So disturbing to watch. Poor man was tired and just walking home from work and here comes savage predators to prey. The trauma black people suffer at the hands of those sworn to serve and protect. They hunt and prey. It thrills them.
A police officer in North Carolina resigned and is facing assault charges after body camera footage reportedly revealed him beating and choking an African-American man before tasering him over suspicions of jaywalking.
CNN reported Friday that Christopher Hickman, 31, resigned in January after being removed from patrol duty last August over the incident and will now face preliminary charges of assault by strangulation, assault inflicting serious injury and communicating threats.
Hickman, who worked for the Asheville Police Department, was taken into custody Thursday after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.
Body camera footage of the incident allegedly shows Hickman chasing Johnnie Jermaine Rush, then 32, for suspected jaywalking last August. The footage outraged many in North Carolina as Hickman can be heard in the aftermath saying he “beat the shit” out of Rush’s head.
“[He] thinks it’s funny,” Hickman is also heard saying during the chase. “You know what’s funny is you’re gonna get f—ed up hardcore.”
Rush, meanwhile, was unarmed and can be heard yelling “I can’t breathe” in distress during the confrontation.
Hickman resigned in January before the department terminated him over the incident. In an interview with local TV station WLOS, Police Chief Tammy Hooper said the footage looked “bad.”
POLICE BEATING OUTRAGE: Growing outrage in Asheville, North Carolina, after police body cam captured a violent altercation between police officers and a man accused of jaywalking. @SteveOsunsami reports. pic.twitter.com/OaLqib107E
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) March 9, 2018
“The whole thing is bad, right? When I watched the video, I had the same reaction as probably you did when you watched it,” Hooper told WLOS. “It’s just a terrible, egregious case. The whole reason around the stop to begin with was just a bad thing from start to finish.”
The North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union condemned the confrontation in a tweet, saying there was “no excuse” for the violence.
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RIPš„
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Steve Kornacki is gonna kill me. My nerves are shot. I can’t deal… #ConorLamb #PA18
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šš½šš½šš½šš½šš½ Please, Jesus! Let #ConnorLamb win. #PA18
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Live Stream of latest #PA18 Results betwwen Conor Lamb and Rick Saccone.
https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/973724049745596416
SG2, I didn’t say anything yesterday but this was my gut feeling about the 17 yr old young man who was murdered in Austin. I knew it, I just knew it that he was probably an exceptional person.
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/973695754622599168
USED TO BE ON THE GOP PAYROLL
I may not like Tester, but he votes more with us than against us…
Just more GOP ratphucking.
Can this nightmare please be over now.. And can someone please introduce the imported Birther gold digger to the conman sugar daddy she hooked up with and married..
Can folks please, please seriously stop indulging this obvious gaslighting …and the buffoon and his lying, plagiarizing, silicone-filled, vacuous, preening, marginally literate, deflection decoy 2.0ās desperate need to be legitimized and normalized – and most importantly, for yet another robotic squinting, pouting photo-op and faux-fashion photo-shoot for the future extensively photo-shopped photo-book sheās already planning and looking to dishonestly embelish and profit from..
ā…Melania Trump plans to convene tech giants including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Twitter and Snap next week to discuss ways to combat online harassment and promote Internet safety, according to four people familiar with her efforts.
The meeting at the White House, slated for March 20, marks the first major policy push in the first ladyās long-ago announced campaign to combat cyberbullying. At the gathering, Trump plans to ask policy executives from tech companies to detail how theyāve sought to address digital ills plaguing Web users, such as the rise of online trolls and the spread of malicious content, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss her efforts on the record.
But the people said they donāt expect the first lady to unveil any policy proposals to combat cyberbullying ā a term her team has sought to avoid, instead opting to focus on the need for kindness online..ā
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/13/melania-trump-will-meet-with-tech-giants-including-facebook-and-google-to-talk-cyberbullying/?utm_term=.51cf15579bb9
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/973678444126105606
Let it be so..
