~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
Damarlon C. Thomas, age 31, commuted by Barack Obama in November, executed.
A former gang member whose drug sentence was commuted last November by Barack Obama was executed at a federal halfway house in Saginaw, Michigan.
The goal: execution. Two masked gangbangers entered the halfway house Monday night armed with two rifles in search of 31-year-old, Damarlon C. Thomas, a former member of the Sunny Side Gang in Saginaw, Michigan sentenced originally to 19 years in prison.
One of the gunmen corralled about 20 of the people on the premises at the time into one area as the other searched for Thomas eventually pumping multiple shots into the head of the former gang banger killing him.
…Damarlon C. Thomas, a former member of Saginaw’s Sunny Side Gang who had his 19-year prison sentence commuted by Obama in November, was slain by one of the gunmen around 9:40 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, at Bannum Place, the federal halfway house located at 2200 Norman St., Michigan State Police Lt. David Kaiser said….
“One person watched over a group of them while another subject located the victim and executed him,” Kaiser said. “They were looking for this person….”
In November, Obama commuted the sentences of 79 inmates, one of which Thomas who was sentenced to 19 years in prison.
In 2007, Thomas was arrested on possession of cocaine distribution charges along with 16 others in what was said to be the largest drug sting (“Operation Sunset”) in the city’s history.
A federal grand jury has indicted 17 suspected Saginaw gang members whom authorities describe as the “worst of the worst.”
Authorities believe all 17 belong to the Sunny Side gang that operates on the city’s South Side.
Agents arrested some suspects and seized four handguns, about eight ounces of crack cocaine, nearly a half-kilogram of cocaine, about five pounds of marijuana, roughly $35,000 in cash, ammunition and drug paraphernalia when they executed four federal search warrants early Thursday in Saginaw….
Last week, Obama commuted another 300 plus sentences bringing his number of commutations to about 1,715 people that according to Obama deserved a second shot.
Second chance or not, some deserved a second chance while others should never be free again. The bottom line is that many of the people that Obama has put back on the streets of America are dangerous and Damarlon Thomas will not be the last person to die because of Obama’s commutations.
What about the people and families of those whose testimony resulted in justice being served? Obama’s commutations are going to result in violence and loss of lives.
As if Obama hasn’t contributed enough to crime in the streets of America with his war on law enforcement, his commutations of some who should never be free again just kicked it up a notch.
What a difference a week makes. It was less than a week ago, that Rahm Emanuel publicly stood by Police Supt. Garry McCarthy. (screenshot)
Earlier today, Chicago’s Commie Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the firingresignation termination of the city’s Police Supt. Garry McCarthy.
The firing comes as no surprise since the City has been in full crisis mode because of protests that erupted after the release of the dashboard video documenting the shooting death Laquan McDonald.
Throw in Chicago’s botched handling of the execution a few weeks back that outraged the nation of nine year old, Tyshawn Lee who was playing on a swing when targeted and lured to his death by three members of the Black P Stones gang and someone had to take the fall.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, McCarthy met with Emanuel last evening. The meeting ended with the police chief still having a job but some time during the night Emanuel contacted McCarthy to inform him that he was officially terminated [my emphasis].
This morning at a news conference with the “shell-shocked” former police chief, at his side, Emanuel announced a new five member task force on police accountability and the termination of McCarthy of which came after calls by Black leaders demanding that heads to roll, i.e., that of the former police chief.
… Saying “now is a time for fresh eyes and new leadership,” Mayor Emanuel told the city at a press conference that he is setting up a commission consisting of community leaders and experts to address the problems in the police department and to help him choose a new superintendent….
Emanuel noted that McCaarthy has a strong record that he should “be proud of,” and that he helped modernize the Chicago Police Department (CPD). But Emanuel went on to say that the escalating unrest in the community over the shooting of the teen has showed him that changes have to be made….
Former Massachusetts governor, Deval Patrick was appointed senior advisor of the task force.
Patrick will be “charged with recommending reforms aimed at improving ‘independent oversight of police misconduct.’” (Take the white guy out, put a black guy into play and everybody’s happy. Lipstick on a pig.)
A six hour standoff began just before 6 a.m., Friday morning when four NYPD officers and four U. S. Marshals with the Regional Fugitive Task Force arrived at 15 Destiny Court in Staten Island, the home of Garland Tyree, leader of the Bloods subset Nine Trey gang to take the gang banger in for a probation violation.
According to law enforcement, Tyree violated his probation by traveling to the Bahamas, which was also drug related.
Shortly after the standoff began, Tyree posted the following to his Facebook page:
In spite postings from acquaintances to the gang leader’s Facebook page urging Tyree to live another day, the standoff and Tyree’s life ended sometime around noon after Tyree exited his home wearing a wearing a bullet-proof vest, carrying an AK-47 and began firing on law enforcement hitting police vehicles and surrounding houses.
