Wow this guy is white and they beat the crap out of him. I would be surprised if he doesn’t have permanent lifelong health issues and harm from this. While three of them hold him down they bang his head on the concrete, they kick and stomp on him, and one guy knees him repeatedly either in the kidneys which will destroy them, or on his hip which will crumble it. No matter what the man might have done this is not the job of the police, this is a gang of thugs. Police have the job of arresting / detaining people for trial, not administering vigilante justice. Hugs
Arkansas cops brutally assault a man on the street. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.
“Three police officers in Arkansas were taken off duty after they were caught on camera beating up a suspect they were placed under arrest.
The video blew up when it was posted to social media on Sunday, showing an officer and two deputies as they pinned a man to the ground and repeatedly struck him outside a convenience store. Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante said to the media, announcing two of his deputies would be suspended while Arkansas state police and the sheriff’s office investigate the incident.
“About the video circulating social media involving two Crawford County deputies, we have requested that Arkansas State Police conduct the investigation, and the deputies have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation,” Damante’s office announced. “I hold all my employees accountable for their actions and will take appropriate measures in this matter.”*
Understand these people put their religion first and they are running for elected office that will allow them to craft laws based on their religious views that the rest of us must follow. He is a republican candidate that thinks being gay is an “insidious addiction” and that homosexuals are such an affront to his god they need to be put to death. What kind of laws do you think he will champion? Do you think he could fairly judge anti-discrimination laws? How about the don’t say gay bills for schools, will he agree with science or his bible? These hyper religious people are not running for office because they have nothing else to do, they are trying to get into positions to enforce their church doctrines and make the rest of the nation follow their religion. They are trying to make a theocracy, trying to reduce the rights for women and minorities. Here in Florida they are trying to take over school boards as they did in Texas. You know the kinds of things that they tried to insist kids be taught there, things like the constitution was written by god and Moses, that slaves were unpaid workers or simply forced to relocation, that science / biology are suspect but intelligent design is possible. They snuck as much disinformation and American exceptionalism along with teaching the nation was founded on the Christian religion as possible. If we don’t stop them now, we won’t have a democracy. Hugs
“Well, does that make me a homophobe?… It simply makes me a Christian. Christians believe in biblical morality, kind of by definition, or they should.”
A GOP candidate in Oklahoma is getting attention for comments he made several years ago when he justified the death penalty by stoning for gay people. When asked recently about it, he didn’t disavow his previous comments.
Scott Esk, 56, is running in the Republican primary runoff election tomorrow for a seat in the state house, and local media is bringing up some extreme comments he made in the past. He’s not handling them well.
In 2013, Esk was commenting in a Facebook conversation about the Pope saying that he couldn’t judge gay people. Esk posted some Bible quotations, including the part of Romans 1 where the Bible says that a long list of people who sinned is “worthy of death.”
Another person asked him: “So, just to be clear, you think we should execute homosexuals (presumably by stoning)?”
Esk responded: “I think we would be totally in the right to do it… Ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”
A year later, a journalist asked him about those comments. He said it was “totally just” to kill gay people.
“What I will tell you right now is that that was done in the Old Testament under a law that came directly from God,” he said at the time. “And in that time, there was, it was, totally just came directly from God.”
After those comments, he put out a long video where he claimed he “sets the record straight.” In those videos, he claimed he has “compassion on anybody in the grips of an insidious addiction, such as homosexuality.”
“Any Christian should be in the position to say that this is sin or this is good. If we don’t make that distinction, we’re not going to help people,” he said in the first video published in 2015.
In the another video, which was from earlier this year, Esk called a local TV news report on his comments a “hit piece on the fact that I had an opinion against homosexuality.”
“Well, does that make me a homophobe? Maybe some people think it does,” he said. “But as far as I and many of the people, the voters of House District A7 are concerned, it simply makes me a Christian. Christians believe in biblical morality, kind of by definition, or they should.”
He said that he is not in favor of “expanding the death penalty in Oklahoma for homosexuality,” he just wants everyone to know that gay people are so offensive to his god that his religion wants them dead.
“The fact is, that it’s much more offensive knowing what obscene things homosexuals do with each other than it is for somebody to hold the view that it is indecent,” he said in the second video.
Now that the runoff election is tomorrow, The Oklahoman asked Esk about those comments to see if his opinion has changed at all.
He refused to do an interview and pointed The Oklahoman to the two videos.
“I’ve stood up for what is right in the past, and I intend to in the future and I am right now,” he stated. “That’s got me in trouble. The media are not my friends, as far as I’m concerned.”
