Victory Over Fear

Victory over fear is our right and our duty. Proverbs 21:3 says, "To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice." Working for justice and righteousness in the Last Days seems frightening unless one has strong faith in God. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Therefore, please read the twenty-five(25) verses below aloud so that you may hear them. God bless Christians who prepare themselves to be not hearers only but doers of the Word of God.

2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Hebrews 13:6
So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Psalm 23:4
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Psalm 27:1
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Deuteronomy 31:8
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

Romans 8:15
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Psalm 23:1-6
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Romans 8:1-39
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Matthew 10:31
Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Isaiah 41:10
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Proverbs 14:27
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.

Psalm 46:1-11
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

Psalm 27:14
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Psalm 83:18
That they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.

Luke 12:7
Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Jeremiah 39:17-18
But I will deliver you on that day, declares the Lord, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, declares the Lord.’”

Psalm 34:4
I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 27:13
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!

Luke 8:25
He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”

Isaiah 43:1-2
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you."

Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent. For I am with you and no one will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city." (Acts 18:9-10).

The last scripture of the 25 presented is one I rely on while using the Internet to expose and oppose lawlessness in the justice system. YOU must be among "many people" who Christ has appointed to help and protect me, and I thank you very much. Many blessings.

MaryLovesJustice
MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com

Christopher Bonds Runs for Justice May 26

From Christopher Bonds:

It is time that we all become our brothers' and sisters' keepers. I, along with others, are on a mission to challenge the very existence of criminal justice system corruption, wrongful arrests, wrongful imprisonment, disproportionate racial injustices, capital punishment (death sentencing), and the gross violations against the U.S. Constitution.

I have spoken to the parents of Airman Michael Giles, a young man who needs and deserves our help. He was sentenced to serve 25 years in a Florida prison for self-defense.

I have spoken with the wife of Officer Howard Morgan, a former Chicago Police Officer before spending 13 years as a Railroad Police Officer for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. He was pulled over on his way home the morning of February 21, 2005, because he saw a police car behind him and was letting it pass. To Mr. Morgan's surprise, he discovered that the police had stopped him for an alleged traffic violation. Though identifying himself as a police officer, Howard Morgan was forced from his vehicle and shot 28 times by four white police officers. 21 of those shots were administered to the back of Howard Morgan's body. An independent eye witness testified that Mr. Morgan never fired a weapon. A jury acquitted Mr. Morgan of the charge of aggravated discharge of a firearm. How then, could Howard Morgan, by any stretch of the imagination, be guilty of four counts of attempted first degree murder on the police officers who shot him?

I have also spoken with Mary Neal, the sister of Larry Neal. What caused Shelby County, Tennessee Jail to ignore missing person reports for 18 days on inmate Larry Neal? The jail kept Larry Neal, a mentally ill heart patient, secretly incarcerated until his death on August 1, 2003, and his family is denied any records, inquest, or explanation about his death. Mary Neal founded and directs Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, an online advocacy to help decriminalize mental illness in America and demand an end to violence by police and corrections officers on America's mentally dysfunctional people.

I spoke with Denise Johnson, the mother of Gregory Johnson Jr. Rev. Denise Johnson, Gregory Johnson Sr. and their family still actively search for answers concerning the death of their son, Gregory Johnson Jr., in the basement of Sigma Chi Fraternity House on the San Jose State University campus on Nov. 22, 2008.

I will be running in unity and solidarity support of Airman Michael Giles, Officer Howard Morgan, Mr. Larry Neal and Mr. Gregory Johnson and Families on May 26, 2014 (at 8 am and 930 am - Ridge Challenge, Chicago, IL). I will donate $25.00 to each family on the race day. I will also be passing out information flyers to explain their stories and encourage my community to donate generously to the established legal defense funds and or movements for justice (by U.S. Mail or Pay Pal).

I am going to do my part, won't you join me in being our brothers' keeper? Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr). My prayer is that the Lord will be pleased by my attempt to do His will by supporting these families this Memorial Day. Be blessed, and All Power to the People!

