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Police Groups Slam Biden Judicial Pick for Ties to Group That Celebrated Cop Killers as Freedom Fighters

2024-03-03

[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Adeel Mangi is already under fire for work with an anti-Israel think tank.

Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi already faces headwinds to his nomination over ties to an anti-Israel think tank that hosted holy warriors on the anniversary of 9/11. Now, he’s facing the ire of police organizations over his links to a group that hails six cop killers as "freedom fighters."

Five police unions representing 280,000 officers have urged senators to oppose Mangi’s nomination for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals over his position on the advisory board of the Alliance of Families for Justice.

"The fact that Mr. Mangi, as an Advisory Board member, aligns himself with an organization advocating for the release of convicted cop-killers is seriously disturbing," said the National Sheriffs’ Association, which represents more than 3,000 sheriffs across the country. Mangi’s affiliation with the Alliance of Families for Justice "raises concerns about a potential bias against victims and law enforcement," the sheriffs’ group said.

At issue is the Alliance of Families for Justice’s support for and connection to convicted cop killers. Mangi joined the left-wing group in 2019 and is still listed as an advisory board member.

In 2021, the Alliance of Families for Justice called for the parole of former black nationalists Sundiata Acoli, Mumia Abu Jamal, Mutulu Shakur, Russell Maroon Shoatz, Jamil al-Amin, and Kamau Sadiki—all serving life sentences for murdering coppers. The alliance refers to them as "elder freedom fighters" who were set up by the FBI, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Kathy Boudin, a member of the terrorist group Weather Underground, served on the Alliance’s board from its founding in 2016 until her death in 2022. Boudin, the mother of ousted the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
prosecutor Chesa Boudin, was convicted of murdering two New York coppers during an armored truck robbery with Black Liberation Army members in 1981. The Alliance of Families for Justice established a fellowship in her name last year.

The Rockland County Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the police union that represented the two officers murdered during Boudin’s heist, said Mangi’s affiliation with the Alliance of Families for Justice shows "his lack of care for life and the rule of law."

The opposition from police groups could put additional pressure on swing-state Democrats to vote against Mangi, who, if confirmed, will have jurisdiction over federal cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Republicans oppose him over his advisory board position with the Rutgers Law School’s Center on Security, Race and Rights, an anti-Israel think tank that hosted anti-Semites and a convicted terrorist at an event on the20th anniversary of 9/11.

The conservative Judicial Crisis Network launched ad campaigns to call on Democratic Sens. Bob Casey (Pa.), Jon Tester (Mont.), and Sherrod I absolutely trust Hillary Brown
Sherrod <q>I absolutely trust Hillary</q> Brown

Sherrod <q>I absolutely trust Hillary</q> Brown

Dem senator from Ohio who harbored the same presidential ambitions as the rest of his colleagues. At a distance he was indistinguishable from most other Dem politicians, including the females. It can be said that he waned without waxing...
(Ohio) to vote against Mangi over his position at Rutgers. The White House has accused Republicans of "Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
" for opposing Mangi, who would be the first Moslem to serve on a federal appeals court.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee released letters from the police groups ahead of a confirmation vote for Mangi, for which a date has not been set.

The National Association of Police Organizations, which represents 241,000 coppers, said Mangi had "made his choice" to associate with a group that "exalt[s] unrepentant killers who were convicted following legal trials in courts of law."

The New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association, which has 32,000 members, said Mangi’s "leadership and association with the Alliance of Families for Justice makes it clear he cannot be impartial in dealing with law enforcement officers." The 1,000-member State Troopers NCO Association of New Jersey said, "We strongly condemn any group who advocates in favor of those who have attacked and killed law enforcement officers."

Mangi has not responded to several requests for comment about his role at the Alliance of Families for Justice. He was not asked about the group during his confirmation hearing. The Alliance of Families for Justice did not respond to a request for comment.

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Europe

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen acquitted after sharing IS execution images

2021-05-05

[IsraelTimes] Court clears politician over posts with pictures of beheaded journalist, captive being run over by truck and Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage.

A French court on Tuesday acquitted far-right leader and presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen on charges she broke hate-speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
atrocities.

Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015,

...six years ago...

a few weeks after Islamic State jihadists killed 130 people in attacks in Gay Paree, in response to a journalist who she accused of drawing a comparison between IS and her party.

One of the pictures showed the body of James Foley, an American journalist beheaded by the Islamist terrorists.

Another showed a man in an orange jumpsuit being run over by a tank, and the third a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage.

"ISIS is this!" Le Pen wrote in a caption, using an Arabic acronym for IS.

In 2018 a judge charged her,

...three years later. In the middle of a political campaign that she might otherwise have won, if I recall correctly...

as well as her National Rally party colleague Gilbert Collard who also tweeted the pictures, with circulating "~~violent~~ mostly peaceful messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity" and that can be viewed by a minor.

The crime is punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of $90,000 (75,000 euros), but the prosecution sought only a $6,000 (5,000 euro) fine.

The court acquitted both Le Pen and Collard on Tuesday, citing the right to freedom of expression.

The court recognized Le Pen’s intention to inform by sharing the images and said doing so can contribute to public debate, as long as violence is not normalized.

"It’s a great victory for law because freedom of expression was at stake in this case," Le Pen’s lawyer Rodolphe Bosselut told news hounds.

"Freedom of expression has been recognized as complete for a top politician," he added.

The verdict comes as opinion polls show Le Pen will likely face off again against President Emmanuel Macron in next year’s presidential contest, in a repeat of the run-off seen in the last presidential elections in 2017.

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Fifth Column

John Johnson aka Leonard Lorenzo Patrick, founder of Portland BLM-antifa kitchen Riot Ribs, was arrested & charged w/a felony in relation to a hit & run

2020-12-04

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

John Johnson aka Leonard Lorenzo Patrick, founder of Portland BLM-antifa kitchen Riot Ribs, was arrested & charged w/a felony in relation to a hit & run. He is a former Black Panther member.

Riot Ribs shut down this summer after raising over $300k https://t.co/TkMAa6spP7 pic.twitter.com/7penyS5fml
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) December 3, 2020

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-PC Follies

Nike uses Kaepernick and BLM to distract you from their support of Islamophobic genocide

2020-11-30

[Washington Examiner] For all the conservative frustration over woke corporatism's embrace of virtue signaling, it's worth remembering that the real cost of companies posing black squares in honor of George Floyd and signs reading, "HATE HAS NO HOME HERE," isn't mere political correctness. Instead, we pay in literal bloodshed, as expertly evidenced in the microcosm of Nike's prime puppet, Colin Kaepernick.

After decades of criticism for the use of sweatshops and occasionally child labor, Nike leveraged neoliberalism's greatest weapon against change, the supposed moral facade known as virtue signaling. The sports brand, now the highest valued on the planet, signed Kaepernick, the ex-NFL player famous for kneeling for the national anthem and celebrating dictators like Che Guevera and convicted cop killers like Mumia Abu-Jamal, as their latest face with the slogan, "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."

It's a pithy tagline, and one that perfectly highlights why Nike's gambit is both so brilliant and evil. By signing Kaepernick and earning the favor of liberal elites, Nike had to sacrifice nothing, and the only thing that's changed about its insistence in using sweatshops is that in Xinjiang, they're graduated to slave labor, and that from Nike's former woke critics, there's suddenly silence.

And now, Nike, which is disproportionately favored by liberals over conservatives, according to consumer research, has joined a number of other nominally woke companies to lobby Congress to roll back crucial aspects of the proposed Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

"In the first three quarters of 2020, Nike spent $920,000 on in-house lobbying of Congress and other federal agencies," the New York Times reports. "Disclosures do not break down expenditures by topic, but show Nike lobbied on matters including physical education grants, taxes and climate change, as well as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Nike also paid outside firms like Cornerstone Government Affairs, Ogilvy, Capitol Counsel, GrayRobinson, American Continental Group, DiNino Associates and Empire Consulting Group more than $400,000 this year to lobby on issues including the act."

