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(ThyBlackMan.com)The plight of African Americans were put on the worlds stage by the group Black Lives Matter. It seems their mission is based on justice for those who are harassed and mistreated by police, which is an admirable endeavor to pursue. Those who support the organization say the organization is about curbing violence against black and brown people.

A former Chicago Police Superintendent, however, says that crime has become greater since Black Lives Matter began to take root in this country.

Who can contest that statement? Ever since BLM has come on the scene to protest police brutality against African Americans, America has become more separate than ever, All Lives CANT Matter, police have been on the defensebut black on black crime is never ceasing, especially in Chicago.

Does Black Lives Matter think that bullying the country will get them what they desire?

On a website (there were a few websites dedicated to BLM) regarding the policy demands from Black Lives Matter there were demands that ranged anywhere for a demand for reparations for past and current harm doing, to the demand for investing in black peoples education, health and safety of black people.

The Black Lives Matter organization is a great way for blacks to come together and brainstorm on how to better their community, but my question is, Why havent these changes taken place long before there was a Trayvon Martin?

Why does the government have to help the black community, when,a s the website says, theres strength in numbers? If there are thousands of BLM supporters, why not have them to make the changes tot heir community that they desire? Its like an HBCU approaching the government for funding for a school built for and by black people. Whats wrong with doing it yourselves, if the whole point of protesting and writing about potential policy changes are to empower blacks to rise up and be more self-sufficient and independent of a government that keeps them marginalized?

Another statement that caught my eye on the website was regarding the decriminalization of criminal activity, because apparently, we all know blacks just cant stay away from the thug life, so why not make it okay for blacks to do what they so value?

Whatever is of value, including values, are desecrated by those in the community, and its always made known public that thats how we communicate with one another.

Human beings have value, but all that is seen and heard from the black community in conversation, song and media is derogatory to the point where its commonplace to feel comfortable calling blacks niggas, bitches, hoes, dogs, sluts, thots, anything but man or woman.

Black women, the heads of the majority of black households, publicly call each other bitch yet demand apologizes for what they consider racism, cultural appropriation and being marginalized in society.

Black men still dont care about individualism or ceasing the glorification of crime and street life to the youth as the normal way to grow up as a black man.

Because theres been generations of dysfunction and a lack of a moral code, the black community has set its standards to match their own more code theyve grown accustomed to which is unhealthy, and in some cases, evil..the lesser power.

My worry is that this whole Black Lives Matter movement will end just like the black panthers movement, with the whole organization crumbling down due to dysfunction and (hopefully not) illegal activityand for not cleaning their house before opening the door and telling everyone to look what damage was done to them.

The black community is the home of black people. Lets clean it up so it doesnt look like the majority of African American neighborhoods. Were trying to prove a point, right?

One of the activists have already been arrested for felony lynching, ironically.

Time will tell.

Staff Writer; Celeste Writer

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Second generation Eureka firefighter Matt McFarland has filed a grievancewith the Humboldt Bay Fire's governing body, the Joint Powers Authority, due to being ordered to remove a 'Black Lives Matter' pin on his uniform shirt.

McFarland began wearing the pin in November 2016 and said in March of this year he was ordered by Chief Bill Gillespie to remove the pin.

Humboldt Bay Fire's uniform policy states that one pin that is fire service related and in good taste, may be worn.

McFarland states that his pin meets policy standards.

My pin is without a doubt related to my service as a firefighter because recent political events have created an environment of heightened fear and anxiety among communities of color, and increased distrust of law enforcement. This sentiment is highly detrimental to our ability, as emergency responders, to do our jobs well," said McFarland.

McFarland further explained why wearing the pin is important to him.

Nobody is safe when a large portion of our community is reluctant to engage with emergency services when these services are needed. We can choose to continue to deny or ignore the difficult experiences of the people suffering most in our communities or we can choose to listen to them, believe their lived experiences, and work together to improve the systems we share. I believe that this is a discussion worth having, and I want to live in a community that is courageous enough to have these conversations, even when they are messy, uncomfortable, and imperfect.

McFarland's lawyer said in a statement, A ban on Black Lives Matters pins exposes the District to significant liability because it constitutes unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

The Joint Powers Authority board members will meet on Wednesday, June 7, at 10:00 a.m., at Eureka City Hall for a public hearing on the grievance. McFarland will hold a press conference directly before the hearing around 9:30 a.m. You can read the entire grievance by clicking the link at the top of this article.