Earlier today, Esk posted a video to his YouTube channel entitled “Scott Esk sets the record straight for the 3rd time,” in which he calls The Oklahoman piece and a piece by News 4 “hit pieces” and says that the media is against him because they want his opponent Gloria Banister to win.
He also responded to being fired from his job as a data manager in 2011 because he was arrested after he allegedly threatened and harassed the leadership of his church. In the video, he calls those church leaders “snakes” and makes some opaque references to the divorce and custody battle he was going through at the time.
Whoever wins the primary tomorrow will run against the Democratic winner in November. The seat is currently held by state Rep. Collin Walke (D), who is retiring.
Texas Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw, who likes to position himself as a ‘normal’ Republican, attacked the Department of Justice during an interview on CNN over the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Crenshaw resorted to spreading lies and disinformation about the search during the revealing segment, which showed Crenshaw would rather support Donald Trump than our national security. Texas Paul tears into the Texas Republican.
The National Archives found more than 700 pages of classified material — including “special access program materials,” some of the most highly classified secrets in government — in 15 boxes recovered from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in January, according to correspondence between the National Archivist and his legal team.
The May 10 letter — posted late Monday on the website of John Solomon, a conservative journalist and one of Trump’s authorized liaisons to the National Archives to review papers from his presidency — showed that NARA and federal investigators had grown increasingly alarmed about potential damage to national security caused by the warehousing of these documents at Mar-a-Lago, as well as by Trump’s resistance to sharing them with the FBI.
These records included 700 pages of classified material, according to the letter, sent by National Archivist Debra Wall to Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, and it doesn’t include records recovered by the Justice Department and FBI during a June meeting and the Aug. 11 search of the Mar-a-Lago premises.
Wall’s letter describes earlier correspondence in which Trump’s team objected to disclosing the contents of the 15 boxes to the FBI.
“As you are no doubt aware, NARA had ongoing communications with the former President’s representatives throughout 2021 about what appeared to be missing Presidential records, which resulted in the transfer of 15 boxes of records to NARA in January 2022,” Wall wrote. “In its initial review of materials within those boxes, NARA identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret and including Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials.”
NARA aides did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter, and Corcoran could not immediately be reached.
The correspondence shows that even though NARA retrieved the 15 boxes in January, Justice Department and FBI investigators didn’t see their contents until May, after extended negotiations with Trump’s representatives. The letter also shows that in the interim, DOJ asked President Joe Biden to authorize NARA to provide the records to investigators despite an effort by Trump to claim executive privilege over the records. Wall indicated she had rejected Trump’s claim because of the significance of the documents to national security.
“NARA informed the Department of Justice about that discovery, which prompted the Department to ask the President to request that NARA provide the FBI with access to the boxes at issue so that the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community could examine them,” Wall wrote.
Biden, according to Wall, then delegated the privilege decision to her, in consultation with the Justice Department.
Wall noted that typical restrictions on access to presidential records carve out an exception for incumbent administrations. And she described an April 29 letter from DOJ’s National Security Division describing their pursuit of these documents: “There are important national security interests in the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community getting access to these materials.”
“Access to the materials is not only necessary for purposes of our ongoing criminal investigation, but the Executive Branch must also conduct an assessment of the potential damage resulting from the apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported and take any necessary remedial steps,” according to the DOJ letter. “Accordingly, we are seeking immediate access to these materials so as to facilitate the necessary assessments that need to be conducted within the Executive Branch.”
Wall indicated that Archives had notified Trump on April 12 of the FBI’s “urgency” to review the documents but delayed transmitting them at the behest of Trump’s team.
“It has now been four weeks since we first informed you of our intent to provide the FBI access to the boxes so that it and others in the Intelligence Community can conduct their reviews,” Wall wrote. “ Notwithstanding the urgency conveyed by the Department of Justice and the reasonable extension afforded to the former President, your April 29 letter asks for additional time for you to review the materials in the boxes ‘in order to ascertain whether any specific document is subject to privilege,’ and then to consult with the former President “so that he may personally make any decision to assert a claim of constitutionally based privilege.’”
Wall said she consulted with the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel and had decided not honor that request.
“The question in this case is not a close one,” she wrote.
“The Executive Branch here is seeking access to records belonging to, and in the custody of, the Federal Government itself, not only in order to investigate whether those records were handled in an unlawful manner but also, as the National Security Division explained, to ‘conduct an assessment of the potential damage resulting from the apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported and take any necessary remedial steps.’”
An anchor on the fascist, fake news propaganda station known as OANN called for a violent uprising and the end to democracy itself during a broadcast this week. Texas Paul reacts and vows to protect our democracy.
