https://truthout.org/articles/police-te ... l-control/Police Tech Isn’t Designed to Be Accurate — It’s Made to Exert Social Control
Policing technologies are inaccurate by design.
By James Kilgore , TRUTHOUT
December 16, 2023
https://www.newsweek.com/clay-higgins-f ... an-1852847Republican Congressman Clay Higgins issued a warning to FBI officials investigatinthe Capitol Riots, saying that they are "going down."
More than 1,100 Americans have been charged for their alleged roles in the Jan. 6 riot, which took place in 2021 when a group of former President Donald Trump's supporters violently protested the 2020 presidential election results.
Higgins, a Louisiana Republican, has been a vocal proponent of the theory that federal agencies planted people at the scene and provoked the riot as an excuse to arrest conservatives
Barrett v. U.S., 965 F.2d 1184
Petitioner claims that the government withheld four documents wherein FBI informant Joey Aceto is diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic who was receiving personal messages
https://www.oocities.org/tom-manning/snitch.htmlFBI INFORMANT SENTENCED TO LIFE
In the series of trials which followed the capture of the Ohio 7, the government relied heavily upon the testimony of an informant named Joseph Aceto (aka: Joseph Balino), a former member of Statewide Correctional Alliance for Reform (SCAR), a prisoners-rights organization founded in Portland, Maine during the early 1970s by Tom Manning and Ray Luc Levasseur. Aceto offered considerable "evidence" concerning the original formation of the SMJJ, its evolution into UFF, and supposedly first-hand recollections of the defendants' having described their bombing and bank-robbing exploits to him. Only later did it emerge conclusively that the government's star witness had consistently lied under oath, passing off third-hand gossip and utter fabrications as conversations in which he himself had participated. It also came out that Aceto had been diagnosed as psychotic and administered heavy doses of the tranquilizer Mellaril - to "increase his veracity" - prior to testimony. To top things off, it was revealed that, in exchange for such testimony, the FBI had arranged for him to be released from prison where he was serving a life sentence for a brutal stabbing murder and placed on the federal witness protection program (a package with an $800 per month stipend). All this information had been withheld from the defense - and consequently from the jury - at trial.
FROM - The COINTELPRO Papers, Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars, Against Dissent in the United States by Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall
https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-levasseurUnited States v. Levasseur
http://scua.library.umass.edu/levasseur-raymond-luc-3/Raymond Luc Levasseur Papers
1966-2017
10 boxes 12 linear feet
Call no.: MS 971 Finding aid
Raymond Luc Levasseur went underground with a revolutionary Marxist organization in 1974 and spent a decade in armed resistance against the American state. Radicalized by his experiences in Vietnam and by a stint in a Tennessee prison for the sale of marijuana, Levasseur became convinced that revolutionary action was a “necessary step in defeating the enemy — monopoly Capitalism and its Imperialism expression.” As a leader of the Sam Melville/Jonathan Jackson Unit, later called the United Freedom Front, he took part in a string of bombings and bank robberies targeting symbols of the state including government and military buildings and corporate offices. All active members of the UFF were arrested in 1984 and 1985 and sentenced to long prison terms, although the government’s effort to prosecute them (the Ohio 7) on separate charges of seditious conspiracy ultimately failed. Levasseur served twenty years of a 45-year prison sentence, approximately thirteen years of them in solitary confinement, before being released on parole in 2004. He continues to write and speak out for prisoners’ rights.
The Levasseur papers are an important record of a committed revolutionary and political prisoner. Beginning with his work in the early
Raymond Luc Levasseur went underground with a revolutionary Marxist organization in 1974 and spent a decade in armed resistance against the American state. Radicalized by his experiences in Vietnam and by a stint in a Tennessee prison for the sale of marijuana, Levasseur became convinced that revolutionary action was a “necessary step in defeating the enemy — monopoly Capitalism and its Imperialism expression.” As a leader of the Sam Melville/Jonathan Jackson Unit, later called the United Freedom Front, he took part in a string of bombings and bank robberies targeting symbols of the state including government and military buildings and corporate offices. All active members of the UFF were arrested in 1984 and 1985 and sentenced to long prison terms, although the government’s effort to prosecute them (the Ohio 7) on separate charges of seditious conspiracy ultimately failed. Levasseur served twenty years of a 45-year prison sentence, approximately thirteen years of them in solitary confinement, before being released on parole
http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org ... verup.htmlKent State shootings: Does FBI informant hold the key to the May 4 mystery?
Terry Norman - FBI informant/provocateur
70 Seconds Before Kent State Shootings
May 4, 1970 @ 12:24 PM
Kent State Truth Tribunal
So what really happened at Kent State, Ohio 43 years ago tomorrow?