The East Coast leader of the Bloods ordered police to fly his mother from Delaware to New York City before deliberately running into the line of fire at the end of a six-hour stand-off.
Garland ‘S.I.’ Tyree, 38, said ‘coming out now, I love you’ on the phone to his mother at around midday on Friday and told police he agreed to surrender.
But when he emerged from his Staten Island home wearing a bullet proof vest and armed with an AK-47, he opened fire. A police officer returned fire, killing Tyree.
Tyree, who served time for a homicide at 16 years old, set his house on fire and shot a firefighter at 5.45am on Friday when US Marshals came to arrest him for violating parole.
Two of his bullets hit Lt James Hayes, 53, one in the leg and one in the buttocks. Hayes, a 30-year veteran who recovered victims during the 9/11 attacks, is in a stable condition in hospital.
By 8.30am the fire was under control and a hostage squad had made contact with Tyree, who remained barricaded inside.
He requested four loved ones including his Delaware-based mother, his girlfriend, his assistant, and another friend. He told detectives he would surrender if his mother came to the scene….
NYC’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, is under attack for dereliction of duty; when de Blasio rather than visit the veteran firefighter wounded during the standoff instead went MIA for two hours to the gym.
According to de Blasio staff, the Commie dirt bag took phone calls. Oh yes and Bloomberg left his office early on Fridays to fly to weekend home in Bermuda.
De Blasio was dismissive of questions regarding his trip to the gym from reporters.
‘We’re briefing you all on a very serious situation, and that’s just not a serious question,’ Mr. de Blasio curtly replied during a press conference at a Staten Island police station when asked about his gym schedule….
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During the standoff, Tyree spoke to a reporter from DNA by phone stating the following:
‘I don’t know what they want. They just kicked in my door,’ Tyree calmly told DNAinfo New York earlier Friday morning.
Police were briefly in his home, but he beat them back by detonating a smoke grenade, which filled the place with heavy fumes, officials said.
‘I’m a person that takes life as it comes. It is what it is,’ said Tyree, who sources said heads the East Coast branch of the notorious Bloods gang.
Cops recovered three handguns in addition to the AK-47 from the dead man’s apartment, along with a pair of magazines loaded with more than 100 rounds of ammunition.
Tyree spent virtually his entire adult life behind bars, and was a high-ranking “O.G.” in the Bloods, said Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.
His first bust was on a homicide rap at age 16, followed by 17 more arrests — including three federal convictions, two on gun charges. He was also found guilty of assaulting another inmate while in the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, inflicting a gash that required 60 stitches to close….
From the looks of his FB page, at times Tyree who spent the majority of his life incarcerated saw himself as a victim. “He was jailed at the age of 16 for a homicide just feet away from the scene where he was shot dead on Friday.”
Tyree, referred to as an O.G. by law enforcement, may have suspected that law enforcement was on to him, having vowed never to return to prison, spent the past couple of weeks reflecting unapologetically on his past (Facebook and Instagram screenshots below).
The world today has one less gangbanging thug. The problem is that in less than a New York minute, Garland Tyree will be replaced.
Tomorrow morning (3/21/2015), Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA37) is holding a [pro]immigration town hall meeting featuring “pro-illegal alien” Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill) who has been in a rage threatening militancy ever since a federal judge handed down an injunction last month last month against Barack Obama’s illegal amnesty program.
Gutierrez is on a nationwide quest to force Obama’s amnesty agenda down our throats and no doubt to firm up his resume for the 2016 presidential elections.
Bass like her Communist peers will only listen to the voices of dreamers because those are the only votes that count to ideologues particularly in districts where non-Hispanics (primarily whites and Blacks are being victimized and run out of what was once their communities by Hispanic gangs). [See bottom of post]
Bass held a “pro-immigration” town hall event on July 27, 2013 in Los Angeles.
During the 2013 event, Bass among a panel of five speakers listened patiently while those “pro-immigration” had their say. However, when constituents opposed to amnesty, many of whom were Black Americans, began to express their opposition to illegal immigration, Bass, elected to serve all in her district exited the room.
Jamie Shaw II
In the first video Althea Shaw, aunt of Jamiel Shaw II, a Black teenager executed a few doors away from his home on March 2, 2008 by Pedro Espinoza an illegal alien gang banger, addresses a clearly annoyed Bass.
In the following video, one witnesses the dismissal of Althea Shaw by Bass in the process of exiting the town hall as Jamiel’s aunt attempts to engage the Congresswoman privately.
Bass opposed Jamiel’s Law.
