Marcus Notes: "It has always been okay in America to beat the living crap or even kill an American citizen especially when he or she was black. I will have more to say about this in the very near future."
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Showing posts with label Open season on the black man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Open season on the black man. Show all posts
Friday, May 9, 2008
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Rapper DMX arrested for drugs, animal cruelty
By BOB CHRISTIE, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
PHOENIX - DMX was arrested on drug and animal-cruelty charges following an overnight raid on the rapper's house Friday, authorities said.
The 37-year-old rapper, whose given name is Earl Simmons, initially tried to barricade himself in his bedroom but emerged when a SWAT team entered his north Phoenix home during the 3 a.m. raid, sheriff's spokesman Capt. Paul Chagolla said.
The arrest and search warrants stemmed from indictments for felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. He made an initial court appearance Friday where bail was sent at $7,500, said his local attorney, Cameron Morgan. Morgan said he expected bail to be posted quickly.
The indictment stems from an August search of the rapper's home prompted by reports of dogs being abused on his property. Detectives seized 12 pit bull dogs, dug up remains of three others and found marijuana on the rural property.
During Friday's raid, officials said more drugs were found and weapons seized and additional charges were possible.
Simmons' New York lawyer, Murray Richman, said he told his client to expect such a raid after his efforts to make DMX available to law enforcement were rebuffed.
"I anticipated it, I explained to my client what was going to happen," Richman said. He said he believed evidence did not support the charges of animal cruelty, which has been a major focus of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
"I think that the animal cruelty is not going to be able to be established," Richman said, "and I think that this is Sheriff Joe's moment."
A statement from Arpaio said someone of DMX means "has no excuse for not providing proper care for his animals."
Sheriff's deputies made a series of visits to the rapper's home in August after receiving reports of neglected pit bulls. They found a caretaker who had been hired to look after the animals.
Richman said DMX was not in Arizona in the weeks leading up to the initial raid.
The rapper has had previous run-ins with the law, including an arrest Tuesday by the Arizona Department of Public Safety after speed-enforcement cameras captured him going 114 mph on a suburban Phoenix freeway.
In June 2006, Scottsdale police cited him for carrying a concealed handgun outside a nightclub.
He also served 70 days in jail in 2005 for violating his parole following a 2004 incident in which he posed as an undercover federal agent and crashed his sport utility vehicle through a security gate at Kennedy International Airport.
DMX recorded the 1999 hit single "Party Up (Up in Here)." His last album, "Year of the Dog ... Again," was released last year.
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Rapper DMX arrested for drugs, animal cruelty
By BOB CHRISTIE, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
PHOENIX - DMX was arrested on drug and animal-cruelty charges following an overnight raid on the rapper's house Friday, authorities said.The 37-year-old rapper, whose given name is Earl Simmons, initially tried to barricade himself in his bedroom but emerged when a SWAT team entered his north Phoenix home during the 3 a.m. raid, sheriff's spokesman Capt. Paul Chagolla said.
The arrest and search warrants stemmed from indictments for felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. He made an initial court appearance Friday where bail was sent at $7,500, said his local attorney, Cameron Morgan. Morgan said he expected bail to be posted quickly.
The indictment stems from an August search of the rapper's home prompted by reports of dogs being abused on his property. Detectives seized 12 pit bull dogs, dug up remains of three others and found marijuana on the rural property.
During Friday's raid, officials said more drugs were found and weapons seized and additional charges were possible.
Simmons' New York lawyer, Murray Richman, said he told his client to expect such a raid after his efforts to make DMX available to law enforcement were rebuffed.
"I anticipated it, I explained to my client what was going to happen," Richman said. He said he believed evidence did not support the charges of animal cruelty, which has been a major focus of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
"I think that the animal cruelty is not going to be able to be established," Richman said, "and I think that this is Sheriff Joe's moment."
A statement from Arpaio said someone of DMX means "has no excuse for not providing proper care for his animals."
Sheriff's deputies made a series of visits to the rapper's home in August after receiving reports of neglected pit bulls. They found a caretaker who had been hired to look after the animals.
Richman said DMX was not in Arizona in the weeks leading up to the initial raid.
The rapper has had previous run-ins with the law, including an arrest Tuesday by the Arizona Department of Public Safety after speed-enforcement cameras captured him going 114 mph on a suburban Phoenix freeway.
In June 2006, Scottsdale police cited him for carrying a concealed handgun outside a nightclub.
He also served 70 days in jail in 2005 for violating his parole following a 2004 incident in which he posed as an undercover federal agent and crashed his sport utility vehicle through a security gate at Kennedy International Airport.
DMX recorded the 1999 hit single "Party Up (Up in Here)." His last album, "Year of the Dog ... Again," was released last year.
