Police in Wisconsin "deputized" armed vigilantes during protests against police violence last year, including Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two people and wounded another person, the man who was wounded alleges in a federal lawsuit.
In the suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, who was shot in his right arm by Rittenhouse, alleges that Kenosha officials enabled a "band of white nationalist vigilantes" during a protest in Kenosha on Aug. 25, 2020.
Rittenhouse, then 17, fatally shot two protesters and wounded Grosskreutz.
Named as defendants are the city of Kenosha, Kenosha County, Kenosha police and the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department. Rittenhouse is not named as a defendant.
"Defendants invited, deputized, authorized, conspired with, and ratified the actions of Rittenhouse, a child illegally in possession of an assault rifle, who roamed the street in violation of an emergency curfew order, threatening protesters with his weapon of war, and shooting innocent civilians, killing two, seriously injuring a third, and narrowly missing a fourth," the lawsuit says.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Sunday he hopes to sign legislation that awards $5,000 bonuses to out-of-state law enforcement who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in violation of local vaccine mandates and move to Florida to work there instead.
DeSantis said in an interview with Fox News that the state is "actively working to recruit" officers from outside of Florida to fill needs in police and sheriff's departments, and he welcomes law enforcement personnel who risk losing their jobs for defying city and state COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
"In the next legislative session, I'm going to hopefully sign legislation that gives a $5,000 bonus to any out of state law enforcement that relocates in Florida," he told Fox News. "NYPD, Minneapolis, Seattle, if you're not being treated well, we'll treat you better here: you fill important needs for us, and we'll compensate you as a result."
The latest iteration of disease-spreading colonizers and their Manifest Destiny.
This is exactly how it worked.
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Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Tenets of faith and mistrust of science play a role; so does politics.
White evangelicals who do not plan to get vaccinated sometimes say they see no need, because they do not feel at risk. Rates of Covid-19 death have been about twice as high for Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans as for white Americans.
White pastors have largely remained quiet. That’s in part because the wariness among white conservative Christians is not just medical, but also political. If white pastors encourage vaccination directly, said Dr. Aten, “there are people in the pews where you’ve just attacked their political party, and maybe their whole worldview.”
Among evangelicals, Pentecostal and charismatic Christians may be particularly wary of the vaccine, in part because their tradition historically emphasizes divine health and miraculous healing in ways that can rival traditional medicine, said Erica Ramirez, a scholar of Pentecostalism and director of applied research at Auburn Seminary. Charismatic churches also attract significant shares of Black and Hispanic Christians.
Dr. Ramirez compares modern Pentecostalism to Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, with the brand’s emphasis on “wellness” and “energy” that infuriates some scientists: “It’s extra-medical,” she said. “It’s not anti-medical, but it decenters medicine.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. Anthony Fauci are not going to be able to persuade evangelicals, according to Curtis Chang, a consulting professor at Duke Divinity School who is leading an outreach project to educate evangelicals about the vaccine.
I agree, but this outreach project is a waste of time.
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• "Printing Hate" is a new series on newspapers' role in instigating racial violence from 1865-1960s.
• Some newspapers served as mouthpieces for a white supremacist agenda, a historian told Insider.
• She said newspapers often worked with white leaders to thwart Black economic aspirations.
The first two pieces in the series, released Monday, show how newspapers in some cases spread lies agitating racial tensions that led to violence, including the Danville Massacre.
The project reported that on Nov. 4, 1883, the Richmond Dispatch wrote: "These negroes had evidently come to regard themselves as in some sort the rightful rulers of the town. They have been taught a lesson — a dear lesson, it is true … but nevertheless a lesson which will not be lost upon them, nor upon their race elsewhere in Virginia."
The "lesson" the newspaper was referencing was the lynching of Black men for daring to leave their home to vote, the series reported. In three days of violence, seven Black men were killed and two white men were injured.
This type of violence from white citizens was common then, Forde said.
"Throughout the 1883 election season, the Democrats incited racial animus through inflammatory reports and commentary about 'Negro misrule' in newspapers across the state," Forde told Insider.
All of this was brought about because of a newspaper report raising fear of Black political power in the area, the project found. Many newly emancipated Black people were starting businesses and being elected into public office, which white newspapers interpreted as some sort of loss for white residents.
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You don't have to be white to be a white supremacist. This guy actually has bona fides and isn't some fly-by-night clown-car passenger like Mark Burns or Darryl Scott. These propagandists are dangerous. Glad he wised up...tempted to put him in Amen Corner.
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Pastor RB Holmes, who was said the prayer at Desantis’ inauguration, announced today he is leaving the Republican Party. “I prayed that God would touch him, this Governor. He’s running for president, but I’m running to save lives.”
The founder of the Hastings College of the Law masterminded the killings of hundreds of Native Americans. The school, tribal members and alumni disagree about what should be done now.
