"Jorge Cornell AKA King Jay of the Latin Kings and Queen Nation in North Carolina, leaves the federal courthouse Dec. 13."

Since 2008 Malcolm-Che.com has covered The North Carolina ALKQN leader King Jay’s attempts to forge community alliances and keep the street organization he leads out of legal trouble.  We are very late to post this story, but we hope readers will read between the lines.  Indictments and RICO are known, in the streets, to be situations where law officials use the possibly bogus criminal charges of one or a small group of people, to locked up a much larger group.  According to the knowledge in the streets, these laws were invented supposedly to ‘bring down Gotti’ but have since been used to attack groups of black and brown brothers and locked them up for lengthy jail sentences.

We at Malcolm-Che have every reason to assume that this is a government attempt to sideline the positive efforts of King Jay to create community and street organization unity and fight for social justice.  The discussions that we had with King Jay at the time touched heavily on these issues, and we will attempt to establish contact with him soon.

Here is a link to our previous postings on King Jay and the North Carolina Latin Kings:

http://www.malcolm-che.com/tag/latin-kings/

Here is the most useful link to get the most up-to-date info on the indictment:

http://alkqnsupport.com/

Here’s a good article on the indictment and arrests, called “Allegations Not Evidence”

http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-13256-allegations-not-evidence.html

And a link to the “superceding indictment”

http://www.scribd.com/doc/83023339/Latin-Kings-Super-Ceding-Indictment

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These are the racists being charged with the murders.

People are asking if this is a hate crime… They are calling the killings “random.”  Although the killers might not have known the victims (all of which were African-American), these were not “random” (all of the victims were African-American).

“Although the two men arrested are white and victims black, the crimes have yet to been deemed racially motivated.”

But what about the Facebook posts of one of the racist killers:

“Today is two years that my dad has been gone shot by a fuc*ing nigg** it’s hard not to go off between that and sheran I’m gone in the head.”

One of the killers was openly racist, and apparently blamed all African-Americans for the death of his father.  He targeted people entirely based on the color of their skin.  These seem to be the facts of the case at this point, and if they hold true there is no question that this fits the definition of a hate crime.

Click Here for article.

And don’t forget about Tulsa’s long history of racism.  Besides the fact that Oklahoma was once promised to Native Americans and then taken away; if you don’t know about the Tulsa race riot of 1921 in which the wealthiest African-American community of the time was burned to the ground and hundreds of racist murders committed you should get up on your history.

Click Here for a good article on the Tulsa race riot of 1921.

Mayor Nutter’s Hypocrisy on Trayvon

posted by Jay C.

Walking (or driving) while Black is not a crime.  Philadelphia Mayor Nutter  has rightly referred to the murder of Trayvon Martin as an assassination.   But, when was the last time the Mayor criticized the Philly PD for shooting down someone on the street? Where was the Mayor when Philly Cops savagely beat Askia Sabur, whose only crime was waiting on the sidewalk for his Chinese takeout? Where was Nutter when Philly cops attacked Askia’s family in their home in an attempt to silence the family?  (hint, the answer is that the Mayor has remained silent.) Nutter has consistently sided with cops against the community.

Nutter ”instituted more aggressive stop-and-frisk practices.” The “stop and frisk” program is based on racial profiling and means that young African-Americans and Latinos are searched without probable cause. The majority of those targeted are African-American.

According to attorney Michael Coard,  “…in 2009, more than a quarter million persons were subjected to stop and frisk. And despite the fact that African-Americans constitute 44 percent of the city’s population, they constituted 72 percent of the persons stopped and frisked. And to the extent that the vast majority were black men, that means (after extrapolating from available race/gender figures) approximately 20 percent of Philadelphians constituted an inexplicable nearly three out of four persons stopped and frisked.”

Only a little more than 8 percent of those frisked have been arrested.   (according to the ACLU approximately 600,000 persons are victims of “stop and frisk”  in New York City annually)

The Mayor is also behind the drive to demonize and criminalize young Black people through the application of a restrictive curfew.   Here’s what he had to say about the way he perceives young African-Americans.

“…a particular message to our young African-American boys and girls, let me say this: If you want all of us– black, white, or any other color — if you want us to respect you, if you want us to look at you in a different way, if you want us not to be afraid to walk down the same side of the street with you, if you want folks not to jump out of the elevator when you get on, if you want folks to stop following you around in stores when you’re out shopping… then stop acting like idiots and fools, out in the streets of the city of Philadelphia. Just cut it out. And another thing. Take those doggone hoodies down, especially in the summer. Pull your pants up and buy a belt, because no one wants to see your underwear…” Mayor Nutter’s “you’ve damaged your race speech” of August 2011.