This despicable low-life ball of evil garbage has harmed far too many..
May he not only be deservedly destroyed, but may it all play out for the world to see..
AMEN
SUE SUE SUE!!
https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/973643361922895872
https://twitter.com/MonikaBauerlein/status/973632510050447362
https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/973622051578830849
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ALTUVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/973652001635659776
Vitamin
It was on Jonne’s mail route today. Copperhead. Jonne killed it because she said it was little kids outside playing and she didn’t want that snake to come in contact with those little ones.
One day she saw a Coachwhip stand straight up in front of her car and did she scream.
Fam, fam, fam..this self-loathing, shuck and jive weasel is about to get a serious wake-up call… Heās in for a whole lot of Karma hurt..
David Clarkeās soon to be ex-wife:
https://brendon2016.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/sheriff-clarke-and-wife2.jpg
David Clarkeās former hijab-wearing, now not so much, āmooslimā side piece..
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ā..But when asked to confirm or deny whether they were having an affair, Mirahmadi told Cockburn, āwell, heās filing for a divorce, so I donāt think itās technically an affair. I donāt really want to comment on the nature of our relationship.ā
In an interview last November, reported in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Clarke described Mirahmadi as his āpartner, business partnerā. As well as her sensitivity training job, she runs DAC Enterprises, a company whose only apparent purpose is to manage Clarkeās persona. Mirahmadiās appearance has changed over the years. As late as August 2016, she wore a head covering. However, in her earliest photographed appearances with Clarke, she is not wearing one. In Colorado Springs, she wore a blazer; by CPAC, a dress with bare arms.
Why the change? And why would Sheriff Clarke, who once talked up the idea of regular police patrols through Muslim neighbourhoods, allow a woman whose business is selling the kind of soft rhetoric about Islamic extremism that drives conservatives crazy to run his personal brand?
On December 6, Clarke showed up at an awards ceremony hosted by Ginni Thomas at the Trump Hotel in DC, but did not win an award ā a fact multiple reporters interpreted as a snub. The keynote speaker, Sean Hannity, didnāt even mention Clarkeās name. His once-ubiquitous cowboy hat has all but disappeared from Hannity.
The Trump administration also appears to have distanced itself from the sheriff.
āKelly isnāt comfortable with me at DHS,ā Clarke allegedly told a source after the meeting with Trump in Milwaukee, referring to the White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. āKelly knows he canāt control me. Nobody can.ā
After being denied the Homeland Security job, Clarkeās consolation prize appears to be the role he now fills, as spokesman and senior adviser at America First Action, a pro-Trump super-PAC.
Mirahmadi is not the only alleged other woman in this story. Messages shared with Cockburn suggest that, from 2014 to 2017, Clarke saw and communicated intimately with another woman from New Jersey. Several photos exist on Twitter of them together, at the NRA convention and CPAC 2015. By late October, 2017, however, things had soured. In an October 27, 2017 email, seen by Cockburn, she appears to threaten to expose Clarke and their affair.
Mirahmadi claimed that the woman from New Jersey is āno Snow Whiteā. āYes they had an affair of some sort,ā she said. Mirahmadi sent Cockburn a series of even more sexually explicit emails, purporting to be from the woman to Clarke, in which the woman also threatened to expose him.
As the success of Donald Trump shows, big egos can be a huge asset in politics these days. A big mouth never did the Donald any harm, and he overcame many accusations of improper behaviour with women. But, as David Clarkeās waning star shows, conservative Trump fans will only put up with so much.
In topsy-turvy Trumpland, an inmate dying in one of your jails might not be enough to destroy your reputation. But just appearing to have an extramarital affair with a Muslim may be pushing it…ā
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https://twitter.com/AlBoeNEWS/status/973614559553503232
ā…David Clarke, former sheriff of Milwaukee County, seemed made for Trump-era celebrity politics. Black, bearded and Stetson-wearing, he made his name with fiery conservative rhetoric, earning himself hundreds of thousands of dollars from speaking tours which crossed the country.
