Shereen Bobrowsky, the disabled Yonkers woman, a senior, who claims there’s an ongoing attempt to wrongfully foreclose on her property-and to harass and intimidate her-wants to know why Judge Paul I. Marx, who’s presiding over the case hasn’t sanctioned the opposing party for violating deadlines set by the court for delivery of documents.

Separately, after reviewing some of the documents that are on the docket in the State Supreme Court, Westchester County, White Plains, New York, in light of past reports about compromised records in various court jurisdictions, in New York and elsewhere, this reporter is curious as to why there were no decisions and orders of the many motions Ms. Bobrowsky entered that requested important items such as “the accounting” and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (PSA).

Ms. Bobrowsky, who is in her 70s, also believes a campaign to intimidate her has escalated and now become dangerous. Recently, after a short drive from her home, she realized she had a flat front tire. When she got out to inspect the flat, she discovered that a nail had been stuck into the tire.

“It’s one thing to send someone to snoop around my property or to steal my garbage,” Ms. Bobrowsky says, describing past incidents. “But to start puncturing my tire, knowing that I have to drive down a steep slope as soon as I leave my property, that’s something else,” she says.

Ms. Bobrowsky was sued by US Bank Trust National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity But Solely As Owner Trustee for REO Trust 2017-RPL1, in the New York State Supreme Court, Westchester County, White Plains, New York.

This is a second article by Black Star News covering her ordeal, which she says keeps her awake at night and leaves her sick with a migraine headache, sometimes for days.

Ms. Bobrowsky says she has not missed a single mortgage payment since January 2003, and she has her records as proof. Yet, she is facing what she calls a third “wrongful, fraudulent, and illegal foreclosure” lawsuit. The first two-one in 2016 and the second in 2020-were both voluntarily discontinued by the bank, for no reason except to stall, causing her harm, Ms. Bobrowsky says. “In December, governor Hochul signed a bill into law called the foreclosure abuse prevention act that’s meant to prevent the type of abuse I’m enduring,” she says.

Ms. Bobrowsky previously complained of harassment by a man who comes to her home monthly to “inspect” the property, purportedly for the mortgage servicer (Nationstar dba Mr. Cooper), who Ms. Bobrowsky believes is behind the three lawsuits based on the same allegations. The man, whose identity she does not know, has taken her picture occasionally and one time even peered into her home from the window, she says.

Max Saglimbeni, an associate with Knuckles Komosinki & Manfro, LLP., the firm representing the plaintiff, didn’t respond to an earlier e-mail message from Black Star News asking him if the unidentified man works for his client. Ms. Bobrowsky said the man has not shown up since the first Black Star News article.

Also, Mr. Saglimbeni’s firm billed Ms. Bobrowsky $30,000 in legal fees for the work that they say they’ve done for their client. Mr. Saglimbeni didn’t respond to an earlier e-mail message by Black Star News inquiring about the bill and whether Judge Marx was aware of it.

Then recently, on two separate occasions, Ms. Bobrowsky’s green garbage bags disappeared. She suspects whoever stole them is fishing for evidence and she filed a police report after the first incident. “Now I put my dog’s pooh-pooh on top of the bag,” she says.

However, the tire incident suggests that whomever is trying to intimidate her is getting desperate, Ms. Bobrowsky says. One recent morning, accompanied by her 85-year-old cousin, the two were driving downhill to head to the farmers’ market when she realized she had a flat. After discovering the nail, she took her vehicle to a nearby repair shop.

Ms. Bobrowsky is confident justice will prevail if the court goes by the evidence alone. Yet, she’s troubled, she says, by the fact that Judge Marx didn’t sanction the plaintiff, through Saglimbeni, after they failed to deliver to her all the documents by the deadline as instructed by the court.

At an Aug. 21, 2024 hearing covered by Black Star News reporter Colin Benjamin, Judge Marx had directed Saglimbeni to produce the following documents to Ms. Bobrowsky by Sept. 30, 2024: her complete payment history; a copy of the promissory note and of all assignments and the attached allonges; a copy of the mortgage; a copy of all default notices, including the 90 day notice prior to initiating foreclosure as required by New York law; a copy of the affidavit of service, and; any documents that Saglimbeni intended to use for the summary judgment motion he told the judge that he intended to file.

The Sept. 30 deadline came and went, and the plaintiff hadn’t produced all the documents as directed by Judge Marx, including the critical complete payment history, and the promissory note and all assignments and the attached allonges, Ms. Bobrowsky says.

Yet, the court still allowed Saglimbeni to file a summary judgment motion which Ms. Bobrowsky was required to respond to-and did-by Dec. 20. “I’m the only one who’s supposed to play by the rules?” Ms. Bobrowsky says. “I’m also very concerned that the court has not provided any written decision and orders on my motions requesting the vital accounting, as well as the pooling and servicing agreement. This deprives me of my right to appeal.”

