Dylann Storm Room, identified as the terrorist behind the Charleston terrorist attack, has been apprehended in Shelby, North Carolina, in apparent attempt to flee the state. He was captured while driving a vehicle with a Confederate flag licence plate, praising the “Confederate States of America.” This is another in the instances of racial supremacism that R.E.A.L. has reported.
White Racist Terror Suspect Dylann Roof driving car with Confederate Flag License Plate
This is the second terrorist attack reported by R.E.A.L. with a distinct “Confederate States of America” link; the previous attack was a terrorist attack against the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum by James Von Brunn wearing a Confederate cap, killing Stephen Tyrone Johns.
Reuters reports that the white terrorist suspect of the terrorist attack on the Episcopal AM Church, killing 9 people, has been identified as Dylann Storm Roof. “The FBI identified the shooter as Dylann Roof of Columbia, South Carolina. An uncle of Roof’s said he recognized the man in the surveillance photo as his nephew.” Reuters states that law enforcement agents were present at Roof’s home, Cowles said, adding he believed the shooter’s father had recently bought him a .45-caliber handgun as a birthday present. He is identified as a 21 year old white male, 5′ 9″, 120 pounds, driving a Hyundai GS compact, with license number LGF330.
Dylann Roof has a Facebook account where it shows his home in Columbia, SC, and as a person who went to White Knoll High School. He is photographed wearing a jacket with Apartheid-era South African flag and Rhodesia flag.
Dylann Roof – South Carolina man named as terror suspect (Source: Facebook)Another photo of terrorist suspect
Surprisingly, it shows on Facebook that he had “friends” of different races.
One of Dylann Roof’s friends was part of a Facebook group “rebel americans for the furtherment of our american futures.”
“Need to Identify” Statement from Charleston Police
A terrorist shooter, described by police as a white male, is AT LARGE after a racist terrorist attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, in Charleston, South Carolina. There were 9 killed in the terrorist attack: six females and three males. Eight died at the scene, and the 9th died at the hospital. Once the authorities notify families, they will release the full list of names. The authorities are calling this terrorist attack a “hate crime.” This included the death of the churches’ leader Reverend Clementa Pinckney. A report states that the terrorist told one member of the church meeting “I am going to let you live. I want you to tell them what happened.” A five year old child hid during the terrorist’s shooting rampage, by pretending to be dead, according to reports.
NBC reports that the terrorist sought out the pastor.
Sylvia Johnson, a cousin of church shooting victim Pastor Clementa Pinckney says she spoke with one of the survivors “and she said that he had reloaded five different times… and he just said ‘I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.'”
Earlier, Reverend Pinckey, who is also a South Carolina state senator, backed a bill that called for body cameras for police in response to a killing of Walter Scott by a police officer on April 4, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Pastor Reverend Clementa Pinckney of the Episcopal AME Church Killed in Terrorist Attack on June 17 Night (Source: AME Website)
Every Wednesday evening, the church holds a Bible study in its basement. The Emanuel AME church is described as one of the “oldest AME church in the south.” The white terrorist apparently attended the Bible meeting. Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen says the terror suspect attending a meeting and stayed for almost an hour before gunfire erupted.
Reports say the white terrorist shooter is still at large. But they were still describing the terror suspect as a clean-shaven white man, 5′ 9″, in his 20s, with a slender build. He was wearing a grey sweatshirt, blue jeans and Timberland boots. A photo is being circulated of the suspected. The suspect was pictured leaving the scene in a black four door sedan.
The Charleston police state they want people with information to call 843-720-2447.
CCTV Photo of White Terrorist Suspect in Attack on Episcopal AME Church (Source: Charleston Police)
Another photo of terrorist suspect
“Need to Identify” Statement from Charleston Police
The terrorist attack on the Christian church took place at 9 PM on Thursday, June 17, 2015. It has been reported that 9 people were shot, and that there are “multiple fatalities,” in what is clearly a racist terrorist attack, intended to target African-Americans.
Local Pastor Thomas Dixon: “It’s really bad. It’s a very bad scene.” (Source: YouTube)
Local pastor Thomas Dixon told CNN that “It’s really bad. It’s a very bad scene.” “Apparently the person just entered the church and opened fire. That part has not been fully articulated on what happened yet … they are still looking for the suspect.”
The police briefly arrested a white male, David Corrie of Ladson, wearing a backpack as he was coming out of a store, after they heard some popping noises in the area. Corrie had camera and recording equipment.
Pastor Reverend Clementa Pinckney of the Episcopal AME Church Attacked Wednesday Night (Source: AME Website)
Episcopal AME Reverend Clementa Pinckey was reported to be one of the victims of the terrorist attack. Reverence Pinckey. Clementa Pinckney is also a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District since 2000,
Responsible for Equality And Liberty denounces this terrorist attack and calls for our supporters of any faith to pray for the victims and their families of this terrorist attack.
The ongoing imprisonment of Pakistan Christian woman Asia Bibi highlights the ongoing oppression of Pakistan Christian, other Pakistan religious minorities, as well as Pakistan majority Muslims, by the oppressive blasphemy law, used as a tactic to silence unpopular voices and to oppress others. As part of our commitment to our shared universal human rights, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) challenges Pakistan’s blasphemy law and its use to kill, oppress, and intimidate others.
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) chairwoman Katrina Lantos Swett and Mary Ann Glendon have gone to Pakistan to speak to Pakistan government officials to change the Pakistan blasphemy law. These USCIRF leaders state that the Pakistan “blasphemy law on its face flatly violates both freedom of religion and freedom of expression,” and they call for the U.S. State Department to “designate Pakistan a ‘country of particular concern’ for its continued record of failure in protecting religious freedom.”
In Punjab alone, Dawn has reported262 cases of alleged blasphemous behavior.
Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi sentenced to death for “blasphemy”
Noreen Asia Bibi (known mostly as Asia Bibi) was convicted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court in November 2010, receiving a sentence of death by hanging, based on a June 2009 argument with Muslim women who were upset with her for drinking the same water as them. A trumped up charge was made that she subsequently insulted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which she has denied but was the basis for her arrest, conviction, and imprisonment. Over 400,000 signatures have been placed on petitions calling for her release. Christian minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti and Pakistani government politician Salmaan Taseer called for her release and opposed the blasphemy laws, and they were both killed by terrorists. Her family remains in hiding due to terrorist threats.
Pakisan: Christian Pastor Rashid Emmanuel Accused of Blasphemy Gunned Down in Faisalabad Court (Source: Jabran Inayat and GVM Television)
We have reported on many other blasphemy cases: Christian pastor Rashid Emmanuel and his brother Sajjad (who were gunned down in the streets in Faisalabad). The two brothers had left a court hearing on on charges of “blasphemy,” when they were gunned down on the court house steps, even when they had a police escort. There were rumors that they might be found innocent and released. Asia IT News reported that for days religious leaders had been “fanning the flame” of hatred against the two brothers.
