Anyone remember Kendrick Johnson? He's the high school senior in GA who went to sleep in an uprighted wrestling mat, became trapped and died. This happened a little after the Trayvon Martin incident. The state did an autopsy and determined no foul play.
But that didn't stop the boy's parents from getting Benjamin Crump and the national media down to a small Georgia town to scream conspiracy and racism. Soon Obama and Holder sent the DOJ and FBI down to investigate the situation, the kids at the school, the school system, and the local government.
The FBI investigated for over a year. Interviewed a lot of people, seized a lot of electronic devices and came up with nothing. Nevertheless, the Obama administration kept the case open even though two US Attorneys resigned.
The Johnson kid's parents filed a 100 million dollar lawsuit against various parties including some fellow students and their parents. The parents of Kendrick Johnson said in a deposition in Nov 2015 that they didn't have any evidence of foul play. Their suit was dropped after this deposition.
The victims of this wrongful suit had had enough and are asking the Johnson family for $855K in attorney fees. I only wish they could name Crump and CNN's Andersen Cooper as a party too.
This is another incident where a freakish tragedy happened, the parents cried racism, got the MSM and the Obama administration involved and ended up with egg on their faces. But only after they destroyed or severely damaged the lives of innocent people. And the media didn't report the true injustice and the "crying of wolf."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kendrick_Johnson
- gnadfly
- 05-06-2016, 09:13 PM
- The_Waco_Kid
- 05-06-2016, 10:23 PM
let's expand on that shall we?
George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil action
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...spur/?page=all
Liberal billionaire gave at least $33 million in one year to groups that emboldened activists
By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times - Wednesday, January 14, 2015
There’s a solitary man at the financial center of the Ferguson protest movement. No, it’s not victim Michael Brown or Officer Darren Wilson. It’s not even the Rev. Al Sharpton, despite his ubiquitous campaign on TV and the streets.
Rather, it’s liberal billionaire George Soros, who has built a business empire that dominates across the ocean in Europe while forging a political machine powered by nonprofit foundations that impacts American politics and policy, not unlike what he did with MoveOn.org.
Mr. Soros spurred the Ferguson protest movement through years of funding and mobilizing groups across the U.S., according to interviews with key players and financial records reviewed by The Washington Times.
In all, Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations.
The financial tether from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to a combustible protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event in Missouri into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre.
“Our DNA includes a belief that having people participate in government is indispensable to living in a more just, inclusive, democratic society,” said Kenneth Zimmerman, director of Mr. Soros‘ Open Society Foundations’ U.S. programs, in an interview with The Washington Times. “Helping groups combine policy, research [and] data collection with community organizing feels very much the way our society becomes more accountable.”
No strings attached
Mr. Zimmerman said OSF has been giving to these types of groups since its inception in the early ‘90s, and that, although groups involved in the protests have been recipients of Mr. Soros‘ grants, they were in no way directed to protest at the behest of Open Society.
“The incidents, whether in Staten Island, Cleveland or Ferguson, were spontaneous protests — we don’t have the ability to control or dictate what others say or choose to say,” Mr. Zimmerman said. “But these circumstances focused people’s attention — and it became increasingly evident to the social justice groups involved that what a particular incident like Ferguson represents is a lack of accountability and a lack of democratic participation.”
Soros-sponsored organizations helped mobilize protests in Ferguson, building grass-roots coalitions on the ground backed by a nationwide online and social media campaign.
Other Soros-funded groups made it their job to remotely monitor and exploit anything related to the incident that they could portray as a conservative misstep, and to develop academic research and editorials to disseminate to the news media to keep the story alive.
The plethora of organizations involved not only shared Mr. Soros‘ funding, but they also fed off each other, using content and buzzwords developed by one organization on another’s website, referencing each other’s news columns and by creating a social media echo chamber of Facebook “likes” and Twitter hashtags that dominated the mainstream media and personal online newsfeeds.
Buses of activists from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference in Chicago; from the Drug Policy Alliance, Make the Road New York and Equal Justice USA from New York; from Sojourners, the Advancement Project and Center for Community Change in Washington; and networks from the Gamaliel Foundation — all funded in part by Mr. Soros — descended on Ferguson starting in August and later organized protests and gatherings in the city until late last month.
Broaden issue focus
All were aimed at keeping the media’s attention on the city and to widen the scope of the incident to focus on interrelated causes — not just the overpolicing and racial discrimination narratives that were highlighted by the news media in August.
