Spring Valley High School Police Violence

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The department looked at cellphone videos taken from the classroom and interviewed witnesses’ concluding “the maneuvers Deputy Ben Fields used in the confrontation were ‘not acceptable’, Deputy Fields has been fired”.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Fields had no prior complaints against him during his seven years at Spring Valley, however students called Deputy Fields “Officer Slam” and Fields has been sued twice for excessive force. Sheriff Lott was caught in another lie when he said “she only suffered a rug burn”. However according to her attorney “she has a cast on her arm, she has neck and back injuries”.

Sheriff Lott went on to say “people shouldn’t “lose sight” that the student’s unruly behavior set off the incident” What she did doesn’t justify what our deputy did. It doesn’t justify his actions, but she needs to be held responsible for what she did”. Sheriff Lott is blaming the victim for the violence and excusing Fields with the Wife Beater defense! “She made me hit her!” “It was her fault”

At least 2 other students were arrested; Niya Kenny police claim was also “contributing to the chaos “witnessed the officer put his arm around her classmate’s neck”. One of the 3 teens who recorded the incident was also arrested. A student with the last name of Robinson said “The girl was new to the class and she didn’t talk to anyone… None of the class even knew what she’d done. The teacher asked her for her phone, but she said “no”. An administrator was called to the room and told her to get out of get up, but she didn’t. “She really hadn’t done anything wrong” “She said that she had took her phone out, but it was only for a quick second.” Even though she didn’t comply the girl was apologetic. Deputy Fields was called to the classroom and had another student move her desk, then Fields shut off the victim girl’s computer and moved it out of the way. Robinson got a bad feeling so he began videotaping. Deputy Fields told the girl “will you move, will you move.’ She said ‘no I have not done anything wrong. Then Fields said I’m going to treat you fairly. And she said ‘I don’t even know who you are”. Moments later, Fields viciously attacked her.

FOX News interviewed Mark Fuhrman, I’m sure most people remember him; the disgraced former detective and convicted felon of the LAPD; the cop who botched the O.J. Simpson evidence and is infamous for a 1985 taped interview with screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny “Yeah we work with niggers and gangs. You can take one of these niggers, drag ’em into the alley and beat the shit out of them and kick them. You can see them twitch. It really relieves your tension. We had them begging that they’d never be gang members again, begging us.” He said that he would tell them, “You do what you’re told, understand, nigger?”

Fuhrman’s response to Deputy Field’s attacking the student videotape “He verbalized, he made contact, he verbalized, he was polite. He requested her. He verbally did that. The next level is he put a hand on her. She escalated it from there. He used soft control. He threw her on the ground, he handcuffed her. He didn’t use mace. He didn’t use a Taser. He didn’t use a stick. He didn’t kick her. He didn’t hit her. He didn’t choke her. He used a minimal amount of force necessary to effect an arrest.”

If a parent had been recorded abusing their child in this manner police would have hauled the parent off to jail and Child Protective Services would place the child in Foster Care.

Its good Deputy Fields was fired, now he needs to be prosecuted to the full extent, sent to prison and placed in general population.

Minority Incarceration and Media’s Societal Engineering

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The Societal Engineering of repetitive media messages focusing on minorities, particularly Blacks as nefarious thugs fail to take into account the majority of penal inmates are comprised of non-violent offenders. The covert strategy applied through film, news, and broadcasting’s cautionary tales reaching the largest potential audience with its constant barrage of psychological programming are designed to perpetuate a constant state of anxiety, fear and apprehension.

This concept has been employed with jurors pre-conditioned through media to view handcuffed and shackled Black men entering courtrooms dressed in orange jumpsuits as guilty by reason of skin color. For example; In 1984, nineteen year old [1]Darryl Hunt, a Black youth from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was convicted of the rape and murder of Deborah Sykes a white woman despite the fact there was no physical evidence tying him to the crimes. Even with no evidence, Darryl was sentenced by an all-white jury to life in prison. Ten years later, DNA testing proved Darryl never committed the rape or murder and was cleared of all crimes. However even after being exonerated Darryl spent an additional nine years in prison until a man named Willard Brown confessed to both acts. After 19 years in prison, Hunt was finally released in 2004.