We have reported on those Pakistan Christians fleeing for their lives, from such false “blasphemy” charges, such as Ms. Saiqa and Jehanzaib Asher.
Pakistan Christian Qamar David Convicted of “Blasphemy” Died in Prison Under Mysterious Circumstances, After Threats
With literally hundreds of cases, we cannot imagine how many we do not have specific names, places, and dates, to report on, as shown by the 262 cases in Punjab alone. One of our Pakistan contacts advises us that they are aware of dozens of blasphemy cases against Pakistan Christians with unregistered newspapers giving local coverage to such blasphemy cases, which extremists use to rationalize hatred and violence against the local Pakistan Christian community.
Our source states that people involved in recent Pakistan blasphemy cases have included Naeem Masih, Ejaz Taj, Shokath Haroon, Saiqa Mukthar, Kamran Victor, Nayab Wilson, Javed Joseph, Saima Bibi, all of whom need the support of the international human rights community. Pakistan Christians charged in trumped-up blasphemy cases are also facing fatwas against them declared by extremist Mullahs. The human rights community needs to continue to find ways to protect these people whose human rights are in immediate danger, as well as to find ways to press Pakistan to end its out-of-control blasphemy laws.
Pakistan majorities need to also realize that these blasphemy laws are not just a threat and a problem for Pakistan Christians, but are also used to oppress and threaten Pakistan minority and majority Muslims as well.
Pakistan: Ahmadiyya Muslim man, Masud Ahmad, was falsely arrested and imprisoned for blasphemy
The out-of-control blasphemy laws in Pakistan are an offense to the universal human rights not only of Pakistan Christians and other religious minorities, but also an offense to all Pakistan people and the people of the world.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty supports and defends the universal human rights of all people, and it reminds Pakistan of its obligations and commitment under international law. We challenge the Pakistan blasphemy law as a direct attack on our shared universal human rights.
Pakistan is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) ratified as of June 23, 2010, as well as a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Pakistan Blasphemy Law is in direct contradiction to its international agreement of ICCPR Article 18, which includes “1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.” The Pakistan Blasphemy law is in direct opposition to these shared universal human rights for the Pakistan people and for all people. Pakistan needs to decide whether or not it is a member of the nations of the world that respects human rights and dignity, or it is a clear and unquestionably self-declared rogue nation which rejects these global standards necessary for a free people.
R.E.A.L. urges the Pakistan government and the Pakistan people to end the oppressive blasphemy law which attacks the rights of Pakistan Christians and other religious minorities, and which is used as a method to harass and intimidate people with a grudge against a Pakistani in any identity group. These attacks on our shared universal human rights have to end. We urge Pakistan to realize the need for change and to become responsible for equality and liberty.
Democracy gives us hope for change and a path to defend the human rights for all. In a democracy, everyone matters. Democracy matters.
What would our lives and the next generation’s future be without democracy? Without the democratic ability to make our own decisions as free men and women, how can we defend our universal human rights of equality and liberty?
But the struggle for democracy is not one fight, not a single battle, one war for freedom, where victory is declared, and democracy is secured. It is a continuous struggle and effort to win, keep, and maintain a democracy. We need to continuously work to build a democratic society where the voices of the people can be heard, and where human rights for all are part of the democratic process. A “democracy” which does not respect the inherent human rights of others fails to understand that in a democracy EVERYONE MATTERS.
Democracies are not simply about majority votes. That is what majority oppressors with power would like the world to believe. That is what tyrants with an agenda want to people to believe, so they can deceive into accepting a dictatorship. They will attack the flaws of any individual democratic state and tell the world, “see this is what democracy leads to.”
The tyrants and the authoritarians take failures in democracies out of context. They only show the failures. They are silent about all the people trying to correct the failures. They don’t mention how people use their democratic freedoms to vote to promote change, to march for the rights of all, and how they protest together in the cause of democratic freedoms.
Tyrants particularly enjoy pouncing on the failures of democracy in America, which are widely publicized by Americans themselves (because they denounce such failures), and ignoring what people who love democracy seek to do to correct these failures.
In the tyrant’s propaganda against democracy, there is only slavery in America, without a Civil War; there is only Jim Crow laws, without a 15th Amendment to the Constitution; there is only denying women the right to vote, without a 19th Amendment to the Constitution; there is only Civil Rights challenges, without a Martin Luther King, Jr. and the generation that followed; there is only a failure to provide full Constitutional protection, without the campaign for Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.); there is only police abuse against African-Americans, without a campaign to hold law enforcement accountable and ensure that black lives and all lives matter.
Nor is this propaganda exclusive to denying democratic struggles in the United States of America. Tyrants will have similar half-truths in every other democratic country.
But the tyrants’ half-truths will only tell one side of the story. The goal of tyrants are to entice the discouraged, the disaffected, and those in despair from giving up on democracy altogether, but telling them only about democracy’s failures, and silencing discussion about democracy’s promise. The tyrants want people to give up hope on democracy and submit to their rule.
If there no other reason that compels you to struggle for democracy, take that vision to your heart. Can we be so selfish and heartless that we will not offer outstretched hands to bring back our brothers and sisters in despair on democracy from the clutches of tyranny? No, no. Those who love democracy know that our democratic freedoms and hopes are intended for everyone.
It is our responsibility to continue the struggle for democracy – for the generation today, and the the generations tomorrow.
Many don’t like the word “struggle.” It implies so much effort and work, and less of going with the natural flows in life. That’s right. It does and it is. While equality may be the natural law of humanity, we know that there have always been and will always be tyrants and bullies who seek to defy such natural law. We have seen the Dark Ages of the past, and it is our responsibility to help lead our society to the sunrise of a compassionate tomorrow.
Democracy must be compassionate. If in a democracy – everyone matters, then in a democracy – we must be compassionate to the suffering of our fellow human beings. How we can we believe they matter, if we don’t care about the suffering of others? Those who talk about democratic rights, but do not have democratic hearts, have lost sight of the meaning of democracy itself. They may know the tune, but they don’t understand the words or what they mean.
In our world today, our pace is so fast that we have often lost sight of compassion, of patience, and of kindness. We have forgotten that those too are part of our democratic ideals, if everyone matters. In a democracy, we must lead with our heart first.
We are rightfully an impatient people when it comes to abuses against our democracy and failures of our leaders. We may be frustrated and angry at those who would defy our democratic ideals. But even then, we must work for the democratic values of fairness and human rights for everyone – even those who do wrong. This doesn’t make us weak. It makes us stronger than any tyrant’s iron fist.