“I went to Ferguson in a quest to be in solidarity and stand with the young organizers and affirm their leadership,” said Kassandra Frederique, policy manager at the Drug Policy Alliance, which was founded by Mr. Soros, and which receives $4 million annually from his foundation. She traveled to Ferguson in October.
“We recognized this movement is similar to the work we’re doing at DPA,” said Ms. Frederique. “The war on drugs has always been to operationalize, institutionalize and criminalize people of color. Protecting personal sovereignty is a cornerstone of the work we do and what this movement is all about.”
Ms. Frederique works with Opal Tometi, co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter — a hashtag that was developed after the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida — and helped promote it on DPA’s news feeds. Ms. Tometi runs the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, a group to which Mr. Soros gave $100,000 in 2011, according to the most recent of his foundation’s tax filings.
“I think #BlackLivesMatter’s success is because of organizing. This was created after Trayvon Martin, and there has been sustained organizing and conversations about police violence since then,” said Ms. Frederique. “Its explosion into the mainstream recently is because it connects all the dots at a time when everyone was lost for words. ‘Black Lives Matter’ is liberating, unapologetic and leaves no room for confusion.”
#BlackLivesMatter
With the backing of national civil rights organizations and Mr. Soros‘ funding, “Black Lives Matter” grew from a hashtag into a social media phenomenon, including a #BlackLivesMatter bus tour and march in September.
“More than 500 of us have traveled from Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Tucson, Washington, D.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and other cities to support the people of Ferguson and help turn a local moment into a national movement,” wrote Akiba Solomon, a journalist at Colorlines, describing the event.
Colorlines is an online news site that focuses on race issues and is published by Race Forward, a group that received $200,000 from Mr. Soros’s foundation in 2011. Colorlines has published tirelessly on the activities in Ferguson and heavily promoted the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and activities.
At the end of the #BlackLivesMatter march, organizers met with civil rights groups like the Organization for Black Struggle and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment to strategize their operations moving forward, Ms. Solomon wrote. OBS and MORE are also funded by Mr. Soros.
Mr. Soros gave $5.4 million to Ferguson and Staten Island grass-roots efforts last year to help “further police reform, accountability and public transparency,” the Open Society Foundations said in a blog post in December. About half of those funds were earmarked to Ferguson, with the money primarily going to OBS and MORE, the foundation said.
OBS and MORE, along with the Dream Defenders, established the “Hands Up Coalition” — another so-called “grass-roots” organization in Missouri, whose name was based on now-known-to-be-false claims that Brown had his hands up before being shot. The Defenders were built to rally support and awareness for the Trayvon Martin case and were funded by the Tides Foundation, another recipient of Soros cash.
Hands Up Coalition has made it its mission to recruit and organize youth nationwide to start local events in their communities — trying to take Ferguson nationwide.
Years and weekends of ‘resistance’
Hands Up Coalition has dubbed 2015 as “The Year of Resistance,” and its outreach program strongly resembles how President Obama’s political action committee — Organizing for Action — rallies youth for its causes, complete with a similarly designed Web page and call to action.
Mr. Soros, who made his fortune betting against the British pound during the currency crisis in the early ‘90s, is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal causes and is a political donor to Mr. Obama’s campaigns. He committed $1 million to Mr. Obama’s super PAC in 2012.
Mr. Soros‘ two largest foundations manage almost $3 billion in assets per year, according to their most recent respective tax returns. The Foundation to Promote Open Society managed $2.2 billion in assets in 2011, and his Open Society Institute managed $685.9 million in 2012.
In comparison, David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers whom liberals often call a threat to democracy — and worse — for their conservative influence, had $308 million tied up in their foundation and institute in 2011.
One of the organizations that Mr. Soros funds, and which fueled the demonstrations in Ferguson, is the Gamaliel Foundation, a network of grass-roots, interreligious and interracial organizations. Mr. Obama started his career as a community organizer at a Gamaliel affiliate in Chicago.
The Rev. Traci Blackmon of Christ the King United Church of Christ in Florissant, Missouri, which is part of the Gamaliel network, said in one of the group’s webinars that clergy involved with Gamaliel must be “protectors of the narrative” of what happened in Ferguson.
The Gamaliel affiliate in St. Louis — Metropolitan Congregations United — organized the “Weekend of Resistance” in October, in which clergy members from around the nation were called to come to Ferguson to protest.