Judge Marx didn’t respond to questions about these two purported orders.

Ms. Bobrowsky also noticed what she called two “strange” orders on the court docket. The purported orders are attributed to Judge Marx. One is stamped on the upper right corner of a letter that Ms. Bobrowsky submitted to the court, and; the second one is stamped on the lower right hand of the letter. The first order, bearing a signature attributed to Judge Marx, stated, in part, “…the court accept’s plaintiff’s counsel’s representation in his letter dated 11/12/24 that the full payment history has been provided and that the Note and Allonges have been made available to the defendant…”

“This is nonsense. Why would I be requesting for the full payment history if they were provided,” Ms. Bobrowsky says. “Just like I said last time, I may be old and appear slow at times, but I’m no fool. I wonder how many other vulnerable homeowners are treated this way.”

“Instead of taking plaintiff’s word, ex parte, that plaintiff complied, Judge Marx should hold a hearing so both sides can be questioned and have the plaintiff produce the documents in open court,” Ms. Bobrowsky says. “I am being egregiously prejudiced by the withholding of documents with no sanctions against plaintiff. I have been requesting various documents for over one year now to no avail while discovery and depositions are also being withheld.”

“I demand sanctions for plaintiff’s failing to disclose the documents I have been requesting for over a year. But I also request the court to allow for full discovery for which I am entitled. I initially had an attorney but the court allowed him to be relieved as counsel over my objections. Now, all my requests seem to be for naught in this third foreclosure action that is based on clear fraud,” Ms. Bobrowsky adds.

The second order, on the lower right portion of Ms. Bobrowsky’s letter, also bearing a signature attributed to Judge Marx, stated: “The court apologizes. The documents which were to be delivered for in camera inspection, were in fact, delivered, timely, but through oversight, have not yet been reviewed.”

This was in reference to the un-redacted Pooling and Servicing Agreement (PSA), which Ms. Bobrowsky has been denied a copy, she says. The version Saglimbeni sent her is so redacted that it’s illegible, she said. Ms. Bobrowsky was informed previously that the court also hadn’t received an un-redacted copy; yet the purported order attributed to Judge Marx claimed a copy was indeed submitted.

“By saying I’m not entitled to an un-redacted Pooling and Servicing Agreement is akin to saying I’m not entitled to a defense. Plaintiff, and the court, are also refusing to supply the name of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, which is on the SEC website, but cannot be looked up without a name,” Ms. Bobrowsky says.

Ms. Bobrowsky says Judge Marx is wrongfully denying her access to Pooling And Servicing Agreement (PSA).

A second document that Ms. Bobrowsky discovered on the docket, a “Court Notice,” dated Nov. 13, 2024 stated in part: “The court has reviewed the Pooling And Servicing Agreement (“the Agreement”) which was submitted by Plaintiff’s counsel, as directed. Defendant’s request for an unredacted for an unredacted copy of the agreement is denied.” Ms. Bobrowsky states that since this was not a decision and order but merely a Court Notice, she cannot appeal the denial.

“I don’t know whom and what to believe anymore,” Ms. Bobrowsky says.

Judge Marx did not respond to an e-mail message from Black Star News seeking confirmation that the purported ex parte orders were authentic and that the two signatures belong to him. The judge also didn’t respond to a question seeking confirmation that he did in fact receive and review an un-redacted copy the PSA, and a question as to why Ms. Bobrowsky can’t be provided with a copy.

The questions sent to Judge Marx were also copied to New York State Attorney General Letitia James, Yonkers Police Commissioner, Christopher Sapienza, the plaintiff’s lawyer Saglimbeni, and Judge Anne E. Minihan, the District Administrative Judge.

“Your e-mail is received,” Judge Minihan’s office responded, confirming receipt of the copied questions.

As reported in the earlier Black Star News article, the plaintiff also failed to provide the complete payments history when directed on Dec. 21, 2023, to be supplied within three weeks to do so by court attorney referee, Sheila Gabay, when the matter was in settlement conference, Ms. Bobrowsky says.

Ms. Bobrowsky previously alleged that the signature attributed to Ms. Theresa Barrett, as the person who signed and notarized that she witnessed Ms. Tamara Sulea execute an assignment of mortgage on September 6, 2019 is “a forgery”-an allegation which has since been confirmed by the authorities in Los Angeles, Ca., where Ms. Barrett’s notary oath is kept, Ms. Bobrowsky says.

What’s more, Ms. Bobrowsky claims, the purported assignment of mortgage filed in the Westchester County Clerk’s office is also fraudulent. The document states that it was executed on Nov. 6, 2019, which is two months after Notary Public Ms. Barnett’s signature-the same signature Ms. Bobrowsky claims was forged.