Based on last week's U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation report, we still might never know. Or will we someday learn the awful truth of that tragic day that left 4 dead in Ohio?
It seems that the key to the truth lies with Terry Norman.
In recently discovered film of the Kent State Shooting in 1970 (1:07.40 thru 1:08), FBI informant provocateur Terry Norman (photo at top) is the young man in the light colored sports jacket. Earlier that day Norman's mentor, Detective Tom Kelly from the Kent Police had attempted to have Norman's gun approved for carrying on campus during the demonstrations, but that approval never came so it's KEY that the video clearly shows Norman handing over his gun to Detective Kelly.
From forensic evidence expert Stuart Allen's analyses of the Kent State Tape in 2010, we learned that Norman shot that weapon at the May 4th demonstration as he was attacked & beat-up by students who saw his gun. (More on Terry Norman ~ Does Terry Norman Hold the Key to Kent State?.)
Watching these Kent State videos without sound, Norman's gun hand-off coupled with the post-Kent State Tape analysis, we now understand the importance of this interaction caught on video & at many other sources.
Norman's pistol 'created the sound of sniper fire.'
In response to the DOJ whitewash report Congressman Dennis Kucinich issued a statement:
“The letter also failed to indicate any efforts to reconcile the evidence in the recording with any prior statements about the incident made by FBI paid informant, Terry Norman, who was on campus that day and was known to have brandished a gun that might have created the sounds caught in the recording.
“While I appreciate the response from the Justice Department, ultimately, they fail to examine key questions and discrepancies. It is well known that an FBI informant, Terry Norman, was on the campus. That FBI informant was carrying a gun. Eye witnesses testified that they saw Mr. Norman brandish that weapon. Two experts in forensic audio, who have previously testified in court regarding audio forensics, found gunshots in their analysis of the audio recording.
Did an FBI informant discharge a firearm at Kent State?
Did an FBI informant precipitate the shootings?"
Why is understanding the Kent State Ohio Massacre critical?
To understand the events of May 4, 1970 at Kent State and the four dead in Ohio, is to understand much of what has happened in our history before, during and after.
In the intervening 41 years, there have been a wide range of commissions, studies, research and theories of what actually led to twenty-eight Ohio National Guardsmen shooting into a crowd of anti-war protesters at Kent State University which left four college students dead on the ground.
https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-ab ... m=fulltextGARY MAY. The Informant: The FBI, The Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo.
Gary May's book tells the story of a white-on-white drive-by shooting in Alabama that took place in the narrow window between Selma's bloody Sunday and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that brought down Jim Crow for good. Ku Klux Klansmen from Birmingham arrived in a Chevrolet Impala looking to serve the great white race and did so on Highway 80 near Big Swamp Lake by shooting into the Oldsmobile driven by a Detroit housewife who had left five children behind to come South and help the civil rights movement. Shortly after noon the next day, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) had solved the Viola Liuzzo murder. He did not mention that a paid bureau informant rode in the Impala with three other Klansmen and made no attempt to stop the shooting (he may have fired the fatal shots himself).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrze ... 975682f4ddFBI And Other Agencies Paid Informants $548 Million In Recent Years With Many Committing Authorized Crimes
Adam Andrzejewski
Nov 18, 2021
https://nypost.com/2023/12/16/metro/nyp ... complaint/‘Dirty old’ NYPD boss showed penis pictures on duty, slept during BLM protest: female cop
Published Dec. 16, 2023
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv8va/ ... ce-chargesA Mississippi Cop Who Shot an 11-Year-Old Boy Won’t Face Charges
Sgt. Greg Capers shot Aderrien Murry after the unarmed child called 911 for help.
By Manisha Krishnan
December 15, 2023
https://ticklethewire.com/dea-agent-who ... osecution/DEA Agent Who Fatally Struck Cyclist Seeks Immunity from Prosecution
By Steve Neavling
A DEA Agent accused of fatally striking a cyclist in Oregon in March is seeking immunity from prosecution because the incident happened while he was trying to track a major drug dealer.
Samuel T. Landis admitted in court that he ran a stop sign and killed cyclist Marganne
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/ ... 920949007/Details emerge in court hearing for NYPD cop accused in Paterson domestic violence case
PATERSON − Citing concerns for the safety of the alleged victim, a Passaic County judge ruled on Friday that an NYPD officer would remain in jail after being accused of beating and kidnapping a woman in Paterson.
Kaitlyn Kanzler
NorthJersey.com
December 15,2023
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/malvern/ ... esco-girlsCop Charged In Sexual Assaults Of Three Chesco Girls
Fired Delco Officer Tyler Humphreys is accused of sexually assaulting three girls, one of whom was just 9.