Clergy involvement
Representatives of Sojourners, a national evangelical Christian organization committed “to faith in action for social justice,” attended the weekend. The group received $150,000 from Mr. Soros in 2011.
Clergy representatives from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright serves as a trustee, also showed up. Mr. Wright was Mr. Obama’s pastor in Chicago before some of his racially charged sermons, including the phrase “God damn America,” forced Mr. Obama to distance himself. SDPC received $250,000 from Mr. Soros in 2011.
During Gamaliel’s weekend protest event, Sunday was deemed “Hands Up Sabbath,” where clergy were asked to speak out about racial issues, using packets and talking points prepared for them by another religion-based community organizing group, PICO.
PICO is also supported by the Open Society Foundations, according to its website.
The weekend concluded Monday, when clergy members were asked to lead in acts of civil disobedience, prompting many of them to go to jail in the hopes of gaining media attention.
It worked, as imagery of clergy members down on their hands and knees in front of police dominated the mainstream news cycle that day — two months after Brown’s shooting.
“After the initial shooting, we were all hit in the face with how blatant racism really is,” said the Rev. Susan Sneed, a Gamaliel organizer who helped stage the October weekend event. “We began quickly hearing from our other affiliates offering support.”
At the end of August, Gamaliel had a large organizational meeting to discuss its Ferguson strategy, Ms. Sneed said.
It had its affiliates in New York and California handling the St. Louis Twitter feed and Facebook page, helped in correcting any inaccurate stories in the press and promoted their events, she said.
“When we started marching down the street, saying, ‘hands up, don’t shoot,’ those images reached all over the world,” said Ms. Sneed, referring to the moment she realized Ferguson was going to become a movement. “The Twitter images, Facebook posts of burning buildings — it’s everywhere, and the imagery is powerful. And the youth — the youth is so engaged. They’ve found a voice in Ferguson.”
George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil action
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...spur/?page=all
Liberal billionaire gave at least $33 million in one year to groups that emboldened activists
By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times - Wednesday, January 14, 2015
There’s a solitary man at the financial center of the Ferguson protest movement. No, it’s not victim Michael Brown or Officer Darren Wilson. It’s not even the Rev. Al Sharpton, despite his ubiquitous campaign on TV and the streets.
Rather, it’s liberal billionaire George Soros, who has built a business empire that dominates across the ocean in Europe while forging a political machine powered by nonprofit foundations that impacts American politics and policy, not unlike what he did with MoveOn.org.
Mr. Soros spurred the Ferguson protest movement through years of funding and mobilizing groups across the U.S., according to interviews with key players and financial records reviewed by The Washington Times.
In all, Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations.
The financial tether from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to a combustible protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event in Missouri into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre.
“Our DNA includes a belief that having people participate in government is indispensable to living in a more just, inclusive, democratic society,” said Kenneth Zimmerman, director of Mr. Soros‘ Open Society Foundations’ U.S. programs, in an interview with The Washington Times. “Helping groups combine policy, research [and] data collection with community organizing feels very much the way our society becomes more accountable.”
No strings attached
Mr. Zimmerman said OSF has been giving to these types of groups since its inception in the early ‘90s, and that, although groups involved in the protests have been recipients of Mr. Soros‘ grants, they were in no way directed to protest at the behest of Open Society.
“The incidents, whether in Staten Island, Cleveland or Ferguson, were spontaneous protests — we don’t have the ability to control or dictate what others say or choose to say,” Mr. Zimmerman said. “But these circumstances focused people’s attention — and it became increasingly evident to the social justice groups involved that what a particular incident like Ferguson represents is a lack of accountability and a lack of democratic participation.”
Soros-sponsored organizations helped mobilize protests in Ferguson, building grass-roots coalitions on the ground backed by a nationwide online and social media campaign.
Other Soros-funded groups made it their job to remotely monitor and exploit anything related to the incident that they could portray as a conservative misstep, and to develop academic research and editorials to disseminate to the news media to keep the story alive.
The plethora of organizations involved not only shared Mr. Soros‘ funding, but they also fed off each other, using content and buzzwords developed by one organization on another’s website, referencing each other’s news columns and by creating a social media echo chamber of Facebook “likes” and Twitter hashtags that dominated the mainstream media and personal online newsfeeds.