Mr. Saglimbeni also didn’t respond to questions about this allegation. “I’m perplexed as to why the Westchester County Clerk Timothy Idoni has not referred the filing of a false instrument for investigation by the District Attorney or the Attorney General,” Ms. Bobrowsky says. “When a fraud is brought to the head of the county clerk, they have a duty to maintain the laws in its government entity. Filing a false document is a misdemeanor, but when it affects a deed, it is a felony.”

If you’ve been the victim of an illegal or wrongful foreclosure and have documentation please reach the reporter at mallimadi@gmail.com

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Dr. Martin Luther King was only 27 years old when Kwame Nkrumah invited him to join in celebrating Ghana’s independence on March 6, 1957 from British colonial rule. 

Dr. King was greatly inspired and impressed by Nkrumah and the struggle of Ghanaians for their Uhuru. He made a rousing and enlightening speech on April 7, 1957 about his visit to Ghana in Alabama. Dr. King said there were many lessons that African descendants in the United States could learn from Ghana in their struggle for human and civil rights here in the United States. 

Tune in to “Black Star News Show” on WBAI 99.5 FM New York Radio and www.wbai.org today, January 17, 2023 at 3PM U.S. Eastern Time, as hosts Milton Allimadi and Colin Benjamin are joined by Lawrence Hamm, founder of Newark-New Jersey based People’s Organization for Progress (POP), to analyze Dr. King’s speech about his trip to Ghana and the enduring relevance of his lessons. 

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Dr. King concluded his 1957 speech by saying, “Ghana has something to say to us. It says first that the oppressor never voluntarily fives freedom to the oppressed. You have to work for it and if Nkrumah and the people of the Gold Coast had not stood up persistently, revolting against the system, it would still be a colony of the British Empire.” 

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Black Star News Show Host Milton Allimadi and Co-Host Colin Benjamin will speak with Gordon about her career achievements as a radio broadcaster on the following shows: ‘Gil Bailey Show’, ‘Food For Thought’, ‘Ecstasy Ride’, ‘The Midnight Ravers’ and her reporting for the BBC, to name a few.

Gordon is also the founder of The Coalition to Preserve Reggae Music, TSO Productions, along with the magazine Kuji. Gordon’s writings have been published in: DUB MISSIVE, Everybody’s, ROOTZ, VIBE and UNTOLD (UK) magazines, The Jamaican Weekly Gleaner, The Jamaican Weekly Star newspaper, Caribbean Life, and Caribbean Times newspapers.

As a music promoter, producer, road manager, M.C. and publicist, Gordon has been involved with artists and bands such as: Third World, Luciano, Morgan Heritage, Beres Hammond, Beenie Man, Buju Banton, Anthony B, and Sizzla among others. Gordon has also been the host of the distinguished Women of Great Esteem annual awards ceremony. 

Please join us as we engage in conversation with this exceptional Black woman and celebrate Women’s History Month. Listeners can call in at 212-209-2877 to ask guest Sharon Gordon questions.

Update: Listen to today’s show here.

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Donald Trump has given Democrats, and interested prosecutorial parties, enough evidence probably to imprison him for the rest of his life by inciting insurrection with his MAGA mob who invaded Capitol Hill last Wednesday in an attempt to overthrow Congress to keep him in power.

The question now is: will Trump be vigorously prosecuted on multiple fronts for his seditious actions against the U.S. Government–after this second impeachment in the U.S. Congress?

Last week, after news filtered out that an unconcerned Trump was gleefully watching television in the White House, while his white supremacist rioters were perpetrating a multitude of crimes inside Capitol Hill, something very contradictory happened. Trump belatedly recorded an announcement where he pretended to denounce the criminal mob he provoked.

Reportedly, there was a segment of Trump’s seditionists who were stunned by his fake denunciations of them. Some were apparently confused and upset after hearing Trump put the blame on them for doing what he goaded them into doing. Why did he do this?

The answer gives us but one reason why Trump should be vigorously prosecuted and hopefully sent to prison for life.

Trump reportedly only decided to tape that supposed condemnation because his lawyers stressed to him that his lawless incitement places him in direct jeopardy of being prosecuted for the insurrectionist actions of his MAGA mob and the orgy of criminality which led to the deaths of six people–including two police officers. The lawyers apparently shocked Trump by telling him he could be prosecuted for his incendiary speech before last Wednesday’s government takeover actions.

Of course, after that tape was released, Trump quickly reverted to his usual form by sending tweets which led Twitter to permanently suspend his account. After Twitter’s action, some sympathizers spoke about alleged violations of Trump’s First Amendment rights.