[2]Mandatory sentencing policy data reflect Black offenders are incarcerated at 5.6 times the rate and receive considerably longer sentences than White offenders. Nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population is Black, and 1 out of every 12 Black males between the ages of 30 and 34 are behind bars, compared with 1 in 60 White males of the same age group; and herein lays the contradiction of mind control; Widely published National statistics present these figures and [3]“With the help of politicians and the news media, criminal and Black has become so interchangeable that social psychology experiments testing implicit racial bias have generally found Whites view Blacks as less trustworthy, more violent, and innately criminal” Where Do We Go from Here? Mass Incarceration and the Struggle for Civil Rights – by Robynn Cox

Repetitious lies, distorted messages, faulty analogies and circular reasoning formulated by politicians, produced by corporate media, and generated though news, television and other broadcast agencies as factual is the systematic broken record technique of brain washing. [4]“mind control is possible through the covert exploitation of the unconscious rules that underlie and facilitate healthy human social interactions. Common social rules can be used to prey upon the unwary” Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Social Psychologist Robert Cialdini 2007. If something is repeated often enough the brain is mentally restrained and prone to suggestion and cannot differentiate between fantasy and reality. To underestimate coercive persuasion by hypnotizing millions of people into believing most if not all Black men are thugs and criminals deserving of prison and most if not all White men are decent and pure, deserving of second chances is not fair, nor is it balanced, impartial or constitutionally legal and does not allow for due process and equal protection or representation under the law.

But what constitutes the Fourteenth Amendment’s Constitutionality by legal definition? [5]The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees, no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” [6]Sixth Amendment: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. And the [7]Eighth Amendment: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

However legal assistance and attorney affordability are not synonymous. Black men generally don’t have the funds to retain the high powered legal counsel many Whites are afforded such as in the case of the [8]Affluenza Kid Ethan Couch, and are therefore subjected to the inferior services of disinterested, overworked, incompetent or inexperienced underpaid court-appointed attorneys who typically invest less than 15 minutes reviewing charges and interviewing clients. Without quality representation there is virtually no chance of acquittal.

In the majority of movies and TV, Whites are the saviors, the leaders, the smartest, boldest, sincerest, and are portrayed fighting with words and logic. Blacks are portrayed as smack talking, drug dealing liars and thugs who fight with guns. White screenwriters haven’t developed Black characters in meaningful ways so their lives and deaths mean nothing, confirming Black lives really don’t matter. The media repeatedly controls our thoughts by using violent imagery.

How impartial and unbiased can a juror be whose been inundated by a system of media propaganda significantly influencing, disrupting and compromising their collective freedom of choice, and can this process be routed out or determined during Voir Dire?

When media’s mind controlling contempt for Black men manifests as acceptable practice, it clarifies the extensive mistreatment and the disproportionately 20% longer mandatory prison sentencing for Black defendants than White defendants.

[1] “Darryl Hunt.” – The Innocence Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.
[2] Mauer, Marc, and Ryan S. King. Uneven Justice: State Rates of Incarceration By Race and Ethnicity (n.d.): n. pag. Web. .
[3] Cox, Robynn. “Where Do We Go from Here? Mass Incarceration and the Struggle for Civil Rights.” Economic Policy Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2015. .
[4] Cialdini, Robert B. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. New York: Collins, 2007. Web..
[5] “14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868).” Our Documents -. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.Web..
[6][7] “The Bill of Rights: A Transcription.” National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2015. .
[8] Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2015. Ethan Couch.

