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For the past 25 years many have repeatedly asked why did I transition my successful taxpractice into a civil rights practice.(I now attribute the decision "in the genes'' after learning my great grandfather fought during the Civil War, my father fought during the D-Day invasion and a cousin -- who was one of seven top black athletes -- openly supported Muhammad Ali's decision to not join the Army.)

The revolt of the last ninedays explain it sufficiently:

If lawyers and the courts fail to protect and enforce those rights of the people secured to the people by theConstitution, then the people would be forced to take the law into their own hands!

Dr. Martin Luther King made clear that nothing is more American than revolting against laws and practices which are unjust.'' Consider the Boston Tea Party and its destruction of $1.7 million of tea, protesting taxation without representation!''

Though not recognized as founding fathers, America owes its very existence to actions of protesters and looters, sometimes referred to as thugs.''

Americas Constitution grants the people with the right to bear arms and raise a militia just in case the majority or government or police become abusive.(God even cautioned Moses they would incur his wrath if they oppressed the minority among them!)

So why was it necessary for thepeople to take to the streets?

Becausetoo many judges who with their right hand on the Bible took an oathto uphold the Constitution,including the protection against unreasonable searches and seizures afterwards instead chose to BACK THE BADGE.''

The phrase Back the Badge,stripped to its core, means the following:

In exchange for the valuable and needed services which not anyone else provides, the people should show their gratitude by putting up with obvious violations.

This is same rationale made by sexually abusive employers, supervisors, coaches, parents and priests, thinking they have earned the right to be abusive.

Lest one say these are the words of a disgruntled disbarred lawyer, read the May 30, 2020 editorial in the New York Times.

Entitled, How the Supreme Court lets cops get away with murder,''it effectively labels the judicial branch a co-conspirator with law enforcement, observing that the courts protected police abuses for years before George Floyds death! It further acknowledges:

...But it is the Supreme Court that has enabled a culture of violence and abuse ...The badge has become a get-out-of-jail-free card in far too many instances.

After trying over 85% of police wrongful death cases in local federal courts from 1997 to2007, I did not need the New York Times to inform me that courts have reneged on their oath to protect the people.

After I had won several verdicts against police officers, the Louisiana Supreme Court filed ethical charges against me because I reportedly asked the mother of Emanuel Frazier, to meet with me about police officers killing our unarmed black men without cause.Emmanuel was an unarmed black man shot multiple times in the back by a white Bossier police officer.

I learned firsthand the extent to which courts were willing to go to assure police a get- out-of-jail-free card.

Though some considered me naive in believing local judges would side with clients over the police, as an officer ofthe court I always thought at least they would side with the Constitution.

For perhaps different reasons, some local judges have reduced themselves to being co-conspirators to the bastardly deeds of local police. It is well known that at least two are members of local Confederacy groups and openly display books about the Confederacy in their taxpayer-funded offices! One is even a graduate of the military school founded by officers of the Confederacy, who boasts among its alumni one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan.

(The public was never told why the suit filed by the Daughters of the Confederacy seeking to block removal of local confederate monument was transferred to Monroe, making it difficult for local citizens to participate.)

This linkage between the ideals of the Confederacy and the death of unarmed black men by rogue white police officers is evidenced by the voluntary removal of Confederate Monuments occurring since Floyds death, monuments once considered untouchable.''

Indeed, Floyds death removed all doubt that America has C.O.P.D.: Criminals On Police Departments!

Unlike the courts, professional law enforcement officers, and there are many, do not hesitate to distance themselves from such criminal misconduct.''

In a case in Alexandria wherein at least five white officers were shot -- two fatal while executing a no-knock search warrant,granted solely on the word of a known crackhead, the commanding officer testified that he personally did not believe he had probable cause to raid the decedents house.

Another officer also participating in the raid testified that, if police raided his house without announcing they were police, he would grab his gun and shoot them, too.(His logic was obvious: police shouldnt act like criminals.) Perhaps that is why a former Alexandria police chief, also father to one of the fallen officers, hugged the mother of the deceased black assailant at a prayer vigil, stating Your son didnt kill my son.I blame his chief.''

All are white.

Once a white Shreveport detective stalked me down, and told me the following: Attorney Jones, I know you think all police are against you. But you are wrong. We applaud what you doing. You are getting fired the very officers we are complaining about.But they dont get fired until you sue them.''

Ccile Coudriou, who is the president of the French branch of Amnesty International, explained the revolt in Paris as follows:

"The outrage, the anger and sometimes violence...is then fueled by systematic rejection of any allegation...(by French authorities) ...

She noted the more authorities refuse to talk about police violence, "the worse it gets," because people lose confidence in the people meant to protect them!

Thus, our world is witnessing the actions of We the people, exercising the very fail safe mechanism envisioned by the founding fathers when they lose confidence.

And all the proponents of Back the Badge should come forward and take a bow...or ...a knee.or just step down!

America cant breathe!

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