These folks seem to have conveniently forgotten Trump’s violations of the First Amendment rights of those peaceful protesters who he ordered teargassed, so he could engage in his infamous Bible photo-op stunt. Moreover, the First Amendment does not protect all speech—especially, seditious speeches that create an “imminent threat” as we witnessed last Wednesday.

Even as a layperson, it’s easy to see how Trump could now be possibly sent to prison for the rest of his life.

Some legal scholars have said a president can’t be criminally prosecuted while he is sitting in the White House. But why can’t a president be criminally prosecuted after he is out of office for a crime he committed while in office—like trying to overthrow the American government?

Over the last several days, it became clear Trump would earn the dubious distinction of being the first president to be impeached twice. In another example of the hypocrisy of Republicans, we hear them giving all kinds of unconvincing excuses regarding why Trump shouldn’t be impeached.

Some Republicans, who questioned the November Election results, now say why bother with impeachment since Trump will be out of office in a few days. Others say they are afraid of more violence and are calling for “unity.” This from Republicans who for years claimed they are the “rule of law” and “law and order” party.

Democrats are right to impeach Trump, though a Senate conviction may still be unlikely because of the aiding-and-abetting of Republicans. There are many reasons why Democrats should continue with the second impeachment of Trump.

Recently, Rep. James Clyburn said House Democrats should impeach Trump, but that Democrats should use delay tactics to stall the Senate trial until Joe Biden has had about 100 days under his belt as president. This is good strategically since it would allow Biden, and Democrats, to move aggressively on addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.

And importantly, from a legal standpoint, it can help in coordinating a series of possible legal events that could ensure that this dangerous menace to America is neutralized once and for all.

By moving methodically, in this second impeachment, it allows several things to be possible. First, by waiting after the first 100 days, the U.S. Senate will be fully controlled by Democrats. This means Mitch McConnell, who will be the Minority Leader, cannot limit evidence like he and the Republicans did in the first impeachment trial.

Others say what’s the point of a second impeachment trial since Democrats will be unable to get the two-thirds Senate majority necessary to convict? For one thing, if Trump isn’t impeached it makes this kind of behavior by future presidents more likely.

But there are other important reasons why Trump should be impeached again.

By having a second impeachment on Trump’s treasonous insurrectionist incitement it lays the groundwork for possible post-impeachment prosecutions by the next Department of Justice and or by D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine. Mr. Racine has already said “I think it’s really important to hold people accountable for the incursion on the Capitol of the United States and the pillar and symbol of our democracy.”

Who is more responsible for Wednesday’s Capitol Hill coup attempt that Trump?

The FBI and DOJ have said they will vigorously prosecute these riotous Trump’s traitors. How can they do that while allowing Trump, the architect of the coup attempt, to walk away?

The possible post-impeachment criminal prosecution of Donald Trump for inciting insurrection on Capitol Hill would benefit from a second impeachment in numerous ways. Prosecutors at DOJ, and in the D.C. Attorney General’s office, could fortify their cases based on the outcomes of the second impeachment trial. And if Trump is prosecuted in D.C. (assuming a jury trial) the likelihood of conviction is high.

After he is prosecuted for his insurrectionist incitement, by the DOJ and D.C. Attorney General, Trump should then have to face prosecution for his Georgia election meddling. Trump clearly engaged in attempted election fraud in his strong-arming of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes to declare him the winner of Georgia’s presidential election.

Trump’s conduct during his call with Raffensperger mirrors his extortion actions on the Ukraine call where he tried to get officials of a foreign country to fabricate information that would enable him to beat Joe Biden.

After he is prosecuted for election meddling and interference in Georgia, Trump should then be prosecuted by New York authorities including Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. Of course, as he is being prosecuted in New York, all of his assets should be frozen. Trump’s prosecution in New York would also allow for a deep dive investigation regarding all of his financial crimes—including likely decades of IRS fraud.

If the responsible authorities prosecute Trump in a succession of cases, they should be able to incarcerate—and silence this threat to American Democracy for the rest of his natural life.

Donald Trump’s incitement of his MAGA mob to attack Congress is the most shocking treasonous crime we have ever witnessed a president engage in. If Trump is allowed to walk away, he will be a continuing danger to America given the fanatical hold he has over his violent MAGA mob of white supremacist terrorists.

Prosecuting and putting Donald J. Trump away in prison for life will do much to hobble the current white supremacist threat by stifling Trumpism.

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On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the U.S. Congress became the most infamous domestic crime scene in American history, with four people losing their lives—and that reality was incited by the traitorous actions of a man still sitting in the White House named Donald Trump.

The white supremacist perpetrators of yesterday’s violence, who stormed and invaded the U.S. Congress, at the behest of Trump, made no attempt to conceal their crimes or identities. In fact, the lawbreaking, riotous, vandals brazenly documented their criminal exploits. They took pictures of their rioting, their trespassing, their breaking and entering, their vandalism—and their assaults on law enforcement officers.

