If I were in Louisville right now

DIY-HP-LED

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I’d have to explode and shout Breonna Taylor until I could no longer speak.
The great thing about volunteering for the democrats in these days of covid is they can set you up to make phone calls from home, not just in your state either, but battleground states. Stay focused, the only path to justice is through power and you must work like Hell to attain it, every war has a critical battle and this is it, everything must be thrown into the breech. Social and political change is bottom up driven and top down implemented, win this time and you will not just have a seat at the table of power, but will have the implementers of that power by the balls.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Here are some constructive and useful ways to channel your outrage, use it as motivation for action, here is how, volunteer:

Every potential trump voter should get ten calls, make one of them yours, they will set you up with a call center at home using your computer.






 

DIY-HP-LED

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Maybe that's what some of the regulars we haven't seen too much of might be doing, calling for democratic candidates at state and federal levels, you can do more than just vote. Use your computer printer and print out bumper stickers FFS! If I were an American I'd have the software installed and would be giving Hollywood performances to Trumpers on the phone for the democrats and Joe.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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I'd say volunteer to make calls for the democrats, innovate and use their tactics against them, focus on making them stay home if ya got a live one. Appear sympathetic (and white if you ain't) come across as a former Trump voter, even if you hate the fuckers guts, but just can't take the bullshit etc and your concerns about covid. Make several scripts and run them by RIU for improvement, remember, you have to convince morons to stay home or don't vote, people short on critical thinking skills and personal integrity, don't be afraid to bullshit them, Donald does.
 

mysunnyboy

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I, like Joe, stutter. Especially on the phone.
But great point and I am going to do something, anything more than I am now.
I’ve gotta have lunch alone with my father, a republican but not a big trump guy. If I could ever sway him, hallelujah and praise Jesus, many of his old people friends would follow.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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I, like Joe, stutter. Especially on the phone.
But great point and I am going to do something, anything more than I am now.
I’ve gotta have lunch alone with my father, a republican but not a big trump guy. If I could ever sway him, hallelujah and praise Jesus, many of his old people friends would follow.
Hearts and minds, start with the heart, it's the way into the mind, George Floyd's slow motion murder on national TV broke a lot of hearts, but it also changed a lot of minds. If they have a heart and value personal integrity, you have a way in, if skillful means are used. If they won't vote for Joe, perhaps they might stay home and not vote for any other republican, since they are all corrupt and useless.

Remember too redistricting is next year and who controls state houses, controls redistricting or gerrymandering if the GOP does it.


"Heading into the 2020 elections, Republicans hold a majority in more chambers than Democrats. There is a Republican majority in 61 chambers and a Democratic majority in 37 chambers. In the Alaska House, there is a power-sharing agreement between the parties as part of a coalition.

A state government trifecta is a term to describe single-party government when one political party holds three positions in a state's government. Heading into the 2020 elections, there are 36 trifectas: 15 Democratic and 21 Republican. The other 14 states are under divided government, meaning they have neither a Democratic nor a Republican trifecta".
 

hanimmal

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/02/breonna-taylor-grand-jury-proceedings-released/
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Police and civilian witnesses sharply disagreed about whether Louisville officers announced themselves before breaking down Breonna Taylor’s door in March and shooting her, newly revealed grand jury recordings show, laying bare a core disagreement about what happened in the moments before she was killed.

These divergent accounts were among those included in a trove of audio recordings made public Friday, a highly unusual release that pierced the typical secrecy shrouding the grand jury process. But prosecutors’ recommendations to jurors weighing whether any officers should be charged in Taylor’s death were not recorded, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office said, an absence that legal analysts said leaves pivotal questions unanswered about how his office handled the case.

In a court motion this week, an unidentified grand juror requested release of the audio and permission to speak publicly about the proceedings, accusing Cameron (R) of “using grand jurors as a shield to deflect accountability and responsibility” for the charging decision in the case.

The release of the grand jury recordings came more than a week after Cameron announced that no Louisville officers would be charged for fatally shooting Taylor while serving a warrant at her apartment. Brett Hankison, an ex-Louisville police officer who opened fire that night, was indicted by the grand jury for allegedly endangering her neighbors.

Kentucky attorney general says he did not present homicide charges to grand jury in Breonna Taylor case

This outcome further inflamed anger over Taylor's death, which has spurred months of protests since the 26-year-old emergency room technician was shot and killed, setting off a new wave of demonstrations in Louisville and calls for more information about the grand jury deliberations.