In today’s world, certainly there are many discouraged with our practices of democracy. But the greatest sign of the success of democracy are all the books and articles written by those who complain that it hasn’t yet met its goals, and complaining about its failures. Now THAT is democracy at work, that is the democratic freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of expression that free men and women accept as part of their natural lives.
When we are discouraged, that is the most important time to channel our frustration into action. The greatest cure to democracy’s ills is the action by those who know that everyone matters and that democracy matters.
We may think democracy doesn’t need defenders, and that “someone else” will defend democracy. We may think that our individual passions, causes, and campaigns are more productive channels for our time and energy, because after all, everyone understands the need for democracy.
But that is not true. Our struggle for democracy itself is as essential as the air which we breathe. We cannot chose to wait for “someone else.” My brothers and sisters in humanity, when it comes to defending democracy, we are the “someone else” who must struggle to defend it. There is no cause more essential than democracy to freedom and our shared universal human rights.
In a democracy, we love our rights, but we must love our responsibilities even more. We cannot have human rights, without human responsibilities. When you stand for democracy, you are responsible for equality and liberty for your fellow human beings.
Sometimes you will need to take a stand on your own against those who seek the destruction of democracy. Remember you are never alone when you stand for democracy, equality, and liberty. Free man and women of the world stand behind you.
Today will be such a day for me. I need to stand alone against a determined foe of democracy. The extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) will be in the Washington DC suburb of Springfield, Virginia to recruit minds to persuade them to reject democracy. HuT is openly against democracy with a “No Democracy” campaign, and denial of human rights, rejection of women’s equality, and a goal to subjagate people under a religious dictatorship. But there are plenty of enemies of democracy. If it was not HuT, it would some other extremists against democracy. We must provide a challenge to those who seek the end to democracy.
In our busy, overwhelmed lives, it would be convenient to be silent in the face of the enemies of democracy. But if democracy matters for everyone, then does not democracy matter for those who seek to be recruited by tyrants?
The defense of democracy will not simply be made in air-conditioned conference rooms by people in business suits, and nicely organized meetings, who have their lunch catered.
No the defense of democracy must also be done on our feet, in the streets, when it is hard, when you can’t find a way or the time, and when it seems impossible. Free men and women don’t know the meaning of the word “impossible” in the defense of democracy.
We must continually struggle for democracy – because democracy matters for all of us. It is the foundation to defend our shared universal human rights. Democracy matters.
We must continue our struggle for democracy, because it is not just our rights that matter, it is also our shared responsibilities.
We are all responsible for equality and liberty.
And it is always another GOOD DAY to be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
We have received reports the Pakistan Christian woman Asia Bibi has been suffering from intestinal bleeding and is vomiting blood, while she remains imprisoned in Women’s Multan Jail in Punjab. Asia Bibi was falsely accused of “blasphemy” in 2009 from women who were upset that a Christian woman drank from the same water supply as she did. She is mother of five, and was sentenced to death in 2010, and her appeal is pending in Supreme Court of Pakistan against decision to uphold her death sentence from Lahore High Court. The Pakistan Government must act immediately to deal with her urgent medical condition and her human rights violations. The Supreme Court must also intervene to ensure she is getting medical treatment to respect her legal court appeal.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L), along with other human rights groups, urge our fellow human beings to contact the following today to advocate for Asia Bibi’s immediate medical treatment and her release. It is cruel and unusual punishment to allow a prisoner in jail to be suffering from intestinal bleeding without treatment.
Pakistan Christian Woman Asia Bibi Needs Medical Help in Women’s Multan Jail; Unjustly Imprisoned on False Blasphemy Charges
Pakistan is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) ratified as of June 23, 2010, as well as the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Pakistan has commitment to the international agreement of ICCPR Article 5, which states “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Furthermore, Pakistan’s commitment to the ICCPR Article 18, which includes “1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.”
The deplorable conditions under which Pakistan Christian Asia Bibi is being held, and her lack of medical treatment must be cause for action by the government of Pakistan today. Such conditions would even be in contempt of Geneva Conventions during war time, let alone for a civilian mother of a 5 year old child. The Pakistan government must be responsible for such human decency and international law. We also call again for the Pakistan to release Asia Bibi on her false imprisonment on “blasphemy” charges.
R.E.A.L. urges human rights activists to contact the following individuals on Asia Bibi’s desperate situation. UPDATE: the email addresses for the Pakistan President, PM, and Supreme Court are now using blocking methods. R.E.A.L. will update this when we have the fax numbers for them.
Pakistan: Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights
Federal Minister of Law and Human Rights, Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights, Old US Aid building, Ata Turk Avenue; G-5, Islamabad, PAKISTAN
Name: Mr. Pervaiz Rashid
Email: contact@molaw.gov.pk
Fax: +92 51 9204108
Governor of Punjab
Governor House, Mall Road, Lahore, Punjab, PAKISTAN
Name: Mr. Rafiq Rajwana
Fax: +92 42 99203044
Email: governor.sectt@punjab.gov.pk
Mr. Chief Justice of Punjab Province
Lahore High Court, Shahra-e-Quaid-e-Azam, Lahore, PAKISTAN
Tel: +92 42 99212951-66
Fax: +92 42 99212279
Email: webmasterlhc@lhc.gov.pk
Mr. Chief Justice of Punjab Province
Lahore High Court
Shahra-e-Quaid-e-Azam, Lahore, PAKISTAN
Tel: +92 42 99212951-66
Fax: +92 42 99212279
Email: webmasterlhc@lhc.gov.pk
Pakistan Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights
Name: Mr. Ashtar Ausaf Ali
Phone: + (92-51-9210062)
(92-51-9212710)
Fax: + (92-51-9202628)
Email. stateminister@molaw.gov.pk
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Honorable Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk
Telephone: +92 5192 20 581-600
Fax: +92 5192 13 452
Email : mail@supremecourt.gov.pk(email currently being blocked) Mr. Justice Tahir Shahbaz Registrar of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Constitution Avenue, Islamabad PAKISTAN Fax: +92 51 9213452 Email: mail@supremecourt.gov.pk (can get “over quota” response)
Pakistan Special Secretary, Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights
Name: Mr. Justice (R) Muhammad Raza Khan
Phone: + (92-51-9202712)
Fax: + (92-51-9202628)
Email: secretary@molaw.gov.pk
Name: Mr. Shahbaz Sharif
Chief Minister, Government of Punjab
Province Chief Minister
Secretariat 5-Club Road, GOR-I, Lahore, Punjab, PAKISTAN
Fax: +92 42 99205065
Email: cmcomplaintcell@cmpunjab.gov.pk
Name: Mr. Rana Sana Ullah Khan
Minister of Law, Government of Punjab, Punjab Secretariat, Ravi Road, Lahore, Punjab, PAKISTAN
Fax: +92 42 99212004
E-mail: law@punjab.gov.pk
Paksitan Ministry of Religious Affairs and Inter-Faith Harmony
Name: Minister Sardar Muhammad Yousaf
Phone: 9214856
Email: sardarysf1952@gmail.com
Name: Mr. Muhammad Iqbal Siddiqui
Email: saifkhan57@gmail.com
National Commission on the Status of Women
Name: Ms. Khawar Mumtaz, Chairperson
Phone: 92-51-9224875
Fax: 92-51-9224877
E-mail: info@ncsw.gov.pk
Central Police Office (CPO), Punjab
Name: Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera, PSP, Inspector-General of Police, Punjab
Phone: 042-99210062-3
Fax: 042-99210064
We also urge you to reach the:
Women’s Rights Association (WRA)
Central Office
ADDRESS House #13 Hans Road New Shalimar Colony
Bosan Road, Multan, Pakistan
Name: Shaista Bukhari
FAX NO+92-61-6513386
EMAIL ID wra.org.pk@gmail.com wrapakistan@hotmail.com http://www.wra.org.pk
Please note – this is R.E.A.L.’s best effort to obtain these contacts for action. We don’t have control over their email or fax accounts. The Pakistan government will let some email accounts get full (over quota), block some, and will turn off some of their fax machines. Keep trying. A lot of them will work, and we urge you to directly contact them on this immediate issue. When they make themselves inaccessible, we understand first-hand how frustrating this is in our efforts to communicate with these Pakistan government officials.