ROUND VALLEY RESERVATION, Calif. — They said they were chasing down horse and cattle thieves, an armed pursuit through fertile valleys and evergreen forests north of San Francisco. But under questioning in 1860 a cattle rancher let slip a more gruesome picture, one of indiscriminate killings of Yuki Indians.
A 10-year-old girl killed for “stubbornness.”
Infants “put out of their misery.”
Documented in letters and depositions held in California’s state archives, the Gold Rush-era massacres are today at the heart of a dispute at one of the country’s most prominent law schools, whose graduates include generations of California politicians and lawyers like Vice President Kamala Harris.
For the past four years, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law has been investigating the role of its founder, Serranus Hastings, in one of the darkest, yet least discussed, chapters of the state’s history. Mr. Hastings, one of the wealthiest men in California in that era and the state’s first chief justice, masterminded one set of massacres.
For those involved, including a descendant of Mr. Hastings who sits on the school’s board, the journey into the past has revealed a very different version of the early years of the state than the one taught in classrooms and etched into the popular imagination of intrepid pioneers trekking into the hills to strike it rich.
Across Northern California — north of Napa’s vineyards, along the banks of the Russian River and in numerous other places from deserts to redwood groves — as many as 5,617 Native people, and perhaps more whose deaths were not recorded, were massacred by officially sanctioned militias and U.S. troops from the 1840s to the 1870s, campaigns often initiated by white settlers like Mr. Hastings who wanted to use the land for their own purposes.
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A 65-year-old is being investigated as a murder suspect, but family of a slain Muslim man fear the worst.
hen Adil Dghoughi left his girlfriend’s home in Maxwell, Texas, just after 3 a.m. on Oct. 11, she didn’t think anything of it. Sarah Todd told The Daily Beast the 31-year-old Moroccan native enjoyed late-night drives during which he would listen to music from his country, and sing.
“It was kind of a relaxation thing for him,” Todd told The Daily Beast.
But according to the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office, by 3:42 a.m. Dghoughi was being transferred to a hospital after he’d been shot by a white property owner named Terry Turner in Martindale, less than five miles away from Maxwell. The Sheriff’s Office said the shooting occurred after Turner confronted a “suspicious” car parked outside his home.
They also said Turner, 65, was “cooperative” and had not been arrested, despite Dghoughi later dying of his injuries.
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The way to right wrongs is to
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White conservatism has a very serious fascism problem.
Charlie
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Wow. At a campaign stop for Glenn Youngkin this morning, people were holding tiki torches and chanting "we're all in for Glenn." Disgusting reference to the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville.
carmenjonze wrote: ↑Fri Oct 29, 2021 11:41 am
White conservatism has a very serious fascism problem.
Charlie
@CharlieOlaf
Wow. At a campaign stop for Glenn Youngkin this morning, people were holding tiki torches and chanting "we're all in for Glenn." Disgusting reference to the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville.
The only reason the republican party can get away with the horrific gerrymandering in Texas, for example, is because people who claim to be Republicans will not say anything, if anything they will defend it and that makes them as much an enemy to this country to the human race as Trump himself or McConnell etal.
These Republicans need to be shamed in every public forum including message boards.
What will they say when republican officials in republican states refuse to certify the elections Republicans have lost?
Few things are sadder than when tiny groups of conservatives stand in a soaking rain trying to make Tiki torches stay lit, while fantasizing themselves as a vast Triumph of the Will fascist rally worthy of Leni Riefenstahl.
"We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation." --Liz Cheney, Republican, 7/21/22
Just spent the last couple of days on DU trying to understand why ANY defendant can claim self defense and as a result the prosecution cant refer to the DEAD and wounded as "victims."
Finally I got input from actual defense attorneys who assured me it is not like that in many places and it is not cut and dry. ONCE self defense has been allowed as the defense then many judges will limit what descriptive words can be used, but the attorney I spoke to said he has never been granted such a gift from a judge.
I still would like to hear from more attorneys. But we know the judge is a rightwing ass, based on what most of you have read by now I assume.
Libertas wrote: ↑Fri Oct 29, 2021 1:26 pm
SAD...speaking of the title
Just spent the last couple of days on DU trying to understand why ANY defendant can claim self defense and as a result the prosecution cant refer to the DEAD and wounded as "victims."
Finally I got input from actual defense attorneys who assured me it is not like that in many places and it is not cut and dry. ONCE self defense has been allowed as the defense then many judges will limit what descriptive words can be used, but the attorney I spoke to said he has never been granted such a gift from a judge.
I still would like to hear from more attorneys. But we know the judge is a rightwing ass, based on what most of you have read by now I assume.
Conservative whites simply don’t think of their historical victimization of others as victimization. Genocide, race riots, witch hunts, immigration open only to Western Europeans, religious discrimination against Catholics and non-Christians, segregationism..none of these things victimize others. All of the above were either sanctioned or outright forced by the government on their behalf, yet to them it’s simply the natural order of things.