Airman Michael Giles - 

www.justiceformike.com
Officer Howard Morgan -

www.freehowardmorgan.com
Mr. Larry Neal - 

www.wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
Mr. Gregory Johnson Jr. - 

www.justiceforgregory.com

See Christopher Bonds practicing for his run for justice on May 26 at the photo above. Contact Christopher Bonds on Facebook for information on how to support Christopher's run for justice.
https://www.facebook.com/christopher.bonds.35

ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Christopher Bonds

Christopher Bonds is one of many friends I have met online who love justice, as I do. He is very supportive of our efforts to decriminalize mental illness and advocates along with us to eliminate violence against mentally ill Americans by police officers and correctional facilities. His aunt through marriage suffered from old age dementia, and he understands how challenging mental illness is for families, especially in a culture that prioritizes criminal prosecution rather than treatment. Please visit five(5) web pages listed above to learn about the four causes he and his friends selected to benefit from their Run for Justice. Contact Bonds at his Facebook page (among the links) to find out how you can help him and his friends. More information is at the three(3) links below. Thank you, Christopher Bonds and friends! We are honored to be honored by service people and others on this Memorial Day!

Mary Neal, director

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi

Dog Justice for Mentally Ill

http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com

WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal

http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/main.html

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog in deadly restraint for control. But this happens to mentally ill Americans routinely in the nation's jails and prisons after they are denied treatment and suffer arrests for behavior they may not even remember. What happened to Larry Neal?

Paragraphs 1 and 2 repeated: 

From Christopher Bonds:
It is time that we all become our brothers' and sisters' keepers. I, along with others, are on a mission to challenge the very existence of criminal justice system corruption, wrongful arrests, wrongful imprisonment, disproportionate racial injustices, capital punishment (death sentencing), and the gross violations against the U.S. Constitution.

UC Santa Barbara Shooter - Elliot Rodger

Elliot Rodger, 22, UC Santa Barbara Shooter 

Again we are reminded that ignoring families experiencing mental health crises is dangerous. Please urge your congressional representatives to support H.R.3717 - "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The current health care system does not usually act to treat someone unless he/she PROVES through violence to be a danger to self and others. That may help prison investors, but it does nothing to save taxpayers' money, increase community safety, or restore sick people to wholesome lives. Too often, proof comes in bloodshed, which is unfair to the sick people as well as to the community at large. 

Like Sen. Deeds, of Virginia, and many other families, the UC Santa Barbara shooter's family had sought help for Elliot Rodger. They warned police about his threatening messages, but their concerns about Elliot's deteriorating mental health were apparently ignored. May Elliot and his six victims rest in peace. Condolences to families and close friends of those whose lives were tragically and unnecessarily lost. We hope for a speedy recovery for the injured. God bless us all. 

Details about the shooting that have been released to the media are being reported by LA Times. This article will be updated as names of the victims are released and more details are made available. The link below leads to news reports by the Times.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-isla-vista-shooting-parent-warning-police-son-threats-20140524-story.html

Peter Rodger, Elliot's father, was an assistant director on the 2012 film “The Hunger Games.” He also directed a 2009 documentary, “Oh My God,” in which various people were asked to answer the question, “What is God?” Elliot Rodger made numerous videos warning about his intentions. He complained about being a virgin at age 22 and declared his plan to make girls pay for ignoring him on the "day of retribution." See the video embedded below and at the YouTube link
http://youtu.be/MQUW3Km01BM

If "they" disconnect the linking for the embedded video above, just search YouTube and other video sites for the Elliot Rodger videos. It is wrong to try to hide how family's warnings about mental illness that are ignored can negatively impact many other families, but the video I first uploaded here at MaryLovesJustice blog was removed from YouTube.
I go through so much to publish articles that promote positive change in how America responds to mental illness. We MUST prioritize treatment and relax commitment laws to make it possible for families in crisis to get help their loved ones need BEFORE tragedies. Treatment that precedes crimes will reduce your prison profits, but I urge you to do what is right, not what is expedient or most profitable. My mother sat up many nights during Larry Neal's crises to protect our family and neighbors. My brother Larry was a good person, but he had paranoid schizophrenia. Serious mental illness sometimes causes people to act very irrationally; occasionally, they may act violently. Larry never hurt anyone, but Elliot Rodger did. How horrible for him, his victims, and the families of those whose loved ones are dead, injured, and traumatized tonight. I feel that if I were not so heavily censored, we might be having another conversation right now. You can help by sharing my articles at Dog Justice for Mentally Ill. See the index on the right side of the blog. Thank you in advance.

Mary Neal, director

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi

Dog Justice for Mentally Ill

http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com

WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal

http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/main.html

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog in deadly restraint for control. But this happens to mentally ill Americans routinely in the nation's jails and prisons after they are denied treatment and suffer arrests for behavior they may not even remember. What happened to Larry Neal?