Much of the public criticism of Cameron’s handling of the case has centered on what evidence his office presented to the grand jury and what charges it recommended. At a news conference announcing the grand jury’s decision, Cameron said that he walked jurors through Kentucky’s six homicide charges, but he later said his office only suggested they only indict on wanton endangerment charges.

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Samuel A. Marcosson, a law professor at the University of Louisville, called the decision not to reveal the recommendations “completely unacceptable.”

“It leaves unanswered the single most fundamental questions that have been raised: whether the grand jury had a genuine opportunity to consider more serious charges, and whether the Attorney General was being candid when he said multiple times that the grand jury agreed with him that Officers Mattingly and Cosgrove acted reasonably,” Marcosson wrote in an email.

“If we don’t know what the prosecutors recommended, and we don’t know what the grand jury deliberated about, we [k]now very little more now than we did yesterday,” he said.

A spokeswoman for Cameron declined to comment beyond the news release and statement issued Friday. Attorneys for Taylor’s family, who had called for the grand jury proceedings to be made public and have questioned Cameron’s handling of the case, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

But in a Facebook post Friday, Sam Aguiar, an attorney for the Taylor family, criticized the prosecutors’ responses to the jurors questions.
“Grand jurors keep asking great questions. Asking about clarification of facts. Evidence. Details. Instead of getting them the answers, the evidence or the people with answers, prosecutors and witnesses simply say they don’t know and imply it’s not important,” Aguiar wrote. “Not how this is supposed to go down.”

Jurors can be heard throughout the recording asking questions, inquiring how no body camera footage captured the shooting and seeking the specific time the warrant was issued. At one point, when Jeff Fogg, an investigator with the attorney general’s office, remarks that there is not enough time to examine all of the available video, someone else in the room pushes back, replying: “We got time.”

The recordings did reveal more details about the dispute over whether officers announced their presence before breaking down Taylor’s door when serving the warrant shortly after midnight on March 13.

Several officers testified that they repeatedly knocked on Taylor’s door and announced their presence before breaking the door with a battering ram. Cosgrove told the attorney general’s office in an interview that Mattingly started out knocking “like a pizza guy.” But eventually, Cosgrove said, police pounded forcefully.

Cosgrove estimated that officers were knocking for at least 90 seconds and identifying themselves, saying he felt “like we are out there and knocking on this door way too long.”

Hankison told the grand jury that he identified the police five to seven times and that they waited “maybe 30 to 45 seconds” before breaching the door. Two other Louisville police officers — Officer Michael Nobles and Detective Anthony James — testified that they let about two minutes pass.
In a statement recorded the night of the raid and played for the jury, Detective Mike Campbell said the officers “were really loud” in announcing themselves.

But six of Taylor’s neighbors said the first noise they heard was gunshots, rather than police announcing themselves, Detective Herman Hall, an investigator within Cameron’s office, told the grand jury.

When Cameron explained the grand jury’s decision last week, he cited one civilian witness who told Hall he heard the police identify themselves while he was at the complex picking up his daughter from a babysitter. That witness, identified by prosecutors as Aaron Sarpee, has come under scrutiny after leaked audio cast doubt on officials’ conclusions. In two earlier interviews with police, in March and again in May, Sarpee recounted not hearing police announce themselves, Hall said

A lawyer for Sarpee earlier this week told The Washington Post that his client is now adamant that police only identified themselves in passing, while telling Sarpee to go back inside.

“If people want to construe [Sarpee’s comments] to mean that … the police did it loud enough that the people inside can hear, so be it,” the lawyer, Paul Mullins said. “But that’s not his statement.”

The disagreement is significant because Cameron has said the two police officers who shot Taylor — Cosgrove and Mattingly — were justified because her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired at them first. But Walker has said he did not hear police announce themselves and fired a shot because he thought an intruder was breaking into the home.

When Fogg was interviewed in front of the grand jurors, he said that officers were serving a warrant for “illegal drugs, drug paraphernalia and money” and chose to announce themselves. The target of their investigation, Jamarcus Glover, was Taylor’s ex-boyfriend. Fogg described the warrant as valid and said the officers executing it “were acting in good faith.”