Summary of Jamiel Shaw’s execution
On March 2, 2008 Jamiel Andre’ Shaw II, was executed by an illegal alien gang banger while returning home from the Beverly Center Mall.
As Jamiel walked home from the bus stop, his father (Jamiel Sr.) called Jamiel on his cell phone. Jamiel informed his father that he was right around the corner and would be home momentarily.
A moment later, Jamiel’s father heard the shots fired that would take his son’s life just three doors from his home.
Jamiel’s mother, Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, was serving in Iraq at the time of her son’s death and allowed to return home early to bury Jamiel.
At the time of his death, Shaw was carrying a red Spider-Man backpack. Espinoza convicted of first-degree murder mistook Shaw for a “rival gang member” and saw an opportunity to advance his gang status.
Shaw had encountered Espinoza on the sidewalk and ‘tried to walk around him,’ the judge said. At that point, ‘the defendant pulled a gun, shot him in the stomach, then walked around him and put a bullet in his head….’
During the trial, Deputy District Attorney Allyson Ostrowski told jurors that Espinoza, a Latino, ‘chose to execute a 17-year-old for the color of his skin and the color of his backpack,’ calling the slaying of Shaw, who was black, a ‘cold-blooded, calculated execution….’
Shaw was a good kid in every sense of the word with no gang ties and a promising future ahead of him.
Yet Bass, the Congressional rep for Shaw family, created a straw man to justify her opposition to Jamiel’s Law. Not #BlackLivesMatter or even #AllLivesMatter that is for certain.
Bass represents a district in which non-Hispanics are being victimized and run out of their homes and communities by Hispanic gangs.
Jesse Lee Peterson has for years spoke of and written about these events that are public knowledge yet ignored by Progressives, in particular, Black Progressives (CBC) whose only agenda is to remain in office.
For the past 22 years, I, along with a few others, have been sounding the alarm: The Mexican Mafia and their affiliated gangs have declared an all-out war on black Americans!
In Compton, Calif., a mother and her three children were recently intimidated by a group of Hispanic gang members. The intimidation reached a boiling point when four Hispanic men in a black SUV pulled up and began harassing a male family friend, calling him a ‘nigger’ and saying black people were barred from the neighborhood. According to reports, they jumped out, drew a gun on the family friend and beat him with metal pipes. It was just the beginning of what detectives said was a campaign to force the black family to leave.
According to the Los Angeles Times, similar attacks have taken place in Harbor Gateway, Highland Park, Pacoima, San Bernardino, Canoga Park and Wilmington, among other places over the last decade.
Sheriff’s detectives arrested two alleged members of the Compton Varrio 155 gang. “This family has no gang ties whatsoever,” Sheriff Department Lt. Richard Westin said. ‘They are complete innocent victims here….’
As pointed out in the above article, from Compton to Washington, DC, it is public knowledge that communities such as Compton, once predominantly Black now 65 percent Hispanic (less than 33 percent black) is under siege by Hispanics gangs who are running Blacks from their homes and their community.
In 2014, Peterson again addressed the war on California’s Black communities by illegal alien (Hispanic) gangs. In this instance, the firebombing of homes owned by Blacks as not reported by the mainstream media.
The declaration of war against Blacks by the Mexican Mafia and other gangs is occurring throughout Harbor Gateway, Highland Park, Pacoima, San Bernardino, Canoga Park and Wilmington yet politicians, the NAACP, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the CBC, KAREN BASS and other so-called Black leaders pretend not to notice the firebombed buildings or Black blood on the streets of their districts. Adding to that is the media blackout in place. Thus, it will not be a topic of discussion at Bass’ town hall event tomorrow.
The truth is that Black lives are not worth a damn to Karen Bass, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, everyone in the Congressional Black Caucus, Eric Holder or Progressives as a whole which is why there are so many abortion clinics in Black communities throughout the United States.
Nonetheless, spewing the propaganda that #BlackLivesMatter every so often on MSNBC and CNN or about how Bass and peers marched on Selma makes for a great 30-second sound bite in a campaign ad during the election season and for Karen Bass, that’s all that matters even though Bass and ideology is stands in opposition to the interests of those remaining Black constituents in her district.
It is all about politics and getting re-elected yet when it comes to the Black vote, Blacks demand so little effort in return.
There are many words that can describe 16-year-old Aniah Ferguson[i] and fellow gang bangers involved in the McDonald’s beat down of Erasmus Hall ninth grader Ariana Taylor Monday but sweet, confused, innocent and mentally ill children (as one or two posts refer) are not among them. (Enough with the sweet innocent Facebook photos. It’s getting old.)