They did this because their white privilege told them there would be little accountability for their criminal actions—this is not dissimilar to those killer-cops who continue to brutalize and murder Black people with utter impunity. Obviously, these MAGA mob rioters were not wrong in this assessment.

How is it that after this epic criminal breach of the U.S. Congress there were only 68 arrests? Why are we only getting some answers today regarding how yesterday’s outrage was allowed to happen? Why were the law enforcement personnel present so unprepared?

Why were these white coup invaders largely treated with kid gloves by some of these officers? Why were they not corralled, teargassed, and arrested—like Black Lives Matter activists, and those fighting for Black lives, routinely are? Why was this angry white mob able to break through the barricades and breach the Capitol Building so easily?

If American white supremacy isn’t the reason what pray tell is? Yesterday’s domestic terrorist criminal invasion of Congress could only have been done by white Americans.

After national protests erupted in the wake of the appalling police murder of George Floyd, we heard numerous outraged statements of condemnation from Republicans, in Congress, about the supposed violent Black protesters, and others, who are fighting against racial policing.

But after yesterday’s despicable desecration of the Congress, by these white supremacist marauders, we got weak insipid rhetoric from many Republicans. In fact, some Republicans tried to compare yesterday’s violence to what happened during the police protests. There is even the delusional claim that Antifa somehow orchestrated yesterday’s coup attempt.

These duplicitous Republicans are trying to say the violence that emerged during the protests—against the ongoing epidemic of police violence and murder of Black Americans—can, somehow be compared to the violence of these armed insurrectionists, who are complaining because Trump lost the November election to Joe Biden.

There is no equal comparison here. Black Americans, and other Americans of conscience, who took to the streets last year, are fighting a legitimate ongoing problem of racist police violence and murder which is easily proven by the sheer scale of the abundance of evidence.

Trump’s MAGA rioters can produce no such proof that the election was stolen from Trump as they fraudulently claim. Even the lawyers who have be litigating Trump’s baseless claims of massive voter fraud can’t provide any evidence to document that the election was stolen. This is why their lawsuits have been repeatedly thrown out of court—including by judges who were elected by Trump.

Still, we hear this nonsensical what-about-ism comparison from Republicans, between armed racist right-wing Second Amendment nuts and those whose protests are rooted in the reality of systemic police prejudice and brutality against Black Americans, and other non-white Americans.

Republicans, like Missouri’s Josh Hawley, had no problem denigrating those fighting against racial policing. But, even after yesterday’s white supremacist terrorist violence, he was still making mendacious arguments about voting irregularities parroting Trump’s bullshit.

Let’s be really clear here: if Black people tried to do what was done yesterday, like Trump’s MAGA mob did, there would’ve been a blood bath and Capitol Hill would’ve been littered with dead Black bodies. Law enforcement would have had zero compunction in opening fire on Black people. We would likely be still trying to get an accurate body count now and mass funerals would be being planned now.

Moreover, the D.C. area jails would be bulging with Black people awaiting prosecution, and Republicans like Rep. Hawley would be denouncing the Black Lives Matter movement in forceful terms, unlike his lame calls for peaceful protests after the fact yesterday. Hawley is indicative of the unprincipled ambitions we see in far too many American politicians, especially on the Republican side of the aisle.

We all remember how Trump used law enforcement to teargas and bully peaceful protesters so he could engage in a Bible photo-op. Why were these armed violent white insurrectionists, who invaded the Congress, treated so different?

Troublingly, there have even been some unsurprising reports of law enforcement talking selfies and such with these racist rioters. This, of course, is reminiscent of what we know happened during the protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin where police shared a camaraderie with armed right-wing racists—like Kyle Rittenhouse who murdered two people.

For years, I’ve written about the FBI’s warning of white supremacist law enforcement infiltration by those they call “Ghost Skins.” Did some of these covert white supremacist police officers help the MAGA mob invade the Congress?

Some may think this is inflammatory speculation. But consider this: while many talk about the influence of white supremacist groups like the Proud Boys and Boogaloo Boys, there is another important group that may have been involved in yesterday’s insurrection: The Oath Keepers.

Why is the Oath Keepers militia important? They are a group that have many former, and current, law enforcement officers in their organization. The Oath Keepers, and founder Stewart Rhodes, were said to have been present in Washington yesterday.

A through investigation must be made to examine why it was so easy for these Trump traitors of America to breach the U.S. Congress. Why was law enforcement so lax on Capitol Hill?

Another thing to ponder here is: why Republican lawmakers seem so surprised by what happened. Given all of the political demonization that Trump, and other Republicans have engage in, did they not realize that a day like yesterday was soon coming?

Or did they just assume the violence would never find its way inside the hallowed halls of Congress?