Not everything, however, has gone according to plan for Clarke. When Trump entered the White House, Clarke was expected to be given a senior role in the Department of Homeland Security. But for reasons unclear that did not come to pass. Itās understood that during Trumpās visit to Milwaukee on June 13, 2017, the president met Clarke and the DHS position was discussed. According to a source who spoke with Clarke, Trump informed him that then-DHS secretary John Kelly didnāt want him in the position, and that he should withdraw. Then in September Clarke unexpectedly resigned his job as Sheriff.
Clarke became the Make America Great Again movementās tactical response to Black Lives Matter. In late 2016, he was, according to the Daily Beast, part of a delegation sent by the National Rifle Association to Russia that met Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia on Defense and Space Industry. In January it was reported that the FBI was investigating the trip. Even in his humbler days Clarke had a streak of zealotry;
But Cockburn can reveal that there may be another reason for his political demise. It seems that he has for some time been conducting extra-marital affairs.
Clarke filed for divorce from his wife two weeks ago, on the day before this yearās Conservative Political Action Conference. Since last year, he has been seen regularly with Hedieh Mirahmadi, a Muslim woman who has a job conducting sensitivity training with law enforcement agencies. According to her LinkedIn page, Mirahmadi was a consultant to the FBI from 2015 until June 2017.
Mirahmadi characterises her relationship as standard for a business manager to someone of Clarkeās stature. But when asked to confirm or deny whether they were having an affair, Mirahmadi told Cockburn, āwell, heās filing for a divorce, so I donāt think itās technically an affair. I donāt really want to comment on the nature of our relationship.ā
The relationship between Mirahmadi and Clarke has sparked suspicion among his conservative allies, who arenāt always open-minded when it comes to Islam. Wild theories are flying around conservative circles that Mirahmadi is an āoperativeā for the Muslim Brotherhood…ā
https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/the-wild-wild-world-of-sheriff-david-clarke/
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Laurence Tribe
@tribelaw
A close friend suggested to me that the search for what Putin āhas on Trumpā might be misdirected. The key could be what Putin has PROMISED Trump, at least as much as how he might have THREATENED Trump. She points out that greed can be as potent a motivator for collusion as fear.
6:59 AM Ā· Mar 13, 2018
I agree with Jordana..
Jordana Lipscomb
@jordanalipscomb
3h
Replying to @tribelaw
I think itās a combination of both. Itās a carrot and stick technique, very reliable for keeping loyalty.
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in previous administrations you got fired for lying; in this one, you get fired if you are caught telling the truth https://t.co/plifqCWdDpā Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) March 13, 2018
JUST IN: Under Secretary of State Steve Goldstein is being fired for contradicting the account of Rex Tillersonās dismissal, White House official tells @PeterAlexander
ā NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) March 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/973605238153375744
That deadly mix of when greed, megalomania, kompromat, treason, self-serving, complicit generals and party over country collide..
A banana republic is born..
Well done America..
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/973552827082723328
https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/973602378355302400
So let it be WRITTEN, so let it be DONE
Fell out of favor ages ago..and failed to āfind his way backā…was only a matter of time..
ā…On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he regretted awarding U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson the “Order of Friendship” in 2013 now that “he’s fallen in with the wrong company,” Reuters reports.
Speaking to a U.S. citizen at an economic forum in Vladivostock, Putin said, “We awarded your compatriot Mr. Tillerson the Order of Friendship, but he seems to have fallen in with the wrong company and to be steering in the other direction.”
“I hope that the wind of cooperation, friendship and reciprocity will eventually put him on the right path,” the Russian leader added…ā
http://www.newsweek.com/putin-regrets-awarding-tillerson-order-friendship-ever-he-joined-trump-660956
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/973600077372624897
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/973595043360632832
Fired by tweet.. LOL .. What say ye now Condi Riceā¦ The āniceā buffoon just fired your oilman benefactor by tweet while he was traveling ā visiting shithole countries to āreassureā them ..