How Alex’s Lemonade Stand Went From A Dream To A Multimillion Dollar Legacy

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After Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, she held a lemonade stand to raise money for cancer research. Now, that little stand has become a full-fledged foundation has raised millions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alexs-lemonade-stand-legacy_561fdf10e4b0c5a1ce62693b

When 8-year-old Alex appeared on “The Oprah Winfery Show” in 2004, she told Oprah how she made her lemonade. “I use Country Time Lemonade”

Country Time lemonade flavor drink mix is a Kraft product. Kraft split itself off into two companies Mondelez International as a marketing strategy by combining the words “world” and “delicious”. Kraft decided the grocery business would retain the Kraft name, Mondelez International manages snack brands. Kraft and Mondelez International are owned by ConAgra.

Circular reasoning: The Company who gives people cancer are profiting off the people with cancer by selling to the people who will get cancer by consuming their cancer causing products.

ConAgra, one of the largest processed food manufacturers in the world, and include brands Hunt’s, Healthy Choice, Marie Callender’s, Orville Redenbacher, Slim Jim, Reddi-wip, Egg Beaters, Hebrew National, P. F. Chang’s, and Bertolli recently conducted a series of studies on food, which it presented at the 2014 Experimental Biology conference. any “study” published by a Big Food giant like ConAgra is likely to be anything but objective — and the “results” only serve to further its profit line.

• ConAgra concealed the use of GMOs in their products and utilizes unethical practices to sell their cancer causing foods.
• ConAgra was found guilty of “health code violations and bacterial contaminations at its food processing facilities, which have endangered consumers and in some cases been linked to deaths.”
• ConAgra has had significant problems in regards to factory farming, consumer health and safety, and genetic engineering.
• PETA found turkeys were routinely abused in the Butterball turkey slaughter.
• ConAgra continues to offer food products containing genetically modified ingredients including a line specifically marketed for children called Kid Cuisine.
• The company also donated $71,100 to defeat Oregon’s initiative requiring the labeling of GMOs.
• In July 2002, ConAgra Foods recalled nearly 19 million pounds of ground beef from its Greeley, Colorado, processing plant. At least 47 people died and 28 more people in seven states fell ill after eating beef contaminated with E. coli.
• Con Agra fined $1.5 million to settle charges of hiring discrimination
• ConAgra scored only a six out of 100 in “The Climate Counts Company Scorecard Report.” The report judged companies on their commitment to reversing climate change. The creation, manufacturing, and transportation of goods greatly contribute to pollution.
• Under pressure from investors former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, Bruce C. Rohde, resigned from his position in September 2005. Rohde earned more than $45 million in his eight years as CEO, plus a $20 million retirement package despite overseeing a 28 percent decline in company stock and the laying off of 9,000 workers.
• In 2006, CEO Gary M. Rodkin Gary M. Rodkin earned $9,573,444 in total compensation. That is equivalent to earning $184,104 per week.
• Feb. 22, 2007 confirmed peanut butter tested positive of salmonella
• ConAgra is teaming up with Monsanto and Friends to block your right to know what’s in your food