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. Advocate for U.S. Congress to pass H.R.3717 - Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act. Elect people who promote justice for all. Waiting for sick people to prove they need help leads to tragedies. Please help families in mental health crisis. Ignore them, and the 

Petition: Stop Memphis Police Violence

The announcement below lists only the deaths from 2012 and 2013. Please also remember many victims before then, including the "WRONGFUL DEATH OF LARRY NEAL." Larry was a lifelong mentally ill heart patient and a 2003 victim of secret arrest and murder in Memphis, Tennessee. His murder was covered-up by "The Cochran Firm fraud" (Google it). Visit
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

Ida B. Wells was a woman who wrote a revolutionary article exposing and protesting the lynchings of her friends in Memphis, then escaped before she could be lynched herself. The Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality requests your support for the following petition to stop police violence in Memphis, which continues over a hundred years later. See and please share the petition below. Learn more about Wells fight against lynchings in Memphis at the last paragraph in this article.

PETITION: There is something stinking in Memphis, TN. It is the stench of political corruption and cover-up, murder/rape/ and robbery by cops, fear and intimidation of the populace. People fear the police reign of terror and the routine nature of violent death. There is no justice, there is a lynch law legal and social environment where neither Blacks nor the poor of any race have any rights that the local government is bound to respect. Please sign the petition to STOP MEMPHIS POLICE VIOLENCE at Change.org 
http://www.change.org/petitions/us-department-of-justice-and-a-c-wharton-mayor-of-memphis-tenn-stop-police-murder-prosecute-the-cops

In just the last two years, 23 people have been killed by Memphis police officers. These include two teens, ages 15 and 18, a blind man was beaten to death, two men were murdered for sleeping in their cars, and a number of citizens were victimized by the police who routinely use deadly force. Memphis police know they can kill citizens and get away with the murders, because that has always been the case.

The Body Count:
Victims of Police Terror In Memphis, Tennessee
2012 and 2013
Compiled by the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation
P.O. Box 16382 – Memphis, TN 38186-0382
(901)674-8430 – organize.the.hood(at)gmail(dot)com

2012

(1) Jeremy McCraven, 20, shot to death in the back by police on February 10, 2012, while allegedly driving a stolen car.

(2) William Howlett, 41, died on March 10, 2012, after becoming “unresponsive” after police chased and arrested him for allegedly attacking his girlfriend.

(3) Randy Green died in March, 2012. A family friend said that Green, who was blind, was pepper-sprayed to death by Memphis police officers on the campus of the University of Memphis, where Green was trying to use the library.

(4) Dewayne Bailey, 38, shot to death on May 8, 2012, after falling asleep in his car in a store parking lot. Witnesses disputed the claim by police that when they woke Bailey up, he got out of his car and fought with them, then got back in his car and started driving it.

(5) Christian Freeman, 19, shot to death on June 12, 2012, downtown on Beale Street. Police alleged that Freeman threatened them with a knife. Family members said Freeman had mental health problems and that police knew this because they had arrested him in April for disorderly conduct.

(6) Hernandez Dowdy, 36, shot to death on June 27, 2012. Police say Dowdy, who was black, was a carjacking suspect whom they chased, and that they killed him because they mistakenly thought he had a gun. The owner of the car, a white woman, had filed a false report.

(7) Lorenzo Davis, 28, died on July 3, 2012, after police chased and arrested him for allegedly selling drugs. He collapsed after he was in custody. Doctors told his mother that he had severe head injuries, internal bleeding, and a broken leg.

(8) Delois Epps, 54, died on August 26, 2012, in a car crash caused by a Memphis police officer. Witnesses said the officer was speeding at the time of the crash and did not use the flashing lights and the siren on his car as required by police regulations.

(9) Makayla Ross, 13, died in a car crash with her mother, Delois Epps ,on August 26, 2012. (See above.) Officer Alex Beard, who caused the crash, was later fired, and in May, 2013, was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide.

(10) Justin Thompson, 15, shot to death on September 24, 2012, by off-duty police officer Terrance Shaw, who claimed Thompson tried to rob him. Shaw, who admitted that he knew Thompson prior to killing him, resigned when questioned about his relationship with the boy.

(11) Charles Livingston, 32, shot to death on December 27, 2012. Police claimed they killed Livingston while he was fleeing from a McDonald's restaurant, which he allegedly robbed, and that he pointed a gun at them while he was escaping. For over30 years, the MPD has been under a U.S. Supreme Court decision forbidding them from shooting "fleeing felons." like Livingston  in the back.

2013 

(12) Donald Moore, 67, shot to death on January 11, 2013. Police claim that when they came to Moore's home to serve him with a warrant for animal cruelty, he pointed a gun at them. However, when the cops came busting into the house, they broke down the door in the middle of the night and never announced they were police officers. Then Moore was fatally shot when he went for his firearm on a night stand. 