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Now this is interesting...
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Marcus Comments: "Is what Ice Cube expresses in this video the truth?
What's your opinion, we'd like to know...
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Marcus Comments: "Is what Ice Cube expresses in this video the truth?
What's your opinion, we'd like to know...
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What is the life of a Black Man worth in America... What it has always been worth...nothing at all!
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Freedom Rider: Sean Bell and Wesley Snipes
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
The ghastly record of police acquittals in the death of unarmed Blacks continues to unfold. In a verdict that "surprised" even the governor, a New York judge found three cops innoce
nt of all charges in the 50-shot volley that killed Sean Bell on the morning of his wedding, wounding two of his companions. "The police have no expectation of punishment, even when they kill without cause." It made little difference that two of the policemen were also of African descent. But race seems to factor heavily in some celebrity cases. Just ask actor Wesley Snipes, who was sentenced to three years on an income tax charge.
"The police have no expectation of punishment, even when they kill without cause."
The United States leads the world in putting its citizens behind bars. The nation with just 5% of the world's population has 25% of the world's prisoners. One out of every 99 adults in this country is behind bars, and half of those persons are black. Those figures are horrific, but the explanation for them is not at all complicated. Racism is the reason that so many are behind bars. If America were not so committed to continuing its culture of white supremacy, those dreadful statistics would not exist.
Black people can always expect to be punished, and to the harshest degree possible. We can expect punishment whether guilty or not, whether the punishment fits the crime or even if no crime has been committed at all.
Those facts are turned upside down where police crime is concerned. The police have no expectation of punishment, even when they kill without cause. Their victims are usually black, and they are rarely if ever punished for indiscriminate murder.
Two cases recently in the news illustrate that point. One man, Sean Bell, died in a hail of police bullets for committing the crime of saying farewell to his last night of bachelorhood. Bell was a New Yorker celebrating with friends in the wee hours before his wedding, as young men usually do. Cops surveilling the club he left believed, wrongly, that Bell and his friends were armed. They fired 50 shots into his car, killing Bell and injuring his friends.
The Bell case had a terrible familiarity from the very first day. The comm
unity is outraged, the Mayor and the police commissioner at first claim the shooting is justified and then back pedal. There are indictments but the police choose to be tried before judges instead of before juries. As almost always happens with fatal police shootings, Bell's killers were acquitted.
"America's judges are fully dedicated to maintaining the white justice status quo."
As always, the community protested, and continues to protest the verdict. But in the end, Bell's killers will never be brought to justice. If trigger happy cops know that judges will view them more kindly than ordinary citizens will, is it any wonder that America's prisons are bulging at the seams? A book by the late Judge Bruce Wright was aptly entitled, "Black Robes, White Justice." America's judges are fully dedicated to maintaining the white justice status quo.
Two of the three cops indicted in Bell's case are themselves black, but that fact makes little difference. The system that insures greater scrutiny of black people and their communities will mean greater likelihood of arrest, brutality or death, even when the police are black too.
It may seem strange to compare the fate of the late Sean Bell with that of actor Wesley Snipes. Snipes is still alive after all, but he has fallen victim to the same black robe, white justice philosophy that has deprived the Bell family of justice. The day before Bell's killers got off scot-free, Snipes was sentenced to three years in jail for misdemeanor tax evasion convictions.
"This case cries out for the statutory maximum term of imprisonment, as well as a substantial fine, because of the seriousness of defendant Snipes' crimes and because of the singular opportunity this case presents to deter tax crime nationwide," so said prosecutor Robert O'Neill. It is obviously absurd to think that anyone needs to be deterred from repeating Snipes' experience. The real deterrence has nothing to do with rendering unto Caesar on April 15th.
"How better to justify the prison nation and its racist nature than to put a famous black person behind bars."
Jail time for a misdemeanor conviction is not unusual for this prison nation. Neither is the need to make examples of black people who run afoul of the law. A prison sentence is unnecessary for Snipes, as well as for many of the thousands behind bars. How better to justify the prison nation and its racist nature than to put a famous black person behind bars for a crime that a jury determined was minor.
Snipes was once one of Hollywood's biggest stars, commanding millions o
f dollars for every movie he made. Such success is a double edged sword for black people. If they fall, they are punished and punished severely. Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick was doomed to be behind bars, so was Olympic athlete Marion Jones. The combination of their fame and their black skin meant they were destined for the big house, even though probation or lighter sentences were justified in their cases.
Judge William Hodges admitted as much. "One of the main purposes which drives selective prosecution in tax cases is deterrence. In some instances, that means those of celebrity stand greater risk of prosecution. But there's nothing unusual about it, nor is there anything unlawful about it. It's the way the system works."