Vaccine Doctor LIST – Doctors who explain clearly why vaccines aren’t safe or effective.
1. Dr. Nancy Banks – http://bit.ly/1Ip0aIm
2. Dr. Russell Blaylock – http://bit.ly/1BXxQZL
3. Dr. Shiv Chopra – http://bit.ly/1gdgh1s
4. Dr. Sherri Tenpenny – http://bit.ly/1MPVbjx
5. Dr. Suzanne Humphries – http://bit.ly/17sKDbf
6. Dr. Larry Palevsky – http://bit.ly/1LLEjf6
7. Dr. Toni Bark – http://bit.ly/1CYM9RB
8. Dr. Andrew Wakefield – http://bit.ly/1MuyNzo
9. Dr. Meryl Nass – http://bit.ly/1DGzJsc
10. Dr. Raymond Obomsawin – http://bit.ly/1G9ZXYl
11. Dr. Ghislaine Lanctot – http://bit.ly/1MrVeUL
12. Dr. Robert Rowen – http://bit.ly/1SIELeF
13. Dr. David Ayoub – http://bit.ly/1SIELve
14. Dr. Boyd Haley PhD – http://bit.ly/1KsdVby
15. Dr. Rashid Buttar – http://bit.ly/1gWOkL6
16. Dr. Roby Mitchell – http://bit.ly/1gdgEZU
17. Dr. Ken Stoller – http://bit.ly/1MPVqLI
18. Dr. Mayer Eisenstein – http://bit.ly/1LLEqHH
19. Dr. Frank Engley, PhD – http://bit.ly/1OHbLDI
20. Dr. David Davis – http://bit.ly/1gdgJwo
21. Dr Tetyana Obukhanych – http://bit.ly/16Z7k6J
22. Dr. Harold E Buttram – http://bit.ly/1Kru6Df
23. Dr. Kelly Brogan – http://bit.ly/1D31pfQ
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25. Dr. Rebecca Carley – http://bit.ly/K49F4d
26. Dr. Andrew Moulden – http://bit.ly/1fwzKJu
27. Dr. Jack Wolfson – http://bit.ly/1wtPHRA
28. Dr. Michael Elice – http://bit.ly/1KsdpKA
29. Dr. Terry Wahls – http://bit.ly/1gWOBhd
30. Dr. Stephanie Seneff – http://bit.ly/1OtWxAY
31. Dr. Paul Thomas – http://bit.ly/1DpeXPf
32. Many doctors talking at once – http://bit.ly/1MPVHOv
33. Dr. Richard Moskowitz – http://bit.ly/1OtWG7D
34. Dr. Jane Orient – http://bit.ly/1MXX7pb
35. Dr. Richard Deth – http://bit.ly/1GQDL10
36. Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic – http://bit.ly/1eqiPr5
37. Dr Chris Shaw – http://bit.ly/1IlGiBp
38. Dr. Susan McCreadie – http://bit.ly/1CqqN83
39. Dr. Mary Ann Block – http://bit.ly/1OHcyUX
40. Dr. David Brownstein – http://bit.ly/1EaHl9A
41. Dr. Jayne Donegan – http://bit.ly/1wOk4Zz
42. Dr. Troy Ross – http://bit.ly/1IlGlNH
43. Dr. Philip Incao – http://bit.ly/1ghE7sS
44. Dr. Joseph Mercola – http://bit.ly/18dE38I
45. Dr. Jeff Bradstreet – http://bit.ly/1MaX0cC
46. Dr. Robert Mendelson – http://bit.ly/1JpAEQr

Hundreds more doctors testifying that vaccines aren’t safe or effective, in these documentaries….
1. Vaccination – The Silent Epidemic – http://bit.ly/1vvQJ2W
2. The Greater Good – http://bit.ly/1icxh8j
3. Shots In The Dark – http://bit.ly/1ObtC8h
4. Vaccination The Hidden Truth – http://bit.ly/KEYDUh
5. Vaccine Nation – http://bit.ly/1iKNvpU
6. Vaccination – The Truth About Vaccines – http://bit.ly/1vlpwvU
7. Lethal Injection – http://bit.ly/1URN7BJ
8. Bought – http://bit.ly/1M7YSlr
9. Deadly Immunity – http://bit.ly/1KUg64Z
10. Autism – Made in the USA – http://bit.ly/1J8WQN5
11. Beyond Treason – http://bit.ly/1B7kmvt
12. Trace Amounts – http://bit.ly/1vAH3Hv
13. Why We Don’t Vaccinate – http://bit.ly/1KbXhuf

Jerry Brown Signs Automatic Voter Registration In California

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Advocates see the bill as a way to help millions of unregistered Californians.
The way automatic registration works is relatively simple: Eligible citizens are registered to vote when they show up at a Department of Motor Vehicles office to obtain a driver’s license or state ID. The DMV gives the eligible voter a chance to opt out if they prefer not to register. If the person does not opt out, the DMV electronically transfers their voter registration information to the Secretary of State’s office, rather than making election officials enter data by hand from paper registration forms. (The federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993 already requires states to give eligible voters the opportunity to register to vote when they apply for a new or renewed driver’s license.)

I’m a registered voter, I even voted for Jerry Brown but this is going way too far; it was MY choice to register, I made a conscious decision with eyes wide open, however NO ONE has the right or authority to sign me up for anything without my express consent or permission any more than they have the right to tell me who to sleep with.