Some Republicans are now finally finding their voice to denounce Donald Trump. Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger issued a call to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump. Vermont’s Republican Governor Phil Scott has demanded Trump resign or be removed from the White House by force.

Ironically, many of these same Republicans protected Trump during the impeachment proceeding by voting for his acquittal in the U.S. Senate. They had a chance then to show us they indeed put “country before party.”

If Republicans had removed this danger to America then we would not be facing this dangerous seditious coup crisis now by the treasonous Donald Trump and his MAGA mob of insurrectionists.

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Sisters and Brothers please tune in to the Black Star News Show this afternoon December 29, 2020, from 3 to 4 PM, on Radio WBAI 99.5 FM (and on WBAI.ORG) in New York, for the “2020 Wrap Up Show” featuring host Milton Allimadi and Colin Benjamin, above.

In today’s show, Host Milton Allimadi is joined by Black Star News Managing Editor Colin Benjamin for “The 2020 Wrap Up Show.”

Allimadi and Benjamin will discuss some of the major stories of 2020 as we close the year, including: the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on the African-American community; the George Floyd U.S. and global uprising; and, the end of Donald Trump’s dysfunctional presidency with his failed slow-motion coup attempt, and more!

Today’s show can be heard here.

Happy Holidays! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy New Year!

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NKRUMAH’S 1960 HARLEM VISIT WITH POWELL & MALCOLM X

Join us today Oct. 13, on “Black Star News Show” on WBAI New York 99.5 FM Radio and www.wbai.org at 3PM.

Host Milton Allimadi in Conversation with Black Star News Managing Editor Colin Benjamin.

Topic: “Pan-African Revival.” Remembering Ghana’s President Kwame Nkrumah’s Historic 1960 Harlem visit to discuss need for bond between Mother Africa and Africa Diaspora where he was hosted by Malcolm X, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Carlos Cooks founder of the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement, and Hulan Jack Manhattan borough president, at a rally outside the Hotel Theresa. Also discussion of U.S. role in the overthrow of Nkrumah in 1966.

Other topics: Upcoming Election and Donald Trump’s schemes to suppress the vote, and the outrageous granting of bail to Derek Chauvin the officer who murdered George Floyd in May.

Opening Music: Aye Africa! By Franklin Boukaka.

Mid-point Music: “Do You Remember Malcolm?” By Miriam Makeba

Tune in or listen to the livestream www.wbai.org 

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After 17-year-old white vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin he was recorded walking past numerous police vehicles, with the murder weapon slung over his shoulder.

He then had a conversation with police, where he, presumably, told at least one of the officers what he had just done. Several people also screamed to the police that he had just shot down two people.

Why did Kenosha Police let Rittenhouse walk past them? Why did they allow this white armed vigilante murderer to go back home to sleep in his own bed?

Something stinks to high heaven here.

Last Tuesday, Rittenhouse murdered Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26. He also injured Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, who was a medic.

In an act of selfless bravery, Huber chased down Rittenhouse after he had gunned down Rosenbaum. He tried to disarm Rittenhouse. Sadly, he paid with his life.

Huber was the kind of white person America needs more of. He sacrificed his life to make this country a more just society—unlike the racist conniving conman puppeteer president who encourages white supremacy and white vigilantism.

Huber’s girlfriend, Hannah Gittens, gave an emotional statement about the kind of person he was.

“He pushed me out of the way and ran off after him [Rittenhouse] because he was not going to let anybody get taken down by some a*shole with an AR,” Gittings said.

Speaking of Rittenhouse, she said, “He will pay for what he f*cking did – coming out here wanting to play shooter and killing innocent people and ripping away the most promising future of 26-year old man. He will pay. He will pay.”

Hopefully, Rittenhouse will pay by being prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Rittenhouse was arrested by police in Illinois, not by Kenosha Police.

However, it should be noted that Rittenhouse’s right-wing lawyer, John Pierce, is floating out his defense strategy claiming Rittenhouse acted in self-defense because he was allegedly attacked by a “mob” who he says were “determined to hurt Kyle.”

Pierce has previously defended Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Trump adviser Carter Page. Pierce also claims Rittenhouse is being used as a “scapegoat.”

This of course is nonsense given the recording of Rittenhouse committing murder. However, Pierce’s defense may be helped by this fact: the Kenosha Police’s decision not to arrest his murderer. Pierce may well use this decision not to arrest in his favor.

An independent investigation into the Kenosha Police must be done in this matter, as is already reportedly being done in the attempted murder investigation of Jacob Blake by officer Rusten Sheskey. There can be no justification for not taking Rittenhouse into custody after he murdered two people, even if these officers thought he acted in self-defense.

