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MARTINSBURG Each week in June, the Potomac Valley Audubon Society (PVAS) is offering half-day programs with camp-like activities designed for families with children 3 and up. The organization is offering these programs in lieu of their regular Audubon Discovery Camp sessions, which are canceled for the month of June.

There are two-day ($30/day) and three-day ($45/day) options available. There are also multiple time slots for sessions: morning sessions will be held from 9 a.m. to noon, afternoon sessions from 1-4 p.m and evening sessions from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

These programs will be held at both Cool Spring and Yankauer Nature Preserves. Cool Spring Preserve is located at 1469 Lloyd Rd., Charles Town. Yankauer Nature Preserve is located at 438 Whitings Neck Rd., Martinsburg.

To maximize safety, group sizes will be kept small. Registrants may attend as an individual family or with another family group with whom they have been self-quarantining. Registration may include a group of two (minimum) up to eight children (maximum) and two adults. At least one adult must attend with each group to help monitor children.

This program has been designed in a way that helps prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Those interested should visit the following link for more information and to register: http://www.potomacaudubon.org/education/youth/discovercamp/.

NSDAR to host Tea Party in the Park on June 14BERKELEY SPRINGS Ye Towne of Bath Chapter, NSDAR (National Society Daughters of the American Revolution) is hosting a Tea Party in the Park, celebrating the Morgan County 2020 Bicentennial, from noon-3 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at Berkeley Springs State Park in the heart of the historic town.

Chapter members are in period costumes as they provide sweet and unsweetened tea along with one scone per patron. Ladies of the Ye Towne of Bath Chapter are joined by local authors Jeanne Mozier and Steve French sharing history and selling their books.

To meet with capacity requirements set by the park, 25 free tickets are being issued for each half hour. Tickets may be obtained at Berkeley Springs Memories on Washington St. open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day but Tuesday.

Blue Ridge Patriots to meet ThursdayHEDGESVILLE Blue Ridge Patriots meeting will hold its meeting 6:30 p.m. June 11 at 103 N. Mary St., Hedgesville. Social time begins at 6 p.m. They meet to defend the Constitution one line at a time. New members are welcome.

HCC announces new degree programHAGERSTOWN The Hagerstown Community College Foundation announces a new program, called Take2!, which is designed to help eligible local residents complete an associate degree, free of charge, after previously starting at a four-year college and not finishing.

Through the program, residents of Washington County and border counties in Pennsylvania and West Virginia will have the opportunity to complete an associate degree within one year at no cost for tuition and fees. Students must commit to attend HCC full-time, beginning in the fall of 2020.

To be eligible for Take2! funding, each student must have earned a minimum of 24 college-level credits at an accredited four-year college(s) with minimum cumulative grade-point average of 2.5. In addition, students must have completed the 2020-2021 FAFSA and have an Expected Family Contribution (EFC) of $10,000 or less. This agreement is a last-dollar contribution, which means that federal and state financial grant aid and scholarships must be used prior to Take2! funds.

The deadline to apply is July 1, 2020. Eligibility and program requirements may be made by the HCC Take2! Review Committee on individual bases and with the support of the assigned academic advisor. To learn more, visit http://www.hagerstowncc.edu/take2.

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WASHINGTON Before there was Trump, there was Steve King.

First elected to Congress in 2002, the Iowa Republican found that his brand of anti-immigrant and frequently racist nationalism had traction in the GOP, enough to make him a thorn in the side of Republican leadership and to defeat attempts at immigration reform.

TV personality Donald Trump, who had been transitioning from a supporter of abortion rights and universal health care into a fire-breathing right-winger, took notice of King in 2011 and adopted his politics as the basis for his 2016 presidential campaign.

Im here to support Steve King, a special guy, a smart person with really the right views on almost everything, Trump said at an event in Iowa for King in October 2014. They were so like-minded we dont really have to compare notes, Trump added, previewing what would become his campaign slogan: I want to see someone whos going to make our country great again, which is basically the same thing as Steve.

It is for this reason that I see a glimmer of light this week, even as our country faces its darkest hour in a half-century or more: the worst economy since the Great Depression, the worst health crisis since 1918, flaring racial strife, violence in the streets and ominous tensions with China. For on Tuesday night, Republican voters in Iowa ousted King in a primary. They did so because Republican leaders finally disowned King last year after the latest of many outrageous provocations, and the Republican establishment lined up behind a challenger with Kings conservatism but without Kings bigotry.