(13) Steven Askew, 24, shot to death on January 17, 2013, after falling asleep in his car waiting for his girlfriend to come home from work. Two police officers, who were called to the area on another matter, claimed that when they approached Askew’s car, he pointed a gun at them, and they killed him. Askew was licensed to carry a gun. A video of the incident disputes the police version of events.

(14) Horace Whiting, 63, shot to death on March 10, 2013. Police claim Whiting had a shotgun when they confronted him in front of his house and that he fired at them when they told him to put the gun down. A neighbor of Whiting said Whiting never pointed the gun at anyone, and never menaced officers and that he was on his own porch.

(15) George Golden, 42, died on April 5, 2013, from injuries he sustained on March 27 after he was shot, kicked, and beaten by two police officers in the parking lot of a Walmart store, where police claim Golden was shoplifting. A cell phone video taken by a bystander shows that one cop beat and kicked Golden while was lying on the ground after being shot by another cop. Police made no reference to the fatal shooting in their final incident report, covering up the cause of death.

(16) Daniel Brock, 47, shot to death on April 10, 2013. Police claim that when they stopped Brock for an alleged incident of “road rage,” they shot him because they thought he had a gun as he was approaching them. Brock’s son said his father had a mental illness and was taking medication for it.

(17) Amjustine Hunter, 28, shot to death in his car on April 23, 2013, at a gas filling station. At least one witness disputed the police story that after they stopped Hunter for “suspicious” activity, that police shot him when he tried to run them over with his car. 

(18) John Walker died on May 18, 2013, when an off-duty police officer hit the motorcycle Walker was riding while working as a traffic escort for a funeral.

(19) Police claim an unidentified man shot himself to death on May 24, 2013, after he allegedly shot at police officers at an apartment complex. To date, no public report has been found verifying the story of the police.

(20) Byron Kelley, 32, shot to death on June 4, 2013, in Olive Branch, Miss., by Memphis police and DEA agents.

(21) Johnny Taylor, 33, shot to death on July 1, 2013. Police said they killed Taylor after he fired at them outside his home.

(22) Marvin Amerson allegedly committed suicide on July 23, 2013, according to MPD, after a standoff with officers following a bank robbery.

(23) Aaron Dumas, 32, killed on October 15, 2013, when tactical officers of the Memphis police department threw tear gas chemicals into the house where they had chased Dumas, causing the house to catch on fire, and burning him alive. Several neighbors had their house damaged by the flames.

What can you do about it?

(a). Sign the petition to Stop Police Murder! Prosecute the Cops!

(b). Write to the U.S. Department of Justice in support of our demand that they open a civil rights investigation and prosecute the killer cops.  Make a phone call to the Civil Rights Division, and demand that they stop ignoring the reign of police terror in Memphis. (202)514-4609 (Ask for Jocelyn Samuels, Acting Asst. Atty General). You can also send email to : AskDoj@usdoj.gov, and they will transfer it to the Civil Rights Division.

(c). Join our "Million E-Mail March" and send letters of complaint to A.C. Wharton, Mayor of Memphis, Tenn. (mayor@memphistn.gov). Tell him that he has blood on his hands by his repeated failures to rein in his cops, covering up the causes of police murders of civilians, and allowing police brutality a free hand. 

(d). Join the Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality, the only group in the city which has held mass protests against KKK racism and MPD police brutality over the last two years, and is working on a online international boycott, petition drive, national demonstration, and other campaigns to obtain justice for the victims of this police terror.

(e). Please spread the message about police brutality and murder in Memphis, by contacting news services, human rights organizations, anti-police brutality groups, citizen journalist websites, and many others that you are in contact with. We must break through the cover-up by the cops, local media, and political power structure in Memphis, and expose the awful truth.  

We cannot win this battle alone. Join with us in this fight back against police terror in Memphis, TN.

