The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Can Cops Get a Fair Trial in America?
by Michelle Malkin
.
Top Headlines
Trump set to meet with Russia's top diplomat at White House. (Fox News)
ACLU lawyer: Trump's travel ban might be constitutional if ordered by liar-Hillary Clinton. (Hot Air)
Trump's immigration enforcement helps slow illegal border crossings by 76%. (The Washington Times)
Los Angeles resolution makes public schools sanctuaries from ICE. (Fox News)
Mexico now world's deadliest conflict zone after Syria. (Bloomberg)
Chicago logs its 200th homicide of the year. (Chicago Tribune)
Black professor at Texas A&M University: When is it OK to kill whites? (The American Conservative)
Connecticut health insurance request average premium rate hikes as high as 52%. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Vet says he nearly operated on himself when VA wouldn't pay medical bill. (Fox Boston)
Satire: ISIS flag added to "coexist" stickers. (The Babylon Bee)
Policy: Liberals pining for (single-payer) universal Medicaid-for-all. (Townhall)
Policy: The feminization of everything fails our boys. (National Review) ~The Patriot Post
.
.
Grand Jury Subpoenas Have Been Issued
For Associates Of Michael Flynn
by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ Federal grand jury subpoenas have been issued for associates of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, CNN is reporting... The news is breaking just after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. According to CNN, the subpoenas were issued within the past several weeks by the U.S. Attorneys Office in the Eastern District of Virginia. Dana Boente oversees that office. He is also acting as head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division... http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/09/breaking-grand-jury-subpoenas-have-been-issued-for-associates-of-michael-flynn/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Evening.
.
by Michelle Malkin
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Lock your doors. Hide your children. Police officers, be on alert:
Al Sharpton's cop-bashing circus is back in full swing.
Harlem's godfather of racial hoax crimes is in Oklahoma this week to stir up trouble as jury selection begins in the manslaughter trial of Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby.
Shelby is white. Terence Crutcher, the man she shot and killed during a tense traffic standoff last fall, was black. That's all the demagogue demolition team needs to know. Damn the facts. Screw due process. Powder up Showbiz Al and hustle over to the media tent.
Lights, cameras, agitate!
Sharpton's "prayer vigil" isn't about expressing faith in God. It's about stoking the fires of identity politics at the altar of social justice. Sharpton's no man of peace. He's the fetid pile of human manure who ruined New York prosecutor Steven Pagones' life with the incendiary Tawana Brawley rape hoax. He stoked anti-Semitic hatred in Crown Heights after a tragic car accident -- leading to the frenzied mob murder of rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum. He has inveighed against "crackers" and cracked jokes about "offing the pigs."
Also headlining the self-serving service in Tulsa this week: Sharpton's rabble-rousing heir and fellow race fabulist, Benjamin Crump. He's the Florida-based celebrity lawyer for the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown families who gained international notoriety perpetuating the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" lie. Crump first parachuted into town last fall to snatch up the Crutcher family as new clients and to instigate protests outside Tulsa police headquarters demanding Officer Shelby's scalp.
Nearly 200 marchers wielded "Black Lives Matter" signs and screamed "Fire Betty!" before a police investigation was complete. Others waved "white silence is violence" posters or a photo of a police badge labeled "License to Kill." One protester took to the microphone to declare that "a good white man is a dead white man."
The agitation worked. Tulsa District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler rushed to file charges before the lead homicide detective in the case had finished his work -- an obvious attempt to appease the unappeasables and avoid the next Ferguson.
Make no mistake: When the social justice warriors crusade for "immediate justice," they're not asking for proper adjudication in the courts. They're demanding an immediate guilty verdict, retribution, and a big, fat civil rights lawsuit settlement.
Until the Shelby case, police under fire remained silent as the social justice mob hijacked the courts of law and public opinion. But Shelby and her lawyers fought back. She sat down with "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker last month to describe her state of mind during the encounter with a noncompliant Crutcher, who had the hallucinogenic drug PCP in his system at the time of his death. She adamantly insisted race was not a factor in the shooting and described the "lynch mob" atmosphere in the days since she was charged and put on administrative leave.
Crump and Sharpton faced no admonitions for their pre-trial antics. But after Shelby's TV appearance defending herself, the judge in the case issued the police officer and her legal team a reprimand. This is maddening.
Cops are damned if they do speak up and damned if they don't.
Two years ago, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was advised by his trial lawyer to stay quiet before and during his chaotic trial on trumped-up sexual assault charges by a parade of shady women who are now clients of Benjamin Crump's seeking high-dollar civil rights awards. Several of these convicted felons gave interviews or testified while high, couldn't identify Holtzclaw or his patrol car from photo line-ups, misidentified his race, hair color, height, and weight, and changed key details of their stories after being approached and coached by confirmation bias-driven detectives.