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Its too soon to say its a phenomenon, but in recent months Ive noticed a trend jurors openly expressing black-lives-matter concerns during voir dire. They see a young black male, the defendant, sitting next to defense counsel and when asked if they can be fair and impartial, say they cant. They do not want to be part of any jury sending a defendant to jail when theyre told in voir dire that the entire proof is based on just the word of police. Even when the judge instructs them that sentencing is not their concern and that they must, in fact, put it out of their minds, they state they cannot. They are then instructed to leave the panel.

Whats even more interesting is the jurors who say they can be fair but who clearly are factoring in black-lives-matter concepts. Those jurors are staying on juries and often acquitting in cases where the only basis of proof beyond a reasonable doubt comes from the testimony of police. When there is no video, no DNA, no forensics, no outside witnesses just police saying they saw the defendant do something defendants have been winning. It seems jurors (at least in NYC) are expecting more before theyll convict young black males based on a cops word alone. Prosecutors, however, havent yet acknowledged this shift or changed their decisions on who to prosecute because of it.

I attribute this shift in juror attitudes to the following: Racism still exists in how and who gets prosecuted. People who live in large urban areas and who travel and work elbow-to-elbow with people from different races and ethnic backgrounds are more conscious of the subtle (and not so subtle) role race plays in urban policing.

Even though the overwhelming majority of people living in Manhattan are Caucasian, in my anecdotal experience, almost 98% of the cases prosecuted are against black or Hispanic men. While the NYPD and other police forces have taken steps toward integrating their staff, most police I cross-examine in court are still white.

As the public becomes aware of all this, due in part to the Black Lives Matter movement, prosecutors will have to work harder to win convictions in these cop-as-sole-witness cases.

Ill give you an example. I won a case recently a one-off alleged drug observation sale where a police sergeant testified that he saw my client drop a pebble-size bag of crack to the ground for a buyer to retrieve. (The cop was on a roof but was using binoculars.) The buyer was apprehended with the crack. When my client was stopped, he had no drugs on him, but did have over $300 in crumpled bills in his pocket. The jury acquitted.

A colleague recently won a tough gun-possession case where the defendant ran and tossed a gun under a car as cops approached him. His defense was temporary innocent possession of the weapon. After acquitting him, the jurors said just because the defendant ran didnt mean he was guilty. Many black men would be afraid of police quickly coming toward them. And of course, they reasoned, the defendant would get rid of the gun, otherwise he himself might have been killed.

An interesting report was filed in the Southern District of New York last week that goes hand-in-hand with this positive trend. According to a federal monitor appointed to examine police stop-and-frisk tactics that were alleged to be racially driven and not based on probable cause, there has been a drastic decline in the high rates of stops of black and Hispanic men for no reason since the report was commissioned. In the three years the monitor studied, 2013 to 2015, the number of stops declined from 191,851 to 22,563, according to the New York Times.

This is not to say that police have actually arrested fewer people, but they are stopping and frisking fewer innocent people of color people who have done nothing, but who had been stopped merely because of their skin color and the neighborhood in which they resided. According to the report, now when police stop and frisk, they are more likely to have a justified reason (like probable cause). Because of this, they are more likely to find contraband or weapons on the person stopped and thereby make a lawful arrest.

This is how it should be. Black or white, everyone wants their neighborhoods to be safe. They just dont want to be stopped arbitrarily because of the color of their skin.

The connection of this to jury trials is simple. For many years, black and Hispanic people have been kicked off juries for acknowledging during voir dire that they could not be unbiased towards police many had been stopped, or knew people who had been, by them for no reason. If fewer black or Hispanic people are stopped unlawfully, the more likely they will be able to sit on juries. The more people of color on a jury, the more likely they are to convince other jurors, not of color, to see the world as theyve lived it.

Toni Messina has been practicing criminal defense law since 1990, although during law school she spent one summer as an intern in a large Boston law firm and realized quickly it wasnt for her. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a journalist from Rome, Italy, reporting stories of international interest for CBS News and NPR. She keeps sane by balancing her law practice with a family of three children, playing in a BossaNova band, and dancing flamenco. She can be reached by email at tonimessinalw@gmail.com or tonimessinalaw.com, and you can also follow her on Twitter: @tonitamess.

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According to her online social media accounts, Reality Winner, the 25-year-old woman who allegedly stole classified material from the National Security Agency and leaked it to The Intercept, appears to be a far-left supporter of "the Resistance," Black Lives Matter, the Women's March, and the Islamic Society of North America, in addition to other left-wing causes. Her social media footprint also indicates that she despises President Trump and supports Bernie Sanders.