Buses of activists from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference in Chicago; from the Drug Policy Alliance, Make the Road New York and Equal Justice USA from New York; from Sojourners, the Advancement Project and Center for Community Change in Washington; and networks from the Gamaliel Foundation — all funded in part by Mr. Soros — descended on Ferguson starting in August and later organized protests and gatherings in the city until late last month.
Broaden issue focus
All were aimed at keeping the media’s attention on the city and to widen the scope of the incident to focus on interrelated causes — not just the overpolicing and racial discrimination narratives that were highlighted by the news media in August.
“I went to Ferguson in a quest to be in solidarity and stand with the young organizers and affirm their leadership,” said Kassandra Frederique, policy manager at the Drug Policy Alliance, which was founded by Mr. Soros, and which receives $4 million annually from his foundation. She traveled to Ferguson in October.
“We recognized this movement is similar to the work we’re doing at DPA,” said Ms. Frederique. “The war on drugs has always been to operationalize, institutionalize and criminalize people of color. Protecting personal sovereignty is a cornerstone of the work we do and what this movement is all about.”
Ms. Frederique works with Opal Tometi, co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter — a hashtag that was developed after the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida — and helped promote it on DPA’s news feeds. Ms. Tometi runs the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, a group to which Mr. Soros gave $100,000 in 2011, according to the most recent of his foundation’s tax filings.
“I think #BlackLivesMatter’s success is because of organizing. This was created after Trayvon Martin, and there has been sustained organizing and conversations about police violence since then,” said Ms. Frederique. “Its explosion into the mainstream recently is because it connects all the dots at a time when everyone was lost for words. ‘Black Lives Matter’ is liberating, unapologetic and leaves no room for confusion.”
#BlackLivesMatter
With the backing of national civil rights organizations and Mr. Soros‘ funding, “Black Lives Matter” grew from a hashtag into a social media phenomenon, including a #BlackLivesMatter bus tour and march in September.
“More than 500 of us have traveled from Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Tucson, Washington, D.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and other cities to support the people of Ferguson and help turn a local moment into a national movement,” wrote Akiba Solomon, a journalist at Colorlines, describing the event.
Colorlines is an online news site that focuses on race issues and is published by Race Forward, a group that received $200,000 from Mr. Soros’s foundation in 2011. Colorlines has published tirelessly on the activities in Ferguson and heavily promoted the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and activities.
At the end of the #BlackLivesMatter march, organizers met with civil rights groups like the Organization for Black Struggle and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment to strategize their operations moving forward, Ms. Solomon wrote. OBS and MORE are also funded by Mr. Soros.
Mr. Soros gave $5.4 million to Ferguson and Staten Island grass-roots efforts last year to help “further police reform, accountability and public transparency,” the Open Society Foundations said in a blog post in December. About half of those funds were earmarked to Ferguson, with the money primarily going to OBS and MORE, the foundation said.
OBS and MORE, along with the Dream Defenders, established the “Hands Up Coalition” — another so-called “grass-roots” organization in Missouri, whose name was based on now-known-to-be-false claims that Brown had his hands up before being shot. The Defenders were built to rally support and awareness for the Trayvon Martin case and were funded by the Tides Foundation, another recipient of Soros cash.
Hands Up Coalition has made it its mission to recruit and organize youth nationwide to start local events in their communities — trying to take Ferguson nationwide.
Years and weekends of ‘resistance’
Hands Up Coalition has dubbed 2015 as “The Year of Resistance,” and its outreach program strongly resembles how President Obama’s political action committee — Organizing for Action — rallies youth for its causes, complete with a similarly designed Web page and call to action.
Mr. Soros, who made his fortune betting against the British pound during the currency crisis in the early ‘90s, is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal causes and is a political donor to Mr. Obama’s campaigns. He committed $1 million to Mr. Obama’s super PAC in 2012.
Mr. Soros‘ two largest foundations manage almost $3 billion in assets per year, according to their most recent respective tax returns. The Foundation to Promote Open Society managed $2.2 billion in assets in 2011, and his Open Society Institute managed $685.9 million in 2012.
In comparison, David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers whom liberals often call a threat to democracy — and worse — for their conservative influence, had $308 million tied up in their foundation and institute in 2011.
One of the organizations that Mr. Soros funds, and which fueled the demonstrations in Ferguson, is the Gamaliel Foundation, a network of grass-roots, interreligious and interracial organizations. Mr. Obama started his career as a community organizer at a Gamaliel affiliate in Chicago.