The few conservatives who did choose to boycott Nike over their Kaepernick deal were wrong for the same reason liberals boycotting Chick-fil-A over the founder's personal religious views were. But consumers boycotting Nike and Congress legislating away their literal contribution to the Chinese Communist Party's ethnic cleansing of the Uighurs are obviously corrUighurect, and the Kaepernick deal has provided Nike with enough of a woke facade that it actively makes both the effect of boycotts and passing meaningful legislation all the harder.

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Home Front: Politix

Lawyer Who Worked On Trump Pennsylvania Effort Placed Under Official Protection, Report Says

2020-11-20

[DAILYWIRE] A Philadelphia attorney who was representing President Trump’s campaign has been reportedly placed under official protection after threats were made against her.

Noting court papers filed on Wednesday, the New York Post reported, "Philadelphia lawyer Linda Kerns ’has been the subject of threats of harm, to the point at which the involvement of police and U.S. Marshals has been necessary to provide for her safety,’ the filing says." The Post added, "The stunning revelation came two days after Kerns, a solo practitioner, sought sanctions against a lawyer from the firm representing Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar for leaving her an ’abusive voicemail on Saturday night.’"

The phone call came from a junior attorney at Kirkland & Ellis. Daniel Donovan, Kirkland’s lead attorney on the election suit targeting Pennsylvania, told the court on Monday, "That associate was acting unilaterally, in his personal capacity, without the knowledge or authorization of undersigned counsel or the Firm ... The associate provided a personal email and had a baby babbling in the background during the voicemail," according to Politico.

The document filed Monday seeking sanctions showed Kern’s claim: "Since this case was filed, undersigned counsel has been subjected to continuous harassment in the form of abusive e-mails, phone calls, physical and economic threats, and even accusations of treason — all for representing the President of the United States’ campaign in this litigation."

"It is one thing for members of the public to break the laws of decorum, or even laws of Pennsylvania or the United States, by engaging in such harassment," Kerns continued. "This Court’s role is not to protect counsel from such attacks. But it is another thing for a lawyer in the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis, Secretary Boockvar’s outside counsel, to do so. And yet that is what happened. It is quintessentially the Court’s role to police and appropriately sanction law firms appearing in front of it for such conduct. It is plaintiff’s obligation to defend its counsel, and it does so now by respectfully moving for an order for Kirkland & Ellis to show cause justifying the conduct of its lawyers."

"Contacted about this message, Secretary Boockvar’s counsel first opined that despite the caller identification on the voicemail the call may not have been placed from Kirkland & Ellis," Kerns wrote, adding:

Confronted with the fact that the firm issues cell phones to its lawyers and it should be easy to check a directory to confirm that this number belongs to one of his colleagues, opposing counsel finally admitted that it did, but then excused the conduct by saying the lawyer (who works in the same office) does not work on this case or in litigation, and offering that the call was "discourteous" and apologizing for wasting time.

That is not good enough under the Rules of this Court or the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct, and this Court’s authority to issue sanctions exists in order to protect litigants, counsel, and the Rules themselves. It is sad that we currently reside in a world where abuse and harassment are the costs of taking on a representation unpopular with some. It is sanctionable when that abuse and harassment comes from an elite law firm representing the Secretary of State.

After she submitted the document seeking sanctions on Monday, Kerns submitted papers with the U.S. District Court stating that she wanted to withdraw from the effort the Trump campaign was making to challenge the results in Pennsylvania, ABC News reported.

Would she still get protection after withdrawing from the case?

In an unrelated note, Politico reported, "Some of the most prominent figures urging law firms to back out of Trump’s legal defense are associated with the Lincoln Project, a group of current and former Republican political consultants and activists who ran ads against Trump during the campaign and promised a similar media fusillade against the firms."

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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Colin Kaepernick calls for release of Mumia Abu-Jamal, former Black Panther convicted of killing police officer

2020-11-19

[CBSNEWS] Activist and ~~has been~~ free agent NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick

...Formerly a petulant quarterback for the San Francisco Giants, now looking for a job. He was willing to stand up for his princles by kneeling during the national anthem, which he had every right to do, but not willing to take the consequences, which he apparently thought shouldn't apply to him...
called for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther who was convicted of killing a White Philadelphia police officer in 1981. He made the comments during a virtual conference with supporters fighting for his release on Monday.