Holtzclaw, against his every instinct to defend his character and reputation, was told to keep quiet while accusers lied, prosecutors smeared, and disrupters shouted "Give him life!" and "Racist cop!" and "Racist jury!" Seven phones were confiscated from people taking photos in the courtroom, including images of jury members.
The judge in the case, Timothy Henderson, knew for weeks before trial that the city had granted a permit for protesters to occupy the steps and streets outside the courtroom. He lamely confessed that he didn't "know really what can be done other than to admonish the jury to disregard" the commotion. He and city officials claimed to be powerless to stop the sabotage of Holtzclaw's right to a fair trial -- sabotage that they enabled.
This week, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a motion by lawyers Randy Coyne and J. Christian Adams to submit an amicus brief in the Holtzclaw case on the dangerous hijacking of the courts by the social justice mob. Their message deserves to be heard.
"There is a First Amendment right of free speech. There also is a First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. But for outsiders at a criminal trial, there is no First Amendment right to petition the jury and browbeat it into delivering one's preferred verdict," the lawyers from opposite sides of the political aisle argued.
If real justice surrenders to social justice in the courtroom, we all lose.
Krauthammer On Comey’s Firing
by Henry Kronk
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Following FBI Director James Comey’s sudden and unexpected firing by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Fox News’ Charles Krauthammer asked the question that everyone was wondering... “Why was it done with malice?” Krauthammer asked on Special Report with Bret Baier. “There would have been so many ways of having Comey … step aside.” Trump sent a letter to Comey on Tuesday that read, “I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States recommending your dismissal as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...http://www.westernjournalism.com/krauthammer-comeys-firing-done-malice/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
.
Firing Of FBI Director Comey Couldn’t
Have Come Soon Enough
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Rand Paul is not shedding any of the fake, “Chuckodile” tears that Senator clown-Schumer is notorious for following the firing of FBI Director Comey... Paul told Charles Payne, “Well, you know, I think the firing of Comey couldn’t have come soon enough. I think all Americans thought he botched the liar-Clinton email investigation.” Paul explains, “If you’re a Democrat you thought he did too much to insinuate that she was guilty and then if you’re a Republican you thought, ‘If he insinuated she was guilty why didn’t they prosecute her?’ So I think both sides were unhappy and if virtually every American thinks you botched an investigation, maybe we need somebody else that can bring more confidence to the FBI.” Charles Payne notes some Senate “Republican colleagues” who are questioning the timing of the firing, to which Senator Paul replies, “Well, there’s a lot of hypocrisy going around...http://rickwells.us/sen-rand-paul-firing-fbi-director-comey-couldnt-come-soon-enough/
.You Like Special Prosecutors? How About
For liar-Clinton, liar-nObama, And Iran Deal?
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin addresses the leftist hysteria surrounding the firing of James Comey, pointing out that “First of all, the President didn’t order an end to the ‘Russia’ investigation, now did he?... Now we have a lot of legal and historical illiterates posing as TV hosts and commentators, like Jeffrey Toobin, among others. Let me be very specific. Richard Nixon, during Watergate, ordered the Attorney General to fire the Special Prosecutor, he refused. Then he ordered the Deputy Attorney General to fire the Special Prosecutor and he refused.” “Here,” says Levin, “the Deputy Attorney General writes a memorandum urging the Attorney General and the President to fire the FBI Director. The Attorney General attaches it to a letter, endorses it, and the President of the United States fires him. It has nothing to do with Watergate, but of course the media and the Democrats, one in the same, want it to deal with Watergate. The President did not order, in any respect, an end to the Russian investigation.” Levin says, “But I have a couple of questions, if I might, for Chuck clown-Schumer, who is the leading demagogue in all of this. Tell me something, Mr. clown-Schumer, can you name a single Russian, just one, who colluded with Donald Trump in his campaign? Just give us one, one. You’ve got intelligence committees who’ve been investigating,” the federal investigation, “Let’s have it.”... http://rickwells.us/levin-asks-schumer-you-like-special-prosecutors-clinton-obama-iran-deal/
.Obsolete Left-Right Paradigm
Stifling Mass Awakening
by Bernie Suarez
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ We’re seeing it all the time now. Every day we see and hear well meaning people who sound educated, they’re trying to figure out what is happening politically here in the U.S. as well as abroad... Some of these people study history, they sound smart, they speak intelligently about things and even sound convincing. There seems to be something missing however, or perhaps something is present in their speech them that prevents you from taking in the fullness of what they are saying. You search for what it is and if you are fully awakened you are soon able to quantify what is wrong with these people. These people who seem dead-on minus that one element that prevents you from thinking they truly get it are stung by a malady that many millions of Americans suffer from. It’s something most of us suffered from for many years before we became “awakened”. It’s that one single thing that when you recognized it, you were never the same again... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/obsolete-left-right-paradigm-stifling-mass-awakening/.