If you aren’t outraged at this violation of your privacy maybe you haven’t considered the ramifications of losing your Freedom of Choice; how the right of individuals to determine their own actions will ultimately cost you.

Once you’ve been automatically registered to vote, you are in a Centralized Personal Profile Database detailing your name, date of birth, address, phone number, demographic information including ethnicity/race, religion, income and family. Credit score’s, medical and/or psychiatric history, rent or mortgage and tax brackets, insurance carriers and claims, banking information, financial institutions, investments records, volunteer organizations and special interest groups, clubs and memberships, political party affiliation and voter history, shopping habits and of course any criminal history including but not limited to parking tickets and a host of other personalized information giving the government carte blanc to deliberately distribute, sell or be allowed to be intentionally or unintentionally hacked.

As a survivor of domestic abuse you don’t want your abuser getting information through a private investigator buying or hacking their way into a database. Maybe you just want to stay off-grid; again you don’t want to be found. There are a myriad or reason’s not to be automatically registered having all your personal information stored in one place.

Every interaction with a government agency, or business, gathered and collected from a wide array of sources generates information about you, accumulating in a more refined and detailed file. By blindly following and adopting civil management ideologies you’re shifting your right to privacy over to the government and endangering your privileges as a free US Citizen and throwing your freedom of choice right out the window.

The 1974 Federal Right to Privacy Act states in part: “No agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communication to any person, or to another agency, except pursuant to a written request by, or with the prior written consent of, the individual to whom the record pertains”. Is it not enough the number on the ballot is printed on a perforated stub which is torn off and placed on a ring before the ballot is cast into the ballot box. Stubs allegedly prove an elector has only voted once and is theoretically anonymous. But are they? A simple desire for privacy should be justification enough; however Gov. Brown just moved free choice further out of your reach.

Stop being influence by media propaganda and politicians making it easier for the government to manipulate and control you with their smoke and mirror canned institutionalized soft interventions thought.

By voluntarily registering to vote we demonstrate our ability to exercise our right to free choice, or at least we used to until this bill was signed.

In ancient Egypt there were no vowels

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In ancient Egypt there were no vowels; Negro was represented as N-G-R and pronounced en-jer, which is auditory for GOD. Therefore N-G-R: NEGRO translates to Devine Being or God. Moving forward to 735 BC Rome where the language of Latin came into use; Nigrum or Negro (pronounced neg-ro) meaning the color black originated as a neutral term referring to people with black skin.

Skipping forward many centuries to the 1500’s and progressing through the mid 1800’s, the Atlantic Slave Trade transported over 10 million African’s; nearly 15% of slaves were captured in the River Niger Delta Region in West Africa and delivered to the coast to be sold at European trading ports. It is believed these slaves were called Niger’s (pronounced Ni-gir) to differentiate them from other regions such as the Congo, Angola or Cameroon.

Word alterations in the US and the negative connotations they elicit as a description of a “negro or “N,” with no value attached to the word itself. During the period of subjugation the words “N” or “Black” was situated in front of a first name to distinguish a slave from a White person with the same first name establishing the pigment demarcation line, thus becoming an intentional derogatory term to belittle and degrade.

I believe the racial formation and derogatory use of the “N” word is not much different than plantation owners feeding slaves as cheaply as possible with poor quality leftover waste foods and scraps as a means of a complex social, economic and political system to control and punish. African slaves were extremely creative with their provisions which evolved into the distinct cuisine, Soul Food; the correlation and racial project being, by using the “N” word by Blacks in today’s culture; it is now elevated to a level of sophistication, thereby negating the disparaging intent.

Nigga vs Nigger is a representation of homophones with the “N” word defining peoples’ who are economically, politically, socially enslaved and dominated under the rule of oppression by the use of racial formation, or as Voltaire claimed “The negro race is a species of men different from ours as the breed of spaniels is from that of greyhounds”. While the word “nigga” is a phrase used in the Black community to define brotherhood, friendship, affections and at times even animosity, it’s the latter of the two which many Black’s chose to use as a term of endearment.