They didn’t think so then, and they don’t think so now. And yet the first thing they holler when those affected talk about is that the speaker has a victimhood complex. In fact, it now victimized them to even discuss it.
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Florida’s move to silence expert criticism of its disenfranchisement campaign echoes its Redemption-era assault on civil rights.
he state of Florida is silencing those opposing its efforts to disenfranchise its own citizens.
A lawsuit filed by a coalition of civil-rights groups contends that Florida’s Republican-controlled government has repeatedly attempted to restrict the franchise, including curtailing third-party registration campaigns, cutting early voting, and imposing an onerous poll tax on formerly incarcerated Floridians after the state voted overwhelmingly to restore their rights. The more recent restrictions involve a series of “measures that prohibit or restrict access to the ballot and voting mechanisms that Black and Latino voters used to great effect in the 2020 elections.” The GOP has chosen this path despite Republican gains among both groups in the last election.
As Florida prepares to defend these new voting restrictions in court, it has prohibited three University of Florida law professors from testifying about the restrictions’ impact. “University officials told the three that because the school was a state institution, participating in a lawsuit against the state ‘is adverse to U.F.’s interests’ and could not be permitted,” The New York Times reported. The university has reiterated its commitment to “free speech” and defended its actions by arguing that the professors were merely barred from undertaking “outside paid work that is adverse to the university’s interests as a state of Florida institution.” Under this definition of free speech, you may speak as long as you say nothing the state has forbidden you to say.
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The way to right wrongs is to
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'F*** you, we're taking over your school boards,' says conservative 1776 PAC leader
Brad Cooper of the Sunflower State Journal chases down stories that others miss. Today he landed a big one, including an interview with the head of 1776 PAC, an organization that has raised and is prepared to spend nearly half a million dollars on local elections—specifically school boards.
Ryan Girdusky’s Twitter feed reads exactly like what you would expect from a Republican PAC manager:
On January 28, 1856, Margaret Garner slit the throat of her 2-year-old daughter, killing her. Slave catchers had closed in on the Cincinnati safe house to which Garner, an African-American woman seeking freedom, had fled. She tried to kill two of her other children, too, but succeeded only in wounding them before the white men stopped her.
She later explained that this was no act of sudden madness. “I was as cool [then] as I am now.” She said she simply wanted to end her children’s suffering then and there, rather than see them returned to slavery and “murdered by piecemeal.”
From the bloody skeins of Garner’s nightmare, Toni Morrison wove her own. In her 1987 novel, “Beloved,” she imagined the dead toddler as a ghost, haunting the mother who killed her. “Beloved,” a dense, harrowing and deeply affecting work, became one of the most acclaimed novels of the century, winning a Pulitzer Prize. A 2006 New York Times survey of critics and authors named it the best American novel of the previous 25 years.
But it gave Laura Murphy’s son nightmares, and that was that. Never mind that Blake Murphy was a high school senior, reading it in an AP literature class. Never mind that “AP” means advanced placement: challenging, college-level course work. Since 2013, Murphy, a white woman from Fairfax County, Virginia, has been trying to ban Morrison’s book......
The people that threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school are now upset that their grandchildren might learn that they threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school.
Libertas wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 11:03 am
And ANY person who EVER defends them or votes for them is a white nationalist!
It's how white nationalism thrives and white supremacism proliferates.
Even if they are not white, I suppose. The point is we keep tolerating them as if they have a voice, it is disgusting and we are committing suicide!
One need not be white to be a WN/WS. Just ask Stephen Miller, Enrique Tarrio, Candace Owens, Andy Ngo, Civil Rights movement informants like Percy Greene, Dennis Prager, and a ton of others.
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QAnon supporters meet in Dallas expecting return of JFK Jr. from the dead
DALLAS (KXAN) — As state and local elections continue into the evening on Nov. 2, QAnon conspiracy theorists gathered in downtown Dallas to await the return of John F. Kennedy, Jr., who died in 1999.
The gathering began at Dealey Plaza Monday night, The Dallas Morning News reports. Believers say the return of JFK Jr. in the city and spot where his father died in 1963 would begin the reinstatement of Donald Trump as president, according to several QAnon-affiliated social media accounts.
ap215 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 6:37 pm
Cuckoo Cuckoo.
QAnon supporters meet in Dallas expecting return of JFK Jr. from the dead
DALLAS (KXAN) — As state and local elections continue into the evening on Nov. 2, QAnon conspiracy theorists gathered in downtown Dallas to await the return of John F. Kennedy, Jr., who died in 1999.
The gathering began at Dealey Plaza Monday night, The Dallas Morning News reports. Believers say the return of JFK Jr. in the city and spot where his father died in 1963 would begin the reinstatement of Donald Trump as president, according to several QAnon-affiliated social media accounts.