In another disturbing development in ongoing human rights challenge of police abuse in the United States of America, a hooded group of Baltimore Police Department officers appeared on CNN. They stated that they do not plan to fully do their jobs as police officers, unless they can be sure they will not be arrested when they commit criminal acts. They called for the exoneration of 6 Baltimore Police officers indicted in death of Freddie Gray, whose neck and back were broken; the indicted Baltimore Police officers were charged with crimes ranging for depraved heart murder to assault.
The concept of a police force seeking blanket immunity from the law is nothing less than a blatant statement of contempt for the U.S. Constitution and our shared human rights. Any police force which no longer believes it is has any responsibility for the same law it has sworn to uphold – is no longer a police force.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty calls for our human rights activists to contact the Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts (anthony.batts@baltimorepolice.org, telephone 410-396-2020, fax 410-396-2023) and Baltimore Police Union FOP Lodge # 3 Lieutenant Gene Ryan (gene.ryan@baltimorepolice.org, telephone: 410- 243-9141, fax 410-487-1643) to call for the removal of such police officers from the Baltimore Police Department. Our justice community must be based on shared respect for the U.S. Constitution and our shared human rights. We urge the Police Commissioner and Lt. Gene Ryan to denounce the statements of these anonymous police officers. R.E.A.L. has already proactively reached out to Police Union leader Gene Ryan, after seeing no statement on the FOP # 3 website. We urge the Baltimore Police Commissioner and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake ( Stephanie.Rawlings-Blake@baltimorecity.gov, 410-396-3835, fax 410-576-9425) to act to enforce the legal agreement with Baltimore FOP # 3, Article 23, to stop the illegal work stoppage by Baltimore Police. Our support for justice, the law, the U.S. Constitution, and our shared universal human rights must be consistent.
We have previously reported on Gene Ryan’s outrageous comments that Baltimore Police officers are more afraid of being arrested than being shot, while children were being shot. We hope that seeing his fellow police officers with hoods in shadows like cowardly criminals will help him realize the negative direction that will result from a failure to support the law and the Constitution. No one is above the law.
The interview took place with CNN’s Brooke Baldwin talking to two anonymous active members of the Baltimore Police Department. The police officers wore dark hoods and their identity was concealed by dark light and altering their voices. They defended the 6 Baltimore Police officers who were arrested in the death of Freddie Gray, whose spine and neck was broken, and said they would do the same thing. The 6 Baltimore Police officers were indicts on crimes ranging from “depraved heart” murder to assault.
Hooded Baltimore Police in shadows tell CNN that police indicted for Freddie Gray’s death “did nothing wrong,” and that they would “absolutely” do the same thing as the police officers indicted for crimes ranging from depraved heart murder to assault.
CNN interview also asked the hooded, Baltimore police officers about the police brutality in the death of Freddie Gray, whose spine and neck were broken. The interview pointed out how Freddie Gray was being dragged and did not have medical attention. She asked the hooded Baltimore police officers response if “you would have done the same thing.” The hooded officer stated: “Absolutely…. the officers did nothing wrong.” The other officer stated “there was no malice in the police officers,” including those arrested for depraved heart murder. The hooded Baltimore police officers stated that they should be exonerated. One of the hooded officers said “there was no physical violence” in the takedown arrest of Freddie Gray. They stated they wanted the trial for the police officers’ trial moved outside of Baltimore, because they didn’t believe they could get a fair jury of their peers in the city where their job was to enforce the law.
One of the anonymous hooded Baltimore Police officers stated that activists who objected to such police brutality in arrests were doing this “for their own personal gain.” In one sentence, the officer said their job is to “de-escalate things,” and in the next sentence he stated “we are trained to escalate things.” Basically, the interview came to the logical conclusion that the Baltimore Police officers simply want to do whatever they want with no accountability.
As a result of the 6 Baltimore Police being held accountable for their crimes, one hooded police officer in the shadows stated “pro-active, self-initiated policing has stopped… we’re now in a total reactive mode.” The hooded, shadowed police officer admitted that such a work stoppage “ultimately does a disservice to the whole body of citizens, to business owners, to everyone other than the criminal element.” But since the Baltimore Police were being held accountable for criminal actions, he felt that they had the right to the work stoppage and abandoning their jobs when it came to preventing crime.
A hooded police officer in the shadows stated that criminals “know that pretty much the whole police department has shifted all to a reactive side.” “Even though you have a reasonable suspicion, for a guy walking down the street and there’s a bulge from their waistband” (like an illegal GUN) that the police work stoppage has approach been to not take action. He indicated that the rise in violent crime in Baltimore is because of the Baltimore police work stoppage, stating: “the criminal element feels as though we are not going to run the risk of chasing them if they are armed with a gun.”
Hooded Baltimore Police tells CNN they are hesitant to fight crime, unless they can be certain they can be immune from any criminal prosecution if they commit crimes.