This means there is at least a sliver of hope that Republicans have learned from their failure to deal similarly with Trump. The president now controls the party utterly, but the King episode suggests that after Trump is done shedding his virus, the party might have the antibodies to resist the next person who tries to infect it with totalitarian instincts and racist sentiments.

King made his name promoting western civilization and opposing bilingualism. He famously described dreamers immigrants brought to the United States when they were children having calves the size of cantaloupes because theyre hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. He supported racist leaders abroad, and he argued that demographics are our destiny. We cant restore our civilization with somebody elses babies. And on, and on.

His demagoguery gave him power. He got his proposal to end birthright citizenship considered in committee, and he defeated President George W. Bushs hopes of immigration reform. Above all, he found an admirer in Donald Trump.

Trump saw the growing power of Kings politics with the Tea Party success in 2010, and in 2011 Trump praised King for doing great work in the House. For Kings reelection in 2014, Trump taped a robocall and went to Iowa for a fundraiser and endorsement news conference for my friend King.

There, they celebrated what King called their common cause a sovereign America and the rule of law. Trump nodded along as King made insinuations about President Barack Obama giving special treatment to Africans and spoke of immigrants bringing in drugs, disease and gangs. Trump chimed in about Mexican drug lords shooting our people and killing our people.

Trump, testing a presidential run, returned for a King-hosted event in January 2015, at which he expressed his great respect for King, a great guy who doesnt get fair press.

King, in turn, though initially endorsing Ted Cruz, campaigned with Trump in 2016. As late as October 2018, Trump, in Iowa, hailed King as the worlds most conservative human being and recalled: I supported him long before I became a politician.

And Trump has imitated him ever since. But while Republican officeholders tolerate Trumps anti-immigrant bigotry, they had a higher standard for King. In early 2019, King told the New York Times: White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization how did that language become offensive? Republican leaders stripped King of his committee assignments. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other pieces of the Republican establishment supported a King primary challenger. Officials blocked King from Air Force One when his protege flew to Iowa in mid-2019.

In a Facebook video early Wednesday morning, King described himself as the victim of powerful forces seeking to push out the strongest voice for full-spectrum, constitutional, Christian conservatism. ... What I regret is these tactics may get legs and be used against the next most effective, and the next and the next.

Kings regret is my hope. Its too late for Republicans to stop Trump. But as they survey the epic wreckage his presidency has caused, with their complicity, maybe they will find the courage to stop the racist demagogue in their midst the next time if, after this catastrophe, there is a next time.

Milbank writes for the Washington Post. Follow him on Twitter, @Milbank.

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WASHINGTON Joe Biden is pledging to unveil a series of proposals in coming weeks aimed at reversing the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and addressing inequalities that have contributed to protests sweeping the country.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his aides see some parallels to the last time his party wrested the White House from Republicans. The economic collapse during the final stages of the 2008 presidential campaign gave Barack Obama, with Biden as his running mate, an opportunity to present clear contrasts with GOP policies and make the case for sweeping overhauls.

The dynamics are far more complicated today. The current crisis was prompted not by poor bank lending practices but by a dramatic freeze in American life that began in March to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Joblessness is at levels not seen since the Great Depression. And as some states and cities reopen, the protests responding to the police killing of George Floyd have spurred calls to address inequalities rooted in systemic racism.

To have true justice in America, we need economic justice, Biden said this week in Philadelphia. The moment has come for our nation to deal with systemic racism, to deal with the growing economic inequality in our nation and to deal with the denial of the promise of this nation.

Unemployment numbers from May will be released Friday, providing an updated picture of just how challenging Bidens job may be if he wins the presidency.

The former vice president says the plans to be unveiled this month will focus on housing, education and access to capital. In the meantime, hes held daily economic briefings, including from chief economists from the Obama administration, Jared Bernstein and Ben Harris, and Heather Boushey, a progressive economist who advised Hillary Clintons 2016 campaign.

Jake Sullivan, Bidens senior policy adviser, said theres been more of an emphasis on job creation and the issues holding back the labor market since the coronavirus outbreak began.

We really accelerated our work in that area, both in terms of how the policy team reaches out to experts, and in terms of how the vice president spends his time and structures his economic briefings, he said.