"We're in the midst of a movement that says 'Black Lives Matter.' And if that's truly the case, then it means that Mumia's life and legacy must matter," Kaepernick said in a video statement. "And the causes that he sacrificed his life and freedom for must matter as well."

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Home Front: Culture Wars

Black Panther film fuels calls for release of jailed political activists

2018-02-17

[The Guardian] When he was released from prison in 2014, Sekou Odinga felt like he was falling from the sky into a foreign land. After 33 years behind bars, the former Black Panther party leader was released into a United States he didn’t recognize ‐ with strange technology and grandchildren he had never hugged.

Though he celebrated with family and supporters, Odinga, 73, also remained mindful of the many other civil rights activists who weren’t so lucky: "You always feel like you don’t want to leave nobody behind."

This weekend, his advocacy group is gathering outside movie theaters across New York City to educate crowds at sold-out screenings of Black Panther about the real-life Black Panthers who fought for black liberation in the 1960s and 1970s ‐ some of whom have also been fighting for their own freedom from incarceration for decades.

The Marvel superhero film, which is already breaking records at the box office, takes place in a fictional African country and has been widely praised as a well-timed political commentary.

For some activists, however, Ryan Coogler’s film and mostly black cast is much more than a refreshing comic book story that breaks down stereotypes in an industry dominated by white film-makers.
Sadly, there is much more and yes, it includes Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal aka Wes Clark speaks to college grads.

2014-10-06

[Fox] A convicted cop killer spoke to a graduating class at a Vermont college Sunday despite outrage over his invitation, telling the students they should strive to make the world "better."
Vermont? Oh well, that explains quite a lot.
Mumia Abu-Jamal spoke by video to 20 students receiving bachelor degrees from Goddard College in Plainfield. He earned a degree from the college in 1996.
Names and photographs of the 20 students was unavailable.
"Think about the myriad of problems that beset this land and strive to make it better," Abu-Jamal said in the video.
I can think of a way he could "make it better."

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Government

FBI Agents Revolt Against Holder

2014-02-07

FEBRUARY 6, 2014 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF
FBI AGENTS REVOLT AGAINST ERIC HOLDER

First it was the Justice Departments career prosecutors; now its FBI agents. The federal employees responsible for fighting crime are simply unable to digest the anti-law enforcement slop being served up by their boss, Attorney General Holder.

The FBIs beef is with the selection of Debo Adegbile as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. The FBI Agents Associations opposition is based on the way in which Adegbile defended, and led the cheers for, cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.

The problem isnt that Adegbile defended Abu-Jamal. The problem, as Bill Otis explains, is that Adegbile led a street campaign to denounce the policeman Abu-Jamal killed, Officer Daniel Faulkner, and the police in general, as an occupying fascist army.

Accordingly the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) has communicated its opposition to Adegbiles nomination to Vice President Biden, Attorney General Holder, and the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Unfortunately, that Committee today approved the nomination 10-8 in a straight party line vote.

The FBIAAs views are destined to fall on deaf ears both among Senate Democrats and at the Attorney Generals office. Thats probably because deep down the Democratic lefts view of the police isnt much different from the contemptible portrayal offered by the man Holder has tapped to be Assistant Attorney General.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Black D.A. Drops Death Penalty Against Cop-Killer Black Panther Mumia

2011-12-07

District Attorney R. Seth Williams announced Wednesday that he will no longer pursue the death penalty against former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, meaning he will spend the rest of his life in prison for gunning down a white police officer nearly 30 years ago.
Abu-Jamal had become beloved by leftists around the world for his persistent condemnations and attacks on America, his efforts to blame everyone else for the cold blooded murder he committed, and the aggressive efforts of his well funded attorneys to help him evade the death penalty for 30 years, all the while tormenting the survivors of his victim.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Federal Appeals Court Gives Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal Yet Another Chance

2011-04-26

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new sentencing hearing for convicted police killer and death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, finding for a second time that the death-penalty instructions given to the jury at his 1982 trial were potentially misleading.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered prosecutors to conduct the new sentencing hearing within six months or agree to a life sentence. Abu-Jamal's first-degree murder conviction nonetheless stands in the fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Faulkner.