Holly Herman, Patch Staff
Posted Fri, Dec 15, 2023
https://patch.com/new-jersey/wayne/nypd ... ges-reportNYPD Cop Remains Jailed In Passaic Co. On Assault Charges: Report
Prosecutors said he seriously injured a woman, and that witnesses who called 911 "feared the woman would be killed ," the report said.
Michelle Rotuno-Johnson,
Patch Staff Posted Fri, Dec 15, 2023
https://www.nj.com/news/2023/12/vulgar- ... olice.htmlVulgar N.J. cop conference controversy spurs retraining for local police
Dec. 15, 2023
https://contracosta.news/2023/12/15/qa- ... th-ex-cop/Pleasant Hill
Q&A WITH PLEASANT HILL POLICE ON STANDOFF WITH EX-COP
written by CC News December 15, 2023
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/1 ... tions-did/Russia, China, and North Korea Did Not Fall Into a Trap Set By the U.S., But 120 Other Nations Did!
By Felix Abt - December 14, 2023
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2023 ... oung-boys/Brooklyn Eagle
Staten Island cop soliciting sex and nudes from young boysA 34-year-old New York City police officer was indicted for his alleged involvement in child exploitation and coercion of minors.
https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/life/f ... s-25-kids/All I need for Christmas is to see their smile’: Gainesville’s Shop with a Cop helps 25 kids
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/new ... y-netflix/Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F Trailer Brings Eddie Murphy’s Iconic Character To Netflix
By Ben Travis | Published On14 12 2023
https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/new ... arged-rapeNew Sharon Hill Borough police officer accused of raping 2 people, including 15-year-old girl
https://news.yahoo.com/former-boston-co ... 53010.htmlBoston cop from Plymouth changes plea in Jan. 6 case
David R. Smith, The Patriot Ledger
Fri, December 15, 2023 at 1:43 PM EST·2 min read
BOSTON − A Plymouth man accused of taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. will plead guilty in federal court
https://reason.com/2023/12/15/colorado- ... ettlement/Colorado Cops Falsely Arrested Him for a DUI. Now, He's Getting a $400,000 Settlement.
In 2020, Harris Elias was arrested for driving drunk, even though tests showed he was completely sober. After filing a lawsuit, he's now getting a hefty settlement payout.
EMMA CAMP | 12.15.2023
https://atlantablackstar.com/2023/12/15 ... onviction/ Texas Cop Asks Judge to Throw Out Manslaughter Conviction In Killing of Black Woman Atatiana Jefferson, Citing Pre-Trial Publicity
By A.L. Lee | Published on: December 15,2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/us/p ... -dead.htmlPaul Chevigny, Early Voice on Police Brutality, Dies at 88
An eminent civil rights lawyer, he was one of the nation’s foremost experts on abusive policing. He also successfully challenged New York’s Cabaret Law.
Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times
By Trip Gabriel
Dec. 16, 2023
https://www.kplctv.com/2023/12/16/elton ... tic-abuse/Elton police officer accused of domestic abuse
By KPLC Digital Team
Published: Dec. 16, 2023
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/12/16 ... -troopers/Boston Herald
Howie Carr: Conviction won’t stop these thieving Massachusetts State Police troopersEx-Lt. Daniel Griffin and ex-Sgt. William Robertson started embezzling thousands of dollars in federally-funded overtime in 2015. The two crooked cops were...
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023 ... rk-florida12.16.2023
What Bodycams Tell Us About the Challenges of Policing the Police
The cameras and other police accountability steps are popular with the public — but not always particularly effective.
By JAMILES LARTEY
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Over the past decade, the adoption of body
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/1 ... -politics/Barbara Lee, the Sole Member of Congress to Vote Against the War on Terror, Sadly Allies With Forces of Evil in U.S. Politics
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - December 15, 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... ery-probe/James Biden’s dealmaking caught on FBI tapes in unrelated bribery probe
While Joe Biden campaigned in Mississippi, his brother planned to build a powerful consulting business -- a deal that brought him to the periphery of a federal case
By Michael Kranish
December 17, 2023
https://www.expressnews.com/news/articl ... 559951.phpSan Antonio Express-News
Texas state trooper lied to FBI about his dad's drug trafficking and how he helped himPablo Talavera Jr., 35, of Pharr, who served in Gov. Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star border security initiative, was sentenced to 18 17 December 2023
https://cryptonews.com/news/tether-ceo- ... lators.htmTether CEO Details Partnership with FBI and Secret Service in Letter to Legislators