Bidens campaign has hinted it would like to pursue an even more expansive set of reforms than those proposed by Obama in the wake of the financial crisis. That includes aid to middle-class families rather than corporations, bolstering workers rights and removing some of the barriers to expansion in the labor force, like boosting access and government support for child and elder care. It has also discussed returning the supply chain to the U.S. and investments in green infrastructure to create jobs.

They are realities about the underlying structure of the American economy that have just been laid bare by this pandemic, Bernstein said.

Biden, who ran a centrist campaign to win the primary, was moving to the left on some economic issues before the virus hit. Thats part of an effort to woo progressives whove shunned him. He supported a minimum-wage increase, adopted some of Bernie Sanders free college tuition plan and embraced Elizabeth Warrens bankruptcy reform plan.

His campaign is also working with Sanders advisers to find more common ground on top issues.

But as Biden and other alumni of the Obama administration can attest, grand ambitions sometimes meet more challenging realities. A new administration generally has about one year to usher its biggest proposals through Congress before attention turns to the midterm elections and the presidents own reelection.

Even in the best of times, that can be challenging. Initially benefiting from strong Democratic majorities in Congress, Obama muscled through an $800 billion economic stimulus and major health care and financial services reforms before Republicans took control of the House and blocked most of his agenda.

When the tea party got there in 2010, its not that the Obama team didnt go far enough, its that Congress blocked us, Bernstein said.

While Democrats are increasingly bullish about their odds of taking control of the Senate, theres little chance that they would gain the filibuster-proof majorities they had at points during the Obama years, forcing a Biden administration to work with some Republicans.

That, along with the urgency of preventing additional waves of the virus, could make it hard for Biden to deliver on his biggest priorities.

Austan Goolsbee, Obamas chief economic adviser during the 2008 campaign who later served on the Council of Economic Advisers, noted there was a similar concern during those years that simply reacting to the economic crisis could take the focus off progressive priorities. Theres a risk of that happening now, he said.

The focus on the bleak economy means climate change and criminal justice reform, and some of the other issues not that they arent important, just theyre not going to be the first thing on peoples minds, Goolsbee said.

Still, Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants and a leader of the joint Biden-Sanders policy task force on the economy, said that making sweeping changes to the economy should be more urgent now not less.

The coronavirus is laying bare all of the holes in our economic platform, Nelson said.

Of course, Biden must win the election before he can accomplish anything. And President Donald Trump argues that he presided over an economic boom and can do it again if voters give him another term in office.

Americans know the economy reached unprecedented heights under President Trumps leadership before it was artificially interrupted by the coronavirus and they know he will build it back up a second time, said Trump campaign spokeswoman Sarah Matthews.

Bernstein said even if there is a recovery, were going to be pointing to devastating levels.

Were not going to let him wiggle out of his horrifically irresponsible response to the crisis, he said. The idea that Trump built a great economy and then the virus came along and now hes rebuilding it again just simply doesnt correspond to the facts.

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I always like to say that the Real Housewives of New York City is not a reality show but a ghost story, because every one of these women is haunted. But after this episode Im beginning to think that we have actually pierced the veil and the other side is coming through like Dorindas ex-husband Richard floating across the living room in a red balloon. First of all, weve been saddled all season with Elyse, the librarian in the opening of Ghostbusters before she goes all ectoplasmic.

Then, when the women are raging at dinner in Newport we see several people in the background fleeing for cover, including one society woman who looks like Alicia Florricks mother-in-law from The Good Wife. The camera cuts to a coiffed blond man standing at the bar in a black suit with a chunky white sweater tied around his neck. He is simultaneously clutching his non-existent pearls and taking a sip from a martini glass as his pinkie ring reflects a little glint of light at the ladies. This is clearly the ghost of Cole Porter and he is back to pass judgement on what this world has become. Its delightful, its delicious, its deoh forget it. Get me out of here and let me go back to my grave. At least Dorinda leaves the dinner to go home and watch Ghost Hunters. Maybe shell know how to fight all of these spirits.

At that dinner, Dorinda is the only one who behaved appropriately, which is weird for her, especially when she gets the dreaded [Unintelligible] as the subtitle for whatever shes trying to say. But instead of jabbing herself in the palm or sticking around to rage at people, Dorinda knows shes done and returns home to order room service and sleep it off. Luann also wasnt so bad, because she tried to calm the women down in the middle of a crowded eatery but she did hang out for an inordinate amount of time with Ramona at the bar.

