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Re: State subverters
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 25, 2020, 11:16 pm
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Re: State subverters
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 2, 2020, 12:43 am
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For anyone who still thinks racists are not embedded throughout
the insitutions:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/lifestyle/frances-choy-wrongfully-incarcerated-17-151043409.html
[quote]A Chinese-American woman was incarcerated for 17 years in
Massachusetts after being wrongfully convicted of murdering her
parents. But this month, her charges were vacated after the
discovery of new evidence, including racist emails between the
two prosecutors indicated they were “biased against Asians.”
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“This may be the first case in the U.S. where a murder
conviction has been thrown out because of racism on the part of
prosecutors,” John Barter, attorney for Frances Choy, said,
according to PEOPLE. Barter spent nearly five years trying to
get access to the emails, which were released last year after
the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered the Plymouth
County District Attorney to do so. The DA’s office admitted the
emails are “reprehensible” and “horrific.”
“The trial prosecutors exchanged numerous images of Asian
people, some accompanied by pejorative comments and some
unexplained. They exchanged jokes about Asian stereotypes and
mocking caricatures of Asians using imperfect English,” Judge
Giles wrote in her decision.
In the emails, then-Plymouth County prosecutors Karen O’Sullivan
and John Bradley demonstrated “racial animus towards Frances and
her family” (Frances’ parents were Chinese immigrants from Hong
Kong and Vietnam), sending emails implying Frances had an
incestual relationship with her nephew, Kenneth, exchanging
images of Asian people “accompanied by pejorative comments,”
making jokes about Asian stereotypes, and mocking caricatures of
Asian people using broken English.
In one email exchange discussing an upcoming hearing before the
state Supreme Judicial Court, one of the prosecutors told the
other they would be “wearing a cheongsam and will be the one
doing origami in the back of the courtroom.”
According to WBUR, O’Sullivan now works in the Bristol County
District Attorney’s Office while Bradley left the Plymouth
office in 2012 and sued the DA over his termination. Sharon
Beckman, a Boston College Law School professor, told the Boston
Globe that Choy was “an innocent crime victim who was instead
treated like a criminal suspect.”[/quote]
(Note O'Sullivan's first name. And no, there is nothing funny
about it.)
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Re: State subverters
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 3, 2020, 4:42 am
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HTML https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/02/prison-racism-capt-frank-sawyer/5886004002/
[quote]LANSING – A Michigan prison supervisor who admitted using
the N-word at a Michigan Department of Corrections Christmas
party is facing more allegations of racism from a former
corrections officer who is Muslim.
And court records show Capt. Frank Sawyer — who admitted in
sworn testimony he has used the N-word racist slur between 30 to
100 times — did not lose a single day's pay as part of his
discipline for using the word at a 2017 department social event.
That raises questions about whether the department is treating
racism seriously enough in a prison system where 55% of the
prisoners who officers are supposed to monitor and protect are
people of color, according to the department's latest
statistical report.
Sawyer is accused of calling a Muslim prison officer a terrorist
and a "goat f---er," amid allegations of widespread workplace
racism directed at the officer that included tricking him into
eating pork — a food off limits to devout Muslims — at a prison
chili cook-off.
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Other officers, including supervisors, regularly made cracks
about Yehia being a terrorist or ISIS recruiter and one
regularly greeted him with the words, "Allah, allah akbar boom,"
in an apparent reference to Yehia setting off a bomb, according
to evidence in the case. Others suggested he brought a camel to
work or was carrying a bomb or wearing a bomb vest if he set off
the metal detector when entering the prison to start his shift,
according to sworn testimony
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Lt. Michael Doss said in an Aug. 10 declaration that he saw a
co-worker telephone Yehia at work, using a Corrections
Department phone line, and say: "I want to report that there is
a terrorist in the building. He is a tall, heavy-set guy." The
co-worker — not Sawyer — was referencing Yehia "in a derogatory,
racist way by insinuating that Mr. Yehia was a terrorist because
he is Muslim," Doss said in the signed statement.
Doss said he heard from co-workers that Yehia got harassed "all
the time," and that Sawyer told Yehia not to "blow the place up
while I'm working." This "was a discriminatory remark, aimed at
harassing Mr. Yehia because of his race and religion," Doss
said.
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One officer brought in chili that contained pork, and Yehia ate
it "because he didn't know what was in it," Sawyer testified.
In his own deposition, Yehia, who is seeking unspecified
monetary damages, plus attorney fees, described how someone
switched the lids on two pots of chili so that it appeared the
one that had pork in it did not contain pork.
"They laughed, they all laughed, and said: 'Dude, I don't see
you turning into fire,' " Yehia testified. " 'Aren't you
supposed to go to hell right away after you eat this?' "
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"I didn't go tell the supervisors because those guys were in on
it, too," he said. "It's just very mind-boggling."
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"The harassment was regular, consistent, and pervasive, and I
personally observed it at least once a week," Herman testified.
He said when officers checked Yehia's identification at the
gate, when he reported to work, they would refer to him as a
terrorist. If there was a terrorist incident in the news,
colleagues would say things like, "Don't blow up the place now."
They also made false claims that Yehia was married to his
cousin, rode a camel to work, and was a member of ISIS, Herman
testified.
The harassment often took place in front of supervisors and
"sometimes the supervisors participated in it," Herman said.
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How much longer is mainstream society going to avoid admitting
it is not merely "a few bad apples"? Racism these days is as
common as it was throughout the colonial era. Things are going
back to normal.