Hankison, the lone officer charged, said he believed that older officers were assigned to Taylor’s apartment, rather than other homes searched that night, “because this was going to be the easy location.”

When officers broke the door open, Hankison testified, he saw someone “in a military-style shooting stance” holding what he thought was an AR-15 or similar weapon. As Hankison ran back toward the parking lot, the former officer testified, he heard gunfire and then heard someone say Mattingly had been struck.

“I thought they were just being executed,” Hankison testified.

Another officer, Lt. Shawn Hoover, said in an interview the day of the shooting that he had thought their team was being “ambushed,” saying “the neighbors knew we were there.”

Cosgrove told the attorney general’s office he became “immediately overwhelmed” by bright flashes when the door was broken down and said he saw what appeared to be a “larger than normal” human shadow inside the apartment and fired at it.

Hankison said he fired in the direction he thought the person inside the apartment was firing from. Authorities said some of his shots traveled into an apartment near Taylor’s, and he was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment because three people were inside. He has pleaded not guilty.
 

hanimmal

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/07/daniel-cameron-megan-thee-stallion-snl/
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Rapper Megan Thee Stallion used her performance on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend to send a harsh message to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) over his handling of the Breonna Taylor case. Midway through her song “Savage,” she played an audio recording of activist Tamika Mallory saying, “Daniel Cameron is no different than the sellout Negroes that sold our people into slavery.”


On Tuesday, Cameron lashed back at the performer, lambasting her for calling him out in the live performance.

“The fact that someone would get on national television and make disparaging comments about me because I’m simply trying to do my job, is disgusting,” Cameron said on “Fox & Friends,” incorrectly attributing the words to the rapper herself and not Mallory.

Megan Thee Stallion’s performance came two weeks after a grand jury in Jefferson County, Ky., decided not to indict the Louisville officers who fatally shot Taylor inside her apartment in March for her death. The grand jury instead indicted one of the three officers, Brett Hankison, a former Louisville police detective who was fired in June, with three counts of wanton endangerment for allegedly endangering the lives of Taylor’s neighbors.

Cameron was widely criticized by activists and protesters, who had spent months demanding that the officers who fired on Taylor be charged in her death. Cameron said he didn’t recommend homicide charges to the grand jury.

Last week, recordings of the grand jury proceedings were released after an unidentified grand juror accused Cameron of “using grand jurors as a shield to deflect accountability and responsibility.” The recordings showed a dispute over the moments leading up to Taylor’s death, specifically if police announced themselves upon entering. On Saturday, Ben Crump, a civil rights lawyer who is representing Taylor’s family, called for a new special prosecutor to reopen the case against the police officers.

Grand jury recordings capture dispute over Breonna Taylor’s final moments, but not prosecutors’ recommendations

During his interview on Fox News on Tuesday, Cameron defended his handling of the grand jury, saying that he did it “in a manner consistent with what the facts in the law are,” he said.

“At the end of the day, my responsibility is to provide facts and truth and represent and stand up for justice,” Cameron added.

The Kentucky attorney general also criticized Crump, accusing him of “cherry-picking” and “misrepresenting facts,” adding that “it is terribly offensive on his part to push such narratives, such falsehoods."

“Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy also asked Cameron to respond to Megan Thee Stallion’s “SNL” performance.

The rapper, dressed in a black-and-white-striped bodysuit, performed her hit song in front of a graphic that said, “Protect Black Women.” About halfway through her performance, she said, “We need to protect our Black women and love our Black women. 'Cause at the end of the day, we need our Black women.” Her act also included excerpts from Malcolm X’s 1962 speech, when he called the Black woman the most “disrespected," “unprotected,” and “neglected” person in America.


“It’s something I’ve had to experience because I’m a Black Republican, because I stand up for truth and justice as opposed to giving in to a mob mentality,” Cameron said.

Representatives for Megan Thee Stallion did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

He added that like Crump, Megan Thee Stallion wasn’t considering all the facts in Taylor’s case.

“I think what you saw there in that display is someone who instead wants to fashion facts to a narrative,” Cameron said. “That narrative is simply not true in this particular case with Ms. Taylor. Again, it is a tragedy what happened to her.”

Cameron also accused the rapper of being hypocritical by preaching tolerance but targeting him in a national performance.

“The fact that a celebrity that I’ve never met before wants to make those sorts of statements — they don’t hurt me,” Cameron said.
 

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