed in the 1980s, US police departments became reliant on fees and fines to generate money. Typically, low-income Black neighbourhoods, who can’t afford them, were targeted and a vicious cycle of more fines and court fees followed.

In this clip, Dr Carol Anderson explains the devastating impact, using the example of Ferguson, Missouri. It exploded into riots in 2014 after police killed Michael Brown Jr. According to witnesses, it happened after an officer saw Brown walking in the road and told him to get on the sidewalk. At the time, fines for jaywalking, speeding and other minor offences accounted for 25 per cent of the city’s operating budget.

Policing for profit had become big business and helped break the very community officers were meant to serve and protect.

Video credit @emoryuniversity

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