So, when establishment politicians like Nutter or Obama suddenly “discover” a human connection to a tragic situation; beware of the hypocrisy. It can get so thick, it will choke you.

*click here for link to original article*

In the first story we have a tiny bit of truth that has emerged from the usual lies regarding the War on Drugs.  What is the purpose of this criminal justice system?  Take a look if you dare:

NYPD Detective Found Guilty Of Planting Evidence

Those Drugs They Came From The Police

Look at what the judge said on the case:

“I thought I was not naïve,” he said.  “But even this court was shocked, not only by the seeming pervasive scope of misconduct but even more distressingly by the seeming casualness by which such conduct is employed.”

You see what he said is real slick right?  ‘I thought I was not naive’!!  Meaning, ‘I already know how NYPD narcotics departments get down, what with the drug planting and screwing lives up shit.’  It don’t even mess with the judge at all that it’s going down like this, he’s just shocked that it’s so ‘pervasive’ and ‘casual,’ I guess if these dudes were a little more uptight when they planted drugs the judge would be a little less shocked.

But damn, it don’t stop there!  Article #2 is about the racial views of “New York’s Finest,” and what happens when some racists get caught out (everybody acts like it’s just a few of them).  This has to do with a racist Facebook group of police officers and their friends hating on the West Indian Day Parade:

NYPD Officers Have Fun With Racist Facebook Group

“I say have the [West Indian Day] parade one more year and when they all gather drop a bomb and wipe them all out,” writes one commenter, Dan Rodney. The New York Times first broke the story and reached out to Rodney, who confirmed that he was a police officer and a user of Facebook but denied that he made that comment.

New York Police Department Investigating Racist Posts

In the postings, people participating in the September parade in Brooklyn were called “animals” and “savages, the New York Times reported.

From ABC:

November 10, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — A man who says he was tortured by police officers using a stun gun during a traffic stop has filed a federal lawsuit against the officers and the Chicago Police Department.

Josue Tapia was hospitalized for days with injuries he suffered during the incident.

In May of 2010, Tapia was stopped by Chicago police officers for a minor traffic offense at 43rd and Paulina and later released. Minutes later, the police computer showed that a J. Tapia, 12 years older, 30 pounds lighter, 6 inches smaller and living 40 miles away, had an outstanding warrant. Officers stopped Tapia again and, according to official records and hospital photographs and hospital photographs, used a stun gun 11 times to subdue him.

A jury recently found Tapia not guilty of all charges that stemmed from his arrest.

His lawyer said Tapia was electrocuted and treated worse than an animal.

“They completely had him wrong. And our allegations are the officer went up to my client’s car and pulled him out of the car, pushed him up to the side of the car and then threw him to the ground…Our client was actually Tasered 11 times in a row. So when I say 11 times in a row, what I mean is for five to six seconds electricity was passing through his body, as confirmed by the medical evidence, 11 times in a row within four minutes,” said Blake Horowitz, Tapia’s lawyer.

Tapia says the officers’ actions changed his ability to function normally. Tapia’s wife and two nephews were with him at the time of the incident.

“It was just like a lot of pain everywhere, every inch of my body was being brutalized. I didn’t understand why the police officers were treating me that way…I am not able to work, I have complications,” said Tapia.

“I was screaming and crying and I was telling them to please leave him alone, leave him alone. It just felt like a nightmare,” said Marilyn Tapia, wife. “They just kept cursing me out and telling me to go away or they were going to arrest me.”

“It was a case of Tasering him over and over and over and over again in a horrific way. And it literally fried him. It fried his mind,” said Horowitz.

Tapia says he is thankful that he was vindicated and the charges against him were dropped. His lawyers say the officers claimed that Tapia was able to withstand the repeated use of a stun gun because he was under the influence of alcohol or PCP.

“When he went to the emergency room, they ran a complete tox screen on him for all drugs and alcohol and it was completely negative,” said Dennis Giovannini, Tapia’s laywer. “This whole situation was the blatant cover-up that the officers came up with after they realized that they had Tasered and beat up the wrong person.”

“It is just hard for me to trust anybody now,” said Tapia.

Tapia says he is in constant pain and worries about what the future holds for him and his family.

The city law department has not return ABC7’s calls for a comment on the lawsuit.

New Info On Man Shot By Officer: MyFoxPHILLY.com

There is new information about a west Philadelphia homeowner shot by a Philadelphia police officer.