Contact us at the:
Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality
(in care of the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation)
P.O. Box 16382 – Memphis, TN. 16386-0382
(901) 674-8430 – email: organize.the.hood(at)gmail(dot)com
STOP POLICE MURDER, PROSECUTE THE COPS!
idabwells@riseup.net
idabwells(at)riseup(dot)net

The announcement above lists only the murders from 2012 and 2013. Please also remember many victims before then, including the "WRONGFUL DEATH OF LARRY NEAL." Larry was a lifelong mentally ill heart patient and a 2003 victim of secret arrest and murder in Memphis. His murder was then covered-up by "The Cochran Firm fraud" (Google it). Visit 

http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

In March of 1892, Ida B. Wells, a journalist and former Memphis school teacher, started a crusade against lynching after three friends of hers were brutally murdered by a Memphis mob. Tom Moss and two of his friends, Calvin McDowell and Henry Stewart, were arrested for defending themselves against an attack on Moss' store. Moss was a highly respected figure in the black community, a postman as well as the owner of a grocery store. A white competitor, enraged that Moss had drawn away his black customers, hired some off-duty deputy sheriffs to destroy the store. The black store owner and friends shot at the white men, not knowing they were police officers. The blacks were arrested and lynched. Ida B. Wells wrote a scathing article about the lynchings, then left Memphis and never dared to return. (These events are covered more fully at "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" link below.)

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_wells.html

Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) re Police Violence

Below is a letter I wrote to Dr. Randolph Dupont regarding Memphis crisis intervention training (CIT) in March 2008. It was never answered. On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee will hold hearings about CIT in Washington, D.C. Unless and until accountability is demanded of police officers who injure and kill citizens who posed no danger to police officers or others, CIT training will not guarantee any Change in the number of mental patients who suffer injuries and deaths by police. The mentally ill comprise over 50 percent of the victims of police-related violence in this country, and most people who were injured or killed did not pose an immediate danger to anyone. Crisis intervention training is far from being a panacea to the problem of police violence against the mentally ill. In my experience, the mentally ill citizens' abuses and deaths that occur after police are taken through crisis intervention training may actually be covered-up to prevent embarrassment to the government.

I urge the Senate Judiciary Committee to do more than institute crisis intervention training. Whereas police officers who killed Kelly Thomas may not have received crisis intervention training, they certainly knew it was illegal to beat an unarmed, surrendered subject to death. Whereas police officers who fired 40 bullets into Milton Hall in Saginaw, Michigan may not have had crisis intervention training, they certainly knew it was not lawful to do capital punishment by firing squad on a man with a little pocket knife who had done no crime (Hall had reportedly argued with a store clerk, which was worthy of a "disturbing the peace" misdemeanor charge at the most). The police officers involved in these two incidents completely ignored the police training they had already received. Their crisis intervention training is likely to also be ignored in a system where police officers are allowed to ignore the human and civil rights of citizens without any fear of reprisal. Because Thomas was white, police officers were charged with murder, and some were fired.

Police officers involved in violent incidents should immediately be tested for drug and alcohol use, including steroids. In cases where arrested persons are shot to death in police cars, all parties - the victims and police officers alike - should also be tested at the scene for gunpowder residue. Investigations indicating that victims suffered wrongful deaths or police brutality should result in termination of police officers and criminal charges. The present climate of "anything goes" regarding police violence endangers the peace for all Americans. Sloppy investigations that omit gunpowder residue tests and police cameras that mysteriously quit working at critical moments could lead to social unrest (i.e., Chavis Carter's "suicide" while handcuffed and sitting in the back of an Arkansas police car after having been searched twice).

If police officers are trained in crisis intervention and choose to obey their training, what will that accomplish other than safe captures of mentally ill Americans to join the 1.25 million prisoners in this country who are mentally ill? I urge the passage of H.R.3717 - Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, which would improve mental heath treatment in America and reduce the crisis incidents prompting police intervention.

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee should do more to reduce police violence against our mentally ill and other vulnerable people than recommend funding of CIT. When police departments complete CIT training and the excuse of "untrained police officers" is eliminated regarding deaths of mentally ill people, will the justice system do more cover-ups like when Larry Neal, a lifelong mentally, physically handicapped Memphis man, was murdered after 18 days of secret arrest in Memphis, the birthplace of CIT? Will it then be necessary to interfere with survivors' Internet and phone usage, employ unscrupulous lawyers to defraud grieving families, and appoint agents to follow and terrorize them to prevent discovery?

March 24, 2008

Randolph T. Dupont, PhD
University of Memphis
School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Memphis, TN 38152-3330

Re: Secret Arrest and Wrongful Death of Larry Neal and Subsequent Cover-up

I have read with interest how police departments all over the country are modeling their police departments after the Memphis CIT model. I suppose it may be partly to protect this image that my family is the only American family in the 21st Century to have a member secretly arrested and returned to his family as a corpse with no explanation, apology, excuse, arrest records, inquest, or investigation. At least, I certainly hope this is an uncommon tragedy and denial of due process of law.