When the CNN interviewer directly asked the hooded Baltimore police officers if the criminal was right, that they would not chase them if they had a gun, he meandered an excuse that if the criminal got hit by a car, they wouldn’t want to be responsible. In a word, YES. The interviewed officers stated that since the public wanted a “softer police department” (that is one that obeyed the law), they will use their work stoppage until the public allows them to break the law.
When directly asked by the CNN interviewer, “But you took an oath to serve and protect?” The hooded, shadowed Baltimore Police Department officers ignored her question, just like they ignoring their oath. But their silence to her direct question is an answer, and that silence should concern every patriot who loves America and our justice system, as well as every human rights activist.
CNN Interview asks Hooded Baltimore Police in Shadows: “But didn’t take an Oath to Serve and Protect?” They refuse to answer. Their refusal IS an answer.
The Baltimore Police Commissioner and the Baltimore Mayor are responsible for legally acting to resolve this publicly announced work stoppage by the Baltimore Police. This illegal work stoppage is not only is a threat to public safety, but has led to the shooting of at least two children in Baltimore.
The Baltimore Police City Lodge #3 Fraternal Order of Police has a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Baltimore Police Department. In that MOU, Article 23, page 28, there is a “No Strike, Secondary Boycott, or Lockout” clause, which states “The Lodge agrees that during the term of this Memorandum it shall not engage in, initiate, sponsor, support, or direct a strike or secondary boycott or directly or indirectly picket the Employer or any of its property in furtherance of a strike.” “If the Lodge shall violate any of the provisions hereof: Its designation as exclusive representative may be revoked by the Department.” “Nothing in this Memorandum shall deprive the Employer of remedies available to it under applicable law in the event of a strike.”
On the behalf of public safety, it is the responsibility of the Baltimore Police Commissioner and the Baltimore City Mayor to act on this issue, and enforce the Labor Union agreement with the Baltimore City Police and end the Baltimore Police work stoppage, designed to allow citizens to be at risk or killed, so that police can gain the “right” to break the law with impunity.
Maryland does not allow the police to strike. Maryland Governor Hogan and the Maryland Office of the Secretary of State (Fax 410-974-5527) also have similar responsibility to stop Maryland Police work stoppages. There is a Memorandum of Understanding between the State of Maryland and the State Law Enforcement Officers Labor Alliance (SLEOLA)
(July 1, 2012 – June 30,2015), Article XV. R.E.A.L. has also contacted Governor Hogan on this matter.
If we allowed the police to conduct work stoppages, unless the police were empowered to break the law and commit criminal acts, we would undermine the U.S. Constitution, as well as reject the international law agreed to by the United States of America under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This is not only an attack on the law, but also on our shared universal human rights.
In the United States of America, the federal government also has another method to take action toward organized groups which use violence outside the law as a means to extort protection from the public. A “protection racket” is a scheme whereby a group provides protection to people or businesses through violence outside the sanction of the law, and in violation of the law. Using the credible threat of violence, the protection racketeers deter people from harming their clients. Racketeering is a violation of U.S. Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 96, § 1961. Racketeering activities are punishable under range of laws under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968), which was signed into law on October 15, 1970.
The U.S. Department of Justice an entire division simply to monitor and prosecute organized racketeers. Title 9 of the U.S. Attorney’s Manual provides details on 9-110.000 – Organized Crime And Racketeering guidelines, and the requirements to prosecute racketeers.
The population of Baltimore was 622,104 in 2013. That is a significant percent of the population of the United States of America to allow their safety and well-being to be at risk, by an organized group of armed individuals using function equivalents of “protection racket” tactics to seek extortion from the public so that they can be held harmless from criminal prosecutions involving illegal violence. While this case may seem unusual, the concept behind the RICO statutes is to prevent groups from extorting the public in protection racket schemes. If the Baltimore Police Commission will not act, if the Baltimore Mayor will not act, if the State of Maryland will not act, it is the responsibility of the U.S. Department of Justice to act to support and defend the Constitution and the Constitutional rights of Baltimore citizens. Days have passed since this CNN interview. The Baltimore Police Commissioner and the Baltimore Mayor have not announced any action.
Therefore, it is reasonable to assume the U.S. Department of Justice needs to start planning for the use of RICO laws to protect the citizens of Baltimore from the rogues in the Baltimore City Police and Baltimore Police Union FOP Lodge #3, which clearly are in violation of their MOU.
R.E.A.L. is contacting the U.S. Department of Justice Organized Crime and Gang Section (OCGS), Julie Wuslich, (Julie.Wuslich@usdoj.gov, 202-514-1214), as well as the DOJ Civil Rights Divison’s Vanita Gupta (Vanita.Gupta@usdoj.gov, 202-514-4609). The U.S. DOJ Civil Rights division will be conducting an investigation of the Baltimore Police operations. We urge the DOJ Civil Rights division to add this interview to their research and findings.
Hooded shadowed figures in the Baltimore Police who threaten not to do their job, unless they are allowed to be criminals, represent nothing less than an attempted protection racketeering. The U.S. Department of Justice needs to investigate, and racketeers need to prosecuted under federal law. The law is the law for everyone. No one is above the law. No one has a “right” to commit criminal acts.
Our shared universal human rights are not constrained to any border or any organization, and those who defy those human rights are not limited to any area or organization. Our world has many problems. But if we work together we can solve our problems as one human race. Unlike the cynical and mocking comments of the hooded Baltimore Police Officers, our defense of our shared human rights is for anything BUT “our personal gain.” Nothing could be further from the truth. The volunteer human rights community’s support is completely at our own expense, financially, personally, and professionally. To reply to the hooded cowards, we do this for one reason: it is the right thing to do. That’s the only reason we need. It is sad that there are those in law enforcement so detached from reality that they can’t understand such fundamentals in our society.
It reminds me of the white supremacist groups we challenge, who always have an explanation as to why a white male like me would challenge them. I must be getting paid by someone, the government, Israel, the ZOG, the Illumanti, the SPLC, etc. You name it. Those who have lost their conscience about what is right can always find a way to find excuses for why they have a “right” to oppress others.
It is not right to break someone’s spine and neck. It is not right to crush their vocal cords. It doesn’t matter if it is Freddie Gray or anyone else. People who respect human rights and the law have to understand the difference between right and wrong. We urge the Baltimore Police to end the denial, and do some deep soul-searching about the oath they took.
It is always a good day to be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
If we can’t stand in public for that, then we are not free men and women. We are not afraid.
God Bless the United States of America.
Jeffrey Imm, Founder, Responsible for Equality And Liberty usa@realcourage.org, 301-613-8789
In another of attack on universal human rights, life, and dignity, news of the Khilafah-seeking ISIS terror group shows the terrorists committing more killings of gays. The ISIS authoritarian group has established its own religious Hisbah “police force.” In lands where ISIS occupying powers have taken control, reports state the ISIS group has been using “undercover operatives” to lure gays out, and then beating them to death by stoning or throwing them off of buildings in public executions.