It isn’t the first time this cop fired his weapon

The incident happened Wednesday evening in the 6000 block of Christian Street, near south 60th.

The victim, a father of two girls, is in critical condition, shot by a police officer inside his own home.

Now that police officer is being investigated for the second time this year:

The incident started with two 9-1-1 calls of a burglary in progress, which wasn’t actually a burglary.

The supposed burglar, the homeowner, is involved in a property dispute with his former in-laws.

So chances are that homeowner, Stephen Saddiq Moore, might have been angry when police showed up.

A neighbor told Moore’s lawyer what he heard.

“The police were at his door. He saw them, he came out and he heard him shouting something like “it’s my house,’ ” said Craig sokolow.

Police officer Larry Shields, a 13-year veteran on the force, then confronted Moore inside the home.

Investigators say shields pulled his gun and shot Moore in the arm. The bullet traveled into his chest.

Police say Moore was not armed.

Mark Frost is the lawyer for Josh Taylor, another homeowner shot and nearly killed by the same police officer, Larry Shields, back in April.

“Clearly, if this individual was unarmed, he doesn’t pose a threat to use a weapon,” he says. “it’s actually very disturbing that a police officer who was involved in an incident less than eight months ago involving the shooting of a citizen, is involved in a similar-type incident once again.”

In the April incident, investigators determined the shooting victim, Josh Taylor, did have a loaded weapon, unlike the latest incident.

Taylor was inside his Northeast Philadelphia row home, when officer shields, who was off-duty, ran inside after him

The lawyer in the first officer-involved shooting says the officer didn’t need to put himself in that situation-, and he could have waited outside and called for back-up.

The DA’s office cleared the officer just one month ago, and says it will not be re-opening that investigation, despite this latest incident.

Prison numbers in England and Wales hit fresh record

From the BBC:

The prison population in England and Wales has increased by almost 200 in a week, taking it to a new all-time high of 87,945.

Governors have 1,310 places available across jails to deal with further rises.

The rise in the population has been put down to the numbers being jailed or remanded following England’s riots.

The Ministry of Justice said it had contingency plans in place and capacity would soon increase further.

The Prison Service said that as of Friday the maximum operational capacity was 89,255 – the level judged to be the safest after taking into account the need to segregate some prisoners.

A spokesman said: “We have seen a significant rise in the prison population as a result of the public disorder in August.

“Managing the increase in the population is challenging but we have been continually developing contingencies to manage the additional population.

“We currently have enough prison places for those being remanded and sentenced to custody.”

The spokesman said capacity would rise in 2012 with the opening of two new prisons. HMP Thameside, in South-East London, will hold up to 900 inmates. HMP Featherstone 2, near Wolverhampton, will hold 1,600.

“We will continue to explore contingencies arrangements should further pressure be placed on the prison estate.”

The Ministry of Justice said that no inmates had been placed in police cells under the long-standing Operation Safeguard emergency plans. These plans were last activated in 2007 when spare capacity dropped to around 100 places.

Figures released last month suggested that the riots would contribute to the prison population growing by about 1,000 over the next year.

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Family of unarmed man shot by Downey police announces federal lawsuit

The family of an unarmed man who was shot and killed last month by Downey Police has announced plans to file a federal civil rights lawsuit.

Authorities say police were looking for two ATM machine robbery suspects on October 22nd when they shot and killed 31-year-old Michael Nida. They say cops mistook Nida for one of the perpetrators and he reportedly fled from the officers at least twice.

At a press conference outside Downey police headquarters, the family’s attorney, Brian Claypool, accused police of executing Nida and of racial profiling.

“He looked Hispanic, he had a shaved head and he fit the protocol of a Hispanic young man that usually gets in trouble. And that’s not acceptable,” Claypool said.

Claypool added the family will file a federal civil rights lawsuit against the police department, its chief and the officers involved. They’ll also file a wrongful death lawsuit.

Nida’s mother Jean Thaxton fought back tears as she urged Downey authorities to evaluate how cops use their weapons.

“We have police officers in our family,” said Thaxton. “So we’re not against police officers. We’re against people that have no business having a gun.”

Claypool says the Downey officer involved shot Nida with a MP5 machine gun. The attorney says he’ll seek action from state lawmakers.

“We need a law in place specifically banning machine guns being deployed by police officers not only in California but nationwide.”

Claypool says swat situations are an exception.

Nida’s family said the husband and father of four had jaywalked across a busy street to buy cigarettes near Imperial Highway and Paramount Boulevard at the time of the incident.

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