See "Wrongful Death of Larry Neal.com"
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

The Memphis CIT has never explained how Larry Neal, a life-long mentally ill heart patient, could be secretly arrested in mid-July 2003, incarcerated for 18 days while his family and social worker looked for him as a missing person while Shelby County Jail repeatedly and falsely denied having him incarcerated, until he died of a fatal heart attack.

The Memphis CIT has never explained why The (Johnny) Cochran Firm, which was managed by Julian Bolton, Esq., 20+year Shelby County Commissioner and past Chairman, would then contract with my family to act as our wrongful death attorneys against Shelby County Jail, withholding from my family information about Bolton's position with our intended defendant, the jail where Larry died.

The Memphis CIT has never explained why Shelby County Jail neglected to send the Department of Justice an inmate fatality report regarding Larry Neal's death, when the jail was already under suit by the USA for previous violations of inmates' civil rights, and was required to send such inmate fatality reports under the terms of its Agreement with the USA.

Larry's family believes that his death was actually a euthanasia followed by an elaborate cover-up between The Cochran Firm and others to keep his wrongful death case out of court. Interested parties have also managed to keep his death and his family's quest for justice out of mainstream media, which likely would have led to investigation and closure for his family.

For years, I have written to:

• Shelby County Government officials,
• the U.S. Justice Department,
• Tennessee representatives, including the governor,
• United States Senators and Congressmen,
• mental health organizations,
• civil rights organizations,
• and civic leaders about Larry's death and the denial of any investigation and accountability.

No one has come forward with any investigation or reports to date -- over four years after Larry's death. At this point, the shroud of secrecy seems impenetrable to the point that Larry's family would be skeptical of any reports that ensued from an investigation. [We are now approaching the eleventh year anniversary, and answers are still denied.]

We have sued The Cochran Firm twice to recover damages for tricking my family while under contract as Larry's wrongful death attorneys (secret conflict of interest, fraud, malpractice), and we are hopeful of getting answers during discovery of our present suit in USDC, Northern District of Gerogia. On our first attempt to sue The Cochran Firm, we served the suit to the firm's advertised Atlanta office, the law office that conducted our initial client intake interview the day Larry died. Strangely, this law office which was widely advertised as The Cochran Firm's Atlanta office on television, MARTA, Internet, Bell phone books, etc., had our suit dismissed in May 2006 by claiming it is no part of The Cochran Firm. Larry's family certainly hopes that nothing so fantastic will happen in our pending USDC case against this law firm. [United States District Court Judge Timothy Batten ruled in January 2009 that whatever The Cochran Firm did to undermine justice regarding the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal was "immaterial," and he dismissed the case without trial.]

CIT is a good idea, and I hope it benefits mentally ill citizens in the Memphis area and around the country. However, when there is a failure in the system, as evidenced by Larry Neal's secret incarceration and wrongful death, that failure should not be covered up at the expense of justice.

Sincerely
/s/
Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

Stop Memphis Police Terrorism and Murders

Help Request: Campaign to Stop Police Murders in Memphis

by

Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality

Dear Friend:

You may have seen the recent news reports about the police murders in Albuquerque, N.M. and how the U.S. Dept. of Justice has criticized the Albuquerque Police Dept. for a reign of terror, and forced the department into a series of measures to restrict police deadly force. Yet, as bad as the Albuquerque police are (killing 23 people between 2010 and 2014), the Memphis Police Department (MPD) is much worse, killing the same number of people in half the time (a total of 23 people in 2012 and 2013).

But why is there no equal fervor by federal authorities in the case of Memphis? There is a police and government cover-up in the city of Memphis, and this includes the local media and civil rights organizations. There is also massive fear of and intimidation of the local population by the MPD. There is the additional fact that Memphis is a black city and that most of the police murder victims were black and poor, and that most of Albuquerque's victims were white and Hispanic.

The feds must be forced to explain why there is no racism in their decision not to investigate the deaths of Memphis citizens. We are also convinced there is some political calculation about an investigation in Memphis because the U.S. attorney for Western Tennessee is so close to city politicians and police department administrators that he covers for their almost routine use of excessive and deadly force by police officers, and has never prosecuted any officer for taking the lives of civilians.

We are asking you to help us bring attention to these police crimes in Memphis and get these cops put in jail. We ask that you help expose the crimes and break the media blockade. We want more than reforms. We want all the cops who have outright murdered civilians to be prosecuted; the demilitarization of the police; and community control over the police and power in the hands of the people.