The evidence already tells us the white armed vigilantes, of whom Rittenhouse was a part, are very chummy with the Kenosha Police Department.

Video recording shows Kenosha Police giving out water to them and praising them. In one video, police are heard telling these white vigilantes “We appreciate you guys, we really do.” While this was happening, Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis blamed protestors for the murders perpetrated by their armed white friends.

Therefore, we must pose this seriously troubling question: is the Kenosha Police Department infiltrated and perhaps even controlled by the KKK?

Is that why officer Rusten Sheskey has still not been arrested. Is that why Blake was handcuffed to his hospital bed—even when police knew he was paralyzed from the waist down?

The question of white supremacist infiltration of American police departments is one of the stories mainstream media has been derelict in its duty to cover.

In 2006, the FBI in an intelligence assessment warned about white supremacist groups who have been infiltrating police departments. In their assessment, the FBI noted that White supremacist groups had a “historical” goal in “infiltrating law enforcement communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel.” The report identified the term “Ghost Skins,” used to describe White supremacists “who avoid overt displays of their beliefs to blend into society and covertly advance white supremacist causes.”

Black Star News’ Colin Benjamin has written numerous articles about this “Ghost Skin” issue as it relates to racial policing. But American politicians, like the corporate media, take the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” approach to this dangerous topic.

The blasé behavior of Kenosha Police to these armed white vigilantes has led some to rightfully call for the firing of Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis and Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth.

There can be no excuse for the conduct of the Kenosha Police Department and the double standards that we have witnessed in regard to the attempted murder of Jacob Blake and the murders committed by Kyle Rittenhouse.

Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back. We are now being told Blake admitted he had a knife in his car. They wanted us to believe Blake told them this—while he was in a hospital bed after just being paralyzed by seven shots to his back.

But while Blake is the victim of an attempted murder, the perpetrator, officer Shesky, has not been arrested. And police even had Blake handcuffed as if he was guilty of something, and as if he could actually walk away somewhere in his condition.

Yet, this same Kenosha Police Department allowed an armed white murderer to walk away after he murdered two people. And they accuse those who are being attacked by white vigilantes of being lawless. Moreover, the Trumpian Republican hypocrites say nothing about this while demanding that unarmed protesters remain peaceful.

The facts as we know them now suggest the Kenosha Police Department is suffering from more than systemic institutional racism. It suggests, at the very least, they have some sort of a working relationship with armed white supremacist vigilantes. We need to dig to find out the full extent of this relationship.

Fair-minded Americans of conscience must demand a full investigation to get to the bottom of what is going on between white vigilantes, like Kyle Rittenhouse, and the Kenosha Police Department.

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The Police Benevolent Association’s (PBA) endorsement of the most corrupt criminal presidency in American history is very telling.

With this endorsement, the PBA is making it plain that they are just as deceitfully dishonest and lawless as Donald Trump. The PBA’s power needs to be neutralized.

We must now dedicate ourselves to breaking the back of this vile depraved police union.

At an event at Trump’s New Jersey golf course, the PBA’s foul-mouth mouthpiece Pat Lynch said:

“I have 36 years on this job, 21 as the president of this fine organization. I cannot remember when we’ve ever endorsed for Office of the President of the United States, until now. That’s how important this is. Many times, people say that a union like ours, law enforcement groups, give endorsements. Not in the New York City PBA, sir. In the New York City PBA, Mr. President, you earn the endorsement and you’ve earned this endorsement. I’m proud to give it.”

This statement illustrates just how unethical and immoral this PBA is. Far from being “benevolent,” these folks are again showing us just how malevolent they are.

First, Lynch—his name doesn’t help the situation either—says this is the first time the PBA has endorsed a president. This, in itself, is very revealing. They have decided that the most racist, sexist, lawless, president ever is worthy of the first endorsement in their union’s history? Is seems obvious Trump’s odious conduct made him “earn the endorsement.”

But we should really focus on Lynch’s “that’s how important this is” comment. What is he really saying here?

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder by racist American policing, as well as the recent murders of Rayshard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, a multi-racial, multi-generational mass of Americans, not just Black people, took to the streets in a powerful show of people power.

These everyday Americans rocked the foundations of American society—and politics. It has shaken up and scared the elites. The message was sent that: we the people have had quite enough of racist murderous policing and intend to stop it in our time, after centuries of this ongoing scourge.

The outpouring of people protests has overwhelmed the political and policing powers that be. This mass uprising by the people captured the imagination of the downtrodden many. It has now morphed into a global phenomenon.

Moreover, despite diminishing mainstream media coverage, the protests in the streets continue.

In a relatively short time, politicians, especially those do-nothings in Congress, were forced to start addressing the crisis of racist police murder against Blacks. We went from almost complete silence on this issue to politicians deliberating everything on policing. Even the overturning of the crooked concept of qualified immunity is now squarely on the table for debate.