Prosecutors said they were considering another appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"While it upheld the defendant's conviction for first degree murder, the federal third circuit court of appeals today affirmed the order of the federal district court granting a new sentencing proceeding," District Attorney Seth Williams said in a statement. "We continue to maintain that granting this new sentencing hearing is contrary to clearly established precedent of the United States Supreme Court, and we are now considering whether to seek further review of today's decision in the Supreme Court."

Abu-Jamal's lawyer is Widener University law professor Judith Ritter.

Tuesday's ruling is the latest in Abu-Jamal's long-running legal saga.

A federal judge in 2001 first granted the former Black Panther a new sentencing hearing over the trial judge's instructions on aggravating and mitigating factors. Philadelphia prosecutors have been fighting the order since, but the 3rd Circuit ruled against them in a pivotal 2008 decision.

In rejecting a similar claim in an Ohio death-penalty case last year, the Supreme Court ordered the Philadelphia appeals court to revisit its Abu-Jamal decision.

On Tuesday, the 3rd Circuit judges stood their ground and noted differences in the two cases.

Under Pennsylvania law, Abu-Jamal should have received a life sentence if a single juror found the mitigating circumstances outweighed the aggravating factors in Faulkner's slaying. The three-judge appeals panel found the verdict form confusing, given its repeated use of the word "unanimous," even in the section on mitigating circumstances.

"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court failed to evaluate whether the complete text of the verdict form, together with the jury instructions, would create a substantial probability the jury believed both aggravating and mitigating circumstances must be found unanimously," Judge Anthony J. Scirica wrote in the 32-page ruling.

Tuesday's decision upholds the 2001 ruling by U.S. District Judge William H. Yohn Jr., who first ruled that the flawed jury instructions warranted a new sentencing hearing. While prosecutors were fighting that ruling, Abu-Jamal has been fighting unsuccessfully to have his conviction overturned.

Faulkner, a white 25-year-old patrolman, had pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother on a darkened downtown street in 1981. Prosecutors say Abu-Jamal saw the traffic stop and shot Faulkner, who managed to shoot back. A wounded Abu-Jamal, his own gun nearby, was found at the scene when police arrived.

Abu-Jamal is now 58. His writings and radio broadcasts from death row have made him a cause celebre and the subject of numerous books and movies. Hundreds of vocal death-penalty opponents and supporters typically turn out for hearings in his case.

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Home Front: Culture Wars

African Americans march against Obama

2009-11-07

DECRYING Barack Obama as "white power in black face", hundreds of African Americans marched on the White House today to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home.

More than 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African Americans against the Obama administration since his historic inauguration in January, and slammed the president for continuing what they described as Washington's "imperialist" agenda around the world.

"We recognise that Barack Hussein Obama is white power in black face," civil rights activist Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black is Back coalition which arranged the protest, called into a megaphone as the group marched outside the mansion's gates.

"He is a tool of our imperialist enemies and we demand our freedom. And we demand that Obama withdraw all the troops from Afghanistan right now."

Protesters also called for Mr Obama to order troops out of Iraq and to scrap Africom, the controversial year-old United States Africa Command, and demanded "hands off" Venezuela and ends to the Cuba embargo and the Zimbabwe blockade.

Several demonstrators held up placards bearing messages such as "US out of Afghanistan" and "Stop US war against Iraq".

Charles Baron, a New York city councilman and former member of the Black Panthers, a Black Power movement in the mid-1960s and 70s, attacked the president for turning a cold shoulder to the plight of African Americans.

"We're not satisfied with him, and ... this hope and change rap has not been a reality for black people," Mr Baron said.

"We are glad that Barack Obama broke up the white male monopoly on the White House, but we were not looking for a change in the occupant of the White House from white to black, we were looking for change in foreign policies and domestic policies," he said.

"To have a black person exploiting me just like a white person, that's no easier pain."

The group also called for the release of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted in 1982 of killing a white police officer and sentenced to death.

The US Supreme Court upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction in April and rejected his bid for a new trial.

Black Americans voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Obama in last year's election, when he defeated Republican Senator John McCain.

About 13 per cent of US citizens are African Americans

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