Ugh, this means we need to talk about Courtland, a blond hunk of entitlement in a pair of khaki shorts who Ramona starts chatting up at the bar. This fits Ramonas pattern of stranding the women so that she can try to rustle up some more dates. Tinsley says in a confessional that Ramona is trying to prove to the other girls that she still has it. I think its really something else. I think that Ramona is a woman who has always defined herself by her ability to get and keep a man. She is a woman who for a long time, consciously or un-, has used her good looks as currency in the world. Now that shes single and aging, that has been ripped away from her. She is desperate to acquire another man both so that she can feel like she has some station in the world and to prove to herself that she is deserving of love, something she was denied as a child. Either all of this or shes just an asshole. Probably the latter.

When Ramona finds out that Courtland is engaged, he says to her, But this guy, and points to his friend, an earthworm with a keg caught in his throat, is totally single. Ramona says in front of them, Yeah, but you are the cute one. Good for Ramona, going for the best of the bunch. If you ask me, this should have ended the interlude at the bar. One of the guys is ineligible, the other is a sandsnake from Beetlejuice in Rhode Island for the weekend. What is the appeal of continuing to talk to them?

Regardless, Ramona, Luann, and Sonja Tremont Morgan of the Princess Leia Gourd Wig Morgans stay at the bar chatting these dudes up while the rest of the party has taken their seats. This annoys Tinsley, who is friends with the owner of the restaurant, to no end, and instead of taking Leahs sage advice to just order dinner without them and let the trio of cougars dine on the fumes of their own desperation, Tinsley has to go up and squeal at them to sit down with her.

All of this is totally unnecessary. The women dont need to be there talking to these jerkholes. Tinsley doesnt need to tell a pack of grown women how they should behave in public when theyre not really doing anything wrong. And most of all, Tinsley doesnt need to be telling Courtland, an embroidered belt with a chip on his shoulder (Chip is the name of the other dude), that he shouldnt be talking to women at a bar because he has a fianc.

Courtland gets even more annoyed when Leah and her sister Sarah, an even hipper Zooey Deschanel, go to the bar to flirt with him so that theyll ignore the other women and they will sit down. This is a conceited, though excellent, plan that almost works until Sarah again brings up the fianc and they tell him to let the ladies sit down and he says, Well, thats your fucking problem, and storms off. Now, he is a jerk, but I get his frustration. The women dont see him as an individual. He is just a prop. He is something for all of them to prove something against. He is a hunk of meat. He is an object. Basically they all treat him like men have been treating women for centuries and after 20 minutes of it he snaps and has to retreat to some undocumented corner of the bar.

Because of all this, Ramona starts behaving abominably even for Ramona. At the bar, she literally turns her back to Tinsley and pretends she doesnt exist so she can keep doing what shes doing. When Sarah says Ramona hasnt even tried to talk to her yet, she shrugs and says, Whatever. She pulls a similar stunt at the table, when she says that Sarah is guilty by association by being with Leah, she literally turns her body away from her and faces Sonja so that she doesnt have to engage in conversation with someone she deems beneath her. I mean, its awful, but its also why I bought a ticket to this particular show.

Once theyre all sitting down at the table, chaos breaks loose. Dorinda leaves, Luann attempts to be a calming presence, Ramona pulls out the dried corn cob that Sonja stashed in her purse three episodes ago at the corn maze and mimes choking herself with it. Everyone is screaming about something that no one can discern, but I think it mostly has to do with Ramona not liking how Leah behaved the night before. Its just all so much. Its like 10 million macaws being sucked into a million jet engines.

Finally, they decide to go and on the way out, Leah picks up a ravioli and throws it at Ramona. Outside she says, I threw a ravioli at her and I dont care. Sometimes you just need to throw a ravioli. That is both a specific and universal statement and while I have never felt the urge to chuck pasta, it is a sentiment I can get behind. And a ravioli is especially devious. Throwing a piece of angel hair or penne is one thing. Neither have heft and wouldnt fly well, and even if they connected would just kind of bounce off Ramona, leaving a slight stain. Instead, Leah throws a big, solid ravioli. It is truly the water balloon of pasta and it lands on Ramona with a thud, spattering its ricotta shrapnel all over both her and Sonja. I mean, this is awful and uncalled for, but also, a round of applause for Leah, our new MVP.