Memphis Black Autonomy Federation’s Police Brutality and Racial Profiling Committee

The Police Brutality and Racial Profiling Committee of the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation was created at the First Memphis Black Power Conference on June 9, 2012. Its purpose is to educate, organize and mobilize the black community and its allies to oppose police brutality, unjustified deadly force, and violations of the civil and human rights of African/black residents of Memphis and beyond and bring and end to this terror. Using a combination of litigation, street protests, educational seminars, and other grassroots actions and events, this committee is active in working to bring a halt to police crimes and their cover-up by the local media.

Demands:

An end to police murder(s) by police officers, and the cover-up by Memphis-Shelby County/federal government officials of these police crimes. The automatic investigation and prosecution of any officer who violated the civil rights of civilians, instead of cover-up by cops to protect officers. No Memphis officer has ever been prosecuted for murder or civil rights violations for beating or killing a civilian, even where it was plainly obvious that they were guilty.

An automatic public inquest into the death of any person who died in police custody. An inquest would require the police to testify under oath as to how a person died, force the medical examiner to testify under oath as to autopsy findings, and allow the family, activists, and the public to obtain records and testimony kept from them. Mainly, it is a way to expose the crimes of the police and not accept the cops' stories that are repeated in the media.

Community control of police and the creation of an elected police control board to restrict the use of deadly force and to monitor the police. As long as the cops can use a government-appointed body to cover up crimes by the cops, or force us to trust their “word,”every single murder will continue to be swept under the rug.

Stop the racial profiling of the African-American community, especially in the Beale Street entertainment district, where many have been arrested and beaten up by overzealous MPD officers, who want to discourage lack Memphis residents from patronizing white businesses in that area. Full investigation of the June, 2012, death of Christian Freeman killed by cops in the Beale Street area.

Total transparency in all police investigations and the public disclosure of all arrests and autopsy reports. All documents should be released to the public pursuant to state law, the Tennessee Open Records Act. As it is now, these documents are kept secret except to the mainstream media or other law enforcement agencies.

Proposal for a “Stop Police Murder: Prosecute The Cops” Campaign By the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation

Memphis police officers have killed 23 people since February, 2012, eleven people in 2013 alone. Yet, to this point, the opposition black human rights movement has not been able to assemble a strong enough mass protest movement to pressure the city government to change its deadly force policies or pressure the federal authorities to abandon their policy of deliberate indifference.

Since the summer of 2012, when the Memphis BAF started organizing against police brutality, we have held a number of marches and street demonstrations, rallies at the MPD police headquarters downtown, tribunals at public spaces, and other events. There are two key things we must do now:

Key Initiatives

1. Put together a mass local effort to enlist people into a Black Autonomy-IBWC Copwatch campaign in Memphis to report and monitor the cops on a daily basis. (Copwatch is already an international movement, and has been around for the last 20 years). We need to unite all those in Memphis and our allies in other cities who will stand up and demand justice in police murders that have taken place here.

2. During the 2015 IBWC conference, work toward a mass protest in Memphis, to involve anti-police brutality, anti-racist and civil rights activists from all over the city and Mid-South region. There are groups all over the USA and 19 countries involved in anti-police brutality work, who have been having demonstrations against police brutality on the “International Day of Action Against Police Brutality (IDAPB),” every year on March 15 since 1997. In 2013, we had a IDAPB demonstration in Memphis for the first time, and groups came from 10 other cities to stand with us. Now, we need to contact and inspire people in this city and get them to speak up against police brutality in Memphis. We must break through the silence and demand, “Stop Police Murder, Prosecute the Cops!”

In addition, protests at Memphis Police Department headquarters at 201 Poplar Avenue should continue, and we should try to get more people to participate locally. This summer, we should also hold a mass meeting and a community hearing about the problem of police murder, brutality and corruption in Memphis.

Finally, although we seek the prosecution of police officers who commit murders of black people, this campaign is not just about the federal authorities taking over the Memphis Police Department or an FBI investigation into an individual case. Our campaign is meant to build a new anti-racist movement for community control of the police. This is what the original Black Panther Party called for, and this is what we should fight for as well.

How You Can Help:

(a) Write to the U.S. Department of Justice in support of our demand that they open a civil rights investigation and prosecute the killer cops. Memphis is worse than Albuquerque, and needs to be investigated Make a phone call to the Civil Rights Division, and demand that they stop ignoring the reign of police terror in Memphis.(202) 514-4609 (Ask for Jocelyn Samuels, Acting Asst. Atty General). You can also contact them by email: AskDoj@usdoj.gov and give them the message.