Khilafah’s Form of “Justice” for Gays – Hunting and Down and Publicly Murdering Gays by Stoning, Throwing Them Off Buildings (Center ISIS Khilafah Police Vehicle)
The Khilafah ISIS Hisbah religious police use undercover “flirt squads” to try to seduce and entrap gays for public execution. In addition, the Khilafah’s Hisbah also frame people as gay, to rationalize such public murders.
We call for the world public to show OUTRAGE for the public and atrocious murders of gays by these authoritarians. Their contemptible human rights violations deserve the world’s condemnation.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L) supports the universal human rights, life, and human dignity of all of our brothers and sisters in humanity. We reject the authoritarian tactics of hunting and murdering people for their sexual orientation, or for any of their identity group characteristics, as a fundamental attack on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and a fundamental attack on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
These monstrous public spectacles to use authoritarian measures to deny human rights to anyone because of the identity group are an attack on our universal human rights – by ANYONE who denies these human rights.
Rejecting these horrific human rights violations is not an attack on Islam, but is a call for ending these crimes against humanity by the Khilafah group ISIS.
“An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The words by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. resonate as a fundamental basis for our shared human rights.
As previously reported by R.E.A.L, the fascist tactics by the anti-freedom group which seeks the establishment of a dictatorial Khilafah demonstrate their complete and total contempt for the equality and liberty which are our shared fundamental human rights.
We urge the friends of freedom to continue to challenge authoritarians and authoritarian murderers who are at WAR with our shared universal human rights. Together, we must be united to be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
In a continuing denial of their responsibility in the strains with society and violence against the public (including the strangulation of Eric Garner), the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) leader blamed African-Americans and the fatherless on their inability to be participants in law enforcement. Other former minority NYPD officers spoke up, however, and described an environment where some white police officer views African-Americans with contempt and some did not view them as human beings. This contempt for human rights must be challenged by all those who support our shared universal human rights.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, in an interview with the Guardian, blamed the NYPD’s woes on their inability to hire African-Americans in police positions. He stated: “We have a significant population gap among African American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them.” He then states that this is the “unfortunate consequences” of an explosion in “stop, question and frisk” stops in the last decade targeting racial minority men. This policy, struck down in 2013 by a federal judge as a “policy of indirect racial profiling,” was implemented by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton.
NYPD Police Commissioner also blamed those without fathers for the decline of law enforcement’s effectiveness and hostility against police behavior: “We’re starting to reap what has been sown over the last 40, 50 years, with homes dissolving and homes without parental guidance,” he said on John Gambling’s radio show on AM 970. “There is just less respect for authority. I think some of it’s coming out of the fact that we have so many home environments in our country that are not home environments in the traditional sense, in that there’s no direction at home.”
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton (Source: Susan Watts, NY Daily News)
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton also told the Guardian that he continues to defend the ongoing “broken windows” ultra-aggressive policies of NYPD police officers, mostly against minority neighborhoods. These “broken windows” policies contributed to the NYPD 120th precinct (Staten Island) police strangulation of African-American Eric Garner. The “broken windows” policies are defending by extremists in law enforcement, such as NYC John Jay Criminal Justice College police instructor Peter Moskos, who also seeks to promote whipping and electric shock as punishment for Americans. Peter Moskos is a “Facebook friend” to NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton.
NYC: The Choking of Eric Garner: “I Can’t Breathe” (Source: YouTube)
Former NYPD captain Eric Adams stated that one white NYPD police officer described a largely black housing area as, “these people are all animals; they don’t deserve anything.” The Guardian reported that “Adams says officers and management must stop making assumptions about poor communities based on the ‘numerical minority’ that commits most of the offenses.”
Former NYPD officer Ray Benitez, who is African-American Hispanic, told the Guradian that he observed racial stereotyping among the NYPD police. The Guradian reports that he “watched officers stereotype entire neighborhoods.” He stated that: “You’ve got to know that 95% of the people in the community have no dealing with the police at all. None.” But he still saw a discriminatory attitude among NYPD police. “I’m talking about a thinly veiled disgust…simply because they appear to be in distress, with a different station in life. Maybe the sociological condition is that somehow those cops feel they’re more entitled, that they’re better.” Former NYPD police officer Ray Benitez described the “stop and frisk” procedures on NYPD police taking racial minorties as: “humiliation, maybe even emasculation, of a segment of society.”
Former NYPD police officer Travena Garel stated to the Guardian: “I just think that for a lot of officers, black men are viewed as something other than human beings.”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty believes that a representative democracy involves shared responsibility for societal problems. No one group is exempt from that shared responsibility as well as our shared universal human rights. We are disappointed to see extremists in our justice community pointing fingers at problems, and ignoring their own responsibility to be contributors in a representative democracy. We urge all of our fellow Americans to reconsider what it means to be active participants in a representative democracy for all.
We urge all to be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
Yet another police union defends extremist behavior as Americans protest the un-Constitutional behavior by an extremist in law enforcement, this time in McKinney, Texas. As previously reported by Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), extremist David Eric Casebolt was a leader in the McKinney Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge # 107 union as a “Second Vice President.” The Texas FOP is also supporting David Eric Casebolt, and his attorney Jane Bishkin is a participating attorney for the Texas FOP.
After David Eric Casebolt’s (June 5, 2015) assault on a 14 year-old child and pulling his gun on unarmed children, the McKinney FOP police union took their Facebook page offline, concealing David Eric Casebolt’s leadership role in the police union. On the FOP’s web page, they made the position “vacant,” and they hurriedly appointed Michael Best into the position.
On June 9, 2015, the McKinney Police Union President Daniel Malenfant issued a statement defending the violence by David Eric Casebolt as necessary to deal with “trespassing,” “vandalism and active fighting.” Union leader also promised “to provide any assistance necessary to the officer involved and his family.” The McKinney Police Union denied that the harassment and assault on African-American children was racist, stating “without a shadow of doubt that all members of the McKinney FOP and McKinney PD do not conduct racially biased policing.”
The McKinney Police Union also rationalized extremist David Eric Casebolt’s vulgarity against children, stating: “the use of profanity during high stress incidents may occur when attempting to gain control of unruly subjects who are not complying with officer’s commands.” (A reminder to the McKinney Police Union, the American people are not your “subjects.”)