One can’t pretend there isn’t a double standard; Blacks can say the “N” word without social consequence however when Whites use the “N” word it’s denoted as racial prejudice. The Gangsta Rap culture with popular songs such as Snoop Dogg’s “Doggy Style” Tupac’s “I’d Ratha Be Ya N.I.G.G.A”, Ice Cube’s “My Summer Vacation” and a myriad of other crowd-pleasing music genre have caused Whites, who are statistically the largest consumers of hip hop to feel justification to convert the “N” Word in lyrics to lifestyle linguistics without ever contemplating historical detriment or connection to deprivation, segregation, discrimination etc.

Thug is the new “N” word is repulsive and offensive yet it’s becoming an acceptable racial slur to describe Black men, especially young Black men. It’s alarming when Black youth are considered gangsters because of their apparel. The connotation, despite denotations are detrimental from both a mental standpoint and a safety point of view as exhibited by the monumental number of unarmed young Black men killed as a result of racial and Ethnic Profiling.

Please be assured this is absolutely not about promoting hate or the blaming of White’s. Also understand the difference between Indigenous White and Banker White….. The Banker White has never created a definition for who they are. Banker White meaning the Global Elite which is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve who control the wealth of the world.

They’ve given us a definition for every race except for the split in theirs. The Banker White hides its identity inside the Indigenous White. This confusion causes strife, because no one knows how to properly separate the two. No one seems to understand, WE, the people are our own SLAVERY ENFORCERS for the Banker Whites.

Racism isn’t by choice but by programming. Most people of color see and understand this…….while most Whites don’t…..they have never been trained to hate their own color. They have never had to fight themselves due to imagery. This is White Privilege/White Entitlement. I don’t necessarily mean this in a bad way, just take notice. This is why people of color have never recovered from the brutality of America; we’ve never been allowed the chance. How can one recover when one race is always portrayed as clean and sin free and the other dumb and violent? How can we recover when we aren’t allowed to love ourselves without guilt?

Why is it “All Lives Matter” the most when Blacks and Natives try to speak out against injustice? Why didn’t All Lives Matter just 2 yrs. ago when we were being arrested and gunned down and before the NDAA didn’t include Whites? Why now? What about during the crack epidemic? Aids epidemic? Where were Whites when Trayvon’s murderer was being celebrated? Where were they when we demanded the release of Leonard Peltier? How can All Lives Matter when they’re just using this phrase to ignore other colors because privilege is being stripped away? How can All Lives Matter when they stand on this land regurgitating freedom for all while calling us primitive or ignorant? All Lives DON’T Matter…..what matters is to speak out louder, above us so we can’t be heard, because if you really believed that, you would allow us to speak for once.

I bring up these issues not to shove entitlements in the face of White America, but because entitlements are actually slavery to ourselves, gifted to us out of convenience, or through an educational media system which eternally lies. Face it, we/you, your parents and grandparents have been used as a weapon for the state.

Systemic racial profiling and nationwide police violence threaten the lives of Ethnic Americans – youth and adults EVERY day. Abuse against all people(s) regardless of race, color, national origin, homeless, religion, age, sexual orientation or manner of clothing is becoming abundantly rampant. Discriminatory racial profiling by police is nothing new and is huge in law enforcement, risking the lives of many innocent people.

Racial profiling whereby law-enforcement, intelligence, or homeland security personnel factor the race or ethnic characteristics of any given *suspect* into their respective decision making process. This practice became particularly controversial toward the end of the 20th century when civil rights leaders charge profiling was rooted in racism and the targeting, disproportionately and unjustly of Blacks and other non-white minorities.

As of Oct. 7, 2015 909 people have been killed by police since Jan. 1, 2015. Were they all Black? No, but Black males, age 15 to 19, are killed at a rate of 31.17% per million, while just 1.47% per million White males in that age range died at the hands of police. Young Black males are at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 21 times greater.