Can Cops Get a Fair Trial in America?
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Lock your doors. Hide your children. Police officers, be on alert:
Al Sharpton's cop-bashing circus is back in full swing.
Harlem's godfather of racial hoax crimes is in Oklahoma this week to stir up trouble as jury selection begins in the manslaughter trial of Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby.
Shelby is white. Terence Crutcher, the man she shot and killed during a tense traffic standoff last fall, was black. That's all the demagogue demolition team needs to know. Damn the facts. Screw due process. Powder up Showbiz Al and hustle over to the media tent.
Lights, cameras, agitate!
Sharpton's "prayer vigil" isn't about expressing faith in God. It's about stoking the fires of identity politics at the altar of social justice. Sharpton's no man of peace. He's the fetid pile of human manure who ruined New York prosecutor Steven Pagones' life with the incendiary Tawana Brawley rape hoax. He stoked anti-Semitic hatred in Crown Heights after a tragic car accident -- leading to the frenzied mob murder of rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum. He has inveighed against "crackers" and cracked jokes about "offing the pigs."
Also headlining the self-serving service in Tulsa this week: Sharpton's rabble-rousing heir and fellow race fabulist, Benjamin Crump. He's the Florida-based celebrity lawyer for the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown families who gained international notoriety perpetuating the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" lie. Crump first parachuted into town last fall to snatch up the Crutcher family as new clients and to instigate protests outside Tulsa police headquarters demanding Officer Shelby's scalp.
Nearly 200 marchers wielded "Black Lives Matter" signs and screamed "Fire Betty!" before a police investigation was complete. Others waved "white silence is violence" posters or a photo of a police badge labeled "License to Kill." One protester took to the microphone to declare that "a good white man is a dead white man."
The agitation worked. Tulsa District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler rushed to file charges before the lead homicide detective in the case had finished his work -- an obvious attempt to appease the unappeasables and avoid the next Ferguson.
Make no mistake: When the social justice warriors crusade for "immediate justice," they're not asking for proper adjudication in the courts. They're demanding an immediate guilty verdict, retribution, and a big, fat civil rights lawsuit settlement.
Until the Shelby case, police under fire remained silent as the social justice mob hijacked the courts of law and public opinion. But Shelby and her lawyers fought back. She sat down with "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker last month to describe her state of mind during the encounter with a noncompliant Crutcher, who had the hallucinogenic drug PCP in his system at the time of his death. She adamantly insisted race was not a factor in the shooting and described the "lynch mob" atmosphere in the days since she was charged and put on administrative leave.
Crump and Sharpton faced no admonitions for their pre-trial antics. But after Shelby's TV appearance defending herself, the judge in the case issued the police officer and her legal team a reprimand. This is maddening.
Cops are damned if they do speak up and damned if they don't.
Two years ago, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was advised by his trial lawyer to stay quiet before and during his chaotic trial on trumped-up sexual assault charges by a parade of shady women who are now clients of Benjamin Crump's seeking high-dollar civil rights awards. Several of these convicted felons gave interviews or testified while high, couldn't identify Holtzclaw or his patrol car from photo line-ups, misidentified his race, hair color, height, and weight, and changed key details of their stories after being approached and coached by confirmation bias-driven detectives.
Holtzclaw, against his every instinct to defend his character and reputation, was told to keep quiet while accusers lied, prosecutors smeared, and disrupters shouted "Give him life!" and "Racist cop!" and "Racist jury!" Seven phones were confiscated from people taking photos in the courtroom, including images of jury members.
The judge in the case, Timothy Henderson, knew for weeks before trial that the city had granted a permit for protesters to occupy the steps and streets outside the courtroom. He lamely confessed that he didn't "know really what can be done other than to admonish the jury to disregard" the commotion. He and city officials claimed to be powerless to stop the sabotage of Holtzclaw's right to a fair trial -- sabotage that they enabled.
This week, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a motion by lawyers Randy Coyne and J. Christian Adams to submit an amicus brief in the Holtzclaw case on the dangerous hijacking of the courts by the social justice mob. Their message deserves to be heard.
"There is a First Amendment right of free speech. There also is a First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. But for outsiders at a criminal trial, there is no First Amendment right to petition the jury and browbeat it into delivering one's preferred verdict," the lawyers from opposite sides of the political aisle argued.
If real justice surrenders to social justice in the courtroom, we all lose.
Comments