(b) Join our "Million E-Mail March" and send letters of complaint to A.C. Wharton, Mayor of Memphis, TN. (mayor@memphistn.gov). Tell him that he has blood on his hands by his repeated failures to rein in his cops, covering up the causes of police murders of civilians and allowing police brutality to have a free hand.

(c) Join the Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality, founded by the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation in 2013. In addition to Memphis and the Kansas City metropolitan area, IBWC chapters are now being organized in several other cities. The IBWC is the only group in Memphis which has held mass protests against KKK racism and MPD police brutality over the last two years, and is working on a online international boycott, petition drive, national demonstration, and other campaigns to obtain justice for the victims of this police terror.

(d) Please spread the message about police brutality and murder in Memphis by contacting news services, human rights organizations, anti-police brutality groups, citizen journalist websites, and many others that you are in contact with. We must break through the cover-up by the cops, local media, and political power structure in Memphis, and expose the awful truth.

(e) We need to use the Internet and especially online social media networks to the maximum extent possible, since it is inexpensive and reaches millions. In doing this, we can involve large numbers of poor and low-income black people and anti-police brutality activists and families of police murder victims. We need to create a blog of Memphis Police activities to expose their crimes, educate the masses of people in Memphis and beyond, and rally people into protests.

We cannot win this battle alone. Join with us in this fightback campaign against police terror.

Peace and love,
JoNina M. Ervin, Acting Co-Chair
Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality
(in care of) Memphis Black Autonomy Federation
P.O. Box 16382
Memphis, TN. 38186-0382
(901) 674-8430
email: organize.the.hood@gmail.com

The Cochran Firm Defines Fraud

The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm frauds say:

"Business fraud is, very simply, fraud in any business activity that resorts to deceitful practices to cause economic injury. Business fraud and consumer fraud are very closely related."

Would LYING to potential clients and claiming falsely to have conducted a conflict check regarding a wrongful death civil action in order to defraud the potential client qualify, you Cochran Firm Fraud lawyers? Would a law firm LYING and claiming falsely NOT to have a conflict of interest in representing a grieving family against Memphis Shelby County Jail qualify as "business and consumer fraud," you white supremacists? Larry Neal was kidnapped by police and held under secret arrest for 18 days until his murder by yet undisclosed means. Would the fact that The Cochran Firm held the Neal family's lawsuits secretly inactive until the end of the Tennessee statute of limitations qualify as "business and consumer fraud," you black Confederate soldiers?

The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm's website says:
"The legal definition of consumer fraud is as follows:

Consumer fraud occurs when, in the context of a business transaction, false statements of fact are made, the person making false statements knew that the statements were false when they were made, and that the other party in the transaction relied on the false statements to their detriment.

The elements of business fraud are:

• False representation of fact, 
• Made by another, 
• With knowledge that the representation was false when it was made,
• With an intention to get or induce the plaintiff to act or refrain from acting in reliance on the representation, 
• And damage occurred to the plaintiff as a result of the reliance

Sadly, business and consumer fraud have become epidemic in our society. Not a day goes by that we don't hear something about identity theft, credit card numbers being stolen, investors being defrauded, CEO's being accused of embezzling, and average Joe's being swindled at the local car dealership. One of the most shameful types of consumer fraud is the one that steals money from our retired Americans, living on a fixed income for which they have planned and saved for years, if not decades or even a lifetime.

If you have been hurt economically by consumer or business fraud, there is legal action to take. The experienced consumer and business fraud attorneys at The Cochran Firm, with over 25 offices nationwide, have the resources and experience necessary to fight your case and win."

*****

The Cochran Firm says itself that the most shameful type of consumer fraud involves stealing from "our retired Americans" like Hattie Neal, who was 80 years old when I took her to sign contract in the Memphis office of The Cochran Firm - an office which denied that it was a Cochran Firm office when we sued the frauds in federal court AFTER The Cochran Firm office in Atlanta denied it was a Cochran Firm office in Georgia Superior Court and prevailed based on that perjury. Of course, to white supremacists who are officers of courrupt courts, elderly African Americans are not quite human, and neither are their offspring.

See Hattie Neal's tears on the contract where she signed to have The Cochran Firm frauds represent her regarding Shelby County Government's secret arrest and murder of her disabled son, Larry Neal. It is under the documents tab on the website, Wrongful Death of Larry Neal.com:
http://www.wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/docs/Ex03_CochranFirmContract.pdf

The frauds rely on cyberstalkers and burglars to prevent this former client's fraud from reaching the public with the warning: Beware of The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm frauds.