He might have added that prosecution is especially important in a system determined to make examples of black people wherever possible. As the judge said, it is the way the system works.
Source of this Topic: http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=604&I
Freedom Rider: Sean Bell and Wesley Snipes
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
The ghastly record of police acquittals in the death of unarmed Blacks continues to unfold. In a verdict that "surprised" even the governor, a New York judge found three cops innoce
nt of all charges in the 50-shot volley that killed Sean Bell on the morning of his wedding, wounding two of his companions. "The police have no expectation of punishment, even when they kill without cause." It made little difference that two of the policemen were also of African descent. But race seems to factor heavily in some celebrity cases. Just ask actor Wesley Snipes, who was sentenced to three years on an income tax charge."The police have no expectation of punishment, even when they kill without cause."
The United States leads the world in putting its citizens behind bars. The nation with just 5% of the world's population has 25% of the world's prisoners. One out of every 99 adults in this country is behind bars, and half of those persons are black. Those figures are horrific, but the explanation for them is not at all complicated. Racism is the reason that so many are behind bars. If America were not so committed to continuing its culture of white supremacy, those dreadful statistics would not exist.
Black people can always expect to be punished, and to the harshest degree possible. We can expect punishment whether guilty or not, whether the punishment fits the crime or even if no crime has been committed at all.
Those facts are turned upside down where police crime is concerned. The police have no expectation of punishment, even when they kill without cause. Their victims are usually black, and they are rarely if ever punished for indiscriminate murder.
Two cases recently in the news illustrate that point. One man, Sean Bell, died in a hail of police bullets for committing the crime of saying farewell to his last night of bachelorhood. Bell was a New Yorker celebrating with friends in the wee hours before his wedding, as young men usually do. Cops surveilling the club he left believed, wrongly, that Bell and his friends were armed. They fired 50 shots into his car, killing Bell and injuring his friends.
The Bell case had a terrible familiarity from the very first day. The comm
unity is outraged, the Mayor and the police commissioner at first claim the shooting is justified and then back pedal. There are indictments but the police choose to be tried before judges instead of before juries. As almost always happens with fatal police shootings, Bell's killers were acquitted."America's judges are fully dedicated to maintaining the white justice status quo."
As always, the community protested, and continues to protest the verdict. But in the end, Bell's killers will never be brought to justice. If trigger happy cops know that judges will view them more kindly than ordinary citizens will, is it any wonder that America's prisons are bulging at the seams? A book by the late Judge Bruce Wright was aptly entitled, "Black Robes, White Justice." America's judges are fully dedicated to maintaining the white justice status quo.
Two of the three cops indicted in Bell's case are themselves black, but that fact makes little difference. The system that insures greater scrutiny of black people and their communities will mean greater likelihood of arrest, brutality or death, even when the police are black too.
It may seem strange to compare the fate of the late Sean Bell with that of actor Wesley Snipes. Snipes is still alive after all, but he has fallen victim to the same black robe, white justice philosophy that has deprived the Bell family of justice. The day before Bell's killers got off scot-free, Snipes was sentenced to three years in jail for misdemeanor tax evasion convictions.
"This case cries out for the statutory maximum term of imprisonment, as well as a substantial fine, because of the seriousness of defendant Snipes' crimes and because of the singular opportunity this case presents to deter tax crime nationwide," so said prosecutor Robert O'Neill. It is obviously absurd to think that anyone needs to be deterred from repeating Snipes' experience. The real deterrence has nothing to do with rendering unto Caesar on April 15th.
"How better to justify the prison nation and its racist nature than to put a famous black person behind bars."
Jail time for a misdemeanor conviction is not unusual for this prison nation. Neither is the need to make examples of black people who run afoul of the law. A prison sentence is unnecessary for Snipes, as well as for many of the thousands behind bars. How better to justify the prison nation and its racist nature than to put a famous black person behind bars for a crime that a jury determined was minor.
Snipes was once one of Hollywood's biggest stars, commanding millions o
f dollars for every movie he made. Such success is a double edged sword for black people. If they fall, they are punished and punished severely. Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick was doomed to be behind bars, so was Olympic athlete Marion Jones. The combination of their fame and their black skin meant they were destined for the big house, even though probation or lighter sentences were justified in their cases.Judge William Hodges admitted as much. "One of the main purposes which drives selective prosecution in tax cases is deterrence. In some instances, that means those of celebrity stand greater risk of prosecution. But there's nothing unusual about it, nor is there anything unlawful about it. It's the way the system works."
He might have added that prosecution is especially important in a system determined to make examples of black people wherever possible. As the judge said, it is the way the system works.
Source of this Topic: http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=604&I
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