On the day after the 2016 election, Reality Leigh Winner retweeted a conspiracy theory about how the election had been rigged in favor of Republicans using a voter-integrity system called "Crosscheck." On February 7, less than a week before she started her job as a federal contractor with top-secret security clearance, she pledgedher allegiance to Iran on Twitter.

"There are many Americans protesting US govt aggression towards Iran. If our Tangerine in Chief declares war, we stand with you!" she tweeted toJavad Zarif, the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Winner is apparently a big fan of the hacker collective "Anonymous." She reportedly got her job at Pluribus International, a U.S. government agency facility in Georgia, on February 13, 2017.

Reality Winner, arrested for alleged classified leak, is a former US Air Force linguist who speaks Pashto, Farsi & Dari, her mother tells me pic.twitter.com/SQjt13wRw6

Via The Daily Caller:

Winner was indicted in federal court on Monday after she allegedly stole classified documents from her employer, Pluribus International, a defense contractor that does work for the NSA from its offices in Augusta, Ga.

Winner admitted to FBI agents that she stole the documents and provided them to The Intercept. The news site published an article on Monday that appears to be based on the stolen materials.The Top Secret records show that Russian agents attempted to hack into U.S. voting systems prior to the November election.

On Facebook, Winner linked to a Young Turks video and used the hashtags NeverMyPresident and Resist in a post about his position on DAPL.

Not surprisingly, she is also a full-blown climate alarmist:

Winner wrote that she had a 30-minute private meeting with the Republican lawmaker.

She said they discussed my concerns regarding climate change and what the state of Georgia is doing to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.

On Twitter, the SJW leaker goes by "Sara Winner" and is even more outspoken. Winner seems to be big fan of left-wing Newsweek editor Kurt Eichenwald, judging by the number of times she has retweeted him, and a major detractor of Senator Ted Cruz, judging by the number of scathing tweets she sent him.

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An assistant professor in the African-American studies department at Princeton University blasted Fox News for itsreporting of her Hampshire College commencement speech, in which she spewed anti-Trump sentiments. According to Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, she received numerous threats via email over Fox News coverage of her commencement speech.

Taylor was scheduled to speak publicly at Seattles Town Hall and the University of California, San Diego, this past week, but canceled both appearances, claiming she feared for her life if she were to move forward with those engagements.

In a released statement, Taylor refers to Fox News viewers as having a "mob-like mentality," blaming the network and its viewers for her decision. Regarding her commencement address, she says, "Fox News did not like it. Last week, the network ran a story on my speech, describing it as an 'anti-POTUS tirade.' Fox ran an online story about my speech and created a separate video of excerpts of my speech, which included my warning to graduates about the world they were graduating into."

Conservative speakers have found it necessary to cancel speaking engagements because of riots.

Taylor continued, "I argued that Donald Trump, the most powerful politician in the world, is 'a racist and sexist megalomaniac' who posts a threat to their future."

She continued to point out that she isn't a "newsworthy person" and that Fox only ran the story to incite viewers into a mob-like frenzy and unleash suffering upon her militant lectures. However, in the current political climate and in light of controversy surrounding college campuses and free speech I would say that any public figure with influence is newsworthy.

Of all the melodramatic actions taken by public figures recently, this one takes the cake. First, Taylor delivers a politically charged commencement speech to a graduating college class. Rather than opt for a message that inspires young people and anyone else who achieved success she decided to spew her political message of fear and doom. Ironically, these are the very things she has blamed Fox News of perpetuating.

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Seattle and San Diego are two of the most liberal cities in the United States. I find it ridiculously hard to believe that Taylor would meet her demise at either location while delivering a lecture. Though it's unacceptable and alarming that she has received threats sent directly to her work email address, that is something that public figures and especially so-called activists must deal with while carrying out their work.

Conservative speakers have found it necessary to cancel speaking engagements because of riots carried out by the masked protestors who oppose ideas and free speech. Of course, Taylor didn't address those incidents.

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Ironically, Taylor also writes that, "The cancellation of my speaking events is a concession to the violent intimidation that was, in my opinion, provoked by Fox News." Incredibly, she continues, asserting that, "Their side uses the threat of violence and intimidation because they cannot compete in the field of politics, ideas, and organizing."

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She claims she remains undaunted in her commitment to social justice warriorism. As long as she isn't faced with opposition, that is.

Angelina Newsom is a U.S. Army veteran and an OpsLens contributor. She served 10 years in the military, including a deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. She studies criminal justice and is still active within the military community. This OpsLens article is used by permission.

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