Outside things get even crazier as Leah and Tinsley start making out with tongue for some reason. I think this has to do with Tinsleys earlier admission that she once made out with her sister as a joke. Um. So. Uh. Okay. Yeah. I think No wait. I have to say that [Justin Trudeau length pause.] Nope. Im not doing it. I cant take the bait on this one. I will leave this to the professionals.

The next day, Leah and Sarah, Luann and Dorinda, and Sonja, Ramona, and Elyse, a dented can of chickpeas in the back of your cupboard, are in their individual rooms talking about the ravioli incident. Luann says, Its one thing to be upset, its another thing to be aggressive. She threw a ravioli! Dorinda answers, Well, I wish I had stayed for that! Meanwhile Ramona says, If you want to hang out with us, there is a certain demeanor. Okay, she and Sonja are totally out of line here. They want to pretend like they are prim and proper society ladies when they have literally terrorized the world with their outdoor peeing and poop smears on public floors. For them to pretend like they are above Leah is ludicrous.

But also, I dont take any of Leahs defenses of her behavior seriously either. She says, repeatedly, I am who I am and I cant change that. No one is asking her to change the essence of her being, theyre asking her to change her behavior. Maybe that means not drinking around the women. Maybe that means promising not to throw things at people or try to tear down the decorations. Maybe that means taking a back seat in altercations and waiting to adjudicate them later. This by no means changes the Leah that we know and love. She just doesnt want any rules at all imposed on her. She wants to act how she wants to act when she wants to act that way. This is the same defense used by fellow reality psychopaths like Jax Taylor. Well, thats just how I am. Yeah, well you can both be better.

Which leads me to her second defense, which she spells out at lunch with her parents. She says she didnt do anything these women havent done before. Yeah, but that doesnt mean they act appropriately either. Saying, Yeah, well, I stole less than all of these other people, wont get you out of prison. It just means youre in the same cell as the rest of these criminals.

This all gets squashed at the ladies tea party. Leah decides to take the high road and apologize because she knows if she doesnt, theyll reach an impasse. Ramona decides to forgive her immediately and move on, saying that she has a soft spot for Leah and really likes her. It is a nice sweet moment, which means it evaporates like the morning dew in Palm Springs.

Dorinda pulls aside Tinsley, who is wearing a gorgeous balloon-sleeved pink floral dress, and tells her that she knows that she was in Niagara Falls that weekend with Skott, the Koupon King, her on-again-off-again boyfriend who is now her fianc. Dorinda says she got a picture of the encounter from a friend and I think that friend is MaryB6819 and she DMed this picture to Dorinda on Instagram. Dorinda then tells Tinsley that if she doesnt tell the women that she was with Skott then she is going to tell them.

This is some extortion bullshit and I do not like it one bit. Dorinda should have behaved like a human, told all of the women behind Tinsleys back, and then waited for her to share the information with the group and acted surprised when Tinz told them she was seeing Skott again. Instead Dorinda has this hard-on for Tinsley sharing every bit of her life with the camera and it seems a little bit crazy. Let us not forget, this is a woman whose friends found out about her breakup on Page Six, not by her talking about it on camera. She didnt even tell them they were struggling!

As they walk back to the table Dorinda says, Tinsley has something to tell us, essentially forcing her hand, and Tinsley tells the women that she and Skott had a little rendezvous in Toronto and Niagara Falls. She didnt want to tell them because she said that they always break up and she didnt want to jinx it or talk about it and have it fall apart again. The whole time she was talking, she seemed a little misty and shell-shocked and I did not like it at all. Who is Dorinda to be the arbiter of what and how much people share about their lives publicly? Anyway, we all know how this ends, but this was Dorinda behaving badly while stone cold sober, which is just another indictment against her during a bad season.

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For the past 25 years many have repeatedly asked why did I transition my successful taxpractice into a civil rights practice.(I now attribute the decision "in the genes'' after learning my great grandfather fought during the Civil War, my father fought during the D-Day invasion and a cousin -- who was one of seven top black athletes -- openly supported Muhammad Ali's decision to not join the Army.)

The revolt of the last ninedays explain it sufficiently:

If lawyers and the courts fail to protect and enforce those rights of the people secured to the people by theConstitution, then the people would be forced to take the law into their own hands!