Super important to watch! This video puts the abortion cost to women in perspective and shows the arrogance of the no abortion crowd. now something I want to say not addressed in this video or any other I have seen. What no one who is talking about this is addressing is the economics of it. This woman and her husband must pay all the hospital costs for delivering a baby that won’t live. That cannot live. The equivalent of being forced to pay for a car that cannot ever run, then dispose of it at your own expense. Then because the baby was born, they must hold some funeral or burial ceremony right? Cannot just toss it in the toxic waste bin, so someone must bear all those costs. Then think of the damn emotional toll. Remember this woman and her husband wanted to have this child, they were trying to have a healthy kid. If it was me I wouldn’t ever try again after this. Tie the tubes and snip the testis. Hugs
A Louisiana hospital is refusing a women’s request to abort a fetus without a skull. This is the latest horrific consequence of the draconian laws passed by Republicans in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Texas Paul reacts.
The villages are a republican maga stronghold. They tend to have more retirement money than most maga thugs, but they are just as rabid, vocal, and feel even more entitled than the lower income magas. DeathSantis holds rallies and events there and made sure that they had the first shot for the Covid vaccines he supported for wealthy republicans but publicly tried to deny for lower incomes. Remember that a black woman in Texas voted with a provisional ballot because she was told she was able to vote but was unsure. Her ballot was not counted. She got sentenced to 5 years in prison even after the court was shown she received a letter telling her she had her right to vote returned. But there is no such thing as white privilege is there. Hugs
A third resident of The Villages has admitted to voting twice during the 2020 election, court records show.
Joan Halstead, 73, entered a pretrial intervention program Wednesday that will allow her to avoid potential prison time if she successfully completes court-ordered requirements such as performing community service and attending a civics class.
Halstead acknowledged her guilt as part of her agreement with prosecutors. Two other residents of The Villages accused of voting twice, Charles Barnes and Jay Ketcik, signed similar pretrial intervention contracts earlier this year.
Hope Gov DeSantis Gets His Election Integrity Unit Over To The Villages: 3rd resident of The Villages admits to voting twice in the 2020 election https://t.co/KvNxx5IUpP
VILLAGES VOTER FRAUD: A third resident of the highly-conservative retirement community has admitted to voting twice during the 2020 election, court records show. https://t.co/AzsKBFvuqU
Fake candidates funded by FPL to hurt Democratic candidates, Trump supporters from The Villages in Florida casting multiple ballots — @GovRonDeSantis should investigate THIS, not make it more difficult to vote & promote election disinformation.https://t.co/Lnx4IWqQTu
This is the republicans telling you who they are. He doesn’t want democracy but minority rule with him part of the rulers. He doesn’t see everyone as equal, he doesn’t want the land of the free. Republican candidates are showing us that they are the crack pot Qanon conspiracy believing haters and bigots. Also he wants to enforce his religion on everyone to force them to live by his church’s doctrines. We all should be worried because the maga base loves these crazy nuts. What about all that support the troops and back the blue slogans? Hugs
A Republican candidate for the House from St. Augustine is banned from Twitter after advocating violence against the federal government. Republican Luis Miguel, running against incumbent Rep. Bobby Payne of Palatka in the redrawn House District 20, was suspended from Twitter after a tweet advocating that Floridians should be able to shoot federal agents on sight.
“Under my plan, all Floridians will be able to shoot FBI, IRS, ATF, and all other federal troops on sight,” Miguel tweeted. “Let freedom ring.” Miguel told Florida Politics Friday the suspension, which is “permanent” per a message he got on his Twitter app, “doesn’t affect (him) at all.” He stands by the proposal, which he says is justified because the IRS has been “weaponized by dissident forces.”
His posts are still live on Instagram, where he also defends the Confederacy and calls himself a “proud Christian Nationalist.”
Miguel first appeared on JMG last summer when he held a rally calling for the release of “political prisoner” Capitol rioters.
In the final clip below, Miguel declares that the next presidential election “will not be decided at the ballot box, but on the battlefield.”
I'm sorry to have to post this, but this man is running for office in my area. It's real. And it's dangerous. I believe we must turn the mirror in on the lies being used to stir up people for heinous purposes. Someone is going to get killed. My heart is broken. @matthewjdowd pic.twitter.com/Qxn17gAviz
Miguel is a graduate of…(wait for it!)…Brigham Young University, did two years preaching Mormonism in Tijuana (as if Tijuana hasn’t suffered enough), advocates secession from the US, etc, etc, etc.
Scott EskPhoto: Campaign Facebook page
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