The Rev. Traci Blackmon of Christ the King United Church of Christ in Florissant, Missouri, which is part of the Gamaliel network, said in one of the group’s webinars that clergy involved with Gamaliel must be “protectors of the narrative” of what happened in Ferguson.
The Gamaliel affiliate in St. Louis — Metropolitan Congregations United — organized the “Weekend of Resistance” in October, in which clergy members from around the nation were called to come to Ferguson to protest.
Clergy involvement
Representatives of Sojourners, a national evangelical Christian organization committed “to faith in action for social justice,” attended the weekend. The group received $150,000 from Mr. Soros in 2011.
Clergy representatives from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright serves as a trustee, also showed up. Mr. Wright was Mr. Obama’s pastor in Chicago before some of his racially charged sermons, including the phrase “God damn America,” forced Mr. Obama to distance himself. SDPC received $250,000 from Mr. Soros in 2011.
During Gamaliel’s weekend protest event, Sunday was deemed “Hands Up Sabbath,” where clergy were asked to speak out about racial issues, using packets and talking points prepared for them by another religion-based community organizing group, PICO.
PICO is also supported by the Open Society Foundations, according to its website.
The weekend concluded Monday, when clergy members were asked to lead in acts of civil disobedience, prompting many of them to go to jail in the hopes of gaining media attention.
It worked, as imagery of clergy members down on their hands and knees in front of police dominated the mainstream news cycle that day — two months after Brown’s shooting.
“After the initial shooting, we were all hit in the face with how blatant racism really is,” said the Rev. Susan Sneed, a Gamaliel organizer who helped stage the October weekend event. “We began quickly hearing from our other affiliates offering support.”
At the end of August, Gamaliel had a large organizational meeting to discuss its Ferguson strategy, Ms. Sneed said.
It had its affiliates in New York and California handling the St. Louis Twitter feed and Facebook page, helped in correcting any inaccurate stories in the press and promoted their events, she said.
“When we started marching down the street, saying, ‘hands up, don’t shoot,’ those images reached all over the world,” said Ms. Sneed, referring to the moment she realized Ferguson was going to become a movement. “The Twitter images, Facebook posts of burning buildings — it’s everywhere, and the imagery is powerful. And the youth — the youth is so engaged. They’ve found a voice in Ferguson.”
- LexusLover
- 05-07-2016, 04:55 AM
The FBI investigated for over a year. Interviewed a lot of people, seized a lot of electronic devices and came up with nothing. Nevertheless, the Obama administration kept the case open even though two US Attorneys resigned. Originally Posted by gnadflyHopefully, NOW they can get back to investigating national security breaches.
- DSK
- 05-07-2016, 09:41 AM
I believe it was reasonable of the family to push for an investigation, it is surely an unusual death, and nothing completely disproves their hypothesis that he was murdered by being stuffed into the upright mattress.
However, there is no evidence at all that he was murdered. The autopsy was consistent with the concept that it was a terrible accident, self inflicted, due to positional hypoxia. There is no trauma consistent with someone fighting back to avoid being stuffed into the mattress, or smothered beforehand. The autopsy yielded no evidence he was drugged.
The idea that he jumped into the upright mattress to retrieve his shoes is consistent with previous actions on his part. Finally, to sustain a charge of murder and ruin another man's life, you have to prove it in our formerly great country.
However, there is no evidence at all that he was murdered. The autopsy was consistent with the concept that it was a terrible accident, self inflicted, due to positional hypoxia. There is no trauma consistent with someone fighting back to avoid being stuffed into the mattress, or smothered beforehand. The autopsy yielded no evidence he was drugged.
The idea that he jumped into the upright mattress to retrieve his shoes is consistent with previous actions on his part. Finally, to sustain a charge of murder and ruin another man's life, you have to prove it in our formerly great country.
- DSK
- 05-07-2016, 09:47 AM
- Yssup Rider
- 05-07-2016, 10:12 AM
I believe it was reasonable of the family to push for an investigation, it is surely an unusual death, and nothing completely disproves their hypothesis that he was murdered by being stuffed into the upright mattress.Spoken like a true BAKER!
However, there is no evidence at all that he was murdered. The autopsy was consistent with the concept that it was a terrible accident, self inflicted, due to positional hypoxia. There is no trauma consistent with someone fighting back to avoid being stuffed into the mattress, or smothered beforehand. The autopsy yielded no evidence he was drugged.