And booted out in the most humiliating way too, just for barely alluding that Russia may have done it..
The guy with the āOrder of Friendshipā award, barely mentions Russia as the culprit in the poisoning of a former Russian spy and heās out .. think about that my fam..
You can call treasonous buffoon a āfucking moronā, and still keep your job ā¦but dare put Kremlinās Napoleon and his poison by polonium shenanigans in the U.K in your mouth, and youāre booted pronto..
The treasonous buffoon aināt loyal ā¦and especially when thereās unpayable still pending Russian loans and pee-pee kompromat to contend with ā¦And even on a good day, he wonāt even give his lackeys a chance to exit somewhat āgracefullyā, or with some semblance of dignity once heās done using you and gutting whatās left of a āsoulāā¦ And it wonāt be the last time eitherā¦ One hitches their wagon to the craven treasonous buffoon at their own perilā¦ But theyāre all just way too greedy, too opportunistic and way too slimy to heed the warning, or to pass up on riding the treasonous crazy gravy wagon.. Mediocrity never had such a great shot at power ā and taking over as it does right now ..and occupying positions theyād never ever have dreamt of and arenāt qualified for, can make hollow mediocrity dance for the devil .. And thanks to the treasonous buffoon, itās all just within reachā¦And theyāre all going for it ..no matter how much gutting of whatās left of their soul is called for, and no matter how much betrayal and destruction of country it entails..
You know that the nonstop crazy, hourly bursts of all things incredulity-eliciting, and the endless treasonous bait and switch, artifice and gaslighting is really, really taking a toll when the vacuous traitor illegally squatting in the Peopleās House, has me feeling a tinge of sympathy for Condiās Exxon oilman..
Alt-Right Kelly and Mattis arenāt guarding the republic, theyāre simply providing the pseudo-legitimacy and bottom-barrel ācleverā guidance the treasonous buffoon needs to turn his bumbling treasonous shitshow into a more āorderlyā and seemingly marginally ārespectableā one ..for those looking from the outside in..
This dangerous nightmare needs to end right now..
The more brazen trial balloons via twitter fail to elicit any real concern, pushback or patriotic action, and the comfier and more settled in this Russian asset and callous, hollow, dishonorable, greedy, desperate traitor, suffering from serious delusions of grandeur, gets ā¦and unabashedly aided by former āgeneralsā ā aka the deluded Svengali crew ā¦the harder itāll be to get him and his kkklan and cohort out..
If youāre a praying person, nowās a good a time as any to do a deep fast ā¦with a very specific ask of God..
WOW! The State Department now confirms to @CNN’s @eliselabottcnn that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson found out he was fired from President Trump’s tweet.
ā Javi Morgado (@javimorgado) March 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/rulajebreal/status/973585941578371073
This hollow, slimy, craven opportunist is the worst of the worst.. Betrayal and selling out of country, and treason of the worst sort, is no problem if he can rise to power ..by hook or crook …
Donāt be swayed by the mediaās endless attempt at propping him up – as they are glibly wont to – and even as theyāve always been proven to be so fatally wrong …A white supremacist being āfirst in his class at West Pointā, is not and will never be a true measure of intelligence – and certainly, not an indication or assurance of patriotism and unimpeachable loyalty to country…especially when unbridled ambition and greed and delusions of grandeur collide …with a hostile foreign entity pulling the strings and dangling the carrots, while media types like the suddenly mute and mealy-mouthed Bob Woodward and 2-prong tongued, blowing with the wind David Ignatius, continue to boost, legitimize and normalize this bloody insanity..
Treason is a-ok …as long as it comes courtesy of greedy white supremacists with fake billions, a couple of military āgenerals, or as a craven loser and tea-bagger congressman who by some fluke happened to be āfirst in his classā at West Point..