[quote]Sawyer also testified that reports about his use of the
slur spread quickly through the department. He received a
five-day suspension over the incident, following an internal
affairs investigation, but did not miss a day of work or lose
any money from his paycheck, he testified. Instead, he had five
days of annual leave time deducted from the leave time he had
banked.
Doss alleged in his lawsuit that Sawyer "laughed and bragged
about" his light punishment, and said he "would drink a beer for
each day" of banked vacation time that was deducted.[/quote]
And how much longer is mainstream society going to refuse to
admit that there is no solution to racism other than eliminating
all racist bloodlines?
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Re: State subverters
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 13, 2020, 12:45 am
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And his face.....
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Re: State subverters
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 20, 2020, 5:30 am
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HTML https://news.yahoo.com/vile-racist-postings-york-court-190839654.html
[quote]NEW YORK — One white court officer in Brooklyn posted an
illustration of President Barack Obama with a noose around his
neck on social media. Another white officer referred to a Black
court officer as “one of the good monkeys.”
A third white court officer commented to a white colleague that
he would have done better on a firearms test if he had been
given a “Sean Bell target,” a reference to an unarmed Black man
killed by police in 2006.
The incidents of overt racism were among several mentioned in a
new report about racial bias in the New York state court system
commissioned by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore after national
protests this summer against institutional racism in the
criminal justice system.
Jeh Johnson, a former Homeland Security secretary under Obama,
led the team that did the review. His report, released with
little fanfare last week, found pervasive racism in New York
courts, both explicit and implicit, from judges, court officers
and lawyers. The accounts of racial bias the team collected bore
a striking similarity to testimony in another review from three
decades ago, the report said.
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“The sad picture that emerges is, in effect, a second-class
system of justice for people of color in New York State,”
Johnson wrote. “This is a moment that demands a strong and
pronounced rededication to equal justice under law by the New
York State Court system.”
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The officer, Sgt. Terri Napolitano of Brooklyn Criminal Court,
was accused of uploading to Facebook an illustration of Obama
with a noose around his neck and of Hillary Clinton being taken
to a wooden apparatus to be hanged. Napolitano did not respond
to a request for comment.
She was suspended for 30 days, her firearm was taken away, and
she remains on paid leave with disciplinary charges pending,
court officials said. After the posts appeared, three Black
court officers sent a letter to DiFiore saying the racist memes
were “only the tip of the iceberg.”
The sergeant’s behavior had long been tolerated, the report
said, which was evidence of a broader institutional acceptance
of racist conduct. It recommended “more robust bias training for
nonjudicial personnel, particularly the court officer
community.”
...
Johnson’s team found that some court officers, in dealing with
people of color who were defendants, lawyers or the public, were
disrespectful, condescending, and at times, racist.
Court officers were heard using racial slurs and berating
minority litigants about the clothes they wore. Black defendants
were often handcuffed when appearing in court for minor
infractions, while white defendants were not, the report found.
...
As part of the review, Johnson and his team interviewed nearly
300 people throughout the court system, including many Black and
Hispanic lawyers who recounted incidents of bias.
These lawyers said that they were often mistaken for criminal
defendants and were asked to show identification to enter the
courthouse while most white lawyers were not questioned. They
also said they were often asked to identify themselves when they
sat in the front row of the courtroom, which is reserved for
lawyers.
Black and Hispanic lawyers told the report’s authors that they
are “believed less often” when making statements to judges, a
problem that is magnified when their client is also a person of
color.
One lawyer said she has been called “aggressive” while her white
male counterparts have not when they have made similar arguments
before the court, the report said.
Chrishana White, a Black woman who is the director of diversity
and inclusion for Brooklyn Defender Services, a public defender
organization, said the kind of pervasive racism in courthouses
that the report highlighted had led her to stop practicing law.
She said when she walked into court she was often “assumed to be
less than an attorney.”
...
Judges interviewed for the report said there were challenges to
diversifying the judiciary. The appointment process, some judges
said, required candidates to go through judicial screening
committees that were predominantly white.
One judge said the electoral process also tends to marginalize
Black and Hispanic candidates. Like the appointive process, it
depends on a candidate’s personal connections, and the
nominating system, which is controlled by party loyalists,
“causes candidates of color to be bypassed or discouraged by
party leadership, particularly in upstate counties.”[/quote]
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Re: State subverters
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 6, 2020, 2:36 am
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Re: State subverters
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 6, 2020, 10:51 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-speaker-house-newt-gingrich-172256262.html
[quote]Citing zero evidence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
asks Attorney General Bill Barr to send federal agents to arrest
election workers in Pennsylvania[/quote]
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Re: State subverters
By: guest5 Date: November 6, 2020, 11:21 pm
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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=110.msg2027#msg2027
date=1604724686]
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-speaker-house-newt-gingrich-172256262.html
[quote]Citing zero evidence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
asks Attorney General Bill Barr to send federal agents to arrest
election workers in Pennsylvania[/quote]
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How can any serious government allow these types of people to
remain within it's ranks and expect anything to go smoothly and
for the benefit of the people and their state?
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Re: State subverters
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 6, 2020, 11:23 pm
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"How can any serious government allow these types of people to
remain within it's ranks and expect anything to go smoothly and
for the benefit of the people and their state?"
Because civilians are not applying the Second Amendment.
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Re: State subverters
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 26, 2020, 10:55 pm
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