The idea that he jumped into the upright mattress to retrieve his shoes is consistent with previous actions on his part. Finally, to sustain a charge of murder and ruin another man's life, you have to prove it in our formerly great country. Originally Posted by DSK
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAASAFRA UD!
- DSK
- 05-07-2016, 12:17 PM
- i'va biggen
- 05-07-2016, 02:54 PM
- gnadfly
- 05-07-2016, 03:08 PM
I believe it was reasonable of the family to push for an investigation, it is surely an unusual death, and nothing completely disproves their hypothesis that he was murdered by being stuffed into the upright mattress.Your second and third paragraph seem to contradict the first. Other than emotion, there was already an investigation that proved out. Aligning themselves with the BLM and pushing for the Feds is what got them in troulbe.
However, there is no evidence at all that he was murdered. The autopsy was consistent with the concept that it was a terrible accident, self inflicted, due to positional hypoxia. There is no trauma consistent with someone fighting back to avoid being stuffed into the mattress, or smothered beforehand. The autopsy yielded no evidence he was drugged.
The idea that he jumped into the upright mattress to retrieve his shoes is consistent with previous actions on his part. Finally, to sustain a charge of murder and ruin another man's life, you have to prove it in our formerly great country. Originally Posted by DSK
- The_Waco_Kid
- 05-07-2016, 04:40 PM
The victims of this wrongful suit had had enough and are asking the Johnson family for $855K in attorney fees. I only wish they could name Crump and CNN's Andersen Cooper as a party too.
This is another incident where a freakish tragedy happened, the parents cried racism, got the MSM and the Obama administration involved and ended up with egg on their faces. But only after they destroyed or severely damaged the lives of innocent people. And the media didn't report the true injustice and the "crying of wolf."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kendrick_Johnson Originally Posted by gnadfly
Anderson Cooper is a tool. the man's opinion of himself is beyond arrogance. i don't like watching him on "60 Minutes".
this is the new normal i'm afraid, if anything happens to a black person, it's automatically racist. so is it racism when black on black crime happens? hmm..
if the black community really believes in what BLM should stand for, then you'd think they wouldn't kill each other at alarming rates. why isn't that the one sacrosanct view of the black community?
"Blacks shall not kill Blacks!"
shouldn't that be their mantra? it isn't. this isn't something caused by any residual racism from decades ago, it's not a problem of so-called "White Privilege", which simply doesn't exist and is a myth perpetrated by the liberal media and the players in the race card game like Jackson and Sharpton, two of the most racist people who ever lived, regardless of the fact Jackson was present at Martin Luther King's assassination. he has the right to be bitter, but not to falsely see racism everywhere, anywhere,
obviously this kid's family doesn't have 853k. they'll end up declaring bankruptcy but that might not get them off the hook. i don't think they can use bankruptcy to get out of this. and really, they shouldn't. that's not what bankruptcy laws are for.
they were clearly emotional at the loss of their son, anyone would acknowledge that, their grief doesn't give them the right to yell "Conspiracy!" and "Racism!".
they made this a witch hunt in addition to invoking the race card.
here;s just one example of how far they and the shyster lawyers they hired went to prove this fiction...
Brian and Branden Bell
Jackie and Kenneth Johnson have made public accusations that brothers Brian and Branden Bell violently assaulted Kendrick Johnson in the gym causing his death. Video surveillance from the school proves that Brian Bell was in his fourth block biology class when Kendrick Johnson died.[22][23][24] Branden Bell was on a bus 60 miles away headed to a wrestling tournament in Macon Georgia at the time of Kendrick's death.[22][24] Additonally surveillance video from cameras outside the gym covering the entrances and exists prove that neither Bell brother entered the gym on January 9, 10, or 11th.[22]
During their sworn depositions Jackie and Kenneth Johnson both admitted that there is no evidence either Bell brother had anything to do with Kendrick Johnson's death.[25][26]
One Bell brother was in class, the other 60 miles away going to a wrestling meet.
now of course Rick Bell the father has had no choice really but to file a motion for summary judgement to recoup some 241k in legal expenses he never should have had to incur. the man will probably never recoup it. Rick Bell by the way, is an FBI agent.
"The lawsuit alleges that the FBI agent ordered his two sons and a classmate to attack Johnson."
this of course was completely baseless.
none of the other businesses, people and various city agencies will either in all likelihood.
these shyster lawyers should be disbarred for filing such a frivolous lawsuit. they won't be, unfortunately. and they'll probably sue the Johnson family for their fees. sick.