LIARS, RACISTS, XENAPHOBES, THUGS
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/973585896812392448
When Kellyās own humiliation happens, itāll be as funny as heck..
https://twitter.com/OversightDems/status/973586603074641921
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/973586336363016192
A bus carrying students from Channelview Texas, y’all….
https://twitter.com/ABC7News/status/973557748334919680
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=120mONaEVpg
Yup..
Ms Lindsey showed her b*tt a long time ago..
We know who they all are now fam..
LOL! NOPE! Not buying this ISH whatsoever. This has white vandals all over it.
https://twitter.com/WLOS_13/status/973258997607403520
I agree.
https://twitter.com/olgaNYC1211/status/973577198102810625
I wonder if what is happening in UK with this and the nerve gas is why the Republicans closed the investigation of the intelligence committee.
https://twitter.com/big_cases/status/973577682578558980
Good grief…
https://twitter.com/shomaristone/status/973576173258145793
and they want TEACHERS to carry guns??????
Yup..
SMH
https://twitter.com/Evan_Rosenfeld/status/973574812181266432
This is too funny..
But his boss, the crooked buffoon deep in debt, leveraged to his eyeballs, and being blackmailed for crazy money laundering spearheaded by and for a hostile foreign entity, gets to stay..?
And gets to have access to the nuclear codes..
You doing really great with that getting things in āorderā, āgeneralā Kelly…
https://twitter.com/axios/status/973569451114352643
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/973568611603419137
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https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/973560385159692288
Stevie Wonder saw this coming…
The chaos continues….This mofo has fired Rex Tillerson.
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Another long-time Trump aide is out: John McEntee, an original Trumper among w Hope Hicks and Dan Scavino, was escorted out of the White House on Monday https://t.co/haIhsITOxpā Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) March 13, 2018
More about this firing:
DAMN!
LMBAO
The Secretary of Exxon got his $71 million dollar tax break, didn’t he?
So, he’s cool.
BREAKING: President Trump says CIA chief Pompeo to become Sec. of State, thanks Tillerson for his service, and elevates Gina Haspel to top CIA post. https://t.co/JqlOHLpp1U pic.twitter.com/AnOuIgyCXZ
ā CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) March 13, 2018
Tillerson called Trump a moron awhile back. That’s all this is about. After all, it’s a reality show, right?
Russia, Russia, Russia..
Calling out Russia was a bridge too far..
ONE HELLUVA DRUG
WHITE PRIVILEGE
Hair bleach, eyeliner, and a head full of air. Not much else going on here…
Listen To Ava DuVernay Drop BARS On These Soulful Early ’90s Tracks
Can we start a petition for a new album or nah?
https://blavity.com/listen-to-ava-duvernay-drop-bars-on-these-soulful-early-90s-tracks
Trump ousts Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo
President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replaced him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate negotiations with North Korea, White House officials said Tuesday.
Tillerson had made public remarks last year insisting he was not planning to quit despite persistent reports of disagreements between him and the White House over staffing issues at the State Department and a disconnect over what President Trump saw as Tillersonās conventional approach to policy matters.
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/4c583b/5aa7c6dcfe1ff62bafaa30c8/YXdhcmVvZjQxMUBnbWFpbC5jb20%3D/2/10/3a569220054ddfca9b49a25bb24a75b5
Good morning Everyone ššš
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/973422416671182848
The House Intelligence Committee is shot to hell. All credibility is gone. They are worthless & should never be trusted ever again. How can they be? They have openly denied the findings of 17 intelligence agencies. They’re putting national security at risk. Dismantle the committee.
Good morning, everyone!
Good Morning, SG2 & 3 Chics Family.
Work projects have me with my nose to the grindstone.
AS YOU WERE!
Good morning, SG2 and Everyone.
Today is Discount Tuesday so I am gonna lay my burden down and go see “A Wrinkle in Time”.
Enjoy the movie. Eat some popcorn for me.
I’m really looking forward to it. God knows we all need an escape from reality even for two hours.
Enjoy, Liza