Because of the vociferous voices of the people, the movement for changing racial policing is underway. This is very upsetting to the large body of white racists in policing—especially, those who have a chokehold on the leadership of policing. These folks have been very comfortable brutalizing and murdering Black people since the beginning of American policing and are mad the wheels of accountability are starting to turn against them.

The PBA’s Trump endorsement is basically a call to make racist police brutality and murder acceptable again, as it always has been. These thugs are seeking protection from Trump to stop the forward movement toward true police accountability and transparency. Birds of a feather flock together. So, it shouldn’t surprise us that these PBA bullies like Trump.

Trump loved the PBA’s endorsement and basked in it. New Yorkers should be aware that Trump may now strategize with these PBA hoodlums to try and do similar things as was done in Portland, where federal agents were used as secret police to target protesters and activists.

In his remarks, Trump said, “I’ve admired you my whole life, watched you do a job like nobody else, nobody else done it. Best of the best and I’m grateful happy you’re here.” Trump used the opportunity to attack former Vice President Joe Biden, saying, “This guy has been taking your dignity away and your respect. And I’m telling you on Nov. 3 you’re going to be getting it back.”

This marriage by the PBA and Trump should not surprise us. Both are lawless.

That charge may seem hyperbolic. After all, the PBA is, supposedly, a “law enforcement” union. But Americans must come to terms with the fact that the institution of American policing has always existed as a violent, criminal, terrorist organization—when it comes to their relationship with Black people.

We all know Donald Trump is a lawless president.

His crimes and corrupt acts since he took office are too numerous to mention here. They include: several violations of the Emoluments Clause, numerous instances of witness intimidation, impeding the Russia investigation, engaging in obstruction of Congress, unjustly firing former FBI Director Jim Comey over his supposed disloyalty, and ordering White House Counsel Don McGahn to create a false record regarding the Ukraine extortion and bribery scandal.

The hypocritical Republican Party which used to lecture us about “country before party” aided-and-abetted Trump in evading justice, in the impeachment inquiry, for his extortion of Ukraine to get manufactured dirt on Joe Biden so he could win the upcoming election. All of the existing evidence makes it clear Trump was guiltier than sin.

Trump has now brazenly admitted he is sabotaging and defunding the United States Postal Service so he can steal the November election.

But Americans need to admit this: American policing often perpetrates similar acts of lawlessness and misconduct like their champion Trump.

For example, lately, even the white corporate media has had to report about certain recent cases where police told glaring lies. But the frequency of police lies equal that of Trump’s lies—especially, regarding the brutal bigoted acts of their killer-cops. Police routinely release press releases where they tell barefaced lies to conceal criminal conduct by cops. This is the culture of American policing and their “Blue Wall of Silence.”

Police bullying has been fully on display since the protests after George Floyd’s murder. We’ve seen police beat up women, children, and shove old people to the ground. We’ve seen them fire teargas and pepper-spray on peaceful protesters and media reporters. In fact, they targeted some media workers in an obvious attempt to conceal their criminal acts against peaceful protesters by disrupting coverage.

In endorsing Trump, the PBA no doubt liked his actions in Washington D.C., and in Portland, where he used federal agents to attacks peaceful protesters. After all, these protests erupted because of the racist police murders against Black people.

Therefore, they see Trump as acting on their behalf. They are now returning the favor with this endorsement.

The PBA’s endorsement of Trump highlights that: much more work must be done to force change upon the leadership of American policing. Another tactic we must now fully institute is: identifying and pressuring business interests, who unequivocally support the PBA, into speaking up and forcing change on these contemptible cop leaders.

We must not allow the police to wait us out and go back to their business as usual situation of brutalizing Black people.

Trump and the PBA are both rancidly racist. Both entities must be flushed down the toilets into the sewer of history where they belong.

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If white America had respected Colin Kaepernick’s right to take a knee (and listened) maybe George Floyd would not have been killed by a knee.

After whiteballing Colin Kaepernick for taking a knee to protest police brutality and racism, Friday NFL Commissioner Rogel Goodell made a complete reversal in releasing a statement that is reverberating inside and outside the sports world.

Goodell released the following statement:

“It has been a difficult time for our country, in particular Black people in our country. First, my condolences to the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and all the families who have endured police brutality. We, the National Football League condemn racism and the systematic oppression of Black people. We the National Football League admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. We the National Football League believe Black lives matter.

“I personally protest with you, and want to be part of the much-needed change in this country.

“Without Black players, there would be no National Football League. And the protests around the country are emblematic of the centuries of silence, inequality and oppression of Black players, coaches, fans and staff. We are listening. I am listening, and I will be reaching out to players who have raised their voices and others on how we can improve and go forward for a better and more united NFL family.”

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