Ferguson, the ringleader of the now infamous McD’s beat down (this week’s anyway) of Ariana Taylor was arrested Thursday on charges of gang assault and robbery and is reported to have a troubled past and rap sheet that includes arrests for stabbing her brother and beating up her grandmother, who took out an order of protection against her.
On September 22, 2014, Ferguson was arrested for punching a 20-year-old female in the back of the neck and resisting arrest.
Six days later (09/28/2014), she was charged with petty larceny and criminal possession of stolen property after helping a friend move.
October 14, 2014, charged with beating up her 64-year-old grandmother and arrested again on October 22 for violating an order of protection when Ferguson visited her grandmother’s home and refused to leave. A police officer was injured during the latter arrest.
Last month, the gang banger and mother of a one year old was arrested and charged with assault and weapons possession after stabbing her 18-year-old brother in the arm with a knife.
According to a report by the New York Daily News, Taylor who has yet to speak with police boasted of the beat down as if the brawl were a badge of honor or rite of passage on her Facebook page. .
‘Everyone Like Im Famous Now’” 15-year-old Ariana Taylor posted on her Facebook page a day after shocking video of her being brutalized at the Flatbush Ave. fast-food joint hit the Web….
Translation: No snitching. While many are commending Taylor on her Facebook page for holding her own dubbing her an “ICON”, others are imploring the teen to cooperate with police and give up the names of her attackers. Excerpts below. Warning — Some Language, Raw
Do not hold your breath on Taylor cooperating with NYPD. Besides, rumor has it that the brawl may have something to do with a past shooting. The street creed of “No snitching” will take precedence over the legal justice system. Then there is street justice which can be quite ugly.
For the record, while McDonald’s employees for the sake of their own safety did not intervene, several reached out to NYPD who as usual for this location did not show up until the brawl had ended[ii].
Of course, the same politicians who attack NYPD for racial profiling, among other things are this week decrying the savage beat down in a Flatbush McDonald’s by alleged gang bangers, i.e., members of the Young Savages while from De Blasio down refusing to address Black on Black crime because it is just not financially feasible.
Example, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams offered up a $1,000 reward out of his pocket for information leading to the arrest of others involved in this vicious assault.
One thousand dollars? Talk about placing a value on Black lives, thugs such as those involved in the brawl abscond with thousands of dollars from less than two or three home invasions or muggings? Really Eric Adams?
#BlackLivesMatter, nothing more than a prop and slogan much like that hope and changey thing that once promised to set the world on fire.
[i] One suspects that according to what appears to be a sanitized Facebook page, Ferguson until last year was a student of Colleton County High School (Class of 2018) in Walterboro, South Carolina). Maybe yes, maybe no.
[ii] Disclosure: Being familiar with this location and this McDonald’s, it is a known fact that the “junction” as many call it is a prime location dating back more than two decades for many afterschool/gang brawls.
What surprises me is that McDonald’s did not have adequate security on hand (they used to) to deal with the outbreak of violence.
At the same time, it is no surprise that the police who are always stationed in their cruisers just two blocks away (around the corner) on weekdays when school is dismissed and whose precinct is less than seven blocks from this location failed to show up until after the brawl had ended. That too, is business as usual dating back two and half decades. Google Earth screenshot below.
Police in southern Mexico are suspects in the disappearance of 43 Mexican students during a protest in which police shot at several buses transporting the protesters.
The bodies were dumped by hit men (and police) in a mass grave, doused with a flammable substance and set ablaze.
IGUALA, Mexico — Inaky Blanco, the chief prosecutor of violence-plagued Guerrero state, said it would take at least 15 days to identify the 28 bodies in the clandestine grave, some of which were badly burned and in pieces.
The site was found on Saturday in Pueblo Viejo, an impoverished district of the city of Iguala, where the missing students were last seen on the night of September 26, some 200 kilometers south of Mexico City.
‘A bed of branches and tree trunks was made, on which the bodies of the victims were laid and a flammable substance was used,’ Blanco said.
The students disappeared after Iguala municipal police officers shot at buses transporting them, and Blanco said the Guerreros Unidos gang participated in a night of violence that left six people dead, 25 wounded and 43 missing….
Mexican police killed three trainee teachers, shot another in the head and another in the face, and herded dozens more into police trucks to what investigators fear was a massacre on a remote hillside, survivors of the incident say.
At least three students were killed in a series of clashes that began after the youths commandeered three buses from the city’s bus station, the state government of Guerrero said.
Students say the shooting began after they resisted police demands to give up the buses, and that they then fled on foot. Three students were killed and another three people – including a taxi driver, his passenger and a teenage soccer player – also died in the gunfire….
Mexico’s federal forces were dispatched to Iguala and have disarmed the city’s entire police force, now accused of colluding with gangs in the death of the missing students.
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