McKinney Texas Police Union Regarding Police Union Leader and Extremist Casebolt’s Attack on African-American Children: “Not a Racially Motivated Incident” – Profanity Understandable when Dealing with “Unruly Subjects”
The McKinney Police Union also stated that “certain details of this incident are being inaccurately broadcasted by media outlets to the public in the McKinney area and across the nation. The subjects involved were a mixture of teens and adults who were trespassing not in a community pool but a private property pool regulated and maintained by this particular Home Owners Association. Vandalism and active fighting was reported in the same area involving this group of teens and adults.”
While the McKinney Police Union may be hiding its Facebook page, the McKinney Police Union does not have the power to remove the YouTube video of this incident, where the public can clearly see with their own eyes what happened.
While the McKinney police stalled in their “investigation,” David Eric Casebolt had the opportunity to “resign from the police force instead. WFAA reports that “Casebolt’s resignation was confirmed Tuesday by attorney Jane Bishkin.” Jane Bishkin is not only David Eric Casebolt’s attorney, but also she is the participating attorney for the Texas Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which includes the McKinney FOP #107 Police Union.
WFAA also reported how the 14-year old child’s head was SLAMMED into the ground, as can be seen in a second video by teenager Jahda Bakari.
The full text of the McKinney Police Union Statement is as follows:
“On 6/6/15, the McKinney Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #107 was informed by a member that he had been involved in an incident which resulted in him being placed immediately on administrative leave status. “The McKinney FOP has not been able to fully examine all of the video and reports surrounding this incident. The McKinney FOP assures that this was not a racially motivated incident and can say without a shadow of doubt that all members of the McKinney FOP and McKinney PD do not conduct racially biased policing. The McKinney FOP does not condone professional officers cursing at juveniles or any citizen during routine calls for service. The use of profanity by officers diminishes the professional image which is expected. With that said, the use of profanity during high stress incidents may occur when attempting to gain control of unruly subjects who are not complying with officer’s commands.” “Information is being provided to the McKinney FOP that certain details of this incident are being inaccurately broadcasted by media outlets to the public in the McKinney area and across the nation. The subjects involved were a mixture of teens and adults who were trespassing not in a community pool but a private property pool regulated and maintained by this particular Home Owners Association. Vandalism and active fighting was reported in the same area involving this group of teens and adults.” “The McKinney FOP urges all citizens who are intending on coming to this community wanting to take part in any protests or demonstrations to do so peacefully. The McKinney FOP is also urging the public to allow the McKinney PD investigators to conduct their investigation. The McKinney FOP believes that the McKinney PD will conduct a thorough investigation and will take every piece of information into consideration. We continue to urge all citizens exercising their 1st Amendment Rights regarding this incident to do so peacefully. “The McKinney FOP is working closely with the Texas State FOP Lodge to provide any assistance necessary to the officer involved and his family. “If more information is discovered, the McKinney FOP will ensure it is disseminated accordingly.”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty continues to challenge police unions to shake off their torpor and reverse the damaging course that a pattern of contempt and denial on police abuses has done to this country, our Constitution, and our homeland security.
McKinney Police Practicing Shooting with Automatic Weapons (Source: McKinney Police Department Facebook)
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) denounces the human rights violation and blatant abuse of an extremist against children, in the aftermath of altercations at a pool party in McKinney, Texas, on June 5, 2015. We have learned of extremist police brutality against children outside of a swimming pool, including an extremist police officer pulling a gun on other children, after he was assaulting a child, dragging her by the hair, and pushing her face into the ground. We have seen the video of the despicable violence against African American children by an extremist within the McKinney police department, and we call for the justice community to take action on this assault against our children.
WE NEED YOUR ACTION. We call for American citizens, human rights activists, and especially responsible members of our law enforcement community to contact McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley (telephone: 972-547-2700; email: gconley@mckinneytexas.org) and Assistant Chief Joe Ellenburg (telephone: 972-547-2737; email: jellenburg@mckinneytexas.org) to demand that they take action TODAY to arrest extremist Police Patrol Supervisor Corporal David Eric Casebolt for his armed assault and threats against these children. (See more below).
This immediate conflict started at a swimming pool party at a mostly white neighborhood’s Craig Ranch North Community Pool in McKinney, Texas. It was intended to be an end of school celebration, with a number of guests invited to the swimming pool on guest passes. Apparently some of the residents at the Craig Ranch North Community reportedly were upset about the pool guests, which were mostly non-white. The dispute reportedly centered over whether the African American and Hispanic guests at the pool were entitled to their guest status.
Miles Jai Thomas told the Huffington Post that the guests were upset about when a pool security officer started “making up rules” to force the non-white guests to leave. He also told the Huffington Post that “[b]efore officers arrived on the scene, a white woman had started making racist comments, telling black party goers to get used to the bars outside the pool because that’s all they were going to see. When one of the white teens at the party talked back to the adult, the woman began cursing and yelling at her as well.”
After the pool guests reportedly did not want to leave, the McKinney Police Department ordered nine (9) police vehicles to the area, sending twelve (12) police officers to a dispute at a swimming pool.
Instead of restoring “public order,” the extreme action by the McKinney Police Department had the predictable reaction of taking a minor situation and letting it get out of control. As the heavy-handed reaction created predictable frustration, one extremist in the police force decided to act out and assault our nation’s children.
From YouTube, we have seen the video of this assault by an extremist against a 14 year-old African American child. It is despicable. An extremist in the McKinney Police Department, identified as Officer David Eric Casebolt, who is white, chose to take an extreme response to the mostly African-American children who did not like the heavy-handed police response.
In the YouTube video, we see extremist Eric Casebolt grabbing children and assaulting them. Extremist Eric Casebolt grabs a 14-year old girl by her hair and violently throws the child to the ground. The extremist then tries to force the child’s face onto the ground and the sidewalk. As the collective children shout about his activity, extremist Eric Casebolt then withdraws his police-issued gun and pulls it out, aiming it at unarmed African-American children while he chases them. One girl, wearing a shirt with an American flag, screams as she watches the badge-wearing extremist chase unarmed African-American children with a gun.
As the other African-American children run for their lives, the extremist returns to the unarmed child in the swim suit (clearly with no weapon and no threat), with his gun drawn, then he holsters it so that he can grab the child’s body with both hands, drags her by the hair, forces her face into the ground, as she cried for her mother.
The extremist David Eric Casebolt then kneels on top of her body, while he points at the other children, threatening that they will be next.
Eric Casebolt does this to a 14-year old CHILD.
I am sure there are many millions of patriotic American men who would like to educate extremist David Eric Casebolt on our view of cowardly grown men who beat up little girls. But certainly, our justice community must speak for us and communicate our values of justice to extremist David Eric Casebolt.
When this is tolerated we must ask once again, what country we are living in? Surely, this is NOT the United States of America. Our justice community must act swiftly and severely to such criminal extremists who commit such cowardly violence against our children. Accountability of law enforcement is not some “gift” to the American people; it is the minimal expectation that we must demand to preserve any hope for law and order in this great nation.