Dr. Martin Luther King made clear that nothing is more American than revolting against laws and practices which are unjust.'' Consider the Boston Tea Party and its destruction of $1.7 million of tea, protesting taxation without representation!''

Though not recognized as founding fathers, America owes its very existence to actions of protesters and looters, sometimes referred to as thugs.''

Americas Constitution grants the people with the right to bear arms and raise a militia just in case the majority or government or police become abusive.(God even cautioned Moses they would incur his wrath if they oppressed the minority among them!)

So why was it necessary for thepeople to take to the streets?

Becausetoo many judges who with their right hand on the Bible took an oathto uphold the Constitution,including the protection against unreasonable searches and seizures afterwards instead chose to BACK THE BADGE.''

The phrase Back the Badge,stripped to its core, means the following:

In exchange for the valuable and needed services which not anyone else provides, the people should show their gratitude by putting up with obvious violations.

This is same rationale made by sexually abusive employers, supervisors, coaches, parents and priests, thinking they have earned the right to be abusive.

Lest one say these are the words of a disgruntled disbarred lawyer, read the May 30, 2020 editorial in the New York Times.

Entitled, How the Supreme Court lets cops get away with murder,''it effectively labels the judicial branch a co-conspirator with law enforcement, observing that the courts protected police abuses for years before George Floyds death! It further acknowledges:

...But it is the Supreme Court that has enabled a culture of violence and abuse ...The badge has become a get-out-of-jail-free card in far too many instances.

After trying over 85% of police wrongful death cases in local federal courts from 1997 to2007, I did not need the New York Times to inform me that courts have reneged on their oath to protect the people.

After I had won several verdicts against police officers, the Louisiana Supreme Court filed ethical charges against me because I reportedly asked the mother of Emanuel Frazier, to meet with me about police officers killing our unarmed black men without cause.Emmanuel was an unarmed black man shot multiple times in the back by a white Bossier police officer.

I learned firsthand the extent to which courts were willing to go to assure police a get- out-of-jail-free card.

Though some considered me naive in believing local judges would side with clients over the police, as an officer ofthe court I always thought at least they would side with the Constitution.

For perhaps different reasons, some local judges have reduced themselves to being co-conspirators to the bastardly deeds of local police. It is well known that at least two are members of local Confederacy groups and openly display books about the Confederacy in their taxpayer-funded offices! One is even a graduate of the military school founded by officers of the Confederacy, who boasts among its alumni one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan.

(The public was never told why the suit filed by the Daughters of the Confederacy seeking to block removal of local confederate monument was transferred to Monroe, making it difficult for local citizens to participate.)

This linkage between the ideals of the Confederacy and the death of unarmed black men by rogue white police officers is evidenced by the voluntary removal of Confederate Monuments occurring since Floyds death, monuments once considered untouchable.''

Indeed, Floyds death removed all doubt that America has C.O.P.D.: Criminals On Police Departments!

Unlike the courts, professional law enforcement officers, and there are many, do not hesitate to distance themselves from such criminal misconduct.''

In a case in Alexandria wherein at least five white officers were shot -- two fatal while executing a no-knock search warrant,granted solely on the word of a known crackhead, the commanding officer testified that he personally did not believe he had probable cause to raid the decedents house.

Another officer also participating in the raid testified that, if police raided his house without announcing they were police, he would grab his gun and shoot them, too.(His logic was obvious: police shouldnt act like criminals.) Perhaps that is why a former Alexandria police chief, also father to one of the fallen officers, hugged the mother of the deceased black assailant at a prayer vigil, stating Your son didnt kill my son.I blame his chief.''

All are white.

Once a white Shreveport detective stalked me down, and told me the following: Attorney Jones, I know you think all police are against you. But you are wrong. We applaud what you doing. You are getting fired the very officers we are complaining about.But they dont get fired until you sue them.''

Ccile Coudriou, who is the president of the French branch of Amnesty International, explained the revolt in Paris as follows:

"The outrage, the anger and sometimes violence...is then fueled by systematic rejection of any allegation...(by French authorities) ...

She noted the more authorities refuse to talk about police violence, "the worse it gets," because people lose confidence in the people meant to protect them!

Thus, our world is witnessing the actions of We the people, exercising the very fail safe mechanism envisioned by the founding fathers when they lose confidence.

And all the proponents of Back the Badge should come forward and take a bow...or ...a knee.or just step down!

America cant breathe!

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