American patriots no doubt wonder what happened to the other eleven (11) police officers who were dispatched to the swimming pool altercation. Were they all incapable of restraining extremist David Eric Casebolt from such actions? Or were all of those grown men too afraid to keep David Eric Casebolt from assaulting children? I wonder how many of the other McKinney police, or any of our fellow law enforcement, would have such casual restraint (or fear) if David Eric Casebolt was dragging YOUR CHILD by the hair and assaulting YOUR DAUGHTER like that.
I can imagine what the millions of American fathers reading this are thinking about in terms of consequences if David Eric Casebolt had ever taken such cowardly actions against their daughter or their children. David Eric Casebolt needs to learn this too, and he needs to learn it from the swift and severe acts of our justice system.
Like all patriotic Americans and civilized people, Responsible for Equality And Liberty is astounded at this offense. R.E.A.L. asks the McKinney Police Department: why isn’t extremist David Eric Casebolt arrested for his assault on these children? We need our federal government to act and stem the tide of such violence by extremists in our nation, and ensure that extremists know there will be consequences for their actions.
We have learned from BuzzFeed that McKinney Chief of Police Greg Conley held a press conference today (June 7, 2015) stating that he is “committed a complete and thorough investigation of this incident,” and that an officer was “placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.”
McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley asks public to have “patience” for a “thorough investigation” of Eric Casebolt’s public assault on children
It is perfectly evident for the nation and world to see what happened. There were plenty of witnesses, and McKinney Police Chief Conley’s call for “patience” for a “thorough investigation” is what we have heard too many times, and come to learn mostly represents the code words for “stall tactics.”
This is absurd, Police Chief Conley, and it is insult to responsible individuals in law enforcement, and it is yet another disgrace to the great United States of America. Any other American who publicly assaulted a child like this and threatened children with a gun would be in handcuffs, right now, today.
R.E.A.L. calls for our fellow human rights activists to denounce the failure of the McKinney Police Department to arrest Officer David Eric Casebolt today, right now, for his assault on these children. We don’t want to hear about administrative suspensions, lawsuits, or the other “alternatives.” The American people and the eyes of the world expect JUSTICE from our justice community, not beating our children in the street, and not excuses and stall tactics when we see it right in front of our nations’ eyes.
Most importantly, we call for those in the justice community to find their voice and their conscience on these matters. Our justice community should be at the forefront in denouncing such violence against our citizens, and calling for swift and severe consequences for those extremists who betray the trust the American people put in our police.
The blue line needs to stand together, not in denial, but in defense of the people and the Constitution it has vowed to serve and protect.
The words “out of control” are what patriotic Americans are stating to themselves as they continue to hear about what disgrace after another. In some communities, we have started to see action. In South Carolina, Michael Slager was arrested for murder. In Baltimore, the six who arrested Freddie Gray and left him with a broken neck and spine have been arrested for charges from murder to assault. This is what the American people expect, and most of all, this is what the justice community MUST SHOW.
Another video of yet another out-of-control extremist wearing a badge from the public, must be dealt with swiftly and severely by the justice community. Our justice system, like our government, is not “their” system; it is “our” system. This is why, in many parts of the nation, we have the power to make citizen’s arrests in extreme circumstances. The law is law – not just for some – but for all.
R.E.A.L. calls for the immediate ARREST of extremist Officer David Eric Casebolt for his public assault of children and his threat to kill other children. Such extremist violence is a threat to public safety, and that is what is what law enforcement is really about – protecting the public and their human rights.
His wild and reckless actions were nothing less than an armed assault on unarmed children. His extremist violent actions must not be accepted as representing law enforcement in the United States of America in ANY form, and must be recognized for the criminal behavior it represents.
There must be ACCOUNTABILITY for these actions. Another slap on the wrist will only further alienate the American public from many, many good, hard-working people in law enforcement, who this extremist does not represent. Our friends in blue need to find their voice. And SOON.
When extremists wearing a badge of our justice system believe they can beat CHILDREN in public with impunity, we must demand consequences for such human rights violators – everywhere and all of the time. Wrong is wrong – no exceptions.
If we defend our shared universal human rights, that means EVERYONE, including our good friends in law enforcement, who need to remember that they too are… Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
McKinney Police Deputy Chief – Professional Standards – Kim Lee
Email: klee@mckinneytexas.org
Telephone: 972-547-2755
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UPDATE:
Extremist David Eric Casebolt has been in other news, recently regarding an FAA Airman Certification, and the Dallas Morning News reported that David Eric Casebolt was an instructor trainee with Executive Self-Defense and Fitness Training in McKinney, TX. Casebolt’s photo had been removed from the company website. R.E.A.L. contacted this company, and was told they had “no comment.” The Dallas Morning News also reported that extremist David Eric Casebolt served in the U.S. Navy from 1993 to 2000. The DMN reported that “He also served in the U.S. Navy as a member of the military police from 2000 to 2003 and an operations specialist from 1993 until 2000.” Media have also reported on extremist links on videos online by David Eric Casebolt.
R.E.A.L. has also learned that extremist David Eric Casebolt was an officer in the McKinney Police Union Fraternal Order of Police (Lodge # 107). Once again, R.E.A.L. sees police unions associated with extremist behavior, as we have reported about in New York CityandBaltimore. David Eric Casebolt was listed as the “Second Vice President” in the McKinney Police Union, which is led by Union President Dale Malenfant (dmalenfant@mckinneyfop.org). The McKinney Police Union has since taken down its Facebook site to conceal this association, but there has been no comment or statement by the McKinney Police Union on the actions by its apparently former “Second Vice President” in his attack on children. In the meantime, caches of the McKinney Police Union membership list online has shown a replacement of the “Second Vice President” position to “vacant” and then now filled by “Michael Best,” with their board of directors.
The McKinney Police Union states that its values are: “Equality, Fairness and Integrity,” and that “Law is the Safeguard of Freedom.” R.E.A.L. has contacted the McKinney Police Union to get a comment on their position on whether the assault by their union officer David Eric Casebolt on these children represents the values and freedoms they are safeguarding.
R.E.A.L. will update this with any statement we receive from the McKinney FOP police union on this matter.
June 9, 2015 Update: Extremist David Eric Casebolt resigned “on his own will” while under investigation and will get to keep his pension and benefits. His lawyer, Jane Bishkin (also an attorney for the Texas FOP police union), announced his resignation in a statement at 5 PM on June 9. R.E.A.L. calls for charges against the extremist for his violence against our children.
Surprisingly, it shows on Facebook that he had “friends” of different races.
